She was unprofessional as a journalist and came off as immature as well. These people weren't squirming, they were just answering this bull dog's questions as best they could without getting fired in the process. She was clearly interested in painting them in a negative light so I would not attribute journalist credentials to her in this exchange. They did clearly state that policy makers hand down the requirements of their job--in other words the NSA doesn't choose targets the politicians do. End of story really. She seems angry.
Yes, it is a big big leap. Like an ant trying to jump the Grand Canyon. Instead we just trundle down one side, along the bottom, only to be washed away by some unforeseen circumstance.
With all the action to abolish public education, I am dubious about any suggestions founded by capitalist juggernauts.
"Capitalist juggernauts" had a hand in designing our public education system as it stands. Odd, in that your comment still stands in light of the ironic fact.
What if you don't want to spend your days "reinventing the wheel" for every coding problem you encounter, when there are stock algorithms and methods that allow you to quickly code a solution?
If this is your reasoning then I have one word for ya: Google
I'm suggesting that teaching kids to attack and exploit vulnerable systems first might be more valuable.
So you are suggesting a day camp where children are introduced to engineering by trying to destroy a bridge? Perhaps starting with gasoline, moving to fertilizer bombs, and finally C4? This might be a good way to hold their attention and demonstrate the properties of materials--fostering an interest in the field of engineering. Good idea.
There will be some kids who will be motivated to teach themselves from the start and who happen upon programming as you probably did, and as many here probably did.
The fast approaching "digital divide." What you mention is similar to kids who used to (and still do) grow up in homes without books around adults who do not read them. Growing up without access to a real computer (yeah, I said it--break out your pedantic arguments) and people who know how to use them is going to result in children growing into adults who have no desirable place in an ever-increasingly competitive knowledge/information based world where creativity is rewarded and consumption is expensive.
I have had major derailments because of hosed form code in Netbeans.....doesn't turn up until you touch the form again sometime down the road when finding/extracting working code from backups is not fun.
I find that programmers come in two varieties. One pursues the craft as an intellectual way to assume power and help the world with their creativity and self-expression. The other group took the track in college because they heard it paid very well and now that is all they know--usually hemmed into some enterprise framework and development platform. I enjoyed the power of programming and the intellectual fulfillment so that as a teenager I wrote and distributed free software, not open source, but software distributed freely with the only hope in that it helped someone. If someone would pay my bills (sugar momma?) I would develop and distribute free software the rest of my living days--it still has not gotten old in 20 years. An artist of sorts.
Put your mind to finding and solving problems for people, and never mind that there is already software in wide use for a given task, build it anew to *help people* and you will not be forgotten. Helping people after all is the essence of business, something that I fear is no longer taught.
Yeah, they often get hit with a catastrophic disease and barely make it out alive after an expensive hospital stay which would not have happened had they not smoked for thirty years. After that they wise up and live healthier lives as the chickens come home to roost in the form of long drawn out health problems showing up years later as chronic diseases from their past love of cigarettes. Who hasn't seen this play out?
That was my first impression. That they were shirking the law. How can the president just refuse to enact or perform on a law? It is the freaking executive branch--besides military that is like their only job!
The Simposons is off the air. Odd that you mention the Simpsons because it often contained references to many contradictory aspects of our society while parodying our low points and failures. I found it intellectually stimulating because I had to look up a lot of obscure references in the show--things which only people with a very broad education would know. But yeah, you could watch it and only extract low-brow humor as well. The show was genius.
Wow, just wow. The twin towers comment was just plain dumb. The FBI and other agencies admittedly had knowledge of the hijackers and had full profiles on them--without tapping the phone of every American citizen. An FBI agent, who died in the twin towers, was worried about and had issued warnings of plots to attack the towers again. Yes, the towers had been attacked before--it was a well known target. The FBI was all over it--guess what? CIA agents have revealed that most of the information they get (while spying) is from "open sources"--newspapers, etc..
You gotta admit, the executive branch has been pulled into this game and has been made to look shifty and petty. If I were in the Oval office I wouldn't have given this story the time of day. It would have done Obama no harm to act like he didn't know who Snowden was, instead he has been sucked into a media-hyped tit-for-tat with a fleeing whistle blower. At least the Bush administration knew how to ignore a scandal and keep it in check. Best way for an executive to discredit a whistleblower: shake head from side to side, wrinkle forehead, and say "who." I'm a horrible liar and even I could pull that off.
Hold on! What the hell is the name of our moon?! Moon? I think WE need a committee. The damned thing isn't even named and we're worried about Pluto? I propose Minerva.
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By "entity" do you mean US government and current policy makers?
She was unprofessional as a journalist and came off as immature as well. These people weren't squirming, they were just answering this bull dog's questions as best they could without getting fired in the process. She was clearly interested in painting them in a negative light so I would not attribute journalist credentials to her in this exchange. They did clearly state that policy makers hand down the requirements of their job--in other words the NSA doesn't choose targets the politicians do. End of story really. She seems angry.
Yes, it is a big big leap. Like an ant trying to jump the Grand Canyon. Instead we just trundle down one side, along the bottom, only to be washed away by some unforeseen circumstance.
With all the action to abolish public education, I am dubious about any suggestions founded by capitalist juggernauts.
"Capitalist juggernauts" had a hand in designing our public education system as it stands. Odd, in that your comment still stands in light of the ironic fact.
What if you don't want to spend your days "reinventing the wheel" for every coding problem you encounter, when there are stock algorithms and methods that allow you to quickly code a solution?
If this is your reasoning then I have one word for ya: Google
I'm suggesting that teaching kids to attack and exploit vulnerable systems first might be more valuable.
So you are suggesting a day camp where children are introduced to engineering by trying to destroy a bridge? Perhaps starting with gasoline, moving to fertilizer bombs, and finally C4? This might be a good way to hold their attention and demonstrate the properties of materials--fostering an interest in the field of engineering. Good idea.
There will be some kids who will be motivated to teach themselves from the start and who happen upon programming as you probably did, and as many here probably did.
The fast approaching "digital divide." What you mention is similar to kids who used to (and still do) grow up in homes without books around adults who do not read them. Growing up without access to a real computer (yeah, I said it--break out your pedantic arguments) and people who know how to use them is going to result in children growing into adults who have no desirable place in an ever-increasingly competitive knowledge/information based world where creativity is rewarded and consumption is expensive.
I got a job offer last week and as part of my salary negotiations I demanded Dvorak keyboards. I still haven't heard back.
I've been spelling "with the" as "withe" when writing by hand for some reason.
I have had major derailments because of hosed form code in Netbeans.....doesn't turn up until you touch the form again sometime down the road when finding/extracting working code from backups is not fun.
I find that programmers come in two varieties. One pursues the craft as an intellectual way to assume power and help the world with their creativity and self-expression. The other group took the track in college because they heard it paid very well and now that is all they know--usually hemmed into some enterprise framework and development platform. I enjoyed the power of programming and the intellectual fulfillment so that as a teenager I wrote and distributed free software, not open source, but software distributed freely with the only hope in that it helped someone. If someone would pay my bills (sugar momma?) I would develop and distribute free software the rest of my living days--it still has not gotten old in 20 years. An artist of sorts.
Put your mind to finding and solving problems for people, and never mind that there is already software in wide use for a given task, build it anew to *help people* and you will not be forgotten. Helping people after all is the essence of business, something that I fear is no longer taught.
How about mentoring them and helping them to improve with honest professional discussions?
higher confidence levels when you refactor.
So, is that a business requirement or something?
Trying to develop tests against code that was not developed for testing is like trying to play pickup-stix with your butt cheeks.
Yeah, they often get hit with a catastrophic disease and barely make it out alive after an expensive hospital stay which would not have happened had they not smoked for thirty years. After that they wise up and live healthier lives as the chickens come home to roost in the form of long drawn out health problems showing up years later as chronic diseases from their past love of cigarettes. Who hasn't seen this play out?
I think this constitutes a tax on religion.
That was my first impression. That they were shirking the law. How can the president just refuse to enact or perform on a law? It is the freaking executive branch--besides military that is like their only job!
I wonder why that is?
The Simposons is off the air. Odd that you mention the Simpsons because it often contained references to many contradictory aspects of our society while parodying our low points and failures. I found it intellectually stimulating because I had to look up a lot of obscure references in the show--things which only people with a very broad education would know. But yeah, you could watch it and only extract low-brow humor as well. The show was genius.
Wow, just wow. The twin towers comment was just plain dumb. The FBI and other agencies admittedly had knowledge of the hijackers and had full profiles on them--without tapping the phone of every American citizen. An FBI agent, who died in the twin towers, was worried about and had issued warnings of plots to attack the towers again. Yes, the towers had been attacked before--it was a well known target. The FBI was all over it--guess what? CIA agents have revealed that most of the information they get (while spying) is from "open sources"--newspapers, etc..
You gotta admit, the executive branch has been pulled into this game and has been made to look shifty and petty. If I were in the Oval office I wouldn't have given this story the time of day. It would have done Obama no harm to act like he didn't know who Snowden was, instead he has been sucked into a media-hyped tit-for-tat with a fleeing whistle blower. At least the Bush administration knew how to ignore a scandal and keep it in check. Best way for an executive to discredit a whistleblower: shake head from side to side, wrinkle forehead, and say "who." I'm a horrible liar and even I could pull that off.
half-assing an online application to work at Target.
Where did you get this one?
This just demonstrates the racism inherent in those who view opposition to Obama as cloaked racism. It takes one to know one.
Hold on! What the hell is the name of our moon?! Moon? I think WE need a committee. The damned thing isn't even named and we're worried about Pluto? I propose Minerva.
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