OK. I sort of agree with the spirit of many of your points, but I certainly disagree with your implementation.
Do you really know what feminism is? It is not about "coercing them into professions". It is about allowing them into professions. I think that the article here is wrong in the way that they are trying to make IT seem cool and trendy, when most of the time, it isn't. But they aren't forcing anyone to do anything. They are telling girls about the possibilities of a career in a field that they may not have been exposed to. Of course, in 9th grade no one male or female has really been exposed to too much of the Real World, so this is not too much different that a job fair where each industry tries to show kids what their job is like, and if the kids are interested, they can get more info.
I think it is wrong of them to have this unilateral push to get women into IT, since the focus should IMHO be to get talented people into IT. Gender has nothing to do with it. If girls are interested in coding, then show them how they can make a life for themselves coding. If they are not interested, then let them go into Interior Design, or professional parenting, or welding, or truck driving, or stock trading, or whatever they are into.
If you are trying to post your opinions here in order to sway others, I would recommend that you keep the childish religious and political rants out of it, since they really don't have anything to do with this discussion. It isn't the amoral, atheist, evil, anarchist, left-wing commies that are trying to abduct the women of Canada into the IT profession. This is just Microsoft trying to hire talented help from a largely untapped market of intelligent soon-to-be workers. (Not that MS isn't evil and amoral...)
Calling people names, like "fucking elitists" is really contary to your argument. Besides which, feminists (at least those who I have known) are generally not elitist. Quite the opposite. They see a situation where there is a problem, like women making less money than men for the same work, and try to rectify the situation. They aren't saying that women are better than men, or that feminists are better than non-feminists. They merely point out that inappropriate situations exist and try to find a way to fix it. No true feminist thinks that women should not remain at home if that is their wish. The point is that it is the woman's wish that matters, not the husband's wish, or the preacher's wish, or society's. It is about making that choice (as well as any other choices the person wants) available to whoever wants it, male or female.
That said, there should also not be the reverse situation where girls are being told lies or misrepresentations of the truth in order to manipulate them into a desicion that they don't want, and that is what appears to be happening here. Girls, and boys, from a young age should be shown what a lot of different fields are like so they can make an informed decision about what they want to do with their lives. They should not be forced into any role based on gender, race, religion, political opinion, or any other factor.
I've been doing this for a few months now and my standard rate is $50 to get started. An easy removal (Spybot/AdAware) will be just that. If it gets more complex and requires any real work (registry hacking, TCP/IP stack repair, etc) then the price increases- so far, I have not gone over $75, but I can envision some infections that will be more expensive... I have a policy where if the stuff comes back within 2 weeks (generally meaning I did an incomplete job), I will fix it again for free. If they get reinfected again after that (which I assume means they have been doing something they shouldn't), I charge another $25.
In addition to the removal, as a value added service, I do a good bit of training- including how not to use IE/Outlook (I install Firefox/Thunderbird for them) and how to not open attachments, etc. If they continue reinfecting themselves, I just keep coming out and charging them again and again. It is quite a cash cow for some of these folks who must go to their little java game sites and who open every possible thing that they are sent...
It is even easier in many cases where I can do the entire thing through NetMeeting from my house, so I get paid full price and don't even have to leave home.
No, No, and No. I fail to see your argument. It is not unethical to block or otherwise not look at ads on a free site. The site is free. There is no EULA stating that in order to view the free content, my eyeballs have to focus on an ad. The ads do pay, and quite possibly, without that income, the site might go down. That si the problem of the admins. Here on Slashdot, we her quite a lot of noise about how failing business models need to be updated. If a site can not sustain itself from ad revenue, then perhaps it needs a different model.
There was never any agreement between me and the website admins that I had a limited license to view the content predicated by my looking at ads. Websites that are on the internet are free to the consumer, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
I agree. And you can generally find some very cheap (even dare I say it, free) labor at the local art college in your area. You know, the Art Institute of Whatever for instance. You will get some good artwork cheap, and if your sign the right papers for them at the school, they will get credit for an internship. It works very well for both of you.
I have done this when I was in school and I helped out some folks with some artwork. I got class credit for it, so I didn't mind working for free. Then, once I graduated, I moved it into a mostly-full-time freelance job.
Then, later, I started outsourcing my own work to another school. So, it all comes around full-circle, and everyone wins.
I would agree with you, except that the US has made no effort to clean up the pollution on its own. If the US did start a cleanup process without Kyoto, that would be admirable. I don't see such a thing forthcoming, though.
Following Kyoto would involve lowering our useage of oil. Bear in mind where Bush's money from enterprises past and future comes from.
So there is no good reason to sign the Kyoto Treaty unless you count rejoining the global community, preserving the planet, or any of that tree hugging hippy crap.
I'm not aware of any NICs that are totally un-alterable MAC-wise. There may be some out there, but none of the consumer level ones I've used have any trouble changing MAC addresses. As one previous poster stated, in Linux, you can use this command:
ifconfig wlan0 hw ether [mac address]
In Windows, there is a nice program called Mac Makeup to do it for you.
Both of these methods do work for wireless cards. I tested it fairly extensively when I setup my own wifi network.
I dont trust a vendor form the start, if I'm asking a pre-sales question you dont need to know who I am.
So, you're argument- if I understand it correctly, is that you want the ability to send an anonymous email (without a return email address) so that you can ask a question? How, pray tell, would the recipient of this email supply you with an answer?
Wow- I could imagine a bootable Knoppix-like CD branded by Google. You could stick the CD into any computer connected to the internet and regardless of OS, country, language, etc, it would come up with a login screen. That login screen brings you to your desktop with all of your settings (stored on Google's server) with access to your gmail, browser, blog, files stored on the GmailFS, Google IM, Google Office Suite, etc...
What America should realize is that for every job that we outsource, we have a job waiting that requires more education and more skill. There are few CTO, CEO, CIOs and middle management jobs being outsourced to india.
I call bullshit. Where are these jobs and who are they hiring? Are you intimating that all the programmers who lose their jobs to outsourcing are offered CEO jobs? Or that they even have the skill set/training/inclination for such a job? It is true that few of those jobs are being outsourced, but the people who have those jobs now will continue to have them. That doesn't mean that there will suddenly sprout up a few thousand instant CTO ads in the classified pages.
Not real sure what the actual minimum requirements are, but I am running it on an ancient POS laptop- 400 mhz, 32 MB RAM, 4 GB hard drive. And everything is working for me- wireless NIC, DVD burner, etc. X is very slow, as you might guess by the sheer lack of RAM, but all the command line stuff works. I set up a samba server , SSH server, and FTP server with no problems at all.
Yes. The Ubuntu base is Debian, and you use apt-get (or aptitude, or synaptic) to get the new packages. The preset Ubuntu package sources are in some cases slightly different than the ones you would download from the normal Debian mirrors, but most of the programs are there in the "universe" area. Also, you can adjust your/etc/apt/sources.list to go to normal Debian mirrors if there is something that you can't find through the Ubuntu channels. That is unsupported according to the Ubuntu website, but in theory it should work- in fact, in theory, you should be able to fully convert your Ubuntu system to Debian Sarge this way.
The fact that it comes with Gnome by default does not mean that you can't run KDE if you wish. On the FAQ for Ubuntu, there is instructions for how to get KDE to run. Basically, you just have to uncomment a line out of the/etc/apt/sources.list to add the "universe" apt source and then you have access to KDE and all sorts of other Debian goodies.
The server does allow a range of codes to work. I have been using SecurID and you can put in the tokencode from 1-2 minutes ago and it will let you in. So, if the token gets out of sync from the server, it is ok. If it gets too out of sync, then you need to call the help desk and they can resync it using some online tools. It takes less than a minute to do. I've never experienced a time drift problem that resyncing didn't fix, but theoretically, if it cant sync back up, they can always just send you a new card and use that one instead.
The SecurID system allows for a temporary password to be set in the event of a lost or stolen token. While, it is certainly possible for someone to call up tech support and say they lost the token, so please give me a temp password, it is trivially easy to beat that sort of claim. For instance, at my company which uses SecurID (Not AOL), we will hang up the phone and call back the phone number listed in the SecurID system for the user. So, unless the hacker here broke into the person's home, they won't be able to find out the new password. In the event that the user says that they are in a hotel or somewhere else, we have security questions to ask them. These security questions are not standard "what is your mother's maiden name", either- they are individually selected by the user when he/she first sets up his account.
While I wouldn't put it past AOL to skip the security steps, the technology certainly allows for pretty good security if used correctly. It is certainly better than the current AOL situation.
I don't think you are understanding what is going on here. The SecurID solution is not meant to stop spyware. It is meant to block people from finding/using an AOL account. Even if you have some sort of spyware on the computer that logs keystrokes and sends passwords home, then the hacker will get a password that no longer works (since SecurID passcodes can only be used once and change every 60 seconds anyway). Therefore, this is a proactive security step, not illusion. Of course any security step can be worked around given time and talent, but this is a vast improvement over the old system where someone types in their AOL password once and checks the little box to remember the password so they never need to enter it again.
Bear in mind, I still think AOL sucks, and I would never use it for various reasons, but I have been using a SecurID system for work for about 6 years and it seems very good. There are several client programs for it that also enclude encryption so even sniffers on the network can't find out the username or password that is used.
I have been using an old crappy Micron ClientPro ZX (300 mhz) laptop as a FTP/Samba server for a year or so. It is running Debian testing and I keep the lid closed all the time and SSH into it to do configurations and whatnot. It doesn't have a battery, so it is plugged in all the time. I have never had a problem with it, and so far, it has never crashed or required a reboot except when I upgraded the kernel.
It's great. It takes up almost no space, uses very little power, it is quiet and easily accessible. And it runs Debian far better than Windows 98 that it came with.
I went through the same thing when I canceled my Discover card. They wouldn't stop badgering me about other deals and things. After a few minutes, I had to start being rude just to shut them up.
Then, 2 years later, they sent me a new card, saying my old one expired. They never canceled it at all. Then when I called to cancel it again, they went through the same routine. I started yelling obscenely at the poor guy and finally he canceled my credit card.
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I think that as slashdotters, we tend to think of Open Source as a movement and we understand the freedom associated with it. The whole world does not. Sometimes, they just see well-written (hopefully!) software that costs less than the proprietary stuff. The political right is generally pretty fixated on the "bottom line" and if open source fits the bill, then that's what they'll want. Hopefully more Conservative powers-that-be follow Arnold's example... even if their reasoning isn't as idealistic as we'd like, at least OSS gets out there.
OK- that is a really stupid thing to say. I agree. but I think that what they meant was not if the computer is powered off, but if the P2P program was shut down. There are a few maliciously written P2P programs that will continue to share files even after the main interface screen has been shut down.
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Do you really know what feminism is? It is not about "coercing them into professions". It is about allowing them into professions. I think that the article here is wrong in the way that they are trying to make IT seem cool and trendy, when most of the time, it isn't. But they aren't forcing anyone to do anything. They are telling girls about the possibilities of a career in a field that they may not have been exposed to. Of course, in 9th grade no one male or female has really been exposed to too much of the Real World, so this is not too much different that a job fair where each industry tries to show kids what their job is like, and if the kids are interested, they can get more info.
I think it is wrong of them to have this unilateral push to get women into IT, since the focus should IMHO be to get talented people into IT. Gender has nothing to do with it. If girls are interested in coding, then show them how they can make a life for themselves coding. If they are not interested, then let them go into Interior Design, or professional parenting, or welding, or truck driving, or stock trading, or whatever they are into.
If you are trying to post your opinions here in order to sway others, I would recommend that you keep the childish religious and political rants out of it, since they really don't have anything to do with this discussion. It isn't the amoral, atheist, evil, anarchist, left-wing commies that are trying to abduct the women of Canada into the IT profession. This is just Microsoft trying to hire talented help from a largely untapped market of intelligent soon-to-be workers. (Not that MS isn't evil and amoral...)
Calling people names, like "fucking elitists" is really contary to your argument. Besides which, feminists (at least those who I have known) are generally not elitist. Quite the opposite. They see a situation where there is a problem, like women making less money than men for the same work, and try to rectify the situation. They aren't saying that women are better than men, or that feminists are better than non-feminists. They merely point out that inappropriate situations exist and try to find a way to fix it. No true feminist thinks that women should not remain at home if that is their wish. The point is that it is the woman's wish that matters, not the husband's wish, or the preacher's wish, or society's. It is about making that choice (as well as any other choices the person wants) available to whoever wants it, male or female.
That said, there should also not be the reverse situation where girls are being told lies or misrepresentations of the truth in order to manipulate them into a desicion that they don't want, and that is what appears to be happening here. Girls, and boys, from a young age should be shown what a lot of different fields are like so they can make an informed decision about what they want to do with their lives. They should not be forced into any role based on gender, race, religion, political opinion, or any other factor.
In addition to the removal, as a value added service, I do a good bit of training- including how not to use IE/Outlook (I install Firefox/Thunderbird for them) and how to not open attachments, etc. If they continue reinfecting themselves, I just keep coming out and charging them again and again. It is quite a cash cow for some of these folks who must go to their little java game sites and who open every possible thing that they are sent...
It is even easier in many cases where I can do the entire thing through NetMeeting from my house, so I get paid full price and don't even have to leave home.
There was never any agreement between me and the website admins that I had a limited license to view the content predicated by my looking at ads. Websites that are on the internet are free to the consumer, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
I think it could be a winner.
I agree. And you can generally find some very cheap (even dare I say it, free) labor at the local art college in your area. You know, the Art Institute of Whatever for instance. You will get some good artwork cheap, and if your sign the right papers for them at the school, they will get credit for an internship. It works very well for both of you. I have done this when I was in school and I helped out some folks with some artwork. I got class credit for it, so I didn't mind working for free. Then, once I graduated, I moved it into a mostly-full-time freelance job. Then, later, I started outsourcing my own work to another school. So, it all comes around full-circle, and everyone wins.
Following Kyoto would involve lowering our useage of oil. Bear in mind where Bush's money from enterprises past and future comes from.
So there is no good reason to sign the Kyoto Treaty unless you count rejoining the global community, preserving the planet, or any of that tree hugging hippy crap.
ifconfig wlan0 hw ether [mac address]
In Windows, there is a nice program called Mac Makeup to do it for you.
Both of these methods do work for wireless cards. I tested it fairly extensively when I setup my own wifi network.
So, you're argument- if I understand it correctly, is that you want the ability to send an anonymous email (without a return email address) so that you can ask a question? How, pray tell, would the recipient of this email supply you with an answer?
Wow- I could imagine a bootable Knoppix-like CD branded by Google. You could stick the CD into any computer connected to the internet and regardless of OS, country, language, etc, it would come up with a login screen. That login screen brings you to your desktop with all of your settings (stored on Google's server) with access to your gmail, browser, blog, files stored on the GmailFS, Google IM, Google Office Suite, etc...
I think, when he typed "Dr. Spock", he actually meant "Yoda".
I call bullshit. Where are these jobs and who are they hiring? Are you intimating that all the programmers who lose their jobs to outsourcing are offered CEO jobs? Or that they even have the skill set/training/inclination for such a job? It is true that few of those jobs are being outsourced, but the people who have those jobs now will continue to have them. That doesn't mean that there will suddenly sprout up a few thousand instant CTO ads in the classified pages.
Not real sure what the actual minimum requirements are, but I am running it on an ancient POS laptop- 400 mhz, 32 MB RAM, 4 GB hard drive. And everything is working for me- wireless NIC, DVD burner, etc. X is very slow, as you might guess by the sheer lack of RAM, but all the command line stuff works. I set up a samba server , SSH server, and FTP server with no problems at all.
Yes. The Ubuntu base is Debian, and you use apt-get (or aptitude, or synaptic) to get the new packages. The preset Ubuntu package sources are in some cases slightly different than the ones you would download from the normal Debian mirrors, but most of the programs are there in the "universe" area. Also, you can adjust your /etc/apt/sources.list to go to normal Debian mirrors if there is something that you can't find through the Ubuntu channels. That is unsupported according to the Ubuntu website, but in theory it should work- in fact, in theory, you should be able to fully convert your Ubuntu system to Debian Sarge this way.
The fact that it comes with Gnome by default does not mean that you can't run KDE if you wish. On the FAQ for Ubuntu, there is instructions for how to get KDE to run. Basically, you just have to uncomment a line out of the /etc/apt/sources.list to add the "universe" apt source and then you have access to KDE and all sorts of other Debian goodies.
It is a small program that will fit on the thumb drive abd it has a whole array of different encryption algorithms and strengths.
The server does allow a range of codes to work. I have been using SecurID and you can put in the tokencode from 1-2 minutes ago and it will let you in. So, if the token gets out of sync from the server, it is ok. If it gets too out of sync, then you need to call the help desk and they can resync it using some online tools. It takes less than a minute to do. I've never experienced a time drift problem that resyncing didn't fix, but theoretically, if it cant sync back up, they can always just send you a new card and use that one instead.
While I wouldn't put it past AOL to skip the security steps, the technology certainly allows for pretty good security if used correctly. It is certainly better than the current AOL situation.
Bear in mind, I still think AOL sucks, and I would never use it for various reasons, but I have been using a SecurID system for work for about 6 years and it seems very good. There are several client programs for it that also enclude encryption so even sniffers on the network can't find out the username or password that is used.
I have been using an old crappy Micron ClientPro ZX (300 mhz) laptop as a FTP/Samba server for a year or so. It is running Debian testing and I keep the lid closed all the time and SSH into it to do configurations and whatnot. It doesn't have a battery, so it is plugged in all the time. I have never had a problem with it, and so far, it has never crashed or required a reboot except when I upgraded the kernel.
It's great. It takes up almost no space, uses very little power, it is quiet and easily accessible. And it runs Debian far better than Windows 98 that it came with.
Then, 2 years later, they sent me a new card, saying my old one expired. They never canceled it at all. Then when I called to cancel it again, they went through the same routine. I started yelling obscenely at the poor guy and finally he canceled my credit card.
Yes- I think it is sqrt(-1)
And if they are real geeks, then it might become R2D2ns...
I think that as slashdotters, we tend to think of Open Source as a movement and we understand the freedom associated with it. The whole world does not. Sometimes, they just see well-written (hopefully!) software that costs less than the proprietary stuff. The political right is generally pretty fixated on the "bottom line" and if open source fits the bill, then that's what they'll want. Hopefully more Conservative powers-that-be follow Arnold's example... even if their reasoning isn't as idealistic as we'd like, at least OSS gets out there.
OK- that is a really stupid thing to say. I agree. but I think that what they meant was not if the computer is powered off, but if the P2P program was shut down. There are a few maliciously written P2P programs that will continue to share files even after the main interface screen has been shut down.