I guess that means the FEWER holes you patch, the fewer problems there are to begin with. If that were the case, why even bother patching holes? Wouldn't running wide open, unprotected systems be the safest? The only reason your OSX is so secure is because people writing viri and exploits don't want to bother spending time to write code for such a small percentage of systems. Pretend I'm someone trying to exploit an OS. I can spend X number of hours writing code. I can either code for MS or Mac. I want to largest possible number of machines exploited. Which do I choose? Mac is the one place where security through obscurity works.
First off, you referenced black civil rights in the 60s, not I. Civil rights leaders did not invent and were not the last to use civil disobedience. I simply made a historical reference that P2P users aren't the first people to break laws in order to illustrate what is wrong with them. I would agree that the former was a much more socially important cause, but that should not negate the royal screwing that our copyright system has gotten because of greedy corporations with billions to burn on political contributions. It is well proven that civil disobedience can work, just as it had been proven that corporations will listen better when their bottom line is at stake.
Their best rebuttal is that we are hurting their 'artists'. I contend that most of these so called artists are really performers who were discovered and molded by the record industry in order for them to perform content created by someone else. This is why music is losing its originality and soul. The reason music is dying is because the RIAA and its members refuse to evolve their business model. They refuse to stop using and pushing "prefab" music and "artists", they refuse to make content available online, and they refuse to stop giving favor to their musical puppets over true singers/songwriters. It's a proven fact they have more control over their puppets than true artists who may decide to think for themselves one day. There are many real musical artists out there who are appalled by what is being done in their supposed best interests.
You could always create a gopher based bulletin board. That should take care of your ignorant computer users. Does IE or outlook even support gopher? I'd check myself but I don't know of any left.
Are you sure? I seem to recall that the government had evidence that Iraq was getting ready to attack the United States. The forces in Iraq may not have found a smoking gun, but there was still enough evidence to warrant an invasion under the previous United Nations resolutions.
Iraq had 2 things going against it. The first being the unfinished business of Daddy, and the second being that it has oil. If Iraq didn't have oil, nobody would give two shits about it. Afghanistan doesn't have oil; look how much they are in the news today.
The law is the law. It is a cold black and white document that applies to us whether we want it to or not.
I wonder what civil rights activists would have to say about that. Anyone ever heard of civil disobedience? The part I love about being self-righteous is that I don't have to respect laws that have been modified by pigopolist lobbyists paying off politicians. Obviously, copyright law is no longer balanced between the holder and the society he/she lives in. Life plus however many centuries they've bumped it up to this week serves only on interest.
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Try turning up your mouse sensitivity or acceleration. I can crank mine up and send the cursor across the screen with a sneeze.
It's interesting to note that hydrogen's qualities make it much safer should there be, say, an accident with a truck carrying it. It dissipates as it leaks, versus the major fire hazard/toxic waste problem created by a gasoline spill.
Assuming that it's NOT in it's liquid state. If it does become very popuar, transportation companies might traffic it in it's cryogenic form since it is a more effecient use of space and less prone to leaking. Also, I'm also sure that filling the blimp with hydrogen didn't help matters either.
Then road accidents can start taking people out T2 style;)
Schools aren't interested in keeping kids from dropping out for purely selfless reasons. My old high school didn't give a damn what went on as long as you showed up to be counted and didn't drop out. It, like most other public schools, got state and federal funding based on its attendance and drop out rates. I'm sure a few people genuinely want to help, but parading around like philanthropy is your only concern will help people not to trust you.
I graduated a year after the columbine fiasco, and my senior year I too was put on a list. Every time a bomb threat was called in, or 'random' locker search came time... I was on the list. Except for a few incidents in middle school I had a spotless record. The reason was because I stood up to the knee-jerk stupidity of new policy after everyone became afraid of their children. One example is, with the exception of the dock and the main doors, all doors were locked from both directions until an alarm was triggered. We also had to wear ID badges at all times. If we didn't, or interfered with lasers scanning us in the halls, we were suspended for a day. It's really useless, because the two at columbine would have had all the security to get in without a problem. The moral of the story: Most kids don't like being labeled or put on a list and respond poorly to it.
All good and well, except either they would find the key during the search of your house, or your attitude of supremacy will drive them to brute force the encryption just to spite you. I doubt that they are going to be using a 2048 bit encryption scheme with a recursive fractal algorithm for a key generator, or some other star trek sounding crap. Refusing the decrypt your data is not the equivalent of pleading the 5th. A failure to decrypt, if technically possible, on a judges could be a very bad thing.
Copyright violation is also a federal crime, hence the FBI warnings on videos. They may not be able to send you to jail, but they can still suck you dry in civil court. It may be harder for them to get the maximum dollar penalty though.
Still, I agree though. If you have used your key to open and run your system, any data transferred over the internet has your encryption removed. Another example of BS marketing at it's best. It's a good thing that any individual who is in the target market would probably know better. It could be a good selling point to orginizations in need of tighter security though. Would you feel a bit better if your accountant used this on his system?
I used the old real plug-in for winamp2 until they broke the new format. So I just deleted it all and don't bother with real anymore. The thing was only on wimamp's website for a short time. Legal threats over decoding of copyrighted, proprietary formats.
Someone told me that real player plays quicktime files. Does anyone else know of any PC software that will do this? Preferably it should be open source, or at least free, but I can imagine apple would also want money just like real.
So what keeps them from dending you a 6 meg file of random binary and swearing that it is music, and it's your fault you can play it? Is that what they are doing?
Sounds sort of like a productivity paradox. The technological changes which are supposed to simplify your life actually make things more complex.
Give a shovel to a man digging a hole with no tools, and you help him out. Now give him two. Is he able to work any faster? Now give him a computer.....
One of the advantages of having more than one treatment to an illnes is that people can choose which side effects they want to deal with. I can't blame someone who chooses temporary euphoria and foggy memory over... lets say headache, crapms, and a leaking anus. Besides, the majority of people with eye troubles are elderly anyway. They've paid their debit to society, let 'em do what they want.
my choice is what I choose to do
and if I'm causing no harm
it shouldn't bother you
your choice is who you choose to be
and if your causin' no harm
then you're alright with me
Ben Harper
That's pure comedy. You are almost as much fun to play with as the front door spammers that call themselves mormons. God does have a sense of humor, it's called the bible.
1. Make a bunch of rules
2. Set most of them in opposition to each other.
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
Sorry, I spent a couple years working tech support at my university. I keep hearing that my generation is supposed to be so well equipped to deal with technology, and I was still dealing with people who were deleting files to free RAM. Not to mention that only the journalism and art schools ever considered teaching their students on other hardware like Macs and SGIs. Business majors have to be the worst of all. They believe what they are told without question. One memorable personality, who couldn't tell the difference between his PS2 ports, tried telling me anything that is non-windows is garbage because his professor says so, and he can't use his precious access. A side note, Microsoft 'donates' over a million dollars annually to the business school on the condition that the teachers don't even let their students think of anything but windows PCs. As an informatics major, it was hard helping the same people I would have to answer to someday, because I knew their lack of knowledge and apathy towards learning would tie my hands in my future job. The idiots I'm referring to are the people who refuse to learn new tricks because holding onto corporate PR and preconceived notions is much easier.
I can't describe how annoying and harmful spam is on our network. There are NO filters. Anything sent to a valid username gets accepted. I get about 5 - 15 legitimate emails a day and about 20 - 50 junk messages. I have not opted in to anything either directly or by contract or agreement. Filters don't work because they would need to be server side since most of my day is spent on campus using old PINE terminals or the web interface if I can get into a lab. It wasn't nearly as bad back whet you could only telnet or SSH in because HTML was not rendered. Now, the second you get a piece of spam, and you are using webmail or an HTML IMAP program to read your messages, as soon as you even look at it the wrong way to loads a refer link (usually a graphic) that verifies yours as a valid address open to everyone.
The content is your standard stuff. Debit reduction, enlargement scams, get rich quick schemes, 'loans', etc. The reason IU won't block spam is the concern about possible 1st amendment litigation. During the height of napster, they blocked the official napster servers as soon as they got the first RIAA form letter.
It's actually affected some of my grades. One important message about a project deadline was blocked by a filter on my home box. Another time, over spring break, I didn't SSH into my account for about 5 or 6 days and my 100MB quota filled up. The due date of a very important research paper ("The Social and Economic effects of Real-Time Communication and Collaboration") had been bumped up to the first meeting after break. I luckily had a prof who let me sweet talk him into only a 10% reduction. So much for a 4.0 in all of my school's classes. I would pay them the $25 for a virgin username, but it's more cost effective to use hotmail.
I thought she was part of the corporate occupational government... err.. i mean... consultants being sent over to help rebuild Iraq in our image... i mean the right way.
Just because it was included in the price doesn't mean they didn't pay for it. Besides, as has been stated a million times before, most computer users are idiots. This is part of the reason windows is popular, because anyone can see that pretty picture and know what it means. Someday, as people get smarter, maybe they will begin to take the training wheels off....
Sounds like microsoft's strategy. Make subtle deviations in the networking protocols from published standards so other OS's don't play well together. Everyone knows that a standard that microsoft adopts isn't the exact same as the published standard.
For example you have W3 HTML and IE HTML. You have Java and you have MS Java. If anyone using a non-windows box has problems running a java program or applet, and you can't figure it out, odds are it was written with a microsoft program.
They blocked the official napster servers the second the RIAA sent them a message. They just don't want to spend the possible money to possibly litigate.
Spam is a major issue for me. The 1st amendment consideration is BS. If someone comes up to me preaching (like Brother Dan for you locals), I have the ability to completely ignore him or her and walk right by without any interference in my schedule or routine. If someone comes knocking on my door, I can sit right back down without opening it. When dealing with the freedom of speech, in a one-on-one environment, that right is more dependent on the person on the receiving end than the speaker. Spam is the equivalent of someone sneaking into your house or work, and making you force them out the door after they blindside you with their sales gimmick. The first amendment is arguably the most important, but people need to realize the intent of the passage instead of the superficial words. Spam is not political or social in nature; it is deceptive advertising and should lack constitutional protection. I say, by default block it, until the user requests that you let it through for them. The right to ignore someone else's speech with minimal thought and effort is the one thing that the digital medium is lacking and in severe need of.
Spam on my university account is a major problem. Every day I get between 20 and 50 unwanted pieces of mail, about 1 to 5 from friends and family, and about 5 to 10 are school related. Filtering on the server side is nonexistent at IU, everything that is sent gets through. I can, and have, set up filtering on my computer, but that does little considering that most of the day I am on campus using either the web interface or PINE. After I lost several critical messages about class, due to my filters and hasty by-default-delete-before-thinking frustration, I gave up on my school account. The IT center wants $25 to change my username, which I won't pay, because a security breach a couple years ago allowed someone to get a large cache of usernames, SSN #'s, and other personal information. Spam is more than a nuisance for me; it has cost me my time as well as my grades (in a few situations).
Bowling For Columbine is so obviously a carefully crafted attempt to lead viewers by the hand to what Moore wants them to think, that I really don't see how you can say otherwise.
Well, that would be the fault of foolish people who are either too lazy or unintelligent to research the matters themselves; and in the end, their opinion is unimportant anyway because they cannot backup their claims with more than one source. I would not trust someone who said that BfC was their source, but I would trust someone who said BfC made them want to research the subject at hand. Besides, the only complaints I hear about the film involve the NRA. Does anyone have a bone to pick about his welfare to work segment? I thought that part was rather well done.
The difference isn't money. The difference is parents, teachers, administrators, and community leaders expecting more from you, and being involved in your life to help you succeed.
But more attention requires more people and more work. Since we live in a society where money is everything, more of it is going to be an expected requirement. People can expect more from you all they want, it doesn't make someone try harder. They have to want to buy into the system. How is putting more pressure on someone to be somebody they don't want to be going to accomplish anything? We still live in a country where minorities are more likely to go to jail than college.
Ask yourself why a crack house won't hold up for very long in a suburban neighborhood: the neighborhood won't put up with it. And when an inner-city neighborhood gets together to determine they want change they usually get it.
Suburban police don't have nearly as much to do as inner-city cops. I'm sure they have all the time to spare to operate on the fringes of the law in order to drive a crack house out. Besides, that probably just another good white Christian man helping another out. Why do cops in the inner city ignore crack houses even know they know exactly what's going on? That is a legal issue and should concern the cops more than the community.
The day when inner-city leaders stop looking only to the outside world for monetary support, and start taking the reigns of their community to actually lead their people in internal growth, is the day success begins.
Put some reigns on a cat and see how far you can make it go. In order to lead people you need to be leading them in a direction they want to go. Maybe some people think that the political solution isn't the right answer. Who knows? Maybe society has failed them. We did do their fathers and grandfathers wrong by placing them at the bottom of the social ladder for a long time. You can't really expect a couple decades of improved civil liberties to undo centuries of social, political, and economic damage.
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I'm not advocating windows by any means, but remote access can be disabled by any number of means between the box and the router.
I guess that means the FEWER holes you patch, the fewer problems there are to begin with. If that were the case, why even bother patching holes? Wouldn't running wide open, unprotected systems be the safest? The only reason your OSX is so secure is because people writing viri and exploits don't want to bother spending time to write code for such a small percentage of systems. Pretend I'm someone trying to exploit an OS. I can spend X number of hours writing code. I can either code for MS or Mac. I want to largest possible number of machines exploited. Which do I choose? Mac is the one place where security through obscurity works.
But when are they going to probe Uranus?
Scientists renamed that planet in the year 2354 to end that old joke once and for all. It's now known as Urectum.
"Afer all, who needs courage when you have a gun?"
-Prof Hubert Farnsworth
First off, you referenced black civil rights in the 60s, not I. Civil rights leaders did not invent and were not the last to use civil disobedience. I simply made a historical reference that P2P users aren't the first people to break laws in order to illustrate what is wrong with them. I would agree that the former was a much more socially important cause, but that should not negate the royal screwing that our copyright system has gotten because of greedy corporations with billions to burn on political contributions. It is well proven that civil disobedience can work, just as it had been proven that corporations will listen better when their bottom line is at stake.
Their best rebuttal is that we are hurting their 'artists'. I contend that most of these so called artists are really performers who were discovered and molded by the record industry in order for them to perform content created by someone else. This is why music is losing its originality and soul. The reason music is dying is because the RIAA and its members refuse to evolve their business model. They refuse to stop using and pushing "prefab" music and "artists", they refuse to make content available online, and they refuse to stop giving favor to their musical puppets over true singers/songwriters. It's a proven fact they have more control over their puppets than true artists who may decide to think for themselves one day. There are many real musical artists out there who are appalled by what is being done in their supposed best interests.
You could always create a gopher based bulletin board. That should take care of your ignorant computer users. Does IE or outlook even support gopher? I'd check myself but I don't know of any left.
Bush invaded Iraq for Oil.
Are you sure? I seem to recall that the government had evidence that Iraq was getting ready to attack the United States. The forces in Iraq may not have found a smoking gun, but there was still enough evidence to warrant an invasion under the previous United Nations resolutions.
Iraq had 2 things going against it. The first being the unfinished business of Daddy, and the second being that it has oil. If Iraq didn't have oil, nobody would give two shits about it. Afghanistan doesn't have oil; look how much they are in the news today.
The law is the law. It is a cold black and white document that applies to us whether we want it to or not.
I wonder what civil rights activists would have to say about that. Anyone ever heard of civil disobedience? The part I love about being self-righteous is that I don't have to respect laws that have been modified by pigopolist lobbyists paying off politicians. Obviously, copyright law is no longer balanced between the holder and the society he/she lives in. Life plus however many centuries they've bumped it up to this week serves only on interest.
Try turning up your mouse sensitivity or acceleration. I can crank mine up and send the cursor across the screen with a sneeze.
It's interesting to note that hydrogen's qualities make it much safer should there be, say, an accident with a truck carrying it. It dissipates as it leaks, versus the major fire hazard/toxic waste problem created by a gasoline spill.
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Assuming that it's NOT in it's liquid state. If it does become very popuar, transportation companies might traffic it in it's cryogenic form since it is a more effecient use of space and less prone to leaking. Also, I'm also sure that filling the blimp with hydrogen didn't help matters either.
Then road accidents can start taking people out T2 style
Schools aren't interested in keeping kids from dropping out for purely selfless reasons. My old high school didn't give a damn what went on as long as you showed up to be counted and didn't drop out. It, like most other public schools, got state and federal funding based on its attendance and drop out rates. I'm sure a few people genuinely want to help, but parading around like philanthropy is your only concern will help people not to trust you.
I graduated a year after the columbine fiasco, and my senior year I too was put on a list. Every time a bomb threat was called in, or 'random' locker search came time... I was on the list. Except for a few incidents in middle school I had a spotless record. The reason was because I stood up to the knee-jerk stupidity of new policy after everyone became afraid of their children. One example is, with the exception of the dock and the main doors, all doors were locked from both directions until an alarm was triggered. We also had to wear ID badges at all times. If we didn't, or interfered with lasers scanning us in the halls, we were suspended for a day. It's really useless, because the two at columbine would have had all the security to get in without a problem. The moral of the story: Most kids don't like being labeled or put on a list and respond poorly to it.
All good and well, except either they would find the key during the search of your house, or your attitude of supremacy will drive them to brute force the encryption just to spite you. I doubt that they are going to be using a 2048 bit encryption scheme with a recursive fractal algorithm for a key generator, or some other star trek sounding crap. Refusing the decrypt your data is not the equivalent of pleading the 5th. A failure to decrypt, if technically possible, on a judges could be a very bad thing.
Copyright violation is also a federal crime, hence the FBI warnings on videos. They may not be able to send you to jail, but they can still suck you dry in civil court. It may be harder for them to get the maximum dollar penalty though.
Still, I agree though. If you have used your key to open and run your system, any data transferred over the internet has your encryption removed. Another example of BS marketing at it's best. It's a good thing that any individual who is in the target market would probably know better. It could be a good selling point to orginizations in need of tighter security though. Would you feel a bit better if your accountant used this on his system?
I used the old real plug-in for winamp2 until they broke the new format. So I just deleted it all and don't bother with real anymore. The thing was only on wimamp's website for a short time. Legal threats over decoding of copyrighted, proprietary formats.
Someone told me that real player plays quicktime files. Does anyone else know of any PC software that will do this? Preferably it should be open source, or at least free, but I can imagine apple would also want money just like real.
So what keeps them from dending you a 6 meg file of random binary and swearing that it is music, and it's your fault you can play it? Is that what they are doing?
Sounds sort of like a productivity paradox. The technological changes which are supposed to simplify your life actually make things more complex.
Give a shovel to a man digging a hole with no tools, and you help him out. Now give him two. Is he able to work any faster? Now give him a computer.....
One of the advantages of having more than one treatment to an illnes is that people can choose which side effects they want to deal with. I can't blame someone who chooses temporary euphoria and foggy memory over... lets say headache, crapms, and a leaking anus. Besides, the majority of people with eye troubles are elderly anyway. They've paid their debit to society, let 'em do what they want.
my choice is what I choose to do
and if I'm causing no harm
it shouldn't bother you
your choice is who you choose to be
and if your causin' no harm
then you're alright with me
Ben Harper
That's pure comedy. You are almost as much fun to play with as the front door spammers that call themselves mormons. God does have a sense of humor, it's called the bible.
1. Make a bunch of rules
2. Set most of them in opposition to each other.
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
Sorry, I spent a couple years working tech support at my university. I keep hearing that my generation is supposed to be so well equipped to deal with technology, and I was still dealing with people who were deleting files to free RAM. Not to mention that only the journalism and art schools ever considered teaching their students on other hardware like Macs and SGIs. Business majors have to be the worst of all. They believe what they are told without question. One memorable personality, who couldn't tell the difference between his PS2 ports, tried telling me anything that is non-windows is garbage because his professor says so, and he can't use his precious access. A side note, Microsoft 'donates' over a million dollars annually to the business school on the condition that the teachers don't even let their students think of anything but windows PCs. As an informatics major, it was hard helping the same people I would have to answer to someday, because I knew their lack of knowledge and apathy towards learning would tie my hands in my future job. The idiots I'm referring to are the people who refuse to learn new tricks because holding onto corporate PR and preconceived notions is much easier.
I can't describe how annoying and harmful spam is on our network. There are NO filters. Anything sent to a valid username gets accepted. I get about 5 - 15 legitimate emails a day and about 20 - 50 junk messages. I have not opted in to anything either directly or by contract or agreement. Filters don't work because they would need to be server side since most of my day is spent on campus using old PINE terminals or the web interface if I can get into a lab. It wasn't nearly as bad back whet you could only telnet or SSH in because HTML was not rendered. Now, the second you get a piece of spam, and you are using webmail or an HTML IMAP program to read your messages, as soon as you even look at it the wrong way to loads a refer link (usually a graphic) that verifies yours as a valid address open to everyone.
The content is your standard stuff. Debit reduction, enlargement scams, get rich quick schemes, 'loans', etc. The reason IU won't block spam is the concern about possible 1st amendment litigation. During the height of napster, they blocked the official napster servers as soon as they got the first RIAA form letter.
It's actually affected some of my grades. One important message about a project deadline was blocked by a filter on my home box. Another time, over spring break, I didn't SSH into my account for about 5 or 6 days and my 100MB quota filled up. The due date of a very important research paper ("The Social and Economic effects of Real-Time Communication and Collaboration") had been bumped up to the first meeting after break. I luckily had a prof who let me sweet talk him into only a 10% reduction. So much for a 4.0 in all of my school's classes. I would pay them the $25 for a virgin username, but it's more cost effective to use hotmail.
I thought she was part of the corporate occupational government... err.. i mean... consultants being sent over to help rebuild Iraq in our image... i mean the right way.
Just because it was included in the price doesn't mean they didn't pay for it. Besides, as has been stated a million times before, most computer users are idiots. This is part of the reason windows is popular, because anyone can see that pretty picture and know what it means. Someday, as people get smarter, maybe they will begin to take the training wheels off....
Sounds like microsoft's strategy. Make subtle deviations in the networking protocols from published standards so other OS's don't play well together. Everyone knows that a standard that microsoft adopts isn't the exact same as the published standard.
For example you have W3 HTML and IE HTML. You have Java and you have MS Java. If anyone using a non-windows box has problems running a java program or applet, and you can't figure it out, odds are it was written with a microsoft program.
They blocked the official napster servers the second the RIAA sent them a message. They just don't want to spend the possible money to possibly litigate.
Spam is a major issue for me. The 1st amendment consideration is BS. If someone comes up to me preaching (like Brother Dan for you locals), I have the ability to completely ignore him or her and walk right by without any interference in my schedule or routine. If someone comes knocking on my door, I can sit right back down without opening it. When dealing with the freedom of speech, in a one-on-one environment, that right is more dependent on the person on the receiving end than the speaker. Spam is the equivalent of someone sneaking into your house or work, and making you force them out the door after they blindside you with their sales gimmick. The first amendment is arguably the most important, but people need to realize the intent of the passage instead of the superficial words. Spam is not political or social in nature; it is deceptive advertising and should lack constitutional protection. I say, by default block it, until the user requests that you let it through for them. The right to ignore someone else's speech with minimal thought and effort is the one thing that the digital medium is lacking and in severe need of.
Spam on my university account is a major problem. Every day I get between 20 and 50 unwanted pieces of mail, about 1 to 5 from friends and family, and about 5 to 10 are school related. Filtering on the server side is nonexistent at IU, everything that is sent gets through. I can, and have, set up filtering on my computer, but that does little considering that most of the day I am on campus using either the web interface or PINE. After I lost several critical messages about class, due to my filters and hasty by-default-delete-before-thinking frustration, I gave up on my school account. The IT center wants $25 to change my username, which I won't pay, because a security breach a couple years ago allowed someone to get a large cache of usernames, SSN #'s, and other personal information. Spam is more than a nuisance for me; it has cost me my time as well as my grades (in a few situations).
Bowling For Columbine is so obviously a carefully crafted attempt to lead viewers by the hand to what Moore wants them to think, that I really don't see how you can say otherwise.
Well, that would be the fault of foolish people who are either too lazy or unintelligent to research the matters themselves; and in the end, their opinion is unimportant anyway because they cannot backup their claims with more than one source. I would not trust someone who said that BfC was their source, but I would trust someone who said BfC made them want to research the subject at hand. Besides, the only complaints I hear about the film involve the NRA. Does anyone have a bone to pick about his welfare to work segment? I thought that part was rather well done.
The difference isn't money. The difference is parents, teachers, administrators, and community leaders expecting more from you, and being involved in your life to help you succeed.
But more attention requires more people and more work. Since we live in a society where money is everything, more of it is going to be an expected requirement. People can expect more from you all they want, it doesn't make someone try harder. They have to want to buy into the system. How is putting more pressure on someone to be somebody they don't want to be going to accomplish anything? We still live in a country where minorities are more likely to go to jail than college.
Ask yourself why a crack house won't hold up for very long in a suburban neighborhood: the neighborhood won't put up with it. And when an inner-city neighborhood gets together to determine they want change they usually get it.
Suburban police don't have nearly as much to do as inner-city cops. I'm sure they have all the time to spare to operate on the fringes of the law in order to drive a crack house out. Besides, that probably just another good white Christian man helping another out. Why do cops in the inner city ignore crack houses even know they know exactly what's going on? That is a legal issue and should concern the cops more than the community.
The day when inner-city leaders stop looking only to the outside world for monetary support, and start taking the reigns of their community to actually lead their people in internal growth, is the day success begins.
Put some reigns on a cat and see how far you can make it go. In order to lead people you need to be leading them in a direction they want to go. Maybe some people think that the political solution isn't the right answer. Who knows? Maybe society has failed them. We did do their fathers and grandfathers wrong by placing them at the bottom of the social ladder for a long time. You can't really expect a couple decades of improved civil liberties to undo centuries of social, political, and economic damage.