I see how it is easy to take it that way but look at the quote like this. Hemos is 1 of 2 Slashdot originators, so according to Hemos, the 1 of the 2, with whom Whatis.com spoke....
I share the feeling that Slashdot is a true community with real people. I think it is a great way to waste time (I check slashdot at least 3 or 4 times a day while at work because they never have anything for me to do and I have time to kill). And I was wondering if there should/could be some kind of real-time chat on slashdot for people who are just hanging out, or maybe w/channels per story for live discussion rather than just comments. Keep up the good work guys.
I think the best way to initiate new users into the Linux world is in a teacher/friend sort of way. I would say that I am pretty linux literate. I have set up several Debian desktops and servers, set up my own apache server, samba, etc. The way I got started was a friend told me about linux and how good it was (this was several years ago before it got mainstream attention. He helped me install slakware on a small partition of my drive. I would doodle around in it some times. When I had questions I would call him up, and he would try and help me, and with each new task I was forced to do with his guidance, I learned some. Eventually I broke the umbilcle (sp?) cord and started learning on my own. I just had to take the type to go though the process of installing from scratch and setting up each thing. I learned to do it from experimenting, reading man pages, howto's, and so forth. I just tried a lot and read a lot. The biggest helps were the linux users guide, sys admin guide, and net admin guide that I printed off the LDP, TCP/IP network administration by O'reillys, Programming Perl, the apache manual, the PHP manual, the python manual.... It just takes work and practice. But now I set up machines for my friend, help them when they have problems but try to help them learn. And I love helping. I think that is the best way to teach newbies.
Sadly this seems to fit with the way kids are these days. Parents are getting softer and less responsible and the TV is becoming more powerful and influential on today's youth. The media tells kids what they want, and parents will get it for them to keep them happy. My prime example is Pokemon. I don't know whether it was a TV show or card game or video game first, but whichever, it's not that the idea was bad but they took and marketed the hell out of it, add the other two of those three, as well as a movie and tons of merchandise. Add weird lingo that makes it "cool" and slap a slogan on it like "gotta catch em' all" and it'll be unstoppable. Kids today are used to getting what they want so I guess those kids felt stoning santa claus was a neccessary means to an end since he wouldn't cooperate. It's a sad day when kids without a good moral background rule the world. It seems to me that one of Scott Adams' prediction in "The Dilbert Future" is closer to the truth than it might have been meant. He prophesized that eventually advertisments would be worked down to a science so that if we saw them we would be powerless to resist purchasing whatever they were selling.
Here at CMU they not only looked for computers openly sharing mp3's but they actually tried obvious passwords such as mp3, or to see if the password was easily available.
While obviously fallable administrators may automatically associate the non-mainstream with violence, an objective program such as this, written by a department with knowledge in this area, could be more reliable. When everyone here was reacting to the assumption that it was computer games and geek culture that leads kids to kill, many people stated that whatever contempt they had for the system, they wouldn't go and kill anyone. There is clearly a difference between someone who would kill and someone who wouldn't. Although I may be overly optamistic, if they study and pick out this difference then mosaic-2000 could actually identify real symptoms of violence instead of just geek stereotypes.
Don't get me wrong though. I still think it is a bad idea. Computers aren't perfect and it can't be 100% and even if it were 99 (yeah, right) I'd feel sorry for the 1% that were ostrasized falsely because no one bothered to question the computers evaluation. Besides the fact that it bothers me because it is way to big-brotherish.
Indeed, it was a great movie. It didn't neccesarily deal with hackers/crackers. It was basically a mathmatician (number theorist) who used a computer but still the way they portrayed the computers and even the math, was dramatic without being overly so.
This was clearly a movie that nerds could enjoy and not cringe over, but with that it is a movie that appeals to a certain group of people and would make so sense and be downright disturbing to alot of people. This is part of the realm of independant film that the major companies don't usually want to touch because they need to appeal to a wider audience.
This is what I have always thought. That while it may be illegal for someone to upload an mp3 of copyrighted material, it should be legal for me to download it and listen to it. Follow this logic. Radio stations broadcast music which many people record on cassette tapes. It isn't illegal to record music off the radio for you're own use. Similarly if I were to download an mp3 for my own use it would be as if I had recorded it onto my computer off the radio. The only difference it that the Radio had permission to broadcast it whereas the owner of the ftp site didn't, but that's their problem and not mine, now isn't it?
Allaire's HomeSite4, asside from only being for the windows platfore, is hands-down the best tool to used. In terms of straight HTML editing, it has all the right features to help out: context highlighting, tag completion, list of tag properties, quick buttons for inserting tags, An amazing, multi-file search/replace, wizards (such as initial document wizard and table wizard), a great help file, internal browsing, spell check, and a boat load of other great features too numerous to list. Also, if you are intersted in WYSIWYG, the new version has this too. It is what I use at work and at school (for my job on a web design team for a major company and in my internet languages class). Great stuff, I love it.
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I see how it is easy to take it that way but look at the quote like this. Hemos is 1 of 2 Slashdot originators, so according to Hemos, the 1 of the 2, with whom Whatis.com spoke ....
I share the feeling that Slashdot is a true community with real people. I think it is a great way to waste time (I check slashdot at least 3 or 4 times a day while at work because they never have anything for me to do and I have time to kill). And I was wondering if there should/could be some kind of real-time chat on slashdot for people who are just hanging out, or maybe w/channels per story for live discussion rather than just comments. Keep up the good work guys.
I think the best way to initiate new users into the Linux world is in a teacher/friend sort of way. I would say that I am pretty linux literate. I have set up several Debian desktops and servers, set up my own apache server, samba, etc. The way I got started was a friend told me about linux and how good it was (this was several years ago before it got mainstream attention. He helped me install slakware on a small partition of my drive. I would doodle around in it some times. When I had questions I would call him up, and he would try and help me, and with each new task I was forced to do with his guidance, I learned some. Eventually I broke the umbilcle (sp?) cord and started learning on my own. I just had to take the type to go though the process of installing from scratch and setting up each thing. I learned to do it from experimenting, reading man pages, howto's, and so forth. I just tried a lot and read a lot. The biggest helps were the linux users guide, sys admin guide, and net admin guide that I printed off the LDP, TCP/IP network administration by O'reillys, Programming Perl, the apache manual, the PHP manual, the python manual.... It just takes work and practice. But now I set up machines for my friend, help them when they have problems but try to help them learn. And I love helping. I think that is the best way to teach newbies.
Sadly this seems to fit with the way kids are these days. Parents are getting softer and less responsible and the TV is becoming more powerful and influential on today's youth. The media tells kids what they want, and parents will get it for them to keep them happy. My prime example is Pokemon. I don't know whether it was a TV show or card game or video game first, but whichever, it's not that the idea was bad but they took and marketed the hell out of it, add the other two of those three, as well as a movie and tons of merchandise. Add weird lingo that makes it "cool" and slap a slogan on it like "gotta catch em' all" and it'll be unstoppable. Kids today are used to getting what they want so I guess those kids felt stoning santa claus was a neccessary means to an end since he wouldn't cooperate. It's a sad day when kids without a good moral background rule the world. It seems to me that one of Scott Adams' prediction in "The Dilbert Future" is closer to the truth than it might have been meant. He prophesized that eventually advertisments would be worked down to a science so that if we saw them we would be powerless to resist purchasing whatever they were selling.
Here at CMU they not only looked for computers openly sharing mp3's but they actually tried obvious passwords such as mp3, or to see if the password was easily available.
While obviously fallable administrators may automatically associate the non-mainstream with violence, an objective program such as this, written by a department with knowledge in this area, could be more reliable. When everyone here was reacting to the assumption that it was computer games and geek culture that leads kids to kill, many people stated that whatever contempt they had for the system, they wouldn't go and kill anyone. There is clearly a difference between someone who would kill and someone who wouldn't. Although I may be overly optamistic, if they study and pick out this difference then mosaic-2000 could actually identify real symptoms of violence instead of just geek stereotypes.
Don't get me wrong though. I still think it is a bad idea. Computers aren't perfect and it can't be 100% and even if it were 99 (yeah, right) I'd feel sorry for the 1% that were ostrasized falsely because no one bothered to question the computers evaluation. Besides the fact that it bothers me because it is way to big-brotherish.
Indeed, it was a great movie. It didn't neccesarily deal with hackers/crackers. It was basically a mathmatician (number theorist) who used a computer but still the way they portrayed the computers and even the math, was dramatic without being overly so.
This was clearly a movie that nerds could enjoy and not cringe over, but with that it is a movie that appeals to a certain group of people and would make so sense and be downright disturbing to alot of people. This is part of the realm of independant film that the major companies don't usually want to touch because they need to appeal to a wider audience.
This is what I have always thought. That while it may be illegal for someone to upload an mp3 of copyrighted material, it should be legal for me to download it and listen to it. Follow this logic. Radio stations broadcast music which many people record on cassette tapes. It isn't illegal to record music off the radio for you're own use. Similarly if I were to download an mp3 for my own use it would be as if I had recorded it onto my computer off the radio. The only difference it that the Radio had permission to broadcast it whereas the owner of the ftp site didn't, but that's their problem and not mine, now isn't it?
Allaire's HomeSite4, asside from only being for the windows platfore, is hands-down the best tool to used. In terms of straight HTML editing, it has all the right features to help out: context highlighting, tag completion, list of tag properties, quick buttons for inserting tags, An amazing, multi-file search/replace, wizards (such as initial document wizard and table wizard), a great help file, internal browsing, spell check, and a boat load of other great features too numerous to list. Also, if you are intersted in WYSIWYG, the new version has this too. It is what I use at work and at school (for my job on a web design team for a major company and in my internet languages class). Great stuff, I love it.