I honestly thought it was one of the easiest CompSci tests I've taken thus far. I'm a senior in high school this year, and my teacher essentially knows nothing about Java (though he has a lot of CompSci backgroup, OO programming escapes him). I didn't study either and finished the multiple choice with a half hour left over and the free response with over 45 mins left. I remember the C++ test being a lot harder!/theskyjet
On the other hand if the RIAA is going to have it's brownshirts on line scanning for major sharing P2P users, maybe we should all be leaving Kazaa and WinMX open 24x7 just so they have to sort through that many more users. Surely this hunt will begin to cut into their profits at some point. What monkey will they hire to 'take names' as they put it and follow up on them. Figure they have to get an IP from the P2P service, track that IP to and ISP, contact the ISP to get the user info [if the ISP complies], and _then_ actually contact the user -- Rinse and Repeat 100,000+ times. Think about the machine/man power/time/money that will cost the RIAA, even in megacorp terms. So fire up every P2P program you own and let that CPU heat your room for awhile!
Better yet, why not invest 'you bytes' in finding a 'legal' way to keep the gov't out of your box? I seem to rememeber a post on/. a while ago asking why the OSS community doesn't stop their whining and start coding. Does this make sense to anyone besides me? Do you think the penny pinching politicians in Washington are going to be able to fork over the bucks to hire techs capable of keeping up with the OSS community? Millions of patches, bug-fixes, and new-vers come out every day on a million projects that keep OSS alive. Why don't we funnel some of this energy into keeping our machines safe? Surely there is _someone_ out there that is capable of writing software that says 'Hey no gov worm is gettin' in this box!' and distributing it. How many flavors of 'nix are out there? We have OSS firewalls (i.e. ipfw Mandrake's MNF and the like) all based on OSS that are not responsible to any one person and are therefore free to be coded as they please. When the gov't starts outlawing software that doesn't allow my box to be compromised (read: cracked) I'm moving to Canada!
You know, I couldn't agree more. Where were all the flags and God Bless Americas _before_ 9/11? Suddenly when someone can make a profit, patriotism is the thing! If everyone is so darned proud of their country why don't they show it in a little more useful way than pasting Flags on every flat surface. Say, by actually _helping_ their community or something! Capatalism at its best.
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I honestly thought it was one of the easiest CompSci tests I've taken thus far. I'm a senior in high school this year, and my teacher essentially knows nothing about Java (though he has a lot of CompSci backgroup, OO programming escapes him). I didn't study either and finished the multiple choice with a half hour left over and the free response with over 45 mins left. I remember the C++ test being a lot harder! /theskyjet
On the other hand if the RIAA is going to have it's brownshirts on line scanning for major sharing P2P users, maybe we should all be leaving Kazaa and WinMX open 24x7 just so they have to sort through that many more users. Surely this hunt will begin to cut into their profits at some point. What monkey will they hire to 'take names' as they put it and follow up on them. Figure they have to get an IP from the P2P service, track that IP to and ISP, contact the ISP to get the user info [if the ISP complies], and _then_ actually contact the user -- Rinse and Repeat 100,000+ times. Think about the machine/man power/time/money that will cost the RIAA, even in megacorp terms. So fire up every P2P program you own and let that CPU heat your room for awhile!
-TheSkyjet
Better yet, why not invest 'you bytes' in finding a 'legal' way to keep the gov't out of your box? I seem to rememeber a post on /. a while ago asking why the OSS community doesn't stop their whining and start coding. Does this make sense to anyone besides me? Do you think the penny pinching politicians in Washington are going to be able to fork over the bucks to hire techs capable of keeping up with the OSS community? Millions of patches, bug-fixes, and new-vers come out every day on a million projects that keep OSS alive. Why don't we funnel some of this energy into keeping our machines safe? Surely there is _someone_ out there that is capable of writing software that says 'Hey no gov worm is gettin' in this box!' and distributing it. How many flavors of 'nix are out there? We have OSS firewalls (i.e. ipfw Mandrake's MNF and the like) all based on OSS that are not responsible to any one person and are therefore free to be coded as they please. When the gov't starts outlawing software that doesn't allow my box to be compromised (read: cracked) I'm moving to Canada!
-TheSkyjet
You know, I couldn't agree more. Where were all the flags and God Bless Americas _before_ 9/11? Suddenly when someone can make a profit, patriotism is the thing! If everyone is so darned proud of their country why don't they show it in a little more useful way than pasting Flags on every flat surface. Say, by actually _helping_ their community or something! Capatalism at its best.