introduce a recursive loop into an Ethernet network, on an unswitched segment, which resulted in (you guessed it) significant portions of an 18 building WAN/LAN system to simply go offline.
Is that a fancy way of saying that he plugged a hub into itself...?
WGU looks like a decent deal. How are they with the computer science fundamentals or are they just a code school?
The curriculum really looks like a glorified "code school", but at least they're affordably priced. For someone who just wants the bach to get past the HR filter, I imagine it could be decent, but I do worry if they're skimping on algorithms/design to focus on a certs based degree. I admit that for some, that's all that's necessary.
WGU is essentially a vocational school that is accredited to award bachelor's and master's degrees - which, as you say, is what many people need. Most of their IT degrees do not cover any computer science to speak of, and they don't pretend to. Their degrees are "Bachelor's of Science in Information Technology" with various concentrations - network administration, network design and management, security, etc.
WGU hasn't released the program guide for their new "software development" degree yet, but their current "Software concentration" degree is very light on theory, and contains several practical IT certifications. I expect the software development degree will be a variant of this.
You're just not going to get a strong "computer science" degree at a cheap online school. In my opinion this isn't much of an issue, since most IT career paths really just require a vocational education anyway. Most people don't really care about CS theory (and most don't really need to) - they just want skills that are applicable to a job.
Western Governor's University and Excelsior (both non-profit) are the best online options, especially if you want self-paced. They are both very cost-effective and regionally accredited. You should check out the details of the programs that each offers to see if they provide what you want. I know WGU's IT programs are very solid, but I'm not sure about their software development options. I know they just recently added a Software Development concentration option for a Bachelor's degree, but the program guide hasn't been posted yet so I'm not sure of the exact courses offered.
If you end up getting your bachelor's, Georgia Tech now offers their well-respected MS in CS degree online. The admissions requirements are stricter than the online-only schools, but not too onerous.
If you don't really want a degree, but would like some formal training, Stanford and MIT both have strong no-credit open course ware offerings - they also have paid-for online certificate programs.
unless the Uni was bluffing, none of them have gone behind my back to get the transcripts, either.
The University cannot release your records to anyone without your consent. You usually have to actually make the transcript request yourself, and tell the school to send it directly to your company's HR.
After a brief review, this (WGU) actually sounds very promising. Fully accredited, work at your own pace, cheap (~$3,000 per 6-month term), liberal acceptance of transfer credits, acceptance of industry standard certifications for degree credit, credit given for anything/everything you can test out of, and an interesting non-traditional, non-class-based program of study. I'm surprised I hadn't heard of this one before. Thanks.
I'm surprised how many people haven't heard of WGU. I hadn't heard of it until shortly before I enrolled there. Their marketing seems poor.
It's one of the few solutions that meet your criteria - since you can technically complete your degree in 6 months (depending on what you can get transferred in) for $3k - the kicker being that the school is regionally accredited.
I don't know why people keep blathering about this. There are a lot of options out there for the 'phone-only' phones.
A quick google search brings up a recent top-10 list which reveals several decent choices. A couple of exames are:
Samsung gusto 2 available for Verizon and Samsung Entro for Virgin Mobile.
A system like this would likely apply only to public institutions.
"going to a school you can actually afford" sounds simple enough, but is not an actual option for a large (and growing) portion of the population, considering there are actually no schools that we can afford.
You're using the wrong definition of "progressive" here.
You're thinking of the political ideology Progressivism.
The summary (I haven't read the article yet) seems to be referring to a tax mechanic called progressive taxation. Progressive taxation means that the higher income levels pay a higher proportion of the taxes (the theory being because they can afford to do so). This is how most modern tax systems work. An example of this would be income tax in the US.
This is the opposite of a "regressive tax", which has a disproportionate impact on the lower income levels. An example of this is a sales tax on necessities (food, clothing, gas, etc.). Regressive taxation is usually considered to be detrimental and in many cases untenable.
It's predominantly an online multiplayer game. LAN gaming is a very small segment of the SC2 player base. The dramatically vast majority of playtime on SC2 is in online multiplayer.
You can play single-player offline, as others have mentioned, but it's still DRM'd and you have to either crack it or activate it.
There are certainly gamers, such as yourself, that would like a completely non-DRM'd version, but the demand is very low.
They only list the schools that they can verify receive public funds. There are a very large number of religion-affiliated private schools who may or may not teach fringe ideas in their curriculum. Where I live there are a lot of very small schools that are affiliated with a specific church and teach whatever they want.
It sounds like you may have an undiagnosed learning disability.
Many of the big universities and colleges in the United States provide accommodations for students with learning disabilities, such as being allowed to take 2x regular time to finish exams and quizzes, as well as some kind of support regarding the doing of homework and studying. To obtain such accommodations, you would have to go to your institution's "learning disability center" (unfortunately, there is no standardized name for it), fill out some paperwork and get examined/tested to determine if indeed you do have a disability, and if so, what accommodations would be appropriate/fair to be given you. They will probably also be able to advise you on the kind of medial treatment you might need.
This is almost exactly what I was going to post. If you cannot memorize the multiplication tables (generally considered a trivial tasks for adults) then you have some more-or-less serious problem that is dramatically impacting you intellectually. The only modification to the above would be to perhaps see a physician first (start with a general practitioner). You could have any number of treatable conditions that might respond well to medication or behavioral modification. This is especially the case considering your history of what you describe as a "childhood sleep disorder".
This is not to say that you are any less "intelligent" or "smart" than your peers, so please do not take this the wrong way. Your potential could be very high, you just might need outside assistance to reach it.
The so-called "Battle of Athens" was not an armed insurrection against the US Government - it was an armed encounter vs. a, by all accounts, extremely corrupt local government whose activities seemed to mirror that of a small organized crime conglomerate.
There were no US government forces involved, nor was the national guard mobilized by the Governor of Tennessee.
Our government is telling us they can't afford basic shit like hospitals and education and welfare, but they can afford to pay dorks to play Xbox all fucking day.
The point you are trying to make - that we spend too much on military intelligence (some of which seems quite silly) is a good one. However, you are stating as a false dichotomy.
We aren't paying intelligence agents to play video games instead of paying for social services, because the budgets are not done with that level of granularity. The government (and, by extension, the voting public) has determined the priority of intelligence/military spending vs. social spending, and hashes out the budgets for these services at a very high level.
If we weren't paying agents to play WoW, we would be paying them to do something else.
I think Thomas Jefferson would shoot a legislator in the chest with a musket if he were here to see how modern police, lawyers, legislators, judges, and presidents are "interpreting" The US Constitution.
There were no "police" (as we currently understand the concept) in Jefferson's time. The current relationship between law enforcement, prosecution, and judges is the result of 200 years of societal evolution.
You don't have the right to walk home or take the bus or cab. There are laws about public intoxication.
You can generally only be picked up for public intoxication if you are inebriated to such an extent that you are endangering yourself or others, or causing some kind of disturbance. In the US, these laws are exclusively relegated to state and local jurisdictions, some states having no public intoxication laws on the books, leaving it completely to local jurisdiction.
Violent Anarchism was on the rise in the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries also. Most people don't realize that the US was in very real danger of popular anarchist and/or communist uprisings for a time. Many of the changes brought about (monetary policy, welfare state and other social spending) helped stave off the tide.
Your right to not be hit by a drunk driver does not remove the constitutional bar against unreasonable search and seizure by the government.
True, though it certainly seems to affect what "unreasonable" means - which is (unfortunately or fortunately, depending on your point of view) a rather subjective characterization in the first place.
Why do people flip out about these basic tenets of modern civilization?
Because the basic tenet of the US government was that it had a very limited, explicitly listed set of duties, and that in general it wasnt to be in the business of taking away basic freedoms.
How we go from that to the government deciding that my diet isnt acceptable, but theyll fix it for me, is beyond me.
I won't get into the history of the FDA and justify its scope and jurisdiction - you can read about it yourself.
Preventing people from putting toxic non-food items into food and then selling it as food is certainly a duty of the government. This isn't New York City trying to restrict the soda intake of it's population...
There are plenty of ways that we have allowed the government to encroach upon our freedoms, but this isn't one of them.
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No... there were a number of hubs involved, unswitched (not bridges), the loop was created when one hub in that group, was patched into another hub.
I see. Since all the hubs would be part of the same collision domain the effect would be virtually identical to plugging one of the hubs into itself.
One thing that boggles the mind - what year was this that an 18-building campus network still had MULTIPLE hubs??
introduce a recursive loop into an Ethernet network, on an unswitched segment, which resulted in (you guessed it) significant portions of an 18 building WAN/LAN system to simply go offline.
Is that a fancy way of saying that he plugged a hub into itself...?
WGU looks like a decent deal. How are they with the computer science fundamentals or are they just a code school?
The curriculum really looks like a glorified "code school", but at least they're affordably priced. For someone who just wants the bach to get past the HR filter, I imagine it could be decent, but I do worry if they're skimping on algorithms/design to focus on a certs based degree. I admit that for some, that's all that's necessary.
WGU is essentially a vocational school that is accredited to award bachelor's and master's degrees - which, as you say, is what many people need. Most of their IT degrees do not cover any computer science to speak of, and they don't pretend to. Their degrees are "Bachelor's of Science in Information Technology" with various concentrations - network administration, network design and management, security, etc.
WGU hasn't released the program guide for their new "software development" degree yet, but their current "Software concentration" degree is very light on theory, and contains several practical IT certifications. I expect the software development degree will be a variant of this.
You're just not going to get a strong "computer science" degree at a cheap online school. In my opinion this isn't much of an issue, since most IT career paths really just require a vocational education anyway. Most people don't really care about CS theory (and most don't really need to) - they just want skills that are applicable to a job.
Western Governor's University and Excelsior (both non-profit) are the best online options, especially if you want self-paced. They are both very cost-effective and regionally accredited. You should check out the details of the programs that each offers to see if they provide what you want. I know WGU's IT programs are very solid, but I'm not sure about their software development options. I know they just recently added a Software Development concentration option for a Bachelor's degree, but the program guide hasn't been posted yet so I'm not sure of the exact courses offered.
If you end up getting your bachelor's, Georgia Tech now offers their well-respected MS in CS degree online. The admissions requirements are stricter than the online-only schools, but not too onerous.
If you don't really want a degree, but would like some formal training, Stanford and MIT both have strong no-credit open course ware offerings - they also have paid-for online certificate programs.
unless the Uni was bluffing, none of them have gone behind my back to get the transcripts, either.
The University cannot release your records to anyone without your consent. You usually have to actually make the transcript request yourself, and tell the school to send it directly to your company's HR.
Looks like you've been lucky so far.
After a brief review, this (WGU) actually sounds very promising. Fully accredited, work at your own pace, cheap (~$3,000 per 6-month term), liberal acceptance of transfer credits, acceptance of industry standard certifications for degree credit, credit given for anything/everything you can test out of, and an interesting non-traditional, non-class-based program of study. I'm surprised I hadn't heard of this one before. Thanks.
I'm surprised how many people haven't heard of WGU. I hadn't heard of it until shortly before I enrolled there. Their marketing seems poor.
It's one of the few solutions that meet your criteria - since you can technically complete your degree in 6 months (depending on what you can get transferred in) for $3k - the kicker being that the school is regionally accredited.
I don't know why people keep blathering about this. There are a lot of options out there for the 'phone-only' phones.
A quick google search brings up a recent top-10 list which reveals several decent choices. A couple of exames are: Samsung gusto 2 available for Verizon and Samsung Entro for Virgin Mobile.
Basic amount that the poor need to live shouldn't be taxed. A flat tax in the middle and a decreasing tax on the higher end.
What you describe is progressive taxation.
The US has the unique advantage of being a place that not many people want to emigrate from.
A system like this would likely apply only to public institutions.
"going to a school you can actually afford" sounds simple enough, but is not an actual option for a large (and growing) portion of the population, considering there are actually no schools that we can afford.
You're using the wrong definition of "progressive" here. You're thinking of the political ideology Progressivism. The summary (I haven't read the article yet) seems to be referring to a tax mechanic called progressive taxation. Progressive taxation means that the higher income levels pay a higher proportion of the taxes (the theory being because they can afford to do so). This is how most modern tax systems work. An example of this would be income tax in the US.
This is the opposite of a "regressive tax", which has a disproportionate impact on the lower income levels. An example of this is a sales tax on necessities (food, clothing, gas, etc.). Regressive taxation is usually considered to be detrimental and in many cases untenable.
Just like in a physical gold-rush - sometimes it is better to just sell shovels.
It's predominantly an online multiplayer game. LAN gaming is a very small segment of the SC2 player base. The dramatically vast majority of playtime on SC2 is in online multiplayer.
You can play single-player offline, as others have mentioned, but it's still DRM'd and you have to either crack it or activate it.
There are certainly gamers, such as yourself, that would like a completely non-DRM'd version, but the demand is very low.
They only list the schools that they can verify receive public funds. There are a very large number of religion-affiliated private schools who may or may not teach fringe ideas in their curriculum. Where I live there are a lot of very small schools that are affiliated with a specific church and teach whatever they want.
It sounds like you may have an undiagnosed learning disability.
Many of the big universities and colleges in the United States provide accommodations for students with learning disabilities, such as being allowed to take 2x regular time to finish exams and quizzes, as well as some kind of support regarding the doing of homework and studying. To obtain such accommodations, you would have to go to your institution's "learning disability center" (unfortunately, there is no standardized name for it), fill out some paperwork and get examined/tested to determine if indeed you do have a disability, and if so, what accommodations would be appropriate/fair to be given you. They will probably also be able to advise you on the kind of medial treatment you might need.
This is almost exactly what I was going to post. If you cannot memorize the multiplication tables (generally considered a trivial tasks for adults) then you have some more-or-less serious problem that is dramatically impacting you intellectually. The only modification to the above would be to perhaps see a physician first (start with a general practitioner). You could have any number of treatable conditions that might respond well to medication or behavioral modification. This is especially the case considering your history of what you describe as a "childhood sleep disorder".
This is not to say that you are any less "intelligent" or "smart" than your peers, so please do not take this the wrong way. Your potential could be very high, you just might need outside assistance to reach it.
This guy is pretty radical. I would personally consider him a borderline nutjob, though perhaps that's too inflammatory.
He actually is/was under investigation by the FEC for some "large" donations made in response to a Native American casino bill that he introduced...
The so-called "Battle of Athens" was not an armed insurrection against the US Government - it was an armed encounter vs. a, by all accounts, extremely corrupt local government whose activities seemed to mirror that of a small organized crime conglomerate.
There were no US government forces involved, nor was the national guard mobilized by the Governor of Tennessee.
Our government is telling us they can't afford basic shit like hospitals and education and welfare, but they can afford to pay dorks to play Xbox all fucking day.
The point you are trying to make - that we spend too much on military intelligence (some of which seems quite silly) is a good one. However, you are stating as a false dichotomy.
We aren't paying intelligence agents to play video games instead of paying for social services, because the budgets are not done with that level of granularity. The government (and, by extension, the voting public) has determined the priority of intelligence/military spending vs. social spending, and hashes out the budgets for these services at a very high level.
If we weren't paying agents to play WoW, we would be paying them to do something else.
I think Thomas Jefferson would shoot a legislator in the chest with a musket if he were here to see how modern police, lawyers, legislators, judges, and presidents are "interpreting" The US Constitution.
There were no "police" (as we currently understand the concept) in Jefferson's time. The current relationship between law enforcement, prosecution, and judges is the result of 200 years of societal evolution.
You don't have the right to walk home or take the bus or cab. There are laws about public intoxication.
You can generally only be picked up for public intoxication if you are inebriated to such an extent that you are endangering yourself or others, or causing some kind of disturbance. In the US, these laws are exclusively relegated to state and local jurisdictions, some states having no public intoxication laws on the books, leaving it completely to local jurisdiction.
Some places make it technically illegal to be 'intoxicated' when in public places, but even where present this is rarely enforced. Texas does seem to have a dubiously broad criteria, and evidently has had some issues with it being abused to harass people.
Violent Anarchism was on the rise in the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries also. Most people don't realize that the US was in very real danger of popular anarchist and/or communist uprisings for a time. Many of the changes brought about (monetary policy, welfare state and other social spending) helped stave off the tide.
Religion is just another kind of politics, only you don't get to vote for the sky man or his "representatives".
Similar to most forms of politics pre-1990's, when nominal democracy became widespread.
Your right to not be hit by a drunk driver does not remove the constitutional bar against unreasonable search and seizure by the government.
True, though it certainly seems to affect what "unreasonable" means - which is (unfortunately or fortunately, depending on your point of view) a rather subjective characterization in the first place.
Why do people flip out about these basic tenets of modern civilization?
Because the basic tenet of the US government was that it had a very limited, explicitly listed set of duties, and that in general it wasnt to be in the business of taking away basic freedoms.
How we go from that to the government deciding that my diet isnt acceptable, but theyll fix it for me, is beyond me.
I won't get into the history of the FDA and justify its scope and jurisdiction - you can read about it yourself.
Preventing people from putting toxic non-food items into food and then selling it as food is certainly a duty of the government. This isn't New York City trying to restrict the soda intake of it's population...
There are plenty of ways that we have allowed the government to encroach upon our freedoms, but this isn't one of them.
Sounds like a fair compromise.
I guess this means neither of us will ever be elected to Congress, doesn't it?
Haha, I suspect you are right.