BUT I must tell you that actually "critical and not fillable" is a great loophole in the system. With the constant growth of both legal immigrants and illegal immigrants, companies that declare that their market is precisely the immigrant community, they can simply sponsor a foreigner stating that he is irreplaceable because of the language skills and the experience in the field with the native community. The language skill by itself is certainly irreplaceable with an American. What a dilemma, eh? hehe.
No "In Soviet Russia" jokes?, c'mon isn't that ironic in a Russian / Soviet / Kasperskian article?
Heh, here I go: "In Soviet Russia, passports browse you!";)
If there are passports, the next natural thing would be the creation of "customs"...
A gigantic firewall/nids in each ISP enforced by law, monitoring any incoming and outgoing connection, not necessarily sniffing all the traffic but at least logging the ip addresses. So if you connected to my computer to send a threatening email, an "enforced" ISP could investigate and realize that actually there was a certain IP address making an unsolicited connection to certain IP address, the protocol and the time. Depending on the sophistication level, it could even detect syn scans.
Now the question would be how to prevent spoofs, well a spoofing attempt could be detected by your ISP and the upgrades to ipv6 and ipsec would definitely eliminate current spoofing methods, and make it really really hard to make spoofing a practical method in the future.
People think that the odds are against the player, which is true. The key is teamwork and discipline. Like in all aspects of life, games, battles, cons and sports, competent teamwork overrules single talents. A single player is easy to get detected, a group of 80 people playing the house is really hard if not impossible. And 80 is not just a number that came to my head, it is the actual number of people that it is known to have existed to work in group. This type of splinter teams still exist, and they are still making money today. The members of these teams are constantly replaced as they get blacklisted by the casinos.
Actually there are people dedicating professionally to make those splinter groups. Yup, professional card counting careers, what about that? One of the characters of "Bringing down the house", Jason Fisher founded the "Blackjack Institute".
The same unpatchable bug: stupidity.
History repeats itself right? Humans make again and again the most stupid mistakes.
I bet they spent gazillons of dollars to end up something like this:
The genus "pseudacteon" of the Phorid flies zombifyies ants laying eggs in the ants thorax. The larvae moves to the head of the ant and it feeds itself until it is big enough to come out, decapitating the ant.
So yeah, I think I know how this story of swarming ants are going to turn out.
That's what I've been wondering all my life... what if one day a huge catastrophe strikes the Earth and every technology on Earth just dies along with a great percentage of the human population on Earth.
Heh, then I rationalized: "I better learn all the stuff that McGyver knows and perfect my handwriting better."
So I now know how to survive in the jungle, send smoke signals properly, make a roller coaster with bamboo trees, make my own Wilson ball to talk to, and a Ms. Wilson for my lonely nights. And all thanks to my calligraphy classes.
Which is why we need to have more critical thinking. A well-informed citizen doesn't know everything, but they know where to get it if they do.
I think you just hit the weak point of the current education, and I think it is simply global the trend.
I have been in three countries studying, I am Korean-Argentinean, born in Argentina with Korean parents. I did primary, secondary and some college there, before coming to the US. Now I am at CUNY thinking that maybe I should pursue three majors since I just love all of them: psychology, sociology and economics, and I feel that choosing less than that would risk myself into falling in the trap of hyperspecialization, losing my broad perspective, the big picture (I have very complex theories since I was a high school student...).
Much of the knowledge I know was primarily through the Internet. Hell, even I learned English through chatting on mIRC. My knowledge of advanced magic techniques were all enabled to me only through internet and not only that, also lockpicking, pickpocketing, body language, microexpressions, lie detection, psychology, logotherapy, psychoanalisis, cognitive bias, logical fallacies, declassified CIA files, microeconomics, macroeconomics, history, banking, scams, frauds, Asian philosophy, Western philosophy, social engineering, reverse engineering, physics, quantum physics, astrophysics, metaphysics, etc... even some aid on how to pick up girls understanding female psychology (which I clicked instantly, and I have now a completely different magnetic personality), and some really valuable tips on tantric sex and male multiorgasm (which I experimented and damn, it is reaaaally awesome)
The problem is not the information itself, the internet is overflowing with bullshit. The real skill is not memorizing, not even reasoning, but be able to look through the crap and know what information is valid and what is the source, and that is precisely what Critical Thinking is about. It is not about watching metacafe or youtube videos, that would be plainly stupid: it is about getting to the bottom of it and learning it properly by yourself.
In Argentina students have obligatory introductory classes of Critical Thinking and the kids are bored to death, considering the most useless class ever. I mean they are rejecting what actually will make them see the TRUTH. People would ask "what is the truth anyway" in a quasi-philosophical manner, well most of them would be able to discern it better if they HAD SOME CRITICAL THINKING!!!!
I personally believe that information shouldn't be baby fed to kids, but use the very wise Socratic maieutic to students to think and learn to reach to their own conclusions. We are losing the capacity of thinking and discerning what is valid and what is not, making weighted opinions based on facts or empirical observation and not just hypothesizeing illogical crap or even worse, repeating like a parrot what "someone" said it was true (damn I really can't put up with those kids).
Also what kind of university would have allowed me to know all that knowledge I learned through the Internet? None. Through Internet I can access thousands of the original data from the very sources and the research papers in all those fields I described above that I would never could have gotten in any other way, hell even official declassified documents who the hell can offer that?, I even saved decades and thousands of dollars thanks to the Internet, which allowed me to find the most unexpected and the most relevant information that would have been impossible to find in a library. That makes me think about the real necessity of College or University education. I can just grab the syllabus of any course and study it by myselfgetting even more quality data than the digested ones offered in textbooks.
The only reason that Universities existed in the Middle Age (I just corrected Middle *Earth*, lol) w
I mean what is the point of investing in LASERS when we are developing PASSIVE ADAPTIVE CAMOUFLAGE with METAMATERIALS??
We already can bend microwaves making an object invisible to microwaves. Further research (in the very near future) WILL probably cover the whole electromagnetic spectrum, so it will render an object invisble to visible light, heat, sound (actually we can already manipulate sound), radar, sonar, whatever you imagine INVISIBLE.
I mean with such a research on progress, what is the point of investing on LASERS?
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I guess that is the quid of the problem: "...they've only got 50 more years experience in dealing with it", instead of "them"
BUT I must tell you that actually "critical and not fillable" is a great loophole in the system. With the constant growth of both legal immigrants and illegal immigrants, companies that declare that their market is precisely the immigrant community, they can simply sponsor a foreigner stating that he is irreplaceable because of the language skills and the experience in the field with the native community. The language skill by itself is certainly irreplaceable with an American.
What a dilemma, eh? hehe.
No "In Soviet Russia" jokes?, c'mon isn't that ironic in a Russian / Soviet / Kasperskian article? ;)
Heh, here I go: "In Soviet Russia, passports browse you!"
If there are passports, the next natural thing would be the creation of "customs"... A gigantic firewall/nids in each ISP enforced by law, monitoring any incoming and outgoing connection, not necessarily sniffing all the traffic but at least logging the ip addresses. So if you connected to my computer to send a threatening email, an "enforced" ISP could investigate and realize that actually there was a certain IP address making an unsolicited connection to certain IP address, the protocol and the time. Depending on the sophistication level, it could even detect syn scans. Now the question would be how to prevent spoofs, well a spoofing attempt could be detected by your ISP and the upgrades to ipv6 and ipsec would definitely eliminate current spoofing methods, and make it really really hard to make spoofing a practical method in the future.
bloody hell!
heh, I guess it is not about how greener is the grass, but how big is the backyard...
$500,000 contract sound pretty critical to me...
Actually it IS a business.
People think that the odds are against the player, which is true. The key is teamwork and discipline. Like in all aspects of life, games, battles, cons and sports, competent teamwork overrules single talents. A single player is easy to get detected, a group of 80 people playing the house is really hard if not impossible. And 80 is not just a number that came to my head, it is the actual number of people that it is known to have existed to work in group. This type of splinter teams still exist, and they are still making money today. The members of these teams are constantly replaced as they get blacklisted by the casinos.
Actually there are people dedicating professionally to make those splinter groups. Yup, professional card counting careers, what about that? One of the characters of "Bringing down the house", Jason Fisher founded the "Blackjack Institute".
He probably read "Bringing Down the House", which is a real story, he knows more than what it is shown in the movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics
http://stage1.biopassword.com/pdfs/BP_102306a.pdf
I guess that if the energy and the intensity of keystrokes are also recorded, it will definitely strengthen the profiling.
Well there are pleasant usages of the chainsaw, like ice sculpting!... and then ripping it down to pieces... *maniacal laugh*
and free sex... even without asking!
Overflowed with ownage!
I bet they spent gazillons of dollars to end up something like this:
User: Administrator
Pass: [enter]
So yeah, I think I know how this story of swarming ants are going to turn out.
Does it mean that McDonalds is a safe place to hide in a nuclear war?
what if... what if you are deaf!
That's what I've been wondering all my life... what if one day a huge catastrophe strikes the Earth and every technology on Earth just dies along with a great percentage of the human population on Earth.
Heh, then I rationalized: "I better learn all the stuff that McGyver knows and perfect my handwriting better."
So I now know how to survive in the jungle, send smoke signals properly, make a roller coaster with bamboo trees, make my own Wilson ball to talk to, and a Ms. Wilson for my lonely nights. And all thanks to my calligraphy classes.
Wouldn't be beautiful if there was a "crime tax"? I mean, it is a profession too right?
Which is why we need to have more critical thinking. A well-informed citizen doesn't know everything, but they know where to get it if they do.
I think you just hit the weak point of the current education, and I think it is simply global the trend.
I have been in three countries studying, I am Korean-Argentinean, born in Argentina with Korean parents. I did primary, secondary and some college there, before coming to the US.
Now I am at CUNY thinking that maybe I should pursue three majors since I just love all of them: psychology, sociology and economics, and I feel that choosing less than that would risk myself into falling in the trap of hyperspecialization, losing my broad perspective, the big picture (I have very complex theories since I was a high school student...).
Much of the knowledge I know was primarily through the Internet. Hell, even I learned English through chatting on mIRC. My knowledge of advanced magic techniques were all enabled to me only through internet and not only that, also lockpicking, pickpocketing, body language, microexpressions, lie detection, psychology, logotherapy, psychoanalisis, cognitive bias, logical fallacies, declassified CIA files, microeconomics, macroeconomics, history, banking, scams, frauds, Asian philosophy, Western philosophy, social engineering, reverse engineering, physics, quantum physics, astrophysics, metaphysics, etc... even some aid on how to pick up girls understanding female psychology (which I clicked instantly, and I have now a completely different magnetic personality), and some really valuable tips on tantric sex and male multiorgasm (which I experimented and damn, it is reaaaally awesome)
The problem is not the information itself, the internet is overflowing with bullshit. The real skill is not memorizing, not even reasoning, but be able to look through the crap and know what information is valid and what is the source, and that is precisely what Critical Thinking is about. It is not about watching metacafe or youtube videos, that would be plainly stupid: it is about getting to the bottom of it and learning it properly by yourself.
In Argentina students have obligatory introductory classes of Critical Thinking and the kids are bored to death, considering the most useless class ever. I mean they are rejecting what actually will make them see the TRUTH. People would ask "what is the truth anyway" in a quasi-philosophical manner, well most of them would be able to discern it better if they HAD SOME CRITICAL THINKING!!!!
I personally believe that information shouldn't be baby fed to kids, but use the very wise Socratic maieutic to students to think and learn to reach to their own conclusions. We are losing the capacity of thinking and discerning what is valid and what is not, making weighted opinions based on facts or empirical observation and not just hypothesizeing illogical crap or even worse, repeating like a parrot what "someone" said it was true (damn I really can't put up with those kids).
Also what kind of university would have allowed me to know all that knowledge I learned through the Internet? None.
Through Internet I can access thousands of the original data from the very sources and the research papers in all those fields I described above that I would never could have gotten in any other way, hell even official declassified documents who the hell can offer that?, I even saved decades and thousands of dollars thanks to the Internet, which allowed me to find the most unexpected and the most relevant information that would have been impossible to find in a library. That makes me think about the real necessity of College or University education. I can just grab the syllabus of any course and study it by myselfgetting even more quality data than the digested ones offered in textbooks.
The only reason that Universities existed in the Middle Age (I just corrected Middle *Earth*, lol) w
Dude do you have a girlfriend? You must be new in Slashdot.
I mean what is the point of investing in LASERS when we are developing PASSIVE ADAPTIVE CAMOUFLAGE with METAMATERIALS??
We already can bend microwaves making an object invisible to microwaves. Further research (in the very near future) WILL probably cover the whole electromagnetic spectrum, so it will render an object invisble to visible light, heat, sound (actually we can already manipulate sound), radar, sonar, whatever you imagine INVISIBLE.
I mean with such a research on progress, what is the point of investing on LASERS?
Easy, give them some LSD and turn the music on!