Amen, Of course I've always had the opinion that maybe they should let us Comp Sci Students do a little work on the network there, particularly the Systems Integration emphasis people.
Sad to say but I think it's gotten to the point that you can get better instruction on running a network from the IS&T dept now. I really regret not choosing that major instead. But at the time it was introduced (about five years ago) the entry exam asked for knowledge of Word Perfect 5.1, I figured I was a bit more advanced than that and chose to stay with comp sci.
So now I've got to go to the IS&T dept if I want to learn about cisco routers.
Now can someone explain to me why I have such difficulty connecting to their wireless network while I'm on campus?
Umm probably because there isn't one. Oh there are a few access points that individual prof's have set up but nothing Campus wide or even in the Student Union building.
They intend to fix that deficency right after they arrange for ample parking(16,000+ students, only on campus housing for a couple hundred, and 7000 parking spaces.)
Well being a CS student at Weber, I had no knowledge of this except for the local newspaper.
However the discrepancy in the distances is due to the time frame. The newspaper The Standard Examiner www.standard.net reported that they reached the 72 mile distance last week. And that they would attempt a longer distance over the weekend. They were going to try for 90 miles but I guess they settled for 82.
Not really when you take the Great Salt lake into account. It's 150 miles long north to south so the distances reached is quite easy to achive. Even more so when they climb mountains.
True, I-70 from CO to it's end point in central Utah is very desolate. I haven't been along it for a couple years so I don't know how good the cell signal there is. However all the major carriers have full coverage along the I-80 and I-15 corridors.
And isn't that desolation just beautiful? Sometimes it's nice to be able to drive for an hour or more at high speed without passing a single Wal-Mart Superstore.
That insider trading FUD has been posted before. Now I'm no fan of SCO, the selling listed there does not equal dumping. Such small blocks of shares are how many high level executives make their real money. They are paid a couple hundred thou a year, and given hundreds of thousands of shares in options. Also note that the yahoo site has no information on purchases available. So we can't see how many shares these insiders may have been purchasing over the same listed two year period.
Selling a few thou shares does not equal dumping. When those sell totals start really climbing, and more importantly the when the total numbers of shares held by these people is being shoveled out the door, then you have dumping. I also noticed that while the insiders who have been selling have been making a tidy profit, Only one of the people selling is one of the big time holders. Overall, the people officially counted as insiders hold %45.83 of the stock, out of a total of 13.85 million shares that's about 6.3 million shares. When that number starts declining rapidly is when the dumping is occuring.
Oh and Darl has yet to exercise any of the 600,000 options granted him in 2002.
As to when they can sell, yes there are blackouts that the insiders have to observe. I know of companies where the executives are given a one month period each year in which to sell their shares. It was AOL back when I worked there. And every August I believe it was, the AOl haters would start crying Pump and Dump, because suddenly the executives would sell off huge blocks of shares, but it was merely the execs taking the only chance they got each year to sell and get the income those shares meant to them.
As an employee there were frequently blackouts of about a month or less where we could not trade.
Well as much as I hate to disagree with a fellow Jazz fan, I do. We are in a computerized world. Once they leave school most those kids are going to spend their careers working on and with computers.
Teach em young. And while we're at it utilize those computers to teach em well. Interaction with a Teacher is always gonna be needed, but so is interaction with a computer. The Purpose of a classroom is to create a learning environment where the students can learn, not just to interact with the teacher.
Limiting the presence of computers to labs is a bad idea.
When I was in high school, I had to have my father intervene with one of my english teachers as she insisted all writing be done during the one class hour a week we had in the Lab. I'll date myself by noting the Lab in question was Apple IIe's. I preferred to write at home during the rest of the week on my family's 286. Granted that was a while ago and my main reason for not wanting to use the Lab was the ancient (for 89)machines they had there. However, another part of my reason wass that I write best on my own time, not when racing the clock to finish before I have to leave for the next class. But I mentioned it to highlight the mindset that can develop with the once a week in the lab system.
On other topics HOW 'BOUT THEM JAZZ (if they can just start winning on the road now)
The goes for schools teaching basic whatever. Even the basics of comp programming don't require a computer when you are working in pseudocode. Computers aren't going to help anyone learn a foreign language, English, geography, biology, etc any better than a book. There is ONE place where they can help, but even then a decent graphing calculator can do it, and that is visualizing the behavior of functions in math and physics. Even then a pencil and paper might force you to understand it better.
I beg to differ. And I'll do it with the subjects you listed.
Foreign Language: The interactive language tools available today are immensly helpful. They have not only the instruction you can gain from any book, but also include audio and video clips that teach proper enunciation and usage of the language. Add to that the ability to utilize the interweb to access in Language news sites increases the students immersion in the usage of the language, as well as keeps the students and the teacher up to date with evolving lingo and slang within their target language.
English: I'll give you that, if anything the advent of IM, e-mail, and spell and grammar checking have harmed the ability of many to properly use or even spell the english language.
Geography: How could interactive geography software not improve the instruction? Granted not everybody learns the same way. However, whats more effective, looking at a line drawing of the outline of Iraq, or being able to click on various cities and landforms for interesting trivia about the land and people of that part of the world. And again add the influence of the internet and the ability to find resources about the countries or lands being studied, via the interweb.
Biology: It's been a few years since I escaped the few biology classes I had to take at school so I'm not real familiar with teaching methods used in those subjects, but I can think of one. Rather than having to deal with half the students in his/her class getting sick at the thought of cutting open a dead frog, why not use a 3D animated frog that can be digitally cut up.
To this I'll add digital art classes, digital Photography classes, desktop publishing skills, Powerpoint skills, other Office app skills, music composition software, etc, etc, ete. As well as the numerous skills needed in the computer tech world.
Networking is beginning to enter the home, the parents who still have a hard time setting the time on the VCR/DVD combo are not too likely to want to figure out how to set up a home network, let alone make any attempt to secure it. Now there is something that needs to be taught in school, the importance of, and how to, secure a home computer or network from outside attacks.
The kids need the exposure, the problem is that more often than not, the teachers are learning the tools as they are trying to teach them. Add to this the usual lack of resources the education system faces. This last summer I help a friend of mine upgrade a couple of older computers she had scrounged up for her class room. She has several programs which she utilizes for instruction, but only had a couple machines the kids could use. So I added NIC's to the machines and installed bootleg win2k to them. They worked but I had to advise her to get the district to reinstall legal copies of the OS on them. I thought briefly about putting Linux on them but the programs she has are all windows and I haven't played with wine or the likes enough to be able to set that stuff up.
And to close, you stated that only a few students need the football field. Gee thats funny, I recall there being a couple required PE credits in school and a good part of each Semester was spent on the field or the track around it. Ture only 40 or so NEED the field on Friday nights, but all get to spend time on it during class.
Okay, your Urban legend site has him denying it in an article very similar to the one cited by previous posters in wired. My $0.02 is that snopes has missed this quote being appearantly false, and they don't miss much.
I think you and many people are missing the point of the Military looking at these. They are not looking at new ways of fighting in the desert (the tank reigns supreme there), or in the mountains (we have one division of infantry that trains specifically for that terrain), but rather in the Cities.
Urban Warfare always faces the potential of deteriorating into a nightmare tactical situation for our troops(ref. Black Hawk Down). Especially in these ancient world areas of the world, where if the infantry gets pinned down, we may not be able to get tanks or infantry carriers, or even Hummers to their position five miles into the warren of alley's barely wide enough for two mules to pass.
However if we could send a few squadrons of Segway-Soldiers(TM) into that warren, where the damage of, or destruction of said robots merely costs money rather than the lives of young soldiers(who btw are very expensive to train so it could very easily be cheaper as well).
What commander would not rather radio for more robots rather than contemplate all the telegrams he/she's gonna have to write.
Good Point, those shepards often require a firearm to protect their herds from two- and/or four-legged predators. Often the two-legged ones may be the so-called combatants the Segway-Soldiers(TM) are looking for. So our simple non-combatant herder has to carry a useable firearm to protect his life and livelyhood. And the most affordable and effective firearm is the said kalisnikov rifle with it's famous bannan clip.
This is the us military: they will make anything into a weapon.
Hmm... I don't recall seeing any training materials on how to utilize my Combat Lifesaver (CLS) bag as a weapon. And I've yet to see a laptop equipped with any kind of firearm.
On the other hand though, I would like to see how the segway's stabilization system would hold up to the recoil of a Ma Deuce.50 cal. "let alone deal with balancing the weight of one mounted in a way that left room for a passenger.
And as they are fumbling with buttons to reboot/reset the damn thing they crash into a telephone pole and take down the DSL connections in that neighboorhood.
NOOOO!!!! not the DSL connections. Thats it! Attention all Slashdotters start writing your congress critters immediately. Anything that puts broadband pipes at risk needs to be banned immediately.
Want proof? Here it is. Go to the linked article, (or click here) and where they have the box to check your server header (about half way down the page) type in www.microsoft.com - you will see its running IIS/6. A nice happy IIS server.
Hmm the link you posted seems to be slashdotted. So not only is their system biased, and broken, it's also weak and unable to standup to a simple slashdot attack.
Throw it all away. The 'it might come in handy one day' never happens
I beg to disagree, my packrat nature has allowed me to develop a reputation of always having just the odd gizmo, gaget, or widget to fix the problem or accomplish the task.
Personally, I just toss it in the corner and let it build up until either I move or someone forces me to clean it up. Either that or until it grows into a massive enough pile that it becomes subject to landslides(equipmentslides?) and finally has a massive enough slide that I am unable to escape and am crushed under a wall of thrown off geekdom.
Everyone can thank me. I told the fox network executives that my kid was dying and his last wish was to have another season of Family Guy.
So please, everybody forwards this post on to at least 10 friends. Fox is tracking this post and will donate one additional episode for every ten thousand forwards.
And what's up with Orrin Hatch? Why is this jackass always involved with things like this?
I don't understand this. Hatch was originally championing fair use and was on my "good guy" list on these issues. I have seen him go after Hillary Roisen (sp?) like an attack dog. What changed?
He writes music on the side and has released a couple CD's, so now he's a Recording star and sides with the industry. That and he's been in office tooooo long. I used to support him, and just hope that next time he's up for re-election the Republican party allows a decent opponent to run against him in the primaries.
(note: this is in Utah, where, with the exception of the occasional congressman, we don't allow them dirty democrats into office);p
spaceweather.com has an interesting service that will page you if there is an aurora in your locality. Check it out.
Yeah, but I tried signing up to it with my cell, but everytime there is one of these massive flares I never get the alerts, It's like the service has a hard time calling me during those events or something.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act makes this clearly illegal; if this were a 17-year-old instead of AOL, the FBI would be investigating.
Hmm did the editors bother to read the law they cited? It clearly states that in order for a computer to be protected under that law it has to be a US government computer with a protected status, or a system belonging to a financial service.
99.999% of AOLusers don't qualify under the very precise definitions given in the cited section of US code.
As to good Idea or not? Well remembering back to when I worked tech support for AOL, it probably is a good idea. As others have noted, many AOLusers not only don't know how to close weaknesses, many don't want to even know the weaknesses exist to be closed, or that there is a way to close them. They just want the annoying things to go away so they can get back to a/s/l checks in the chat rooms, or surfing their interweb.
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So being able to slow down time and reload a shotgun in less then a second is "realistic"?
I don't know about slowing down time, but If you have the shells placed in a handy location, reloading a single shot breakaction shotgun in less than a second is easy.
please take out provo then, or just leave them to defend themselves!
Well I keep hoping for a major accident at the Deseret Storage facility (where the chem weaps are stored) as the prevailing winds would tend to push the toxins into Happy Vally!
Note to any non-Utahs that read this: Happy Vally is a nickname for Utah vally where Provo is located.
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Actually it's just one call center in particular, the AOHELL call center. And yes, I did my time there.
Sad to say but I think it's gotten to the point that you can get better instruction on running a network from the IS&T dept now. I really regret not choosing that major instead. But at the time it was introduced (about five years ago) the entry exam asked for knowledge of Word Perfect 5.1, I figured I was a bit more advanced than that and chose to stay with comp sci.
So now I've got to go to the IS&T dept if I want to learn about cisco routers.
Umm probably because there isn't one. Oh there are a few access points that individual prof's have set up but nothing Campus wide or even in the Student Union building.
They intend to fix that deficency right after they arrange for ample parking(16,000+ students, only on campus housing for a couple hundred, and 7000 parking spaces.)
However the discrepancy in the distances is due to the time frame. The newspaper The Standard Examiner www.standard.net reported that they reached the 72 mile distance last week. And that they would attempt a longer distance over the weekend. They were going to try for 90 miles but I guess they settled for 82.
Not really when you take the Great Salt lake into account. It's 150 miles long north to south so the distances reached is quite easy to achive. Even more so when they climb mountains.
And isn't that desolation just beautiful? Sometimes it's nice to be able to drive for an hour or more at high speed without passing a single Wal-Mart Superstore.
Also note that the yahoo site has no information on purchases available. So we can't see how many shares these insiders may have been purchasing over the same listed two year period.
Selling a few thou shares does not equal dumping. When those sell totals start really climbing, and more importantly the when the total numbers of shares held by these people is being shoveled out the door, then you have dumping.
I also noticed that while the insiders who have been selling have been making a tidy profit, Only one of the people selling is one of the big time holders. Overall, the people officially counted as insiders hold %45.83 of the stock, out of a total of 13.85 million shares that's about 6.3 million shares. When that number starts declining rapidly is when the dumping is occuring.
Oh and Darl has yet to exercise any of the 600,000 options granted him in 2002.
As to when they can sell, yes there are blackouts that the insiders have to observe. I know of companies where the executives are given a one month period each year in which to sell their shares. It was AOL back when I worked there. And every August I believe it was, the AOl haters would start crying Pump and Dump, because suddenly the executives would sell off huge blocks of shares, but it was merely the execs taking the only chance they got each year to sell and get the income those shares meant to them.
As an employee there were frequently blackouts of about a month or less where we could not trade.
We are in a computerized world. Once they leave school most those kids are going to spend their careers working on and with computers. Teach em young.
And while we're at it utilize those computers to teach em well. Interaction with a Teacher is always gonna be needed, but so is interaction with a computer. The Purpose of a classroom is to create a learning environment where the students can learn, not just to interact with the teacher. Limiting the presence of computers to labs is a bad idea.
When I was in high school, I had to have my father intervene with one of my english teachers as she insisted all writing be done during the one class hour a week we had in the Lab. I'll date myself by noting the Lab in question was Apple IIe's. I preferred to write at home during the rest of the week on my family's 286. Granted that was a while ago and my main reason for not wanting to use the Lab was the ancient (for 89)machines they had there. However, another part of my reason wass that I write best on my own time, not when racing the clock to finish before I have to leave for the next class. But I mentioned it to highlight the mindset that can develop with the once a week in the lab system.
On other topics HOW 'BOUT THEM JAZZ (if they can just start winning on the road now)
Foreign Language: The interactive language tools available today are immensly helpful. They have not only the instruction you can gain from any book, but also include audio and video clips that teach proper enunciation and usage of the language. Add to that the ability to utilize the interweb to access in Language news sites increases the students immersion in the usage of the language, as well as keeps the students and the teacher up to date with evolving lingo and slang within their target language.
English: I'll give you that, if anything the advent of IM, e-mail, and spell and grammar checking have harmed the ability of many to properly use or even spell the english language.
Geography: How could interactive geography software not improve the instruction? Granted not everybody learns the same way. However, whats more effective, looking at a line drawing of the outline of Iraq, or being able to click on various cities and landforms for interesting trivia about the land and people of that part of the world. And again add the influence of the internet and the ability to find resources about the countries or lands being studied, via the interweb.
Biology: It's been a few years since I escaped the few biology classes I had to take at school so I'm not real familiar with teaching methods used in those subjects, but I can think of one. Rather than having to deal with half the students in his/her class getting sick at the thought of cutting open a dead frog, why not use a 3D animated frog that can be digitally cut up.
To this I'll add digital art classes, digital Photography classes, desktop publishing skills, Powerpoint skills, other Office app skills, music composition software, etc, etc, ete. As well as the numerous skills needed in the computer tech world.
Networking is beginning to enter the home, the parents who still have a hard time setting the time on the VCR/DVD combo are not too likely to want to figure out how to set up a home network, let alone make any attempt to secure it. Now there is something that needs to be taught in school, the importance of, and how to, secure a home computer or network from outside attacks.
The kids need the exposure, the problem is that more often than not, the teachers are learning the tools as they are trying to teach them. Add to this the usual lack of resources the education system faces. This last summer I help a friend of mine upgrade a couple of older computers she had scrounged up for her class room. She has several programs which she utilizes for instruction, but only had a couple machines the kids could use. So I added NIC's to the machines and installed bootleg win2k to them. They worked but I had to advise her to get the district to reinstall legal copies of the OS on them. I thought briefly about putting Linux on them but the programs she has are all windows and I haven't played with wine or the likes enough to be able to set that stuff up.
And to close, you stated that only a few students need the football field. Gee thats funny, I recall there being a couple required PE credits in school and a good part of each Semester was spent on the field or the track around it. Ture only 40 or so NEED the field on Friday nights, but all get to spend time on it during class.
Okay, your Urban legend site has him denying it in an article very similar to the one cited by previous posters in wired. My $0.02 is that snopes has missed this quote being appearantly false, and they don't miss much.
Urban Warfare always faces the potential of deteriorating into a nightmare tactical situation for our troops(ref. Black Hawk Down). Especially in these ancient world areas of the world, where if the infantry gets pinned down, we may not be able to get tanks or infantry carriers, or even Hummers to their position five miles into the warren of alley's barely wide enough for two mules to pass.
However if we could send a few squadrons of Segway-Soldiers(TM) into that warren, where the damage of, or destruction of said robots merely costs money rather than the lives of young soldiers(who btw are very expensive to train so it could very easily be cheaper as well).
What commander would not rather radio for more robots rather than contemplate all the telegrams he/she's gonna have to write.
Good Point, those shepards often require a firearm to protect their herds from two- and/or four-legged predators. Often the two-legged ones may be the so-called combatants the Segway-Soldiers(TM) are looking for. So our simple non-combatant herder has to carry a useable firearm to protect his life and livelyhood. And the most affordable and effective firearm is the said kalisnikov rifle with it's famous bannan clip.
On the other hand though, I would like to see how the segway's stabilization system would hold up to the recoil of a Ma Deuce .50 cal. "let alone deal with balancing the weight of one mounted in a way that left room for a passenger.
Personally, I just toss it in the corner and let it build up until either I move or someone forces me to clean it up. Either that or until it grows into a massive enough pile that it becomes subject to landslides(equipmentslides?) and finally has a massive enough slide that I am unable to escape and am crushed under a wall of thrown off geekdom.
(note: this is in Utah, where, with the exception of the occasional congressman, we don't allow them dirty democrats into office) ;p
Yeah, but I tried signing up to it with my cell, but everytime there is one of these massive flares I never get the alerts, It's like the service has a hard time calling me during those events or something.
99.999% of AOLusers don't qualify under the very precise definitions given in the cited section of US code.
As to good Idea or not? Well remembering back to when I worked tech support for AOL, it probably is a good idea. As others have noted, many AOLusers not only don't know how to close weaknesses, many don't want to even know the weaknesses exist to be closed, or that there is a way to close them. They just want the annoying things to go away so they can get back to a/s/l checks in the chat rooms, or surfing their interweb.
Amature, I lasted two and a half years at AOLhell before losing my job because I wouldn't sell long distance service at the end of my calls.
And I've got a psycho friend who started just a month after me (april 96) and is still there.
Note to any non-Utahs that read this: Happy Vally is a nickname for Utah vally where Provo is located.