I think with real estate records, court documents and such being available online to anyone we have MUCH more to worry about than a simlpe address dataabse. In many places I can retrieve building plans, pictures and detailed information online. The first thing I thought when I saw that was: wow... if I would be a burglar then my job would now be much easier....
>On the flip side, I haven't heard that it's necessary to teach basic algebra or spelling / grammar to college freshmen and sophmores in Europe like is often the case in the U.S.
That's exactly it. If only the brightest 20% get a high school diploma, then that should say quite a bit about its value. Generally, in Europe you are required to fulfill all the broad education requirements in high school... whereas in the US it is put off to college. I would say for this reason it makes sense that the bachelor's degree in Europe is only 3 years long, exactly this year is spent with general education in US universities.
Besides, in the US students typically leave high school with 18 while in Europe it usually is 19. Most European high school programs are 13 instead of 12 years long.
>Take retail stores as an example. In 2003 we are seeing the deployment of automated checkout lines in stores all across the U.S.
At a local store in virginia they have several automated checkouts and one person supervising all those. One time the machine was very uncooperative and I began hitting it because the person wasn't willing to offer any assistance. The hitting helped and I could go on. Personally, I am not going to miss those people who aren't even doing their simple job. At least if a computer/robot is unresponsive I can imagine why. But if an employee acts like this then I get much more upset because they don't do what I pay them for!
>My fiancee runs her XP laptop without any login, just turn it on and there you are. So much for security. I gave up trying to explain to her why she needs to login to use it. The standard answer is it takes too much time.
Well... it doesn't really matter. Her personal data won't be safe because she uses a windows xp login, last I checked they didn't have the data encrypted.....
>for investigating graph theoretic mathematics.
Hello??? He said 6 to 12 years, not 6th through 12th grade!!
I might have been fascinated by your program when I was approaching 12 but I bet for most kids its too much.
Okay... so what you are saying is that you couldn't figure out how the good old ledger accounting system works and that's why the software needs improvments?
I remember people saying: "Just wait until a child of a senator gets busted downloading MP3's".
This story tells us why this is not going to happen. They pay the exorbitant tuition not only for the name of the school but also for other services. Including a protection of privacy you would not get anywhere else. And that's why no senator kid is going to get busted sharing some thousand mp3's.
"Let us assume you are in Malawi," explained Prof Amarasinghe, "and the computer lab does not have access to the telephone line all the time."
"If you want to find some new information about malaria, you are prompted with a message that says 'we are going to send a query through e-mail, it is OK?'.
"At night, when the phone line is available, the teacher can dial out and send the queries."
The request is sent to computers at MIT in Boston, which then search the internet and gather webpages.
Well... there is a difference between the phone company turns off the encryption in their whole system or some FSB guys sitting in a little shack with an phone company employee to listen to connections going through that specific antenna. I just think the latter will be more complicated.
That's much too complicated. This way they can place their radioscanner and computer in the area they want monitored and don't need to worry about gaining access to antenna's and fight with uncooperative employees. - And it has quite an effect showing terrorists how their connection can be eavesdropped.
>like many of the others in the high tech bust. The most threatening thing to the American high tech economy at this time is continuing economic globalization. Interestingly, this trend is now expanding to threaten other agendas that require higher education. Just this week I heard that CPAs are now losing jobs to India because the average college trained CPA in India makes $6000 per year.
Whoever told you that is wrong. A CPA is not a finance monkey per se. As the C in CPA says, they are certified. A CPA in India is certified in India and will not be able to perform an audit in the USA.
Basically the costs are just shifted. Instead of the school printing the documents the kids will have to do that at home or with their limited printing quota (where they pay extra for excess).
Basic strategy to increase profit, raise prices or lower costs.... and if you can lower costs by declaring it a measure to "protect the environment" then that's even better.
>The first thing that could be done would probably be to form a union. Many people in the tech industry protest this it seems, though, because they might see 'union' being attributed to 'lower' work, such as manual labor.
I never liked unions... not because of their association with manual labor but because of their methods! Strikes, slow-downs, this is what I did in Kindergarten and maybe elementary school. In Europe just turn on the TV and you will have a negative attitude towards unions too.
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I think with real estate records, court documents and such being available online to anyone we have MUCH more to worry about than a simlpe address dataabse. In many places I can retrieve building plans, pictures and detailed information online. The first thing I thought when I saw that was: wow... if I would be a burglar then my job would now be much easier....
That's exactly it. If only the brightest 20% get a high school diploma, then that should say quite a bit about its value. Generally, in Europe you are required to fulfill all the broad education requirements in high school... whereas in the US it is put off to college. I would say for this reason it makes sense that the bachelor's degree in Europe is only 3 years long, exactly this year is spent with general education in US universities.
Besides, in the US students typically leave high school with 18 while in Europe it usually is 19. Most European high school programs are 13 instead of 12 years long.
now I just hope somebody comes up with a way soon to recover that fast after a slashdotting!!!
>Take retail stores as an example. In 2003 we are seeing the deployment of automated checkout lines in stores all across the U.S.
At a local store in virginia they have several automated checkouts and one person supervising all those. One time the machine was very uncooperative and I began hitting it because the person wasn't willing to offer any assistance. The hitting helped and I could go on.
Personally, I am not going to miss those people who aren't even doing their simple job. At least if a computer/robot is unresponsive I can imagine why. But if an employee acts like this then I get much more upset because they don't do what I pay them for!
>Do you read newspapers? Our own children are getting fat, and they've got video games coming out of their ears.
Yes, he does... Our american children are dying because they are so fat *lol*
(If I ever have a child and it will be that fat I will know that I really failed as a parent)
1% are telemarketers and old people who still want to receive those calls. My guess is probably even more than that.
>My fiancee runs her XP laptop without any login, just turn it on and there you are. So much for security. I gave up trying to explain to her why she needs to login to use it. The standard answer is it takes too much time. Well... it doesn't really matter. Her personal data won't be safe because she uses a windows xp login, last I checked they didn't have the data encrypted.....
>for investigating graph theoretic mathematics. Hello??? He said 6 to 12 years, not 6th through 12th grade!! I might have been fascinated by your program when I was approaching 12 but I bet for most kids its too much.
Okay... so what you are saying is that you couldn't figure out how the good old ledger accounting system works and that's why the software needs improvments?
I remember people saying: "Just wait until a child of a senator gets busted downloading MP3's". This story tells us why this is not going to happen. They pay the exorbitant tuition not only for the name of the school but also for other services. Including a protection of privacy you would not get anywhere else. And that's why no senator kid is going to get busted sharing some thousand mp3's.
Welcome to capitalism. You must be new here?
yuck!!
"Let us assume you are in Malawi," explained Prof Amarasinghe, "and the computer lab does not have access to the telephone line all the time." "If you want to find some new information about malaria, you are prompted with a message that says 'we are going to send a query through e-mail, it is OK?'. "At night, when the phone line is available, the teacher can dial out and send the queries." The request is sent to computers at MIT in Boston, which then search the internet and gather webpages.
Are you serious? What are they called?
As proven by the German CCC
Well... there is a difference between the phone company turns off the encryption in their whole system or some FSB guys sitting in a little shack with an phone company employee to listen to connections going through that specific antenna. I just think the latter will be more complicated.
That's much too complicated. This way they can place their radioscanner and computer in the area they want monitored and don't need to worry about gaining access to antenna's and fight with uncooperative employees. - And it has quite an effect showing terrorists how their connection can be eavesdropped.
Whoever told you that is wrong. A CPA is not a finance monkey per se. As the C in CPA says, they are certified. A CPA in India is certified in India and will not be able to perform an audit in the USA.
Are you sure what you take for medical reasons is not N2O?
P.S. I use OpenBSD
>Alas, at least it didn't post the article twice. Not YET!
Basic strategy to increase profit, raise prices or lower costs.... and if you can lower costs by declaring it a measure to "protect the environment" then that's even better.
I never liked unions... not because of their association with manual labor but because of their methods! Strikes, slow-downs, this is what I did in Kindergarten and maybe elementary school. In Europe just turn on the TV and you will have a negative attitude towards unions too.
I agree.... they could have at least mentioned that there is also an abstract which is not even a page long.
Just wait until they patent the idea.....