When I went to college (before wireless was the new hype) we had our own user directories (both windows NT and Linux) on a server where we had to store our files. IMO that's a way better approach than to hand students CD or DVD's (which will get lost, scratched, left home, left in the drive, stolen, eaten by the dog). Let them bring a CD-R(W) (DVD is pretty overkill for most of what they'll make anyway) and let them write a copy of their files on it, but keep the original nicely save on a server they can't get near to.
The way I did it, was using webmail (e.g. yahoo) and mail my files. Since all our files where pretty small (source code and autocad drawings) this was way better than working with diskettes or anything.
Funny actually. I bought a wireless card for my laptop today. (my gf has wireless and I'd like to use it too when I'm there). Plugged it in in my laptop at my desk and presto, it found immediatly an open network. No wep or anything. I've got a good idea who's it is. So I'll let them known when I see them one of these days.
When I installed my gf's wireless I found 2 insecure networks in her neighbourhood. No idea who's they are so they are on their own. This does show how little most people know about wireless LAN's. IMO such items should come with a well visible sticker warning the user of the risks and good instruction on how to enable WEP and such.
(ok, not that WEP and such are unbreakable, they do keep out the casual script kiddy)
Class room doors work simular during finals. Pass through one in one direction (in 99.9% of the cases this is the direction in which you move into the room) and it automagicaly blanks out everything that was taught in said class. You get the reverse effect when you move through in the opposite direction.
Some point to investigate: Does the moving-outwards-effect cummulate? Repeatingly climbing throught the window and leaving the class room might reveal this. (check with your teacher before attemting this as this might be considered cheating.)
Untill more research has been done I advise entering classrooms through the windows rather than the door.
So all I need to do the get the post office in trouble is mail something illegal to some random person? In essence the post office and an ISP provide the same kind of service. Both allow 2 individuals to send each other materials. If I send a list of instructions on how to build some kind of explosive device, does it make any difference if I send it by email or by regular mail?
Besides can an ISP check on what you send without violating the law on privacy (the one that makes it illegal to read other peoples mail)?
IMO an ISP can't be held resposible for a email or file transfered. However they can be held responsible if they, after being notified by other people or an authority, don't stop a certain person from continuing sending harmfull mails or don't remove illegal content from their webspace.
They drove tanks over those young people only years ago when they protested, and now they suddenly care about their well being? Oh please. This has "hidden agenda" written all over it in big fat neon sign letters.
If they care so much, are they going to make a certain square
a tank-free area?
Sure but what if said robot attemts to apply its newly gathered knowledge of egg cracking on someones head. Heads can be cracked and the insides can be edible. Robots don't have taste, so it can assume that as the content of an egg is biological and since the content of someones head is too, then it is edible.
Things aren't that simple ofcourse. Most likely we'll have to train robots to handle the world in the same way we educate children. But once we have a working brain, we can copy it. But that'll need some sort of artificial brain, magnitudes greater than what we've build so far. And such brain is still a long way off as we still don't know so much on what thinking and learning really is.
According to Thompson, two busloads of Washington, DC schoolchildren will protest the game's release, though it was not clear what organization was promoting or funding the demonstration.
This is just outrageous. They drag in a bunch of kids to demonstrate for their cause. Children are easy targets, easy to influence. How about they brought adults, the kind that actualy knows what it's talking about, not just the kind that wants to prove they're more moralistic than their neighbours. But ofcourse those aren't available to him, as they are protesting against real bad things, not just some trivial thing, abused by some media-hungry dick who wants to make himself a big name without too much trouble or risk.
Ah these post on American government stupidity are one of the few things that make me happy living in this country. Our government doesn't do anything about such things unless something big happens that makes the newspapers in a way that a certain high level government official runs the risk of not being able to blame someone else. Then they do something totaly irrelevant and claim the problem solved. (E.g. the solved the issue of smoking by banning chocolat sigarets.)
Hell, I saw some European commercials showing full nudity, in not too late hours.
Too late, some asshol..., euh people complained and the commercial was censored. Damn USA their bad influence is infesting the minds of people in europe. Or it's the muslims, or our fucked up government. Damn so many people to blame, so little time...
sheesh, you call that revolting? THIS is revolting! (opens 25 differend porn sites, starts porn DVD on wide screen TV, spreads out collection of porn "literature", inflates sex doll. Calls 4 hookers and invides local nudist group for BBQ.)
Guess US is just plain sick. No problem if the kids get to see their daily dose of TV violence, yet a nipple on TV becomes a news item. But if you got to choose between 2 evils: your kid killing the neighbour's daughter or impregnating her. What would you pick?
I doubt the recording industry lost a dime over this. IMO the large majority who downloaded the BBC's music wouldn't have bought it in the first place. Those who'd actually care about said music would definitly shell out for a better quality CD version.
How could we effective disapprove of this awfull material if we can't get a look at it? I mean, it's our duty to guard the morality of the gaming world, right? So can we please get a few screenshots?
nor have you ever signed a contract for any software, yet you are still fully bound by their copyrights, even though you can't see the EULA until you open the CD.
You're trowing EULAs and copyright together. Both are very differend things. EULAs are contracts, copyright is a law. You're bound by copyright of a particular work without having to agree to anything, just as you're bound to stay below the speed limit.
The EULA adds restrictions to those already provided by copyright. e.g. it can ban modifying the work.
The thing is that the practice that you can't read the EULA unless you first opened the package (and therefore can't return it), is something that could be used against it in court of law.
IMO the whole licensing is a scam to strip rights away from the costumer. Licensing applies when you use a particular work to produces a derived work. IMO a letter writen in a word processor isn't a derived work. Nor is a picture made in Photoshop.
If it was then every carpenter has to pay licensing fees to hamer manufacturers.
Copyright is something completely differend. Copyright is about copying and distribiting written material (it being modified or not doesn't even matter). Copyright on its own doesn't forbit me to apply a correcting fluid and pen to any of the books I own. Nor is it illegal to modify software I bought (Except if it's explicitly noted in the EULA). It only forbits me to distribute or copy the material. Now why shouldn't I be able to modify the hardware I bought? It doesn't involve public safety as it does in cars.
You aren't bound by an UELA unless you agree to it, since you can't read it except after agreeing to it by opening the package, I think if someone would put this to court those UELA aren't going to hold up in front of a non-brain-death jury.
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When I went to college (before wireless was the new hype) we had our own user directories (both windows NT and Linux) on a server where we had to store our files. IMO that's a way better approach than to hand students CD or DVD's (which will get lost, scratched, left home, left in the drive, stolen, eaten by the dog). Let them bring a CD-R(W) (DVD is pretty overkill for most of what they'll make anyway) and let them write a copy of their files on it, but keep the original nicely save on a server they can't get near to.
The way I did it, was using webmail (e.g. yahoo) and mail my files. Since all our files where pretty small (source code and autocad drawings) this was way better than working with diskettes or anything.
Funny actually. I bought a wireless card for my laptop today. (my gf has wireless and I'd like to use it too when I'm there). Plugged it in in my laptop at my desk and presto, it found immediatly an open network. No wep or anything. I've got a good idea who's it is. So I'll let them known when I see them one of these days.
When I installed my gf's wireless I found 2 insecure networks in her neighbourhood. No idea who's they are so they are on their own. This does show how little most people know about wireless LAN's. IMO such items should come with a well visible sticker warning the user of the risks and good instruction on how to enable WEP and such. (ok, not that WEP and such are unbreakable, they do keep out the casual script kiddy)
1) Bully breaks laptop.
2) Sell bullies organs on ebay to Organised Crime Member (OCM).
3) OCM picks up organs. (Bully might protest a bit)
4) Buy newer and better laptop!
It got wheels, it got hell of an engine. I say I'll drive it home, if someone covers for speed tickets that is.
Class room doors work simular during finals. Pass through one in one direction (in 99.9% of the cases this is the direction in which you move into the room) and it automagicaly blanks out everything that was taught in said class. You get the reverse effect when you move through in the opposite direction.
Some point to investigate: Does the moving-outwards-effect cummulate? Repeatingly climbing throught the window and leaving the class room might reveal this. (check with your teacher before attemting this as this might be considered cheating.)
Untill more research has been done I advise entering classrooms through the windows rather than the door.
So all I need to do the get the post office in trouble is mail something illegal to some random person? In essence the post office and an ISP provide the same kind of service. Both allow 2 individuals to send each other materials. If I send a list of instructions on how to build some kind of explosive device, does it make any difference if I send it by email or by regular mail?
Besides can an ISP check on what you send without violating the law on privacy (the one that makes it illegal to read other peoples mail)?
IMO an ISP can't be held resposible for a email or file transfered. However they can be held responsible if they, after being notified by other people or an authority, don't stop a certain person from continuing sending harmfull mails or don't remove illegal content from their webspace.
Just my 2 cents.
"They are harmful to young people."
They drove tanks over those young people only years ago when they protested, and now they suddenly care about their well being? Oh please. This has "hidden agenda" written all over it in big fat neon sign letters.
If they care so much, are they going to make a certain square a tank-free area?
Sure but what if said robot attemts to apply its newly gathered knowledge of egg cracking on someones head. Heads can be cracked and the insides can be edible. Robots don't have taste, so it can assume that as the content of an egg is biological and since the content of someones head is too, then it is edible.
Things aren't that simple ofcourse. Most likely we'll have to train robots to handle the world in the same way we educate children. But once we have a working brain, we can copy it. But that'll need some sort of artificial brain, magnitudes greater than what we've build so far. And such brain is still a long way off as we still don't know so much on what thinking and learning really is.
Ah these post on American government stupidity are one of the few things that make me happy living in this country. Our government doesn't do anything about such things unless something big happens that makes the newspapers in a way that a certain high level government official runs the risk of not being able to blame someone else. Then they do something totaly irrelevant and claim the problem solved. (E.g. the solved the issue of smoking by banning chocolat sigarets.)
Would be pointless. A certain OS company is already squising all the money from 90% of the vulnerable systems.
sheesh, you call that revolting? THIS is revolting! (opens 25 differend porn sites, starts porn DVD on wide screen TV, spreads out collection of porn "literature", inflates sex doll. Calls 4 hookers and invides local nudist group for BBQ.)
Guess US is just plain sick. No problem if the kids get to see their daily dose of TV violence, yet a nipple on TV becomes a news item. But if you got to choose between 2 evils: your kid killing the neighbour's daughter or impregnating her. What would you pick?
Weird isn't it. Those supermoralists don't want to see any reference to sex, yet they do hire dicks and cunts to handle their sueing needs.
You did. They found your body in front of your computer. Apparently you were killed with an axe while reading a reply on /.
porn + computers with touch screens? hmmmm. Must remember to bring gloves when fixing some else's computer then.
What do you mean? An entire metro car full of Linux/Macintosh fanatics?
Before. We'll need a table top fusion reactor to power the hardware needed to run Duke4ever.
<blockquote>"We're finding...cases where there is line-by-line code in the Linux kernel that is matching up to our UnixWare code."</blockquote>
From a good source I know Linux does indeed contain lines that are exactly the same as in UnixWare Code.
e.g.:
for (int i = 0; i < MAX_INT; i++)
while (!done)
...
There are many more to find. SCO has even reason to believe many more companies has copied these exact same code fragments!
I doubt the recording industry lost a dime over this. IMO the large majority who downloaded the BBC's music wouldn't have bought it in the first place. Those who'd actually care about said music would definitly shell out for a better quality CD version.
So what you are saying we should arm ourselves? Anyone knows a good source for USB enabled SAM lauchers?
How could we effective disapprove of this awfull material if we can't get a look at it? I mean, it's our duty to guard the morality of the gaming world, right? So can we please get a few screenshots?
The EULA adds restrictions to those already provided by copyright. e.g. it can ban modifying the work.
The thing is that the practice that you can't read the EULA unless you first opened the package (and therefore can't return it), is something that could be used against it in court of law.
IMO the whole licensing is a scam to strip rights away from the costumer. Licensing applies when you use a particular work to produces a derived work. IMO a letter writen in a word processor isn't a derived work. Nor is a picture made in Photoshop. If it was then every carpenter has to pay licensing fees to hamer manufacturers.
Copyright is something completely differend. Copyright is about copying and distribiting written material (it being modified or not doesn't even matter). Copyright on its own doesn't forbit me to apply a correcting fluid and pen to any of the books I own. Nor is it illegal to modify software I bought (Except if it's explicitly noted in the EULA). It only forbits me to distribute or copy the material. Now why shouldn't I be able to modify the hardware I bought? It doesn't involve public safety as it does in cars.
You aren't bound by an UELA unless you agree to it, since you can't read it except after agreeing to it by opening the package, I think if someone would put this to court those UELA aren't going to hold up in front of a non-brain-death jury.