I realize this was a whole Imperial reference (to the movie) but I'm sort of irked at the general attitude. And religion doesn't often come up to bat on/. so I'll take my offtopic moderation if so necessary for a few peole to read.
And they are still less violent than the religous citizens of the United States. In Japan, a very peaceful, slightly odd but traditionally moral country somewhere around 50% of the citizens are not religous and their murder rate and violent crime rates are less than Canada's.
So if violent crime (moral convictions) are better in places with less religion perhaps religion isn't related to morality as much as people say it is. And I assume that is why you are disturbed about a lack of faith. Society is operating hundreds of times better (in terms of murders and violent crime). I don't assert that religion causes bad morality, please note, I'm just saying it's society and not religion. So don't get depressed at the lack of faith and wonder how non-religous people can be moral. Or why they are. They simply decided science and fact was more convincing than fable and myth.
Has anyone else seen the same pattern at their school? Is this par for the course?
No, actually; I go to a public ivy in the mid-west and also work for the computing division. We have about 10,000 undergrads living on campus, and have lots of money for nice computers with fat hard drives. Last year a couple of people ran a DC server on campus and had anywhere between 600 and 800 users on at any given time sharing about 11 terabytes or so. Some individuals were sharing 200 + gig's individually. The school heard nothing about this DC server what so ever and therefore knew, but did nothing about it. Beats Kazaa, it's mostly students so it barely uses the internet link (and thus doesn't cost the universit money on I-net bandwidth)...
On the other hand a handful of RIAA letters were sent for Kazaa sharers. The RIAA sent a letter and the IP to the university, the security team forwarded the letter to the person in question, told them to destroy the file or if the own it not to share it and if they had questions, call. That was all. They didn't tell the RIAA who they were, and the RIAA asks for this (think Verizon) and the letters go ignored.
So no, many universities are much more lax about the piracy issue.
I'd hate to do this, but I read this slashdot headline to my 'lil brother "New Moon of Jupiter Discovered" and he corrected me: 'Moon' is the name of the satellite that orbits the planet Earth... So we've discovered a new satellite of Jupiter... I don't mean to nitpick, I just don't want you to embarass yourself in front of your little and more linguistically aware little brother.
This should be a capital crime of the highest order! Burn him at the stake! (Is it sad that I react more strongly to technology destruction than life-destruction....)
How many can justify spending 1000 or 1300 on a portable monitor if a tablet PC would just be twice that? Perhaps for dedicated apps in a company, like taking a repair manual in PDF format to a machine to work on it, or to pass around the boardroom for presentations only. I personally think I'd buy a tablet PC over this wi-fi monitor.
Also, Microsoft's remote desktop sharing in windows XP can't supply lag-free computing over a 100Mb ethernet connection, so how poor will 12 mb wi-fi be? Will you have to disable your backgrounds and not be able to stream movies? A portable screen to watch DVD's in bed on would be great, but can it do that? Lastly, is this like wi-fi integrated into the LAN or is it dedicated to the PC? Does each screen need a different access point built into the computer or can multiple people hook up to the same 2k server box, for example? Also, if it is part of the lan, can you use multiple access points and get service between your desktop in your office and your screen anywhere in the company or on the campus?
Not that there's anything wrong with Asciimation but I'm not sure if the masses would accept this sort of thing. Hey, and besides, your TV would need screen font anti-alaising! This thing should have sound too, it'd be really cool then...
So the disk reacts to air and turns opaque, eh? Well not when I load it into my CO2 filled, sealed box DVD player. Load the DVD into the player inside the shrink-wrap, replace the air with CO2 or helium or something that won't react, use the built-in manipluator arm to open the DVD then that baby 'll last forever!
I have a few thousand songs on my 'puter some of which I want to listen to once a year or so. The one hit wonders for example. I won't pay even 11 dollars for the CD (usually 14 - 19 now a days anyway) for one song. I just won't. MP3's or not. I own all my favorite artist's CD's. And encryption technology won't be hard for users to impliment. The programmers of next gen peer to peer software will make it seemless.
BTW, I do think intellectual property should be protected. To an extent. Example: I've bought a copy of Trillian because I definately use 25 dollars worth of it. I don't have a legit copy of Photoshop though 'cause I use it to play with and stuff, not for business use (I'm a student) and I definately don't use $700 worth of it. I couldn't afford it at all if I don't get it illegally. And I'm actually helping Adobe as I do that, on a side note - when I graduate and move to a company I'll need to actually buy photoshop then 'cause I'll be using it for profit and that's what I'll know how to use then.
The old people ATM robberies is just a bad metaphor - the "old people" in the real world is the RIAA - they're NOT innocent. They are fucking the artists up the ass (look at profit margins! the artists hate the RIAA more than we I do) and they're threatening everyone who dares to defy them like an eight year old with a shotgun sitting on a mountain of toys leasing them to the other children.
I'm tired of this s**t. They are going to loose this one - everyone in the tech community knows it. It's a matter of when. Songs will be encrypted and transmitted, hey, we could even imbed songs in those jpeg's like from that previous slashdot article where encrypted data is contained in pictures. They could be interlaced into silly stick animation avi's or something. Anynomous servers in Belize won't be touched by the RIAA, they can't even organize they're own business model. There is too much traffic on the i-net backbone for the RIAA to sit and spy on traffic to bust the IP's or customers. And my university is definately not going to let them spy on our infrostructure. Sorry folks, your kind is not allowed here.
With easy console access this should prove quite difficult for Apple to do. Older systems have been less tweakable than OSX. Hardware tweaks are very difficult though - no conventional changable BIOS. How are hardware upgrades done on Macs?
Like Windows, though, I'm sure plugins and hacks will be made avalible. Microsoft offers TweakUI for all of it's OS's for free... I wonder if Apple would be better off doing something like that instead of leaving the niche for random programmers to fill with apps that do more than Apple would like to see.
Gatecrasher is probably tme most widely known House Trance Techno clubs in the UK. There are a few under the same name in different locations. They have the biggest DJ's mixing for them, among them Paul Okenfold, Paul VanDyk, Sasha, etc., and they utilize house/trance beats by all the big European powers and even some American powers. I'm an American, and I'd say Europe is lightyears ahead of us when it comes to the maturity of it's techno. Good Gatecrasher CD's are, in some order from best to slightly less than best: Red, Digital, DiscoTech, Global Soundsystem, Wet, National Anthems. These are all two or three disc sets, PACKED with tracks, the full 74:59 or 80:00. Oh, and before you go to amazon and start searching, remember to get the (usually slightly more expensive) import versions, not the poor watered down US versions.
If your hard drive 'crashes' in the true sense of the word (heads sagging and touching your platter) it's expensive to recover what little data can be recovered. Backups can take care of this though, but only for important things where it monitarily makes sense. Any other type of hard drive failure (usually electronic or electro-mechaical) can be taken care of for a ever decreasing fee in the growing reality of data recovery. Now for continuance, each new computer/hard drive you buy you slave the old one, copy the stuff. You know the drill, we've been doing it for a few years now. Old pictures and text and database formatting is usually compatable with the new technology, and if it's not some enterprising programmer will write a util to make it happen. There's also optical storage, (realistically speaking) unexpirable storage.
Does the credit card company verify the validity of your number/name/exp. date combination or does Microsoft? Since the answer is the credit card company, as far as I know, why does Microsoft have its hand in it? I would say pasport does a good job verifying the creator of the nick is the user of the nick, provided you supply a good password, but how does this keep illegal users from creating a passport identity to accompany a credit card and use that identity for purchase verification? Is Microsoft going to know your credit card information to cross with the name on the passport account? I guess this means no more Name M Last of 12345 Road Ex. City, St. 12345. Regardless, this won't look good for Microsoft's anti-trust case, for sure.
Now users can decide for themselves which is more stable. Of course we could tell them, but users never listen. Besides, I'm not sure most users know the difference.
My dad only bought me an Audi, I'm pissed too. Those hardworking families with lots of money should be punished! Perhaps we'll take their lexi (or lexuses, whichever you perfer) and give them to YOUR lazy ass. If you were as successful as they are, you'd not bitch about yourself, so let's just drop the preemptive hyprocracy.
They won't dissappear from our plane of existance, they will never have existed in our plane of existance. If they "go back and vanish" they would have already vanashed in the past, so they would never have existed. That's why it's called a paradox...
That's a great idea in theory, but since when were you in primary/secondary education? The curriculum is nothing like that - we're still learning cursive handwriting before typing - what kind of backwardness is that. Even if you weren't a geek, how often would you write with cursive. Education needs some reform, mainly privatization, with much more flexability in curriculum.
They're not real smart at Stanford;) - Actaully, I hate real too, it's like a legitimate virus or something, takes over your computer. Aomost as bad a windows.....
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Ok, this is quite simple. Make airliner cockpits unaccessable from the passenger compartment. Like, you have to get out of the plane, open a different door, and go in there. And make that door unaccessable from the outside. There is then no way people can buy a ticket, beat up the pilot and get a free 737...
I don't know if this is in standard slashdot style (this post) but the post is too unruly to figure out anyway...
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I realize this was a whole Imperial reference (to the movie) but I'm sort of irked at the general attitude. And religion doesn't often come up to bat on /. so I'll take my offtopic moderation if so necessary for a few peole to read.
And they are still less violent than the religous citizens of the United States. In Japan, a very peaceful, slightly odd but traditionally moral country somewhere around 50% of the citizens are not religous and their murder rate and violent crime rates are less than Canada's .
So if violent crime (moral convictions) are better in places with less religion perhaps religion isn't related to morality as much as people say it is. And I assume that is why you are disturbed about a lack of faith. Society is operating hundreds of times better (in terms of murders and violent crime). I don't assert that religion causes bad morality, please note, I'm just saying it's society and not religion. So don't get depressed at the lack of faith and wonder how non-religous people can be moral. Or why they are. They simply decided science and fact was more convincing than fable and myth.
Has anyone else seen the same pattern at their school? Is this par for the course?
No, actually; I go to a public ivy in the mid-west and also work for the computing division. We have about 10,000 undergrads living on campus, and have lots of money for nice computers with fat hard drives. Last year a couple of people ran a DC server on campus and had anywhere between 600 and 800 users on at any given time sharing about 11 terabytes or so. Some individuals were sharing 200 + gig's individually. The school heard nothing about this DC server what so ever and therefore knew, but did nothing about it. Beats Kazaa, it's mostly students so it barely uses the internet link (and thus doesn't cost the universit money on I-net bandwidth)...
On the other hand a handful of RIAA letters were sent for Kazaa sharers. The RIAA sent a letter and the IP to the university, the security team forwarded the letter to the person in question, told them to destroy the file or if the own it not to share it and if they had questions, call. That was all. They didn't tell the RIAA who they were, and the RIAA asks for this (think Verizon) and the letters go ignored.
So no, many universities are much more lax about the piracy issue.
It's definatley broken. RIAA.org and RIAA.com. Heh... ;)
I'd hate to do this, but I read this slashdot headline to my 'lil brother "New Moon of Jupiter Discovered" and he corrected me: 'Moon' is the name of the satellite that orbits the planet Earth... So we've discovered a new satellite of Jupiter... I don't mean to nitpick, I just don't want you to embarass yourself in front of your little and more linguistically aware little brother.
This should be a capital crime of the highest order! Burn him at the stake! (Is it sad that I react more strongly to technology destruction than life-destruction....)
Also, Microsoft's remote desktop sharing in windows XP can't supply lag-free computing over a 100Mb ethernet connection, so how poor will 12 mb wi-fi be? Will you have to disable your backgrounds and not be able to stream movies? A portable screen to watch DVD's in bed on would be great, but can it do that?
Lastly, is this like wi-fi integrated into the LAN or is it dedicated to the PC? Does each screen need a different access point built into the computer or can multiple people hook up to the same 2k server box, for example? Also, if it is part of the lan, can you use multiple access points and get service between your desktop in your office and your screen anywhere in the company or on the campus?
Not that there's anything wrong with Asciimation but I'm not sure if the masses would accept this sort of thing. Hey, and besides, your TV would need screen font anti-alaising! This thing should have sound too, it'd be really cool then...
So the disk reacts to air and turns opaque, eh? Well not when I load it into my CO2 filled, sealed box DVD player. Load the DVD into the player inside the shrink-wrap, replace the air with CO2 or helium or something that won't react, use the built-in manipluator arm to open the DVD then that baby 'll last forever!
I have a few thousand songs on my 'puter some of which I want to listen to once a year or so. The one hit wonders for example. I won't pay even 11 dollars for the CD (usually 14 - 19 now a days anyway) for one song. I just won't. MP3's or not. I own all my favorite artist's CD's. And encryption technology won't be hard for users to impliment. The programmers of next gen peer to peer software will make it seemless. BTW, I do think intellectual property should be protected. To an extent. Example: I've bought a copy of Trillian because I definately use 25 dollars worth of it. I don't have a legit copy of Photoshop though 'cause I use it to play with and stuff, not for business use (I'm a student) and I definately don't use $700 worth of it. I couldn't afford it at all if I don't get it illegally. And I'm actually helping Adobe as I do that, on a side note - when I graduate and move to a company I'll need to actually buy photoshop then 'cause I'll be using it for profit and that's what I'll know how to use then. The old people ATM robberies is just a bad metaphor - the "old people" in the real world is the RIAA - they're NOT innocent. They are fucking the artists up the ass (look at profit margins! the artists hate the RIAA more than we I do) and they're threatening everyone who dares to defy them like an eight year old with a shotgun sitting on a mountain of toys leasing them to the other children.
I'm tired of this s**t. They are going to loose this one - everyone in the tech community knows it. It's a matter of when. Songs will be encrypted and transmitted, hey, we could even imbed songs in those jpeg's like from that previous slashdot article where encrypted data is contained in pictures. They could be interlaced into silly stick animation avi's or something. Anynomous servers in Belize won't be touched by the RIAA, they can't even organize they're own business model. There is too much traffic on the i-net backbone for the RIAA to sit and spy on traffic to bust the IP's or customers. And my university is definately not going to let them spy on our infrostructure. Sorry folks, your kind is not allowed here.
Yep, you're eteet alright.
With easy console access this should prove quite difficult for Apple to do. Older systems have been less tweakable than OSX. Hardware tweaks are very difficult though - no conventional changable BIOS. How are hardware upgrades done on Macs? Like Windows, though, I'm sure plugins and hacks will be made avalible. Microsoft offers TweakUI for all of it's OS's for free... I wonder if Apple would be better off doing something like that instead of leaving the niche for random programmers to fill with apps that do more than Apple would like to see.
Gatecrasher is probably tme most widely known House Trance Techno clubs in the UK. There are a few under the same name in different locations. They have the biggest DJ's mixing for them, among them Paul Okenfold, Paul VanDyk, Sasha, etc., and they utilize house/trance beats by all the big European powers and even some American powers. I'm an American, and I'd say Europe is lightyears ahead of us when it comes to the maturity of it's techno. Good Gatecrasher CD's are, in some order from best to slightly less than best: Red, Digital, DiscoTech, Global Soundsystem, Wet, National Anthems. These are all two or three disc sets, PACKED with tracks, the full 74:59 or 80:00. Oh, and before you go to amazon and start searching, remember to get the (usually slightly more expensive) import versions, not the poor watered down US versions.
If your hard drive 'crashes' in the true sense of the word (heads sagging and touching your platter) it's expensive to recover what little data can be recovered. Backups can take care of this though, but only for important things where it monitarily makes sense. Any other type of hard drive failure (usually electronic or electro-mechaical) can be taken care of for a ever decreasing fee in the growing reality of data recovery. Now for continuance, each new computer/hard drive you buy you slave the old one, copy the stuff. You know the drill, we've been doing it for a few years now. Old pictures and text and database formatting is usually compatable with the new technology, and if it's not some enterprising programmer will write a util to make it happen. There's also optical storage, (realistically speaking) unexpirable storage.
Were they transmitting /. headlines to europe? Hey... wait a minute...
Does the credit card company verify the validity of your number/name/exp. date combination or does Microsoft? Since the answer is the credit card company, as far as I know, why does Microsoft have its hand in it? I would say pasport does a good job verifying the creator of the nick is the user of the nick, provided you supply a good password, but how does this keep illegal users from creating a passport identity to accompany a credit card and use that identity for purchase verification? Is Microsoft going to know your credit card information to cross with the name on the passport account? I guess this means no more Name M Last of 12345 Road Ex. City, St. 12345. Regardless, this won't look good for Microsoft's anti-trust case, for sure.
Now users can decide for themselves which is more stable. Of course we could tell them, but users never listen. Besides, I'm not sure most users know the difference.
My dad only bought me an Audi, I'm pissed too. Those hardworking families with lots of money should be punished! Perhaps we'll take their lexi (or lexuses, whichever you perfer) and give them to YOUR lazy ass. If you were as successful as they are, you'd not bitch about yourself, so let's just drop the preemptive hyprocracy.
They won't dissappear from our plane of existance, they will never have existed in our plane of existance. If they "go back and vanish" they would have already vanashed in the past, so they would never have existed. That's why it's called a paradox...
You stupid fuck - that was hillarious, but completely off topic - you wasted the first post being moderated -1.
That's a great idea in theory, but since when were you in primary/secondary education? The curriculum is nothing like that - we're still learning cursive handwriting before typing - what kind of backwardness is that. Even if you weren't a geek, how often would you write with cursive. Education needs some reform, mainly privatization, with much more flexability in curriculum.
They're not real smart at Stanford ;) - Actaully, I hate real too, it's like a legitimate virus or something, takes over your computer. Aomost as bad a windows.....
Ok, this is quite simple. Make airliner cockpits unaccessable from the passenger compartment. Like, you have to get out of the plane, open a different door, and go in there. And make that door unaccessable from the outside. There is then no way people can buy a ticket, beat up the pilot and get a free 737... I don't know if this is in standard slashdot style (this post) but the post is too unruly to figure out anyway...