Do slashdot readers know of any similar programs in other places?
We have a similar program here. I believe its called MCSE. Basically people with NO tech skill whatsoever can finish the course in a few weeks - and are then qualified for a variety of jobs such as:
- Win2000 administrator
- Senior level IIS developer, microsoft
- Cable monkey
- Solitaire player
- Dancing girl for Steve Ballmer
Most CCNA's know just enough to get RIP running - and security in cisco manuals doesnt go much beyond passwords and locking your telco closet. They do publish more extensive book son the subject - for a price of course.
Im all for this - hopefully itll force companies to pay more for qualified network engineers. As it stands right now theyre paid 35k their first year out - thats pathetic for the amount of training required to put together large secure networks.
Sure you were unimpressed with the equipment and training you received . . . but YOU are not one that will benefit the most from computer use at an early age. A comp literacy class to a slashdotter = a Mr. Wizard episode to Steven Hawking.
But many of us aren't tech-priveleged. Imagine two teens from low income households without computers. One has had some basic office app experience from school, the other hasn't. The one with the small amount of experience isn't about to become a unix admin, but can at least comfortably type reports, do office work or become an MCSE:) . The other will flip burgers or drive the bus as a victim of the digital divide.
The governor of Maine made a point of making laptops available to ALL 7th graders, that means both the future/.'ers and the underpriveleged. Some will have fun with it and be bored while learning things they already know, while the others will gain critical experience that will put them ahead of children from other school districts.
I dont mean to be critical, but your dismay over the "inferiority" of your grade school comp classes is selfish. Try and look at it from the vantage point of an under-privelegd child.
but theyre more like little locusts or something ...
They apparently eat alot of crops and might attack animals. Its not like they'd start eating your house like termites. This sounds like the perfect place to start using some genetically engineered crops to poison the ants.
Hopefully, if the problem gets big enough and a succesful genetically engineered crop can be produced without people freaking out, it will help spur the acceptance of genetically engineered foods.
This nation (The U.S.) has been gearing up for internal problems for many years.
Hundreds of Presidential Executive Orders have been issued to allow emergency powers under any type of crisis - perceived or real. A Presidential Executive Order, whether Constitutional or not, becomes law simply by its publication in the Federal Registry, bypassing Congress completely. Here are just a few Executive Orders that would suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the simple stroke of a presidential pen:
PEO10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.
PEO10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media.
PEO10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.
PEO10998 allows the government to take control of all food sources and farms.
PEO11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.
PEO11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.
PEO11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.
PEO11003 allows the government to seize control of all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
PEO11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.
PEO11005 allows the government to take control of railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.
PEO11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.
PEO11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.
Without Congressional approval, the President now has the power to transfer whole populations to any part of the country, the power to suspend the Press and to enforce a national registration of all persons. The President, in essence, has dictatorial powers never provided to him under the Constitution. The President has the power to suspend the Bill of Rights in any real or perceived emergency. Unlike Lincoln or Roosevelt, these powers are not derived from any wartime need, but from *any* crisis-- domestic or foreign, hostile or economic.
Lucas has been quoted in interviews, most notably the interviews included in the last boxed set before special edition, as being serious about the interpretation of the force as a religion. It's an attractive and very pragmatic alternative to any conventional worship. Lucas's religion has two sides: Light which represents compassion and humanity, and Dark which represents Greed and avarice.
This system fits well with Aetheists like me because it gives the moral comfort of "good vs. evil" ethics without the need to believe in a "higher" being. It makes sense to skeptics that these forces exist, but in the minds and actions of men and not by the whim of a diety.
After Epsiode one this became even more attractive to Darwinists. We learned that the force (in Lucas's world) is caused not by the supernatural, but by a scientifically proven biological symbiosis with this little mitichlorian dudes. Truly a cool and fantastic idea. Now if only the religious right would let us genetically engineer some . . .
A bunch of clone clients have been trying to get hooks in for years to no constructive end because AOL actively tried to BLOCK other clients from connecting. If I remember correctly Jabber and MSN had it working for a while until AOL forced them out by altering the protocol. Most lately I believe they've been doing it with executable checksums. We might have figured out the protocol, but theyre just going to change it up again as soon as foreign clients start connecting in large numbers.
Some old coverage of this can be found at ZD. Theyve got a whole site called "InstantMess" that talks about how AOL refuses to discuss an open format because they want to lock users into their app.
Id love to see an open standard, but without AOL on board its useless. Its sad really - that the unwashed masses are dictating the standard for the rest of us.
The use of.htm by MS was to exactly the same end, if you save your work as.htm by default then netscape editor wont even think of opening your files because it doesnt really know what they are.
In short, MS was trying to bypass the association war by sneaking in a new extension and bypassing the fight altogether. Unfortunately Frontpage sucks, and they lost.
Anyway, an "index.htm" file usually never loaded by default as the folder root html doc.
Remember when Netscape and IE fought for.html and URL rights EVERY time you opened them?
RealPlayer, Winamp, Winzip, photoshop, even stupid ass AOL all do this . . .
Installation defaults of all these apps try and steal file extensinos away from programs. Its just a matter of knowing what boxes to uncheck during the installation. Ordinary users simply dont know what they're clicking through during an install.
Once a program gets a hold of an extension its almost impossible for a normal user to fix it. You cant expect users to know where to reassign file extension ownership (in the file association tab under folder options).
REALLY NICE VRML simulation of lifting
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Got this from the strana site -
Theres a really well done VRML simulation of how it was all done. Its really just a series of still environment snapshots from various stages of the salvage operation but someone took ALOT of time on it. Good job -
Maybe not on UNIX machines, where SNMP is generally turned off by default - but on Cisco devices where it is enabled by default with the common SNMP names . . .
SNMP on cisco devices is weak because of the default community string names (public, private and secret). To add to the situation, the secret string will allow you to bring interfaces up and down at will, all without a trace of intrusion in the logs. While the big guys like ATT and Wcom may fix these using default config files, may universities and smaller carriers dont even know it exists.
Rutgers University is all but OWNED by Coca-Cola corp. Whats funny is that we're a state sponsored institution but still are subjected to this kind of corporate sponsorship.
EVERYTHING here is Coke. All Dining Hall beverages are made by Coke (Barq's, Fruitopia, Minute Maid, POWERaDE, Sprite, Dasani water, Crush, Dr Pepper, and Schweppes). All vending Machines are Coke products. The university student centers are home to different franchises such as Wendys and Steak Escape, but only those who sell solely COKE as beverages are permitted to lease this space. The Coca-Cola logo adorns University clocks, Sports Uniforms, campus scoreboards and Student Orientation shirts. We are used as a testing ground for new Coke products like the ill-fated CITRA and such.
Finding a Pepsi here is like finding a copy of Debian in Redmond.
But for all the advertising blitz its not that bad. Coke almost directly sponsored our new University network. They keep tuition down to almost bearable levels. They get direct beverage reign over 40,000 caffiene hungry college kids and we get cheaper tuition. Im all for it!
Two hacker favorites -- USA Cable's Sci-Fi Channel, and UPN's hit show Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- would be perfect places to air the spot, said Aftab . . .
I can understand Sci-Fi but BUFFY??!! No discerning slashdotter watches Buffy unless its to see a LOTR trailer. Try Battlebots, Toonami or better yet - pay-per view porn.
Gonna have to agree - thats te ONLY toolbar Id EVER install. Lets you see the ratings of the page your on, search for similar crap - excellent marketting tool.
My friend Rob is organizing meetings to "get the word out about the importance of civil liberties, and start the process of producing some credible and even-minded articles and letters to be sent to local newspapers, TV stations, and community groups. "
If you're in the Baltimore area please help out with flameless, populous minded articles on the current threat to our civil rights. If you cant get there - email.
What happened on Tuesday was and is an atrociuos act. In our response to this incident we cannot wear away at what originally and even now makes this nation great - our personal freedom. Don't let that be destroyed.
I found these guys searching for modular robots a few months ago. The ideas behind their stuff are very similar if on a larger scale. The videos seem fake though. Anyone know anything more about them or have any insight into thier validity?
REUTERS: Second Penn debris site found
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A second debris site, 6 to 8 miles from the original crash site of the Somerset county plane has been found. This does not jive with what we know now.
The thinking now is that an A) explosive device went off on the plane or B) we shot it down. Dont be so horrified by this second possibility. Its better than it crashing into another populated building. Read the article. Its amazing.
Historically the U.S. reaction to this kind of attack is to counter strike. It's highly probably that it's already being planned or even carried on. That will solve nothing
It'll be a few less crazies to carry out these attacks, and maybe we'll take out a terrorist leader.
Im so close to NY I can see the smoke from our house. I had to call like crazy to make sure that two of my uncles in manhattan were still alive this morning.
I understand your point completely but its so very different when a catastrophe like this occurs in your backyard. Im just a techie but after this morning Id enlist in a heartbeat.
Worst article EVER . . . .
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This is easily the worst article Ive ever seen linked to on slashdot. It appears to have been written by a 15 year old. It discusses nothing but random theory and has almost no technical details.
Where's the info on anisotropic filtering? bump-mapping? If I wanted to be sbjected to this kind of tripe I'd read MSNBC or something.
If I was the one paying for the cost of archiving such a huge forum, I would definitely cut out the spam crap. I dont think future generations need to see ASCII art of a man's open asshole.
Show me an example of a/. editor deleting a valid or better yet contradictory comment and Im sure youd sway a few more voices to your cause.
Slashdot Mirror
Do slashdot readers know of any similar programs in other places?
We have a similar program here. I believe its called MCSE. Basically people with NO tech skill whatsoever can finish the course in a few weeks - and are then qualified for a variety of jobs such as:
- Win2000 administrator
- Senior level IIS developer, microsoft
- Cable monkey
- Solitaire player
- Dancing girl for Steve Ballmer
The NSA has been saying this for a while now.
CERT has been saying this for a while now
Most CCNA's know just enough to get RIP running - and security in cisco manuals doesnt go much beyond passwords and locking your telco closet. They do publish more extensive book son the subject - for a price of course.
Im all for this - hopefully itll force companies to pay more for qualified network engineers. As it stands right now theyre paid 35k their first year out - thats pathetic for the amount of training required to put together large secure networks.
Sure you were unimpressed with the equipment and training you received . . . but YOU are not one that will benefit the most from computer use at an early age. A comp literacy class to a slashdotter = a Mr. Wizard episode to Steven Hawking.
:) . The other will flip burgers or drive the bus as a victim of the digital divide.
/.'ers and the underpriveleged. Some will have fun with it and be bored while learning things they already know, while the others will gain critical experience that will put them ahead of children from other school districts.
But many of us aren't tech-priveleged. Imagine two teens from low income households without computers. One has had some basic office app experience from school, the other hasn't. The one with the small amount of experience isn't about to become a unix admin, but can at least comfortably type reports, do office work or become an MCSE
The governor of Maine made a point of making laptops available to ALL 7th graders, that means both the future
I dont mean to be critical, but your dismay over the "inferiority" of your grade school comp classes is selfish. Try and look at it from the vantage point of an under-privelegd child.
but theyre more like little locusts or something . ..
They apparently eat alot of crops and might attack animals. Its not like they'd start eating your house like termites. This sounds like the perfect place to start using some genetically engineered crops to poison the ants.
Hopefully, if the problem gets big enough and a succesful genetically engineered crop can be produced without people freaking out, it will help spur the acceptance of genetically engineered foods.
Taken from Here.
This nation (The U.S.) has been gearing up for internal problems for many years.
Hundreds of Presidential Executive Orders have been issued to allow emergency powers under any type of crisis - perceived or real. A Presidential Executive Order, whether Constitutional or not, becomes law simply by its publication in the Federal Registry, bypassing Congress completely. Here are just a few Executive Orders that would suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the simple stroke of a presidential pen:
PEO10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.
PEO10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media.
PEO10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.
PEO10998 allows the government to take control of all food sources and farms.
PEO11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.
PEO11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.
PEO11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.
PEO11003 allows the government to seize control of all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
PEO11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.
PEO11005 allows the government to take control of railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.
PEO11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.
PEO11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.
Without Congressional approval, the President now has the power to transfer whole populations to any part of the country, the power to suspend the Press and to enforce a national registration of all persons. The President, in essence, has dictatorial powers never provided to him under the Constitution. The President has the power to suspend the Bill of Rights in any real or perceived emergency. Unlike Lincoln or Roosevelt, these powers are not derived from any wartime need, but from *any* crisis-- domestic or foreign, hostile or economic.
Scary, huh?
An explanation of the lucas Light/Dark, compassion/Greed pseudo-religion can be found here
Lucas has been quoted in interviews, most notably the interviews included in the last boxed set before special edition, as being serious about the interpretation of the force as a religion. It's an attractive and very pragmatic alternative to any conventional worship. Lucas's religion has two sides: Light which represents compassion and humanity, and Dark which represents Greed and avarice.
This system fits well with Aetheists like me because it gives the moral comfort of "good vs. evil" ethics without the need to believe in a "higher" being. It makes sense to skeptics that these forces exist, but in the minds and actions of men and not by the whim of a diety.
After Epsiode one this became even more attractive to Darwinists. We learned that the force (in Lucas's world) is caused not by the supernatural, but by a scientifically proven biological symbiosis with this little mitichlorian dudes. Truly a cool and fantastic idea. Now if only the religious right would let us genetically engineer some . . .
I stand corrected. Sorry for the knee jerk post :(.
A bunch of clone clients have been trying to get hooks in for years to no constructive end because AOL actively tried to BLOCK other clients from connecting. If I remember correctly Jabber and MSN had it working for a while until AOL forced them out by altering the protocol. Most lately I believe they've been doing it with executable checksums. We might have figured out the protocol, but theyre just going to change it up again as soon as foreign clients start connecting in large numbers.
Some old coverage of this can be found at ZD. Theyve got a whole site called "InstantMess" that talks about how AOL refuses to discuss an open format because they want to lock users into their app.
Recently Trillian (www.trillian.cc) has succesfully done it. I think they got around it by using whatever method the JAVA aol clients (AIM express, Quickbuddy).
Id love to see an open standard, but without AOL on board its useless. Its sad really - that the unwashed masses are dictating the standard for the rest of us.
The use of .htm by MS was to exactly the same end, if you save your work as .htm by default then netscape editor wont even think of opening your files because it doesnt really know what they are.
In short, MS was trying to bypass the association war by sneaking in a new extension and bypassing the fight altogether. Unfortunately Frontpage sucks, and they lost.
Anyway, an "index.htm" file usually never loaded by default as the folder root html doc.
Remember when Netscape and IE fought for .html and URL rights EVERY time you opened them?
RealPlayer, Winamp, Winzip, photoshop, even stupid ass AOL all do this . . .
Installation defaults of all these apps try and steal file extensinos away from programs. Its just a matter of knowing what boxes to uncheck during the installation. Ordinary users simply dont know what they're clicking through during an install.
Once a program gets a hold of an extension its almost impossible for a normal user to fix it. You cant expect users to know where to reassign file extension ownership (in the file association tab under folder options).
Got this from the strana site -
h tml?eng
Theres a really well done VRML simulation of how it was all done. Its really just a series of still environment snapshots from various stages of the salvage operation but someone took ALOT of time on it. Good job -
http://www.parallelgraphics.com/vrml/kursk/index.
I usually dismiss VRML as crappy and slow but Im really impressed with this one.
Just a few cruise missles -
d er .attack/index.html
Heres what CNN has to say about it:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/07/gen.america.un
Maybe not on UNIX machines, where SNMP is generally turned off by default - but on Cisco devices where it is enabled by default with the common SNMP names . . .
SNMP on cisco devices is weak because of the default community string names (public, private and secret). To add to the situation, the secret string will allow you to bring interfaces up and down at will, all without a trace of intrusion in the logs. While the big guys like ATT and Wcom may fix these using default config files, may universities and smaller carriers dont even know it exists.
EVERYTHING here is Coke. All Dining Hall beverages are made by Coke (Barq's, Fruitopia, Minute Maid, POWERaDE, Sprite, Dasani water, Crush, Dr Pepper, and Schweppes). All vending Machines are Coke products. The university student centers are home to different franchises such as Wendys and Steak Escape, but only those who sell solely COKE as beverages are permitted to lease this space. The Coca-Cola logo adorns University clocks, Sports Uniforms, campus scoreboards and Student Orientation shirts. We are used as a testing ground for new Coke products like the ill-fated CITRA and such.
Finding a Pepsi here is like finding a copy of Debian in Redmond.
But for all the advertising blitz its not that bad. Coke almost directly sponsored our new University network. They keep tuition down to almost bearable levels. They get direct beverage reign over 40,000 caffiene hungry college kids and we get cheaper tuition. Im all for it!
Hoorah for advertising efficiency!
I can understand Sci-Fi but BUFFY??!! No discerning slashdotter watches Buffy unless its to see a LOTR trailer. Try Battlebots, Toonami or better yet - pay-per view porn.
Gonna have to agree - thats te ONLY toolbar Id EVER install. Lets you see the ratings of the page your on, search for similar crap - excellent marketting tool.
They arent as bad as they were this afternoon (theres at least one green time now), but check out the damage.
Internet Traffic Report
My friend Rob is organizing meetings to "get the word out about the importance of civil liberties, and start the process of producing some credible and even-minded articles and letters to be sent to local newspapers, TV stations, and community groups. "
If you're in the Baltimore area please help out with flameless, populous minded articles on the current threat to our civil rights. If you cant get there - email.
What happened on Tuesday was and is an atrociuos act. In our response to this incident we cannot wear away at what originally and even now makes this nation great - our personal freedom. Don't let that be destroyed.
I found these guys searching for modular robots a few months ago. The ideas behind their stuff are very similar if on a larger scale. The videos seem fake though. Anyone know anything more about them or have any insight into thier validity?
A second debris site, 6 to 8 miles from the original crash site of the Somerset county plane has been found. This does not jive with what we know now.
The thinking now is that an A) explosive device went off on the plane or B) we shot it down. Dont be so horrified by this second possibility. Its better than it crashing into another populated building. Read the article. Its amazing.
This just aired on FOX news here - Of special importance to the /. crowd. Check out the grayed out logo on top of the cab.
BTW its been over 30 hours since the attack and from my dorm at Rutgers I can still see the enormous grey haze when looking eastward.
CNN.com also cut out all advertising links. Good for them. It was much easier watching video without the obligatory commercials.
Shame on MSNBC though, they were running normal if nor greater amounts of ads then they usually do.
It'll be a few less crazies to carry out these attacks, and maybe we'll take out a terrorist leader.
Im so close to NY I can see the smoke from our house. I had to call like crazy to make sure that two of my uncles in manhattan were still alive this morning.
I understand your point completely but its so very different when a catastrophe like this occurs in your backyard. Im just a techie but after this morning Id enlist in a heartbeat.
This is easily the worst article Ive ever seen linked to on slashdot. It appears to have been written by a 15 year old. It discusses nothing but random theory and has almost no technical details.
Where's the info on anisotropic filtering? bump-mapping? If I wanted to be sbjected to this kind of tripe I'd read MSNBC or something.
If I was the one paying for the cost of archiving such a huge forum, I would definitely cut out the spam crap. I dont think future generations need to see ASCII art of a man's open asshole.
Show me an example of a /. editor deleting a valid or better yet contradictory comment and Im sure youd sway a few more voices to your cause.