I spent a few months on a 1.5meg DSL last year and it was awful. Where it was particularly bad (or at least noticable to "average" users) was streaming youtube videos. It would get very unhappy sometimes...with youtube pushing out more and more higher quality content, streaming with a slow connection will drive consumers to complain. The girls I was living with did not seem to care about the speed too much but streaming would only have to get a little bit worse before I imagine they might star to say wtf...of course our building's phone wiring couldn't handle anything faster (despite having a fancy breakout box right outside the door and the AT&T office within walking distance) and comcast's standard rate was 3x what we paid (although for 10x the speed)
While I will admit that the enterprise support offered by the big providers is great, I would image that if apple were to start marketing to businesses, they would roll out that level of support really fast.
That being said, by the time you are large enough to have 80-100 mac users in addition to windows users, don't you have hot spares? You shouldn't have to wait 3 weeks for a laptop because you just take it to IT and they swap it for a spare from their inventory and then send your old system in for service (to become another spare system when it gets back)
No, you are shooting the result of the huntdown which is really only bad for the hunter if he comes up empty handed (and wants to keep his hands intact)
I have nokia sports tracker on my phone (its great...I wish nokia pushed more stuff like this in the US instead of being provider lapdogs and disabling all useful features). It has an export to web function where you can see my route taken as well as stats like speed and elevation change...nice google maps overlays and charts of various things (apparently some phones even support bluetooth heartrate monitors).
When I upload to the service, it has an option to include any media which well then include any pictures I took with the phone while using the sports tracker (cycling in my case usually). To get it to pick up the photos though, I do have to be running the GPS tagger app in the background (so I can keep my pictures untagged by not actively running the app)
Hate it when this happens. I remember I had class during my first year and the pile of papers was divided between the teacher and the TA for grading. It worked out that every other paper of mine was graded by the professor...this would be ok except the TA and professor were polar opposites. I would get comments on a paper, try to follow them in the next paper only to have them graded by the other person who would mark me down and tell me to do the opposite. It took me until the end of the quarter to figure out what was going on...I ended up with a different professor for the next quarter and the grading was consistent so I couldn't really take advantage of the disparity.
I instead prefer if grading is kept tied to the same person...either by having one TA stick with a group of people for the entire course (and then correct for any systematic score gaps when assigning final grades) or have each TA grade a single part of each persons work (works for short answer/multiple choice...not so much for papers or long/single prompt exams)
Most companies I have experience with are still buying corporate line laptops...something like a thinkpad or an HP Elitebook. They are not buying weird bargain basement crap or even cheap dells (though some of dell's business systems suck too).
The purchasing budgets could certainly support buying macbooks for everyone...especially considering apples often have a slightly longer usable lifespan and/or a higher resale value (I've bought dirt cheap lease return IBMs and stuff...my 12" ibook g4 still has a decent ebay price on it).
Yeah but do you have any idea how scary it would be to keep any sum of money that was actually worth saving in a paypal account?
I can see something like returning a $100 ebay purchase and being too lazy to initiate the transfer back to your bank account (since you would eventually spend it anyways)..if they should randomly shut you down you are not out very much. But if you had the kind of money that is worth hiding....
I always use the program that ubuntu provides to make live usb ubuntu installs (unetbootin or something). It has an option to use any ISO rather than pulling down the ubuntu files.
It's not great though (it likes to stop in the middle and you have no way of knowing if it is just going slow or has crashed)...I'll have to give this a try.
Code that is not very robust however seems quite common. This code is not being packaged up and sold to a customer who might try to feed a picture of their pet dog in as an input to a climate model so the code doesn't have to check to make sure. The scientist running it is making his own check on the input or the input is being checked somewhere else. Good code is always better...but lets not kid ourselves and pretend that every little program is fully commented, sanitizes inputs, and has an implementation of clippy saying "it looks like you are trying to model cloud cover with a pet dog, would you like some assistance choosing a better seed input"
This is not some guy who shared a wii game. He stole (and yes, in this context that is the correct term) an unreleased game from his employer and released it to the world. This is the same action that just landed that chinese guy a 15 year jail term--taking your employer's proprietary information is straight up illegal. We call it espionage when you take it to benefit a competing company/government...we call it leaking when you take it to spread around...but either way you commit a crime and become a criminal.
This has nothing to do with sharing a CD or something amongst your friends (or even your closest thousand torrent "friends")...that activity all occurred *after* this crime had been committed.
Maybe its a bug that only pops up on certain inputs. Maybe the researcher knows this and avoids those inputs (or wrote the program without intending to go anywhere near the input range where the code fails). This sees fine to me...researcher needs a one-off set of statistics and writes some quick and dirty code that does it even if it isn't robust or even efficient.
Releasing this code is probably bad for two reasons. If the researcher is not aware of bugs outside of the exact inputs they used, they probably aren't going to disclose them--just wait until some amateur gets a hold of the code, runs it, and claims that all global warming data is questionable because this model has a bug or produces weird output. Second, it will waste the researchers time releasing the code and then responding to questions when people are like "lolz this code blows".
I don't expect researchers to write great code for everything...it may be repetitive or inefficient but they can usually tell from the result (and comparing it to other models) whether or not something went wrong. I know that I write code at work (IANAClimate Researcher) that is quite sloppy or wasteful because I just want to see what the result looks like (and will never run the program again) and it therefor makes more sense to chug onwards through bugs and strange cases rather than rewrite a more robust program from the start.
That being said, it should definitely be available as a part of the peer review process if something is really called into question.
Google voice has definitely gotten better at recognizing my name after accepting/rejecting voicemails and filing a feedback request (right near the beginning).
The thing I have noticed is that it is a little too trigger happy to label the first bit of audio as a standard greeting (hello or something). I have a friend who seems to manage to *never* start a voicemail with an immediate greeting. There is always like a giggle or some background sounds or a last word or two of conversation with a real person. GV seems to always tag the first two syllables as "hello" and then get really messed up on the transcription when it gets to the part where she actually says hello...from there the rest of the message just comes out garbled.
No, it just means ebay is providing transaction services for their auctions. It is no different than buying a used book off amazon and having to pay through amazon payments.
We just don't like it because paypal sucks and ebay used to be ok with other options. Nobody is forcing us to use ebay. If amazon marketplace sucked as bad as paypal, we would all complain about that too. Bottom line is that ebay can do whatever they want on ebay just like any other online retailer can decide if they want to take american express or mailed checks (or even paypal).
yeah, at this point its not really anticompetitive anymore than amazon sellers being forced to use amazon's payment system to deal with customers.
Ebay just chose to continue using a different name for their subsidiary payment processor instead of naming it "ebay payments". They are providing an extra service by allowing paypal users to exchange money for other things as well (and admittedly, while I never keep a balance in my paypal account and only make credit card payments through them, paypal is quite convenient)
If you plan to do everything from a relatively confined area (probably a better challenge more akin to starting a new life) try to come up with a way of making your activities not look like a pattern.
If you have a sort of home base (a forest you are camping out in or whatever), your natural inclination is to do things somewhat equally around that area. You might steal wifi a mile north and make a phone call a mile to the southeast..get enough of these and its easy to figure out where you are.
you would be better off forcing yourself to do everything in one direction but that would still allow some amount of positioning and would be equally precise with enough data. your best option will be to give yourself an "activity starting point". Pick a 3 block radius or something that is a reasonable distance from your home base. Force yourself to travel to somewhere in that location before heading out to any other location (and make yourself go back afterwards so you don't bias towards locations closer to home). If anyone is following your internet/phone/financial locations, they will triangulate on the wrong place. It still gives them a shot at you tough--so you should only keep a a starting point for a limited amount of time. a week should be fine...by the time they start to clue in, you can pick a new one and by the time the contest is over, your set of activity points shouldn't be enough to pinpoint your real location.
The thing is...for how much they go after the child pornography viewers...is it really that much of a problem?
It is much more rare that I see stories about the actual pornographers being caught and while the viewers are certainly depraved (and you can argue that by consuming the child porn, they encourage those who make it), aren't the pornographers the ones we would rather catch? It wouldn't surprise me if the amount of children actually being forced into child porn is VERY small since the already existing library of images probably contains enough to keep the perverts trading for a long time.
If that is true...then this definitely is an excuse to encroach on peoples rights and use the old "think of the children" excuse because if this much effort was really being put in to catching so few potential criminals...it would be a huge waste compared to what those officers could be doing elsewhere.
You can manage it all you want with putty and still connect to your companies exchange server with outlook.
I'm not a professional admin...but in school I did a bit of admin work on some linux/BSD servers. Most of the work I did was probably sshed in from a windows box either at home or in our little office (before I installed linux on a machine there); I only admined from linux if I was fixing something from class with my linux laptop or if I was standing at a [*nix based] print terminal, switching to a tty from X and sshing into the print server.
Same happened in some CS classes as well...putty and xming on my desktop let me develop on my desktop with more screen real estate rather than my native linux laptop (also helps that I was sshing into machines 2-3x as fast as my laptop). Hell, even at work now I do all of my SAS work in a bunch of X windows forwarded from an AIX system.
30 day holding periods eh? Damn seems a little harsh...what if something is really tanking and it makes sense to bail?
Last time I worked somewhere where my holdings were restricted, I couldn't touch the financials or anywhere there might be a conflict of interest, but if I was cleared to trade it, I could trade it whenever/however I wanted. Of course I didn't actually have to register my brokerage account with them either (just self-report holdings to keep from working on conflicts)...so once you have taken that step, it is probably easier to pile on the rules.
oh yeah, it certainly wouldn't be hard. Laptop with an extra wireless card, bridge the pay wifi (or a 3g connection) and start watching your traffic.
The only issue is that I have never ever connected to one of these "Free Airport Wifi" and had it give me a real connection so the GP's explanation makes a lot of sense.
You are missing the point of my original post however which points out that university students typically do not get sued.
It is an odd balance because people on a university network are far less likely to get sued but at the same time far more likely to receive some sort of punishment for their infringement (and its still only uploading that you get busted for). It is much easier for the RIAA to pick up a university IP and send a letter but the punishment is far less severe than a lawsuit.
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I spent a few months on a 1.5meg DSL last year and it was awful. Where it was particularly bad (or at least noticable to "average" users) was streaming youtube videos. It would get very unhappy sometimes...with youtube pushing out more and more higher quality content, streaming with a slow connection will drive consumers to complain. The girls I was living with did not seem to care about the speed too much but streaming would only have to get a little bit worse before I imagine they might star to say wtf...of course our building's phone wiring couldn't handle anything faster (despite having a fancy breakout box right outside the door and the AT&T office within walking distance) and comcast's standard rate was 3x what we paid (although for 10x the speed)
Well, if only they knew a little *more* about you, they would know that you don't like public evidence of your little problem...
That being said, by the time you are large enough to have 80-100 mac users in addition to windows users, don't you have hot spares? You shouldn't have to wait 3 weeks for a laptop because you just take it to IT and they swap it for a spare from their inventory and then send your old system in for service (to become another spare system when it gets back)
No, you are shooting the result of the huntdown which is really only bad for the hunter if he comes up empty handed (and wants to keep his hands intact)
shouldn't that be more like shoot(huntdown(first(developers)))?
When I upload to the service, it has an option to include any media which well then include any pictures I took with the phone while using the sports tracker (cycling in my case usually). To get it to pick up the photos though, I do have to be running the GPS tagger app in the background (so I can keep my pictures untagged by not actively running the app)
I instead prefer if grading is kept tied to the same person...either by having one TA stick with a group of people for the entire course (and then correct for any systematic score gaps when assigning final grades) or have each TA grade a single part of each persons work (works for short answer/multiple choice...not so much for papers or long/single prompt exams)
The purchasing budgets could certainly support buying macbooks for everyone...especially considering apples often have a slightly longer usable lifespan and/or a higher resale value (I've bought dirt cheap lease return IBMs and stuff...my 12" ibook g4 still has a decent ebay price on it).
I can see something like returning a $100 ebay purchase and being too lazy to initiate the transfer back to your bank account (since you would eventually spend it anyways)..if they should randomly shut you down you are not out very much. But if you had the kind of money that is worth hiding....
Odd, I am pretty sure that that is how I installed my current win7 system but I have had it work poorly with something in the past.
It's not great though (it likes to stop in the middle and you have no way of knowing if it is just going slow or has crashed)...I'll have to give this a try.
Code that is not very robust however seems quite common. This code is not being packaged up and sold to a customer who might try to feed a picture of their pet dog in as an input to a climate model so the code doesn't have to check to make sure. The scientist running it is making his own check on the input or the input is being checked somewhere else. Good code is always better...but lets not kid ourselves and pretend that every little program is fully commented, sanitizes inputs, and has an implementation of clippy saying "it looks like you are trying to model cloud cover with a pet dog, would you like some assistance choosing a better seed input"
This is not some guy who shared a wii game. He stole (and yes, in this context that is the correct term) an unreleased game from his employer and released it to the world. This is the same action that just landed that chinese guy a 15 year jail term--taking your employer's proprietary information is straight up illegal. We call it espionage when you take it to benefit a competing company/government...we call it leaking when you take it to spread around...but either way you commit a crime and become a criminal.
This has nothing to do with sharing a CD or something amongst your friends (or even your closest thousand torrent "friends")...that activity all occurred *after* this crime had been committed.
Releasing this code is probably bad for two reasons. If the researcher is not aware of bugs outside of the exact inputs they used, they probably aren't going to disclose them--just wait until some amateur gets a hold of the code, runs it, and claims that all global warming data is questionable because this model has a bug or produces weird output. Second, it will waste the researchers time releasing the code and then responding to questions when people are like "lolz this code blows".
I don't expect researchers to write great code for everything...it may be repetitive or inefficient but they can usually tell from the result (and comparing it to other models) whether or not something went wrong. I know that I write code at work (IANAClimate Researcher) that is quite sloppy or wasteful because I just want to see what the result looks like (and will never run the program again) and it therefor makes more sense to chug onwards through bugs and strange cases rather than rewrite a more robust program from the start.
That being said, it should definitely be available as a part of the peer review process if something is really called into question.
The thing I have noticed is that it is a little too trigger happy to label the first bit of audio as a standard greeting (hello or something). I have a friend who seems to manage to *never* start a voicemail with an immediate greeting. There is always like a giggle or some background sounds or a last word or two of conversation with a real person. GV seems to always tag the first two syllables as "hello" and then get really messed up on the transcription when it gets to the part where she actually says hello...from there the rest of the message just comes out garbled.
Helped that I knew what too look for since it was about the only thing I ever wrote on the side of a study carrel in the reg
Paypal accepts standard credit cards so its really no different than something like amazon's private system or google checkout (when used by google)
We just don't like it because paypal sucks and ebay used to be ok with other options. Nobody is forcing us to use ebay. If amazon marketplace sucked as bad as paypal, we would all complain about that too. Bottom line is that ebay can do whatever they want on ebay just like any other online retailer can decide if they want to take american express or mailed checks (or even paypal).
Ebay just chose to continue using a different name for their subsidiary payment processor instead of naming it "ebay payments". They are providing an extra service by allowing paypal users to exchange money for other things as well (and admittedly, while I never keep a balance in my paypal account and only make credit card payments through them, paypal is quite convenient)
If you have a sort of home base (a forest you are camping out in or whatever), your natural inclination is to do things somewhat equally around that area. You might steal wifi a mile north and make a phone call a mile to the southeast..get enough of these and its easy to figure out where you are.
you would be better off forcing yourself to do everything in one direction but that would still allow some amount of positioning and would be equally precise with enough data. your best option will be to give yourself an "activity starting point". Pick a 3 block radius or something that is a reasonable distance from your home base. Force yourself to travel to somewhere in that location before heading out to any other location (and make yourself go back afterwards so you don't bias towards locations closer to home). If anyone is following your internet/phone/financial locations, they will triangulate on the wrong place. It still gives them a shot at you tough--so you should only keep a a starting point for a limited amount of time. a week should be fine...by the time they start to clue in, you can pick a new one and by the time the contest is over, your set of activity points shouldn't be enough to pinpoint your real location.
It is much more rare that I see stories about the actual pornographers being caught and while the viewers are certainly depraved (and you can argue that by consuming the child porn, they encourage those who make it), aren't the pornographers the ones we would rather catch? It wouldn't surprise me if the amount of children actually being forced into child porn is VERY small since the already existing library of images probably contains enough to keep the perverts trading for a long time.
If that is true...then this definitely is an excuse to encroach on peoples rights and use the old "think of the children" excuse because if this much effort was really being put in to catching so few potential criminals...it would be a huge waste compared to what those officers could be doing elsewhere.
You can manage it all you want with putty and still connect to your companies exchange server with outlook.
I'm not a professional admin...but in school I did a bit of admin work on some linux/BSD servers. Most of the work I did was probably sshed in from a windows box either at home or in our little office (before I installed linux on a machine there); I only admined from linux if I was fixing something from class with my linux laptop or if I was standing at a [*nix based] print terminal, switching to a tty from X and sshing into the print server.
Same happened in some CS classes as well...putty and xming on my desktop let me develop on my desktop with more screen real estate rather than my native linux laptop (also helps that I was sshing into machines 2-3x as fast as my laptop). Hell, even at work now I do all of my SAS work in a bunch of X windows forwarded from an AIX system.
Last time I worked somewhere where my holdings were restricted, I couldn't touch the financials or anywhere there might be a conflict of interest, but if I was cleared to trade it, I could trade it whenever/however I wanted. Of course I didn't actually have to register my brokerage account with them either (just self-report holdings to keep from working on conflicts)...so once you have taken that step, it is probably easier to pile on the rules.
The only issue is that I have never ever connected to one of these "Free Airport Wifi" and had it give me a real connection so the GP's explanation makes a lot of sense.
It is an odd balance because people on a university network are far less likely to get sued but at the same time far more likely to receive some sort of punishment for their infringement (and its still only uploading that you get busted for). It is much easier for the RIAA to pick up a university IP and send a letter but the punishment is far less severe than a lawsuit.