Yeah, I can just imagine eating dinner with the family:
Me: So, how was your day? Mother: What? Me: I said, how was your day? Mother: WHAT? I can't hear you! Me: HOW - WAS - YOUR - DAY? Mother: OH! IT WAS GOOD! WE GOT THE NEW FRIDGE TODAY!
A mouse is NOT as dangerous as a bullet or bomb. It's certainly not the same type of crime, and computer hacking should not be punished in the same way as a murder. Malicious hacking is more akin to arson or vandalism. A mouse can not directly hurt anyone as can a bullet or bomb.
I think that a life sentence for DoS'ing a web server would be much too excessive a punishment for the crime. Plus, everyone says that malicious hackers could potentially destroy lives (by taking down hospital systems or something?) but as far as I know, there has been no proof of this yet.
"I wonder if any Wal-Mart manager is brave enough to actually set up a few machines in-store."
It seems like now-a-days, *no one* is brave enough to set up a few machines in-store. Or maybe they've just had too many funding cuts. I'm in Newport, RI and it's very hard to find computers on display anywhere. Walmart doesn't have any on display (just two brands in boxes), Staples doesn't have any laptops on display, and OfficeMax only has 3 or 4 and one of the laptops was just a shell (they took out the guts, I guess worried about theft). And the nearest CompUSA is 45 minutes away.
It's pretty sad that there's no where to go anymore to actually see a computer before buying it. I have no problem with buying online, but when buying a laptop, I'd like to try it out first.
In my experience, people argue about this because they want to be using the better keyboard, and most Qwerty users don't want to switch to dvorak. As a dvorak typer for the past year, I've found ergonomics and accuracy to be the biggest advantages of dvorak. Since the most commonly used keys are all on the home row, you move your fingers a lot shorter distances than with Qwerty. That helped with the tendonitis I was getting in my arms from typing so much. I've never had any significant pain from typing since I switched to dvorak.
Also, I've heard claims that dvorak typists make less typing errors (hitting the wrong key). I think this might be true because I seem to make far fewer typing errors now using dvorak.
One reason that Qwerty typists cite as preventing them from switching to dvorak (besides the learning curve) is that they're afraid they won't be able to type on other computers because they don't know how to switch the keyboard layout. But it can be done on almost every platform - Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac OS.
"... so as long as you have MSN Messenger installed, if I send you a special URL, I can own you," said Marc Maiffret, Eeye's "chief hacking officer." article
Uh, you're serious? Your post sounds like you're serious... but to actually believe that... well, I don't want to be insulting... Anyway, there are lots of benefits of exercise. Here's some info, gathered from a Google search:
Cbanging the name of the bill now? After the SSSCA received so much bad press? Real clever... nice move on Hollings part. (and dishonest and stupid). It's just like how companies like to change their name after something very bad happens (I heard Enron is looking towards a name change). So Hollings decided he could confuse us all by making a longer name with a slightly longer acronym... well, he may succeed for a short time unfortunately. Now we have to make sure everyone realizes that this new bill is the SSSCA.
This is called a good thing? This may be the first *commercial* wireless-enabled theather, but colleges have had this for a while. CMU has had wireless for a while and it is accessible in the auditorium where movies are shown. But you have to be pretty high on the nerd scale to open up a laptop in a movie theater and it is of course a very antisocial action. Who really wants to be distracted by a laptop while you're watching a movie? Then you might as well not go to the movie. People go to a movie theater for the immersive experience and higher quality video/sound than they can generally get in their home (and the fact that they can't get the movie legally until it's out of theaters).
Why was this story accepted? It's not news, it's amusement equivalent to the perpetual energy machine story. It should have been written that way (ie. sarcastically or something). Why is it an amusing story? Because the study violated so many statistical and common-sense experimental safeguards that it's not even funny (or is).
The WPost article even mentioned a lot of the problems with the study.
However, the article makes the common, and serious, mistake of implying that correlation implies causation. And it so obviously does not in this study - this study was only a correlational study.
Plus, all the other mistakes - no randomized subject selection, no compensation for self-reporting inaccuracies, etc.
Justice O'Connor wrote, "Repetitive work with hands and arms extended at or above shoulder levels for extended periods is not an important part of most people's daily lives,"
Um, but it's an important part of my daily life. It's all a matter of what we see as important and essential to our daily living. To many people, using the computer is no less important than brushing their teeth.
I think sometime in the near future, we may see computer use start to be considered "an important part of most people's daily lives."
Wired news and other Internet sites said that Gregg was working on or drafting a bill regarding encryption. However, I wrote a newspaper article last week about the issue and so I called his office to ask some questions. His press agent told me that the internet media misreported the facts and that Gregg never was drafting a bill. He only made some comments about it on the floor. So whether you believe that or not is up to you, but I think it's logical to say that Senator Gregg was truly not working on a bill - after all, he only made this speech a few weeks ago, wouldn't have had time to start on a bill necessarily...
Just a reminder that sometimes the sites we trust and love can present biased/inaccurate news. I love Slashdot and Wired but as they say, you can't believe everything you see/read.
"We all know that encryption is hardly used except by criminals and the paranoid. I am not trying to flame people, but it's the honest truth. Personally, I don't use it nor does anyone I know."
Um, I use encryption almost every day and so do many of the people I know. Have you never gone to a secure site on the net? Ie. logged into your bank account?
Most browsers (in the US) come with 128 bit encryption. We have export restrictions on them I think (albeit not very tough restrictions).
Yeah, yeah, that claim has been made before and it is simply wrong because it is too simplistic.
Biomedical research takes a long time to get an actual product - 10 to 15 years or more. Profitable stem cell results could be even further away. With the state the economy is currently in, do you think biomed companies are going to sink millions of dollars into a hole when they won't see returns for over 15 years? Their stockholders certainly wouldn't be happy about a decision like that...
You're missing a basic economic concept - what supports the general good of society, does not always support the profitability of a single company. This is sort of a type of negative externality. The amount of privately funded research will not be close to the amount that would benefit society as a whole.
When I read about stories like this, it makes me wish I were rich and could maybe help fix things in the US with large sums of money... like, here's 50 million to the EFF and oh, say, 100 million for stem cell lobbyists.
It'd be great if something like this happens regarding the DMCA... like maybe a software research foundation would lose funding from somewhere who doesn't like where US software laws are going.
But back to this article, I think Clark made a good decision but he shouldn't just stop here... He's needs to do something more to actually succeed in making change. And if he wants to make an even greater statement, he should send the money to a UK stem cell company. Of course, that's not a great choice because it doesn't help things here - we don't want him to give up hope on the US (even though he may be tempted to do so).
"It is going to be the next user interface, the last user interface," Dunietz said, explaining that it will replace the mouse, computer pointing devices and the Microsoft Windows environment.
Darn, this story should have been up here days ago...
The next meeting of the FTAA Negotiating Group on Intellectual Property Rights is Aug. 22 in Panama, and public comments will be most effective if received before this date. This means it should be mailed by Aug. 18 at the latest, in the US, and even sooner from other countries. (Unfortunately, the FTAA site does not provide mechanisms for Web-submitted comments.)
Now it's too late to send in our opinions... The EFF could have gotten a lot of support if this had posted on Slashdot a few days ago (article was issued Aug. 16).
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, I can just imagine eating dinner with the family:
Me: So, how was your day?
Mother: What?
Me: I said, how was your day?
Mother: WHAT? I can't hear you!
Me: HOW - WAS - YOUR - DAY?
Mother: OH! IT WAS GOOD! WE GOT THE NEW FRIDGE TODAY!
"Why are they so excited about a location that is over 100 miles from their nearest constituent company (IBM)?" "
Maybe they heard of SUNY Albany's reputation as a party school and they want to meet some girls there?
A mouse is NOT as dangerous as a bullet or bomb.
It's certainly not the same type of crime, and computer hacking should not be punished in the same way as a murder. Malicious hacking is more akin to arson or vandalism.
A mouse can not directly hurt anyone as can a bullet or bomb.
I think that a life sentence for DoS'ing a web server would be much too excessive a punishment for the crime.
Plus, everyone says that malicious hackers could potentially destroy lives (by taking down hospital systems or something?) but as far as I know, there has been no proof of this yet.
"I wonder if any Wal-Mart manager is brave enough to actually set up a few machines in-store."
It seems like now-a-days, *no one* is brave enough to set up a few machines in-store. Or maybe they've just had too many funding cuts.
I'm in Newport, RI and it's very hard to find computers on display anywhere. Walmart doesn't have any on display (just two brands in boxes), Staples doesn't have any laptops on display, and OfficeMax only has 3 or 4 and one of the laptops was just a shell (they took out the guts, I guess worried about theft). And the nearest CompUSA is 45 minutes away.
It's pretty sad that there's no where to go anymore to actually see a computer before buying it. I have no problem with buying online, but when buying a laptop, I'd like to try it out first.
In my experience, people argue about this because they want to be using the better keyboard, and most Qwerty users don't want to switch to dvorak.
As a dvorak typer for the past year, I've found ergonomics and accuracy to be the biggest advantages of dvorak. Since the most commonly used keys are all on the home row, you move your fingers a lot shorter distances than with Qwerty. That helped with the tendonitis I was getting in my arms from typing so much. I've never had any significant pain from typing since I switched to dvorak.
Also, I've heard claims that dvorak typists make less typing errors (hitting the wrong key). I think this might be true because I seem to make far fewer typing errors now using dvorak.
One reason that Qwerty typists cite as preventing them from switching to dvorak (besides the learning curve) is that they're afraid they won't be able to type on other computers because they don't know how to switch the keyboard layout.
But it can be done on almost every platform - Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac OS.
All you Microserf users, I will own you! Muhahaha
"... so as long as you have MSN Messenger installed, if I send you a special URL, I can own you," said Marc Maiffret, Eeye's "chief hacking officer."
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Any idea if it will be coming to the US? In an English version? (the keyboard has chinese characters).
And any idea what the "Zoom in" button does (on the monitor under power button)?
There doesn't seem to be a zoom out button either...
I've copied the program and the pages containing Tom's email correspondance to my website.
I think it would be really funny if lots of people mirror the program and suddenly AGFA Monotype finds that it is all over the net!
Error message from the site:
"Too many connectionsToo many connections"
[the server]: Just stop it! Go away! Leave me alone! Can't you see I have enough to do??
Uh, you're serious? Your post sounds like you're serious... but to actually believe that... well, I don't want to be insulting...
Anyway, there are lots of benefits of exercise.
Here's some info, gathered from a Google search:
http://www.csmngt.com/ABenefits.htm
http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwfit/benefits.html
So if you still think that exercise isn't important or valuable, I would guess that you're experiencing denial.
Cbanging the name of the bill now? After the SSSCA received so much bad press? Real clever... nice move on Hollings part. (and dishonest and stupid). It's just like how companies like to change their name after something very bad happens (I heard Enron is looking towards a name change).
So Hollings decided he could confuse us all by making a longer name with a slightly longer acronym... well, he may succeed for a short time unfortunately. Now we have to make sure everyone realizes that this new bill is the SSSCA.
This is called a good thing? This may be the first *commercial* wireless-enabled theather, but colleges have had this for a while. CMU has had wireless for a while and it is accessible in the auditorium where movies are shown. But you have to be pretty high on the nerd scale to open up a laptop in a movie theater and it is of course a very antisocial action.
Who really wants to be distracted by a laptop while you're watching a movie? Then you might as well not go to the movie. People go to a movie theater for the immersive experience and higher quality video/sound than they can generally get in their home (and the fact that they can't get the movie legally until it's out of theaters).
Why was this story accepted? It's not news, it's amusement equivalent to the perpetual energy machine story. It should have been written that way (ie. sarcastically or something). Why is it an amusing story? Because the study violated so many statistical and common-sense experimental safeguards that it's not even funny (or is).
The WPost article even mentioned a lot of the problems with the study.
However, the article makes the common, and serious, mistake of implying that correlation implies causation. And it so obviously does not in this study - this study was only a correlational study.
Plus, all the other mistakes - no randomized subject selection, no compensation for self-reporting inaccuracies, etc.
And we call this news...
I think sometime in the near future, we may see computer use start to be considered "an important part of most people's daily lives."
I get this error when trying to go to the site:
/N5/html/maindb.php on line 44
/N5/html/maindb.php on line 44
Warning: Too many connections in
Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in
Unable to select database
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I got that error from another site last week too (it wasn't slashdotted though). Might that indicate a performance problem with MySQL?
Just a reminder that sometimes the sites we trust and love can present biased/inaccurate news. I love Slashdot and Wired but as they say, you can't believe everything you see/read.
And look what happened to the pig who built his house out of sticks when the big bad wolf came by!
Um, I use encryption almost every day and so do many of the people I know. Have you never gone to a secure site on the net? Ie. logged into your bank account?
Most browsers (in the US) come with 128 bit encryption. We have export restrictions on them I think (albeit not very tough restrictions).
So now the entire basis of your argument is null.
"But people have the right to go to work without buildings falling on them, too."
No. That is not a right, it is just something we've come to expect from our government.
Yeah, yeah, that claim has been made before and it is simply wrong because it is too simplistic.
Biomedical research takes a long time to get an actual product - 10 to 15 years or more. Profitable stem cell results could be even further away. With the state the economy is currently in, do you think biomed companies are going to sink millions of dollars into a hole when they won't see returns for over 15 years? Their stockholders certainly wouldn't be happy about a decision like that...
You're missing a basic economic concept - what supports the general good of society, does not always support the profitability of a single company. This is sort of a type of negative externality. The amount of privately funded research will not be close to the amount that would benefit society as a whole.
When I read about stories like this, it makes me wish I were rich and could maybe help fix things in the US with large sums of money... like, here's 50 million to the EFF and oh, say, 100 million for stem cell lobbyists.
It'd be great if something like this happens regarding the DMCA... like maybe a software research foundation would lose funding from somewhere who doesn't like where US software laws are going.
But back to this article, I think Clark made a good decision but he shouldn't just stop here... He's needs to do something more to actually succeed in making change. And if he wants to make an even greater statement, he should send the money to a UK stem cell company. Of course, that's not a great choice because it doesn't help things here - we don't want him to give up hope on the US (even though he may be tempted to do so).
Here's the link to bypass NY Times registration:
C LAR.html
http://archives.nytimes.com/2001/08/31/opinion/31
YES!!!!
Now it's too late to send in our opinions... The EFF could have gotten a lot of support if this had posted on Slashdot a few days ago (article was issued Aug. 16).
That Cnet article isn't very descriptive... does anyone know the details on it... what is a "wider" back door - how much wider could it get?