I don't think any spam filter on earth would identify her email as spam.
It seems almost obvious that she's being prosecuted simply because she made the provost look stupid. If any student can use mailing lists like this to challenge the provost so effectively... imagine the mayhem!!/sarcasm
I don't like the rudeness and negativity in this thread. I'm also pretty sick of the slashdot meme that lashes out against anyone not spending every waking moment engaging their kid in face-to-face learning endeavors. And you people saying 2 year-olds only care about flashing lights and animal noises either do not have a 2 year old or your 2 year old is just developmentally mediocre.
First of all kids that age have eleventy one toys that blink and flash. They leave them sit and gravitate to the computer because that's what's daddy is doing. Fostering that curiosity is a good thing. My 2 & 1/2 year old was using a touchpad on a dell playing games at pbskids.org, using the arrow keys, and the space bar, and doing a damn fine job of it. A year later... he powers it on, launches the browser, and clicks "his buttons" to get to his games and stories.
Encourage your kids. Don't place limits where there don't need to be any. Nobody asked how to get a computer to babysit a kid. But if you're trying not to burn dinner, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood isn't on, and your toddler already did 3 hours of blocks and play-dough, then a computer can be a great tool. Better than TV by a long shot. Manual dexterity, associating word images, and learning his alphabet are all things my 2 & 1/2 year did on a laptop. Now he's learning to read and add 1 + 2.. "Look Daddy I'm 3 just like the answer!" And he does it because he wants to. He's "working like daddy!"
We didn't get a kids lapotop. He just uses my wife's Dell.
To all you rude folks with no kids (or dull ones) offering unhelpful answers, if you can't play nicely then you need to put your keyboard away.
There is NOTHING you can do to keep a healthy 12 year old boy from looking at sex.
I remember when there were 13 channels...total. They were 2 through 13 + UHF. You could severely mess with the tuner dial to get HBO to come in monochrome, and fuzzy, with no sound.
Let me tell you, back then, at that age, it was AWESOME! The programming guide came in the mail back then. I saw grainy black & white boobies. Often.
Healthy kids ARE going to look. In addition to the excellent last line of your post, your job as a parent is to keep them from finding S&M orgies with horses, or "2 Girls 1 Cup".
If you think your job as a parent is to keep them from looking you're going to create some messed up kids.
It always seemed silly to me to track hand movements for basic computing.
Neil Stephenson had it right in Snow Crash with Hiro's computer/terminal.
Track eye movements. A wink is a click. A two-eyed wink could be back, or escape.
Such a system could work with goggles or sci-fi contact lenses.
If we need to add hands on top of that for gaming or CAD or Photoshop, that would be fine.
But the basics start with what we're looking at, with our eyes.
OF course that doesn't make such an easily cool looking moving scene.
You guys both have great points and have provided an interesting read. But both of you seem (to me) to be forgetting a really important point about armed insurrection on our own soil. The insurgents don't need to fight soldiers, or tanks, or mechanized infantry.
In a popular uprising, all they need to do is go to the houses where the soldiers' moms live. Mass desertion would take about one day.
That big piece from the Star Wars Lego set is not a house.
Despite what you stuff inside of it.
Form follows function. This would be a great tool for FEMA. But it's not a house.
How about we stop building houses on the lowest parts of alluvial flood plains? There's a bright idea.
If you're old enough to drive, you're old enough to take responsibility for the way you do it.
Either you were born an adult, or you completely forget being a teenager.
That said, limiting the speed limit and the radio is silly. Here's what the system needs to do:
-Jam cell phones whenever the vehicle is moving. - Stall the engine and come to a slow stop when too many pheromones are detected or the phrase "Oooh aahhh oooohh" is uttered. - Refuse to move when more than 8 people are jammed into it. - Stall the engine and come to a slow stop when the phrase "Hey don't Bogart that" is uttered. - Phone the police when full acceleration is used over a lawn.
Toss in a Breathalyzer ignition and I think we're done here.:)
That's just silly. Let's apply that logic to something (anything!) else:
If parents think it's ok to have an established curfew for their kids, what if the government thinks it's a good idea to establish a curfew for everyone!?
If parents think it's ok to monitor their kids internet usage, what if the government thinks it's a good idea to monitor everyone's internet usage!?
If parents think it's ok to send their kids to their room when they don't eat their vegetables, what if EVERYONE gets sent to their room when they don't eat their vegetables?!
So no there is no "much more important other side"... unless of course, you're silly.
Yeah screw the lousy standards around here. I'm going back to the rest of the internet where they have whole pithy paragraphs and entire knee-jerk domains.
Just out of curiosity do you call it class envy when stories like that of Alan Fishman are not uncommon?
Walking away from the largest bank failure in history after only 3 weeks on the job with 20 million dollars in hand!
Sure ardent capitalists like to point out the failings of socialism without ever looking at the success stories (e.g. every Nordic country) without ever looking at the downside to uncontrolled libertarian capitalism. Which is this.. the stabilization point for it closely resembles what we see today: The top 1% of capital holders control everything and basically treat the rest of us peasants like cattle, not because they do anything special, but simply because they hold all the cash. They're a rich boys club. It's not class envy. I don't envy anybody if I can help it, especially people who earn their money. But I'm furious about stories like Alan Fishman's. He gets 20 million for doing nothing except being part of the club. No matter how hard you work, or how smart you are you will NEVER be part of the club. Hell even Bill Gates had to have about 10 billion in the bank before he got some kind of "honorary guest member" status in "the club". I'm still not sure he's even in "the club". It seems like actually EARNING your money is held against you by "the club".
But if you're some asshat moron legacy at an Ivy League, and your neighbors play golf with board members and CEOs, do you think your C minus average and your intolerable personality means you'll end up serving french fries? Yeah right. You won't even need a trust fund. Just a set of golf clubs and the right clothes so you can join in.
Capitalism has done much for this world, but like everything, it has a lifespan. It's evolved into a shell game (played with capital) won through backroom handshakes, business dinners, sleazy marketing, and the right friends. You're not even in the game, you're just a tiny plastic resource on the board.
You can call it class envy, but a lot people just want a chance to play the game.
Bottom line: We want a lot more meritocracy and a lot less oligarchy.
Capitalism might be totally great, if every 50 years we took all the capital, divided it up evenly, and then carried on with capitalism again. As it is, it's a bad game of Monopoly that never ends. You just keep rolling the dice and landing on somebody's hotels, over and over, as they build more, and you hope for a Chance card. Pfft.
Snagging the CEO's password isn't about access to the network.
It's about impersonating the CEO.
E.g. Go to some underfunded public library far from your home, install the VPN client from the disk you have laying about at home... whoala... You can send,receive,reply to,and delete email as the CEO. Imagine the damage you could do. Likely the best tactic would be to not "invent" anything, but just forwarded well chosen items from his Sent Items folder to the right (aka wrong) people.
And no I'm not a shady character. It's just good practice to think like the enemy.
Also, I agree the article seems like BS. Just look at the source.
I was going to mod you insightful, but there's an easier and more positive way to apply those buzzwords...
A good PHB is mostly concerned about 3 things:
1. A decent ROI. ( From the business as a whole down to the paper-clip supplier and the birthday party commitee.)
2. Making the people above him/her look good.
3. Control. (So #1 and #2 above can be maintained over time and change. You have to stay organized when you delegate or it's impossible to manage anything)
If you concern yourself with the exact same things in the exact same order then it should be easy for you to figure out what to do and what buzzwords to say. The doing might be hard, but the "what to do?" should become easily apparent.
In other words answer these questions as asked by your boss: What's the ROI on your wiki project? What's the weakest link to me (PHB) not worrying about this..meaning what person or machine or database do we need to protect and make redundant? Who can I trust (to make me look good) when they say it's a success. I will keep asking dumb questions until I find a leader I can trust. Who should I scold if the ROI on this project starts tanking? In 2 or 3 short sentences, what does it do so I don't look stupid when people ask me. And when I ask "what does it do?" I do NOT mean how does it work. I mean what Return does it provide on what Investment?
Careful though, thinking like this will get you promoted FAST.
Most ideas are crap. But some ideas are worth a million dollars, and could be implemented by a lone kid using a computer at a public library for an hour or 2. The execution can be butt ugly and take basically no time, as shown.
The only trick is being first.
If you can be first, and you have a good idea, then sometimes the idea is all you need.
Exactly. Internet service is provided to most people in a similar fashion to phone service.
The only regulation that we need for BOTH "internet" and "phone" should be total separation of content from service.
Cell phone companies can sell bandwidth and for chrissake quite counting each individual text message.
Untie the ringtones and make them like any other sound that you can download.
Internet providers should be held to the same "regulation".
If you provide bandwidth in any way at all it should be neutral to all content, uncensored, unfiltered, etc.
The law could be a very simple one: If you provide any sort of bandwidth for sale you are prohibited from messing with any content whatsoever. You are also prohibited from partnering with any business that does "mess with" content. End of law.
I don't even think Comcast or whoever should be allowed to have a "Start Page" on the internet. It's anti-competitive bundling. It's bad. Everyone knows it.
I'm sure of the above, but truth be told I don't think (not sure) bandwidth service should even be a part of the free market. It's a utility. Just like electricity and heat. We all know how well anti-trust efforts and deregulating the phone companies worked out: http://youtube.com/watch?v=I6nuwQmhrZ8
If it's going to be just 1 or 2 giant companies screwing us over, removing our ability to vote with our dollar, then I'd rather it just be government run, so we can vote with ballots.
When you can stream a seemingly unlimited supply of internet radio straight to most connected devices, like the iPhone for one...
satellite radio seems almost quaint. How long will it be before "internet radio" puts satellite radio totally out of business?
How about if slashdot starts recognizing spacing as the poster intends it?
I was going to make a totally scrabulous post!
But it only works with the first letter of a line.
See
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spacing would
help
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Honoring spacing as intended is fun and on topic. How about it?
I mean, I'm logged in. (Oh slashdot how I love thee.) Do you really need to ignore my spacing?
I'm here now. Pittsburgh is the greenest cleanest city I've ever been in outside of Portland, OR.
And while Portland is cleaner, Pittsburgh looks greener.
It's our dirty Ohio neighbors who send us the polluted air. That's why the air quality is still an 'F' in farm country, over an hour north of here.
You're right about the denial. But it's because you can't see the pollution. 30 years ago this city was disgusting, black smog everywhere. Today it looks gorgeous. For most people seeing is believing.
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even redesigning her to have a simulated orgasm. *Shudder*
Don't you mean *Quiver*
I don't think any spam filter on earth would identify her email as spam.
/sarcasm
It seems almost obvious that she's being prosecuted simply because she made the provost look stupid.
If any student can use mailing lists like this to challenge the provost so effectively... imagine the mayhem!!
This idea has it's ups and downs.
Instead of posting on slashdot,, I should have been shorting the stock.
SeeqPod is pretty cool for the iphone/ipod.
I don't like the rudeness and negativity in this thread. I'm also pretty sick of the slashdot meme that lashes out against anyone not spending every waking moment engaging their kid in face-to-face learning endeavors. And you people saying 2 year-olds only care about flashing lights and animal noises either do not have a 2 year old or your 2 year old is just developmentally mediocre.
First of all kids that age have eleventy one toys that blink and flash. They leave them sit and gravitate to the computer because that's what's daddy is doing. Fostering that curiosity is a good thing. My 2 & 1/2 year old was using a touchpad on a dell playing games at pbskids.org, using the arrow keys, and the space bar, and doing a damn fine job of it. A year later... he powers it on, launches the browser, and clicks "his buttons" to get to his games and stories.
Encourage your kids. Don't place limits where there don't need to be any. Nobody asked how to get a computer to babysit a kid. But if you're trying not to burn dinner, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood isn't on, and your toddler already did 3 hours of blocks and play-dough, then a computer can be a great tool. Better than TV by a long shot. Manual dexterity, associating word images, and learning his alphabet are all things my 2 & 1/2 year did on a laptop. Now he's learning to read and add 1 + 2.. "Look Daddy I'm 3 just like the answer!" And he does it because he wants to. He's "working like daddy!"
We didn't get a kids lapotop. He just uses my wife's Dell.
To all you rude folks with no kids (or dull ones) offering unhelpful answers, if you can't play nicely then you need to put your keyboard away.
There is NOTHING you can do to keep a healthy 12 year old boy from looking at sex.
I remember when there were 13 channels...total. They were 2 through 13 + UHF. You could severely mess with the tuner dial to get HBO to come in monochrome, and fuzzy, with no sound.
Let me tell you, back then, at that age, it was AWESOME! The programming guide came in the mail back then. I saw grainy black & white boobies. Often.
Healthy kids ARE going to look. In addition to the excellent last line of your post, your job as a parent is to keep them from finding S&M orgies with horses, or "2 Girls 1 Cup".
If you think your job as a parent is to keep them from looking you're going to create some messed up kids.
It always seemed silly to me to track hand movements for basic computing.
Neil Stephenson had it right in Snow Crash with Hiro's computer/terminal.
Track eye movements. A wink is a click. A two-eyed wink could be back, or escape.
Such a system could work with goggles or sci-fi contact lenses.
If we need to add hands on top of that for gaming or CAD or Photoshop, that would be fine.
But the basics start with what we're looking at, with our eyes.
OF course that doesn't make such an easily cool looking moving scene.
You guys both have great points and have provided an interesting read. But both of you seem (to me) to be forgetting a really important point about armed insurrection on our own soil. The insurgents don't need to fight soldiers, or tanks, or mechanized infantry.
In a popular uprising, all they need to do is go to the houses where the soldiers' moms live. Mass desertion would take about one day.
I'd love to get up at 5am every day, and work from 6am to 2 or 3pm.
That way I could have a ton of daylight when I come home, which is when I need it.
Do you think you could talk to my boss for me?
Most people work in cubes or offices, or at least inside. What use is daylight to most of us of before say.. lunchtime??
I say we spring forward 3 hours and just stay there all the time.
WTF do I need daylight for on my way to work, just so I can wander around my yard with a flashlight at 6pm? We're not farmers anymore.
That big piece from the Star Wars Lego set is not a house. Despite what you stuff inside of it. Form follows function. This would be a great tool for FEMA. But it's not a house. How about we stop building houses on the lowest parts of alluvial flood plains? There's a bright idea.
If you're old enough to drive, you're old enough to take responsibility for the way you do it.
:)
Either you were born an adult, or you completely forget being a teenager.
That said, limiting the speed limit and the radio is silly. Here's what the system needs to do:
-Jam cell phones whenever the vehicle is moving.
- Stall the engine and come to a slow stop when too many pheromones are detected or the phrase "Oooh aahhh oooohh" is uttered.
- Refuse to move when more than 8 people are jammed into it.
- Stall the engine and come to a slow stop when the phrase "Hey don't Bogart that" is uttered.
- Phone the police when full acceleration is used over a lawn.
Toss in a Breathalyzer ignition and I think we're done here.
That's just silly. Let's apply that logic to something (anything!) else:
If parents think it's ok to have an established curfew for their kids, what if the government thinks it's a good idea to establish a curfew for everyone!?
If parents think it's ok to monitor their kids internet usage, what if the government thinks it's a good idea to monitor everyone's internet usage!?
If parents think it's ok to send their kids to their room when they don't eat their vegetables, what if EVERYONE gets sent to their room when they don't eat their vegetables?!
So no there is no "much more important other side"... unless of course, you're silly.
> This is /. after all right?
Yeah screw the lousy standards around here.
I'm going back to the rest of the internet where they have whole pithy paragraphs and entire knee-jerk domains.
Just out of curiosity do you call it class envy when stories like that of Alan Fishman are not uncommon?
Walking away from the largest bank failure in history after only 3 weeks on the job with 20 million dollars in hand!
Sure ardent capitalists like to point out the failings of socialism without ever looking at the success stories (e.g. every Nordic country) without ever looking at the downside to uncontrolled libertarian capitalism. Which is this.. the stabilization point for it closely resembles what we see today: The top 1% of capital holders control everything and basically treat the rest of us peasants like cattle, not because they do anything special, but simply because they hold all the cash. They're a rich boys club. It's not class envy. I don't envy anybody if I can help it, especially people who earn their money. But I'm furious about stories like Alan Fishman's. He gets 20 million for doing nothing except being part of the club. No matter how hard you work, or how smart you are you will NEVER be part of the club. Hell even Bill Gates had to have about 10 billion in the bank before he got some kind of "honorary guest member" status in "the club". I'm still not sure he's even in "the club". It seems like actually EARNING your money is held against you by "the club".
But if you're some asshat moron legacy at an Ivy League, and your neighbors play golf with board members and CEOs, do you think your C minus average and your intolerable personality means you'll end up serving french fries? Yeah right. You won't even need a trust fund. Just a set of golf clubs and the right clothes so you can join in.
Capitalism has done much for this world, but like everything, it has a lifespan. It's evolved into a shell game (played with capital) won through backroom handshakes, business dinners, sleazy marketing, and the right friends. You're not even in the game, you're just a tiny plastic resource on the board.
You can call it class envy, but a lot people just want a chance to play the game.
Bottom line: We want a lot more meritocracy and a lot less oligarchy.
Capitalism might be totally great, if every 50 years we took all the capital, divided it up evenly, and then carried on with capitalism again. As it is, it's a bad game of Monopoly that never ends. You just keep rolling the dice and landing on somebody's hotels, over and over, as they build more, and you hope for a Chance card.
Pfft.
I'm sure the guy was equally pissed that digg.com is not about shovels and holes.
And The Onion. Don't even get him started on The Onion.
Good for you that you don't have a criminal mind.
Snagging the CEO's password isn't about access to the network.
It's about impersonating the CEO.
E.g. Go to some underfunded public library far from your home, install the VPN client from the disk you have laying about at home... whoala... You can send,receive,reply to,and delete email as the CEO. Imagine the damage you could do. Likely the best tactic would be to not "invent" anything, but just forwarded well chosen items from his Sent Items folder to the right (aka wrong) people.
And no I'm not a shady character. It's just good practice to think like the enemy.
Also, I agree the article seems like BS. Just look at the source.
The new shark skin suit is pretty impressive too...
:)
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/august/news_15012.html
Now all we need is an Olympic event that uses internal combustion engines and we'd be set.
I was going to mod you insightful, but there's an easier and more positive way to apply those buzzwords...
A good PHB is mostly concerned about 3 things:
1. A decent ROI. ( From the business as a whole down to the paper-clip supplier and the birthday party commitee.)
2. Making the people above him/her look good.
3. Control. (So #1 and #2 above can be maintained over time and change. You have to stay organized when you delegate or it's impossible to manage anything)
If you concern yourself with the exact same things in the exact same order then it should be easy for you to figure out what to do and what buzzwords to say.
The doing might be hard, but the "what to do?" should become easily apparent.
In other words answer these questions as asked by your boss:
What's the ROI on your wiki project?
What's the weakest link to me (PHB) not worrying about this..meaning what person or machine or database do we need to protect and make redundant?
Who can I trust (to make me look good) when they say it's a success. I will keep asking dumb questions until I find a leader I can trust.
Who should I scold if the ROI on this project starts tanking?
In 2 or 3 short sentences, what does it do so I don't look stupid when people ask me. And when I ask "what does it do?" I do NOT mean how does it work. I mean what Return does it provide on what Investment?
Careful though, thinking like this will get you promoted FAST.
>cultural boundaries are simply different than those of the US.
Well then call me Japanese.
I don't like the fact that anyone with my address can just see what's in my backyard.
I mean, maybe it's okay if you see it. And you. And you. But not you.
Most ideas are crap.
But some ideas are worth a million dollars, and could be implemented by a lone kid using a computer at a public library for an hour or 2.
The execution can be butt ugly and take basically no time, as shown.
The only trick is being first.
If you can be first, and you have a good idea, then sometimes the idea is all you need.
Exactly. Internet service is provided to most people in a similar fashion to phone service.
The only regulation that we need for BOTH "internet" and "phone" should be total separation of content from service.
Cell phone companies can sell bandwidth and for chrissake quite counting each individual text message.
Untie the ringtones and make them like any other sound that you can download.
Internet providers should be held to the same "regulation".
If you provide bandwidth in any way at all it should be neutral to all content, uncensored, unfiltered, etc.
The law could be a very simple one: If you provide any sort of bandwidth for sale you are prohibited from messing with any content whatsoever.
You are also prohibited from partnering with any business that does "mess with" content. End of law.
I don't even think Comcast or whoever should be allowed to have a "Start Page" on the internet. It's anti-competitive bundling. It's bad. Everyone knows it.
I'm sure of the above, but truth be told I don't think (not sure) bandwidth service should even be a part of the free market. It's a utility. Just like electricity and heat.
We all know how well anti-trust efforts and deregulating the phone companies worked out: http://youtube.com/watch?v=I6nuwQmhrZ8
If it's going to be just 1 or 2 giant companies screwing us over, removing our ability to vote with our dollar, then I'd rather it just be government run, so we can vote with ballots.
When you can stream a seemingly unlimited supply of internet radio straight to most connected devices, like the iPhone for one...
satellite radio seems almost quaint. How long will it be before "internet radio" puts satellite radio totally out of business?
BTW, for iPhone and iPod touch users, here's a good place to start:
http://www.seeqpod.com/
If you just want a radio gadget, there seem to be a few good ones available now:
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=portable%20internet%20radio
Of course with these you can't play "kill your battery" using them over a 3G network... but then there's always the next thing..
How about if slashdot starts recognizing spacing as the poster intends it?
I was going to make a totally scrabulous post!
But it only works with the first letter of a line.
See
l
a
spacing would
help
doh
o
t
Honoring spacing as intended is fun and on topic. How about it?
I mean, I'm logged in. (Oh slashdot how I love thee.)
Do you really need to ignore my spacing?
I'm here now. Pittsburgh is the greenest cleanest city I've ever been in outside of Portland, OR.
And while Portland is cleaner, Pittsburgh looks greener.
It's our dirty Ohio neighbors who send us the polluted air. That's why the air quality is still an 'F' in farm country, over an hour north of here.
You're right about the denial. But it's because you can't see the pollution. 30 years ago this city was disgusting, black smog everywhere. Today it looks gorgeous.
For most people seeing is believing.
> "...increased their performance results by a factor of 4."
:-b
> "...increase the power obtained from existing solar cells by a factor of over 40"
What a dirty trick to get us to RTFA.
FYI it's 40. Most impressive.