I am in the military, and completely understand the need to protect the United States and its citizens from terrorist.
That being said, I am afraid some of the measures put into place by the Patriot Act and other knee-jerk legislation have the two problems:
1) They would not have been effective if they were in place on September 10, and
2) They either infringe on basic rights, or they expose people to addition dangers implicit with having person information stored in a database.
The problem starts with people writing the legislation not having a clear understanding of the technology they want to employ. The problem gets worse when the next generation expands the programs to use data for purposes the original drafters of the legislation never intended. For a government built on checks and balances, this is unacceptable.
Each agency reviewing the use of personal information only works as well as the people doing the review. We need hard standards that specify what the government can collect, and some kind of legislation that limits access to the information in the future.
Blanket cries of national defense are starting to sound a little hollow.
Congrats on mentioning DeVRY and MIT in the same post with a straight face.
And I totally agree with the parent. The days of a lone cert without a degree or massive experience doing you any good are almost over.
There is an anthopilogical theory called linguistic determination that claims language helps determine perception. In other words, if you are in a foriegn culture speaking a fabricated language you are missing large points of culture. You would not try to tour Greece speaking Klingon (even if you could). What is the point of using a fabricated language? People are not going to think any better of Americans if your major contribution to the world community is learning to speak a language that helps you on usenet or in teo houses a country.
I have been stationed on two submarines, and I can tell you the single best moral booster was a couple of computers networked together and Unreal Tournament. The study was packed after a watch with people waiting a turn. Small price to pay for a bunch of people stationed on an island with nothing, and I do mean nothing (I flew in there last year) else to do.
I guess they have been having luck with direct visual simulation. I believe the patient was a Canadian guy who had been blind for a couple of years. Sounds pretty sci-fi to me.
I got a copy of UltraEdit32 for a class with the intention of using it for the 45 day trial period and then grabbing something else for the trial period. In less than a week I bought the full version. Quality software is quality software.
Hey Patrick, my modem works. First install, first rpm, first logon w/ Linux. On a Presario Compaq no less. No other disto would install. The fact I am writing this is proof enough that Slack is a great distro. Now on to the soundcard!
I recently installed my first distro on a laptop. Slackware was the only distro I could get to work (I tried Red Hat and SuSE). I am sure a Linux expert could have made any distro work, but Slackware got me, a newbie, to the point of enjoying Linux. Now that I am up and running I am learning more about Linux than I knew existed by configuring the machine and getting everything to work (and no, not everything works yet). Slackware is easy to use, but requires you to actually read a HOWTO or man page to get what you want.
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I am in the military, and completely understand the need to protect the United States and its citizens from terrorist. That being said, I am afraid some of the measures put into place by the Patriot Act and other knee-jerk legislation have the two problems: 1) They would not have been effective if they were in place on September 10, and 2) They either infringe on basic rights, or they expose people to addition dangers implicit with having person information stored in a database. The problem starts with people writing the legislation not having a clear understanding of the technology they want to employ. The problem gets worse when the next generation expands the programs to use data for purposes the original drafters of the legislation never intended. For a government built on checks and balances, this is unacceptable. Each agency reviewing the use of personal information only works as well as the people doing the review. We need hard standards that specify what the government can collect, and some kind of legislation that limits access to the information in the future. Blanket cries of national defense are starting to sound a little hollow.
I wish Compaq had this type of support.
Congrats on mentioning DeVRY and MIT in the same post with a straight face. And I totally agree with the parent. The days of a lone cert without a degree or massive experience doing you any good are almost over.
Maybe the reason they are outsourcing jobs to India is advice like:
"If you know absolutely nothing start off in tech support somewhere - you will learn very quickly."
The guy is asking for advice about a college, not how he can get on the RTFM fast track.
There is an anthopilogical theory called linguistic determination that claims language helps determine perception. In other words, if you are in a foriegn culture speaking a fabricated language you are missing large points of culture. You would not try to tour Greece speaking Klingon (even if you could). What is the point of using a fabricated language? People are not going to think any better of Americans if your major contribution to the world community is learning to speak a language that helps you on usenet or in teo houses a country.
I have had terrible luck with linux on a laptop. Red Hat will not even attempt to install. Slackware 9.0 was decent, and SuSE 8.2 is the best so far.
I am just guessing, but if you underclocked it would it still keep time? For $300 bucks a watch should at least let me know if I am late.
I have been stationed on two submarines, and I can tell you the single best moral booster was a couple of computers networked together and Unreal Tournament. The study was packed after a watch with people waiting a turn. Small price to pay for a bunch of people stationed on an island with nothing, and I do mean nothing (I flew in there last year) else to do.
This is the kind of elitist crap that is going to keep Linux off most people's desktop. Maybe you should work on falling off your high horse.
I did not realize how inane this debate was. Thank you for pointing out I was wasteing my time.
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I guess they have been having luck with direct visual simulation. I believe the patient was a Canadian guy who had been blind for a couple of years. Sounds pretty sci-fi to me.I got a copy of UltraEdit32 for a class with the intention of using it for the 45 day trial period and then grabbing something else for the trial period. In less than a week I bought the full version. Quality software is quality software.
Hey Patrick, my modem works. First install, first rpm, first logon w/ Linux. On a Presario Compaq no less. No other disto would install. The fact I am writing this is proof enough that Slack is a great distro. Now on to the soundcard!
I recently installed my first distro on a laptop. Slackware was the only distro I could get to work (I tried Red Hat and SuSE). I am sure a Linux expert could have made any distro work, but Slackware got me, a newbie, to the point of enjoying Linux. Now that I am up and running I am learning more about Linux than I knew existed by configuring the machine and getting everything to work (and no, not everything works yet). Slackware is easy to use, but requires you to actually read a HOWTO or man page to get what you want.