I've been an exchange student (from Italy) in the US about ten years ago, and I attended the senior year in high school.
I remember I was shocked by the amount of homework and schoolwork, which was next to none compared to what I was used to. I've actually been given stuff like 'extraordinary academic achievements', and people looked at me as I was some kind of freak because of my grades.
And all that came just from staying awake in class.
Honestly, what can 'too much homework' be if your standards are that low? Maybe stay awake and listen?
if you have a biometric ID with DNA info on it all it takes is bribing someone at some office that issues that IDs in making that DNA belong to Mr. Good Guy.
similar thing happen already, technology isn't going to change people's ethics.
Lets face it, people will soon be tracked, it will be impossible to just slip into a city. The police will know who you are and where you are at all times.
that's going to be impossible for regular people. criminals, terrorists, or whoever are going to find a way to get fake IDs, fake fingerprints, and so on. It's as simple as bribing someone who issues them.
talk about illusion of security...
Now that's the very same reason why I bought my own pinball (whitewater)! I do the maintenance and with those prices per play it pays itself in a couple of months...
When i was a sysadmin i frequently got calls like these:
- hey, my computer says blah blah, what should i do?
- how many button do you see on the dialog box?
- one, it says "OK"
- hey, my computer says it has been locked and can only be unlocked by [username]!, what can I do? help!
- what else does it say?
- well, it says "to unlock, press... oh nevermind"
- hey, my computer had this dialog with an OK and a CANCEL button and I didn't know what to do! And I don't remember what it said!
- what did you do then?
- well, i closed it with the X in the corner!
i never understood the fuss about yahoo not giving pop3 access, and the webmail-parsers to pop3 programs. i have been using yahoo with pop3 for years!
try it out:
i think you just have to sign up for receiving mails from them. the nice thing is that the mails they send you also get filtered as bulk, and you can filter them out on the x-yahoofilteredbulk header.
Same thing happened in italy a couple of years ago.
This guy named Luca Armani was actually sued and forced to give up his site, armani.it, to the famous clothes designer. There was a big fuss about it, but only among IT people.
Well, i'm still using office 97, which includes a full guide for Lotus 1-2-3 users and an option to use Lotus' keyboard shortcuts, so it definitely makes sense.
Italian RAI (BBC-like) still does this. I've never tried to download anything (you need a special adapter), nor know of anyone who has tried, but it's still on air.
An index page says "part 1 of the program will be broadcasted monday, from x to x pm..." guess that is way too twisty for anyone to try.
You can try it yourself here if you want.
Very offtopic right now, but in italy we are tought that pizza has cheese, tomato, and basil (white, red, green) on it because they're the colors of the italian flag. (wikipedia seconds this).
But then again, all this argument was about history books that tend to favor the publishing nation... i sure wasn't there in the late 1800s so i really can't confirm that it is true!
I'm very amazed by you giving so much credit on the history books you've read. Actually, history books change a lot in different countries.
Every italian history book always treated Meucci as the inventor of the phone, followed closely in time by Bell (much like Daimler and Benz for the car), but when i was an exchange student in the US, nobody ever heard of him.
Also, i remember the history books and teachers in high school stressing a lot the fact that basically everything was invented by americans: motion pictures were Edison's invention, for example (whatever happened to the Lumiere brothers?), and i had a strong argument with the history teacher, who claimed that pizza was an american dish.
that's why i say this law is impossible to enforce. another good example was the status of the google cache. what is it?
another bizarre thing is the law cover only downloading. if i rent or borrow a cd/dvd and rip it, it's not covered by this law! (just regular copyright law, of course)
I don't think anyone will be going to jail, although p2p in italy has slowed down a lot in the last two days due to people waiting to see what happens. For a crime like this, if you have never commited a crime before the punishment is very likely to be changed into a fine, though that can be very high. Many people criticized the jail part as ridiculous, since that's the same punishment you get for theft or rape. There's an ongoing joke these days about the police stopping a guy who stole a Ferrari, and don't do anything to him until they find some cd-rs in the trunk...
Also, this law doesn't apply to all copyrighted material. The claimed objective of this law is to protect the movie business. In order to do that, the first draft of this law only covered online trading of movies. Only later music files were added to the basket, since record companies felt left out. The same law, in fact, has a section about state financing of private movies in order to promote the italian movie business. That is not new. But to clear the context, you should know that Urbani's (the minister who proposed the law) wife is an actress and also a movie producer, and her company got quite a bit of that public money in the past.
It is obvious to everybody that this law is insane. First of all, it is impossible to enforce. Nobody has the means to do that. In earlier drafts it was up to the ISPs to look after their customers and watch if they were trading movies. Second, the minister Urbani himself has said that the law will be modified. But the movie companies and him felt that it was important to have this law approved first, no matter how badly written, and modified later, rather than have a good law discussed and maybe approved god knows when. Third, the law could also be interpreted like this: in order to encourage people to go to cinemas, all major football events are to be moved from their actual tv schedule (i'm not kidding)(like it wouldn't be easier to lower the price of the tickets to the cinemas...). Lastly, Italy for example has had a very good law that covers copyrighted software since the early 90s, still piracy is very common and apart from a few fines (even if sometimes rather big), i don't think anybody ever went to jail for using (not selling, that's another thing) pirated software.
Actually it's quite easy. You just have to accept to receive ads from yahoo every once in a while and you can have free pop3 access.
This mails all come frome the same address, so it's very easy to block them. And yahoo's spam filter is excellent, you just have to block mails containing X-yahoofilteredbulk (or something like that).
this kind of effect has been around for quite some time (best known example is the beginning of the final cut album from pink floyd) (hint: google for holophonia or holophonics)
iirc it's actually very simple, the sounds were recorded using a dummy head with two mikes where the ears would have been
So we've learned something important about Eco himself, something he didn't tell us. He's less creative and original than he would like us to think.
You can't say this just by reading one article. Eco (though by many considered just a novelist) is a university teacher, has written many works and also regularly writes on many newspapers.
In a recent article, for example, he was talking about books he read when he was a student, and how much they influenced his later works.
He surely his one author that gives credit where credits is due.
FYI: here's his Curriculum vitae
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where I live copyright lasts 70 years after the author's death...
this decision might sound bad but there is much worse.
I've been an exchange student (from Italy) in the US about ten years ago, and I attended the senior year in high school.
I remember I was shocked by the amount of homework and schoolwork, which was next to none compared to what I was used to. I've actually been given stuff like 'extraordinary academic achievements', and people looked at me as I was some kind of freak because of my grades.
And all that came just from staying awake in class.
Honestly, what can 'too much homework' be if your standards are that low? Maybe stay awake and listen?
Fake DNA?
if you have a biometric ID with DNA info on it all it takes is bribing someone at some office that issues that IDs in making that DNA belong to Mr. Good Guy.
similar thing happen already, technology isn't going to change people's ethics.
Lets face it, people will soon be tracked, it will be impossible to just slip into a city. The police will know who you are and where you are at all times.
that's going to be impossible for regular people.
criminals, terrorists, or whoever are going to find a way to get fake IDs, fake fingerprints, and so on. It's as simple as bribing someone who issues them.
talk about illusion of security...
you mean like this one ?
Now that's the very same reason why I bought my own pinball (whitewater)!
I do the maintenance and with those prices per play it pays itself in a couple of months...
When i was a sysadmin i frequently got calls like these:
- hey, my computer says blah blah, what should i do?
- how many button do you see on the dialog box?
- one, it says "OK"
- hey, my computer says it has been locked and can only be unlocked by [username]!, what can I do? help!
- what else does it say?
- well, it says "to unlock, press... oh nevermind"
- hey, my computer had this dialog with an OK and a CANCEL button and I didn't know what to do! And I don't remember what it said!
- what did you do then?
- well, i closed it with the X in the corner!
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...says... it's talking... one bank will probably use... envisages...
and from TFA: Banks eye bootable Linux CDs
wake me up when something happens, ok?
i never understood the fuss about yahoo not giving pop3 access, and the webmail-parsers to pop3 programs.
i have been using yahoo with pop3 for years!
try it out:
telnet pop.mail.yahoo.it 110
+OK hello from popgate(2.30.2)
+OK password required.
+OK maildrop ready, 339 messages (1787002 octets) (1269336 262144000)
i think you just have to sign up for receiving mails from them.
the nice thing is that the mails they send you also get filtered as bulk, and you can filter them out on the x-yahoofilteredbulk header.
Yahoo adds X-headers to bulk mail, you can filter on those. i think it is X-yahoofilteredbulk.
i'm pretty sure their own mails have this header as i never got any from them. such an excellent filter!
Same thing happened in italy a couple of years ago.
This guy named Luca Armani was actually sued and forced to give up his site, armani.it, to the famous clothes designer.
There was a big fuss about it, but only among IT people.
Well, i'm still using office 97, which includes a full guide for Lotus 1-2-3 users and an option to use Lotus' keyboard shortcuts, so it definitely makes sense.
they are indexing close captions from tv as well!
check out The simpsons!
it seems it's indexing older reviews too. a search on nightmare pops up reviews from 1984 and 1990.
Italian RAI (BBC-like) still does this. I've never tried to download anything (you need a special adapter), nor know of anyone who has tried, but it's still on air.
An index page says "part 1 of the program will be broadcasted monday, from x to x pm..." guess that is way too twisty for anyone to try.
You can try it yourself here if you want.
Very offtopic right now, but in italy we are tought that pizza has cheese, tomato, and basil (white, red, green) on it because they're the colors of the italian flag. (wikipedia seconds this).
But then again, all this argument was about history books that tend to favor the publishing nation... i sure wasn't there in the late 1800s so i really can't confirm that it is true!
I'm very amazed by you giving so much credit on the history books you've read. Actually, history books change a lot in different countries.
Every italian history book always treated Meucci as the inventor of the phone, followed closely in time by Bell (much like Daimler and Benz for the car), but when i was an exchange student in the US, nobody ever heard of him.
Also, i remember the history books and teachers in high school stressing a lot the fact that basically everything was invented by americans: motion pictures were Edison's invention, for example (whatever happened to the Lumiere brothers?), and i had a strong argument with the history teacher, who claimed that pizza was an american dish.
Better link
of course you realize you shouldn't be linking to that pirated video, since the original is still available for sale
that's why i say this law is impossible to enforce.
another good example was the status of the google cache. what is it?
another bizarre thing is the law cover only downloading. if i rent or borrow a cd/dvd and rip it, it's not covered by this law! (just regular copyright law, of course)
I don't think anyone will be going to jail, although p2p in italy has slowed down a lot in the last two days due to people waiting to see what happens.
For a crime like this, if you have never commited a crime before the punishment is very likely to be changed into a fine, though that can be very high.
Many people criticized the jail part as ridiculous, since that's the same punishment you get for theft or rape. There's an ongoing joke these days about the police stopping a guy who stole a Ferrari, and don't do anything to him until they find some cd-rs in the trunk...
Also, this law doesn't apply to all copyrighted material.
The claimed objective of this law is to protect the movie business. In order to do that, the first draft of this law only covered online trading of movies. Only later music files were added to the basket, since record companies felt left out.
The same law, in fact, has a section about state financing of private movies in order to promote the italian movie business. That is not new. But to clear the context, you should know that Urbani's (the minister who proposed the law) wife is an actress and also a movie producer, and her company got quite a bit of that public money in the past.
It is obvious to everybody that this law is insane. First of all, it is impossible to enforce. Nobody has the means to do that. In earlier drafts it was up to the ISPs to look after their customers and watch if they were trading movies.
Second, the minister Urbani himself has said that the law will be modified. But the movie companies and him felt that it was important to have this law approved first, no matter how badly written, and modified later, rather than have a good law discussed and maybe approved god knows when. Third, the law could also be interpreted like this: in order to encourage people to go to cinemas, all major football events are to be moved from their actual tv schedule (i'm not kidding)(like it wouldn't be easier to lower the price of the tickets to the cinemas...). Lastly, Italy for example has had a very good law that covers copyrighted software since the early 90s, still piracy is very common and apart from a few fines (even if sometimes rather big), i don't think anybody ever went to jail for using (not selling, that's another thing) pirated software.
very easy. many portable phones will lose signal if you hold the antenna in your wrist, sometimes gradually so it sounds more 'natural'.
Actually it's quite easy. You just have to accept to receive ads from yahoo every once in a while and you can have free pop3 access.
This mails all come frome the same address, so it's very easy to block them.
And yahoo's spam filter is excellent, you just have to block mails containing X-yahoofilteredbulk (or something like that).
this kind of effect has been around for quite some time (best known example is the beginning of the final cut album from pink floyd) (hint: google for holophonia or holophonics)
iirc it's actually very simple, the sounds were recorded using a dummy head with two mikes where the ears would have been
So we've learned something important about Eco himself, something he didn't tell us. He's less creative and original than he would like us to think.
You can't say this just by reading one article. Eco (though by many considered just a novelist) is a university teacher, has written many works and also regularly writes on many newspapers.
In a recent article, for example, he was talking about books he read when he was a student, and how much they influenced his later works.
He surely his one author that gives credit where credits is due.
FYI: here's his Curriculum vitae