True dat. OP is looking for a trade school, which I don't disagree is a good way to go. Especially the way things are headed. It makes no sense to spend 100K+ on an education to graduate into a shit job market and spend the rest of eternity just trying to pay back the loans. If the goal is putting bacon on the table then he may be better off not putting in the money to get a degree.
But to your point, I finished my BS in CS last year and work in the field now, and to be quite honest the most important classes for me were not Computer Organization, Operating Systems, Programming Languages or even the Crypto/Security classes. Yes I would be less effective on the job without them, but I got much more out of my Ethics, Uptopian Literature, Science and Fiction Literature, Democratism and Anarchism classes. Those classes engaged critical reasoning skills, which surprise, surprise happens to be pretty fucking important in our field, no matter which end you are on Networking, SysAdmin or Developer. Plus Snow Crash and Hitchhiker's Guide were some of the assigned reading in the Lit class, and I never, ever would have even heard of White Noise, He, She and It, The Periodic Table which were also pretty excellent. Sure, appreciation for literature doesn't pay the bills, but you gotta enjoy something right?
I believe that attending a 4 year school isn't a decision to make on a whim as a career booster. Though the market has sort of dictated this, you should only be spending the effort on an advanced degree if the pursuit of knowledge, not a paycheck is what you're after. With such a heavy push on going to college these days the experience is becoming diluted and a lot of people who shouldn't be there are, and are stuck holding the bag of student loans when they're done - see College Inc.
TL;DR: If you want to be a technician that gets paid well for implementation/installation - save yourself the money and go to a trade school, or better yet get a union job. My uncle retired from NYCTA and has a banging pension the likes of which you'll probably never see again in the private sector
Though these are just aggregates of turnstile data, so they know that X people entered at Times square and Y people exited at prince within about a 4 hour resolution(the scheduled turnstile audits). The only new thing this scheme would add is to tie the specific entrances and exits together. I'm not sure how useful that actually is, you can extrapolate the most frequently ridden lines based on the aggregate entrances and exits from it. Plus to tie it to particular riders, anonymous or not is an AWFUL lot of data to process.
FTFS: "we believe that the only information the attacker(s) were able to gather was device-specific (IMEI/IMSI..."
Only the IMEI/IMSI!? You know only the things that uniquely identify YOUR phone among millions, and two pieces of information that are necessary required to clone a phone or SIM.
The attackers only got those, they weren't able to get anything important like facebook logins or anything...
"Also, I'm not sure why they came up with a brand-new game for this, when they could have just set up Mario 64 and had them race the penguin on loop."
Because that level was so god damned aggravating! I don't remember how many times I've been down that fucking course! One false move and it's into the abyss! The song is still stuck in my head...
I agree that the NY tolls are batshit crazy, but at least the $8 one's you reference(The GW, Outerbridge and Goethals) are one-way tolling, controlled by the Port Authority. It's the TA bridges & tunnels that are the real gotcha, the whitestone/throggs may only be 5.50(or $6 now?) but they toll both ways, so you end up paying $11 all in all.
There was a time when the FBI might go into people's houses willy-nilly, that's sort of Hoover's legacy.
Nixon: "Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973 but your average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become bitter, and let's face it, crazy over the years. And once I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat. And I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place! Muhuhahahaha!"
I remember clicking the stupid magnifying glass by accident a few weeks ago, towards the end of October. I guess all that extra rendering slowed down the wired writers by about 3 weeks.
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Agree! In fact thinking back on my own experience I knew who Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were waaaay before they ever briefly, briefly covered World War II in my formal education...All thanks to Wolfenstein baby.
The only smart trashcan I've ever seen was Oscar the grouch. Considering how "smart" the power meters(and authorities) are in most cities, this will probably be a flop.
No. Bloated, resource hogging, snake oil. Doesn't detect anything. EPO(Enterprise Policy Orchestrator) would be a nice feature if: 1. It didn't require a dedicated machine 2. Updating policy actually mattered
But it doesn't because no matter how well you orchestrate policy, it's still not going to detect any viruses.
That would be awesome, and there are some protocols out there for packet radio on the unlicensed/amateur spectrum, but the fellas at the friggin' FCC don't allow encryption on those bands.
I don't know if I'd call Telepathy an advantage. Once it's actually implemented it will definitely kick ass, but right now it sucks and only supports the full feature set of 1 protocol(jabber) out of the 16 it's supposed to be able to use. In fact I couldn't even get empathy to do something as simple as display an AIM buddy profile. Maybe I'm just an idiot, but as far as I can tell telepathy gives no distinct advantage to Gnome.
From the summary "he must now seek Congressional approval after 120 days"
So it's ok! It'll be just like the War Powers Resolution of 1973, where the President has to notify congress of any military action within 48 hours and can't leave troops in theater for more than 90 days(60 days up front, 30 to withdraw) without Congressional Authorization(a declaration of war).
That's worked out pretty well so far...
and they exist for a reason. I'm at RPI(CS), tuition is ~35 a year and they give me about half in scholarship. I don't know how MIT does it, but it seems like here you either get full, half or nothing. The rest you have to make up in loans. If a top tech school education is what you desire, then you are going to be looking at loans. In reality you'll get more or less the same education anywhere you go, but if you want the name brand sticker then you're going to have to pay for it. Why would you go to MIT anyway? We have the "world's most powerful university-based supercomputing center", join us on the dark side. Seriously though, when I was younger and had no idea what I wanted to do for school I thought MIT at first too. I had never even heard of RPI, but it turned out to be a pretty good move. Do some research. Everyone thinks MIT and CalTech at first, but other schools with the same reputation do exist, they just don't get much attention.
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But to your point, I finished my BS in CS last year and work in the field now, and to be quite honest the most important classes for me were not Computer Organization, Operating Systems, Programming Languages or even the Crypto/Security classes. Yes I would be less effective on the job without them, but I got much more out of my Ethics, Uptopian Literature, Science and Fiction Literature, Democratism and Anarchism classes. Those classes engaged critical reasoning skills, which surprise, surprise happens to be pretty fucking important in our field, no matter which end you are on Networking, SysAdmin or Developer. Plus Snow Crash and Hitchhiker's Guide were some of the assigned reading in the Lit class, and I never, ever would have even heard of White Noise, He, She and It, The Periodic Table which were also pretty excellent. Sure, appreciation for literature doesn't pay the bills, but you gotta enjoy something right?
I believe that attending a 4 year school isn't a decision to make on a whim as a career booster. Though the market has sort of dictated this, you should only be spending the effort on an advanced degree if the pursuit of knowledge, not a paycheck is what you're after. With such a heavy push on going to college these days the experience is becoming diluted and a lot of people who shouldn't be there are, and are stuck holding the bag of student loans when they're done - see College Inc.
TL;DR: If you want to be a technician that gets paid well for implementation/installation - save yourself the money and go to a trade school, or better yet get a union job. My uncle retired from NYCTA and has a banging pension the likes of which you'll probably never see again in the private sector
I've lost the game on account of /. more times than I can count. I don't keep account records of course because that would involve losing the game.
http://www.mta.info/developers/
Though these are just aggregates of turnstile data, so they know that X people entered at Times square and Y people exited at prince within about a 4 hour resolution(the scheduled turnstile audits). The only new thing this scheme would add is to tie the specific entrances and exits together. I'm not sure how useful that actually is, you can extrapolate the most frequently ridden lines based on the aggregate entrances and exits from it. Plus to tie it to particular riders, anonymous or not is an AWFUL lot of data to process.
I wonder who foot the bill for the 300 shields. Darwin's voyage only gives two immediate technology advances, there are far better things.
Ha, I see what you did there.
Only the IMEI/IMSI!? You know only the things that uniquely identify YOUR phone among millions, and two pieces of information that are necessary required to clone a phone or SIM.
The attackers only got those, they weren't able to get anything important like facebook logins or anything...
The Federal Reserve has been asking for a bubble-based UI.
HA, wish I had mod points.
Because that level was so god damned aggravating! I don't remember how many times I've been down that fucking course! One false move and it's into the abyss! The song is still stuck in my head...
I agree that the NY tolls are batshit crazy, but at least the $8 one's you reference(The GW, Outerbridge and Goethals) are one-way tolling, controlled by the Port Authority. It's the TA bridges & tunnels that are the real gotcha, the whitestone/throggs may only be 5.50(or $6 now?) but they toll both ways, so you end up paying $11 all in all.
Yo dawg! I heard you like patents, so we patented patenting so you can't patent when you patent.
What happens if you are hit by a bus and don't serve your penalty?
Then your next of kin must die of old age instead.
There was a time when the FBI might go into people's houses willy-nilly, that's sort of Hoover's legacy. Nixon: "Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973 but your average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only one who's changed is me. I've become bitter, and let's face it, crazy over the years. And once I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat. And I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place! Muhuhahahaha!"
I remember clicking the stupid magnifying glass by accident a few weeks ago, towards the end of October. I guess all that extra rendering slowed down the wired writers by about 3 weeks.
Agree! In fact thinking back on my own experience I knew who Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were waaaay before they ever briefly, briefly covered World War II in my formal education...All thanks to Wolfenstein baby.
The only smart trashcan I've ever seen was Oscar the grouch. Considering how "smart" the power meters(and authorities) are in most cities, this will probably be a flop.
No. Bloated, resource hogging, snake oil. Doesn't detect anything. EPO(Enterprise Policy Orchestrator) would be a nice feature if: 1. It didn't require a dedicated machine 2. Updating policy actually mattered But it doesn't because no matter how well you orchestrate policy, it's still not going to detect any viruses.
That would be awesome, and there are some protocols out there for packet radio on the unlicensed/amateur spectrum, but the fellas at the friggin' FCC don't allow encryption on those bands.
I don't know if I'd call Telepathy an advantage. Once it's actually implemented it will definitely kick ass, but right now it sucks and only supports the full feature set of 1 protocol(jabber) out of the 16 it's supposed to be able to use. In fact I couldn't even get empathy to do something as simple as display an AIM buddy profile. Maybe I'm just an idiot, but as far as I can tell telepathy gives no distinct advantage to Gnome.
From the summary "he must now seek Congressional approval after 120 days" So it's ok! It'll be just like the War Powers Resolution of 1973, where the President has to notify congress of any military action within 48 hours and can't leave troops in theater for more than 90 days(60 days up front, 30 to withdraw) without Congressional Authorization(a declaration of war). That's worked out pretty well so far...
Perhaps breathalyzer authentication would be a better idea.
and they exist for a reason. I'm at RPI(CS), tuition is ~35 a year and they give me about half in scholarship. I don't know how MIT does it, but it seems like here you either get full, half or nothing. The rest you have to make up in loans. If a top tech school education is what you desire, then you are going to be looking at loans. In reality you'll get more or less the same education anywhere you go, but if you want the name brand sticker then you're going to have to pay for it. Why would you go to MIT anyway? We have the "world's most powerful university-based supercomputing center", join us on the dark side. Seriously though, when I was younger and had no idea what I wanted to do for school I thought MIT at first too. I had never even heard of RPI, but it turned out to be a pretty good move. Do some research. Everyone thinks MIT and CalTech at first, but other schools with the same reputation do exist, they just don't get much attention.