I haven't worked real manual labor, but I've worked retail. Same thing only not as repetitive and without the exercise. As I sat in front of a computer at 2:00AM trying to fix a server I realized that I sure wish life were as simple as when I worked at a movie theater. All I needed to do was serve a queue of people or start the movies or clean a theater and I was done.
No responsability, no 2:00AM pages. No 3 month self managed projects. Working in a non-cubicle environment breeds conversations, interactions. You set your body to a task and your mind is free to wander. In a cube job you need to keep your mind focused.
People are not robots. They think, and sometimes they think better when they are listening to music (there are studies that show classical music to improve test scores).
That all said, I've been in quite a few manufacturing shops and in every one the radio was on. Is that different from mp3s in terms of "music-comes-out-of-a-box-while-people-work"?
I didn't read the article, but when did that stop someone on/. from commenting? I get the feeling that military grade security means 128 bit encryption. BFD, there are a lot of other ways to break security besides brute forcing the key.
Reminds me of when I was in high school. This was 1997 and the school had to be online (just don't ask why the emperor is naked). So the school sprung for a new lab of 486s running Windows 3.11 and a box that had a 56k modem and a TCP/IP stack that did NAT - now the school could harness the power of thespot.com and the Trojan Room's coffee pot.
Before you can let anyone actually use the computers, of course, you need them to sign an agreement saying that they won't do anything evil, like express negative opinions about the school online. Personally I never saw an end to the school's dictatorial powers that would necessitate signing away any rights, but I'm sure that there were some lawyer-parents who would if their perfect child got in trouble for downloading pr0n.
So I was reading the agreement and anyone who signed it agreed not to download copyrighted material online. I pointed out to the vice-principal who was handling the signings that all material online was copyrighted, either explicitly or implicitly. She said that if I was downloading copyrighted material I was pirating software. I finally convinced her that it was only unlicensed software that was piracy (I'm still not a fan of that word) and she said I should just sign it because they weren't going to enforce it anyway. I didn't sign and didn't use the Internet at school that year, not a big loss as the only thing the computers were used for was seeing Yahoo.
Seems to me that it won't work because the Linksys router is putting his computer in a NAT'd network. Since the outgoing traffic is going through the modem instead of the Linksys the IP stack on the Linksys won't know what outgoing connections are open, and so it won't be able to route incoming traffic to the appropriate computer.
I could be completely wrong, though. That's for the mods to decide.
I know this is Slashdot, but can't we just once get a movie/music/video game story where someone doesn't post this? Can't we once get the idea that not everything in life is black and white, that video games can be fun and hacking on the consoles is really geeky even if Sony supports the DMCA or whatever "our" gripe with them is.
Maybe I'm just naturally wary of people who force issues into "them" and "us" statements... but if that were true what would I be doing here on/.?
I don't know who Eric Flint is, and I don't know who you are. You should care what he thinks if you think he makes good points. If he doesn't make a sound argument then just pass it off as part of Stugeon's 90%.
Famous people don't have a stranglehold on intelligent opinions, and judging from the famous people I've seen the opposite could be considered true.
You, uh, do realize that he can still be a pompous windbag who wouldn't know a good movie if it slapped him in the face, and still "get it" when it comes to (IMHO) fairly obvious intellectual property issues, right?
It's not like because Paul Vixie wrote cron I should trust his judgement in movies. Then again, I tend to agree with Ebert more than Roeper, so what do I know?
I know I'm a young whippersnapper, not part of the Bad Old Days(tm) when you had to route your own packets (or at least emails) by hand, but I think it would be foolish to say that OS X is not OpenStep 5.0. I mean, the Cocoa API calls all start with NS for a reason:)
And while we're renaming versions, can we call rename Windows 98 Second Edition to Windows 99? Since I prefer Perl to sed and awk, I guess that I would change Windows 2000 to Windows 19100.
Save your $360, this is no more legal than pirating the software. The software industry has made itself exempt from the right of first sale, which basicly says "If you bought it, you can sell it." Almost any software you get has license provisions that say you can't resell your software license.
I believe that there's currently "duck" legislation (If it looks like a sale and quacks like a sale...) on the horizon that would make software more like books in terms of what you can do with it, but I'm not very optimistic about it actually passing. I suspect that Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and the other heavyweights can buy enough politicos to nip it in the bud.
(2) Spammer sees.01% response rate drop to.0000001% response rate (finding open relays, spidering email addresses, etc). Looks at books and sees that he spent 10 hours getting everything together to spam. Additionally, he spends 30 hours dealing with people who call pretending to be interested, keep him on the line, and then say that their credit card number is "spammers suck." So he spent 40 hours and only sold one widget, that he gets a $5 profit on. Realizes that he could have made more money working 40 hours at Mcdonalds, and there are nicer customers to boot.
The reason people spam is the cost is low. Increase the cost of doing business and they will reevaluate.
Of course it will be ad free. Let's look at television and movies. When you watch regular, broadcast television the only way the broadcasters can recoup the cost is by running ads, much like Yahoo! does. But along comes cable TV and now we're paying to watch television. We all know there aren't any ads on cable TV, if there were people would complain loudly about paying twice and either the ads would cease or people would cancel their cable.
Similarly we are charged admission to go to the movies. Imagine if we had to sit through ads for snacks from the lobbies or upcomming movies, let alone dotcom and Mountain Dew ads, after plunking down $8.00 for a ticket to see the movie! What sane man wouldn't demand a refund from the manager and say "Good day" to that theater?
So of course Yahoo! will recognize that their subscription fees pay for the service and remove the ads. I shudder to think what kind of company would put profits ahead of their customers' experience.
Linux can be easy to use, just ask any TiVo owner. All he would need to do is set it up to launch Mozilla without making her log in, and dial her PPP connection as needed. He could even have Mozilla and the PPP dialer store their preferences on a VMU so that she could change them as needed.
Heck, Lik Sang sells a DC to PS/2 adapter so he could set her up with one of those nice wireless keyboards.
As for being powered off unexpectedly, I doubt that the OS will care, what with it being on read-only media. And as long as grandma doesn't turn off the DC while it's writing Mozilla or PPP prefs, then it should be fine.
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The problem with this is that popular speech rarely needs to be defended. Protecting unpopular speech is the crux of the freedom of speech, and as such it will be very difficult to have a lovable hero. I guess that's why it's considered a fundamental right - so congress won't fuck with it. Or at least that's the theory.
Wow, software becoming a resalable good! Maybe if Microsoft settles "for the children" the schools will be able to sell the software they get and buy something they can use, like science books that discuss new topics like evolution and the fact that disease is not caused by evil spirits (Offer void in KS).
Quiet you! No one likes the facts to interfere with a good joke. Now repeat after me "Al Gore is a spoilsport. The Supreme Court didn't choose our president, the mandate of the masses did. George W. Bush understands concepts more complex than 'The badguys are evil, mmmmmkay?'"
Don't stereotype the US based on the comments of one troll. Notice the number of responses that say that this guy is a jackass... I imagine most of them came from the States.
Yes, the DMCA is a bad law, but it's not infinitely bad. It does not forbid discussion of bugs or circulation of patches for bugs; claims otherwise are based on confused readings.
If a person exploits a security hole on a server and copies copyrighted material that was kept on that server, the user has circumvented copyright protection measures (the security on the server). If Alan Cox publishes enough information for that user to figure out how to circumvent those copyright protections, Alan has just published a circumvention tool. Alan can then be prosecuted for doing so under the DMCA.
Where's the fault in that logic? If you claim that system security isn't an anti-copyright protection device, I would claim ROT13 isn't one either and yet Skylarov is still under attack.
FWIW I agree that bugs should be discussed openly. I think that Alan is making a statement about the DMCA and I don't think we have the right to ask him to break the law for us. The proper response is to complain to your elected official about your company's computer security being threatened by the DMCA.
When exploits are outlawed only outlaws will have exploits.
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I haven't worked real manual labor, but I've worked retail. Same thing only not as repetitive and without the exercise. As I sat in front of a computer at 2:00AM trying to fix a server I realized that I sure wish life were as simple as when I worked at a movie theater. All I needed to do was serve a queue of people or start the movies or clean a theater and I was done.
No responsability, no 2:00AM pages. No 3 month self managed projects. Working in a non-cubicle environment breeds conversations, interactions. You set your body to a task and your mind is free to wander. In a cube job you need to keep your mind focused.
People are not robots. They think, and sometimes they think better when they are listening to music (there are studies that show classical music to improve test scores).
That all said, I've been in quite a few manufacturing shops and in every one the radio was on. Is that different from mp3s in terms of "music-comes-out-of-a-box-while-people-work"?
I didn't read the article, but when did that stop someone on /. from commenting? I get the feeling that military grade security means 128 bit encryption. BFD, there are a lot of other ways to break security besides brute forcing the key.
Luckily there's no goatse.meetup.com... yet...
UGU offers a Unix tip of the day at http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?tip.today - that should keep you in tips for a while.
Your Perl studs should read up on the -e, -n, -a and -p switches. I suspect they're not as studly as they think.
Reminds me of when I was in high school. This was 1997 and the school had to be online (just don't ask why the emperor is naked). So the school sprung for a new lab of 486s running Windows 3.11 and a box that had a 56k modem and a TCP/IP stack that did NAT - now the school could harness the power of thespot.com and the Trojan Room's coffee pot.
Before you can let anyone actually use the computers, of course, you need them to sign an agreement saying that they won't do anything evil, like express negative opinions about the school online. Personally I never saw an end to the school's dictatorial powers that would necessitate signing away any rights, but I'm sure that there were some lawyer-parents who would if their perfect child got in trouble for downloading pr0n.
So I was reading the agreement and anyone who signed it agreed not to download copyrighted material online. I pointed out to the vice-principal who was handling the signings that all material online was copyrighted, either explicitly or implicitly. She said that if I was downloading copyrighted material I was pirating software. I finally convinced her that it was only unlicensed software that was piracy (I'm still not a fan of that word) and she said I should just sign it because they weren't going to enforce it anyway. I didn't sign and didn't use the Internet at school that year, not a big loss as the only thing the computers were used for was seeing Yahoo.
Seems to me that it won't work because the Linksys router is putting his computer in a NAT'd network. Since the outgoing traffic is going through the modem instead of the Linksys the IP stack on the Linksys won't know what outgoing connections are open, and so it won't be able to route incoming traffic to the appropriate computer.
I could be completely wrong, though. That's for the mods to decide.
I know this is Slashdot, but can't we just once get a movie/music/video game story where someone doesn't post this? Can't we once get the idea that not everything in life is black and white, that video games can be fun and hacking on the consoles is really geeky even if Sony supports the DMCA or whatever "our" gripe with them is.
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Maybe I'm just naturally wary of people who force issues into "them" and "us" statements... but if that were true what would I be doing here on
I don't know who Eric Flint is, and I don't know who you are. You should care what he thinks if you think he makes good points. If he doesn't make a sound argument then just pass it off as part of Stugeon's 90%.
Famous people don't have a stranglehold on intelligent opinions, and judging from the famous people I've seen the opposite could be considered true.
Try Ogg Vorbis... it supports extensible metadata. ID3v2 supports it too, I think.
Sounds a lot like what the guys at Sputnik are doing.
You, uh, do realize that he can still be a pompous windbag who wouldn't know a good movie if it slapped him in the face, and still "get it" when it comes to (IMHO) fairly obvious intellectual property issues, right?
It's not like because Paul Vixie wrote cron I should trust his judgement in movies. Then again, I tend to agree with Ebert more than Roeper, so what do I know?
I know I'm a young whippersnapper, not part of the Bad Old Days(tm) when you had to route your own packets (or at least emails) by hand, but I think it would be foolish to say that OS X is not OpenStep 5.0. I mean, the Cocoa API calls all start with NS for a reason :)
And while we're renaming versions, can we call rename Windows 98 Second Edition to Windows 99? Since I prefer Perl to sed and awk, I guess that I would change Windows 2000 to Windows 19100.
Save your $360, this is no more legal than pirating the software. The software industry has made itself exempt from the right of first sale, which basicly says "If you bought it, you can sell it." Almost any software you get has license provisions that say you can't resell your software license.
I believe that there's currently "duck" legislation (If it looks like a sale and quacks like a sale...) on the horizon that would make software more like books in terms of what you can do with it, but I'm not very optimistic about it actually passing. I suspect that Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and the other heavyweights can buy enough politicos to nip it in the bud.
(2) Spammer sees .01% response rate drop to .0000001% response rate (finding open relays, spidering email addresses, etc). Looks at books and sees that he spent 10 hours getting everything together to spam. Additionally, he spends 30 hours dealing with people who call pretending to be interested, keep him on the line, and then say that their credit card number is "spammers suck." So he spent 40 hours and only sold one widget, that he gets a $5 profit on. Realizes that he could have made more money working 40 hours at Mcdonalds, and there are nicer customers to boot.
The reason people spam is the cost is low. Increase the cost of doing business and they will reevaluate.
Check out Space for multiple desktops. Not quite true multiple desktops but I can't imagine OS X without it.
http://www.thepoles.com/? Shouldn't it have been http://www.thepoles.aq/?
I celebrate my 15000000 minute mark and my 250000 mark on my brother's birthday in 2007. Pretty interesting coincidence IMHO.
Of course it will be ad free. Let's look at television and movies. When you watch regular, broadcast television the only way the broadcasters can recoup the cost is by running ads, much like Yahoo! does. But along comes cable TV and now we're paying to watch television. We all know there aren't any ads on cable TV, if there were people would complain loudly about paying twice and either the ads would cease or people would cancel their cable.
Similarly we are charged admission to go to the movies. Imagine if we had to sit through ads for snacks from the lobbies or upcomming movies, let alone dotcom and Mountain Dew ads, after plunking down $8.00 for a ticket to see the movie! What sane man wouldn't demand a refund from the manager and say "Good day" to that theater?
So of course Yahoo! will recognize that their subscription fees pay for the service and remove the ads. I shudder to think what kind of company would put profits ahead of their customers' experience.
Linux can be easy to use, just ask any TiVo owner. All he would need to do is set it up to launch Mozilla without making her log in, and dial her PPP connection as needed. He could even have Mozilla and the PPP dialer store their preferences on a VMU so that she could change them as needed.
Heck, Lik Sang sells a DC to PS/2 adapter so he could set her up with one of those nice wireless keyboards.
As for being powered off unexpectedly, I doubt that the OS will care, what with it being on read-only media. And as long as grandma doesn't turn off the DC while it's writing Mozilla or PPP prefs, then it should be fine.
The problem with this is that popular speech rarely needs to be defended. Protecting unpopular speech is the crux of the freedom of speech, and as such it will be very difficult to have a lovable hero. I guess that's why it's considered a fundamental right - so congress won't fuck with it. Or at least that's the theory.
Wow, software becoming a resalable good! Maybe if Microsoft settles "for the children" the schools will be able to sell the software they get and buy something they can use, like science books that discuss new topics like evolution and the fact that disease is not caused by evil spirits (Offer void in KS).
Quiet you! No one likes the facts to interfere with a good joke. Now repeat after me "Al Gore is a spoilsport. The Supreme Court didn't choose our president, the mandate of the masses did. George W. Bush understands concepts more complex than 'The badguys are evil, mmmmmkay?'"
Don't stereotype the US based on the comments of one troll. Notice the number of responses that say that this guy is a jackass... I imagine most of them came from the States.
Where's the fault in that logic? If you claim that system security isn't an anti-copyright protection device, I would claim ROT13 isn't one either and yet Skylarov is still under attack.
FWIW I agree that bugs should be discussed openly. I think that Alan is making a statement about the DMCA and I don't think we have the right to ask him to break the law for us. The proper response is to complain to your elected official about your company's computer security being threatened by the DMCA.
When exploits are outlawed only outlaws will have exploits.