So I can't legally connect to a proxy outside of the US and browse the internet as and where I choose? If you are telling me that my freedom is illusionary then is my connection to the server I purchased in Germany also illusionary? Am I really connecting to an NSA server who just happens to be able to spoof my secret keys and has spent a lot of time keeping up with the changes I make to my operating system?
Software piracy is copyright infringement and possibly a crime in your part of the world. It isn't theft unless something physical is involved. So unless these guys are boarding ships in international waters and looting the said ships for DVDs and CDs, it isn't really piracy or theft.
I went to a private school. If I fucked around they wouldn't take my stuff they'd tell me to pack my shit and leave. Taking property and redistributing is not an acceptable means of punishment. Expell the student, suspend them, or otherwise discipline them within the means of the law.
I don't know what kind of fucked up world you live in but taking my cell phone in high school would have amounted to theft if not given back. My parents would have been pissed off about me breaking the rules, but they would still pressed charges because an asshat teacher decided to steal from them.
Also, in my very personal experience, the police are called when the staff gets confused. The State police are called in when the locals are confused, and the state police knew enough to drop the issue. That is a waste of my tax money and a fucking shame.
No worries. I was banned from my middle school computer lab my 8th grade year for managing to "hack the printer system" while I was 10 miles away attending zero-hour advanced algebra class. When they found out, they accused me of writing a virus, but since I didn't have a home computer and they logged all of their user sessions, their expert couldn't find any evidence.
I managed to get banned for something I didn't do. Well, at least I used it as motivation to learn how to "hack". Well, I've spent 6 years with Unix and now a year in embedded systems and am doing pretty well auditing code for automotive applications. The private school I work for shouldn't hope for any donations in 3 years when my salary spikes and I move from a co-op to an engineer.
Money talks, revenge with cash is loud and painful.
So if 35% of people downloading music are using legal music downloading services and 40% of people downloading music are using illegal music downloading services, what happened to the other 25% of people downloading music?
Don't you think 25% is a rather high margin for error, even for "pulled out of my ass" statistics?
This pisses me off and I'll be writing some more letters to my congressmen about it, but it honestly won't affect me. I use encrypted, tunnel'd traffic to a place outside of the US for most of my traffic anyway. You can log ssh connections all you want, but that doesn't mean you can read them. If the time comes that my connections are logged and they have the technology to read them, I'm not doing anything illegal or wrong so it doesn't matter, but I'll likely have moved on to something else to protect my privacy.
Also, it is stuff that this that prompted our first American revolution. Maybe that's why there is such a focus on gun ownership. Hmm, conspiracy theory anyone?
That would be a good reason not to release the driver itself as open source/free software, but that doesn't explain why the specifications are closed.
Exactly what you mention. ATI is promising functionality that is not in the hardware, but sits above it. To someone with the specs writing a new driver, this would be very apparent and might piss more than a few pepple off.
I think I speak for the rest of slashdot when I say that you are alone. Remember the Nightmare on Elm Street series and other slash'em classics? I, like everyone else I know, was watching them at 7 years old. Except for one of my friends whose parent's were Right Wing Christian Nutjobs and she didn't watch anything R rated until she was 16. The kids will be fine./is right wing and christian, but the people I'm talking about were true nutjobs. Their child is still recovering from brainwashing and might just forgive them after a couple years of therapy.
I'm interested to know just how the threading implementation on MacOS X stands up to others. Anyone with a G5 and some time mind benchmarking with Mac OS X, Linux, and maybe NetBSD? That would settle if it was just OS X using pthreads and pthreads being slow.
It's been done on the old codebase. Winamp3 was released in alpha form for Linux a few years back. I have a copy somewhere in my archives. I seem to remember that I couldn't make it work on RedHat 9 at the time, though it may have possibly been RedHat 8 or an equivilent Mandrake release. I don't know what the license is, but when I get to an ssh-capable machine, I'll search for it and post it if the license allows. (I doubt it though.)
Not so much with operating systems, but with technical applications (*cough* CANoe *cough*) you find things that lock up the application or are just flat out bugs in the application that you need to talk with engineers to confirm or fix.
Unless you happen to have received your copy of foo.bar from foo.bar.example.com then foo.bar.example.com doesn't owe you a damn thing according to the GPL.
The GPL requires those that distribute the program in question to make the source code available in addition to any binaries they provide, but only to those that they distribute the binaries to. This source code must of course be under the GPL, and since it is under the GPL, an additional party that they do distribute the code to can legally post the code for all to see if, for example, foo.bar.example.com are a bunch of assholes. The point is that foo.bar.example.com isn't required to give you anything unless it distributes code itself.
I found some of that when I came to college at a US co-op school. Our semesters are 11 weeks (10 for classes, and the last week for exam prep and exams). I did absolutely nothing the first 9 weeks and then spent the final 12 days reading every book, working on a semester's worth of problems, and in general stressing out leading up to 3 days of exams (6 exams in 3 days really sucks, even moreso for me because it was actually 2 days for me).
Since homework is largely optional, I didn't do anything, but the upcoming semester in July I plan on changing. I did pull a 93 average though./btw, wtf is up with this confirm you are not a script shit? Incidentally, this is my second try, since I "failed to confirm that I am a human".
3 Minutes is not an acceptable time frame when I'm in the middle of running a test. My simulations take hours to craft and many times hours to run. Saving the simulation isn't really an option. Windows should respect my decision to ignore it.
Show me an RFID tag that will hold this much security measure in a small enough space to fit inside an ID card. I work for a company that develops products based on RFID and the transponders don't hold that much to begin with. 255 bytes I believe. If you can encode this much info into 255 bytes, I can sure as hell, write to the transponder and change my information, through sheer brute force techniques. Plus, with 255 bytes, I can pretty much guarantee that not everyone can be uniquely identified. So you get into a larger format. Which requires more area incidentally. Or density. Which is more expensive. A decent security system for this will take way too much money to implement across the board, so holes will exist. Because not everyone can implement it (budget), these holes can be exploited. Besides, if you give me a couple weeks with this system, I'll have it rev. engineered. At the very least, I'll have fried mine.
Well said. I had the same experience at my Catholic high school. Also, my theology class was excellent, with most of the time spent debating various viewpoints on basic philosophical concepts, not specifically Roman Catholic beliefs. In this regard, I believe the class has merit for any high school student, if only to learn to analyze topics, and then defend them in public argument. A speech/debate class of sorts, but not based on particular facts.
Interestingly enough, I was commenting on the fact that this story is only going to produce comments like this, and the usual argument. Also, for the record, I'm a proponent of evolution and haven't been to my chuch since the graduation mass for my high school. Nice try though.
As far as computer networking, I'd say the closest would be Comp Sci with a minor in Business. That would let you take all of the available networking courses, plus give you a soild background in management. I'd also tell you that very, very few universities are going to teach you what you need to be a good admin, if that's what you are in fact looking for with computer networking.
From experience as a consultant and a small-time admin, I'd tell you that the best way to learn networking is hands on, building up a website and network yourself.
This is because univerisities, as a rule, stress the ability to find solutions and ways to think about problems, rather than "this is your problem, here is what to do". In that sense, a tech school would be what you are looking for, but keep in mind that as technology changes, your ability to change with it is what makes you valuable.
Also, about getting into the field, I'd recommend taking a co-op with a company that will let you handle networking. I know that various government agencies and research labs hire co-ops from Kettering as admins, and if that is what you want to do, it would be a good thing. What better way to enter into the field than to be in the field? The nice thing about this, is, in addition to the experience and the money, you know if that's what you really want to do. If not, there's still time to change your degree and your co-op.
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So I can't legally connect to a proxy outside of the US and browse the internet as and where I choose? If you are telling me that my freedom is illusionary then is my connection to the server I purchased in Germany also illusionary? Am I really connecting to an NSA server who just happens to be able to spoof my secret keys and has spent a lot of time keeping up with the changes I make to my operating system?
Sit and down shut up, troll.
Dear Mr. Sheep^W^H^H^HSFanBoi,
Software piracy is copyright infringement and possibly a crime in your part of the world. It isn't theft unless something physical is involved. So unless these guys are boarding ships in international waters and looting the said ships for DVDs and CDs, it isn't really piracy or theft.
Thanks,
your local diction nazi.
Thanks for saying it for me, from a guy recovering from paying attention in 8 years of Theology class.
I went to a private school. If I fucked around they wouldn't take my stuff they'd tell me to pack my shit and leave. Taking property and redistributing is not an acceptable means of punishment. Expell the student, suspend them, or otherwise discipline them within the means of the law.
I don't know what kind of fucked up world you live in but taking my cell phone in high school would have amounted to theft if not given back. My parents would have been pissed off about me breaking the rules, but they would still pressed charges because an asshat teacher decided to steal from them.
Also, in my very personal experience, the police are called when the staff gets confused. The State police are called in when the locals are confused, and the state police knew enough to drop the issue. That is a waste of my tax money and a fucking shame.
No worries. I was banned from my middle school computer lab my 8th grade year for managing to "hack the printer system" while I was 10 miles away attending zero-hour advanced algebra class. When they found out, they accused me of writing a virus, but since I didn't have a home computer and they logged all of their user sessions, their expert couldn't find any evidence.
I managed to get banned for something I didn't do. Well, at least I used it as motivation to learn how to "hack". Well, I've spent 6 years with Unix and now a year in embedded systems and am doing pretty well auditing code for automotive applications. The private school I work for shouldn't hope for any donations in 3 years when my salary spikes and I move from a co-op to an engineer.
Money talks, revenge with cash is loud and painful.
So if 35% of people downloading music are using legal music downloading services and 40% of people downloading music are using illegal music downloading services, what happened to the other 25% of people downloading music?
Don't you think 25% is a rather high margin for error, even for "pulled out of my ass" statistics?
This pisses me off and I'll be writing some more letters to my congressmen about it, but it honestly won't affect me. I use encrypted, tunnel'd traffic to a place outside of the US for most of my traffic anyway. You can log ssh connections all you want, but that doesn't mean you can read them. If the time comes that my connections are logged and they have the technology to read them, I'm not doing anything illegal or wrong so it doesn't matter, but I'll likely have moved on to something else to protect my privacy.
Also, it is stuff that this that prompted our first American revolution. Maybe that's why there is such a focus on gun ownership. Hmm, conspiracy theory anyone?
At least it would have solved a few problems now. Granted, it would have also created a lot more, but we'd never have to deal with software patents. ;)
Exactly what you mention. ATI is promising functionality that is not in the hardware, but sits above it. To someone with the specs writing a new driver, this would be very apparent and might piss more than a few pepple off.
I think I speak for the rest of slashdot when I say that you are alone. Remember the Nightmare on Elm Street series and other slash'em classics? I, like everyone else I know, was watching them at 7 years old. Except for one of my friends whose parent's were Right Wing Christian Nutjobs and she didn't watch anything R rated until she was 16. The kids will be fine. /is right wing and christian, but the people I'm talking about were true nutjobs. Their child is still recovering from brainwashing and might just forgive them after a couple years of therapy.
I'm interested to know just how the threading implementation on MacOS X stands up to others. Anyone with a G5 and some time mind benchmarking with Mac OS X, Linux, and maybe NetBSD? That would settle if it was just OS X using pthreads and pthreads being slow.
It's been done on the old codebase. Winamp3 was released in alpha form for Linux a few years back. I have a copy somewhere in my archives. I seem to remember that I couldn't make it work on RedHat 9 at the time, though it may have possibly been RedHat 8 or an equivilent Mandrake release. I don't know what the license is, but when I get to an ssh-capable machine, I'll search for it and post it if the license allows. (I doubt it though.)
Not so much with operating systems, but with technical applications (*cough* CANoe *cough*) you find things that lock up the application or are just flat out bugs in the application that you need to talk with engineers to confirm or fix.
Unless you happen to have received your copy of foo.bar from foo.bar.example.com then foo.bar.example.com doesn't owe you a damn thing according to the GPL.
The GPL requires those that distribute the program in question to make the source code available in addition to any binaries they provide, but only to those that they distribute the binaries to. This source code must of course be under the GPL, and since it is under the GPL, an additional party that they do distribute the code to can legally post the code for all to see if, for example, foo.bar.example.com are a bunch of assholes. The point is that foo.bar.example.com isn't required to give you anything unless it distributes code itself.
I found some of that when I came to college at a US co-op school. Our semesters are 11 weeks (10 for classes, and the last week for exam prep and exams). I did absolutely nothing the first 9 weeks and then spent the final 12 days reading every book, working on a semester's worth of problems, and in general stressing out leading up to 3 days of exams (6 exams in 3 days really sucks, even moreso for me because it was actually 2 days for me).
/btw, wtf is up with this confirm you are not a script shit? Incidentally, this is my second try, since I "failed to confirm that I am a human".
Since homework is largely optional, I didn't do anything, but the upcoming semester in July I plan on changing. I did pull a 93 average though.
3 Minutes is not an acceptable time frame when I'm in the middle of running a test. My simulations take hours to craft and many times hours to run. Saving the simulation isn't really an option. Windows should respect my decision to ignore it.
My home computer has been secure for the last couple days. Not turned on or anything. ;)
You know, I have a lot of respect for the man, but if he did that, he would replace my deity.
Show me an RFID tag that will hold this much security measure in a small enough space to fit inside an ID card. I work for a company that develops products based on RFID and the transponders don't hold that much to begin with. 255 bytes I believe. If you can encode this much info into 255 bytes, I can sure as hell, write to the transponder and change my information, through sheer brute force techniques. Plus, with 255 bytes, I can pretty much guarantee that not everyone can be uniquely identified. So you get into a larger format. Which requires more area incidentally. Or density. Which is more expensive. A decent security system for this will take way too much money to implement across the board, so holes will exist. Because not everyone can implement it (budget), these holes can be exploited. Besides, if you give me a couple weeks with this system, I'll have it rev. engineered. At the very least, I'll have fried mine.
Everything not specifically granted to the Federal government by the Constitution.
Well said. I had the same experience at my Catholic high school. Also, my theology class was excellent, with most of the time spent debating various viewpoints on basic philosophical concepts, not specifically Roman Catholic beliefs. In this regard, I believe the class has merit for any high school student, if only to learn to analyze topics, and then defend them in public argument. A speech/debate class of sorts, but not based on particular facts.
Interestingly enough, I was commenting on the fact that this story is only going to produce comments like this, and the usual argument. Also, for the record, I'm a proponent of evolution and haven't been to my chuch since the graduation mass for my high school. Nice try though.
Too bad I can't use my mod points on the posted stories. The entire posting reeks of -1, Flamebait.
As far as computer networking, I'd say the closest would be Comp Sci with a minor in Business. That would let you take all of the available networking courses, plus give you a soild background in management. I'd also tell you that very, very few universities are going to teach you what you need to be a good admin, if that's what you are in fact looking for with computer networking.
From experience as a consultant and a small-time admin, I'd tell you that the best way to learn networking is hands on, building up a website and network yourself.
This is because univerisities, as a rule, stress the ability to find solutions and ways to think about problems, rather than "this is your problem, here is what to do". In that sense, a tech school would be what you are looking for, but keep in mind that as technology changes, your ability to change with it is what makes you valuable.
Also, about getting into the field, I'd recommend taking a co-op with a company that will let you handle networking. I know that various government agencies and research labs hire co-ops from Kettering as admins, and if that is what you want to do, it would be a good thing. What better way to enter into the field than to be in the field? The nice thing about this, is, in addition to the experience and the money, you know if that's what you really want to do. If not, there's still time to change your degree and your co-op.