...and he lives at the North Pole and would save the world from the impending moon.
The only physics Computer Science majors should comment on is maybe a brief discussion on the issues of electrons, physical limitations of spinning platters, and maybe what would happen if the dvd were to crash into the cd-rom.
If you haven't went to their site, check it out. They have an opinion on everything and it is usually one-sided. Here is capitalistic christiananity at its best.
I would be ashamed to spout of, in public, such nonsense. They really don't have a clue as to what a think-tank is for or what it does. They need to learn from RAND (http://www.rand.org/) or leave the thinking to the pros.
I am not going into detail but you can follow their off-white papers over the years and see who their biggest contributors were. I would even venture to guess that these guys are actually political wannabes who were either not accepted for idiocy or were kicked out for idiocy.
Have you considered co-locating a server. I've co-located a server with a local ISP, had all the bandwidth I could stand, and no questions asked about content, I even got to get so many hours a month back-end management (software installation and hardware installation). This for 300.00 a month which slaps the price of the t's in the face and it was no fuss to manage.
I agree and would add from the rank and file that the university would not only serve their own good but also that of other less fortunates by contacting the Attorney General.
An item that was brought up and is in every state's code and the federal code is the protection from unreasonable search and seizures. This protection, at the grassroots level, is mandated by a warrant or something along the lines of an immediate need of the agent...(frisk, stops, etc.). The situation with the school would require a warrant (there is no immediate threat of criminal activity).
Without the warrant their trespassing. The BSA is known for its underhandedness and use intimidation of legal action and far worse bad publicity. Guaranteed they have their own anti-public relations crew that will do anything to make the non-complier do their bidding.
I hope they don't roll over on this one. Someone needs to stand up for the little man as he watches his books burn in the street. I'm sorry that was from the 1930s, I digressed.
First there is the incident of vandalism. Like this or not it is against the law. The campus police work for the state or in VA's situation the common wealth and must uphold the law according to the laws of that state and for that matter by the laws of that state. There is usually a clause in the law that states something to the affect of the law enforcement entity's responsibility is to uphold the law by all means including criminal investigation. The police are yet again the target of ingnorance and are under scrutiny for doing their job.
The second item is the professor. I don't believe her. If there was not a search warrant then there is big trouble on the way for the entire department and the university and I can not see a Chief taking the risk of covering up the fact that there was not a search warrant. Search warrants aren't mysterious pieces of paper. They are legal documents that must have a signature outside of the law enforcement entity. Along with the signature of say a magistrate or a judge the document will note both the time and date of issue. With that said I will restate that I simply do not believe her. It seems to me that she was doing an awful lot of stalling, back-up files, on vacation, I deleted the e-mail, etc. I will grant you this she may be unfairly targeted but afterall she is the leader of women's rights on campus. If I was in the investigator's shoes my feet would hurt and I would have that department and those students that are most active in it at the top of my list of suspects.
The third side of the coin is the University itself. I don't know where the rest of you have been over the last ten years but intellectual property rights are forsaken for a position at the university level. The feeling is if you use their facility and their time and get paid by them your work is theirs. This has led to many gripes and grumbles but I can trace it back to penicillin (sp.?). The University of Indianna held (still holds?) the patent for it. Did the university discover it? Did the university employ the British scientist that discovered it? The answer is no. But they held the 'intellectual rights' to it and maybe still do. Intellectual rights are not the only grievance facing professors these days. With the flood of professors tenure is becoming a thing of the past. I have to agree with a number of/. posters that argued the university had the right to do whatever they wanted with the computer. Just as they have the right to move her office or replace her trashcan or read her e-mail. The privacy issue is a whole can of worms but for now, right now, the professor had to sign a consent that in affect stating she should expect no privacy and the university could access her account and for that matter their computer. There is a way around the intellectual rights, privacy, etc. and that is in the form of a contract or in the contract for gaining tenure.
I am not a deviant but I can think of a million ways to avoid the entire situation. The first would be to go back to school and get a law degree if you don't like the laws. The second would be to get a biology degree. The third would be to avoid supporting vandalism. The fourth would be to keep the mouth shut and the eyes open and just maybe you can see what's behind the big bright light in front of you as you enter the tunnel.
This story is about the possibility of Bin Laden dying from the same thing.
More medical news...
We've all heard the stories concerning Nazi's and their use of medical experiments in the death camps. One of the major beneficiaries to this was the Bayer Company, a German owned, medicinal guru. Being a student of Nietzsche I understand that there is nothing stronger than the tenacity of the German people, but its been over 50 years and this
story provides proof that they are still as bitter as their medicine about getting a can of whup-arse opened up on them.
I know this is really not "technically" related but I wonder if they pulled the rant off of their front page concerning the "alleged" security risk while using their software/network and the indignant stance that the allegations were false?
Quantifiable contribution is a quandry that should have never arisen.
I have no respect for human resources and believe that those few empty seats on the proverbial bus load of lawyers should be filled by human resource "professionals".
I have no respect for human resources because as soon as you develop a "system" for screening applicants or employees it is doomed to failure. Human resources should have nothing to do with deciding what the structure of a team is. The whole essence of a team is based upon one thing, achieving a common goal. And the last time I looked human resources did not contribute anything except mandatory orientation to the company. They do however have the added responsibility of maintaining a list of all the racial and sexist categories of all their employees and strive to fill their quota so that the company looks good. In short, the hr department is only there because of the regulations imposed by the government which takes them away from scouting for quality talent.
In light of titles and designations I would approach a description that is centered on the concept of say, football. You have a project leader, quarterback for offense and linebacker for defense, special teams have been purposely left out for brevity. At this level the project leaders do not pick the team. The coaches pick the team and the captains drive the project. The human resources department, in this scenario make up the talent scouts, no more.
If you were to take this a step further then the answer to your question is somewhere in between. The quarterback is the team leader, he might be called on to run the ball or in some special situations he may act as a receiver. The half back might be a halfback in this formation but he might move out to become eligible to receive in another or a third area of "expertise" might arise and he might have to fill the fullbacks shoes.
More specifically, I like the comments so far that chose a generic title with many different job descriptions. And forget (explicative removed) the human resource department because they need to be scouting for talent. If this is not so then they are probably friends or relatives of some of the coaches and they think they run the team. Let's see them get run down by eleven guys who more than double their size.
In Bradenton, FL., (1-Hour South of Tampa) ClearAccess has had wireless broadband for the downtown community for a little over a year.
It's not and probably never will be publicly supported if I know both the City of Bradenton politics and ClearAccess. But, having the infrastructure already in place paves the way for other local governments to go with publicly owned networks. The City of Thomasville is a prime example of a publicly owned network (www.rose.net). E-mail me if you want that story.
Here's hoping it never snows in Tallahassee.
That brings up a question, I am sure that it snows pretty regularly in Canada. Doesn't atmospheric interference (ie. snow, rain, fog) wreak havoc on the propagation of the wireless signal?
If you do not merit exploration then can you explain to me what the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence? Could it have been, say a settlement or two, started by explorers? God forbid. And just when did we decide that moving off the coast was a good idea could it have been when the explorers, Lewis and Clark, came back? Alah forbid.
Yes, NASsA, has made mistakes and pursued failure at an expensive rate but can you really say that exploring new ground, terra inconita, is anything short of a human requirement? Would you have every scientist in the world devote their time to cancer? What happens if I don't like working with disease and sick human beings?
You might want to consider yourself an in the closet "searcher for life out there" I say this because you reviewed both links and not only that but you read every word.
Tell me about leaping. I suppose you thought this up all by your-self? Oh, wait a minute I think I have this brochure here, wait, it says something about P. Robertson, no wait, well I can't make it out seeing that I spilled my beer all over it.
No worries though, I've got the propraganda(sp?), I mean literature right here, archived on slashdot. Thanks.
Now where did I put my girly-magazine? Oh, here it is under my Dungeons and Dragons book, which are right next to my copies of The Hobbit and the text book on Evolution.
If popular opinion is not a basis for morality then where in the world, or off world (just to keep track with the thread), does morality come from.
Did I miss the session with the great morality maker on the mountain?
Morality IS popular opinion. There once was a time a long long time ago that believed women should not vote and they were treated as property. These were considered popular opinion and at that time, a long long long time ago, these were considered moral.
You may ask how long ago? Yesterday, my friend. It is probably happening today as I write this. It is just a matter of location.
Or do you subscribe to your beliefs as being the only source of morality for the planet? If so then I will enjoy my amorality.
The only alternative is to not ever pay for a web-site. However, this is the way that I see it.
I will pay for my ISP just like I would pay for my telephone service. There are some services on the net I will pay for, like I pay for my long-distance use of the phone.
But, I don't pay for psychic readings, *69, information, or other services. There are always, work-arounds. For instance, I bought a deck of tarot cards and I made a friend that I can call for those other late at night telephone services and its a local number.
So, I don't see the scheme of paying for web sites very effective but Bill Gates didn't see the need for more than 512 Kb of memory either.
First, I like the way that you present your point-of-view, to-the-point and unabashed.
I like that. I for one think that this communication here, in a public forum, can be used against me without any supervision.
We can all agree to that. However, I do not support the idea that because the internet is inherently "public" an individual or individuals have the right to "monitor" my web whereabouts including e-mail without the supervision.
In studying criminal law we were taught that the officer had a responsibility to establish, not only probable cause, but, also, the reasonableness of their presence prior to establishing probable cause.
The officer couldn't use evidence obtained even though probable cause had been established because he had no right to be there. In short, the officers were stalking the perp, without probable cause, to get probable cause and then to affect the arrest.
There is a reasonable expectation for privacy concerning my e-mail. My ISP hasn't anymore of a right to release my personal information to pre-spammers than it does to read my personal correspondences to a friend. Just because someone can doesn't make it a right.
If someone has the right to intercept and read my e-mail then who's to say someone at my ISP doesn't have a right to access my personal computer while I am submitting this response?
As far as e-mail being viewable by the employer it is legal if you sign away your rights, to a point.
And when all else fails and you are going to write anything incriminating remember, right before you click submit, the words of my father, "Keep your mouth shut, boy."
This will be applicable when(if) it makes it to the Supreme Court. Federal Law establishes the minimum what about the state and local laws that this story is about?
I do like to see consistency. First there is the screaming part and I was a little dissed myself but then I saw that the second "isn't" should of been an aren't or at least ain't I relaxed remembering an old axiom I learned in school, "If you're going to get it wrong at least do it consistently."
Very good point. Did you notice that the company, allegedly, "found" the patent after the British patent had run out. In the latter part of the article the CEO said they're not worried about the publicity. I wonder if this is a way for free publicity on their part and they're not worried about the patent at all or if the company is in dire financial straits and they were looking for some good sources of capital.
With any way you look at I think the Second Revolutionary War is being declared and they're just looking for another whupping.
I have heard some lu-lus in my time but this definitely takes the cake. I think MS is plagued with this kind of stuff. Didn't Bill G. state something along the lines of, "there will never be a need for more than 512k worth of memory"?
Paul Thurott wrote, " But Linux is not used on nearly as many real world systems as Windows."
What I want to know is where does Paul get his numbers? What does "real world systems" mean? Is he brash enough to call this box in my home a real world system or is he referring to the server I am connected to?
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...and he lives at the North Pole and would save the world from the impending moon.
The only physics Computer Science majors should comment on is maybe a brief discussion on the issues of electrons, physical limitations of spinning platters, and maybe what would happen if the dvd were to crash into the cd-rom.
If you haven't went to their site, check it out. They have an opinion on everything and it is usually one-sided. Here is capitalistic christiananity at its best.
I would be ashamed to spout of, in public, such nonsense. They really don't have a clue as to what a think-tank is for or what it does. They need to learn from RAND (http://www.rand.org/) or leave the thinking to the pros.
I am not going into detail but you can follow their off-white papers over the years and see who their biggest contributors were. I would even venture to guess that these guys are actually political wannabes who were either not accepted for idiocy or were kicked out for idiocy.
I agree and would add from the rank and file that the university would not only serve their own good but also that of other less fortunates by contacting the Attorney General.
An item that was brought up and is in every state's code and the federal code is the protection from unreasonable search and seizures. This protection, at the grassroots level, is mandated by a warrant or something along the lines of an immediate need of the agent...(frisk, stops, etc.). The situation with the school would require a warrant (there is no immediate threat of criminal activity).
Without the warrant their trespassing. The BSA is known for its underhandedness and use intimidation of legal action and far worse bad publicity. Guaranteed they have their own anti-public relations crew that will do anything to make the non-complier do their bidding.
I hope they don't roll over on this one. Someone needs to stand up for the little man as he watches his books burn in the street. I'm sorry that was from the 1930s, I digressed.
First there is the incident of vandalism. Like this or not it is against the law. The campus police work for the state or in VA's situation the common wealth and must uphold the law according to the laws of that state and for that matter by the laws of that state. There is usually a clause in the law that states something to the affect of the law enforcement entity's responsibility is to uphold the law by all means including criminal investigation. The police are yet again the target of ingnorance and are under scrutiny for doing their job. The second item is the professor. I don't believe her. If there was not a search warrant then there is big trouble on the way for the entire department and the university and I can not see a Chief taking the risk of covering up the fact that there was not a search warrant. Search warrants aren't mysterious pieces of paper. They are legal documents that must have a signature outside of the law enforcement entity. Along with the signature of say a magistrate or a judge the document will note both the time and date of issue. With that said I will restate that I simply do not believe her. It seems to me that she was doing an awful lot of stalling, back-up files, on vacation, I deleted the e-mail, etc. I will grant you this she may be unfairly targeted but afterall she is the leader of women's rights on campus. If I was in the investigator's shoes my feet would hurt and I would have that department and those students that are most active in it at the top of my list of suspects. The third side of the coin is the University itself. I don't know where the rest of you have been over the last ten years but intellectual property rights are forsaken for a position at the university level. The feeling is if you use their facility and their time and get paid by them your work is theirs. This has led to many gripes and grumbles but I can trace it back to penicillin (sp.?). The University of Indianna held (still holds?) the patent for it. Did the university discover it? Did the university employ the British scientist that discovered it? The answer is no. But they held the 'intellectual rights' to it and maybe still do. Intellectual rights are not the only grievance facing professors these days. With the flood of professors tenure is becoming a thing of the past. I have to agree with a number of /. posters that argued the university had the right to do whatever they wanted with the computer. Just as they have the right to move her office or replace her trashcan or read her e-mail. The privacy issue is a whole can of worms but for now, right now, the professor had to sign a consent that in affect stating she should expect no privacy and the university could access her account and for that matter their computer. There is a way around the intellectual rights, privacy, etc. and that is in the form of a contract or in the contract for gaining tenure.
I am not a deviant but I can think of a million ways to avoid the entire situation. The first would be to go back to school and get a law degree if you don't like the laws. The second would be to get a biology degree. The third would be to avoid supporting vandalism. The fourth would be to keep the mouth shut and the eyes open and just maybe you can see what's behind the big bright light in front of you as you enter the tunnel.
More medical news...
We've all heard the stories concerning Nazi's and their use of medical experiments in the death camps. One of the major beneficiaries to this was the Bayer Company, a German owned, medicinal guru. Being a student of Nietzsche I understand that there is nothing stronger than the tenacity of the German people, but its been over 50 years and this story provides proof that they are still as bitter as their medicine about getting a can of whup-arse opened up on them.
Wow I suppose my latency wasn't all that bad with counter-strike...
Wow Pioneer is 30, I am a little over that and I almost share a birthday with her and we also talk to our family once a year...=)
I know this is really not "technically" related but I wonder if they pulled the rant off of their front page concerning the "alleged" security risk while using their software/network and the indignant stance that the allegations were false?
I have no respect for human resources and believe that those few empty seats on the proverbial bus load of lawyers should be filled by human resource "professionals".
I have no respect for human resources because as soon as you develop a "system" for screening applicants or employees it is doomed to failure. Human resources should have nothing to do with deciding what the structure of a team is. The whole essence of a team is based upon one thing, achieving a common goal. And the last time I looked human resources did not contribute anything except mandatory orientation to the company. They do however have the added responsibility of maintaining a list of all the racial and sexist categories of all their employees and strive to fill their quota so that the company looks good. In short, the hr department is only there because of the regulations imposed by the government which takes them away from scouting for quality talent.
In light of titles and designations I would approach a description that is centered on the concept of say, football. You have a project leader, quarterback for offense and linebacker for defense, special teams have been purposely left out for brevity. At this level the project leaders do not pick the team. The coaches pick the team and the captains drive the project. The human resources department, in this scenario make up the talent scouts, no more.
If you were to take this a step further then the answer to your question is somewhere in between. The quarterback is the team leader, he might be called on to run the ball or in some special situations he may act as a receiver. The half back might be a halfback in this formation but he might move out to become eligible to receive in another or a third area of "expertise" might arise and he might have to fill the fullbacks shoes.
More specifically, I like the comments so far that chose a generic title with many different job descriptions. And forget (explicative removed) the human resource department because they need to be scouting for talent. If this is not so then they are probably friends or relatives of some of the coaches and they think they run the team. Let's see them get run down by eleven guys who more than double their size.
It's not and probably never will be publicly supported if I know both the City of Bradenton politics and ClearAccess. But, having the infrastructure already in place paves the way for other local governments to go with publicly owned networks. The City of Thomasville is a prime example of a publicly owned network (www.rose.net). E-mail me if you want that story.
Here's hoping it never snows in Tallahassee. That brings up a question, I am sure that it snows pretty regularly in Canada. Doesn't atmospheric interference (ie. snow, rain, fog) wreak havoc on the propagation of the wireless signal?
Pauling was into heavy metal?
God
If you do not merit exploration then can you explain to me what the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence? Could it have been, say a settlement or two, started by explorers? God forbid. And just when did we decide that moving off the coast was a good idea could it have been when the explorers, Lewis and Clark, came back? Alah forbid.
Yes, NASsA, has made mistakes and pursued failure at an expensive rate but can you really say that exploring new ground, terra inconita, is anything short of a human requirement? Would you have every scientist in the world devote their time to cancer? What happens if I don't like working with disease and sick human beings?
Are you from England?
Have a cup of coffee or get some sleep.
Your 1080'n my 540, man.
You might want to consider yourself an in the closet "searcher for life out there" I say this because you reviewed both links and not only that but you read every word.
oops did I say that?
No worries though, I've got the propraganda(sp?), I mean literature right here, archived on slashdot. Thanks.
Now where did I put my girly-magazine? Oh, here it is under my Dungeons and Dragons book, which are right next to my copies of The Hobbit and the text book on Evolution.
Talk to the hand.
Did I miss the session with the great morality maker on the mountain?
Morality IS popular opinion. There once was a time a long long time ago that believed women should not vote and they were treated as property. These were considered popular opinion and at that time, a long long long time ago, these were considered moral.
You may ask how long ago? Yesterday, my friend. It is probably happening today as I write this. It is just a matter of location.
Or do you subscribe to your beliefs as being the only source of morality for the planet? If so then I will enjoy my amorality.
It is all relative.
I will pay for my ISP just like I would pay for my telephone service. There are some services on the net I will pay for, like I pay for my long-distance use of the phone.
But, I don't pay for psychic readings, *69, information, or other services. There are always, work-arounds. For instance, I bought a deck of tarot cards and I made a friend that I can call for those other late at night telephone services and its a local number.
So, I don't see the scheme of paying for web sites very effective but Bill Gates didn't see the need for more than 512 Kb of memory either.
First, I like the way that you present your point-of-view, to-the-point and unabashed.
I like that. I for one think that this communication here, in a public forum, can be used against me without any supervision. We can all agree to that. However, I do not support the idea that because the internet is inherently "public" an individual or individuals have the right to "monitor" my web whereabouts including e-mail without the supervision.
In studying criminal law we were taught that the officer had a responsibility to establish, not only probable cause, but, also, the reasonableness of their presence prior to establishing probable cause. The officer couldn't use evidence obtained even though probable cause had been established because he had no right to be there. In short, the officers were stalking the perp, without probable cause, to get probable cause and then to affect the arrest.
There is a reasonable expectation for privacy concerning my e-mail. My ISP hasn't anymore of a right to release my personal information to pre-spammers than it does to read my personal correspondences to a friend. Just because someone can doesn't make it a right.
If someone has the right to intercept and read my e-mail then who's to say someone at my ISP doesn't have a right to access my personal computer while I am submitting this response?
As far as e-mail being viewable by the employer it is legal if you sign away your rights, to a point.
And when all else fails and you are going to write anything incriminating remember, right before you click submit, the words of my father, "Keep your mouth shut, boy."
This will be applicable when(if) it makes it to the Supreme Court. Federal Law establishes the minimum what about the state and local laws that this story is about?
I do like to see consistency. First there is the screaming part and I was a little dissed myself but then I saw that the second "isn't" should of been an aren't or at least ain't I relaxed remembering an old axiom I learned in school, "If you're going to get it wrong at least do it consistently."
Slashdot has a new advertisement.
Very good point. Did you notice that the company, allegedly, "found" the patent after the British patent had run out. In the latter part of the article the CEO said they're not worried about the publicity. I wonder if this is a way for free publicity on their part and they're not worried about the patent at all or if the company is in dire financial straits and they were looking for some good sources of capital.
With any way you look at I think the Second Revolutionary War is being declared and they're just looking for another whupping.
"Damn the torpedoes, full processor speed ahead!"
I have heard some lu-lus in my time but this definitely takes the cake. I think MS is plagued with this kind of stuff. Didn't Bill G. state something along the lines of, "there will never be a need for more than 512k worth of memory"?
Paul Thurott wrote, " But Linux is not used on nearly as many real world systems as Windows."
What I want to know is where does Paul get his numbers? What does "real world systems" mean? Is he brash enough to call this box in my home a real world system or is he referring to the server I am connected to?