I think you would be hard pressed to come up with a reasonable answer. It is often easier to catch someone using the net to download warez because there is a trail to follow. Most organized pirates are located in some other country (often asia) and from what I understand because of their copyright laws (or for some other god forsaken reason) it is difficult to shut them down and prosecute them.
It sounds defeatest, and there has to be a good answer but look at it logically: You shut down an illegal internet distributer working through ebay or some other means, that one dissapears and two more take it's place. Same with vendors. Go through any major city. Especially if you can find a china town. There will be a table on every block with obviously copied merchandise. Shut it down. Make an arrest or deport if possible. Another will be on the next block very very soon.
Joe average downloading at his computer, leaving a trail is simply an easy target. It looks like a lot of the time these days rather than taking out the sources (a lot of work) they are trying to use law suits to scare your average individuals away from downloading or buying copied media.
Is this the answer? Obviously not. Do I have a better one? Not really. The problem is a way of really attacking the people who are making a big profit off of privacy. Is the person who downloads a cd or movie off of bittorent going to buy it? Perhaps not, but if they are like many people I know, they want to try for free before they buy (but often plan on buying anyway). Now, do you think the guy that is buying the bootleg of Rush Hour 2 (off of ebay or ny street corner, take your pick) is going to ever buy the real deal? Shit no. He just spent money on it; why would he shell out more on the real thing just to have a second copy? He's going to add it to the rack, and not think about who recieves money in the end. Computers have kept theives one step ahead of the lay, and it is going to be seriously difficult to change that. Do I think that makes it right? No, but I do think that the 15 year old in Deleware is committing a much smaller crime than the guy in china pumping out hundreds of bootlegs for sale. Just my humble opinion.
For this same reason I usually suggest to people that with very long term backups (assuming the backups actually survive) try to save your data in non propriatery forms. I am not trying to make a closed source vs open source argument, however if you want to save a large batch of word documents that you will not need to access in the near future try to convert them to plaintext where you can. Not fullproof, and not applicable for the majority of situations, but there are a few things that we can assume will not happen in the near future: 1) ascii will probably not die, so plaintext is often a good idea, 2) many of the more common image formats will probably be supported in one form or another (gif, jpg), you know stuff like that.
I tend to agree with the findings simply because of the inordinate amount of bad scientific papers that I have read. I have also found this to be more true in the field of psychology than most others (I would say more than 50% are bad which brings up the average for all sciences), but that is entirely beside the point.
What I do see as harmful is the attitude towards bad papers. To many academics try to accumulate more and more published papers the same way that slash-dotters try to build up karma. I understand that having papers published can reflect well on someone, but we need more accountability. Journals need to create a more strict system for reviewing papers that are to be published to weed out more of the crap plain and simple. If the evidence does not reflect the claims throw it away. If the research was conducted on a population that was too small or specific for a grand generalized claim about the topic as a whole, throw it out.
I understand that you will always have people just trying to throw their names around, but this needs to be looked at from the grander perspective.
"When I read the literature, I'm not reading it to find proof like a textbook.
Sure there are probably many scientists that think of it this way. But the problem is that bad research (or a bad paper) rarely dies after being published. They are often cited as evidence for years to come in other papers until enough evidence to the contrary comes out to raise questions. Plus, you have crazy professors giving this bad research for their classes to read, and often they don't explain to their classes where research is possibly flawed--so we find ourselves training generations of new scientific minds that run around spouting out bad research. I understand that we all need to take research with a grain of salt when we read it, however bad scientists trying to become famous with their bad ideas or bad papers can be very detrimental to any field.
My question, however, is what type of audience this book is for (I know the reviewer said what the book expected of you prior). The type of people that you are describing (and there are millions of them out there) would probably be mistified by this book (and many would probably believe they understood the contents).
The review makes it sound like someone that has taken a college level class on operating systems would not gain much from reading this book.
For anyone that has never used opera, it is worth the try (and I have only been using it for a few minutes). Download it and try working with the mouse gestures. They are unreal. There is probably an extension to do something like them with other browsers, however right out of the box this is a killer feature. I have used IE Firefox, Netscape, Lynx (still a personal favorite), safari, Camino, and now I can ad opera to that list. The gestures alone make it rock.
Site is back up for anyone looking to download. I would not suggest getting it from any of the american locations however because they all seem to be overloaded.
For Grand Parent: There is no limit to the size of the original document that is to be hashed, so you will end up with an infinite number of possible collisions. So, it is easy to go from original document -> hash, however it would be nothing short of a miracle to recreate the original document (in a practical sense).
What you are describing is possible with any type of encryption imaginable (that's why our encryption standards are always changing), but not with a hash function. With hash functions you try for collisions, not reversal (and due to the nature of collisions it is not very useful for this purpose either).
Although it still achieves the same result of lowering the value of a job
We are still a capitalist society. If someone is willing to do a job just as well (or better) than the guy currently doing it, and for less money, what do you think will happen?
For the guy that is accepting the job out in the country this may be an good thing idea because the cost of living is often much less out in the country than in the burbs or in a big city. I'm sure there are also people out there that like both working with computers and living on farms, all with the added benefit of having little to no commute to worry about.
Another good side effect of this would be bringing money into smaller, rural communities without bringing in Walmart (I live in Kentucky and there are many such areas neighboring the town that I live).
Regardless, I agree with Hood, I would very much prefer to hear that jobs are being outsourced more and more to Americans rather than being sent overseas to India.
I never said (or meant to imply) that with RAID one does not need to keep other back-ups. I was simply posing a counter-argument to the parent that stated that RAID is not backing up (which it is by your definition: see copy).
Although the usefulness of RAID (not striping mind you) as a back-up is limited (once again in case of a hd failure) it does add some protection.
Not trying to argue with you here, because I totally agree, I'm simply trying to clarify the intent of my origional post.
Raid is intended to keep the machine running in the event of a hardware failure.
... by backing up the data. Part of the purpose of raid is increased
data integrity.
The first definition of data integrity from wikipedia is:
1. The condition that exists when data is unchanged from its source and has not been accidentally or maliciously modified, altered, or destroyed.
Sounds like a backup to me. Sure it won't stop you from deleting a file from both drives, but it will act as a back-up in the event that a drive does fail.
Well, all I know is that I pay like 40.00 a month for cable television. I wouldn't mind paying the same amount to watch what I want, when I want to watch it. I don't know how feesable such a system would be in that form.
Hell, I wouldn't mind still having to see commercials. Plus (as I believe it was said earlier) not only would that make schedule conflicts with favorite television shows a thing of the past, but networks would know exactly what people really wanted to see. With such a flat rate system in place I wouldn't even really desire to keep the stuff I watch afterwards (why not, I don't really get to now, right?).
I know it's just an unlikely dream, but such a system would put an end to there being times of days where there is nothing good on. I am probably wrong, but I don't see them losing out a ton either. Otherwise, I would be content with things staying pretty much the way that they are now.
I would have to agree. Python's syntax (although very intuitive for most of us) may not be the best choice for beginners. Java can be problematic becase of how pickey it can be concerning syntax (in my opinion, don't flame me over this).
C certainly can do anything that would need to be done (although I would imagine on a high school level you wouldn't need to do much with it). Sure it let's you shoot yourself in the foot, but I do believe that it is fairly easy for a beginner to understand.
When you say beginner, however, I would like to know how far you would teach? Classes? Linking multiple object files? Headers? Depending on how simple you are looking for I would also suggest perl. Perl can be an extremely handy language, and it is one of the easiest languages to learn that I have ever dealt with.
It is probably good to leave VB. When you want to teach someone how to program, teach them stuff on the command line, to get the feel for programming. dealing with GUI stuff just wastes time for a beginner.
For the first Three years (before I got a laptop) I used a Palm V. Would suggest getting one if you need something cheap. Works for all simple stuff and can be found on ebay for like 35 bucks.
If you got one I would also reccomend a collapsible keyboard (also on ebay for a few bucks) that made it great for taking notes.
I was setting up the equipment for a local coffee shop (I know the owner). He wanted to charge for access, and I thought it would be beneficial to become a free hotspot. We met in the middle, and he offers free wifi for an hour with any purchase.
Seems like a pretty good solution to me for those out there that are worried about lost revenue. (The possibility for someone to do something illegal, however is another matter.)
Somehow I don't think that this is a bad thing. Stop me if I'm wrong, but it is not the government or the stores job to decide what our children are and are not allowed to watch or play, it is the parents. This will make sure that parents actually know what their children are buying (to a certain extent). That's what we want right?
I have only noticed one place where more expensive cables will make a difference. I am a guitarist, and guitar teacher (not that it makes me an expert, but I have experience with sound), and the quality of patch cables between instruments and amps does have an effect on the quality of your sound. This, however is the only place where I have found them to make a difference. Most musicians that I have met will agree that using monster cables is a good idea, but only really important in a performance setting. Of course in this case your sound will also have a lot to do with the quality of other devices: guitar, amp, cab, cables, pedals, pretty much anything in your rig that concerns your sound.
Yes. It's amazing how we begin to doubt tested scientific methods of study (ie carbon dating) because someone believes their religious beliefs are riding on it.
Your missing the point (perhaps my bad phrasing). The point simply is that ideally you wouldn't have to pay for any of the hassles of going to the movies. Ideally, but it would still never happen.
Not just projectors, but more and more people (I know anyway) are able to afford big screens with surround sound. Another thing this could do is bring the cost of movies down. I doubt it would happen, but theoretically this could lower overhead, and you could simply pay for the movie, instead of a teenager with an acne problem shining a light in your face and asking you to be quiet.
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I think you would be hard pressed to come up with a reasonable answer. It is often easier to catch someone using the net to download warez because there is a trail to follow. Most organized pirates are located in some other country (often asia) and from what I understand because of their copyright laws (or for some other god forsaken reason) it is difficult to shut them down and prosecute them.
It sounds defeatest, and there has to be a good answer but look at it logically: You shut down an illegal internet distributer working through ebay or some other means, that one dissapears and two more take it's place. Same with vendors. Go through any major city. Especially if you can find a china town. There will be a table on every block with obviously copied merchandise. Shut it down. Make an arrest or deport if possible. Another will be on the next block very very soon.
Joe average downloading at his computer, leaving a trail is simply an easy target. It looks like a lot of the time these days rather than taking out the sources (a lot of work) they are trying to use law suits to scare your average individuals away from downloading or buying copied media.
Is this the answer? Obviously not. Do I have a better one? Not really. The problem is a way of really attacking the people who are making a big profit off of privacy. Is the person who downloads a cd or movie off of bittorent going to buy it? Perhaps not, but if they are like many people I know, they want to try for free before they buy (but often plan on buying anyway). Now, do you think the guy that is buying the bootleg of Rush Hour 2 (off of ebay or ny street corner, take your pick) is going to ever buy the real deal? Shit no. He just spent money on it; why would he shell out more on the real thing just to have a second copy? He's going to add it to the rack, and not think about who recieves money in the end. Computers have kept theives one step ahead of the lay, and it is going to be seriously difficult to change that. Do I think that makes it right? No, but I do think that the 15 year old in Deleware is committing a much smaller crime than the guy in china pumping out hundreds of bootlegs for sale. Just my humble opinion.
I'm tired, I hope any of that was clear.
For this same reason I usually suggest to people that with very long term backups (assuming the backups actually survive) try to save your data in non propriatery forms. I am not trying to make a closed source vs open source argument, however if you want to save a large batch of word documents that you will not need to access in the near future try to convert them to plaintext where you can. Not fullproof, and not applicable for the majority of situations, but there are a few things that we can assume will not happen in the near future: 1) ascii will probably not die, so plaintext is often a good idea, 2) many of the more common image formats will probably be supported in one form or another (gif, jpg), you know stuff like that.
What I do see as harmful is the attitude towards bad papers. To many academics try to accumulate more and more published papers the same way that slash-dotters try to build up karma. I understand that having papers published can reflect well on someone, but we need more accountability. Journals need to create a more strict system for reviewing papers that are to be published to weed out more of the crap plain and simple. If the evidence does not reflect the claims throw it away. If the research was conducted on a population that was too small or specific for a grand generalized claim about the topic as a whole, throw it out.
I understand that you will always have people just trying to throw their names around, but this needs to be looked at from the grander perspective.
"When I read the literature, I'm not reading it to find proof like a textbook.
Sure there are probably many scientists that think of it this way. But the problem is that bad research (or a bad paper) rarely dies after being published. They are often cited as evidence for years to come in other papers until enough evidence to the contrary comes out to raise questions. Plus, you have crazy professors giving this bad research for their classes to read, and often they don't explain to their classes where research is possibly flawed--so we find ourselves training generations of new scientific minds that run around spouting out bad research. I understand that we all need to take research with a grain of salt when we read it, however bad scientists trying to become famous with their bad ideas or bad papers can be very detrimental to any field.
The review makes it sound like someone that has taken a college level class on operating systems would not gain much from reading this book.
For anyone that has never used opera, it is worth the try (and I have only been using it for a few minutes). Download it and try working with the mouse gestures. They are unreal. There is probably an extension to do something like them with other browsers, however right out of the box this is a killer feature. I have used IE Firefox, Netscape, Lynx (still a personal favorite), safari, Camino, and now I can ad opera to that list. The gestures alone make it rock.
Download finished, I'm going to go try it out!
What you are describing is possible with any type of encryption imaginable (that's why our encryption standards are always changing), but not with a hash function. With hash functions you try for collisions, not reversal (and due to the nature of collisions it is not very useful for this purpose either).
Although it still achieves the same result of lowering the value of a job
We are still a capitalist society. If someone is willing to do a job just as well (or better) than the guy currently doing it, and for less money, what do you think will happen?
For the guy that is accepting the job out in the country this may be an good thing idea because the cost of living is often much less out in the country than in the burbs or in a big city. I'm sure there are also people out there that like both working with computers and living on farms, all with the added benefit of having little to no commute to worry about.
Another good side effect of this would be bringing money into smaller, rural communities without bringing in Walmart (I live in Kentucky and there are many such areas neighboring the town that I live).
Regardless, I agree with Hood, I would very much prefer to hear that jobs are being outsourced more and more to Americans rather than being sent overseas to India.
Although the usefulness of RAID (not striping mind you) as a back-up is limited (once again in case of a hd failure) it does add some protection.
Not trying to argue with you here, because I totally agree, I'm simply trying to clarify the intent of my origional post.
The first definition of data integrity from wikipedia is: 1. The condition that exists when data is unchanged from its source and has not been accidentally or maliciously modified, altered, or destroyed.
Sounds like a backup to me. Sure it won't stop you from deleting a file from both drives, but it will act as a back-up in the event that a drive does fail.
Hell, I wouldn't mind still having to see commercials. Plus (as I believe it was said earlier) not only would that make schedule conflicts with favorite television shows a thing of the past, but networks would know exactly what people really wanted to see. With such a flat rate system in place I wouldn't even really desire to keep the stuff I watch afterwards (why not, I don't really get to now, right?).
I know it's just an unlikely dream, but such a system would put an end to there being times of days where there is nothing good on. I am probably wrong, but I don't see them losing out a ton either. Otherwise, I would be content with things staying pretty much the way that they are now.
It would seem that this article has nothing to do with wikipedia either (except mentioning the name). Correct me if I'm wrong, but wiki != wikipedia.
C certainly can do anything that would need to be done (although I would imagine on a high school level you wouldn't need to do much with it). Sure it let's you shoot yourself in the foot, but I do believe that it is fairly easy for a beginner to understand.
When you say beginner, however, I would like to know how far you would teach? Classes? Linking multiple object files? Headers? Depending on how simple you are looking for I would also suggest perl. Perl can be an extremely handy language, and it is one of the easiest languages to learn that I have ever dealt with.
It is probably good to leave VB. When you want to teach someone how to program, teach them stuff on the command line, to get the feel for programming. dealing with GUI stuff just wastes time for a beginner.
If you got one I would also reccomend a collapsible keyboard (also on ebay for a few bucks) that made it great for taking notes.
Seems like a pretty good solution to me for those out there that are worried about lost revenue. (The possibility for someone to do something illegal, however is another matter.)
Somehow I don't think that this is a bad thing. Stop me if I'm wrong, but it is not the government or the stores job to decide what our children are and are not allowed to watch or play, it is the parents. This will make sure that parents actually know what their children are buying (to a certain extent). That's what we want right?
I have only noticed one place where more expensive cables will make a difference. I am a guitarist, and guitar teacher (not that it makes me an expert, but I have experience with sound), and the quality of patch cables between instruments and amps does have an effect on the quality of your sound. This, however is the only place where I have found them to make a difference. Most musicians that I have met will agree that using monster cables is a good idea, but only really important in a performance setting. Of course in this case your sound will also have a lot to do with the quality of other devices: guitar, amp, cab, cables, pedals, pretty much anything in your rig that concerns your sound.
Yes. It's amazing how we begin to doubt tested scientific methods of study (ie carbon dating) because someone believes their religious beliefs are riding on it.
Your missing the point (perhaps my bad phrasing). The point simply is that ideally you wouldn't have to pay for any of the hassles of going to the movies. Ideally, but it would still never happen.
Not just projectors, but more and more people (I know anyway) are able to afford big screens with surround sound. Another thing this could do is bring the cost of movies down. I doubt it would happen, but theoretically this could lower overhead, and you could simply pay for the movie, instead of a teenager with an acne problem shining a light in your face and asking you to be quiet.
MPAA will never allow that though.