A scientific degree is the only avenue towards a professional career? I disagree. The world still needs accountants, journalists, linguists, novelists (and critics), poets, historians, etc... hell we even need a few business majors and lawyers.
I agree with the idea that americans should be better versed in at least a lay understanding of certain sciences, but a decent liberal arts education provides that for many people, assuming with a lifelong curiosity and willingness to read.
I get your point, but then again I'd imagine in most circumstances I could tell from the first line or two that I wasn't the intended recipient. An earlier poster mentioned ethics, and I'd like to think I'd do the right thing in this situation. I haven't received any email from this virus either, so it hasn't really come up for me.
I have a friend who was pissed off at his manager for hitting on a cute new female employee a couple years ago (my friend wanted to hit on her himself, but that isn't really the point of the story.) He wrote up a long-winded and vitrolic email criticising the manager professionally and personally, just venting and being silly, then promptly sent the email to me, another friend, and the manager! Total brain-fart. He promptly realized his mistake, walked over to the manager's desk and said "I accidentally sent you an email a minute ago. Sorry about that. Could you delete it?" Then watched while his manager deleted the email. He didn't get the manager to purge it from the trashcan (Outlook) though, and a week later he was fired.
The moral of the story? There are probably several... recheck addresses, make sure you are sending to the right person...use PGP...don't trust anything of a sensitive nature to the net...anyway I've babbled enough, back to work.
When the post-man accidentaly delivers mail addressed to your neighbor, do you read it? Not if you have any class. You deliver it to your neighbor yourself. In the instance of email, one might respond to the originating address and inform them their information has ended up on your system, but I don't think this is necessary. Just delete it.
you make several strong statements without mentioning any scientific studies and literature whatsoever. Your arguments may have merit, but lack of any citation seriously weakens them.
Smallworld's proprietary Magik is a smalltalk descendant language. Smallworld is a GIS vendor (geographic information systems) currently in vogue for the large scale modeling of gas, electric, telco, and other large scale networks. They've probably got 40% of the US market (more in europe) including some of the biggies like ComED, Niagara Mohawk, Level 3, etc... I'm no computer scientist, but I've been making a hell of a living for four years programming magik (smalltalk) as a consultant. And all this with a geography degree.
ps. the real world is modeled with maps.
This, from Reuters yesterday... perhaps the future value of peer to peer projects will have little to do with trading music.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010403/sc/health _cancer_dc_15.html
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A scientific degree is the only avenue towards a professional career? I disagree. The world still needs accountants, journalists, linguists, novelists (and critics), poets, historians, etc... hell we even need a few business majors and lawyers.
I agree with the idea that americans should be better versed in at least a lay understanding of certain sciences, but a decent liberal arts education provides that for many people, assuming with a lifelong curiosity and willingness to read.
I think Hemos took some of the earlier comments to heart...
I get your point, but then again I'd imagine in most circumstances I could tell from the first line or two that I wasn't the intended recipient. An earlier poster mentioned ethics, and I'd like to think I'd do the right thing in this situation. I haven't received any email from this virus either, so it hasn't really come up for me. I have a friend who was pissed off at his manager for hitting on a cute new female employee a couple years ago (my friend wanted to hit on her himself, but that isn't really the point of the story.) He wrote up a long-winded and vitrolic email criticising the manager professionally and personally, just venting and being silly, then promptly sent the email to me, another friend, and the manager! Total brain-fart. He promptly realized his mistake, walked over to the manager's desk and said "I accidentally sent you an email a minute ago. Sorry about that. Could you delete it?" Then watched while his manager deleted the email. He didn't get the manager to purge it from the trashcan (Outlook) though, and a week later he was fired. The moral of the story? There are probably several... recheck addresses, make sure you are sending to the right person...use PGP...don't trust anything of a sensitive nature to the net...anyway I've babbled enough, back to work.
When the post-man accidentaly delivers mail addressed to your neighbor, do you read it? Not if you have any class. You deliver it to your neighbor yourself. In the instance of email, one might respond to the originating address and inform them their information has ended up on your system, but I don't think this is necessary. Just delete it.
strange what is funny once gets stupid with repitition.
you make several strong statements without mentioning any scientific studies and literature whatsoever. Your arguments may have merit, but lack of any citation seriously weakens them.
Smallworld's proprietary Magik is a smalltalk descendant language. Smallworld is a GIS vendor (geographic information systems) currently in vogue for the large scale modeling of gas, electric, telco, and other large scale networks. They've probably got 40% of the US market (more in europe) including some of the biggies like ComED, Niagara Mohawk, Level 3, etc... I'm no computer scientist, but I've been making a hell of a living for four years programming magik (smalltalk) as a consultant. And all this with a geography degree. ps. the real world is modeled with maps.
This, from Reuters yesterday... perhaps the future value of peer to peer projects will have little to do with trading music. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010403/sc/health _cancer_dc_15.html