Damn, get out of my head, this sounds so familiar. I wish I could mod you (and your parent) up. I had an almost identical experience between High School and College. I suspect, based on my personal experiences and observing others around me with a similar geeky bent, that this is rather common. I think it could frequently boil down to being an introvert and poor social skills for many men. It also didn't help much that many of the people in high school knew each other since grade school (much harder to over come preconceived notions about people for good or bad). College gave me a lot of opportunities to work on myself as well as interact with a lot of new people.
It looks like the site is down right now.
It worked for me before, but now I'm getting the 'unable to connect'. Hopefully, this is only a server overload issue.
Oregon and possibly Washington are have similar issues with Version FIOS TV. We've been having issues with bad faith negotiations on Verzion's part here in Oregon for the past couple years. Part of it is that cable is regulated by county in Oregon (although a some counties have banded together) and Version hasn't wanted to negotiate individually. Also, they didn't want to support the same local services that cable is forced to support. A lot of Verizons demands were simply untenable. In the end, I suspect that they had hoped the big TelCom bill this last summer would fix things in their favor.
I recently had FIOS installed in Beaverton, OR and asked the installer about it. He claimed that they been had given installation classes recently and expected it to be rolled out this year.
In the beginning when they first started to roll this out (over a year a go) they did do this some. At least for a while now in Oregon and elsewhere from what I here, they simply leave the wiring. (Yes I have FIOS - I don't know what it would take to go another phone company).
Please give this serious consideration. Having received a BS in CS and spending a little less than a decade creating software professionally (not game programming). From my experience, I'd rather higher someone with a BS who is intelligent and has several years of good experience than someone who only has an MS. I've unfortunately run into too many of these folks who lack the ability to cope with the real world. It seems like the best use of these advanced degrees are if you want to stay in school and teach.
If you really are determined to get an advanced degree please, please, please get a general CS degree (Software Engineering possibly?). It will serve you much better in the long run than some thing like game programming.
while it's true that in many place, employers are require to give adequate leave for employees to vote. Most employees are payed hourly and won't received any money for standing around in line all day. The poor and even the middle class can't afford to do this living pay check to pay check. Today should be a national payed holiday.
Unfortunately (fortunately??) Lib platforms are too extreme for my views. There are a couple of values that I agree with, but far too many I don't and would find too damaging to waist my vote.
Bull. At best that's a weak excuse, yanked from Bush apologists talking points. This is simply a raw power grab that is far too broadly designed for just handling local regional emergencies.
First, I'm a little surprised that you're modded Funny instead of down.
That said, 1 way transparency IS spying. Your thought experiment couold be interesting if it were complete 2 way transparency. That would mean that all people know what all other people are doing. After all if the governement and people with power aren't doing anything wrong, why do they need to hide so much?
Of course this will also take money and time. Our court systems are not free or fast. Hopefully, the challenger has some deep pockets. Software should never be patentable.
The "free market" in this country is horribly broken and I want it back. Large corporations are the enemies of capitalism because they see regulation as a way to keep potential competitors out of the game.
IMHO this really stems back to the really bad decision in the 1800's recognizing the legal fiction of corporate personhood. This decision alone is probably responsible more damage in the last century than any other by the high court.
You have two big sides to the "internet" as far as who has really paid for it. You have some large companies who have constructed these huge backbones. Strining countless tons of fibre, so on and so forth. Mostly for the "good of hte internet" and to make some money.
Sorry, but it has ALWAYS been to make money. Corporations almost never act out of pure charity, and the TelCom's won't ever be on of those.
Then you have the local telcos and cable companies who invested in infrastructure in order to get "high speed" internet access out to homes in an era where you would buy "high speed" access, but you'd never really use it all (non multimedia web browsing just doesn't gobble up bandwidth). They made money, until people really started using the bandwidth and the more we use the less the make.
Sorry again, but they did all of this build out using my (and your) tax money. We already paid for it. Also, they were a given goverment sanctioned market/regional monopoly status. As customers you, me, Google, YouTube, etc. already pay money to the TelComs proportional to our usage of their services (the "pipes"). This is just pure, naked greed on the part of the TelComs. This will devolve into little more than extortion.
Prove it. Oh wait you can't. It makes for a really nice talking point, but is utterly meaningless. Show me ANY evidence at all that this has caught or stopped ANY attack. Prove to me that it has a reasonable chance of to succeed and a very low chance of a false-positive. Otherwise it's worthless. Oh wait you can't. I'm sorry but this is just too much power to be kept in the shadows because of MAYBE it works. Do you really trust our government (or the people in it) to weild this power wisely with out any significant pubic oversight? How about in several years when the administration/congress changes? Will you trust them then?
Here at the Phone Company we handle eighty-four billion calls a year. Serving everyone from presidents and kings to scum of the earth. We realize that every so often you can't get an operator, for no apparent reason your phone goes out of order [plucks plug out of switchboard], or perhaps you get charged for a call you didn't make.
We don't care.
Watch this - [bangs on a switch panel like a cheap piano] just lost Peoria.
You see, this phone system consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space-age technology that is so sophisticated, even we can't handle it. But that's your problem, isn't it ? Next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two Dixie cups with a string.
[loud, booming voice-over] We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company.
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Damn, get out of my head, this sounds so familiar. I wish I could mod you (and your parent) up. I had an almost identical experience between High School and College. I suspect, based on my personal experiences and observing others around me with a similar geeky bent, that this is rather common. I think it could frequently boil down to being an introvert and poor social skills for many men. It also didn't help much that many of the people in high school knew each other since grade school (much harder to over come preconceived notions about people for good or bad). College gave me a lot of opportunities to work on myself as well as interact with a lot of new people.
It looks like the site is down right now. It worked for me before, but now I'm getting the 'unable to connect'. Hopefully, this is only a server overload issue.
Oregon and possibly Washington are have similar issues with Version FIOS TV. We've been having issues with bad faith negotiations on Verzion's part here in Oregon for the past couple years. Part of it is that cable is regulated by county in Oregon (although a some counties have banded together) and Version hasn't wanted to negotiate individually. Also, they didn't want to support the same local services that cable is forced to support. A lot of Verizons demands were simply untenable. In the end, I suspect that they had hoped the big TelCom bill this last summer would fix things in their favor.
I recently had FIOS installed in Beaverton, OR and asked the installer about it. He claimed that they been had given installation classes recently and expected it to be rolled out this year.
Lol, I never get tired of that one. What are you reading this for! I said [nt].
I just got it installed at my apartment (a large complex), but I think they had already "pre-wired" all of the builds his last summer.
In the beginning when they first started to roll this out (over a year a go) they did do this some. At least for a while now in Oregon and elsewhere from what I here, they simply leave the wiring. (Yes I have FIOS - I don't know what it would take to go another phone company).
Please give this serious consideration. Having received a BS in CS and spending a little less than a decade creating software professionally (not game programming). From my experience, I'd rather higher someone with a BS who is intelligent and has several years of good experience than someone who only has an MS. I've unfortunately run into too many of these folks who lack the ability to cope with the real world. It seems like the best use of these advanced degrees are if you want to stay in school and teach.
If you really are determined to get an advanced degree please, please, please get a general CS degree (Software Engineering possibly?). It will serve you much better in the long run than some thing like game programming.
Whatever path you choose, good luck.
while it's true that in many place, employers are require to give adequate leave for employees to vote. Most employees are payed hourly and won't received any money for standing around in line all day. The poor and even the middle class can't afford to do this living pay check to pay check. Today should be a national payed holiday.
Unfortunately (fortunately??) Lib platforms are too extreme for my views. There are a couple of values that I agree with, but far too many I don't and would find too damaging to waist my vote.
Bull. At best that's a weak excuse, yanked from Bush apologists talking points. This is simply a raw power grab that is far too broadly designed for just handling local regional emergencies.
With a quick swipe of his god like pen, he can modify any bill however he sees fit with near impunity before he signs it.
Sad. I wish I had mod points to help you out. I'm not as radical as you seem, but I do share you're general sentiment.
That said, 1 way transparency IS spying. Your thought experiment couold be interesting if it were complete 2 way transparency. That would mean that all people know what all other people are doing. After all if the governement and people with power aren't doing anything wrong, why do they need to hide so much?
Of course this will also take money and time. Our court systems are not free or fast. Hopefully, the challenger has some deep pockets. Software should never be patentable.
It's considered by some police to be a crime in some places.
or was it: Never go in against a Sicilian, when death is on the line?
Prove it. Oh wait you can't. It makes for a really nice talking point, but is utterly meaningless. Show me ANY evidence at all that this has caught or stopped ANY attack. Prove to me that it has a reasonable chance of to succeed and a very low chance of a false-positive. Otherwise it's worthless. Oh wait you can't. I'm sorry but this is just too much power to be kept in the shadows because of MAYBE it works. Do you really trust our government (or the people in it) to weild this power wisely with out any significant pubic oversight? How about in several years when the administration/congress changes? Will you trust them then?
Gees people, George doesn't seem think it's that big of a problem and that's good enough for me. .
But the real question everyone wants to know is: does it come with it's own sharks?
Bushit?
Obligatory SNL sketch:
Here at the Phone Company we handle eighty-four billion calls a year. Serving everyone from presidents and kings to scum of the earth. We realize that every so often you can't get an operator, for no apparent reason your phone goes out of order [plucks plug out of switchboard], or perhaps you get charged for a call you didn't make.
We don't care.
Watch this - [bangs on a switch panel like a cheap piano] just lost Peoria.
You see, this phone system consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space-age technology that is so sophisticated, even we can't handle it. But that's your problem, isn't it ? Next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two Dixie cups with a string.
[loud, booming voice-over] We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company.
I wish I still had my mod points. I'd give you a +1 funny right now.