The college time table does not work that well for people who are working
Not only that, for many people who are NOT from the United States of America, going to college often is an impossible dream.
The MOOC at least offer them a chance to try out.
Even the so-called high failure rate of the enrolled students shouldn't be alarming.
The MOCC enable MANY MORE a venue for them to better themselves - while some of them might fail, most of them will try and try and try again, just like that old choo-choo which kept on trying, until finally they reach their goal.
It really saddens me to see so many people see the world with the viewpoint of the FIRST WORLD while most of the world population are certainly not getting to enjoy the many conveniences / privileges the first world people get but never realize.
Of the untold numbers of spooks working in / for NSA, Ed Snowden is the only one who has the conscience and the courage to reveal the dastardly unconstitutional secrets of the NSA.
Thanks, Mr. Snowden, for what you have done for the country !
A series of servers produced by Dell, air-gapped Windows XP PCs and switches and routers produced by Cisco, Huawei and Juniper count among the huge list of computing devices compromised by the NSA
Somebody please help me here !
I can't believe that now Huawei works for the NSA.
Would they be interested in H-1B workers here in the US being sub-contracted to work at Fukushima?
You may like to snide at those who work under the H-1B visa as "illegals", but at the very least, they do not work for the mobs, unlike what is happening right now in Japan, the land of the Yakuza !
The entire thing is actually a reflection of the arrogance of those so-called "UNTOUCHABLES"
They do not need to face the voters once every x-number of years, nor they need to answer to anyone.
They are the bureaucrats, the non-elected bureaucrats that have grabbed hold of power through the back door method.
Even the TFA itself is full of shit.
If the net-surveillance scheme that has been exposed by Snowden is like giving the NSA (or any other spook organization) a blank check on what they do, we might as well stop catching murderers/rapers, and let them go on raping / murdering even more people, at will.
Sounds like something they'd do to placate "dumb money" angel investors
I do invest in startups and most of the angel investors that I know are not dumb.
That guy is running a publicity stunt.
Transparency can only work up to a point before jealousy creeps in.
There is no way to run an organization with 100% transparency - people will start comparing each others' workload (and/or contribution) with the salary figure.
The art of managing is an ART and it's a very delicate task.
Calling it "fraud" is a stretch. Saying "potentially endangered lives" is a wildly fanciful leap of hyperbole.
While I agree that what Dr. Han did was not "endangering lives", you gotta tell us what about the $19 million grant that he got because he falsified his test data ?
Dr. Han has cheated. No matter how high that guy has achieved in his academic study, he has failed something much more important than scholarly status - he does not have even one iota of moral cell in his body.
While it's true that both Dr. Hwang and Dr. Han are Koreans, not all Koreans are cheaters.
Similarly, not all non-Koreans are non-cheaters either.
But I sense something terribly wrong in the set-up at Iowa State U.
You see, Dr. Han's immediate superior is Dr. Michael Cho, and as the supervisor of Dr. Han, Dr. Cho has failed to keep a close eyes on the researches being carried out by his subordinates.
And while Dr. Han has had his wrist slightly slapped (only ban for 3 year). Dr. Cho, the boss, never was reprimanded for his own dereliction of duty.
... only because myself and other "older" relatives use Facebook
Sorry.
Not all the "older folks" use Facebook.
I for one, don't.
Yes, I do have a FB account. I signed on to FB when it was brand new (just like I sign on to/. when it was brand new) but I do not like what people do there --- they TELL EVERYBODY EVERYTHING ABOUT THEMSELVES.
I am not interested to know who eat what at where, nor interested to tell anyone what I do at what place in what time either.
I logged on to my FB account for 2 times since I signed on. Yes, exactly two times, and no more.
my guess is you haven't spent a lot of time around the far-right nut jobs.
As I have said, I have mixed with a lot of people from different groups, which includes people whom you described as "far-right nut jobs" and also those from the opposite side, those in the super-far-left-field that will accuse anybody who disagree with them with "hate speech" "hate thought" "hate-anything".
But I gotta tell ya, those "far-right nut jobs" are basically very patriotic Americans.
They truly LOVE America.
I came from China.
Back in China I never met with anyone that can match their patriotic for their own country as the patriotism of the "far-right nut jobs" for the United States of America.
I don't know what is scarier, selling guns to terrorists or the lunatic white people that already own them
As a naturalized American Citizen who is not a Christian nor a Muslim, and one who has been in the USA since the early 1970's, and one who has mixed with a lot of very different groups of folks, I can tell you one thing ---
The *MOST DANGEROUS GROUP OF PEOPLE* inside the United States of America are former Christians who have converted into Islam.
I have friends from the Middle Eastern countries (most of them have American citizenship). While most of them are Muslims, only a few amongst them are zealots.
Because I do mix well with the Muslims (I speak Arabic, btw) many of them introduced me to their "newly converts" (they want to convert me too, so they introduce the newly converts trying to convince me that converting into Islam is a *good thing*) and upon talking to those "newly converts" I can sense their zeals oozing out of very pore of their skin.
Some of the "newly converts" are so zealous that they actually praise those 19 terrorists who carried out the 9/11 WTC bombing as "martyrs"!!
You guys in America, especially those who never know Islam, do not know the danger in your own community.
Terrorism is irrelevant. Whether the programs work or not is irrelevant. All that matters is whether or not it's constitutional, and it's not.
I am an American and I do share your concern.
But I am a naturalized American, not one who was born inside the United States of America.
As a naturalized American, I get to see America from both outside in and inside out.
What I see right now is a very discouraging view.
It's not an "if", but a matter of "when" - The Constitution itself has been proved too cumbersome for the BIG BROTHER and sooner or later the Constitution itself will be ruled "ILLEGAL".
You may laugh at my prediction - but I came from a very repressive country and I have a first hand experience of living under BIG and very OPPRESSIVE BROTHER, and the only thing that has managed to stop the United States of America from falling into the abyss of TOTALITARIANISM is the Constitution.
Thus, the Constitution and the accompanying Bill of Rights have proven to be way too cumbersome and troublesome for the BIG BROTHER.
Today we still get to talk about NSA and what NSA has done because the Constitution is still legal - and that's one of the reason why the BIG BROTHER wants to do away with that document.
BIG BROTHER does not believe in "We, the People". They only believe in "WE, the Master".
But more to the point, have you ever seen any black people who work for the NSA?
Not only they have African Americans who work for NSA, they have set up a special web page for them, and have dedicated a special wall panel to commemorate their contribution, inside the NSA building.
But even more to the point - no matter what color of skin they have, - white, black, and all hues in between - those who work for NSA, if they continue to violate the Constitution of America, they are Traitors to the country !
Sort of: they use torrenting stats to work out what's popular and acquire licences to stream it.
Netflix, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and many others, are actively looking for fresh talents in the same pool as me.
Yes, I am constantly looking for talents.
But unlike them, I do not look for "A Players".
No matter if the "A" is of the academic or of "Type A personality", people do change, with time.
What I look for are the self-starters - and I have found plenty of self-starters, both from America and from elsewhere in the world.
What is ridiculous in this "talent race" is that those who are doing the hiring do not even have any idea what they are looking for.
It's so very easy to say "I look for 'A'" but often they end up with people who may have a pretty resume but ain't those who will do things ON THEIR OWN without being told to.
Even the startups that I invest in I look for self-starters.
People may have really cool ideas but if they are NOT of the self-start type, ideas will forever stay IDEAS, and will never become a reality.
I don't do much of this sort of thing anymore but there was a time when I tried to look inside every file on my computer, telnet to every host available just to learn everything I could about this wonderful new tool that had come into my grasp. I sometimes miss those days and that guy, but now I tire easily and kind of just want everything to work.
I do feel what you are feeling.
As we get older we get more easily tired. But that doesn't mean I will rest more just because I get tired.
On the contrary - I push myself harder simply because I get more easily tired.
Only by doing so I get things to even out - maybe I am not as fast and as sharp, in both physical sense and in mental state, but as I push myself harder, I will do more in the same 24 hours allocated to me every single day.
Why should I let the young uns having all the fun ?
Why should I let my scopes be idle just because I tell myself "oh, I'm tired now, I can test that thing tomorrow" ?
If I need to find out something, I don't waste time debating with myself whether I should do that thing or not - I just go ahead and do it.
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The college time table does not work that well for people who are working
Not only that, for many people who are NOT from the United States of America, going to college often is an impossible dream.
The MOOC at least offer them a chance to try out.
Even the so-called high failure rate of the enrolled students shouldn't be alarming.
The MOCC enable MANY MORE a venue for them to better themselves - while some of them might fail, most of them will try and try and try again, just like that old choo-choo which kept on trying, until finally they reach their goal.
It really saddens me to see so many people see the world with the viewpoint of the FIRST WORLD while most of the world population are certainly not getting to enjoy the many conveniences / privileges the first world people get but never realize.
and some that doesn't
You mean the sheer stupidity of the civil servants doesn't matter ??
What makes you think they could stop the NSA?
What makes you think they ever want to stop the NSA ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass
Apparently your hands are not placed down enough.
The REAL hands down winner:
http://beta.slashdot.org/
What are the corrupt power-mongering double-talking ghouls gonna do? "Oh yeah, we're the bad guy. Sue us" ?
They do not need to tell us.
We already know.
Edward Snowden is a shoe in.
Of the untold numbers of spooks working in / for NSA, Ed Snowden is the only one who has the conscience and the courage to reveal the dastardly unconstitutional secrets of the NSA.
Thanks, Mr. Snowden, for what you have done for the country !
A series of servers produced by Dell, air-gapped Windows XP PCs and switches and routers produced by Cisco, Huawei and Juniper count among the huge list of computing devices compromised by the NSA
Somebody please help me here !
I can't believe that now Huawei works for the NSA.
I just can't fucking believe it !!
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1286054/it-goes-without-saying-huawei-spies-china-says-ex-cia-chief?page=all
On the above link, ex CIA chief Michael Hayden claimed that Huawei spies for China !
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-08/huawei-labeled-cyberspying-threat-faces-u-s-phone-gear-lockout.html
On this link Huawei was lockout from the US market because, "ahem !", Huawei is a SPY DEVICE of the People Liberation Army of China !!
I am totally confused now !
Who the fuck Huawei is working for ?
The Chinese PLA or the American NSA ??
Would they be interested in H-1B workers here in the US being sub-contracted to work at Fukushima?
You may like to snide at those who work under the H-1B visa as "illegals", but at the very least, they do not work for the mobs, unlike what is happening right now in Japan, the land of the Yakuza !
Snowden's job was to incite outrage, soon after which the public would grow tired of outrage, settle down, and learn to get used to business as usual.
If you want to bend over and getting the shaft, hey, please do it privately.
I'd wager that there won't be too many people like you, happy to be "shagged" by NSA (or any other spooks)
Nobody will want to have anything to do with USA
It's not about USA per se.
The entire thing is actually a reflection of the arrogance of those so-called "UNTOUCHABLES"
They do not need to face the voters once every x-number of years, nor they need to answer to anyone.
They are the bureaucrats, the non-elected bureaucrats that have grabbed hold of power through the back door method.
Even the TFA itself is full of shit.
If the net-surveillance scheme that has been exposed by Snowden is like giving the NSA (or any other spook organization) a blank check on what they do, we might as well stop catching murderers/rapers, and let them go on raping / murdering even more people, at will.
Seriously, anyone thought about rescuing them using helicopters?
That has been thought of, and is being considered as the last resort.
The Chinese ice breaker, the Xue Long (Ice Dragon) has a chopper on board, and the vessel is only some 7KM away from the Russian vessel.
... Aurora Australis hasn't been reporting its location since Christmas day.
The latest reported location for that vessel was recorded at 2013-12-25 07:33:00 (UTC), while it was at the latitude/longitude of: -65.78115 / 109.8082, with speed and course of 13.8 kn / 4Â, according to http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:109.8082/centery:-65.78115/zoom:8/oldmmsi:503043000/olddate:lastknown
Sounds like something they'd do to placate "dumb money" angel investors
I do invest in startups and most of the angel investors that I know are not dumb.
That guy is running a publicity stunt.
Transparency can only work up to a point before jealousy creeps in.
There is no way to run an organization with 100% transparency - people will start comparing each others' workload (and/or contribution) with the salary figure.
The art of managing is an ART and it's a very delicate task.
Calling it "fraud" is a stretch. Saying "potentially endangered lives" is a wildly fanciful leap of hyperbole.
While I agree that what Dr. Han did was not "endangering lives", you gotta tell us what about the $19 million grant that he got because he falsified his test data ?
Dr. Han has cheated. No matter how high that guy has achieved in his academic study, he has failed something much more important than scholarly status - he does not have even one iota of moral cell in his body.
But "Han Dong Pyou" is not a Chinese.
Chinese names do not have any spelling that even approaching "pyou".
I am a Chinese, I know.
BTW, I never cheat in my study. I don't have to.
Dr. Dong-Pyou Han is a Korean.
He cheated.
So was Dr. Woo-suk Hwang, who fake the data on cloning back in 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_Woo-suk
Koreans can never be trusted.
Never !
While it's true that both Dr. Hwang and Dr. Han are Koreans, not all Koreans are cheaters.
Similarly, not all non-Koreans are non-cheaters either.
But I sense something terribly wrong in the set-up at Iowa State U.
You see, Dr. Han's immediate superior is Dr. Michael Cho, and as the supervisor of Dr. Han, Dr. Cho has failed to keep a close eyes on the researches being carried out by his subordinates.
And while Dr. Han has had his wrist slightly slapped (only ban for 3 year). Dr. Cho, the boss, never was reprimanded for his own dereliction of duty.
On the other hand, Benghazi blood is all on Obummer's hand...
It's more like the Benghazi blood is on that old Hillary bitch's hands.
She was the one who lied about everything.
Sorry.
Not all the "older folks" use Facebook.
I for one, don't.
Yes, I do have a FB account. I signed on to FB when it was brand new (just like I sign on to /. when it was brand new) but I do not like what people do there --- they TELL EVERYBODY EVERYTHING ABOUT THEMSELVES.
I am not interested to know who eat what at where, nor interested to tell anyone what I do at what place in what time either.
I logged on to my FB account for 2 times since I signed on. Yes, exactly two times, and no more.
my guess is you haven't spent a lot of time around the far-right nut jobs.
As I have said, I have mixed with a lot of people from different groups , which includes people whom you described as "far-right nut jobs" and also those from the opposite side, those in the super-far-left-field that will accuse anybody who disagree with them with "hate speech" "hate thought" "hate-anything".
But I gotta tell ya, those "far-right nut jobs" are basically very patriotic Americans.
They truly LOVE America.
I came from China.
Back in China I never met with anyone that can match their patriotic for their own country as the patriotism of the "far-right nut jobs" for the United States of America.
I don't know what is scarier, selling guns to terrorists or the lunatic white people that already own them
As a naturalized American Citizen who is not a Christian nor a Muslim, and one who has been in the USA since the early 1970's, and one who has mixed with a lot of very different groups of folks, I can tell you one thing ---
The *MOST DANGEROUS GROUP OF PEOPLE* inside the United States of America are former Christians who have converted into Islam.
I have friends from the Middle Eastern countries (most of them have American citizenship). While most of them are Muslims, only a few amongst them are zealots.
Because I do mix well with the Muslims (I speak Arabic, btw) many of them introduced me to their "newly converts" (they want to convert me too, so they introduce the newly converts trying to convince me that converting into Islam is a *good thing*) and upon talking to those "newly converts" I can sense their zeals oozing out of very pore of their skin.
Some of the "newly converts" are so zealous that they actually praise those 19 terrorists who carried out the 9/11 WTC bombing as "martyrs"!!
You guys in America, especially those who never know Islam, do not know the danger in your own community.
Terrorism is irrelevant. Whether the programs work or not is irrelevant. All that matters is whether or not it's constitutional, and it's not.
I am an American and I do share your concern.
But I am a naturalized American, not one who was born inside the United States of America.
As a naturalized American, I get to see America from both outside in and inside out.
What I see right now is a very discouraging view.
It's not an "if", but a matter of "when" - The Constitution itself has been proved too cumbersome for the BIG BROTHER and sooner or later the Constitution itself will be ruled "ILLEGAL".
You may laugh at my prediction - but I came from a very repressive country and I have a first hand experience of living under BIG and very OPPRESSIVE BROTHER, and the only thing that has managed to stop the United States of America from falling into the abyss of TOTALITARIANISM is the Constitution.
Thus, the Constitution and the accompanying Bill of Rights have proven to be way too cumbersome and troublesome for the BIG BROTHER.
Today we still get to talk about NSA and what NSA has done because the Constitution is still legal - and that's one of the reason why the BIG BROTHER wants to do away with that document.
BIG BROTHER does not believe in "We, the People". They only believe in "WE, the Master".
But more to the point, have you ever seen any black people who work for the NSA?
Not only they have African Americans who work for NSA, they have set up a special web page for them, and have dedicated a special wall panel to commemorate their contribution, inside the NSA building.
http://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic_heritage/african_americans/
But even more to the point - no matter what color of skin they have, - white, black, and all hues in between - those who work for NSA, if they continue to violate the Constitution of America, they are Traitors to the country !
Sort of: they use torrenting stats to work out what's popular and acquire licences to stream it.
Netflix, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and many others, are actively looking for fresh talents in the same pool as me.
Yes, I am constantly looking for talents.
But unlike them, I do not look for "A Players".
No matter if the "A" is of the academic or of "Type A personality", people do change, with time.
What I look for are the self-starters - and I have found plenty of self-starters, both from America and from elsewhere in the world.
What is ridiculous in this "talent race" is that those who are doing the hiring do not even have any idea what they are looking for.
It's so very easy to say "I look for 'A'" but often they end up with people who may have a pretty resume but ain't those who will do things ON THEIR OWN without being told to.
Even the startups that I invest in I look for self-starters.
People may have really cool ideas but if they are NOT of the self-start type, ideas will forever stay IDEAS, and will never become a reality.
I don't do much of this sort of thing anymore but there was a time when I tried to look inside every file on my computer, telnet to every host available just to learn everything I could about this wonderful new tool that had come into my grasp. I sometimes miss those days and that guy, but now I tire easily and kind of just want everything to work.
I do feel what you are feeling.
As we get older we get more easily tired. But that doesn't mean I will rest more just because I get tired.
On the contrary - I push myself harder simply because I get more easily tired.
Only by doing so I get things to even out - maybe I am not as fast and as sharp, in both physical sense and in mental state, but as I push myself harder, I will do more in the same 24 hours allocated to me every single day.
Why should I let the young uns having all the fun ?
Why should I let my scopes be idle just because I tell myself "oh, I'm tired now, I can test that thing tomorrow" ?
If I need to find out something, I don't waste time debating with myself whether I should do that thing or not - I just go ahead and do it.
That's how I live my life, anyway.
The islamists are taking over the asylum and they're a bit too close for my liking.
Ah yes, the thinly veiled racism
Islam is regarded as race now ?
What kind of fucking moron are you ?