Since he's talking about shop guys it's likely it's tied to actual hardware where the emulation is not good enough to allow it to function properly. I've seen that problem all over the place in embedded Windows, heck I had a $40k Tecktronix scope that was brand new in 2001 that had Windows 95 on it. Since we were a DoD contractor we had to firewall the heck out of that thing and only allow it outgoing ftp access to a specific host from the lab to upload trace captures.
as students who are copying the slides from the screen are really not listening to the lecturer
Please, I beg you, since you say you are now teaching, take a class on learning modalities! There are MANY students for whom listening and transcribing is going to be a very positive way of reinforcing what they heard. Audio and Visual are not the only ways to learn. Heck in some classes I learned best by putting my head down and listening and then visualizing the concept, to an uninformed teacher or professor it might appear as though I was sleeping or ignoring their teaching and might be offended but the truly great teachers I had knew from my interaction with the class that I was thoroughly absorbing the material.
and give them more time to have individual or small group interactions
Great except that last thing that many professors at a large number of research schools want to do is interact with underclassmen. Heck, most of them don't want to deal with masters students, if you're not a phd candidate or a postdoc then you're not worth their time. I know this is a broad generalization but talking to many of my friends that went to top tier schools or large public research universities this was a common problem, it's one of the reasons I selected a school where the top degree was a MS, the professors there actually wanted to teach =)
Those roles serve at the pleasure of the President, he can and will fire them at any time if they do not conform to his ideals and leadership. They also must be approved by the Senate which is generally a formality but in periods of internal stress can become very difficult (see the current bickering over the office of consumer protection). The USA is not a pure Democracy, this is true, but it is also very intentional. The founding fathers were wise in seeing the folly in pure mob rule and built a system of Representative Democracy which it can easily be argued is superior to Direct Democracy. However there is one major problem as I see it and that is the ever expanding role of money and corporations in our political life. This is purely a modern phenomenon (the 1980 election between Carter and Reagan was funded through public dollars, it wasn't until 1984 during Reagan's reelection campaign that serious amounts of private money entered federal campaigns.)
Huh? Inflation rates of 3.25 × 10^6 percent per month is NOT my or anyone's idea of a nice place! There are definitely some systemic problems that need to be addressed, but none of them look so dire that anyone with a solid understanding of history is predicting that the USA is in any kind of immediate threat of collapse.
Huh? I used subs in my BASIC code before moving on to C (and then pre-standard c++ which at the time was a set of precompiler macros for c). I had no problem adjusting to OO languages like Eiffel and JAVA, if someone gets stuck in a rut of one structure it is their failing, not the first language they happened to learn.
Hmm, I went to a nice suburban school district with one of the largest high schools in the state, in fact 9 of the top 10 schools by size in Ohio are in solidly middle class (to upper middle class depending on definition) suburbs. Inner city schools tend to be smaller as they service a specific neighborhood with almost all of the students walking to school (at least when they were built).
The RQ170 is pretty damn big and it's a flying wing so lots of payload capacity. What it would do is lower range and or loitering time, but for a combat mission that's not such a big deal.
In the event of obvious jamming release HARM missile just like the manned jets do (though for a recon mission it would probably be return to base since setting off an international incident over a recon drone is stupid).
Hate to break it to you buy the Predator and first run Reaper drones have completely unencrypted communications links, the com links on later drones might actually be up to snuff but there's no guarantee of that since they aren't public. The drones with unencrypted communications are still in the field since they're too valuable to pull for an overhaul.
Money is fungible, just because they move it from account A to account B and say it doesn't effect your return doesn't mean it doesn't effect the tax (or currently borrowing) structure of the government. Of course even if every federal election was fully funded by the act it would still be less than a month in Iraq of Afghanistan.
We lost $4B in valuation because the global credit market disappeared and a REIT is all about the spread between their short term loans and their long term mortgages plus tenant mix management, oh and the bankruptcy of 3 large retailers due to the down economy didn't help.
Interesting idea, since businesses aren't covered by the do not call registry you'd be clear there, but you still might fall afoul of harassment laws if you repeatedly call the same party. Perhaps a better implementation might be to get a large list of inbound campaign (telemarketing not political) numbers and allow you to sign up to call those which you select from a list, if enough people do this it might drive down the profitability of such call centers. Personally since I almost never give out my home number and it's not listed in any phone book (VoIP provider) I basically never receive telemarketing calls except those from obviously fraudulant robo-dialers which are stupidly calling every number (real call campaigns have sophisticated data mining to maximize potential return per call placed).
Actually the do-not-call legislation only covers entities which "engage in any "telemarketing" or "telephone solicitation" activities, as defined by the FTC and FCC, respectively.
Heck it would have been lower but we needed 24 Citrix boxes just for our ad-hoc reporting tool (developing reports in JDE is too damn slow and expensive). Today it's closer to 360 but that's mostly because VM's have made is so much cheaper that we spin up multiple development environments on demand.
Cleaning folks have access to your datacenter? That's all kinds of fail. As far as the security company, probably but I also have motion activated IP cameras that aren't part of the security system so they'd be busted as soon as they entered the datacenter.
Uh, it's not hard to setup a PKI so that key retrieval takes two or more parties. Microsoft has this available one checkbox away in certificate services, and you can use a cert as the seed to SQL Server database encryption. Also every public company has third party auditors who go over the companies IT change management practices and audit systems to ensure compliance. Will I claim that this is 100% unbreakable? No, of course not but it certainly makes casual "because I can and I'm bored" snooping a lot less likely. As far as running across data during break/fix operations I don't think that's at all unexpected or in any way related to the article, that kind of disclosure is just a necessary evil and part of why everyone in military IT who works on classified systems has to have a TS rating.
Whatever, we were on the S&P 500 at the time (got removed after we went from ~$7B valuation to ~$3B). We are a REIT and so we have fairly small IT needs relative to the size of the company (peak of ~850 employees, and as I said $7B valuation with revenues of about a half billion a year). We have offices in 36 states and four countries but only have centralized IT operations at our HQ and our DR site.
My backup was my boss who was technically competent, so there was that, but it's not like I've never worked a job as a one man show. You buckle down and do what you have to and make it so things don't break just because you're not around (yes, this requires budget, but I've been fortunate enough that anyone willing to pay me what I'm worth is also willing to invest in a solid infrastructure).
Dude, for three years I was the sole server, network, and SAN guy for an S&P 500 company. If you can't handle a small e-commerce company with a handful of servers (we grew for 60 to 160 servers in those 3 years) then get out of IT. It took most of those 3 years to eradicate the poor work of my predecessor (hey, let's buy an $800 RAID card and then do Windows software RAID AND compression) but I eventually got there. It was a lot of work but I managed to keep it to 50 hours a week for most of that time
I'm actually running Media Portal on my HTPC using a Silicondust HDHomeRun Dual (my cable company made all basic channels available through clear QAM, otherwise I would need to spend a bit more on a HDHomeRun Prime and upgrade to win7 to get CabelCard support). I don't think I'd have cable any more if I had to go with a cable company provided PVR since it would lack comskip (automatically cuts commercials after the recording has ended).
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More like PDP11's, at least the reactor near me just moved off one a few years ago =)
Since he's talking about shop guys it's likely it's tied to actual hardware where the emulation is not good enough to allow it to function properly. I've seen that problem all over the place in embedded Windows, heck I had a $40k Tecktronix scope that was brand new in 2001 that had Windows 95 on it. Since we were a DoD contractor we had to firewall the heck out of that thing and only allow it outgoing ftp access to a specific host from the lab to upload trace captures.
as students who are copying the slides from the screen are really not listening to the lecturer
Please, I beg you, since you say you are now teaching, take a class on learning modalities! There are MANY students for whom listening and transcribing is going to be a very positive way of reinforcing what they heard. Audio and Visual are not the only ways to learn. Heck in some classes I learned best by putting my head down and listening and then visualizing the concept, to an uninformed teacher or professor it might appear as though I was sleeping or ignoring their teaching and might be offended but the truly great teachers I had knew from my interaction with the class that I was thoroughly absorbing the material.
and give them more time to have individual or small group interactions
Great except that last thing that many professors at a large number of research schools want to do is interact with underclassmen. Heck, most of them don't want to deal with masters students, if you're not a phd candidate or a postdoc then you're not worth their time. I know this is a broad generalization but talking to many of my friends that went to top tier schools or large public research universities this was a common problem, it's one of the reasons I selected a school where the top degree was a MS, the professors there actually wanted to teach =)
Those roles serve at the pleasure of the President, he can and will fire them at any time if they do not conform to his ideals and leadership. They also must be approved by the Senate which is generally a formality but in periods of internal stress can become very difficult (see the current bickering over the office of consumer protection). The USA is not a pure Democracy, this is true, but it is also very intentional. The founding fathers were wise in seeing the folly in pure mob rule and built a system of Representative Democracy which it can easily be argued is superior to Direct Democracy. However there is one major problem as I see it and that is the ever expanding role of money and corporations in our political life. This is purely a modern phenomenon (the 1980 election between Carter and Reagan was funded through public dollars, it wasn't until 1984 during Reagan's reelection campaign that serious amounts of private money entered federal campaigns.)
Huh? Inflation rates of 3.25 × 10^6 percent per month is NOT my or anyone's idea of a nice place! There are definitely some systemic problems that need to be addressed, but none of them look so dire that anyone with a solid understanding of history is predicting that the USA is in any kind of immediate threat of collapse.
Huh? I used subs in my BASIC code before moving on to C (and then pre-standard c++ which at the time was a set of precompiler macros for c). I had no problem adjusting to OO languages like Eiffel and JAVA, if someone gets stuck in a rut of one structure it is their failing, not the first language they happened to learn.
Hmm, I went to a nice suburban school district with one of the largest high schools in the state, in fact 9 of the top 10 schools by size in Ohio are in solidly middle class (to upper middle class depending on definition) suburbs. Inner city schools tend to be smaller as they service a specific neighborhood with almost all of the students walking to school (at least when they were built).
comskip, worth every penny I paid for the HTPC.
The RQ170 is pretty damn big and it's a flying wing so lots of payload capacity. What it would do is lower range and or loitering time, but for a combat mission that's not such a big deal.
In the event of obvious jamming release HARM missile just like the manned jets do (though for a recon mission it would probably be return to base since setting off an international incident over a recon drone is stupid).
Hate to break it to you buy the Predator and first run Reaper drones have completely unencrypted communications links, the com links on later drones might actually be up to snuff but there's no guarantee of that since they aren't public. The drones with unencrypted communications are still in the field since they're too valuable to pull for an overhaul.
Money is fungible, just because they move it from account A to account B and say it doesn't effect your return doesn't mean it doesn't effect the tax (or currently borrowing) structure of the government. Of course even if every federal election was fully funded by the act it would still be less than a month in Iraq of Afghanistan.
We lost $4B in valuation because the global credit market disappeared and a REIT is all about the spread between their short term loans and their long term mortgages plus tenant mix management, oh and the bankruptcy of 3 large retailers due to the down economy didn't help.
Not likely, political speech gets the broadest possible protection under the first amendment.
Political campaigns aren't funded by tax dollars (unless they agree to take only public funds which hasn't really been done since Carter vs Reagan).
Interesting idea, since businesses aren't covered by the do not call registry you'd be clear there, but you still might fall afoul of harassment laws if you repeatedly call the same party. Perhaps a better implementation might be to get a large list of inbound campaign (telemarketing not political) numbers and allow you to sign up to call those which you select from a list, if enough people do this it might drive down the profitability of such call centers. Personally since I almost never give out my home number and it's not listed in any phone book (VoIP provider) I basically never receive telemarketing calls except those from obviously fraudulant robo-dialers which are stupidly calling every number (real call campaigns have sophisticated data mining to maximize potential return per call placed).
Actually the do-not-call legislation only covers entities which "engage in any "telemarketing" or "telephone solicitation" activities, as defined by the FTC and FCC, respectively.
Heck it would have been lower but we needed 24 Citrix boxes just for our ad-hoc reporting tool (developing reports in JDE is too damn slow and expensive). Today it's closer to 360 but that's mostly because VM's have made is so much cheaper that we spin up multiple development environments on demand.
Cleaning folks have access to your datacenter? That's all kinds of fail. As far as the security company, probably but I also have motion activated IP cameras that aren't part of the security system so they'd be busted as soon as they entered the datacenter.
Uh, it's not hard to setup a PKI so that key retrieval takes two or more parties. Microsoft has this available one checkbox away in certificate services, and you can use a cert as the seed to SQL Server database encryption. Also every public company has third party auditors who go over the companies IT change management practices and audit systems to ensure compliance. Will I claim that this is 100% unbreakable? No, of course not but it certainly makes casual "because I can and I'm bored" snooping a lot less likely. As far as running across data during break/fix operations I don't think that's at all unexpected or in any way related to the article, that kind of disclosure is just a necessary evil and part of why everyone in military IT who works on classified systems has to have a TS rating.
Whatever, we were on the S&P 500 at the time (got removed after we went from ~$7B valuation to ~$3B). We are a REIT and so we have fairly small IT needs relative to the size of the company (peak of ~850 employees, and as I said $7B valuation with revenues of about a half billion a year). We have offices in 36 states and four countries but only have centralized IT operations at our HQ and our DR site.
My backup was my boss who was technically competent, so there was that, but it's not like I've never worked a job as a one man show. You buckle down and do what you have to and make it so things don't break just because you're not around (yes, this requires budget, but I've been fortunate enough that anyone willing to pay me what I'm worth is also willing to invest in a solid infrastructure).
Dude, for three years I was the sole server, network, and SAN guy for an S&P 500 company. If you can't handle a small e-commerce company with a handful of servers (we grew for 60 to 160 servers in those 3 years) then get out of IT. It took most of those 3 years to eradicate the poor work of my predecessor (hey, let's buy an $800 RAID card and then do Windows software RAID AND compression) but I eventually got there. It was a lot of work but I managed to keep it to 50 hours a week for most of that time
I'm actually running Media Portal on my HTPC using a Silicondust HDHomeRun Dual (my cable company made all basic channels available through clear QAM, otherwise I would need to spend a bit more on a HDHomeRun Prime and upgrade to win7 to get CabelCard support). I don't think I'd have cable any more if I had to go with a cable company provided PVR since it would lack comskip (automatically cuts commercials after the recording has ended).