the real chahn - Slashdot User

Comment What's your goal? (Score 1) 913

by the real chahn on Saturday June 25, 2011 @10:38AM (#36567894) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements?

Is your goal to have a degree because it would be useful to list on a résumé, or do you want the degree because you think the content of the BS in CS would be useful? If it's the latter, then independent study or auditing college courses might be the answer for you. If it's the former, though, you more or less have to accept that the BS is not just a vocational degree--it is a degree from a university that attests to you not only knowing the content of the major but also the gen-ed requirements.

Comment Spam (Score 1) 183

by the real chahn on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @04:05PM (#28857959) Attached to: Google Open Sources Wave Protocol Implementation

Can anyone comment on how the Google wave protocol deals with spam? Does it have a method for dealing with the problem, or is it vulnerable in all the same ways that SMTP is vulnerable?

Submission + - RCMP Tolerates Piracy for Personal Use (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by

mlauzon

on Sunday November 11, 2007 @02:33PM

mlauzon writes: "The RCMP announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use. Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers instead of the cash flow of large corporations.

Around the same time that the CRIA successfully took Demonoid offline, the RCMP made clear that Demonoid's users don't have to worry about getting caught, at least not in Canada.

According to the RCMP it is impossible to track down everyone who downloads music or movies off the Internet. The police simply does not have the time nor the resources to go after filesharers.

"Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted," Noël St-Hilaire, head of copyright theft investigations of the RCMP, said in an interview with Le Devoir. "It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it," he added.

St-Hilaire explained that they rather focus on crimes that actually hurt consumers such as copyright violations related to medicine and electrical appliances.

A wise decision, especially since we now know that filesharing has absolutely no impact on music sales. On the contrary, a recent study found that the more music people download on P2P-networks, the more CDs they buy."

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