This is only public universities for a 4 year degree. Here is the source document from NCES:http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_320.asp. Keep in mind since they're public universities, you have states which allow "in state residents" a free ride like North Carolina and Georgia scewing the results as the lowest number is taken.
It depends on your state - those tuition numbers are based on the national average, I don't think NCES breaks it down by state, and I think it depends very heavily on where you live. In Texas it costs roughly triple the national average (according to the folks who I know who went there on the GI bill). Source: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_320.asp
Coming from your background, that's fine. Here's my story: my dad worked at Merck, and was earning well over 100k a year. I was told that my student loans wouldn't be a worry, and thanks to being a mediocre student in high school combined with his earnings, I didn't get much financial aide (not for want of talant, but because I was frequently sick and missed a lot of school). My parents wanted me to go to a highly ranked local private college for my CS degree. I didn't want to go, but they refused to sign my financial aide papers (FAFSA) if I didn't go where they wanted. I applied early admission, which barrs me from applying elsewhere. A quarter way through my junior year, my father has a series of heart attacks, is diagnosed with cancer and lyme disease. My mother is diagnosed with uterine cancer. Neither one lasted long. All of their money? Gone in an instant from medical bills. His pension? Merck decided to fire him after due to frequent illness thanks to the cancer, so it was lost. My situation? Newly graduated with over $100,000 in student debt thanks to interest rates peaking at 8%. Now, this is all my fault, I knew that money was racking up, but honestly it never clicked. Pair that with an utter lack of money management skills being taught in my school or by my parents, and it was a recipe for disaster. It was something I never knew I needed to know, or even thought to learn about it. Not everyone has something "seriously wrong with them" and that sort of world view will get you branded as shallow and ignorant. Some people honestly get screwed by student loans.
No, its not possible these days on average. The average public university costs close to 11034 a year according to the census. The average minimum wage is 7.35. That comes out to a 35 hour workweek alongside being a fulltime student (1823 hours). This is only public schools - NOT private schools. Not to mention prices for everything have gone up steeply. If they're trying to put themselves through school, its almost impossible to avoid debt. Baby boomers don't quite seem to understand the math, so here it is: A dose of Financial Reality.
Since 1970, minimum wage has on average gone up about 300%. College tuition has gone up 994% (from 1200 a year at a public university to shy of 12000 a year). The cost of purchasing a home has gone up over 900% as well. Let's also not forget that every dollar is worth less, and when factoring in inflation and the consumer price index, minimum wage earners are making a good deal less than they did in 1970. Factor in that in the same timespan uneducated labor jobs have dropped by close to 70% in the US. So, people have no choice but to go to college, even the people who really shouldn't go, lest they live in poverty. They get no scholarships because they "just barely" managed to get in. They get a degree, and then can't find work. Working your way through school is now impossible with a minimum wage job, since, you're looking at 35 hours a week at minimum wage to be able to afford only tuition - that doesn't include books or board. In 1970, people were looking at 14 hours a week to be able to pay for school. This math also points out that its idiotic when baby boomers say, "people should work through college, that's what I did" because times are completely different. And as parent said, things are only going to get worse.
I think "Bread and Circuses" is more appropriate. Americans couldn't care less, so long as they get to watch American Idol and don't have to see people laying dead in the street.
Well, to be honest the sole argument for using macs in the first place was that their processors tended to be extremely well suited towards handling graphics intensive operations, wasn't it? That benefit would have disappeared when they moved from their power- and g- series processors over to the intel based systems. Or am I wrong? Not really an apple fanboi, I prefer using actual BSD.
I think you may be wrong - I highly doubt all of their cell phone carriers are operating their backbones over TDM, it'd be a massive waste of bandwidth. That means an IP network - that means big pipes carrying lots of UDP and RTP data. Given the huge Persian diaspora and (pardon if I offend) the typical closeness of Persian families, I think they'd be sending a fairly significant amount of data both in and out of the country.
It would still be pretty intensive to fully de-encapsulate all the way up to layer 6/7 to see the type of traffic though. Although I had seen some routers demo'd a few months ago which only look at the first packet or two in a dialog, determine the type of payload, and then let the rest of the stream pass unmolested. That might be possible? Not sure if they had intended to do something like this with them. (source)
Both DEC and Xerox helped create DIX Ethernet, the father of Ethernet, which you're most likely using right now. Xerox created the mouse, as well as window managed OS's, which you're most likely using right now (unless you're posting from Links/Lynx - in which case good god man, let it go!).
Agreed - the amount of hardware they'd require to be able to do that without incurring significant delay EVERYWHERE would be incredible. If they're going on a port by port approach, that's not going to stop anyone who seriously has any interest in communicating.
If you won't endanger yourself by poking it too much, I'm curious what exactly they blocked. IPSEC, L2TP, PPTP, TLS... there are a ton of possibilities. Heck, you can even proxy everything via SSH if you want.
I'm trying to find out more of what they're blocking... TLS? L2TP? PPTP? IPSEC? These are all styles of VPN, and even more exist. I highly doubt they're blocking them all.
I don't envy the guy hired to look at every ICMP packet for an entire country. About the only way he could remain sane is if he was autistic since they tend to be really good at tasks like that.
Unless I'm completely misunderstanding your comment, it doesn't matter what port its running on at all. Unless Iran is doing some seriously deep packet inspection, its not going to look "suspiscious." If you set your VPN peer to use port 80, its no longer an unencrypted HTTP port, its a VPN port. 80 being http is just a standard, but like everything, standards can be bent when necessary. As for doing DPI on every single IP device generating IP traffic into/out of the country, good farking luck. It'll basically wreck their international telecomm systems since most of those should be IP based by this point. DPI + UDP = crap audio.
Woz, Gates, Torvalds. Jobs would have been nowhere without the Woz's technical prowess. He was only good at marketing, thats why he always worked closely to drive engineers to do their best. He couldn't do it himself, so he hired people who complemented his abilities.
There was no american trial in absentia though. So far as I know, there was a trial by the Yemeni government. Even so, that would only authorize action against Al-Awlaki - it would NOT authorize us to murder everyone else in the vehicle. If a cop was told to kill someone in a vehicle, and he took out that person and 4 others, he'd be brought up on murder charges.
Those "enemy" personnel I'm sure were all tried and convicted by the Yemeni government, right? So far as I know, police can't kill everyone in the room because a single bad guy is inside. Especially if none of them are armed.
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This is only public universities for a 4 year degree. Here is the source document from NCES:http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_320.asp. Keep in mind since they're public universities, you have states which allow "in state residents" a free ride like North Carolina and Georgia scewing the results as the lowest number is taken.
It depends on your state - those tuition numbers are based on the national average, I don't think NCES breaks it down by state, and I think it depends very heavily on where you live. In Texas it costs roughly triple the national average (according to the folks who I know who went there on the GI bill). Source: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_320.asp
Coming from your background, that's fine. Here's my story: my dad worked at Merck, and was earning well over 100k a year. I was told that my student loans wouldn't be a worry, and thanks to being a mediocre student in high school combined with his earnings, I didn't get much financial aide (not for want of talant, but because I was frequently sick and missed a lot of school). My parents wanted me to go to a highly ranked local private college for my CS degree. I didn't want to go, but they refused to sign my financial aide papers (FAFSA) if I didn't go where they wanted. I applied early admission, which barrs me from applying elsewhere. A quarter way through my junior year, my father has a series of heart attacks, is diagnosed with cancer and lyme disease. My mother is diagnosed with uterine cancer. Neither one lasted long. All of their money? Gone in an instant from medical bills. His pension? Merck decided to fire him after due to frequent illness thanks to the cancer, so it was lost. My situation? Newly graduated with over $100,000 in student debt thanks to interest rates peaking at 8%. Now, this is all my fault, I knew that money was racking up, but honestly it never clicked. Pair that with an utter lack of money management skills being taught in my school or by my parents, and it was a recipe for disaster. It was something I never knew I needed to know, or even thought to learn about it. Not everyone has something "seriously wrong with them" and that sort of world view will get you branded as shallow and ignorant. Some people honestly get screwed by student loans.
No, its not possible these days on average. The average public university costs close to 11034 a year according to the census. The average minimum wage is 7.35. That comes out to a 35 hour workweek alongside being a fulltime student (1823 hours). This is only public schools - NOT private schools. Not to mention prices for everything have gone up steeply. If they're trying to put themselves through school, its almost impossible to avoid debt. Baby boomers don't quite seem to understand the math, so here it is: A dose of Financial Reality.
Since 1970, minimum wage has on average gone up about 300%. College tuition has gone up 994% (from 1200 a year at a public university to shy of 12000 a year). The cost of purchasing a home has gone up over 900% as well. Let's also not forget that every dollar is worth less, and when factoring in inflation and the consumer price index, minimum wage earners are making a good deal less than they did in 1970. Factor in that in the same timespan uneducated labor jobs have dropped by close to 70% in the US. So, people have no choice but to go to college, even the people who really shouldn't go, lest they live in poverty. They get no scholarships because they "just barely" managed to get in. They get a degree, and then can't find work. Working your way through school is now impossible with a minimum wage job, since, you're looking at 35 hours a week at minimum wage to be able to afford only tuition - that doesn't include books or board. In 1970, people were looking at 14 hours a week to be able to pay for school. This math also points out that its idiotic when baby boomers say, "people should work through college, that's what I did" because times are completely different. And as parent said, things are only going to get worse.
Not all of us, just most. The remainder are stuck /facepalm'ing all of the time and shaking their heads in disbelief.
I think "Bread and Circuses" is more appropriate. Americans couldn't care less, so long as they get to watch American Idol and don't have to see people laying dead in the street.
My sentiments exactly. :(
Well, to be honest the sole argument for using macs in the first place was that their processors tended to be extremely well suited towards handling graphics intensive operations, wasn't it? That benefit would have disappeared when they moved from their power- and g- series processors over to the intel based systems. Or am I wrong? Not really an apple fanboi, I prefer using actual BSD.
This isn't criminal, this is civil. At least by US law, now how it flies in Holland may be completely different.
I think you may be wrong - I highly doubt all of their cell phone carriers are operating their backbones over TDM, it'd be a massive waste of bandwidth. That means an IP network - that means big pipes carrying lots of UDP and RTP data. Given the huge Persian diaspora and (pardon if I offend) the typical closeness of Persian families, I think they'd be sending a fairly significant amount of data both in and out of the country.
It would still be pretty intensive to fully de-encapsulate all the way up to layer 6/7 to see the type of traffic though. Although I had seen some routers demo'd a few months ago which only look at the first packet or two in a dialog, determine the type of payload, and then let the rest of the stream pass unmolested. That might be possible? Not sure if they had intended to do something like this with them. (source)
Both DEC and Xerox helped create DIX Ethernet, the father of Ethernet, which you're most likely using right now. Xerox created the mouse, as well as window managed OS's, which you're most likely using right now (unless you're posting from Links/Lynx - in which case good god man, let it go!).
You may want to look into the research, AC.
Agreed - the amount of hardware they'd require to be able to do that without incurring significant delay EVERYWHERE would be incredible. If they're going on a port by port approach, that's not going to stop anyone who seriously has any interest in communicating.
If you won't endanger yourself by poking it too much, I'm curious what exactly they blocked. IPSEC, L2TP, PPTP, TLS... there are a ton of possibilities. Heck, you can even proxy everything via SSH if you want.
I'm trying to find out more of what they're blocking... TLS? L2TP? PPTP? IPSEC? These are all styles of VPN, and even more exist. I highly doubt they're blocking them all.
I don't envy the guy hired to look at every ICMP packet for an entire country. About the only way he could remain sane is if he was autistic since they tend to be really good at tasks like that.
Unless I'm completely misunderstanding your comment, it doesn't matter what port its running on at all. Unless Iran is doing some seriously deep packet inspection, its not going to look "suspiscious." If you set your VPN peer to use port 80, its no longer an unencrypted HTTP port, its a VPN port. 80 being http is just a standard, but like everything, standards can be bent when necessary. As for doing DPI on every single IP device generating IP traffic into/out of the country, good farking luck. It'll basically wreck their international telecomm systems since most of those should be IP based by this point. DPI + UDP = crap audio.
Ok so the list is now: Woz, Gates, GNU/Torvalds, Stallman, Lovelace, Berners-Lee,chick who invented spanning tree
Not to mention Tim Berners-Lee, Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace.
Woz, Gates, Torvalds. Jobs would have been nowhere without the Woz's technical prowess. He was only good at marketing, thats why he always worked closely to drive engineers to do their best. He couldn't do it himself, so he hired people who complemented his abilities.
Or DEC, and Xerox. Apparently nothing was invented at Palo Alto.
There was no american trial in absentia though. So far as I know, there was a trial by the Yemeni government. Even so, that would only authorize action against Al-Awlaki - it would NOT authorize us to murder everyone else in the vehicle. If a cop was told to kill someone in a vehicle, and he took out that person and 4 others, he'd be brought up on murder charges.
Those "enemy" personnel I'm sure were all tried and convicted by the Yemeni government, right? So far as I know, police can't kill everyone in the room because a single bad guy is inside. Especially if none of them are armed.