Northern Arizona University does not have any camera in the classroom that could be used for this type of thing. The only cameras would be those used for recording the speaker.
They have something called the FERPA. During registration, as a individual over the age of 18, you have to option of allowing someone to call the university and disclose your grades to them. Its a white listing system where by default no one except you is privy to that information. You simply have to allow a person access to it via a form with the Bursar.
As a Northern Arizona University sophomore studying Computer Information Systems, I am against this.
I've always taken it upon myself to research technologies and other such tools in the Computer/Network Administration field. I've taken 4 CIS classes and 2 CS classes and have yet to find one that has challenged me. Tomorrow I'll be taking a CIS310 (Database Design, Implementation, and Management) final. I haven't been to a full class since the first day and I've gotten A's on all the tests. Why? Because I took it upon myself to learn SQL and the "right way" to do things years ago.
In High School the whole idea of college was the fact that it was up to you and only you to keep track of your homework, get to class, etc. The professors supposedly didn't care. Unlike K-12 which is a state requirement, University and Community College is optional. If you want to pay tuition and enroll in classes, the institution shouldn't care whether or not you show up, just make sure that if you do want to show up, you're able to learn. I manage my own small hosting company and program in C# regularly. Should I REALLY be required to attend CS120 every day where I can learn how to use Microsoft Word?
Professors tend to treat their students as if they're clueless, and to be honest a lot are. The smarter students that take initiative shouldn't have to suffer and be required to go to class because a few clueless slackers can't piece together a basic SELECT statement.
Speaking from experience in playing educational games. I'm currently a 19 year old male. My Father, being very tech oriented, bought me MANY educational PC games, I'll just list a few:
JumpStart 3rd Grade and Gizmos & Gadgets were by far my favorite at the time. As a previous reply brought up, I also played Age of Empires 2: Gold Edition as a kid... I remember a specific campaign entitled "El Sid" where you go kill the Spanish King (if I recall). It was later brought up in an 11th grade history class.
JumpStart was by far the best game, the general plot: A scientist owns this huge mansion built into a mountain. He has a bratty little girl. The scientist goes off to some convention, while hes away his daughter fails a history test so she decides to use her fathers time machine to alter history to match her test answers. She sends back various robotic inhabitants of the mansion back in time to alter various parts of history (IE instead an astronomer discovering that the Sun is the center of the Solar System, he discovers that Polly (the daughter) is the center of the solar system). You help the "head robot" to prevent Polly from altering time. You perform various puzzles around the mountain to get clues and charg up the time machine. Some include learning about art, cooking, doing multiplication, patterns (simon says), Hand-eye coordination (a moonlander type game), among MANY others.
Gizmo's & Gadgets was also one of my favorite games. The Learning Company makes a huge amount of education games, Super Solvers, Midnight Madness, Reader Rabbit, etc. Basically in G&G a mad scientist owns a car construction shop right next to your car construction shop, and hes threatening to take you over. He decides to race you 20 times with 20 different vehicles (cars/planes/helicopters). You agree and he cheats by sending over a bunch of chimps (actual monkeys) to your shop to steal all your parts. Basically you have to go out to the warehouse, and get your parts back. Because of how its layed out you have to do various puzzles. For instance, weight balancing, electrical wiring (basic light bulb, switch, batteries, but does teach series/parallel), Energy, Force, Magnetics, Simple Machines, and Gears. Anyway, you get various parts back and build your car and race. If you lose you go back and make it better (different propellor, wheels, etc) until you win.
Educational games can be fun. I'm speaking from experience. I liked G&G so much that I still have an ISO of it 10 years later. Sadly it wont run on any current operating sytems, someday I'll start up a W98se Virtual machine and play around with it. If you're looking for more research take a look at Borderbund, Knowledge Adventure, and The Learning Company.
I'd just like to point you to a few links explicitly discouraging users from taking illegal actions against this:
ED Article
Excerpts:
"1. DON'T FUCK WITH THE LAW- We want to first make use of the rights we have, censorship is violating our rights."
"Acting like an idiot and trying to DDoS them will only end with you being persecuted (and/or prosecuted), and your actions being used as a justification."
"This battle is one we have to fight legally..."
"DO NOT RAGE ON THESE PHONE NUMBERS, SIMPLY COMPLAIN ABOUT THE ISSUE!"
Insurgen Article
Excepts:
"Acting like a retard and trying to DDoS them will only end in them going [A QUOTE]"
"Don't try to DDoS or do ANYTHING illegal or legally ambiguous to AT&T. This is a corporation with more resources, manpower, and preparation than anything you script kiddies have ever dealt with. You will be caught and prosecuted. Go through legal channels and reverse this using legitimate means."
Those are just the ones in the windows I have open.
Obviously there is no way to force someone not to do something, but the intentions are to solve this without any "damages".
Sure Anonymous is angry about being blocked by 15.5% of internet users, but this is only the first step. Most responses to this blockage are directed toward fighting net neutrality, NOT Anon attacking AT&T because their site was blocked.
Anonymous is trying to fight this peacefully, they're not going to be DDoSing any DNS servers, backbone routers, or the like. They're going to be calling Customer Reps and complaining.
This is a Net Neutrality issue, not a Internet Hate Machine issue.
I agree. I've been reading xkcd for quite some time (since its comics were in the low 200s). About two weeks ago I went back and decided to read all 460+. This semester at my university I'm taking an astronomy class. The morning we went over Kepler's laws, I read all xkcd again. I found THIS comic and busted out laughing. I'd prolly read the comic a few times before, but never understood it.
Being part of a botnet implies that the IPv6 address actually has a computer behind it. I doubt that each light bulb/fridge/microwave will have the firmware (dare I say OS?) to host a botnet client to the point of it being useful for anything.
This brings up a good point. Hacking light bulbs. You laugh, but if whatever controls the bulb is connect to the net, there is a possibility of a security breach. Imagine you're chatting with someone on the net, they decide they don't like you and have the ability to turn off the power strip that is powering your computer.
I'm currently in the process of developing a custom CMS. As far as the initial product I'd say I'm 80% or so done. It has definitely been the most extensive PHP project I have worked on. It's for the most part going to be something only used on my website, but as I'm designing it, I'm keeping customization in mind.
All of the various CMSs that I have tried in the past don't have the capabilities I am looking for. Sure you can write your own modules and blocks, but instead of learning how to code for someone else's software, I'd rather create my own framework and build from that.
The part I have to work on now is making the site much more efficient to the average user (IE faster page generation times, fewer queries, etc). Anyone have any tips for testing sites under load? IE any software out there to emulate 100s of viewers looking at the site at the same time?
Various IT admin decided that the current email system no longer fits out needs (I do not know details).
A committee was formed to look for an alternative, they chose to go with a hosted email service and narrowed it down to Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo as their vendors.
At this stage they are finding what the students are looking for in an email service and forming some criteria on which to base decisions and planning on.
The students that attend the vendor presentations given by Google/Microsoft/Yahoo will be allowed to vote on which vendor the school goes with.
Whether or not it will actually happen that way, I have no idea. We're simply looking for things to consider when choosing solutions.
No no, we're doing as much as we can to get other students involved. I, myself am a student, found out about this though a newsletter.
The students who are actively involved and providing feedback will have a chance to vote on which vendor they would prefer. The whole decision is being made with input from students and faculty.
My only concern is that students will be more likly to choose the vendor that they've been using and not take into account which service is actually the best for the college.
The university does not FORCE students to actually use their.edu email. All students are given an account with their username/password and instructions on how to check their email. Whether or not they actually use it is up to the student.
Not that I blindly trust the US government but certain issues need to be taken into account if we're prepared to fully trust a private company to do this...
Terrorism seems to have become a big thing in the US. How do companies like ICANN and VeriSign propose to protect such a crucial part of the internet from a potential attack? Consider both a physical and virtual attack.
An option is to always make the computer unbootable.
The idea has always stuck with me is to install a bootloader on a flash drive. When the computer boots it will look for the bootloader on the flash drive. If the drive isn't plugged in you won't be able to boot, if it is you're fine. Just keep the flash drive somewhere hidden and inconspicuous (wife's purse or something).
Though it would be easy to get around you would need all of the following:
1. Someone at airport who knows enough about computers to know whats wrong and how to deal with it.
2. Be under enough suspicion to warrant the governments time to deal with your laptop.
3. Take the hard drive out and put it in another machine to read the data (If you're using Linux then make the drive ext3 so they'll have to find a non-windows machine to put it in).
Like many in this thread, I've heard good things about TrueCrypt, you may want to give that a shot.
Also, first time posting on/. been lurking for years though.
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Northern Arizona University does not have any camera in the classroom that could be used for this type of thing. The only cameras would be those used for recording the speaker.
They have something called the FERPA. During registration, as a individual over the age of 18, you have to option of allowing someone to call the university and disclose your grades to them. Its a white listing system where by default no one except you is privy to that information. You simply have to allow a person access to it via a form with the Bursar.
As a Northern Arizona University sophomore studying Computer Information Systems, I am against this.
I've always taken it upon myself to research technologies and other such tools in the Computer/Network Administration field. I've taken 4 CIS classes and 2 CS classes and have yet to find one that has challenged me. Tomorrow I'll be taking a CIS310 (Database Design, Implementation, and Management) final. I haven't been to a full class since the first day and I've gotten A's on all the tests. Why? Because I took it upon myself to learn SQL and the "right way" to do things years ago.
In High School the whole idea of college was the fact that it was up to you and only you to keep track of your homework, get to class, etc. The professors supposedly didn't care. Unlike K-12 which is a state requirement, University and Community College is optional. If you want to pay tuition and enroll in classes, the institution shouldn't care whether or not you show up, just make sure that if you do want to show up, you're able to learn. I manage my own small hosting company and program in C# regularly. Should I REALLY be required to attend CS120 every day where I can learn how to use Microsoft Word?
Professors tend to treat their students as if they're clueless, and to be honest a lot are. The smarter students that take initiative shouldn't have to suffer and be required to go to class because a few clueless slackers can't piece together a basic SELECT statement.
But can it run Crysis?
Speaking from experience in playing educational games. I'm currently a 19 year old male. My Father, being very tech oriented, bought me MANY educational PC games, I'll just list a few:
JumpStart $X Grade by Knowledge Adventure (where $X is 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, though I lost interest after 4th)
Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets by The Learning Company
JumpStart 3rd Grade and Gizmos & Gadgets were by far my favorite at the time. As a previous reply brought up, I also played Age of Empires 2: Gold Edition as a kid... I remember a specific campaign entitled "El Sid" where you go kill the Spanish King (if I recall). It was later brought up in an 11th grade history class.
JumpStart was by far the best game, the general plot: A scientist owns this huge mansion built into a mountain. He has a bratty little girl. The scientist goes off to some convention, while hes away his daughter fails a history test so she decides to use her fathers time machine to alter history to match her test answers. She sends back various robotic inhabitants of the mansion back in time to alter various parts of history (IE instead an astronomer discovering that the Sun is the center of the Solar System, he discovers that Polly (the daughter) is the center of the solar system). You help the "head robot" to prevent Polly from altering time. You perform various puzzles around the mountain to get clues and charg up the time machine. Some include learning about art, cooking, doing multiplication, patterns (simon says), Hand-eye coordination (a moonlander type game), among MANY others.
Gizmo's & Gadgets was also one of my favorite games. The Learning Company makes a huge amount of education games, Super Solvers, Midnight Madness, Reader Rabbit, etc. Basically in G&G a mad scientist owns a car construction shop right next to your car construction shop, and hes threatening to take you over. He decides to race you 20 times with 20 different vehicles (cars/planes/helicopters). You agree and he cheats by sending over a bunch of chimps (actual monkeys) to your shop to steal all your parts. Basically you have to go out to the warehouse, and get your parts back. Because of how its layed out you have to do various puzzles. For instance, weight balancing, electrical wiring (basic light bulb, switch, batteries, but does teach series/parallel), Energy, Force, Magnetics, Simple Machines, and Gears. Anyway, you get various parts back and build your car and race. If you lose you go back and make it better (different propellor, wheels, etc) until you win.
Educational games can be fun. I'm speaking from experience. I liked G&G so much that I still have an ISO of it 10 years later. Sadly it wont run on any current operating sytems, someday I'll start up a W98se Virtual machine and play around with it. If you're looking for more research take a look at Borderbund, Knowledge Adventure, and The Learning Company.
Thanks,
Smark
http://www.spectralcoding.com/
I'd just like to point you to a few links explicitly discouraging users from taking illegal actions against this:
ED Article Excerpts:
"1. DON'T FUCK WITH THE LAW- We want to first make use of the rights we have, censorship is violating our rights."
"Acting like an idiot and trying to DDoS them will only end with you being persecuted (and/or prosecuted), and your actions being used as a justification."
"This battle is one we have to fight legally..."
"DO NOT RAGE ON THESE PHONE NUMBERS, SIMPLY COMPLAIN ABOUT THE ISSUE!"
Insurgen Article
Excepts:
"Acting like a retard and trying to DDoS them will only end in them going [A QUOTE]"
"Don't try to DDoS or do ANYTHING illegal or legally ambiguous to AT&T. This is a corporation with more resources, manpower, and preparation than anything you script kiddies have ever dealt with. You will be caught and prosecuted. Go through legal channels and reverse this using legitimate means."
Those are just the ones in the windows I have open.
Obviously there is no way to force someone not to do something, but the intentions are to solve this without any "damages".
Thanks,
Smark
SpectralCoding
This is about Net Neutrality.
Sure Anonymous is angry about being blocked by 15.5% of internet users, but this is only the first step. Most responses to this blockage are directed toward fighting net neutrality, NOT Anon attacking AT&T because their site was blocked.
Anonymous is trying to fight this peacefully, they're not going to be DDoSing any DNS servers, backbone routers, or the like. They're going to be calling Customer Reps and complaining.
This is a Net Neutrality issue, not a Internet Hate Machine issue.
Thanks,
Smark
http://www.spectralcoding.com/
You don't haul a girl off to jail if she was raped do you?
I agree. I've been reading xkcd for quite some time (since its comics were in the low 200s). About two weeks ago I went back and decided to read all 460+. This semester at my university I'm taking an astronomy class. The morning we went over Kepler's laws, I read all xkcd again. I found THIS comic and busted out laughing. I'd prolly read the comic a few times before, but never understood it.
Being part of a botnet implies that the IPv6 address actually has a computer behind it. I doubt that each light bulb/fridge/microwave will have the firmware (dare I say OS?) to host a botnet client to the point of it being useful for anything.
This brings up a good point. Hacking light bulbs. You laugh, but if whatever controls the bulb is connect to the net, there is a possibility of a security breach. Imagine you're chatting with someone on the net, they decide they don't like you and have the ability to turn off the power strip that is powering your computer.
Is this an original idea? No. Ever heard of RFID tags and RFID technology?
I'm currently in the process of developing a custom CMS. As far as the initial product I'd say I'm 80% or so done. It has definitely been the most extensive PHP project I have worked on. It's for the most part going to be something only used on my website, but as I'm designing it, I'm keeping customization in mind.
All of the various CMSs that I have tried in the past don't have the capabilities I am looking for. Sure you can write your own modules and blocks, but instead of learning how to code for someone else's software, I'd rather create my own framework and build from that.
The part I have to work on now is making the site much more efficient to the average user (IE faster page generation times, fewer queries, etc). Anyone have any tips for testing sites under load? IE any software out there to emulate 100s of viewers looking at the site at the same time?
Here is how it went (as far as I know):
Various IT admin decided that the current email system no longer fits out needs (I do not know details).
A committee was formed to look for an alternative, they chose to go with a hosted email service and narrowed it down to Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo as their vendors.
At this stage they are finding what the students are looking for in an email service and forming some criteria on which to base decisions and planning on.
The students that attend the vendor presentations given by Google/Microsoft/Yahoo will be allowed to vote on which vendor the school goes with.
Whether or not it will actually happen that way, I have no idea. We're simply looking for things to consider when choosing solutions.
No no, we're doing as much as we can to get other students involved. I, myself am a student, found out about this though a newsletter. The students who are actively involved and providing feedback will have a chance to vote on which vendor they would prefer. The whole decision is being made with input from students and faculty. My only concern is that students will be more likly to choose the vendor that they've been using and not take into account which service is actually the best for the college.
The university does not FORCE students to actually use their .edu email. All students are given an account with their username/password and instructions on how to check their email. Whether or not they actually use it is up to the student.
I'm sorry if my post was construed as trolling. That's not what i meant to get across.
Any word on when we'll get answers to some of the questions asked in THIS thread?
People attending Blizzcon got a StarCraft II Beta Key. Lucky bastards. Anyway, a lot of Blizzcon news will reported on MMO-Champion so check there.
Not that I blindly trust the US government but certain issues need to be taken into account if we're prepared to fully trust a private company to do this...
Terrorism seems to have become a big thing in the US. How do companies like ICANN and VeriSign propose to protect such a crucial part of the internet from a potential attack? Consider both a physical and virtual attack.
An option is to always make the computer unbootable.
/. been lurking for years though.
The idea has always stuck with me is to install a bootloader on a flash drive. When the computer boots it will look for the bootloader on the flash drive. If the drive isn't plugged in you won't be able to boot, if it is you're fine. Just keep the flash drive somewhere hidden and inconspicuous (wife's purse or something).
Though it would be easy to get around you would need all of the following:
1. Someone at airport who knows enough about computers to know whats wrong and how to deal with it.
2. Be under enough suspicion to warrant the governments time to deal with your laptop.
3. Take the hard drive out and put it in another machine to read the data (If you're using Linux then make the drive ext3 so they'll have to find a non-windows machine to put it in).
Like many in this thread, I've heard good things about TrueCrypt, you may want to give that a shot.
Also, first time posting on