1) enrollment relative to demand from industry: Yes, definitely under-enrolled.
2) the number and quality of students in CS and Engineering: the GGP post (and many Slashdot commenters) seem to think we can pull arbitrary 18-year-olds off the high school graduation line and turn them into competent engineers if we shove them into engineering programs. This is clearly not true and enrollments seemed swelled in the 1998-2000 time frame in that many students seemed to be in over their heads. Yes, there is some weeding as you get to the upper-level courses, but only if the department is committed to weeding instead of committed to dumbing things down to crank out more graduates.
Notice I've correctly been modded funny?
For the record, I think there are subtopics in the Humanities and Social Sciences that have rigor, importance, and intellectualism, and others that are four-year indoctrination sessions. I'll leave specifics as an exercise to the reader.
As anyone who taught computer science or engineering at any non-elite school in the late 1990s (such as myself) can attest, these programs were probably OVER-enrolled at that time, in that there were hordes of clearly unqualified students crapping their way through these majors.
Mr. Kushner said he thought society was no longer looking at higher education as a common good but rather as a way for individuals to increase their earning power.
Kushner and his ilk are probably more upset that, the more that students choose engineering and business, the less they will choose humanities and social science majors that are nothing more than indoctrinations in leftist ideology and political correctness.
It just looks like men greatly outnumber women - I'm betting many of those "men" are women disguised as men so they can drive a car, go to school, and go out in public unescorted.
Lies of MediaDefender:
"MediaDefender was working on an internal project that involved video and didn't realize that people would be trying to go to it and so we didn't password-protect the site... it was just an oversight from that perspective. This was not an entrapment site, and we were not working with the MPAA on it. In fact, the MPAA didn't even know about it."
Lies of (some) DRM evaders:
"I'm not circumventing the DRM to share the movie on the internet. I just want to make a backup of my legally purchased DVD so in case my kids scratch the DVD, I have a working backup. Fair use - making a backup in case the my kids scratch the DVD."
from TFR:
A system
that is wholly dependent on open source elements will have a high
burden to demonstrate that it is sufficiently secure to warrant
authorization as a software defined radio.
By this they probably mean, if the radio is open source then any DRM is useless, and this is insufficiently respectful of the benighted Copyright Holders of whatever is being played, thus it is "less secure."
Their legal department has perhaps never heard of the GPL and is flabbergasted that their developers embarked upon something where they have to release their code - the precious, confidential and proprietary sweat of their brows - to the world.
The whole concept is not necessarily intuitive, especially if their lawyers are specialists in "Intellectual Property" law, then they're really crapping a brick.
that is what I was referring to. Now, SIRI and XM pay royalties to the music industry anyway, I just do not know if their internet streaming is included in the fees they already pay or if they have to add up streaming "performances" and pay a separate royalty.
Going through the motions of satisfying some bureaucratic requirement in order to get a result you want? Everyone I know that has ever gotten unemployment checks does the same thing. Performing bogus job searches in order to keep the unemployment checks coming. Most people view it as a 12-18 month paid vacation.
The attention-whore Florida attorney seems to have made the assumption that the songs were from RIAA labels, and of course here on Slashdot we love to point out that not every song on the face of the earth is under RIAA jurisdiction. The CD may be composed of recordings of the beloved "local bands" I alway hear about.
I would verify this if the damn links in the article worked.
Why would the US want to do this? To engage in "economic war" the opponent needs a vibrant economy. Would the US spy on them to try to determine if they're going to loosen up the 35 hour work week?
No need for AT&T and Big Copyright to develop technologies, SafeMedia has already figured this out. It says so right on their website. 100% accurate elimination of "contaminated" P2P traffic. Wow! AT&T can just slap Clouseau(tm) all over their network.
For those that like to call the US a "totalitarian" state, that crushes dissent and is destroying long-cherished liberties, you don't have too look too far to find real, live totalitarian governments. Like China, or Cuba, or Iran, or North Korea, etc.
So please stop crying wolf about the US, and I say this as someone that has voted Libertarian in the last three elections and is not thrilled with all the actions of this government.
If Contra Costra really wanted to try to weasel out of this, they should have tried to do it quietly behind the scenes, because for IBM to forgive this debt so publicly would cause many other customer of IBM to smell weakness and try the same move.
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There are two issues here:
1) enrollment relative to demand from industry: Yes, definitely under-enrolled.
2) the number and quality of students in CS and Engineering: the GGP post (and many Slashdot commenters) seem to think we can pull arbitrary 18-year-olds off the high school graduation line and turn them into competent engineers if we shove them into engineering programs. This is clearly not true and enrollments seemed swelled in the 1998-2000 time frame in that many students seemed to be in over their heads. Yes, there is some weeding as you get to the upper-level courses, but only if the department is committed to weeding instead of committed to dumbing things down to crank out more graduates.
Notice I've correctly been modded funny? For the record, I think there are subtopics in the Humanities and Social Sciences that have rigor, importance, and intellectualism, and others that are four-year indoctrination sessions. I'll leave specifics as an exercise to the reader.
As anyone who taught computer science or engineering at any non-elite school in the late 1990s (such as myself) can attest, these programs were probably OVER-enrolled at that time, in that there were hordes of clearly unqualified students crapping their way through these majors.
Mr. Kushner said he thought society was no longer looking at higher education as a common good but rather as a way for individuals to increase their earning power.
Kushner and his ilk are probably more upset that, the more that students choose engineering and business, the less they will choose humanities and social science majors that are nothing more than indoctrinations in leftist ideology and political correctness.
The Patent Hawk (rate for patent consultation: $140/hr) is already heaping scorn on the review.
It just looks like men greatly outnumber women - I'm betting many of those "men" are women disguised as men so they can drive a car, go to school, and go out in public unescorted.
Lies of MediaDefender:
"MediaDefender was working on an internal project that involved video and didn't realize that people would be trying to go to it and so we didn't password-protect the site... it was just an oversight from that perspective. This was not an entrapment site, and we were not working with the MPAA on it. In fact, the MPAA didn't even know about it."
Lies of (some) DRM evaders:
"I'm not circumventing the DRM to share the movie on the internet. I just want to make a backup of my legally purchased DVD so in case my kids scratch the DVD, I have a working backup. Fair use - making a backup in case the my kids scratch the DVD."
from TFR:
A system that is wholly dependent on open source elements will have a high burden to demonstrate that it is sufficiently secure to warrant authorization as a software defined radio.
By this they probably mean, if the radio is open source then any DRM is useless, and this is insufficiently respectful of the benighted Copyright Holders of whatever is being played, thus it is "less secure."
Does anyone know the spyware/malware situation with the alltunes.com windows client? It is, after all, software from Russia running on Windows.
it doesn't matter how many clones pop up - I have $4 credit with allofmp3.com and dammit, I want to use it.
Their legal department has perhaps never heard of the GPL and is flabbergasted that their developers embarked upon something where they have to release their code - the precious, confidential and proprietary sweat of their brows - to the world.
The whole concept is not necessarily intuitive, especially if their lawyers are specialists in "Intellectual Property" law, then they're really crapping a brick.
how appropriate that this is happening while this song is hot,, at least on the Sirius station I listen to.
But it's recycling, we're not allowed to ask if it's worth it, because if we did we might not bother to recycle anything.
He insists that the GPL be printed in its entirety whenever it is discussed, to remove any chance of confusion.
that is what I was referring to. Now, SIRI and XM pay royalties to the music industry anyway, I just do not know if their internet streaming is included in the fees they already pay or if they have to add up streaming "performances" and pay a separate royalty.
does this royalty regime apply to the streams from XM and Sirius?
Going through the motions of satisfying some bureaucratic requirement in order to get a result you want? Everyone I know that has ever gotten unemployment checks does the same thing. Performing bogus job searches in order to keep the unemployment checks coming. Most people view it as a 12-18 month paid vacation.
Coming soon - a remake of The Grapes of Wrath where robots drive the Okies out of the fields....
The attention-whore Florida attorney seems to have made the assumption that the songs were from RIAA labels, and of course here on Slashdot we love to point out that not every song on the face of the earth is under RIAA jurisdiction. The CD may be composed of recordings of the beloved "local bands" I alway hear about. I would verify this if the damn links in the article worked.
Why would the US want to do this? To engage in "economic war" the opponent needs a vibrant economy. Would the US spy on them to try to determine if they're going to loosen up the 35 hour work week?
No need for AT&T and Big Copyright to develop technologies, SafeMedia has already figured this out. It says so right on their website. 100% accurate elimination of "contaminated" P2P traffic. Wow! AT&T can just slap Clouseau(tm) all over their network.
For those that like to call the US a "totalitarian" state, that crushes dissent and is destroying long-cherished liberties, you don't have too look too far to find real, live totalitarian governments. Like China, or Cuba, or Iran, or North Korea, etc.
So please stop crying wolf about the US, and I say this as someone that has voted Libertarian in the last three elections and is not thrilled with all the actions of this government.
If Contra Costra really wanted to try to weasel out of this, they should have tried to do it quietly behind the scenes, because for IBM to forgive this debt so publicly would cause many other customer of IBM to smell weakness and try the same move.