"I want to think I really like the Disney company" because they have the opportunity to do the right thing, hold a preserve the cultural heritage. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt, but I don't disagree with you, they're really screwing things up in more ways that we want to admit.
I don't usually get too worked up over things like this. However, this story has really got me aggravated. I'm curious how many people in the IT Profession feel similarly?
I want to think I really like the Disney company, perhaps that's why it feels so egregious when they've done something like this. My question really comes down to, is 200-300 employees a large enough pool to push something like this into a Class Action status, or is having a couple hundred single lawsuits a better way to go about making a much bigger noise about both the specific Disney situation, or this situation in the US as a whole?
With us drawing close to a Presidential election in the US, perhaps it's time for IT Professionals to re-think who should represent us both in our home states, and in our national Congressional seats. They need to understand they're very directly impacting our paychecks, and the paychecks of the co-workers we actually -like- to work with.
I think if there's a compromise plan, that includes some sort of 'back door' way to bypass encryption, it should first be Beta Tested on Governmental contracts. All phones used by politicians and government employees should be the first to try out this new encryption bypass. After a 4-year (or more) testing period, we'll see if there's still a drive and desire to have this rolled out further.
Then again, congress should also be participating by mandate in the Healthcare Act. Don't require the people you represent to do anything you won't do yourself. If it's not good enough for you, why is it suddenly good enough for those who elected you to office?
Mostly it's because of laziness in writing, and a lack of actually wanting to be impartial, because there's apparently no money in that any more. It's required to be slanted one way or another, in order to make enough money to keep going. They just aren't wearing sponsor patches, like race car drivers do.
And -now- we know who is responsible for the slow, downward spiral of what Outlook has turned into since the 2003 client. It's horrible! I regret ever upgrading to 16 from '07. But it's the "standard" in the industry, it's what everyone uses, so we've -got- to upgrade!
Blah!
It's good to know just whose responsible for this train wreck.
This isn't new news here, this is all data that's been proven out over more than a decade of study. What's news is that someone has finally had the wherewithall to actually use the data. Hopefully, this will be a wake up call, and just the first of more to come.
No student can focus on learning when they're distracted with the struggle of just living, hoping they'll have food to eat tonight, and a warm place to sleep, clean close to wear. All the things that so many of us take for granted.
I can't imagine that the Drone Industry is in favor of this move by the FAA, especially with the names and addresses being publicly available; (without the need for a FOIA request?) I don't know how much money there is in the industry, but they don't strike me as an inexpensive hobby. But, it seems this also covers those regular RC planes as well as what the average person might think of as a helicopter-style drone; so there are a couple of industries touched by this, actually.
If this causes these two industries to plummet, I can imagine we'll see a good deal of push back from a newly formed lobby.
Of all the Criminal Enforcement branches of the law, the IRS's branch is most likely the ones who use this technology the way we expect them to, the way it was designed to be used. While DHS is likely to keep ALL the data they collect, I can easily imagine that the IRS will either not record, or swiftly dump, any data that isn't specifically attached to the investigation at hand.
Revenue Officers have a good deal more power to them than a typical investigator, as they can make determinations that..really don't have a practical oversight to them beyond themselves. But, to balance that, they also are the ones who have to follow up on any of these determinations they make; they aren't typically passing it off. So, like you might think with typical governmental workers, I can't imagine they'd want to make more work for themselves than is necessary. So, keeping/reviewing data outside the specific needs of their case isn't likely something they're going to engage in.
That said, the Criminal Investigations arm of the IRS is small but have wide reaching powers, and historically, these agents are pretty judicial with the use of their power. If someone wasn't scrutinizing service contracts to see that the IRS has one, no one would likely ever know they've employed the use of one...because they use it the way we (the public) might expect them to. On people who are 'bad guys' avoiding the law, not typical citizens.
This really is plain insanity. The cost of a university education is well out of control, and textbooks aren't helping.
While I agree that having the same coursebook over a whole section (i.e. All Math 101 classes use the same book, which hopefully Math 201 also use..) I do believe that our educators should have a hand in which textbook is selected. Unless the group deciding what textbook is used, teach from said textbook, they need to take a backseat and listen to the people on the front lines. Cost is one valid factor when deciding what to choose. Education like this is as much a business as it is an academic exercise. When your consumers can't afford the product you sell, you have fewer consumers.
I would be surprised if any money is actually saved after it's all completed. I have seen multiple offshoring efforts and not one has yielded the expected results. My conclusion is that in the end management doesn't care about what IT does and doesn't care what kind of results they see. I always see offshoring as the last resort of a uninspired and lazy executive team.
Management seems to see IT the same way they see power and water in their buildings. They just flip a switch, they expect it to work the way they expect it to work. Or, perhaps a better analogy might be thinking of IT as office furniture. They take it for granted, because it's always there and are aggravated when it's broken. And when it gets old, (yes, that could be a reference to age discrimination), they look for a cheap vendor who can replace it for less than they paid the first time. Because, after all, office furniture is just office furniture. You simply take it for granted because it's always there, like you expect your lights to come on when you flip the switch.
If they end up spending the same or a little more.. "Well,..oh, well. " It's done, they just move on, little concern about what they've disrupted, and the fact that they've disrupted productivity all the way around.
I know you're asking to pay to offload this duty, but I have a suggestion that perhaps you should consider. I would encourage you to consider keeping those duties for yourself, and add a new application to help protect them all the way around.
This product will let you create the perfect configuration for your parents, then 'freeze' it in place. They can have places for documents to go that you can edit and change and so forth. But, if you get infected with something, or an application installs something extra you didn't want, or your browser gets fouled up, you reboot your computer and Deep Freeze makes your system revert back to what it was before those changes took place.
If they aren't changing or updating their system regularly, they just wait until you can do that for them, on your schedule. If they have problems, they reboot and get a working computer back. You'll still want to backup their documents, but you can use a cloud solution for that, so it'll be set-it and forget-it, except when it's time to pay the yearly bill.
It's juts something to consider. Again, I know it's not the hands off solution you're thinking about, but as your parents get older, they'll appreciate your help all the more. It lets you still use this to be connected to them, and feel more like you're taking care of them than pushing that duty off on someone else. Your time is worth way more than the money you spend on them.
The plan is to spend $3.5M to train 600 people over 5 years. So that's roughly $1,167/person/year. These tech companies can't spend that per year to do their own talent search, the US Department of Labor has to subsidize their hiring practices in their HR departments? Honestly, this sounds like the cost of finding good candidates that fit your organization.
Spending the money up front to find the right person to fit the company, means you train them up, apprentice them if you will, and because they're the right fit, they stay longer, work harder, are overall happier with the organization and are more productive.
Why don't we consider this question after we've gone to Mars and tried it there..or Jupiter perhaps. We should figure out if the idea actually works before we consider deploying it at home, what say? Humans are terribly at risk assessment. We didn't really have a clue what we were unleashing when we set off our first nuclear tests. We did learn quickly...sorta. However, using a nuke against an NEO is something we've only theorized about. We should do some testing. In a place that's not actually remotely near Earth.
Actually AT&T deployed this network in the US. It was reserved as a backup communications network in case of emergency. However, it's been dismantled. The big relay towers are gone that were installed as a hub in Kansas City, and across the state of Missouri linking Kansas City with St. Louis and beyond.
Let me get this straight...the thought is to propose a drone-based airline? While it may be mostly auto-pilot, there's a human remote co-pilot to watch over things, just in case. So, how many planes does this one co-pilot watch? What's the lag time between aircraft and their remote-cockpit? How fast do the backup remote-comm systems kick in when the primary is getting wonky? And what keeps the remote co-pilot session from being hacked/co-opted and then turned into a remote drone-weapon?
I..just don't think it'll happen in my lifetime. I could be wrong, but..I'm not putting any money in that stock today.
If estimates on costs for the materials alone on the Apple Watch Edition are at least near the mark, the 18k gold used costs over $8,000. Plus you add the cost for electronics and the sapphire on top of that, this should mean that a $10,000 Apple Watch Edition has the lowest profit margin of the entire line, well under 20%, while the average profit margin on many Apple products are northwards of 30% - 40%.
So, I'm not sure why this is even being considered. Why not sell man-pack, shoulder-mount weapons..you know, without the actual ammunition while we're at it? If the military is all up in arms over a drone that goes down and isn't confirmed destroyed, lest someone get a hold of the parts and reverse-engineer it, why would you agree to sell one? Oh, sure, they'll agree to "proper use" of it, but that wouldn't keep them from tearing it apart and making their own copies, will it? I mean, that's just a piece of paper that's been signed, right? Not actually something that will keep the buyer from changing their mind.
If you're a US taxpayer, then those public schools are there in some small part because of you. They are a small army of individuals who were trained just for teaching and educating children. Go investigate and see if you have a good local school and a good school district. If it's "ok" but could be better, then figure out how to get involved. Get elected to the local school board. (It'll be a real eye-opener, and a big commitment, since usually it's an unpaid, elected position.) Make your local public schools better for not just your children but everyone's children.
And if you don't want to go quite that far, but do discover that the local public schools are above state average, then be an involved parent. Studies do show that students whose parents are actively engaged with them and their school are higher achievers. We're not talking about "helicopter parents" but ones who give guidance, set a high bar for their child, help them expect good things from themselves and help them cope and correct course when things don't go as well as they wanted.
As parents, you're always teaching your children, even if you don't mean to be. Your actions are some of the most powerful teaching tools you have, for good or for bad. While your child is young, go look at your local schools, talk to the local home schooling groups, check them out, grade them yourself, check their backgrounds, look at their track records. Good groups, home or public, should be quick to help you find their positive achievements. You need to mine your own data, in your local area. People here, we may have good intentions, but what we think is important in education, may be completely different from what you have where you live.
Good public schools are working to hit their stride, raise levels of achievement, and change the life-long trajectory of as many students as they can. Do they have a drop out rate below, or significantly below the state average? That's typically a tell-tale sign. Do they have their own alternative high-school? If they do, then that typically means they take drop-outs very seriously, and aren't willing to let them go without a fight. How much of their Special Education do they do in-house? If they're working to keep more kids with high needs inside their system instead of just taking the easy way and farming them out to special schools, making that a last resort, then they truly take educating every child, every day...seriously. It's not just their career, it's their passion. You want people of passion educating our children. They care about the outcome of every child who walks in the door, personally. It's their mission to get them to succeed.
If you don't find that at your local public school...then that's the sort of person you need to be when homeschooling. It needs not not just be your career to school your child, it needs to be something you jump out of bed, excited to start the day, type of passion. If you don't have that at the public school, and you don't have it at home, it's time to find a private school that will meet that need.
Public education has been a family business for my entire life. I'm the black sheep, I went into IT. My siblings are teachers, and my father is a retired educator and school administrator. I've watched our local schools very closely for well over a decade, after my father retired. Good schools attract great teachers...rock star teachers, because they all share a passion for changing the life trajectory of a student. Whatever school you decide to put your child in, make sure it has that sort of staff in it.
There are very good public schools, and poor ones. There are great homeschoolers, and ones that are overwhelmed. You're going to have to look at your local options, and make the best decision you can. And remember: If things don't go according to plan, change the plan. Set a good example and help your child make good decisions.
I'm not sure how the FAA will regulate anyone whose on the moon, with say, that Helium 3 mining facility. It seems it would be terribly costly to send inspectors, and if they're not a US-based company, how will they ever have any hope of having jurisdiction with regulations? It seems like a crazy idea to me.
I'm guessing that if currently Federal court precedent that says you cannot compel someone to give up their lock code for their cell phone or other account, is the same law that will allow a student to keep from giving up their social media or other pass codes.
Regardless of your standing, you can always invoke the 5th Amendment in the US, protecting themselves against self-incrimination.
This is an interesting event. Failure of the flash memory can only really be overcome by either replacing it or having a secondary flash that's on standby, syncing up periodically so that it has much less wear on it, so you can extend the mission by switching over to the backup/secondary flash memory. However, this would add precious ounces to the payload, thereby requiring more fuel, etc.
I tend to agree, the issue in the Tech Industry isn't as much the shortage of workers, as it's much more a shortage of the Industry to pay a wage for the worker they want. In lieu of that, the Industry isn't as willing to invest in it's Human Capital, expanding training and skill sets. They're afraid if they train you, you'll go find a better job. Well, if you don't train them, what if they stagnate and don't go find a better job?
If you aren't challenging your Tech Workers, then they want to move on, to avoid being bored, to find a new challenge. But if you train them, invest in them, they become invested in their company, and if they're challenged, they're just too busy and too happy to think about if the grass is greener on the other side of the street.
There's a reason that H1B workers strive to be great English speakers. English is the language of business, and it's still where people want to move towards to be successful. If we cultivate a culture of Tech Workers to move a long...then companies become a Journey, not a Destination. Would you rather work for a company who is the proverbial Wilderness, or the Promised Land?
Invest in Human Capital. That's how a Company is built that becomes a Destination, and not just a Journey to something better.
There are a good deal of "common sense" things that haven't seemed to soak into younger generations. Things that someone born in the 70's, 80's and 90's would likely have been exposed to and had been "taught" to some degree or another. The Police force has changed. The same cop may not patrol the same neighborhood 4 or 5 days a week. When they did, they got to know the neighborhood. They knew it's people, who "belonged" there and who didn't. Many lived not-too-far away and lived in a similar neighborhood. The Police and the people understood one another, had common ground. It seems that balance has changed.
If it's not going to go back to something like that, then our youth probably do need to be "taught" how to interact with these authority figures who aren't from their neighborhood, don't know them from the drug-dealer down the street. Until we sort out how to make the Police more local to any place it protects, make them feel like neighbors, then we're not doing the right thing unless we teach the youth how to properly interact with Police, without disrespect for either party. Remember: In the same way a Fireman runs into a burning building; this Officer is going to be running towards the gunfire if there's trouble, not away from it like the average youth on the street.
Bottom Line: If our Police aren't going to also be our neighbors, in our neighborhoods, then we need to re-learn out how interact with them.
Many states have a "Sunshine Law" which requires all public documents to be available for public review upon request. 99% of what police officers do is covered by this. Exceptions are often made for many items related to personnel records, things with specific safety implications (such as public school safety plans), records dealing with minors, and so forth. However, if something doesn't fall under a specific statue covered in the "Sunshine Law" then it's considered a public document if it was obtained through public funding.
So, if the data on police body cams was made possible by public funds, stored on servers purchased with public funds, then they are more than likely going to be subject to "Sunshine Law" information requests. This is the same law that keeps City Councils from hold closed meetings and passing city ordinance outside of the view of the public, or our state lawmakers to do the same. The laws are typically boiler-plate and very broad, the exceptions very narrow.
All of that being said, I can imagine that a new addendum is made for body cams, though not likely for dash-cams. Such as when police enter a private residence, video of open, ongoing investigations, videos dealing with minors, etc..
It's a brave new world. We need to temper our need for transparency, with the fact that our police officers are human; they will make mistakes, just like every citizen will make mistakes. It's the unintentional mistakes that we need to be able to roll back the clock on, to a time before when our whole life was televised on social media...when people actually forgot a stupid, unintentional mistake.
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"I want to think I really like the Disney company" because they have the opportunity to do the right thing, hold a preserve the cultural heritage. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt, but I don't disagree with you, they're really screwing things up in more ways that we want to admit.
I don't usually get too worked up over things like this. However, this story has really got me aggravated. I'm curious how many people in the IT Profession feel similarly?
I want to think I really like the Disney company, perhaps that's why it feels so egregious when they've done something like this. My question really comes down to, is 200-300 employees a large enough pool to push something like this into a Class Action status, or is having a couple hundred single lawsuits a better way to go about making a much bigger noise about both the specific Disney situation, or this situation in the US as a whole?
With us drawing close to a Presidential election in the US, perhaps it's time for IT Professionals to re-think who should represent us both in our home states, and in our national Congressional seats. They need to understand they're very directly impacting our paychecks, and the paychecks of the co-workers we actually -like- to work with.
I think if there's a compromise plan, that includes some sort of 'back door' way to bypass encryption, it should first be Beta Tested on Governmental contracts. All phones used by politicians and government employees should be the first to try out this new encryption bypass. After a 4-year (or more) testing period, we'll see if there's still a drive and desire to have this rolled out further.
Then again, congress should also be participating by mandate in the Healthcare Act. Don't require the people you represent to do anything you won't do yourself. If it's not good enough for you, why is it suddenly good enough for those who elected you to office?
Mostly it's because of laziness in writing, and a lack of actually wanting to be impartial, because there's apparently no money in that any more. It's required to be slanted one way or another, in order to make enough money to keep going. They just aren't wearing sponsor patches, like race car drivers do.
And -now- we know who is responsible for the slow, downward spiral of what Outlook has turned into since the 2003 client. It's horrible! I regret ever upgrading to 16 from '07. But it's the "standard" in the industry, it's what everyone uses, so we've -got- to upgrade!
Blah!
It's good to know just whose responsible for this train wreck.
Grr!
This isn't new news here, this is all data that's been proven out over more than a decade of study. What's news is that someone has finally had the wherewithall to actually use the data. Hopefully, this will be a wake up call, and just the first of more to come.
No student can focus on learning when they're distracted with the struggle of just living, hoping they'll have food to eat tonight, and a warm place to sleep, clean close to wear. All the things that so many of us take for granted.
I can't imagine that the Drone Industry is in favor of this move by the FAA, especially with the names and addresses being publicly available; (without the need for a FOIA request?) I don't know how much money there is in the industry, but they don't strike me as an inexpensive hobby. But, it seems this also covers those regular RC planes as well as what the average person might think of as a helicopter-style drone; so there are a couple of industries touched by this, actually.
If this causes these two industries to plummet, I can imagine we'll see a good deal of push back from a newly formed lobby.
Of all the Criminal Enforcement branches of the law, the IRS's branch is most likely the ones who use this technology the way we expect them to, the way it was designed to be used. While DHS is likely to keep ALL the data they collect, I can easily imagine that the IRS will either not record, or swiftly dump, any data that isn't specifically attached to the investigation at hand.
Revenue Officers have a good deal more power to them than a typical investigator, as they can make determinations that ..really don't have a practical oversight to them beyond themselves. But, to balance that, they also are the ones who have to follow up on any of these determinations they make; they aren't typically passing it off. So, like you might think with typical governmental workers, I can't imagine they'd want to make more work for themselves than is necessary. So, keeping/reviewing data outside the specific needs of their case isn't likely something they're going to engage in.
That said, the Criminal Investigations arm of the IRS is small but have wide reaching powers, and historically, these agents are pretty judicial with the use of their power. If someone wasn't scrutinizing service contracts to see that the IRS has one, no one would likely ever know they've employed the use of one...because they use it the way we (the public) might expect them to. On people who are 'bad guys' avoiding the law, not typical citizens.
This really is plain insanity. The cost of a university education is well out of control, and textbooks aren't helping.
While I agree that having the same coursebook over a whole section (i.e. All Math 101 classes use the same book, which hopefully Math 201 also use..) I do believe that our educators should have a hand in which textbook is selected. Unless the group deciding what textbook is used, teach from said textbook, they need to take a backseat and listen to the people on the front lines. Cost is one valid factor when deciding what to choose. Education like this is as much a business as it is an academic exercise. When your consumers can't afford the product you sell, you have fewer consumers.
I would be surprised if any money is actually saved after it's all completed. I have seen multiple offshoring efforts and not one has yielded the expected results. My conclusion is that in the end management doesn't care about what IT does and doesn't care what kind of results they see. I always see offshoring as the last resort of a uninspired and lazy executive team.
Management seems to see IT the same way they see power and water in their buildings. They just flip a switch, they expect it to work the way they expect it to work. Or, perhaps a better analogy might be thinking of IT as office furniture. They take it for granted, because it's always there and are aggravated when it's broken. And when it gets old, (yes, that could be a reference to age discrimination), they look for a cheap vendor who can replace it for less than they paid the first time. Because, after all, office furniture is just office furniture. You simply take it for granted because it's always there, like you expect your lights to come on when you flip the switch.
If they end up spending the same or a little more.. "Well, ..oh, well. " It's done, they just move on, little concern about what they've disrupted, and the fact that they've disrupted productivity all the way around.
To some extent, doesn't this sound somewhat similiar to the story about Disney replacing longtime IT staff with H-1B workers?
A story like this, even with only "100" workers, generates heaps and heaps of bad publicity for SunTrust.
I know you're asking to pay to offload this duty, but I have a suggestion that perhaps you should consider. I would encourage you to consider keeping those duties for yourself, and add a new application to help protect them all the way around.
Deep Freeze by Faronics - http://www.faronics.com/produc...
This product will let you create the perfect configuration for your parents, then 'freeze' it in place. They can have places for documents to go that you can edit and change and so forth. But, if you get infected with something, or an application installs something extra you didn't want, or your browser gets fouled up, you reboot your computer and Deep Freeze makes your system revert back to what it was before those changes took place.
If they aren't changing or updating their system regularly, they just wait until you can do that for them, on your schedule. If they have problems, they reboot and get a working computer back. You'll still want to backup their documents, but you can use a cloud solution for that, so it'll be set-it and forget-it, except when it's time to pay the yearly bill.
It's juts something to consider. Again, I know it's not the hands off solution you're thinking about, but as your parents get older, they'll appreciate your help all the more. It lets you still use this to be connected to them, and feel more like you're taking care of them than pushing that duty off on someone else. Your time is worth way more than the money you spend on them.
The plan is to spend $3.5M to train 600 people over 5 years. So that's roughly $1,167/person/year. These tech companies can't spend that per year to do their own talent search, the US Department of Labor has to subsidize their hiring practices in their HR departments? Honestly, this sounds like the cost of finding good candidates that fit your organization.
Spending the money up front to find the right person to fit the company, means you train them up, apprentice them if you will, and because they're the right fit, they stay longer, work harder, are overall happier with the organization and are more productive.
This isn't rocket science.
Why don't we consider this question after we've gone to Mars and tried it there..or Jupiter perhaps. We should figure out if the idea actually works before we consider deploying it at home, what say? Humans are terribly at risk assessment. We didn't really have a clue what we were unleashing when we set off our first nuclear tests. We did learn quickly...sorta. However, using a nuke against an NEO is something we've only theorized about. We should do some testing. In a place that's not actually remotely near Earth.
Actually AT&T deployed this network in the US. It was reserved as a backup communications network in case of emergency. However, it's been dismantled. The big relay towers are gone that were installed as a hub in Kansas City, and across the state of Missouri linking Kansas City with St. Louis and beyond.
Let me get this straight...the thought is to propose a drone-based airline? While it may be mostly auto-pilot, there's a human remote co-pilot to watch over things, just in case. So, how many planes does this one co-pilot watch? What's the lag time between aircraft and their remote-cockpit? How fast do the backup remote-comm systems kick in when the primary is getting wonky? And what keeps the remote co-pilot session from being hacked/co-opted and then turned into a remote drone-weapon?
I ..just don't think it'll happen in my lifetime. I could be wrong, but ..I'm not putting any money in that stock today.
If estimates on costs for the materials alone on the Apple Watch Edition are at least near the mark, the 18k gold used costs over $8,000. Plus you add the cost for electronics and the sapphire on top of that, this should mean that a $10,000 Apple Watch Edition has the lowest profit margin of the entire line, well under 20%, while the average profit margin on many Apple products are northwards of 30% - 40%.
So, I'm not sure why this is even being considered. Why not sell man-pack, shoulder-mount weapons..you know, without the actual ammunition while we're at it? If the military is all up in arms over a drone that goes down and isn't confirmed destroyed, lest someone get a hold of the parts and reverse-engineer it, why would you agree to sell one? Oh, sure, they'll agree to "proper use" of it, but that wouldn't keep them from tearing it apart and making their own copies, will it? I mean, that's just a piece of paper that's been signed, right? Not actually something that will keep the buyer from changing their mind.
Seriously.
If you're a US taxpayer, then those public schools are there in some small part because of you. They are a small army of individuals who were trained just for teaching and educating children. Go investigate and see if you have a good local school and a good school district. If it's "ok" but could be better, then figure out how to get involved. Get elected to the local school board. (It'll be a real eye-opener, and a big commitment, since usually it's an unpaid, elected position.) Make your local public schools better for not just your children but everyone's children.
And if you don't want to go quite that far, but do discover that the local public schools are above state average, then be an involved parent. Studies do show that students whose parents are actively engaged with them and their school are higher achievers. We're not talking about "helicopter parents" but ones who give guidance, set a high bar for their child, help them expect good things from themselves and help them cope and correct course when things don't go as well as they wanted.
As parents, you're always teaching your children, even if you don't mean to be. Your actions are some of the most powerful teaching tools you have, for good or for bad. While your child is young, go look at your local schools, talk to the local home schooling groups, check them out, grade them yourself, check their backgrounds, look at their track records. Good groups, home or public, should be quick to help you find their positive achievements. You need to mine your own data, in your local area. People here, we may have good intentions, but what we think is important in education, may be completely different from what you have where you live.
Good public schools are working to hit their stride, raise levels of achievement, and change the life-long trajectory of as many students as they can. Do they have a drop out rate below, or significantly below the state average? That's typically a tell-tale sign. Do they have their own alternative high-school? If they do, then that typically means they take drop-outs very seriously, and aren't willing to let them go without a fight. How much of their Special Education do they do in-house? If they're working to keep more kids with high needs inside their system instead of just taking the easy way and farming them out to special schools, making that a last resort, then they truly take educating every child, every day...seriously. It's not just their career, it's their passion. You want people of passion educating our children. They care about the outcome of every child who walks in the door, personally. It's their mission to get them to succeed.
If you don't find that at your local public school...then that's the sort of person you need to be when homeschooling. It needs not not just be your career to school your child, it needs to be something you jump out of bed, excited to start the day, type of passion. If you don't have that at the public school, and you don't have it at home, it's time to find a private school that will meet that need.
Public education has been a family business for my entire life. I'm the black sheep, I went into IT. My siblings are teachers, and my father is a retired educator and school administrator. I've watched our local schools very closely for well over a decade, after my father retired. Good schools attract great teachers...rock star teachers, because they all share a passion for changing the life trajectory of a student. Whatever school you decide to put your child in, make sure it has that sort of staff in it.
There are very good public schools, and poor ones. There are great homeschoolers, and ones that are overwhelmed. You're going to have to look at your local options, and make the best decision you can. And remember: If things don't go according to plan, change the plan. Set a good example and help your child make good decisions.
I'm not sure how the FAA will regulate anyone whose on the moon, with say, that Helium 3 mining facility. It seems it would be terribly costly to send inspectors, and if they're not a US-based company, how will they ever have any hope of having jurisdiction with regulations? It seems like a crazy idea to me.
I'm guessing that if currently Federal court precedent that says you cannot compel someone to give up their lock code for their cell phone or other account, is the same law that will allow a student to keep from giving up their social media or other pass codes.
Regardless of your standing, you can always invoke the 5th Amendment in the US, protecting themselves against self-incrimination.
This is an interesting event. Failure of the flash memory can only really be overcome by either replacing it or having a secondary flash that's on standby, syncing up periodically so that it has much less wear on it, so you can extend the mission by switching over to the backup/secondary flash memory. However, this would add precious ounces to the payload, thereby requiring more fuel, etc.
I tend to agree, the issue in the Tech Industry isn't as much the shortage of workers, as it's much more a shortage of the Industry to pay a wage for the worker they want. In lieu of that, the Industry isn't as willing to invest in it's Human Capital, expanding training and skill sets. They're afraid if they train you, you'll go find a better job. Well, if you don't train them, what if they stagnate and don't go find a better job?
If you aren't challenging your Tech Workers, then they want to move on, to avoid being bored, to find a new challenge. But if you train them, invest in them, they become invested in their company, and if they're challenged, they're just too busy and too happy to think about if the grass is greener on the other side of the street.
There's a reason that H1B workers strive to be great English speakers. English is the language of business, and it's still where people want to move towards to be successful. If we cultivate a culture of Tech Workers to move a long...then companies become a Journey, not a Destination. Would you rather work for a company who is the proverbial Wilderness, or the Promised Land?
Invest in Human Capital. That's how a Company is built that becomes a Destination, and not just a Journey to something better.
There are a good deal of "common sense" things that haven't seemed to soak into younger generations. Things that someone born in the 70's, 80's and 90's would likely have been exposed to and had been "taught" to some degree or another. The Police force has changed. The same cop may not patrol the same neighborhood 4 or 5 days a week. When they did, they got to know the neighborhood. They knew it's people, who "belonged" there and who didn't. Many lived not-too-far away and lived in a similar neighborhood. The Police and the people understood one another, had common ground. It seems that balance has changed.
If it's not going to go back to something like that, then our youth probably do need to be "taught" how to interact with these authority figures who aren't from their neighborhood, don't know them from the drug-dealer down the street. Until we sort out how to make the Police more local to any place it protects, make them feel like neighbors, then we're not doing the right thing unless we teach the youth how to properly interact with Police, without disrespect for either party. Remember: In the same way a Fireman runs into a burning building; this Officer is going to be running towards the gunfire if there's trouble, not away from it like the average youth on the street.
Bottom Line: If our Police aren't going to also be our neighbors, in our neighborhoods, then we need to re-learn out how interact with them.
Many states have a "Sunshine Law" which requires all public documents to be available for public review upon request. 99% of what police officers do is covered by this. Exceptions are often made for many items related to personnel records, things with specific safety implications (such as public school safety plans), records dealing with minors, and so forth. However, if something doesn't fall under a specific statue covered in the "Sunshine Law" then it's considered a public document if it was obtained through public funding.
So, if the data on police body cams was made possible by public funds, stored on servers purchased with public funds, then they are more than likely going to be subject to "Sunshine Law" information requests. This is the same law that keeps City Councils from hold closed meetings and passing city ordinance outside of the view of the public, or our state lawmakers to do the same. The laws are typically boiler-plate and very broad, the exceptions very narrow.
All of that being said, I can imagine that a new addendum is made for body cams, though not likely for dash-cams. Such as when police enter a private residence, video of open, ongoing investigations, videos dealing with minors, etc..
It's a brave new world. We need to temper our need for transparency, with the fact that our police officers are human; they will make mistakes, just like every citizen will make mistakes. It's the unintentional mistakes that we need to be able to roll back the clock on, to a time before when our whole life was televised on social media...when people actually forgot a stupid, unintentional mistake.