I started at Ithaca College enrolled in a CS degree. I didn't like the classes because I felt there wasn't very much self expression in alegebraically proving algorithms correct to infinity. So I switched to something I liked, philosophy. Philosophy was where I naturally did well and it fed my desire to approach the world in a logical way. Of course it finally disembowled that approach, but the journey was full of good times, hard concepts, and radically different ways of explaining "The Way Things Are". Well, second semester senior year at the start of 1998 I came to the sudden realization that philosophy doesn't really pay the bills in the short term and I had to acknowledge my abilities in the field and the realities of the current job market (at the time Universities realized that the philosophy departments were very male heavey and were agressively hiring women, good for women in the field, bad for me). My friend that had graduated the year before me though went to work for a local ISP.He basically said "Hey, you like the internet, why don't you come and work here, learn this web/email/networking thingy and you'll be set for life!?" (heh) So I did and worked my tail off for a year and a half at one of the worst paying, poorly cooled (summer temps were 86degF), insanely run ISPs ever. But I learned ALOT and gor opportunities that I never would have been exposed to in a large organization. I started as a recptionist, ugh. I job hopped quite a bit and now I'm pretty well settled in as a Network Engineer at a publicly traded company. It wasn't easy, I had to do some pretty crazy stuff at pretty crazy times. Sometimes I had to do mind-numbing tasks for weeks on end. Now my opinion is highly regarded within the company and I make sure I take care of my responsibilities. The only certification I got was in 1999 I passed the CCNA. I did take a Network Design class at the local community college but was monumentally disappointed in the quality of the class. The most valuble attribute I have is an extremely methodical approach to quickly solving network problems, sort of like a bisection search. If that fails, I put myself in the packet's shoes and figure out where I'd go. So what's my advice? If you can, go to college. It's one hell of a good time and you have the opportunity to learn things about yourself that, if left to your own devices may never know (I discovered I enjoyed A/V classes and Art History). All that stuff about being a well rounded person is *NOT* smoke that liberal arts college's blow up your ass. It does help with communication and working with others, especially those you disagree with. Philosophy was excellent for teaching me to detach my feelings from my argument. I like the path I took but it may not be for everyone. Try concentrating on the journey, rather than the destination. Oh yeah, Good Luck (at some point you'll need it:))
I'll admit that the government funds alot of stuff that goes to good, albeit proprietary use. The entire world isn't open source yet, and I'm not sure it should be. However, it is kind of scary to see the government getting buddy-buddy with corporations over computer security/high availability, _AND_ purposely cutting out individuals.
with my social security number, which could be linked to my Passport(tm) account, tatooed in barcode form on my shoulder, and implanted in a Unique Identifier Chip subdermally. Then when they catch me trying to be a l33t pir8 the could remotely disable me. That would be a great solution, where do I sign up?
And it seems like some members of the community are not playing nice, so why not kick them out of your yard? The BSA's IP range is: 204.180.189.0/24 (props to arin.net whois), if enough of us routed that to the bit bucket it would make it more difficult for them to do their jobs, hopefully reducing their profit and their supporter's interest in them. Ev1l Gr1n %^>
Try telling you trig teacher that a^2+b^2=c^2 is just a theory and that they should stop forcing their dogma on you!
Really though, the problem we have is that at an arbitrarty point in time humans gained the ability to study the global climate. Coincidentally the same technology that grants us that ability has at least some negative effects on the global environment. So now that we can detect changes in the environmnet we're left wondering if we caused them. Sure it's only a theory, and sure it will never be conclusively proven in our lifetimes whether or not we are radically changing the earth's climate. But the Global warming theory does pass akom's razor and we know we are doing some environmentally bad things, so it follows that we should try to limit and ultimately fix those bad things in an effort to maintain our own existance.
Simply put it's not foolish to believe something because it's a theory, rather it is foolish not to believe something soley because it's a theory.
If you're looking for some fun reading on this topic, pick up this book by Kuhn that explains how science make progress because it's not like you seem to think.
You call that flourishing!?!
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According to this the demise of IP rights has granted them the ability to proudly cheer "We're number six! We're number six!":)
Goddammit this is freaking retarded.
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Point number one:
Companies *should* have no political sway what so ever. They can not vote for a reason, they intrinsicly have no ethics. Some people have no ethics as well but presumably those of us that do, out number them (except obviously in congress). Companies are motivated by money and if they succeed in changing laws for their own profit we are all screwed.
Point number two:
The people do not want this law, or the DMCA, or a couple of others. What do you do when your country starts passing laws with no regard for its people? Are we becoming an oligopy ruled by corprations? If so how long do you think this will last?
Point number three: This could be a somewhat futile attempt. What if it passes and every system as to be compliant and blah.. blah... blah. Now imagine everyone and their dog bypasses the mandated measures. The hardware police aren't going to put everyone behind bars. If a law is broken enmass, it mine as well not be a law (internet descency act anyone).
Senerio 1: The guy had a heart attack while driving went over a bridge and no one saw it.
Senario 2: Maybe the guy is in the hospital for whatever illness and his next of kin isn't around or doesn't have a clue as to what ebay is.
Senerio 3: May his mother/father/whatever died and he had to travel on short notice to some remote part of the country/world and didn't leave a note for investigators as to where he went.
My point is that even though his ebay transactions were important to him, as evidenced by his feedback rating, there are a number of occurances that could happen that would dwarf ebay on anyone's priority scale. I don't know all the details, but there are possible explanations for this that would make everyone feel like crap for emmediately jumping on this guy. Just because he's being investigated for a scam doesn't mean he's guilty of it.
"Isn't this about another group of people that thinks it needs to make a profit?"
Not really, it's about record companies and publishers not having a virtually perpetual monopoly on the works of artists. Really, 70 years after the death of the artist means I'll never be able to perform an N*Sync cover without written permission.:-(
"...do the ends justify the means if we're to score a trule moral victory in court? "
I can see why a politician would think that gross copyright infringment would be a BadThing(tm). After all "The entertainment business is the largest US export. It is its largest export by one third." After all entertainment is the only thing we still do make our selves. So if the entertainment industry suffered a melt down our already-up-shits-creek-with-a-turd-for-a-paddle economy could continue its spelunking extravaganza. Think about it, I don't have official numbers (and anyone claiming to is a liar), but I would not be one bit surprised if Napster caused more copyright violations in 2 years than all the copyright infingment since the law was enacted until Napster, put together. I'm not really for the proposed law but I can see why some one would be. If we really don't want the law passed we should try and convince our representatives that it is in the countries best economical intrest to not pass the law, ie no one ever won by stifling technology (except M$). We should convince them that even IF the entertainment industry kernel panics (there's no garuntee it will) then the US will still thrive (maybe foreigners dig the lo-fi shenanigans of shows like jack-ass). What it really sounds like to me is that Hollywood is claiming that the internet/software/computer industries created a "bad toy" and now the entertainment industry wants a recall. When in fact the i/s/c industries created a new revolutionary, all encompassing medium that Hollywood can't wrap its stodgy, old-fart, mind around so it's sluffing of it's own responsibilities on some one else. Just my $.02
with any superiors because even if you are right you will lose. Getting into a fight with your boss is like showing up with a knife at a gun fight (that's a quote from some famous movie, I don't remember which, flame me). They can always fire on the spot with out cause. Most states are "Employment at will" which means the don't have to give you a reason, and you can bet that if they did it wouldn't be an illegal one. Also in this economy if you piss off the director bad enough you manager will save his own ass and congradulate him on his descision. My advice, work your frickin butt off if you aren't already. Be the goto guy for ass much stuff as you reasonably can be. Talk to the director and ask him what you need to do to make him happy and if he dislikes you, what you did to deserve it. Make ammends as best you can even if director seems completely wrong. Unfortunatley your daughter may be depending on your ass kissing abilities. And with five years experience, you should know that ass kissing is a part of every profession (yes even the CEO has to kiss the stock-holders collective ass).
"So join him in celebrating his quarter billion lines of his code."
Don't you mean quarter million? If he programed at this rate for 1000 years he'd be at a quarter billion. Now *THAT* would be something!:) Just kidding, kudos to Rhys.
For arguments' sake let's say yes it is prior art. So what? Like anyone or anything is going to sue M$. Hell the fedral gov't is having a hard time with that. They can step on IP rights all they want, by the time the legal system gets rolling on the issue it's either obsolete or "integrated" into the OS.
IANAKW (I am not a Karma Whore), but.... Generally a person's salary is directly related mainly to their replacability. Take for example a CFO for a profitable company. He is not easily replaced, you can't just drop a college grad with a degree in accounting in to that position. It takes years of successful corporate accounting to get considered for the position. Relatively few folks have the preparation needed for this under their belt so CFO's make mad l00t. On the other hand in order to be a garbage man you have to understand that the garbage is supposed to wind up in the truck. Almost anyone 16-50 could do this thus if a garbage men bitches about his pay you can get another one that won't relatively easily. Now you do run into problems when all the garbage men stop collecting garbage and demand more money because replacing 5000 garbage men at one is difficult. It's all about how replaceable you are.
Routers,firewalls, NAT gateways, etc. rip the MAC address off and replace it with their own and do NOT forward the source MAC address in the packet. Only hubs, bridges, and switches leave the original MAC in place and none of these devices have the ability to do NAT. Run some tcpdumps on the dirty side of your firewall sometime if you don't believe me. If your former employer funded this project it's easy to see why they went under.
What I think is funny about this quote is that they claim to have lost something they never had in the first place. The IPs aren't stolen as you are not using "real" IPs you're not paying for.
Maybe I should start saying I lost a 50 inch plasma display and start accusing my employer of stealing from me because they don't pay me enough to blow $7k on a big freakin monitor. Just my $(2(10^-2))
"What's the value of the stolen goods? Revenues associated with additional IP addresses, for one. Let's say one in 10 of the 5 million U.S. cable modem subscribers are usurping IP addresses without paying the $4.95 per month fee that's typically charged (beyond a pre-specified limit, which varies MSO to MSO.) Right off that bat, that's just shy of $30 million lost, annually."
Will it really run at a terahertz, or is this going to be like the Cyrix chips that supposedly ran like their advertised clock speed, just no at their advertised clock speed?
OLGA (online guitar archive) Has a huge listing of lyrics and tableture ( if you play guita/bass). I've been using that site since hmmm... 1995. All the song files are in ascii so console folks can dig it too.
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I started at Ithaca College enrolled in a CS degree. I didn't like the classes because I felt there wasn't very much self expression in alegebraically proving algorithms correct to infinity. So I switched to something I liked, philosophy. Philosophy was where I naturally did well and it fed my desire to approach the world in a logical way. Of course it finally disembowled that approach, but the journey was full of good times, hard concepts, and radically different ways of explaining "The Way Things Are". Well, second semester senior year at the start of 1998 I came to the sudden realization that philosophy doesn't really pay the bills in the short term and I had to acknowledge my abilities in the field and the realities of the current job market (at the time Universities realized that the philosophy departments were very male heavey and were agressively hiring women, good for women in the field, bad for me). My friend that had graduated the year before me though went to work for a local ISP.He basically said "Hey, you like the internet, why don't you come and work here, learn this web/email/networking thingy and you'll be set for life!?" (heh) So I did and worked my tail off for a year and a half at one of the worst paying, poorly cooled (summer temps were 86degF), insanely run ISPs ever. But I learned ALOT and gor opportunities that I never would have been exposed to in a large organization. I started as a recptionist, ugh. I job hopped quite a bit and now I'm pretty well settled in as a Network Engineer at a publicly traded company. It wasn't easy, I had to do some pretty crazy stuff at pretty crazy times. Sometimes I had to do mind-numbing tasks for weeks on end. Now my opinion is highly regarded within the company and I make sure I take care of my responsibilities. The only certification I got was in 1999 I passed the CCNA. I did take a Network Design class at the local community college but was monumentally disappointed in the quality of the class. The most valuble attribute I have is an extremely methodical approach to quickly solving network problems, sort of like a bisection search. If that fails, I put myself in the packet's shoes and figure out where I'd go. So what's my advice? If you can, go to college. It's one hell of a good time and you have the opportunity to learn things about yourself that, if left to your own devices may never know (I discovered I enjoyed A/V classes and Art History). All that stuff about being a well rounded person is *NOT* smoke that liberal arts college's blow up your ass. It does help with communication and working with others, especially those you disagree with. Philosophy was excellent for teaching me to detach my feelings from my argument. I like the path I took but it may not be for everyone. Try concentrating on the journey, rather than the destination. Oh yeah, Good Luck (at some point you'll need it :))
I'll admit that the government funds alot of stuff that goes to good, albeit proprietary use. The entire world isn't open source yet, and I'm not sure it should be. However, it is kind of scary to see the government getting buddy-buddy with corporations over computer security/high availability, _AND_ purposely cutting out individuals.
I wonder if /. will get busted for pushing circumvention technologies? Lock up the microscopes before the l33t h4X0rs 0wN j00!
with my social security number, which could be linked to my Passport(tm) account, tatooed in barcode form on my shoulder, and implanted in a Unique Identifier Chip subdermally. Then when they catch me trying to be a l33t pir8 the could remotely disable me. That would be a great solution, where do I sign up?
And it seems like some members of the community are not playing nice, so why not kick them out of your yard? The BSA's IP range is: 204.180.189.0/24 (props to arin.net whois), if enough of us routed that to the bit bucket it would make it more difficult for them to do their jobs, hopefully reducing their profit and their supporter's interest in them. Ev1l Gr1n %^>
When are they gonna make them look like Natlie Portman!!
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"He who represents himself has a fool for a client."
Try telling you trig teacher that a^2+b^2=c^2 is just a theory and that they should stop forcing their dogma on you!
Really though, the problem we have is that at an arbitrarty point in time humans gained the ability to study the global climate. Coincidentally the same technology that grants us that ability has at least some negative effects on the global environment. So now that we can detect changes in the environmnet we're left wondering if we caused them. Sure it's only a theory, and sure it will never be conclusively proven in our lifetimes whether or not we are radically changing the earth's climate. But the Global warming theory does pass akom's razor and we know we are doing some environmentally bad things, so it follows that we should try to limit and ultimately fix those bad things in an effort to maintain our own existance.
Simply put it's not foolish to believe something because it's a theory, rather it is foolish not to believe something soley because it's a theory.
If you're looking for some fun reading on this topic, pick up this book by Kuhn that explains how science make progress because it's not like you seem to think.
According to this the demise of IP rights has granted them the ability to proudly cheer "We're number six! We're number six!" :)
Point number one:
Companies *should* have no political sway what so ever. They can not vote for a reason, they intrinsicly have no ethics. Some people have no ethics as well but presumably those of us that do, out number them (except obviously in congress). Companies are motivated by money and if they succeed in changing laws for their own profit we are all screwed.
Point number two:
The people do not want this law, or the DMCA, or a couple of others. What do you do when your country starts passing laws with no regard for its people? Are we becoming an oligopy ruled by corprations? If so how long do you think this will last?
Point number three:
This could be a somewhat futile attempt. What if it passes and every system as to be compliant and blah.. blah... blah. Now imagine everyone and their dog bypasses the mandated measures. The hardware police aren't going to put everyone behind bars. If a law is broken enmass, it mine as well not be a law (internet descency act anyone).
I dunno, maybe I'm just rambling.
Senerio 1: The guy had a heart attack while driving went over a bridge and no one saw it.
Senario 2: Maybe the guy is in the hospital for whatever illness and his next of kin isn't around or doesn't have a clue as to what ebay is.
Senerio 3: May his mother/father/whatever died and he had to travel on short notice to some remote part of the country/world and didn't leave a note for investigators as to where he went.
My point is that even though his ebay transactions were important to him, as evidenced by his feedback rating, there are a number of occurances that could happen that would dwarf ebay on anyone's priority scale. I don't know all the details, but there are possible explanations for this that would make everyone feel like crap for emmediately jumping on this guy. Just because he's being investigated for a scam doesn't mean he's guilty of it.
"Isn't this about another group of people that thinks it needs to make a profit?"
:-(
Not really, it's about record companies and publishers not having a virtually perpetual monopoly on the works of artists. Really, 70 years after the death of the artist means I'll never be able to perform an N*Sync cover without written permission.
"...do the ends justify the means if we're to score a trule moral victory in court? "
Eh, sometimes a win is a win.
BTW the N*Sync cover bit was a joke.
Know what you don't know. Well there goes that idea!
I can see why a politician would think that gross copyright infringment would be a BadThing(tm). After all "The entertainment business is the largest US export. It is its largest export by one third." After all entertainment is the only thing we still do make our selves. So if the entertainment industry suffered a melt down our already-up-shits-creek-with-a-turd-for-a-paddle economy could continue its spelunking extravaganza. Think about it, I don't have official numbers (and anyone claiming to is a liar), but I would not be one bit surprised if Napster caused more copyright violations in 2 years than all the copyright infingment since the law was enacted until Napster, put together. I'm not really for the proposed law but I can see why some one would be. If we really don't want the law passed we should try and convince our representatives that it is in the countries best economical intrest to not pass the law, ie no one ever won by stifling technology (except M$). We should convince them that even IF the entertainment industry kernel panics (there's no garuntee it will) then the US will still thrive (maybe foreigners dig the lo-fi shenanigans of shows like jack-ass). What it really sounds like to me is that Hollywood is claiming that the internet/software/computer industries created a "bad toy" and now the entertainment industry wants a recall. When in fact the i/s/c industries created a new revolutionary, all encompassing medium that Hollywood can't wrap its stodgy, old-fart, mind around so it's sluffing of it's own responsibilities on some one else. Just my $.02
with any superiors because even if you are right you will lose. Getting into a fight with your boss is like showing up with a knife at a gun fight (that's a quote from some famous movie, I don't remember which, flame me). They can always fire on the spot with out cause. Most states are "Employment at will" which means the don't have to give you a reason, and you can bet that if they did it wouldn't be an illegal one. Also in this economy if you piss off the director bad enough you manager will save his own ass and congradulate him on his descision. My advice, work your frickin butt off if you aren't already. Be the goto guy for ass much stuff as you reasonably can be. Talk to the director and ask him what you need to do to make him happy and if he dislikes you, what you did to deserve it. Make ammends as best you can even if director seems completely wrong. Unfortunatley your daughter may be depending on your ass kissing abilities. And with five years experience, you should know that ass kissing is a part of every profession (yes even the CEO has to kiss the stock-holders collective ass).
"So join him in celebrating his quarter billion lines of his code."
:) Just kidding, kudos to Rhys.
Don't you mean quarter million? If he programed at this rate for 1000 years he'd be at a quarter billion. Now *THAT* would be something!
For arguments' sake let's say yes it is prior art. So what? Like anyone or anything is going to sue M$. Hell the fedral gov't is having a hard time with that. They can step on IP rights all they want, by the time the legal system gets rolling on the issue it's either obsolete or "integrated" into the OS.
IANAKW (I am not a Karma Whore), but.... Generally a person's salary is directly related mainly to their replacability. Take for example a CFO for a profitable company. He is not easily replaced, you can't just drop a college grad with a degree in accounting in to that position. It takes years of successful corporate accounting to get considered for the position. Relatively few folks have the preparation needed for this under their belt so CFO's make mad l00t. On the other hand in order to be a garbage man you have to understand that the garbage is supposed to wind up in the truck. Almost anyone 16-50 could do this thus if a garbage men bitches about his pay you can get another one that won't relatively easily. Now you do run into problems when all the garbage men stop collecting garbage and demand more money because replacing 5000 garbage men at one is difficult. It's all about how replaceable you are.
As if free-as-in-speach and free-as-in-beer weren't enough, now we can add free-as-in-Python to the list. :)
Routers,firewalls, NAT gateways, etc. rip the MAC address off and replace it with their own and do NOT forward the source MAC address in the packet. Only hubs, bridges, and switches leave the original MAC in place and none of these devices have the ability to do NAT. Run some tcpdumps on the dirty side of your firewall sometime if you don't believe me. If your former employer funded this project it's easy to see why they went under.
What I think is funny about this quote is that they claim to have lost something they never had in the first place. The IPs aren't stolen as you are not using "real" IPs you're not paying for.
Maybe I should start saying I lost a 50 inch plasma display and start accusing my employer of stealing from me because they don't pay me enough to blow $7k on a big freakin monitor. Just my $(2(10^-2))
"What's the value of the stolen goods? Revenues associated with additional IP addresses, for one. Let's say one in 10 of the 5 million U.S. cable modem subscribers are usurping IP addresses without paying the $4.95 per month fee that's typically charged (beyond a pre-specified limit, which varies MSO to MSO.) Right off that bat, that's just shy of $30 million lost, annually."
and Micro$oft taketh away.
Will it really run at a terahertz, or is this going to be like the Cyrix chips that supposedly ran like their advertised clock speed, just no at their advertised clock speed?
OLGA (online guitar archive) Has a huge listing of lyrics and tableture ( if you play guita/bass). I've been using that site since hmmm... 1995. All the song files are in ascii so console folks can dig it too.
"Build a system even an idiot can use and only an idiot would want to use it."