I know this is the wrong place to get any sympathy, but what the heck, it's only slashdot karma I'll lose. What's wrong with the high schools in the US is they are all too dang liberal. I remember in high school I had one conservative teacher, and he was the band director. Of course no one wants to be in high school! With all the liberal teachers I had, one encouraged students to share their viewpoints, while all the other forced all their dogma and beliefs down our throats at best, and worse case scenario penalized students for having "wrong" beliefs. There was a valedictorian girl at one of the schools in the district that wrote this great paper on the 2nd amendment and the right to bear arms, and the teacher gave her an F, so she played the teachers game and wrote a paper on Hillary Clinton, and ended up with an A. Don't tell me that's not penalizing students with differing beliefs.
The next problem is the teachers are mostly under qualified. Many a days in Pre-Calculus I spent correcting the teacher when she did a problem wrong, or going up to the board and solving the problem when she got so tired of my correcting her all the time. It was a joke! When other students had problems in the class no one dared ask the teacher to try to explain for fear of getting more confused than they already were. And don't even get me started on the A+ Certification course. The official teacher was Mrs. Huerta, but she knew nothing about the material. The above conservative mentioned band director, my friend Chris, and I ended up running that class. Even the Teaching Assistant couldn't grasp most of the concepts in the A+ Certification book we were going through.
What does DRM accomplish? Seriously, we listen in analog, and even if you modify soundcards to only output the sound if a DRM attached device is connected to the speaker out, nothing can stop someone from setting up a complete different rig in a decent recording environment, And "live" recording the playback from the DRM device outputting the sound into a.wav format that can be ogg encoded or what not. Now, this is even stretching it where things stand now, because there aren't DRM aware sound outputs, the decoding takes place at the software level. All one needs to do is have the line out going out to a mixer to adjust levels, and have an aux on a mixer go into another computer handling the recording. (and really, you could get away with going directly from the output of the one to the input of the other, the mixer is just for fine-tuning adjustments)
So again, I re-emphasize no matter how much DRM you put on a device, anyone with a decent recording rig and render that DRM useless, and distribute the newly recorded non-DRM'd recordings.
That's not the point. The parent is arguing that all windows computers are going to receive the update, whether they use firefox/seamonkey/opera/lynx and Microsoft will claim from a marketing standpoint IE 7 has more market share because it had more downloads than firefox, where in reality, maybe 25% of the upgrades were people that use other browsers primarily, and they aren't using IE7 at all even though they downloaded.
The parent is more worried about their marketing department using this to help gain market share even though they are artificial numbers if no one uses it. On the other hand, I would venture 90% of the people who download the latest firefox are actively using it, because, windows update doesn't hand out firefox updates.
I think you kinda missed the article... If you exchange virtual money for real money, then it is taxable, for example, if you made a diablo 2 character on battle.net, then sold it on ebay for a 1000, that 1000 would be taxable. Nothing wrong with this, just like every other business. Look at the bright side of this, now you can write off those game purchases and subscriptions as a business expense!
Sam
yes I do. I work on a project in the State College, PA School District (not affiliated with the project, just a volunteer thing) where we collect old computers from people in the area, wipe them clean, rip off any oem tags, and then install ubuntu dapper drake on the systems. Pair this with oem-config and it's an oem machine you can give to anyone and they can setup easier than windows.
In the case of this example, being a school computer lab, the students do not need admin access, so accounts can be setup with an ldap/kerb server for authentication, throw in quota to limit the amount of space they take up, and of course run apt-get upgrade daily on all machines to get anything from security repos, and you have a pile of machines that the students can't do much harm to, the menus will give them access to anything they need, and if their really curious, with the build-essential package, they have a full build environment where they could build any software they would want (that would be within the size of their quota of course) without damaging any other users experiences.
By earliest copies, I assume you mean the Vaticanus and Sinaticus. Both of these manuscripts were rejected by Erasmus, which wrote the Textus Receptus (what the KJV NT is based on), and the Majority Text also disagrees with these 2 translations. The one was found in the vatican, and another was found by a dumpster at a Monestary, the Sinaticus (one by the dumpster) was marked up so heavily it was hard to read what the content meant.
However, this story is found in the Majority of the texts, which is why it was included in the Erasmus text. What would you rather trust, a couple old manuscripts held by a single entity, or thousands upon thousands of texts held by thousands of thousands of people where the thousands of text agree with each other a strong percentage of the time?
What this text seems to contradict more than the entire bible, is the Westcott and Hort translation, which is the basis for most "modern" bibles, like the NIV.
Now all this aside, the ten commandments are found in the Torah, which Jewish tradition was copied exactly many, many, many times and is arguably the oldest text that is preserved in it's entirety.
no, poetic justice would be someone exploiting WGA to install ubuntu and move over all settings from windows without any user interaction, and while we're at it, have some virus like behavior and pass it around to everyone in your address book/cache/excel and word docs/everyone on your subnet/everyone on the internet;-)
Now that would be poetic justice, of course then all the computer shops that just fix spyware/viruses would all go out of business, how sad would that be...
We get some machines off of free cycle for re-distributing to State College area high school student's families that don't have computers. The first thing we do with every machine we get is wipe the hard drive, remove windows oem product key, and install ubuntu. Gets around all legal problems.
GI-JOE paraglider now that brings back memories... Tying a string between a plastic grocery bag and the underarms of the gijoe, and then neatly folding the bag and wrapping the string around it. Throw it in the air, and presto, if you did it right, it comes down nice and gently from the grocery bag parachute... well, or you screwed up and it falls to it's death... Got off topic, too much beer for one night;-)
I agree clamwin is good, even though it isn't interactive, it can sorta be made interactive with the web browser with ClamWin Antivirus Glue for Firefox, and as a tech, the best thing about clamwin over any other antivirus program I've tried is it e-mails me so my clients don't even need to bother doing scans. It does a scan every night, e-mails me if it finds something, I remote in and fix it, send client a bill with the log file it e-mailed me. Works really great! Clam Mail is a pop3 proxy that will scan all incoming mail as well, so even though clamav is minimal in just scanning, it's easy to plugin to other apps. Also, clamwin is over 80% done with realtime scanning feature so it won't be long!
I understand the compiler rearranges code for optimization, but that's not something your going to be able to explain to a point where an intro to programming type class can grasp. That's the reason we have compilers, to do that stuff for us, And if your debugging with prints, you throw in a bunch of prints to find out where in it crashed, and then it doesn't show the right print at where you crashed, unless your an advanced programmer, without a debugger your looking for a needle in a haystack. Where, if you have a debugger, say gdb, attach to the core dump, do a backtrace, then you can track down what made it crash, which will hint as to where in the program it crashed, throw in a break somewhere in that block, step through till you find where it is, then, find out why it happened, fix your code and test. With practice and experience, less stupid mistakes will happen when programming, but you can't expect a beginner to put out perfect code, and if their debugging with prints doesn't show a print because of an optimization change, their options are randomly change things in the program, look at the compilers source code and try to understand it with minimal/no programming experience (if it's even available to look at), or in my opinion the better option, teach them how to use a debugger to track down their mistakes.
Debugging through prints? I haven't done much with java, but you do that with c++ sooner or later in your programming you'll come across a segfault, and it won't print some print lines that have been already executed. A debugger is important for tracking programming errors that cause a program to crash, all print statements will do is catch logic errors.
So with that out of the way, teach with something like vim 7, has tabs, split screens, folding, autocompletion (that will autocomplete from header files), visual block mode, substitutions, really quick copy paste between files, etc... So while deal with a complicated IDE when you have something more powerful in a much less resource intensive editor? Now if only vi could be embedded into firefox with an extension for writing comments on slashdot...
I'm a computer repair/consultant in central Pennsylvania. I have come across Spy Sweeper on tons of computers, and most customers are complaining about it. All of them were told they needed it by Best Buy, and it got removed from all their computers, had spybot, ad-aware and clamwin (or AVG if they weren't commercial and they needed live scanning). From what I've seen, it is one of the most annoying worse spyware scanning programs, because it bothers the consumer so much, that they hit OK, the same way they get things installed. If I were you, I'd stay as far away from this product as possible!!!
Sam
oops should have used the preview button it removed the tags from *sarcasm* I guess this is another Microsoft plot to prevent this generation from knowing about Open Source Software */sarcasm*
substitute the *'s for the arrow thingy's that enclose a tag that if I type it will remove automatically and \ doesn't escape
Sam
Yeah, myspace isn't something that should be accessed at school, it's a complete waste of time, and I'm not sure why so many people like it, let alone spend more time on it than the rest of life (including my sister), but the problem I see from an average geeks point of view is what about Open Source projects with bug tracking systems, user forums, documentation wikis, and so on and so forth. From what I've read about DOPA, it sounds like all that stuff would be blocked as well, which I would say would be a huge injustice to students that use free software on a regular basis... Back when I was in school, one of the biggest perks of going was downloading linux/bsd iso's on a connection faster than 56k, and then burning them to CD's to take home and tinker with. I guess this is another Microsoft plot to prevent this generation from knowing about Open Source Software
Sam
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I know this is the wrong place to get any sympathy, but what the heck, it's only slashdot karma I'll lose. What's wrong with the high schools in the US is they are all too dang liberal. I remember in high school I had one conservative teacher, and he was the band director. Of course no one wants to be in high school! With all the liberal teachers I had, one encouraged students to share their viewpoints, while all the other forced all their dogma and beliefs down our throats at best, and worse case scenario penalized students for having "wrong" beliefs. There was a valedictorian girl at one of the schools in the district that wrote this great paper on the 2nd amendment and the right to bear arms, and the teacher gave her an F, so she played the teachers game and wrote a paper on Hillary Clinton, and ended up with an A. Don't tell me that's not penalizing students with differing beliefs.
The next problem is the teachers are mostly under qualified. Many a days in Pre-Calculus I spent correcting the teacher when she did a problem wrong, or going up to the board and solving the problem when she got so tired of my correcting her all the time. It was a joke! When other students had problems in the class no one dared ask the teacher to try to explain for fear of getting more confused than they already were. And don't even get me started on the A+ Certification course. The official teacher was Mrs. Huerta, but she knew nothing about the material. The above conservative mentioned band director, my friend Chris, and I ended up running that class. Even the Teaching Assistant couldn't grasp most of the concepts in the A+ Certification book we were going through.
Sam
What does DRM accomplish? Seriously, we listen in analog, and even if you modify soundcards to only output the sound if a DRM attached device is connected to the speaker out, nothing can stop someone from setting up a complete different rig in a decent recording environment, And "live" recording the playback from the DRM device outputting the sound into a .wav format that can be ogg encoded or what not. Now, this is even stretching it where things stand now, because there aren't DRM aware sound outputs, the decoding takes place at the software level. All one needs to do is have the line out going out to a mixer to adjust levels, and have an aux on a mixer go into another computer handling the recording. (and really, you could get away with going directly from the output of the one to the input of the other, the mixer is just for fine-tuning adjustments)
So again, I re-emphasize no matter how much DRM you put on a device, anyone with a decent recording rig and render that DRM useless, and distribute the newly recorded non-DRM'd recordings.
Sam
That's not the point. The parent is arguing that all windows computers are going to receive the update, whether they use firefox/seamonkey/opera/lynx and Microsoft will claim from a marketing standpoint IE 7 has more market share because it had more downloads than firefox, where in reality, maybe 25% of the upgrades were people that use other browsers primarily, and they aren't using IE7 at all even though they downloaded.
The parent is more worried about their marketing department using this to help gain market share even though they are artificial numbers if no one uses it. On the other hand, I would venture 90% of the people who download the latest firefox are actively using it, because, windows update doesn't hand out firefox updates.
Sam
This has got to be the first time I've ever heard of someone sueing someone over free advertising for a website. Sam
I think you kinda missed the article... If you exchange virtual money for real money, then it is taxable, for example, if you made a diablo 2 character on battle.net, then sold it on ebay for a 1000, that 1000 would be taxable. Nothing wrong with this, just like every other business. Look at the bright side of this, now you can write off those game purchases and subscriptions as a business expense! Sam
yes I do. I work on a project in the State College, PA School District (not affiliated with the project, just a volunteer thing) where we collect old computers from people in the area, wipe them clean, rip off any oem tags, and then install ubuntu dapper drake on the systems. Pair this with oem-config and it's an oem machine you can give to anyone and they can setup easier than windows.
In the case of this example, being a school computer lab, the students do not need admin access, so accounts can be setup with an ldap/kerb server for authentication, throw in quota to limit the amount of space they take up, and of course run apt-get upgrade daily on all machines to get anything from security repos, and you have a pile of machines that the students can't do much harm to, the menus will give them access to anything they need, and if their really curious, with the build-essential package, they have a full build environment where they could build any software they would want (that would be within the size of their quota of course) without damaging any other users experiences.
Sam
can't wait for firefox 3! Sam
Dang, I read the headline and thought it was saying Symantec and Mcafee are open sourcing to fight against Microsoft ;-)
Sam
By earliest copies, I assume you mean the Vaticanus and Sinaticus. Both of these manuscripts were rejected by Erasmus, which wrote the Textus Receptus (what the KJV NT is based on), and the Majority Text also disagrees with these 2 translations. The one was found in the vatican, and another was found by a dumpster at a Monestary, the Sinaticus (one by the dumpster) was marked up so heavily it was hard to read what the content meant.
However, this story is found in the Majority of the texts, which is why it was included in the Erasmus text. What would you rather trust, a couple old manuscripts held by a single entity, or thousands upon thousands of texts held by thousands of thousands of people where the thousands of text agree with each other a strong percentage of the time?
What this text seems to contradict more than the entire bible, is the Westcott and Hort translation, which is the basis for most "modern" bibles, like the NIV.
Now all this aside, the ten commandments are found in the Torah, which Jewish tradition was copied exactly many, many, many times and is arguably the oldest text that is preserved in it's entirety.
Sam
Well as long as you're already running linux, it won't affect you ;-)
Is it just me, or did someone else read enviga and think it was a generic viagra at first?
no, poetic justice would be someone exploiting WGA to install ubuntu and move over all settings from windows without any user interaction, and while we're at it, have some virus like behavior and pass it around to everyone in your address book/cache/excel and word docs/everyone on your subnet/everyone on the internet ;-)
Now that would be poetic justice, of course then all the computer shops that just fix spyware/viruses would all go out of business, how sad would that be...
We get some machines off of free cycle for re-distributing to State College area high school student's families that don't have computers. The first thing we do with every machine we get is wipe the hard drive, remove windows oem product key, and install ubuntu. Gets around all legal problems.
Sam
GI-JOE paraglider now that brings back memories... Tying a string between a plastic grocery bag and the underarms of the gijoe, and then neatly folding the bag and wrapping the string around it. Throw it in the air, and presto, if you did it right, it comes down nice and gently from the grocery bag parachute... well, or you screwed up and it falls to it's death... Got off topic, too much beer for one night ;-)
Sam
We just need to place these across the US/Mexico border, and that'll stop the illegal immigration! Who needs a wall?
Open Source projects don't interrogate and try to prosecute you if you find a security problem and report it.
I agree clamwin is good, even though it isn't interactive, it can sorta be made interactive with the web browser with ClamWin Antivirus Glue for Firefox, and as a tech, the best thing about clamwin over any other antivirus program I've tried is it e-mails me so my clients don't even need to bother doing scans. It does a scan every night, e-mails me if it finds something, I remote in and fix it, send client a bill with the log file it e-mailed me. Works really great! Clam Mail is a pop3 proxy that will scan all incoming mail as well, so even though clamav is minimal in just scanning, it's easy to plugin to other apps. Also, clamwin is over 80% done with realtime scanning feature so it won't be long!
I understand the compiler rearranges code for optimization, but that's not something your going to be able to explain to a point where an intro to programming type class can grasp. That's the reason we have compilers, to do that stuff for us, And if your debugging with prints, you throw in a bunch of prints to find out where in it crashed, and then it doesn't show the right print at where you crashed, unless your an advanced programmer, without a debugger your looking for a needle in a haystack. Where, if you have a debugger, say gdb, attach to the core dump, do a backtrace, then you can track down what made it crash, which will hint as to where in the program it crashed, throw in a break somewhere in that block, step through till you find where it is, then, find out why it happened, fix your code and test. With practice and experience, less stupid mistakes will happen when programming, but you can't expect a beginner to put out perfect code, and if their debugging with prints doesn't show a print because of an optimization change, their options are randomly change things in the program, look at the compilers source code and try to understand it with minimal/no programming experience (if it's even available to look at), or in my opinion the better option, teach them how to use a debugger to track down their mistakes.
Debugging through prints? I haven't done much with java, but you do that with c++ sooner or later in your programming you'll come across a segfault, and it won't print some print lines that have been already executed. A debugger is important for tracking programming errors that cause a program to crash, all print statements will do is catch logic errors.
So with that out of the way, teach with something like vim 7, has tabs, split screens, folding, autocompletion (that will autocomplete from header files), visual block mode, substitutions, really quick copy paste between files, etc... So while deal with a complicated IDE when you have something more powerful in a much less resource intensive editor? Now if only vi could be embedded into firefox with an extension for writing comments on slashdot...
I'm a computer repair/consultant in central Pennsylvania. I have come across Spy Sweeper on tons of computers, and most customers are complaining about it. All of them were told they needed it by Best Buy, and it got removed from all their computers, had spybot, ad-aware and clamwin (or AVG if they weren't commercial and they needed live scanning). From what I've seen, it is one of the most annoying worse spyware scanning programs, because it bothers the consumer so much, that they hit OK, the same way they get things installed. If I were you, I'd stay as far away from this product as possible!!! Sam
oops should have used the preview button it removed the tags from *sarcasm* I guess this is another Microsoft plot to prevent this generation from knowing about Open Source Software */sarcasm*
substitute the *'s for the arrow thingy's that enclose a tag that if I type it will remove automatically and \ doesn't escape
Sam
Yeah, myspace isn't something that should be accessed at school, it's a complete waste of time, and I'm not sure why so many people like it, let alone spend more time on it than the rest of life (including my sister), but the problem I see from an average geeks point of view is what about Open Source projects with bug tracking systems, user forums, documentation wikis, and so on and so forth. From what I've read about DOPA, it sounds like all that stuff would be blocked as well, which I would say would be a huge injustice to students that use free software on a regular basis... Back when I was in school, one of the biggest perks of going was downloading linux/bsd iso's on a connection faster than 56k, and then burning them to CD's to take home and tinker with. I guess this is another Microsoft plot to prevent this generation from knowing about Open Source Software Sam
s/to/too grammar erorr on my part, sorry
Well as long as ssh isn't blocked they'll never know someone isn't using an IM/IRC client (thanks to naim/irssi/screen on a remote server).