oh yeah, I worked Best Buy for 3 months before I quit. I quit not because of the customers but because of their completeley un-ethical business practices. I personally found that the only way you can keep your sanity in retail is just to laugh at your customers:)
Pros:
*Gives the ability to communicate with students from foreign countries
*Allows students something to learn about in their free time
*gets students interisted in things they would not normally be interisted
Cons:
*things which adults wish them not to see (we all know everything that fits in that category)...
As both a students and a network assistant, I can truly say that censorware SUCKS. We tried it, and found that it just does not work.
The reason it does not work is this: I would say 10% of the porn sites that I come accross are stationary sites (such as whitehouse.com). These websites are banned at the district forewall level. It is these sites that students say "hey, check out whitehouse.com", and then they see it. The other 90% of the sites are run using redirectoin servives and free webhosting. These sites will never be able to be blocked in time because they change URL's every 12 hours, and this is a lot quicker than the censorware will ever catch the majority of them.
We have put a policy into place:
You are caught viewing porn or other such material, immiediate consequences are at the bare minumum loss of rights to use any computer in the district for any reason.
You ask, how many have been caught? The answer is 2 last year and 1 this year. If you think there are a lot more you are wrong. Most people in my school do not know I am a network assistant (self-created title, we really have none, but its the best explanation), so they do not know I am watching. If I haooen to see something wrong, I simply go to that machine and check the users history folder. I have yet to see any that had more than 1 instance of this accidently happening.
ok, that was not all on topic, but you get the idea.
Why did many places on the net shut down also?????
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ok, here is what has happened today:
My cable modem was acting like a 56k modem until the minute hotmail came back up
My school was down (nobody could figure out what the hell was wrong...something at district office (not positive about this because they can mess up anything there, but everything else is a fact)...
The network for Honeywell (soon to be GE) was down.
A local hospotal (sorry, can't name names) was down.
What the heck is going on?
Has Microsoft's secret army that was trained in the Philipeans stated attacking us?
I would like to say I am insulted at anyone saying that public education is poor. It is simply what you mke ofm it. I live in Johnson County, kansas, one of the richist counties there are. Parental involvement is so high that some of my teachers have actually said it is TOO much. The AVERAGE score is arouns the 90th percentile. Why is my school so good? Its a simple fact. My county has put fowards a larger ammount of money. This not only causes us to attract better teachers, but alsoost parents actually take an interist in their childrens education. Anyway, I have not had too much sleep...
I am a 16 year old guy that just barely caught the tail end of the pinball era. Every Sunday night when my parents went bowling, I would spend three hours playing all the old pinball games. Now here is my question, where could I purchase one of the older (early-mid 80's) pinball machines in the Kansas City area fairly cheaply? I desperateley want one. I love playing games like UT and Q3A, but with a physical pinball machine, NOTHING is predictable.
Well, I think part of the problem is that the servers are managed by some not-so-smart people. I know that they know how they could fix it, but either corp (sorprate division) is not letting them, or thye are idiots.
I am currently a host on Talk CIty, and I have many friends that are also. The main reason for the new version comming out is that there has been a user comming into the rooms for the last month that floods the room with joins/parts, and also leaved REALLY bad messages when he kicks himself from the room. This goes on for hours almost every day.
As for the other things such as adds and stuff, those are just things that TC did to earn more money. They need more revenue due to a major re-vamping of their company. Recently they opened up at least a hundred paying jobs (all slots filled now).
TC has made some very bad decisions on their part about not allowing Linux users, but hey, they do own it, so I really can't complain.
I know I never post here, but I thought what the hell
Regarding kids accessing porn:
Who really caress that a teenager can see porn. If a parent is actually concerned enough to buy the software, they are wither overreacting, or their kids are looking at it.
Besides, whats really wrong with porn...
Some say that it hurts children in the long run, but it does not. All you are seeing is 2 (or more) naked people having sex. Whats wrong with that. Its the kids choice to see the porn (most of the time). They can certainly find ways around the software.
I live in the middle of nowhgere, and we are FINALLY getting cable modems (first high-speed line) next month. There is now way I am going to pay for a cable modem just to get crappy pings because I am using AOL. That is the reason I want to get a cable modem, I want to play games online.
I just flipped through the current issue of Computer Shopper, and I foudn that there were about 80 pages of content. When I say 80 pages, this includes all those lame pages about shopping websites, which really are information for beginners.
Computer magazines are dying because of two things.
The first reason is that they lack content. Take Computer Shopper for instance. All but about 25 pages of their 200 page magazine (I am not sure of the exact length) were ads. I like to buy magazines for their quality content, not their ads. Now I understand that people sometimes get them because they are great catalogs, but there are more Dell computer ads in the magazine than there are pages of content.
The second reason is that most of the information is avaible for free on the internet. I can easily find hundreds of reviews and articles on every topic imaginable for free. The content in magazines is usually a few weeks out of date, while content on the Internet is up-to-date.
Does anyone else think that the government is overreacting too much about security on the Internet. Hackers are usually only malicious when the government goes after them. As for the (unprovoked)attacks against the governments systems, I think that it is usually more for fun than being against the government and trying to steal information.
I normally just browse around Sladshot, but this newspiece caught my attention. Here is my opinion of everything:
I think that the FBI was just really asking for it.
The US government is cracking down on hackers because they (hackers) have more power than them. Hackers are not really "bad"" in the normal term. They commit crimes, but the crimes that they commit are most of the time essentially harmless. I believe that there will always be hackers.
I think that what they did was really wrong. They really gained only 2 things out of it:
1. Publicity - The media jumps on every chance to get a story about hackers. They tend to believe that they are some big "secret organization" that is trying to take over the world. I think that this story will ultimately work in the hackers favor because it shows that hackers can kick the governments butt if they want to.
2. The second thing that they got was a lot of bad publicity in the goverment. The US government (and others) will now try even harder to crack down on the Internet. The governments of the world will try and regulate it (eventually) to the point where all content, including webpages, is strictly regulated. If this happens, hackers will continue to survive, but will eventually all be caught or simply dissapear.
overall, what they did was not good for the internet community. Something less specifically directed at the government would have been better.
I know this is probably confucing, ihave no idea what I am typing either.
I have to go with HotDog 5.5. It isn't an advanced editor, and it is a little(it does not recognize a few tags)buggy, but overall its great. I have tried Dreamweaver2 and a few others, but I keep going back to HotDog5.
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oh yeah, I worked Best Buy for 3 months before I quit. I quit not because of the customers but because of their completeley un-ethical business practices. I personally found that the only way you can keep your sanity in retail is just to laugh at your customers :)
Pros:
*Gives the ability to communicate with students from foreign countries
*Allows students something to learn about in their free time
*gets students interisted in things they would not normally be interisted
Cons:
*things which adults wish them not to see (we all know everything that fits in that category)...
As both a students and a network assistant, I can truly say that censorware SUCKS. We tried it, and found that it just does not work.
The reason it does not work is this: I would say 10% of the porn sites that I come accross are stationary sites (such as whitehouse.com). These websites are banned at the district forewall level. It is these sites that students say "hey, check out whitehouse.com", and then they see it. The other 90% of the sites are run using redirectoin servives and free webhosting. These sites will never be able to be blocked in time because they change URL's every 12 hours, and this is a lot quicker than the censorware will ever catch the majority of them.
We have put a policy into place:
You are caught viewing porn or other such material, immiediate consequences are at the bare minumum loss of rights to use any computer in the district for any reason.
You ask, how many have been caught? The answer is 2 last year and 1 this year. If you think there are a lot more you are wrong. Most people in my school do not know I am a network assistant (self-created title, we really have none, but its the best explanation), so they do not know I am watching. If I haooen to see something wrong, I simply go to that machine and check the users history folder. I have yet to see any that had more than 1 instance of this accidently happening.
ok, that was not all on topic, but you get the idea.
ok, here is what has happened today:
My cable modem was acting like a 56k modem until the minute hotmail came back up
My school was down (nobody could figure out what the hell was wrong...something at district office (not positive about this because they can mess up anything there, but everything else is a fact)...
The network for Honeywell (soon to be GE) was down.
A local hospotal (sorry, can't name names) was down.
What the heck is going on?
Has Microsoft's secret army that was trained in the Philipeans stated attacking us?
I would like to say I am insulted at anyone saying that public education is poor. It is simply what you mke ofm it. I live in Johnson County, kansas, one of the richist counties there are. Parental involvement is so high that some of my teachers have actually said it is TOO much. The AVERAGE score is arouns the 90th percentile. Why is my school so good? Its a simple fact. My county has put fowards a larger ammount of money. This not only causes us to attract better teachers, but alsoost parents actually take an interist in their childrens education. Anyway, I have not had too much sleep...
I am a 16 year old guy that just barely caught the tail end of the pinball era. Every Sunday night when my parents went bowling, I would spend three hours playing all the old pinball games. Now here is my question, where could I purchase one of the older (early-mid 80's) pinball machines in the Kansas City area fairly cheaply? I desperateley want one. I love playing games like UT and Q3A, but with a physical pinball machine, NOTHING is predictable.
now that I think of it, there was a 1996 game called Subspace (nothing like terminus) that implemted all of those.
most either use their TCPirch or a linux client. A few others (10-40% at times) use webtv.
Well, I think part of the problem is that the servers are managed by some not-so-smart people. I know that they know how they could fix it, but either corp (sorprate division) is not letting them, or thye are idiots.
There are over 2000 hosts, but maybe 500 are active, of which maybe 150 are very active (host regularly).
actually, it was 2 users:
1) bad-seed who floods with the bad messages and kicks himself
2) CiA`/sax-007 who has the multiple nick flood with joins/parts or message (seed has gotten ahold f this recently).
I am currently a host on Talk CIty, and I have many friends that are also. The main reason for the new version comming out is that there has been a user comming into the rooms for the last month that floods the room with joins/parts, and also leaved REALLY bad messages when he kicks himself from the room. This goes on for hours almost every day.
As for the other things such as adds and stuff, those are just things that TC did to earn more money. They need more revenue due to a major re-vamping of their company. Recently they opened up at least a hundred paying jobs (all slots filled now).
TC has made some very bad decisions on their part about not allowing Linux users, but hey, they do own it, so I really can't complain.
I know I never post here, but I thought what the hell
Regarding kids accessing porn:
Who really caress that a teenager can see porn. If a parent is actually concerned enough to buy the software, they are wither overreacting, or their kids are looking at it.
Besides, whats really wrong with porn...
Some say that it hurts children in the long run, but it does not. All you are seeing is 2 (or more) naked people having sex. Whats wrong with that. Its the kids choice to see the porn (most of the time). They can certainly find ways around the software.
I live in the middle of nowhgere, and we are FINALLY getting cable modems (first high-speed line) next month. There is now way I am going to pay for a cable modem just to get crappy pings because I am using AOL. That is the reason I want to get a cable modem, I want to play games online.
I just flipped through the current issue of Computer Shopper, and I foudn that there were about 80 pages of content. When I say 80 pages, this includes all those lame pages about shopping websites, which really are information for beginners.
I was wrong, the December '99 issue is 408 pages long.
My personal opinion on computer magazine is this:
Computer magazines are dying because of two things.
The first reason is that they lack content. Take Computer Shopper for instance. All but about 25 pages of their 200 page magazine (I am not sure of the exact length) were ads. I like to buy magazines for their quality content, not their ads. Now I understand that people sometimes get them because they are great catalogs, but there are more Dell computer ads in the magazine than there are pages of content.
The second reason is that most of the information is avaible for free on the internet. I can easily find hundreds of reviews and articles on every topic imaginable for free. The content in magazines is usually a few weeks out of date, while content on the Internet is up-to-date.
Which type of sites are cracked more, government or civilian?
Also, is it only the United States sites that are being attacked?
I have only seen one or two non -US sites that have been attacked. Why is this the case? Does the US have better security?
Does anyone else think that the government is overreacting too much about security on the Internet. Hackers are usually only malicious when the government goes after them. As for the (unprovoked)attacks against the governments systems, I think that it is usually more for fun than being against the government and trying to steal information.
whoops, gotta go...
I normally just browse around Sladshot, but this newspiece caught my attention. Here is my opinion of everything:
I think that the FBI was just really asking for it.
The US government is cracking down on hackers because they (hackers) have more power than them. Hackers are not really "bad"" in the normal term. They commit crimes, but the crimes that they commit are most of the time essentially harmless. I believe that there will always be hackers.
I think that what they did was really wrong. They really gained only 2 things out of it:
1. Publicity - The media jumps on every chance to get a story about hackers. They tend to believe that they are some big "secret organization" that is trying to take over the world. I think that this story will ultimately work in the hackers favor because it shows that hackers can kick the governments butt if they want to.
2. The second thing that they got was a lot of bad publicity in the goverment. The US government (and others) will now try even harder to crack down on the Internet. The governments of the world will try and regulate it (eventually) to the point where all content, including webpages, is strictly regulated. If this happens, hackers will continue to survive, but will eventually all be caught or simply dissapear.
overall, what they did was not good for the internet community. Something less specifically directed at the government would have been better.
I know this is probably confucing, ihave no idea what I am typing either.
I have to go with HotDog 5.5. It isn't an advanced editor, and it is a little(it does not recognize a few tags)buggy, but overall its great. I have tried Dreamweaver2 and a few others, but I keep going back to HotDog5.