I don't have anything to worry about, my computer is completely secure. I run linux with lynx. Who's going to write a virus for that?? That's too obscure, so I know I'm secure.
Nifty idea, but I can't seem to find a price for it.. might just be the/. effect, but all the google cache pages I've found just say "price $" without an amount.
I bet the service sucked because their only employee was busy filing court papers. He probably only gets around to doing pet store business once a month.
Perhaps a good round of public boycott will enough to deter Mr. Novak from suing anyone who criticizes his store.
Nope. He doesn't care about his store. He cares about suing people to make a lot of money. Someone's got to figure out a way to keep him from being able to sue people. Like pass a law, or sue him for something.
Ok, now I certainly disagree with this big-business chump, but I think you're jumping on the wrong part of his abusurd statement. I think he was:
Using the plural "you", meaning "Internet users around the world..."; certainly with the 500 million or so people online around the world, 1 million of them could all decide to download a feature-length movie.
or (more likely) using hyperbole.
Please don't fight FUD with FUD. Focus on debunking what he MEANT.
Perhaps you can mark it up to his age, but I was impressed by the candor and honest that Fanning demonstrated in the interview. Even though he didn't go into too much detail, I was surprised at how candid he was about the mistakes he and the company made... I think he'll go far and we'll be hearing more from him in a few years!
What do you think? If ethics were introduced into college courses do you think that would alter people's egos and desire for Greed?
While getting my computer science degree, I had three (3) CS classes that purposefully committed a substantial block of time to ethical issues. I was also strongly urged to take an Ethics class offered by the Philosophy department; partly because it was important to learn about ethics, but also partly because there is a lot of logic involved in ethics that is interesting to many CS type people.
But did it alter my ego or reduce my desire for greed? Dunno. I consider myself to be a moral and ethical person, and don't point to those classes as a formational experience, but it's a lot like advertising.. I rarely can point to an advertisment that causes me to buy a particular product, but there are certainly unconcious decisions I am making as a result of advertising. The ethics class I took was NOT trying to cause students to make ethical decisions, but to give them the tools to analyze the ethical implications behind different actions.
So I'd say that ethics SHOULD be tought in college classes. It is important enough to warrant time, is unlikely to cause harm, and is fairly interesting, anyway. I sure as heck think more about "greatest good for the greatest number" type debates now more than I think about "depth-first vs breadth-first" debates.
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This won't do anything to hide an active network, people will just look at the data traffic instead of the beacons.
I'd say the effectiveness of this is not to hide a real AP amongst bogus AP's, but to hide real networks amongst bogus networks. So don't set this up in your office building... set it up in places there aren't currently wireless networks so wardrivers waste their time trying to break into something that can't be broken into. This isn't security through obscurity, it's a honeypot designed to lure people away from the real target.
The nearest DSL around here is from ChoiceOne, and it's 2x the price for 128k SDSL
FWIW, I've had a terrible experience with ChoiceOne. My company does its voice service with them, through a full T with 200 DID numbers; not huge, but when I talk to their support people, they call it "pretty big".
Their service has been attrocious. Every time I call to get something fixed or have long distance account codes added or removed, I'm told it will take 24-48 hours to complete. Since the beginning of May I've made 11 requests; the average completion time is just shy of 3 weeks. And that's 3 weeks of calling every day or two to find out why the heck it hasn't been completed yet. Sometimes they have no record of calls. Sometimes the jobs are marked in their database as "completed" when they aren't. Almost always they say they'll call me back and don't. I've complained to three different managers who all promised me I wouldn't have any more problems, but I keep having them.
So obviously I can't speak of anyone else's experiences or any other ChoiceOne offerings, but I'm SO dissatisfied with ChoiceOne. Enough to rant Off Topic for awhile, even...
Also, caffeine is not a substitute for sleep. There are reasons that the body needs to sleep.
Ok, I *REALLY* don't mean this to be an obnoxios question, and certainly not a disagreement, but what ARE the reasons that our bodies need sleep?? It seems like such an arbitrary thing to need...
If the vast majority of certain crimes are committed by certain groups of people, is it reasonable to focus your interest on those groups of people?
Unfortunately we have no statistics on which groups of people commit certain crimes. We only have statistics on which groups of people are CONVICTED for certain crimes. And consistantly conviction (and arrest) rates have been shown to be discriminatory based on wealth and race. So until you can demonstrate that certain groups are more likely to COMMIT the crimes by ensuring fairness in arrests and convictions, then it is wrong to focus on those groups, because surely you will only result in the conviction statistics being skewed even more heavily towards the disadvantage of the underprivildged.
But to focus most of your detection and prevention efforts where most of the problems lie isn't discriminatory, or racist, or abusive, it's smart and in everyone's interest (including, incidentally, the vast majority of the 90% group who presumably aren't guilty of anything).
Unfortunately that has (very much) not been the experience of black people in the US, especially young black men that live in our drive through affluent neighborhoods and/or drive nice cars. Since young black men, specifically, are perceived to me more likely to steal cars and break other laws, and are in neighborhoods where they "don't belong" they fruequently get pulled over for no reason. It's called DWB: Driving While Black. Sure, racial profiling like this is illegal, but that doesn't stop it from being widely practiced across the US. And despite your assertion that it doesn't bother the 90% of innocent people in the targetted group, that's a lie. Try doing some research on the effects of this on black people in America.
I think maybe it would help to rephrase your letter such that it gives Palm some way to say, "Oops, you're right, that was stupid. We'll change our behavior." and then perhaps get your business back. Otherwise I'd say you're less likely to motivate them towards change. For example if you said something like "I just wanted to let you know that your deliberate attempt to conceal the truth has convinced me that I will withdraw my support of Palm by refusing to buy any one of its products until you ______."
Otherwise they might just think "Well, we already lost everyone who we're going to lose with this, why bother changing now if we aren't going to get them back by changing, and we're not going to lose anyone else by staying course?"
I think you've got to give them the benefit of the doubt (if they back off and do what you think is right) and write it off as something that some marketing schmutz made a mistake on that the company doesn't stand behind. On the other hand if you think this 12-bit thing is an example of a systemic Palm, Inc. problem, then you need to site other examples that back up your idea, rather than just blaiming it all on this one issue.
Hmm.. interesting point. You don't have to get permission to cite a book or publication, but you DO if you are going to republish or even quote large portions of someone else's work. So the question is, is a deep link more like a citation or a republishing of the page? I'd vote for a citation like you've suggested, but "framing" as discussed in the npr article does seem like republishing someone else's work and should probably require permission.
Having travelled extensively in the USA, Europe and Africa, I think I can positively say that this is a USA only thing.
Ok, I've traveled through a bit of eastern Canada, but I can't remember how big the drinks were... so is this a North American thing, or a USA thing to have big soda/soft drink/pop containers?? This is serious business.. who can weigh in?
Actually, the 8 8-oz glasses of water per day is a bunch of bunk. At least according to this article. And I believe it... because, they say, you can get water from lots of things, including watermelon (85% water), milk (84% water), even Coke (99% water). Kinda makes you wonder about all the other things the gov't recommends....
I thought the end of the article was a little funny...
Linux is best suited for use in servers, the higher-end computers that often run 24 hours a day handling tasks such as corporate e-mail. Most Linux revenue came from this market, Gillen said.
IDC declined to release the numbers of copies of Linux that were sold, but said the number stayed about level from 2000 to 2001. The number of copies that sold for "client" computers such as desktops and workstations, however, increased nearly 50 percent over 2000, in particular in Asia and Latin America, Gillen said.
Just because higher revenue comes from server sales doesn't mean it is "best suited" for servers. I think he's selling the desktop short, especially considering the huge growth of the desktop market this year (presumably from almost nothing to a little bit more than almost nothing, but none the less....)
yeah, yeah.. I know.. 60 seconds after I hit "submit" it occured to me the conspiracy theorist in me got the better of me, and of course a bunch of scripts and stuff designed to root a box would probably set off some virus checker. Fortunately there are plenty of wiser folks here at/. that pointed out the nonsense.
Sometimes I'm very glad that there are smarter people than me out there!;-)
Unless there's a fire.. in which case it's a whole lot easier to carry a stack of your data tapes out the door, or rely on a backup off-site data center, than it is to move 500,000 books.
When *I* was in school I got WAY to many of those fluorescent orange pieces of paper tucked under the windshield wipers of my car; I'd have loved to see them try to go completely paperless!
NAVCE picked it up on my computer too. From Virus List, the exploit gives remote access via a command shell.
Sounds to me like the whole thing might be a really bogus attempt just to root people's boxen. I guess that's what happens when we rely on "news sources" for security information.
don't think food and shelter should be though, but we in america don't really have to worry about those two, since we have so much.
Actually, there are around 840,000 homeless people on any given night and over 1% of the entire US population experiences homelessness at some time in a year. 20% of those homeless are "chronically homeless". Homelessness is directly related to the availability of affordable housing.
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I don't have anything to worry about, my computer is completely secure. I run linux with lynx. Who's going to write a virus for that?? That's too obscure, so I know I'm secure.
Nifty idea, but I can't seem to find a price for it.. might just be the /. effect, but all the google cache pages I've found just say "price $" without an amount.
Anyone know the price of these things?
I bet the service sucked because their only employee was busy filing court papers. He probably only gets around to doing pet store business once a month.
Who IS his ISP? Maybe we can shut the bozo down if he is violating his AUP...
Nope. He doesn't care about his store. He cares about suing people to make a lot of money. Someone's got to figure out a way to keep him from being able to sue people. Like pass a law, or sue him for something.
Please note that Pets' Warehouse is the offending company, not Pet Warehouse, a perfectly legitamate business.
Ok, now I certainly disagree with this big-business chump, but I think you're jumping on the wrong part of his abusurd statement. I think he was:
Please don't fight FUD with FUD. Focus on debunking what he MEANT.
Perhaps you can mark it up to his age, but I was impressed by the candor and honest that Fanning demonstrated in the interview. Even though he didn't go into too much detail, I was surprised at how candid he was about the mistakes he and the company made... I think he'll go far and we'll be hearing more from him in a few years!
Fox is going commercial free for 24 hours.
While getting my computer science degree, I had three (3) CS classes that purposefully committed a substantial block of time to ethical issues. I was also strongly urged to take an Ethics class offered by the Philosophy department; partly because it was important to learn about ethics, but also partly because there is a lot of logic involved in ethics that is interesting to many CS type people.
But did it alter my ego or reduce my desire for greed? Dunno. I consider myself to be a moral and ethical person, and don't point to those classes as a formational experience, but it's a lot like advertising.. I rarely can point to an advertisment that causes me to buy a particular product, but there are certainly unconcious decisions I am making as a result of advertising. The ethics class I took was NOT trying to cause students to make ethical decisions, but to give them the tools to analyze the ethical implications behind different actions.
So I'd say that ethics SHOULD be tought in college classes. It is important enough to warrant time, is unlikely to cause harm, and is fairly interesting, anyway. I sure as heck think more about "greatest good for the greatest number" type debates now more than I think about "depth-first vs breadth-first" debates.
I'd say the effectiveness of this is not to hide a real AP amongst bogus AP's, but to hide real networks amongst bogus networks. So don't set this up in your office building... set it up in places there aren't currently wireless networks so wardrivers waste their time trying to break into something that can't be broken into. This isn't security through obscurity, it's a honeypot designed to lure people away from the real target.
FWIW, I've had a terrible experience with ChoiceOne. My company does its voice service with them, through a full T with 200 DID numbers; not huge, but when I talk to their support people, they call it "pretty big".
Their service has been attrocious. Every time I call to get something fixed or have long distance account codes added or removed, I'm told it will take 24-48 hours to complete. Since the beginning of May I've made 11 requests; the average completion time is just shy of 3 weeks. And that's 3 weeks of calling every day or two to find out why the heck it hasn't been completed yet. Sometimes they have no record of calls. Sometimes the jobs are marked in their database as "completed" when they aren't. Almost always they say they'll call me back and don't. I've complained to three different managers who all promised me I wouldn't have any more problems, but I keep having them.
So obviously I can't speak of anyone else's experiences or any other ChoiceOne offerings, but I'm SO dissatisfied with ChoiceOne. Enough to rant Off Topic for awhile, even...
Ok, I *REALLY* don't mean this to be an obnoxios question, and certainly not a disagreement, but what ARE the reasons that our bodies need sleep?? It seems like such an arbitrary thing to need...
Unfortunately we have no statistics on which groups of people commit certain crimes. We only have statistics on which groups of people are CONVICTED for certain crimes. And consistantly conviction (and arrest) rates have been shown to be discriminatory based on wealth and race. So until you can demonstrate that certain groups are more likely to COMMIT the crimes by ensuring fairness in arrests and convictions, then it is wrong to focus on those groups, because surely you will only result in the conviction statistics being skewed even more heavily towards the disadvantage of the underprivildged .
But to focus most of your detection and prevention efforts where most of the problems lie isn't discriminatory, or racist, or abusive, it's smart and in everyone's interest (including, incidentally, the vast majority of the 90% group who presumably aren't guilty of anything).
Unfortunately that has (very much) not been the experience of black people in the US, especially young black men that live in our drive through affluent neighborhoods and/or drive nice cars. Since young black men, specifically, are perceived to me more likely to steal cars and break other laws, and are in neighborhoods where they "don't belong" they fruequently get pulled over for no reason. It's called DWB: Driving While Black. Sure, racial profiling like this is illegal, but that doesn't stop it from being widely practiced across the US. And despite your assertion that it doesn't bother the 90% of innocent people in the targetted group, that's a lie. Try doing some research on the effects of this on black people in America.
I think maybe it would help to rephrase your letter such that it gives Palm some way to say, "Oops, you're right, that was stupid. We'll change our behavior." and then perhaps get your business back. Otherwise I'd say you're less likely to motivate them towards change. For example if you said something like "I just wanted to let you know that your deliberate attempt to conceal the truth has convinced me that I will withdraw my support of Palm by refusing to buy any one of its products until you ______."
Otherwise they might just think "Well, we already lost everyone who we're going to lose with this, why bother changing now if we aren't going to get them back by changing, and we're not going to lose anyone else by staying course?"
I think you've got to give them the benefit of the doubt (if they back off and do what you think is right) and write it off as something that some marketing schmutz made a mistake on that the company doesn't stand behind. On the other hand if you think this 12-bit thing is an example of a systemic Palm, Inc. problem, then you need to site other examples that back up your idea, rather than just blaiming it all on this one issue.
Hmm.. interesting point. You don't have to get permission to cite a book or publication, but you DO if you are going to republish or even quote large portions of someone else's work. So the question is, is a deep link more like a citation or a republishing of the page? I'd vote for a citation like you've suggested, but "framing" as discussed in the npr article does seem like republishing someone else's work and should probably require permission.
You might try a MUD, such as Coastal Legends
Ok, I've traveled through a bit of eastern Canada, but I can't remember how big the drinks were... so is this a North American thing, or a USA thing to have big soda/soft drink/pop containers?? This is serious business.. who can weigh in?
Actually, the 8 8-oz glasses of water per day is a bunch of bunk. At least according to this article. And I believe it... because, they say, you can get water from lots of things, including watermelon (85% water), milk (84% water), even Coke (99% water). Kinda makes you wonder about all the other things the gov't recommends....
IDC declined to release the numbers of copies of Linux that were sold, but said the number stayed about level from 2000 to 2001. The number of copies that sold for "client" computers such as desktops and workstations, however, increased nearly 50 percent over 2000, in particular in Asia and Latin America, Gillen said.
Just because higher revenue comes from server sales doesn't mean it is "best suited" for servers. I think he's selling the desktop short, especially considering the huge growth of the desktop market this year (presumably from almost nothing to a little bit more than almost nothing, but none the less....)
Sometimes I'm very glad that there are smarter people than me out there! ;-)
Unless there's a fire.. in which case it's a whole lot easier to carry a stack of your data tapes out the door, or rely on a backup off-site data center, than it is to move 500,000 books.
When *I* was in school I got WAY to many of those fluorescent orange pieces of paper tucked under the windshield wipers of my car; I'd have loved to see them try to go completely paperless!
Sounds to me like the whole thing might be a really bogus attempt just to root people's boxen. I guess that's what happens when we rely on "news sources" for security information.
Course it could be a false-positive, too.
Actually, there are around 840,000 homeless people on any given night and over 1% of the entire US population experiences homelessness at some time in a year. 20% of those homeless are "chronically homeless". Homelessness is directly related to the availability of affordable housing.
See the National Alliance to End Homelessness