While it was mentioned in a post from someone from Denmark, folks here in the US should look no further than their closest Waldorf school. My daughter, who is now 9, has been in either a Waldorf-influenced or Waldorf proper school since going to school when she was 3 and a half. I highly recommend it to everyone I meet. The heart of the early childhood school is play. There is no homework, which has been shown to be useless so early. Please, save our children, reintroduce play into their lives, they will thank you for it I assure you. See Why Waldorf at www.waldorfeducation.org, and it will explain everything. Trust me, our kids lives will be better the more Waldorf schools we have.
I can't link to the original because it's behind Army infrastructure, but I found a link out in the real world. It's not too bad. On Army installations, you are required to do layer 2 encryption, which is pretty good. However, the "road warriors" are not required to do layer 2 on the road. Layer 2 is not an easy thing, as we are finding...
It's too bad that the Army still won't be able to use it. If you look at Army Regulation 25-2 Section II, subsection 4-6, subsection k states:
k. Use of "shareware" or "freeware" is prohibited unless specifically approved through IA personnel and by the
DAA for a specific operational mission requirement and length of time when no approved IA product exists. Notify
NETCOM RCIOs and the supporting RCERT/TNOSC of local software use approval.
Thus, unless the local designating approving authority (DAA) is willing to accept the risk of the software, and it is a mission requirement when no approved software exists (which SSL does), the DA won't be using it anytime soon. The biggest problem will be that the DAA's will not want to accept local risk when another product that will do the job, and is approved will work.
This regulation, while good intentioned, is really difficult to live with. Try finding a good non-freeware spyware remover. It's not easy.
The new DoD standard is that no wipe software is good enough, you've got to destroy the hard drives if they contain anything sensitive and above. Basically, that's everything the DoD or DHS does. So, when machines are turned in now, hard drives are degaussed and then put in a shredder. And I've got to tell you, the hard drive shredder is one cool thing. It makes hard drive confetti.
I've been working as a gov't contractor for about 6 months now, and it is nice in some respects. Most of the government workers at my base (which is about 80% civilian, 15% contractor and 5% military) are about as lazy as they come. The know they'll have a permanent job because it's basically impossible to fire a government worker (unless you steal or commit espionage) so they don't do anything. The government IT workers that they have here and simply stupid. I can't believe they are actually considered IT workers. They would never make it in the real world. Ever. At all. The only people that know anything are the contractors. The gov't employees get preferential treatment for finding jobs because the gov't can't fire them, so even if they aren't qualified, they can get the IT jobs.
That being said, contractors can get the short end of the stick often times, at least at my base. The gov't can have you fired for no reason, the contract houses often have bid so low that your pay sucks or the benefits are horrible, and the bosses are just a pain in the ass sometimes. The only useful thing I'm getting outta my contract is my clearance. I'm just hoping they decide some of us need to ramp up to TS instead of just secret. One contractor I talked to said: "As long as you are willing to move, and you have a clearance, you will never be unemployed." Something to think about.
I like working for the DoD simply because of all the money. I have so much cisco gear laying around it's disgusting. I have a full lab of equipment just to test will, 6509's, PIX 525's, VPN 3030's. Just piles of em. It's amazing. It's also nice not to worry about being downsized as long as your base isn't on the BRAC.
Plus, you can go work for the Navy in Hawaii. Who wouldn't want to do that?
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While it was mentioned in a post from someone from Denmark, folks here in the US should look no further than their closest Waldorf school. My daughter, who is now 9, has been in either a Waldorf-influenced or Waldorf proper school since going to school when she was 3 and a half. I highly recommend it to everyone I meet. The heart of the early childhood school is play. There is no homework, which has been shown to be useless so early. Please, save our children, reintroduce play into their lives, they will thank you for it I assure you. See Why Waldorf at www.waldorfeducation.org, and it will explain everything. Trust me, our kids lives will be better the more Waldorf schools we have.
Check out the Army's wireless BBP:% 20Wireless%201_25(Final).pdf
http://www.igov.com/informationtech/contracts/BBP
I can't link to the original because it's behind Army infrastructure, but I found a link out in the real world. It's not too bad. On Army installations, you are required to do layer 2 encryption, which is pretty good. However, the "road warriors" are not required to do layer 2 on the road. Layer 2 is not an easy thing, as we are finding...
k. Use of "shareware" or "freeware" is prohibited unless specifically approved through IA personnel and by the DAA for a specific operational mission requirement and length of time when no approved IA product exists. Notify NETCOM RCIOs and the supporting RCERT/TNOSC of local software use approval.
Thus, unless the local designating approving authority (DAA) is willing to accept the risk of the software, and it is a mission requirement when no approved software exists (which SSL does), the DA won't be using it anytime soon. The biggest problem will be that the DAA's will not want to accept local risk when another product that will do the job, and is approved will work.
This regulation, while good intentioned, is really difficult to live with. Try finding a good non-freeware spyware remover. It's not easy.
The new DoD standard is that no wipe software is good enough, you've got to destroy the hard drives if they contain anything sensitive and above. Basically, that's everything the DoD or DHS does. So, when machines are turned in now, hard drives are degaussed and then put in a shredder. And I've got to tell you, the hard drive shredder is one cool thing. It makes hard drive confetti.
I've been working as a gov't contractor for about 6 months now, and it is nice in some respects. Most of the government workers at my base (which is about 80% civilian, 15% contractor and 5% military) are about as lazy as they come. The know they'll have a permanent job because it's basically impossible to fire a government worker (unless you steal or commit espionage) so they don't do anything. The government IT workers that they have here and simply stupid. I can't believe they are actually considered IT workers. They would never make it in the real world. Ever. At all. The only people that know anything are the contractors. The gov't employees get preferential treatment for finding jobs because the gov't can't fire them, so even if they aren't qualified, they can get the IT jobs.
That being said, contractors can get the short end of the stick often times, at least at my base. The gov't can have you fired for no reason, the contract houses often have bid so low that your pay sucks or the benefits are horrible, and the bosses are just a pain in the ass sometimes. The only useful thing I'm getting outta my contract is my clearance. I'm just hoping they decide some of us need to ramp up to TS instead of just secret. One contractor I talked to said: "As long as you are willing to move, and you have a clearance, you will never be unemployed." Something to think about.
I like working for the DoD simply because of all the money. I have so much cisco gear laying around it's disgusting. I have a full lab of equipment just to test will, 6509's, PIX 525's, VPN 3030's. Just piles of em. It's amazing. It's also nice not to worry about being downsized as long as your base isn't on the BRAC.
Plus, you can go work for the Navy in Hawaii. Who wouldn't want to do that?