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Review: Solaris
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· Score: 3, Funny
From a recent rec.humor.funny post:
George Clooney's new movie is calles Solaris. From which we can deduce
that it's expensive, slow moving, has lots of bugs and will only make
sense on the fifth sequel.
Why? Understanding Scheme is much simpler than understanding Visual Basic.
People who really understand a language could write it from scratch if they had to.
IIRC, Fischer was never publicly anti-Semitic (or very political at that) until some time after he retired. The FBI was tracking him for other reasons.
So limit residential usage to maybe 50% of campus bandwidth. And limit p2p ports to maybe 50% of residential bandwidth. This is basically what my school does, for some percentages.
Also I find it somewhat odd that "Academic usage would grind to a halt when some new CD came out". If you run this close to capacity that a few 5MB transfers per person per day can clog the system, you desperately need an upgrade. I wouldn't be surprised if CS majors submitting their homework all on the same day clogged the system similarly.
Well, I know people who needed to read maybe a 5 page excerpt from a book that was under copyright, and they found a pdf via p2p. Granted it's not legal, but it's academic. And it's hardly unethical; those students would have just walked to the library instead, rather than running out to the bookstore and buying a copy.
The school network is just that, the schools network. It's being used for academic purposes. Lack of access to a file trading network that eats enormous amounts of bandwith is in no way censorship.
The school's campus is just that, the school's campus. A protest would not serve academic purposes, so prohibiting a protest on school grounds is in no way censorship.
The school's library is just that, the school's library. Controversial books would probably not serve academic purposes, so removing them is in no way censorship.
By this logic, a university is incapable of censorship.
your university library doesn't have a subscription to Penthouse
Speak for yourself:
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The problem with distributed computing is that it only lets you get at the problems that are just out of your reach. If you used all the computers in the world, you could not find the exact solution for the travelling salesman problem for 1000 cities.
Don't start until three days before the assignment is due. Then pull three all-nighters in a row. Lack of sleep will ensure you write broken code. With luck, you will get sick and blow some other classes too!
From article: "The TV Linux Alliance consists of ACTV, ATI, Broadcom, Concurrent Computer, Conexant, Convergence Integrated Media, iSurfTV, Liberate, Lineo, MontaVista, Motorola, Pace Micro, ReplayTV, STMicroelectronics, Sun Microsystems, TiVo, Trintech, and Worldgate."
Odd. Somehow they left out WebTV
1. Somehow I doubt that the DoD -- or anywhere that security is really important -- throws together code and puts it into production right away. (Who hasn't heard the stories about the draconian code review policies?) 2. Why would the DoD distribute their modified code? Perhaps they would send a patch to Apache or whatever if it was sufficiently general interest, but I suspect most of the modifications have to do with security policies particular to them. 3. Do you really believe that "Al-Qaeda hackers" [sic] spend more person-hours looking at the code than non-malicious users? 4. Neglecting the silliness about Al-Qaeda, why should I trust you that "some computer science programs and IRC channels" are training highly dangerous black hats? Last I checked, IRC was the land of windows-running script kiddies, and typical computer science programs include perhaps one optional course on security.
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Why? Understanding Scheme is much simpler than understanding Visual Basic. People who really understand a language could write it from scratch if they had to.
At least they've chosen a challenge with practical implications.
My school's library, for instance, has an extensive collection of such periodicals.
IIRC, Fischer was never publicly anti-Semitic (or very political at that) until some time after he retired. The FBI was tracking him for other reasons.
No one is quite sure, but he has most likely become mentally ill.
If you want an unintelligible conversation, just type M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead into your local emacs.
you're wrong.
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So limit residential usage to maybe 50% of campus bandwidth. And limit p2p ports to maybe 50% of residential bandwidth. This is basically what my school does, for some percentages. Also I find it somewhat odd that "Academic usage would grind to a halt when some new CD came out". If you run this close to capacity that a few 5MB transfers per person per day can clog the system, you desperately need an upgrade. I wouldn't be surprised if CS majors submitting their homework all on the same day clogged the system similarly.
Well, I know people who needed to read maybe a 5 page excerpt from a book that was under copyright, and they found a pdf via p2p.
Granted it's not legal, but it's academic. And it's hardly unethical; those students would have just walked to the library instead, rather than running out to the bookstore and buying a copy.
The school network is just that, the schools network. It's being used for academic purposes. Lack of access to a file trading network that eats enormous amounts of bandwith is in no way censorship. The school's campus is just that, the school's campus. A protest would not serve academic purposes, so prohibiting a protest on school grounds is in no way censorship. The school's library is just that, the school's library. Controversial books would probably not serve academic purposes, so removing them is in no way censorship. By this logic, a university is incapable of censorship.
Speak for yourself:
[...] .P35
.P37
.F74
.P41
Pearl Diver (Portland, OR) Lesbian HQ75
Pedestal (Vancouver, BC) HQ1457
Penthouse (New York, NY) Erotica HQ1.P418
Penthouse Forum (New York, NY) Erotica HQ1
Penthouse Variations (New York, NY) Erotica HQ1
[...]
The problem with distributed computing is that it only lets you get at the problems that are just out of your reach. If you used all the computers in the world, you could not find the exact solution for the travelling salesman problem for 1000 cities.
Imagine how quickly you can rm -rf / now...
Bringing the Amulet to the surface is not the object of nethack... Read rec.games.roguelike.nethack to see fairly frequent accounts of victory.
If you want to find out for yourself, try Heroclix.
From article: "The TV Linux Alliance consists of ACTV, ATI, Broadcom, Concurrent Computer, Conexant, Convergence Integrated Media, iSurfTV, Liberate, Lineo, MontaVista, Motorola, Pace Micro, ReplayTV, STMicroelectronics, Sun Microsystems, TiVo, Trintech, and Worldgate." Odd. Somehow they left out WebTV
1. Somehow I doubt that the DoD -- or anywhere that security is really important -- throws together code and puts it into production right away. (Who hasn't heard the stories about the draconian code review policies?)
2. Why would the DoD distribute their modified code? Perhaps they would send a patch to Apache or whatever if it was sufficiently general interest, but I suspect most of the modifications have to do with security policies particular to them.
3. Do you really believe that "Al-Qaeda hackers" [sic] spend more person-hours looking at the code than non-malicious users?
4. Neglecting the silliness about Al-Qaeda, why should I trust you that "some computer science programs and IRC channels" are training highly dangerous black hats? Last I checked, IRC was the land of windows-running script kiddies, and typical computer science programs include perhaps one optional course on security.