FPS games that are single-player only never last. The last good multiplayer FPS that id put out was QIII, which was put out over 5 years ago. Doom III's multiplayer was just...bad.
Everyone plays ut2k4, hl2, CS, whatever because it's fun either sneaking around and sniping people, or jumping around flinging rockets. Doom III kinda mixed them, and failed to create a fun multiplayer experience.
The Poor Man's Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks.
That aside, a decent motherboard will come with a RAID IDE controller, so you could easily just grab a pair of 250 WD caviars. Or go the cheapo route and do maxtor.
Uh. It's not a job. I'm a student, doing this for experience. And we did lock down the machines, its just that other students that worked as tech leaked the passwords.
You could run the Office programs. You could surf the internet. If you needed something special, we came around and installed the program for you to make sure it fit.
Things are different today, in that students seem simply to be more malicious today. You ever install a virus/keylogger onto a school computer, just because you could? I've dealt with that.
Remember, the school setting is meant for minimal liability more than anything. Sad, but a truth in today's world.
Students will be required to use the school district issued laptop for school purpose
That says that the only use for the laptops is for school purposes, does not say that the only computers allowed for the purpose of school work are the school issued computers. That's a reversal of the logic sequence. P -> Q != Q -> P.
And as for the other portion, of course they'll restrict access to their network. Basic security means you don't let unauthorized computers on the network.
The most software you'll need outside of school would be Word+Excel. They provide the laptops to ENSURE that you are capable of running them, aka covering their asses. And if you don't have an actual computer capable of running word or excel, well then you shouldn't be dicking around with admin on a school computer, eh?
Have you configured it properly such that malware can't break through?
Can you make sure someone doesn't install a malicious extension?
It may be fine and dandy for the home user, but as a tech for a school, installing FF presents yet another potential hole to be plugged. We have our hands full with IE6 anyhow....
The computer is OWNED under the auspices of the school, and thus it is their right to monitor it, in order to minimize liability. In fact, in most usage policies it's explicitly stated that 'you may be subject to monitoring'. And if you don't like it, well, you don't have to use a school computer.
Most usage policies that I've seen explicitly state something along the lines of 'criminal computer damage' or 'charges may be filed'. As a matter of fact, we have a cop on campus at my high school explicitly to arrest people, whether it be for fights (assault), drugs (obvious), and yes, 'hacking' (cybercrime is the term used, I believe). Even for something so simple as getting on the teach's computer when he's not looking. Student discipline, sadly, has declined in public schools over the years, and punishments have adjusted accordingly.
Definitely not a felony though. Felony is defined typically as a heinous crime, and something simple as this should not be considered as such.
I don't agree that it's a felony level offense, but...
I'm a student computer tech at my high school, since the school is too cheap to hire a full time technical staff. You wouldn't believe the amount of times I was asked for the local administrator passwords to the campus computers, just from people who wanted to 'mess around'.
The main problem is twofold: first, that the school doesn't want to be held liable for any 'bad' content (the obvious part), and that IT MAKES MORE WORK FOR ME. The admin password was leaked many times, and you wouldn't believe how many times I've had to either reformat computers or wipe Kazaa/Steam/random emulators from computers where students wanted to mess around. The worst part, when some of them tried to remove SynchronEyes (our 'spy' program), they were so incompetent with what they were doing that they ended up fuxxing the domain privileges and rendering the computer inoperable on the network. We rarely, if ever, monitor student activity, since we don't have enough staff.
If you want to mess around or do anything 'cool' with a computer, DO IT AT HOME. If you're at school, use the computers for school work. It's not a game as to how much work you can cause for the local techs and admin, the computers are always for WORK. If you go ahead and make it a game, we get VERY pissed at having to clean yet another computer.
Or better yet, do what I did and join the tech support staff.
Excellent point. The problem is, you can't use the fact that 'if taxpayers pay for it and contribute to it, then they should have access to it', as justification.
Look at the NSA, CIA, random military bases. You're liable to be shot on sight if you sneak into them, and the information available there is simply an order of magnitude more sensitive.
So who ultimately decides the cutoff as to what we as taxpayers can see and what we can't? Judges like these. In this situation they made the proper choice, but I can't trust our judicial system in light of the 'other' rulings they've made.
Plates shifted, relatively high richter scale, but keep in mind the Richter scale is *not* a linear scale. Nothing like the big tsunami a few months back.
Hell, I live in San Diego, I felt a 5.6 a few days ago. Shook my bed a bit, that was more of an event than this.
Yes, a self-replicating robot would be most excellent - a robot that could duplicate itself without human intervention.
But then again, how long would it take for each robot to manufacture another copy, versus having a modular assembly line? I don't see self-replicating robots breaking into major industrial use.
Keep in mind, though, that working on OSS projects applies as 'experience'. If you're fresh out of school with the ink still wet on your CS degree, working for OSS for a while will most definitely get you a higher starting salary when you put it on your Resume.
Woo, woo, bad joke award goes to you!
Probably would have been slightly funnier if, you know, the Park Lane Hilton was a person, instead of a, oh, I dunno, a HOTEL.
..but there's already something out for people that got a DUI, it basically forces you to take a breathalyzer test before your engine starts. Google won't spit out a proper link though, so if someone could give me the link...
For all intents and purposes, that could just be a list of largest ISP networks. Large ISPs generally don't have the time to perform broad sweeps against zombie computers.
What is surprising is the European zombie count is higher than that of the United States. I wonder why.
The two views of Mars Odyssey in this image were acquired a little under 7.5 seconds apart as Odyssey receded from a close flyby of Mars Global Surveyor. The geometry of the flyby (see Figure 1) and the camera's way of acquiring an image line-by-line resulted in the two views of Odyssey in the same frame. The first view (right) was taken when Odyssey was about 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Global Surveyor and moving more rapidly than Global Surveyor was rotating, as seen from Global Surveyor. A few seconds later, Odyssey was farther away -- about 135 kilometers (84 miles) -- and appeared to be moving more slowly. In this second view of Odyssey (left), the Mars Orbiter Camera's field-of-view overtook Odyssey.
Its the same frame exposed twice. Think about what happens when you take a picture, but set the exposure time too long.
1. In densely packed office buildings, it is in fact cheaper (in terms of material and labor, nobody wants to bust down walls to insert cabling) to just have wireless and put repeater antennas everywhere.
2. $20,000 for a toilet seat breaks down into this:
$19975 for secret black-ops projects nobody will ever hear about.
$24 for the Toilet Seat
$1 for the liability insurance. You know, from the dangers a toilet seat can cause.
I have a cousin who is blind and uses a guide dog.
A few weeks ago, his dog essentially mauled some burgler attempting a home invasion.
Robots may be fine and dandy for lab rat use, but in the real world where unexpected things happen, you need to have something that can adapt to emergencies, something that robots won't be able to do for a while.
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FPS games that are single-player only never last. The last good multiplayer FPS that id put out was QIII, which was put out over 5 years ago. Doom III's multiplayer was just...bad.
Everyone plays ut2k4, hl2, CS, whatever because it's fun either sneaking around and sniping people, or jumping around flinging rockets. Doom III kinda mixed them, and failed to create a fun multiplayer experience.
I'm still looking forward to Quake 4, however.
And those millions, no tens of millions, of people that still use a Windows variant, years and years after it became outdated.
Or you know....it could have actually been a good OS that a few people just happen to not like for some reason.
Oh wait.
The Poor Man's Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks.
That aside, a decent motherboard will come with a RAID IDE controller, so you could easily just grab a pair of 250 WD caviars. Or go the cheapo route and do maxtor.
Uh. It's not a job. I'm a student, doing this for experience. And we did lock down the machines, its just that other students that worked as tech leaked the passwords.
You could run the Office programs. You could surf the internet. If you needed something special, we came around and installed the program for you to make sure it fit.
Things are different today, in that students seem simply to be more malicious today. You ever install a virus/keylogger onto a school computer, just because you could? I've dealt with that.
Remember, the school setting is meant for minimal liability more than anything. Sad, but a truth in today's world.
Oh jesus, time for a little logic.
Students will be required to use the school district issued laptop for school purpose
That says that the only use for the laptops is for school purposes, does not say that the only computers allowed for the purpose of school work are the school issued computers. That's a reversal of the logic sequence. P -> Q != Q -> P.
And as for the other portion, of course they'll restrict access to their network. Basic security means you don't let unauthorized computers on the network.
The most software you'll need outside of school would be Word+Excel. They provide the laptops to ENSURE that you are capable of running them, aka covering their asses. And if you don't have an actual computer capable of running word or excel, well then you shouldn't be dicking around with admin on a school computer, eh?
Excellent.
Have you configured it properly such that malware can't break through?
Can you make sure someone doesn't install a malicious extension?
It may be fine and dandy for the home user, but as a tech for a school, installing FF presents yet another potential hole to be plugged. We have our hands full with IE6 anyhow....
Of course it isn't.
The computer is OWNED under the auspices of the school, and thus it is their right to monitor it, in order to minimize liability. In fact, in most usage policies it's explicitly stated that 'you may be subject to monitoring'. And if you don't like it, well, you don't have to use a school computer.
You probably aren't in school anymore.
Most usage policies that I've seen explicitly state something along the lines of 'criminal computer damage' or 'charges may be filed'. As a matter of fact, we have a cop on campus at my high school explicitly to arrest people, whether it be for fights (assault), drugs (obvious), and yes, 'hacking' (cybercrime is the term used, I believe). Even for something so simple as getting on the teach's computer when he's not looking. Student discipline, sadly, has declined in public schools over the years, and punishments have adjusted accordingly.
Definitely not a felony though. Felony is defined typically as a heinous crime, and something simple as this should not be considered as such.
I don't agree that it's a felony level offense, but...
I'm a student computer tech at my high school, since the school is too cheap to hire a full time technical staff. You wouldn't believe the amount of times I was asked for the local administrator passwords to the campus computers, just from people who wanted to 'mess around'.
The main problem is twofold: first, that the school doesn't want to be held liable for any 'bad' content (the obvious part), and that IT MAKES MORE WORK FOR ME. The admin password was leaked many times, and you wouldn't believe how many times I've had to either reformat computers or wipe Kazaa/Steam/random emulators from computers where students wanted to mess around. The worst part, when some of them tried to remove SynchronEyes (our 'spy' program), they were so incompetent with what they were doing that they ended up fuxxing the domain privileges and rendering the computer inoperable on the network. We rarely, if ever, monitor student activity, since we don't have enough staff.
If you want to mess around or do anything 'cool' with a computer, DO IT AT HOME. If you're at school, use the computers for school work. It's not a game as to how much work you can cause for the local techs and admin, the computers are always for WORK. If you go ahead and make it a game, we get VERY pissed at having to clean yet another computer.
Or better yet, do what I did and join the tech support staff.
Who the heck cares about the rest of the internet, can this thing hold all the pr0n?
Ah yes, open source is ALWAYS better than anything any closed source, NO MATTER WHAT. Thank you, mister OSS zealot.
I personally find the free version's advertisement s unobtrusive, anyhow.
THIS should be perfect for mobile web browsing.
Most definitely works for me, at least.
Excellent point. The problem is, you can't use the fact that 'if taxpayers pay for it and contribute to it, then they should have access to it', as justification.
Look at the NSA, CIA, random military bases. You're liable to be shot on sight if you sneak into them, and the information available there is simply an order of magnitude more sensitive.
So who ultimately decides the cutoff as to what we as taxpayers can see and what we can't? Judges like these. In this situation they made the proper choice, but I can't trust our judicial system in light of the 'other' rulings they've made.
Link to CNN article.
Plates shifted, relatively high richter scale, but keep in mind the Richter scale is *not* a linear scale. Nothing like the big tsunami a few months back.
Hell, I live in San Diego, I felt a 5.6 a few days ago. Shook my bed a bit, that was more of an event than this.
Yes, a self-replicating robot would be most excellent - a robot that could duplicate itself without human intervention.
But then again, how long would it take for each robot to manufacture another copy, versus having a modular assembly line? I don't see self-replicating robots breaking into major industrial use.
Keep in mind, though, that working on OSS projects applies as 'experience'. If you're fresh out of school with the ink still wet on your CS degree, working for OSS for a while will most definitely get you a higher starting salary when you put it on your Resume.
Unless you go to work for SCO or MS.
Woo, woo, bad joke award goes to you!
Probably would have been slightly funnier if, you know, the Park Lane Hilton was a person, instead of a, oh, I dunno, a HOTEL.
I actually did RTFA. This basically seems like a neater way to make a Petri dish.
He uses bacteria as 'ink', and presses the bacterial mold onto a sheet to produce a bacteria pattern.
I'm not exactly sure why this is better or worse than simply pipetting bacteria into a large petri dish, though.
..but there's already something out for people that got a DUI, it basically forces you to take a breathalyzer test before your engine starts. Google won't spit out a proper link though, so if someone could give me the link...
It'd probably be much cheaper than $600 a car.
For all intents and purposes, that could just be a list of largest ISP networks. Large ISPs generally don't have the time to perform broad sweeps against zombie computers.
What is surprising is the European zombie count is higher than that of the United States. I wonder why.
[i] the chances of a working living breathing console coming from them are very very remote.[/i]
You kidding me? Just hire a few chinese teenagers to act as the GPU and RAM, and force them to memorize things and do hex math.
One living, breathing console to you.
The two views of Mars Odyssey in this image were acquired a little under 7.5 seconds apart as Odyssey receded from a close flyby of Mars Global Surveyor. The geometry of the flyby (see Figure 1) and the camera's way of acquiring an image line-by-line resulted in the two views of Odyssey in the same frame. The first view (right) was taken when Odyssey was about 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Global Surveyor and moving more rapidly than Global Surveyor was rotating, as seen from Global Surveyor. A few seconds later, Odyssey was farther away -- about 135 kilometers (84 miles) -- and appeared to be moving more slowly. In this second view of Odyssey (left), the Mars Orbiter Camera's field-of-view overtook Odyssey.
Its the same frame exposed twice. Think about what happens when you take a picture, but set the exposure time too long.
1. In densely packed office buildings, it is in fact cheaper (in terms of material and labor, nobody wants to bust down walls to insert cabling) to just have wireless and put repeater antennas everywhere.
2. $20,000 for a toilet seat breaks down into this:
$19975 for secret black-ops projects nobody will ever hear about.
$24 for the Toilet Seat
$1 for the liability insurance. You know, from the dangers a toilet seat can cause.
I have a cousin who is blind and uses a guide dog. A few weeks ago, his dog essentially mauled some burgler attempting a home invasion.
Robots may be fine and dandy for lab rat use, but in the real world where unexpected things happen, you need to have something that can adapt to emergencies, something that robots won't be able to do for a while.