I would assume that student's work automatically becomes his/her IP. However rules and laws tend to "bend" a little at high school for some reason, so I'm not 100% sure.
Has precedent ever been set in a case involving a homework as IP?
Does a student work become school property or is some right ceded to the school (say, the right to publish or the like)? Is there a lawyer in the room?
The school has an obligation to make sure they can use the internet for both school and pleasure
Whoa! Go back and re-read what you wrote. Why would the school have an obligation to provide for "pleasure" or leisure.
Higher education is not required by law. You don't *have* to attend an university. If you do so, it's under their rules. If they decree that you have to leave in their dorms but can't have internet, or cable TV or telephone or whatever... well, it sucks but it's their prerogative. I'm sure there are plenty of institutions that will let you leave off-campus or have third party providers for those services. Some might even provide them with no restrictions at all.
Remember folks, when you go to college concentrate in your education. Party all you want, but don't get all worked up because of something as trivial as download speeds. If it's academic related your need for bandwith/unrestricted access, then make your case and take it to your advisor, professor or whatever.
Good advice if you have a neighbor friendly enough. Be wary of the legal issues, tho. Some cable companies might consider this "re-distributing" the service and it might be against their TOS.
It's not very likely that they'll even detect it, but better safe than sorry.
A couple of years ago, you could get a decent spread spectrum ethernet bridge very cheap (full set for less than $500). I guess prices should be better today.
It isn't clear to me that you have to do anything wrong to be the victim of fraud.
You haven't done anything wrong, neither has the bank. How are phishing emails different than, say, somebody calling you on the phone pretending to be from your bank's credit card department? If you fall for it, who should be responsible? The customer for not being more careful? The bank for not making it more difficult for people to impersonate customers (and at the same time making it more difficult for honest people to conduct their business from afar). Insurance? (fat chance)
Not just that, but those older machines (the 4-bit era) tended to show you BASIC as soon as you booted. It was ready for nothing so much as for letting you write some code.
My Atari 8-bit (130XE) would boot into basic if I didn't press "OPTION" when turning it on.
The other thing is to blackhole email that the domain name in the From field (e.g. comcast.net) does not match the sending IP
I don't think this is very wise. What about hosted virtual domains? Maybe my email domain is mydomain.com but my mail server's PTR is mail.provider.com.
I have found that making sure PTR and A match cuts a lot of incoming spam from dynamic addresses.
Also, there's the fact that you can't tell who's Muslim just by looking at them.
Agreed 100%. There are muslims of pretty much all ethnic groups. It'd be the simplest thing for them to hang up a cross on their neck and stuff a bible on their pockets. Racial profiling wouldn't do much good there.
It might be a fluke, but whenever I tried to board a plane with a 3 or 4 days beard, I was "randomly" selected for further inspection (including swabbing my luggage for drugs at the destination, go figure). Whenever I go clean shaven, I pass right thru. I havent' flown that much so, as I said, it might be a fluke.
According to a friend, who used to work at an Airline's checkin counter (or whatever they are called) they also "oversell" luggage capacity. Apparently, airliners are designed assuming that not all passengers are going to be carrying luggage (or maybe only a carry-on). So the incidents of "lost luggages" are usually suitcases and the like that were left behind and sent afterwards.
Of course, she might have been pulling my leg. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
You don't want your customers actually using the stuff they're paying you for, after all.
Of course not! How else am I going to re-sell it to some other sap.
What we need is more truth in ads. Make sure your customers know that you are not guaranteeing a given bandwith unless they pay for a clear channel or some such.
If you're downloading pictures or.avi or.mpg movies...how can a trojan slip by there? You're not executing a script or a program. Are they using that old.jpg exploit? Hasn't that been patched?
I don't understand how people are falling for this.
Go into (almost) any usenet binary group and you'll find the usual "brittany_spears_stolen_home_sex_tape.mpg_________ ________.exe" (replace _ with spaces, slashdot keeps eating them) and the like (why do they always mis-spell Britney Spears' name "brittany" anyway?)
If this attachement is downloaded by someone who has the default "hide extensions for known file types" and the.exe icon is similar to the default.mpg icon, then they could very well double click it without thinking twice.
This trick is older than dirt, but I guess people still fall for it.
That looks like a communication problem. Does she usually gives you leeway to do this kind of change? If not, then you should have consulted before deciding to do Y and Z before X. Even if it makes more sense. Maybe there was an actual reason for X to be completed on a certain date (not just because that's how it was written on the schedule).
I'd guess you were "taught" this in the same school that "taught" you spelling, grammar, and punctuation, right?
Before this line, yours was an interesting/insightful post. The you decided to throw that crack and become a troll.
Keep in mind that the parent had a legitimate point. A lot of people were told that in school. As science/math progresses, new knowledge replaces the old, but unless you dedicate yourself to that particular field (either because it's your profession or just a hobby) or it's a widely publicized fact change (such as this whole Pluto affair) people will simply go on believing what they heard in school.
Besides, maybe his first language is not english. Tought, tough, and the like are easily misspelled.
Which has proved to me that great gameplay, clever writing and an absolutely huge community can make up for graphics in a MMORPG.
People keep saying that. And I've been meaning to find out whether it's true, but a horribly slow site always makes me throw my hands up in frustration. I've never been able to sit for more than 20 minutes in this game, and the ocassional puns and wordplay that I've seen doesn't make up for it.
I know it's free and all, but I've never been able to find out if its enjoyable enough to patronize it (and even if I do, will that improve my game experience)?
I have a hard time in believing that the screw-up happened in the actual design. A professional engineer knows that he can be sued for malpractice and can go to jail for signing off a design diagram that is faulty.
This is true in a lot of professional fields, and yet screw ups happen a lot. Some of those cost lives. Civil engineers, architects, doctors, airline pilots, etc. They all know that they are open to prosecution if their malpractice causes loss of life.
How can a certified professional engineer screw up in this case? Pressure, cost/corner cutting. Plain old corruption (say, approving inferior materials because the manufacturer greases the right hands). Lazyness. Overconfidence ("I don't need to go over that again, I did it this way eight years ago and nothing happened..."). Or, who knows, maybe he passed the certification exam because he cheated or was lucky. Or maybe the cert exam isn't really worth crap or is grossly outdated.
(I'm merely giving examples here. Please don't take any of this personally).
Poor workmanship in the assembly stage could very well be the cause. But do the "grunts" (illegal or otherwise) have to actually read plans/instructions? Don't they have an overseer who is supposed to be some sort of certified contractors that read the plans and simply tells them what to do?
And in each stage, aren't city inspectors (themselves certified) supposed to go over the details and approve/reject the work?
For all I know, this could have been plain bad luck, but I'd suspect corner cuttings first of all (deadlines, even when long past, are still a powerful pressure).
Disclaimer: I'm not related in any way to the construction industry. These are only my own guesses.
The program was the most obscene resource hogs I've ever had the displeasure to use
Sadly, Symantec and most popular anti-virus apps now want to do *everything*. They install a firewall, anti-spam, anti-phishing, web content blocker, etc. And usually, turning off these features simply mean they won't actively filter/block but will still be residing in memory.
All I want is an antivirus that doesn't try to do everything for me. I've been a user of Panda Software for a while, but I won't be renewing my subscription for this reason.
So, instead of MS' spyware, I have to trust some third party's executable software?
Don't get me wrong, autopatcher is a great idea and as far as I know there's nothing wrong with it, but seeing as their page is still under construction and I've never heard of them before, I'll abstain from using them except in a testing environment.
Good to know I'm not alone. It was an interesting movie, but a thoroughly forgettable one. The only interesting bit was the Patrick Swayze subplot and it's ramifications (Donnie facing up to the annoying teacher).
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The XBox seems the quintessential example of a system which tried to achieve this design goal. My XBox currently runs ssh, freevo, and any executable I want, proving it is difficult to achieve a successful implementation of such a design
Yes, but you had to go out of your way in order to achieve this, right? That is, it's not something that happened because of soemething you downloaded off the net did away with the "protection" MS had installed originally in the machine. (Besides, as far as I know, only the bootloader needs to be on the blessed list).
Of course, everything is fallible. And besides, if every single executable code had to be signed and verified, how expensive in terms of CPU time would that be?
Slashdot Mirror
I would assume that student's work automatically becomes his/her IP. However rules and laws tend to "bend" a little at high school for some reason, so I'm not 100% sure.
Has precedent ever been set in a case involving a homework as IP?
Does a student work become school property or is some right ceded to the school (say, the right to publish or the like)? Is there a lawyer in the room?
have to leave in their dorms
DOH! I meant live.
The school has an obligation to make sure they can use the internet for both school and pleasure
Whoa! Go back and re-read what you wrote. Why would the school have an obligation to provide for "pleasure" or leisure.
Higher education is not required by law. You don't *have* to attend an university. If you do so, it's under their rules. If they decree that you have to leave in their dorms but can't have internet, or cable TV or telephone or whatever... well, it sucks but it's their prerogative. I'm sure there are plenty of institutions that will let you leave off-campus or have third party providers for those services. Some might even provide them with no restrictions at all.
Remember folks, when you go to college concentrate in your education. Party all you want, but don't get all worked up because of something as trivial as download speeds. If it's academic related your need for bandwith/unrestricted access, then make your case and take it to your advisor, professor or whatever.
Good advice if you have a neighbor friendly enough. Be wary of the legal issues, tho. Some cable companies might consider this "re-distributing" the service and it might be against their TOS.
It's not very likely that they'll even detect it, but better safe than sorry.
A couple of years ago, you could get a decent spread spectrum ethernet bridge very cheap (full set for less than $500). I guess prices should be better today.
It isn't clear to me that you have to do anything wrong to be the victim of fraud.
You haven't done anything wrong, neither has the bank. How are phishing emails different than, say, somebody calling you on the phone pretending to be from your bank's credit card department? If you fall for it, who should be responsible? The customer for not being more careful? The bank for not making it more difficult for people to impersonate customers (and at the same time making it more difficult for honest people to conduct their business from afar). Insurance? (fat chance)
Not just that, but those older machines (the 4-bit era) tended to show you BASIC as soon as you booted. It was ready for nothing so much as for letting you write some code.
My Atari 8-bit (130XE) would boot into basic if I didn't press "OPTION" when turning it on.
BOOT ERROR
BOOT ERROR
BOOT ERROR
BOOT ERROR
BOOT ERROR
BOOT ERROR
BOOT ERROR
BOOT ERROR
BOOT ERROR
BOOT ERROR
The other thing is to blackhole email that the domain name in the From field (e.g. comcast.net) does not match the sending IP
I don't think this is very wise. What about hosted virtual domains? Maybe my email domain is mydomain.com but my mail server's PTR is mail.provider.com.
I have found that making sure PTR and A match cuts a lot of incoming spam from dynamic addresses.
Also, there's the fact that you can't tell who's Muslim just by looking at them.
Agreed 100%. There are muslims of pretty much all ethnic groups. It'd be the simplest thing for them to hang up a cross on their neck and stuff a bible on their pockets. Racial profiling wouldn't do much good there.
It might be a fluke, but whenever I tried to board a plane with a 3 or 4 days beard, I was "randomly" selected for further inspection (including swabbing my luggage for drugs at the destination, go figure). Whenever I go clean shaven, I pass right thru. I havent' flown that much so, as I said, it might be a fluke.
The cdrom version didn't have the copy protection. Only the floppy one.
According to a friend, who used to work at an Airline's checkin counter (or whatever they are called) they also "oversell" luggage capacity. Apparently, airliners are designed assuming that not all passengers are going to be carrying luggage (or maybe only a carry-on). So the incidents of "lost luggages" are usually suitcases and the like that were left behind and sent afterwards.
Of course, she might have been pulling my leg. Can anyone confirm or deny this?
You don't want your customers actually using the stuff they're paying you for, after all.
Of course not! How else am I going to re-sell it to some other sap.
What we need is more truth in ads. Make sure your customers know that you are not guaranteeing a given bandwith unless they pay for a clear channel or some such.
...which religion is best.
Omnianism
Now, imagine if JetBlue had to build and maintain its own runways. Your $200 flight to LA just became $900.
Aren't landing fees supposed to cover that?
I always tought that ATC was the biggest government expenditure related to air travel.
If you're downloading pictures or .avi or .mpg movies...how can a trojan slip by there? You're not executing a script or a program. Are they using that old .jpg exploit? Hasn't that been patched?
_ ________.exe" (replace _ with spaces, slashdot keeps eating them) and the like (why do they always mis-spell Britney Spears' name "brittany" anyway?)
.exe icon is similar to the default .mpg icon, then they could very well double click it without thinking twice.
I don't understand how people are falling for this.
Go into (almost) any usenet binary group and you'll find the usual "brittany_spears_stolen_home_sex_tape.mpg________
If this attachement is downloaded by someone who has the default "hide extensions for known file types" and the
This trick is older than dirt, but I guess people still fall for it.
That looks like a communication problem. Does she usually gives you leeway to do this kind of change? If not, then you should have consulted before deciding to do Y and Z before X. Even if it makes more sense. Maybe there was an actual reason for X to be completed on a certain date (not just because that's how it was written on the schedule).
Just my opinion.
I'd guess you were "taught" this in the same school that "taught" you spelling, grammar, and punctuation, right?
Before this line, yours was an interesting/insightful post. The you decided to throw that crack and become a troll.
Keep in mind that the parent had a legitimate point. A lot of people were told that in school. As science/math progresses, new knowledge replaces the old, but unless you dedicate yourself to that particular field (either because it's your profession or just a hobby) or it's a widely publicized fact change (such as this whole Pluto affair) people will simply go on believing what they heard in school.
Besides, maybe his first language is not english. Tought, tough, and the like are easily misspelled.
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
Which has proved to me that great gameplay, clever writing and an absolutely huge community can make up for graphics in a MMORPG.
People keep saying that. And I've been meaning to find out whether it's true, but a horribly slow site always makes me throw my hands up in frustration. I've never been able to sit for more than 20 minutes in this game, and the ocassional puns and wordplay that I've seen doesn't make up for it.
I know it's free and all, but I've never been able to find out if its enjoyable enough to patronize it (and even if I do, will that improve my game experience)?
"Inside this issue! Halo, and this month's newest 75 variants of GPL'd Solitaire!"
Don't forget Tux Racer. For some reason, whenever someone brings up the "games for linux" theme, Tux Racer is always mentioned. And Nethack.
I have a hard time in believing that the screw-up happened in the actual design. A professional engineer knows that he can be sued for malpractice and can go to jail for signing off a design diagram that is faulty.
This is true in a lot of professional fields, and yet screw ups happen a lot. Some of those cost lives. Civil engineers, architects, doctors, airline pilots, etc. They all know that they are open to prosecution if their malpractice causes loss of life.
How can a certified professional engineer screw up in this case? Pressure, cost/corner cutting. Plain old corruption (say, approving inferior materials because the manufacturer greases the right hands). Lazyness. Overconfidence ("I don't need to go over that again, I did it this way eight years ago and nothing happened..."). Or, who knows, maybe he passed the certification exam because he cheated or was lucky. Or maybe the cert exam isn't really worth crap or is grossly outdated.
(I'm merely giving examples here. Please don't take any of this personally).
Poor workmanship in the assembly stage could very well be the cause. But do the "grunts" (illegal or otherwise) have to actually read plans/instructions? Don't they have an overseer who is supposed to be some sort of certified contractors that read the plans and simply tells them what to do?
And in each stage, aren't city inspectors (themselves certified) supposed to go over the details and approve/reject the work?
For all I know, this could have been plain bad luck, but I'd suspect corner cuttings first of all (deadlines, even when long past, are still a powerful pressure).
Disclaimer: I'm not related in any way to the construction industry. These are only my own guesses.
The program was the most obscene resource hogs I've ever had the displeasure to use
Sadly, Symantec and most popular anti-virus apps now want to do *everything*. They install a firewall, anti-spam, anti-phishing, web content blocker, etc. And usually, turning off these features simply mean they won't actively filter/block but will still be residing in memory.
All I want is an antivirus that doesn't try to do everything for me. I've been a user of Panda Software for a while, but I won't be renewing my subscription for this reason.
I just started playing Fable yesterday... thanks!
chicken chaser...
So, instead of MS' spyware, I have to trust some third party's executable software?
Don't get me wrong, autopatcher is a great idea and as far as I know there's nothing wrong with it, but seeing as their page is still under construction and I've never heard of them before, I'll abstain from using them except in a testing environment.
Good to know I'm not alone. It was an interesting movie, but a thoroughly forgettable one. The only interesting bit was the Patrick Swayze subplot and it's ramifications (Donnie facing up to the annoying teacher).
The XBox seems the quintessential example of a system which tried to achieve this design goal. My XBox currently runs ssh, freevo, and any executable I want, proving it is difficult to achieve a successful implementation of such a design
Yes, but you had to go out of your way in order to achieve this, right? That is, it's not something that happened because of soemething you downloaded off the net did away with the "protection" MS had installed originally in the machine. (Besides, as far as I know, only the bootloader needs to be on the blessed list).
Of course, everything is fallible. And besides, if every single executable code had to be signed and verified, how expensive in terms of CPU time would that be?
I wish I still had mod points, I guess no one remembers the Terminator
We all remember Terminator. We are simply doing our best to forget those crappy movies.