I have never really bought into this "we must get the whole world using Linux" idea. I love to use it myself, and it's fun when I sit down at someone else's computer and they're using it, but Windows really works well for my parents and siblings. Even if there were no reasons not to adopt Linux (learning curve and applications being main the one I see now), I'm sure many people would still use Windows for product/company loyalty, the (ignorant) thought that Linux is anti-capitalist, or just because they like the look and feel and what is familiar to them. I'm more concerned with getting companies and developers to make software for Linux. It's all about competition, and getting those applications to work in Linux gives us true choice. This project sounds like it is geared towards that end.
The article is obviously biased, but it certainly makes it sound like the principal is the one who caused most of the distraction. The students may have created the page, but the principal is the one who canceled classes and suspended a student. A suspension of some sort may be justified, but causing a disruption sounds very unprofessional. The principal shouldn't have allowed himself to get sucked into the problem.
Ha! I had a friend who did just about the same thing, except he printed it up and threw it on the floors of the bathrooms to distribute it. Oh, the good old days...
Wasn't escalation #1 when the principal shut down classes and caused a distraction to students? Then escalation #2 was when the principal suspended the student for 10 days and put him in an "alternate education program." That was the point at which the parents sued, so that would make the suit escalation #3.
The principal never should have allowed himself to get sucked into the prank. He gave the students, who were acting inappropriately, power. Have people forgotten how to deal with problems without destroying each others' lives (an "alternate education program" at my old High School would have meant killing chances to get into a good college)?
Accidentally compromised, sure. But I think there's a greater chance of it getting accidentally deleted (or otherwise fragged) when it's stored on my PC. Of course, then it's my fault, but still... I loves me mah GMail.
It seems to me that if you got a stock spam email, the motive of the person sending the email is to temporarily increase the amount a company is worth before selling it. The spammer could buy stock in the company before promoting it, then once it reaches a certain level they could sell. The point at which they sell could also be time based, as in, after 1 day the spammer sells their stock.
It should be feasible to play the market in the same way if you're not the spammer. The trick is to jump in and out at the right moment so that you don't get stuck. I'm no investor, but it seems like information about stocks is available with very frequent updates. It should be possible to determine if you're one of the first people buying into the stock, or if you'd be one of the last. If you're one of the first, you'll purchase the stock at a relatively low point. Then, over the course of a few hours or days, more people will buy on and the stock price will rise, at which point you can be disciplined enough to sell your stock. The tactic works at least moderately well for the spammers (or they wouldn't be doing it), so why not make it work for you? This is most certainly a short term type thing. In fact it's so short term, I'm not even sure it should be called investing. Maybe that was the problem with my original post.
I wonder what the activity of past spam-stock looks like. It might be possible to determine some kind of trend for past performance that would be useful in predicting future spammer behavior.
It's unfortunate that thinking differently than the rest of the Slashdot crowd garners a mod of flamebait. That just sucks. Many people here say that the folks who invest in spam stocks are idiots, but I just want to point out that maybe the smart ones aren't. You might think they're assholes, but they're not idiots. If there is a flaw in my logic, please let me know. Here are a couple of links to studies and information done about this method.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/21/202 9210 http://www.crummy.com/features/StockSpam/
Actually, if you invest intelligently, knowing that the stock you're investing in is being promoted by spam, you can make money. Buy low, sell a few hours later (or days, or however long these things historically take to reach a peak). It'd be kinda fun to try this method out, but I don't care that much...
What he said ^. People should be able to decide what substances get injected into them. Texas has a way to "opt out?" Great, but does anyone know about it? http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4581111 .html Massachusetts might make this vaccine free but not mandatory? Hallelujah! I don't know that I'll approve of the way they implement it, but they're thinking.
Up until a few years ago, I think Apache only used forks or some equivalent to handle user requests. I think there was a lot of demand for it to become threaded, and now it is. Yours is a good example.
And I second the fact that threads don't necessarily make it more complex. I think C++ lends itself to threaded applications very nicely. I was forced to learn about threading by trying to understand several pieces of software where the developers made many of the objects handle their own threading. The solution made a lot of sense for those problems. As I had never seen it before, it was difficult to understand at first, but I think it made the code cleaner overall. Anyway, I'm a EE so what do I know;-)
It's really too bad we've gotten as far away from local rule as we have (in the US). Even if the policies of a national government aren't half bad (half are half bad, the others are all bad;-), it'd be nice to have more say in how law works...
That's pretty cool, actually. To think, now you know of something physical you could have done back then to (possibly) completely change who you are today. It wouldn't have even been that hard. If you ever get the chance to go back in a time machine, you should tell yourself to get the tumor removed just so you can find out what you turn out like without it.
I guess that'd only work if time can take multiple paths that don't mess each other up.
SIPRNet is mostly separate. From what I've heard, people aren't allowed to move information between SIPRNet computers and other 'insecure' computers at all.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the cause of so much mayhem and misery in this world has been mostly religion/cult on religion/cult.
I have never really bought into this "we must get the whole world using Linux" idea. I love to use it myself, and it's fun when I sit down at someone else's computer and they're using it, but Windows really works well for my parents and siblings. Even if there were no reasons not to adopt Linux (learning curve and applications being main the one I see now), I'm sure many people would still use Windows for product/company loyalty, the (ignorant) thought that Linux is anti-capitalist, or just because they like the look and feel and what is familiar to them. I'm more concerned with getting companies and developers to make software for Linux. It's all about competition, and getting those applications to work in Linux gives us true choice. This project sounds like it is geared towards that end.
My first instinct was that they meant this happened very suddenly. I can just imagine how packed the highways must have been Tuesday night.
...go buy too fast. The tacometer... The tacometer:Mild
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Extra salsa on mine, please...
Ouch... Kilgore Trout? I always thought he was kinda the good guy in the stories. Maybe I haven't read enough of them...
The article is obviously biased, but it certainly makes it sound like the principal is the one who caused most of the distraction. The students may have created the page, but the principal is the one who canceled classes and suspended a student. A suspension of some sort may be justified, but causing a disruption sounds very unprofessional. The principal shouldn't have allowed himself to get sucked into the problem.
Ha! I had a friend who did just about the same thing, except he printed it up and threw it on the floors of the bathrooms to distribute it. Oh, the good old days...
The principal never should have allowed himself to get sucked into the prank. He gave the students, who were acting inappropriately, power. Have people forgotten how to deal with problems without destroying each others' lives (an "alternate education program" at my old High School would have meant killing chances to get into a good college)?
Accidentally compromised, sure. But I think there's a greater chance of it getting accidentally deleted (or otherwise fragged) when it's stored on my PC. Of course, then it's my fault, but still... I loves me mah GMail.
Way to be a man and have some balls.
That is, assuming you are a man. If not, just consider that a compliment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_vs._Blue
It seems to me that if you got a stock spam email, the motive of the person sending the email is to temporarily increase the amount a company is worth before selling it. The spammer could buy stock in the company before promoting it, then once it reaches a certain level they could sell. The point at which they sell could also be time based, as in, after 1 day the spammer sells their stock.
It should be feasible to play the market in the same way if you're not the spammer. The trick is to jump in and out at the right moment so that you don't get stuck. I'm no investor, but it seems like information about stocks is available with very frequent updates. It should be possible to determine if you're one of the first people buying into the stock, or if you'd be one of the last. If you're one of the first, you'll purchase the stock at a relatively low point. Then, over the course of a few hours or days, more people will buy on and the stock price will rise, at which point you can be disciplined enough to sell your stock. The tactic works at least moderately well for the spammers (or they wouldn't be doing it), so why not make it work for you? This is most certainly a short term type thing. In fact it's so short term, I'm not even sure it should be called investing. Maybe that was the problem with my original post.
I wonder what the activity of past spam-stock looks like. It might be possible to determine some kind of trend for past performance that would be useful in predicting future spammer behavior.
It's unfortunate that thinking differently than the rest of the Slashdot crowd garners a mod of flamebait. That just sucks. Many people here say that the folks who invest in spam stocks are idiots, but I just want to point out that maybe the smart ones aren't. You might think they're assholes, but they're not idiots. If there is a flaw in my logic, please let me know. Here are a couple of links to studies and information done about this method.2 9210
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/21/20
http://www.crummy.com/features/StockSpam/
Actually, if you invest intelligently, knowing that the stock you're investing in is being promoted by spam, you can make money. Buy low, sell a few hours later (or days, or however long these things historically take to reach a peak). It'd be kinda fun to try this method out, but I don't care that much...
Which one is the computer?
What he said ^. People should be able to decide what substances get injected into them. Texas has a way to "opt out?" Great, but does anyone know about it? http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4581111 .html Massachusetts might make this vaccine free but not mandatory? Hallelujah! I don't know that I'll approve of the way they implement it, but they're thinking.
And I second the fact that threads don't necessarily make it more complex. I think C++ lends itself to threaded applications very nicely. I was forced to learn about threading by trying to understand several pieces of software where the developers made many of the objects handle their own threading. The solution made a lot of sense for those problems. As I had never seen it before, it was difficult to understand at first, but I think it made the code cleaner overall. Anyway, I'm a EE so what do I know ;-)
Only to others that also refused the vaccine...
It's really too bad we've gotten as far away from local rule as we have (in the US). Even if the policies of a national government aren't half bad (half are half bad, the others are all bad ;-), it'd be nice to have more say in how law works...
Awesome comment. I wish we had a system like that here in the US, but as far as I know that doesn't exist (at least not in Kansas).
That's pretty cool, actually. To think, now you know of something physical you could have done back then to (possibly) completely change who you are today. It wouldn't have even been that hard. If you ever get the chance to go back in a time machine, you should tell yourself to get the tumor removed just so you can find out what you turn out like without it.
I guess that'd only work if time can take multiple paths that don't mess each other up.
Because it's something to do? I like sleeping, drinking whiskey, and fishing as much as the next guy, but I'd also like to go see what's out there ^
Thank god the folks that are in this field are more intelligent than that. At least the few that I've met...
SIPRNet is mostly separate. From what I've heard, people aren't allowed to move information between SIPRNet computers and other 'insecure' computers at all.
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