I go to Penn State, but since the university feels it has to protect dumb windows users from themselves, I cannot even send or recieve email with the subject, "Hi such-and-such"(Try explaining to a friend overseas who has almost never in her life touched a computer, in her language, why she can't send you mail with that subject) because it might contain the bagle virus. This is the same university that put in a firewall because supposedly too many people on campus had a butt-load of viruses and spyware.
Yet this same university loves to publish my email address on the web; ensuring I get tons of spam(some even in Chinese!)
I hate when the community at large has to pay for the transgressions of a few slimeballs and the idiocy of some(not even most) gullible windows users.
Than going after the consumers versus going after the producers(I'm not defending consumers in any way though). All this will do is ensure that the consumers use better cryptography etc to protect what they are doing. Just like they started to use the internet after the government went after the people who would order it by mail.
There is a different, and better way to catch these people. Most of these scumbags who make this stuff are quite proud of what they do, and often put both their faces and the faces of their victims in the picture. Canadian and US authorities have recently been using these faces to track down both the people commiting the acts and the victims. Going after the producers is a lot easier, and probably a lot more effective at stopping future abuse than going after consumers(esp. ones who don't pay any money), since the producers will probably continue to abuse new children regardless of whether or not they share the photos.
Maybe it is the random that the phantom of the Opera demanded!
This has been a test of the lame joke broadcast system, this is only a test, in the event of a real lame joke, Cowboy Neal's name would have been mentioned, thank you for your time.
I don't play the game but... I am curious, are the Japanese/North American players in the same realm? Can they interact? Do the Japanese speak English to talk to NA players, and vica versa(or at least attempt to)?
Thanks for the info, I met some very nice Swedish people in Japan(worked at my lab), they taught me some Swedish, though nothing I would ever want to say to a professor:P
"Sorry my thesis didn't get done, I was too pre-occupied with knulla";)
On how not to pick up women, on avoiding cars, avoiding walking off cliffs, avoiding using the unzipping icon on the towel guy at the spa, how not to use the number 4, about what to do when your wife leaves you for a woman, and of course, island geography!
Coming soon: college guide!
I can probably just make a random post with impunity to up my post count. Hall of fame here I come! And I only had to give up my career and love life to get it! (Who am I kidding, I never had any of these!)
Woot!
LP!
Last post.
but in my state(PA) you have to put down a somewhat sizable deposit in order to call anyone(in addition they cannot be on the DNC list) if you do call someone on the DNC list, the state seizes their deposit, and they cannot call anyone in the state ever again.
However, things like "satellite" services are probably scams to hook up illegal services and the like, so I doubt that they registered with anyone(very few scammers like having the government have info on them, wonder why). Thus being scams they probably leave very little evidence, even the places you would pay them are probably a front. Your best option would be to call the police, but honestly I doubt that for something like this the police would even bother with the case, probably just cover you with red tape till you give up.
The CEOs will complain to the US government. Actually, you do raise a very good point. When all the blue-collar jobs were headed towards Japan in the 70's/80's, it was the Japanese companies who were competing directly with the US companies. So the CEOs were in the same boat with the rest of us(albeit with a nicer room). When they were losing money all the talk of free trade was thrown out the window(Look at all the tariff/non-tariff barriers erected on things such as automobiles in the 80's, people quickly forget that Reagan was not a free trader). The only reason it is being preached as gospel now is that the CEOs who control the government are making money off of free trade.
When are the American people going to wake up and smell their government.
In the US, yes, but this raises an interesting moral quandry, would it be wrong to test the cure on people say in Africa(I say Africa because of the poverty and widespread infections), who are very sick(after they and their family agree of course)?
I think it would not be wrong, but others would probably disagree.
It's not time for fucking in the streets yet...
Hopefully they will release a relatively cheap form of the drug(since it cost them almost nothing to develop!), so that a lot of people in the world can have longer, more productive lives.
But it doesn't stop HIV. Even with this treatment I think it would be safer to err on the side of caution, even with 2 people that have the virus but would be taking the treatment. Mixing different strands of the virus can never be good. They say that it probably is safe from virus "evolution"(probably not the best term for it, but the HIV virus is notorious for making very poor "exact copies" and thus the genetic makeup does tend to change slightly over time)
But kudos to them, and who knows, maybe in time there will be fucking in the streets(only the invitations for/. geeks will have been "lost in the mail" and that 4% chlamydia rate will skyrocket!)
ADV(mostly distribute anime etc) lets you do this, you just need to send them your old dvd and they will send you a new one free of charge. I sent back a dvd I bought over a year ago, had some problems. Still a hassle, but probably less so than backing up every single dvd you have just in case on breaks.
Who ever said my native tongue was English? It might be, but just as you made a comment about me being rude culturally, you may have yourself done the exact same thing.
skills but...
email it is assumed equals hotmail, if you ask your average Egyptian about his email account she will reply with the username only).
So hotmail causes gender switching! There is an untapped market for M$ to exploit!
Supposedly a degree shows a willingness to challenge oneself and the ability to expand ones mental horizons. Though with the number of "diploma mills" in the US(and elsewhere) parading around as accredited schools, I doubt that is true anymore.
An education isn't supposed to be a job training program, it's supposed to help you develop the skills needed to tackle any problem. This usually means doing more experimentation and research and less belching up whatever you crammed in last night on a test. Knowing where to look up obscure details is more important than memorizing them(because you will probably forget them anyway) However, that seems to no longer be the case in America's schools, and it is indeed sad.
Sayonara creative problem solving!
He writes a story "fake" degrees in the Michael Parker story(though the degree is real, but the person in question didn't earn it, but used it to get a job anyway)
Offtopic, but interesting.
You have to wonder, word is a pretty hefty piece of software, did the attackers even bother padding the program? A really quick download time would be one of a multitude of clues that what you are downloading probably isn't legit.
One just needs to look to IBM for a great counter-argument. A few months ago IBM announced that it was going to form special groups of IT people that would each concentrate on a different area(ex: manufacturing, retail, banking etc). They will get a base of FOSS then add custom software etc to that base to help the business be the most efficient it can be. Having worked in a manufacturing environment that made extensive use of Linux, I can tell you, it is a great help.
The offshoring thing is also laughable. A lot of what is being sent offshore is stuff like back office banking coding, not a whole lot of FOSS software for that. FOSS helps level the playing field between giant corporation and small business. Now a little guy can get into the game without having to sign over his first born for windows licences or have to have an army of lawyers on standby in case the BSA comes knocking on their door because someone forgot to activate their copy of XP.
Which brings me to a random aside, if you really want to avoid being offshored, SPECIALIZE! Learn something in addition to CS.
A British researcher actually did trap some monkeys inside a room with a computer for a couple days. They flung large amounts of feces at the monitor and keyboard and beat the living crap out of the box, and typed the letter s a lot. Sounds like the response of a typical user upon their first vi experience.
My million monkeys at a million terminals will have somewher to save all their potential Shakespeare works.
But the question is, do my monkeys use VI or Emacs? That shall remain a mystery.
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I go to Penn State, but since the university feels it has to protect dumb windows users from themselves, I cannot even send or recieve email with the subject, "Hi such-and-such"(Try explaining to a friend overseas who has almost never in her life touched a computer, in her language, why she can't send you mail with that subject) because it might contain the bagle virus. This is the same university that put in a firewall because supposedly too many people on campus had a butt-load of viruses and spyware.
Yet this same university loves to publish my email address on the web; ensuring I get tons of spam(some even in Chinese!)
I hate when the community at large has to pay for the transgressions of a few slimeballs and the idiocy of some(not even most) gullible windows users.
Than going after the consumers versus going after the producers(I'm not defending consumers in any way though). All this will do is ensure that the consumers use better cryptography etc to protect what they are doing. Just like they started to use the internet after the government went after the people who would order it by mail.
There is a different, and better way to catch these people. Most of these scumbags who make this stuff are quite proud of what they do, and often put both their faces and the faces of their victims in the picture. Canadian and US authorities have recently been using these faces to track down both the people commiting the acts and the victims. Going after the producers is a lot easier, and probably a lot more effective at stopping future abuse than going after consumers(esp. ones who don't pay any money), since the producers will probably continue to abuse new children regardless of whether or not they share the photos.
Maybe it is the random that the phantom of the Opera demanded!
This has been a test of the lame joke broadcast system, this is only a test, in the event of a real lame joke, Cowboy Neal's name would have been mentioned, thank you for your time.
Everybody knows that Cowboy Neal is the real father of open source. Come on, get with the times!
I don't play the game but... I am curious, are the Japanese/North American players in the same realm? Can they interact? Do the Japanese speak English to talk to NA players, and vica versa(or at least attempt to)?
Thanks for the info, I met some very nice Swedish people in Japan(worked at my lab), they taught me some Swedish, though nothing I would ever want to say to a professor :P ;)
"Sorry my thesis didn't get done, I was too pre-occupied with knulla"
On how not to pick up women, on avoiding cars, avoiding walking off cliffs, avoiding using the unzipping icon on the towel guy at the spa, how not to use the number 4, about what to do when your wife leaves you for a woman, and of course, island geography!
Coming soon: college guide!
I'll clarify, It's not time for fucking in the streets without a rain coat on!
I can probably just make a random post with impunity to up my post count. Hall of fame here I come! And I only had to give up my career and love life to get it! (Who am I kidding, I never had any of these!)
Woot!
LP!
Last post.
but in my state(PA) you have to put down a somewhat sizable deposit in order to call anyone(in addition they cannot be on the DNC list) if you do call someone on the DNC list, the state seizes their deposit, and they cannot call anyone in the state ever again.
However, things like "satellite" services are probably scams to hook up illegal services and the like, so I doubt that they registered with anyone(very few scammers like having the government have info on them, wonder why). Thus being scams they probably leave very little evidence, even the places you would pay them are probably a front. Your best option would be to call the police, but honestly I doubt that for something like this the police would even bother with the case, probably just cover you with red tape till you give up.
The CEOs will complain to the US government. Actually, you do raise a very good point. When all the blue-collar jobs were headed towards Japan in the 70's/80's, it was the Japanese companies who were competing directly with the US companies. So the CEOs were in the same boat with the rest of us(albeit with a nicer room). When they were losing money all the talk of free trade was thrown out the window(Look at all the tariff/non-tariff barriers erected on things such as automobiles in the 80's, people quickly forget that Reagan was not a free trader). The only reason it is being preached as gospel now is that the CEOs who control the government are making money off of free trade.
When are the American people going to wake up and smell their government.
In the US, yes, but this raises an interesting moral quandry, would it be wrong to test the cure on people say in Africa(I say Africa because of the poverty and widespread infections), who are very sick(after they and their family agree of course)?
I think it would not be wrong, but others would probably disagree.
It's not time for fucking in the streets yet... /. geeks will have been "lost in the mail" and that 4% chlamydia rate will skyrocket!)
Hopefully they will release a relatively cheap form of the drug(since it cost them almost nothing to develop!), so that a lot of people in the world can have longer, more productive lives.
But it doesn't stop HIV. Even with this treatment I think it would be safer to err on the side of caution, even with 2 people that have the virus but would be taking the treatment. Mixing different strands of the virus can never be good. They say that it probably is safe from virus "evolution"(probably not the best term for it, but the HIV virus is notorious for making very poor "exact copies" and thus the genetic makeup does tend to change slightly over time)
But kudos to them, and who knows, maybe in time there will be fucking in the streets(only the invitations for
ADV(mostly distribute anime etc) lets you do this, you just need to send them your old dvd and they will send you a new one free of charge. I sent back a dvd I bought over a year ago, had some problems. Still a hassle, but probably less so than backing up every single dvd you have just in case on breaks.
Who ever said my native tongue was English? It might be, but just as you made a comment about me being rude culturally, you may have yourself done the exact same thing.
skills but... email it is assumed equals hotmail, if you ask your average Egyptian about his email account she will reply with the username only).
So hotmail causes gender switching! There is an untapped market for M$ to exploit!
Supposedly a degree shows a willingness to challenge oneself and the ability to expand ones mental horizons. Though with the number of "diploma mills" in the US(and elsewhere) parading around as accredited schools, I doubt that is true anymore.
An education isn't supposed to be a job training program, it's supposed to help you develop the skills needed to tackle any problem. This usually means doing more experimentation and research and less belching up whatever you crammed in last night on a test. Knowing where to look up obscure details is more important than memorizing them(because you will probably forget them anyway) However, that seems to no longer be the case in America's schools, and it is indeed sad.
Sayonara creative problem solving!
He writes a story "fake" degrees in the Michael Parker story(though the degree is real, but the person in question didn't earn it, but used it to get a job anyway)
Offtopic, but interesting.
You have to wonder, word is a pretty hefty piece of software, did the attackers even bother padding the program? A really quick download time would be one of a multitude of clues that what you are downloading probably isn't legit.
One just needs to look to IBM for a great counter-argument. A few months ago IBM announced that it was going to form special groups of IT people that would each concentrate on a different area(ex: manufacturing, retail, banking etc). They will get a base of FOSS then add custom software etc to that base to help the business be the most efficient it can be. Having worked in a manufacturing environment that made extensive use of Linux, I can tell you, it is a great help.
The offshoring thing is also laughable. A lot of what is being sent offshore is stuff like back office banking coding, not a whole lot of FOSS software for that. FOSS helps level the playing field between giant corporation and small business. Now a little guy can get into the game without having to sign over his first born for windows licences or have to have an army of lawyers on standby in case the BSA comes knocking on their door because someone forgot to activate their copy of XP.
Which brings me to a random aside, if you really want to avoid being offshored, SPECIALIZE! Learn something in addition to CS.
A British researcher actually did trap some monkeys inside a room with a computer for a couple days. They flung large amounts of feces at the monitor and keyboard and beat the living crap out of the box, and typed the letter s a lot. Sounds like the response of a typical user upon their first vi experience.
Then obviously you didn't read about the Duncan Donuts guy smuggling Columbian Juan Valdez!
Don't just stop at songs! Store the DNA sequences for the spice girls on it, such that years from now our decendants may know the joys of Scary Spice.
My million monkeys at a million terminals will have somewher to save all their potential Shakespeare works.
But the question is, do my monkeys use VI or Emacs? That shall remain a mystery.