There is this thepry I have that I call the punching bag effect. Often, after a stressfull time, be it at work, home, school, on the road, wherever, you just wanna hit something: enter the punching bag, one hits the bag repeatedly for a few mopents and can walk away feeling much better because the bottled up energy/anger/frustration has been released.
I have found for myself that violent games can have a simmaler effect. I don't have a punching bag, but I do have a PC, so I can load a good ole FPS and have at it for half an hour and walk away feeling better.
Amazon has a patent on a mouse click, MS has a patent on the double click, everyone is getting dumb pattents now, it is a nuclear standoff of sorts, and MS is painting a huge target on Google now, so if they would try the patent rout, Google could return the favor.
It doesnt take an MBA to ubnderstand that these patents are being used in self defence, and it all started with Amazon, blame Jeff Bezose.
If kids really do emmulate video games, then why dod no one emmulate super Mario, I dont see people running down the street in cover-alls trying to jump into open man-holes...
where is the emmulation of games like Crash Bandicoot? I see no kids jumping on/smashing wooden crates, jumping from ledges with jet-packs and so on...
I played Asteroids, yet I have never tried to shoot things out of the sky...
How many millions of copies of Doom, Quake, Unreal*, tekin, halo, and GTA have been sold over the years? and how many nut jiobs have acted out?
If a kid commits a crime and says "the playstation made me do it!!!" I say toss him in the assylem and toss ihis parents in the slammer for neglect (not getting help when they noticed the problem, letting him play stuff that is not appropreate for them and just being lazy fucktarts in general).
And when in the high hell are these beuracrats gonna look at the MPAA and local cinimas? I see TONS of little kids in R-rated flicks all the time...it makes me mad because they often have an outburst and I cant help but wonder what it does to them.
If a kid is born to irresponsable slackers and they let the kid see/play this crap and it does influence them, ARREST THE MUTHER FUCKING PARENTS! HOW DARE THEY PUYNISH SOCIETY/AN INDUSTRY AS A WHOLE
This will encourage hacking like nothing bedore ever has: this is slashdot so that needs no explanation
My consern is that students who do care about security (call them white hats) will want to do obvious things like install firefox (or at least disable the activex and VBS elements in IE) , spybot, MS Antispy, and tweak things like SW firewalls, access permittions, all the stuff that a prudent power user would do to tune a laptop used in such an open place could be punnished or kicked out
and what if a student were to loose "computing privileges" they would be fucked...
I have heard from someone who eould know first hand that security at the print facility, secuity is insainly tight. random person searches, tons of cameras, lots of extra guards, it is like Fort Knox.
Because of the profile in this case, I have to say toss the book at him. This will not scare the real hacker, but this will have a chilling effect on the casual script kiddies, and that is where the majority of worm/virus/junkware comed from.
What about sicos LOOKING for kids online to do God only knows what to...now they have one centeral clearinghouse - No more spending weeks trolling in "kids" chatrooms any more, this is why I was also against the.kids top level domain thing that came about a couple of years ago.
They are the anti-spyware provider vor their own OS so mow they need to make damn sure that EVERY customer needs them the minute MS anti spyware goes gold and gets a pricetag.
This may seem a little tin-foil-hatish of me but what else could it be?
...dont pay what is owed, then why is it better to buy a DVD than to DL it?
I do not endorce or condone piracy, but if the movie houses hoard the cash from the big shots, imagine what happens to the average joe camera man, producer, artist, CG programmer, etc. How does buying the flick "help the little guys" ? Transversly, how does DLing a flick hurt them?
I can make an app in MS access/VB that does exactly what they are sueing for, hell most access apps do...not with alblem, artist, and song, but perhaps with customer last name, last transaction date, and telephone numbers.
I made both of these type of apps in high school so am I a criminal?
look, either way, gnome and kde need a can of polish BUT osx will really compete on a differant platue; as it does now
as far as new-from-windows users or "switchers" in the home universe, Mac is a no brainer, securety, ease of use, pay for the new system, plug it in and you are doneIn the enterprse is where linux needs to focus, for cost consious companies, linux in the server room is a no brainer, as for the desktop, it can be made to work just like windows so there will be no more learning curve than the 2000->xp switch, the only real caviots are extream access reliance and the classic chicken and the egg thing, need for commercial software like Accountedge, adobe *CS and yes, even MS office.
thus the only problem is custom apps, it takes time to re-weite the code...enter WINE and vwala!
...is alive and well this morning, IBM made great laptops (I assume lenovo is just as good ut I have yet to see/use one) but honestly, who uses tablet PCs? in my experiance, the handwriting recognition stinks and the size is too ac-ward, most people I know would rather have a laptop and an ipaq/palm
What about accedents? I remember not so long ago typing.com instead of.gov would have nasty consequences, I understand and totaly support prosecuting (and then promptly castrating) child porn perveiors and those with large "collections" but should clicking the wrong link in Google or entering the wrong domain on accedent, which could result in massive ammounts of other sites launching, spy/ad/porn/shitware installing and so on be criminal?
I agree with the lawyer in so far as the cache should not be considered property.
I remember my C++ classes in High School, if our code had a buffer overrun, it was a letter grade (or more) off for sloppiness and error potential, we would also be told that it was unprofessional. Needless to say I made the buffer overflow mistake ONCE, not again.
mod the parent as high as possible because he is dead on!
Kim Kommando is not a person that I would trust or even listen to because she recomends the worst products, misses the obvious, free fixes for common problems in favor of the pricey ones. and she calles herself the "digital goddes"?? She is a bratty know it all
Want good tech radio? listen to Leo Lapporte on KFI on the weekends
In the real world. it seems like college education is over-priced (particularly in IT) compared to pay. A degree gets you through the door at an entry level, no more no less.
I question the value of paying $40,000+ for a degree, I say get all the work experiance you can, real experiance seems more valuable than what was read out of a book and regurgitated on a test.
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I have found for myself that violent games can have a simmaler effect. I don't have a punching bag, but I do have a PC, so I can load a good ole FPS and have at it for half an hour and walk away feeling better.
Amazon has a patent on a mouse click, MS has a patent on the double click, everyone is getting dumb pattents now, it is a nuclear standoff of sorts, and MS is painting a huge target on Google now, so if they would try the patent rout, Google could return the favor.
It doesnt take an MBA to ubnderstand that these patents are being used in self defence, and it all started with Amazon, blame Jeff Bezose.
where is the emmulation of games like Crash Bandicoot? I see no kids jumping on/smashing wooden crates, jumping from ledges with jet-packs and so on...
I played Asteroids, yet I have never tried to shoot things out of the sky...
How many millions of copies of Doom, Quake, Unreal*, tekin, halo, and GTA have been sold over the years? and how many nut jiobs have acted out?
If a kid commits a crime and says "the playstation made me do it!!!" I say toss him in the assylem and toss ihis parents in the slammer for neglect (not getting help when they noticed the problem, letting him play stuff that is not appropreate for them and just being lazy fucktarts in general).
And when in the high hell are these beuracrats gonna look at the MPAA and local cinimas? I see TONS of little kids in R-rated flicks all the time...it makes me mad because they often have an outburst and I cant help but wonder what it does to them.
If a kid is born to irresponsable slackers and they let the kid see/play this crap and it does influence them, ARREST THE MUTHER FUCKING PARENTS! HOW DARE THEY PUYNISH SOCIETY/AN INDUSTRY AS A WHOLE
My consern is that students who do care about security (call them white hats) will want to do obvious things like install firefox (or at least disable the activex and VBS elements in IE) , spybot, MS Antispy, and tweak things like SW firewalls, access permittions, all the stuff that a prudent power user would do to tune a laptop used in such an open place could be punnished or kicked out
and what if a student were to loose "computing privileges" they would be fucked...
I have heard from someone who eould know first hand that security at the print facility, secuity is insainly tight. random person searches, tons of cameras, lots of extra guards, it is like Fort Knox.
Because of the profile in this case, I have to say toss the book at him. This will not scare the real hacker, but this will have a chilling effect on the casual script kiddies, and that is where the majority of worm/virus/junkware comed from.
What about sicos LOOKING for kids online to do God only knows what to...now they have one centeral clearinghouse - No more spending weeks trolling in "kids" chatrooms any more, this is why I was also against the .kids top level domain thing that came about a couple of years ago.
This may seem a little tin-foil-hatish of me but what else could it be?
I do not endorce or condone piracy, but if the movie houses hoard the cash from the big shots, imagine what happens to the average joe camera man, producer, artist, CG programmer, etc. How does buying the flick "help the little guys" ? Transversly, how does DLing a flick hurt them?
threer has been little media coverage of this in comparison to Gnomedex IMHO, why would they go opposite of Gnomedex as it seems to be taking off?
It may not be as good as an XL-2, but it is like 30$ and it weighs a couple of ounces v $4000 and 20 lbs...
Yes If it were apple, /. would post.
All you need to do is put the RSS feed in the bar in firefox and bamo - a pulldown menu with all the news...what could be easier?
I made both of these type of apps in high school so am I a criminal?
Apple has fiber NICs as an option in the G5 Powermac, they are $500 and if none were noving, they likly would ditch them or lower the price...
The problem is the large paments going top EVERYONE on the ballot
when is the recording industry going to start charging for singing inthe shower?
as far as new-from-windows users or "switchers" in the home universe, Mac is a no brainer, securety, ease of use, pay for the new system, plug it in and you are doneIn the enterprse is where linux needs to focus, for cost consious companies, linux in the server room is a no brainer, as for the desktop, it can be made to work just like windows so there will be no more learning curve than the 2000->xp switch, the only real caviots are extream access reliance and the classic chicken and the egg thing, need for commercial software like Accountedge, adobe *CS and yes, even MS office.
thus the only problem is custom apps, it takes time to re-weite the code...enter WINE and vwala!
core 2: windows security
core 3:security security
layer 4: real work for PROFIT!
that gives me an idea...dual layer condom anyone?
...is alive and well this morning, IBM made great laptops (I assume lenovo is just as good ut I have yet to see/use one) but honestly, who uses tablet PCs? in my experiance, the handwriting recognition stinks and the size is too ac-ward, most people I know would rather have a laptop and an ipaq/palm
I agree with the lawyer in so far as the cache should not be considered property.
you mean rip&burn once...right, that's what I thought they were...
mod the parent as high as possible because he is dead on!
Want good tech radio? listen to Leo Lapporte on KFI on the weekends
I question the value of paying $40,000+ for a degree, I say get all the work experiance you can, real experiance seems more valuable than what was read out of a book and regurgitated on a test.