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With revealing or embarrassing photos of people appearing on the Internet without their knowledge, locations around the nation have banned camera phones, including many health clubs and schools. Sensitive government and corporate buildings also are trying keep the phones out, and a handful of states are considering new laws to limit their use.
Sure that might work, but it won't stop a digital (or film) camera from operating. Have these places already banned them as well?
Actually I was thinking a mix of the two. Take his project but remove the el-cheapo duracell battery tester and replace with a VU meter or something similiar. A schematic similar to this would work, although either the voltage supplied would have to be upped or some resistors need to be changed on that schematic, either way it would work and actually look somewhat decent (and respond in realtime too!)
Put it on top of your stereo or in your cabinet and be the uber-geek (mine's right next to my PC so it makes sense:) Apologies for the image, it a few years old - when I used to actually run Windows.
Damages your hearding?? From the whining of hard drives? Noise levels from that can't be much above 55-60db (normal conversation). Freshman year I had a small SCSI system with 4 drives in one (10,000rpm and yes, no sides to the cases either) in addition to two other PC's in the room as well. I could barely hear the noise at all, especially with the music going.:) But realistically the noise level wasn't much above 45-50db with everything else off, quite insignificant compared to a lot of other everyday noises. I could easily see someone not liking that level of noise but I doubt it will damage your hearing.
Like a lot of other people, I find the white noise to be helpful when trying to relax - it drowns out the smaller and quieter inconsistant noises that you will hear (ie: mouse clicks and keystrokes). The human brain interprets the noise differently - it's random but consistant, therefore doesn't draw your attention to anything in particular as opposed to the mouse and keyboard clicks from a good game of Quake.
As for the monitor glare (I really really hate that), frosh year I had bunkbeds and luckily claimed the bottom bed. All I did was drape a fleece sheet down along the side of my bed from the top of the bed above me combined with a nice poster covering the opening by my feet, and bingo, no light noise made it in (the other two sides were against concrete walls). I grew rather fond of it actually - the sheet came in mad handy when you were in the bed with some chick and your roommate comes marching in without a knock.
I find that quite interesting... Perhaps I should give up2date a second look. I'll be honest I havn't used it much recently, when Fedora finally releases FC2 test1, I'll give it a shot and see how it works.
As for Synaptic, I actually have had little to no problems with its usage and am generally pleased so far.
Agreed... very rare (in my experience) that you'll find a uninstall target in the makefile, unfortunately.
That said, I think up2date is a pretty absymal package management system, last time I recall it doesn't even solve dependencies automatically, which is why I prefer APT (w/ Synaptic of course) for most things.
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And obviously you know SO much posting as an AC... coward.
Keep that attitude up and you're nagga... nagga.. naggonnaworkhereanymore.
No but seriously do you have a good point, people are going to lump us (I use "us" broadly) into a category anyway, no matter what the term we (or the public) coin. Just do your best, deal with the negative connotation people will give and try to stay out of federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison and you won't have too much to worry about.
I thought the US Marshalls posting for Mitnick was rather humorous... but Stallman's and Linus's images were somewhat decent though. If Gates was up there (thank God he isn't) then they definately need his mugshot as the picture.
I think they chose "crappy" pictures like that on purpose to help convey the old-school "hacker" image that was popular back in the day.
Oh, I am older than 25. I do remember my first PC. It was ~2MHz I think, a single 5.25" floppy, single density 360KiB formatted disks. MSDOS v5 or so, and 128KiB of RAM. Monochrome CGA display. Something along those lines, anyway, don't have exact spec. and I may be wrong about MSDOS version.
Yeah... I'd have to say you're definately wrong about that. MS-DOS 5.0 was released around the era of the 386DX/486 or so, can't recall exactly. I know I had a 486DX4 when Winblows 95 came out so it has to be somewhere around the time of the 386 when DOS v5 was out. If you were using DOS it was probably v1.0 or something close to that (that I definately don't remember very well).
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Amen to that.
He may be brilliant, but a brilliant business man - A man who knows how to work the system and make money, like most of coporate america::spit::... a far cry from the normal hacker.
That is a good idea... However my problem is I don't really have any major projects I'd like to keep the IP right to as of yet, but who knows for the future... I don't think 2872 would cover such a case.
That actually seems like a somewhat plausable outcome... Of course you might get fired for the results of the action but I'd bet it makes them change their fscking NDA around a little bit.
In my opinion, it's nothing short of absurd for a company to own all of your rights and IP during your time of employment, including off-hours.
I'd pretty much tell any company to go fuck themselves if they tried pulling that and I don't even do any devlopment (or other profitable activitied) worth anything. No worker should be subject to terms like this under any means - the only possible exception I can see is if the employee is making money on work related to his job and company of employment.
I don't think it's designed for the top of your car
Maybe it's not designed for the car... but I bet it'd be a kick-ass horn for your car in traffic - or maybe when that asshole cuts you off, let him know who's boss.
Don't think I'd ever want to be honked at by one of those, but it'd sure come in handy here in NJ.
I'm interested to hear which professor this is if you don't mind disclosing this information... I'm somewhat familiar with the Physics dept (almost got a minor in it)
I would have to agree with some of the other posts... Get an undergrad degree in CS or perhaps IT (I'd recommend CS) and then specialize in graduate school.
Depending upon how good your existing skills in CS are (I'm talking about mostly programming and general computer knowledge), I can recommend NJIT as a recent (2 weeks ago) BS in CS graduate. If you happen to live somewhere near the NYC metro area, it's not a bad education if you go in with a good background and don't mind teaching yourself when you can't understand the profs (that happens at most tech schools from what I hear). I thought it was rather easy but then again I started really programming in 2nd grade - most of my classmates wouldn't have agreed with me on the ease of the program though.::thinking to self::...Maybe I should have gone to MIT...
Price is reasonable and if you have high enough GPA/SAT scores you could apply for the Albert Dorman Honors College - they paid for almost my entire undergraduate tuition, but I must warn you it is a lot of work.
One bad thing I must say though is the quality of campus life - it fucking sucks. ~85% men here and as for the 10-15% left of women... well, you get the idea. However we are about 10 miles due west of the financial district of NYC, about a 30 minute train ride right to Penn Station and there's *plenty* to do in the city, so it' really up to you.
Firstly, I'd like to know who's ISP this guy is just so the Slashdot community is aware. Secondly, a recommendation would be to look into other companies providing broadband access - this policy is fairly absurd but not unheard of, unfortunately.
Background: I've used single CPU systems, HT systems, and SMP systems. I've taken courses on OS design and even in the process of writing my own. I'm quite familiar with the 80x86 32-bit instruction set and aware of the new 64-bit design as planned by AMD.
My $0.02 (this GREATLY SIMPLIFIED)
In the beginning there were CPUs. And CPUs were good.
Soon we realized the limitations and said.. Hey! Why not add another CPU and SMP was born.
SMP was good as well, however the additional cost was something of a deterrent for all but the power-users (and commercial applications of course).
Then Intel tried to develop a middle-ground, HyperThreading. It was a decent idea, however did not work quite as well as originally expected.
AMD does not use it for a reason
From my experience I see HT as a hack developed by Intel, trying to duplicate true SMP. Might work sometimes and in certain environments but it's been show to actually slow execution in some situations (cache thrashing). In addition, SMP systems have much better responsiveness than HT ones under a high CPU load.
Which is why AMD is working on multi-core CPUs. This is the *correct* way (at least in my opinion) to tackle the problem, asides from getting true multiple CPUs. More can be read about it here. This combined with the new 64-bit instruction set (read more about that at the above link) will truly create a new era of CPUs.
Oh let's not stop there, I can imagine this going one step further...
News Bulletin: This just in:
Due to the enormous amount of online piracy on the Internet today, Senate has passed a bill forcing ISP's to charge an additonal Internet tax for all customers to help recover the RIAA and MPAA's lost sales. You only have yourselves to blame for this. Be well.
Can't say I've ever tried MPC but I use Totem for DVD's on my Linux box... Works rather well, in fact I'm watching Back to the Future as we speak (should have gotten widescreen instead of fullscreen, damn).
I'd post a URL to find it, but I just use Synaptic for most things (can't imagine life without it). I've got version 0.99.8-2.fr.
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Actually I was thinking a mix of the two. Take his project but remove the el-cheapo duracell battery tester and replace with a VU meter or something similiar. A schematic similar to this would work, although either the voltage supplied would have to be upped or some resistors need to be changed on that schematic, either way it would work and actually look somewhat decent (and respond in realtime too!)
:) Apologies for the image, it a few years old - when I used to actually run Windows.
Put it on top of your stereo or in your cabinet and be the uber-geek (mine's right next to my PC so it makes sense
Damages your hearding?? From the whining of hard drives? Noise levels from that can't be much above 55-60db (normal conversation). Freshman year I had a small SCSI system with 4 drives in one (10,000rpm and yes, no sides to the cases either) in addition to two other PC's in the room as well. I could barely hear the noise at all, especially with the music going. :) But realistically the noise level wasn't much above 45-50db with everything else off, quite insignificant compared to a lot of other everyday noises. I could easily see someone not liking that level of noise but I doubt it will damage your hearing.
Like a lot of other people, I find the white noise to be helpful when trying to relax - it drowns out the smaller and quieter inconsistant noises that you will hear (ie: mouse clicks and keystrokes). The human brain interprets the noise differently - it's random but consistant, therefore doesn't draw your attention to anything in particular as opposed to the mouse and keyboard clicks from a good game of Quake.
As for the monitor glare (I really really hate that), frosh year I had bunkbeds and luckily claimed the bottom bed. All I did was drape a fleece sheet down along the side of my bed from the top of the bed above me combined with a nice poster covering the opening by my feet, and bingo, no light noise made it in (the other two sides were against concrete walls). I grew rather fond of it actually - the sheet came in mad handy when you were in the bed with some chick and your roommate comes marching in without a knock.
I find that quite interesting... Perhaps I should give up2date a second look. I'll be honest I havn't used it much recently, when Fedora finally releases FC2 test1, I'll give it a shot and see how it works.
As for Synaptic, I actually have had little to no problems with its usage and am generally pleased so far.
That said, I think up2date is a pretty absymal package management system, last time I recall it doesn't even solve dependencies automatically, which is why I prefer APT (w/ Synaptic of course) for most things.
And obviously you know SO much posting as an AC... coward.
Keep that attitude up and you're nagga... nagga.. naggonnaworkhereanymore.
No but seriously do you have a good point, people are going to lump us (I use "us" broadly) into a category anyway, no matter what the term we (or the public) coin. Just do your best, deal with the negative connotation people will give and try to stay out of federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison and you won't have too much to worry about.
I thought the US Marshalls posting for Mitnick was rather humorous... but Stallman's and Linus's images were somewhat decent though. If Gates was up there (thank God he isn't) then they definately need his mugshot as the picture.
I think they chose "crappy" pictures like that on purpose to help convey the old-school "hacker" image that was popular back in the day.
Amen to that.
::spit::... a far cry from the normal hacker.
He may be brilliant, but a brilliant business man - A man who knows how to work the system and make money, like most of coporate america
That is a good idea... However my problem is I don't really have any major projects I'd like to keep the IP right to as of yet, but who knows for the future... I don't think 2872 would cover such a case.
Yes, VERY GOOD point. MOD this up (I would but I already posted >:o).
Damn, I should move to CA then... :)
Surprized NY (and NJ somewhat too) doesn't have a similiar clause.
That actually seems like a somewhat plausable outcome... Of course you might get fired for the results of the action but I'd bet it makes them change their fscking NDA around a little bit.
In my opinion, it's nothing short of absurd for a company to own all of your rights and IP during your time of employment, including off-hours.
I'd pretty much tell any company to go fuck themselves if they tried pulling that and I don't even do any devlopment (or other profitable activitied) worth anything. No worker should be subject to terms like this under any means - the only possible exception I can see is if the employee is making money on work related to his job and company of employment.
Nah... That's not the problem. They just need to make it stronger - Tim Taylor should build one of these... I'd bet it'd dissipate a tornado.
Don't think I'd ever want to be honked at by one of those, but it'd sure come in handy here in NJ.
...Remember the episode when Bart lined up the 20 or so string of megaphones together at the police station?
I'm interested to hear which professor this is if you don't mind disclosing this information... I'm somewhat familiar with the Physics dept (almost got a minor in it)
I would have to agree with some of the other posts... Get an undergrad degree in CS or perhaps IT (I'd recommend CS) and then specialize in graduate school.
::thinking to self::...Maybe I should have gone to MIT...
Depending upon how good your existing skills in CS are (I'm talking about mostly programming and general computer knowledge), I can recommend NJIT as a recent (2 weeks ago) BS in CS graduate. If you happen to live somewhere near the NYC metro area, it's not a bad education if you go in with a good background and don't mind teaching yourself when you can't understand the profs (that happens at most tech schools from what I hear). I thought it was rather easy but then again I started really programming in 2nd grade - most of my classmates wouldn't have agreed with me on the ease of the program though.
Price is reasonable and if you have high enough GPA/SAT scores you could apply for the Albert Dorman Honors College - they paid for almost my entire undergraduate tuition, but I must warn you it is a lot of work.
One bad thing I must say though is the quality of campus life - it fucking sucks. ~85% men here and as for the 10-15% left of women... well, you get the idea. However we are about 10 miles due west of the financial district of NYC, about a 30 minute train ride right to Penn Station and there's *plenty* to do in the city, so it' really up to you.
I don't think your new pet fish/hamster/whathaveyou would like that very much...
Firstly, I'd like to know who's ISP this guy is just so the Slashdot community is aware. Secondly, a recommendation would be to look into other companies providing broadband access - this policy is fairly absurd but not unheard of, unfortunately.
Background: I've used single CPU systems, HT systems, and SMP systems. I've taken courses on OS design and even in the process of writing my own. I'm quite familiar with the 80x86 32-bit instruction set and aware of the new 64-bit design as planned by AMD.
My $0.02 (this GREATLY SIMPLIFIED)
In the beginning there were CPUs. And CPUs were good.
Soon we realized the limitations and said.. Hey! Why not add another CPU and SMP was born.
SMP was good as well, however the additional cost was something of a deterrent for all but the power-users (and commercial applications of course).
Then Intel tried to develop a middle-ground, HyperThreading. It was a decent idea, however did not work quite as well as originally expected. AMD does not use it for a reason
From my experience I see HT as a hack developed by Intel, trying to duplicate true SMP. Might work sometimes and in certain environments but it's been show to actually slow execution in some situations (cache thrashing). In addition, SMP systems have much better responsiveness than HT ones under a high CPU load.
Which is why AMD is working on multi-core CPUs. This is the *correct* way (at least in my opinion) to tackle the problem, asides from getting true multiple CPUs. More can be read about it here. This combined with the new 64-bit instruction set (read more about that at the above link) will truly create a new era of CPUs.
Oh let's not stop there, I can imagine this going one step further...
News Bulletin: This just in:
Due to the enormous amount of online piracy on the Internet today, Senate has passed a bill forcing ISP's to charge an additonal Internet tax for all customers to help recover the RIAA and MPAA's lost sales. You only have yourselves to blame for this. Be well.
I wouldn't be surprized...
Can't say I've ever tried MPC but I use Totem for DVD's on my Linux box... Works rather well, in fact I'm watching Back to the Future as we speak (should have gotten widescreen instead of fullscreen, damn).
I'd post a URL to find it, but I just use Synaptic for most things (can't imagine life without it). I've got version 0.99.8-2.fr.