Here, here. For those who find it a problem, they are free to seek other services. Those won't have no problem with the new policy will stay. If the former group is larger than the latter and LiveJournal sees mass exodus, perhaps it will regret and renege.
IIRC, Majordomo and GNU Mailman predate this patent by at least six years. In fact, the current mailman-users mailing list's earliest archive is May 1998, so work would probably had to begun far before that.
A little research proved that LISTSERV predates all of them, actually. From Wikipedia:
LISTSERV is the first electronic mailing list software application, originally developed in 1984 by Ira Fuchs, Daniel Oberst, and Ricky Hernandez for the BITNET computer network.
What about the people like me who made a early career change? I got my B.S. in computer science, but there is no secondary education certification for it in Pennsylvania. Now, in order to teach computer science I must pay for business classes out of my own pocket in order to teach computer science because computer science is grouped with business in the state (other states are similar, while others group with math and others do have separate programs).
What can be done to financially aid aspiring second-career teachers?
Well, we gotta figure the cost of laying down the new tubing, maybe even cutting some bigger holes in our houses. I figure if we expand the tubes from the current quarter inch to oh, four inches or so, we won't clog them with all our crap.
There is a difference, here. uTorrent has always been closed, so it's not the client that's being closed. What people are or should be worried about are changes to the protocol. Hopefully, we won't see BitTorrent 6.0+ clients being blocked from trackers other than BitTorrent.com's tracker because of a silly change in the protocol that disrupts clients using v5 and earlier. Unfortunately, this means that if Bram, Ludde, and company engineer some wicked addition to the protocol that drastically improves it, the open source community will either 1) not have access to it or 2) have to reverse engineer it.
Additionally, only the main BitTorrent.com tracker would have access to tracker-side protocol updates. So, this then means that the only benefit of using the mainline client is when downloading from the BitTorrent.com tracker!
Is BitTorrent pigeonholing itself; is it forming its own niche within its once-large niche?
Between the my freshman and sophomore year of undergrad, I considered switching to Computer Information Systems (IT to universities), but decided that it would be easier for me to switch to IT having had CS rather than the opposite. If I knew the CS stuff, I would understand how the IT stuff worked on the backend and have just a little training to get up to speed in IT terms and procedures. If I did IT and then decided to work in CS, I'd have a lot of learning to do before I'd be an effective coder.
Another thing to consider is this: perhaps be a CS major, but work for your school's help desk or IT department as work study or the like. In this way, you'll not only receive the education in CS, but also the experience and on-the-job training of IT.
That's ridiculous. Users should expect, no, demand privacy, not have to pay for it. Privacy should already be there, because the user has to trust the company to handle their data correctly.
I won't trust a company that makes people pay for "extra privacy." That screams distrust to me.
You're going to have to convince them that they're hosed without someone taking care of these machines. You're also going to have to see if they have the money in their budget to hire someone full-time, and if you can afford what they're willing to pay.
Starting talking to board members individually. Invite them to see the technology infrastructure and make sure they know how many man-hours it takes to maintain the system. Don't just leave if they don't appear to be listening to you. It's times like these that a sudden illness or death in the family would really come in handy (OK, so that's a bit morbid).
Write a proposal for the position and a justification for it. If you live in the district, they're somewhat obligated to at least listen to you. Just take your time and work through the system.
The media, regardless of whereabouts, cannot be allowed to distort the term "flash mob" like it has so many other terms, i.e. "hacker" and the like. A flash mob is a group of people that rapidly assembles with a minimum amount of preparation which generally is done via the Internet and with the intent of a peaceable prank or bragging rights. I did some research on this term while working on my college graduation project.
I've been using Colo4Jax, a Jacksonville, Fla. company run by guys who really know what they're doing. I'm using a $30/mo Ubuntu VPS, but they have dedicated hosting as well as a $20/mo CentOS VPS package. I couldn't be happier with the service. I've also almost zero downtime, and when I've noticed that it was down, one email and about a half-an-hour was all it took to get it back up. Read the blurb on its home page, and I'm sure you'll be delighted.
I'd say read, and read a lot. Read about some problems in computer science, read about the various sub-disciplines of computer science and consider attaching yourself to one or two (for instance, I prefer network programming to AI).
Don't be afraid to ask your future profs what languages you're going to study during your college career, and then pick up a book or two on them. Barnes and Noble has an excellent series that gives a brief overview of various languages. It's the "In Easy Steps" series. Each book runs about $10, but it's less if you're a member of B&N's book club thingy.
When I asked my prof what languages I'd be learning, he said Java, C, Scheme, and Smalltalk for sure. He said that the Java classes would be very introductory, as math majors are also required to take them. So, he suggested that I brush up on C before I took the class where we learned C (operating systems). I bought the "In Easy Steps" book (ISBN: 0760755043) and I'm fairly sure that the book helped give me a boosted understanding that helped me ace the class.
Oh, and I'm of the ilk that believes that books are better than on-line tutorials, because you can get your attention completely away from the computer to read the book. The examples in the "In Easy Steps" C book are short enough that you can practically compile them in your head and know what's going on, provided you read the section.
Utilize the school's student newspaper. Write a letter to the editor, if not a guest editorial. Most editors are cool and will let you write the editorial, as long as you keep it constructive and cite specific examples and sources while keeping it professional and logical.
Another option is flyering the campus, but that's a little more difficult at a university of 20,000+ than a college of ~1,500.
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I've always said "et see" and not "et ketera" or "et setera."
As long as print newspapers exist, so too will syndicated columnists. When the columnists' syndicate decides to stop selling to print newspapers, the columnists will continue to write. It's not up to them where they are published—that responsibility lays with the syndicate.
Should a syndicate feel that a columnist's views are no longer needed by the syndicate, the columnist will do what every one else can do: start a blog, and perhaps use his or her last column as an advertisement for the blog.
Short plug for an awesome political columnist: Charley Reese. Don't mind his political affiliations—his views aren't unique to any single party.
I think that the law should be amended to include "electronic communication" rather than "electronic mail." Email and instant messaging are two very distinct methods of communication from an interaction standpoint. Electronic mail is asynchronous and heterotopic, that is, different place and time. Instant messaging is synchronous and heterotopic, that is, same time and a different place. The immediacy of the conversation is entirely different; there is greater interaction with IM than email.
I don't know how well it would apply to software, but there is an established precedent in publishing that says it is illegal to steal things that are offered for free. An example of this would be taking an inordinate amount of free newspapers from the stands.
While those copies are being offered for free, they were not produced for free. This is why so many of such free papers now bear a label similar to "Take one, if you want more, contact the editor."
In the software world, the open source plaintiffs could argue that, while their product is offered for free, it was not produced for free. That, and the license under which the defendant agreed to use the software specifically states that they must follow the terms of the license in order to use the software.
I wish that mobile phone service providers would realize this.
I don't know what other carriers are like, but Verizon has very, very few games offered through Get It Now that have demos. No way am I going to pay $10 for a game I've not seen nor heard of before. This is the reason I have never bought any games on Get It Now (beside the fact that they are all super expensive and I'd rather blow my cash on real computer games).
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Here, here. For those who find it a problem, they are free to seek other services. Those won't have no problem with the new policy will stay. If the former group is larger than the latter and LiveJournal sees mass exodus, perhaps it will regret and renege.
What about the people like me who made a early career change? I got my B.S. in computer science, but there is no secondary education certification for it in Pennsylvania. Now, in order to teach computer science I must pay for business classes out of my own pocket in order to teach computer science because computer science is grouped with business in the state (other states are similar, while others group with math and others do have separate programs).
What can be done to financially aid aspiring second-career teachers?
Well, we gotta figure the cost of laying down the new tubing, maybe even cutting some bigger holes in our houses. I figure if we expand the tubes from the current quarter inch to oh, four inches or so, we won't clog them with all our crap.
There is a difference, here. uTorrent has always been closed, so it's not the client that's being closed. What people are or should be worried about are changes to the protocol. Hopefully, we won't see BitTorrent 6.0+ clients being blocked from trackers other than BitTorrent.com's tracker because of a silly change in the protocol that disrupts clients using v5 and earlier. Unfortunately, this means that if Bram, Ludde, and company engineer some wicked addition to the protocol that drastically improves it, the open source community will either 1) not have access to it or 2) have to reverse engineer it.
Additionally, only the main BitTorrent.com tracker would have access to tracker-side protocol updates. So, this then means that the only benefit of using the mainline client is when downloading from the BitTorrent.com tracker!
Is BitTorrent pigeonholing itself; is it forming its own niche within its once-large niche?
You need a monkey. Why? If a monkey can manage to bring down even a single server, you've not secured the place enough.
Between the my freshman and sophomore year of undergrad, I considered switching to Computer Information Systems (IT to universities), but decided that it would be easier for me to switch to IT having had CS rather than the opposite. If I knew the CS stuff, I would understand how the IT stuff worked on the backend and have just a little training to get up to speed in IT terms and procedures. If I did IT and then decided to work in CS, I'd have a lot of learning to do before I'd be an effective coder.
Another thing to consider is this: perhaps be a CS major, but work for your school's help desk or IT department as work study or the like. In this way, you'll not only receive the education in CS, but also the experience and on-the-job training of IT.
That's ridiculous. Users should expect, no, demand privacy, not have to pay for it. Privacy should already be there, because the user has to trust the company to handle their data correctly.
I won't trust a company that makes people pay for "extra privacy." That screams distrust to me.
You're going to have to convince them that they're hosed without someone taking care of these machines. You're also going to have to see if they have the money in their budget to hire someone full-time, and if you can afford what they're willing to pay.
Starting talking to board members individually. Invite them to see the technology infrastructure and make sure they know how many man-hours it takes to maintain the system. Don't just leave if they don't appear to be listening to you. It's times like these that a sudden illness or death in the family would really come in handy (OK, so that's a bit morbid).
Write a proposal for the position and a justification for it. If you live in the district, they're somewhat obligated to at least listen to you. Just take your time and work through the system.
Or the office in Pittsburgh?
The media, regardless of whereabouts, cannot be allowed to distort the term "flash mob" like it has so many other terms, i.e. "hacker" and the like. A flash mob is a group of people that rapidly assembles with a minimum amount of preparation which generally is done via the Internet and with the intent of a peaceable prank or bragging rights. I did some research on this term while working on my college graduation project.
I've been using Colo4Jax, a Jacksonville, Fla. company run by guys who really know what they're doing. I'm using a $30/mo Ubuntu VPS, but they have dedicated hosting as well as a $20/mo CentOS VPS package. I couldn't be happier with the service. I've also almost zero downtime, and when I've noticed that it was down, one email and about a half-an-hour was all it took to get it back up. Read the blurb on its home page, and I'm sure you'll be delighted.
I'd say read, and read a lot. Read about some problems in computer science, read about the various sub-disciplines of computer science and consider attaching yourself to one or two (for instance, I prefer network programming to AI). Don't be afraid to ask your future profs what languages you're going to study during your college career, and then pick up a book or two on them. Barnes and Noble has an excellent series that gives a brief overview of various languages. It's the "In Easy Steps" series. Each book runs about $10, but it's less if you're a member of B&N's book club thingy. When I asked my prof what languages I'd be learning, he said Java, C, Scheme, and Smalltalk for sure. He said that the Java classes would be very introductory, as math majors are also required to take them. So, he suggested that I brush up on C before I took the class where we learned C (operating systems). I bought the "In Easy Steps" book (ISBN: 0760755043) and I'm fairly sure that the book helped give me a boosted understanding that helped me ace the class. Oh, and I'm of the ilk that believes that books are better than on-line tutorials, because you can get your attention completely away from the computer to read the book. The examples in the "In Easy Steps" C book are short enough that you can practically compile them in your head and know what's going on, provided you read the section.
What's the difference between the Higgins project and OpenID?
Utilize the school's student newspaper. Write a letter to the editor, if not a guest editorial. Most editors are cool and will let you write the editorial, as long as you keep it constructive and cite specific examples and sources while keeping it professional and logical. Another option is flyering the campus, but that's a little more difficult at a university of 20,000+ than a college of ~1,500.
I've always said "et see" and not "et ketera" or "et setera."
Do or do not. There is no 'consider.'
As long as print newspapers exist, so too will syndicated columnists. When the columnists' syndicate decides to stop selling to print newspapers, the columnists will continue to write. It's not up to them where they are published—that responsibility lays with the syndicate.
Should a syndicate feel that a columnist's views are no longer needed by the syndicate, the columnist will do what every one else can do: start a blog, and perhaps use his or her last column as an advertisement for the blog.
Short plug for an awesome political columnist: Charley Reese. Don't mind his political affiliations—his views aren't unique to any single party.
- Yet another reason to use encrypted email
- Yet another reason to impeach him
- Yet another reason to abolish presidential signing statements
- Yet another reason to 'not trust the government'
The constant barrage of unconstitutionality baffles me. This man just keeps adding and adding to the reasons why he's the worst president ever.What law would be broken for broadcasting the proceedings in a format like xvid or theora? None, right?
Just about every LG phone can be easily changed to use non-Verizon WAP.n et-on-vx8300.html
http://vx8300.blogspot.com/2006/08/free-wap-inter
I think that the law should be amended to include "electronic communication" rather than "electronic mail." Email and instant messaging are two very distinct methods of communication from an interaction standpoint. Electronic mail is asynchronous and heterotopic, that is, different place and time. Instant messaging is synchronous and heterotopic, that is, same time and a different place. The immediacy of the conversation is entirely different; there is greater interaction with IM than email.
I don't know how well it would apply to software, but there is an established precedent in publishing that says it is illegal to steal things that are offered for free. An example of this would be taking an inordinate amount of free newspapers from the stands.
While those copies are being offered for free, they were not produced for free. This is why so many of such free papers now bear a label similar to "Take one, if you want more, contact the editor."
In the software world, the open source plaintiffs could argue that, while their product is offered for free, it was not produced for free. That, and the license under which the defendant agreed to use the software specifically states that they must follow the terms of the license in order to use the software.
Mod parent up. Disclosure of vulnerabilities improves security for everything, not just software.
I wish that mobile phone service providers would realize this.
I don't know what other carriers are like, but Verizon has very, very few games offered through Get It Now that have demos. No way am I going to pay $10 for a game I've not seen nor heard of before. This is the reason I have never bought any games on Get It Now (beside the fact that they are all super expensive and I'd rather blow my cash on real computer games).