If you honestly think it would take "weeks" to write any of those apps in Java, then maybe it's best you do stick to basic.
It sounds like he was saying that his applications included a web browser, email client, contacts database, file searching tools, and an image viewer. Not that his applications were a web browser, email client, contacts database, file searching tools, and an image viewer.
What amazes me is that someone actually paid you for any of these apps, since they're all freely available in many different forms already - and probably a lot more robust than your 4 hour VB efforts...
People need custom software all of the time. Sure, they could use 5 different open source programs, and write several small scripts to do various tasks for them. Although, sometimes it's easier to just have 1 app that does it all. Then if you're going to go with 1 app, and you don't need the speed of a low level programming language, sometimes it's more appealing to save time and money by having it developed quickly in a language that can be easily maintained. (So not only does it save you time and money now, but when you want to add a feature, it will cost you much less and get done quicker)
Its kind of like they broke into the bank vault and counted the money, put it back, and returned home.
That's a terrible analogy. They were only able to view information about themselves, regarding their future. They were not in a position that enabled them to steal someone elses future or money, or even view someone else's future. They also did not "break" anything, they simply entered a URL on Harvard's site that wasn't linked from the main page. A better analogy would be a kid peeking in the closet to see if he's going to get some new toy he wants for x-mas.
Actually, the wifi cafe should still have copies of netnanny available for their customers with wifi laptops/pdas who don't have an account at any ISP.
> > I should point out that you shouldn't respond to spam under ANY circumstances - it just verifies to the spammer that your address exists.
> Wouldn't they know if your email address is good by the fact that it wasn't rejected as an invalid address?
It verifies that the user has read the spam. There are a lot of old inactivate email addresses on the web, which still exist but are never read. This way the spammer knows that their spam is actually being viewed by a user, and not just wasting space in an inbox.
You just contradicted yourself. Using a speedhack is not coding. Neither is using some hack you downloaded off the web. That's why these people are lamers. Most of them don't even know what hacking is, and couldn't even code Hello World if their life depended on it.
1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic nightmare of the not so distant future holds as much power now as it did fifty years ago. The book shows what a government placed in complete control would do to maintain its power. The story is based on one man's struggle against himself and the vast web of deception spread over most of the world.
The novel 1984 is centered on Winston Smith, an average, middle-aged man who is living his life in the city of London. London is a part of Oceania, a vast superpower controlling a third of the world. The Party, an oppressive, totalitarian government, governs Oceania and promotes itself through propaganda, censorship, and thought control. The population is controlled by Big Brother, an immense network of cameras covering all of Oceania. The cameras are fixed in the walls of every room, of every house, on every road, in every city of the whole country. All of the cameras are monitored, every minute of every day. Every gesture, twitch, or involuntary movement is intently scrutinized for signs of criminal activities, possible rebelliousness, or internal conflict. It is not uncommon for people to simply disappear without a trace, never to be seen again. As Winston goes through his day-to-day life, the reader becomes increasingly aware of the horrors of his current society and of the terrible atrocities of the government.
There's a big difference between something existing in a place that's easy to find, and something that destroys a method of communication so that it can force me to repeatedly view shitty ads of the same products at my expense.
Forcing people to indentify themselves isn't going to halt spam. It doesn't stop junkmail in your USPS mailbox, does it? It never kept phone solicitors from calling you, did it?
It's not supposed to halt it. Although it will throttle it, as well as allow us to identify it. Spammers send out thousands of spam emails per second without paying a dime. I have yet to see any phone solicitors or printers/postal services that can send spam that fast, or that cheap.
You mean the ones with the fat guy installing the dish and giving an evil laugh whenever he's asked about the service. I found those commercials rather amusing.
You can use a KVM Extender to set the keyboard, mouse, and monitor several rooms away from the computer. Many of them also do serial, audio, and usb. Just get one that uses Cat5 cable between the transmitter and receiver.
Ah, and DirectX is sufficient for anything not developed specifically for it? How that? Does it an analysis of the binary, followed of an automatic rewrite to use DirectX?
No, but there are a lot more major games written specifically for DirectX than there are for SDL.
then it's entirely possible that the logs were changed, showing that there was no inbound hacking activity to my clients computer when infact their computer was being used to relay spam and to download music and make it look like it's their fault.
They are providing proof of their claims. Where is yours? If a defense like that actually worked, you could never be convicted of a crime. ("The evidence room only has 1 key, right? Has a lock ever been picked?", "Has the witness ever told a white lie?", etc)
Why would someone spend that much time and resources obtaining write access to an ISP's logs just to download MP3s? That's pretty irrational behavior for someone who would know how to disable sharing on their own machine. Personally, I think you'd have better luck trying to argue that the lawn gnomes did it.
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Isn't there supposed to be an article with this?
"No, he's saying people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."
People who live in rubber houses shouldn't either.
Why not? It's non-destructive, and they may even learn something. (ex. flying rock == pain)
If you honestly think it would take "weeks" to write any of those apps in Java, then maybe it's best you do stick to basic.
It sounds like he was saying that his applications included a web browser, email client, contacts database, file searching tools, and an image viewer. Not that his applications were a web browser, email client, contacts database, file searching tools, and an image viewer.
What amazes me is that someone actually paid you for any of these apps, since they're all freely available in many different forms already - and probably a lot more robust than your 4 hour VB efforts...
People need custom software all of the time. Sure, they could use 5 different open source programs, and write several small scripts to do various tasks for them. Although, sometimes it's easier to just have 1 app that does it all. Then if you're going to go with 1 app, and you don't need the speed of a low level programming language, sometimes it's more appealing to save time and money by having it developed quickly in a language that can be easily maintained. (So not only does it save you time and money now, but when you want to add a feature, it will cost you much less and get done quicker)
Its kind of like they broke into the bank vault and counted the money, put it back, and returned home.
That's a terrible analogy. They were only able to view information about themselves, regarding their future. They were not in a position that enabled them to steal someone elses future or money, or even view someone else's future. They also did not "break" anything, they simply entered a URL on Harvard's site that wasn't linked from the main page. A better analogy would be a kid peeking in the closet to see if he's going to get some new toy he wants for x-mas.
Actually, the wifi cafe should still have copies of netnanny available for their customers with wifi laptops/pdas who don't have an account at any ISP.
There's an argument that MMORPGs cost more to develop due to the fact that it's a networked game.
You're forgetting that most games have 1 story, and maybe some deviations. An MMORPG has to have a shitload of intertwined stories.
Surely they should be scrambling to get players any way they can.
They don't want more players right now, since the servers are overloaded. That's why they stopped selling it.
> > I should point out that you shouldn't respond to spam under ANY circumstances - it just verifies to the spammer that your address exists.
> Wouldn't they know if your email address is good by the fact that it wasn't rejected as an invalid address?
It verifies that the user has read the spam. There are a lot of old inactivate email addresses on the web, which still exist but are never read. This way the spammer knows that their spam is actually being viewed by a user, and not just wasting space in an inbox.
You just contradicted yourself. Using a speedhack is not coding. Neither is using some hack you downloaded off the web. That's why these people are lamers. Most of them don't even know what hacking is, and couldn't even code Hello World if their life depended on it.
At least his abuse is retaliatory, and not for personal gain.
They shouldn't cost too much. Digimaster is making the SD/USB cards for $30/$40(128MB/256MB).
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Home school group might be interested, but in my experiences the kids being home schooled lack many fundamental social skills...
In my experience, most kids interested in IT already lack many fundamental social skills.
Someone mod this up! This is a serious issue that should be checked into!
Slashdotted already? And only a couple posts...
1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic nightmare of the not so distant future holds as much power now as it did fifty years ago. The book shows what a government placed in complete control would do to maintain its power. The story is based on one man's struggle against himself and the vast web of deception spread over most of the world.
The novel 1984 is centered on Winston Smith, an average, middle-aged man who is living his life in the city of London. London is a part of Oceania, a vast superpower controlling a third of the world. The Party, an oppressive, totalitarian government, governs Oceania and promotes itself through propaganda, censorship, and thought control. The population is controlled by Big Brother, an immense network of cameras covering all of Oceania. The cameras are fixed in the walls of every room, of every house, on every road, in every city of the whole country. All of the cameras are monitored, every minute of every day. Every gesture, twitch, or involuntary movement is intently scrutinized for signs of criminal activities, possible rebelliousness, or internal conflict. It is not uncommon for people to simply disappear without a trace, never to be seen again. As Winston goes through his day-to-day life, the reader becomes increasingly aware of the horrors of his current society and of the terrible atrocities of the government.
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Did the FCC have any control over Iraq during the gulf war?
There's a big difference between something existing in a place that's easy to find, and something that destroys a method of communication so that it can force me to repeatedly view shitty ads of the same products at my expense.
Forcing people to indentify themselves isn't going to halt spam. It doesn't stop junkmail in your USPS mailbox, does it? It never kept phone solicitors from calling you, did it?
It's not supposed to halt it. Although it will throttle it, as well as allow us to identify it. Spammers send out thousands of spam emails per second without paying a dime. I have yet to see any phone solicitors or printers/postal services that can send spam that fast, or that cheap.
Now if only you knew proper 1337-speak spelling, grammar and punctuation....
I wouldn't encourage that...
You mean the ones with the fat guy installing the dish and giving an evil laugh whenever he's asked about the service. I found those commercials rather amusing.
and Bill has...well, he's kind of like the Mario from Super Mario Bros. 2...well rounded?
I too would like to see Bill Gates trying to jump on everyone's head.
So like Jerry Springer, but with geeks?
Linus! Linus! Linus!
That would be an interesting show.
"I have something that I have to tell you... Remember that week I said I went on vacation to Vegas? Well, the truth is I installed Windows..."
I wonder what they would do for the PPV-Only Uncensored episodes.
You can use a KVM Extender to set the keyboard, mouse, and monitor several rooms away from the computer. Many of them also do serial, audio, and usb. Just get one that uses Cat5 cable between the transmitter and receiver.
Ah, and DirectX is sufficient for anything not developed specifically for it? How that? Does it an analysis of the binary, followed of an automatic rewrite to use DirectX?
No, but there are a lot more major games written specifically for DirectX than there are for SDL.
then it's entirely possible that the logs were changed, showing that there was no inbound hacking activity to my clients computer when infact their computer was being used to relay spam and to download music and make it look like it's their fault.
They are providing proof of their claims. Where is yours? If a defense like that actually worked, you could never be convicted of a crime. ("The evidence room only has 1 key, right? Has a lock ever been picked?", "Has the witness ever told a white lie?", etc)
Why would someone spend that much time and resources obtaining write access to an ISP's logs just to download MP3s? That's pretty irrational behavior for someone who would know how to disable sharing on their own machine. Personally, I think you'd have better luck trying to argue that the lawn gnomes did it.