When I was about 13 years old, my dad got internet access for us because I was about to enter high school and he felt it was very important for us to learn how to use the internet and how to use it to our advantage. *At this time I wanted to be a doctor*
Well little did I know (he is a project manager/systems analyst / programmer) there was a way in which you could see what others were doing via Internet Explorer's history and temporary internet files. Well he caught me once and warned me, and then he caught me twice and restricted my internet access. I didn't know it was restricted until I went looking for pictures of *ahem* where it gave me a message that this site was blocked.
I was very upset at this and I called my dad and told him that I couldn't do research for school because it blocked every site. Well time went on and nothing changed so I decided to learn about Windows 95, how I could bypass these filters and how I could take control of the computer. A few months went on and I learned how to backup data across multiple floppy disks, how to reinstall Windows 95 using DOS commands, several floppy disks, and the Windows CD and most importantly how to load SCSI drivers since we had an awesome 4x cdrom. So one day after school I ran home and flushed the system (I learned about fdisk doing searches). I fdisked, formatted, reinstalled windows, get everything up to look like it was before the clean install and when I installed AOL was home free.
By this time I was so interested in computers that I locked myself in my room and read everything I could about hacking and cracking, I came across the warez scene and saw it as the most vital part of my computing experience. Next came IRC which took some time to learn all the commands but after that it was smooth sailing from then on it. . . . . . Fast forward to 2003
I am now a junior at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, majoring in IT and doing a concentration in network security. For some time now I have been the go-to-guy for everyone's computer needs.
Moral of the story you ask? Don't piss these kids off because one day you may need their help and their services.
and yes, I still lock myself in my room and go on the computer;)
a little off topic, but I wanted to share it with everyone
I personally try and use winrar as much as I can. The only times I even use the "zip" compression is when I have to send a file to someone who can't use or doesn't have winrar installed.
Personally I would like to see this issue resolved because there really is no need two have two different zip formats out there. My hope is that winrar will implement both (if possible) and just let it be.
Being 20 years of age, I still can still remember what it was to like to be in second or third grade (unlike some of you:D). My teachers used to complain that she had a very hard time reading a lot of our stuff. When we began cursive writing (3rd grade) I learned that sure the speed at which I wrote was nice, however, my neatness went down the drain. As many of us, throughout the years, we become lazy and write 2/3 or 1/2 of the actual letter while trying to jot something down (such as in a lecture).
IMO, cursive writing was created so that we could write faster and computer typing is simply the next step. By the time I entered 8th grade I was easily able to type faster then I wrote and from that point on, I enjoyed typing my papers because I could write them faster, correct my mistakes without rewriting the entire paper (I like were forced to do in grammar school). Typing everything I could was great. I always had a copy around so whenever I lost my initial copy I always had one on the computer.
Typing things out instead of jotting them down on paper is the next step in our evolution. What I don't understand is why do people cry about technology progressing our culture? If we go back 100 years and look at farmers from then era, we would see that they would love to use the machines of today. It makes life easier and they could have also also been more productive. This is just part of our evolution as mankind. I see nothing wrong with kids not being able to write in cursive.
A few years ago, it seemed that everyone emphasized children learning computers at a young age. What happened to all this? Do these people actually want to retard our future generations by forcing them to use out-dated techniques?
I think these guys are just scared that they'll be out of a job soon
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"The truth is, boys and girls, even if you write a lot of e-mail on the computer, you will always need to write things down on paper at some point in your life," Boell says"
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That's pretty funny because I do not often have a need to write things down on paper. The majority of my personal notes are taken on my ipaq. Once you learn writing on a handheld you can really fly with few to no mistakes. The rest of my notes are given by my professors which post it on their websites and let students download them.
I can't honestly believe someone would complain about this subject. One day sloppy handwriting will be replaced by neat computer font, the dog ate my homework just won't cut it anymore, and we as a society will be more efficient. Obviously, something these anti-technology guys fear.
yes what you said is very true, sharereactor has said that it will support overnet and they are linking files released on overnet, so is filenexus. Other sites like: http://www.wic-net.org are back which are dedicated to overnet.
I know there are several german sites as well that support overnet.
The nice thing about apps like overnet and edonkey are that you are forced to upload, meaning everyone gives a little back. My downloads have been so quick on overnet that I'm maxing out my line speed just downloading a couple of files. Much better then what edonkey ever was or will be.
ok lets lets all sit back and let the RIAA rape us on CD's. I think P2P apps are a good way to force the music industry to reconsider selling CD's for $20 each. Wasn't there some lawsuit about price fixing CD sales and they lost? I remember reading this about 2 months ago or so.
Remember when napster when down? Then scour? What happened? Dozens of new P2P apps started up. For every one they kill 4 will pop up in their place. They can fight P2P forever but they will exist forever. There will always be a way to share.
I am sure it will not get stolen why because I keep in my side pocket of my shorts.
Yes there is some personal data that I would like to keep to myself but whats the difference between what I have in my ipaq and a wallet? People can't just stop carrying wallets around because they are afraid their personal information will get stolen.
I'm in the same position as anyone who carries a wallet. Just that I don't place my ipaq in my back pocket and sit down:P
My dad bought me an ipaq (3635 I believe) when I was in my last year of high school. I wrote down every assignment, I set dates to do projects, when they were do etc.... I never lost anything again. In the summer I bought a (1) gig micro drive for it to play mp3's while I walked around my lake.
In college now, it is like my best friend. I store a backup copy of class notes; many of the handouts (posted online only) are in Word format so I download them to my ipaq and read them off there. I couldn't do it any other way. The only time I print anything out these days are when my professors ask for a physical copy. I can play games in between classes. Listen to music when I work out, take notes, highlight handouts posted online. I store my daily assignments and tasks.
When I am driving home from class and I forgot to do something, I would pull out my ipaq press the record button on the side and talk to it. When I get home I usually take a break before starting my homework and sometimes I forget what I was supposed to do. I play my recorded message and do what I was supposed to.
I do so many things on my ipaq I couldn't even name everything. I don't think I could ever go back to pencil and paper again. I do other things like securely store my passwords, I have phone numbers in there, email address's of friends, family, people I am working with on a project etc... The ipaq was by far the greatest school investment for me...
Also my ipaq case stores my College ID, Drivers License, Credit card, $40, and a phone card. So I don't have to carry around a wallet. My ipaq is truly an all in one device.
I'm just waiting for the new ipaqs to drop a little so I can replace so I don't have to carry around a wallet. My ipaq is truly an all in one device.
I'm just waiting for the new ipaqs to drop a little so I can replace my older one and at the same time replace my cell phone.
I know that there is a "black box" in all (C5) corvettes. The first use of the black box was to help Chevrolet (division of General Motors) improve the braking, handling, safety etc... of the vehicle. Later on it was used to track what happened right before an accident. It can be used against in the court of law and it has been. It records what happens when you drive. Your speed, rpm's how hard you brake etc...
This isn't anything new it's just going to be used more often and the public (parents in this case) will be able to actually read the data without any expensive or proprietary hardware or software.
Then again what stops someone from just removing the black box? Surely it won't be that difficult for those who have any experience with cars and have access to the internet to find how to remove this.
I see this being used often by the parents but do you really need to monitor your child everywhere they go? Don't you trust them enough to not spy on them? I sure remember when I was a new driver and my entire goal was to get to 100mph and I did. But I did it carefully. I picked the highway and an empty time to try it.
Then later on I wanted to do a top speed run and once again I was very careful in doing that also. I wanted to be 100% sure there would be no cares around and the area I did this was straight. After doing both these things I didn't care to go fast anymore. It was like a "been there done that" thing and then I began driving normally. It's just a new driver's curiosity to see how fast the car can go. After that it isn't that great anymore. After doing my runs I didn't care to drive fast anymore. I drive with the flow of traffic or slightly faster. Nothing insane or close to it. If most other cars are doing 70, then I will do between 65-75 depending on the situation. How I feel, how the road conditions are etc...
I can see why parents would like to use something like this. I have a younger brother who is a new driver and he thinks his suburban 2500 is a race car. He drives like he owns the road and I know he drives it pretty fast. In this case after telling him my experience with driving fast he doesn't seem to care. I believe a parent should use this when they feel their child is a reckless driver or doing something else illegal.
I can also see this type of device will be used to locate the exact location of someone. In the future surely if this becomes popular technology will also enable parents to track every location their teen goes to, and what time and sooner or later it will be able to tell how many people are in the car.
After all is said and done parents will complain that their kids never listen, never talk to them, don't even want to be around them all because the parents give their children no freedom. That generation of adults will throw their hands up in the air and walk around cluelessly not understanding why their teens never listen and why they are so out of control.
Of course it will all be blamed on the video games they play, the movies they watch and the books they read in school. Parents always look for something else to blame but themselves. Trust your kid, sure they will do stupid things but that's why you are there. No child is perfect and everyone is curious about something. Myself being in computers and cars while others might not care to drive fast because cars don't interest them. It all depends on who the teenager is. A good way to prevent your kid from driving fast is to take them to the track. Let them drive the ¼ or any track. They will have fun driving faster then normal in a safe environment. Your teen will appreciate more and will understand to respect a vehicle more then they ever did before.
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When I was about 13 years old, my dad got internet access for us because I was about to enter high school and he felt it was very important for us to learn how to use the internet and how to use it to our advantage. *At this time I wanted to be a doctor*
;)
Well little did I know (he is a project manager/systems analyst / programmer) there was a way in which you could see what others were doing via Internet Explorer's history and temporary internet files. Well he caught me once and warned me, and then he caught me twice and restricted my internet access. I didn't know it was restricted until I went looking for pictures of *ahem* where it gave me a message that this site was blocked.
I was very upset at this and I called my dad and told him that I couldn't do research for school because it blocked every site. Well time went on and nothing changed so I decided to learn about Windows 95, how I could bypass these filters and how I could take control of the computer. A few months went on and I learned how to backup data across multiple floppy disks, how to reinstall Windows 95 using DOS commands, several floppy disks, and the Windows CD and most importantly how to load SCSI drivers since we had an awesome 4x cdrom. So one day after school I ran home and flushed the system (I learned about fdisk doing searches). I fdisked, formatted, reinstalled windows, get everything up to look like it was before the clean install and when I installed AOL was home free.
By this time I was so interested in computers that I locked myself in my room and read everything I could about hacking and cracking, I came across the warez scene and saw it as the most vital part of my computing experience. Next came IRC which took some time to learn all the commands but after that it was smooth sailing from then on it.
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Fast forward to 2003
I am now a junior at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, majoring in IT and doing a concentration in network security. For some time now I have been the go-to-guy for everyone's computer needs.
Moral of the story you ask? Don't piss these kids off because one day you may need their help and their services.
and yes, I still lock myself in my room and go on the computer
a little off topic, but I wanted to share it with everyone
Arr your base are berong to us!
to gookfinity and beyond
Great! They got one of them up there...
now if they can only figure out how to get the rest of them up there, we would be set!
I personally try and use winrar as much as I can. The only times I even use the "zip" compression is when I have to send a file to someone who can't use or doesn't have winrar installed.
Personally I would like to see this issue resolved because there really is no need two have two different zip formats out there. My hope is that winrar will implement both (if possible) and just let it be.
Being 20 years of age, I still can still remember what it was to like to be in second or third grade (unlike some of you :D). My teachers used to complain that she had a very hard time reading a lot of our stuff. When we began cursive writing (3rd grade) I learned that sure the speed at which I wrote was nice, however, my neatness went down the drain. As many of us, throughout the years, we become lazy and write 2/3 or 1/2 of the actual letter while trying to jot something down (such as in a lecture).
IMO, cursive writing was created so that we could write faster and computer typing is simply the next step. By the time I entered 8th grade I was easily able to type faster then I wrote and from that point on, I enjoyed typing my papers because I could write them faster, correct my mistakes without rewriting the entire paper (I like were forced to do in grammar school). Typing everything I could was great. I always had a copy around so whenever I lost my initial copy I always had one on the computer.
Typing things out instead of jotting them down on paper is the next step in our evolution. What I don't understand is why do people cry about technology progressing our culture? If we go back 100 years and look at farmers from then era, we would see that they would love to use the machines of today. It makes life easier and they could have also also been more productive. This is just part of our evolution as mankind. I see nothing wrong with kids not being able to write in cursive.
A few years ago, it seemed that everyone emphasized children learning computers at a young age. What happened to all this? Do these people actually want to retard our future generations by forcing them to use out-dated techniques?
I think these guys are just scared that they'll be out of a job soon
----
"The truth is, boys and girls, even if you write a lot of e-mail on the computer, you will always need to write things down on paper at some point in your life," Boell says"
----
That's pretty funny because I do not often have a need to write things down on paper. The majority of my personal notes are taken on my ipaq. Once you learn writing on a handheld you can really fly with few to no mistakes. The rest of my notes are given by my professors which post it on their websites and let students download them.
I can't honestly believe someone would complain about this subject. One day sloppy handwriting will be replaced by neat computer font, the dog ate my homework just won't cut it anymore, and we as a society will be more efficient. Obviously, something these anti-technology guys fear.
It's 4:42 am Shut the hell up and go to bed!
I have read things like this for years. That the future chips won't be able to follow Moore's law and time and time again it has.
So take this with a grain of salt
yes what you said is very true, sharereactor has said that it will support overnet and they are linking files released on overnet, so is filenexus. Other sites like: http://www.wic-net.org are back which are dedicated to overnet.
I know there are several german sites as well that support overnet.
The nice thing about apps like overnet and edonkey are that you are forced to upload, meaning everyone gives a little back. My downloads have been so quick on overnet that I'm maxing out my line speed just downloading a couple of files. Much better then what edonkey ever was or will be.
ok lets lets all sit back and let the RIAA rape us on CD's. I think P2P apps are a good way to force the music industry to reconsider selling CD's for $20 each. Wasn't there some lawsuit about price fixing CD sales and they lost? I remember reading this about 2 months ago or so.
Remember when napster when down? Then scour? What happened? Dozens of new P2P apps started up. For every one they kill 4 will pop up in their place. They can fight P2P forever but they will exist forever. There will always be a way to share.
IRC... DC... edonkey... etc...
when I read this, the first thing that came to mind was overnet. So long kazaa, so long morpheus.
;)
See you on Overnet
I am sure it will not get stolen why because I keep in my side pocket of my shorts.
:P
Yes there is some personal data that I would like to keep to myself but whats the difference between what I have in my ipaq and a wallet? People can't just stop carrying wallets around because they are afraid their personal information will get stolen.
I'm in the same position as anyone who carries a wallet. Just that I don't place my ipaq in my back pocket and sit down
everyday, the micro drive drains my battery very quickly
My dad bought me an ipaq (3635 I believe) when I was in my last year of high school. I wrote down every assignment, I set dates to do projects, when they were do etc.... I never lost anything again. In the summer I bought a (1) gig micro drive for it to play mp3's while I walked around my lake.
In college now, it is like my best friend. I store a backup copy of class notes; many of the handouts (posted online only) are in Word format so I download them to my ipaq and read them off there. I couldn't do it any other way. The only time I print anything out these days are when my professors ask for a physical copy. I can play games in between classes. Listen to music when I work out, take notes, highlight handouts posted online. I store my daily assignments and tasks.
When I am driving home from class and I forgot to do something, I would pull out my ipaq press the record button on the side and talk to it. When I get home I usually take a break before starting my homework and sometimes I forget what I was supposed to do. I play my recorded message and do what I was supposed to.
I do so many things on my ipaq I couldn't even name everything. I don't think I could ever go back to pencil and paper again. I do other things like securely store my passwords, I have phone numbers in there, email address's of friends, family, people I am working with on a project etc... The ipaq was by far the greatest school investment for me...
Also my ipaq case stores my College ID, Drivers License, Credit card, $40, and a phone card. So I don't have to carry around a wallet. My ipaq is truly an all in one device.
I'm just waiting for the new ipaqs to drop a little so I can replace so I don't have to carry around a wallet. My ipaq is truly an all in one device.
I'm just waiting for the new ipaqs to drop a little so I can replace my older one and at the same time replace my cell phone.
I know that there is a "black box" in all (C5) corvettes. The first use of the black box was to help Chevrolet (division of General Motors) improve the braking, handling, safety etc... of the vehicle. Later on it was used to track what happened right before an accident. It can be used against in the court of law and it has been. It records what happens when you drive. Your speed, rpm's how hard you brake etc...
This isn't anything new it's just going to be used more often and the public (parents in this case) will be able to actually read the data without any expensive or proprietary hardware or software.
Then again what stops someone from just removing the black box? Surely it won't be that difficult for those who have any experience with cars and have access to the internet to find how to remove this.
I see this being used often by the parents but do you really need to monitor your child everywhere they go? Don't you trust them enough to not spy on them? I sure remember when I was a new driver and my entire goal was to get to 100mph and I did. But I did it carefully. I picked the highway and an empty time to try it.
Then later on I wanted to do a top speed run and once again I was very careful in doing that also. I wanted to be 100% sure there would be no cares around and the area I did this was straight. After doing both these things I didn't care to go fast anymore. It was like a "been there done that" thing and then I began driving normally. It's just a new driver's curiosity to see how fast the car can go. After that it isn't that great anymore. After doing my runs I didn't care to drive fast anymore. I drive with the flow of traffic or slightly faster. Nothing insane or close to it. If most other cars are doing 70, then I will do between 65-75 depending on the situation. How I feel, how the road conditions are etc...
I can see why parents would like to use something like this. I have a younger brother who is a new driver and he thinks his suburban 2500 is a race car. He drives like he owns the road and I know he drives it pretty fast. In this case after telling him my experience with driving fast he doesn't seem to care. I believe a parent should use this when they feel their child is a reckless driver or doing something else illegal.
I can also see this type of device will be used to locate the exact location of someone. In the future surely if this becomes popular technology will also enable parents to track every location their teen goes to, and what time and sooner or later it will be able to tell how many people are in the car.
After all is said and done parents will complain that their kids never listen, never talk to them, don't even want to be around them all because the parents give their children no freedom. That generation of adults will throw their hands up in the air and walk around cluelessly not understanding why their teens never listen and why they are so out of control.
Of course it will all be blamed on the video games they play, the movies they watch and the books they read in school. Parents always look for something else to blame but themselves. Trust your kid, sure they will do stupid things but that's why you are there. No child is perfect and everyone is curious about something. Myself being in computers and cars while others might not care to drive fast because cars don't interest them. It all depends on who the teenager is. A good way to prevent your kid from driving fast is to take them to the track. Let them drive the ¼ or any track. They will have fun driving faster then normal in a safe environment. Your teen will appreciate more and will understand to respect a vehicle more then they ever did before.