If you're worried about any kind of privacy, you shouldn't be using the internet at all.
As for google/gmail, if you don't like it, don't use it. I use gmail, it's actualy a nice mail client. I use it for general mail(nothing I wouldn't post on a public message board) and have never worried about privacy because I understand that the fact that I put my computer online kills any kind of "privacy" I have.
Not to offend, but why would a company that offers X number of internships to develop software/hardware/ect spend time with a high school student(however bright they may be), when they probably have a huge selection of college juniors and seniors to pick from(with much more experience)? If you really just want to get in the field, find a company/project your interested in and offer to work there for free over the summer. Yeah there isn't any money, but you'll get experience to put on a resume later when you're fighting for an internship in college.
Yeah, it seems like they are assuming that if you have something to hide then your guilty....but there are situations where the presence of an encryption program does imply some guilt. For instance....if the guy installed pgp at a time that corresponds to the time he was involved in the child pornography, and didn't show any previous paranoia(or whatnot) related to any other content on his computer...that says something about his intent to hide his actions. Also, if you find that 1000 images were encrypted and his financial documents were left unencrypted....that says some more. I'm not saying that encryption=guilt, just that there are some situations where is does say something about people in certain situations.
why would they ever need to put ads on their main page? How many people go to google.com just to see the google logo? 99.999999% of people that go to the google site probably go with the intent of searching(which will display ads), or to use another service with similar ads.
Polytechnic University of Valencia Dean. Slightly used by record industry. Obedient, simple minded, easy to train/use. Free to recording industry or idiotic regulatory agency.
As a hunter, I talk to people from other states that see deer as pests, and a general problem. In california(I live in sacramento), since they aren't seen too often, most people see deer as bambi and his mother. So the thought of shooting bambi(or his mother) scares them into thinking that hunting is a bad thing.
This internet hunting is another issue altogether. When I think of hunting, it's a process of tracking, and killing an animal. Using a computer to do this kinda perverses this process. It makes it more of a game. If your going to point and click, why not just buy a computer game? Does it make it that much funner knowing that something is actually dying when you shoot it?
Either way...having california pass this law is rediculus. The hunting in california is notoriously bad....so passing a law here is bascially some liberal politicians stating there opinion through pointless legislation.
whereas tracking and killing innocent animals on foot is just fine.
yeah! outlaw all hunting, even by other animals. How could anyone or anything ever hunt and kill an innocent dear, or bunny! We should all become communist, vegan, and move into the wilderness.
1. External denial of service attack against web server computer, or any participating vendor, or device. Denial of service attacks due to successfully modified content on web server computer are fair game.
2. Attacks or modifications of any computer or device besides web server or database computers.
3. Attacks involving external domain naming services.
4. Publishing readily available directory or file listings without accessing or modifying files on the web server or database computer.
5. Physical attacks.
6. The web admin hasn't patched the daily security hole in the server before the hack was initiated on that given day.
I agree. It seems that as EEs work they always need to be able to program a at least a little....while computer scientists tend not to get into hardware, and seem to feel uncomfortable when they have to work with it. At the college I'm attending, computer science students don't even take elementary circuit analysis(other than electromagnetics physics classes).
:-/ not really Yes, it would be convenient to have a handheld data logger that you could dump later....but I think that would just add to the complexity of using something like this device.
I think the simplest solution would be to plug it into a laptop, and either capture the data with a serial terminal (which are easy to get/use on any system) then dump it to some kind of software and plot it....or write something to intercept the data in real time and plot it. The latter would probably be the most useful, since you could watch the acceleration profile of the stroke as it happens....but I'm not sure of your experience/willingness to write a bunch of code for this.:-/
If you were to write something like that, and interface it to this device...it would seem like a pretty good product to sell to other rowing teams:-)
Scroll down, and they have accelerometer you can just plug into a serial port. You'd want to have a laptop on board, and some simple software to interface with the serial port...but serial port interfacing isn't to hard, so this might work for you.
my mistake...seemed like he was saying 'as hard as it is to get a degree in electrical engineering'......But I see how it could be interpreted a different way.
I still don't understand why he would push people away from a degree in electrical engineering though. The market in montreal must be very saturated, because the enrollment in engineering programs in california is pretty low. The market here is slow for engineers, but I don't know a single engineering students at school that is afraid of not finding a job. It might be that since there are so many large companies here that our market is just better than a lot of other cities....but even if the market was bad I would never tell someone to not persue a degree in engineering.:-/
"It's not very high considering what an EE goes through." "I don't even have a college degree" .....seem like an odd comment to you?
I'm in sacramento, ca. NEC, intel, HP, aerojet, northrupp grumman, the state/city, and a variety of smaller companies suck up the engineers from the surrounding 3 universities every year. I came out of high school knowing that if I got a degree in any kind of engineering, I was basically gurateed an engineering position somewhere(assuming I actually learned the stuff, ect ect...)
Just as a note, $48k is the _lowest_ salary of the group of people I hang around(was a computer science student too)....The average salaries EE graduates _start_ at from my school is $55.
It may be harder if your just a technician...it may be harder if your in montreal....but thats no reason to push people away from a good profession.
I don't quite understand what your talking about. I'm working on my EEE degree right now...and everyone I know that has graduated in the last year or so have jobs( $48k+/year). Sure, the market is slow, but it's not if you have an EE degree you'll be on the street once you graduate.
I can't tell for sure, but it looks like they are using a little direct drive brushless motor, which are very effecient and quiet. And since it is built to be light they are probably using a lithium polymer battery, basically the highest capacity/space battery you can buy today. I wouldn't be surprized if this thing was very powerful(even in wind), and could fly for 30-45 minutes at a time.
I'd be more interested in the quality of the video they get back from such small cameras.
I bet the controller they use to fly it is bigger than the plane itself.
Just like guns, having them readily available makes committing crimes with them easier
I completely agree. No one should be able to buy guns! Then the only people that will have guns are the people that protect us like our government and our police.....and the people who got them illegally(who get them illegally now anyways).
I would sleep so much better at night knowing that my law-abiding neighbors and friends don't have guns. If someone breaks into my house, why would I need a gun? Protecting myself will just lead to trouble anyways, let whoever breaks in take whatever they want....
And if my government starts stepping on my fundamental rights, who cares! I know they're looking out for me, and if they are doing something I disagree with..I must be too stupid to understand why.
We need to get the guns out of the average citizens hands....and when we do that we'll be a much easier people to rule.
instead of building an elaborate system to notify people a thousand year from now as to your time capsule location...just buy some type of material that is extremely rare today and bury it with the capsule. In a thousand years or so, they'll need that material for something important and make machines capable of finding it. Maybe gold, or platinum....ect ect.
Slashdot Mirror
didn't I already see this movie?
Now we have have whitehouse.com,.net,.org,.gov,.xxx,and .biz
8th grade children will never be able to find the real whitehouse website!
If you're worried about any kind of privacy, you shouldn't be using the internet at all.
As for google/gmail, if you don't like it, don't use it. I use gmail, it's actualy a nice mail client. I use it for general mail(nothing I wouldn't post on a public message board) and have never worried about privacy because I understand that the fact that I put my computer online kills any kind of "privacy" I have.
Not to offend, but why would a company that offers X number of internships to develop software/hardware/ect spend time with a high school student(however bright they may be), when they probably have a huge selection of college juniors and seniors to pick from(with much more experience)? If you really just want to get in the field, find a company/project your interested in and offer to work there for free over the summer. Yeah there isn't any money, but you'll get experience to put on a resume later when you're fighting for an internship in college.
so government employees use word to generate webpages and post them on a redhat server......so?
Yeah, it seems like they are assuming that if you have something to hide then your guilty....but there are situations where the presence of an encryption program does imply some guilt. For instance....if the guy installed pgp at a time that corresponds to the time he was involved in the child pornography, and didn't show any previous paranoia(or whatnot) related to any other content on his computer...that says something about his intent to hide his actions. Also, if you find that 1000 images were encrypted and his financial documents were left unencrypted....that says some more. I'm not saying that encryption=guilt, just that there are some situations where is does say something about people in certain situations.
why would they ever need to put ads on their main page? How many people go to google.com just to see the google logo? 99.999999% of people that go to the google site probably go with the intent of searching(which will display ads), or to use another service with similar ads.
for sale: one(1) university dean.
Polytechnic University of Valencia Dean. Slightly used by record industry. Obedient, simple minded, easy to train/use. Free to recording industry or idiotic regulatory agency.
hey, there is even a distro that is suited for this.oralux
1.pound stick into ground
2.tie rope to stick
3.tie rope to dog collar
It doesn't run linux...but it works
As a hunter, I talk to people from other states that see deer as pests, and a general problem. In california(I live in sacramento), since they aren't seen too often, most people see deer as bambi and his mother. So the thought of shooting bambi(or his mother) scares them into thinking that hunting is a bad thing.
This internet hunting is another issue altogether. When I think of hunting, it's a process of tracking, and killing an animal. Using a computer to do this kinda perverses this process. It makes it more of a game. If your going to point and click, why not just buy a computer game? Does it make it that much funner knowing that something is actually dying when you shoot it?
Either way...having california pass this law is rediculus. The hunting in california is notoriously bad....so passing a law here is bascially some liberal politicians stating there opinion through pointless legislation.
whereas tracking and killing innocent animals on foot is just fine.
yeah! outlaw all hunting, even by other animals. How could anyone or anything ever hunt and kill an innocent dear, or bunny! We should all become communist, vegan, and move into the wilderness.
Why can't we moderate the index page?
A successful hack does not include:
1. External denial of service attack against web server computer, or any participating vendor, or device. Denial of service attacks due to successfully modified content on web server computer are fair game.
2. Attacks or modifications of any computer or device besides web server or database computers.
3. Attacks involving external domain naming services.
4. Publishing readily available directory or file listings without accessing or modifying files on the web server or database computer.
5. Physical attacks.
6. The web admin hasn't patched the daily security hole in the server before the hack was initiated on that given day.
I agree. It seems that as EEs work they always need to be able to program a at least a little....while computer scientists tend not to get into hardware, and seem to feel uncomfortable when they have to work with it. At the college I'm attending, computer science students don't even take elementary circuit analysis(other than electromagnetics physics classes).
:-/ not really
:-/
:-)
Yes, it would be convenient to have a handheld data logger that you could dump later....but I think that would just add to the complexity of using something like this device.
I think the simplest solution would be to plug it into a laptop, and either capture the data with a serial terminal (which are easy to get/use on any system) then dump it to some kind of software and plot it....or write something to intercept the data in real time and plot it. The latter would probably be the most useful, since you could watch the acceleration profile of the stroke as it happens....but I'm not sure of your experience/willingness to write a bunch of code for this.
If you were to write something like that, and interface it to this device...it would seem like a pretty good product to sell to other rowing teams
the more I read slashdot, the more I think that it maybe ought to be \.
since the comments here often lean so far to the left.
Instead of taking the passports before they leave..why not do it after? :-)
I'm great at soldering...even surface mount!
Send it to me, I'll fix it and keep it!^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsend it right back to you!
serial accelerometer
Scroll down, and they have accelerometer you can just plug into a serial port. You'd want to have a laptop on board, and some simple software to interface with the serial port...but serial port interfacing isn't to hard, so this might work for you.
oh, and it's like $45 or so.....
my mistake...seemed like he was saying 'as hard as it is to get a degree in electrical engineering'......But I see how it could be interpreted a different way.
:-/
I still don't understand why he would push people away from a degree in electrical engineering though. The market in montreal must be very saturated, because the enrollment in engineering programs in california is pretty low. The market here is slow for engineers, but I don't know a single engineering students at school that is afraid of not finding a job. It might be that since there are so many large companies here that our market is just better than a lot of other cities....but even if the market was bad I would never tell someone to not persue a degree in engineering.
one step at a time....
"It's not very high considering what an EE goes through."
"I don't even have a college degree"
.....seem like an odd comment to you?
I'm in sacramento, ca. NEC, intel, HP, aerojet, northrupp grumman, the state/city, and a variety of smaller companies suck up the engineers from the surrounding 3 universities every year. I came out of high school knowing that if I got a degree in any kind of engineering, I was basically gurateed an engineering position somewhere(assuming I actually learned the stuff, ect ect...)
Just as a note, $48k is the _lowest_ salary of the group of people I hang around(was a computer science student too)....The average salaries EE graduates _start_ at from my school is $55.
It may be harder if your just a technician...it may be harder if your in montreal....but thats no reason to push people away from a good profession.
I don't quite understand what your talking about. I'm working on my EEE degree right now...and everyone I know that has graduated in the last year or so have jobs( $48k+/year). Sure, the market is slow, but it's not if you have an EE degree you'll be on the street once you graduate.
I can't tell for sure, but it looks like they are using a little direct drive brushless motor, which are very effecient and quiet. And since it is built to be light they are probably using a lithium polymer battery, basically the highest capacity/space battery you can buy today. I wouldn't be surprized if this thing was very powerful(even in wind), and could fly for 30-45 minutes at a time.
I'd be more interested in the quality of the video they get back from such small cameras.
I bet the controller they use to fly it is bigger than the plane itself.
Just like guns, having them readily available makes committing crimes with them easier
I completely agree. No one should be able to buy guns! Then the only people that will have guns are the people that protect us like our government and our police.....and the people who got them illegally(who get them illegally now anyways).
I would sleep so much better at night knowing that my law-abiding neighbors and friends don't have guns. If someone breaks into my house, why would I need a gun? Protecting myself will just lead to trouble anyways, let whoever breaks in take whatever they want....
And if my government starts stepping on my fundamental rights, who cares! I know they're looking out for me, and if they are doing something I disagree with..I must be too stupid to understand why.
We need to get the guns out of the average citizens hands....and when we do that we'll be a much easier people to rule.
instead of building an elaborate system to notify people a thousand year from now as to your time capsule location...just buy some type of material that is extremely rare today and bury it with the capsule. In a thousand years or so, they'll need that material for something important and make machines capable of finding it. Maybe gold, or platinum....ect ect.