Are they claiming ownership over your past work or just protecting themselves from a future ip claim of yours if you reuse code you have already written while working there? Does the contract grant them ownership or just a perpetual non-exclusive right to use and distribute it?
I looked into RHCE recently and even signed up for one of their online classes to fill in my gaps and see what the material was. I am still fairly new to linux. I have played with RedHat and Suse at home and worked on a RH ES3 web server for a few months in my last job but there were a lot of basic things I had never had to learn before.
The online material for the beginnner bundle was $900 and I asked for a refund after going through about half of it in a week and realizing there was not even a full book's worth of information in 4 beginner level flash based classes.
This basically has turned me off the RHCE because the material in their online courses is supposed to be identical to their live classes and this was just terrible.
I think I will go for a vendor neutral cert now. I still think the RHCE is a tough and solid cert but their training material is definitely not worth it IMHO.
I recently passed my CCNP and am working on a CCSP of which I have passed the Secur exam which is the keystone test.
I have been taking Cisco academy courses now for a year either in the evenings or Saturday and the instructor there is probably one of the top network engineers in the country. Among other things he designed the National Guard's network. His advice is when choosing certs is don't waste time and money on the easy ones because they are worthless or soon will be. So the answer to which cert to go for in a particular subject area is "take the hardest one"
Basically what FOSS, particularly Linux means is the commoditization of software. No longer will the operating system cost nearly as much as the base model of the server itself. With FOSS, instead of paying out big bucks to a software company with huge margins you are going to pay for support. You can buy some support from the Linux distribution vendor. You can hire Linux support personnel or retrain your current support staff on Linux. And if you want your software customized its only a good contractor or in-house programmer away. The IT money will be spread around more in a way that benefits skilled IT workers over big software vendors.
A federal real property tax replacing an income tax would be extremely regressive. Wealthier people would simply divest of any excess real property they owned and were not renting out. Renters would find the tax passed onto them and middle-class homeowners would see most of the benefits of home ownership be taken away. For most people owning a home is their best and biggest overall longterm investment. In addition it would hurt the housing market a lot which although inflated in many regions, new construction of homes and buildings is a source of some of the best paying jobs for many people.
I think a federal property tax would be even more of a disaster than a federal sales tax that did not exclude food and clothing.
Seriously UPS does play football with the packages. They are inferior to Fedex in almost every way except price where they are usually just a tiny bit cheaper. UPS package pick up locations are staffed by the most idiotic and rude people I have ever had to deal with especially when compared to Fedex staff. For very small non-fragile items and large non-fragile non-time-sensitive items you are safe with UPS but anything fragile and lighter than 50 pounds will be used for sport. I have been outright told this by UPS employees.
Our constitution enshrines free speech absolutely with very few exceptions for slander/libel/death threats/yelling fire in a theatre etc.
Although I think the standard of living in the US is headed into a death spiral resulting in what Warren Buffet calls a debt-peonage society, I don't really see myself moving to Europe or Canada because even when I am slave to my credit card company I will still be able to complain about it.
IANAL but Harvard has something like SIXTY BILLION DOLLARS in its endowment. Those are some deep pockets. I am sure that in our litigious culture several of those 119 who are probably headed to Wharton and Yale anyways will consult a lawyer about this incident and I am sure at least one of them will think that they have a case that Harvard would prefer to settle rather than fight.
Harvard made the mistake of making this incident public and lying about what really happened.
If you think a lawyer would actually feel some obligation to their alma mater, I highly doubt it. And there are plenty of tough lawyers out there who did not go to Harvard and those are usually the kind individuals hire anyways.
My take is this. URL alterting is not hacking. This is akin to giving the online applicants each a key to their own room and then punishing them after someone told them that they could find their admissions letter in the closet and 119 of them decided to look.
Harvard and Applyweb messed up by not securing their site. They are embarrassed and have successfully put their PR departments out to spin the story and libel these applicants by accusing them of "hacking" which in todays media implies a criminal intrusion. IANAL but this intentional disparagement which Harvard knows is untrue, along with leaving their personal educational records out there, insecure, sounds like a lawsuit to me.
Harvard's decision to not accept or unaccept those 119 candidates has nothing to do with what they actually did. It has a lot to do with the view by admissions offices in every university that their admissions criteria and decision making process is secret and that we should submit every thing we have ever done in our lives for them to examine and judge in any way they choose without even so much as an explanation of the admissions decision in exchange for our $65 non-refundable fee.
Harvard is unadmitting these students because they found out some information about themselves, in their own file, that they had perfectly legal access to, that Harvard wanted to keep secret and it's service provider accidentally put out on the web.
As for ethics, not one University, especially the private ones have a leg to stand on. They mail out advertisements to students urging them to apply and implying they are 'what the school is looking for.' for no other reason than to increase the number of applicants and the included application fees. The private universities almost invariably reject the majority of transfer credits in order to charge exorbitant prices on repeated basic courses taught by unpaid/underpaid TA's. That is just the tip of the iceburg.
No way, An FOIA request would have resulted in them locking it all down and crying "national security". I bet half of that list is just stuff like government contract managers asking if someone can tap their ex-girlfriend's cell phone.
That is what I am saying as well. Universities were never meant to be just another stop on the road. They were meant to be for research and teaching the edge of whats known by professors who are among those few who understand the material well enough to explain it.
That is not what college is today. Its basically everything you should have studied in highschool but were never offered a choice. And for those of us who actually learned some of those things in highschool we are stuck taking classes that are supposedly college level but are really just filler so they can justify us being there for 4 or 5 years. Part of the problem is the ever shrinking part of the college curriculumn that consists of electives. The more required (usually more difficult and boring) classes added to the degree programs the longer it will take to graduate. Taking 12 credits and a fun elective for 15 or 16 credits is a lot different than taking 16 credits of boring, core degree requirements. I got screwed because I transfered into a school that requires you take all your general core classes from them and they are actually easier and worse than the classes I took at community college.
My only academic challenge since I transferred to a university was when I left last year to work and attend Cisco academy.
My younger brother will be in 9th grade next year and he had to fill in his form for his choice of electives. He couldn't decide. I knew what his problem was. He had never been offered a choice in his entire academic career. His peers couldn't decide either. The idea of choosing to take a class in something you might be interested in or curious about had never crossed their mind.
If I wanted to do that then I would probably just read a book. Very few subjects require formal instruction spread over a semester or a year or several years. Formal education was not created for the person who wants to learn it was created for the person who is to be made to learn.
A motivated individual could probably go through all basic math from arithmetic to algebra 2 and geometry in a couple of months a couple hours per day. Your basic average kid could do it. It has been done. As for writing and reading, I think people would read a lot more if they were not forced to read when they did not want to or were too young to appreciate it or did not like the book. Writing ability comes from having read a lot. If you read a lot you will be able to write. Schools mess that up too. Most people, including many highschool teachers could not compose an essay that would pass muster in a college freshman's composition course. The reason is that the school system teaches one completely nonsensical method of writing and then a year later they learn another rigid method they learn to hate and another and another until the thought of writing an essay or even a paragraph makes them cringe. College composition is simple. There is one rule, no errors allowed. You can write anything you want to as long as your commas and spelling are correct. You do not need to write a "five paragraph essay" or have a "topic sentence" or a "concluding paragraph" or any of that ridiculous crap that they taught me in school.
I am not a big fan of college. I am a senior and I really would rather be working. As far as I am concerned most colleges are a joke because they have been dumbed down by an administration that takes the educational mission of the school for granted and only cares about their job perks, their fundraising, and their obscene salaries. The students are mostly intellectually lazy people who have been trained to be that way by years of formal schooling and only see learning as a way to get the piece of paper so they can get a good job, so they can get money, so they can buy things.
Mostly, I pissed because I suffered through all that school and college was supposed to be my reward for actually being interested.
Oh yeah. Most people cheat at most colleges by the definition of cheating that I was taught. So to all those people who say getting the degree matters? What does a degree mean if the reality is that most people cheated to get it and it was more about handing over a hundred thousand dollars than actually learning or studying anything.
I built a shuttle SK43G (athlon XP) for my mom in July and it is a lot quieter than my mid-tower desktop and easily 20 times quieter than a powerful laptop. This despite that my midtower sits under the desk on carpet and her shuttle sits on her desk on glass. Except when it first turns on its almost silent. There is no AGP card in there though. Just 2 hard drives and cd burner.
Another class action lawsuit whereby the lawyer gets a third of everything plus expenses and we get a coupon or some vague opportunity to get a small fraction of the money we have been cheated out of. The RIAA was sued for price fixing and hence stealing about 500 million dollars. They only had to pay back about 40 million + another 40 million worth of CD's no one wanted to buy. If you factor in the tax deduction (approximately 35%) and their savings in warehouse space due to dumping a few million CD's they could not sell anyways they are basically out the cost of the plaintiffs legal fee.
Simple Legislation: Each person owns their data and any company that keeps that data is liable for its unauthorized disclosure to third parties for actual damages of x + 2x for punitive damages.
Along those lines a central IT agency in government would let the admins do what they have to do and they would not be penalized for making their superiors choose better passwords.
You could be right. I am usually the last person to suggest the government needs yet another agency but it seems that one of two things happens in government IT these days. The employee IT people don't keep up with new tech and the contractors take advantage of the way the govt handles money.
I keep thinking that if government agencies are really having such a hard time with security and also the typical failure of their large and expensive it projects they should centralize their IT into a department that will manage all the government IT stuff so as to allow the other agencies to get back to their main business. Kind of the way that computers can be made more secure by not letting the users administer them. If one agency managed all the purchasing, support, and development for the other agencies it might make things work better. As it stands only a handful of agencies seem to be able to handle technology. They would also be able to more easily hold accountable the large contractor corporations that seem to just milk the government on IT projects that never work.
Because restraining orders, especially in domestic violence/abuse cases are hard to enforce and often are violated with impunity. Especially in cases where the restraining order is due to child abuse and the mother keeps letting the sicko come back. This makes it very easy to prove the order was violated and deal with the perpetrator appropriately.
In the road tax thing, its a bad idea because its going to be used to monitor everyone and we have the right to our own lives without some clerk in the department of internal surveilance marking down what I order for lunch to prove my disloyalty.
IANAL but my understading is that unless the contract stipulates otherwise SBC paying the sculptor to make the bean and then giving it to the city means the city owns it, copyright and all. If its not owned by the public then I guess the city ought to start charging rent to the Artist and SBC for leaving their big pile of scrap metal on public land.
Either way, I fail to see how taking a photograph of a scultpure violates copyrights since its not the same kind of "expression". Taking a photograph of a photograph or a painting might be but a photograph of a scultpure that reflects whatever is around it is another original work IMHO.
Criminals will just use the best available encryption to cover their crimes. This kind of thing is only going to effect regular people and the casual criminal.
Most smart people spend the bulk of their school years bored out of their minds and unchallenged. When you get used to putting very little effort and still achieving an adequate result over a long time you forget how to turn on the effort when you need it. I find that I have suffered from this problem on occasion although not at work because I like my field but in academic settings I will occasionally get a class that requires more of me than I am used to and its very difficult to get my effort level up. I find I do not really have this problem in a working environment because I have the extra motivator of money whereas grades and gold stars just don't get me working.
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Are they claiming ownership over your past work or just protecting themselves from a future ip claim of yours if you reuse code you have already written while working there? Does the contract grant them ownership or just a perpetual non-exclusive right to use and distribute it?
I looked into RHCE recently and even signed up for one of their online classes to fill in my gaps and see what the material was. I am still fairly new to linux. I have played with RedHat and Suse at home and worked on a RH ES3 web server for a few months in my last job but there were a lot of basic things I had never had to learn before.
The online material for the beginnner bundle was $900 and I asked for a refund after going through about half of it in a week and realizing there was not even a full book's worth of information in 4 beginner level flash based classes.
This basically has turned me off the RHCE because the material in their online courses is supposed to be identical to their live classes and this was just terrible.
I think I will go for a vendor neutral cert now. I still think the RHCE is a tough and solid cert but their training material is definitely not worth it IMHO.
I recently passed my CCNP and am working on a CCSP of which I have passed the Secur exam which is the keystone test.
I have been taking Cisco academy courses now for a year either in the evenings or Saturday and the instructor there is probably one of the top network engineers in the country. Among other things he designed the National Guard's network. His advice is when choosing certs is don't waste time and money on the easy ones because they are worthless or soon will be. So the answer to which cert to go for in a particular subject area is "take the hardest one"
Basically what FOSS, particularly Linux means is the commoditization of software. No longer will the operating system cost nearly as much as the base model of the server itself. With FOSS, instead of paying out big bucks to a software company with huge margins you are going to pay for support. You can buy some support from the Linux distribution vendor. You can hire Linux support personnel or retrain your current support staff on Linux. And if you want your software customized its only a good contractor or in-house programmer away. The IT money will be spread around more in a way that benefits skilled IT workers over big software vendors.
A federal real property tax replacing an income tax would be extremely regressive. Wealthier people would simply divest of any excess real property they owned and were not renting out. Renters would find the tax passed onto them and middle-class homeowners would see most of the benefits of home ownership be taken away. For most people owning a home is their best and biggest overall longterm investment. In addition it would hurt the housing market a lot which although inflated in many regions, new construction of homes and buildings is a source of some of the best paying jobs for many people.
I think a federal property tax would be even more of a disaster than a federal sales tax that did not exclude food and clothing.
Seriously UPS does play football with the packages. They are inferior to Fedex in almost every way except price where they are usually just a tiny bit cheaper. UPS package pick up locations are staffed by the most idiotic and rude people I have ever had to deal with especially when compared to Fedex staff. For very small non-fragile items and large non-fragile non-time-sensitive items you are safe with UPS but anything fragile and lighter than 50 pounds will be used for sport. I have been outright told this by UPS employees.
Our constitution enshrines free speech absolutely with very few exceptions for slander/libel/death threats/yelling fire in a theatre etc.
Although I think the standard of living in the US is headed into a death spiral resulting in what Warren Buffet calls a debt-peonage society, I don't really see myself moving to Europe or Canada because even when I am slave to my credit card company I will still be able to complain about it.
IANAL but Harvard has something like SIXTY BILLION DOLLARS in its endowment. Those are some deep pockets. I am sure that in our litigious culture several of those 119 who are probably headed to Wharton and Yale anyways will consult a lawyer about this incident and I am sure at least one of them will think that they have a case that Harvard would prefer to settle rather than fight.
Harvard made the mistake of making this incident public and lying about what really happened.
If you think a lawyer would actually feel some obligation to their alma mater, I highly doubt it. And there are plenty of tough lawyers out there who did not go to Harvard and those are usually the kind individuals hire anyways.
My take is this. URL alterting is not hacking. This is akin to giving the online applicants each a key to their own room and then punishing them after someone told them that they could find their admissions letter in the closet and 119 of them decided to look.
Harvard and Applyweb messed up by not securing their site. They are embarrassed and have successfully put their PR departments out to spin the story and libel these applicants by accusing them of "hacking" which in todays media implies a criminal intrusion. IANAL but this intentional disparagement which Harvard knows is untrue, along with leaving their personal educational records out there, insecure, sounds like a lawsuit to me.
Harvard's decision to not accept or unaccept those 119 candidates has nothing to do with what they actually did. It has a lot to do with the view by admissions offices in every university that their admissions criteria and decision making process is secret and that we should submit every thing we have ever done in our lives for them to examine and judge in any way they choose without even so much as an explanation of the admissions decision in exchange for our $65 non-refundable fee.
Harvard is unadmitting these students because they found out some information about themselves, in their own file, that they had perfectly legal access to, that Harvard wanted to keep secret and it's service provider accidentally put out on the web.
As for ethics, not one University, especially the private ones have a leg to stand on. They mail out advertisements to students urging them to apply and implying they are 'what the school is looking for.' for no other reason than to increase the number of applicants and the included application fees. The private universities almost invariably reject the majority of transfer credits in order to charge exorbitant prices on repeated basic courses taught by unpaid/underpaid TA's. That is just the tip of the iceburg.
No way, An FOIA request would have resulted in them locking it all down and crying "national security". I bet half of that list is just stuff like government contract managers asking if someone can tap their ex-girlfriend's cell phone.
That is what I am saying as well. Universities were never meant to be just another stop on the road. They were meant to be for research and teaching the edge of whats known by professors who are among those few who understand the material well enough to explain it.
That is not what college is today. Its basically everything you should have studied in highschool but were never offered a choice. And for those of us who actually learned some of those things in highschool we are stuck taking classes that are supposedly college level but are really just filler so they can justify us being there for 4 or 5 years. Part of the problem is the ever shrinking part of the college curriculumn that consists of electives. The more required (usually more difficult and boring) classes added to the degree programs the longer it will take to graduate. Taking 12 credits and a fun elective for 15 or 16 credits is a lot different than taking 16 credits of boring, core degree requirements. I got screwed because I transfered into a school that requires you take all your general core classes from them and they are actually easier and worse than the classes I took at community college.
My only academic challenge since I transferred to a university was when I left last year to work and attend Cisco academy.
My younger brother will be in 9th grade next year and he had to fill in his form for his choice of electives. He couldn't decide. I knew what his problem was. He had never been offered a choice in his entire academic career. His peers couldn't decide either. The idea of choosing to take a class in something you might be interested in or curious about had never crossed their mind.
Learning for learning's sake?
If I wanted to do that then I would probably just read a book. Very few subjects require formal instruction spread over a semester or a year or several years. Formal education was not created for the person who wants to learn it was created for the person who is to be made to learn.
A motivated individual could probably go through all basic math from arithmetic to algebra 2 and geometry in a couple of months a couple hours per day. Your basic average kid could do it. It has been done. As for writing and reading, I think people would read a lot more if they were not forced to read when they did not want to or were too young to appreciate it or did not like the book. Writing ability comes from having read a lot. If you read a lot you will be able to write. Schools mess that up too. Most people, including many highschool teachers could not compose an essay that would pass muster in a college freshman's composition course. The reason is that the school system teaches one completely nonsensical method of writing and then a year later they learn another rigid method they learn to hate and another and another until the thought of writing an essay or even a paragraph makes them cringe. College composition is simple. There is one rule, no errors allowed. You can write anything you want to as long as your commas and spelling are correct. You do not need to write a "five paragraph essay" or have a "topic sentence" or a "concluding paragraph" or any of that ridiculous crap that they taught me in school.
I am not a big fan of college. I am a senior and I really would rather be working. As far as I am concerned most colleges are a joke because they have been dumbed down by an administration that takes the educational mission of the school for granted and only cares about their job perks, their fundraising, and their obscene salaries. The students are mostly intellectually lazy people who have been trained to be that way by years of formal schooling and only see learning as a way to get the piece of paper so they can get a good job, so they can get money, so they can buy things.
Mostly, I pissed because I suffered through all that school and college was supposed to be my reward for actually being interested.
Oh yeah. Most people cheat at most colleges by the definition of cheating that I was taught. So to all those people who say getting the degree matters? What does a degree mean if the reality is that most people cheated to get it and it was more about handing over a hundred thousand dollars than actually learning or studying anything.
I built a shuttle SK43G (athlon XP) for my mom in July and it is a lot quieter than my mid-tower desktop and easily 20 times quieter than a powerful laptop. This despite that my midtower sits under the desk on carpet and her shuttle sits on her desk on glass. Except when it first turns on its almost silent. There is no AGP card in there though. Just 2 hard drives and cd burner.
Another class action lawsuit whereby the lawyer gets a third of everything plus expenses and we get a coupon or some vague opportunity to get a small fraction of the money we have been cheated out of. The RIAA was sued for price fixing and hence stealing about 500 million dollars. They only had to pay back about 40 million + another 40 million worth of CD's no one wanted to buy. If you factor in the tax deduction (approximately 35%) and their savings in warehouse space due to dumping a few million CD's they could not sell anyways they are basically out the cost of the plaintiffs legal fee.
Simple Legislation: Each person owns their data and any company that keeps that data is liable for its unauthorized disclosure to third parties for actual damages of x + 2x for punitive damages.
Along those lines a central IT agency in government would let the admins do what they have to do and they would not be penalized for making their superiors choose better passwords.
You could be right. I am usually the last person to suggest the government needs yet another agency but it seems that one of two things happens in government IT these days. The employee IT people don't keep up with new tech and the contractors take advantage of the way the govt handles money.
I keep thinking that if government agencies are really having such a hard time with security and also the typical failure of their large and expensive it projects they should centralize their IT into a department that will manage all the government IT stuff so as to allow the other agencies to get back to their main business. Kind of the way that computers can be made more secure by not letting the users administer them. If one agency managed all the purchasing, support, and development for the other agencies it might make things work better. As it stands only a handful of agencies seem to be able to handle technology. They would also be able to more easily hold accountable the large contractor corporations that seem to just milk the government on IT projects that never work.
A prank done to annoy people results in a much greater sentence than a thousand petty crimes done for profit under a corporate banner.
He had reprogramed them to dial romanian sex chat numbers he would have been invited to join the Direct Marketing Association.
Because restraining orders, especially in domestic violence/abuse cases are hard to enforce and often are violated with impunity. Especially in cases where the restraining order is due to child abuse and the mother keeps letting the sicko come back. This makes it very easy to prove the order was violated and deal with the perpetrator appropriately.
In the road tax thing, its a bad idea because its going to be used to monitor everyone and we have the right to our own lives without some clerk in the department of internal surveilance marking down what I order for lunch to prove my disloyalty.
IANAL but my understading is that unless the contract stipulates otherwise SBC paying the sculptor to make the bean and then giving it to the city means the city owns it, copyright and all. If its not owned by the public then I guess the city ought to start charging rent to the Artist and SBC for leaving their big pile of scrap metal on public land.
Either way, I fail to see how taking a photograph of a scultpure violates copyrights since its not the same kind of "expression". Taking a photograph of a photograph or a painting might be but a photograph of a scultpure that reflects whatever is around it is another original work IMHO.
Oh yeah I went there. FP
Criminals will just use the best available encryption to cover their crimes. This kind of thing is only going to effect regular people and the casual criminal.
Most smart people spend the bulk of their school years bored out of their minds and unchallenged. When you get used to putting very little effort and still achieving an adequate result over a long time you forget how to turn on the effort when you need it. I find that I have suffered from this problem on occasion although not at work because I like my field but in academic settings I will occasionally get a class that requires more of me than I am used to and its very difficult to get my effort level up. I find I do not really have this problem in a working environment because I have the extra motivator of money whereas grades and gold stars just don't get me working.