A massive country wide nuclear power plant building spree would need to take place. Right now we have over 100 nuke plants that supply 20% of our electricity
Nuclear power isn't needed. By 2050 solar power could provide 69% of the US's electrical needs. Wind can also supply a lot, I read where the Rocky Mountains alone contain enough potential wind power to supply the lower 48 states but I didn't find a reference. Then a lot of waste heat goes up smokestacks daily. Here's a quote from TFA: "Here's a Maxwell House coffee roaster in Duval County. They're roasting beans, so all that heat has to go somewhere. About twelve megawatts' worth of potential electricity is going up the stack." In Hawaii about 30% of the big Island's, Puna, is from geothermal power. Geothermal sources produced about 13,000 gigawatt hours in California in 2007, with more available.
Add all these together and every coal fired plant should be able to be closed without any more nuclear power plants being built and still have plenty of electricity.
CA didn't really deregulate electricity, power, they shifted the regulations. Before, the same company could own both power generation and power transmission. but when the so called deregulation came it split generation and transmission, a company wasn't allowed to do both. Then transmitters were barred from raising rates but generators weren't.
OTOH I followed some advice long ago that went something like "whatever your passion in life is, don't let it be what you do for a living".
I've heard the opposite, do what you love to do. The problem, which can happen with either one is that you'll burnout or come to hate what you're doing. a possible solution is to make sure you have other interests and take up hobbies that have nothing to do with work. While in college though I majored in Computer Engineering, I took classes that had nothing to do with computers, engineering, or science. I took dance and theatre classes as well as scuba diving. Actually I got some flak from other students because of that, but I wonder how many of those who gave me some got burnt out.
do not ever put anything other than water in a camelback. It WILL get nasty.
I've had Camelbacks for more than 10 years and I've always put juice and soda in it and never had a problem. I run hot soapy water through it and use a brush I have for cleaning the bottles I use for homebrewing. The only problem I've had with Camelbacks is once in a while I have to replace the bladder because of a hole, new bladders used to cost as much as a new Camelback.
If you don't love writing code so much that you want to do it when you get home, maybe you just shouldn't be writing code. Life is too short to do something you don't love for a living.
Stop bothering me honey, if you keep asking me to do things with you I'll leave you so I can write code.
Generally, when looking for software engineers or system administrators, I try to find the people who enjoy what they do enough that they don't mind doing it when they get off of work. If you haven't written anything interesting outside of work, and you're completely uninterested in doing so, then this automatically drops you down a notch among those that I would hire.
You look for people who live to work not for those who work to live? Or just someone who's single minded?
Falcon
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A good-quality shirt if you're a PC, a turtleneck if you're a mac, a T-shirt if you're linux, or a leather jacket if you're *bsd.
You left out a hemp safari shirt.
Slacks if you're a PC, black jeans if you're a mac or *bsd, blue jeans if you're linux.
Cargo shorts.
No hat if you're a PC, a kepi if you're a mac, a ballcap if you're linux (a red one if you're Fedora/RHEL), and a shaved head if you're *bsd.
Beret.
A briefcase if you're a PC, a leather portfolio if you're a mac, a softsider if you're linux, and a pull-behind carrying a 4u server if you're *bsd.
A backpack.
Coca-cola if you're a PC, bottled water if you're a mac, real beer (not that 5% piss) if you're linux, shots if you're *bsd.
The developer should ask his/her supervisors for proper clearance to show some code that isn't a vital part for the company's survival on the market place.
This could work for or against you. When you ask your super will know you're at least looking for a new job. If they want to keep you you may be given a better offer however if not then you may find yourself without a job. Of course if you know your super well you should have an idea of what the reaction will be.
Of course as other/.ers have said, the home projects are much better candidates to be shown in an interview.
I think this is where open source projects can come in handy. If you've worked on one and had code inserted into a project there's no problem with sharing what you contributed. Having contributed code, a potential employer may find your name on one or more projects when they Google your name.
Of course this could be a problem as well, some employers wouldn't like to employ anyone who's worked on FOOS. If so though and you don't have a problem with it then you know you probably shouldn't work for them.
No, I'd use the software myself. I'm on disability and can't afford to pay someone else to recover my data. With some of that data financial records I wouldn't want to pay anyone even if I could.
According to your argument, your car mechanic needs a PI license because he tells you that your head gasket blew because you forgot to top off the radiator fluid.
If the law applied to cars and not just computers, yes it would. And I'd be in trouble for that too as I used to work on car and trucks engines and have rebuilt them. About the only thing I couldn't do, and had to take an engine block into a machine shop for, was to bore out the cylinders. In the process of working on the engines though I did run diagnostics and analyze data.
If the investigation into the cause is incidental to the resolution of the problem, you do not 'accept employment to provide information'
Well, if it's my computer and I investigate it, then no it's not "accept employment" so in that sense I suppose it's ok for me to do it. However if I'm the geek in the family, or neighborhood, and someone takes me out to eat to fix it then it would be.
The law does, if you aren't licensed. If a virus caused the problem, that's a crime and if you investigate but aren't a licensed PI amd live in Texas you're breaking the law.
The federal government only exists for the regulation of interstate trade, per the Constitution.
And for the defense of the nation as well as to safe guard rights.
Certainly criminal investigations into activities connected to the Internet can be considered a world wide matter, thus the need for a more universal set of standards pertaining to the proper procedures and licensure for those connected to the process.
Who's law, Texas's, the US's, or China's should be followed? What's legal in one place may be illegal in another.
But the broader point is one of utility and fair governance,
To me fair governance requires those living in an area make laws for that area, so long as those laws don't violate people's rights. And any laws are directed at harm not activity.
People's right to a fair trial is a constitutional guarantee.
True, but government doesn't always allow a fair trial. And this law doesn't change that. If anything it can make a fair trial harder.
We need to look at specific legislation and think about it, and debate on that. Even if we disagree with it, if the majority of people want it, then they are correct to legislate it.
"And don't forget the IT guys that cant get bonded due to a shady past but are technically competent who will turn to crime to feed their families."
You're like a cornucopia of logical fallacy!
So, you think Kevin Mitnick would be able to get bonded?
I work for one of the many telecom companies along I-75 in Dallas
Sorry but I-75 runs between Michigan and Florida and comes no where near Texas. I've lived in both states and have traveled the whole thing a number of tymes. What's in Dallas maybe something75 but not I-75 ("I" meaning Interstate and part of the interstate highway system).
Forensic procedures for technology in law enforcement are well established, have nothing to do with those of private investigation, and are better administered at a national level where standards can be imposed across jurisdictions.
Yeap, over reacting. Can you show me where in the Constitution of the USA it gives the federal government any power to set national standards for this?
So now I need software to unformat the drive and recover the data. It does this by analyzing the data, my private data.
It doesn't analyse the data.
Either Restorer 2000and Linux Recovery 4.02analyze data or they are lying. Restorer 2000, which can unformat Windows PCs, says "Deep scan and automatic data analyze" and Linux Recovery, which obviously works with Linux, says "Analyze data for its correctness in free demo version".
What really needs to be done is some tort reform to reduce the economic burden on doctors and hospitals getting sued and do something about the extortionate insurance industry in this country so healthcare can be affordable to everybody.
No, what needs to be done is to get rid of some laws and tax codes. For instance get rid of codes that give employers tax benefits for offering insurance, even with them some employers still can't afford to pay for health insurance for employees. These tax breaks stem from WWII. The government created price and wage control law preventing employers from paying employees more. Because employers found it hard to keep employees the government allowed employers to offer infringe benefits like health insurance, and were given tax breaks for offering them.
If however the government got rid of those tax breaks and instead allowed employers to pay employees more without raising either one's taxes it would help. Say if a person was paid $2000 more but their tax stayed the same, that person could then use the money to buy health insurance on their own. With more people able to buy health themselves insurance issuers would compeat with each other to sale insurance. One person with a family could buy full coverage whereas someone single could open a health savings account to pay for normal medical expenses then buy catastrophic health coverage to cover expenses for things like cancer, heart surgery, or something else.
As for tort reform, if there weren't bad practitioners and hospitals lawsuits would be reduced.
You've now cut two phrases out of an entire law and are trying to interpret them without any other context. All the words are important.
... information obtained or furnished through the review and analysis of, and the investigation into the content of, computer-based data not available to the public.
If my computer crashes and I use disk diagnostic software to analyze the data on my hard drive to investigate why it's not working I've investigated by analyzing the data. Since it's my computer the data is not available to the public.
AND is a conjunction that means ALL conditions must be true. REVIEW, ANALYSIS, and INVESTIGATION INTO THE CONTENT OF.
I just did all that.
Looking at the hardware to determine why a hard disk is failing to record data is NOT "investigation into the content of" the data, nor is it analysis of that data.
I have a software utility that diagnoses my disk drives, it does so by scanning the drive and analyzing the data on it.
Here is a simple question to ask yourself as you "recover lost data". Do you CARE what the data is, or are you simply recovering whatever is there? If you don't CARE, then you cannot be analyzing it, nor are you investigating the content.
When I started having trouble with my PC I took it into the shop I bought it from and they diagnosed the problem. My motherboard died and had to be replaced. After they did they said the OS and software had to be reinstalled. Now I had two HDDs installed, a 40 GB disk for the OS and software and a 750 GB disk for user files. I specifically told the tech how I had it setup and told him to set the second drive for user files and to NOT ERASE the files on it. What did he do? He started the install then left it on automatic pilot. So the second drive was automatically formated. I lost more than 500 GB of data. Even if I used DL DVDs, the highest removable storage I knew of then, it would have taken it would have taken more than 50 disks to back it up. I realize now I should have used an external HDD. So now I need software to unformat the drive and recover the data. It does this by analyzing the data, my private data. If I lived in TX and paid someone to do it for me they just broke the law unless they are licensed to investigate, and I broke it by hiring them. And paying someone who's licensed will much more expensive than someone who's not.
According to this bill, if you believe that your website or a website you support has been compromised, you are not legally allowed to investigate that compromise because the compromise itself is a crime, and even looking to see how it happened so you can prevent it from happening again requires a PI license under the bill.
Which sorta, kinda, makes sense, doesn't it? I mean, if I were to return from vacation and find my place had been cleaned out, I wouldn't go off investigating it myself either but would call the police.
So you won't investigate why your computer isn't working right?
Having a webserver "hacked" sounds like an actual crime to me, and I can see why it should be investigated by someone who's trained in investigative methods and evidence gathering.
It is a crime but to fix a problem you have to investigate first. If you want to go ahead and report your cracked website to the police, then wait for it to be repaired by them or by someone they authorize, go ahead but don't make it illegal for someone who is capable of fixing from doing so. You may be waiting years, and paying a lot of money when you may have the capability to fix it yourself cheaply and quickly.
Computer techs, unless working for a company that is in the BUSINESS of such investigation, are NOT in the business of investigating criminal acts.
That's what the author of the law said. That's what the licensing bureau chief said.
Actually if you read the interview with the author of the law that's not what he said. The interviewer asks about forensics saying networks admins and repairmen do this all the tyme and the author answers "Truthfully, you may be just a little bit out of my realm of comprehension on that, because, maybe that's something we need to look at tweaking, along those lines, to clarify that situation." He obviously didn't know people do it all the tyme to repair computers or networks.
The guy who wrote the law says computer techs are not required to have a PI license.
In the interview the only place where the author even says "tech" is when he says "NPD: Don't worry about it - I'm not saying that - we're getting into some technical stuff. This isn't even a technical bill." There's nothing in that about a tech not needing a license. If you instead say repair computers he says "There's three words that describe somebody that repairs computers, and that's if people retrieve or provide information, and there's three words that somebody 'reviews, analyzes, or investigates' that material, then, they do need to have some sort of security clearance". Repairmen "reviews, analyzes, or investigates" all the tyme, if they don't how do they know what's wrong? ESP?
So while the author didn't know that repairmen would need licenses they do.
This is a publicity stunt to get money for this new institute,
Publicity stunt to get money for this new institute? The Texas chapter is new but not the national institute. I've been getting solicitations to join from them for years. And the national organization Institute for Justice was started in 1991.
If your goal is to teach kids how to manage finances, then teach them applied finances.
You need algebra at least for financing.
Teaching them how to balance a checkbook will help them balance a checkbook.
Balancing a checkbook comes no where near all any should be able to do financially, unless they live in a socialist or communist economy in which the nanny state takes care of you,
Don't teach them how to calculate linear regressions, a concept they will never use, and hope that somehow, maybe, magically, they'll make some sort of leap between such totally abstract concepts and real-life applied concepts.
Perhaps you missed where I said "In a way I agree, students should be shown or taught the practical application of what they are being taught, but math, and science and art still should be taught." One of my favorite movies, "Stand and Deliver" is about Jamie Escalante. Jamie quit a job working in IT to teach at a high school. Starting at a school in a poor neighborhood in East LA he was supposed to teach computer classes but he was put into classes teaching math. He showed his students what math can do, be used for. Starting with algebra he was able to take his students all the way to AP Calculus.
Or a restuarant manager
A big part of running a restaurant is keeping it open, if a manager can't make sure it's making a profit it won't be open for long.
most so-called "business" positions including middle and executive management.
And they all require at least some financial knowledge, like that restaurant manager if they can't make a profit they won'[t be in business long. I've known several people who have run their own businesses; some IT related, some owned bookstores, and one who was an organizer organizing others lives and businesses, and they all needed to know more than just balancing a checkbook. And that's just running the business on a day to day basis, not worrying about the future like are they saving enough to make it through hard tymes.
I'm not saying math shouldn't be taught. I'm saying it shouldn't be forced.
How about art, reading and writing, composition, history, or any other subject? Afterall not everyone's going to become an artist or art critic, a writer, or have any other career path. The reason the them all is to help people become well rounded individuals. Perhaps I took it overboard myself however while I majored in Computer Engineering in college I took classes that had nothing to do with it such as dancing, theatre, and scuba diving.
So, tell me. What's the "practical application" of a quadratic equation to Joe Punchclock's day to day life
And what's the practical application of history to a farmer or a janitor? What's social sciences to them? What's physical education to anybody who's not an athlete? We, well I don't really want to, can play this game "what's the use of _____ subject to anyone" all day. But I don't want to go back in tyme to when people were only taught a trade, "you're going to be a shoe cobblermaking shoes and you a blacksmith so you will only be taught what you need to do them/"
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A massive country wide nuclear power plant building spree would need to take place. Right now we have over 100 nuke plants that supply 20% of our electricity
Nuclear power isn't needed. By 2050 solar power could provide 69% of the US's electrical needs. Wind can also supply a lot, I read where the Rocky Mountains alone contain enough potential wind power to supply the lower 48 states but I didn't find a reference. Then a lot of waste heat goes up smokestacks daily. Here's a quote from TFA: "Here's a Maxwell House coffee roaster in Duval County. They're roasting beans, so all that heat has to go somewhere. About twelve megawatts' worth of potential electricity is going up the stack." In Hawaii about 30% of the big Island's, Puna, is from geothermal power. Geothermal sources produced about 13,000 gigawatt hours in California in 2007, with more available.
Add all these together and every coal fired plant should be able to be closed without any more nuclear power plants being built and still have plenty of electricity.
Falcon
California has struggled with an unregulated power supply industry.
CA didn't really deregulate electricity, power, they shifted the regulations. Before, the same company could own both power generation and power transmission. but when the so called deregulation came it split generation and transmission, a company wasn't allowed to do both. Then transmitters were barred from raising rates but generators weren't.
Falcon
OTOH I followed some advice long ago that went something like "whatever your passion in life is, don't let it be what you do for a living".
I've heard the opposite, do what you love to do. The problem, which can happen with either one is that you'll burnout or come to hate what you're doing. a possible solution is to make sure you have other interests and take up hobbies that have nothing to do with work. While in college though I majored in Computer Engineering, I took classes that had nothing to do with computers, engineering, or science. I took dance and theatre classes as well as scuba diving. Actually I got some flak from other students because of that, but I wonder how many of those who gave me some got burnt out.
Falcon
do not ever put anything other than water in a camelback. It WILL get nasty.
I've had Camelbacks for more than 10 years and I've always put juice and soda in it and never had a problem. I run hot soapy water through it and use a brush I have for cleaning the bottles I use for homebrewing. The only problem I've had with Camelbacks is once in a while I have to replace the bladder because of a hole, new bladders used to cost as much as a new Camelback.
Falcon
If you don't love writing code so much that you want to do it when you get home, maybe you just shouldn't be writing code. Life is too short to do something you don't love for a living.
Stop bothering me honey, if you keep asking me to do things with you I'll leave you so I can write code.
Falcon
Generally, when looking for software engineers or system administrators, I try to find the people who enjoy what they do enough that they don't mind doing it when they get off of work. If you haven't written anything interesting outside of work, and you're completely uninterested in doing so, then this automatically drops you down a notch among those that I would hire.
You look for people who live to work not for those who work to live? Or just someone who's single minded?
Falcon
interview.
A good-quality shirt if you're a PC, a turtleneck if you're a mac, a T-shirt if you're linux, or a leather jacket if you're *bsd.
You left out a hemp safari shirt.
Slacks if you're a PC, black jeans if you're a mac or *bsd, blue jeans if you're linux.
Cargo shorts.
No hat if you're a PC, a kepi if you're a mac, a ballcap if you're linux (a red one if you're Fedora/RHEL), and a shaved head if you're *bsd.
Beret.
A briefcase if you're a PC, a leather portfolio if you're a mac, a softsider if you're linux, and a pull-behind carrying a 4u server if you're *bsd.
A backpack.
Coca-cola if you're a PC, bottled water if you're a mac, real beer (not that 5% piss) if you're linux, shots if you're *bsd.
Camelback of fruit juice and bottle of homebrew.
Falcon
The developer should ask his/her supervisors for proper clearance to show some code that isn't a vital part for the company's survival on the market place.
This could work for or against you. When you ask your super will know you're at least looking for a new job. If they want to keep you you may be given a better offer however if not then you may find yourself without a job. Of course if you know your super well you should have an idea of what the reaction will be.
Of course as other /.ers have said, the home projects are much better candidates to be shown in an interview.
I think this is where open source projects can come in handy. If you've worked on one and had code inserted into a project there's no problem with sharing what you contributed. Having contributed code, a potential employer may find your name on one or more projects when they Google your name.
Of course this could be a problem as well, some employers wouldn't like to employ anyone who's worked on FOOS. If so though and you don't have a problem with it then you know you probably shouldn't work for them.
Falcon
Any way you look at it, our nation became deeply screwed several years ago
Actually it started before him but FDR did a lot of damage.
Falcon
No, I'd use the software myself. I'm on disability and can't afford to pay someone else to recover my data. With some of that data financial records I wouldn't want to pay anyone even if I could.
According to your argument, your car mechanic needs a PI license because he tells you that your head gasket blew because you forgot to top off the radiator fluid.
If the law applied to cars and not just computers, yes it would. And I'd be in trouble for that too as I used to work on car and trucks engines and have rebuilt them. About the only thing I couldn't do, and had to take an engine block into a machine shop for, was to bore out the cylinders. In the process of working on the engines though I did run diagnostics and analyze data.
If the investigation into the cause is incidental to the resolution of the problem, you do not 'accept employment to provide information'
Well, if it's my computer and I investigate it, then no it's not "accept employment" so in that sense I suppose it's ok for me to do it. However if I'm the geek in the family, or neighborhood, and someone takes me out to eat to fix it then it would be.
Falcon
The law does, if you aren't licensed. If a virus caused the problem, that's a crime and if you investigate but aren't a licensed PI amd live in Texas you're breaking the law.
Falcon
The federal government only exists for the regulation of interstate trade, per the Constitution.
And for the defense of the nation as well as to safe guard rights.
Certainly criminal investigations into activities connected to the Internet can be considered a world wide matter, thus the need for a more universal set of standards pertaining to the proper procedures and licensure for those connected to the process.
Who's law, Texas's, the US's, or China's should be followed? What's legal in one place may be illegal in another.
But the broader point is one of utility and fair governance,
To me fair governance requires those living in an area make laws for that area, so long as those laws don't violate people's rights. And any laws are directed at harm not activity.
People's right to a fair trial is a constitutional guarantee.
True, but government doesn't always allow a fair trial. And this law doesn't change that. If anything it can make a fair trial harder.
Falcon
We need to look at specific legislation and think about it, and debate on that. Even if we disagree with it, if the majority of people want it, then they are correct to legislate it.
Tyranny of the masses?
Falcon
"And don't forget the IT guys that cant get bonded due to a shady past but are technically competent who will turn to crime to feed their families."
You're like a cornucopia of logical fallacy!
So, you think Kevin Mitnick would be able to get bonded?
Falcon
I work for one of the many telecom companies along I-75 in Dallas
Sorry but I-75 runs between Michigan and Florida and comes no where near Texas. I've lived in both states and have traveled the whole thing a number of tymes. What's in Dallas maybe something75 but not I-75 ("I" meaning Interstate and part of the interstate highway system).
Falcon
What's next? PI licenses required to service cars? To repair air conditioners? To install carpeting in homes?
Shush, don't give them any more ideas. On second thought I've got one, require a license to be a politician.
Falcon
Forensic procedures for technology in law enforcement are well established, have nothing to do with those of private investigation, and are better administered at a national level where standards can be imposed across jurisdictions.
Yeap, over reacting. Can you show me where in the Constitution of the USA it gives the federal government any power to set national standards for this?
Falcon
So now I need software to unformat the drive and recover the data. It does this by analyzing the data, my private data.
It doesn't analyse the data.
Either Restorer 2000and Linux Recovery 4.02analyze data or they are lying. Restorer 2000, which can unformat Windows PCs, says "Deep scan and automatic data analyze" and Linux Recovery, which obviously works with Linux, says "Analyze data for its correctness in free demo version".
Falcon
What really needs to be done is some tort reform to reduce the economic burden on doctors and hospitals getting sued and do something about the extortionate insurance industry in this country so healthcare can be affordable to everybody.
No, what needs to be done is to get rid of some laws and tax codes. For instance get rid of codes that give employers tax benefits for offering insurance, even with them some employers still can't afford to pay for health insurance for employees. These tax breaks stem from WWII. The government created price and wage control law preventing employers from paying employees more. Because employers found it hard to keep employees the government allowed employers to offer infringe benefits like health insurance, and were given tax breaks for offering them.
If however the government got rid of those tax breaks and instead allowed employers to pay employees more without raising either one's taxes it would help. Say if a person was paid $2000 more but their tax stayed the same, that person could then use the money to buy health insurance on their own. With more people able to buy health themselves insurance issuers would compeat with each other to sale insurance. One person with a family could buy full coverage whereas someone single could open a health savings account to pay for normal medical expenses then buy catastrophic health coverage to cover expenses for things like cancer, heart surgery, or something else.
As for tort reform, if there weren't bad practitioners and hospitals lawsuits would be reduced.
Falcon
You've now cut two phrases out of an entire law and are trying to interpret them without any other context. All the words are important.
If my computer crashes and I use disk diagnostic software to analyze the data on my hard drive to investigate why it's not working I've investigated by analyzing the data. Since it's my computer the data is not available to the public.
AND is a conjunction that means ALL conditions must be true. REVIEW, ANALYSIS, and INVESTIGATION INTO THE CONTENT OF.
I just did all that.
Looking at the hardware to determine why a hard disk is failing to record data is NOT "investigation into the content of" the data, nor is it analysis of that data.
I have a software utility that diagnoses my disk drives, it does so by scanning the drive and analyzing the data on it.
Here is a simple question to ask yourself as you "recover lost data". Do you CARE what the data is, or are you simply recovering whatever is there? If you don't CARE, then you cannot be analyzing it, nor are you investigating the content.
When I started having trouble with my PC I took it into the shop I bought it from and they diagnosed the problem. My motherboard died and had to be replaced. After they did they said the OS and software had to be reinstalled. Now I had two HDDs installed, a 40 GB disk for the OS and software and a 750 GB disk for user files. I specifically told the tech how I had it setup and told him to set the second drive for user files and to NOT ERASE the files on it. What did he do? He started the install then left it on automatic pilot. So the second drive was automatically formated. I lost more than 500 GB of data. Even if I used DL DVDs, the highest removable storage I knew of then, it would have taken it would have taken more than 50 disks to back it up. I realize now I should have used an external HDD. So now I need software to unformat the drive and recover the data. It does this by analyzing the data, my private data. If I lived in TX and paid someone to do it for me they just broke the law unless they are licensed to investigate, and I broke it by hiring them. And paying someone who's licensed will much more expensive than someone who's not.
Falcon
According to this bill, if you believe that your website or a website you support has been compromised, you are not legally allowed to investigate that compromise because the compromise itself is a crime, and even looking to see how it happened so you can prevent it from happening again requires a PI license under the bill.
Which sorta, kinda, makes sense, doesn't it? I mean, if I were to return from vacation and find my place had been cleaned out, I wouldn't go off investigating it myself either but would call the police.
So you won't investigate why your computer isn't working right?
Having a webserver "hacked" sounds like an actual crime to me, and I can see why it should be investigated by someone who's trained in investigative methods and evidence gathering.
It is a crime but to fix a problem you have to investigate first. If you want to go ahead and report your cracked website to the police, then wait for it to be repaired by them or by someone they authorize, go ahead but don't make it illegal for someone who is capable of fixing from doing so. You may be waiting years, and paying a lot of money when you may have the capability to fix it yourself cheaply and quickly.
Falcon
Computer techs, unless working for a company that is in the BUSINESS of such investigation, are NOT in the business of investigating criminal acts.
That's what the author of the law said. That's what the licensing bureau chief said.
Actually if you read the interview with the author of the law that's not what he said. The interviewer asks about forensics saying networks admins and repairmen do this all the tyme and the author answers "Truthfully, you may be just a little bit out of my realm of comprehension on that, because, maybe that's something we need to look at tweaking, along those lines, to clarify that situation." He obviously didn't know people do it all the tyme to repair computers or networks.
The guy who wrote the law says computer techs are not required to have a PI license.
In the interview the only place where the author even says "tech" is when he says "NPD: Don't worry about it - I'm not saying that - we're getting into some technical stuff. This isn't even a technical bill." There's nothing in that about a tech not needing a license. If you instead say repair computers he says "There's three words that describe somebody that repairs computers, and that's if people retrieve or provide information, and there's three words that somebody 'reviews, analyzes, or investigates' that material, then, they do need to have some sort of security clearance". Repairmen "reviews, analyzes, or investigates" all the tyme, if they don't how do they know what's wrong? ESP?
So while the author didn't know that repairmen would need licenses they do.
This is a publicity stunt to get money for this new institute,
Publicity stunt to get money for this new institute? The Texas chapter is new but not the national institute. I've been getting solicitations to join from them for years. And the national organization Institute for Justice was started in 1991.
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...I may just have to make it my civic duty to ensure that the news gets spread around a bit.
Please do.
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The bigger they are the harder they fall.
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If your goal is to teach kids how to manage finances, then teach them applied finances.
You need algebra at least for financing.
Teaching them how to balance a checkbook will help them balance a checkbook.
Balancing a checkbook comes no where near all any should be able to do financially, unless they live in a socialist or communist economy in which the nanny state takes care of you,
Don't teach them how to calculate linear regressions, a concept they will never use, and hope that somehow, maybe, magically, they'll make some sort of leap between such totally abstract concepts and real-life applied concepts.
Perhaps you missed where I said "In a way I agree, students should be shown or taught the practical application of what they are being taught, but math, and science and art still should be taught." One of my favorite movies, "Stand and Deliver" is about Jamie Escalante. Jamie quit a job working in IT to teach at a high school. Starting at a school in a poor neighborhood in East LA he was supposed to teach computer classes but he was put into classes teaching math. He showed his students what math can do, be used for. Starting with algebra he was able to take his students all the way to AP Calculus.
Or a restuarant manager
A big part of running a restaurant is keeping it open, if a manager can't make sure it's making a profit it won't be open for long.
most so-called "business" positions including middle and executive management.
And they all require at least some financial knowledge, like that restaurant manager if they can't make a profit they won'[t be in business long. I've known several people who have run their own businesses; some IT related, some owned bookstores, and one who was an organizer organizing others lives and businesses, and they all needed to know more than just balancing a checkbook. And that's just running the business on a day to day basis, not worrying about the future like are they saving enough to make it through hard tymes.
I'm not saying math shouldn't be taught. I'm saying it shouldn't be forced.
How about art, reading and writing, composition, history, or any other subject? Afterall not everyone's going to become an artist or art critic, a writer, or have any other career path. The reason the them all is to help people become well rounded individuals. Perhaps I took it overboard myself however while I majored in Computer Engineering in college I took classes that had nothing to do with it such as dancing, theatre, and scuba diving.
So, tell me. What's the "practical application" of a quadratic equation to Joe Punchclock's day to day life
And what's the practical application of history to a farmer or a janitor? What's social sciences to them? What's physical education to anybody who's not an athlete? We, well I don't really want to, can play this game "what's the use of _____ subject to anyone" all day. But I don't want to go back in tyme to when people were only taught a trade, "you're going to be a shoe cobbler making shoes and you a blacksmith so you will only be taught what you need to do them/"
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