And baseball players couldn't solve a differential equation to save their lives, something which is infinitely more useful to society than being able to throw a ~100 mph fast ball. Baseball players make a shitload of money because people idolize and adore them, and they bring in massive amounts of money because of it. Possessing a rare skill or talent isn't a guarantee of wealth. Players in Major League Soccer in the US make about $100,000 per year, while in the European leagues, players make such stupendous amounts of money that would make baseball players' salaries seem reasonable.
Athletes are entertainers. If tomorrow, the world stopped giving a shit about baseball, baseball players wouldn't make money.
The number of machines Google uses is considered a trade secret. By attempting to determine how many machines they have, you're in violation of the DMCA. I'm calling the FBI.
The Apple camp exists in a silo, as usual. Music purchased at the iTunes Music Store is only playable in iTunes, and only natively transfers to an iPod family portible.
iTunes Music Service M4P's will play in any application that can play QuickTime files. Maybe you should email the WinAmp developers and tell them to use the QuickTime API instead of pissing and moaning about how no apps besides iTunes support them (oh, except for VLC, but you were too busy complaining to research that). What do you want Apple to do? Write 4 other MP3 players? They've given Windows developers the tools to do it.
Yeah, sure. Back in the Framers' day, it might have been conceivable for the citizens to be a check on the government with the right to bear arms, but in the present, that simply isn't true. Any armed, significant revolts will be put down and the rebels imprisoned. They won't be able to tell a judge that they were just "exercising their check on Big Government."
Oh give me a break. Do you really think that a pack of gun-toting rednecks are going to stand up to the government if the shit really hits the fan? The people of Iraq had the right to bear arms, but they didn't exactly keep their government in check, now did they?
Ok, maybe. But you're still arguing that you should be allowed to fuck up the network for everyone else while you illegally download songs.
The original context was pornography, if memory serves, which is perfectly legal. Stop changing the subject.
BTW, keep dreaming that they can't search your room. If your RA smells something funny, you'll get the "let me search or we'll call the cops" speech, and they're not bluffing either.
Wrong. The RA can come into the room if he receives a noise complaint about it or something similar, but he has no right to go rifling through anyone's stuff because he is not a law enforcement officer. Now, if the RA gets a complaint, goes into the room and observes alcohol sitting out in the open (assuming it is a dry dorm/floor), then he can call the police if those drinking are under 21, though regulations may vary from school to school. When I lived in the dorm, I was on a floor where alcohol was allowed in rooms, but minors could not be in the same room with it and could get written up if they were, even if they were not drinking.
However, police, as far as I know, do not have the authority to search a dorm room because an RA asks them to. The RA is not a judge, nor does he have the power to issue a search warrant. Cops need a search warrant to search a dorm room, same as any place else. You might be thinking that since cops have the authority to go rifling through high school lockers on a whim that they can do the same for dorm rooms, but that's simply untrue. Students do not pay to use lockers, nor do they keep all their possessions in them. A dorm room is a residence, and its occupants' protection against unlawful search and seizure are not null and void the minute he moves in.
It is not your home. It is the school's dorm room, which you are allowed to live in.
Which you pay for because most universities require freshmen to live in the dorms for their first year. You might have a valid point if freshmen could live in apartments, but they can't, so you don't. A university is a public institution (except for private ones, of course), so they can't pull the standard private company crap of forcing you to sign your rights away just to go there. They are compelled to respect students' rights to privacy. Why do you think there are no random room searches in colleges?
So why don't you just create a "low security" password? Mine's simple, pretty secure (good combination of alphas and numerals) and easy to remember. For forum registrations, NYTimes and the like, use that password. Other than that, both Mac OS X and Windows have built-in password managers which will store all your passwords securely.
You find the need for security and the need for people to recognize and respect that necessity "unrealistic"? Please inform Microsoft.
Nobody, because people can easily see the reason for this. That doesn't mean it's a great thing. Lots of people hide keys, in case they misplace one--near the door to their house, in magnetic boxes under a fender, under a rock, etc. A system that relies on the memory and presence of mind of average (or, frequently, above-average) people to maintain security is going to be crackable by social means--always has been, always will be.
And in the absence of universal thumb-print identification and retina scan systems, what would you suggest? Those things cost money. Kerberos uses a single password, and people still bitch about it!
It seems to me that the reason we can't just accept this and get on with it is they tantalizing possibility of a technical fix. But, every time that gets brought up for discussion, technocrats like you start crying that its not THEIR problem--even though it manifestly IS their problem. Apparently, human nature is so frustratingly scatterbrained compared to machines that we're going to spend all our time crying about what lazy idiots the (l)users are, rather than finding a way to use the machines to fix the problem.
There's no practical way to implement a solution that isn't based on memory. Face recognition software is a joke at this stage and thumbprint scanners are expensive. Just because you don't happen to like the solution doesn't mean that you should throw security to the wind, and that's exactly what these users are doing. Honestly, what's next? "I don't like seat belts, so I'm not going to drive safely until they come up with something better"?
At my school, we just implemented a new password system whereby the password must be between 8 and 12 characters long, contain at least 1 number and cannot be the same as the previous 3 passwords used. The password must be changed every 60 days. I can't even count how many people piss and moan about it. "Why can't I just use the same password?", "Why does it have to be so long?", "Why do I have to keep changing it?", "I don't care if someone hacks my account because there's nothing important on there," et cetera.
These people need to realize that it's not just about protecting their data. It's about protecting the network. If a student's password gets cracked, the cracker now has access to all the university resources that the student does, including site-licensed software, VPN access, and therefore send mail server access, since we require all mail being sent through the SMTP server to non-internal addresses to come from the local network to prevent spammers from using our server. In the case of a private business, confidential documents are at risk. Employees store sensitive documents on their computers, so those computers had better damn well be well-protected. If the employee is careless with that data, he should simply be fired. That'd be like someone in the 1950's leaving the office unlocked every night. It's inexcusable.
This isn't some technocrat rant about how everyone should be proficient in computers. This is simply a reality; the necessity for security is there for almost every aspect of one's life, and that people are so careless with their computer's security is extremely disturbing. Honestly, who do you know that bitches and moans about having to use a separate key for both their car and house/apartment? But users constantly whine about having to remember too many passwords. You have a fucking memory; use it and quit bitching.
Aaah, those were the days (Okay, not really, but the commercials were great). I remember one about some dad who picked up an interactive learning CD about dinosaurs for his kid. He pops it into the PC's CD-ROM, and it doesn't work. He's sitting there reading cryptic error messages about SETUP.EXE or something, and his kid gets his coat on. "Where are you going?" The Father asks.
Actually, the author of PlayFair made it clear that he wrote it because he hates DRM, not because he wants to use his Linux box to play iTMS file. Aside from that, VLC on Linux will decrypt iTMS-encrypted files, anyway.
Just a hint for you, if you happen to have an iPod and a USB 2.0 or FireWire port on your work box... If you sync up your iPod, you can plug it into your work machine and use iTunes to play the songs directly from the iPod. I'm pretty sure this will use the iPod's key to decrypt the music, so all you have to do is plug it in, no illegal workarounds required.
Note that I'm not saying that Apple is right or wrong because of this; I'm merely providing you with a legal alternative to illegal circumvention methods.
It'd be doable with a lot of bands today whose songs sound exactly the same. Don't believe me? The linked file is an MP3 of Nickelback. In one channel, the song "How You Remind Me," and in the other is the song "Someday." Be sure to turn off any virtual surround sound effects you have on. This requires stereo to observe the full effect. If you don't want to download the file, the conclusion is simple. Nickelback's songs are basically identical in form except for some lyric changes.
Utterly wrong. This is a CFM executable with no hidden extension. Double-clicking on it from the Finder will execute it, but dragging the file on to iTunes will only play the MP3 stream inside the file. Mail.app, however, correctly identifies it as an executable when you try to open it from inside an email.
What genius modded this as off-topic? Here's a hint: the topic is Bush's religious war on pornography. This post deals with... Bush's religious war on pornography. Moron.
With the public slowly waking up to the simple fact that Iraq is a Hell hole and that the Bush administration spun lies and half-truths that would make Bill Clinton wonder how it was he who was impeached, Bush needs to energize his core support base. You know, the good, God-fearing, church-going Christians bent on defying every principle set down by the Framers of the Constitution to drag all us heathens back into The Light, whether we want them to or not.
Those people don't particularly give a shit about what goes on in Iraq. They barely know that a world exists outside of their quaint, sub-1,000 population towns with as few branches on the family tree as Catholic churches down the street. All they know is that Saint Dubya is bringing justice and light to those heathen, savage "sand niggers" and/or "Aye-rabs." But what really concerns them is Bush's refusal up until now to deal with the utterly critical issues of mutually consensual, same-sex marriages and perfectly lawful pornography. That's the stuff causing society's collapse. All that sex and dancing. Oh, and the hip-hop. That's got to be next on Ashcroft's agenda. Getting those silly negro rappers off the street, in prison and America back into church on Sundays (specifically fundamentalist Protestant churches), that's what'll get America back on track. Then God will be on our side.
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And baseball players couldn't solve a differential equation to save their lives, something which is infinitely more useful to society than being able to throw a ~100 mph fast ball. Baseball players make a shitload of money because people idolize and adore them, and they bring in massive amounts of money because of it. Possessing a rare skill or talent isn't a guarantee of wealth. Players in Major League Soccer in the US make about $100,000 per year, while in the European leagues, players make such stupendous amounts of money that would make baseball players' salaries seem reasonable.
Athletes are entertainers. If tomorrow, the world stopped giving a shit about baseball, baseball players wouldn't make money.
The number of machines Google uses is considered a trade secret. By attempting to determine how many machines they have, you're in violation of the DMCA. I'm calling the FBI.
Well, not any more. The new version of iTunes has broken PlayFair.
Yeah ... on Windows. QuickTime is equally capable on both Mac OS X and Windows.
Yeah, sure. Back in the Framers' day, it might have been conceivable for the citizens to be a check on the government with the right to bear arms, but in the present, that simply isn't true. Any armed, significant revolts will be put down and the rebels imprisoned. They won't be able to tell a judge that they were just "exercising their check on Big Government."
Oh give me a break. Do you really think that a pack of gun-toting rednecks are going to stand up to the government if the shit really hits the fan? The people of Iraq had the right to bear arms, but they didn't exactly keep their government in check, now did they?
However, police, as far as I know, do not have the authority to search a dorm room because an RA asks them to. The RA is not a judge, nor does he have the power to issue a search warrant. Cops need a search warrant to search a dorm room, same as any place else. You might be thinking that since cops have the authority to go rifling through high school lockers on a whim that they can do the same for dorm rooms, but that's simply untrue. Students do not pay to use lockers, nor do they keep all their possessions in them. A dorm room is a residence, and its occupants' protection against unlawful search and seizure are not null and void the minute he moves in.
So why don't you just create a "low security" password? Mine's simple, pretty secure (good combination of alphas and numerals) and easy to remember. For forum registrations, NYTimes and the like, use that password. Other than that, both Mac OS X and Windows have built-in password managers which will store all your passwords securely.
At my school, we just implemented a new password system whereby the password must be between 8 and 12 characters long, contain at least 1 number and cannot be the same as the previous 3 passwords used. The password must be changed every 60 days. I can't even count how many people piss and moan about it. "Why can't I just use the same password?", "Why does it have to be so long?", "Why do I have to keep changing it?", "I don't care if someone hacks my account because there's nothing important on there," et cetera.
These people need to realize that it's not just about protecting their data. It's about protecting the network. If a student's password gets cracked, the cracker now has access to all the university resources that the student does, including site-licensed software, VPN access, and therefore send mail server access, since we require all mail being sent through the SMTP server to non-internal addresses to come from the local network to prevent spammers from using our server. In the case of a private business, confidential documents are at risk. Employees store sensitive documents on their computers, so those computers had better damn well be well-protected. If the employee is careless with that data, he should simply be fired. That'd be like someone in the 1950's leaving the office unlocked every night. It's inexcusable.
This isn't some technocrat rant about how everyone should be proficient in computers. This is simply a reality; the necessity for security is there for almost every aspect of one's life, and that people are so careless with their computer's security is extremely disturbing. Honestly, who do you know that bitches and moans about having to use a separate key for both their car and house/apartment? But users constantly whine about having to remember too many passwords. You have a fucking memory; use it and quit bitching.
"Broadband" in reference to high-speed internet connections is not contrasted to baseband; it is contrasted to narrowband. As in "fatter pipe."
You're typing like an athsmatic speaks. Learn the joys of the comma, please.
Aaah, those were the days (Okay, not really, but the commercials were great). I remember one about some dad who picked up an interactive learning CD about dinosaurs for his kid. He pops it into the PC's CD-ROM, and it doesn't work. He's sitting there reading cryptic error messages about SETUP.EXE or something, and his kid gets his coat on. "Where are you going?" The Father asks.
"To the neighbors'. They have a Mac."
Actually, the author of PlayFair made it clear that he wrote it because he hates DRM, not because he wants to use his Linux box to play iTMS file. Aside from that, VLC on Linux will decrypt iTMS-encrypted files, anyway.
I don't know about chat logs, but I know that emails are perfectly admissible in court, and those can be faked almost as easily as a chat log.
Just a hint for you, if you happen to have an iPod and a USB 2.0 or FireWire port on your work box ... If you sync up your iPod, you can plug it into your work machine and use iTunes to play the songs directly from the iPod. I'm pretty sure this will use the iPod's key to decrypt the music, so all you have to do is plug it in, no illegal workarounds required.
Note that I'm not saying that Apple is right or wrong because of this; I'm merely providing you with a legal alternative to illegal circumvention methods.
It'd be doable with a lot of bands today whose songs sound exactly the same. Don't believe me? The linked file is an MP3 of Nickelback. In one channel, the song "How You Remind Me," and in the other is the song "Someday." Be sure to turn off any virtual surround sound effects you have on. This requires stereo to observe the full effect. If you don't want to download the file, the conclusion is simple. Nickelback's songs are basically identical in form except for some lyric changes.
The Extensions folder is one thing that I'm not lamenting about being rid of in Mac OS X.
Utterly wrong. This is a CFM executable with no hidden extension. Double-clicking on it from the Finder will execute it, but dragging the file on to iTunes will only play the MP3 stream inside the file. Mail.app, however, correctly identifies it as an executable when you try to open it from inside an email.
No sane developer writes Cocoa in AppleScript Studio. For the record, I am insane.
What genius modded this as off-topic? Here's a hint: the topic is Bush's religious war on pornography. This post deals with ... Bush's religious war on pornography. Moron.
With the public slowly waking up to the simple fact that Iraq is a Hell hole and that the Bush administration spun lies and half-truths that would make Bill Clinton wonder how it was he who was impeached, Bush needs to energize his core support base. You know, the good, God-fearing, church-going Christians bent on defying every principle set down by the Framers of the Constitution to drag all us heathens back into The Light, whether we want them to or not.
Those people don't particularly give a shit about what goes on in Iraq. They barely know that a world exists outside of their quaint, sub-1,000 population towns with as few branches on the family tree as Catholic churches down the street. All they know is that Saint Dubya is bringing justice and light to those heathen, savage "sand niggers" and/or "Aye-rabs." But what really concerns them is Bush's refusal up until now to deal with the utterly critical issues of mutually consensual, same-sex marriages and perfectly lawful pornography. That's the stuff causing society's collapse. All that sex and dancing. Oh, and the hip-hop. That's got to be next on Ashcroft's agenda. Getting those silly negro rappers off the street, in prison and America back into church on Sundays (specifically fundamentalist Protestant churches), that's what'll get America back on track. Then God will be on our side.