I am also a bit on the . . . umm . . . skeptical side of things when it comes to most opinions of the ACLU, however their analysis is greatly appreciated since I have little or no knowledge of these laws (aka I'm nearly a Joe 6-Pack USA . . . and as always IAMAL)
However, their "Concern #3" as listed, which voices an objection to the term "terrorism." They bring up the point of civil disobedience by such organizations as PETA.
As long as their definition of civil disobedience parallels M. Ghandi's definition AND as long as those acts described under that definition might be limited under the new legislation . . . then I agree with their protest.
However, many acts blanketed by the "civil disobedience" term I do not feel are justly included in that definition; destroying / vandalising corporate property to make a statement, stealing / setting free lab animals, physically assulting persons or their property that display animal products. These I tend to group under assult or battery but still not acts of terrorism.
A shining example of an act of civil disobedience is when Ghandi made salt by drying sea water on his own (a violation of colonial law . ..what the law was I don't remember). This act neither destroyed another person's property nor physically assulted any person.
Contrast that act with actions resulting in a certain well known ship being sunk by the French military. Those actions probably could not be described as civil disobedience (difference in countries' laws asside).
The ACLU does make another good point (Concern #5) about the legislation being passed "unnecessarily and irresponsibly quickly" especially regarding provisions that are Knee jerk reactions usually end up hitting someone standing in front of you instead of kicking the real problem in the butt (no doubt due to the lack of time to aim).
I mean the other top languages (not every obscure dialect hosting a URL). So which language is 2nd? Spanish? French? What about 4th and 5th? Is there any place I can look up this info?
I had to test some java code being developed by (company) for a newly released (product) and needed a web server. The usual test platform server had just been taken down by nimda (ie not 3 hours earlier). Fortunately for my productivity log, an extremely capable app called Apache exists for WinNT and in under 30 minutes I had it up and running (including denying every host under the sun that was sending those annoying GET requests for/winnt/system32/cmd.exe).
The entire dev team working on the java code would have just taken the afternoon off, had I not casually mentioned the existance of my humble Pentium Pro 200 running Apache.:-)
This caught the attention of my boss who wondered why our group was able to continue working, while many others were outside playing basketball waiting for the Admins to finish the virus updates. Who knows . . . we may shift away from simple IIS servers (for a java service on a server you don't need some big IIS machine).
From a security stand point, This little server did a good job of fending off every virus attack (a few hundred every hour). I believe two additional simple IIS servers have been temporarily changed to Apache since they don't have a need for any other service. Who knows what will be their ultimate fate. But right now they are doing their job and don't need to be updated. This may affect the purchasing policy for one or two machines here. Not a huge step towards non-M$ product use, but I am encouraged none the less.
The University I go to teaches several classes at the senior level aimed at narrowing the gap between real world and academic programming environments. One class is a semester long group design project. The project is for a real world customer (one group coded a web front end for the schools class registration DB). This class is a taste of the coding industry. You use a file version management tool (like Clear Case) you develop time lines, goals, everything. The other class, which is taught before the group design class, is a SW Engineering class taught by a SW group manager at HP. Everything involving the control and flow of a SW project is covered extensively.
Both of these classes give a very good taste of the jobs in store for the CS grads.
You know, this has been one of the few clear posts I can recall that helps explain the new MS sales model. Thanks for the ilumination!
But why post this as AC? This was a good comment.
Over in the States (so I have no idea how this would actually affect the UK) there is this lovely clause in the Constitution hinting at a seperation between church and state (now don't even start that argument) . . . but my question is would a flat out ban on even any religious looking adds be used? Or would adds like the following be allowed... "Be nice to everybody...(sponsored by the Church of Bob)"
Actually I know of many many students at my uni that sat around in the rooms listening to music, BSing, drinking, etc while their old pentium sat in the corner zooming through light year after light year of star fields. And when a bunch would get together for a party, a huge MP3 list is usually assembled and left to play, so up comes the screen saver after a while . . .
But all of this is irrelevant if the PCs in questions belong to the university and are in labs, faculty offices, or public terminals. Especially in the case of public terminals, this would be a very usefull Accounts Receivable addition!
So the advertisements will be displayed on student's, professor's, staff's, and lab computer's desktops. That isn't too big of a problem (IMHO). But I may point out that a problem could be the target of those adds. If the corporations paying the $$ are trying to target an audience with liquidity to their cash flow, should't they target someone besides these same students at these underfunded universities? Unless college students suddenly have far more available $$ than they did 4 years ago when I was one of 'em.
I currently use Cypherus (http://www.cypherus.com/ ) as my encryption method of choice. Here are a few Pros v Cons:
PROS
Strong Key: Customizable,128bit up to 448bit. Uses Blowfish algorithm for encryption. Diffie-Hellman protocol to manage its public keys
Grandma Friendly: Drag and drop for files, erasing / wiping, single click email encrypt / decrypt for Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape, Eudora (my client of choice)
Recursive: Can recursively encrypt from a single file up to directories or entire drives. Also compacts archived files (a ~450MB misc data file drive of mine compacted to 300MB)
Fast: I encrypted a 700MB divx dvd rip in about 5 minutes on an AMD K6-2 400MHz machine.
Non-Owner Friendly: Anyone can decrypt a message sent by Cypherus even if they don't own Cypherus, using Cypherus' web site. Enter the key previously sent to you, then paste the text of the message and your done! Also, encrypted archives can be turned into self extracting archives if the recipient has the key.
Trial: 30 day free trial download.
Skin-able: Design your own skin for Cypherus like Winamp, etc.
One Time Cost: Once you own Cypherus, you get all updates free. No re-licensing. No annual fee for your key.
Dev Team: I contacted the team with a usability issue (why the heck did they put that menu option under that heading instead of ... ) and within a week I had a response asking for clarification. Two weeks later, I was told my change would be included in the 2.0 version. . . and it is!
CONS
Price: Not Free as in Beer. The Software is $50 per license. But that is still a pretty cheap one time expense.
Non GPL: Proprietary. They can't all be I guess.
Platform: Windoz only (I know I know . ..but this is mainly targeted at the millions of mainstream PC users, and not your/. reader type of user on their *nix box)
New: The product has moved from beta only 1.5 years ago.
DL a copy and give it a try. Feel free to email with "you're an idiot", to "j00 r 1337", and anything inbetween.
Well I suppose you could have been a little more short sighted about your comment, but I am not sure how.
Think about research in general. Intel had computers that would function at or above the 1GHz threshold nearly 10 years ago. Plastics were invented before WWII by government contractors but didn't see mainstream use until the late 40s early 50s. And even more importantly than that, computers were invented by research insititutions way before you could have purchsased one for your personal use.
So I wouldn't really be complaining too much. Good things come to geeks that wait.
If everything was "invented" with only the quick time to market approach in mind, then we would have lots of crappy inventions with only no long term possibilities.
Oops My cell is ringing. (Hummm . . . total mobile communication, that was available to military units in vietnam but not publically available to the public until much later.)
Slashdot Mirror
LOL
Is there ever a situation that something from Monty Python cannot be revelantly(sp?) applied!
robi
I am also a bit on the . . . umm . . . skeptical side of things when it comes to most opinions of the ACLU, however their analysis is greatly appreciated since I have little or no knowledge of these laws (aka I'm nearly a Joe 6-Pack USA . . . and as always IAMAL)
.what the law was I don't remember). This act neither destroyed another person's property nor physically assulted any person.
However, their "Concern #3" as listed, which voices an objection to the term "terrorism." They bring up the point of civil disobedience by such organizations as PETA.
As long as their definition of civil disobedience parallels M. Ghandi's definition AND as long as those acts described under that definition might be limited under the new legislation . . . then I agree with their protest.
However, many acts blanketed by the "civil disobedience" term I do not feel are justly included in that definition; destroying / vandalising corporate property to make a statement, stealing / setting free lab animals, physically assulting persons or their property that display animal products. These I tend to group under assult or battery but still not acts of terrorism.
A shining example of an act of civil disobedience is when Ghandi made salt by drying sea water on his own (a violation of colonial law . .
Contrast that act with actions resulting in a certain well known ship being sunk by the French military. Those actions probably could not be described as civil disobedience (difference in countries' laws asside).
The ACLU does make another good point (Concern #5) about the legislation being passed "unnecessarily and irresponsibly quickly" especially regarding provisions that are Knee jerk reactions usually end up hitting someone standing in front of you instead of kicking the real problem in the butt (no doubt due to the lack of time to aim).
robi
MY="$0.02"
echo $MY
I mean the other top languages (not every obscure dialect hosting a URL). So which language is 2nd? Spanish? French? What about 4th and 5th? Is there any place I can look up this info?
robi
So, I'm just currious here, what are the other languages?
robi
I had to test some java code being developed by (company) for a newly released (product) and needed a web server. The usual test platform server had just been taken down by nimda (ie not 3 hours earlier). Fortunately for my productivity log, an extremely capable app called Apache exists for WinNT and in under 30 minutes I had it up and running (including denying every host under the sun that was sending those annoying GET requests for /winnt/system32/cmd.exe).
:-)
The entire dev team working on the java code would have just taken the afternoon off, had I not casually mentioned the existance of my humble Pentium Pro 200 running Apache.
This caught the attention of my boss who wondered why our group was able to continue working, while many others were outside playing basketball waiting for the Admins to finish the virus updates. Who knows . . . we may shift away from simple IIS servers (for a java service on a server you don't need some big IIS machine).
From a security stand point, This little server did a good job of fending off every virus attack (a few hundred every hour). I believe two additional simple IIS servers have been temporarily changed to Apache since they don't have a need for any other service. Who knows what will be their ultimate fate. But right now they are doing their job and don't need to be updated. This may affect the purchasing policy for one or two machines here. Not a huge step towards non-M$ product use, but I am encouraged none the less.
robi
The University I go to teaches several classes at the senior level aimed at narrowing the gap between real world and academic programming environments. One class is a semester long group design project. The project is for a real world customer (one group coded a web front end for the schools class registration DB). This class is a taste of the coding industry. You use a file version management tool (like Clear Case) you develop time lines, goals, everything. The other class, which is taught before the group design class, is a SW Engineering class taught by a SW group manager at HP. Everything involving the control and flow of a SW project is covered extensively.
Both of these classes give a very good taste of the jobs in store for the CS grads.
robi
You know, this has been one of the few clear posts I can recall that helps explain the new MS sales model. Thanks for the ilumination!
But why post this as AC? This was a good comment.
robi
Over in the States (so I have no idea how this would actually affect the UK) there is this lovely clause in the Constitution hinting at a seperation between church and state (now don't even start that argument) . . . but my question is would a flat out ban on even any religious looking adds be used? Or would adds like the following be allowed ... "Be nice to everybody ...(sponsored by the Church of Bob)"
robi
Actually I know of many many students at my uni that sat around in the rooms listening to music, BSing, drinking, etc while their old pentium sat in the corner zooming through light year after light year of star fields. And when a bunch would get together for a party, a huge MP3 list is usually assembled and left to play, so up comes the screen saver after a while . . .
But all of this is irrelevant if the PCs in questions belong to the university and are in labs, faculty offices, or public terminals. Especially in the case of public terminals, this would be a very usefull Accounts Receivable addition!
robi
So the advertisements will be displayed on student's, professor's, staff's, and lab computer's desktops. That isn't too big of a problem (IMHO). But I may point out that a problem could be the target of those adds. If the corporations paying the $$ are trying to target an audience with liquidity to their cash flow, should't they target someone besides these same students at these underfunded universities? Unless college students suddenly have far more available $$ than they did 4 years ago when I was one of 'em.
robi
I currently use Cypherus (http://www.cypherus.com/ ) as my encryption method of choice. Here are a few Pros v Cons:
.. ) and within a week I had a response asking for clarification. Two weeks later, I was told my change would be included in the 2.0 version. . . and it is!
.but this is mainly targeted at the millions of mainstream PC users, and not your /. reader type of user on their *nix box)
PROS
Strong Key: Customizable,128bit up to 448bit. Uses Blowfish algorithm for encryption. Diffie-Hellman protocol to manage its public keys
Grandma Friendly: Drag and drop for files, erasing / wiping, single click email encrypt / decrypt for Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape, Eudora (my client of choice)
Recursive: Can recursively encrypt from a single file up to directories or entire drives. Also compacts archived files (a ~450MB misc data file drive of mine compacted to 300MB)
Fast: I encrypted a 700MB divx dvd rip in about 5 minutes on an AMD K6-2 400MHz machine.
Non-Owner Friendly: Anyone can decrypt a message sent by Cypherus even if they don't own Cypherus, using Cypherus' web site. Enter the key previously sent to you, then paste the text of the message and your done! Also, encrypted archives can be turned into self extracting archives if the recipient has the key.
Trial: 30 day free trial download.
Skin-able: Design your own skin for Cypherus like Winamp, etc.
One Time Cost: Once you own Cypherus, you get all updates free. No re-licensing. No annual fee for your key.
Dev Team: I contacted the team with a usability issue (why the heck did they put that menu option under that heading instead of .
CONS
Price: Not Free as in Beer. The Software is $50 per license. But that is still a pretty cheap one time expense.
Non GPL: Proprietary. They can't all be I guess.
Platform: Windoz only (I know I know . .
New: The product has moved from beta only 1.5 years ago.
DL a copy and give it a try. Feel free to email with "you're an idiot", to "j00 r 1337", and anything inbetween.
robi
Well I suppose you could have been a little more short sighted about your comment, but I am not sure how.
Think about research in general. Intel had computers that would function at or above the 1GHz threshold nearly 10 years ago. Plastics were invented before WWII by government contractors but didn't see mainstream use until the late 40s early 50s. And even more importantly than that, computers were invented by research insititutions way before you could have purchsased one for your personal use.
So I wouldn't really be complaining too much. Good things come to geeks that wait.
If everything was "invented" with only the quick time to market approach in mind, then we would have lots of crappy inventions with only no long term possibilities.
Oops My cell is ringing. (Hummm . . . total mobile communication, that was available to military units in vietnam but not publically available to the public until much later.)