I would love to have the oppertunity to watch lectures on pay-per-view. I bet it might even be cheaper per lesson than to pay for the course. Plus, you could watch it while in your pajama's.
I live in the USA and I have watched as tuition rates have increased over the past 15 years. I think what this university in Germany is going is very smart. This will increase interest in science and physics. People from the college community will wander into the lectures and listen to professors speak about black holes and quarks. It might inspire a few people to learn more. Meanwhile, in the USA, students will have to find new ways to make money to go to college. Not for inspiration, but as another step needed to get a good job.
Maybe I am way off in thinking from the status quo, but I believe universities have a responsibility to inspire students, not just "sell a product". I believe this because what happens to people during their college time effects all of society, not just the student. The imagination and creativity of these graduates will determine how much we advance with space exploration, computers, and all sorts of technologies. These new graduates just have to dream it. Just look at the past 40 years, and what graduates have accomplished. Good for the physics faculty to have this lecture marithon. I bet they will be helping themselves recruit more students.
I had a one-year contract with Sprint. They were so nice when selling me the phone, telling me how crystal clear the sound is. But then I started to recieve low signal stregnth where I live, and they promised that my area was covered. So I could not make calls from my home without getting a "roaming" fee. So I locked out roaming on my cell phone and the cell phone stopped working half the time.
I called customer service, and after 1 hour of waiting on hold, was told they would look into it and call me back. They never did. Next time I called customer service I was on hold for hours, until my battery was drained. Sprint just does not give a damn about customers.
Sprint has the WORST customer service for its customers. They treat people like crap.
Free speech is the most important thing in this country, and the right to say fucked-up things is more important than whether your kid gets fucked-up* for listening when you didn't shield him.
I would say that what is important is how well we live. We live and learn and change. Free Speech is important, when it is about politics or society or science. Free speech is not important when it is something which can do no good, and is only designed for harm. Just like you can not yell "Fire" in a crowded theater. You know it will cause an immediate harmful reaction. What is changing is legislatures and courts are deciding that the damage does not have to be immediate for them to forbid certain kinds of speech. And I would once again add that this prohabition is for children not to have access to adult games. This in no way stops adults from accessing adult games.
It all comes down to how a society wants to live. Those are the choices being made. You may believe it is stupid for someone to give up a "right", but I would ask how is that right serving us?
You are wrong. The bill of rights only applies to adults, not children (for the most part). Kids do not have the right to bear arms, or the right of freedom to assembly. There is no free speech right for children either. The courts know that kids lack the experiance to make the best choices for themselves. Amen.
People are what they experiance. Crap in = Crap out. It is not right to force feed this crud down the throats of kids, which is what the game advertisers do. How much money do these game companies want to make off the well being of kids? How about teaching kids something worthwhile in games, like team play in real sports? At least with sports, they will be contributing to their health.
Yes. Believe it or not, most of our advanced math is based on theory from what we observer and see from physics and astronomy and the sciences. We make guesses and test those guesses over and over. It would be nice to see if they hold up elsewhere, not just on earth. Read some superstring theory for more info.
In September, the United States returned to Honduras a Moon rock that President Richard M. Nixon gave the country in 1973, but that was later stolen and ended up with a dealer in Miami. Last year, three interns at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston stole a safe containing Moon rocks valued at $2.5 million to $7 million. The three pleaded guilty to the theft, and a conspirator, who offered the rocks for sale on the Internet, was convicted at a trial in June.
Why do break in's always have Nixon's name somewhere in the paragraph?
If this guy has over 50k to blow on a rock, he will have the money to go to the moon too. I would bet money he is an active supporter of space programs and exploration. We need more people like him.
I think it will be overpriced. I believe the day is comming when we will all be able to take tours of the moon and mars. I believe the space program is most important for all people. What is out there in space? Are we alone? How did the universe form? Are our physics and math in a vacum of how they work on earth, like a lillypop in a lake? These are all valid questions about our exsistance. Sure, let the rich people pave the way by purchasing a novelty or trinket at an expensive price. Hopefully, these kinds of sales will spark interest in space exploration, and everyone will benifit.
Who will return money to the consumer for those overpriced CD's? There was a monopoly. Now people can make their own CD's and that is what scares the stuffing out of these corporations.
I agree with you that people have a right to copywrites. But we also have laws against monopolies and price fixing. It all comes down to "us" getting even with "them".
Did someone forget to tell the kid they sue? He knew what he was doing. They should change the laws so kids can not be sued, instead the parents should be sued. That would stop illegal music sharing. But then the poor kid would not have the PC in the bedroom to look at porn. It is all being done to ruin the lives of kids. Imagine if when you were 15 some corporation caused your parents to check out what poker game you were playing on that CGA monitor. EGA if you were a rich basturd.
While I am on my soapbox let me have a rant. Why is it a CD costs so much money when they cost less than a nickle when purchased in spindles of 100? How much money from each CD goes to the artist? How much goes to Sony and the label?
None of what I am writing means anything. There is the way the world is, and we can do nothing to change it. Our opinion is meaningless. Vote? Sure, for the guy PAC's a-m paid or PAC's n-z paid? My interest is being represented?
How about this for an idea. Music is a way of sharing ideas. The USA is about free exchange of ideas. Music can sometimes make you see things in a different way. At least Bob Marley did that for me.
I am just saying that because of these activities, we will all lose freedom. I am positive the day is comming when there will not be any more aninimity on the web.
I think we need to instal more "monitoring" software in library's and colleges, and have video tapes of who uses the pc's so the legal authorities can start making some arrests.
It does not matter who YOU would want to exploit the security hole unless you own the systems. If it is your software or system, then you can allow anyone to do anything they wish. The point is if someone else owns it, then nobody has any right to be poking around.
Your second point "that it is illegal doesn't carry much weight" will be addressed by law makers once they start passing very tough laws. If these activities are effecting buisnesses, I can assure you they have lobby groups to make sure tougher laws get passed. And when it happens, I am sure there will be an outcry when the first Comp Sci student goes to jail for running a sniffer on someone else's network.
Personally, I can not understand why a hacker wants to tinker with other people's property and bandwith. The "good" hackers will one day be the Admins who will have to deel with the next generation of script kiddies who make their life a living hell, and cause them to get paged at 10pm.
Companies should be allowed to install horrible software filled with security holes and people should not break into these systems. The corporations own these software packages, and the hacker has no rights. If compuetr science students think they will get more money by extorting these companies so they pay more for administrators, then that is extortion. When you get down to it, this is no different than a criminal breaking and entering into someones house, then saying "the owner left his door unlocked, i was helping improve security". I think we must have strong sentances where convicted hackers go to prision for as many years as if they broke into a home.
What you see happening is what will cause more restrictions on freedom in an attempt to control illegal activity.
''That's not fraud,'' he said. ''If it was fraud, the company wouldn't make any money.'' When I tried to pursue this suddenly slippery definition of fraud, he quickly added, defensively, ''The only sex product I sell is the penis-enlargement pill.''
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Back in Colbert's mobile home, I ask my spammer guru if he is feeling nervous, now that Congress is in the market for a few high-profile public hangings. Doesn't he fear that Orson Swindle might soon have him in an orange jumpsuit and shackles, doing a prime-time perp walk? ''Congress is full of idiots,'' he notes succinctly. Colbert says he doesn't believe that a strategy of going after a few kingpins will accomplish anything. Politicians will gain some publicity, but in the process, he argues, they will drive smaller operators further underground. ''Spammers will just use even more deceptive practices to keep from getting shut down,'' he says.
This guy is an idiot. That is the problem with the USA, anyone will do anything for money. There is no ethics at all. It is all self justificating.
The software monitors which e-mails are returned and tabulates their status. When an ''out of the office'' auto-reply comes back on one e-mail message, Colbert says: ''Oh, we love those. They confirm that the address is active.'' Within six minutes, on a single computer, running through a regular phone line, I have fired off 1,000 e-mail messages.
This sucks, for a spammer to take a tool that we use for work, and find a way to misuse it.
Is there any way to set auto-reply's to only send notices to emails on a specific domain, and not respond to any others?
What is wrong with having a process where people can appeal to the Attorney General of their state to have their lawfull site unbanned. I think the state has to combat child porn. If you are worried that the state will overstep its right and abuse those powers, then the media will tell us and we will vote them out of power.
I disagree. People can always write to the Attorney General and appeal that they are not a child porn site. I would say even if 10% of the sites which are blokced are not child porn, then that is acceptable. What is not acceptable is doing nothing.
I also think states must work together to track down the providers of child porn and arrest and jail these scumbags. They should be forced to go to jail.
It ought to be illegal and the CEO's of those companies should go to jail. People wonder why the USA is hated? Everyone needs a lawyer to explain to them what is in Paragraph 5 subsection C, and if that part invalidates the UCC section 107. But I guess it all depends on the choice of jurisdiction, unless that is covered in the EULA, unless local ordinances forbid it. Do you understand? I say Fuck the software companies.
You are an idiot. It is true. Look at Real Player. By the time you figure out what data they collect and send, it is too late to do anything. And they purposfully give you a two pages with unchecked boxes about collecting data, but if you go three pages down you see boxes checked about them monitoring you and collecting data. Tell me they did not do that on purpose. You are an asshole for modding it down. I do not care.
Plus, PC's are supposed to be about ease of use. What is easy about searching for a control panel on some software which was burried so you can disable data collection.
How can you make a choice when they hide what you are getting? Look at Real Media if you do not understand. Do you want your "MP3 player" sending info to some website about what you listen to, but not telling you unless you look for it under preferances-->tools-->settings-->hidden-->secret-- >we'reassholes-->nochanges-->readonly?
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I would love to have the oppertunity to watch lectures on pay-per-view. I bet it might even be cheaper per lesson than to pay for the course. Plus, you could watch it while in your pajama's.
Maybe I am way off in thinking from the status quo, but I believe universities have a responsibility to inspire students, not just "sell a product". I believe this because what happens to people during their college time effects all of society, not just the student. The imagination and creativity of these graduates will determine how much we advance with space exploration, computers, and all sorts of technologies. These new graduates just have to dream it. Just look at the past 40 years, and what graduates have accomplished. Good for the physics faculty to have this lecture marithon. I bet they will be helping themselves recruit more students.
I called customer service, and after 1 hour of waiting on hold, was told they would look into it and call me back. They never did. Next time I called customer service I was on hold for hours, until my battery was drained. Sprint just does not give a damn about customers.
Sprint has the WORST customer service for its customers. They treat people like crap.
I would say that what is important is how well we live. We live and learn and change. Free Speech is important, when it is about politics or society or science. Free speech is not important when it is something which can do no good, and is only designed for harm. Just like you can not yell "Fire" in a crowded theater. You know it will cause an immediate harmful reaction. What is changing is legislatures and courts are deciding that the damage does not have to be immediate for them to forbid certain kinds of speech. And I would once again add that this prohabition is for children not to have access to adult games. This in no way stops adults from accessing adult games.
It all comes down to how a society wants to live. Those are the choices being made. You may believe it is stupid for someone to give up a "right", but I would ask how is that right serving us?
You are wrong. The bill of rights only applies to adults, not children (for the most part). Kids do not have the right to bear arms, or the right of freedom to assembly. There is no free speech right for children either. The courts know that kids lack the experiance to make the best choices for themselves. Amen.
People are what they experiance. Crap in = Crap out. It is not right to force feed this crud down the throats of kids, which is what the game advertisers do. How much money do these game companies want to make off the well being of kids? How about teaching kids something worthwhile in games, like team play in real sports? At least with sports, they will be contributing to their health.
Yes. Believe it or not, most of our advanced math is based on theory from what we observer and see from physics and astronomy and the sciences. We make guesses and test those guesses over and over. It would be nice to see if they hold up elsewhere, not just on earth. Read some superstring theory for more info.
Why do break in's always have Nixon's name somewhere in the paragraph?
If this guy has over 50k to blow on a rock, he will have the money to go to the moon too. I would bet money he is an active supporter of space programs and exploration. We need more people like him.
I think it will be overpriced. I believe the day is comming when we will all be able to take tours of the moon and mars. I believe the space program is most important for all people. What is out there in space? Are we alone? How did the universe form? Are our physics and math in a vacum of how they work on earth, like a lillypop in a lake? These are all valid questions about our exsistance. Sure, let the rich people pave the way by purchasing a novelty or trinket at an expensive price. Hopefully, these kinds of sales will spark interest in space exploration, and everyone will benifit.
Who will return money to the consumer for those overpriced CD's? There was a monopoly. Now people can make their own CD's and that is what scares the stuffing out of these corporations.
I agree with you that people have a right to copywrites. But we also have laws against monopolies and price fixing. It all comes down to "us" getting even with "them".
Here comes my flaimbait to start a flame war.
Did someone forget to tell the kid they sue? He knew what he was doing. They should change the laws so kids can not be sued, instead the parents should be sued. That would stop illegal music sharing. But then the poor kid would not have the PC in the bedroom to look at porn. It is all being done to ruin the lives of kids. Imagine if when you were 15 some corporation caused your parents to check out what poker game you were playing on that CGA monitor. EGA if you were a rich basturd.
While I am on my soapbox let me have a rant. Why is it a CD costs so much money when they cost less than a nickle when purchased in spindles of 100? How much money from each CD goes to the artist? How much goes to Sony and the label?
None of what I am writing means anything. There is the way the world is, and we can do nothing to change it. Our opinion is meaningless. Vote? Sure, for the guy PAC's a-m paid or PAC's n-z paid? My interest is being represented?
How about this for an idea. Music is a way of sharing ideas. The USA is about free exchange of ideas. Music can sometimes make you see things in a different way. At least Bob Marley did that for me.
I think we need to instal more "monitoring" software in library's and colleges, and have video tapes of who uses the pc's so the legal authorities can start making some arrests.
Your second point "that it is illegal doesn't carry much weight" will be addressed by law makers once they start passing very tough laws. If these activities are effecting buisnesses, I can assure you they have lobby groups to make sure tougher laws get passed. And when it happens, I am sure there will be an outcry when the first Comp Sci student goes to jail for running a sniffer on someone else's network.
Personally, I can not understand why a hacker wants to tinker with other people's property and bandwith. The "good" hackers will one day be the Admins who will have to deel with the next generation of script kiddies who make their life a living hell, and cause them to get paged at 10pm.
What you see happening is what will cause more restrictions on freedom in an attempt to control illegal activity.
I can imagine nerdy teens in front of their PC: "Computer, locate a hot busty blond with ass dimples. Transport her image to holodeck #3"
You are wrong. Look at enron and every other company that robs the working class. Go screw yourself with a hundred dollar bill.
and...
Back in Colbert's mobile home, I ask my spammer guru if he is feeling nervous, now that Congress is in the market for a few high-profile public hangings. Doesn't he fear that Orson Swindle might soon have him in an orange jumpsuit and shackles, doing a prime-time perp walk? ''Congress is full of idiots,'' he notes succinctly. Colbert says he doesn't believe that a strategy of going after a few kingpins will accomplish anything. Politicians will gain some publicity, but in the process, he argues, they will drive smaller operators further underground. ''Spammers will just use even more deceptive practices to keep from getting shut down,'' he says.
This guy is an idiot. That is the problem with the USA, anyone will do anything for money. There is no ethics at all. It is all self justificating.
This sucks, for a spammer to take a tool that we use for work, and find a way to misuse it.
Is there any way to set auto-reply's to only send notices to emails on a specific domain, and not respond to any others?
What is wrong with having a process where people can appeal to the Attorney General of their state to have their lawfull site unbanned. I think the state has to combat child porn. If you are worried that the state will overstep its right and abuse those powers, then the media will tell us and we will vote them out of power.
What is the differance? Does a commonwealth lack powers a state has?
I also think states must work together to track down the providers of child porn and arrest and jail these scumbags. They should be forced to go to jail.
It ought to be illegal and the CEO's of those companies should go to jail. People wonder why the USA is hated? Everyone needs a lawyer to explain to them what is in Paragraph 5 subsection C, and if that part invalidates the UCC section 107. But I guess it all depends on the choice of jurisdiction, unless that is covered in the EULA, unless local ordinances forbid it. Do you understand? I say Fuck the software companies.
You are an idiot. It is true. Look at Real Player. By the time you figure out what data they collect and send, it is too late to do anything. And they purposfully give you a two pages with unchecked boxes about collecting data, but if you go three pages down you see boxes checked about them monitoring you and collecting data. Tell me they did not do that on purpose. You are an asshole for modding it down. I do not care. Plus, PC's are supposed to be about ease of use. What is easy about searching for a control panel on some software which was burried so you can disable data collection.
How can you make a choice when they hide what you are getting? Look at Real Media if you do not understand. Do you want your "MP3 player" sending info to some website about what you listen to, but not telling you unless you look for it under preferances-->tools-->settings-->hidden-->secret-- >we'reassholes-->nochanges-->readonly?