So, I have ripped my CD's, encoded them into mp3's, and put them on a Samba share from my Ubuntu box so that my wife, who co-owns the CD's, as her earned income paid in part for them, can listen to them. And this is illegal? I'd like to see the RIAA hire a forensic accountant to go through 12 years of joint bank account statements and figure out exactly whose paycheck paid for the CD's I have in my house. If they can manage that, then I'll be sure to tell my wife she can't listen to "my" CD's anymore, and I won't listen to hers.
I'm going to go bang my head on a wall.
OMG - This has got the be the greatest prank idea ever put into writing. I think I am going to actively look for a similar computer just to do this very thing.
I realize teaching math and IT are two different animals. Let's see, since I have been teaching, I haven't worried once about the school suddenly shutting down and laying all the staff off. I haven't had the pressure of "mission statements", status reports, daily meetings to discuss progress, budget concerns, pointy haird bosses changing network specs two days before the go live date, or any of that other crap. All I've had to do is convey ideas to students and watch the lights come on. My changing of careers had jack to do with "not being able to cut it". Quite to the contrary, I was making almost six figures when I got laid off the last time and was doing very well. I just got tired of being laid off and having companies go out of business, and also having zero job satisfaction. Teaching is fun, rewarding, and as the other author mentiond, a continually evolving process. It's been a blast. I'm just taking it to the next level by moving from college students to young people.
I changed out of IT after the crash in 2000. I started teaching college as a stopgap measure and found it immensely rewarding despite the drastic drop in pay. I got certified to teach math in Florida, and I'm now here looking to teach kids in the public school system. Job satisfaction was the only motivating factor.
Listen, with so many geeks like us out of work, some of us having been looking for 2 years now, walking out is a BAD thing. If you don't have another job lined up already, you might as well suck it up. if not, I am looking for work, as are others.
I had an internship for an ISP while in college where we dealt with a lot of spam. It seemed that most of the spam came from unsecured mail servers in China that allowed anyone access to port 25. My question in light of this is: What can we do as a world community to help insure responsible ownership of private systems in a public, global community such as the Internet?
I teach at a local trade school that offers, among other things, associates degrees in network administration. Several terms ago, I had a class that was all here on financial aid from a local employer who had laid them off, and was putting them through school as part of the package.
Several of them EARNED D's and F's in my class. (Network Infrastructure) I was ordered to change their grades to C's, beause anything less than a C gets them dropped from the program if they are on finacial aid of this type.
I did it under protest, because I have to feed my family, but I know of MANY instances of this type of behavior. The school cares about money and image. (i.e. graduation rate) I will never hire anyone from this school if I ever get back into the field, and unfortunately, will not be able to provide references except to a very select few who are here to learn.
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So, I have ripped my CD's, encoded them into mp3's, and put them on a Samba share from my Ubuntu box so that my wife, who co-owns the CD's, as her earned income paid in part for them, can listen to them. And this is illegal? I'd like to see the RIAA hire a forensic accountant to go through 12 years of joint bank account statements and figure out exactly whose paycheck paid for the CD's I have in my house. If they can manage that, then I'll be sure to tell my wife she can't listen to "my" CD's anymore, and I won't listen to hers. I'm going to go bang my head on a wall.
OMG - This has got the be the greatest prank idea ever put into writing. I think I am going to actively look for a similar computer just to do this very thing.
I realize teaching math and IT are two different animals. Let's see, since I have been teaching, I haven't worried once about the school suddenly shutting down and laying all the staff off. I haven't had the pressure of "mission statements", status reports, daily meetings to discuss progress, budget concerns, pointy haird bosses changing network specs two days before the go live date, or any of that other crap. All I've had to do is convey ideas to students and watch the lights come on. My changing of careers had jack to do with "not being able to cut it". Quite to the contrary, I was making almost six figures when I got laid off the last time and was doing very well. I just got tired of being laid off and having companies go out of business, and also having zero job satisfaction. Teaching is fun, rewarding, and as the other author mentiond, a continually evolving process. It's been a blast. I'm just taking it to the next level by moving from college students to young people.
I changed out of IT after the crash in 2000. I started teaching college as a stopgap measure and found it immensely rewarding despite the drastic drop in pay. I got certified to teach math in Florida, and I'm now here looking to teach kids in the public school system. Job satisfaction was the only motivating factor.
Listen, with so many geeks like us out of work, some of us having been looking for 2 years now, walking out is a BAD thing. If you don't have another job lined up already, you might as well suck it up. if not, I am looking for work, as are others.
I had an internship for an ISP while in college where we dealt with a lot of spam. It seemed that most of the spam came from unsecured mail servers in China that allowed anyone access to port 25. My question in light of this is: What can we do as a world community to help insure responsible ownership of private systems in a public, global community such as the Internet?
I teach at a local trade school that offers, among other things, associates degrees in network administration. Several terms ago, I had a class that was all here on financial aid from a local employer who had laid them off, and was putting them through school as part of the package.
Several of them EARNED D's and F's in my class. (Network Infrastructure) I was ordered to change their grades to C's, beause anything less than a C gets them dropped from the program if they are on finacial aid of this type.
I did it under protest, because I have to feed my family, but I know of MANY instances of this type of behavior. The school cares about money and image. (i.e. graduation rate) I will never hire anyone from this school if I ever get back into the field, and unfortunately, will not be able to provide references except to a very select few who are here to learn.