Historically The best predictor of a TV show's sucess is the popularity of the show it debuts after. It really does not matter how good it is. We just start watching "what ever is on next" and get hooked that way.
The Mechwarrior Series has been downhill since mech 2.(When M$ took it over from microprose, IIRC). It has steadily been devolving from a unique game to just another graphics-rich FPS with a "mech" gimic. Every new release of the game has brought more simplified game play, and less control over your mech.
Your Analogy is inappropriate these students did not steal anything. They merely viewed information ahead of time that would be eventually given to them anyway. Harvard was not harmed at all.
....Because you have the courage to do what they cant; take control of your life. Timid people, (like myself) sit in dead-end jobs doing things we hate cause we are scared of loosing what we have to get something better. Those who deride you with the work is not supposed to be fun mantra probably are stuck in jobs that arent fun. It is only natural that they would resent who wants more for themselves. As for me, Im happy for you.
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Why would anyone devote the 10 years of intense study to become a PHD in a hard science like CS or CE just to do research to see if something someone else has done is similar to something that someone else has already done.
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I can tell you that this is great news. Our hospital currently has myriad legacy systems running on dinosaur mainframes all linked together buy buggy interfaces which sometimes resort to screen scraping.
Let me give an example of one of our systems, a text based system, with functionality similar to telnet, when I used it for the first time I noticed that it was slow to open, so I put a ethereal on it and noticed that to connect it sends 8MB of info every time you connect. Approximately 20,000 packets, each with every permutation of two ASCII chars.
We deal with crap this daily. For another program we are forced to use a non-standard telnet client that takes 100% of the CPU regardless of the machine you are using.
Open standards that could link admitting, clinical and financial hospital systems will save billions of dollars and probably a few human lives. Additionally, this will allow small software companies and open source coders to make applications that can be widely used. Ive been working on a multi million dollar project the last few months where an aspect of it was completely screwed up because one software vendor uses a non-standard interface that they will not allow us to access directly, as a result, our users have to settle for diminished functionality.
If encryption is built into this standard it will be a step ahead for HIPPA protection and most systems just send everything, (passwords too) in plain text. I for one, look forward enthusiastically to open source hospital applications made possible by open standards.
I'm not sure what country you are posting from, but in the country I dwell in, (USA) there are other laws that prevent people from following each other around with video cameras.
When engaging in a conversation in a restaurant, one should be cognizant that conversations can be overheard, and censor ones self accordingly. If I am in a public place and speaking loud enough for others to hear, they may do so. They may also what they hear in accordance with fair use. Posting on the internet is like speaking very, very loudly, so loudly that the entire world can hear. If this prospect is unsatisfactory then you must lower your voice i.e., use measures that prevent everyone from viewing your speech.
Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to listen and remember.
Your analogy compares my car to information. For this analogy to be appropriate, it would need to be possible for you to use my car at the same time as I use it, with out affecting my usage. Posters of content on the web do so with the knowledge that their information can be viewed by persons all over the world who live in societies with differing laws concerning intellectual property. Hence the poster cannot enjoy a reasonable expectation of privacy or exclusive control of the content. Browsers, search engines and Internet Archives copy to (varying extents) what they see on the web. If an organization were to post some of its content online say www.mpaa.org/batman4_full_movie.mpg and take no precautions to protect it, They would find courts unwilling to prosecute downloaders of the file, as they took no measures to prevent its distribution.
Sorry for being long winded, but to sum up my argument:
It is the responsibility of the content poster to understand the nature of the medium hesh is posting too. In the case of the internet, it unreasonable to post content and expect exclusive control when even the simplest measures are not taken to protect it.
If you think the IA is a good idea, then perhaps you also will like the idea of recording everything everyone says outside their own home, in public, and allowing the world free, in both senses, access to the catalog.
What is said in the home is private, what is said on the internet is public.
Should web browser caches be illegal?
btw, the whitehouse.gove opts out of the archive cause they have been caught before trying to revise history. http://www.spinsanity.org/posts/2003_08_24_archive.html
My hard drives are covered with thermite packs set to ignite every day at 1:57pm unless the code is entered. If they capture me, and I cant enter the code, my PC will self-destruct. My case is pressurized; any change in pressure will set off the thermite. My computer room is an access-controlled area patrolled by ninjas and attack dogs. The floor is pressure sensitive and there are cameras. The only possible weak point is the oversized ventilator shaft that goes directly over the room. But nobody knows about that.
Well physical damage would be a bad idea if you want the company to honor the warentee. A good way to destroy the drive with out leaving a trace might be running main-power to some random pins. Be careful
Slashdot Mirror
Historically The best predictor of a TV show's sucess is the popularity of the show it debuts after. It really does not matter how good it is. We just start watching "what ever is on next" and get hooked that way.
http://ocw.mit.edu/ would it restrict the classes they can put online?
Can someone explain how a software audit works? Can software companies come to my home/biz/school and demand access to my PCs? Cant I just say no?
The Mechwarrior Series has been downhill since mech 2.(When M$ took it over from microprose, IIRC). It has steadily been devolving from a unique game to just another graphics-rich FPS with a "mech" gimic. Every new release of the game has brought more simplified game play, and less control over your mech.
We have not attempted to pull this post towards standard conventions of slash dot mockery, but rather expand those conventions to include this post.
Your Analogy is inappropriate these students did not steal anything. They merely viewed information ahead of time that would be eventually given to them anyway. Harvard was not harmed at all.
....Because you have the courage to do what they cant; take control of your life. Timid people, (like myself) sit in dead-end jobs doing things we hate cause we are scared of loosing what we have to get something better. Those who deride you with the work is not supposed to be fun mantra probably are stuck in jobs that arent fun. It is only natural that they would resent who wants more for themselves. As for me, Im happy for you.
Good luck
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Wanted: PHD in physics to serve fast food through drive through window.
Exploitation begins at home.
Slashdot Relases Story Again.
Let me give an example of one of our systems, a text based system, with functionality similar to telnet, when I used it for the first time I noticed that it was slow to open, so I put a ethereal on it and noticed that to connect it sends 8MB of info every time you connect. Approximately 20,000 packets, each with every permutation of two ASCII chars.
We deal with crap this daily. For another program we are forced to use a non-standard telnet client that takes 100% of the CPU regardless of the machine you are using.
Open standards that could link admitting, clinical and financial hospital systems will save billions of dollars and probably a few human lives. Additionally, this will allow small software companies and open source coders to make applications that can be widely used. Ive been working on a multi million dollar project the last few months where an aspect of it was completely screwed up because one software vendor uses a non-standard interface that they will not allow us to access directly, as a result, our users have to settle for diminished functionality.
If encryption is built into this standard it will be a step ahead for HIPPA protection and most systems just send everything, (passwords too) in plain text. I for one, look forward enthusiastically to open source hospital applications made possible by open standards.
I'm not sure what country you are posting from, but in the country I dwell in, (USA) there are other laws that prevent people from following each other around with video cameras.
When engaging in a conversation in a restaurant, one should be cognizant that conversations can be overheard, and censor ones self accordingly. If I am in a public place and speaking loud enough for others to hear, they may do so. They may also what they hear in accordance with fair use. Posting on the internet is like speaking very, very loudly, so loudly that the entire world can hear. If this prospect is unsatisfactory then you must lower your voice i.e., use measures that prevent everyone from viewing your speech.
Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to listen and remember.
Sorry for being long winded, but to sum up my argument:
It is the responsibility of the content poster to understand the nature of the medium hesh is posting too. In the case of the internet, it unreasonable to post content and expect exclusive control when even the simplest measures are not taken to protect it.
Internet Archives will continue to thrive.
What is said in the home is private, what is said on the internet is public.e .html
Should web browser caches be illegal?
btw, the whitehouse.gove opts out of the archive cause they have been caught before trying to revise history. http://www.spinsanity.org/posts/2003_08_24_archiv
My hard drives are covered with thermite packs set to ignite every day at 1:57pm unless the code is entered. If they capture me, and I cant enter the code, my PC will self-destruct. My case is pressurized; any change in pressure will set off the thermite. My computer room is an access-controlled area patrolled by ninjas and attack dogs. The floor is pressure sensitive and there are cameras. The only possible weak point is the oversized ventilator shaft that goes directly over the room.
But nobody knows about that.
Then he'd increase hubble's budget by 170 million.
I got my MXP100 off ebay for 40USD
It takes CF and accepts voice commands.
www.edigital.com
Turns out the parents were right after all!
Yes Actually they have employed pshycics before
Or people claming to be..
This "article" summerizes slashdot postings.
This is an important step, but it still does not hide the user's IPs from the *AA.
From the Article:
It does not address problems of anonymity, privacy, or distributed data retention, although we hope to address these issues in future versions.
$ mkdir mycvs
$ cvsup -d mycvs/ init
In eclipse, click Window->Open Perspective->other->CVS. Login to your sever.
Enjoy all the money you saved.
I for one, Welcome a bewolf cluster of these into soviet russia.
Well physical damage would be a bad idea if you want the company to honor the warentee. A good way to destroy the drive with out leaving a trace might be running main-power to some random pins. Be careful