Right on the money. Anonymous is the internet mob, made up of rather random individuals that a lot like normal on the street protesters decide that a particular entity is being an ass and make it a little bit difficult to do their business by creating a small scale blockade at their entrance for a day. Nothing new or specially nefarious about it, just a normal social dynamic happening on the internet. The targeted entities should deduct from this that they are not winning any fans and if greed allows just take the message for what it is and change their policies.
This is almost the right way I believe to solve the cheating issue. Its not that you got off the pond, but how you got off it is what matters. The answer is only part of the solution. How you got it is just as important and if you don't have a valid solution, the correct answer alone is void. The task should set up so that passing the task over wireless, letting someone else solve it and then copy down into your work would be unfeasible within exam time. My physics teacher did something like that with a unique twist. Each test was unique based on where you sat or who you were. Some factor that went into equations differed or sometimes whole tasks were split by such arbitrary factors takers had to write on test paper. Essentially everyone were writing their own test, verbatim copy was not possible and you would have never had enough time to communicate the whole task outside and then copy it into your work.
I live in Eastern Europe and ended up on Autobahn a few years back going from Poland to Denmark. There are no such free roads around here so had no experience with them but I very quickly understood the rules witch seemed to be: Stick to right, find a comfortable cruising speed. My old Opel went all the way to 220km/h but felt very much unsafe at that speed. Ended up cruising peacefully at 160km/h in the right most lane. That leg of the trip was pretty fast and comfortable. A lot more comfortable than coming down though Poland to Wroclaw from Lithuania, where there were 60km/h speed limits and speed cams every 5km or so and everybody kept either accelerating or hitting the brakes constantly.
Also, I don't know about US drivers, but when I was learning to drive, I was taught to ALWAYS use the turning signals, so it becomes a habit and wont be omitted when its really needed. It worked. I use my turning signals on village roads and in the middle of the night not because I decide to, but because its automatic.
The poster above is 100% correct. Getting an overall understanding of the functional parts of a computer is a crucial thing yo call someone e-literate. Heres a list of things that a person Id call e-literate knows:
1. Basic hardware - Storage types and confusion between RAM and hardrive is disturbingly widespread. Even worse, with desktop computers, people often fail to identify parts I've asked them to bring me for repairs. Often when I i just need the computer, I get the whole lot and in one case, just the monitor. Basic concepts of how programs can (over)load a computer should be part of this aswell.
2. Basic filesystems - I've seen otherwise pretty competent computer users struggle with the basics of using the file system. "I saved it but I cant find it any more!" is pretty common. Opening a document in word to copy it to another location is also common. Its something that Id definitely see as a part of e-literacy.
3. Basic file formats - Another not really understood concept is file formats and Windows habbit of hiding file extensions isn't helping anyone really there. More than once Ive seen "broken" excel files, saved without an extension and conversion understood as just changing the extension etc.
4. Basic networking - Cables and wifi up to the internet. Basic connectivity troubleshooting.
5. Basic security concepts - From not putting you personal information on the internet to not running untrusted code and finally putting security risks in the family on restricted accounts in their own computers.
And all of this should be OS agnostic. Best if same things are exhibited on both say Windows and Ubuntu.
Most psychological disorders are just that. Excessive variants of normal feelings and traits. But aspies are a bit different than just that. Have you ever seen untamed cats? Kittens who grew up without being handled. An aspie is a lot like that as an adult. I feel that this is because when growing up, he lacked some basic skill of understanding the world and world lacked an understanding of him to explain it in a way he could understand. He still lacks that mostly social trait but he has learned to compensate for it mentally. It experience talking here tho, not science, so take it with a grain of salt.
Part of the official diagnosis criteria of any mental disorder is that it needs to cause a significant problem with normal functioning. If it does not cause a problem for you, you wont fit the criteria. Most people in IT have some aspie traits, but you need to know a real Aspie to know what it really means. My significant other is an officially diagnosed aspie and he is severely impaired by it. Things that to normal people do without thinking are hard for him.
Flashblock is going too far for a casual user. Just like noscript, they need to understand it before they are willing to use it. Adblock is near invisible and just cuts ddown a lot of the bad stuff without breaking anyting.
Those sites should not make their ads annoying. Google text adds are fine most of the time, unless page has crapton of them. Discrete page fitting ads are fine as-well. But you cant really live without an ad blocker on today's web where certain ads scream at you and prevent you from focusing on the content. It's visual mostly, but some people still haven't gotten the memo about self playing voice adds being a bad thing...
IF you have a family member doing your IT support you will have Firefox. With adblock(very important, most crap happens by "OOOH, SHINY! *click**click**click*") and possibly noscript if you can be taught to operate it. Why? Because the support person values his/her free time spent doing the IT equivalent of manure shoveling. The users that can afford to go to a computer repair shop for crap cleaning stick with IE, because the cleaning guy wants to eat too and certainly is not going to tell the customer that he can be almost redundant...
I don't know anyone who uses IE of their own will in these parts. The last person who I know did was my father and he is nearing 70. Using IE ended the last time I had to remove porn spam from his computer 4 or so years ago. He has been using Firefox ever since and he has even learned to use the no-script extension when he ventures into the wild parts of the Internet. Not bad for an old guy. Its the sharepoint intranet sites that keep corporate users at IE. Well, the not savy ones. The rest install IETab.
It aims to be all of these things. Its just not quite there yet because the whole thing involves integrating different browsers on several platforms with actual hardware and times do move on, hence the push for new software that is going to be opensource. It actually works fine with Firefox on windows to my surprise.
Once you find a setup that works, its easy to use and and safe. My father, who is turning 70 next year, uses it daily.
The cellphone part is system agnostic. Works anywhere, but it costs a small monthly fee. The smart card part is also system agnostic, it sucks everywhere. In theory it works in Linux, windows and Mac OS. In practice, the signing part works in Linux only if you are really lucky and your bank is not an asshat, ID part works quite well however. In windows it only works stably and sanely with IE6. Never got tit to behave with IE 7 or 8. In all fairness there is work twoards updated software that should improve the supported OS/browser range and be somewhat saner.
Around here banks have limited the transactions for such "two factor" signing schemes to near nothing in favor of RSA based digital signing schemes that require you to use a pass-coded certificate on a chip card, that is also your national ID card, or a certificate on your cellphone SIM linked to the ID-card one.
This is actually the crux of all such things.
Its not hard to make an AI that reacts to things. Recognizing the things to react to is the hard part. Body language varies greatly from person, as to the tones of ones voice and spoken language even if it is by name the same language.
Computers tend to operate in two state world. Is it it or not? People don't work like that. People operate in a world of maybes and guesses and hunches based on years of living experience.
The how they failed to catch it is sort of obvious. They did field testing in 3G cases and in the labs reception was strong enough to take the horrendous drop. Not so in real life.
You don't need to provide COPY protection, you need to provide paying customers value that the non-paying ones don't get. Like an account with extra goodies based on a code that can be used just once to activate an account for the customer and don't forget to add an easy way to become a paying customer for just got the game from somewhere. That creates a win-win proposal for the gamers and the company. Distribution is free for the creator and every one with a copy is at least a potential customer.
So, you are saying there is no crap payware? That's just bullshit. There's a lot of costly crap-ware. When you pick an app, price is not an indication of goodness. Popularity is. Popularity however is slightly skewed on the side of cheap. So cheap/free popular app has probably a bit less quality than a paid app of same popularity, but that's it.
Yep. And you don't because you are not given the source. Giving the source to some people is considerably more dangerous than not giving it to anybody, because the ones with the source have an advantage over everybody else in finding exploits and particular reason to disclose them...
In today's enterprises, hardware is cycled pretty fast. 3 years is pretty common I believe. In that large enterprise anything but a hardware rate adoption would murder the IT staff.
Today's IT don't need a bunch of uber-gods. It needs competent people building usable IT systems based on good practices of C.S. That's what C.S graduates should be. Some schools make a thinking pros, others produce trained monkeys. Both are needed in a sensible balance but what fails in employment process is distinguishing if a trained monkey or a thinker was needed and witch category does the person being considered belongs to.
People with theoretical comp-sci education don't have that much to write under competences in the cv and need to learn practical skills first. This means accepting a lower paying job to start with and many don't want that. But working up potential is much better. For me, this translated to accepting a minimum wage job(rural area, not that much choice and the employer was right) to getting paid well above average year or so later.
There are people who can go solo right after getting the degree, but they usually have worked the field before/during going for the degree however. the rest of us need a job to get our toes wet.
People with practical education are much more likely to get a job in pay class of their skill set right after school. But development options are limited.
msgshit.com - interesting domain name. Deliberate, it seems. 5pts.
All your cached passwords are readable. They have to be to be used. Duh! Nobody caching their passwords should be surprised by that...
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Right on the money. Anonymous is the internet mob, made up of rather random individuals that a lot like normal on the street protesters decide that a particular entity is being an ass and make it a little bit difficult to do their business by creating a small scale blockade at their entrance for a day. Nothing new or specially nefarious about it, just a normal social dynamic happening on the internet. The targeted entities should deduct from this that they are not winning any fans and if greed allows just take the message for what it is and change their policies.
This is almost the right way I believe to solve the cheating issue. Its not that you got off the pond, but how you got off it is what matters. The answer is only part of the solution. How you got it is just as important and if you don't have a valid solution, the correct answer alone is void. The task should set up so that passing the task over wireless, letting someone else solve it and then copy down into your work would be unfeasible within exam time. My physics teacher did something like that with a unique twist. Each test was unique based on where you sat or who you were. Some factor that went into equations differed or sometimes whole tasks were split by such arbitrary factors takers had to write on test paper. Essentially everyone were writing their own test, verbatim copy was not possible and you would have never had enough time to communicate the whole task outside and then copy it into your work.
I live in Eastern Europe and ended up on Autobahn a few years back going from Poland to Denmark. There are no such free roads around here so had no experience with them but I very quickly understood the rules witch seemed to be: Stick to right, find a comfortable cruising speed. My old Opel went all the way to 220km/h but felt very much unsafe at that speed. Ended up cruising peacefully at 160km/h in the right most lane. That leg of the trip was pretty fast and comfortable. A lot more comfortable than coming down though Poland to Wroclaw from Lithuania, where there were 60km/h speed limits and speed cams every 5km or so and everybody kept either accelerating or hitting the brakes constantly. Also, I don't know about US drivers, but when I was learning to drive, I was taught to ALWAYS use the turning signals, so it becomes a habit and wont be omitted when its really needed. It worked. I use my turning signals on village roads and in the middle of the night not because I decide to, but because its automatic.
The poster above is 100% correct. Getting an overall understanding of the functional parts of a computer is a crucial thing yo call someone e-literate. Heres a list of things that a person Id call e-literate knows:
1. Basic hardware - Storage types and confusion between RAM and hardrive is disturbingly widespread. Even worse, with desktop computers, people often fail to identify parts I've asked them to bring me for repairs. Often when I i just need the computer, I get the whole lot and in one case, just the monitor. Basic concepts of how programs can (over)load a computer should be part of this aswell.
2. Basic filesystems - I've seen otherwise pretty competent computer users struggle with the basics of using the file system. "I saved it but I cant find it any more!" is pretty common. Opening a document in word to copy it to another location is also common. Its something that Id definitely see as a part of e-literacy.
3. Basic file formats - Another not really understood concept is file formats and Windows habbit of hiding file extensions isn't helping anyone really there. More than once Ive seen "broken" excel files, saved without an extension and conversion understood as just changing the extension etc.
4. Basic networking - Cables and wifi up to the internet. Basic connectivity troubleshooting.
5. Basic security concepts - From not putting you personal information on the internet to not running untrusted code and finally putting security risks in the family on restricted accounts in their own computers.
And all of this should be OS agnostic. Best if same things are exhibited on both say Windows and Ubuntu.
Most psychological disorders are just that. Excessive variants of normal feelings and traits. But aspies are a bit different than just that. Have you ever seen untamed cats? Kittens who grew up without being handled. An aspie is a lot like that as an adult. I feel that this is because when growing up, he lacked some basic skill of understanding the world and world lacked an understanding of him to explain it in a way he could understand. He still lacks that mostly social trait but he has learned to compensate for it mentally. It experience talking here tho, not science, so take it with a grain of salt.
Part of the official diagnosis criteria of any mental disorder is that it needs to cause a significant problem with normal functioning. If it does not cause a problem for you, you wont fit the criteria. Most people in IT have some aspie traits, but you need to know a real Aspie to know what it really means. My significant other is an officially diagnosed aspie and he is severely impaired by it. Things that to normal people do without thinking are hard for him.
Flashblock is going too far for a casual user. Just like noscript, they need to understand it before they are willing to use it. Adblock is near invisible and just cuts ddown a lot of the bad stuff without breaking anyting.
Example: Those Trojan infested smiley packs.
User education and least privilege do work. But Ad-block will keep them form a lot of accidental damage of the stupid class.
Those sites should not make their ads annoying. Google text adds are fine most of the time, unless page has crapton of them. Discrete page fitting ads are fine as-well. But you cant really live without an ad blocker on today's web where certain ads scream at you and prevent you from focusing on the content. It's visual mostly, but some people still haven't gotten the memo about self playing voice adds being a bad thing...
IF you have a family member doing your IT support you will have Firefox. With adblock(very important, most crap happens by "OOOH, SHINY! *click**click**click*") and possibly noscript if you can be taught to operate it. Why? Because the support person values his/her free time spent doing the IT equivalent of manure shoveling. The users that can afford to go to a computer repair shop for crap cleaning stick with IE, because the cleaning guy wants to eat too and certainly is not going to tell the customer that he can be almost redundant...
I don't know anyone who uses IE of their own will in these parts. The last person who I know did was my father and he is nearing 70. Using IE ended the last time I had to remove porn spam from his computer 4 or so years ago. He has been using Firefox ever since and he has even learned to use the no-script extension when he ventures into the wild parts of the Internet. Not bad for an old guy. Its the sharepoint intranet sites that keep corporate users at IE. Well, the not savy ones. The rest install IETab.
Oh, and requires is a bit srtongly said. The option to use a cellphone is fairly recent.
It aims to be all of these things. Its just not quite there yet because the whole thing involves integrating different browsers on several platforms with actual hardware and times do move on, hence the push for new software that is going to be opensource. It actually works fine with Firefox on windows to my surprise. Once you find a setup that works, its easy to use and and safe. My father, who is turning 70 next year, uses it daily.
The cellphone part is system agnostic. Works anywhere, but it costs a small monthly fee. The smart card part is also system agnostic, it sucks everywhere. In theory it works in Linux, windows and Mac OS. In practice, the signing part works in Linux only if you are really lucky and your bank is not an asshat, ID part works quite well however. In windows it only works stably and sanely with IE6. Never got tit to behave with IE 7 or 8. In all fairness there is work twoards updated software that should improve the supported OS/browser range and be somewhat saner.
Around here banks have limited the transactions for such "two factor" signing schemes to near nothing in favor of RSA based digital signing schemes that require you to use a pass-coded certificate on a chip card, that is also your national ID card, or a certificate on your cellphone SIM linked to the ID-card one.
This is actually the crux of all such things. Its not hard to make an AI that reacts to things. Recognizing the things to react to is the hard part. Body language varies greatly from person, as to the tones of ones voice and spoken language even if it is by name the same language. Computers tend to operate in two state world. Is it it or not? People don't work like that. People operate in a world of maybes and guesses and hunches based on years of living experience.
The how they failed to catch it is sort of obvious. They did field testing in 3G cases and in the labs reception was strong enough to take the horrendous drop. Not so in real life.
You don't need to provide COPY protection, you need to provide paying customers value that the non-paying ones don't get. Like an account with extra goodies based on a code that can be used just once to activate an account for the customer and don't forget to add an easy way to become a paying customer for just got the game from somewhere. That creates a win-win proposal for the gamers and the company. Distribution is free for the creator and every one with a copy is at least a potential customer.
So, you are saying there is no crap payware? That's just bullshit. There's a lot of costly crap-ware. When you pick an app, price is not an indication of goodness. Popularity is. Popularity however is slightly skewed on the side of cheap. So cheap/free popular app has probably a bit less quality than a paid app of same popularity, but that's it.
Yep. And you don't because you are not given the source. Giving the source to some people is considerably more dangerous than not giving it to anybody, because the ones with the source have an advantage over everybody else in finding exploits and particular reason to disclose them...
In today's enterprises, hardware is cycled pretty fast. 3 years is pretty common I believe. In that large enterprise anything but a hardware rate adoption would murder the IT staff.
Today's IT don't need a bunch of uber-gods. It needs competent people building usable IT systems based on good practices of C.S. That's what C.S graduates should be. Some schools make a thinking pros, others produce trained monkeys. Both are needed in a sensible balance but what fails in employment process is distinguishing if a trained monkey or a thinker was needed and witch category does the person being considered belongs to.
People with theoretical comp-sci education don't have that much to write under competences in the cv and need to learn practical skills first. This means accepting a lower paying job to start with and many don't want that. But working up potential is much better. For me, this translated to accepting a minimum wage job(rural area, not that much choice and the employer was right) to getting paid well above average year or so later.
There are people who can go solo right after getting the degree, but they usually have worked the field before/during going for the degree however. the rest of us need a job to get our toes wet.
People with practical education are much more likely to get a job in pay class of their skill set right after school. But development options are limited.
msgshit.com - interesting domain name. Deliberate, it seems. 5pts. All your cached passwords are readable. They have to be to be used. Duh! Nobody caching their passwords should be surprised by that...