Thank god people are picking up on such simple, yet often unnoticed, ways to redirect an argument, and argue on the new point instead of the original.
AKA the straw man attack
I work with similar robots
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I am working at a machine automation company, and we work with similar robots. Now, it's time to convince the boss to let me 'borrow' some of these expensive pieces of machinery and 'play'. Knowing how easy (relatively) it is to program these robots I think I could have some fun quite easily.. hmmm.. hmmm..
For my last co-op position I was asked to sign a NDA as usual. Only in this case they decided to give me the NDA two months into my four-month work term, and it was not retroactive. Oh, and aside from that little blunder, it did not have a date on it!
As in, nowhere to put a date. Just a sig, no date! I asked if it was written by a lawyer and they said it was, but I am very doubtful. IANAL but I would think that a NDA without a date on it would be worthless in court. I would like to see what they could pull in court if I simply released some info before I had signed the NDA, or after I had signed the non-dated NDA.
So let this serve as a note to companies out there, having a NDA doesn't mean shit if it's not written correctly by a competent lawyer!
I am also reading this book.
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I happen to be reading this book right now and I find much of the information it presents very interesting. Some of the more interesting and exciting topics include wearable computing, and always on Inet connections, and what the meshing of those two ideas could mean. Check out this link here for info on one such program, the MIThril wearable computing project. Some very cool stuff coming out of MIT.
my car comes with the ability to do 150mph, but the chips lets me go to 120... whats the legal wrinkle there?
But remember, you can always simply 'upgrade' or modify the chip and go whatever speed you want. This may or may not violate warrenty, and you may or may not be pulled over for driving some obscene speed on public roads, but those choices are at least totally up to you.
of people being able get around anything the RIAA wants! Do they not realize that no matter what copy protection they decide to force on me that somebody will crack it.
If you can see it, and you can hear it, somebody will figure out a way to copy it
Any fighting back is simply bad business for the RIAA. They need to embrace the Internet, and include it in their business model in a much larger way. Gone are the days where people spend $20 on a cd, at least most people.
ah crap, put the post in the wrong place, ah well. It's still valid, and hopefully it gets modded up so someone can see it. It should have been its own thread though.
I am a Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo. I am just getting involved in the beginnings of a company (technology related if you must know, but not a dot com). People involved are from London, Waterloo, Toronto, and elsewhere. As far as places to meet, my residence is out of the question because it is too small, and does not offer the conveniences that these students are offered. If I had access to a board-room style table with whiteboards and conferencing equipment, and all for free, then I would have a much better setup to host meetings.
I see everyone here bashing this article, but it is actually quite an interesting program. Don't forget that aside from the material perks, you are also required to live in this dorm for 1/2 of your school career, so you will be around the same group of LIKE-MINDED ENTREPRENEURIAL people. This is a huge benefit, as half of the job of 'networking' is already done for you.
Can someone say goldmine for anti-virus makers, at least ones that can produce a chinese version of their product... but oh yeah, with the insanely high % of piracy as well, it doesn't look like anyone would buy the product legit!
The schools in my area all have at least one or maybe two big employers. The curriculum is generally based on the needs of these few employers
See, that is where your problem is! The school is setting curriculum based on employers. It should not happen this way. Your school is shortchanging every student who goes there, by effectively (though obviously not completely) limiting their student's employment choices after school. Post-secondary education, especially at the university level, should educate its students in a way in which they can work almost anywhere, not just the 1 or 2 big companies in the area.
And oh, as a side note for another reply, yes, MS hires more grads from U.Waterloo then anywhere else, and when even the slightest controversy comes about over MS controlling curriculum, people get angry and fights start.
Re:802.11 can be secure, if the admins know how to
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Nope, through telnet. It is internal only, ie, the users telnet into an internal mainframe, but with the internal network having internet access (through a firewall), and a WLAN (with no firewall/security at the time), you could get to the mainframe from the WLAN easily.
I don't know of other programs, but I know at the University of Waterloo (where I am a computer science student), we must take quite a lot of math courses, ranging from linear algebra, calc, classical algebra, combinatorics & optimization and statistics. The math content for the CS program is very high, and in the end you get a BMath degree.
Maybe this is different at other schools (well, actually I know it is at most, most don't do nearly as much math), but I would hope not. I think to be a solid programmer a solid math background is a requirement.
oh, and btw, for anyone nitpicking, UW now offers a BCS program, as well as the typical BMath Honours CS. The BCS seems to offer a bit more flexibility, so BCS students may not choose to take 'as much' math.
802.11 can be secure, if the admins know how to!
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I recently worked at a large government organization (in Canada if it matters). The particular organization held a lot of information classified secret. It was all stored on a password protected mainframe that users accessed through telnet.
Well, someone had liked the idea of setting up wireless networking for a group of users in the building. The admin who installed the system simply used MAC address authentication as the only security on the WLAN. They only had so many wireless nics, so they simply added those addresses.
The problem here is that the admin did not realize the security hole he had just opened, as we all know that mac addresses offer no security at all. Though the wireless network I was able to capture plaintext telnet sessions, which included logins and passwords, and I could gain mainframe access from my car in the parking lot. (BTW, don't attempt these types of activitys without your employers permission).
If the admin had done his homework he would have at a minimum turned on WEP (although it is not secure either, but before the crack was out it was thought to be). Finnaly I convinced them to start using the built-in LEAP authentication and a RADIUS server, as well as limiting the access that users could have with their wireless nics (ie, no telnet access though the wireless). With simply a little deeper look into the security aspects of 802.11, the admin wouldn't have opened the huge security hole in the first place.
I can definatly see a possible use for such a product in remote locations, such as while camping. Like the article points out
"Scientists say 50 grammes of sugar would keep a 40-watt light bulb lit for eight hours"
which is pretty damn good for having to carry a little bit of sugar (as well as the device) with you on your camping trip.
The less you need to carry, the better!
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Thank god people are picking up on such simple, yet often unnoticed, ways to redirect an argument, and argue on the new point instead of the original. AKA the straw man attack
I am working at a machine automation company, and we work with similar robots. Now, it's time to convince the boss to let me 'borrow' some of these expensive pieces of machinery and 'play'. Knowing how easy (relatively) it is to program these robots I think I could have some fun quite easily.. hmmm.. hmmm..
For my last co-op position I was asked to sign a NDA as usual. Only in this case they decided to give me the NDA two months into my four-month work term, and it was not retroactive. Oh, and aside from that little blunder, it did not have a date on it!
As in, nowhere to put a date. Just a sig, no date! I asked if it was written by a lawyer and they said it was, but I am very doubtful. IANAL but I would think that a NDA without a date on it would be worthless in court. I would like to see what they could pull in court if I simply released some info before I had signed the NDA, or after I had signed the non-dated NDA.
So let this serve as a note to companies out there, having a NDA doesn't mean shit if it's not written correctly by a competent lawyer!
I happen to be reading this book right now and I find much of the information it presents very interesting. Some of the more interesting and exciting topics include wearable computing, and always on Inet connections, and what the meshing of those two ideas could mean. Check out this link here for info on one such program, the MIThril wearable computing project. Some very cool stuff coming out of MIT.
But remember, you can always simply 'upgrade' or modify the chip and go whatever speed you want. This may or may not violate warrenty, and you may or may not be pulled over for driving some obscene speed on public roads, but those choices are at least totally up to you.
If you can see it, and you can hear it, somebody will figure out a way to copy it
Any fighting back is simply bad business for the RIAA. They need to embrace the Internet, and include it in their business model in a much larger way. Gone are the days where people spend $20 on a cd, at least most people.
ah crap, put the post in the wrong place, ah well. It's still valid, and hopefully it gets modded up so someone can see it. It should have been its own thread though.
I am a Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo. I am just getting involved in the beginnings of a company (technology related if you must know, but not a dot com). People involved are from London, Waterloo, Toronto, and elsewhere. As far as places to meet, my residence is out of the question because it is too small, and does not offer the conveniences that these students are offered. If I had access to a board-room style table with whiteboards and conferencing equipment, and all for free, then I would have a much better setup to host meetings.
I see everyone here bashing this article, but it is actually quite an interesting program. Don't forget that aside from the material perks, you are also required to live in this dorm for 1/2 of your school career, so you will be around the same group of LIKE-MINDED ENTREPRENEURIAL people. This is a huge benefit, as half of the job of 'networking' is already done for you.
Can someone say goldmine for anti-virus makers, at least ones that can produce a chinese version of their product... but oh yeah, with the insanely high % of piracy as well, it doesn't look like anyone would buy the product legit!
See, that is where your problem is! The school is setting curriculum based on employers. It should not happen this way. Your school is shortchanging every student who goes there, by effectively (though obviously not completely) limiting their student's employment choices after school. Post-secondary education, especially at the university level, should educate its students in a way in which they can work almost anywhere, not just the 1 or 2 big companies in the area.
And oh, as a side note for another reply, yes, MS hires more grads from U.Waterloo then anywhere else, and when even the slightest controversy comes about over MS controlling curriculum, people get angry and fights start.
Nope, through telnet. It is internal only, ie, the users telnet into an internal mainframe, but with the internal network having internet access (through a firewall), and a WLAN (with no firewall/security at the time), you could get to the mainframe from the WLAN easily.
I don't know of other programs, but I know at the University of Waterloo (where I am a computer science student), we must take quite a lot of math courses, ranging from linear algebra, calc, classical algebra, combinatorics & optimization and statistics. The math content for the CS program is very high, and in the end you get a BMath degree.
Maybe this is different at other schools (well, actually I know it is at most, most don't do nearly as much math), but I would hope not. I think to be a solid programmer a solid math background is a requirement.
oh, and btw, for anyone nitpicking, UW now offers a BCS program, as well as the typical BMath Honours CS. The BCS seems to offer a bit more flexibility, so BCS students may not choose to take 'as much' math.
I recently worked at a large government organization (in Canada if it matters). The particular organization held a lot of information classified secret. It was all stored on a password protected mainframe that users accessed through telnet.
Well, someone had liked the idea of setting up wireless networking for a group of users in the building. The admin who installed the system simply used MAC address authentication as the only security on the WLAN. They only had so many wireless nics, so they simply added those addresses.
The problem here is that the admin did not realize the security hole he had just opened, as we all know that mac addresses offer no security at all. Though the wireless network I was able to capture plaintext telnet sessions, which included logins and passwords, and I could gain mainframe access from my car in the parking lot. (BTW, don't attempt these types of activitys without your employers permission).
If the admin had done his homework he would have at a minimum turned on WEP (although it is not secure either, but before the crack was out it was thought to be). Finnaly I convinced them to start using the built-in LEAP authentication and a RADIUS server, as well as limiting the access that users could have with their wireless nics (ie, no telnet access though the wireless). With simply a little deeper look into the security aspects of 802.11, the admin wouldn't have opened the huge security hole in the first place.