Most posts so far insist that certs are useless, well I would only say that you can lie about your professional experience (I have found this while interviewing people) but you can't lie about your certifications.
I really find hard to believe that in a constrained job market people are not find it useful to demonstrate they are keeping up to date with technology .
A lot of the posts above seem to be from programmers, and maybe on that field certain are non existent, but for DBAs, SysAdmins and in some areas of networking, more and more you won't get an interview if you don't have certs.
As for answering the question, it really depends what your field is. Checking jobs sites should make clear which ones are relevant to your personal circumstances.
Who is going to pay and organize that massive administrative burden?
You can't resolve social issues with your brain dead pseudo solutions.
The issue at hand is economical disparity: USians can pay cheap labour with their pocket change, and neither party really wants to abandon such fruitful economic interchange. It is only right wing posturing from people that actually don't appreciate the realities of economical interchange in the border that get infuriated about illegal immigration.
As long as this economic disparity is the prevailing situation, Mexicans and others will continue to risk their lives to try to improve themselves.
People are already dying in the crossing to the US, people already know that attempting to acquire the devalued US dream can be fatal, if you think your "solutions" will deter people with such determination I think your grasp of reality has been distorted by your cushioned existence.
The Mexican Constitution guarantees people free transit across the country, including migrating.
As long as you identify yourself the government can held you against your will inside the country unless they know you have a legal procedure pending that demands you are rooted.
United States: 87.3 people per square mile Mexico : 147 people per square mile United Kingdom: 663 people per square mile Germany: 610 people per square mile
(2008 estimate)
In other words, what you believe about the US population can't be taken seriously given your monumental ignorance on this matter.
Banks can do it. And they are not protecting rubbish movies, they protecting actual money.
Give a certificate to each user of Netflix, provide all the necessary APIs, any play operation needs to use the user certificates which would need to be authenticated against a Netflix mandated certificate authority.
The movies would be of course encrypted with the private key associated to the user, which remains under Netflix control. You lose your certificate (public key), no worries, Netflix issues a new one.
We are not talking magic people. All this can be done. OpenSSH can be done, go and get the source code. The concepts behind protecting copyright using GPLed software (the only license that ensures software remains available to all) are there, the bad choices of lock in technology (Silverlight) are evident. Now Netflix is betting their business model in whateer MS decides to do with Silverlight.
I was left uncountable times alone with my siblings (me being the oldest) from the age of 10.
Who were my evil parents?
A couple that had to break their backs working in order to see us through school and provide for us by means of their lowly paid jobs, one of them made a Masters degree on evening and weekend school, with the only purpose of getting a better paid job because it happened we were studying music, we were applying ourselves to it, and it was a bit expensive (my sister is now a professional musician, music kept my brother out of trouble, I can play one or two tunes and know more about Opera, the music genre, not the browser, that most of you will ever care to know).
We certainly had often an uncle caring for us, but it wasn't always possible, and neighbours around us had enough problems of their own so it was unlikely that they would agree to take care of us, as for paid childcare, go on , tell me that poor people can afford it so I can laugh in your face.
And why would they risk it? Simple: they knew us well and made a careful assessment of the risks and rewards.
Did anything happen to us? Yeah, one day we were watching a Japanese TV program, and it scared the shit out of us (Ultraman, old version, for some reason one of the monsters really sacred the heck out of us:-) ).
It is a real shame that nowadays people in rich countries consider evil to allow parents to decide how they raise their children, and how people jump in the the "child abuse" bandwagon with such abandon, like in the case that generated this thread, in which there is not the slightest bit of evidence that the original poster is leaving children alone, bar for the panicky reading of one of the many "do gooders" that limit their dogooding to enraged typing after a biased interpretation of a post.
He didn't say the children were left alone, did it pass through your geeky head that it may be possible for one parent to take care of children while the other goes shopping, and that maybe the one left with the children can deal with them much more easily if they have something entertaining to do?
USians simply don't grasp the fact that, bar war zones, they live in some of the places with the highest homicide rates in the world.
The mental blockage to link phallic enthusiasm for guns and homicide rates eludes other wise reasonable pople (oh wait, half of you would vote for Sarah Palin if given a chance. Forget what I said)....
Freedom in the other hand is riskier, it implies you are a questioining individual and that there is a risk that ytour choice would lead to undesirable outcomes.
What do you prefer?
(and if you think this is an exageration, remember that Apple just patented a method to censor SMS messages....)
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Most posts so far insist that certs are useless, well I would only say that you can lie about your professional experience (I have found this while interviewing people) but you can't lie about your certifications.
I really find hard to believe that in a constrained job market people are not find it useful to demonstrate they are keeping up to date with technology .
A lot of the posts above seem to be from programmers, and maybe on that field certain are non existent, but for DBAs, SysAdmins and in some areas of networking, more and more you won't get an interview if you don't have certs.
As for answering the question, it really depends what your field is. Checking jobs sites should make clear which ones are relevant to your personal circumstances.
It is what book publishers do/
When was the last time you paid the RRP of a book?
Who is going to pay and organize that massive administrative burden?
You can't resolve social issues with your brain dead pseudo solutions.
The issue at hand is economical disparity: USians can pay cheap labour with their pocket change, and neither party really wants to abandon such fruitful economic interchange. It is only right wing posturing from people that actually don't appreciate the realities of economical interchange in the border that get infuriated about illegal immigration.
As long as this economic disparity is the prevailing situation, Mexicans and others will continue to risk their lives to try to improve themselves.
People are already dying in the crossing to the US, people already know that attempting to acquire the devalued US dream can be fatal, if you think your "solutions" will deter people with such determination I think your grasp of reality has been distorted by your cushioned existence.
Or you are wilfully ignorant.
Your pick.
The Mexican Constitution guarantees people free transit across the country, including migrating.
As long as you identify yourself the government can held you against your will inside the country unless they know you have a legal procedure pending that demands you are rooted.
From Wolphramalpha:
United States: 87.3 people per square mile
Mexico : 147 people per square mile
United Kingdom: 663 people per square mile
Germany: 610 people per square mile
(2008 estimate)
In other words, what you believe about the US population can't be taken seriously given your monumental ignorance on this matter.
Banks can do it. And they are not protecting rubbish movies, they protecting actual money.
Give a certificate to each user of Netflix, provide all the necessary APIs, any play operation needs to use the user certificates which would need to be authenticated against a Netflix mandated certificate authority.
The movies would be of course encrypted with the private key associated to the user, which remains under Netflix control. You lose your certificate (public key), no worries, Netflix issues a new one.
We are not talking magic people. All this can be done. OpenSSH can be done, go and get the source code. The concepts behind protecting copyright using GPLed software (the only license that ensures software remains available to all) are there, the bad choices of lock in technology (Silverlight) are evident. Now Netflix is betting their business model in whateer MS decides to do with Silverlight.
Dumb, dumb. dumb/
People that have faced a similar problem to yours or people selling you stuff trying to solve that same problem?
... answering his question?
I think the poster is grown up enough to figure what is best for his children.
I find all these "what about if you do this instead" postings patronizing on the extreme.
I would never submit children of mine to the savagery of fishing.
If they do it by themselves when they are adults, their choice.
And I love fish by the way, just saying that the idea of fun is not universal, so reading people commanding suggestions is frankly puzzling.
Leave that shitty harpsichord of yours and go out to play with your friends!
... would you give a piano to child?
What did you say? Mozart?
Uh, never mind.
I was left uncountable times alone with my siblings (me being the oldest) from the age of 10.
Who were my evil parents?
A couple that had to break their backs working in order to see us through school and provide for us by means of their lowly paid jobs, one of them made a Masters degree on evening and weekend school, with the only purpose of getting a better paid job because it happened we were studying music, we were applying ourselves to it, and it was a bit expensive (my sister is now a professional musician, music kept my brother out of trouble, I can play one or two tunes and know more about Opera, the music genre, not the browser, that most of you will ever care to know).
We certainly had often an uncle caring for us, but it wasn't always possible, and neighbours around us had enough problems of their own so it was unlikely that they would agree to take care of us, as for paid childcare, go on , tell me that poor people can afford it so I can laugh in your face.
And why would they risk it? Simple: they knew us well and made a careful assessment of the risks and rewards.
Did anything happen to us? Yeah, one day we were watching a Japanese TV program, and it scared the shit out of us (Ultraman, old version, for some reason one of the monsters really sacred the heck out of us :-) ).
It is a real shame that nowadays people in rich countries consider evil to allow parents to decide how they raise their children, and how people jump in the the "child abuse" bandwagon with such abandon, like in the case that generated this thread, in which there is not the slightest bit of evidence that the original poster is leaving children alone, bar for the panicky reading of one of the many "do gooders" that limit their dogooding to enraged typing after a biased interpretation of a post.
There are children that can't be disciplined.
Consider yourself lucky for having normal children.
He said *he* (or she) is freed up to go shopping.
He didn't say the children were left alone, did it pass through your geeky head that it may be possible for one parent to take care of children while the other goes shopping, and that maybe the one left with the children can deal with them much more easily if they have something entertaining to do?
Man on the middle attack: It can happen on an Intranet. This is why you need things like SSL.
.... that knows everything there is to know about technology.
No false modesty there, thanks goodness....
We are laughing our socks in disbelief.
You can not be serious.
USians simply don't grasp the fact that, bar war zones, they live in some of the places with the highest homicide rates in the world.
The mental blockage to link phallic enthusiasm for guns and homicide rates eludes other wise reasonable pople (oh wait, half of you would vote for Sarah Palin if given a chance. Forget what I said)....
A marriage made in heaven.....
If you need to ask most likely you would not care about them.
Mentioning on the same breath ZFS and Ext4 says it all about your expertise on this field really.
... when Apple locks the computers in exactly the same way as they do their portable devices?
How do you load applications for the iPhone from the internet without hacking it? (in the US this may be even illegal!).
... dissenters end in jail or dead.
They are supposed to report the issue, and then the politicians should have made as much noise as possible to embarrass the Iraqis.
They didn't do this because the top brass in Washington belived in the effectivness of criminal actions in order to supress their common enemies.
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He is just choosing to spend his money unwisely.
You wake up, you are told what to do.
You go back to sleep.
Freedom in the other hand is riskier, it implies you are a questioining individual and that there is a risk that ytour choice would lead to undesirable outcomes.
What do you prefer?
(and if you think this is an exageration, remember that Apple just patented a method to censor SMS messages....)