American Security and Justice Departments are world wide know for their secret investigations among themselves.
Of course that keeping computers not as secure as they could get is very interesting if you want information "secure" enough to avoid a regular hacker to access it, but to enable a power hacker to access with the correct tools obtained with privileged information.
Don't worry about this, you can keep using your free software and keep you own privacy. Unfortunately we can't say the same about your information stored at DoD.:oP
I have an email account that I just don't want to receive any spam. And it receives just once a while.
When I receive a spam I always try to contact all responsibles for all the domains involved in it. I look at the From field, the Reply-to field, the sender field (usually hidden at the email header), and retrieve the responsibles' names and emails for the domains with whois.
Once with a list of all the responsibles of all the related domains (including the responsible for the responsible of the related domain) I just send an email with a notice that probably there was a mistake and I received a email from them, and that I just don't want to receive this kind of email anymore.
Of course I also notice them that all responsibles are being notifyied and that if the spam continues I will contact the authoraties.
It always works fine for me!;o) Why don't you try it too?
SACD will be "safe" (as they call it) as long as it is kept away from computers! Once digital data is inside the computer there's no control on what the user do with it! FACT!!!
What about all this discussion on digital convergence, TV+Stereo+Phone+Computer+Internet+etc all-in-one. Wake up man!
Every copy protection created will be a waste of money and time, no matter what laws can be aproved in US, there's always the rest of the world!
Create any standard they want they all have the same future, just like this dam CSS:oP
No matter what you do, no matter how much money you spend with copy protection resources, once digitally inside a computer there's no way to control what users do with the information.
Once digitally inside the computer the data can be shared, copied, divided, multiplied, whatever the USER wants.
So, developers involved in copyright protection devices, keep this in mind, or even better, consider this as a fact, once digitalized there's no way to control what users do whith the information.
Here in Brazil we have a stupid regulamentation that rules that the medium provider cannot provide internet access.
In other words, if your phone company offers you ADSL service for, suppose, $30 they can connect you to the net, but cannot give yoy access to the net. You MUST contract an ISP (and pay mor $30 for the internet access).
This stupid law doubles the price of large bandwidth (64kbps, 128kbps). Just due to a stupid lobby that keeps this regulamentation (note, it's not a law).
My opinion about this? The largest ISP in Brazil (UOL) is losing market share because the second largest (Terra) is owned by one of the largest telephone company in Brazil (Telefonica). Of course that Terra subscribers have discounts in dial-up connections and on ADSL contracts.
What might happen. When Terra becomes large enough the lobby will fall, and the largest ISP will smash his face on the floor.
I can't believe they aren't taking no providences about this...
What do you really have to do to play their music?
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What do you really have to do to play their music legally?
Simply move out the United States of America (any one of you or RIAA)
Because the author loves freedom? (and will soon be unemployed)
(...)
Look around. What do you see? An author that loves freedom, and wants to tell the truth to readers no matter what he needs to do, even if he needs to break the law.
Of course he won't be soon unemployed, if something happen news.com will cover his case exclusively and will push this to the media as hard it can. Then, after all the spreading around this subject, they will use this slogan: "The truth, whatever it takes..."
Realists have the world in his hands. Optimists own the world.
... unless you're looking for a job as a lawyer or at the sales department.
Don't forget, you must lie and the employer must believe, right before the end of the interview you tell that you've lied in your resume and all over the interview.
CENSORSHIP?!? CENSORSHIP?!?! DID I READ IT RIGHT?!?
I don't care for what lawyers say. AFAIK this is sensorship. Somebody will say that this is about national security, others will say that this is war. IT DOESN'T MATTER!.
Take a look! You have a website and linked it to another site argueing that you agree with some points that are defendend in that site (this is exactly what happened). Then comes somebody else and tells you that you must remove the link, and stop saying that you agree with them, or else you'll be arrested by breaking a federal law!
Just for your information almost every dictatorships bases it powers in repressive laws, and most of the appeals to the so called "national security" to do the most horrible violences against the people. Think, where are the USA going to?
I don't know about you, I don't care about laywers, but IMHO this censorship, and shows everybody where the stupidity of some polititians can lead us.
You can do nothing and you can protest. I propouse that we all add a link to FARC in our homepages, in protest to this stupid law! I'll do it (although this is not a crime around here).
Asking a wireless server for access and receive the requested access is against the law.
Stealing my right to understand how a device works and build my own device (just the way I like: "Do it by yourself") IS NOT against the law.
Stealing my right to buy a CD (cdda compatible) and play it in the ONLY cdda compatible device I have IS NOT against the law.
Stealing my right to develop my own software and do with it whatever I want, even give it way for anybody who wants even see its source IS NOT against the law.
Stealing the right of a country to solve its own problems, and decide it's time to change its president (dictator or not), without the agreement of the proper organization responsible for these cases IS NOT agaisnt the law.
Accepting money and gifts from big companies to submit new laws following thir interests, instead of the people interests and freedom, IS NOT against the law.
I hope to still have the right to disagree with things that I think that is REALLY wrong and MUST, or else we will become slaves of laws that were created by our own legal and political representants, representing others interests.
It may sound strange, but this can have an end soon. Kids are using this "typing" slang just because it's much more easier (not about data size, but about "easiness").
Note that this "easieness" will end when typing becomes obsolete, and voice chatting becomes the standart. What will happen then?
I see two probable scenarios. People still keep typing (and probably writing) this way, creating a useless habit, that can only be explained in the historical context. Other scenario is this kind of typing dies just like many other slangs, and our grandchildren will laugh at us when we show this to them.;o)
As Matt Growening (spelled correct?) preview. In year 3001 well spell xmas instead of christmas;o)
(...)
there were many useful courses, most of which either involved introducing new programming paradigms (e.g., I first met functional programming there),
(...)
That's exactly the point. New paradigms are completely different from new languages. Why teach Java and C# if both are almost the same (I won't discuss who copied who)? Teach one of the most representative languages of the paradigm and that should be enough.
In my grad I've learned C++, so there was no need to have another course to learn Java, me and my classmates should be able of learning Java by ourselves. I mean, in my vision of a good graduation course (and we are one of the top 3 in Brazil).
This shows the reality for most musicians. Of course there are few that are paid correctly, the most famous ones, of course, like Metallica. These musicians think that everybody else receives their payments the way they receive.
It's a shame, but by paying right for some, they create a small legion of artists that try to convince people that everything is ok the way it is (and of course fight for RIAAs interests)
Now we all have proofs that Metallica fought against Napster because they really believe that every other musicians receive their payments.
I'm sorry for those who don't agree, but IMHO high level professionals (those formed by top universities) should be able to learn Java, C#, or whatever other language by themselves.
All you need to know is a good academic language, like C ou Java, not necessarily one these, to give the students good basis. Afeter a language learned the most important thing is focus in Computer Theory and Mathematics.
Extension courses are welcome, but each student should choose whick course to do, which technology to learn. No obligation.
What amazes me more, is seeing top universities students ignores the programming quality of the unix world, and ignoring the possibilities of learning avaiable in the FreeSoftware comunity.
External FINANCIAL influence always makes a difference.
Yes, you are right. It always makes a difference, but makes difference for the wrong choice.
The consideration about MS, AOL and Yahoo get paid is completely out of question IMHO. They want to make a paid service to become standard when there's a whole comunity (FreeSoftware comunity) avaiable for developing a brand new protocol to become the free concurrent, and maybe become the real standard.
That's obvious, nobody likes to realize that has being manipulated for years. And that's what RIAA is showing us, even if statistics shows that CD sales increased due to the Napster Network influence they smashed Napster just like we do to a bug.
But why? Because they want to control whatever we'll listen. They want us to think we choose what we like (which now we know it was not just that way).
By controling the distribution medium they can control whatever is avaiable to the masses and avoid unawanted content to become highly avaiable.
Now we have realized what was happening and avoiding being manipulated (although I still believe that many of my likes and dislikes are still manipulated). That's why networks such as Kazaa, Morpheus, Gnutella aren't bigger just because they still can't live in a pacific and compatible way.
It's very sad to notice that XML tag matching problem, due to an error when converting tags to uppercase, is still there.
I wish I had knowledgement to fix this.
It's really sad to know that any version of Mozilla cannot be used to edit XML, such a feature should be considered very important, but this bug exists since 0.8.x version (I don't remember exactly which)
Ask him/her to do something repatly, if he organizes a way to do it faster, or to do it easier then just repeating each time a different way, the he/she is a good programmer.;o)
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American Security and Justice Departments are world wide know for their secret investigations among themselves.
Of course that keeping computers not as secure as they could get is very interesting if you want information "secure" enough to avoid a regular hacker to access it, but to enable a power hacker to access with the correct tools obtained with privileged information.
Don't worry about this, you can keep using your free software and keep you own privacy. Unfortunately we can't say the same about your information stored at DoD. :oP
I have an email account that I just don't want to receive any spam. And it receives just once a while.
When I receive a spam I always try to contact all responsibles for all the domains involved in it. I look at the From field, the Reply-to field, the sender field (usually hidden at the email header), and retrieve the responsibles' names and emails for the domains with whois.
Once with a list of all the responsibles of all the related domains (including the responsible for the responsible of the related domain) I just send an email with a notice that probably there was a mistake and I received a email from them, and that I just don't want to receive this kind of email anymore.
Of course I also notice them that all responsibles are being notifyied and that if the spam continues I will contact the authoraties.
It always works fine for me! ;o) Why don't you try it too?
Waaarrchaaalllkiiiinnnnnng!!!!!!
WHEN WILL THESE STUIP LAWYERS LEARN?
SACD will be "safe" (as they call it) as long as it is kept away from computers! Once digital data is inside the computer there's no control on what the user do with it! FACT!!!
What about all this discussion on digital convergence, TV+Stereo+Phone+Computer+Internet+etc all-in-one. Wake up man!
Every copy protection created will be a waste of money and time, no matter what laws can be aproved in US, there's always the rest of the world!
Create any standard they want they all have the same future, just like this dam CSS :oP
I sick of it!
No matter what you do, no matter how much money you spend with copy protection resources, once digitally inside a computer there's no way to control what users do with the information.
Once digitally inside the computer the data can be shared, copied, divided, multiplied, whatever the USER wants.
So, developers involved in copyright protection devices, keep this in mind, or even better, consider this as a fact, once digitalized there's no way to control what users do whith the information.
Here in Brazil we have a stupid regulamentation that rules that the medium provider cannot provide internet access.
In other words, if your phone company offers you ADSL service for, suppose, $30 they can connect you to the net, but cannot give yoy access to the net. You MUST contract an ISP (and pay mor $30 for the internet access).
This stupid law doubles the price of large bandwidth (64kbps, 128kbps). Just due to a stupid lobby that keeps this regulamentation (note, it's not a law).
My opinion about this? The largest ISP in Brazil (UOL) is losing market share because the second largest (Terra) is owned by one of the largest telephone company in Brazil (Telefonica). Of course that Terra subscribers have discounts in dial-up connections and on ADSL contracts.
What might happen. When Terra becomes large enough the lobby will fall, and the largest ISP will smash his face on the floor.
I can't believe they aren't taking no providences about this...
Simply move out the United States of America (any one of you or RIAA)
Born to be the universal languange, but only few really use it.
Please, could somebody tell us which games did he played?
Look around. What do you see? An author that loves freedom, and wants to tell the truth to readers no matter what he needs to do, even if he needs to break the law.
Of course he won't be soon unemployed, if something happen news.com will cover his case exclusively and will push this to the media as hard it can. Then, after all the spreading around this subject, they will use this slogan: "The truth, whatever it takes..."
Realists have the world in his hands. Optimists own the world.
Lawyers/sales people please don't be offended. I know that if you lie you never get a job :o)
Have fun :oD
No stress!
Don't forget, you must lie and the employer must believe, right before the end of the interview you tell that you've lied in your resume and all over the interview.
The job will be yours. For sure.
CENSORSHIP?!? CENSORSHIP?!?! DID I READ IT RIGHT?!?
I don't care for what lawyers say. AFAIK this is sensorship. Somebody will say that this is about national security, others will say that this is war. IT DOESN'T MATTER!.
Take a look! You have a website and linked it to another site argueing that you agree with some points that are defendend in that site (this is exactly what happened). Then comes somebody else and tells you that you must remove the link, and stop saying that you agree with them, or else you'll be arrested by breaking a federal law!
Just for your information almost every dictatorships bases it powers in repressive laws, and most of the appeals to the so called "national security" to do the most horrible violences against the people. Think, where are the USA going to?
I don't know about you, I don't care about laywers, but IMHO this censorship, and shows everybody where the stupidity of some polititians can lead us.
You can do nothing and you can protest. I propouse that we all add a link to FARC in our homepages, in protest to this stupid law! I'll do it (although this is not a crime around here).
Asking a wireless server for access and receive the requested access is against the law.
Stealing my right to understand how a device works and build my own device (just the way I like: "Do it by yourself") IS NOT against the law.
Stealing my right to buy a CD (cdda compatible) and play it in the ONLY cdda compatible device I have IS NOT against the law.
Stealing my right to develop my own software and do with it whatever I want, even give it way for anybody who wants even see its source IS NOT against the law.
Stealing the right of a country to solve its own problems, and decide it's time to change its president (dictator or not), without the agreement of the proper organization responsible for these cases IS NOT agaisnt the law.
Accepting money and gifts from big companies to submit new laws following thir interests, instead of the people interests and freedom, IS NOT against the law.
I hope to still have the right to disagree with things that I think that is REALLY wrong and MUST, or else we will become slaves of laws that were created by our own legal and political representants, representing others interests.
It may sound strange, but this can have an end soon. Kids are using this "typing" slang just because it's much more easier (not about data size, but about "easiness").
Note that this "easieness" will end when typing becomes obsolete, and voice chatting becomes the standart. What will happen then?
I see two probable scenarios. People still keep typing (and probably writing) this way, creating a useless habit, that can only be explained in the historical context. Other scenario is this kind of typing dies just like many other slangs, and our grandchildren will laugh at us when we show this to them. ;o)
As Matt Growening (spelled correct?) preview. In year 3001 well spell xmas instead of christmas ;o)
- (...)
there were many useful courses, most of which either involved introducing new programming paradigms (e.g., I first met functional programming there),
(...)
That's exactly the point. New paradigms are completely different from new languages. Why teach Java and C# if both are almost the same (I won't discuss who copied who)? Teach one of the most representative languages of the paradigm and that should be enough.In my grad I've learned C++, so there was no need to have another course to learn Java, me and my classmates should be able of learning Java by ourselves. I mean, in my vision of a good graduation course (and we are one of the top 3 in Brazil).
This means that instead of two-chips cellular will have single-chip celluar!
That's a huge advance!
This shows the reality for most musicians. Of course there are few that are paid correctly, the most famous ones, of course, like Metallica. These musicians think that everybody else receives their payments the way they receive.
It's a shame, but by paying right for some, they create a small legion of artists that try to convince people that everything is ok the way it is (and of course fight for RIAAs interests)
Now we all have proofs that Metallica fought against Napster because they really believe that every other musicians receive their payments.
I'm sorry for those who don't agree, but IMHO high level professionals (those formed by top universities) should be able to learn Java, C#, or whatever other language by themselves.
All you need to know is a good academic language, like C ou Java, not necessarily one these, to give the students good basis. Afeter a language learned the most important thing is focus in Computer Theory and Mathematics.
Extension courses are welcome, but each student should choose whick course to do, which technology to learn. No obligation.
What amazes me more, is seeing top universities students ignores the programming quality of the unix world, and ignoring the possibilities of learning avaiable in the FreeSoftware comunity.
There are things that really makes me sad.
-
External FINANCIAL influence always makes a difference.
Yes, you are right. It always makes a difference, but makes difference for the wrong choice.The consideration about MS, AOL and Yahoo get paid is completely out of question IMHO. They want to make a paid service to become standard when there's a whole comunity (FreeSoftware comunity) avaiable for developing a brand new protocol to become the free concurrent, and maybe become the real standard.
When will they hear their technical consultants?
That's obvious, nobody likes to realize that has being manipulated for years. And that's what RIAA is showing us, even if statistics shows that CD sales increased due to the Napster Network influence they smashed Napster just like we do to a bug.
But why? Because they want to control whatever we'll listen. They want us to think we choose what we like (which now we know it was not just that way).
By controling the distribution medium they can control whatever is avaiable to the masses and avoid unawanted content to become highly avaiable.
Now we have realized what was happening and avoiding being manipulated (although I still believe that many of my likes and dislikes are still manipulated). That's why networks such as Kazaa, Morpheus, Gnutella aren't bigger just because they still can't live in a pacific and compatible way.
What I mean is that mozilla's HTML forms cannot be used to edit XML, because they mismatch some elements cases, causing element mismatch error.
So Mozilla HTML forms can't be used to edit XML.
It's very sad to notice that XML tag matching problem, due to an error when converting tags to uppercase, is still there.
I wish I had knowledgement to fix this.
It's really sad to know that any version of Mozilla cannot be used to edit XML, such a feature should be considered very important, but this bug exists since 0.8.x version (I don't remember exactly which)
Ask him/her to do something repatly, if he organizes a way to do it faster, or to do it easier then just repeating each time a different way, the he/she is a good programmer. ;o)