Education in the U.S. is declining (over-populated class rooms, more drop-outs, little funding for more books, etc.). When I was in high-school, my focus was getting good grades, because my parents gave me benefits (money, less chores). I played shooter games from as far back as I can remember. I even played them with my father. It's a great way to release anger and stress in a non-harmful way. I've never had the urge to go shoot someone if they pissed me off. Why? Because I was educated to know better than that. Education is declining now, and with increasing violance and pressure in today's schools, kids just do not know better. They were not taught how to handle reality well. School isn't as important to more and more students these days.
Think about Japan. They are way more into video games than the U.S. They are very focused on getting an education and doing well in school, which causes a lot of stress. However, you don't see many statistics on students shooting things and blaming it on video games. They know better.. their society (schools, parents, peers) educate them.
U.S. society is becoming less civilized and more demoralized. If a student drops out of school, so what? They can still get a high-paying job and earn respect. Less education leads to more ignorance, which in turn breeds violence, hate, and all those unpleasant emotions. What is stopping them from killing people IRL instead of in an isolated-reality video game? Education.
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This is similiar to our wireless implementation. We keep wireless in a jailed environment and require them to authenticate to go anywhere. To reach any internal network resources, they must use some form of encryption (SSH, IPSec, SSL, etc) and that is enforced by the firewall. Access to public services, like websites, home email, or whatever doesn't need to be encrypted since it's the user's own risk and people could sniff that anywhere along the path anyway.
I hardly believe that this will lead to "the end of the space program". Many people have this misconception that NASA is mainly about manned space flight. It is not. It is just what gets the most media attention. NASA will continue to thrive in its research areas: nanotechnology, astrophysics, astrobioinformations/biology, computational fluid dynamics, distributed computing, and so on.
IMHO, I believe the problem lies within the environment created by males in the IT industry. For any female interested in IT, they soon realize that males tend to deal with other males. Even though I am a female in IT, I am highly disappointed with how I often get addressed as "Sir" or "Gentleman" when I receive email. I see it constantly in mailing lists as well. It's truly annonying. Men just assume their audience is male and it leaves females uncomfortable. In the work place, males manifest their dominance -- perhaps unconsciously.
Until men can create an environment where they put aside their prevalent demeanor, women are not going to be drawn into IT. I know this is not the case for all, but the majority sets the tone. When I think "IT", I see the stereotype middle-aged male in a suit. This is what needs to change. Whatever gave me that image (media?) is what other females see as well.
This is what happens when people do not want to pay the money for quality network engineers. If you're not willing to invest in your network, it ends up becoming a kludge. Education is the key. If your network engineers aren't knowledgable enough to solve a STP problem and have to rely on Cisco's TAC (many of which are just as unknowledgable), then you're walking on a thin line. I realize hospitals are low on money, but any mid-level engineer should have been able to solve this problem within a few hours.
I couldn't even begin to imagine how the accounting would work for that. The government doesn't MAKE money, they spend it. If every division has an allocated budget, who would get the money? That'd take a couple of years of budget talks alone.
It is truly not as simple as you make it seem. The government does not operate in the commercial capacity that you describe. My guess would be that the publisher or any other contractor involved would get all the profits; otherwise, it would cost more just figuring out how to account/distribute "profit" for a gov't agency.
I got a cheap telescope almost a decade ago. The first thing I pointed it at was the Moon. One night, I noticed a bright, shiny object on the surface that shined for awhile then faded away. I had always just considered that as the reflection of equipment left by us. Has anyone else seen it? It seems like a pretty simple way to show that "something" [man-made] is on the Moon.
The problem with a lot teenagers and some twenty year olds is their ego. From the post, I can tell that the poster thinks quite highly of his/herself. One could have twenty years of experience and do as well as someone who is a beginner in the field. Years don't define the quality of one's knowledge, nor do paper certifications. So to say one is qualified for a job merely based on years of experience (how much "experience" one gets out of those years is quite variable), and some multiple choice tests is rather ignorant. The poster gives the impression that he/she is a big-head who thinks he/she is better than those who have their college degree (and don't bloat their knowledge-level), but truly is on the level of someone who just got out of high school and has no understanding of what a decent IT job requires.
I rarely use cash as it is. Groceries, gas, shopping, restaurants, movies, laundry, and so on are all paid via debit card. $20 lasts me a couple of weeks with my cash only going towards places that do not accept debit (fast food, Jamba Juice, Ben & Jerry's). If these smaller establishments could accept plastic, then I would be cash-less. It's a lot easier to swipe a card and enter a pin number than to pull out cash, count it, and put change back in your purse or wallet.
As the developer of this system, I would like to add a few points that the news articles didn't make clear, or mis-stated. The reason why we have a wireless network is for conferences and visiting scientists. From the start, it was considered an external network to prevent access to sensitive data. Thus, we have to support any person walking in with any type of equipment (Macs, Windows, Linux, BSD, etc) without having them use any specialized software. This is all focused on how convenient it is for the person who walks in at 8 AM and has a presentation to do in 15 min. As long as they can figure out how to use DHCP and open up a web browser, nothing more needs done. So yes, we can do IPSec, VPN, and so on, but we also don't care as it's external to begin with. We simply do not want to become a "free ISP" like so many other companies are with their wireless.
This device is indeed quite "common sense"; it is supposed to be. We searched for a vendor that provided these services (user accounting/authentication, dynamic firewall, etc), but didn't find any, so we simply built it ourselves. It does the job for what we need it to do in our environment.
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Education in the U.S. is declining (over-populated class rooms, more drop-outs, little funding for more books, etc.). When I was in high-school, my focus was getting good grades, because my parents gave me benefits (money, less chores). I played shooter games from as far back as I can remember. I even played them with my father. It's a great way to release anger and stress in a non-harmful way. I've never had the urge to go shoot someone if they pissed me off. Why? Because I was educated to know better than that. Education is declining now, and with increasing violance and pressure in today's schools, kids just do not know better. They were not taught how to handle reality well. School isn't as important to more and more students these days.
Think about Japan. They are way more into video games than the U.S. They are very focused on getting an education and doing well in school, which causes a lot of stress. However, you don't see many statistics on students shooting things and blaming it on video games. They know better.. their society (schools, parents, peers) educate them.
U.S. society is becoming less civilized and more demoralized. If a student drops out of school, so what? They can still get a high-paying job and earn respect. Less education leads to more ignorance, which in turn breeds violence, hate, and all those unpleasant emotions. What is stopping them from killing people IRL instead of in an isolated-reality video game? Education.
This is similiar to our wireless implementation. We keep wireless in a jailed environment and require them to authenticate to go anywhere. To reach any internal network resources, they must use some form of encryption (SSH, IPSec, SSL, etc) and that is enforced by the firewall. Access to public services, like websites, home email, or whatever doesn't need to be encrypted since it's the user's own risk and people could sniff that anywhere along the path anyway.
The "hackers" just obviously found the Key of the Twilight!
"they clearly said that it was development of the sixth gen protocol that made the creation of lain possible."
Watch it again. It's the 7th generation of the protocol, not 6th. That's what makes it even more believable!
I don't see this being much of an impact on people getting spam until it's an international law.
I hardly believe that this will lead to "the end of the space program". Many people have this misconception that NASA is mainly about manned space flight. It is not. It is just what gets the most media attention. NASA will continue to thrive in its research areas: nanotechnology, astrophysics, astrobioinformations/biology, computational fluid dynamics, distributed computing, and so on.
IMHO, I believe the problem lies within the environment created by males in the IT industry. For any female interested in IT, they soon realize that males tend to deal with other males. Even though I am a female in IT, I am highly disappointed with how I often get addressed as "Sir" or "Gentleman" when I receive email. I see it constantly in mailing lists as well. It's truly annonying. Men just assume their audience is male and it leaves females uncomfortable. In the work place, males manifest their dominance -- perhaps unconsciously.
Until men can create an environment where they put aside their prevalent demeanor, women are not going to be drawn into IT. I know this is not the case for all, but the majority sets the tone. When I think "IT", I see the stereotype middle-aged male in a suit. This is what needs to change. Whatever gave me that image (media?) is what other females see as well.
This is what happens when people do not want to pay the money for quality network engineers. If you're not willing to invest in your network, it ends up becoming a kludge. Education is the key. If your network engineers aren't knowledgable enough to solve a STP problem and have to rely on Cisco's TAC (many of which are just as unknowledgable), then you're walking on a thin line. I realize hospitals are low on money, but any mid-level engineer should have been able to solve this problem within a few hours.
I couldn't even begin to imagine how the accounting would work for that. The government doesn't MAKE money, they spend it. If every division has an allocated budget, who would get the money? That'd take a couple of years of budget talks alone.
It is truly not as simple as you make it seem. The government does not operate in the commercial capacity that you describe. My guess would be that the publisher or any other contractor involved would get all the profits; otherwise, it would cost more just figuring out how to account/distribute "profit" for a gov't agency.
I got a cheap telescope almost a decade ago. The first thing I pointed it at was the Moon. One night, I noticed a bright, shiny object on the surface that shined for awhile then faded away. I had always just considered that as the reflection of equipment left by us. Has anyone else seen it? It seems like a pretty simple way to show that "something" [man-made] is on the Moon.
The problem with a lot teenagers and some twenty year olds is their ego. From the post, I can tell that the poster thinks quite highly of his/herself. One could have twenty years of experience and do as well as someone who is a beginner in the field. Years don't define the quality of one's knowledge, nor do paper certifications.
So to say one is qualified for a job merely based on years of experience (how much "experience" one gets out of those years is quite variable), and some multiple choice tests is rather ignorant. The poster gives the impression that he/she is a big-head who thinks he/she is better than those who have their college degree (and don't bloat their knowledge-level), but truly is on the level of someone who just got out of high school and has no understanding of what a decent IT job requires.
I rarely use cash as it is. Groceries, gas, shopping, restaurants, movies, laundry, and so on are all paid via debit card. $20 lasts me a couple of weeks with my cash only going towards places that do not accept debit (fast food, Jamba Juice, Ben & Jerry's). If these smaller establishments could accept plastic, then I would be cash-less. It's a lot easier to swipe a card and enter a pin number than to pull out cash, count it, and put change back in your purse or wallet.
As the developer of this system, I would like to add a few points that the news articles didn't make clear, or mis-stated. The reason why we have a wireless network is for conferences and visiting scientists. From the start, it was considered an external network to prevent access to sensitive data. Thus, we have to support any person walking in with any type of equipment (Macs, Windows, Linux, BSD, etc) without having them use any specialized software. This is all focused on how convenient it is for the person who walks in at 8 AM and has a presentation to do in 15 min. As long as they can figure out how to use DHCP and open up a web browser, nothing more needs done. So yes, we can do IPSec, VPN, and so on, but we also don't care as it's external to begin with. We simply do not want to become a "free ISP" like so many other companies are with their wireless.
This device is indeed quite "common sense"; it is supposed to be. We searched for a vendor that provided these services (user accounting/authentication, dynamic firewall, etc), but didn't find any, so we simply built it ourselves. It does the job for what we need it to do in our environment.
-Nichole
(NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division)