Its amazingly thin here on slashdot, but he could tell because of his reading comprehension skills that allow you to pick up on various aspects of the author without any more knowledge.
I'd say it was abundantly clear to anyone who read it that the post was from someone who calls themselves an atheist, mostly because the only people who make that kind of post are angsty 15 year olds who call themselves atheist without actually understanding what they are saying.
Yep, I took advantage of such devices anytime I had an issue at school I was trying to get out of.
If you can divert the problem to something else, preferably relating to someone else doing something wrong, you can sometimes get off without anyone really doing anything to you in the end.
Apparently you don't know what it was like being a kid in the 80s and 90s. Prescription pills are the drugs of choice by most these days, easier to get by with in plain sight, generally easy to come up with an excuse for having on you or taking, only illegal if you don't have a prescription... which you don't typically carry around with you.
and...
Even less noticeable when you carry them around in a candy box and act completely normal with them.
You clearly were not part of the crowd who 'did drugs in school', thats probably a good thing, just stop pretending to know what goes on with the kids who do. If you have kids, I suggest you ask them about the drugs in their school rather than telling them about drugs, they'll probably already know more.
Do you have any idea what so ever of how big of a loser that makes you? Do you have any idea how mentally fucked up you have just shown us all that you are?
You have an abnormal response to something that should be a non-stimuli.
Reading or hearing someone talk about a comic on the Internet or updating a Wikipedia page doesn't do anything. It doesn't mean anything. Its like listening to '*BSD is dying', 'Year of the Linux desktop', 'meme', 'lolcat', 'pwn', 'keke' or any of a million other absolutely retarded fucking things that get said or discussed on the Internet. Those are mostly normal things to be tired of, they've been over used. XKCD isn't THAT fucking common.
Whats really sad is that you are so 'anti-xkcd' that you go read some other retarded anti-xkcd website and get yourself more worked up over something that normal well adjusted people would just ignore. So either you're in highschool and having hormone imbalance issues, or you're a nutjob who needs to do a reality check and get some fucking perspective.
I ask that you seek medical attention. You are unstable. I'm sorry, life doesn't have to be as depressing as what you're used to. If you are that compelled to read an anti-xkcd blog and announce to everyone that you do, then your attention and angst issues need to be addressed before you hurt someone innocent.
Common sense comes in to play here, and even in court.
Its rather common for allowing a font to be embedded in a document under a different license.
You'll find roughly the same phrase in fonts used by Adobe.
Of course Adobe products like to claim Adobe copyright on documents they create. Illustrator will throw in a 'Copyright Adobe Systems, 2010' for any SVG exported from it.
In both cases, the intent is understood by everyone in the industry that the copyright only applies to the font itself, and that reselling it by itself is not acceptable.
Font licenses are retarded anyway, I feel no sympathy for 'font designers' or the companies they work with.
And honestly, if they showed a history of being a moron and letting this information out, than I'd be okay with them denying a claim. If you announce to the world when your house is ready to be robbed, you deserve to have all your stuff taken away from you.
There are plenty of reasons to leave swap on. Unless you're running every application you have from ramdisk already, swap can provide a performance boost by paging inactive tasks and freeing the ram for caching.
There are MANY reasons for having swap, turning it off is an almost certain way to slow your system down unless you know exactly what you are doing.
Just having 'a lot of ram' doesn't provide all the benefits that can be had with that ram if its wasted keeping a shitload of code and resources (like images) in ram that will never be used just because they are part of the processes address space.
The fact that the VM in Windows is coded in a way that EXPECTS to be able to page to disk also causes you performance issues when its turned off. Sure it can work better off, in the right circumstances, but I can assure you from your post that you don't know those circumstances or you wouldn't have suggested turning it off.
Seriously, what could make a parent or student think it was a good idea to undress in front of a school provided laptop with it open and a webcam?
What sort of compromising positions were the PARENTS in? Missionary? Doggie-Style? Girl on Girl on Guy? WHY IS THE LAPTOP SEEING THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE?
I'd guess they never really thought about it, the fact that the laptop and someone looking through it might see what they were doing.
Likewise, it probably wasn't the first thought that some school admin had when using the system. If it WAS the first thought, then there is a serious issue at hand. It of course is one of those things that should probably have been addressed at that point, someone might have thought it was a bad idea in general and stopped, but they didn't. Shame on them.
But seriously, wtf are parents doing in front of their kids laptop that is so compromising or embarrassing?
And no, 'freedom' or 'right to privacy' is no reason to start a class action lawsuit that will result in no real punishment to those who committed the offense, yet will result in lawyers making a fuckton of money. The parents will get some money, but then pay most of it back in taxes to cover the insurance premium increase. The rest will get paid back by other residents in the school district who were in no way involved in the crime or the legal battle that resulted in a bunch of ignorant greedy fucking parents being so stupid that they essentially give the lawyers a bunch of money with a net loss to everyone else involved in the process.
It was a horrible idea. But everyone involved except the lawyers seems to be completely fucking retarded anyway, so let them have their fun.
This is why you don't want "free" computers from the government, you want the government to NOT take that money away from you to begin with so you can buy your own computer...
You don't understand how it works.
I agree that you don't want a government computer unless their are rules in place regarding how the government can access the system.
The laptops weren't bought with money the parents provided in taxes and then given back to the students.
The laptops were bought with money that EVERYONE in the tax area (probably based on school district naturally) provided, for the students to borrow.
You see, my tax money helped by those laptops as well, even though I don't have kids. Those laptops were also probably bought with the intention of reusing after the students left, maybe given to another student or donated to somewhere else that can use them.
The students don't own the laptops, they are borrowing them, they are not there for the students to use in whatever way they want. There is no rule that says 'you must use the school laptop while you jerk off at the pictures the head cheerleader sent you over AIM'. They can use their own laptops if they don't like the rules that are attached to the government provided loaners.
I'm sure there are some administrators who crossed the line, by a mile, in this situation. In the end, we may see criminal charges filed, but at this point there have been no obvious signs of a broken law. The civil trial code very well (and I'm sure its part of the intent) point out the laws broken and result in a criminal trial.
But heres reality.
The kid did something wrong, otherwise we'd hear more about what he/she did from the lawyers for the kid.
The parents don't really give a shit about the fact that the kid was spied on, they want money. They don't want to punish the responsible parties, they just want to get paid. If the parents when 1 billion dollars, then it'll come from an insurance company and the school district's premiums will go up. The administrators involved will be fired, move across the country and work at some other school who can't be picky about who it hires.
If the parents wanted to be responsible parents or even just actually punish the people who did wrong here, they'd have focused on finding a lawyer to chase the criminal aspect. A criminal case could likely result in the people being put on Megan's list and would keep them out of working for any school system anywhere ever again, which would be far more effective as punishment and to ensure the safety of other children than a class action suit.
The parents don't even give a shit about their kids, its all about the greenbacks.
School officials tend to think themselves as above the law / the law way too many times in my personal experience
Agreed, however it kind of a requirement of the job. They deal with a bunch of students, most of which have parents with the skills of salamon who let their kids run the house. Most of the time the only way the school admins get any sort of control over the school is by being more of a parent than the actual parents.
Its not right, but having been one of the 'bad kids' in school and spending a lot of time in the office, I can understand why they act like they do at times. I don't think there is anything you can change about the school system, in this respect that will make things better. Parents have to put more effort into being a parent for schools to change the way the operate, otherwise they have to continue to play the roll of parent/daycare provider.
Just for reference, the timestamps google shows are last updated time for the article, not when it was initially published. Wait a few hours, some of those same stories will likely have their last updated bumped up again because of minor edits to the page.
What if some kid was doing their homework in their underwear, or naked? That's using the laptop for sanctioned purposes.
In hindsight, if they haven't already added it, I'm sure they'll add a clause to the contract stating you can't be undressed using the laptop. To be honest, that should have been in the contract regardless, spying via the cam or not. No one wants the laptop back after its been sitting on the balls of some school kid while he hot chats some 40 year old guy claiming to be a 18 year old female elf pixie fairy load on WoW.
Its rather messed up that they are spying on the kids this way, but the thought of kids screwing around with a loaner laptop while indecent is not appealing in the least, and unsanitary for a number of reasons.
No, the insurance company takes a hit and the school district will pay higher premiums. The only people who are even remotely considered 'fucked' are the people who did it directly and the management that approved it as they are likely to be released from their contracts and the job probably isn't the best reference in the world. They aren't even going to get it that bad, they'll just move far enough away that no one knows about it or wait until next month when its forgotten about, and get a job elsewhere.
The guy who gets fucked is the one who gets his computers seized because of this and it ends up he/she has got gigs of kiddie or even legal teen porn. That person will get raped, literally. After being sent to jail the prisoners will go to work on them. Even murdering thieving 'low life's' by most peoples definition have a problem with pedos and they don't tend to last real long in the general population of a prison.
Yea, thats great, but I've already got 10Ge in my (small) office. If I'm already seeing it in the wild at small offices, then its close enough to consumer grade that not installing cat6 now is just retarded.
The effort (thicker/stiffer cable) to run and the cost differences right now are FAR FAR less than running cat5e now and then running cat6 in a few years to get reliable 10Ge.
Of course in reality, if the runs are short enough, cat5e and cat6 (well hell, cat5 as well) aren't THAT much different that you'll notice serious problems over short runs.
Financially though, unless you have no plans to ever go beyond gigabit on copper, its silly to install cat5e now and then 6 later.
Theory and reality are rarely, if ever, actually the same thing. Thank god good engineers know that or we'd have cars with no bumpers or airbags, since theoretically as long as no one gets in an accident, they wouldn't be needed. The ethernet spec, like most electrical standards, has room for flexing it a little with varied degrees of success. The hardware involved also has tolerances that (if its good hardware) are capable of dealing with conditions beyond the range of the spec. Engineers learn real early on that just because you say 'this is how to use this device' that it will most certainly be used in a condition thats JUST outside that range, and so they design hardware to operate at the spec and can deal with, to varying degrees of success, things that fall outside but near the spec.
Yes, everything is 'not within spec'. But he's not trying to accomplish compliance testing of his network, he's just trying to make it work.
You can do some incredibly evil things to an ethernet signal and still have it communicate rather well, IF you aren't pushing ALL the boundaries of the spec.
Impedance and capacitance are relative, length matters here. The spec is designed with set numbers that in the end produce a range of values for capacitance and in any given system impedance, as long those are still within acceptable limits for the hardware to handle, everything else is irrelevant.
It doesn't matter that the spec says X will work at up to Y meters, because he's going to use 10X at only Y/5 meters.
I've ran 100 mb ethernet over RG6 cable, at short distances it can be done just fine, as long as you aren't thinking of the shielding as a conductor for the pair. You need 4 coax lines to do standard ethernet (2 pair), you'd need 8 for gigabit, but due to gigabits different signaling method than 10 or 100 (All 4 pairs are used, rather than just 2), and each pair of those pairs is working together, things might get to the point where it becomes practically useless.
It is most certainly, however, possible to run a 100BaseT connection over some coax lines, regardless of what theory says, I assure you in this case that your theory is amazingly incomplete.
Old Ethernet worked over Coax. I just doubt you have the correct kind of Coax. Also, my experience with residential cable installs is that they tend to have damaged Coax cable, so it is pointless even trying to use it for high-bandwidth applications.
Ahhh the ignorance of the digital age.
You do realize that standard coax, from the cable company that comes into your house carries more data with it than any connection you have in your home, probably any connection you've seen.
Analog has an infinite number of possible values for any given 'bit' of time. Digital has 1.
Analog has far more bandwidth, and far less reliability of data integrity. We are happy to trade off massive amounts of bandwidth available in the unreliable analog signaling methods and use digital signaling methods since its far easier for computers to deal with and has a far high reliability level at its reduced resolution.
As for your other points. Cat5 requires the pairs be twisted in a specific pattern, that pattern reduces cross talk between the lines in order obtain high quality signal at the ends. Impedance wouldn't be your problem, the length wouldn't be that big of an issue either for non-gigabit connections. Might be different for gigE since it uses a different signaling method and more than one pair in each direction. Ethernet only cares about 2 pairs, and if they are off by a several feet, it won't really matter for runs well under the 100m length limit (imposed by timing issues, which is where your length actually comes into play.
Theres a good chance he could 'make it work' just by taking advantage of all the tolerances this sort of equipment has built into it. Its unlikely however that he's going to see a reliable 100Mb across it, and gigabit is certainly out, or unlikely enough that I'm going to say its out anyway.
Its not that big of a deal over a run that isn't near the length limit with good hardware. Unfortunately, being that people stopped using 10Base2 more than a decade ago, I think finding high quality hardware to ensure you get a good connection... at 10MB... isn't probably worth the effort.
Of course there could very well be an alternative to use. Cable modems have no problem moving 100MB or more with current standards over standard cable, you aren't going to setup your own Cisco CMTS and use standard cable modems of course, but theres probably someone who has made a high speed solution that works over coax.
Its not like its physically impossible to do or anything like that.
like the idea of (literally) sitting on our coal reserves... "just in case."
Me too, from a security standpoint, for now, its the best thing to do. Use up all the other fuels that other countries can't use right now, (nuclear being a relatively rare power source as far as number of countries who know how to use it) and leave us with a nice emergency supply of traditional fuels for ourselves if we need it, or to sell to other countries that need it later for emergencies.
Of course, it could all backfire. What you don't want to have is China with 0 sources of power, and the US sitting on massive vains of coal that we won't sell to them. World wars have started over far less.
No it isn't. It will be recycled just like everything else eventually. Remember, coal came (at least we think) from living forests. Everything in the coal that is burning was once very near the surface of the Earth and was infact used to facilitate living organisms
Coal burning is only hazardous at certain levels to certain forms of life.
Sadly we've probably really exceeded those levels for the only form of life that really and truly matters in the end, our own. So its important to consider, but saying 'it lasts forever' is just wrong.
every single accomplishment of every Greenpeace like organisation the world over combined has ever accomplished.
I disagree. It would be healthier, I'll agree with that.
My disagreement however, that it would not best any Greenpeace demonstration that resulted in one of those morons driving their little rubber dingy under a naval destroyer. Those events are great days for humanity, and those are bigger accomplishments than anything Greenpeace has done intentionally and are for better for the world than switching to nuclear plants right now, if you look at it from a long term perspective.
Lets face it, ignorance and political fighting in organizations like Greenpeace result in them fighting things that would help their cause long term and if they weren't such ignorant fucks who have to have a 'cause to fight' without knowing what 'the cause' actaully is they'd be able to figure that part out.
Most 'peace', 'animal protection' and 'green' political and activist groups do FAR more damage for their own cause than good because they've been blinded.
This was certainly an MS issue, the fact that the number of apache INSTALLATIONS is considerably smaller. The default IIS install having crappy permissions didn't help. The fact that most of the infections where on client PCs and servers that never should have had IIS installed plays a part in it. The fact that admins run Apache and are far more likely to keep it up to date than gradma who never installs updates.
Either way, it is all MSes fault, no doubt about it, Apache has far more experience on the Internet, but its silly to pretend it couldn't happen to Apache. Its not like its ever happened to anything before, not like anyone has ever trojan sendmail or anything...
()patch Tuesday
As opposed to 'whenever we feel like, sometimes every day for a week, sometimes nothing for a month'
()cannot delete opened file
Trivial to resolve, and not really any worse than a zombied process
()No distinction between administrator and normal user
What? Do you know what permissions are? WindowsNT held a distinct advantage in ACL support over any free OS for years, and game the commercial unixes a run for their money in some cases. Do you know what the 'SYSTEM' user is? Do you know that you don't normally ever have 'root' on a NT machine? The administrator account is just a user with lots of permissions. SYSTEM would be the equivalent to root. This isn't something you even normally get access to, you have to trick the OS into giving you the ability to use the root account.
()backward compatibility back to DOS
So today its backwards compatible, are we going back to 'Windows breaks compatibility' tomorrow? First off, it isn't DOS compatible, isn't even close. NT will run most 'console' apps and some 'DOS' apps, but only those that are very well played DOS apps, essentially those that don't do much more than text processing or basic file OS, no real hardware access or speed tricks.
()GUI in server and for administration tasks
I used to feel this was a problem, now days, meh, I don't give a shit. The RAM and disk space occupied by the GUI is trivial and on most of my servers its such a small percentage I don't give a shit. Its nice when you can't talk to the machine remotely and still want to run GUI apps however.
Hell the X libraries are probably installed on all my servers so I can run various other X apps locally with remote display, most of them are running a local X session anyway, just in case I have to actually use the console in a hurry.
()whole hard drive is writable
Which part is the issue for you? You don't trust file permissions but you trust a read-only mount? That seems pretty silly since they are both actualized in the same kernel. Or are you refering to some other exploit? Maybe the MBR access, that I could see being a valid complaint, but you were too vague for me to assume you actually had a real reason to bitch
()complex database for configuration and the list goes on.
Yea, this can be a pisser. I've seen people have horrible nightmares dealing with those problems. Personally I've never had any issue with the config db that prevented me from just using the GUI to do what I wanted. Maybe corruption has passed me by for now.
Either way, 90% of the time, using the GUI and a couple right clicks is still faster than editing httpd.conf in a text editor. Not always the case, but you're going to be hard pressed to prove that either said is 'faster' or 'more efficient' using one of the other assuming the person doing it is familiar with the method being used. Throw someone who's only worked with IIS at httpd.conf and its going to get messy and probably break. Throw someone who's only worked with
The difference is it that to make energy to how to put more energy in to get more out. You have to pay for the cost of the coal/gas/uranium you're burning. (traditionally, solar, tidal, and wind energy is a different business)
Every form of backbone in existence costs the same idling as it does running full tilt. Thats not true, this is a difference, its just so small that its really not worth mentioning as you probably can't detect that power difference (on the network infrastructure gear) in the facebook data center, let alone anyone smaller.
If you have 100 million cable modem subscribers using the Internet for an hour a day (at the same time) it costs the EXACT same as if none of them use it at all that day, or if they all use it constantly all day.
Both companies have to pay to install infrastructure, the cost is more or less identical between the two.
I pay more on a normal month for cable than power. I pay more for something that has no consumables than I do for the product that has a consumable, the power usage for providing the bandwidth doesn't count, its far too small to count. Power companies are also required to be fair and charge fair prices, they have to ask the government to make changes, and they government can and does say no.
Comparing bandwidth providers to power companies is roughly like comparing pirating an mp3 of brittney spears to kidnapping her and forcing her to sing at your daughters birthday party. Its a fucking retarded comparison to make.
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Its amazingly thin here on slashdot, but he could tell because of his reading comprehension skills that allow you to pick up on various aspects of the author without any more knowledge.
I'd say it was abundantly clear to anyone who read it that the post was from someone who calls themselves an atheist, mostly because the only people who make that kind of post are angsty 15 year olds who call themselves atheist without actually understanding what they are saying.
Except that they probably financed it, at a low rate, being an early adopter. The money is still actually in investments making money.
Of course its possible they already accounted for the cost per month of the unit.
I'm making random assumptions of course, but so are you.
Yep, I took advantage of such devices anytime I had an issue at school I was trying to get out of.
If you can divert the problem to something else, preferably relating to someone else doing something wrong, you can sometimes get off without anyone really doing anything to you in the end.
Apparently you don't know what it was like being a kid in the 80s and 90s. Prescription pills are the drugs of choice by most these days, easier to get by with in plain sight, generally easy to come up with an excuse for having on you or taking, only illegal if you don't have a prescription ... which you don't typically carry around with you.
and ...
Even less noticeable when you carry them around in a candy box and act completely normal with them.
You clearly were not part of the crowd who 'did drugs in school', thats probably a good thing, just stop pretending to know what goes on with the kids who do. If you have kids, I suggest you ask them about the drugs in their school rather than telling them about drugs, they'll probably already know more.
Funny, thats what they did here recently to ban public smoking.
Since that worked, sounds like doing it to ban broccoli probably has a fairly good shot at working.
Do you have any idea what so ever of how big of a loser that makes you? Do you have any idea how mentally fucked up you have just shown us all that you are?
You have an abnormal response to something that should be a non-stimuli.
Reading or hearing someone talk about a comic on the Internet or updating a Wikipedia page doesn't do anything. It doesn't mean anything. Its like listening to '*BSD is dying', 'Year of the Linux desktop', 'meme', 'lolcat', 'pwn', 'keke' or any of a million other absolutely retarded fucking things that get said or discussed on the Internet. Those are mostly normal things to be tired of, they've been over used. XKCD isn't THAT fucking common.
Whats really sad is that you are so 'anti-xkcd' that you go read some other retarded anti-xkcd website and get yourself more worked up over something that normal well adjusted people would just ignore. So either you're in highschool and having hormone imbalance issues, or you're a nutjob who needs to do a reality check and get some fucking perspective.
I ask that you seek medical attention. You are unstable. I'm sorry, life doesn't have to be as depressing as what you're used to. If you are that compelled to read an anti-xkcd blog and announce to everyone that you do, then your attention and angst issues need to be addressed before you hurt someone innocent.
Common sense comes in to play here, and even in court.
Its rather common for allowing a font to be embedded in a document under a different license.
You'll find roughly the same phrase in fonts used by Adobe.
Of course Adobe products like to claim Adobe copyright on documents they create. Illustrator will throw in a 'Copyright Adobe Systems, 2010' for any SVG exported from it.
In both cases, the intent is understood by everyone in the industry that the copyright only applies to the font itself, and that reselling it by itself is not acceptable.
Font licenses are retarded anyway, I feel no sympathy for 'font designers' or the companies they work with.
And honestly, if they showed a history of being a moron and letting this information out, than I'd be okay with them denying a claim. If you announce to the world when your house is ready to be robbed, you deserve to have all your stuff taken away from you.
Slip her an ambien, wait 30 minutes, she won't remember any of it. 2 or 3 ambien if she's sober.
Its surely already happened with more traditional date rape drugs anyway.
There are plenty of reasons to leave swap on. Unless you're running every application you have from ramdisk already, swap can provide a performance boost by paging inactive tasks and freeing the ram for caching.
There are MANY reasons for having swap, turning it off is an almost certain way to slow your system down unless you know exactly what you are doing.
Just having 'a lot of ram' doesn't provide all the benefits that can be had with that ram if its wasted keeping a shitload of code and resources (like images) in ram that will never be used just because they are part of the processes address space.
The fact that the VM in Windows is coded in a way that EXPECTS to be able to page to disk also causes you performance issues when its turned off. Sure it can work better off, in the right circumstances, but I can assure you from your post that you don't know those circumstances or you wouldn't have suggested turning it off.
Seriously, what could make a parent or student think it was a good idea to undress in front of a school provided laptop with it open and a webcam?
What sort of compromising positions were the PARENTS in? Missionary? Doggie-Style? Girl on Girl on Guy? WHY IS THE LAPTOP SEEING THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE?
I'd guess they never really thought about it, the fact that the laptop and someone looking through it might see what they were doing.
Likewise, it probably wasn't the first thought that some school admin had when using the system. If it WAS the first thought, then there is a serious issue at hand. It of course is one of those things that should probably have been addressed at that point, someone might have thought it was a bad idea in general and stopped, but they didn't. Shame on them.
But seriously, wtf are parents doing in front of their kids laptop that is so compromising or embarrassing?
And no, 'freedom' or 'right to privacy' is no reason to start a class action lawsuit that will result in no real punishment to those who committed the offense, yet will result in lawyers making a fuckton of money. The parents will get some money, but then pay most of it back in taxes to cover the insurance premium increase. The rest will get paid back by other residents in the school district who were in no way involved in the crime or the legal battle that resulted in a bunch of ignorant greedy fucking parents being so stupid that they essentially give the lawyers a bunch of money with a net loss to everyone else involved in the process.
It was a horrible idea. But everyone involved except the lawyers seems to be completely fucking retarded anyway, so let them have their fun.
You don't understand how it works.
I agree that you don't want a government computer unless their are rules in place regarding how the government can access the system.
The laptops weren't bought with money the parents provided in taxes and then given back to the students.
The laptops were bought with money that EVERYONE in the tax area (probably based on school district naturally) provided, for the students to borrow.
You see, my tax money helped by those laptops as well, even though I don't have kids. Those laptops were also probably bought with the intention of reusing after the students left, maybe given to another student or donated to somewhere else that can use them.
The students don't own the laptops, they are borrowing them, they are not there for the students to use in whatever way they want. There is no rule that says 'you must use the school laptop while you jerk off at the pictures the head cheerleader sent you over AIM'. They can use their own laptops if they don't like the rules that are attached to the government provided loaners.
I'm sure there are some administrators who crossed the line, by a mile, in this situation. In the end, we may see criminal charges filed, but at this point there have been no obvious signs of a broken law. The civil trial code very well (and I'm sure its part of the intent) point out the laws broken and result in a criminal trial.
But heres reality.
The kid did something wrong, otherwise we'd hear more about what he/she did from the lawyers for the kid.
The parents don't really give a shit about the fact that the kid was spied on, they want money. They don't want to punish the responsible parties, they just want to get paid. If the parents when 1 billion dollars, then it'll come from an insurance company and the school district's premiums will go up. The administrators involved will be fired, move across the country and work at some other school who can't be picky about who it hires.
If the parents wanted to be responsible parents or even just actually punish the people who did wrong here, they'd have focused on finding a lawyer to chase the criminal aspect. A criminal case could likely result in the people being put on Megan's list and would keep them out of working for any school system anywhere ever again, which would be far more effective as punishment and to ensure the safety of other children than a class action suit.
The parents don't even give a shit about their kids, its all about the greenbacks.
Agreed, however it kind of a requirement of the job. They deal with a bunch of students, most of which have parents with the skills of salamon who let their kids run the house. Most of the time the only way the school admins get any sort of control over the school is by being more of a parent than the actual parents.
Its not right, but having been one of the 'bad kids' in school and spending a lot of time in the office, I can understand why they act like they do at times. I don't think there is anything you can change about the school system, in this respect that will make things better. Parents have to put more effort into being a parent for schools to change the way the operate, otherwise they have to continue to play the roll of parent/daycare provider.
Just for reference, the timestamps google shows are last updated time for the article, not when it was initially published. Wait a few hours, some of those same stories will likely have their last updated bumped up again because of minor edits to the page.
In hindsight, if they haven't already added it, I'm sure they'll add a clause to the contract stating you can't be undressed using the laptop. To be honest, that should have been in the contract regardless, spying via the cam or not. No one wants the laptop back after its been sitting on the balls of some school kid while he hot chats some 40 year old guy claiming to be a 18 year old female elf pixie fairy load on WoW.
Its rather messed up that they are spying on the kids this way, but the thought of kids screwing around with a loaner laptop while indecent is not appealing in the least, and unsanitary for a number of reasons.
No, the insurance company takes a hit and the school district will pay higher premiums. The only people who are even remotely considered 'fucked' are the people who did it directly and the management that approved it as they are likely to be released from their contracts and the job probably isn't the best reference in the world. They aren't even going to get it that bad, they'll just move far enough away that no one knows about it or wait until next month when its forgotten about, and get a job elsewhere.
The guy who gets fucked is the one who gets his computers seized because of this and it ends up he/she has got gigs of kiddie or even legal teen porn. That person will get raped, literally. After being sent to jail the prisoners will go to work on them. Even murdering thieving 'low life's' by most peoples definition have a problem with pedos and they don't tend to last real long in the general population of a prison.
Ignorance/inexperience would be my guess.
'cat5e can do gigabit'
Yea, thats great, but I've already got 10Ge in my (small) office. If I'm already seeing it in the wild at small offices, then its close enough to consumer grade that not installing cat6 now is just retarded.
The effort (thicker/stiffer cable) to run and the cost differences right now are FAR FAR less than running cat5e now and then running cat6 in a few years to get reliable 10Ge.
Of course in reality, if the runs are short enough, cat5e and cat6 (well hell, cat5 as well) aren't THAT much different that you'll notice serious problems over short runs.
Financially though, unless you have no plans to ever go beyond gigabit on copper, its silly to install cat5e now and then 6 later.
Theory and reality are rarely, if ever, actually the same thing. Thank god good engineers know that or we'd have cars with no bumpers or airbags, since theoretically as long as no one gets in an accident, they wouldn't be needed. The ethernet spec, like most electrical standards, has room for flexing it a little with varied degrees of success. The hardware involved also has tolerances that (if its good hardware) are capable of dealing with conditions beyond the range of the spec. Engineers learn real early on that just because you say 'this is how to use this device' that it will most certainly be used in a condition thats JUST outside that range, and so they design hardware to operate at the spec and can deal with, to varying degrees of success, things that fall outside but near the spec.
Yes, everything is 'not within spec'. But he's not trying to accomplish compliance testing of his network, he's just trying to make it work.
You can do some incredibly evil things to an ethernet signal and still have it communicate rather well, IF you aren't pushing ALL the boundaries of the spec.
Impedance and capacitance are relative, length matters here. The spec is designed with set numbers that in the end produce a range of values for capacitance and in any given system impedance, as long those are still within acceptable limits for the hardware to handle, everything else is irrelevant.
It doesn't matter that the spec says X will work at up to Y meters, because he's going to use 10X at only Y/5 meters.
I've ran 100 mb ethernet over RG6 cable, at short distances it can be done just fine, as long as you aren't thinking of the shielding as a conductor for the pair. You need 4 coax lines to do standard ethernet (2 pair), you'd need 8 for gigabit, but due to gigabits different signaling method than 10 or 100 (All 4 pairs are used, rather than just 2), and each pair of those pairs is working together, things might get to the point where it becomes practically useless.
It is most certainly, however, possible to run a 100BaseT connection over some coax lines, regardless of what theory says, I assure you in this case that your theory is amazingly incomplete.
Ahhh the ignorance of the digital age.
You do realize that standard coax, from the cable company that comes into your house carries more data with it than any connection you have in your home, probably any connection you've seen.
Analog has an infinite number of possible values for any given 'bit' of time. Digital has 1.
Analog has far more bandwidth, and far less reliability of data integrity. We are happy to trade off massive amounts of bandwidth available in the unreliable analog signaling methods and use digital signaling methods since its far easier for computers to deal with and has a far high reliability level at its reduced resolution.
As for your other points. Cat5 requires the pairs be twisted in a specific pattern, that pattern reduces cross talk between the lines in order obtain high quality signal at the ends. Impedance wouldn't be your problem, the length wouldn't be that big of an issue either for non-gigabit connections. Might be different for gigE since it uses a different signaling method and more than one pair in each direction. Ethernet only cares about 2 pairs, and if they are off by a several feet, it won't really matter for runs well under the 100m length limit (imposed by timing issues, which is where your length actually comes into play.
Theres a good chance he could 'make it work' just by taking advantage of all the tolerances this sort of equipment has built into it. Its unlikely however that he's going to see a reliable 100Mb across it, and gigabit is certainly out, or unlikely enough that I'm going to say its out anyway.
Its not that big of a deal over a run that isn't near the length limit with good hardware. Unfortunately, being that people stopped using 10Base2 more than a decade ago, I think finding high quality hardware to ensure you get a good connection ... at 10MB ... isn't probably worth the effort.
Of course there could very well be an alternative to use. Cable modems have no problem moving 100MB or more with current standards over standard cable, you aren't going to setup your own Cisco CMTS and use standard cable modems of course, but theres probably someone who has made a high speed solution that works over coax.
Its not like its physically impossible to do or anything like that.
Me too, from a security standpoint, for now, its the best thing to do. Use up all the other fuels that other countries can't use right now, (nuclear being a relatively rare power source as far as number of countries who know how to use it) and leave us with a nice emergency supply of traditional fuels for ourselves if we need it, or to sell to other countries that need it later for emergencies.
Of course, it could all backfire. What you don't want to have is China with 0 sources of power, and the US sitting on massive vains of coal that we won't sell to them. World wars have started over far less.
No it isn't. It will be recycled just like everything else eventually. Remember, coal came (at least we think) from living forests. Everything in the coal that is burning was once very near the surface of the Earth and was infact used to facilitate living organisms
Coal burning is only hazardous at certain levels to certain forms of life.
Sadly we've probably really exceeded those levels for the only form of life that really and truly matters in the end, our own. So its important to consider, but saying 'it lasts forever' is just wrong.
I disagree. It would be healthier, I'll agree with that.
My disagreement however, that it would not best any Greenpeace demonstration that resulted in one of those morons driving their little rubber dingy under a naval destroyer. Those events are great days for humanity, and those are bigger accomplishments than anything Greenpeace has done intentionally and are for better for the world than switching to nuclear plants right now, if you look at it from a long term perspective.
Lets face it, ignorance and political fighting in organizations like Greenpeace result in them fighting things that would help their cause long term and if they weren't such ignorant fucks who have to have a 'cause to fight' without knowing what 'the cause' actaully is they'd be able to figure that part out.
Most 'peace', 'animal protection' and 'green' political and activist groups do FAR more damage for their own cause than good because they've been blinded.
This was certainly an MS issue, the fact that the number of apache INSTALLATIONS is considerably smaller. The default IIS install having crappy permissions didn't help. The fact that most of the infections where on client PCs and servers that never should have had IIS installed plays a part in it. The fact that admins run Apache and are far more likely to keep it up to date than gradma who never installs updates.
Either way, it is all MSes fault, no doubt about it, Apache has far more experience on the Internet, but its silly to pretend it couldn't happen to Apache. Its not like its ever happened to anything before, not like anyone has ever trojan sendmail or anything ...
The difference is it that to make energy to how to put more energy in to get more out. You have to pay for the cost of the coal/gas/uranium you're burning. (traditionally, solar, tidal, and wind energy is a different business)
Every form of backbone in existence costs the same idling as it does running full tilt. Thats not true, this is a difference, its just so small that its really not worth mentioning as you probably can't detect that power difference (on the network infrastructure gear) in the facebook data center, let alone anyone smaller.
If you have 100 million cable modem subscribers using the Internet for an hour a day (at the same time) it costs the EXACT same as if none of them use it at all that day, or if they all use it constantly all day.
Both companies have to pay to install infrastructure, the cost is more or less identical between the two.
I pay more on a normal month for cable than power. I pay more for something that has no consumables than I do for the product that has a consumable, the power usage for providing the bandwidth doesn't count, its far too small to count. Power companies are also required to be fair and charge fair prices, they have to ask the government to make changes, and they government can and does say no.
Comparing bandwidth providers to power companies is roughly like comparing pirating an mp3 of brittney spears to kidnapping her and forcing her to sing at your daughters birthday party. Its a fucking retarded comparison to make.