I'm sorry if this is a repeat, but I dont have time at work to read all the replies but i wanted to get this in.
This story puts the cart before the horse, people are not more afraid to die despite being religious. People who are more afraid of death are more likely to cling to irrational beliefs.
I was thinking that I'd take a page from the viral marketing people and ask victims to volunteer their friends for similar warnings at the end of the process. That way I'd only need to get the word out amoung the tech savvy crowd, I'm guessing that the parents of the tech elite could use an illustrative demonstration more then a mere security lecture.
of course I'd need to get people to trust the site...
I am currently discussing this topic on my site. Would harmlessly spoofing phishing sites in order to shock unsuspecting victims into learning about this particular danger be legal?
eg: could you setup your own phishing site which instead of stealing info, instead educated the victim once they fell in the trap? or would this also be illegal?
Half the time they were from people that specifically signed up to get mailings. It wasn't as if we were mailing previous customers or anything, you had to say "please send me your newsletter". Evidently these people either forgot or changed their mind and couldn't be bothered to click the opt-out link at the bottom of the email. Somehow, 9 out of 10 of these people were AOL users, Funny.
Just FYI, AOL auto-magickally filters spam and sends spam complaints for their customers.
a few years a go while i attened the university of southern california, i was surprised to find out that the UI design class in java i signed up for was now a introduction to MFC programming class.
the announcement my professor made show'ed she wasnt terribly happy with this. In addition every student in the class recieved a copy of windows NT professional and Visual Studio. This really stank for me, as a linux user, it meant that I had to work in the computer labs on campus.
In addition to the cut throat competition style bribes to the students, they also gave the computer department thousands and thousands of dollars that year. of course, one third of the sun machines were then replaced with dells...
the article is not over-reacting. How can we stop this? I think universities are lured by money, but are even more scared of losing cred. We as a developer community should loudly and publicly question the academic virtue of schools who whore themselves and their students out like this.
Now if only computer manufacturers could make equipment even remotely this sturdy."
if only computer users could be as nice to their hardware as the sub zero radioactive depths of space....
I dont remember the show, i recognize firestar as an X-man. (abeit a minor, off and on. She was the weird flying chick in spandex that was on fire all the time. right?
see if this is what you were thinking. http://www.geocities.com/bastetmajik/A-M/firesta r. html? I also recall a time when the Xmen tried to recruit spidey, thinking he was a mutant.
There is no way the government of china (or anyone) can effectively legislate and enforce anti spam laws. When lazy admins find them- selves getting their whole subnets blocked by everyone else because of spam, maybe they'll fix their stupid mail servers! This is a classic example of free market/natural law in action. No one wants to limit china's connectivity, in fact, its more advantageous (theoretically) to be as connected as possible. And when they clean up their act, everyone will start playing nice again. Trying to write laws to counter these negative reactions to irresponsible networking will only reinforce the problem.
first, I think that many people are missing an
important fact. As a community of developers
and open source advocates, a group which is
based on ideas about software (et al) I dont
think that piracy is justifiable. Theft is
theft. I'd be pretty hopping mad if someone
'pirated' my GPL'ed source and stuck it into
their closed project.
On the other hand pirates and warez pups have
always been part of the topology of closed
source software. And as many have already
pointed out more eloquently then myself, it
almost never actually hurts sales. As i under
stood the way of things, was that pirates were
beneath the notice of law enforcement, not being
worth the effort to track.
So why these busts? It could be that the DOD is
bored, or someone felt the need to fire up
carnivore. Maybe they're just misguided, and
think that they're preventing a real crime. Maybe
the sagging economy is making software makers
bitch harder. who can say?
i think we should consider before condoning piracy. on the otherhand i think its stupid
to spend tax money on busting them.
They're talking about gene therapy.
Its for adults.
They basically introduce a new gene into certain cells in your system, those cells perform stuff that your other 'normal' cells cant. They might increase blood cell counts, or increase metabolism.
Theoretically they wont decrease anything since 99% of the cells are still you.
Its like giving yourself a beneficial cancer.
question is, since i wont be competing, can i have the 'needs no sleep gene?'
I dont think that we have enough information to even guess at the terms of the equation for intelligent life. What if the distribution of planets is not the contingent factor for the development of life ?
There are theories that life evolved on other worlds and survived drifting through space to land on earth. Now you have to search for systems in which at least 2 worlds are sufficiently close with active vectors (meteor strikes, etc) for vectors of life to dissiminate.
Other theories say simple life form inside of comets in deep space, and were dispersed on the earth as we passed through its path. Now how many planets pass through comet trajectories? how often? how many comets produce life?
Look i am not advocating or denying these theories, I'm just saying that we cant begin to guess yet.
i remember from high school bio that plants respond to something called geotropism, that is they grow in response to gravity. They've done experiments like this and found that the plant cant tell up from down, and grows in a big ball of tangled roots and leaves.
I was the night admin at an insurance firm for a little while. They also hired a pretty young communications major to come in at night and do the back ups.
all she had to do was wait for the beep, change all the tapes, then press any key.
one night i went into the machine room to see if she needed any...er supervising. I told her she'd been doing a good job these last few weeks and asked, "shouldnt you be needing more tapes soon?"
she blinks and looks at me, "tapes?"
i have never run down the hall that fast, nor have i ever sweated as much during a backup.
In these days after the attack, i've seen many who thirst for blood. I can understand the need to strike back blindly in rage and anger.
Thankfully i didnt know anyone who died, and I send condolences to those who did. The world trade center has been a part of NYC for as long as I can remember it shakes my sense of permenance to think of it gone. it is one of those things that is always there.
..was. the past tense still doesnt come easily.
I dont think that blood pays for blood. I am saddened
by the events last tuesday, and i am saddened by the events which I am sure to come.
It is a strange feeling to mourn for humanity. To feel that the human race has gone mad.
Perhaps it may help those who are angry to view this webpage. It might remind us all what makes us great.
Many might think that this is too lenient a stance. That it is giving in to terrorism. But let us remember the words of JFK, words which very well have prevented WWIII.
"Let no one see an offer to negotiate as a sign of weakness, Let no one fear to negotiate, nor negotiate out of fear.." just some thoughts.
I used to argue that MacOS isnt an OS, with its lack of true kernel level multitasking, and its lack of kernel controlled memory allocation. The definition of an OS that I learned in college, required a modern OS to handle both memory management and cpu swaps (as well as networking, and threads)
I am looking forward to exploring OSX since it seems to have addressed these issues, and has the makings for a truely powerful and innovative operating system. It seemed that a merging of the power of bsd and the evolved GUI of mac OS would solve a lot of problems of both. Of course they only accomplished that by intergrating unix... which isnt an OS...
no offense but your in your 3rd year at a university and your only doing javascript? i am in my 2nd year at USC and i am taking java,MFC,theory of computation and will take Operating Systems (writing them) next spring.
i'm not exactly sure if you know what you need from college yet, you'll have a better understanding in 2 years. But if you want to learn those skills Perl, Java, C, etc get a book and learn them. I do not think that there are many computer schools like you describe. Most teach higher math and theory and you will pick up the rest as you go, usually as a learning tool for algorithms not as a lesson unto itself.
You need to get used to the fact that you're going to have to work on your own, not wait for a professor to assign it to you. Just learn.
If it makes you feel any better i am attending USC and we teach C with CS101 and Java with CS201 we also have electives in Linux, web publishing(perl) and a bunch of others. of course i need to take out enough loans to buy a porche to go here but then what can you do...
One last thought, all those classes you're requesting are mostly in the ITP dept, watered down tech skills for the business majors(which the CECS people laugh at) All the hardcore stuff is theory and architechtures. (which the business guys laugh at)
My CS201 class which focuses on Object Oriented programming and GUIs. This year we started classes with a surprise from our buddy M$, free software! Every student got NT workstation 4 and Visual Studio. The Dept got a crate of NT servers. I thought to myself, Hmm how generous, i even considered installing NT so i could use it. Then I realized that the curiculum had changed over the summer, Object oriented programming in C++ and Java is now OO programming in MFC (Microsoft foundation classes) this isn't anti-linux but we all know how Mr Gates loves Java... coincidence? you tell me.
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I'm sorry if this is a repeat, but I dont have time at work to read all the replies but i wanted to get this in.
This story puts the cart before the horse, people are not more afraid to die despite being religious. People who are more afraid of death are more likely to cling to irrational beliefs.
I was thinking that I'd take a page from the viral marketing people and ask victims to volunteer their friends for similar warnings at the end of the process. That way I'd only need to get the word out amoung the tech savvy crowd, I'm guessing that the parents of the tech elite could use an illustrative demonstration more then a mere security lecture.
of course I'd need to get people to trust the site...
I am currently discussing this topic on my site. Would harmlessly spoofing phishing sites in order to shock unsuspecting victims into learning about this particular danger be legal? eg: could you setup your own phishing site which instead of stealing info, instead educated the victim once they fell in the trap? or would this also be illegal?
Half the time they were from people that specifically signed up to get mailings. It wasn't as if we were mailing previous customers or anything, you had to say "please send me your newsletter". Evidently these people either forgot or changed their mind and couldn't be bothered to click the opt-out link at the bottom of the email. Somehow, 9 out of 10 of these people were AOL users, Funny. Just FYI, AOL auto-magickally filters spam and sends spam complaints for their customers.
just think how much more sensitive it'd be with a plasma anntennae.
a few years a go while i attened the university of southern california, i was surprised to find out that the UI design class in java i signed up for was now a introduction to MFC programming class.
the announcement my professor made show'ed she wasnt terribly happy with this. In addition every student in the class recieved a copy of windows NT professional and Visual Studio. This really stank for me, as a linux user, it meant that I had to work in the computer labs on campus.
In addition to the cut throat competition style bribes to the students, they also gave the computer department thousands and thousands of dollars that year. of course, one third of the sun machines were then replaced with dells...
the article is not over-reacting. How can we stop this? I think universities are lured by money, but are even more scared of losing cred. We as a developer community should loudly and publicly question the academic virtue of schools who whore themselves and their students out like this.
Now if only computer manufacturers could make equipment even remotely this sturdy." if only computer users could be as nice to their hardware as the sub zero radioactive depths of space....
I dont remember the show, i recognize
a r. html?
firestar as an X-man. (abeit a minor,
off and on. She was the weird flying
chick in spandex that was on fire all
the time. right?
see if this is what you were thinking.
http://www.geocities.com/bastetmajik/A-M/firest
I also recall a time when the Xmen tried
to recruit spidey, thinking he was a
mutant.
ok i'm a geek. bye.
There is no way the government of china (or
anyone) can effectively legislate and enforce
anti spam laws. When lazy admins find them-
selves getting their whole subnets blocked
by everyone else because of spam, maybe they'll
fix their stupid mail servers!
This is a classic example of free market/natural
law in action. No one wants to limit china's
connectivity, in fact, its more advantageous
(theoretically) to be as connected as possible.
And when they clean up their act, everyone will
start playing nice again.
Trying to write laws to counter these negative
reactions to irresponsible networking will only
reinforce the problem.
So i have mixed feelings about this.
first, I think that many people are missing an
important fact. As a community of developers
and open source advocates, a group which is
based on ideas about software (et al) I dont
think that piracy is justifiable. Theft is
theft. I'd be pretty hopping mad if someone
'pirated' my GPL'ed source and stuck it into
their closed project.
On the other hand pirates and warez pups have
always been part of the topology of closed
source software. And as many have already
pointed out more eloquently then myself, it
almost never actually hurts sales. As i under
stood the way of things, was that pirates were
beneath the notice of law enforcement, not being
worth the effort to track.
So why these busts? It could be that the DOD is
bored, or someone felt the need to fire up
carnivore. Maybe they're just misguided, and
think that they're preventing a real crime. Maybe
the sagging economy is making software makers
bitch harder. who can say?
i think we should consider before condoning piracy. on the otherhand i think its stupid
to spend tax money on busting them.
No.
They're talking about gene therapy.
Its for adults.
They basically introduce a new gene into certain cells in your system, those cells perform stuff that your other 'normal' cells cant. They might increase blood cell counts, or increase metabolism.
Theoretically they wont decrease anything since 99% of the cells are still you.
Its like giving yourself a beneficial cancer.
question is, since i wont be competing, can i have the 'needs no sleep gene?'
I dont think that we have enough information to even guess at the terms of the equation for intelligent life. What if the distribution of planets is not the contingent factor for the development of life ?
There are theories that life evolved on other worlds and survived drifting through space to land on earth. Now you have to search for systems in which at least 2 worlds are sufficiently close with active vectors (meteor strikes, etc) for vectors of life to dissiminate.
Other theories say simple life form inside of comets in deep space, and were dispersed on the earth as we passed through its path. Now how many planets pass through comet trajectories? how often? how many comets produce life?
Look i am not advocating or denying these theories, I'm just saying that we cant begin to guess yet.
...or a celeron
lets not forget their habit of lobbying for quasi-to unconstitutional extentions to IP laws, and stifling progress in the tech sector.
i remember from high school bio that plants respond to something called geotropism, that is they grow in response to gravity. They've done experiments like this and found that the plant cant tell up from down, and grows in a big ball of tangled roots and leaves.
I was the night admin at an insurance firm for a little while. They also hired a pretty young communications major to come in at night and do the back ups.
...er supervising. I told her she'd been doing a good job these last few weeks and asked, "shouldnt you be needing more tapes soon?"
all she had to do was wait for the beep, change all the tapes, then press any key.
one night i went into the machine room to see if she needed any
she blinks and looks at me, "tapes?"
i have never run down the hall that fast, nor have i ever sweated as much during a backup.
Thankfully i didnt know anyone who died, and I send condolences to those who did. The world trade center has been a part of NYC for as long as I can remember it shakes my sense of permenance to think of it gone. it is one of those things that is always there.
..was. the past tense still doesnt come easily.
I dont think that blood pays for blood. I am saddened
by the events last tuesday, and i am saddened by the events which I am sure to come.
It is a strange feeling to mourn for humanity. To feel that the human race has gone mad.
Perhaps it may help those who are angry to view this webpage. It might remind us all what makes us great.
http://spinster.org/~david
Many might think that this is too lenient a stance. That it is giving in to terrorism. But let us remember the words of JFK, words which very well have prevented WWIII.
"Let no one see an offer to negotiate as a sign of weakness, Let no one fear to negotiate, nor negotiate out of fear.."
just some thoughts.
while its true, that i have not infact looked outside today, I'm ninty nine percent sure he's lying folks.
I mean, i can still connect to slashdot...
so that's got to mean he's lying right?
though i dont want to piss of this god too, cause that really came and bit me on the erse last time...
damnit, this better not be some kinda joke, cause I'm gonna have to go outside now.
.. now where the heck was that door again?
check out
www.gaijin.com, especially the abyss.
its autobiographical and artsy.
Its funny seeing a viewpoint from the other side.
I used to argue that MacOS isnt an OS, with its lack of true kernel level multitasking, and its lack of kernel controlled memory allocation. The definition of an OS that I learned in college, required a modern OS to handle both memory management and cpu swaps (as well as networking, and threads)
I am looking forward to exploring OSX since it seems to have addressed these issues, and has the makings for a truely powerful and innovative operating system. It seemed that a merging of the power of bsd and the evolved GUI of mac OS would solve a lot of problems of both. Of course they only accomplished that by intergrating unix... which isnt an OS...
who is einstein to tell god what to do>?
no offense but your in your 3rd year at a university and your only doing javascript?
i am in my 2nd year at USC and i am taking java,MFC,theory of computation and will take Operating Systems (writing them) next spring.
i'm not exactly sure if you know what you need from college yet, you'll have a better understanding in 2 years. But if you want to learn those skills Perl, Java, C, etc get a book and learn them. I do not think that there are many computer schools like you describe. Most teach higher math and theory and you will pick up the rest as you go, usually as a learning tool for algorithms not as a lesson unto itself.
You need to get used to the fact that you're going to have to work on your own, not wait for a professor to assign it to you. Just learn.
If it makes you feel any better i am attending USC and we teach C with CS101 and Java with CS201
we also have electives in Linux, web publishing(perl) and a bunch of others. of course i need to take out enough loans to buy a porche to go here but then what can you do...
One last thought, all those classes you're requesting are mostly in the ITP dept, watered down tech skills for the business majors(which the CECS people laugh at) All the hardcore stuff is theory and architechtures. (which the business guys laugh at)
Hey i resent that remark, don't under estimate teenagers, personally i think its another ploy by the mole people...
My CS201 class which focuses on Object Oriented programming and GUIs.
This year we started classes with a surprise from our buddy M$, free software! Every student got NT workstation 4 and Visual Studio. The Dept got a crate of NT servers. I thought to myself, Hmm how generous, i even considered installing NT so i could use it. Then I realized that the curiculum had changed over the summer, Object oriented programming in C++ and Java is now OO programming in MFC (Microsoft foundation classes) this isn't anti-linux but we all know how Mr Gates loves Java...
coincidence? you tell me.