I really think you're all jumping the gun a bit here, you really need to look at how literacy has gone in other comparable countries, i.e. countries that where just as much a part of the Internet growth decades as the US was. I live in Australia and not only do we fit that description, but we were part of the older Internet history, the academic/military period.
The thing is by all accounts we read books like a starving man going for food, and far from declining I gather it's increasing, so if the net is the anti book pill you all seem to be saying how come we in Australia are immune??
How long before nonvolatile memory becomes the solution to crash-prone software rather than better programming?
Probably very long......
There are very little volatile-memory related software bugs.....
HINT: You don't want your ram back in the same corrupt state it was in before the reboot.
Yep and wait till you see how many previously working programs start behaving as buggy as hell with nonvolatile memory, we're going to have to be far more careful about the init state of memory in a instant on world.
One expert, however, cautions that Red Hat certifications don't always offer experience that can cross over into diverse Linux implementations.
"I like Red Hat a lot and can't say enough about their technology, but I'm worried this may lead to more lock-in to Red Hat [for administrators]," said Ross Brunson director of Linux and Unix education with The Training Camp, a center in Philadelphia that trains and prepares administrators for certification exams.
Hmmm sounds suspiciously like this guy is a competitor of red hats trying to spread a little FUD.
I had the same when I arrived in Sydney. Someone asked "brought your thongs?", and all I could say back was "what, my leatherette g-string and leopard skin pouch?"
Yeah but I'm much more comfortable with our meaning of thong in this case, I mean a mobile phone in a rubber sandle type thing is just silly, but well the other way, man I don't even want to think of answering that phone eeewwww icky.
UK defence contractor BAE Systems has developed a stealth wallpaper to beat electronic eavesdropping on company Wi-Fi and wired LANs.
Instead of qoing through the hassle of covering a building with this wallpaper, why can't system admins just get into the habit of implementing encryption all the way (particularly for Wi-Fi networks?)
Nah next thing you'll be expecting them to have brains.
When I was a teenager one of my good friends was a Christian fundamentalist. (I'm NOT) His high school would suspend anyone who purchased a pager (this was just before cell phones were ubiquitous). Their reasoning wasn't that it disrupted class or was a drug dealer thing (sheesh), but that it was the mark of the Devil. You know 666. The theory was that beepers were just the first stage in a series of moves by the DEVIL HIMSELF to accustom us to being tagged, and that eventually we would all be given the mark of the devil.
Now I'm not about to start following his bizarre religious practices (especially since they lead him to being institutionalized), but you gotta give the wing nut some credit. We all started carrying pagers, cell phones, then GPS, and now people aren't even thinking twice when they are asked to stick a radio transceiver on their person (or in it!).
It's like cooking a frog. Stick it in while the pan is hot and he'll just jump out. But if you turn up the heat slowly he never knows it till it's too late.
666 it's the number of the beast, never saw that coming did we.
Yeah, ok, well I'm a christian, fundamentalist well that depends on how we're defining that today, but I do not think this is the number of the beast, I think it's bad technology, but not a ploy of the evil one.
There are a couple of things to remember with reguards the number of the beast:
there are a few other conditions to be met for it to be the beasts number. --- Go to the bible and read the book of revelation if you want to know more. (it'll be the last book, baring any maps and concordances)
people have been saying this and that where the number of the beast, since, well right after John wrote the book of revelation, and they've been wrong time after time, so in all probability so are you.
What I find more chilling is the number of people in the article who are recommending general blocking of the smtp port. Just because it makes life easier for large corporations is no excuse for using a blunt instrument where an elegant solution could be found - in this case, I think the dynamic monitoring and blocking is far more preferable. If NTL decide to block port 25, I guess I'll just have to tunnel outgoing port-25 traffic over a different (say: 2525:-) port to my co-lo machine and send from there...
I agree totally with all your points but I feel the need to make one more, just because a person has port 25 open and is running there own mail server does not mean their running an open relay, that sleazy so called expert who implies that in the article needs some serious bitch slapping, the lying turd.
I still don't understand how spam exists economically. I guess people are dumber than I thought:
"Wow! I think I'll find out more about this Viiagraa! Thanks hf387hfjsd73@hotmail.com!"
Cool you've solved it, we'll just push the IQ of everyone on the planet up by 50 points, and spammers will all go bankrupt, now how do we do that... hmmm... ummm:-P
I think you are all missing the point. A degree is not a simple cert of knowledge, it is a cert of compitence and a trust model. It tells others that you can do a job not that you are a simple waling encyclopedia. This is especially true in sci/engineering professions. It also reflects upon the issuing university, as their grads are their finnished product and their best advertising. If you are hiring for an engineering position for a bridge and you have 2 canidates, #1 got a degree from Acme Diploma Factory and #2 has a degree from MIT, what are you going to think. You see the logo of MIT and know quality, you have never heard of Acme or know anything of it. Your choice is clear. As such from a bnusiness standpoint MIT can say to possible students that it grads get the best work possible, as such they have a keen intrest in keeping their name squeeky clean.
Employers don't want walking encyclopedias they want projects finished on time and on budget for their clients. What I am trying to say is a degree is more than a cert in knowledge it is a cert in the abilities to get the job done and done right. A professional and ethical attitude and behavior.
Spot on, and the one thing I'd add to this is if anything universities don't do this enough, there needs to be a clear line step over it, bring disgrace on you're degree and university, then lose you're degree.
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I suicidal a lot anyway :-P
I really think you're all jumping the gun a bit here, you really need to look at how literacy has gone in other comparable countries, i.e. countries that where just as much a part of the Internet growth decades as the US was. I live in Australia and not only do we fit that description, but we were part of the older Internet history, the academic/military period.
The thing is by all accounts we read books like a starving man going for food, and far from declining I gather it's increasing, so if the net is the anti book pill you all seem to be saying how come we in Australia are immune??
Wow I didn't realise that we'd got them that scared with the /. effect.
Multi Gnome Terminal http://multignometerm.sourceforge.net/ best Terminal emulator I've ever seen.
Yeah I've seen it myself, walked into the local club the other day, and there was this DVD on stage, taking her clothes off, ... Degrading
well I live in Australia and the US looks pretty foriegn to me.
666 it's the number of the beast, never saw that coming did we.
Yeah, ok, well I'm a christian, fundamentalist well that depends on how we're defining that today, but I do not think this is the number of the beast, I think it's bad technology, but not a ploy of the evil one.
There are a couple of things to remember with reguards the number of the beast:
Then M$ will prove black == white, for sufficiently dishonest values of black & white.
nah with kids nothing will ever beat the pick and eat paradigm.