A university's, just like any other business, has a reputation to uphold that is extremely vital to their prestige. I would be very put off by an institution that allowed its students to spout off obscenities about professors and badmouth students in a very immature way in public with no repurcussions whatsoever.
Because lots of corporations and governmental bodies, particularly those dealing with sensitive data, have access to removeable media such as USB drives, CD-RW drives, and floppy drives, disabled by default.
Typical for/. to have Enquirer-like sensationalist headlines to drive page views and comments, but this is obviously wrong. He was not suspended for blogging. He was suspended for directly insulting professors and students in a public forum.
"half a dozen postings including one describing a professor as 'a (expletive) of a teacher' and another that described 20 classmates as having the 'intellectual/maturity of a 3-year-old.' "
This is a private institution enacting disciplinary action on a member who directly insulted other members and staff of said instutition ina public forum.
If I walked down the street telling everyone how much my professor sucked monkey balls, and one of the people I told happened to be the dean, I would be amazed if I didn't get suspended or expelled.
The kid wasn't put in jail. His rights haven't been infringed in any way.
Either that, or at the time there were no Linux drivers for my graphics card or webcam, there were no decent games for it, and the only available web browser even remotely compatible with most sites was POS Netscape.
Take your own "you couldn't figure out how to use Linux" elitist BS back into your hole.
As for the spyware on linux, random people don't write and distribute spywayre. Spyware is created for profit, and there is currently no profit to be made on writing spyware apps for linux. That's why they're not there.
I ran OSX back in the day on a G3 when it first came out. I've periodically tried linux on my desktop, but always went back to Windows for various reasons.
I'm a unix admin and use FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris regularly so I'm pretty familiar with the OS, and I'm also well aware that virtually anything can get installed on my system while installing other apps.
The point is that the ONLY reason spyware is Windows-specific at the moment is because Windows is installed on so many desktops.
It sounds like OSX has a halfway decent mechanism in the popup box that comes up when you first run a program, but how hard would it be for a program to bypass that, or even simply be a part of the executable you DO want to run (limewire.exe or whatever it might be)?
Linux may be a magic bullet for keeping yourself safe from spyware and viruses at the moment, but that will only last as long as linux is a niche player in the desktop world.
Will someone explain to me how linux or OSX are magically immune to spyware?
If you go to install some filesharing app, and you don't do some extremely thorough inspection of the installation procedure, you can get some spyware installed on your machine during the process no matter what the operating system is.
Right after I typed that, I remembered that CSI episode and thought about what possible uses a criminal could have for this.
I decided it would be slim to none. DNA samples aren't taken from your skin, they're taken from saliva, blood, hair, etc.
Anyway, I was then tempted to say that by definition, a chimera is a result of some genetic something or other. However, after I looked up the definition of chimera, it turns out that the reason an organism has more than one type of DNA doesn't matter:
1.An organism, organ, or part consisting of two or more tissues of different genetic composition, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.
2. An individual who has received a transplant of genetically and immunologically different tissue.
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The graft is living tissue that divides. The exterior layers are replaced by the basal layers, therefore I'm pretty sure it will show the same DNA for all time.
2.) The first X-Box was just a PC in a box. Literally, opening it up revealed standard PC parts. That they duped an entire market into buying it astonishes and frustrates me.
Duped the market?
They produced a gaming console. It works. You put a game in and it plays. It was in every way visible to the user a standard gaming console. Who cares if the parts inside are Intel and IDE and so forth? They produced a good console with some good games, so people sold it. They didn't dupe anyone.
Everyone seems to be griping about the time limit. I know it goes squarely against the DRM-hating/. masses, but not only is it valid but people will buy into it.
They've already been doing it for years with movies On Demand, now you can do the same thing on your computer. There are time limits for On Demand and Blockbuster, now it's the limit for your authorized download.
Big whoop. Just because it gets downloaded to your computer doesn't mean you have the right to watch it as many times as you want, as often as you want, for the rest of your life.
So you're possibly a halfway decent Linux admin, and a really really crappy Windows admin.
I'm not saying that Windows is better by any stretch of the imagination.. but the stuff you list (weekly reboots, walking from machine to machine to install software, frequent crashes, etc etc) simply does not exist in a Windows network that is managed halfway decently.
First of all, no you didn't. You studied a few of them in literature class (which is an elective in my school) but most of them, if you got them in school, were probably presented in an English class like I said.
I'm glad you know so much about what went on in my school.
From 4th through 12th grades, I had English class where we learned grammar and writing as well as literature class where we read and studied... gasp, literature.
Also, IMO the point of English class is NOT to memorize a couple of details about a few books. It's to learn about the English language, and perhaps some of its literature. Text message summaries of books doesn't teach you anything about either. Reading and understanding Fitzgerald does.
The point of Shakespeare and Dickens is not to memorize what happens. It's not history class. The Picture of Dorian Gray isn't a story about a portrait, it isn't a history lesson about what crazy stuff happened to some rich guy in the 19th century, it's a wonderful work of literature about a man and a time period.
Memorizing a few plot points and quotes from Faulkner does absolutely squat for learning anything whatsoever about these works of art. This isn't raising educational standards.
Turning Hamlet into a text message removes 100% of what makes it important. There's no point to it anymore at all.
I listened to Lawrence Lessig yesterday talking about it on NPR. He brought up a lot of good points, unsurprisingly, but the one that made me laugh was what he had to say about what was actually going on yesterday/today.
Here's a paraphrase: "In the end, I don't think that the sort of control they're battling about here even matters much. It used to be that to find a site you just guessed at the domain name, like ibm.com to get to IBM, but now most people just type what they're looking for into Google or Yahoo and find it that way."
He also made the point that "in the ideal world with the ideal domain name system, we don't have ICANN, but it works OK, and what we need to consider here is if we give up ICANN what are we going to fill that void with? I think other countries are simply using this as political leverage and distributing this control is not necessarily a good idea at all."
Lawrence, I apologize for the misquotes but this is what I came away with.
Trust me, they are. They are almost invariably on secure networks with no direct internet connection. They do not have floppy drives or CD drives. The users run with very restricted rights and never have Write permissions to the hard drives.
These machines are very, very locked down I assure you.
I have no standard to live up to, ultimately. If I were one of the major content producers for a site that draws millions of hits every day, and I consistently made egregious mistakes, I would be ashamed of myself.
This really isn't meant as a flame, but IMO that's not the sort of thing that just typos its way into something like a book review. I'm really not trying to be a grammar nazi, but does this bother anyone else? I mean, it's a BOOK REVIEW.
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IMO, the response was correct.
A university's, just like any other business, has a reputation to uphold that is extremely vital to their prestige. I would be very put off by an institution that allowed its students to spout off obscenities about professors and badmouth students in a very immature way in public with no repurcussions whatsoever.
Because lots of corporations and governmental bodies, particularly those dealing with sensitive data, have access to removeable media such as USB drives, CD-RW drives, and floppy drives, disabled by default.
"Marquette Dental Student Suspended For Blogging"
/. to have Enquirer-like sensationalist headlines to drive page views and comments, but this is obviously wrong. He was not suspended for blogging. He was suspended for directly insulting professors and students in a public forum.
Typical for
"half a dozen postings including one describing a professor as 'a (expletive) of a teacher' and another that described 20 classmates as having the 'intellectual/maturity of a 3-year-old.' "
This is a private institution enacting disciplinary action on a member who directly insulted other members and staff of said instutition ina public forum.
If I walked down the street telling everyone how much my professor sucked monkey balls, and one of the people I told happened to be the dean, I would be amazed if I didn't get suspended or expelled.
The kid wasn't put in jail. His rights haven't been infringed in any way.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Either that, or at the time there were no Linux drivers for my graphics card or webcam, there were no decent games for it, and the only available web browser even remotely compatible with most sites was POS Netscape.
Take your own "you couldn't figure out how to use Linux" elitist BS back into your hole.
As for the spyware on linux, random people don't write and distribute spywayre. Spyware is created for profit, and there is currently no profit to be made on writing spyware apps for linux. That's why they're not there.
I ran OSX back in the day on a G3 when it first came out. I've periodically tried linux on my desktop, but always went back to Windows for various reasons.
I'm a unix admin and use FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris regularly so I'm pretty familiar with the OS, and I'm also well aware that virtually anything can get installed on my system while installing other apps.
The point is that the ONLY reason spyware is Windows-specific at the moment is because Windows is installed on so many desktops.
It sounds like OSX has a halfway decent mechanism in the popup box that comes up when you first run a program, but how hard would it be for a program to bypass that, or even simply be a part of the executable you DO want to run (limewire.exe or whatever it might be)?
Linux may be a magic bullet for keeping yourself safe from spyware and viruses at the moment, but that will only last as long as linux is a niche player in the desktop world.
Yup.
It's terminal.
Will someone explain to me how linux or OSX are magically immune to spyware?
If you go to install some filesharing app, and you don't do some extremely thorough inspection of the installation procedure, you can get some spyware installed on your machine during the process no matter what the operating system is.
This isn't a Windows specific issue.
I decided it would be slim to none. DNA samples aren't taken from your skin, they're taken from saliva, blood, hair, etc.
Anyway, I was then tempted to say that by definition, a chimera is a result of some genetic something or other. However, after I looked up the definition of chimera, it turns out that the reason an organism has more than one type of DNA doesn't matter:
The graft is living tissue that divides. The exterior layers are replaced by the basal layers, therefore I'm pretty sure it will show the same DNA for all time.
Was it John Travolta's or Nicholas Cage's?
I wouldn't want either.
2.) The first X-Box was just a PC in a box. Literally, opening it up revealed standard PC parts. That they duped an entire market into buying it astonishes and frustrates me.
Duped the market?
They produced a gaming console. It works. You put a game in and it plays. It was in every way visible to the user a standard gaming console. Who cares if the parts inside are Intel and IDE and so forth? They produced a good console with some good games, so people sold it. They didn't dupe anyone.
Whirled Media would have been much more clever :)
Everyone seems to be griping about the time limit. I know it goes squarely against the DRM-hating /. masses, but not only is it valid but people will buy into it.
They've already been doing it for years with movies On Demand, now you can do the same thing on your computer. There are time limits for On Demand and Blockbuster, now it's the limit for your authorized download.
Big whoop. Just because it gets downloaded to your computer doesn't mean you have the right to watch it as many times as you want, as often as you want, for the rest of your life.
Get over it already.
That being said, I think prices will drop because artists will find that it is more lucrative to sell songs for .25 without giving the RIAA a cut
They'll do that as soon as they figure out how to find the large amounts of venture capital necessary to record and market albums and videos.
So you're possibly a halfway decent Linux admin, and a really really crappy Windows admin.
I'm not saying that Windows is better by any stretch of the imagination.. but the stuff you list (weekly reboots, walking from machine to machine to install software, frequent crashes, etc etc) simply does not exist in a Windows network that is managed halfway decently.
First of all, no you didn't. You studied a few of them in literature class (which is an elective in my school) but most of them, if you got them in school, were probably presented in an English class like I said.
I'm glad you know so much about what went on in my school.
From 4th through 12th grades, I had English class where we learned grammar and writing as well as literature class where we read and studied... gasp, literature.
Also, IMO the point of English class is NOT to memorize a couple of details about a few books. It's to learn about the English language, and perhaps some of its literature. Text message summaries of books doesn't teach you anything about either. Reading and understanding Fitzgerald does.
In what class are they being taught? Political science?
I studied them in literature class, and literature is without a doubt an art form.
The point of Shakespeare and Dickens is not to memorize what happens. It's not history class. The Picture of Dorian Gray isn't a story about a portrait, it isn't a history lesson about what crazy stuff happened to some rich guy in the 19th century, it's a wonderful work of literature about a man and a time period.
Memorizing a few plot points and quotes from Faulkner does absolutely squat for learning anything whatsoever about these works of art. This isn't raising educational standards.
Turning Hamlet into a text message removes 100% of what makes it important. There's no point to it anymore at all.
I listened to Lawrence Lessig yesterday talking about it on NPR. He brought up a lot of good points, unsurprisingly, but the one that made me laugh was what he had to say about what was actually going on yesterday/today.
Here's a paraphrase:
"In the end, I don't think that the sort of control they're battling about here even matters much. It used to be that to find a site you just guessed at the domain name, like ibm.com to get to IBM, but now most people just type what they're looking for into Google or Yahoo and find it that way."
He also made the point that "in the ideal world with the ideal domain name system, we don't have ICANN, but it works OK, and what we need to consider here is if we give up ICANN what are we going to fill that void with? I think other countries are simply using this as political leverage and distributing this control is not necessarily a good idea at all."
Lawrence, I apologize for the misquotes but this is what I came away with.
Dude, linux has been "catching up" for the last 10 years.
It's never going to "catch up."
Trust me, they are. They are almost invariably on secure networks with no direct internet connection. They do not have floppy drives or CD drives. The users run with very restricted rights and never have Write permissions to the hard drives.
These machines are very, very locked down I assure you.
I beat you by 8 minutes with that reply.
I have no standard to live up to, ultimately. If I were one of the major content producers for a site that draws millions of hits every day, and I consistently made egregious mistakes, I would be ashamed of myself.
Actually it's not a book review.
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It's a typical mistake-ridden blurb from your typical
Why am I not surprised.
"outshines it's class"
I stopped reading right there.
This really isn't meant as a flame, but IMO that's not the sort of thing that just typos its way into something like a book review. I'm really not trying to be a grammar nazi, but does this bother anyone else? I mean, it's a BOOK REVIEW.