One of my rationales for participating in P2P is that bits aren't worth anything, so why should I pay for them?
I argue that if a musician wants to make money off their music they should come to my town and sing and dance in person.
I personally don't want to pay 250 dollars (or 2.5 dollars even) to see Madonna sing and dance, but at least she's charging for something that she is uniquely qualified to produce. In this sense she is justified in charging whatever she'd like.
Look we fuck around when it comes to Linux, we bullshit all day about open source this and open source that, we hate microsoft, blah blah blah, but god dammit if Bram goes down it's time for a REVOLUTION!
No I WILL NOT fix your spyware infested pile of shit computer your honor! FREE BRAM!
NO I WILL NOT develop your website, THE MAN! FREE BRAM!
No I WILL NOT IMPLEMENT this or that technology for you MR FUCKING GOVERNMENT! FREE BRAM!
I remember DefCon V in 1997. Winn and I were drinking at the bar in the hotel's (the old Alladin) casino. I can confirm through first-hand conversation with him that a) he is not interested in anything remotely technical and b) his understanding of computer security related matters is pedestrian at best. He was definitely more interested in talking about the speculation that Martians/aliens/UFOs are a government conspiracy inteneded to delude the masses about the origins of its super-weapons.
Aliens and being pedestrian explains the Mac thing. (duck!)
But I had lost all respect for him before that, when his "expert" website infowar.com or whatever was nothing but a compilation of other stuff, and nothing original.
When we were kids we used to "play Star Wars", which is a kind of no-fee intellectual property union we entered unto with Lucasfilm whereby our imaginations were ignited in exchange for our fealty as future consumers.
But ask anyone engineering computing services in the central IT organization at a largish university which department annoys them the most and the answer will be the business school.
Libraries are trending towards more collaboration with central IT departments. Look at the Information Commons phenomenon - the ones that fail are staffed exclusively by Library Technical Services. And it is a problem if the Library director/dean doesn't have a working relationship with the CIO. Next time the library tries to deploy the newest catalog software or expland the largest lab on campus they will, in my observation, not hesitate to work with academic/administrative computing. Business school deans, generally, don't give a fuck about the CIO.
broke into an insecure computer, and probably downloaded the access database that was used to store some personal info
This is nothing but the result of bad network policy.
Where is the future in CS? In the natural sciences schools or engineering? If I had to do it over again I'd pick EE over CS for sure. I can write a device driver and I have an American Studies degree for pete's sake. And if I wanted to manage technical people (and I do if I want more than three promotions), I'd pick MIS over CS.
this is a problem on many college campuses, and it serves them right. not that anyone deserves to be a victim of a crime, but a refusal to participate in enterprise computing along with the rest of the campus and guided by central IT is nothing but an ego/power trip for business school administrators
the famed EFNet server piglet.cc.utexas.edu (now-defunct) used to greet chatters with an MOTD that included "Welcome to the University of Texas 'I Repeat Class' (IRC) server!"
Consider everyone else as an idiot.
This doesn't have anything to do with SP2. "My internet's broken" calls will come in even if the world migrated to Slackware and gained a double degrees in EE/CS. Fact is help desk staff need a vacation any week they can get it, but this week mentioned in TFA won't impact them beyond normalcy.
You won't have a support nightmare if you upgrade to SP2, unless your homegrown apps suffer with compatibility issues (then it's your fault anyway!). The built-in firewall is particularly straightforward. If I had a nickel for every time it prompted me to interact with it I'd have nothing! A secretary shouldn't be running MS SQL Server 2000 on his workstation anyway. And for the little troublesome apps that end users love but admins loathe (like gotomypc.com or AIM), Windows XP firewall won't block them or override your enterprise policies.
Let's lighten up a bit.
No need for a vacation inept geeks, you can turn off Automatic Updates with group policy and you can block the windowsupdate.com site at the firewall. That is, if you *really* don't want SP2.. which IMHO seems to be (relatively!) quite stable and secure.
Wow. I wish I had seen this thread right before I shipped off to college. Really mostly good advice.
Anyway, I recommend getting some outside work experience. Work on-campus or off - just make sure whoever reads your resume doesn't ask, "What have they been doing the past five years?"
I came in as a CS major, switched to liberal arts three semesters in. I got a job due to my on-campus work experience in academic computing center, not the degree. Last month, a year out of school, I interviewed a candidate who had a CS degree from the same large public university (he even graduated the same day I did), but I didn't hire him. I'd been working for 6 months, been promoted and started my 401k and he's still interviewing. Maybe because the only interesting thing he did was spend a lazy summer interning in silicon valley.
You're simply being unfair. It's your right to choose what's displayed on your monitor, but there are certain rules of ethics that you should follow. Nothing is free. Taco and company have to PAY for these resources. You're using them up for free.
This is silly. Ethics don't enter in to this equation! Apathy and laziness do, if I don't care to spend the time and effort to manage what appears on my screen. Altruism does, when I choose to view ads to help sites I like. But make no mistake: it is
not unethical to somehow disable/. ads.
I guess you would never fast-forward thru commercials with your TiVo. That would be harmful to NBC and that would be unethical!
More evil MSFT news: MSFT has agreed to pay $100,000 (chump change, right?) to MSN subscribers unable to cancel their accounts because of billing snafus, according to this article.
don't forget this
and there exist tools like wpoison (the better one i came across while googlewhacking escapes me) that do exactly what you're talking about
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Writing source code is craft, making source code executable is engineering.
One of my rationales for participating in P2P is that bits aren't worth anything, so why should I pay for them?
I argue that if a musician wants to make money off their music they should come to my town and sing and dance in person.
I personally don't want to pay 250 dollars (or 2.5 dollars even) to see Madonna sing and dance, but at least she's charging for something that she is uniquely qualified to produce. In this sense she is justified in charging whatever she'd like.
Look we fuck around when it comes to Linux, we bullshit all day about open source this and open source that, we hate microsoft, blah blah blah, but god dammit if Bram goes down it's time for a REVOLUTION!
No I WILL NOT fix your spyware infested pile of shit computer your honor! FREE BRAM!
NO I WILL NOT develop your website, THE MAN! FREE BRAM!
No I WILL NOT IMPLEMENT this or that technology for you MR FUCKING GOVERNMENT! FREE BRAM!
FREE BRAM FREE BRAM FREE BRAM
IANAD so I don't know the effect of vascular problems on vein patterns
This is somewhat novel and cool because:
a) there need not be any physical contact twixt the biometric reader and the individual - unlike with fingerprint scanners - defintely more hygenic
b) as a previous poster mentioned, it doesn't work if the hand is severed
c) fingerprints may be scarred, burned, or otherwise mutilated
I mean, if you're gonna put people through biometric authentication, you might as well do it right, right?
That's stupid. I woulndn't pay an ISP that had those policies.
I remember DefCon V in 1997. Winn and I were drinking at the bar in the hotel's (the old Alladin) casino. I can confirm through first-hand conversation with him that a) he is not interested in anything remotely technical and b) his understanding of computer security related matters is pedestrian at best. He was definitely more interested in talking about the speculation that Martians/aliens/UFOs are a government conspiracy inteneded to delude the masses about the origins of its super-weapons.
Aliens and being pedestrian explains the Mac thing. (duck!)
But I had lost all respect for him before that, when his "expert" website infowar.com or whatever was nothing but a compilation of other stuff, and nothing original.
... an interesting quote from the author of Darthside:
When we were kids we used to "play Star Wars", which is a kind of no-fee intellectual property union we entered unto with Lucasfilm whereby our imaginations were ignited in exchange for our fealty as future consumers.
Evil Majority, Spineless Minority.
Unless of course, it's a relatively meaningless political appointment.
Welcome to the United States Senate.
On behalf of all geeks who earn an excellent living cleaning spyware/adware: Keep 'em coming!
But ask anyone engineering computing services in the central IT organization at a largish university which department annoys them the most and the answer will be the business school.
Libraries are trending towards more collaboration with central IT departments. Look at the Information Commons phenomenon - the ones that fail are staffed exclusively by Library Technical Services. And it is a problem if the Library director/dean doesn't have a working relationship with the CIO. Next time the library tries to deploy the newest catalog software or expland the largest lab on campus they will, in my observation, not hesitate to work with academic/administrative computing. Business school deans, generally, don't give a fuck about the CIO.
broke into an insecure computer, and probably downloaded the access database that was used to store some personal info
This is nothing but the result of bad network policy.
Where is the future in CS? In the natural sciences schools or engineering? If I had to do it over again I'd pick EE over CS for sure. I can write a device driver and I have an American Studies degree for pete's sake. And if I wanted to manage technical people (and I do if I want more than three promotions), I'd pick MIS over CS.
the buisness school is almost its own entity
this is a problem on many college campuses, and it serves them right. not that anyone deserves to be a victim of a crime, but a refusal to participate in enterprise computing along with the rest of the campus and guided by central IT is nothing but an ego/power trip for business school administrators
the famed EFNet server piglet.cc.utexas.edu (now-defunct) used to greet chatters with an MOTD that included "Welcome to the University of Texas 'I Repeat Class' (IRC) server!"
Fanboy Radio download the mp3s with bitpass and stick em on your ipod... Highly recommended!!!!
Consider everyone else as an idiot. This doesn't have anything to do with SP2. "My internet's broken" calls will come in even if the world migrated to Slackware and gained a double degrees in EE/CS. Fact is help desk staff need a vacation any week they can get it, but this week mentioned in TFA won't impact them beyond normalcy.
You won't have a support nightmare if you upgrade to SP2, unless your homegrown apps suffer with compatibility issues (then it's your fault anyway!). The built-in firewall is particularly straightforward. If I had a nickel for every time it prompted me to interact with it I'd have nothing! A secretary shouldn't be running MS SQL Server 2000 on his workstation anyway. And for the little troublesome apps that end users love but admins loathe (like gotomypc.com or AIM), Windows XP firewall won't block them or override your enterprise policies. Let's lighten up a bit.
No need for a vacation inept geeks, you can turn off Automatic Updates with group policy and you can block the windowsupdate.com site at the firewall. That is, if you *really* don't want SP2.. which IMHO seems to be (relatively!) quite stable and secure.
Wow. I wish I had seen this thread right before I shipped off to college. Really mostly good advice.
Anyway, I recommend getting some outside work experience. Work on-campus or off - just make sure whoever reads your resume doesn't ask, "What have they been doing the past five years?"
I came in as a CS major, switched to liberal arts three semesters in. I got a job due to my on-campus work experience in academic computing center, not the degree. Last month, a year out of school, I interviewed a candidate who had a CS degree from the same large public university (he even graduated the same day I did), but I didn't hire him. I'd been working for 6 months, been promoted and started my 401k and he's still interviewing. Maybe because the only interesting thing he did was spend a lazy summer interning in silicon valley.
Granted. I guess my point isn't about financial loss; it's about the ethics of personal choices about information intake.
More evil MSFT news: MSFT has agreed to pay $100,000 (chump change, right?) to MSN subscribers unable to cancel their accounts because of billing snafus, according to this article.
don't forget this
and there exist tools like wpoison (the better one i came across while googlewhacking escapes me) that do exactly what you're talking about