Re:More than scientific learning
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We are not alive, as the LHC created a blackhole, here on earth, time is slowing down, slowly we are edging towards the event horizon, but we will never know. Its already too late for us.
Samantha Carter said so in a documentary I watched on star travel.
... if anyone has any REAL suggestions on how to get rid of spammers, or how to force companies to stop hiding them and their domains, I'd love to hear it.
Working in telecom for the last few years, I think you are speculating.
This sort of things more often than not happens because of lacking business arrangements. A simple thing as sending a SMS involves agreements at a business level as well as at a technical level.
Often providers are cheap and they don't want to pay a clearing house to handle international SMS, they need to do this to stay competitive in the local market at the expense of borderline cases. This could be your UK provider or the Chinese one.
Same is true for banks, my bank charges me 12$ a month, however I have a few extra services, one being the benefit of withdrawing money from any ATM in the world that accepts a VISA/Plus network (a lot of them do). Part of my 12$ goes to pay Visa/Plus network. My previous no fee banking account at another bank had no such feature, I painfully discovered this stuck in India not able to get money easily.
Doing java dev for more than 10 years, I think this is a valid question. Java is not about the core J2SE anymore, I was fortunate that java evolved along with my career, so i picked things up as they came to market. Further google is excellent if you know what you are looking for, however in this case, the author does not even know what he is looking for.
Now to answer the question.
First read Just Java by Peter van der Linden (if I spelled the name correct). Excellent book.
Get Eclipse IDE and learn jdbc, JSP/servlets, and struts preferable in that order. Except for struts Just Java should give you a primer on each, struts has a decent website with tutorials.
I would skip EJB/J2EE for now and jump to spring and later hibernate. You will find great tutorials on their websites.
Somewhere along the process also introduce yourself to JNDI, particularly JNDI when it talks to LDAP, this is a given when u are coding an enterprise app.
At this point you would know enough to do a decent job as a java developer, more importantly you would know what to do next.
This is what I can think of on labour day long weekend:)
Tech Support: This is tech support, how may I help you.
Customer: I powered my Wireless USB Harddrive with this nifty Wireless power thing from Intel, My Harddrive is not showing any data, in fact my computer says the drive is not even formatted.
I've always noticed that, despite their propensity for hanging around roadkill on busy highways, I've never seen a dead crow on the road.
When I was young, cruel and hormonal, uh oh.. in teens, I had a air gun. I must have tried to hit a crow with the air gun pellet at least for 2 months straight before I gave up, those things were so smart that they would fly as soon as I pointed the gun at them, even if I was 200 ft away. I have no idea why they did that. Was it instinct? Did they know a high velocity projectile would come from barrel end? Were they reading my body language?
What has happened to US, reminds me of a quote from Benjamin Franklin:
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Intersting, I have only one keeping me glued to my Xbox 360. I bought about a dozen games in last 2 years but I keep stacking them and continue to play this one game.
In this day and age of Facebook and Twitter, where people voluntarily put their personal lives and communication for all to see, why would email privacy be a concern to them.
Even though folks on slashdot think this is an issue of concern, the fact is that number of active users on slashdot is no where close to those on Facebook.
Well, keep heating the planet, another 1000 years later, someone will be awed looking at fossilized human skeleton. Possible the awed individual would be a probe from Mars confirming life on Earth.
There is another product on Deal Extreme, Do not know what this is, but one of the product pictures with a leaflet has some text visible from the leaflet itself, it reads something like "...signals tramits to long distance". The word before signals is not visible in that picture.
CANADA:
What will likely happen is that Rogers (the consumer) will located a new ISP provider that will not throttle their bandwidth and then say, "Goodbye Bell". That's how the free market works.
We vote with our dollars. You have no Clue about Canada. Barrier to entry into the ISP business is why new ISPs will not spring easily.
There are many ISPs, however in Toronto, there is only one that provides internet over Cable, that is Rogers, all other are either too small or provide cable internet over Rogers. Rogers traffic shapes.
Then there are tons and tons of ISPs that provide DSL, about 500+ last I checked. They use Bell's infrastructure for the last mile to consumer. Bell being arses that they are have also started traffic shaping bandwidth to ALL of these ISPs, even though they only provide the last mile.
Bell's excuse is that the contract between Bell and third party ISPs clearly states that Bell will maintain their own network, hence they traffic shape third part ISP traffic.
Now the real reason why they do this. As you stated the consumer will switch to other ISPs, its a free market. This was hurting bell, they put a stop to it by traffic shaping other ISPs that go over their DSLAMs, i.e. every DSL provider.
So NO, there won't be another ISP, at least not big enough to hurt bell's bottom line.
So those 72 virgins must sound really appeasing.
The answer to life and everything... 72.... virgins... ummm.. o... that was 42.. thats ok, I still want 72, thank you very much.
I think P2P, including bittorent should add UDP support.
Why? 1) It will be a lot harder for ISPs like comcast to track who sent what packet as UDPs only have destination addresses. Further over a shared channel like cable, it would be rather hard to figure out which of their customers originated a UDP packet. 2) For incoming traffic they will only know these packets need to go to this IP address, they cannot track who sent them, this will virtually break their traffic shaping.
Further each UDP packet can be encrypted to hide its true origins. I think this could work.
Now with all this we will need to make sure how to assure packets were delivered properly, but that is just a solvable technicality.
Slashdot Mirror
Whooooosh....
We are not alive, as the LHC created a blackhole, here on earth, time is slowing down, slowly we are edging towards the event horizon, but we will never know. Its already too late for us.
Samantha Carter said so in a documentary I watched on star travel.
... if anyone has any REAL suggestions on how to get rid of spammers, or how to force companies to stop hiding them and their domains, I'd love to hear it.
Thats easy
Ready... Aim... fire...
Working in telecom for the last few years, I think you are speculating.
This sort of things more often than not happens because of lacking business arrangements. A simple thing as sending a SMS involves agreements at a business level as well as at a technical level.
Often providers are cheap and they don't want to pay a clearing house to handle international SMS, they need to do this to stay competitive in the local market at the expense of borderline cases. This could be your UK provider or the Chinese one.
Same is true for banks, my bank charges me 12$ a month, however I have a few extra services, one being the benefit of withdrawing money from any ATM in the world that accepts a VISA/Plus network (a lot of them do). Part of my 12$ goes to pay Visa/Plus network. My previous no fee banking account at another bank had no such feature, I painfully discovered this stuck in India not able to get money easily.
Don't blame bush, it is your own doing, plastic bottles, big engine cars, dependency on fossil fuel. What more evidence do we need!
Needless to say, we know your penis size.
Doing java dev for more than 10 years, I think this is a valid question. Java is not about the core J2SE anymore, I was fortunate that java evolved along with my career, so i picked things up as they came to market. Further google is excellent if you know what you are looking for, however in this case, the author does not even know what he is looking for.
Now to answer the question.
First read Just Java by Peter van der Linden (if I spelled the name correct). Excellent book.
Get Eclipse IDE and learn jdbc, JSP/servlets, and struts preferable in that order. Except for struts Just Java should give you a primer on each, struts has a decent website with tutorials.
I would skip EJB/J2EE for now and jump to spring and later hibernate. You will find great tutorials on their websites.
Somewhere along the process also introduce yourself to JNDI, particularly JNDI when it talks to LDAP, this is a given when u are coding an enterprise app.
At this point you would know enough to do a decent job as a java developer, more importantly you would know what to do next.
This is what I can think of on labour day long weekend :)
Is everyone playing games, on Vista, I don't see any comments!
You think that sucks, I just bought real estate in the US.
Tech Support: This is tech support, how may I help you.
Customer: I powered my Wireless USB Harddrive with this nifty Wireless power thing from Intel, My Harddrive is not showing any data, in fact my computer says the drive is not even formatted.
I've always noticed that, despite their propensity for hanging around roadkill on busy highways, I've never seen a dead crow on the road.
When I was young, cruel and hormonal, uh oh.. in teens, I had a air gun. I must have tried to hit a crow with the air gun pellet at least for 2 months straight before I gave up, those things were so smart that they would fly as soon as I pointed the gun at them, even if I was 200 ft away. I have no idea why they did that. Was it instinct? Did they know a high velocity projectile would come from barrel end? Were they reading my body language?
Is crushing a suspect's child's testicles illegal?
John Yoo: "No, [if] the President thinks he needs to do that."
Prisoner 650, missing since 2003 with her 3 children
What has happened to US, reminds me of a quote from Benjamin Franklin:
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Intersting, I have only one keeping me glued to my Xbox 360. I bought about a dozen games in last 2 years but I keep stacking them and continue to play this one game.
Do I even have to name it!
In this day and age of Facebook and Twitter, where people voluntarily put their personal lives and communication for all to see, why would email privacy be a concern to them.
Even though folks on slashdot think this is an issue of concern, the fact is that number of active users on slashdot is no where close to those on Facebook.
640kb should be enough for everyone
Reminds me of a quote I once read
Stephen Harper is so far up Bush's A$$ that he can see Tony Blair's Feet.
Well, keep heating the planet, another 1000 years later, someone will be awed looking at fossilized human skeleton. Possible the awed individual would be a probe from Mars confirming life on Earth.
There is another product on Deal Extreme, Do not know what this is, but one of the product pictures with a leaflet has some text visible from the leaflet itself, it reads something like "...signals tramits to long distance". The word before signals is not visible in that picture.
Maybe someone else knows what this device is http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.9310
I think WRT54GL with a 500mW booster may do the trick.
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12215
Not sure if this is a gimmiky product or if it will really work.
There are many ISPs, however in Toronto, there is only one that provides internet over Cable, that is Rogers, all other are either too small or provide cable internet over Rogers. Rogers traffic shapes.
Then there are tons and tons of ISPs that provide DSL, about 500+ last I checked. They use Bell's infrastructure for the last mile to consumer. Bell being arses that they are have also started traffic shaping bandwidth to ALL of these ISPs, even though they only provide the last mile.
Bell's excuse is that the contract between Bell and third party ISPs clearly states that Bell will maintain their own network, hence they traffic shape third part ISP traffic.
Now the real reason why they do this. As you stated the consumer will switch to other ISPs, its a free market. This was hurting bell, they put a stop to it by traffic shaping other ISPs that go over their DSLAMs, i.e. every DSL provider.
So NO, there won't be another ISP, at least not big enough to hurt bell's bottom line.
So those 72 virgins must sound really appeasing. The answer to life and everything... 72.... virgins... ummm.. o... that was 42.. thats ok, I still want 72, thank you very much.
I think P2P, including bittorent should add UDP support.
Why?
1) It will be a lot harder for ISPs like comcast to track who sent what packet as UDPs only have destination addresses. Further over a shared channel like cable, it would be rather hard to figure out which of their customers originated a UDP packet.
2) For incoming traffic they will only know these packets need to go to this IP address, they cannot track who sent them, this will virtually break their traffic shaping.
Further each UDP packet can be encrypted to hide its true origins. I think this could work.
Now with all this we will need to make sure how to assure packets were delivered properly, but that is just a solvable technicality.
There are times you have to give out password, what if I am using Thunderbird or Outlook.
What I do see making sense is that if you give out passwords, it should be to trusted reputable softwares or at the very least to OSS.
I have just discussed this with my peers.
Consensus is that we should pass the law to ban Internet altogether.