What amenities do they get that college students do not? As a college student, I had access to: broadband internet, cable tv, massive libraries, computer labs (with specialized equipment), athletic facilites (including pool), all you can eat dining... the list can go on, and it also includes freedom to do what I want, when I want, and the right to vote. I severely doubt that the quality of life in prison is anywhere near that of a college student.
On the surface, yes. But your nick says "civil engineer". Surely you are familiar with the concept of peak period demand.
For most infrastructure that we build, it goes unused for much of the time. There is a small percentage of time where the infrastructure is pushed to the limits. For transportation, this is rush hour, for power grids, it's hot summer days, for movie theatres, it's premiere night, etc.
Usually, it is extremely difficult to abate peak period effects. They do not exist because that is when everyone "wants" to go somewhere or do something, they exist because that is the only time most people can use, or need to use, the resource in question. Most employers frown if you come in at 6 am, or 11 am, and if you leave at 3 pm, or 8 pm. You don't need a ton of juice to power your A/C when it's nighttime.
Impossible is a bit of hyperbole there, but it is widely known that NASA carries some cargo that is extremely, extremely expensive. So expensive that a mission failure might preclude a replacement of the cargo due to overwhelming cost and insufficient funds. The cost to develop and launch the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, for example, was 2 billion dollars.
Well theres only a few gigantic reasons why not: 1. most AutoCAD work is not 3D. 2. Many government organizations demand AutoCAD as both the file format and software used for engineering applications. 3. AutoCAD has many toolkits and expansions written for it, also required by government organizations.
The invasion of privacy arguments aren't coming from the fact that they're looking on your computer. They come from the fact that the RIAA doesn't know who "l33tkid392" is, and has to subpoena his ISP (which may also be his uni) to get real details about a nickname. Subpoenas must be approved by a judge.
You have to read more than just the headlines here. Otherwise, you'll come off looking like an idiot. Of course, that means you also get modded "+5, Insightful"...
Depending on what the data looked like, you could have used Table:Convert:Text to Table. It only accepts one space as a delimiter though, so if your data was multiple words, it would put each word in a different cell. As a workaround, you could do a find/replace on the "table" and replace strings of multiple spaces with tab, pipe, or some other symbol, and then use that as the delimiter.
No, his analogy works. Most car theft is not done for a vehicle to drive. This is too obvious and it is too easy to get caught. Car theft exists to get parts. They take your car to a 'chop shop' where it is disassembled and sold for parts. By towing your truck to a discrete location, they can chop your car at their own leisure with additional security than on the street. Getting a tow truck is not too much work for thieves in an organized car theft ring.
I have also been submitting my resume in PDF. I have not gotten any requests for another format (I explicitly state in my emails if another format is desired to request it).
Second, a lot of slashdotters "defend" MS because, quite frankly, half of the crap said about MS here is made up or downright wrong. Most of the "pro-MS" posts do not defend Microsoft practices, but correct factual errors in the "anti-MS" posts. Some of this comes from "switching to Linux when Windows 95 came out" and not using any MS products since, some of it comes from pure ignorance and assumptions, and some of it comes from malice. Nevertheless, most of the discussions involving MS on this site are rife with comments marked "+5, Insightful" that are full of lies and FUD.
Wrong channels? Well unless you want to hang out in only +s channels, you pretty much can't avoid a bit of spam.
IRC is not as simple as IM. Why? There are multiple networks. There are multiple servers. There are multiple channels. Start up any IRC client, and then start up AOLIM. Which one is easier? True, anyone can use IRC, but not as quick as they can use IM.
However, I think they get around this by putting on the box something like "You agree to the terms inside" or some crap like that. While this makes it so that you can't read the EULA until you've bought it, I believe they will provide the EULA without purchase to get around that. And, as the other poster says, buying software is technically not a sale under the current system.
For instance, they don't think having to type in a password to run Setup.exe is even remotely reasonable. Their view of the computer is: "if I want to do something with my machine, I should be able to just do it. Don't put anything in my way." And if they were forced to take precautions, their password would end up being something like 'a'. And a regular schedule of changing passwords? Forget it.
While your statement is an fairly accurate observation about the way most people use computers, it's your wording and your assumptions. I'm saying that many of those practices come from a simple lack of education, like choosing smart passwords that aren't 'a'. If you just assume that Joe User can't handle smart passwords, then you probably aren't going to bother educating him about that and other secure practices, and that is a big part of the problem.
Okay yes i used the phrase "l33t and condescending" from the famous Jeff K cartoon. The link to Linux, however, was not what I was going for. The l33t and condescending part was. This happens with Linux, Mac, BSD, and Windows power users, and I myself have been guilty of it at times.
Yes. You learned. You also took the plunge into an OS which requires a much higher amount of technical skill to run. In short: you don't count. The problem isn't getting tech people to use passwords, it's getting Joe User to use passwords. Joe User didn't ever switch to Linux.
Show me where I blamed Linux users, and I'll show you where you mis-read me. You could say I blamed technical people in general, but in a sense that's true. Technical people do need to take the burden upon themselves to develop and implement a way to educate Joe User in the ways of secure computing.
Part of the WMP thing is that there is very little difference between version of Windows 2000. For the most part, it will just let you use more RAM/CPUs. The different names are just marketing gimmicks, and perhaps therein lies a problem.
Oh blah blah blah. This is the same old tired shit of "Windows user = stupid, Linux user = smrt". The reason Windows users have these misperceptions (yes, that's what they are) is because that is simply what they are used to. In Win9x, 3.1, and DOS, there were pretty much no passwords. To suddenly think that millions of people will overnight realize that passwords need to be commonplace for security is asking way too much. We are currently in a growing period in computers, and the worms around now are the growing pains. If people that are knowledgeable about computers acted nicer towards Joe User and explained the rationale behind passwords, and not running as root/admin, instead of being l33t and condescending, you might see a little more positive response.
Some users are already smart enough to install and use firewalls of their own.
The truth is, we are a minority, and we are going to have to learn to start accepting that. Part of that will be added work to do what we want to do on the internet. It's either bitch about worms and viruses and spam, or bitch that it took an ISP 2 days to open up a port for me. Which one is better, for you? And which one is better for the internet in general?
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What amenities do they get that college students do not? As a college student, I had access to: broadband internet, cable tv, massive libraries, computer labs (with specialized equipment), athletic facilites (including pool), all you can eat dining... the list can go on, and it also includes freedom to do what I want, when I want, and the right to vote. I severely doubt that the quality of life in prison is anywhere near that of a college student.
On the surface, yes. But your nick says "civil engineer". Surely you are familiar with the concept of peak period demand.
For most infrastructure that we build, it goes unused for much of the time. There is a small percentage of time where the infrastructure is pushed to the limits. For transportation, this is rush hour, for power grids, it's hot summer days, for movie theatres, it's premiere night, etc.
Usually, it is extremely difficult to abate peak period effects. They do not exist because that is when everyone "wants" to go somewhere or do something, they exist because that is the only time most people can use, or need to use, the resource in question. Most employers frown if you come in at 6 am, or 11 am, and if you leave at 3 pm, or 8 pm. You don't need a ton of juice to power your A/C when it's nighttime.
Impossible is a bit of hyperbole there, but it is widely known that NASA carries some cargo that is extremely, extremely expensive. So expensive that a mission failure might preclude a replacement of the cargo due to overwhelming cost and insufficient funds. The cost to develop and launch the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, for example, was 2 billion dollars.
That is the observed rate of shuttle loss.
Only time I heard "I've not seen such bravery!" in the game was when you killed one of those damn dragons.
Well theres only a few gigantic reasons why not: 1. most AutoCAD work is not 3D. 2. Many government organizations demand AutoCAD as both the file format and software used for engineering applications. 3. AutoCAD has many toolkits and expansions written for it, also required by government organizations.
The invasion of privacy arguments aren't coming from the fact that they're looking on your computer. They come from the fact that the RIAA doesn't know who "l33tkid392" is, and has to subpoena his ISP (which may also be his uni) to get real details about a nickname. Subpoenas must be approved by a judge.
You have to read more than just the headlines here. Otherwise, you'll come off looking like an idiot. Of course, that means you also get modded "+5, Insightful"...
Depending on what the data looked like, you could have used Table:Convert:Text to Table. It only accepts one space as a delimiter though, so if your data was multiple words, it would put each word in a different cell. As a workaround, you could do a find/replace on the "table" and replace strings of multiple spaces with tab, pipe, or some other symbol, and then use that as the delimiter.
No, his analogy works. Most car theft is not done for a vehicle to drive. This is too obvious and it is too easy to get caught. Car theft exists to get parts. They take your car to a 'chop shop' where it is disassembled and sold for parts. By towing your truck to a discrete location, they can chop your car at their own leisure with additional security than on the street. Getting a tow truck is not too much work for thieves in an organized car theft ring.
A few points:
I have also been submitting my resume in PDF. I have not gotten any requests for another format (I explicitly state in my emails if another format is desired to request it).
Second, a lot of slashdotters "defend" MS because, quite frankly, half of the crap said about MS here is made up or downright wrong. Most of the "pro-MS" posts do not defend Microsoft practices, but correct factual errors in the "anti-MS" posts. Some of this comes from "switching to Linux when Windows 95 came out" and not using any MS products since, some of it comes from pure ignorance and assumptions, and some of it comes from malice. Nevertheless, most of the discussions involving MS on this site are rife with comments marked "+5, Insightful" that are full of lies and FUD.
Wrong networks? Maybe.
Wrong channels? Well unless you want to hang out in only +s channels, you pretty much can't avoid a bit of spam.
IRC is not as simple as IM. Why? There are multiple networks. There are multiple servers. There are multiple channels. Start up any IRC client, and then start up AOLIM. Which one is easier? True, anyone can use IRC, but not as quick as they can use IM.
Public utility? Ha.
IANAL.
However, I think they get around this by putting on the box something like "You agree to the terms inside" or some crap like that. While this makes it so that you can't read the EULA until you've bought it, I believe they will provide the EULA without purchase to get around that. And, as the other poster says, buying software is technically not a sale under the current system.
Insightful? This is CRAP. It's called TCP/IP. Whether its TCP/IP4 or TCP/IP6, theres still TCP, and that's what this attack targets.
and there is a control path to the object's implementation to support user interaction with the object
I would say that doesn't exist in your examples. However, that does not mean there is no prior art.
For instance, they don't think having to type in a password to run Setup.exe is even remotely reasonable. Their view of the computer is: "if I want to do something with my machine, I should be able to just do it. Don't put anything in my way." And if they were forced to take precautions, their password would end up being something like 'a'. And a regular schedule of changing passwords? Forget it.
While your statement is an fairly accurate observation about the way most people use computers, it's your wording and your assumptions. I'm saying that many of those practices come from a simple lack of education, like choosing smart passwords that aren't 'a'. If you just assume that Joe User can't handle smart passwords, then you probably aren't going to bother educating him about that and other secure practices, and that is a big part of the problem.
Okay yes i used the phrase "l33t and condescending" from the famous Jeff K cartoon. The link to Linux, however, was not what I was going for. The l33t and condescending part was. This happens with Linux, Mac, BSD, and Windows power users, and I myself have been guilty of it at times.
Dunno if IHBT or what, but smrt is a simpsons reference :)
Yes. You learned. You also took the plunge into an OS which requires a much higher amount of technical skill to run. In short: you don't count. The problem isn't getting tech people to use passwords, it's getting Joe User to use passwords. Joe User didn't ever switch to Linux.
Show me where I blamed Linux users, and I'll show you where you mis-read me. You could say I blamed technical people in general, but in a sense that's true. Technical people do need to take the burden upon themselves to develop and implement a way to educate Joe User in the ways of secure computing.
See other reply, he said it better than I can.
rotary dildo, that's fucking GOLD.
Part of the WMP thing is that there is very little difference between version of Windows 2000. For the most part, it will just let you use more RAM/CPUs. The different names are just marketing gimmicks, and perhaps therein lies a problem.
Oh blah blah blah. This is the same old tired shit of "Windows user = stupid, Linux user = smrt". The reason Windows users have these misperceptions (yes, that's what they are) is because that is simply what they are used to. In Win9x, 3.1, and DOS, there were pretty much no passwords. To suddenly think that millions of people will overnight realize that passwords need to be commonplace for security is asking way too much. We are currently in a growing period in computers, and the worms around now are the growing pains. If people that are knowledgeable about computers acted nicer towards Joe User and explained the rationale behind passwords, and not running as root/admin, instead of being l33t and condescending, you might see a little more positive response.
Some users are already smart enough to install and use firewalls of their own.
The truth is, we are a minority, and we are going to have to learn to start accepting that. Part of that will be added work to do what we want to do on the internet. It's either bitch about worms and viruses and spam, or bitch that it took an ISP 2 days to open up a port for me. Which one is better, for you? And which one is better for the internet in general?