lol, if so, bravo. but seriously. So if I have a unsecured wireless access point in my home, and some 16 year old drives by with his little pda and it detects it, he comes back with his laptop and starts using it to look at porn, would I be held liable for that? That is complete crap that I could be held liable for SOMEONE ELSE. I think wireless hotspots should put up disclaimers that "the USER" will be held responsible for anything. Internet is not out of control, in fact, I'd say there is too much legislation on the Internet. More rights less government! lol
A think a fear of the OLPC is a little compatibility. Governments might spend a little more, 200, for a PC. M$ is definitely in fear of the OLPC, Linux, and Macintosh. If they can get em while they're young, M$ will have created a market in which they dominate entirely. M$ is afraid, and they want to crush the "uprising" of open source. So, how will they do this? Just create an even smaller percentage of "linux" and "mac" users by giving out the OS for three bucks. What does that cover, the cd, shipping, and a slight profit.
I still think the OLPC is a better idea. Cheaper, and less likely to crash.
An electric train would be far superior. Firstly, the train can carry cars/trucks on it. Secondly, the tracks itself can conduct electricity:o (although, I do not know how efficiently..) Thirdly, the train bears no "speed limits" and can travel 90mph non stop whereas in a car you'll be doing 45? How fast can you SAFELY travel in a tunnel in a vehicle (as to not go through a wall).
Also, about the tectonic plates, definitely something to look into. Anyone remember the falling ceilings in the tunnel on the east coast, where was that, Brooklyn?
All your comment shows is that were getting closer to England's big brother policy, and 1984 from Orson Wells (or was it 1982?).
I for one think this is a GREAT outcome, and I hope more states follow. The idea that the government can find me quickly and easily frightens me. In fact, I've often considered Montana as a place to move to, and this helps so much more. I hate the idea that the Government wants U.S. Passports mandatory for NATIONAL, not INTERnational flights. Thomas Jefferson feared a strong federal government, and his fears, 200 years later, are starting to come true. Perhaps its time to go to Canada?
I'm curious how many people will take the 16 bucks. I'm more curious as to whether or not Microsoft will pay up immediately, and how many checks/letters will be undelivered.
My computer had some troubles recently, turned to be a bad bios (did a firmwapre upgrade and solved the problem) but because I use gentoo and it takes a little longer to install, (had ruined my information in attempting to fix the comp:-D) I installed Kubuntu. Less than 4 hours later, I formatted the harddrive and started to reinstall Gentoo. I couldn't stand the slugishness of KDE with Ubuntu. I looked at the package management system, and it didn't seem to have too much (maybe I wasn't looking around enough?) I wanted some office stuff, but I also wanted enemy territory true combat. It seemed like everything in Kubuntu's package management system was a part of KDE. It upgraded everything real nicely once it was installed, but I couldn't stand the long boot time.
To me, I love Gentoo's ebuild system. Portage works so well with over 10,000? or is it 8,000? packages at my fingertips. Emerge xfce4 and I'm set lol.
I haven't the chance to try out Mandriva/Mandrake, but with this Metisse thing I might have to check it out. (I've been using E17 a lot recently as well.)
In my limited experience, I learned so much more about linux from gentoo's installer and it prepared me to handle most any situation. (Support is amazing!) Suse installs amazingly easy, but that was when I didn't know anything about linux. Once it was up I didn't even know how to install programs hehehe. If Kubuntu has a better package management system than I think it does, then its probably better than Suse for that. Slackware can be a little confusing to install as well. ClarkConnect, (not sure what thats based on, uses RPM's, so redhat?) installs easily but is for pure gateway/firewall use.
Again, I think I might find a... 7th harddrive and install Mandriva:-D
Well what is this with "Metisse"? I haven't heard of it before. I've seen Beryl with XGL/AIGLX and the really cool E17 window themes. Is Metisse a window manager thats picking up some steam here or what?
Firefox is gaining a strong hand, but I do NOT see M$ releasing ANY linux products. If they released a Linux product, I would probably have a heart attack. At that point, I'd have to move to another distribution unknown to the masses.
The media has always been one sided, defintely democratic and not republican. Amazing to think that the two parties used to be the Democratic Republicans;). In my own home town there are a ton of legal arguments about the lake, the media always represents the side that does more harm. Although, it would be great to see John Stossel do a report on this. (He just slammed Nike not too long ago.)
I wish the public media would pick up on some of this stuff. It would be great to see John Stossel do a "Give me a break!" on his 20/20 thing about Micrsosoft. Its not that bad information doesn't get out about Microsoft, its that the majority of the population is uninformed about about alternatives, and the bad company ethics of Microsoft.
I definitely agree that OpenOffice is not as good Microsoft Office, BUT, I must admit that for what OpenOffice has to work with, they have done a damn good job. They look incredibly similar. The only downside at the moment for me with OpenOffice is its poor dictionary. I use Gentoo (ya I know, make your puns, but its a great operating system nonetheless;) ) and it works with my schools Microsoft network better Windows XP does! (Pro version too). Ya, I dual boot. I've personally set up wifi in my school, just for me..:-D. In linux, I could connect to the network printers immediately. XP still won't let me connect to the systems.
I use MS Office too because of standards, such as margins. I realize you can change those in OpenOffice but it would be nice if OpenOffice had the same margin settings as MS Office as a standards. Even though I think MS Office is better, Open Office is catching up, and I do hope that it surpasses MS Office. I definitely promote OSS everywhere I go because of the cost effectiveness. I can't wait to see "Open Office has 25% Market Share!".. Here's to wishing:-)
Stats in general can be misleading, but I would agree that IE stats would be more useful. I'd love to see a time comparison chart between the popularity of Firefox vs IE though. I'm betting that firefox is doing very well because of all the advertisement google is helping them with. Have you seen all those "Get Firefox with Google Toolbar" adds! Google will give you a whole dollar each time someone clicks on it and downloads firefox, with the toolbar, from your site. Its sweet, but with Apple having a bit of the market share out there, and all those Opera users, along with netscape and links/lynx (Love for text browsers!), and even Konqueror for those weird KDE fans, I bet that we've got 50% open source web browsing SOMEWHERE...
Considering the fact that eventually someone will gain your information, I do have some fear. Unfortuantely? I do not let fear manipulate me. I'm sure my financial data will get out from a credit card company or an ebay or something. This frightens me a little bit because I will be attending college next year. Fortunately, the school I will be attending is fairly new (the campus, not the school). I do look forward to Rochester Institute of Technology, but now I'm getting off topic.
I did notice that as soon as I got a $250 credit card (I know, there's people with $100,000 limits) I immediately started getting other credit card offers for $300 from other entirely unrelated credit card companies. As soon as I applied for one online college site (petersons and collegeboard) I received hundreds of mails and emails for different colleges. They are still contacting me, even after I tell them to remove me from their list.
And after the report about how the government recieved a C(-?) on their security, this doesn't surprise me a bit. In fact, I think its hilarious that our government, a society with spies that keeps things secret from its own people, cannot manage security on more public organizations like police departments and the FBI.
Thats right on. America in general is falling behind in research, and Microsoft is definitely a leader in this problem. The less competition there is, the less innovation there is. Look at Ford and GM. Their hybrid vehicles suck. But then look at Toyota and other foriegn companies, they are giving great innovation and driving our own companies into the ground. Microsoft isn't about software or the customer, but is about business decisions.. They bought out dos and made millions. I'm glad that google is finally taking the initiative to try and crush M$. Microsoft has almost no original ideas. I see tons of games that were originally designed by a small company or a single person, and then get bought out. Asheron's Call is an example of this. We need more and more competition. In fact, every time a friend of mine has a problem with a program, I recommend Open Source Software because it usually has far superior support. Norton Symantec causes tons of problems with a slew of applications. So, I recommend Comodo for a firewall and avast/clam for antivirus. If google can start to create an effect on Microsoft, perhaps more companies can gain a greater market share as well. In fact, I would even love to see four or five commercial operating systems and three or four open source operating systems with programs that will work on all of them. Multi-platformed computers would be great, but now I'm getting a little off topic. Basically, competition drives innovation. Innovation defeats competition. Microsoft just bought out all the innovation. So, thats my two cents.
Wikipedia blocked? That is horrible. Wikipedia is a part of the real world, something that a school should prepare you for. As you go throughout life people will always have misinformation. I know that even though I try to say nothing false, I can say things that are wrong. You cannot trust one single person to be correct, just as you cannot trust one single source to be correct. When you write a paper for some thorough report, everything you make a comment about should have more than one source. Why? Multiple sources are much more credible than single sources. I think blocking wikipedia is like trying to tell a 15 year old boy that girls aren't important. Personally, I would contact your school board and represent some of the opinions of our fellow slashdotters. Although wikipedia can give incorrect information, it is definitely a great start on a research project because it can you give the general idea of something before you delve deeper into a topic. I definitely agree with Matt here that if a student gives incorrect information on something, he should be docked, unless he can prove it from multiple sources (not just one). Anyways, thats my two cents.
I used to play a game called Asheron's Call, an MMORPG that is still going by Turbine. Anyways, they offered ACStats and Treestats, a way of viewing guilds/exps and all sorts of information. However, t hese sites are no longer up because of the drastic population loss in AC. If there was a way to make it optional like Treestats/Acstats (independent plugins) then that would be great.
I'm at a school t hat uses bess * spit*
And although they are not blocked for pornography. Many of these are blocked for shopping/merchandising or recreation/hobbies and other sorts of things. However, a few of them are no longer blocked.
I've worked at my school and I have done volunteer work at my school. During this time I set up PHPProxy on a server to access school relevant material. We use this filter called "Bess" that blocks things such as altavista's translator because translators offer services to translate web pages (can be used as a proxy). Bess is extremely annoying, and had it not blocked things like certain pages on wikipedia, or my own personal website for educational reasons, or anything else, I would not have had a need to setup a proxy. I'm also subscribed to a newsletter that goes towards many chinese that sends me a new domain name, once every two weeks or so, for a proxy that can be used to bypass filters.
However, If I were to tell anyone in my own school that I used the PHPProxy, I'd have a swift revocation of my school computer uses. (However, due to limited rules, I could still use my personal laptop on their network, ande STILL use PHPProxy to access whatever I want.
Personally, I'd say set it up, but don't let them go to myspace. Allow things like fark, albinoblacksheep.com, but block ebaumsworld. Personally, I t hink myspace should die. block myspace, set it up. But make sure the reason you turn on the proxy is for "personal reasons." Like, personal educational reasons, to try and protect yourself from any suits. G'luck.
I setup clarkconnect on a small system at home at a gateway. I also use a netgear wireless router and a linksys wireless router (long house, need 2 aps..)
Would it be possible for every router to be shipped with a random password that is printed on the cards it comes with? Therefore solving this dillemma. Or by default only allow access from the NAT, and not from outside, the internet (thus blocking any javascript attempt)?
block port 25? You nuts? They already block half my ports, including port 80. They charge you insane amounts for a "bussiness" account so that you can have port 80 open to the public!
OMG GAH! I'm a Charter Customer by necessity:-( The only other nearby company is roadrunner, but they have yet to offer internet in my location. Over the last year or so I've had a TON of problems with their DNS. I often play FPS games like enemy-territory, and after playing them for about half an hour the server would dissappear (of course, if I tried to find the server through whois/friends, the server would be just fine). But this is crap! Although I haven't heard of OpenDNS before, I think I will try it as soon as I get home. Charter is some big cable company who thinks they can do whatever they want. Internet goes out for hours on end once a month, cable gets jumpy, and at unreasonable prices. I hate the company, but I need the high speed internet (which they "claim" you can't get without buying a cable package). I'm curious if theres some way I could open up a lawsuit...
Charter, my recommendation is to stay away from them!
I've recently visited a few colleges and in those colleges, 50% of all laptops were macintosh. More software that runs on multiple os's is something that we definitely need. When a program runs on more than one OS, it opens the OS market up to competition. I hope other companies start to provide multi-os support.
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lol, if so, bravo. but seriously. So if I have a unsecured wireless access point in my home, and some 16 year old drives by with his little pda and it detects it, he comes back with his laptop and starts using it to look at porn, would I be held liable for that? That is complete crap that I could be held liable for SOMEONE ELSE. I think wireless hotspots should put up disclaimers that "the USER" will be held responsible for anything. Internet is not out of control, in fact, I'd say there is too much legislation on the Internet. More rights less government! lol
A think a fear of the OLPC is a little compatibility. Governments might spend a little more, 200, for a PC. M$ is definitely in fear of the OLPC, Linux, and Macintosh. If they can get em while they're young, M$ will have created a market in which they dominate entirely. M$ is afraid, and they want to crush the "uprising" of open source. So, how will they do this? Just create an even smaller percentage of "linux" and "mac" users by giving out the OS for three bucks. What does that cover, the cd, shipping, and a slight profit.
I still think the OLPC is a better idea. Cheaper, and less likely to crash.
nonetheless, YAY for linux supported hardware.. (I'm still trying to find a bluetooth PCMCIA card thats supported..)
An electric train would be far superior. Firstly, the train can carry cars/trucks on it. Secondly, the tracks itself can conduct electricity :o (although, I do not know how efficiently..) Thirdly, the train bears no "speed limits" and can travel 90mph non stop whereas in a car you'll be doing 45? How fast can you SAFELY travel in a tunnel in a vehicle (as to not go through a wall).
Also, about the tectonic plates, definitely something to look into. Anyone remember the falling ceilings in the tunnel on the east coast, where was that, Brooklyn?
All your comment shows is that were getting closer to England's big brother policy, and 1984 from Orson Wells (or was it 1982?).
I for one think this is a GREAT outcome, and I hope more states follow. The idea that the government can find me quickly and easily frightens me. In fact, I've often considered Montana as a place to move to, and this helps so much more. I hate the idea that the Government wants U.S. Passports mandatory for NATIONAL, not INTERnational flights. Thomas Jefferson feared a strong federal government, and his fears, 200 years later, are starting to come true. Perhaps its time to go to Canada?
I'm curious how many people will take the 16 bucks. I'm more curious as to whether or not Microsoft will pay up immediately, and how many checks/letters will be undelivered.
My computer had some troubles recently, turned to be a bad bios (did a firmwapre upgrade and solved the problem) but because I use gentoo and it takes a little longer to install, (had ruined my information in attempting to fix the comp :-D) I installed Kubuntu. Less than 4 hours later, I formatted the harddrive and started to reinstall Gentoo. I couldn't stand the slugishness of KDE with Ubuntu. I looked at the package management system, and it didn't seem to have too much (maybe I wasn't looking around enough?) I wanted some office stuff, but I also wanted enemy territory true combat. It seemed like everything in Kubuntu's package management system was a part of KDE. It upgraded everything real nicely once it was installed, but I couldn't stand the long boot time.
To me, I love Gentoo's ebuild system. Portage works so well with over 10,000? or is it 8,000? packages at my fingertips. Emerge xfce4 and I'm set lol.
I haven't the chance to try out Mandriva/Mandrake, but with this Metisse thing I might have to check it out. (I've been using E17 a lot recently as well.)
In my limited experience, I learned so much more about linux from gentoo's installer and it prepared me to handle most any situation. (Support is amazing!) Suse installs amazingly easy, but that was when I didn't know anything about linux. Once it was up I didn't even know how to install programs hehehe. If Kubuntu has a better package management system than I think it does, then its probably better than Suse for that. Slackware can be a little confusing to install as well. ClarkConnect, (not sure what thats based on, uses RPM's, so redhat?) installs easily but is for pure gateway/firewall use.
Again, I think I might find a... 7th harddrive and install Mandriva :-D
Well what is this with "Metisse"? I haven't heard of it before. I've seen Beryl with XGL/AIGLX and the really cool E17 window themes. Is Metisse a window manager thats picking up some steam here or what?
Firefox is gaining a strong hand, but I do NOT see M$ releasing ANY linux products. If they released a Linux product, I would probably have a heart attack. At that point, I'd have to move to another distribution unknown to the masses.
The media has always been one sided, defintely democratic and not republican. Amazing to think that the two parties used to be the Democratic Republicans ;). In my own home town there are a ton of legal arguments about the lake, the media always represents the side that does more harm. Although, it would be great to see John Stossel do a report on this. (He just slammed Nike not too long ago.)
I wish the public media would pick up on some of this stuff. It would be great to see John Stossel do a "Give me a break!" on his 20/20 thing about Micrsosoft. Its not that bad information doesn't get out about Microsoft, its that the majority of the population is uninformed about about alternatives, and the bad company ethics of Microsoft.
I definitely agree that OpenOffice is not as good Microsoft Office, BUT, I must admit that for what OpenOffice has to work with, they have done a damn good job. They look incredibly similar. The only downside at the moment for me with OpenOffice is its poor dictionary. I use Gentoo (ya I know, make your puns, but its a great operating system nonetheless ;) ) and it works with my schools Microsoft network better Windows XP does! (Pro version too). Ya, I dual boot. I've personally set up wifi in my school, just for me.. :-D. In linux, I could connect to the network printers immediately. XP still won't let me connect to the systems.
.. Here's to wishing :-)
I use MS Office too because of standards, such as margins. I realize you can change those in OpenOffice but it would be nice if OpenOffice had the same margin settings as MS Office as a standards. Even though I think MS Office is better, Open Office is catching up, and I do hope that it surpasses MS Office. I definitely promote OSS everywhere I go because of the cost effectiveness. I can't wait to see "Open Office has 25% Market Share!"
Stats in general can be misleading, but I would agree that IE stats would be more useful. I'd love to see a time comparison chart between the popularity of Firefox vs IE though. I'm betting that firefox is doing very well because of all the advertisement google is helping them with. Have you seen all those "Get Firefox with Google Toolbar" adds! Google will give you a whole dollar each time someone clicks on it and downloads firefox, with the toolbar, from your site. Its sweet, but with Apple having a bit of the market share out there, and all those Opera users, along with netscape and links/lynx (Love for text browsers!), and even Konqueror for those weird KDE fans, I bet that we've got 50% open source web browsing SOMEWHERE...
Considering the fact that eventually someone will gain your information, I do have some fear. Unfortuantely? I do not let fear manipulate me. I'm sure my financial data will get out from a credit card company or an ebay or something. This frightens me a little bit because I will be attending college next year. Fortunately, the school I will be attending is fairly new (the campus, not the school). I do look forward to Rochester Institute of Technology, but now I'm getting off topic. I did notice that as soon as I got a $250 credit card (I know, there's people with $100,000 limits) I immediately started getting other credit card offers for $300 from other entirely unrelated credit card companies. As soon as I applied for one online college site (petersons and collegeboard) I received hundreds of mails and emails for different colleges. They are still contacting me, even after I tell them to remove me from their list. And after the report about how the government recieved a C(-?) on their security, this doesn't surprise me a bit. In fact, I think its hilarious that our government, a society with spies that keeps things secret from its own people, cannot manage security on more public organizations like police departments and the FBI.
Has anyone considered the fact that IP addresses can be spoofed?
Thats right on. America in general is falling behind in research, and Microsoft is definitely a leader in this problem. The less competition there is, the less innovation there is. Look at Ford and GM. Their hybrid vehicles suck. But then look at Toyota and other foriegn companies, they are giving great innovation and driving our own companies into the ground. Microsoft isn't about software or the customer, but is about business decisions.. They bought out dos and made millions. I'm glad that google is finally taking the initiative to try and crush M$. Microsoft has almost no original ideas. I see tons of games that were originally designed by a small company or a single person, and then get bought out. Asheron's Call is an example of this. We need more and more competition. In fact, every time a friend of mine has a problem with a program, I recommend Open Source Software because it usually has far superior support. Norton Symantec causes tons of problems with a slew of applications. So, I recommend Comodo for a firewall and avast/clam for antivirus. If google can start to create an effect on Microsoft, perhaps more companies can gain a greater market share as well. In fact, I would even love to see four or five commercial operating systems and three or four open source operating systems with programs that will work on all of them. Multi-platformed computers would be great, but now I'm getting a little off topic. Basically, competition drives innovation. Innovation defeats competition. Microsoft just bought out all the innovation. So, thats my two cents.
Wikipedia blocked? That is horrible. Wikipedia is a part of the real world, something that a school should prepare you for. As you go throughout life people will always have misinformation. I know that even though I try to say nothing false, I can say things that are wrong. You cannot trust one single person to be correct, just as you cannot trust one single source to be correct. When you write a paper for some thorough report, everything you make a comment about should have more than one source. Why? Multiple sources are much more credible than single sources. I think blocking wikipedia is like trying to tell a 15 year old boy that girls aren't important. Personally, I would contact your school board and represent some of the opinions of our fellow slashdotters. Although wikipedia can give incorrect information, it is definitely a great start on a research project because it can you give the general idea of something before you delve deeper into a topic. I definitely agree with Matt here that if a student gives incorrect information on something, he should be docked, unless he can prove it from multiple sources (not just one). Anyways, thats my two cents.
I used to play a game called Asheron's Call, an MMORPG that is still going by Turbine. Anyways, they offered ACStats and Treestats, a way of viewing guilds/exps and all sorts of information. However, t hese sites are no longer up because of the drastic population loss in AC. If there was a way to make it optional like Treestats/Acstats (independent plugins) then that would be great.
I'm at a school t hat uses bess * spit* And although they are not blocked for pornography. Many of these are blocked for shopping/merchandising or recreation/hobbies and other sorts of things. However, a few of them are no longer blocked.
I've worked at my school and I have done volunteer work at my school. During this time I set up PHPProxy on a server to access school relevant material. We use this filter called "Bess" that blocks things such as altavista's translator because translators offer services to translate web pages (can be used as a proxy). Bess is extremely annoying, and had it not blocked things like certain pages on wikipedia, or my own personal website for educational reasons, or anything else, I would not have had a need to setup a proxy. I'm also subscribed to a newsletter that goes towards many chinese that sends me a new domain name, once every two weeks or so, for a proxy that can be used to bypass filters. However, If I were to tell anyone in my own school that I used the PHPProxy, I'd have a swift revocation of my school computer uses. (However, due to limited rules, I could still use my personal laptop on their network, ande STILL use PHPProxy to access whatever I want. Personally, I'd say set it up, but don't let them go to myspace. Allow things like fark, albinoblacksheep.com, but block ebaumsworld. Personally, I t hink myspace should die. block myspace, set it up. But make sure the reason you turn on the proxy is for "personal reasons." Like, personal educational reasons, to try and protect yourself from any suits. G'luck.
I setup clarkconnect on a small system at home at a gateway. I also use a netgear wireless router and a linksys wireless router (long house, need 2 aps..)
Would it be possible for every router to be shipped with a random password that is printed on the cards it comes with? Therefore solving this dillemma. Or by default only allow access from the NAT, and not from outside, the internet (thus blocking any javascript attempt)?
block port 25? You nuts? They already block half my ports, including port 80. They charge you insane amounts for a "bussiness" account so that you can have port 80 open to the public!
OMG GAH! :-( The only other nearby company is roadrunner, but they have yet to offer internet in my location. Over the last year or so I've had a TON of problems with their DNS. I often play FPS games like enemy-territory, and after playing them for about half an hour the server would dissappear (of course, if I tried to find the server through whois/friends, the server would be just fine). But this is crap! Although I haven't heard of OpenDNS before, I think I will try it as soon as I get home. Charter is some big cable company who thinks they can do whatever they want. Internet goes out for hours on end once a month, cable gets jumpy, and at unreasonable prices. I hate the company, but I need the high speed internet (which they "claim" you can't get without buying a cable package). I'm curious if theres some way I could open up a lawsuit...
I'm a Charter Customer by necessity
Charter, my recommendation is to stay away from them!
I've recently visited a few colleges and in those colleges, 50% of all laptops were macintosh. More software that runs on multiple os's is something that we definitely need. When a program runs on more than one OS, it opens the OS market up to competition. I hope other companies start to provide multi-os support.