Unfortunately it will probably take a very big and extremely publicized crack of one of these online banks (with possibly tons of personal information stolen) before these banks do anything about it. It is appalling that some of them aren't even using SSL!
Okay, so I see this headline on CNN or MSNBC,(I don't remember which) that FL is keeping its polls open later, but both media bastards have GORE as the winner!? But now, the unofficial vote count has Bush in first. Its very annoying, the networks should wait till 100% of precincts in a state report in before it jumps the gun and awards a state to the possibly wrong candidate!
Yes it is tough to get good speakers! Here at Purdue we have had Ian Malcolm, Richard Lynch of Zend Technologies, Wesley Chung (helped write rocket mail and yahoo mail) amoung others. A lot of our speakers are students/members that have a lot of know-how in different areas, from Perl/Tk to Booting a diskless machine.
Of course we have had our dissapointments with speakers. We have been contacting RedHat lately with no luck, and then we find out that the Purdue Networking Engineering Organization got the CEO of Redhat to come next month! Well balls! Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
My best Advice is to keep contacting the speakers whom you wish to have come out, don't give up.. Of course it also helps to have lots of numbers, that is a lot of people who will come to the presentation.
I fully agree. Its nice to know that someone on capitol hill is actually trying to get those recording companies in line. Oh, and it would be nice if Senator Hatch would just flat out tell Lars to screw off.
Although I agree that offering to help out your school would be a good use of your talents (I myself helped out with my highschools computing network) I have noticed that many schools don't take their students seriously. Our suggestions to the our school on how to save them money (on hardware and software) and how to better secure the computers seem to fall by the wayside. I have also talked to other people and read about similiar problems. I think that helping out less computer-savvy students would be a better use of your time and talent.
I don't think that advertising in mp3's would really catch on. A lot of people who have mp3's obtain them illegally, and I doubt that companies would advertise in illegal mp3's. On the other hand the advertised mp3's could be distributed illegally, however I believe that some one would probably remove the advertisements from them.
That doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense, the only way to limit the amount of bandwidth it uses is to only download 1 file at a time or make it so it only transfers so fast, say 10k/sex or less.
I seem to have read more negative comments than positive. JonKatz is a good writer, he makes good points. It seems to me that a lot of the slashdot community thrives on making miserable comments. Too bad. A lot of people here don't like Katz and continue to say so everytime one of his articles is posted. However I have yet to see any of you anti-katz people post anything better.
Also about the cameo brag. Who cares? Big deal, after all it is major bragging rights. I would if I had a cameo appearance in a movie. Most of you would too even though you say you wouldn't.
In short kudos to Jon Katz, getting a book published and a possible movie deal are a major accomplishment. Keep up the good work!
urgle said: No, the best translation would be along the lines of "Art of technology" Actually the translation is Art Technology the phrase would have to be Ars technicae to mean art OF technology
Everyone has a cause. And as evil as it is for me to say this, I firmly believe that a large percent of people who argue about the issues raised by the Seattle protesters are only doing it to make themselves feel better. What bothers me most are the arguments. E.G. corporations are evil because of the "sweat shops". Are the really evil? Look at it this way, most people in these less industrialized countries would not even have jobs if it weren't for those companies. They choose to work there, they aren't being forced. For the most part the very meager wages that they are making are more money than they had before, NOTHING. What disgusts me more is that I hear people around me, especially in collegiate newspaper that I read, that these sweat shops are terrible, but if the companies (from which many by their clothes, say GAP for instance) stopped there over seas productions and made it all in the US, those same people that were upset over the sweat shops would be crying bloody murder when those companies raise their prices. I do think that conditions could be better in there but I also realize that it is the only job that some people have, and who are we to take that away from them?
Secondly, this environmental bull crap is getting extremely annoying, everyone is all about saving the planet. WRONG! Humans have only been on this rock for a very, very small time. It is human arrogance to believe that we are destroying the earth, rather we are only destroying ourselves! We will, inevitably destroy ourselves, whether it be by nuclear war, plague or a destruction of the environment we need to survive, and quite frankly we deserve it. The only true victims of our pollution and such are animals, and no, I am not an animal rights activist. I just realize that the only things that suffer because of us our plants and animals. And while I am on the subject, all of you who are vegetarians solely for the fact that you think it is wrong to slaughter and eat "god's creatures" keep it to yourselves, last time I checked plants were made by god too.
I go to purdue, and I went to check out your page. It is really nice, and your directory beats the hell out of the purdue directory(directory.purdue.edu). It just figures that they want to shut you down because you offer a few better things then they do. If it means anything, I am on your side!
I don't think that this topic need be a pissing contest between how big dos or windows is and how small linux is. Most of us know already, so the point is moot.
I hope that whoever is responsible for this patent gets raped by space aliens. This is the most god awful cheap lousy way to make money. It bothers me that they were even issued a patent.
I think this question has to do with an article from the associated press that I saw in the Nov. 1 Monday State Edition of the Indianapolis Star. The Anti-Ballistic-Missle system in developement is actually a special laser that would be mounted to aircraft. As to the treaties, I do not know, but I do not think that the US should be expected to conform to these treaties, since the Soviet Union has been dissolved for about a decade now.
hey man, this whole buzzword stuff does work, or no one would be doing it. Many people do find that it works well, including those people who are fascinated by this new-fangled computin' stuff. I do agree that it is annoying and idiotic, but it does work.
Lets put it this way, I have linux on my machine with a Diamond Monster Fusion Card (Banshee). I have X windows working with it (not an easy feat). To my surprise X windows has never crashed even because of my worthless video card. Also most people don't realize that software is a major cause of system crashes, so watch what you run! Also if you are using RedHat distro try Ctrl-Alt-F2 if you get a black login screen it is not locked up!
Also addressing the M$ issues, windows isn't that bad, unlike linux I don't have to bend over backwards to get a program working.....
Who is to say that QWERTY is outdated? Its personal preference. I use qwerty, I don't type in the traditional since, I hunt and peck, and I hunt and peck damn fast, so why should I change? The reason why QWERTY is used more than DVORAK is probably similiar to the reasons why Unix and its variants aren't being used more (by consumers). People are comfortable with what they are using now and do not wish (or want to change) and do not want to learn something new (even if it is more efficient!)
I have to disagree with Arthur C. Clarke's view on artificial life-forms. Even though most of us won't admit it, we want money and power. If AI's become as intelligent as humans, they will probably have wants just as ours. Money and power. Since they are computers, their intelligence would probably be more than enough to become powerfull and dominant. I think that we should be careful when it comes to AI and not let it get out of hand. Or better yet, just leave well enough alone!
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And risk losing my laptop in a melting horror?! I think not!
Unfortunately it will probably take a very big and extremely publicized crack of one of these online banks (with possibly tons of personal information stolen) before these banks do anything about it. It is appalling that some of them aren't even using SSL!
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What the hell?! The unofficial vote counts are very in favor of Bush, in FL and MI now. Its like they aren't even paying attention to their figures..
Okay, so I see this headline on CNN or MSNBC,(I don't remember which) that FL is keeping its polls open later, but both media bastards have GORE as the winner!? But now, the unofficial vote count has Bush in first. Its very annoying, the networks should wait till 100% of precincts in a state report in before it jumps the gun and awards a state to the possibly wrong candidate!
Q: So when will Guinness World Records lose their domain?
A: They Won't
Q: Why?
A: Because nobody at Guiness complained about them?
Q: But couldn't GuinessWorldRecords be mistaken by non-english speaking people?
A: Like whom, WIPO?
Yes it is tough to get good speakers! Here at Purdue we have had Ian Malcolm, Richard Lynch of Zend Technologies, Wesley Chung (helped write rocket mail and yahoo mail) amoung others. A lot of our speakers are students/members that have a lot of know-how in different areas, from Perl/Tk to Booting a diskless machine.
Of course we have had our dissapointments with speakers. We have been contacting RedHat lately with no luck, and then we find out that the Purdue Networking Engineering Organization got the CEO of Redhat to come next month! Well balls! Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
My best Advice is to keep contacting the speakers whom you wish to have come out, don't give up.. Of course it also helps to have lots of numbers, that is a lot of people who will come to the presentation.
I fully agree. Its nice to know that someone on capitol hill is actually trying to get those recording companies in line. Oh, and it would be nice if Senator Hatch would just flat out tell Lars to screw off.
Although I agree that offering to help out your school would be a good use of your talents (I myself helped out with my highschools computing network) I have noticed that many schools don't take their students seriously. Our suggestions to the our school on how to save them money (on hardware and software) and how to better secure the computers seem to fall by the wayside. I have also talked to other people and read about similiar problems.
I think that helping out less computer-savvy students would be a better use of your time and talent.
I don't think that advertising in mp3's would really catch on. A lot of people who have mp3's obtain them illegally, and I doubt that companies would advertise in illegal mp3's. On the other hand the advertised mp3's could be distributed illegally, however I believe that some one would probably remove the advertisements from them.
That doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense, the only way to limit the amount of bandwidth it uses is to only download 1 file at a time or make it so it only transfers so fast, say 10k/sex or less.
I seem to have read more negative comments than positive. JonKatz is a good writer, he makes good points. It seems to me that a lot of the slashdot community thrives on making miserable comments. Too bad. A lot of people here don't like Katz and continue to say so everytime one of his articles is posted. However I have yet to see any of you anti-katz people post anything better.
Also about the cameo brag. Who cares? Big deal, after all it is major bragging rights. I would if I had a cameo appearance in a movie. Most of you would too even though you say you wouldn't.
In short kudos to Jon Katz, getting a book published and a possible movie deal are a major accomplishment. Keep up the good work!
urgle said:
No, the best translation would be along the lines of "Art of technology"
Actually the translation is Art Technology
the phrase would have to be Ars technicae to mean art OF technology
ars is latin for arts
Everyone has a cause. And as evil as it is for me to say this, I firmly believe that a large percent of people who argue about the issues raised by the Seattle protesters are only doing it to make themselves feel better. What bothers me most are the arguments. E.G. corporations are evil because of the "sweat shops". Are the really evil? Look at it this way, most people in these less industrialized countries would not even have jobs if it weren't for those companies. They choose to work there, they aren't being forced. For the most part the very meager wages that they are making are more money than they had before, NOTHING. What disgusts me more is that I hear people around me, especially in collegiate newspaper that I read, that these sweat shops are terrible, but if the companies (from which many by their clothes, say GAP for instance) stopped there over seas productions and made it all in the US, those same people that were upset over the sweat shops would be crying bloody murder when those companies raise their prices. I do think that conditions could be better in there but I also realize that it is the only job that some people have, and who are we to take that away from them?
Secondly, this environmental bull crap is getting extremely annoying, everyone is all about saving the planet. WRONG! Humans have only been on this rock for a very, very small time. It is human arrogance to believe that we are destroying the earth, rather we are only destroying ourselves! We will, inevitably destroy ourselves, whether it be by nuclear war, plague or a destruction of the environment we need to survive, and quite frankly we deserve it. The only true victims of our pollution and such are animals, and no, I am not an animal rights activist. I just realize that the only things that suffer because of us our plants and animals.
And while I am on the subject, all of you who are vegetarians solely for the fact that you think it is wrong to slaughter and eat "god's creatures" keep it to yourselves, last time I checked plants were made by god too.
Whew! It feels good to get that out!
since zero is the absence of value, how can it be odd or even, I haven't ever heard of zero being even...or odd for that matter
I go to purdue, and I went to check out your page. It is really nice, and your directory beats the hell out of the purdue directory(directory.purdue.edu). It just figures that they want to shut you down because you offer a few better things then they do. If it means anything, I am on your side!
I don't think that this topic need be a pissing contest between how big dos or windows is and how small linux is. Most of us know already, so the point is moot.
I hope that whoever is responsible for this patent gets raped by space aliens. This is the most god awful cheap lousy way to make money. It bothers me that they were even issued a patent.
Oh, wasn't McDonnell Douglas bought by Boeing?
I think this question has to do with an article from the associated press that I saw in the Nov. 1 Monday State Edition of the Indianapolis Star. The Anti-Ballistic-Missle system in developement is actually a special laser that would be mounted to aircraft. As to the treaties, I do not know, but I do not think that the US should be expected to conform to these treaties, since the Soviet Union has been dissolved for about a decade now.
its a commonwealtb of the united states, like puerto rico
hey man, this whole buzzword stuff does work, or no one would be doing it. Many people do find that it works well, including those people who are fascinated by this new-fangled computin' stuff.
I do agree that it is annoying and idiotic, but it does work.
Lets put it this way, I have linux on my machine with a Diamond Monster Fusion Card (Banshee). I have X windows working with it (not an easy feat).
To my surprise X windows has never crashed even because of my worthless video card.
Also most people don't realize that software is a major cause of system crashes, so watch what you run! Also if you are using RedHat distro try Ctrl-Alt-F2 if you get a black login screen it is not locked up!
Also addressing the M$ issues, windows isn't that bad, unlike linux I don't have to bend over backwards to get a program working.....
Who is to say that QWERTY is outdated? Its personal preference. I use qwerty, I don't type in the traditional since, I hunt and peck, and I hunt and peck damn fast, so why should I change? The reason why QWERTY is used more than DVORAK is probably similiar to the reasons why Unix and its variants aren't being used more (by consumers).
People are comfortable with what they are using now and do not wish (or want to change) and do not want to learn something new (even if it is more efficient!)
I have to disagree with Arthur C. Clarke's view on artificial life-forms. Even though most of us won't admit it, we want money and power. If AI's become as intelligent as humans, they will probably have wants just as ours. Money and power. Since they are computers, their intelligence would probably be more than enough to become powerfull and dominant. I think that we should be careful when it comes to AI and not let it get out of hand. Or better yet, just leave well enough alone!