I'm amazed that the FTC actually looked at technical feasability of such a system when forming the opinion. I would have prefered their decision also cited that private enterprise and individuals are both working doubletime on solutions. I've never regretted slapping SpamAssassin on my mail server.
I'm with you. Prior to these arrests, I had even wondered if the supposed theft had happened at all. I don't see any reason for the theft to delay the game like it has. So far as I am concerned, they pounced on what they saw as a good excuse to fabricate a delay.
A website I do work for has located a website that not only ripped off our content verbatim, but also leeches bandwidth by deep-linking our images. We've sent multiple e-mails to the domain owner and the ISP with no response. Why? They're in Korea! Nothing like getting blown off when it costs us a few gigs of transfer a month, eh?
Appearantly it's something speacial because the signals are picked up on the river. Imagine that, radio signals travelling well over an unobstructed area: who would have ever guessed?:/
So much for national sovereignty, eh? Why bother making our own laws when it's so much easier to have other countries write them for us? I'm so sick of Congress shirking their duties to foreign powers. I can't wait for the day we get to hang them for treason.
The best part is that you can now cite all those hours of Civ 3 as "research". Not that your significant other will buy that when telling you to go to bed at 3AM...
Let's not forget that someone has to setup all that fancy automated stuff too. It doesn't just jump out of the box like that. I see the real value of automation being that we finally have the tools to manage the overinflated expectations often placed upon us. It frees us up from the trivial grunt work so that we can get to the real work... setting up an after-hours LAN party using the company's servers.
And in other cases, some businesses have IT personel with enough accumen to install Firefox instead of IE.:)
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I think that's probably the most appropriate application. I hate having to download different graphing libraries for apps written in PHP, and standardizing on OpenGL seems like a good idea to me.
You're entirely on-target. When I was doing field maintenance, I would warn EVERY user I saw that Internet Explorer is a beehive of viruses and spyware. Every system got Ad-aware and SpyBot (with the immunizations and blockers, and I talked the vast majority into buying a new copy of Norton Antivirus, explaining THOROUGHLY that when it says renew, they'd better darned well do it. The few that didn't buy the software from me were counselled to get it somewhere if not from me. I also switched a fair number of people over to using Firefox, and a lot of them really liked it.
Not that I'm in a corporate environment, I've got Firefox replacing IE on every system, SAVCE 9.0 (which finally has some spyware protection), and a Netscreen 5XP firewall. I also make sure all our employees know about this stuff so that they can take it home and practice it there. It's a lot of work, but I'll be damned if I'm going to allow their systems to become zombies that flood our mail server.
We've had a LOT of wireless ISPs come and go in Las Vegas, and I think it proves that low-range 802.11 isn't going to cut it. The cost of deploying so much equipment is staggering, and with excellent service (and superior advertising) from the local cable company plus DSL being offered by the local telco yields very few customers to choose from. It's also fixed to your location; no roaming laptop access for you!
Until WiMAX (802.16) is hammered out, I doubt that many wireless ISPs will flourish. The cost of starting the business is just too high.
It wouldn't surprise me on that. Contractors have been ripping off government agencies on projects since... well... whenever. Here in the Las Vegas area, the school district has a mandatory furniture replacement policy. Regardless of wear and tear, all the furniture is ripped out every 2 years for new pieces. And yet, somehow, we are told there isn't enough money for schools...
I think a good moral to this story is to keep a watchful eye on government spending, and don't be afraid to speak up.
I just realized this had little to do with the original story, so... I wonder if they're using WiFi or WiMAX?
It is my opinion that college degrees don't do a whole lot more than independent study or apprenticeships can do for you. What could you possibly learn in a classroom that you couldn't learn on the job? Let's take IT as a great example. Universities have the damnest time keeping up with the rapidly evolving world of IT, and as such cannot possibly keep the latest and greatest information flowing into your hot little hands. I can't count the number of job applicants I've interviewed with BS and MS degrees that have no clue how things work.
Them: "Well, that's not how it worked in the lab." Me: "Thanks for noticing. Now figure out how it really works!"
All the college system has served to do is place no value on the *real* learning of participating in the workplace and learning a trade. Instead of being able to apprentice under someone in the field you like, you now have to spend tens of thousands of dollars for a sub-par education that has to be supplemented with years in the workforce anyway. When will we stop attaching so much value to a piece of paper that really isn't a testament to real-world knowledge?
Trying is believing.
I had been approaching Linux as a curiousity, a sort of hobbyist tinkering OS for people who had a lot of time to invest in learning and deploying the systems. And then I got charged with building a mail server.
One Gentoo server later (complete with all the goodies needed to make Horde work properly), I've seen the light, that it's NOT hard to use, and that it's very simple to learn. The level of documentation is also far and away the best of any OS I've experienced. (I did find that it takes a little while to learn how to find and read documentation.)
It is a far cry from my first attempt at Linux on a 486 almost 8 years ago.
Everyone I shared this with thought it was a half-decent idea, actually. I know I'd use such a system. Whenever I cook something, I have to make several servings, and sometimes the idea of chicken lo mein or white bean chicken chili several nights in a row doesn't sound so great.
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I had to keep from disrupting the office with my laughter. That's great!
I'm amazed that the FTC actually looked at technical feasability of such a system when forming the opinion. I would have prefered their decision also cited that private enterprise and individuals are both working doubletime on solutions. I've never regretted slapping SpamAssassin on my mail server.
I'm with you. Prior to these arrests, I had even wondered if the supposed theft had happened at all. I don't see any reason for the theft to delay the game like it has. So far as I am concerned, they pounced on what they saw as a good excuse to fabricate a delay.
A website I do work for has located a website that not only ripped off our content verbatim, but also leeches bandwidth by deep-linking our images. We've sent multiple e-mails to the domain owner and the ISP with no response. Why? They're in Korea! Nothing like getting blown off when it costs us a few gigs of transfer a month, eh?
Appearantly it's something speacial because the signals are picked up on the river. Imagine that, radio signals travelling well over an unobstructed area: who would have ever guessed? :/
So much for national sovereignty, eh? Why bother making our own laws when it's so much easier to have other countries write them for us? I'm so sick of Congress shirking their duties to foreign powers. I can't wait for the day we get to hang them for treason.
The best part is that you can now cite all those hours of Civ 3 as "research". Not that your significant other will buy that when telling you to go to bed at 3AM...
Let's not forget that someone has to setup all that fancy automated stuff too. It doesn't just jump out of the box like that. I see the real value of automation being that we finally have the tools to manage the overinflated expectations often placed upon us. It frees us up from the trivial grunt work so that we can get to the real work... setting up an after-hours LAN party using the company's servers.
And in other cases, some businesses have IT personel with enough accumen to install Firefox instead of IE. :)
I think that's probably the most appropriate application. I hate having to download different graphing libraries for apps written in PHP, and standardizing on OpenGL seems like a good idea to me.
So long as people are a part of the security equation, 100% security is a pipe dream. Pesky users... why do *they* need to be involved in the process?
You're entirely on-target. When I was doing field maintenance, I would warn EVERY user I saw that Internet Explorer is a beehive of viruses and spyware. Every system got Ad-aware and SpyBot (with the immunizations and blockers, and I talked the vast majority into buying a new copy of Norton Antivirus, explaining THOROUGHLY that when it says renew, they'd better darned well do it. The few that didn't buy the software from me were counselled to get it somewhere if not from me. I also switched a fair number of people over to using Firefox, and a lot of them really liked it. Not that I'm in a corporate environment, I've got Firefox replacing IE on every system, SAVCE 9.0 (which finally has some spyware protection), and a Netscreen 5XP firewall. I also make sure all our employees know about this stuff so that they can take it home and practice it there. It's a lot of work, but I'll be damned if I'm going to allow their systems to become zombies that flood our mail server.
We've had a LOT of wireless ISPs come and go in Las Vegas, and I think it proves that low-range 802.11 isn't going to cut it. The cost of deploying so much equipment is staggering, and with excellent service (and superior advertising) from the local cable company plus DSL being offered by the local telco yields very few customers to choose from. It's also fixed to your location; no roaming laptop access for you! Until WiMAX (802.16) is hammered out, I doubt that many wireless ISPs will flourish. The cost of starting the business is just too high.
It wouldn't surprise me on that. Contractors have been ripping off government agencies on projects since... well... whenever. Here in the Las Vegas area, the school district has a mandatory furniture replacement policy. Regardless of wear and tear, all the furniture is ripped out every 2 years for new pieces. And yet, somehow, we are told there isn't enough money for schools...
I think a good moral to this story is to keep a watchful eye on government spending, and don't be afraid to speak up.
I just realized this had little to do with the original story, so... I wonder if they're using WiFi or WiMAX?
It is my opinion that college degrees don't do a whole lot more than independent study or apprenticeships can do for you. What could you possibly learn in a classroom that you couldn't learn on the job? Let's take IT as a great example. Universities have the damnest time keeping up with the rapidly evolving world of IT, and as such cannot possibly keep the latest and greatest information flowing into your hot little hands. I can't count the number of job applicants I've interviewed with BS and MS degrees that have no clue how things work.
Them: "Well, that's not how it worked in the lab."
Me: "Thanks for noticing. Now figure out how it really works!"
All the college system has served to do is place no value on the *real* learning of participating in the workplace and learning a trade. Instead of being able to apprentice under someone in the field you like, you now have to spend tens of thousands of dollars for a sub-par education that has to be supplemented with years in the workforce anyway. When will we stop attaching so much value to a piece of paper that really isn't a testament to real-world knowledge?
Trying is believing. I had been approaching Linux as a curiousity, a sort of hobbyist tinkering OS for people who had a lot of time to invest in learning and deploying the systems. And then I got charged with building a mail server. One Gentoo server later (complete with all the goodies needed to make Horde work properly), I've seen the light, that it's NOT hard to use, and that it's very simple to learn. The level of documentation is also far and away the best of any OS I've experienced. (I did find that it takes a little while to learn how to find and read documentation.) It is a far cry from my first attempt at Linux on a 486 almost 8 years ago.
Everyone I shared this with thought it was a half-decent idea, actually. I know I'd use such a system. Whenever I cook something, I have to make several servings, and sometimes the idea of chicken lo mein or white bean chicken chili several nights in a row doesn't sound so great.
Maybe someone will create something like this?