"As millions of broadband subscribers who missed a wardrobe-malfunction moment on TV can attest, the internet can be a convenient resource for finding much-talked-about events on video. Large net portals and a handful of smaller sites are looking to change that."
Should I interpret that as "..., the Internet... a convenient resource..." "... sites... are looking to change that [and make it a not-convenient source?]"
I mean, the Internet was a convenient resource to find music and movies to DL and the RIAA / MPAA has changed that, for certain. For something hundreds of thousands will read I assumed the editors would, well, edit.
Windows XP differs from 2k3 and 2k pro differs from 2k advanced server largely based on how many incoming connections it can support. Even Mac OSX is, where OSX server is not - both Apple and Microsoft has limited their desktop OS's to 10 simultaneous incoming connections. This is just a far more restrictive version of the same thing, this time with outbound connections. Really, I can't understand why they think people will pay sixty bucks or whatever for this if they have pirated Windows XP SOLD IN STORES ON THE STREETS IN PLAIN DAYLIGHT for less than a dollar US;)
They'd, I do believe, attempt legal action against the University. We're trying to keep our students from being sued (which would be fish-in-a-barrel easy - they're not all like you and I are with computers) and the University from being forced to give up the names of the students. Or be taken to court about it. We decided the nicest thing to do was to read the letter, write / call the student and say hey, don't share things like that on the I-net, then tell the organization that we told them to stop, please leave now. Worked just fine, just happened all the time so we blocked things, sadly enough.
They blocked BT around here because they got too many MPAA, RIAA, BSA letters. They got so many they were facing the need to hire a new employee just to manage the letters and responses.
Things like these may be good argements to get it back;)
If someone can get their hands on it I will mirror it. The University has a 200 megabit pipe to lay to waste, but we're on I2 so edu connections will fly. (I've done this in the past for/.ed things)
I was in China this summer; my i-net connections couldn't resolve www.muohio.edu to 134.53.7.10 but if you typed in 134.53.7.10 it would bring up the page. So I happened to remember our pair of DNS servers were 134.53.253.1 and.5 and just edited my tcp/ip settings - it works to get to every site, including www.ChinaIsABunchOfPinkoCommiesAndLookHowThatFucke dRussiaDemocracy IsSoMuchBetterChinaDie.com.
The bluetooth/wifi signals are far less powerful than your average cell signal - this makes using it with wifi at home or office awesome, especially for people like me who have no home phone and spend thousands of minutes a month on the phone. It would reduce potentially harmful cell mutation and with less power used to transmit it would get better battery life. Having the phone roam to using the Internet to make calls is a natural progression, and it'll rule.
heh, well; when I was trying to work out the scripts that load the appropriate modules, display relavent error messages, etc., I had to type it in like 50 times. During that first day I had it written on a bitty slip of paper; after this day of typing it in so many times I had memorized it so I ripped it into bitty bits and flushed it down the toilet. I considered burning it but figured that was a bit melodramatic.
I use AES encryped XFS partitions for my/home and data partition - swap too, as passwords can get swapped there. 26 character letters, numbers, symbols password. My machine usually has a 30 day uptime average, so I have to type it once a month - no biggy.
My normal passwords are about 8 characters long, and alphanumeric with case differences.
I namp my machine to make sure I don't have weird open ports from half-failed attempts to get something working at 04:00.
My obsession with emerge sync && emerge -uD world keeps my machine up to date (and as vulnerability-free as practical).
My windows machines have nothing at all useful on them, but are still behind the router (shorewall on Gentoo) so they're protected (security isn't the reason for that, a cable modem is.)
All my bank accounts have the same PW and on my computers each root account is the same PW and user account has the same PW. They get changed every 90 days or so.
And, DUH, I use scp, ssh, ssl imap, ssl smtp, etc. always, and VPN when connecting to the office.
To be honest, the biggest security problem I have is accidentally typing my user password into office chat because the monitor just fell asleep, it didn't go into screen saver. You will get hacked if you have something interesting (corps) or if you have weak security (automagic exploits(Windows)). You likely only have the people you make angry on WoW or your friends to worry about elsewise.
There is no mention in the article about wages for support workers - I am a support analyst at a medium-large (17,000 undergrad) University and they are doing a wage study - I wonder if I'll be making more than I do now. We have lots of money at the University. We don't just do support either; we do project work too and clean machines / administer Perfigo, etc. Any ideas what the average wages of us is?
I know everyone else is thinking WTF would I pay over three hundred bucks for a keyboard.... then consider you paid x hundred for leather or heated seats or a cool stereo in your car. Now think hrmm, I spend about an hour a day in the car and 10 or 12 hours a day on the computer... getting a keyboard that is as close to erognomic perfection as currently possible may be a good idea.
Not to mention the thing is sweet; the gestures are very convenient, typing gets easy after a while... I own a Dvorak one and use it at the office - was considering the mac 'n touch one to drop into my powerbook but they discontinued it for reasons unknown. New software is always coming out (firmware for gesture customization, built in English dictionary (yes, in the keyboard itself)). My favorite part is being able to type and mouse on the same surface without having to move my hands. Check it out http://www.fingerworks.com/lp_product.html
actually, I work for the IT department and a coworker / friend of mine came down and laughed at / scolded me for doing it. Webserver cluster is holding up well but load average is up quite a bit (to 60% or so) and there were huge spikes in bandwidth, esp on Internet 2. The bottleneck is that the file is on my Novell cluster and the webserver is NFS mounted to it or something; the Novell server is being the crankiest.
Students at Miami left today; I have about 140 megabits to lay waste to if someone would like to give it to me (scp or something) you can IM me at ToadMan8. I kinda want to see if I can/. the University.
We're offering two of such positions - perhaps you'd find something like this on an intern basis - we have a rather robust security department as it is, so I'd venture to say other Universities would as well.
How can their stock price still be $4.something? They have no revenue stream! They spend WAY more in legal fees than they bring in in service / software revenues! Look at their annual report... look at the P/E ratio? WHAT justifies that share price? Do shareholders believe the lawsuits have a chance of being settled / won? Why does SCO's website advertise jobs? What self respecting nerd OR LAWYER would apply?! Maybe I'm missing something.
I'm glad to see this - it'll force the insane medical costs down in this country. Additionally the medical malpractice lawyers need to lay off, so doctors and hospitals can afford to pay malpractice insurance; the savings will be passed on to the patient.
This is meant to be redundant, to drive home the point that:
WHO REALLY CARES IF THEY KNOW WHO YOU ARE?!?!?!?!
Shit! The Power Company nearly does a BACKGROUND check to start service, the cellphone companies need credit card history, bank loans outstanding, etc. If you are getting into my $X0,000,000 piece of flying machinery you should be happy I don't call your family and ask to confirm that you're not a flying pain in the ass!
I think at a moderated level this wouldn't be bad for the general populus. Yeah, the same Robin Hood response is expected with the rich only being able to get it, bla bla, but the average middle class patient being able to use safe and proven augmentation chemicals could be beneficial... bodies with more pure muscles, better composition, more efficient hearts with blood that contains more Oxygen carying red blood cells is good for pre-emptive medicine.
Browser identification is a BAD METHOD of determining what platform people are using. Look at Opera and Mozilla/Firefox - they default to "identify as MSIE6" for compatability.
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Should I interpret that as "..., the Internet
I mean, the Internet was a convenient resource to find music and movies to DL and the RIAA / MPAA has changed that, for certain. For something hundreds of thousands will read I assumed the editors would, well, edit.
That's why tab completion was invented ;)
Windows XP differs from 2k3 and 2k pro differs from 2k advanced server largely based on how many incoming connections it can support. Even Mac OSX is, where OSX server is not - both Apple and Microsoft has limited their desktop OS's to 10 simultaneous incoming connections. This is just a far more restrictive version of the same thing, this time with outbound connections. Really, I can't understand why they think people will pay sixty bucks or whatever for this if they have pirated Windows XP SOLD IN STORES ON THE STREETS IN PLAIN DAYLIGHT for less than a dollar US ;)
They'd, I do believe, attempt legal action against the University. We're trying to keep our students from being sued (which would be fish-in-a-barrel easy - they're not all like you and I are with computers) and the University from being forced to give up the names of the students. Or be taken to court about it. We decided the nicest thing to do was to read the letter, write / call the student and say hey, don't share things like that on the I-net, then tell the organization that we told them to stop, please leave now. Worked just fine, just happened all the time so we blocked things, sadly enough.
They blocked BT around here because they got too many MPAA, RIAA, BSA letters. They got so many they were facing the need to hire a new employee just to manage the letters and responses. Things like these may be good argements to get it back ;)
If someone can get their hands on it I will mirror it. The University has a 200 megabit pipe to lay to waste, but we're on I2 so edu connections will fly. (I've done this in the past for /.ed things)
I was in China this summer; my i-net connections couldn't resolve www.muohio.edu to 134.53.7.10 but if you typed in 134.53.7.10 it would bring up the page. So I happened to remember our pair of DNS servers were 134.53.253.1 and .5 and just edited my tcp/ip settings - it works to get to every site, including www.ChinaIsABunchOfPinkoCommiesAndLookHowThatFucke dRussiaDemocracy IsSoMuchBetterChinaDie.com.
The bluetooth/wifi signals are far less powerful than your average cell signal - this makes using it with wifi at home or office awesome, especially for people like me who have no home phone and spend thousands of minutes a month on the phone. It would reduce potentially harmful cell mutation and with less power used to transmit it would get better battery life. Having the phone roam to using the Internet to make calls is a natural progression, and it'll rule.
heh, well; when I was trying to work out the scripts that load the appropriate modules, display relavent error messages, etc., I had to type it in like 50 times. During that first day I had it written on a bitty slip of paper; after this day of typing it in so many times I had memorized it so I ripped it into bitty bits and flushed it down the toilet. I considered burning it but figured that was a bit melodramatic.
I use AES encryped XFS partitions for my /home and data partition - swap too, as passwords can get swapped there. 26 character letters, numbers, symbols password. My machine usually has a 30 day uptime average, so I have to type it once a month - no biggy.
My normal passwords are about 8 characters long, and alphanumeric with case differences.
I namp my machine to make sure I don't have weird open ports from half-failed attempts to get something working at 04:00.
My obsession with emerge sync && emerge -uD world keeps my machine up to date (and as vulnerability-free as practical).
My windows machines have nothing at all useful on them, but are still behind the router (shorewall on Gentoo) so they're protected (security isn't the reason for that, a cable modem is.)
All my bank accounts have the same PW and on my computers each root account is the same PW and user account has the same PW. They get changed every 90 days or so.
And, DUH, I use scp, ssh, ssl imap, ssl smtp, etc. always, and VPN when connecting to the office.
To be honest, the biggest security problem I have is accidentally typing my user password into office chat because the monitor just fell asleep, it didn't go into screen saver.
You will get hacked if you have something interesting (corps) or if you have weak security (automagic exploits(Windows)). You likely only have the people you make angry on WoW or your friends to worry about elsewise.
Grrrrr. :-P ;)
There is no mention in the article about wages for support workers - I am a support analyst at a medium-large (17,000 undergrad) University and they are doing a wage study - I wonder if I'll be making more than I do now. We have lots of money at the University. We don't just do support either; we do project work too and clean machines / administer Perfigo, etc. Any ideas what the average wages of us is?
I know everyone else is thinking WTF would I pay over three hundred bucks for a keyboard.... then consider you paid x hundred for leather or heated seats or a cool stereo in your car. Now think hrmm, I spend about an hour a day in the car and 10 or 12 hours a day on the computer... getting a keyboard that is as close to erognomic perfection as currently possible may be a good idea.
Not to mention the thing is sweet; the gestures are very convenient, typing gets easy after a while... I own a Dvorak one and use it at the office - was considering the mac 'n touch one to drop into my powerbook but they discontinued it for reasons unknown. New software is always coming out (firmware for gesture customization, built in English dictionary (yes, in the keyboard itself)). My favorite part is being able to type and mouse on the same surface without having to move my hands. Check it out http://www.fingerworks.com/lp_product.html
actually, I work for the IT department and a coworker / friend of mine came down and laughed at / scolded me for doing it. Webserver cluster is holding up well but load average is up quite a bit (to 60% or so) and there were huge spikes in bandwidth, esp on Internet 2. The bottleneck is that the file is on my Novell cluster and the webserver is NFS mounted to it or something; the Novell server is being the crankiest.
http://www.users.muohio.edu/toaddyjm/slashdot/A_Si ngular_Christmas.zip2
;).
Let's see if you guys can break the webserver! I think it'll survive, personally, but many others have said that in the past
Thanks to hfcs http://slashdot.org/~hfcs/ for the file!
Students at Miami left today; I have about 140 megabits to lay waste to if someone would like to give it to me (scp or something) you can IM me at ToadMan8. I kinda want to see if I can /. the University.
http://admsol02.mcs.muohio.edu:11180/apps/miamijob s/jobsOnLine/positonDetail.cfm?positionNumber=1965
We're offering two of such positions - perhaps you'd find something like this on an intern basis - we have a rather robust security department as it is, so I'd venture to say other Universities would as well.
No, it's because you Canadians spell program 'programme' and that's creepy.
What'dya think, this is Europe?!
We all know it's Russian influence (clearly Europe is influenced because they are close to Russia!)
How can their stock price still be $4.something? They have no revenue stream! They spend WAY more in legal fees than they bring in in service / software revenues! Look at their annual report... look at the P/E ratio? WHAT justifies that share price? Do shareholders believe the lawsuits have a chance of being settled / won? Why does SCO's website advertise jobs? What self respecting nerd OR LAWYER would apply?! Maybe I'm missing something.
I'm glad to see this - it'll force the insane medical costs down in this country. Additionally the medical malpractice lawyers need to lay off, so doctors and hospitals can afford to pay malpractice insurance; the savings will be passed on to the patient.
Ah, I know why, you mentioned naked people. Easy way to attract three times the traffic.
You put too much money into the phone booth - we broke your server already and there aren't even 20 comments yet ;)
This is meant to be redundant, to drive home the point that:
WHO REALLY CARES IF THEY KNOW WHO YOU ARE?!?!?!?!
Shit! The Power Company nearly does a BACKGROUND check to start service, the cellphone companies need credit card history, bank loans outstanding, etc. If you are getting into my $X0,000,000 piece of flying machinery you should be happy I don't call your family and ask to confirm that you're not a flying pain in the ass!
I think at a moderated level this wouldn't be bad for the general populus. Yeah, the same Robin Hood response is expected with the rich only being able to get it, bla bla, but the average middle class patient being able to use safe and proven augmentation chemicals could be beneficial... bodies with more pure muscles, better composition, more efficient hearts with blood that contains more Oxygen carying red blood cells is good for pre-emptive medicine.
Browser identification is a BAD METHOD of determining what platform people are using. Look at Opera and Mozilla/Firefox - they default to "identify as MSIE6" for compatability.