Educate yourself:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

A hacker isn't somebody who breaks into other machines maliciously. But some who break into systems DO take the moral high ground by getting into the system and leaving information for the administrator about what vulnerability was open and how to secure it without defacing the site.

What's so unethical? This is like if somebody put a sign in front of an open building that says "please write on the walls", you leave your building for a year or two and nobody has written on it except a bunch of guys who are using the wall to pass encoded messages to each other. If you don't like what they wrote, erase it, tell them they can't do it anymore. Chances are, they'll go find somebody else's open building rather than further piss you off.

What the students did was they just stopped writing on anybody's walls because they were pressured by the university. Maybe what they did annoyed some people, as it was not what the site owners were expecting, but you can't really complain too hard about the situation being "unethical" all things considered. They used the site for what it was made for in an unexpected way.

In addition, most of these abandoned sites are COVERED in spam messages because the admins didn't properly secure against bots posting viagra ads from top to bottom. Can you really blame the grad students for saying, going back to our analogy "hey, this guy just has ads for penis enlargement all over his wall, he probably won't mind if we start passing messages to each other..."? Get off your high horse. The backlash here is well within the site owners rights, but I don't think there should be consequences other than having to stop the project.

Which is why he said "effectively infinite". It's not technically infinite, but for one copy of the music on their servers, they can serve it to far more people than will ever attempt to download them.

What you've suggested should be happening is what Jobs promised. There's one problem: that older songs aren't getting cheaper. They've mostly stayed at $0.99, while popular songs have gone up in price. There are very few songs that have dropped in price, despite claims from Apple that the opposite was true. This goes towards the idea that it's about control and not "supply and demand", which is difficult to apply to a resource which is EFFECTIVELY infinite.

That's a pretty lame April Fools prank...

there's no way you RTFA. Try something more believable next time. Excuse me while I cower in my bunker awaiting nuclear holocaust.

I'm four you insensitive clod!

Which is what we do in our Software Engineering and Project Management courses. Maybe your entry level CS courses are code-and-fix, but at least at my school, we're learning about the different lifecycle models and project workflows. (from the perspective of both the classical and the object-oriented paradigms)Team organization (and so much more) and applying them to create a project from the ground up for an actual client. (in a later course, it will be for a local business. In this course we got to choose our own project based on a client we might know in person and could interview). We're just now finishing the classical analysis phase, next week we'll start Object-Oriented analysis, and then move to the design phase. (we're doing both just for the experience)

I realize that in an actual work environment these might not be so clean and clear cut as they're presented in the course material and case studies, but the situation isn't as bad as you claim in all schools. My school requires all IT majors to do an internship to graduate as well, so that they have real world work experience in the field. In addition, a good portion of the school's IT work is student-run. We have student trainers, a student-run help desk, student web developers, and students doing a lot of work maintaining the servers, access points, etc. All supervised by professionals in some capacity, obviously, but maybe my school is the exception to the rule.

And hasn't started one.

And shipped the prisoners there to another prison in Afghanistan while refusing to change the Bush policy on denying the right to trial for prisoners.

We'll see how that plays out.

The same way that Bush did, so far.

This has yet to be seen.

Note "as one day" and "as a thousand years". These are similes, and should not be taken as a definition of a unit of measure here. That passage is explaining that even though it seems like God is taking forever to come back to earth and set up his kingdom here, you should "not be ignorant of the fact" that God experiences time differently from us and you can't impose your sense of urgency on him. This has nothing to do with the creation story.

Except that if you actually read the bible, it describes a "day" as the progression from morning through evening. --

"And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." Gen 1:5 (KJV)

"And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day." Gen 1:8 (KJV)

"And the evening and the morning were the third day." Gen 1:13 (KJV)

I think I've made my point.

If you read genesis again, you'll realize that after it says "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" it begins a description of the process of creating the heavens and the earth, or else Genesis 2:1 would not make sense, which reads:

"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them."

Right before it explains that God rested on the seventh day. The most logical interpretation of Genesis 1 here is that it says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, this is how he did it." not "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, this is how he made it fit for life"

No, they'll just blame the decrease in sales on piracy.

Anti-Trust

wooosh...

http://www.timecube.com/

Does it now? It didn't used to, which was causing a lot of problems for me last time I tried to use it, which was only maybe a year ago.

People who want to play any PC games or do anything requiring Direct X would be terribly pissed.

Beyond that, they'd also need to provide an automated backup solution and an easy-to-use method for restoring from backups.

Barring those difficulties, I guess that wouldn't be too bad of a solution, but I still think it's overkill for most people.

Lots of people, unfortunately.

I just think virtualizing your entire environment, doing huge numbers of backups, setting up networking and filesharing properly in order to actually store data, and doing all of this on an O/S that isn't windows is FAR beyond the capabilities of somebody who is this worried about contracting viruses and spyware, and somebody with that ability can just as easily run periodic virus scans (not a resident application) and not click on suspicious stuff.

One of these solutions seems far better than the other. If you're capable of doing solution number 1, you're probably just as secure with solution number 2. Resident antivirus is for people who can't manage either.

You clearly didn't RTFA. The rep didn't "suggest" a product. They took control of the customer's PC remotely, claimed they were using a Symantec tool, then downloaded a copy of software by Malwarebytes, installed it on the customer's system, and used it to clean an infection.

So the support techs lied to a customer and installed unauthorized software on their machine that they CLAIMED was a symantec product.

And where do you store your files?