The article states that one of the main reasons the system is being implemented is to deter identity theft. While it is a [financially] damaging crime, it is not very widespread. While it does injure someone's credit record, the SSA has a policy of providing new numbers to credit fraud/identity theft victims. So, who does this law most benefit? Banking corporations who issue credit cards.
Additionally, identity theft investigations are the responsibility of the Secret Service, due to their interstate nature. Is Colorado just trying to become more buddy-buddy with the SS? 'Remember their attitude toward servants...' - Illuminatus Trilogy.
Can they honestly not concoct a better excuse? Disturbing to consider the real motivations at work....
Don't teach them to program at all--teach them to solve problems. After you have a sensible solution strategy, expressing it in the syntax of a given programming language is trivial (boring) work.
Amen to that. What has repeatedly disgusted me about education in the US is the dependence on procedural modes of teaching. When I began learning HTML in 1996 I almost went out of my mind at the sheer amount of useless 'web secrets' sites that merely regurgitated secondhand 'do this...' information. I was fortunate enough to stumble upon zeldman.com, but years of procedural education prevented me from making the best use of his wonderful information.
As redundant as it sounds, most of us need to focus on learning how to learn. Are there any books on object oriented thinking?
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The article states that one of the main reasons the system is being implemented is to deter identity theft. While it is a [financially] damaging crime, it is not very widespread. While it does injure someone's credit record, the SSA has a policy of providing new numbers to credit fraud/identity theft victims. So, who does this law most benefit? Banking corporations who issue credit cards.
Additionally, identity theft investigations are the responsibility of the Secret Service, due to their interstate nature. Is Colorado just trying to become more buddy-buddy with the SS? 'Remember their attitude toward servants...' - Illuminatus Trilogy.
Can they honestly not concoct a better excuse? Disturbing to consider the real motivations at work....
Don't teach them to program at all--teach them to solve problems. After you have a sensible solution strategy, expressing it in the syntax of a given programming language is trivial (boring) work.
Amen to that. What has repeatedly disgusted me about education in the US is the dependence on procedural modes of teaching. When I began learning HTML in 1996 I almost went out of my mind at the sheer amount of useless 'web secrets' sites that merely regurgitated secondhand 'do this...' information. I was fortunate enough to stumble upon zeldman.com, but years of procedural education prevented me from making the best use of his wonderful information.
As redundant as it sounds, most of us need to focus on learning how to learn. Are there any books on object oriented thinking?
A Student of/for Life,
Ethan