Agreed. Also math, physics, EE, bio, chem... Any of the "big sciences" all tie in nicely with CS. It depends on what your interests are. Pair it with something you enjoy so that classes won't feel like a waste of time and any job resulting won't bore you to tears. None of these sciences would have made it to where they are now without computer technology and they'll openly admit it.
You're an ISP. Your customers are running all sorts of FTP, HTTP, E-mail, torrent, and a few dozen otehr types of servers. This constitues a security threat and legal issues up the wazoo. So what can you do about it? Stop that traffic. Easy, simple, fun!
Now, as an ISP, you also provide local and long distance phone services. Maybe this is even your primary revenue stream and the Internet(s) service is just another in yet a long series of attempts of being versatile and attractive to the customer. VOIP shows up and starts undercutting your voice services something fierce. What do you do? Stop that traffic too! Oh... wait. VOIP isn't illegal and it doesn't constitute any security threats (yet, but that's neither here, there nor the other place). Oh well, you'll just block it because you don't like it and it's (this is important) competition! *gasp*
A few months later you're found sucking on your thumb and crying whilst the FCC films their latest documentary "How we ass-rape those who defy us." It really is a great flick, you should watch it sometime.
See the difference between blocking server traffic and VOIP traffic?
The point is finding it while it's moving - building a single wi-fi detector won't help you with directional location - especially in that last scenario, the multi-level mall. How do you plan on finding a moving signal within a 3-D search space?
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If you don't want to take the tour of WinXP, just click on the 'baloon' and then 'Cancel' on the next window. It'll never bother you again.
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Do you routinely label the contents of everything you ship?
"Credit card payment"
"Subscription to nudie mag"
"Blackmail payment"
"PDA to my friend overseas - don't steal it"
Are you kidding me? Get a 21" CRT! YEAH!! And while you're at it, replace the steering wheel with two joysticks and the gas and brake pedals with infrared sensors that detect the position of your feet relative to an LED grid on the floor... Seatbelt? HA! Just run about 8 standard power cords in parallel - those things can be used to tow a frickin' CAR! Man, we're all just full of great ideas.
My roommate interned with Pfizer and they sold (and likely still sell) their products to their employees for a very small fraction of retail. Granted, it was all gums, mints and off the shelf medications (no prescriptions, sorry). I remember one day he came home witha shopping back full of packs of gum, cough drops, allergy and pain meds, mints, candies and the like and the whole bag cost him about $5.
Right on - and a PIII should have no problems running iTunes. I would highly recommend this setup. It worked great for me for two years - although my setup isn't as elaborate as yours sounds like it may be. Just make sure to A) Secure your wireless network then B) make sure Remote Desktop or a VNC solution are enabled on all of the machines. That way you can either pick the music you want to play in that room FROM that room, or you can connect remotely and make changes that way.
I've been with Dreamhost for almost 6 years and I second everything positive said about them thus far. I started out paying $9.95 a month. I upgraded quite some time ago to a $19.95/month plan. Since then, that plan has been upped to over 5x the bandwidth, 10x the storage and a whole host of other upgrades... while I pay nothing more. Plus, I pay by the year so I get a pretty spiffy discount. Their support is also top-notch. I even had a couple of the techs on my ICQ list for a while and they'd help me at a moment's notice.
So, to paraphrase (loosely), you're of the opinion that regardless of the crime comitted, they should go to a resort for an indefinite amount of time and talk to shrinks and play with ponies all day - all on my dime.
Say I just got evicted form my apartment. I have no money, no food, but I have a baseball bat. If prison works like you want it to, I should just be able to club someone over the head and then spend the next 3-5 years eating well in a comfortable, safe place with lots of cool toys, a full gymnasium and maybe even an olympic sized pool - all for free. Sure, the air conditioning is a little bit cold sometimes, but that's the price I pay for clubbing someone over the head. Whoops! I almost missed the 3 o'clock jazzersize and group therapy!
As previous posters said, rehab won't work on a massive scale. I'm no shrink, but the government employes thousands of them and I'm sure that if the government thought rehab would work, they would roll something out like you describe. It's probably been tried already. Who knows, maybe they're still trying, but it's not working - at least not on a macro scale. Sure, it will work for a few prisoners or even prisoners who committed certain types of crime. But if prison is a comfortable, safe place to be, why wouldn't I - a homeless guy - want to be there living it up on your dime?
I'm sorry, I don't think that *I* failed someone in prison for rape, theft, murder or drug dealing. I don't think it was society either. I think that they made the choices that they did and because of that, I don't feel that I should pay (through taxes) for their Xboxes, PS2s, televisions and game titles.
I agree that prisoners deserve basic human rights (food, shelter, etc.) but that does not, under ANY circumstances, include Grand Theft Auto or Monkey Ball. I don't even think it includes television, cable or broadcast. Why should prisoners who have been caught doing illegal things have access to certain things by default when half the country (exaggeration) can't even afford them?
If they want the news, they can get a news paper. If they want to kill some aliens, too damn bad.
Yeah - great idea. Now the genius that cracked it gets a class-action lawsuit filed against him/her by ALL of the manufacturers that used it as opposed to a single company...
It usually depends on the brand name and store. I used to work for Best Buy and we got everything 10% above store cost. Cabling and Car Audio were the two most marked-up products. Car speakers and decks were commonly marked up over 600%. I've seen cabling marked up as high as 2000% (yeah - three zeros)! Watch batteries that sell for $3.97 cost me around $0.26. I bought $1600 worth of car audio equipment (deck, four new speakers, all new cabling, amp, sub, box, etc.) for less than $400 - installed.
In other words... Retail will rip you off! Retailers often make more money off of the USB cable you have to buy (because it's not included with your printer) than they make on the whole ocmputer/monitor/printer combo.
Never buy high-end A/V or computer cables retail. If you see a $100 DVI cable at Best Buy or Circuit City, you should be able to find it online for less than $40. It's still a rip-off, but it doesn't hurt to walk or sit down afterwards.
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Agreed. Also math, physics, EE, bio, chem... Any of the "big sciences" all tie in nicely with CS. It depends on what your interests are. Pair it with something you enjoy so that classes won't feel like a waste of time and any job resulting won't bore you to tears. None of these sciences would have made it to where they are now without computer technology and they'll openly admit it.
Possibly, but think about it this way:
You're an ISP. Your customers are running all sorts of FTP, HTTP, E-mail, torrent, and a few dozen otehr types of servers. This constitues a security threat and legal issues up the wazoo. So what can you do about it? Stop that traffic. Easy, simple, fun!
Now, as an ISP, you also provide local and long distance phone services. Maybe this is even your primary revenue stream and the Internet(s) service is just another in yet a long series of attempts of being versatile and attractive to the customer. VOIP shows up and starts undercutting your voice services something fierce. What do you do? Stop that traffic too! Oh... wait. VOIP isn't illegal and it doesn't constitute any security threats (yet, but that's neither here, there nor the other place). Oh well, you'll just block it because you don't like it and it's (this is important) competition! *gasp*
A few months later you're found sucking on your thumb and crying whilst the FCC films their latest documentary "How we ass-rape those who defy us." It really is a great flick, you should watch it sometime.
See the difference between blocking server traffic and VOIP traffic?
Not if you agreed to the TOS that you wouldn't run any servers while connected to their service...
$20* says that is probably in your contract while restrictions on VOIP are nowhere to be found.
The $20 mentioned is simply a euphamism for a congratulatory high-five.
So he becomes a Knight Commander of the MEO? Is that an Elf, Dwarf or Human?
The point is finding it while it's moving - building a single wi-fi detector won't help you with directional location - especially in that last scenario, the multi-level mall. How do you plan on finding a moving signal within a 3-D search space?
If all else fails it can just be turned into the worlds largest sun dial...
RE: Your sig
If you don't want to take the tour of WinXP, just click on the 'baloon' and then 'Cancel' on the next window. It'll never bother you again.
Do you routinely label the contents of everything you ship?
"Credit card payment"
"Subscription to nudie mag"
"Blackmail payment"
"PDA to my friend overseas - don't steal it"
Probably just a bunch of four-letter variables that would offend anyone older than 27....
They could be fined $11,000 per offense, not total.
Screw the mods, that was funny, sarcastic, and insightful all at once. Well done laddy, well done... I agree 100%.
Are you kidding me? Get a 21" CRT! YEAH!! And while you're at it, replace the steering wheel with two joysticks and the gas and brake pedals with infrared sensors that detect the position of your feet relative to an LED grid on the floor... Seatbelt? HA! Just run about 8 standard power cords in parallel - those things can be used to tow a frickin' CAR! Man, we're all just full of great ideas.
My roommate interned with Pfizer and they sold (and likely still sell) their products to their employees for a very small fraction of retail. Granted, it was all gums, mints and off the shelf medications (no prescriptions, sorry). I remember one day he came home witha shopping back full of packs of gum, cough drops, allergy and pain meds, mints, candies and the like and the whole bag cost him about $5.
Right on - and a PIII should have no problems running iTunes. I would highly recommend this setup. It worked great for me for two years - although my setup isn't as elaborate as yours sounds like it may be. Just make sure to A) Secure your wireless network then B) make sure Remote Desktop or a VNC solution are enabled on all of the machines. That way you can either pick the music you want to play in that room FROM that room, or you can connect remotely and make changes that way.
I've been with Dreamhost for almost 6 years and I second everything positive said about them thus far. I started out paying $9.95 a month. I upgraded quite some time ago to a $19.95/month plan. Since then, that plan has been upped to over 5x the bandwidth, 10x the storage and a whole host of other upgrades... while I pay nothing more. Plus, I pay by the year so I get a pretty spiffy discount. Their support is also top-notch. I even had a couple of the techs on my ICQ list for a while and they'd help me at a moment's notice.
So, to paraphrase (loosely), you're of the opinion that regardless of the crime comitted, they should go to a resort for an indefinite amount of time and talk to shrinks and play with ponies all day - all on my dime.
Say I just got evicted form my apartment. I have no money, no food, but I have a baseball bat. If prison works like you want it to, I should just be able to club someone over the head and then spend the next 3-5 years eating well in a comfortable, safe place with lots of cool toys, a full gymnasium and maybe even an olympic sized pool - all for free. Sure, the air conditioning is a little bit cold sometimes, but that's the price I pay for clubbing someone over the head. Whoops! I almost missed the 3 o'clock jazzersize and group therapy!
As previous posters said, rehab won't work on a massive scale. I'm no shrink, but the government employes thousands of them and I'm sure that if the government thought rehab would work, they would roll something out like you describe. It's probably been tried already. Who knows, maybe they're still trying, but it's not working - at least not on a macro scale. Sure, it will work for a few prisoners or even prisoners who committed certain types of crime. But if prison is a comfortable, safe place to be, why wouldn't I - a homeless guy - want to be there living it up on your dime?
I'm sorry, I don't think that *I* failed someone in prison for rape, theft, murder or drug dealing. I don't think it was society either. I think that they made the choices that they did and because of that, I don't feel that I should pay (through taxes) for their Xboxes, PS2s, televisions and game titles.
I agree that prisoners deserve basic human rights (food, shelter, etc.) but that does not, under ANY circumstances, include Grand Theft Auto or Monkey Ball. I don't even think it includes television, cable or broadcast. Why should prisoners who have been caught doing illegal things have access to certain things by default when half the country (exaggeration) can't even afford them?
If they want the news, they can get a news paper. If they want to kill some aliens, too damn bad.
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Umm, you forgot to click the "Post Anonymously" button on that one buddy...
Ok, fair enough - but how about a class-action against everyone who gets caught using it?
BSD actually...
Yeah - great idea. Now the genius that cracked it gets a class-action lawsuit filed against him/her by ALL of the manufacturers that used it as opposed to a single company...
You need to be more specific. I've done some research and found that only if taken rectally does it display said symptoms. Weird huh?
*Almost* off-topic - but not quite.
It usually depends on the brand name and store. I used to work for Best Buy and we got everything 10% above store cost. Cabling and Car Audio were the two most marked-up products. Car speakers and decks were commonly marked up over 600%. I've seen cabling marked up as high as 2000% (yeah - three zeros)! Watch batteries that sell for $3.97 cost me around $0.26. I bought $1600 worth of car audio equipment (deck, four new speakers, all new cabling, amp, sub, box, etc.) for less than $400 - installed.
In other words...
Retail will rip you off! Retailers often make more money off of the USB cable you have to buy (because it's not included with your printer) than they make on the whole ocmputer/monitor/printer combo.
Never buy high-end A/V or computer cables retail. If you see a $100 DVI cable at Best Buy or Circuit City, you should be able to find it online for less than $40. It's still a rip-off, but it doesn't hurt to walk or sit down afterwards.
Not pi... All of their job recruitment puzzles lately have focused around the abstract 'e'