But any way you cut it Denial of Service is what it is, when a site is slashdoted it IS a DoS. - Of course - intent plays a role in implied meaning of DoS. But, technically speaking, the person(s) on the receiving end are still dealing with a DoS.
SunBlade you mean. when they cost $1000 its hard to make the argument that sun hardware cost to much. this is a bummer.. but im with you, this gives me a real reason to buy a sun at home now. errr.... maby not a 'real' reason.. but it should be enough of a reason for me to convince my fiance to let me do it:).
the ability to store "notes" in the calculator is a major source of cheating on tests
dont let the students use calculators on exams. my best courses were the ones where we were not alowed to use calculators on exams. the problems used easy enough numbers that you didnt get caught up with number crunching on the calc. but you had to demonstrate a clear understanding of the material in order to get a correct answer. if you ask me most people use calculators far far to much for simple problems and they are so reliant on the calculator that they never really stop to think about the problem. or they are so trusting of the calculator that they make stupid typos and never catch them. for example take 100/10=? someone types 100/100 in to the calculator on accident they get 1 as the answer and just write it down. they never think about the problem.
It takes someone clicking on the.scr file to activate it, uh.. thats not a worm. if it looks like a trogan, smells like a trogan, acts like a trogan....
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Programmers take often OO as an excuse for bloated (which is not the same a reusable) and uneffective code. When their program is too slow the don't fix this, they just claim that the computer is too slow.
I dont disagree that software is bloated, but i do think that you have the wrong impression of OO. OO is simply a method of designing projects for reuse, easy understanding by other designers, and as a bonus it helps in dividing up tasks for the programmers. It really 'should not' lead to overly bloated software. When OO yeilds substantialy slower software the design and/or implementation is at fault, not the method (you cited programmers. that 'sort of' underscores my point. OO is a software engineering method, best implemented by.. software engineers, not programmers. in the extreem, programmers dont even need to understand OO or know what it is. They just need to program efficient modules). IMHO The real culprit is the "feature" overload in most of that newfangled "inovative" software.
thank god he wasn't able to patent that idea. As clever as he was for being the first one to have it, let's face it... If you need to send a signal over the horizon, it's not going to take long for you to hit upon the idea of geosync sattelites
funny how hindsight is 20/20, i mean seriously if someone had to get from point A to point B its not going to take that long to hit upon the idea of a motor vehicle:P
ive seen a lot of comments complaining about having to fill up your laptop, etc.. not many smokers out there i take it! it would probably be like filling a butane ligher, Zippo, or better yet like a disposable lighter. The technology exist... you can doooo it man!
Can you then argue that broadband access is "for a large part" supported by copyright infringement?
honestly i think that is just the kind of argument that we will see when the RIAA goes after the providers. it makes a good argument when you want filters installed.
MusicCity, by serving up ads, is profiting from the piracy of content.
True but thats not what the RIAA is saying. MusicCity is making money off of adds, true. The largest use of the software is for piracy, true. But i belive that the RIAA is saying that they, MusicCity, would not survive without piracy, and should be shut down. Now thats where the slope starts to get slippery. Would they survive? And whos job is it to deal with the copyright infringement anyway?? Should MusicCity be shut down because it is an enabling technology??? ftp and http are enabling technologies as well, and firearms? who needs them.. someone could get shot! Where should the line be drawn for software? i tend to think it should be the same line.. and the RIAA will have to... (drum roll please)... adapt!
so you put a cap on the min download speed from your server... and all their efforts are wasted.. yet again. they cant think that this would seriously work.
this is stupid, so someone is paying $x to go sit in a class and they choose to surf the web. why exactly is it the universitys responsibility to babysit them ? if they fail then tough shit... thats the way higher education works, if we dumb college down or hold peoples hands through college then college is just an extension of high school. there should be distractions (like there arent in the real world?), and there should be nobody holding your hand and protecting you from yourself (how fast i would be fired if i had to have somone hold my hand through everything), people that cant cut it should just fail if they fsck off in class or not. period. this is college, your after a degree. a degree is supposed to mean somthing, this trend of protecting students from themself has to go, its a waste of time.. just weed out the loosers.
"Java has its advantage: all platforms (except Windows2000, mwahahah) can run the code"
damn... i wish someone would have told me that before i started runnig all these java apps on my win2k box.. not to metion all that time ive been wasting writing java code. man.. is my boss is gona be PISSED when he hears this!
i guess that all depends on how you earn a living. for me this is a problimatic ruling because i am a software engineer/programmer. i spent many years of my life in school getting trained to work on a computer. its what i do. if i could not earn a living (in what i have spent my highschool/college training for) because of RSI i would sure as hell consider myself disabled. sure i can go and get a job doing somthing else but by the time you have RSI you have more then likely built a career and a life around the computer. i would compare it to a construction worker with a bad back, they have the ability to work on computers and do other jobs but the fact of the matter is that they would get dissabilty, because they cant do their job.
"I don't know how to say this politely, so I will sa it bluntly: The average game player is the ultimate addict of the consumer culture. They want someone else to hand them entertainment on a silver platter. I can see why many gamers do not have the willingness nor patience to learn how to use Linux as a desktop operating system."
this is obviously flamebait to the nth degree but ill bite anyway.. so your saying that gamers are umm.. "the ultimate addict of the consumer culture" as a matter of fact i would argue the contrary. games are what pulled me away from the TV (consumer culture at its best) and got me in to computers (im now a comp sci graduate working in a nitch of AI). games (pick your type) spur thought and allow interaction with other people (unless your playing on a solo console). most gamers i have met think a whole hell of a lot more then yout average TV fan. and your rant about the gamers "becoming the corporate IT dept".. (that just kind of goes to prove what im saying doesnt it?). lastly, i dont know how many asses you had to reach up to find that line about gamers reacting with hostility to linux? where the hell did you get that.. i pray to the gods of gaming every day that we will see a good gaming platform built off of a *nix (indrema was heartbreaking, absolutly devistating) and most of the people i know feel exactly the same way! do you have any idea how annoying it is to keep an inferior OS on my comp just so that i can play a damn game! (if anything thats the hostility you have encounterd).
oh well.. in a nutshell please dont roll gamers in to your idea of the perfect consumer (its insulting).. if anything they are the ones pushing the edges of the entertainment mold.
"This would be evidence that life can evolve under radically different conditions from our own, which is another thing which we only suspect but couldn't prove, until now..."
actualy you have to look no further then our very own ocean to find life that evolved under "radically different conditions". take zero sunlight for instance.
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you have it so .. so .. backwards.
software engineer - $70,000k year
programmer - $50,000k year
good idea - priceceless
Its a joke, its supposed to be funny - laugh :)
But any way you cut it Denial of Service is what it is, when a site is slashdoted it IS a DoS. - Of course - intent plays a role in implied meaning of DoS. But, technically speaking, the person(s) on the receiving end are still dealing with a DoS.
but as a frequent recipient of the sharp end of the DoS stick, I sure wish it wasn't an issue
.. no /. has never DOS-ed a site... really i swear..
ha ha ha.. this comming from the kingpen of DOS
duh... way to call the kettle black. they can compete in the pc market so they are going to. its exactly what MAC does.
SunBlade you mean. when they cost $1000 its hard to make the argument that sun hardware cost to much. this is a bummer.. but im with you, this gives me a real reason to buy a sun at home now. errr.... maby not a 'real' reason.. but it should be enough of a reason for me to convince my fiance to let me do it :).
Mod parent up.
very well said.
the ability to store "notes" in the calculator is a major source of cheating on tests
dont let the students use calculators on exams. my best courses were the ones where we were not alowed to use calculators on exams. the problems used easy enough numbers that you didnt get caught up with number crunching on the calc. but you had to demonstrate a clear understanding of the material in order to get a correct answer. if you ask me most people use calculators far far to much for simple problems and they are so reliant on the calculator that they never really stop to think about the problem. or they are so trusting of the calculator that they make stupid typos and never catch them. for example take 100/10=? someone types 100/100 in to the calculator on accident they get 1 as the answer and just write it down. they never think about the problem.
It takes someone clicking on the .scr file to activate it, uh.. thats not a worm. if it looks like a trogan, smells like a trogan, acts like a trogan....
Programmers take often OO as an excuse for bloated (which is not the same a reusable) and uneffective code. When their program is too slow the don't fix this, they just claim that the computer is too slow.
I dont disagree that software is bloated, but i do think that you have the wrong impression of OO. OO is simply a method of designing projects for reuse, easy understanding by other designers, and as a bonus it helps in dividing up tasks for the programmers. It really 'should not' lead to overly bloated software. When OO yeilds substantialy slower software the design and/or implementation is at fault, not the method (you cited programmers. that 'sort of' underscores my point. OO is a software engineering method, best implemented by.. software engineers, not programmers. in the extreem, programmers dont even need to understand OO or know what it is. They just need to program efficient modules). IMHO The real culprit is the "feature" overload in most of that newfangled "inovative" software.
looks like German to me
thank god he wasn't able to patent that idea. As clever as he was for being the first one to have it, let's face it... If you need to send a signal over the horizon, it's not going to take long for you to hit upon the idea of geosync sattelites
funny how hindsight is 20/20, i mean seriously if someone had to get from point A to point B its not going to take that long to hit upon the idea of a motor vehicle
ive seen a lot of comments complaining about having to fill up your laptop, etc.. not many smokers out there i take it! it would probably be like filling a butane ligher, Zippo, or better yet like a disposable lighter. The technology exist... you can doooo it man!
..is teaching people to type instead of pecking at the keys
Can you then argue that broadband access is "for a large part" supported by copyright infringement?
honestly i think that is just the kind of argument that we will see when the RIAA goes after the providers. it makes a good argument when you want filters installed.
MusicCity, by serving up ads, is profiting from the piracy of content.
True but thats not what the RIAA is saying. MusicCity is making money off of adds, true. The largest use of the software is for piracy, true. But i belive that the RIAA is saying that they, MusicCity, would not survive without piracy, and should be shut down. Now thats where the slope starts to get slippery. Would they survive? And whos job is it to deal with the copyright infringement anyway?? Should MusicCity be shut down because it is an enabling technology??? ftp and http are enabling technologies as well, and firearms? who needs them.. someone could get shot! Where should the line be drawn for software? i tend to think it should be the same line.. and the RIAA will have to
then if ms fails to patch known holes, or release information on how to patch holes, can we say they are harboring industrial terrorism :)
so you put a cap on the min download speed from your server... and all their efforts are wasted.. yet again. they cant think that this would seriously work.
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this is stupid, so someone is paying $x to go sit in a class and they choose to surf the web. why exactly is it the universitys responsibility to babysit them ? if they fail then tough shit... thats the way higher education works, if we dumb college down or hold peoples hands through college then college is just an extension of high school. there should be distractions (like there arent in the real world?), and there should be nobody holding your hand and protecting you from yourself (how fast i would be fired if i had to have somone hold my hand through everything), people that cant cut it should just fail if they fsck off in class or not. period. this is college, your after a degree. a degree is supposed to mean somthing, this trend of protecting students from themself has to go, its a waste of time.. just weed out the loosers.
spinner(spinner.com) does somthing like this with ratings and recomendations
i dont think that we need look much further than our own KKK to know that our culture will not drive out fundamentalism.
"Java has its advantage: all platforms (except Windows2000, mwahahah) can run the code"
damn... i wish someone would have told me that before i started runnig all these java apps on my win2k box.. not to metion all that time ive been wasting writing java code. man.. is my boss is gona be PISSED when he hears this!
i guess that all depends on how you earn a living. for me this is a problimatic ruling because i am a software engineer/programmer. i spent many years of my life in school getting trained to work on a computer. its what i do. if i could not earn a living (in what i have spent my highschool/college training for) because of RSI i would sure as hell consider myself disabled. sure i can go and get a job doing somthing else but by the time you have RSI you have more then likely built a career and a life around the computer. i would compare it to a construction worker with a bad back, they have the ability to work on computers and do other jobs but the fact of the matter is that they would get dissabilty, because they cant do their job.
"I don't know how to say this politely, so I will sa it bluntly: The average game player is the ultimate addict of the consumer culture. They want someone else to hand them entertainment on a silver platter. I can see why many gamers do not have the willingness nor patience to learn how to use Linux as a desktop operating system."
.. i pray to the gods of gaming every day that we will see a good gaming platform built off of a *nix (indrema was heartbreaking, absolutly devistating) and most of the people i know feel exactly the same way! do you have any idea how annoying it is to keep an inferior OS on my comp just so that i can play a damn game! (if anything thats the hostility you have encounterd).
oh well.. in a nutshell please dont roll gamers in to your idea of the perfect consumer (its insulting).. if anything they are the ones pushing the edges of the entertainment mold.
this is obviously flamebait to the nth degree but ill bite anyway.. so your saying that gamers are umm.. "the ultimate addict of the consumer culture" as a matter of fact i would argue the contrary. games are what pulled me away from the TV (consumer culture at its best) and got me in to computers (im now a comp sci graduate working in a nitch of AI). games (pick your type) spur thought and allow interaction with other people (unless your playing on a solo console). most gamers i have met think a whole hell of a lot more then yout average TV fan. and your rant about the gamers "becoming the corporate IT dept".. (that just kind of goes to prove what im saying doesnt it?). lastly, i dont know how many asses you had to reach up to find that line about gamers reacting with hostility to linux? where the hell did you get that
"This would be evidence that life can evolve under radically different conditions from our own, which is another thing which we only suspect but couldn't prove, until now..."
actualy you have to look no further then our very own ocean to find life that evolved under "radically different conditions". take zero sunlight for instance.