Considering that much of that Federal money comes from people residing in the state that these institutions are in, I don't think its a wrong attitude at all.
The federalist system of government, as envisioned by our founders (the founders that Conservatives love to talk about but rarely ever embrace, ideologically) had a strict delination between state and national governments. The states took care of things in their state while the government saw to things like defense, interstate commerece, international policy, etc. Thanks to Congress and favorable rulings from the SCOTUS, as well as the federal income tax, the federal government can literally confiscate billions of dollars from individuals and businesses (even those who do their business only within one state), leaving little left for the state governments to suck up for basic things like roads, schools, police, etc. The original intent of the composition of the government in the US has drastically changed from "layer cake federalism" to "marble slab federalism".
This allows the federal government to basically recycle the citizens of each state's tax money, tie it to a string, and dangle it over the heads of the state legislatures, municipal governments, etc. This is how we get retarded things like seatbelt laws, mandatory speed limits, just to name a few. Just about anything funded with federal money (even if the money came straight from the state's citizens and businesses) has some sort of new string attached.
So when I hear this BS about "accepting the government's money", its just total garbage. Its not the government's money.
Secondly, lets assume for a minute that your reasoning is sound. Does that mean that each and every one of us have to bear the brunt of that punishment? If I instruct my school to not release my records to ANYONE, I sure damn well expect that to apply to EVERYONE.
I didn't feel like talking to the guy, especially knowing how confrontational they can get. I don't think I should have to tell them anything if I never expressed an interest.
I ended up creation an Asterisk rule on my home PBX to automatically dump his calls.. Worked out pretty well.
I had this problem too, during my senior year at high school.
This creepy NAVY recruiter kept calling me every day for several days. He wouldn't take a cold shoulder as indication I wasn't interested in talking to him.
Then, it got really creppy: he came to my house! I didn't answer the door but he left his card.
The best advice, I suppose, I could give would be to tell them that you are gay.. There is rampant homophobia in the military, so chances are that you might be able to get them sufficently disgusted enough at you to a point where they don't want you.
The school is only entitled to release basic information such as name, address, phone no. and major unless the student has instructed the records to be private.
FERPA requires permission from the student to release any information such as grades or GPA.
Not true. The courts have narrowed the definition of the 1st Amendment because it is impractical to have an "absolute right" to free speech. Otherwise, we would have people yelling "FIRE!" in crowded resturants with no impunity.
The litmus test here would be the "Time/Place/Manner" doctorine. In this case, the spam is having a debilitating effect on the ability for them to run their email system.
The school can't do much, it is public information (Freedom of Information Act, etc) unless you explicitly tell them not to release it.
Of course, institutions are really bad about this.. My high school, despite my multiple requests not to, released my information to all sorts of local corporations for them to spam me with prom/senior pictures/etc. related junk mail.
Yes, however there are no consumer "spread spectrum" scanning devices on the market, ensuring that only a talented engineer can go to the trouble to build a receiver just to listen to your praticular model of cordless phone.
could you be a little bit more specific about your hardware and connection? i've used linksys routers in many different setups and I always saturate the connection
i doubt it. really expensive routers have custom ASICs that are designed specifically for ROUTING. the latency of your PC box router vs a real Cisco or Juniper router will be noticed when you put it into production in a major backbone.
there is a reason why these companies put R&D effort into making custom hardware for routers.. just becuase you can do the same functions in software doesn't mean its just as good.
He is neither. At best, he is a "pop" science writer, like Cringely, but even people like Cringely aren't self-aggrandizing or showboating like Roland Poop-pile.
He is just some frenchman with a modem and a blog service. He just happens to be a good writer (more like summarizer, since his articles are just based on other people's work). As far as wit is concerned, I've seen none of that demonstrated. Journalists don't copy what is in the newspaper, they actually go out and FIND THE NEWS. Roland doesn't do this.
This is just a fluff piece designed to make blogging more relevant than it actually is. There are some cool bloggers out there. The key for a blogger to be cool/relevant is that they do not have this inflated sense of self and don't promote themselves. People find them, not the other way around. Roland spams tech sites like Slashdot to gain fame and then collects a check for all the ad views/clicks.
This is the problem with all the "voices" out there. We have total bozos like John C. Dvorak (if you know him, you know what I mean) who say totally stupid things but end up getting more credit/mindshare than the real people who deserve it becuase people are niave and gulliable to believe in the technobabble being spewed out. There needs to be more "quality" and less "quantity" in the blogosphere (and in the community in general).
I looked up this "HSIA" thing and I'm pretty sure the motel didn't have it. There were two access points in range (that were the motel's), they were both Linksys 54g routers. I didn't expect the motel staff to have the technical competency to understand the problem, much less be able to deal with it. The APs were also completly open too, no authentication whatsoever.
Some of these hotels/motels run pretty amateur operations for their "high speed access", so having a hub wouldn't surprise me at all.
Even if the network is switched, one could just use a simple ARP poisoning tool such as ettercap to poison the MAC address table and make the switch go into "hub mode".
Recently, I was at a Super 8 Motel in Addison, TX for business. I had alot of free time at the motel, so I got in my laptop and used the wireless. The connection was painfully slow, 3000-8000ms pings to everywhere. I fired up ettercap (ARP poisoning isn't nessecary on wireless, but ettercap is still a cool sniffing tool regardless) and saw that some bonehead was saturating the T1 with Gnutella downloads of pornographic pictures.
I could care less that he is looking at porn, but he was hogging all the bandwidth. I solved the problem by "stealing" his IP address and generating some traffic to keep the the ARP table of the motel's router associating the "stolen" IP address with my MAC so that he could not use the internet.
The IT field is full of idiots and charlatans. The days of the dot bombs are gone - just having a CS degree, or worse, a MIS or similar stupid psuedo-CS degree, is not enough to cut it.
Now days, companies are looking for competent people. That means you will often have to prove that you are what you say you are.
The hordes of people, on Slashdot even, who sit here and balk at having to take relatively simple CS proficency tests and claim that there are no jobs for CS at all are the ones who got their CS degrees without really learning anything or having any actual proficency in the first place. On the other hand, the real geeks are getting jobs left and right and companies want more people like them - they can't find enough! The only people who need to worry about outsourcing are those who don't make the cut.
This is the market at work. It is a great time as ever to go into CS. Its just that this time, you will not be able to slack off and make it. You're going to have to prove yourself.
No, DeCSS was spread as a political statement. Do you not remember the t-shirts, the music files, and all the like that came directly as a result of the DeCSS ruling to protest the blatant violations of the 1st Amendment by the court?
The point of spreading this is to show that free speech cannot be stopped, not matter how hard our government or Cisco wants and tries.
If anyone has copies of the stuff Cisco wants censored, we could all host it and make torrents of it. Those who are less brave can use something like FreeNet to host it.
If hundreds of thousands of people host it, it will be a giant embarassment for Cisco and there will be nothing the authorities can do to stop it.
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Much higher cost for the business to have terminals (coffee getting spilled into them seems like an obvious problem), less conveience for the customers (how do you arrange the machines in such a way to have a healthy social atmosphere?)
businesspeople will also not be able to log into their corporate VPNs without their laptops or do most business related tasks.
As a former employee in the examining office, I have some background I thought I could share..
The USPTO actually makes money by charging a substantial fee for every interface with it, and strictly monitoring the time spent on each task. I'm told that a USPTO examiner only has time to look at a patent for 8 hours during its entire examination, including prior art searches and the response to the patentee
The funds raised by the USPTO are used for things that have nothing to do with the USPTO, thus the poor results. This makes most of the IP community fairly angry, as pseudo-companies are getting patents on ridiculous things, which then waste real-companys' time fighting ridiculous lawsuits from "trolls".
I am used to the general uninformed ranting that goes on Slashdot regarding the patent system. i.e. "IM GOING TO PATENT TEH NUMBER "0"!!!! I OWNZZ J00 F007!!!!". But I'm surprised that this statement got onto the front page.
Don't get me wrong there are a lot of problems with the USPTO, but most could be solved by a simply allowing the USPTO to use the money it makes to do its job, rather then allowing congress to put that money into its coffers. If you are going to bitch, at least make it informed, or else you run the risk of misleading your audience and don't actually solve the problem.
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Do you write university research papers with this attitude? Do you tell your professors "all the facts are in this book, so read it and fuck off"?
Please explain to us, since you obviously understand it so well, your ideas supporting your beliefs.
Considering that much of that Federal money comes from people residing in the state that these institutions are in, I don't think its a wrong attitude at all.
2 36056 for my longer treatise on this issue.
See http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157986&cid=13
Well, I have a big beef with this attitude.
The federalist system of government, as envisioned by our founders (the founders that Conservatives love to talk about but rarely ever embrace, ideologically) had a strict delination between state and national governments. The states took care of things in their state while the government saw to things like defense, interstate commerece, international policy, etc. Thanks to Congress and favorable rulings from the SCOTUS, as well as the federal income tax, the federal government can literally confiscate billions of dollars from individuals and businesses (even those who do their business only within one state), leaving little left for the state governments to suck up for basic things like roads, schools, police, etc. The original intent of the composition of the government in the US has drastically changed from "layer cake federalism" to "marble slab federalism".
This allows the federal government to basically recycle the citizens of each state's tax money, tie it to a string, and dangle it over the heads of the state legislatures, municipal governments, etc. This is how we get retarded things like seatbelt laws, mandatory speed limits, just to name a few. Just about anything funded with federal money (even if the money came straight from the state's citizens and businesses) has some sort of new string attached.
So when I hear this BS about "accepting the government's money", its just total garbage. Its not the government's money.
Secondly, lets assume for a minute that your reasoning is sound. Does that mean that each and every one of us have to bear the brunt of that punishment? If I instruct my school to not release my records to ANYONE, I sure damn well expect that to apply to EVERYONE.
several days.. I meant several weeks.
I didn't feel like talking to the guy, especially knowing how confrontational they can get. I don't think I should have to tell them anything if I never expressed an interest.
I ended up creation an Asterisk rule on my home PBX to automatically dump his calls.. Worked out pretty well.
I had this problem too, during my senior year at high school.
This creepy NAVY recruiter kept calling me every day for several days. He wouldn't take a cold shoulder as indication I wasn't interested in talking to him.
Then, it got really creppy: he came to my house! I didn't answer the door but he left his card.
The best advice, I suppose, I could give would be to tell them that you are gay.. There is rampant homophobia in the military, so chances are that you might be able to get them sufficently disgusted enough at you to a point where they don't want you.
The school is only entitled to release basic information such as name, address, phone no. and major unless the student has instructed the records to be private.
FERPA requires permission from the student to release any information such as grades or GPA.
It should be noted that the privacy notations on student records don't apply to military recuriters (and presumably, other government institutions).
You can think your congressman for this: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05123/498098.stm
Not true. The courts have narrowed the definition of the 1st Amendment because it is impractical to have an "absolute right" to free speech. Otherwise, we would have people yelling "FIRE!" in crowded resturants with no impunity.
The litmus test here would be the "Time/Place/Manner" doctorine. In this case, the spam is having a debilitating effect on the ability for them to run their email system.
The school can't do much, it is public information (Freedom of Information Act, etc) unless you explicitly tell them not to release it.
Of course, institutions are really bad about this.. My high school, despite my multiple requests not to, released my information to all sorts of local corporations for them to spam me with prom/senior pictures/etc. related junk mail.
Yes, however there are no consumer "spread spectrum" scanning devices on the market, ensuring that only a talented engineer can go to the trouble to build a receiver just to listen to your praticular model of cordless phone.
I used to do this with cordless telephones (the kind that plugs into your landline).. they ran unencrypted on 43-46Mhz and 900Mhz bands for years.
Lets just say I got to know my neighbors very well.
(If you have a cordless phone and are wondering if its secure.. make sure it has "spread spectrum" technology)
could you be a little bit more specific about your hardware and connection? i've used linksys routers in many different setups and I always saturate the connection
i doubt it. really expensive routers have custom ASICs that are designed specifically for ROUTING. the latency of your PC box router vs a real Cisco or Juniper router will be noticed when you put it into production in a major backbone.
there is a reason why these companies put R&D effort into making custom hardware for routers.. just becuase you can do the same functions in software doesn't mean its just as good.
Scientist? Researcher? WTF??
He is neither. At best, he is a "pop" science writer, like Cringely, but even people like Cringely aren't self-aggrandizing or showboating like Roland Poop-pile.
He is just some frenchman with a modem and a blog service. He just happens to be a good writer (more like summarizer, since his articles are just based on other people's work). As far as wit is concerned, I've seen none of that demonstrated. Journalists don't copy what is in the newspaper, they actually go out and FIND THE NEWS. Roland doesn't do this.
This is just a fluff piece designed to make blogging more relevant than it actually is. There are some cool bloggers out there. The key for a blogger to be cool/relevant is that they do not have this inflated sense of self and don't promote themselves. People find them, not the other way around. Roland spams tech sites like Slashdot to gain fame and then collects a check for all the ad views/clicks.
This is the problem with all the "voices" out there. We have total bozos like John C. Dvorak (if you know him, you know what I mean) who say totally stupid things but end up getting more credit/mindshare than the real people who deserve it becuase people are niave and gulliable to believe in the technobabble being spewed out. There needs to be more "quality" and less "quantity" in the blogosphere (and in the community in general).
I looked up this "HSIA" thing and I'm pretty sure the motel didn't have it. There were two access points in range (that were the motel's), they were both Linksys 54g routers. I didn't expect the motel staff to have the technical competency to understand the problem, much less be able to deal with it. The APs were also completly open too, no authentication whatsoever.
Some of these hotels/motels run pretty amateur operations for their "high speed access", so having a hub wouldn't surprise me at all.
Even if the network is switched, one could just use a simple ARP poisoning tool such as ettercap to poison the MAC address table and make the switch go into "hub mode".
Recently, I was at a Super 8 Motel in Addison, TX for business. I had alot of free time at the motel, so I got in my laptop and used the wireless. The connection was painfully slow, 3000-8000ms pings to everywhere. I fired up ettercap (ARP poisoning isn't nessecary on wireless, but ettercap is still a cool sniffing tool regardless) and saw that some bonehead was saturating the T1 with Gnutella downloads of pornographic pictures.
I could care less that he is looking at porn, but he was hogging all the bandwidth. I solved the problem by "stealing" his IP address and generating some traffic to keep the the ARP table of the motel's router associating the "stolen" IP address with my MAC so that he could not use the internet.
Who said he had permission? When did he get permission to spy on other people's private information from those people?
The IT field is full of idiots and charlatans. The days of the dot bombs are gone - just having a CS degree, or worse, a MIS or similar stupid psuedo-CS degree, is not enough to cut it.
Now days, companies are looking for competent people. That means you will often have to prove that you are what you say you are.
The hordes of people, on Slashdot even, who sit here and balk at having to take relatively simple CS proficency tests and claim that there are no jobs for CS at all are the ones who got their CS degrees without really learning anything or having any actual proficency in the first place. On the other hand, the real geeks are getting jobs left and right and companies want more people like them - they can't find enough! The only people who need to worry about outsourcing are those who don't make the cut.
This is the market at work. It is a great time as ever to go into CS. Its just that this time, you will not be able to slack off and make it. You're going to have to prove yourself.
No, DeCSS was spread as a political statement. Do you not remember the t-shirts, the music files, and all the like that came directly as a result of the DeCSS ruling to protest the blatant violations of the 1st Amendment by the court?
The point of spreading this is to show that free speech cannot be stopped, not matter how hard our government or Cisco wants and tries.
This sounds like another DeCSS.
If anyone has copies of the stuff Cisco wants censored, we could all host it and make torrents of it. Those who are less brave can use something like FreeNet to host it.
If hundreds of thousands of people host it, it will be a giant embarassment for Cisco and there will be nothing the authorities can do to stop it.
Much higher cost for the business to have terminals (coffee getting spilled into them seems like an obvious problem), less conveience for the customers (how do you arrange the machines in such a way to have a healthy social atmosphere?)
businesspeople will also not be able to log into their corporate VPNs without their laptops or do most business related tasks.
i'll take free wifi any day over terminals
As a former employee in the examining office, I have some background I thought I could share..
The USPTO actually makes money by charging a substantial fee for every interface with it, and strictly monitoring the time spent on each task. I'm told that a USPTO examiner only has time to look at a patent for 8 hours during its entire examination, including prior art searches and the response to the patentee
The funds raised by the USPTO are used for things that have nothing to do with the USPTO, thus the poor results. This makes most of the IP community fairly angry, as pseudo-companies are getting patents on ridiculous things, which then waste real-companys' time fighting ridiculous lawsuits from "trolls".
I am used to the general uninformed ranting that goes on Slashdot regarding the patent system. i.e. "IM GOING TO PATENT TEH NUMBER "0"!!!! I OWNZZ J00 F007!!!!". But I'm surprised that this statement got onto the front page.
Don't get me wrong there are a lot of problems with the USPTO, but most could be solved by a simply allowing the USPTO to use the money it makes to do its job, rather then allowing congress to put that money into its coffers. If you are going to bitch, at least make it informed, or else you run the risk of misleading your audience and don't actually solve the problem.
Turn of daylight savings and run them according to UTC.