The students need to learn how to do this stuff in a way they can not get caught!
Use anonymous e-mail address to register the account, walk down the street with a laptop and find an open wifi router to use so that it can not be traced back to your house, send anonymous e-mails and texts to let everyone know it is there.
If you do it right the school can not trace it back to a given student. As my kids;)
I did some government biding some time ago. It was such a joke, they would request bids for "150 Dell Latitude D830's to be delivered over a 12 month period" The thing was, Dell was bidding and the government would through out anything that was not a Dell Latitude D830. So No comparable systems and no way to beat Dell's bid. As far as I was concerned it was a rigged bid and most of them went that way.
So, For the government to request bids on "Windows Vista" and to ignore all other desktop OS's is the same thing as far as I am concerned.
Now, the real question is: Was the bid written so that they could only get a bid from who they wanted or was it written that way because the guy in charge listened to the sales person, decided that was what he needed, and then wrote a bid because it was required that they take bids?
Yeast limits the fermentation of sugars to alcohol. Once you get up around 17% to 20% ABV the yeast begin to die off. This is the natural limit of alcohol in beer. To distill the beer and increase the alcohol is to turn it into a distilled liquor and remove it from the realm of beer which is a fermented liquor.
Through selective breading or genetic manipulation of the yeast we may some day get a yeast that can produce more than the 17% to 20% but that is not the case today.
I found the article a bit misleading. If you distill it, it is a distilled liquor not a beer. This is like saying you made a beer from grapes, lol, it is not beer it is wine. lol
Sounds like what Second Life did. I used to play the game with SL, developed in-world items and scripts. Every time I started to make money at it, SL would make the script "Illegal", discontinue some function I was using, start giving the same thing away for free or start charging for something that was free. All in all the moving target made it impossible to work in the environment. Thus, I stopped and walked away.
If Apple starts changing the rules and making the environment less appealing for the developers then they will move, unlike second life there are competitors and other opportunities.
It has always surprised me how few companies run linux on the desktop. I have personal converted about 30 in the last 10 years, all of which were mom and pop places with less than 100 seats. Google using Chrome would not surprise me. 90% of the office desktop users dont need more than a browser, office platform, and maybe e-mail assuming the company does not have a web based e-mail. I have heard many geeks say it is not ready for the desktop based on a list of reasons but the general office user has such a small software need that it fits nicely..
The last company I migrated over to linux was a rush job. They needed it done in a short window before the inspection of there licences. I set up 1 server with home directory shares in both NFS and Samba, ldap, dns, printers, and DHCP. There were 3 desktop configs, 1) for users that had with firefox, OpenOffice, and google chat. 2) for managers that had that plus planner, and Dia. 3) was for upper management that had everything from the first two plus a few specialized things that one VP seemed to think he needed like bit torrent and an RSS feed reader.
Everyone got the basics like a calculator, archive manager, Notepad, etc.
All in all they run smooth, easy access to pen drives etc. Windows Laptops could be pointed at the server and after logging in would get the users home directory allowing them to easily move data between there laptop and the desktop. The remote home directories and ldap logins meant that users could login at any desktop and do there work. All the desktops were the same for a given group so if one failed it was simply replaced and a new image installed (Totalling about 45 min install time) Top this off with no viruses, spy ware, or bot software and the desktops were locked down with only a couple of open ports. So far every company I have done this for has loved the setup.
First, Although the smaller inner planets would be hard pressed for life the moons of the gas giants orbiting closer to the sun could harbor life. There are only 8 (Or 9) planets in our solar system but there are over 300 moons.
Add to this that scientists seem to expect that life will only evolve on rocky earth like planets so it seems like a small chance. I know that the earth is the only example of life bearing planet that we have but to expect all life in the universe to exist in the same way that we do is narrow sighted. It would not surprise me to find out that there are fish swimming in a methane ocean on a distant planet in temperatures that would kill us.
Some day I fully expect to hear "It's Life, but not as we know it" and it not be a star trek reference. Well, Ok, how about only 1/2 a star trek reference.;)
The problem is that all the companies are data gorging. The CC Merchants are the worst. They insist that you send them not only the total but a list of what the person is buying. They also monitor your advertising and who links to you on the internet. I use to run a lab supply company. We had a affiliate link when we first went online. The merchant account found two sites that linked to us, these sites were in other countries and were drug related. Well drug related in the US but they appeared to be legal in there country. They killed our account with no warning. $3000 a day in sales through the web site gone. They would not turn it back on and added us to a black list. We were unable to continue selling online. We still have the brick and mortar but the online store it gone. We broke no laws and there was no published list of what not to do.
All in all, not only do they collect all the information on every one and there sales, they spend a lot of time monitoring and collecting information on the stores. They need to be dinged on this, some Merchant accounts go as far as to tell you what products you can and can not carry. The second one we had would not let us carry or sell any pipettes, agar-agar or 10cc syringes that had 1.5" 18 gauge needles on them. They considered them "Drug paraphernalia"
In English, fuck falls into many grammatical categories:
As a transitive verb for instance.. John fucked Shirley.
As an intransitive verb... Shirley fucks.
Its meaning is not always sexual, it can be used as...
An adjective such as... John's doing all the fucking work.
As part of an adverb... Shirley talks too fucking much.
As an adverb enhancing an adjective... Shirley is fucking beautiful.
As a noun... I don't give a fuck.
As part of a word... absofuckinglutely -or- infuckingcredible.
And as almost every word in a sentence... Fuck the fucking fuckers.
As you must realize, there aren't too many words with the versatility of fuck...such as these examples describing situations such as:
Fraud: I got fucked at the used car lot.
Dismay: ahhh fuck it.
Trouble: I guess I'm really fucked now.
Aggression: Don't fuck with me buddy.
Difficulty: I don't understand this fucking question.
Inquiry: Who the fuck was that?
Dissatisfaction: I don't like what the fuck is going on here.
Incompetence: He's a fuck-off.
Dismissal: Why don't you go outside and play hide and go fuck yourself...
I'm sure you can think of many more examples.
With all these multi-purpose applications, how can anyone be offended when you use the word. We say use this unique, flexible word more often in your daily speech.
It will identify the quality of your character immediately.
Shame on you, dont you know that there is no place for real science or math when fear-mongering an ecological disaster? Had you not pointed that out, thousands would be up in arms about the 1 billion Bpd filling the gulf of Mexico. Oh wait, it is 1 million this week, 1 billion is next weeks number.
Having worked in government IT, and worked for government military contractors I dont think that the software is the issue.
I would start by upgrading all the equipment that went EOL (End Of Life) more than 5 years ago! (90%+ of the hardware they run) Then move to the equipment that is EOL now. I would then work on implementing a proper patching and patch management plan. Documentation would be useful as well, Stop expecting the new IT staff to understand how AIX v3 works on the H50's you are running. Especially when the old IT staff thought it was good security to replace the login with one that used a password file stored in the/var/log directory.
Security through obscurity is all that would happen if the government tried to make all systems code come from an internal group. I am sure we all know how well that works!
I say mandate that the government groups run only opensource software. Then hire select coders to quick patch any problems or security issues that are found and make the parches available to everyone. That way the government can be secure as well as any other company or person that runs the same software.
Microsoft tech support is simple, I have had to deal with them a few times and it goes like this
MS: Hello, this is Rajie how may I help you
Me: This copy of windows blue screens when I plug in the mouse
MS: Have you tried removing the mouse drivers and reinstalling?
Me: Yes
MS/ME: 30 min of removing and reinstalling the mouse drivers several times to make sure It is done right.
MS: You need to reinstall the system then call me back
Me: Ok, Ill do that.
Me: Hang up, reinstall the system no 3rd party drivers, base config, Microsoft mouse still blue screens
Call them back and I am told
MS: Sense reinstalling the OS did not fix the problem you should reinstall the OS.
Me: What? I did that and it did not help
MS: Yes sir, this is a hard drive problem and you need to reinstall the OS.
Me: This is a mouse problem not a Hard drive problem!
MS: No sir, this is a hard drive problem. From now on you need to handle this through e-mail. The allotted phone time is used up for this contract. Thank you
Me: F- this, Wipe system and install Linux, problem solved.
If I read this right, you started the project on your own. When the university found it they brought you on to develop it.
If you had already released it via GPL then, to my understanding, it was a pre-existing work product and they can not claim ownership of it. Already being GPL'ed it should have been understood that the work being done would not violate the existing licensing.
IANAL but I do know that a company can not hire you then claim ownership of work you did before you were hired.
HAHAH, around my work you could add "or Document" to the end of that statement. I cant count the number of times people have changed things with no documentation and they did not consider it important.
If I remember correctly they built this thing on a windows platform with MSSQL as the back end database. I wonder how long it will take for them to dump it and put in a real OS.
This is a great idea, but how do you enforce it? That is the issue with most internet laws. Pass all the laws you want, you just can not enforce any of them.
What are you going to do when the zombies show up at your door?
SKS assault rifle with bayonet, Check. 1000 rounds of ammo, check. M44 Rifle with bayonet, check. 1000 rounds of ammo, check. 8mm Mouser sniper rifle, check. 1000 rounds of ammo, check. M1911A1 45cal pistol, check. 5000 rounds of ammo, check. Shotguns with cases of ammo, check. Reloading equipment, check. Lead, Check. 5 10lb kegs of powder, check. Swords, check.
I am ready! Bring'em on GTA is boring and I am ready for a challenge.:P
If Comcast, Verizon, AT&T or anyone else blocks any content for any reason, they are (from that point on) legally liable for all remaining content. This is because the have made an effort to control the content crossing there service and by default must agree that all remaining content is acceptable.
Then remind there legal department that it means "If you keep it up, we will hold you responsible for all the remaining content including but not limited to all the child porn, child predators, etc."
In other words, they have violated the common carrier clause and thus are not protected from prosecution!
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The students need to learn how to do this stuff in a way they can not get caught!
Use anonymous e-mail address to register the account, walk down the street with a laptop and find an open wifi router to use so that it can not be traced back to your house, send anonymous e-mails and texts to let everyone know it is there.
If you do it right the school can not trace it back to a given student. As my kids ;)
S'il vous plaît noter que vos messages de réponse doivent être fournis en français et en anglais.
You should have included the french then.
Vous devriez avoir compris le français alors.
I did some government biding some time ago. It was such a joke, they would request bids for "150 Dell Latitude D830's to be delivered over a 12 month period" The thing was, Dell was bidding and the government would through out anything that was not a Dell Latitude D830. So No comparable systems and no way to beat Dell's bid. As far as I was concerned it was a rigged bid and most of them went that way.
So, For the government to request bids on "Windows Vista" and to ignore all other desktop OS's is the same thing as far as I am concerned.
Now, the real question is: Was the bid written so that they could only get a bid from who they wanted or was it written that way because the guy in charge listened to the sales person, decided that was what he needed, and then wrote a bid because it was required that they take bids?
Wonder if it would work in court.
Your honer, I did not consent to the traffic camera taking my picture as I ran that red light and move that the evidence be thrown out.
Same for the camera footage in the cops car? Wonder if it is automatic consent if the cop has a camera in his car?
So they say there are 5.5 million species on earth and the World Resources Institute Says 100 species are going extinct every day!
So, by 2160 every species on earth will be extinct. Sounds good to me, lets eat!
Yeast limits the fermentation of sugars to alcohol. Once you get up around 17% to 20% ABV the yeast begin to die off. This is the natural limit of alcohol in beer. To distill the beer and increase the alcohol is to turn it into a distilled liquor and remove it from the realm of beer which is a fermented liquor.
Through selective breading or genetic manipulation of the yeast we may some day get a yeast that can produce more than the 17% to 20% but that is not the case today.
I found the article a bit misleading. If you distill it, it is a distilled liquor not a beer. This is like saying you made a beer from grapes, lol, it is not beer it is wine. lol
Sounds like what Second Life did. I used to play the game with SL, developed in-world items and scripts. Every time I started to make money at it, SL would make the script "Illegal", discontinue some function I was using, start giving the same thing away for free or start charging for something that was free. All in all the moving target made it impossible to work in the environment. Thus, I stopped and walked away.
If Apple starts changing the rules and making the environment less appealing for the developers then they will move, unlike second life there are competitors and other opportunities.
It has always surprised me how few companies run linux on the desktop. I have personal converted about 30 in the last 10 years, all of which were mom and pop places with less than 100 seats. Google using Chrome would not surprise me. 90% of the office desktop users dont need more than a browser, office platform, and maybe e-mail assuming the company does not have a web based e-mail. I have heard many geeks say it is not ready for the desktop based on a list of reasons but the general office user has such a small software need that it fits nicely..
The last company I migrated over to linux was a rush job. They needed it done in a short window before the inspection of there licences. I set up 1 server with home directory shares in both NFS and Samba, ldap, dns, printers, and DHCP. There were 3 desktop configs, 1) for users that had with firefox, OpenOffice, and google chat. 2) for managers that had that plus planner, and Dia. 3) was for upper management that had everything from the first two plus a few specialized things that one VP seemed to think he needed like bit torrent and an RSS feed reader.
Everyone got the basics like a calculator, archive manager, Notepad, etc.
All in all they run smooth, easy access to pen drives etc. Windows Laptops could be pointed at the server and after logging in would get the users home directory allowing them to easily move data between there laptop and the desktop. The remote home directories and ldap logins meant that users could login at any desktop and do there work. All the desktops were the same for a given group so if one failed it was simply replaced and a new image installed (Totalling about 45 min install time) Top this off with no viruses, spy ware, or bot software and the desktops were locked down with only a couple of open ports. So far every company I have done this for has loved the setup.
First, Although the smaller inner planets would be hard pressed for life the moons of the gas giants orbiting closer to the sun could harbor life. There are only 8 (Or 9) planets in our solar system but there are over 300 moons.
Add to this that scientists seem to expect that life will only evolve on rocky earth like planets so it seems like a small chance. I know that the earth is the only example of life bearing planet that we have but to expect all life in the universe to exist in the same way that we do is narrow sighted. It would not surprise me to find out that there are fish swimming in a methane ocean on a distant planet in temperatures that would kill us.
Some day I fully expect to hear "It's Life, but not as we know it" and it not be a star trek reference. Well, Ok, how about only 1/2 a star trek reference. ;)
Businesses should fire people who are too stupid to understand the impact of their actions on their company.
Wait a sec, that would fire all the C level executives and upper management. How can we as a company survive without upper management?
The problem is that all the companies are data gorging. The CC Merchants are the worst. They insist that you send them not only the total but a list of what the person is buying. They also monitor your advertising and who links to you on the internet. I use to run a lab supply company. We had a affiliate link when we first went online. The merchant account found two sites that linked to us, these sites were in other countries and were drug related. Well drug related in the US but they appeared to be legal in there country. They killed our account with no warning. $3000 a day in sales through the web site gone. They would not turn it back on and added us to a black list. We were unable to continue selling online. We still have the brick and mortar but the online store it gone. We broke no laws and there was no published list of what not to do.
All in all, not only do they collect all the information on every one and there sales, they spend a lot of time monitoring and collecting information on the stores. They need to be dinged on this, some Merchant accounts go as far as to tell you what products you can and can not carry. The second one we had would not let us carry or sell any pipettes, agar-agar or 10cc syringes that had 1.5" 18 gauge needles on them. They considered them "Drug paraphernalia"
mod this guy up. he is 100% correct!
In English, fuck falls into many grammatical categories:
As a transitive verb for instance.. John fucked Shirley.
As an intransitive verb... Shirley fucks.
Its meaning is not always sexual, it can be used as...
An adjective such as... John's doing all the fucking work.
As part of an adverb... Shirley talks too fucking much.
As an adverb enhancing an adjective... Shirley is fucking beautiful.
As a noun... I don't give a fuck.
As part of a word... absofuckinglutely -or- infuckingcredible.
And as almost every word in a sentence... Fuck the fucking fuckers.
As you must realize, there aren't too many words with the versatility of fuck...such as these examples describing situations such as:
Fraud: I got fucked at the used car lot.
Dismay: ahhh fuck it.
Trouble: I guess I'm really fucked now.
Aggression: Don't fuck with me buddy.
Difficulty: I don't understand this fucking question.
Inquiry: Who the fuck was that?
Dissatisfaction: I don't like what the fuck is going on here.
Incompetence: He's a fuck-off.
Dismissal: Why don't you go outside and play hide and go fuck yourself...
I'm sure you can think of many more examples.
With all these multi-purpose applications, how can anyone be offended when you use the word. We say use this unique, flexible word more often in your daily speech.
It will identify the quality of your character immediately.
Say it loudly and proudly: FUCK YOU!
Shame on you, dont you know that there is no place for real science or math when fear-mongering an ecological disaster? Had you not pointed that out, thousands would be up in arms about the 1 billion Bpd filling the gulf of Mexico. Oh wait, it is 1 million this week, 1 billion is next weeks number.
Having worked in government IT, and worked for government military contractors I dont think that the software is the issue.
I would start by upgrading all the equipment that went EOL (End Of Life) more than 5 years ago! (90%+ of the hardware they run) /var/log directory.
Then move to the equipment that is EOL now.
I would then work on implementing a proper patching and patch management plan.
Documentation would be useful as well, Stop expecting the new IT staff to understand how AIX v3 works on the H50's you are running. Especially when the old IT staff thought it was good security to replace the login with one that used a password file stored in the
Security through obscurity is all that would happen if the government tried to make all systems code come from an internal group. I am sure we all know how well that works!
I say mandate that the government groups run only opensource software. Then hire select coders to quick patch any problems or security issues that are found and make the parches available to everyone. That way the government can be secure as well as any other company or person that runs the same software.
Microsoft tech support is simple, I have had to deal with them a few times and it goes like this
MS: Hello, this is Rajie how may I help you
Me: This copy of windows blue screens when I plug in the mouse
MS: Have you tried removing the mouse drivers and reinstalling?
Me: Yes
MS/ME: 30 min of removing and reinstalling the mouse drivers several times to make sure It is done right.
MS: You need to reinstall the system then call me back
Me: Ok, Ill do that.
Me: Hang up, reinstall the system no 3rd party drivers, base config, Microsoft mouse still blue screens
Call them back and I am told
MS: Sense reinstalling the OS did not fix the problem you should reinstall the OS.
Me: What? I did that and it did not help
MS: Yes sir, this is a hard drive problem and you need to reinstall the OS.
Me: This is a mouse problem not a Hard drive problem!
MS: No sir, this is a hard drive problem. From now on you need to handle this through e-mail. The allotted phone time is used up for this contract. Thank you
Me: F- this, Wipe system and install Linux, problem solved.
If I read this right, you started the project on your own. When the university found it they brought you on to develop it.
If you had already released it via GPL then, to my understanding, it was a pre-existing work product and they can not claim ownership of it. Already being GPL'ed it should have been understood that the work being done would not violate the existing licensing.
IANAL but I do know that a company can not hire you then claim ownership of work you did before you were hired.
HAHAH, around my work you could add "or Document" to the end of that statement. I cant count the number of times people have changed things with no documentation and they did not consider it important.
If I remember correctly they built this thing on a windows platform with MSSQL as the back end database. I wonder how long it will take for them to dump it and put in a real OS.
Why should I have to ask some one for a prescription? It is my body, my mind, my decision.
I am not a slave, so no one owns me.
Thus I should be able to alter my mind and put things into my body as I see fit.
As to the health risks, So be it.
It would have been my decision and I would have to live with the consequences.
Ditch the "Public Health Care" let each pay for there own and thus I would have to pay for the consequences.
I do not need a Dr, Lawyer, or a Government to tell me how to live my life.
That being said, I am voting for Ron Paul!
This is a great idea, but how do you enforce it? That is the issue with most internet laws. Pass all the laws you want, you just can not enforce any of them.
What are you going to do when the zombies show up at your door?
:P
SKS assault rifle with bayonet, Check.
1000 rounds of ammo, check.
M44 Rifle with bayonet, check.
1000 rounds of ammo, check.
8mm Mouser sniper rifle, check.
1000 rounds of ammo, check.
M1911A1 45cal pistol, check.
5000 rounds of ammo, check.
Shotguns with cases of ammo, check.
Reloading equipment, check.
Lead, Check.
5 10lb kegs of powder, check.
Swords, check.
I am ready! Bring'em on GTA is boring and I am ready for a challenge.
Hmmm, in what way is there VOIP and there Data services different? both are packets in a tube! :P
Both are common carriers because they are now telephone companies as well.
There is a simple solution,
If Comcast, Verizon, AT&T or anyone else blocks any content for any reason, they are (from that point on) legally liable for all remaining content. This is because the have made an effort to control the content crossing there service and by default must agree that all remaining content is acceptable.
Then remind there legal department that it means "If you keep it up, we will hold you responsible for all the remaining content including but not limited to all the child porn, child predators, etc."
In other words, they have violated the common carrier clause and thus are not protected from prosecution!
Where is a lawyer when you need one?