A-men. We had to do the assembler weeder courses, too. And operating systems, and lexical analysis, and algorithms, and.. and.. and.
I can look at most resumes today and know within a few minutes whether or not they've had any kind of theoretical underpinning to their education, and it's very very sad.
The democratic party (of which I am a card carrying member) has been seriously lack-luster over the past 4 years - longer than that, even.
You would think that we'd have a better story, after 8 years with charismatic Clinton (a flawed man, perhaps, but he could get and hold your attention - excellent public speaker, and a very solid north/south candidate), but we don't.
Karl Rove knew exactly what was needed to get Bush elected, both times - getting out the "base" with emotional/knee-jerk issues like gay-marriage (you don't think that was accidental, do you? Rove knew it would take all this time for that to settle down, and probably counted on the issue landing on state ballots!).
We have no Karl Rove equivalent. He called all the shots, chose all the issues, and pretty much left the democratic strategists running around like headless chickens.
Until the entire party can find a new way to convey their message, we're stuck hip-deep in this quagmire.
What happens if in 4 years Jeb decides to run?
We need to find a way to convey to people that politics goes beyond religions rhetoric. The teachings and message of Christianity actually match the democratic platform better (share with those that are less fortunate, take care of your neighbor) than the republican, with the notable exception of abortion, and perhaps gay-marriage.
People in the US seem more and more _comfortable_ with the encroachment of religion on the US government. When will it stop?
I just want to get my entire neighborhood rigged with 802.11g, and say screw the ISP, we'll all share in one big hodgepodge of grid-like distributed networking love, and no one will be able to tell who did what when.
Stuff like this just makes me want to quit my job and go work for the FSF or the EFF, and fix it (why them? because they're central organizations for the OS movement, that's why - OSDN might work, too).
There are security models out there already - many of them. The trick is focusing and condensing them into a readable list of best practices that even the new kids can understand.
There are security resources available now - identification and alerts regarding exploits, announcements regarding fixes, but unless you're really interested in your OS, you don't always get the message (or know what it means..).
I find it frustrating to deal with people who don't understand their computers - but the fact is there will ALWAYS be those people, and it's inevitable that those people will be put in charge of something they're completely clueless about - like running a server. People are idiots. It's inevitable that some numbskull will put a completely unprotected server out there because they just don't know any better.
Education *IS* the solution, and part of education is making the answers we already have easier to find and understand.
If we as an educated, computer-grokking, code-generating community can figure out a way to serve security concepts to the masses as a digestible tidbit, then we can tell the FUDers to go take a flying leap.
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A-men. We had to do the assembler weeder courses, too. And operating systems, and lexical analysis, and algorithms, and .. and .. and.
I can look at most resumes today and know within a few minutes whether or not they've had any kind of theoretical underpinning to their education, and it's very very sad.
The democratic party (of which I am a card carrying member) has been seriously lack-luster over the past 4 years - longer than that, even.
You would think that we'd have a better story, after 8 years with charismatic Clinton (a flawed man, perhaps, but he could get and hold your attention - excellent public speaker, and a very solid north/south candidate), but we don't.
Karl Rove knew exactly what was needed to get Bush elected, both times - getting out the "base" with emotional/knee-jerk issues like gay-marriage (you don't think that was accidental, do you? Rove knew it would take all this time for that to settle down, and probably counted on the issue landing on state ballots!).
We have no Karl Rove equivalent. He called all the shots, chose all the issues, and pretty much left the democratic strategists running around like headless chickens.
Until the entire party can find a new way to convey their message, we're stuck hip-deep in this quagmire.
What happens if in 4 years Jeb decides to run?
We need to find a way to convey to people that politics goes beyond religions rhetoric. The teachings and message of Christianity actually match the democratic platform better (share with those that are less fortunate, take care of your neighbor) than the republican, with the notable exception of abortion, and perhaps gay-marriage.
People in the US seem more and more _comfortable_ with the encroachment of religion on the US government. When will it stop?
Braveheart ....
The Patriot
The Last of the Mohicans
Dances With Wolves
I'm sure there are more. This was what popped in my head first.
This piece ticked me off.
I just want to get my entire neighborhood rigged with 802.11g, and say screw the ISP, we'll all share in one big hodgepodge of grid-like distributed networking love, and no one will be able to tell who did what when.
Stuff like this just makes me want to quit my job and go work for the FSF or the EFF, and fix it (why them? because they're central organizations for the OS movement, that's why - OSDN might work, too).
There are security models out there already - many of them. The trick is focusing and condensing them into a readable list of best practices that even the new kids can understand.
There are security resources available now - identification and alerts regarding exploits, announcements regarding fixes, but unless you're really interested in your OS, you don't always get the message (or know what it means..).
I find it frustrating to deal with people who don't understand their computers - but the fact is there will ALWAYS be those people, and it's inevitable that those people will be put in charge of something they're completely clueless about - like running a server. People are idiots. It's inevitable that some numbskull will put a completely unprotected server out there because they just don't know any better.
Education *IS* the solution, and part of education is making the answers we already have easier to find and understand.
If we as an educated, computer-grokking, code-generating community can figure out a way to serve security concepts to the masses as a digestible tidbit, then we can tell the FUDers to go take a flying leap.