Just having a sign by the bathroom saying 'Men' or 'Women' seems to be pretty well respected as enough notice that your going to be busted if you go in there.
Here's a case of a guy who not only put up a sign but had users fill out a form first. Someone lied on the application in order to receive a false set of credentials under fraudulent pretenses and apparently did so for the purposes of gathering information on whistleblowers.
So it was not at all a case of the information being otherwise generally accessable to the public, there was a screening process in place. Of course the site owner couldn't hire security teams to investigate every single application. Those kind of resources are only available to large corporations, not their victims.
I work for a school and someone in the tech department sent me a test to give to the students. I swear, this test coming from someone in educational technology, asked students to match up computer parts, and they had the desktop (case, and whatever inside) labeled as the hard drive. Grrrr.
It really made me think of two things... what is the best way to describe it? I usually call it 'the computer...not the monitor and keyboard and junk', which is probably not really leaving me a lot of room to criticize the tech who's calling it the hard drive. And wonder kids don't really understand anything going on underneath the case, they don't even know the correct names for the parts.
I don't know. Maybe it doesn't matter. A lot of people don't know what's under the hood in their car either.
I'm still looking for studies on this. In my opinion, it does work, under some circumstances. I think it mostly depends on two things. 1) That it is done under supervision with guided instruction. A kid should know what he is learning and how he's accomplishing the learning. But this is true of just about any lesson. 2) Instant feedback. The answer is that kids don't need learning programs to be like video games with fighting and shooting. Kids need learning programs to be like video games in that they give you instant feedback when you succeed. Lots of programs have activities that do this, Study Island, BrainPop to some extent, Starfall is excellent under supervision. I think it's important for us to realize that the teachers can't be content experts on everything a student is asked to learn, but that they need to be process experts that can direct students how to discover the information they need. I know that sounds a little jargony and very constructivist, but I think it's absolutely true. When almost anything can be looked up in minutes or seconds, it's more important that we teach the children how to organize and analyze in different situations they might encounter.
Oddly enough, after perusing the website, I have some ideas on how I'm going to fund my letter writing campaign. "Can you split that bill up onto these 4 credit cards?"
First, it hurts the end user or consumer by imposing government restrictions on how we use things that we "own". Or more to the point, we no longer own things that we buy.
It also hurts us that we don't see competition. This means higher prices, collusion, price gouging, and all the other nasties that come along with pseudo-monopolies.
We are further harmed by the lack of new jobs and opportunities. Real growth for our country is not in the 1000+ employee multinational corporations, but in the small companies employing 25 or less employees. The DMCA seriously harms innovation and prohibits companies that are more truly American companies from growing, making money, paying taxes, and employing more workers.
And we get the short end of the stick when these companies no longer need to innovate from the unnatural monopoly caused by the DMCA protects them from newer, more competent competitors. Not only do we not see the innovative, improved, products from fresher companies, we also see outdated technology from the companies that have lost the need to improve in a free market system.
You can say that again. IT doesn't make money, they save money. The suits in power see that the IT department can be run cheaper with only x staff and x resources. Those that aren't getting their needs met need to be vocal and clear about the cost to the company, in both downtime and morale, when the system just doesn't work.
Suits need to see money. Don't show them the time you saved. Give them an invoice for the resources it cost for you to fix the problem. Make it clear what you didn't get done because 1) there was a problem 2) you had to spend time fixing it yourself.
Not surprising. Calling it off now would cut off the execs. By dragging this on they keep lining their pockets with their investors' money. I doubt saying "oops" at this point is going to save the company, but the people in charge of that decision have every incentive to run it right into the ground and no incentive to stop and try to save it.
I think a big problem with writing has nothing to do with a pencil and paper or even spelling. The thoughts of many people seem to be very unorganized. They do not have a clear train of thought. If someone had gone on a rant and you asked what his main idea was, I doubt he could tell you. If a person can't put his idea together in his head, he is not going to be able to get it out of his mouth or onto a piece of paper. So, part of the problem, I believe, is that most people can't really work out a concept in their head.
Another related problem is that people lack a solid vocabulary. Middle class students enter school with about 4 times more words at their disposal than their poverty-level counterparts. Precise thought requires a precise language. We've all heard Eskimos have dozens of words for snow, but I could probably come up with wet-snow and big-flaky-snow. How many words would most young adults have at their disposal to debate about liberty? I would put money on it being a short, inneffective argument. Precise communication requires a vocabulary capable of expressing your thoughts.
Absolutely true. Business X can always use robots.txt to block the search engines. They choose not to because the search engines bring them customers and money. (Or because they started an internet business without enough information about how the internet works.) The search engines are providing the customer access to the vendor and providing the vendor the customers. The search engine has earned the bigger share of profit.
If Business X doesn't like it they should set robots.txt and use alternative marketing methods. However, Business X already knows the answer, that small dime-a-dozen businesses only survive because search engines are throwing millions of potential customers at them.
I like your train of thought. This is why we don't want an all-powerful government. If people aren't able to get away with any crime, then the state has complete totalitarian power. Society needs criminals. I don't need anyone to rip off my VCR for drugs, but I'm glad that nearly 300 years ago people were able to get away with dumping tea in the harbor. I'm also glad that 150 years ago people got away with hiding escaped slaves. I'm very glad that half a century ago people broke laws about drinking out of special fountains and sitting in certain sections of a bus. A little revolution is a good thing, right?
No. IDs wont help predict who will commit crimes. It has a very slim chance of helping us trace them after the fact though. That should be super useful when we try to prosecute a bunch of dead suicide bombers.
That's not going to happen. I talked to a librarian the other day and she was saying how it was probably okay for the government to demand records of who checked out books if it would protect us and how it didn't really prohibit freedom of speech.
Giving up freedoms only makes it harder to protect the ones you have left. Giving up your privacy to an all-seeing control-freak government is a good way to keep people from speaking out when they start taking away your rights to free speech. err...wait, didn't they already take that one?
And I was just thinking about how I haven't been beat up since high school. Let me just go pick up some easy to loose, gaudy, piece of crap that looks like my grandmothers arch supports. Unless this thing also comes with a laser I'm not interested.
Mine does the same thing. But instead of just ignoring the arrows it keeps putting numbers up on the screen instead of moving the cursor. Do you think this might be related to your problem? I called the Help Desk but they started laughing at me so I hung up.
And if some people weren't willing to pay and do all this work to find his body, they would instead be finding the cure for cancer? You don't do anything except spend your time and money researching cures for disease? I'll take a guess and say you probably put time and money towards buying coffee, playing games, having a better computer than you absolutely need for work, eating twinkies, watching TV, or other non-cure-for-cancer activities. And until you give all that up I am completely uninterested in hearing any hypocritical dictates to how others spend their money and time. People who are free can spend their money and time in ways that are useful and interesting to themselves. People who are not free to spend their time or money how they wish are called slaves. And most slaves don't have much money.
"where mobs burn thieves to death for stealing a cellphone,"...
Give a man fire and he'll be warm for a night, set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Seriously though, If someone steals my cell phone I want to know how to get ahold of these guys. I hope they get the cell phone back before the matches come out though. If you ever drop your cell phone in lava, let it go, because, man, it's gone.
Looks like there are only 3 of us the remember Q-Link. I loved that on my C-64. I wish I had kept all the garbage I one by playing Trivia in their chat rooms. I was an addict before I could drive.
I thought it was pretty much dead when they added that graphic MUD type chat program where you ran around the island having drunk-on-power mods messing with everyone.
I don't see why. I know that on Xanga, the protected content is only protected by a Javascript as far as I can tell. You can either 1) Turn off Java Scripting 2) Hit the stop button after the text has loaded but before the Javascript runs. If LJ is similar, then there is no point going to the trouble of hiding content that is barely hidden.
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I agree, I would say that 'computer' is a good summary word for the memory, cpu, and hard drive.
I think that's the command to download blipverts.
Right on!
Just having a sign by the bathroom saying 'Men' or 'Women' seems to be pretty well respected as enough notice that your going to be busted if you go in there.
Here's a case of a guy who not only put up a sign but had users fill out a form first. Someone lied on the application in order to receive a false set of credentials under fraudulent pretenses and apparently did so for the purposes of gathering information on whistleblowers.
So it was not at all a case of the information being otherwise generally accessable to the public, there was a screening process in place. Of course the site owner couldn't hire security teams to investigate every single application. Those kind of resources are only available to large corporations, not their victims.
I work for a school and someone in the tech department sent me a test to give to the students. I swear, this test coming from someone in educational technology, asked students to match up computer parts, and they had the desktop (case, and whatever inside) labeled as the hard drive. Grrrr.
It really made me think of two things... what is the best way to describe it? I usually call it 'the computer...not the monitor and keyboard and junk', which is probably not really leaving me a lot of room to criticize the tech who's calling it the hard drive. And wonder kids don't really understand anything going on underneath the case, they don't even know the correct names for the parts.
I don't know. Maybe it doesn't matter. A lot of people don't know what's under the hood in their car either.
I'm still looking for studies on this. In my opinion, it does work, under some circumstances. I think it mostly depends on two things. 1) That it is done under supervision with guided instruction. A kid should know what he is learning and how he's accomplishing the learning. But this is true of just about any lesson. 2) Instant feedback. The answer is that kids don't need learning programs to be like video games with fighting and shooting. Kids need learning programs to be like video games in that they give you instant feedback when you succeed.
Lots of programs have activities that do this, Study Island, BrainPop to some extent, Starfall is excellent under supervision.
I think it's important for us to realize that the teachers can't be content experts on everything a student is asked to learn, but that they need to be process experts that can direct students how to discover the information they need. I know that sounds a little jargony and very constructivist, but I think it's absolutely true. When almost anything can be looked up in minutes or seconds, it's more important that we teach the children how to organize and analyze in different situations they might encounter.
Oddly enough, after perusing the website, I have some ideas on how I'm going to fund my letter writing campaign.
"Can you split that bill up onto these 4 credit cards?"
If I could have a 1.8 32GB flash drive I wouldn't need a laptop. I could just use handheld for anything that I would use a laptop for.
The DMCA hurts consumers in more than one way.
First, it hurts the end user or consumer by imposing government restrictions on how we use things that we "own". Or more to the point, we no longer own things that we buy.
It also hurts us that we don't see competition. This means higher prices, collusion, price gouging, and all the other nasties that come along with pseudo-monopolies.
We are further harmed by the lack of new jobs and opportunities. Real growth for our country is not in the 1000+ employee multinational corporations, but in the small companies employing 25 or less employees. The DMCA seriously harms innovation and prohibits companies that are more truly American companies from growing, making money, paying taxes, and employing more workers.
And we get the short end of the stick when these companies no longer need to innovate from the unnatural monopoly caused by the DMCA protects them from newer, more competent competitors. Not only do we not see the innovative, improved, products from fresher companies, we also see outdated technology from the companies that have lost the need to improve in a free market system.
You can say that again. IT doesn't make money, they save money. The suits in power see that the IT department can be run cheaper with only x staff and x resources. Those that aren't getting their needs met need to be vocal and clear about the cost to the company, in both downtime and morale, when the system just doesn't work.
Suits need to see money. Don't show them the time you saved. Give them an invoice for the resources it cost for you to fix the problem. Make it clear what you didn't get done because 1) there was a problem 2) you had to spend time fixing it yourself.
Not surprising. Calling it off now would cut off the execs. By dragging this on they keep lining their pockets with their investors' money. I doubt saying "oops" at this point is going to save the company, but the people in charge of that decision have every incentive to run it right into the ground and no incentive to stop and try to save it.
I think a big problem with writing has nothing to do with a pencil and paper or even spelling. The thoughts of many people seem to be very unorganized. They do not have a clear train of thought. If someone had gone on a rant and you asked what his main idea was, I doubt he could tell you. If a person can't put his idea together in his head, he is not going to be able to get it out of his mouth or onto a piece of paper. So, part of the problem, I believe, is that most people can't really work out a concept in their head.
Another related problem is that people lack a solid vocabulary. Middle class students enter school with about 4 times more words at their disposal than their poverty-level counterparts. Precise thought requires a precise language. We've all heard Eskimos have dozens of words for snow, but I could probably come up with wet-snow and big-flaky-snow. How many words would most young adults have at their disposal to debate about liberty? I would put money on it being a short, inneffective argument. Precise communication requires a vocabulary capable of expressing your thoughts.
And then they discover they accidently broke the internet.
Absolutely true. Business X can always use robots.txt to block the search engines. They choose not to because the search engines bring them customers and money. (Or because they started an internet business without enough information about how the internet works.) The search engines are providing the customer access to the vendor and providing the vendor the customers. The search engine has earned the bigger share of profit.
If Business X doesn't like it they should set robots.txt and use alternative marketing methods. However, Business X already knows the answer, that small dime-a-dozen businesses only survive because search engines are throwing millions of potential customers at them.
I like your train of thought. This is why we don't want an all-powerful government. If people aren't able to get away with any crime, then the state has complete totalitarian power. Society needs criminals. I don't need anyone to rip off my VCR for drugs, but I'm glad that nearly 300 years ago people were able to get away with dumping tea in the harbor. I'm also glad that 150 years ago people got away with hiding escaped slaves. I'm very glad that half a century ago people broke laws about drinking out of special fountains and sitting in certain sections of a bus. A little revolution is a good thing, right?
No. IDs wont help predict who will commit crimes. It has a very slim chance of helping us trace them after the fact though. That should be super useful when we try to prosecute a bunch of dead suicide bombers.
That's not going to happen. I talked to a librarian the other day and she was saying how it was probably okay for the government to demand records of who checked out books if it would protect us and how it didn't really prohibit freedom of speech.
Giving up freedoms only makes it harder to protect the ones you have left. Giving up your privacy to an all-seeing control-freak government is a good way to keep people from speaking out when they start taking away your rights to free speech. err...wait, didn't they already take that one?
And I was just thinking about how I haven't been beat up since high school. Let me just go pick up some easy to loose, gaudy, piece of crap that looks like my grandmothers arch supports. Unless this thing also comes with a laser I'm not interested.
Mine does the same thing. But instead of just ignoring the arrows it keeps putting numbers up on the screen instead of moving the cursor. Do you think this might be related to your problem? I called the Help Desk but they started laughing at me so I hung up.
And if some people weren't willing to pay and do all this work to find his body, they would instead be finding the cure for cancer? You don't do anything except spend your time and money researching cures for disease? I'll take a guess and say you probably put time and money towards buying coffee, playing games, having a better computer than you absolutely need for work, eating twinkies, watching TV, or other non-cure-for-cancer activities. And until you give all that up I am completely uninterested in hearing any hypocritical dictates to how others spend their money and time. People who are free can spend their money and time in ways that are useful and interesting to themselves. People who are not free to spend their time or money how they wish are called slaves. And most slaves don't have much money.
"where mobs burn thieves to death for stealing a cellphone,"...
Give a man fire and he'll be warm for a night, set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Seriously though, If someone steals my cell phone I want to know how to get ahold of these guys. I hope they get the cell phone back before the matches come out though. If you ever drop your cell phone in lava, let it go, because, man, it's gone.
I can't believe they paid for the trademark with a name like that.
Looks like there are only 3 of us the remember Q-Link. I loved that on my C-64. I wish I had kept all the garbage I one by playing Trivia in their chat rooms. I was an addict before I could drive.
I thought it was pretty much dead when they added that graphic MUD type chat program where you ran around the island having drunk-on-power mods messing with everyone.
I don't see why. I know that on Xanga, the protected content is only protected by a Javascript as far as I can tell. You can either 1) Turn off Java Scripting 2) Hit the stop button after the text has loaded but before the Javascript runs. If LJ is similar, then there is no point going to the trouble of hiding content that is barely hidden.