Just to clarify for those that care, it's not broadcasting alone that counts as giving permission, it's broadcasting SSID AND giving IP addresses to anonymous persons that qualifies for giving permission.
You want an analogy? I'll give you one. It's like someone leaving a babysitter at home. So the babysitter invites his/her friends. So, if they're nice, all they do is just hang out and possibly watch TV. If they're abusive, they watch Pay-Per-View or eat you out of house and home.
But, can you fine the friends? No! Blame the babysitter, fine. But in this case, the babysitter is a router that's in your care! You give the rules that it's okay to invite friends. You put a freaking sign on your front lawn that a there is a party and the babysitter just allows everyone in. It's not a party for just invited guests, but anyone who stops by. Like a some house party on campus, anyone is welcome to join and get drinks.
If you don't want that to happen, then don't put a sign on your lawn (broadcast SSID) and tell the babysitter, "ONLY THESE PEOPLE CAN COME IN" (limit to MAC addresses, use security)!
This is not the same as people going around checking the knobs on each door to see if they're unlocked. This is not trespassing. It's someone inviting and allowing you in.
If, this guy was sniffing or broke security barriers, then we have a different case. But we have no reason to assume that this is a special case of that, because in most instances, it's an open wifi access point.
Why do we need to create analogies? We know what happened?
Someone had a wireless router. They broadcast their SSID so everyone knows they exist. They could easily not do that if they don't want people to use their networks. Then, when you ask for an IP address, they oblige and say happy wireless networking. They don't limit entrance by MAC addresses. They don't use WEP security or anything.
So, some guy goes around looking for wireless access to use (abuse). I don't thing most people thought of this as illegal. Some think it's immoral (and I'd only agree if it's abuse vs just use), but that issue shouldn't be very relevant when hardly anyone thought it was illegal!!
The owner took no measures in discouraging or preventing the use. The AP broadcasts itself and allows access to all. To pay 500 pounds and lose your laptop over it?! What the hell is wrong with people? They talk about wanting people to be responsible over their networks, but then they don't force people to be responsible about the wireless router? geesh..
The part that really causes me grief is the GUI and the hardware configuration that goes along with it. I have no idea what graphics card is in my computer, and I shouldn't need to care - Windows and OS X both seem perfectly capable of deducing that on their own, so why can't Linux?
Because Apple only sells few different video cards on their systems. They have great control over it and it's not difficult to have drivers when you have such control over the machines. It's not like people do configurations on Macs as they to PCs.
For Windows, you have 3rd party support. VIA, ATI, Nvidia, etc all create drivers for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP. And those usually come installed with the system. Windows is painful to install fully if you lose driver CDs. Sometimes network cards aren't supported, only basic video is supported and you have to scour the company that made the video card's site to get more than 640x480. There is tons of problems and it's just are hard as on Linux.
But of course, people rarely deal with that because it comes set up. And soon as you buy a new video card, you use the CD with the drivers and forget about it.
So you complain about Linux and don't switch. Even though there are many systems that would work perfectly once set up and more stuff are recognized for Linux than Windows. And since you don't switch, Linux doesn't get the same level of 3rd party support. This cycle is a bitch.
But I can't say much. I have a dual-boot on my dell laptop. And though I used to use Linux a lot, now I pretty exclusively run Windows. It is just easier to use as a desktop (especially on a laptop).
The alternative is stating that we don't know and have no way of knowing. Why can't people accept that? Some things are unknowable and time is wasted arguing about it. Ignorance and stupidity is bred staking a position and teaching about it.
Time, money and other resources should be spent on things we know and can observe and learn. In philosophy, discussions about this might be okay, but IMO, it's a waste even there. There are a lot more important things to think about, more wisdom to gain and more of life to figure out then ponder about something that can't be answered.
There can be no proof for a creator. There can be no proof for eternal time (no beginning). Even if we found a beginning or a creator, then it would only explain what we understood as the universe, because then our notion of time and universe would just expand and the questions raised again.
I didn't say the CEO was worthless. There's no proof that Larry and Sergey couldn't hack it themselves. They wanted to, but they were pressured not to. That's all I was saying. Maybe after Larry's speech, they still believe they could've done without the CEO, we don't know. And we'll never know how it would've turned out without Schmidt.
They hired a big time CEO because their venture capitalists basically forced it on them. The CEO is obviously worth something, but even he says he had to let them do their thing. They seem like stubborn principled people. Sometimes, that's good.
what you don't understand is, I don't have any options!
Every immigration lawyer has said, the only option is to marry an American citizen. And damn my values because I don't want to marry someone for that sake. Been in long-term relationships that didn't pan out. So, what am I supposed to do? Go where? Only place I can be useful in the world is here.
I know life is unfair. But I've suffered enough. Being Saluditorian but not getting aid in state schools. Paying international rates when my parents paid state taxes all the years. Get A- averages but can't get work experience in my field. Can't accept TA or RA offers and have to pay my way through masters. Why should I return to Nepal (where I haven't been for 20 years)? I want to be able to help my family and not live like a bum off of them. It's depressing and can make a person suicidal.
I'm tired of feeling guilty about taking someone's job.
But your posts ignores something. I came to this country when I was 5. Whatever agreement I made was as a 5 year-old to the US government. How morally binding is that? How legally binding should it be (given circumstances)? I've never left the country since then. I've never lied to any employer, every one knew my status.
Second, I'm working with some dumb people (who're legal) and they'd quickly be fired if we could get other applicants. My last day is this Saturday and they don't have anyone to replace me yet.
I agree that I shouldn't work illegally. But I have no recourse. I went without working for 5 years living off only my parents savings. My country is in civil war (Nepal) and I don't speak the language so it's not reasonable for me to go back. I couldn't go to Canada because they wouldn't take me, despite me being accepted to a university there.
So, I made certain exceptions because not all laws are equal. I'm not even stealing anyone's job, much less committing traffic violations or serious crimes like DUI, assault, battery, rape, etc. You paint things in black and white when its quite gray.
I didn't enter the country illegally. My SSN is legit, has my name and issued to me when I was 6 (I came to this country at the age of 5, almost 6). I don't see how the fuck I'm a drain on the American System since I've paid way through college at international fees. I have been raised in this country and educated here. I'm not a brain drain on Nepal because if raised there, I would never have been this educated. What the country lost was a number because of the civil war and other strife, I wouldn't have been able to do shit there anyway.
I am not legally allowed to work, but that doesn't mean I'm not legally allowed to be here. My legal situation is more complex than can be summerized easily in a slashdot post.
MANY Mexican illegals have fake SSNs and pay all those taxes you think they don't. And many don't get returns or anything. A recent article in the NY Times was title, "Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions" and that all future IRS and government income assumes that these numbers will continue to rise.
Second, it's IMPOSSIBLE to close off or secure the border with Mexico, while it's much easier to check people at airports.
Another, many Americans go to college and seek those IT jobs. People aren't flocking to work those fields in Idaho, do construction around Las Vegas, etc. North Carolina is growing in population largely to the illegals and the state's economy is seeing the effects.
And they don't work for $3/hr. sure, some do. I had friends working for $4/hr for 12 hours a day for a while. but that was 10 years ago and non-taxed. But I'm working illegally for $7/hr (fast-food cashier). All on the books, and the Federal and States are getting a piece. And I know others doing the same.
I think the immigration policy seriously needs to be looked into. But there are so many ideological blow hards (on various sides of the spectrum) that changes are taking way too long.
Personally, on some level, I'd be happy with a change since I'm seeking a software engineering job and need sponsorship. But I don't think it needs to be increased. If companies start leaving the US to be based elsewhere, then maybe..
The idea of an endowment has some appeal. But your own scenario misses a key point.
Investment in the short term would result in both preservation and extension of its base, which is likely to bring more funds (assuming 10 developers would improve the release date for Sarge, over 2 developers).
At the rate we're going, Sarge will take forever and people will start to abandon the project and new developers will go to Centos and Ubuntu. But, IMHO, we need a project/organization like Debian and we really need Sarge.
You're right and wrong. Wrong because the Open Source Initiative decided it was "Open". It's not "Free" by the Free Software Foundation. GPL is Free Software and Open Source. Using common words, which might not have been applied to source code at the time, has created a lot of confusion. I mean, if programmers and others can get confused, think how confused the PHBs can get.
There's a reason Stallman has been a stickler on correct term usage. Saying just Linux instead of GNU/Linux over-emphasizes Linus Torvalds and the Open Source methodology, while ignoring the Free Software foundation for much of the distros we use. Similarly, using "Intellectual Property" creates confusion among different laws which have their own reasonings behind them.
I don't know if creating more terminology will help. I think if you're always a stickler like Stallman, too many people will ignore you, when they might need to heed your information the most. But we (as an industry or whatever) definitely need to better inform people in our own industry.
There are philosophical, political AND practical reasons for the differences of BSD, GPL, LGPL, etc. It takes less time to inform than it does to argue, but many seem to choose the latter...
Yes and no. You have to make sure the game plays well with the differences of college and pro. The Option is still run by various teams in college. There are more teams and more variety of offenses. Speed in the pro game negates the option and has other influences in the game. The designers, developers and testers must make sure that the changes in rules, players, advantage to home team, atmosphere are adequately incaptured in the game. Maybe no significant difference, but A LOT of minor differences (both on and off the field).
In the High School All-American game, they were both in it. And Ted Ginn Jr. got player of the game:) He also got rave reviews and many considered him the second best player out of HS, next to Peterson. Man, you got be all pumped for the season. Spring game is still 3 weeks away...
I'm an illegal immigrant. Graduated high school salutatorian (year early) while my sister graduated valedictorian the same year. My parents worked (legally) for years, paid sales tax, income tax, etc, and guess what? No aid in any public institution. No legal recourse for me to become legal. Loans? Not possible. You need to be a citizen or US resident.
My sister got full tuition scholarship at a private institution. I went to a community college for a couple years, then transfered to a private institution. My dad came to the US to do graduate work but my parents worked multiple jobs as parking booth attendants and cook at fast food restaurant and SAVED money to afford our education. We lived cheap. My mom could feed our whole family of five with good cooking for $200-$250 a month. You get a 2 bedroom apt and all expenses (including utilities, car insurance, etc) is under $1K a month. And you save like mad.
Most people can't afford to do that (or aren't wise enough to be extrememly cheap). I know some Mexicans that had to pay A LOT of money to just get into the US. And they work 12 hour days on low wages to pay off people as well as make by. And they have to ship money back home to family. My parents stressed education and wanted us to have a better life. But one problem is that they didn't and still don't know about legal or financial opportunities.
That's part of the crux of the matter. People from poor backgrounds (regardles of legal status) don't know what kind of help is available, much less how to look for it. And trying to search online is confusing, especially if you're an adult with poor English who works all day and has little time left anyhow.
About taxes. A decent percentage of people here that work illegally even pay income tax. They get a SSN (maybe a dead person or someone who used to be here legally and left). They work off of that number and pay all the normal taxes. If/when they leave, they can give/sell that number to someone else. So many illegal immigrants pay both sales tax and income tax. They contribute to the economy. Most jobs they take are those that used to be done by high school students. But now, many HS students do extra curricular activities, prepare for college and don't have time to work. A recent article in the NY Times about that.
There are over 11 million immigrants and reforms are needed. But it's such a difficult problem (like medicare and medicaid) that politicians barely deal with it. And most people that look at it tend to be too ideological from one side or the other (isolation, complete amnesty).
For me, I'm tired of living my life in fear of INS and being illegal. I'm tired of not being able to completely honest. I'm tired of not being able to get a job in the industry due to legal status. I couldn't take the offers of TA or RA for graduate school but my parents have supported me through that as well. I'm tired of always needing support. I'm finishing my master's degree this summer and I'm leaving the US. One country's loss will be another's gain (probably Canada, in my case).
This from a woman who accepts cheating from her husband. What kind of moral standard is that? Being the first lady and accepting repeated betrayal teaches what to young girls? To accept such behavior from guys?
If a player has a character have sex with a prostitute, it's completely different from actual cheating! Simulation of games is completely different from simulation of mathematics (where simulation is doing). Though it can get fuzzy in MMORPGs when people start having various relationships.
Mrs. Clinton accepts and enables immoral behavior and complains when a GAME allows fantasy?! And she most likely accepted Bill's behavior so she could run for politics herself. What hogwash!
To each their own. I love the fact that Windows Explorer has the Control Panel and Network Connections and etc. However, in terms of integration, what I like is Konqueror. I can have multiple tabs, each looking at different folders. I can have another tab at an FTP site. Another at SFTP. It's so great for copying files from one place to the other. One consistent GUI to access files that handle different protocols which should be transparent to the user (and mostly is except for slight differences in what we put at the location/address). I like that one tab can browse the web. I'd use that too if it wasn't for the fact that I use Firefox and have my bookmarks syncronized on my dual boot and another linux machine.
This may be a little off-topic, but it's something I still don't get.
Why do so many on Slashdot complain about Napster To Go pricing and service? Someone suggests $5/month for just capability to play songs they already own and which the technology is there, but the service providers are being greedy and people think it's a good idea?! After you stop paying the $5 a month, you can't use your own phone to transfer music anymore? That's dumber than the DRM on Napster.
T-Mobile or some provider should take up the opportunity and join with Motorola and Apple. Let Cingular and Verizon complain or add their own charges of $5/month. See where the customers go.
People keep talking about a "free market" in the US. But you have giant corporations and organizations like RIAA, MPAA and here the celluar phone companies that have so much control over the market. Saddest thing is, people vote with their dollars to help reinforce such a system...
It's not new that placebo effect exists. It's the fact we don't understand it. That's why it's on the list. Why does it work for some and not others? What limitations are there on the mind influencing the biochemical of the body? It's #1 on the list because it's so powerful, we've known about it for a long time, it's so pervasive, yet we know so little.
It's not like some programming changing the bits in memory. Or is it? What is our "mind"? Is there a non-materialistic creation out of the biochemical that can influence the materialistic world? This whole range of questions in regards to the placebo effect is huge, interesting, important and very little understood. And regardless of knowing about it, just like the phrase, "The more you know, the more you know you don't know", the placebo effect can still leave many educated thinkers amazed.
I'm working temporarily as a cashier at a fast food place. Sometimes, I get tips from people when I ask them for IDs on their credit cards:)
People are willing to pay a huge price for convenience. Social engineering attacks exploit that, but obviously, it hasn't been enough to make people cynical or stringent on rules.
My first inclination was to make the process of buying and receiving the food fast and convenient. Many people don't bring out their IDs with their credit cards and sometimes have to dig through purses for them. So it makes it slower and inconveniences them. Obviously, I understand that security is important enough, but it's not something people are taught. And even if you are, when you have rushes of people and some can be a pain, you just want to get them through.
But even then, you have to wonder what balance to reach. Do you always reject people if they don't have their IDs? On campus, some places take your ID if you check something out or whatever. How trusting can you be? And "never" just doesn't work in regards to customer service because you want the people to feel as they're treated well and come back (without angering those that care about security).
Social engineering will always work into the future because people are willing to take certain losses (billions of dollars each year) for convenience, values such as courtesy and (as in the secretary case the other guy mentioned) save face.
Then, you have issues of people that rebel due to overly strict rules or disagreement with them. I know that many universities have had to deal with theft. The Engineering department at MSU locks the doors on the buildings around midnight (though the hours say until 2am) and since so many people come in and go out of the buildling later than that, the students keep a trash can to prop the door open. And if I'm going out of the building, I wouldn't hesitate to keep it open for someone who's trying to get in.
With software it's the same things. Writing passwords down or whatever. Given the option between security and convenience, most likely, it'll be the latter.
Yes, if enough people use it (even if incorrect), it becomes a word. You don't get to choose if something is NOT a word. The general public does (in a sense). That's how English works. It's not like French where there is a standard. Language is dynamic, get used to it.
People come from different backgrounds and are raised differently. For some, it's natural to say "irregardless". Some say "offen" while others say "offten", big whoop. Get over it.
I don't know if I've said similar statements in my blogs, but I'm sure I've said negative comments about myself. But if you're judging a person, honesty is an important trait to assess properly. I'm honest in both my blog and my resume. If I say these are my skillsets, these are my strengths, these are my weakneses, then you can pretty much count on it. I know that doesn't win me jobs, but I prefer that route to lying and deceiving, though that does win more job interviews and jobs. It's a price I'm willing to pay.
Though, I'm sure many others do it out of lack of thinking than principle...
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Stupidity in this world is unending...
BTW, I pay for Roadrunner broadband cable. What I do has nothing to do with the facts of the matter of this case (and those like it).
Troll? Flamebait? Stupid?
Just to clarify for those that care, it's not broadcasting alone that counts as giving permission, it's broadcasting SSID AND giving IP addresses to anonymous persons that qualifies for giving permission.
You want an analogy? I'll give you one. It's like someone leaving a babysitter at home. So the babysitter invites his/her friends. So, if they're nice, all they do is just hang out and possibly watch TV. If they're abusive, they watch Pay-Per-View or eat you out of house and home.
But, can you fine the friends? No! Blame the babysitter, fine. But in this case, the babysitter is a router that's in your care! You give the rules that it's okay to invite friends. You put a freaking sign on your front lawn that a there is a party and the babysitter just allows everyone in. It's not a party for just invited guests, but anyone who stops by. Like a some house party on campus, anyone is welcome to join and get drinks.
If you don't want that to happen, then don't put a sign on your lawn (broadcast SSID) and tell the babysitter, "ONLY THESE PEOPLE CAN COME IN" (limit to MAC addresses, use security)!
This is not the same as people going around checking the knobs on each door to see if they're unlocked. This is not trespassing. It's someone inviting and allowing you in.
If, this guy was sniffing or broke security barriers, then we have a different case. But we have no reason to assume that this is a special case of that, because in most instances, it's an open wifi access point.
Why do we need to create analogies? We know what happened?
Someone had a wireless router. They broadcast their SSID so everyone knows they exist. They could easily not do that if they don't want people to use their networks. Then, when you ask for an IP address, they oblige and say happy wireless networking. They don't limit entrance by MAC addresses. They don't use WEP security or anything.
So, some guy goes around looking for wireless access to use (abuse). I don't thing most people thought of this as illegal. Some think it's immoral (and I'd only agree if it's abuse vs just use), but that issue shouldn't be very relevant when hardly anyone thought it was illegal!!
The owner took no measures in discouraging or preventing the use. The AP broadcasts itself and allows access to all. To pay 500 pounds and lose your laptop over it?! What the hell is wrong with people? They talk about wanting people to be responsible over their networks, but then they don't force people to be responsible about the wireless router? geesh..
Because Apple only sells few different video cards on their systems. They have great control over it and it's not difficult to have drivers when you have such control over the machines. It's not like people do configurations on Macs as they to PCs.
For Windows, you have 3rd party support. VIA, ATI, Nvidia, etc all create drivers for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP. And those usually come installed with the system. Windows is painful to install fully if you lose driver CDs. Sometimes network cards aren't supported, only basic video is supported and you have to scour the company that made the video card's site to get more than 640x480. There is tons of problems and it's just are hard as on Linux.
But of course, people rarely deal with that because it comes set up. And soon as you buy a new video card, you use the CD with the drivers and forget about it.
So you complain about Linux and don't switch. Even though there are many systems that would work perfectly once set up and more stuff are recognized for Linux than Windows. And since you don't switch, Linux doesn't get the same level of 3rd party support. This cycle is a bitch.
But I can't say much. I have a dual-boot on my dell laptop. And though I used to use Linux a lot, now I pretty exclusively run Windows. It is just easier to use as a desktop (especially on a laptop).
The alternative is stating that we don't know and have no way of knowing. Why can't people accept that? Some things are unknowable and time is wasted arguing about it. Ignorance and stupidity is bred staking a position and teaching about it.
Time, money and other resources should be spent on things we know and can observe and learn. In philosophy, discussions about this might be okay, but IMO, it's a waste even there. There are a lot more important things to think about, more wisdom to gain and more of life to figure out then ponder about something that can't be answered.
There can be no proof for a creator. There can be no proof for eternal time (no beginning). Even if we found a beginning or a creator, then it would only explain what we understood as the universe, because then our notion of time and universe would just expand and the questions raised again.
I didn't say the CEO was worthless. There's no proof that Larry and Sergey couldn't hack it themselves. They wanted to, but they were pressured not to. That's all I was saying. Maybe after Larry's speech, they still believe they could've done without the CEO, we don't know. And we'll never know how it would've turned out without Schmidt.
They hired a big time CEO because their venture capitalists basically forced it on them. The CEO is obviously worth something, but even he says he had to let them do their thing. They seem like stubborn principled people. Sometimes, that's good.
what you don't understand is, I don't have any options!
Every immigration lawyer has said, the only option is to marry an American citizen. And damn my values because I don't want to marry someone for that sake. Been in long-term relationships that didn't pan out. So, what am I supposed to do? Go where? Only place I can be useful in the world is here.
I know life is unfair. But I've suffered enough. Being Saluditorian but not getting aid in state schools. Paying international rates when my parents paid state taxes all the years. Get A- averages but can't get work experience in my field. Can't accept TA or RA offers and have to pay my way through masters. Why should I return to Nepal (where I haven't been for 20 years)? I want to be able to help my family and not live like a bum off of them. It's depressing and can make a person suicidal.
I'm tired of feeling guilty about taking someone's job.
But your posts ignores something. I came to this country when I was 5. Whatever agreement I made was as a 5 year-old to the US government. How morally binding is that? How legally binding should it be (given circumstances)? I've never left the country since then. I've never lied to any employer, every one knew my status.
Second, I'm working with some dumb people (who're legal) and they'd quickly be fired if we could get other applicants. My last day is this Saturday and they don't have anyone to replace me yet.
I agree that I shouldn't work illegally. But I have no recourse. I went without working for 5 years living off only my parents savings. My country is in civil war (Nepal) and I don't speak the language so it's not reasonable for me to go back. I couldn't go to Canada because they wouldn't take me, despite me being accepted to a university there.
So, I made certain exceptions because not all laws are equal. I'm not even stealing anyone's job, much less committing traffic violations or serious crimes like DUI, assault, battery, rape, etc. You paint things in black and white when its quite gray.
I didn't enter the country illegally. My SSN is legit, has my name and issued to me when I was 6 (I came to this country at the age of 5, almost 6). I don't see how the fuck I'm a drain on the American System since I've paid way through college at international fees. I have been raised in this country and educated here. I'm not a brain drain on Nepal because if raised there, I would never have been this educated. What the country lost was a number because of the civil war and other strife, I wouldn't have been able to do shit there anyway.
I am not legally allowed to work, but that doesn't mean I'm not legally allowed to be here. My legal situation is more complex than can be summerized easily in a slashdot post.
Instead of moderating your post, I'll respond.
MANY Mexican illegals have fake SSNs and pay all those taxes you think they don't. And many don't get returns or anything. A recent article in the NY Times was title, "Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions" and that all future IRS and government income assumes that these numbers will continue to rise.
Second, it's IMPOSSIBLE to close off or secure the border with Mexico, while it's much easier to check people at airports.
Another, many Americans go to college and seek those IT jobs. People aren't flocking to work those fields in Idaho, do construction around Las Vegas, etc. North Carolina is growing in population largely to the illegals and the state's economy is seeing the effects.
And they don't work for $3/hr. sure, some do. I had friends working for $4/hr for 12 hours a day for a while. but that was 10 years ago and non-taxed. But I'm working illegally for $7/hr (fast-food cashier). All on the books, and the Federal and States are getting a piece. And I know others doing the same.
I think the immigration policy seriously needs to be looked into. But there are so many ideological blow hards (on various sides of the spectrum) that changes are taking way too long.
Personally, on some level, I'd be happy with a change since I'm seeking a software engineering job and need sponsorship. But I don't think it needs to be increased. If companies start leaving the US to be based elsewhere, then maybe..
The idea of an endowment has some appeal. But your own scenario misses a key point.
Investment in the short term would result in both preservation and extension of its base, which is likely to bring more funds (assuming 10 developers would improve the release date for Sarge, over 2 developers).
At the rate we're going, Sarge will take forever and people will start to abandon the project and new developers will go to Centos and Ubuntu. But, IMHO, we need a project/organization like Debian and we really need Sarge.
wow. thanks for correcting me. my mistake.
You're right and wrong. Wrong because the Open Source Initiative decided it was "Open". It's not "Free" by the Free Software Foundation. GPL is Free Software and Open Source. Using common words, which might not have been applied to source code at the time, has created a lot of confusion. I mean, if programmers and others can get confused, think how confused the PHBs can get.
There's a reason Stallman has been a stickler on correct term usage. Saying just Linux instead of GNU/Linux over-emphasizes Linus Torvalds and the Open Source methodology, while ignoring the Free Software foundation for much of the distros we use. Similarly, using "Intellectual Property" creates confusion among different laws which have their own reasonings behind them.
I don't know if creating more terminology will help. I think if you're always a stickler like Stallman, too many people will ignore you, when they might need to heed your information the most. But we (as an industry or whatever) definitely need to better inform people in our own industry.
There are philosophical, political AND practical reasons for the differences of BSD, GPL, LGPL, etc. It takes less time to inform than it does to argue, but many seem to choose the latter...
Yes and no. You have to make sure the game plays well with the differences of college and pro. The Option is still run by various teams in college. There are more teams and more variety of offenses. Speed in the pro game negates the option and has other influences in the game. The designers, developers and testers must make sure that the changes in rules, players, advantage to home team, atmosphere are adequately incaptured in the game. Maybe no significant difference, but A LOT of minor differences (both on and off the field).
In the High School All-American game, they were both in it. And Ted Ginn Jr. got player of the game :) He also got rave reviews and many considered him the second best player out of HS, next to Peterson. Man, you got be all pumped for the season. Spring game is still 3 weeks away...
I'm an illegal immigrant. Graduated high school salutatorian (year early) while my sister graduated valedictorian the same year. My parents worked (legally) for years, paid sales tax, income tax, etc, and guess what? No aid in any public institution. No legal recourse for me to become legal. Loans? Not possible. You need to be a citizen or US resident.
My sister got full tuition scholarship at a private institution. I went to a community college for a couple years, then transfered to a private institution. My dad came to the US to do graduate work but my parents worked multiple jobs as parking booth attendants and cook at fast food restaurant and SAVED money to afford our education. We lived cheap. My mom could feed our whole family of five with good cooking for $200-$250 a month. You get a 2 bedroom apt and all expenses (including utilities, car insurance, etc) is under $1K a month. And you save like mad.
Most people can't afford to do that (or aren't wise enough to be extrememly cheap). I know some Mexicans that had to pay A LOT of money to just get into the US. And they work 12 hour days on low wages to pay off people as well as make by. And they have to ship money back home to family. My parents stressed education and wanted us to have a better life. But one problem is that they didn't and still don't know about legal or financial opportunities.
That's part of the crux of the matter. People from poor backgrounds (regardles of legal status) don't know what kind of help is available, much less how to look for it. And trying to search online is confusing, especially if you're an adult with poor English who works all day and has little time left anyhow.
About taxes. A decent percentage of people here that work illegally even pay income tax. They get a SSN (maybe a dead person or someone who used to be here legally and left). They work off of that number and pay all the normal taxes. If/when they leave, they can give/sell that number to someone else. So many illegal immigrants pay both sales tax and income tax. They contribute to the economy. Most jobs they take are those that used to be done by high school students. But now, many HS students do extra curricular activities, prepare for college and don't have time to work. A recent article in the NY Times about that.
There are over 11 million immigrants and reforms are needed. But it's such a difficult problem (like medicare and medicaid) that politicians barely deal with it. And most people that look at it tend to be too ideological from one side or the other (isolation, complete amnesty).
For me, I'm tired of living my life in fear of INS and being illegal. I'm tired of not being able to completely honest. I'm tired of not being able to get a job in the industry due to legal status. I couldn't take the offers of TA or RA for graduate school but my parents have supported me through that as well. I'm tired of always needing support. I'm finishing my master's degree this summer and I'm leaving the US. One country's loss will be another's gain (probably Canada, in my case).
This from a woman who accepts cheating from her husband. What kind of moral standard is that? Being the first lady and accepting repeated betrayal teaches what to young girls? To accept such behavior from guys?
If a player has a character have sex with a prostitute, it's completely different from actual cheating! Simulation of games is completely different from simulation of mathematics (where simulation is doing). Though it can get fuzzy in MMORPGs when people start having various relationships.
Mrs. Clinton accepts and enables immoral behavior and complains when a GAME allows fantasy?! And she most likely accepted Bill's behavior so she could run for politics herself. What hogwash!
To each their own. I love the fact that Windows Explorer has the Control Panel and Network Connections and etc. However, in terms of integration, what I like is Konqueror. I can have multiple tabs, each looking at different folders. I can have another tab at an FTP site. Another at SFTP. It's so great for copying files from one place to the other. One consistent GUI to access files that handle different protocols which should be transparent to the user (and mostly is except for slight differences in what we put at the location/address). I like that one tab can browse the web. I'd use that too if it wasn't for the fact that I use Firefox and have my bookmarks syncronized on my dual boot and another linux machine.
This may be a little off-topic, but it's something I still don't get.
Why do so many on Slashdot complain about Napster To Go pricing and service? Someone suggests $5/month for just capability to play songs they already own and which the technology is there, but the service providers are being greedy and people think it's a good idea?! After you stop paying the $5 a month, you can't use your own phone to transfer music anymore? That's dumber than the DRM on Napster.
T-Mobile or some provider should take up the opportunity and join with Motorola and Apple. Let Cingular and Verizon complain or add their own charges of $5/month. See where the customers go.
People keep talking about a "free market" in the US. But you have giant corporations and organizations like RIAA, MPAA and here the celluar phone companies that have so much control over the market. Saddest thing is, people vote with their dollars to help reinforce such a system...
It's not new that placebo effect exists. It's the fact we don't understand it. That's why it's on the list. Why does it work for some and not others? What limitations are there on the mind influencing the biochemical of the body? It's #1 on the list because it's so powerful, we've known about it for a long time, it's so pervasive, yet we know so little.
It's not like some programming changing the bits in memory. Or is it? What is our "mind"? Is there a non-materialistic creation out of the biochemical that can influence the materialistic world? This whole range of questions in regards to the placebo effect is huge, interesting, important and very little understood. And regardless of knowing about it, just like the phrase, "The more you know, the more you know you don't know", the placebo effect can still leave many educated thinkers amazed.
Yeah, and social engineering only works with technology. I mean, you couldn't use the technique to gain access to physical files or anything.
Or do you suggest private companies are so much better at security?
Geesh, this is a human issue. Notice the word "social"!
I'm working temporarily as a cashier at a fast food place. Sometimes, I get tips from people when I ask them for IDs on their credit cards :)
People are willing to pay a huge price for convenience. Social engineering attacks exploit that, but obviously, it hasn't been enough to make people cynical or stringent on rules.
My first inclination was to make the process of buying and receiving the food fast and convenient. Many people don't bring out their IDs with their credit cards and sometimes have to dig through purses for them. So it makes it slower and inconveniences them. Obviously, I understand that security is important enough, but it's not something people are taught. And even if you are, when you have rushes of people and some can be a pain, you just want to get them through.
But even then, you have to wonder what balance to reach. Do you always reject people if they don't have their IDs? On campus, some places take your ID if you check something out or whatever. How trusting can you be? And "never" just doesn't work in regards to customer service because you want the people to feel as they're treated well and come back (without angering those that care about security).
Social engineering will always work into the future because people are willing to take certain losses (billions of dollars each year) for convenience, values such as courtesy and (as in the secretary case the other guy mentioned) save face.
Then, you have issues of people that rebel due to overly strict rules or disagreement with them. I know that many universities have had to deal with theft. The Engineering department at MSU locks the doors on the buildings around midnight (though the hours say until 2am) and since so many people come in and go out of the buildling later than that, the students keep a trash can to prop the door open. And if I'm going out of the building, I wouldn't hesitate to keep it open for someone who's trying to get in.
With software it's the same things. Writing passwords down or whatever. Given the option between security and convenience, most likely, it'll be the latter.
Yes, if enough people use it (even if incorrect), it becomes a word. You don't get to choose if something is NOT a word. The general public does (in a sense). That's how English works. It's not like French where there is a standard. Language is dynamic, get used to it.
People come from different backgrounds and are raised differently. For some, it's natural to say "irregardless". Some say "offen" while others say "offten", big whoop. Get over it.
I don't know if I've said similar statements in my blogs, but I'm sure I've said negative comments about myself. But if you're judging a person, honesty is an important trait to assess properly. I'm honest in both my blog and my resume. If I say these are my skillsets, these are my strengths, these are my weakneses, then you can pretty much count on it. I know that doesn't win me jobs, but I prefer that route to lying and deceiving, though that does win more job interviews and jobs. It's a price I'm willing to pay.
Though, I'm sure many others do it out of lack of thinking than principle...