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If you dont see that the "useful" comment was humor, you need to have your fun-o-meter checked;)
Not everything has to be useful, that was the point of the comment. It has long been argued that if something has a purpose other than being art, then it cannot be art.
Yeah, that is a special case for non-free services.
What you pay when you receive these text is not a charge by the phone company for delivery but a service charge from the provider of the service in question. That distinction is important.
As I understand it from conversations with american friends, if you used such a dating site and it cost 1 USD per message received from the service, that would be 1 USD + provider charge (1 sms off your balance or 0.05USD or somesuch).
So no, we do not pay for being delivered a text, but companies CAN charge our cellphone plan for services. Like buying facebook credits... *shudders*
And as usual, the legislation is quite strick and scary looking to a lot of corporations.
And I suspect the usual thing will happen, as with cell-phone calls across borders within the EU...
The companies will fix the issue to make the law unneeded to avoid the huge mess the law would create. This is a motivator for a lot of corporations to take a second look at what they're doing. The advertising corporations must be monitoring this and realize that they cant just harvest all they can with no regard for any privacy concern or the hammer -will- come down.
I doubt the law will ever come into play unless there is yet another major privacy breach to spur it.
It is trying to stop abuse happening through tracking with cookies. There really isnt any technical way to fix this without breaking or inconveniencing a lot of people.
Bad situations make for bad laws. I agree that it would be a bad idea in its present form, but dismissing the intention behind it is not.
Our section of Norway (called a "Fylke", we're split into 19 of the buggers) Rogaland went to a citrix solution for all high schools. Quite a few thousand users at the same time:p
Net send was enabled on the cluster...... Passwords were all numeric 9 digits, and they were generated in 30 address batches. No class has 30 students, max is really 27 or so... so 3 usernames at LEAST per class were "blank" in taht we could get hold of the password and use it for anon access *inno*
Bat file::teehee net send * CHEEEESE! goto teehee
Start on the cluster, kill the citrix app (leaving the bat file running, as only a proper logoff would kill apps)...
The whole fecking cluster went down... We assumed it would spam a bit, but not that it would bring the whole thing down:p
1. Add time trigger to make the app only access bad stuff after a certain date or have it fetch a trigger from some server... 2. Turn over binary to apple. 3. Get verified. 4. flip switch 5. ??? 6. Profit?
You cant address it. If you try you get swamped with the "homg unpatriotic" or "homg americahater" (if you're foreign:p) accusations.
To a large part of the world the US is now a train speeding towards a ravine. There is a small stopper that will prevent a catastrophe but only if the train slows down enough before hitting it...
When discussing the issues of society and trying to find solutions becomes a "danger" or "unpatriotic" you have a whole lot more problems than a few kids being kicked out of school for doing something stupid:(
I'd love to see this case as I usually do when postings on the net blow up...
But come on. Posting that someone is a pedophile or rapist (FTFA) is way beyond just mere "stupid" or "expressing yourself".
Being one of the kids who was bullied quite a lot in school, and had quite a lot of hate towards some of the teachers... I wouldnt do this kind of shit. Come on... it will just bite you in the ass...
10-day suspension is a bit much, 2-3 days would be plenty to send a strong signal that this is not accepted behavior. I guess the teacher in question could file on the issue too if he wants.
Here in Norway this would most likely be handled like a legal case between the teacher and student. Unless these posts were made while the kids were AT SCHOOL the school rules and regulations do not apply. The law does however which is the right way to go in my eyes.
And I say this as the child of a middle-school teacher and a kindergarden teacher... They both work they arse off and get very little other than shit for it... meh
That is an unfortunate thing, but then I guess you'll have to take a crappy job while gaining that sort of experience through private projects.
There is a lot of things you can do without it costing a whole lot.
Look at Texas Instrument's testing kits... you get a kit with two microcontrollers, usb cable and software/IDE for 4.3 bucks... If you cant afford that.. you're fucked.
Not saying it is a perfect solution to anything, but there are a lot of options.
"If the candidate has a college degree they will at least be proficient in acquiring new skills and know how to solve problems".
This of course is highly dependent on the college degree in question and the college providing said degree.... From all the conversations I've had with friends attending US colleges and universities this idea has largely become shot to hell through the way the courses are run. Critical thinking and problem solving skills are no longer valued. Only being able to do the narrow scope of getting a good grade is valued or taught. This makes me think that innovation and productivity in general will suffer immensely in the next 10 years...
I have a bachelor of science in automations. A mix of electronics, programming and general system design. I would estimate that at LEAST 20% of my college classes were in subjects not strictly part of the final exams or evaluations. While we did not have specific classes in problem solving we had quite a lot of lab work where problems came up all the time. Mostly we figured it out ourselves over the course of a few hours... Then shared the lessons with the rest as the lab-work was quite social with us all sitting in a too-small lab;) Nobody "competed" for the best result, mostly we did what we could to get everyone else through the material too, because we knew that the next time we were stuck we would have someone to ask for help. This kind of teamwork is quite lacking in many new students now.... Ugh...
Make college about learning and growing as people instead of a 'dead' 3-5 years of droning towards a degree.
I'm hungry and grumpy... so I will go cook some dinner and stop ranting:p
Then again, hitting the ground running just mean you stumble or fall on your face and have to get back up:p
Regardless of who you hire there will be a ramp-up period of the productivity as the new person has to learn procedures and such of his new place of work.
I can go out to a site and do a simple modification of the control system easy enough using common sense.... but I'd be shot by the staff at the site as I would have broken safety protocols:p
Learning the surrounding requirements of procedures and documentation usually eat up the productivity for the first few weeks if not longer:(
And that right there is how you knock the rest of the candidates the hell off the table:p
Personally I do a lot of stuff on my free time that I find interesting. Before exiting college (bachelor of science, automation) I had already run a linux based server for 4 years. It had about 30 users of various proxy services and shell accounts. I ran a Wiki for an online game (MUD) and various other such projects. I have built a myriad of microcontroller projects and learned a shitton through those projects.
All this counts when you can talk about it in an interview. Being able to point to an URL and show what you've done can be quite helpful. I maintain project pages on my server for the stuff I do and it has been helpful in the past.
The idea that you cant accumulate "work experience" without a job is silly. Volunteer for stuff. Hell volunteer to help maintain the site of the local Scout chapter or somesuch. Gain some karma while you gain experience;)
Then again I've only been to 4 interviews in my life, and all 4 netted me a job offer... YAY:D
Because being at the school was a living hell due to the harassment issues....
Fuck, I'm still in therapy and I'm twenty-fecking-seven....
Judging someone solely on not showing up to school is asinine. I'd rather the school actually pay attention to what goes on before gps-tracking is thought to fix anything... Personally I do not think any amount of technology will fix the issue of some kids skipping school...
Meh to it all
(Oh, and I have a job building control systems for the oil biz these days. Cant say I'm damaged all that much by being away from school that much...:p)
Hey, the alternative is always saying "ah fuck it" and just download the sucker of [insert generic torrent site].
The problem with most games I buy outside steam or other platforms like it is that the DRM goes bonkers on my machine... Why? Because I have software installed to let me play the games with broken DRM which does not work in win7...
Blacklisting software to avoid piracy is so cute. Do they really expect it to work?:p
I dont pay VAT for online purchases when I shop anywhere else... so why exactly is this a valid excuse for doing a currency hack?
I would be fine with them charging a little more for european distribution if it was not so incredibly "convenient" that it is 1USD==1EUR in the store and they actually said WHY they do it. Other than "we figured we could make more money this way".
Personally I am less annoyed by the performance and more annoyed with their shitty region-locking...
If you live in the US game X costs 19.99 USD.... If you live in Europe, the game costs... wait for it.... 19.99 Euro...
1 Euro = 1.3556 U.S. dollars (today's rate on google) So, they want me to pay 27.10 USD for the same game due to the region I am in.
I am sorry Valve, but I'll be buying the game for 19.99 in another online store thankyouverymuch. For years I have spent money on Steam buying my games but I now limit my buying to promotions that are actually cheaper than the competition.
"I creates images which pass validation without the explicit permission of Sony. This would circumvent the protection."
I personally dont agree that the code should be any kind of illegal, but I do see Sony's side of it and I hope the courts will come down on the side of the consumer and not Sony.
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If you dont see that the "useful" comment was humor, you need to have your fun-o-meter checked ;)
Not everything has to be useful, that was the point of the comment. It has long been argued that if something has a purpose other than being art, then it cannot be art.
Common practice in academia.
I dont see the problem with making sure the constants are well documented.
I'd link you a trollface but I cant be arsed :p
They're artsy types. Having it be useful would defile their hipster image :p
I like the technology, but to me it amounts to nothing but "Heh, cool concept." and I dont care beyond that.
OpenSignal has a map like what you describe for cell coverage. Installing the free app lets you contribute data too :)
Not sure if it has wifi?
Um... you mean you dont see the number of whoever is calling by default without PAYING for it?....
All Norwegian cell service providers have had that feature (for free..) since the days of the first GSM phones...
Yeah, that is a special case for non-free services.
What you pay when you receive these text is not a charge by the phone company for delivery but a service charge from the provider of the service in question. That distinction is important.
As I understand it from conversations with american friends, if you used such a dating site and it cost 1 USD per message received from the service, that would be 1 USD + provider charge (1 sms off your balance or 0.05USD or somesuch).
So no, we do not pay for being delivered a text, but companies CAN charge our cellphone plan for services. Like buying facebook credits... *shudders*
In Europe you do not get charged in any way for receiving text messages.
You do not pay anything to receive calls either...
You pay to send messages to people and you get charged for calling, but not for receiving.
Komisk nok kan jo mye av det som står skrevet her knapt nok kategoriseres som "engelsk" og mer "bokstavrører skrevet av fulle lemmen".
(Norwegian :p)
And as usual, the legislation is quite strick and scary looking to a lot of corporations.
And I suspect the usual thing will happen, as with cell-phone calls across borders within the EU...
The companies will fix the issue to make the law unneeded to avoid the huge mess the law would create. This is a motivator for a lot of corporations to take a second look at what they're doing. The advertising corporations must be monitoring this and realize that they cant just harvest all they can with no regard for any privacy concern or the hammer -will- come down.
I doubt the law will ever come into play unless there is yet another major privacy breach to spur it.
Yes it is a piece of crap legislation. Why?
It is trying to stop abuse happening through tracking with cookies. There really isnt any technical way to fix this without breaking or inconveniencing a lot of people.
Bad situations make for bad laws. I agree that it would be a bad idea in its present form, but dismissing the intention behind it is not.
*cough*
Net send is hilarious.
Our section of Norway (called a "Fylke", we're split into 19 of the buggers) Rogaland went to a citrix solution for all high schools. :p
Quite a few thousand users at the same time
Net send was enabled on the cluster......
Passwords were all numeric 9 digits, and they were generated in 30 address batches. No class has 30 students, max is really 27 or so... so 3 usernames at LEAST per class were "blank" in taht we could get hold of the password and use it for anon access *inno*
Bat file: :teehee
net send * CHEEEESE!
goto teehee
Start on the cluster, kill the citrix app (leaving the bat file running, as only a proper logoff would kill apps)...
The whole fecking cluster went down... We assumed it would spam a bit, but not that it would bring the whole thing down :p
They removed net send *cough*
1. Add time trigger to make the app only access bad stuff after a certain date or have it fetch a trigger from some server...
2. Turn over binary to apple.
3. Get verified.
4. flip switch
5. ???
6. Profit?
You cant address it. If you try you get swamped with the "homg unpatriotic" or "homg americahater" (if you're foreign :p) accusations.
To a large part of the world the US is now a train speeding towards a ravine. There is a small stopper that will prevent a catastrophe but only if the train slows down enough before hitting it...
When discussing the issues of society and trying to find solutions becomes a "danger" or "unpatriotic" you have a whole lot more problems than a few kids being kicked out of school for doing something stupid :(
I'd love to see this case as I usually do when postings on the net blow up...
But come on. Posting that someone is a pedophile or rapist (FTFA) is way beyond just mere "stupid" or "expressing yourself".
Being one of the kids who was bullied quite a lot in school, and had quite a lot of hate towards some of the teachers... I wouldnt do this kind of shit. Come on... it will just bite you in the ass...
10-day suspension is a bit much, 2-3 days would be plenty to send a strong signal that this is not accepted behavior. I guess the teacher in question could file on the issue too if he wants.
Here in Norway this would most likely be handled like a legal case between the teacher and student. Unless these posts were made while the kids were AT SCHOOL the school rules and regulations do not apply. The law does however which is the right way to go in my eyes.
And I say this as the child of a middle-school teacher and a kindergarden teacher... They both work they arse off and get very little other than shit for it... meh
That is an unfortunate thing, but then I guess you'll have to take a crappy job while gaining that sort of experience through private projects.
There is a lot of things you can do without it costing a whole lot.
Look at Texas Instrument's testing kits... you get a kit with two microcontrollers, usb cable and software/IDE for 4.3 bucks... If you cant afford that.. you're fucked.
Not saying it is a perfect solution to anything, but there are a lot of options.
Here in Norway the old view is along these lines:
"If the candidate has a college degree they will at least be proficient in acquiring new skills and know how to solve problems".
This of course is highly dependent on the college degree in question and the college providing said degree....
From all the conversations I've had with friends attending US colleges and universities this idea has largely become shot to hell through the way the courses are run. Critical thinking and problem solving skills are no longer valued. Only being able to do the narrow scope of getting a good grade is valued or taught. This makes me think that innovation and productivity in general will suffer immensely in the next 10 years...
I have a bachelor of science in automations. A mix of electronics, programming and general system design. ;)
I would estimate that at LEAST 20% of my college classes were in subjects not strictly part of the final exams or evaluations. While we did not have specific classes in problem solving we had quite a lot of lab work where problems came up all the time. Mostly we figured it out ourselves over the course of a few hours... Then shared the lessons with the rest as the lab-work was quite social with us all sitting in a too-small lab
Nobody "competed" for the best result, mostly we did what we could to get everyone else through the material too, because we knew that the next time we were stuck we would have someone to ask for help. This kind of teamwork is quite lacking in many new students now.... Ugh...
Make college about learning and growing as people instead of a 'dead' 3-5 years of droning towards a degree.
I'm hungry and grumpy... so I will go cook some dinner and stop ranting :p
Then again, hitting the ground running just mean you stumble or fall on your face and have to get back up :p
Regardless of who you hire there will be a ramp-up period of the productivity as the new person has to learn procedures and such of his new place of work.
I can go out to a site and do a simple modification of the control system easy enough using common sense.... but I'd be shot by the staff at the site as I would have broken safety protocols :p
Learning the surrounding requirements of procedures and documentation usually eat up the productivity for the first few weeks if not longer :(
And that right there is how you knock the rest of the candidates the hell off the table :p
Personally I do a lot of stuff on my free time that I find interesting. Before exiting college (bachelor of science, automation) I had already run a linux based server for 4 years. It had about 30 users of various proxy services and shell accounts. I ran a Wiki for an online game (MUD) and various other such projects.
I have built a myriad of microcontroller projects and learned a shitton through those projects.
All this counts when you can talk about it in an interview. Being able to point to an URL and show what you've done can be quite helpful. I maintain project pages on my server for the stuff I do and it has been helpful in the past.
The idea that you cant accumulate "work experience" without a job is silly. Volunteer for stuff. Hell volunteer to help maintain the site of the local Scout chapter or somesuch. Gain some karma while you gain experience ;)
Then again I've only been to 4 interviews in my life, and all 4 netted me a job offer... YAY :D
I had about 50% absence in 5th grade.... Why?
Because being at the school was a living hell due to the harassment issues....
Fuck, I'm still in therapy and I'm twenty-fecking-seven....
Judging someone solely on not showing up to school is asinine. I'd rather the school actually pay attention to what goes on before gps-tracking is thought to fix anything... Personally I do not think any amount of technology will fix the issue of some kids skipping school...
Meh to it all
(Oh, and I have a job building control systems for the oil biz these days. Cant say I'm damaged all that much by being away from school that much... :p)
Hey, the alternative is always saying "ah fuck it" and just download the sucker of [insert generic torrent site].
The problem with most games I buy outside steam or other platforms like it is that the DRM goes bonkers on my machine...
Why? Because I have software installed to let me play the games with broken DRM which does not work in win7...
Blacklisting software to avoid piracy is so cute. Do they really expect it to work? :p
How come other online distribution systems can sell the games for the same regardless of where you by it from then?
If publishers are really trying this shit after the enormous mess over dvd region locking they must be stupid...
I dont pay VAT for online purchases when I shop anywhere else... so why exactly is this a valid excuse for doing a currency hack?
I would be fine with them charging a little more for european distribution if it was not so incredibly "convenient" that it is 1USD==1EUR in the store and they actually said WHY they do it. Other than "we figured we could make more money this way".
Personally I am less annoyed by the performance and more annoyed with their shitty region-locking...
If you live in the US game X costs 19.99 USD.... ... wait for it.... 19.99 Euro...
If you live in Europe, the game costs
1 Euro = 1.3556 U.S. dollars (today's rate on google)
So, they want me to pay 27.10 USD for the same game due to the region I am in.
I am sorry Valve, but I'll be buying the game for 19.99 in another online store thankyouverymuch.
For years I have spent money on Steam buying my games but I now limit my buying to promotions that are actually cheaper than the competition.
Meh...
I'd pay to watch actually...
Maybe google could start this as a line of entertainment? :p
Let me rephrase:
"I creates images which pass validation without the explicit permission of Sony. This would circumvent the protection."
I personally dont agree that the code should be any kind of illegal, but I do see Sony's side of it and I hope the courts will come down on the side of the consumer and not Sony.
The PS3 does various validations of the software being loaded.
This hack breaks that validation.
That makes it a circumvention device in that it circumvents the checks/validation.
Oh.. and "device" in this case can be a piece of software too, not just hardware.