it's legal as long as you don't distribute, up to 200 gallons per household, I believe. I've got correspondence from a gov't official here somewhere about it... *looks* It's burried deep in an email archieve, no doubt.:)
Remember, a university is NOT a business, and there is no reason for it to be run under a business model.
Imagine the following difference in job offers: "hey, you're pretty good, stick around for 3 years, and we'll see if we still want you," or "we believe in you, here's a job for life." Which system encourages far-sighted research plans? Which system encourages making good long-term decisions rather optimizing short-term gain? Which system allows development of highly devoted faculty?
This is pretty ironic. You state that a university is not a business, and then state several items that differentiate the two. Well, universities are businesses, to a large degree. Many people make a very large amount of money off of them. They're just not run in a fashion that closely resembles the large american corporation - they're run for results, not profit.
As a result, they're often fairly stable institutions, showing growth over a long period of time. Everyone in the heirchy benefits financially, and the people at the top not much more than the people at the bottom (assistant professors), in the large scheme of things.
If more American corporations were run in this fashion, our economy would be very well off. Booms and exponential growth are both signs of instability.
Why do we care? I can think of several reasons why we wouldn't.
1) anything that is capable of running a browser that weighs in like mozilla (or IE, opera, etc) already can run mozilla natively. 2) Java will always be slower than a native, non-interpreted language, even if you compile it into a binary. 3) When mozilla is at 1.4 (or so), and this is just on the first alpha, what practicality is there in duplicating efforts to create the exact same thing, when there's such a gap between the two efforts? It's like making cement from diamond dust - sure, but why, when lime is better for the job all around, and outperforms to boot?
This vest reminds me of something that an X-men character would wear - like storm or such. It's just that damned cool. It's style is even reminiscent of the stuff the characters wore in the 2 X-Men films. Crackling, blue arcs of lightning?
I don't suppose it'll be too long until they actually have this little gig in a film - amateur or professional. Female vigilante, anyone?
Additionally, did anyone notice how many amps this thing has? 20k volts is cool, but pretty useless if the ampage isn't enough to hurt.
You're trying to pull a "John Katz" type association, ala Columbine: "Geeks are oppressed. These kids were oppressed. Thus, these guys were oppressed geeks, like we are, and we must sympathize and condone what they did." No.
Hacking is hacking - whether it's with computers, cars, or some other technical device. You're making things work better, improving on them.
Learning "lost arts" of the likes of brewing, breadmaking, metalwork, etc. are not hacking. Doing so is simply seeking out knowledge. It is the self-enlightenment of the mind. It is the original concept of 'education' (as stated by the Greeks) fullfilled. Hacking might fall into this as a subset, but "hacking = learning" is a crock of katzism: an intellectual and logical farce.
This sounds about as fun as having a sheet of paper on your windshield while you're driving, and nearly as useful. Ever try and focus your eyes on a non-opaque object, such as a reflection on the side of a fish tank?
It's like laughing. When you're invested in a film, as you often are in the theatre (bastards charge too much!) then you're hightened in your involvement. I'm not the cheering type, but for movies I'm psyched up about, I tend to cheer out of convulsion, just like I would laugh.
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanneds # sshnuke 66.35.250.150 -rootpw="z10n0101" Connecting to 66.35.250.150:ssh... successful. Attempting to exploit SSHv1 CRC32... successful. Resetting root password to "z10n0101". System open: Access level # ssh 66.35.250.150 -l root root@66.35.250.150's password::)
I thought it was interesting that access level was '9' because '0' is the UID for the root account. What might this '9' indicate? Maybe it's something they added/changed to not promovide crackers with all-too-much pertinent information? "Oh no, I gained access, but it's only level 0. I guess I'll have to try elsewhere." I don't doubt that at least one person will be exploited by this, as a direct result of this film.
On second thought, I can see now why your attitude is so soft towards child pornographers: you must be one yourself.
No? Then what's with this "candyman" reference? I'm no expert in the field, or anything, but wouldn't a man that gives children candy to exploit them potentially be a pornographer? Might this not be a 'callsign' for a series of child porn, etc? I think so.
Thanks for clearing things up for me, pervert. I hope someone hits you with a bus.
Um, if you're responsible for making computers work properly at an office, you are not a drone. You have been hired to perform tasks that require critical thinking. Simply 'ignoring' things is not part of that equation, whatever those things are.
I wonder if the fired sysadmin will sue for breach of contract. It seems pretty obvious to me that they were fired because the NY Law School - thier outsourcing company's employer - didn't like what they did. I mean, raelly - a law school professor doing something so incredibly socially and legally taboo as looking at child porn is NOT a good way to promote your company.
Really, these employees should have realized this. They should have told the school's administration. The professor would likely have been fired, and likely arrested (quietly) after he was no longer an employee of the school.
On hte other hand, these are lawyers we're talking about. They might just make sure the porn (is child porn so vile that it shouldn't even be grouped in with normal porn? I think maybe so) is gone, and carry on with their vile ways.
Now, if they had the tablet thing where they could write it into the computer, then that would be different.
If you'd actually fully read what I said, you'd see that I mention that they -do- have such laptops, and I mentioned one of them. To rehash: It's called a fujitsu lifebook P-series, either the P2000 or P1000 with varrying itinerations based on the specific loadout.
Let's say an urban, modern US city needs to have a road resurfaced. Let's say it's a road that parallels a fairly major road that a lot of people take to work each day. The road needs to be shut down to do this anyway, to some degree, so why not start by putting a (or another) subway in? Reroute traffic around the road, re-program the lights, and deploy a lot more busses and cabs. Over a period of years you can gradually remove the ability for vehicles to transit cities enmass, and busses will have prevailance. Then, when the rail system becomes functional, it'll be a natural transition and the busses can move out to suburbia, further allowing for removeal of cars from cities.
There'd have to be busses or shuttles throughout the suburbs to get
Additional things would need to be done, like increasing vehicle taxes, giving busses precidence on the road (legally, like a "bus lane" or "public transit lane" for cabs). Eliminate some parking lots by placing obscene operational taxes on such estabilishments, thus driving up the cost of driving your vehicle to work.
However, this probably won't work bercause there are several american principles that are being ignored.
First, there's independence. Not individualism, as many claim, but independence - the ability to do everything for yourself (or at least the perception of such). Individualism is just an offspring of that, and can exist just fine within an environment that allows some interdependence. Cars are a tool for independence.
Additionally, the independence of most Americans has lead to many people becoming emotional islands, at least to a large part. They don't like other poople, and they try to avoid them at all costs. This is also a result of many parts of the US being a literal day's trip to anywhere with a grocery store (and other causes of similar effect).
Second is the American model ideal of success. To be successful, you must have a good job, drive a nice car, and have a big house - not necessarily in that order, and some ideals are left out, I know. Until the general concensus changes, people will view having a nice automobile as a status symbol. Having a vehicle is the reason for the hallmark of someone's 16th birthday in the US - they can now legally drive a car.
Another reason why this won't work is because it's already something that is largely in place in New York. There are buses in the city. There are subways. There's even the metro, which branches out into the state all the way Upstate, providing a quick way to the city. And yet the rich people that work in the city still want to drive their BMWs to work. And there are a lot of people rich enough to own BMWs in manhattan.
you apparently know nothing about highway construction.
if, at 55MPH, you hit a 1" elevation deviation over a 1' distance, your vehicle will bottom out and lose it's oilpan. Many, many, many man hours are spent simply surveying the damned highway before it can be laid. The same thing occurs every time there is a resurfacing. That is where the majority of cost is concerned. It'll take a 5 man crew weeks to survey 3 miles of highway. A paving crew can cover a mile a day, sometimes more.
There are programs explicitly for that: mathcad, I think is one, and Maple, I know, is another. They're used quite extensively at Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA.
Additionally, if students were to have a well designed laptop, like the Fujitsu Lifebook P2000 series, they'd have the ability to (surprise) write using a stylus on the LCD into photoshop or some other program. Then they'd be able to save notes in an intelligent and easily organizeable manner, and they'd be able to write mathmatics symbols easily as well. (to say nothing of the ease of erasing. Ctrl-Z, anyone?)
As soon as I can afford one, I'll be getting a lifebook for just this purpose.
This should be from the Yet-Another-Sign-How-Stupid Higher-Education-Is Dept.
One key point: trees grow again, whereas the metals, plastics, and the materials to make those metals and plastics, do not. They're not a renewable resource.
They don't generally get recycled, either - they go to the dump, where they rust and leak toxins into the environment. Paper, on the other hand, will biodegrade in a couple hundred years in a landfill environment.
It was late, and I wasn't all together clear. The ACT seems to measure "think inside the box" aptitude rather than an individual's ability to think creatively, and thus, solve problems. Just like the SAT. You can study for them both and greatly alter your test results.
I didn't take the SAT, but did the ACT. I slept through a large part of some of the tests because I was so bloody tired - I'd not slept for several days. I still managed to pull a 26 (which is on the upper middle end of things. 36 (or is it 34?) is 'perfect', and 20 seems to be the mean.
He's no linux geek. He's a windows geek who lacks the clue to realize that his design is inherrently flawed. Not just different, but flawed. See this link.
I know someone that filled in the dots to form pacman-type characters, and he got the second highest score in his school class. His class was of 3 or 4 hundred, and not in the ghetto or anything - it was actually a pretty good high school in suburbia. Not sure what the actual score was, though.
I'd agree, the SAT is a farce. From what I've seen, the ACT is a fair degree better at being consistent, although it definately seems to favor logically minded folks over creative folks.
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it's legal as long as you don't distribute, up to 200 gallons per household, I believe. I've got correspondence from a gov't official here somewhere about it... *looks* It's burried deep in an email archieve, no doubt. :)
Remember, a university is NOT a business, and there is no reason for it to be run under a business model.
Imagine the following difference in job offers: "hey, you're pretty good, stick around for 3 years, and we'll see if we still want you," or "we believe in you, here's a job for life." Which system encourages far-sighted research plans? Which system encourages making good long-term decisions rather optimizing short-term gain? Which system allows development of highly devoted faculty?
This is pretty ironic. You state that a university is not a business, and then state several items that differentiate the two. Well, universities are businesses, to a large degree. Many people make a very large amount of money off of them. They're just not run in a fashion that closely resembles the large american corporation - they're run for results, not profit.
As a result, they're often fairly stable institutions, showing growth over a long period of time. Everyone in the heirchy benefits financially, and the people at the top not much more than the people at the bottom (assistant professors), in the large scheme of things.
If more American corporations were run in this fashion, our economy would be very well off. Booms and exponential growth are both signs of instability.
Why do we care? I can think of several reasons why we wouldn't.
1) anything that is capable of running a browser that weighs in like mozilla (or IE, opera, etc) already can run mozilla natively.
2) Java will always be slower than a native, non-interpreted language, even if you compile it into a binary.
3) When mozilla is at 1.4 (or so), and this is just on the first alpha, what practicality is there in duplicating efforts to create the exact same thing, when there's such a gap between the two efforts? It's like making cement from diamond dust - sure, but why, when lime is better for the job all around, and outperforms to boot?
This vest reminds me of something that an X-men character would wear - like storm or such. It's just that damned cool. It's style is even reminiscent of the stuff the characters wore in the 2 X-Men films. Crackling, blue arcs of lightning?
I don't suppose it'll be too long until they actually have this little gig in a film - amateur or professional. Female vigilante, anyone?
Additionally, did anyone notice how many amps this thing has? 20k volts is cool, but pretty useless if the ampage isn't enough to hurt.
You can get an automatic handgun with decent stopping power for 4 hundred or so - certainly under a grand.
.38 revolver for 150$ if you look hard.
You can get a decent
Even the best handguns - say, a kimber 1911 - will only run you a bit over a grand.
You're trying to pull a "John Katz" type association, ala Columbine: "Geeks are oppressed. These kids were oppressed. Thus, these guys were oppressed geeks, like we are, and we must sympathize and condone what they did." No.
Hacking is hacking - whether it's with computers, cars, or some other technical device. You're making things work better, improving on them.
Learning "lost arts" of the likes of brewing, breadmaking, metalwork, etc. are not hacking. Doing so is simply seeking out knowledge. It is the self-enlightenment of the mind. It is the original concept of 'education' (as stated by the Greeks) fullfilled. Hacking might fall into this as a subset, but "hacking = learning" is a crock of katzism: an intellectual and logical farce.
(Thank the Maker he's not around anymore, btw)
You should make mead (or one of its delicious derivitives) with the honey you get from those bees :P Good stuff.
This sounds about as fun as having a sheet of paper on your windshield while you're driving, and nearly as useful. Ever try and focus your eyes on a non-opaque object, such as a reflection on the side of a fish tank?
It's like laughing. When you're invested in a film, as you often are in the theatre (bastards charge too much!) then you're hightened in your involvement. I'm not the cheering type, but for movies I'm psyched up about, I tend to cheer out of convulsion, just like I would laugh.
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanneds ... successful. ... successful. :)
# sshnuke 66.35.250.150 -rootpw="z10n0101"
Connecting to 66.35.250.150:ssh
Attempting to exploit SSHv1 CRC32
Resetting root password to "z10n0101".
System open: Access level
# ssh 66.35.250.150 -l root
root@66.35.250.150's password:
I thought it was interesting that access level was '9' because '0' is the UID for the root account. What might this '9' indicate? Maybe it's something they added/changed to not promovide crackers with all-too-much pertinent information? "Oh no, I gained access, but it's only level 0. I guess I'll have to try elsewhere." I don't doubt that at least one person will be exploited by this, as a direct result of this film.
On second thought, I can see now why your attitude is so soft towards child pornographers: you must be one yourself.
No? Then what's with this "candyman" reference? I'm no expert in the field, or anything, but wouldn't a man that gives children candy to exploit them potentially be a pornographer? Might this not be a 'callsign' for a series of child porn, etc? I think so.
Thanks for clearing things up for me, pervert. I hope someone hits you with a bus.
Um, if you're responsible for making computers work properly at an office, you are not a drone. You have been hired to perform tasks that require critical thinking. Simply 'ignoring' things is not part of that equation, whatever those things are.
I wonder if the fired sysadmin will sue for breach of contract. It seems pretty obvious to me that they were fired because the NY Law School - thier outsourcing company's employer - didn't like what they did. I mean, raelly - a law school professor doing something so incredibly socially and legally taboo as looking at child porn is NOT a good way to promote your company.
Really, these employees should have realized this. They should have told the school's administration. The professor would likely have been fired, and likely arrested (quietly) after he was no longer an employee of the school.
On hte other hand, these are lawyers we're talking about. They might just make sure the porn (is child porn so vile that it shouldn't even be grouped in with normal porn? I think maybe so) is gone, and carry on with their vile ways.
grading has to be redone every time there's resurfacing done.
I've done road survey work before, that's the only reason I know.
Now, if they had the tablet thing where they could write it into the computer, then that would be different.
If you'd actually fully read what I said, you'd see that I mention that they -do- have such laptops, and I mentioned one of them. To rehash: It's called a fujitsu lifebook P-series, either the P2000 or P1000 with varrying itinerations based on the specific loadout.
Here's a solution.
Let's say an urban, modern US city needs to have a road resurfaced. Let's say it's a road that parallels a fairly major road that a lot of people take to work each day. The road needs to be shut down to do this anyway, to some degree, so why not start by putting a (or another) subway in? Reroute traffic around the road, re-program the lights, and deploy a lot more busses and cabs. Over a period of years you can gradually remove the ability for vehicles to transit cities enmass, and busses will have prevailance. Then, when the rail system becomes functional, it'll be a natural transition and the busses can move out to suburbia, further allowing for removeal of cars from cities.
There'd have to be busses or shuttles throughout the suburbs to get
Additional things would need to be done, like increasing vehicle taxes, giving busses precidence on the road (legally, like a "bus lane" or "public transit lane" for cabs). Eliminate some parking lots by placing obscene operational taxes on such estabilishments, thus driving up the cost of driving your vehicle to work.
However, this probably won't work bercause there are several american principles that are being ignored.
First, there's independence. Not individualism, as many claim, but independence - the ability to do everything for yourself (or at least the perception of such). Individualism is just an offspring of that, and can exist just fine within an environment that allows some interdependence. Cars are a tool for independence.
Additionally, the independence of most Americans has lead to many people becoming emotional islands, at least to a large part. They don't like other poople, and they try to avoid them at all costs. This is also a result of many parts of the US being a literal day's trip to anywhere with a grocery store (and other causes of similar effect).
Second is the American model ideal of success. To be successful, you must have a good job, drive a nice car, and have a big house - not necessarily in that order, and some ideals are left out, I know. Until the general concensus changes, people will view having a nice automobile as a status symbol. Having a vehicle is the reason for the hallmark of someone's 16th birthday in the US - they can now legally drive a car.
Another reason why this won't work is because it's already something that is largely in place in New York. There are buses in the city. There are subways. There's even the metro, which branches out into the state all the way Upstate, providing a quick way to the city. And yet the rich people that work in the city still want to drive their BMWs to work. And there are a lot of people rich enough to own BMWs in manhattan.
you apparently know nothing about highway construction.
if, at 55MPH, you hit a 1" elevation deviation over a 1' distance, your vehicle will bottom out and lose it's oilpan. Many, many, many man hours are spent simply surveying the damned highway before it can be laid. The same thing occurs every time there is a resurfacing. That is where the majority of cost is concerned. It'll take a 5 man crew weeks to survey 3 miles of highway. A paving crew can cover a mile a day, sometimes more.
There are programs explicitly for that: mathcad, I think is one, and Maple, I know, is another. They're used quite extensively at Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA.
Additionally, if students were to have a well designed laptop, like the Fujitsu Lifebook P2000 series, they'd have the ability to (surprise) write using a stylus on the LCD into photoshop or some other program. Then they'd be able to save notes in an intelligent and easily organizeable manner, and they'd be able to write mathmatics symbols easily as well. (to say nothing of the ease of erasing. Ctrl-Z, anyone?)
As soon as I can afford one, I'll be getting a lifebook for just this purpose.
This should be from the Yet-Another-Sign-How-Stupid Higher-Education-Is Dept.
One key point: trees grow again, whereas the metals, plastics, and the materials to make those metals and plastics, do not. They're not a renewable resource.
They don't generally get recycled, either - they go to the dump, where they rust and leak toxins into the environment. Paper, on the other hand, will biodegrade in a couple hundred years in a landfill environment.
No small wonder I find it lowbrow. I never knew that was the target audience, but that most definately explains it.
It was late, and I wasn't all together clear. The ACT seems to measure "think inside the box" aptitude rather than an individual's ability to think creatively, and thus, solve problems. Just like the SAT. You can study for them both and greatly alter your test results.
I didn't take the SAT, but did the ACT. I slept through a large part of some of the tests because I was so bloody tired - I'd not slept for several days. I still managed to pull a 26 (which is on the upper middle end of things. 36 (or is it 34?) is 'perfect', and 20 seems to be the mean.
He's no linux geek. He's a windows geek who lacks the clue to realize that his design is inherrently flawed. Not just different, but flawed. See this link.
This is what is wrong with this distro.
so what then, is a real 'university'?
personally, what I've seen of US schools is sickening
Huh, weird dude.
I know someone that filled in the dots to form pacman-type characters, and he got the second highest score in his school class. His class was of 3 or 4 hundred, and not in the ghetto or anything - it was actually a pretty good high school in suburbia. Not sure what the actual score was, though.
I'd agree, the SAT is a farce. From what I've seen, the ACT is a fair degree better at being consistent, although it definately seems to favor logically minded folks over creative folks.