Uhm, I think a lot of people would be very happy if they managed to kidnap the guy who designed/built the locks on the doors to a top-secret installation.
Doesn't have to be be directly related to be useful.
The old railroaders in Sweden would do the same, after they'd made a tunnel through a mountain the architect/engineer that specified it had to stand in the middle as the support beams were removed, makes for good design/quality control.
So let's hope that the criminals are up to date in the latest advances of fingerprint scanning and are also aware of this small problem.
While I was semi-joking in my previous post, I gotta wonder how many people will get fingers cut off when fingerprint scanners become commonplace. A digit could be worth a lot of money for a couple of hours at least. And somehow I doubt grocery stores will go for the very advanced and secure systems that would be able to detect anomalies such as lack of pulse or body heat.
If the advanced criminals can't reproduce your thumbprint, then they might as well intercept your biometric going from the scanner to the computer and reproduce that on all subsequent machines.
Or they'll just cut of your thumb, keep it nice and warm and have nice and easy access...personally, I'd rather just have my keycard stolen
Actually yes, I made that little comparison in a post some months ago, the US is the MS of the world. Just as Billy boy can't accept that he's not loved by all and that MS products aren't the answer to life, the universe and everything, the US cannot accept that they're not loved by all and that some of its actions aren't really done for the good of the world.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the US, but, the actions, methods and politics of the US goverment leaves a lot to be desired from this point of view, and that criticism tends to be taken by americans as an attack on their person and they step in to defend their nation ano matter what the case presented is.
Money talks, meaning: That for scientists to get cash to keep investigating the asteroid and see if there is indeed a chance it will hit, they need to stir things up. If they'd said that they believe that there might be a million to one chance that an asteroid will pass earth in 20 years, who'd have funded continued research? But if they say that it is likely it will pose a serious threat, here, have another 50 million and some better equipment.
Now, a cynic might say that this kinda thing happens all the time after 9-11...Attack imminent, gimme money!
Sooo, when ppl start sharing music and movies on board, what laws apply 40k ft above the atlantic/pacific? Or would it just be illegal when they enter national airspace?
Being an MCSD student, I think you need to focus on what can be done with Linux systems and services, not how to do it. To me personally something isn't interesting to learn unless I have a use for it. While ls, grep and cat sure are useful, they don't tell me anything of what I can do with them or why I'd even want to learn a bunch of new commands on a new OS just to run some obscure a-patchy-webserver. Show them how MySQL works, show them how Apache with PHP works. Show them what they can do with a Linux box and when they might find it useful to install one instead of an expensive windows server.
So show not just how to grep, cat and ls, but give them enough info about what they can do with a Linux box so they might feel tempted to try it on their own. Go through the common services they might come across and what they can do and briefly explain the normal Linux commands as you use them.
Can Music be patentable? I mean software is just a bunch of zeroes and ones being processed and when they're in a certain order something cool happens. Music is just tones at different pitches and when in a certain order it sounds cool.
If one-click shopping is patentable, shouldn't one-hit rimshot be aswell? Why is copyright enough to protect music but not enough to protect software?
Because new findings show that both food and sleep makes you dumb!
A study made at the University of Utter Bullshit in the department of the Blatantly Friggin Obvious, shows that both food and sleep make test subjects IQ drop
One test group took the test after being awake for 12 hours and scored well, when they redid the experiment at 4am just after sleeping for 6 hours their scores were significantly lower. This clearly shows that sleep does not aid students in scoring well.
A second study done also proved that food has the same effect, first the test group had nothing to eat for 6 hours, then they were given a large family-sized pizza with double meat and triple cheese and took the test again. This time the scores were also a lot lower, some subjects even turned so dumb they fell asleep!
The school is now enforcing a strict no food-no sleep policy to help students with their studies, each student is given free coffee and Jolt cola and on the first day all departments* showed significantly better results.
*Except the CS department who have been using the no sleep-no food and a strict caffeine diet for years
What I learnt from the MS 70-215 (MS Windows 2000 Server exam) is, never ever ever under any circumstances buy a SCSI controller card, they ALWAYS break. Probably 20 of the questions were regarding failing SCSI cards or SCSI disks...
Otherwise the above holds true, on the tests you have to keep in mind how things should work, that they're buggy or not implemented and actually won't work doesn't matter much, especially on the MCSD track.
In other news, goverments world wide have added a tax for pen and paper and any copying techniques which will effectively raise prices by 800%. Mr. John Doeyes from GreedyBastardsPublishing was quoted saying: "This is very important for the entire books industry, after years of studying we found that people were actually copying selected sections of books! Furthermore we found that students and proffesionals were taking a lot of notes based on our material, this illegal activity must seize for the good of the nation and democracy. Copying books or exerpts is aiding communism and terrorism by blocking the freedom of fair trade.
Another proposed bill states that any books bought for multiuse purposes (meaning to be read to others) will see a price increase of 250%. Mr Doeyes again explains: We found that a large amount of parents actually read books out loud for their children, thus violating the single use license of the book. When someone reads the book out loud, 3 things happen, 1 person is reading it which is ok, then they relay the contents by voice, and another person listens, this is unacceptable because the industry loses the income it could've gotten from selling audio versions of the books. Not to mention infringing on the voice artists work by making a very poor copy of their effort, this is sheer terrorism at work! But after careful consideration we decided to only raise prices by 250% instead of 300%, this means that parents instead of buying a book license for themself, one audio license and one listeners license, they can get all 3 bundled at a lower cost, thus benefitting all.
When asked if this isn't just excuses and heavy lobbying from the book industry to increase their revenues at consumers expense Mr. Doeyes giggled like a schoolgirl and laughed all the way to the bank.
Or not, strange how different media have different rules ain't it?
I didn't mean to offend anybody's sense of complete and utter accuracy concerning the situation.
Uhm, you do realize this is Slashdot right? You're talking to the people that stood up (or sat down, in a dark corner, where they couldn't be seen or beaten) and told their highschool class why Einstein was wrong. Or got involved in a month long heated debate on just how many dies should be rolled for a Grul's Fireball of Kickass.
Macromedias Educational products are full versions, the only limit in them is in the license. There used to be a pack with Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash and Freehand bundled for $199 with full paper documentation and all, an extremely well priced and good product. And, paying (as opposed to warezing) for things gives you that warm fuzzy feeling inside when you know all your software is legit.
Remember, it might be a shock to some people but to whole world does not revolve around the USA.
What?! Why yes, it does come as a shock to me, and I'm Swedish. The thing is, the US is big and there's no power on earth that can fight it when it wants to impose its laws elsewhere, so yes, sadly, the world does revolve around the US.
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If brightly coloured spandex clothes ever become commonplace I'm quitting this planet...
Uhm, I think a lot of people would be very happy if they managed to kidnap the guy who designed/built the locks on the doors to a top-secret installation.
Doesn't have to be be directly related to be useful.
Really? Someone should let these guys know about it
The old railroaders in Sweden would do the same, after they'd made a tunnel through a mountain the architect/engineer that specified it had to stand in the middle as the support beams were removed, makes for good design/quality control.
Aaargh, damn you slashdot, damn you!
This will now be my 3rd pot of coffee today...local time: closing in on 2.30am
So let's hope that the criminals are up to date in the latest advances of fingerprint scanning and are also aware of this small problem.
While I was semi-joking in my previous post, I gotta wonder how many people will get fingers cut off when fingerprint scanners become commonplace. A digit could be worth a lot of money for a couple of hours at least. And somehow I doubt grocery stores will go for the very advanced and secure systems that would be able to detect anomalies such as lack of pulse or body heat.
Or they'll just cut of your thumb, keep it nice and warm and have nice and easy access...personally, I'd rather just have my keycard stolen
Actually yes, I made that little comparison in a post some months ago, the US is the MS of the world. Just as Billy boy can't accept that he's not loved by all and that MS products aren't the answer to life, the universe and everything, the US cannot accept that they're not loved by all and that some of its actions aren't really done for the good of the world.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the US, but, the actions, methods and politics of the US goverment leaves a lot to be desired from this point of view, and that criticism tends to be taken by americans as an attack on their person and they step in to defend their nation ano matter what the case presented is.
No, normal editors just post stuff and ask readers to correct spelling and broken links. :p
Money talks, meaning: That for scientists to get cash to keep investigating the asteroid and see if there is indeed a chance it will hit, they need to stir things up. If they'd said that they believe that there might be a million to one chance that an asteroid will pass earth in 20 years, who'd have funded continued research? But if they say that it is likely it will pose a serious threat, here, have another 50 million and some better equipment.
Now, a cynic might say that this kinda thing happens all the time after 9-11...Attack imminent, gimme money!
Bastard, you made me blow coffee up my nose...
Sooo, when ppl start sharing music and movies on board, what laws apply 40k ft above the atlantic/pacific? Or would it just be illegal when they enter national airspace?
It then became clear to me, that come the apocalypse, the mark of the beast would be Alice 32367@hotmail.com and Bob8217@msn.com.
Being an MCSD student, I think you need to focus on what can be done with Linux systems and services, not how to do it. To me personally something isn't interesting to learn unless I have a use for it. While ls, grep and cat sure are useful, they don't tell me anything of what I can do with them or why I'd even want to learn a bunch of new commands on a new OS just to run some obscure a-patchy-webserver. Show them how MySQL works, show them how Apache with PHP works. Show them what they can do with a Linux box and when they might find it useful to install one instead of an expensive windows server.
So show not just how to grep, cat and ls, but give them enough info about what they can do with a Linux box so they might feel tempted to try it on their own. Go through the common services they might come across and what they can do and briefly explain the normal Linux commands as you use them.
Karma whores? On Slashdot?!
I for one am shocked and outraged by this!
Can Music be patentable? I mean software is just a bunch of zeroes and ones being processed and when they're in a certain order something cool happens. Music is just tones at different pitches and when in a certain order it sounds cool.
If one-click shopping is patentable, shouldn't one-hit rimshot be aswell? Why is copyright enough to protect music but not enough to protect software?
Unless they crack your head...
Because new findings show that both food and sleep makes you dumb!
A study made at the University of Utter Bullshit in the department of the Blatantly Friggin Obvious, shows that both food and sleep make test subjects IQ drop
One test group took the test after being awake for 12 hours and scored well, when they redid the experiment at 4am just after sleeping for 6 hours their scores were significantly lower. This clearly shows that sleep does not aid students in scoring well.
A second study done also proved that food has the same effect, first the test group had nothing to eat for 6 hours, then they were given a large family-sized pizza with double meat and triple cheese and took the test again. This time the scores were also a lot lower, some subjects even turned so dumb they fell asleep!
The school is now enforcing a strict no food-no sleep policy to help students with their studies, each student is given free coffee and Jolt cola and on the first day all departments* showed significantly better results.
*Except the CS department who have been using the no sleep-no food and a strict caffeine diet for years
What I learnt from the MS 70-215 (MS Windows 2000 Server exam) is, never ever ever under any circumstances buy a SCSI controller card, they ALWAYS break. Probably 20 of the questions were regarding failing SCSI cards or SCSI disks...
Otherwise the above holds true, on the tests you have to keep in mind how things should work, that they're buggy or not implemented and actually won't work doesn't matter much, especially on the MCSD track.
You mean I'm using satire to the best of my abilities and reality still wins? Damn it all to hell, a cynic just can't win in todays world!
In other news, goverments world wide have added a tax for pen and paper and any copying techniques which will effectively raise prices by 800%. Mr. John Doeyes from GreedyBastardsPublishing was quoted saying: "This is very important for the entire books industry, after years of studying we found that people were actually copying selected sections of books! Furthermore we found that students and proffesionals were taking a lot of notes based on our material, this illegal activity must seize for the good of the nation and democracy. Copying books or exerpts is aiding communism and terrorism by blocking the freedom of fair trade.
Another proposed bill states that any books bought for multiuse purposes (meaning to be read to others) will see a price increase of 250%. Mr Doeyes again explains: We found that a large amount of parents actually read books out loud for their children, thus violating the single use license of the book. When someone reads the book out loud, 3 things happen, 1 person is reading it which is ok, then they relay the contents by voice, and another person listens, this is unacceptable because the industry loses the income it could've gotten from selling audio versions of the books. Not to mention infringing on the voice artists work by making a very poor copy of their effort, this is sheer terrorism at work! But after careful consideration we decided to only raise prices by 250% instead of 300%, this means that parents instead of buying a book license for themself, one audio license and one listeners license, they can get all 3 bundled at a lower cost, thus benefitting all.
When asked if this isn't just excuses and heavy lobbying from the book industry to increase their revenues at consumers expense Mr. Doeyes giggled like a schoolgirl and laughed all the way to the bank.
Or not, strange how different media have different rules ain't it?
Uhm, you do realize this is Slashdot right?
You're talking to the people that stood up (or sat down, in a dark corner, where they couldn't be seen or beaten) and told their highschool class why Einstein was wrong. Or got involved in a month long heated debate on just how many dies should be rolled for a Grul's Fireball of Kickass.
And I thought the Native Americans, aka Indians would have discovered it since they lived there, silly me!
The chinese couldn't have discovered it first, per our definition Discovering means "found and claimed by a white person with european descent".
Macromedias Educational products are full versions, the only limit in them is in the license. There used to be a pack with Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash and Freehand bundled for $199 with full paper documentation and all, an extremely well priced and good product. And, paying (as opposed to warezing) for things gives you that warm fuzzy feeling inside when you know all your software is legit.
What?! Why yes, it does come as a shock to me, and I'm Swedish. The thing is, the US is big and there's no power on earth that can fight it when it wants to impose its laws elsewhere, so yes, sadly, the world does revolve around the US.