there has always been, and always will be, a "massive shortage" of qualified XYZ workers in any industry, according to the industry leaders. it doesnt matter if its welding or teaching or nursing or... especially, IT. they actually pay PR companies to go on tours and promote this idea. they pay ad agencies to say these things on tv and in newspapers.
even as they are laying off people and firing people, and even as they are bleeding money, and as their competitors are doing the same, they clamor for more free profits on the backs of the taxpayer - thats what education is in schemes like this - a way for huge corporations to pawn off their training budgets onto the backs of the people who pay for education - you and me.
schools are supposed to teach about learning. you can pick up the CS stuff pretty easily once you have studied, i dont know, music, geometry, math, etc. Microsoft doesnt want people to learn general skills or self sufficiency (theyd use linux), they want people to be forced to learn Excel shortcuts and how to do mail merge in Word and how Outlook calendars are the greatest thing ever. But thats not 'education', thats 'training' - which corporations that have billions of dollars of highly payed executive are supposed to hire a training department to train their employees for.
Nobody needs to learn how to swipe the windows 8 panel at age 5 - that panel will be gone by the time they are old enough to have a job anyways.
I don't know if you recall that 'bailout of 2008' but the Chinese Government is the only reason that the entire banking system didn't collapse. They own something like a trillion dollars worth of things like Treasury Bonds as well as Mortgage Securities.
According to Hank Paulson's book, Russia wanted to team up with China, call the debt, and make us go bankrupt and the banks die. China refused.
Partly because Hank Paulson, when he worked for Goldman Sachs, had spent several years in China getting to know the higher ups.
Now pull some bills out of your wallet. See the signature? Henry "Hank" Paulson. Treasury Secretary.
it was the same issue with 'winmodems' back in the 90s. yeah its shit, yeah its stupid, but its whats on sale at Best Buy and what teenagers have when they go to college and learn what "GCC" is.
this is why the banks are a perfect hacker target. they are full of arrogant, ignorant people whose main judgment on whether something is important or not, is what their buddies think. since their buddies are all bankers, they kind of have a myopic view of the world.
i used to work at a 'financial institution', and let me tell you, its running everything from DOS to WinNT to WinXP ---- everyone brings their cellphones and USB sticks and plugs them into their computers to charge, everyone visits any website that pops into their mind without thinking about security. machines are running all kinds of versions of IE, sometimes back to 6.0, often unpatched.
nobody understands even the basic principles of computer security - and despite the banks strong profits, it refuses to invest anything in training anyone. the bank branches are full of minimum wage employees who have something like 90% turnover for a year, and they have access to all of the vital systems. the apps where you can deposit checks now on your phone have been sent out - again, little or no discussion of security issues.
you get more training working for a call center cube farm for $10/hour than you do when you work at a bank moving around millions of dollars of negotiable instruments.
the real thing going on here is that since the banks watched themselves all get bailed out in 2008, why should they bother? the government will come bail them out again if they get in trouble. if there is a huge breach, it wont matter. if someone tries to bring up a HIPPAA style law from bank records, the banks will simply buy off congress and stop it.
The MIT name has a lot of 'brand', in industry, in academia, and even with some Congress People. If MIT could help start a movement to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to make it less draconian and Stalinistic, would it do it?
i have to say that something has been 'lost' in the new age.
the best original trek were about the human condition... I'm sure you can name some of your favorite episodes that leap to mind... but for me it is TOS like the Menagerie, or TNG like "The Inner Light" (where he plays the flute on) or the one about Enkidu and Gilgamesh.
When Spock dies in Wrath of Khan, tell me you didn't cry... now tell me even one memorably emotional scene from anything after Generations
The new stuff is fine.. but its... where is the heart? Maybe I'm just old but...
if you are studying some awful disease, like smallpox, most people do not have a problem with purposely starving a mouse.
if you are just doing it to measure fractals, a lot of people do have a problem with it... even meat eaters.
"oh but we need basic research and that justifies it because it might save someone some day" -- yeah no it doesnt, unless you have some examples. because i can give you thousands and thousands of examples of where 'science' committed horrifying atrocities against human beings in the name of 'basic research' and used that same argument to justify it. thats the whole point - its not about 'save the animals', its about basic morality.
These many many decades ago I went to a "top 5 STEM school" and enrolled in Chemistry. While all of the students had Very Expensive Machines to play with, they also had No Time To Do Careful Work.
"Flubbing" of results was considered kind of, you know, ordinary, and if you didn't get what was expected, well, you were expected to just kind of ignore it.
People like to harsh on the 'soft' subjects like history... but I can assure you that many a history teacher would chew you up one side and down the other for saying things that are patently false and blatantly contradict the evidence - while many a Chemistry teacher would simply tell you "well, it should have worked. and you understand the basic ideas. so lets move on."
I'm not sure what the issue is - if it's just too expensive to do experiments, or maybe the point is not to learn 'experimenting' but rather to learn 'theories... with some hands on experimenting to give you a flavor of it"????
i remember the psych department at the university had an 'old computer' historical display set up in one of their windows. the 'motherboard' was just a bunch of slots you would fit wire-wrapped boards into. one was the cpu board, one was memory, whatever.
not to mention all of the "upgrade your PC" cards from the 1980s - put a 286 CPU-on-a-card into your 8088 "IBM XT", heck you could even put a PC card in your Mac.
im pretty sure 'industrial' users like Airplanes etc have had similar setups.
almost everything we see in consumer devices has been done before in some market, or at the NSA (the latter of which will not talk about it, but we know because of James Bamford)
Prometheus gave fire to man because he didn't want them to die out in nakedness, ignorance, and poverty
Zeus, the Big God, was angry so he pulled the whole Pandora's Box thing (also rendered as Pandora's Jar)... basically a trick to "stick it to"
Prometheus and/or Mankind. (aside from tying prometheus to a rock and having an eagle eat out his liver repeatedly for ever)
Now what did Zeus use to bind prometheus? He sent Violence itself. Not some guy who did violence --- violence itself.
if you made a phone call to sheboygan and you payed for it, thats interstate commerce. if you use the App Store, thats interstate commerce. should your brother have a Federal Case against him he guesses your password and installs a jokey screensaver? because thats what the law currently reads.
to be involved in hacking crimes - They arent involved in Murder crimes, they arent involved in child rape crimes, they arent involved in gang killings - unless those happen to cross state or international lines. the whole point of the constitution is that the states can take care of themselves most of the time - and the federal government often just messes things up and wastes peoples money. the Feds should be saved for the Important Stuff - like tracking Osama Bin Ladin.... fun fact, while dozens of FBI agents were chasing down the racist scaremonger stories about "Chinese Spies" in 1999, what was really happening was that the 9/11 hijackers were in the US learning to fly airplanes. - while the CIA's Bin Ladin unit was having political squabbles and the few people who were trying to warn about the hijackers were being sidelined.
Leah McGrath Goodman, a financial reporter, wrote a book about Nymex and the transition to electronic trading in the early 2000s. It's called "The Asylum" and verifies a lot of what you guys are saying.
Except that the regulators in the government are kind of... on the 'same team' . . . the head of the CFTC left and to work for the New York Mercantile Exchange. She documented the whole thing. Hell of a story.
there are many many thousands of products, universes, concepts, etc, even houses and buildings, that go 'idle' because their 'owners' dont want to mess with them.... whether individuals or corporations.
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all the women think you are a gay and all the men think they can meet you on the 'down low'.
there has always been, and always will be, a "massive shortage" of qualified XYZ workers in any industry, according to the industry leaders. it doesnt matter if its welding or teaching or nursing or... especially, IT. they actually pay PR companies to go on tours and promote this idea. they pay ad agencies to say these things on tv and in newspapers.
even as they are laying off people and firing people, and even as they are bleeding money, and as their competitors are doing the same, they clamor for more free profits on the backs of the taxpayer - thats what education is in schemes like this - a way for huge corporations to pawn off their training budgets onto the backs of the people who pay for education - you and me.
schools are supposed to teach about learning. you can pick up the CS stuff pretty easily once you have studied, i dont know, music, geometry, math, etc. Microsoft doesnt want people to learn general skills or self sufficiency (theyd use linux), they want people to be forced to learn Excel shortcuts and how to do mail merge in Word and how Outlook calendars are the greatest thing ever. But thats not 'education', thats 'training' - which corporations that have billions of dollars of highly payed executive are supposed to hire a training department to train their employees for.
Nobody needs to learn how to swipe the windows 8 panel at age 5 - that panel will be gone by the time they are old enough to have a job anyways.
I don't know if you recall that 'bailout of 2008' but the Chinese Government is the only reason that the entire banking system didn't collapse. They own something like a trillion dollars worth of things like Treasury Bonds as well as Mortgage Securities.
According to Hank Paulson's book, Russia wanted to team up with China, call the debt, and make us go bankrupt and the banks die. China refused.
Partly because Hank Paulson, when he worked for Goldman Sachs, had spent several years in China getting to know the higher ups.
Now pull some bills out of your wallet. See the signature? Henry "Hank" Paulson. Treasury Secretary.
it was the same issue with 'winmodems' back in the 90s. yeah its shit, yeah its stupid, but its whats on sale at Best Buy and what teenagers have when they go to college and learn what "GCC" is.
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this is why the banks are a perfect hacker target. they are full of arrogant, ignorant people whose main judgment on whether something is important or not, is what their buddies think. since their buddies are all bankers, they kind of have a myopic view of the world.
i used to work at a 'financial institution', and let me tell you, its running everything from DOS to WinNT to WinXP ---- everyone brings their cellphones and USB sticks and plugs them into their computers to charge, everyone visits any website that pops into their mind without thinking about security. machines are running all kinds of versions of IE, sometimes back to 6.0, often unpatched.
nobody understands even the basic principles of computer security - and despite the banks strong profits, it refuses to invest anything in training anyone. the bank branches are full of minimum wage employees who have something like 90% turnover for a year, and they have access to all of the vital systems. the apps where you can deposit checks now on your phone have been sent out - again, little or no discussion of security issues.
you get more training working for a call center cube farm for $10/hour than you do when you work at a bank moving around millions of dollars of negotiable instruments.
the real thing going on here is that since the banks watched themselves all get bailed out in 2008, why should they bother? the government will come bail them out again if they get in trouble. if there is a huge breach, it wont matter. if someone tries to bring up a HIPPAA style law from bank records, the banks will simply buy off congress and stop it.
at least OSS darwin is. you can go try to download, install, and run the 'OSS Darwin' yourself and see what i mean.
The MIT name has a lot of 'brand', in industry, in academia, and even with some Congress People. If MIT could help start a movement to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to make it less draconian and Stalinistic, would it do it?
i have to say that something has been 'lost' in the new age.
the best original trek were about the human condition... I'm sure you can name some of your favorite episodes that leap to mind... but for me it is TOS like the Menagerie, or TNG like "The Inner Light" (where he plays the flute on) or the one about Enkidu and Gilgamesh.
When Spock dies in Wrath of Khan, tell me you didn't cry ... now tell me even one memorably emotional scene from anything after Generations
The new stuff is fine.. but its ... where is the heart? Maybe I'm just old but...
if you are studying some awful disease, like smallpox, most people do not have a problem with purposely starving a mouse.
if you are just doing it to measure fractals, a lot of people do have a problem with it... even meat eaters.
"oh but we need basic research and that justifies it because it might save someone some day" -- yeah no it doesnt, unless you have some examples. because i can give you thousands and thousands of examples of where 'science' committed horrifying atrocities against human beings in the name of 'basic research' and used that same argument to justify it. thats the whole point - its not about 'save the animals', its about basic morality.
macguffin device that blocks the magnetic fields
These many many decades ago I went to a "top 5 STEM school" and enrolled in Chemistry. While all of the students had Very Expensive Machines to play with, they also had No Time To Do Careful Work.
"Flubbing" of results was considered kind of, you know, ordinary, and if you didn't get what was expected, well, you were expected to just kind of ignore it.
People like to harsh on the 'soft' subjects like history ... but I can assure you that many a history teacher would chew you up one side and down the other for saying things that are patently false and blatantly contradict the evidence - while many a Chemistry teacher would simply tell you "well, it should have worked. and you understand the basic ideas. so lets move on."
I'm not sure what the issue is - if it's just too expensive to do experiments, or maybe the point is not to learn 'experimenting' but rather to learn 'theories... with some hands on experimenting to give you a flavor of it"????
i remember the psych department at the university had an 'old computer' historical display set up in one of their windows. the 'motherboard' was just a bunch of slots you would fit wire-wrapped boards into. one was the cpu board, one was memory, whatever.
not to mention all of the "upgrade your PC" cards from the 1980s - put a 286 CPU-on-a-card into your 8088 "IBM XT", heck you could even put a PC card in your Mac.
im pretty sure 'industrial' users like Airplanes etc have had similar setups.
almost everything we see in consumer devices has been done before in some market, or at the NSA (the latter of which will not talk about it, but we know because of James Bamford)
Prometheus gave fire to man because he didn't want them to die out in nakedness, ignorance, and poverty
Zeus, the Big God, was angry so he pulled the whole Pandora's Box thing (also rendered as Pandora's Jar)... basically a trick to "stick it to"
Prometheus and/or Mankind. (aside from tying prometheus to a rock and having an eagle eat out his liver repeatedly for ever)
Now what did Zeus use to bind prometheus? He sent Violence itself. Not some guy who did violence --- violence itself.
Apparently Zeus had his own technology....
we have been building airplanes for 100 years now, as a species. we should, by now, have figured out how to make ones that dont catch on fire.
is the only organization to succesfull shut down the power grid - and it did it with the help of the US government
most of the people in it kept their profits and many went on to work in the subprime mortgage industry.
if you made a phone call to sheboygan and you payed for it, thats interstate commerce. if you use the App Store, thats interstate commerce. should your brother have a Federal Case against him he guesses your password and installs a jokey screensaver? because thats what the law currently reads.
phone? is that really something that the Federal Government, with its Fourteen Trillion Dollars in Debt, really needs to be worried about?
no? then they are not financial institutions.
to be involved in hacking crimes - They arent involved in Murder crimes, they arent involved in child rape crimes, they arent involved in gang killings - unless those happen to cross state or international lines. the whole point of the constitution is that the states can take care of themselves most of the time - and the federal government often just messes things up and wastes peoples money. the Feds should be saved for the Important Stuff - like tracking Osama Bin Ladin.... fun fact, while dozens of FBI agents were chasing down the racist scaremonger stories about "Chinese Spies" in 1999, what was really happening was that the 9/11 hijackers were in the US learning to fly airplanes. - while the CIA's Bin Ladin unit was having political squabbles and the few people who were trying to warn about the hijackers were being sidelined.
Leah McGrath Goodman, a financial reporter, wrote a book about Nymex and the transition to electronic trading in the early 2000s. It's called "The Asylum" and verifies a lot of what you guys are saying.
Except that the regulators in the government are kind of... on the 'same team' . . . the head of the CFTC left and to work for the New York Mercantile Exchange. She documented the whole thing. Hell of a story.
there are many many thousands of products, universes, concepts, etc, even houses and buildings, that go 'idle' because their 'owners' dont want to mess with them.... whether individuals or corporations.
they would become our new 'masters of xyz universe'.
*shudder*
those 'taiwanese shit shops' are the same factories responsible for the innards of the macbook ibook itoilet idouche ietcetetc.