They're not making money off of allowing you to access it; they're losing money.
Not sure about other universities, but at UMBC, we are paying for our Wi-Fi through our tuition as a "Technology Fee."
Just because it's free as in beer doesn't mean it's truly free. Most of the time, "free" just means the cost has been somehow obscured as part of something else.
The regime stopped focusing on policing its virtual borders after a power struggle which resulted in the ousting of former Prime Minister Khin Nyunt in October 2004, explains Mr Brussels.
This sounds more like a case of the system breaking down and allowing people to slip through, not really people cracking some sophisticated censorship system.
I hear the articles are even better than the summaries!
"During the past two weeks, the NLPC again conducted random spot-checks of Google Video in an attempt to identify clearly copyrighted works that continue to be hosted on the site.
Also notable is the reference to Google's tools:
The NLPC added that Google has been promising video filtering technology to screen for copyrighted content since at least the Autumn of 2006.
However, it appears that Google still had not implemented the promised technology either for its YouTube or Google Video sites.
...but Q4RT seems to have handicapped most of what makes the Doom 3 engine so impressive-looking to begin with. The reflection effects sure are nice, but it's a long way from making anything comparable to modern methods.
More than you know. Near the end of the third game, the Master Chief takes off his helmet and... Well, I guess I won't spoil it.
Snape kills dumbledore.
I can't see any reason it wouldn't be backwards compatible...USB2 just can't utilize the fiber-optic component of the USB3 wire. And surely USB3 would be smart enough to know when a USB2 wire is plugged in, and would be capped at the old transfer rate (just like plugging a USB2 device into a USB1 port)
Then again, it's all my early-morning speculation without RTFA.
1) Plaintext the URLS; they're not linking to the site, they're simply providing a URL should somebody want to look into whatever they're jabbering on about (maybe this one wouldn't get around the ToS)
2) Use some kind of passthrough; something similar to tinyurl that monitors the site. Impractical, but so is LJ, really.
3) Get a new blog site; it's not like there aren't a billion floating around or anything.
If you, him, or anybody else is THAT bothered by it, why don't you just go ahead and start up your own project and work it to government standards, so that in the future, this wouldn't have to happen to anybody.
Honestly, this guy committed a crime. Nevermind all the complaining everybody does about whether it should or should not be a crime. The item under discussion is the punishment. I'm with a lot of posters above: his sentence could be a LOT worse. Bite the bullet.
What bearing could this possibly have on real life? The only thing I can think of... Don't lock yourself out of investing what could be a genuine point, just because the premises are completely ridiculous.
Granted, I didn't really buy this when I first read it, especially the bit about using WoW as a training tool. But to be honest, not all terrorist training has to be violent. Terrorism is about guerilla warfare, and guerilla warfare has been around for centuries. It's an art, just like any other form of war, and it does have it's own subtleties.
I assume that if WoW really is being used for "training," it's for things like team dynamics. Who performs better as a leader? Who is a quicker thinker? When does communication between team members become a problem?
The Second Life stuff is obviously more "real" than the supposed WoW training, although I'm not buying this BS about "registered" terrorist organizations. To me, that just sounds like some people having a bit of "fun" playing terrorist. The complete lack of any names of these terrorist groups in the article screams to me that they aren't really terrorist groups.
Again, don't put it out of your mind just because you can't rack your brain hard enough to find a valid use. If you're not an analyst, being paid to do it all day long, you might just miss something small and subtle. (disclaimer: I have no knowledge of anything remotely related to analysis/terrorism/etc. I'm just a geek.)
The ALICE experiment grabs its data from 500 optical fiber links and feeds data about the collisions to 200 PCs, which start to piece the many snippets of data together into a more coherent picture. Next, the data travels to another 50 PCs that do more work putting the picture together, then record the data to disk near the experiment site, which is about 10 miles away from the data center.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds simple enough:
They're not making money off of allowing you to access it; they're losing money.
Not sure about other universities, but at UMBC, we are paying for our Wi-Fi through our tuition as a "Technology Fee."
Just because it's free as in beer doesn't mean it's truly free. Most of the time, "free" just means the cost has been somehow obscured as part of something else.
You realize this is only talking about the FBI, right?
And that this doesn't take into consideration the cybercrime divisions of several other government agencies?
Right?
Your analogy is flawed. It'd be more appropriate to say "do you think he's been to America?"
Viruses can be transmitted via CD.
Don't trust strange CDs.
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Actually turning off when it's supposed to would be a pretty good change.
...but Q4RT seems to have handicapped most of what makes the Doom 3 engine so impressive-looking to begin with. The reflection effects sure are nice, but it's a long way from making anything comparable to modern methods.
Sure is interesting, all the same.
Well, the hand-gestures involved in folding proteins are rather complex....
(couldn't resist)
Don't forget the lottery ticket. THIS IS MADNESS
I can't see any reason it wouldn't be backwards compatible...USB2 just can't utilize the fiber-optic component of the USB3 wire. And surely USB3 would be smart enough to know when a USB2 wire is plugged in, and would be capped at the old transfer rate (just like plugging a USB2 device into a USB1 port)
Then again, it's all my early-morning speculation without RTFA.
Loud noises indeed.
## BEGIN STRING THEORY JOKE I'm a frayed knot. ## END STRING THEORY JOKE
It was pre-installed, so maybe he can't. Most vendors seem to provide a ghost image of the factory HD, or the install CD itself, but maybe his didn't.
In that case, he might not own Vista at all.
I got the impression that Skype is only the means of passing on the infection.
...be called a herd?
If it's really that important, bloggers can:
1) Plaintext the URLS; they're not linking to the site, they're simply providing a URL should somebody want to look into whatever they're jabbering on about (maybe this one wouldn't get around the ToS)
2) Use some kind of passthrough; something similar to tinyurl that monitors the site. Impractical, but so is LJ, really.
3) Get a new blog site; it's not like there aren't a billion floating around or anything.
Am I missing something?
Imagine a beowulf clus...oh screw it.
That's what the confederates thought.
If you, him, or anybody else is THAT bothered by it, why don't you just go ahead and start up your own project and work it to government standards, so that in the future, this wouldn't have to happen to anybody.
Honestly, this guy committed a crime. Nevermind all the complaining everybody does about whether it should or should not be a crime. The item under discussion is the punishment. I'm with a lot of posters above: his sentence could be a LOT worse. Bite the bullet.
Granted, I didn't really buy this when I first read it, especially the bit about using WoW as a training tool. But to be honest, not all terrorist training has to be violent. Terrorism is about guerilla warfare, and guerilla warfare has been around for centuries. It's an art, just like any other form of war, and it does have it's own subtleties.
I assume that if WoW really is being used for "training," it's for things like team dynamics. Who performs better as a leader? Who is a quicker thinker? When does communication between team members become a problem?
The Second Life stuff is obviously more "real" than the supposed WoW training, although I'm not buying this BS about "registered" terrorist organizations. To me, that just sounds like some people having a bit of "fun" playing terrorist. The complete lack of any names of these terrorist groups in the article screams to me that they aren't really terrorist groups.
Again, don't put it out of your mind just because you can't rack your brain hard enough to find a valid use. If you're not an analyst, being paid to do it all day long, you might just miss something small and subtle. (disclaimer: I have no knowledge of anything remotely related to analysis/terrorism/etc. I'm just a geek.)
It's to pay for their printer recycling program!
to install spyware on every machine we find?
This is blasphemy. This is madness!