8 years ago I had a guy at our company come up to me and tell me he got an email from a girl that said "I love you." He then said, she attached a vbs file to the email and he spent the last 10 minutes trying to get the attachment to work. He said he double clicked on it, ran it from a command prompt and several other ways but couldn't get her "love" program to work for him.
The guy was an IT analyst.
It is fairly common for private colleges to require community service to graduate. I attended a Private Catholic University where I was required to serve a certain amount of community service. I setup a back end MYSQL database with a PHP front end for a homeless charity. The amount of time that was put into the project far exceeded the required community service hours but I didn't mind. Not to sound cheesy but helping those in need was its own reward.
I believe this is the case. "Joe Six Pack";) doesn't give DRM a second thought. He just wants to play his game. I am not sure how accurate EA's numbers are but I imagine the majority of players don't consider DRM an issue.
*note* I just wanted to use the phrase Joe Six Pack and a wink.
While it may be true for you that school is for learning things, it really depends upon which school and program you mean. The majority of the training/education industry (as far as the government is concerned) is about meeting industry's HR needs, and has nothing to do with the lofty goals of education for the benefit of the individual.
Bah, speak for yourself. I majored in Anthroplogy with a concentration in Feminist studies.
I would comment more on this but I have to get back to waiting tables.
Employers generally don't trust their employees working at home. They think that without a tyrant-boss to keep an eye on them, most people will slack off. If these cameras were a regular part of telecommuting, more companies would support it.
In the past year, I've started to see laptops loaded with Cisco's Unified Personal Communicator , with headsets and webcams get distributed to our employees who telecommute. Right now, the video portion is only required for conferencing into meetings but who knows how long before one is required to keep it up all day from home.
I was thinking the same thing. Perry only shows up when he is getting his pockets lined with money. From attempting to force HPV vaccinations on high school girls to toll roads the man has shown time and time again he is nothing more than a politician for sale.
Good point. The only rating I ever go by is the Yahoo user rating. Movie critics all have different opinions on movies and we all know what opinions are like. I prefer the Yahoo user rating due to it being based on a large set of opinions and the most common opinion (mode) tends to show up as the rating.
I'll take a conglomeration of everyones opinion as opposed to a few critics butt-hole smell, I mean opinion.
Good point. It isn't like the talented employees leave the industry because they decided to pursue careers in real estate. They have more options and will move on to jobs that pay according to their skill set.
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It took awhile for me to come around to using Netscape. Back in the day I preferred using Lynx from a dummy terminal because it was very fast and efficient. At the time the graphics on websites were not very interesting so I didn't feel a need to switch to a graphical browser. Eventually, I started to use Netscape, to surf the web. I can still remember the shooting stars passing by the "N" as my browser perused the ether of the Internet.
It wasn't long after that I became a Netscape bigot. Even after Netscape Communicator came out with its bloated bundled package and IE 4 and 5 started running more efficient I still stood behind Netscape. AOL bought Netscape and things started to slide downhill from there. Remember when AOL was still significant enough to buy out good software companies and rape them? LOL Remember the name AOL-Time Warner? Times have changed. I still continued to use Mozilla up until the Firefox uprising started.
Anyways, sorry to have rambled. Thanks for listing an old man reminisce.
You make a very good point. I have spent a majority of my I.T. career working in the health care industry. Just like you I have seen people misuse the information that they have access too. One guy I worked with at a very large health insurance company would scour records for people he knew. Once he even looked up a girl he used to date and called her up from the number that was stored under her insurance information. It was common to see employees read through malpractice suits just for entertainment. Years back I worked for a drug store chain and I remember one employee who would look up the prescriptions of people she went to school with to see what meds they were on.
The idea of HIPPA securing medical data can be considered a sense of false security. Companies must show they are making a reasonable amount of effort to secure PHI. Making a reasonable amount of effort does not mean the information is very secure.
In my opinion HIPPA does not ensure the privacy of an individual's health information very much but merely gives everyone a false sense of privacy.
All platforms had good and bad games, it's useless to compare them. BUT -- in terms of technical coolness and uniqueness, I have to give it to my good ol' Vectrex [wikipedia.org]. Clearly vector graphics don't work for every type of game, but for the games it did work with, it was awesome.
I was going to say NES is the best console of all time. Mainly because I remember the dry period of console gaming that occurred between the Atari 2600 and NES.
Then you mentioned Vectrex! Vectrex was awesome for its time. I still have a working Vectrex in my storage room. I take it out every now and then to play for the sake of nostalgia.
You say IT jobs should be treated as a "Skilled Trade" like plumbers, welders, electricians, etc... However, you only want Universities/Colleges to be allowed to teach this trade?
Are you pushing for a University provided vocational program? Kind of like the B.A. in Plumbing the University of California system offers?
I was thinking the same thing. The "internets" have been a fountain of mis-information for a very long time.
Heck, I remember back in high school on BBSes, reading diatribes by Ufologists concerning the deal Eisenhower made with the aliens. That was in the late 80's early 90's. Quacks have always and will always be among us.
I am an avid user of Firefox but even I will admit that Firefox has more than a few vulnerabilities. If you think surfing the net without an active AV keeps you safe from malicious code on the net, well, lets just say, you have a false sense of online security. Hey, I tied in the article's title to my post!!!
Seriously, If you want to browse the web without AV and feel safe. Shell into your favorite Linux box and browse with "Links"
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Maybe they associate Fedora with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedor_Emelianenko/.
In other words, the liberal or conservative stance in American politics is a false dichotomy.
8 years ago I had a guy at our company come up to me and tell me he got an email from a girl that said "I love you." He then said, she attached a vbs file to the email and he spent the last 10 minutes trying to get the attachment to work. He said he double clicked on it, ran it from a command prompt and several other ways but couldn't get her "love" program to work for him. The guy was an IT analyst.
Teachers in my state get paid very poorly, but we have one of the highest property taxes of any state. Wait.. What? :O
It is fairly common for private colleges to require community service to graduate. I attended a Private Catholic University where I was required to serve a certain amount of community service. I setup a back end MYSQL database with a PHP front end for a homeless charity. The amount of time that was put into the project far exceeded the required community service hours but I didn't mind. Not to sound cheesy but helping those in need was its own reward.
In Soviet Amerika the .Gov owns you.
I believe this is the case. "Joe Six Pack" ;) doesn't give DRM a second thought. He just wants to play his game. I am not sure how accurate EA's numbers are but I imagine the majority of players don't consider DRM an issue.
*note* I just wanted to use the phrase Joe Six Pack and a wink.
Bah, speak for yourself. I majored in Anthroplogy with a concentration in Feminist studies. I would comment more on this but I have to get back to waiting tables.
In the past year, I've started to see laptops loaded with Cisco's Unified Personal Communicator , with headsets and webcams get distributed to our employees who telecommute. Right now, the video portion is only required for conferencing into meetings but who knows how long before one is required to keep it up all day from home.
No, we won't drill for oil there but we will mine dilithium or latinum.
I was thinking the same thing. Perry only shows up when he is getting his pockets lined with money. From attempting to force HPV vaccinations on high school girls to toll roads the man has shown time and time again he is nothing more than a politician for sale.
Good point. The only rating I ever go by is the Yahoo user rating. Movie critics all have different opinions on movies and we all know what opinions are like. I prefer the Yahoo user rating due to it being based on a large set of opinions and the most common opinion (mode) tends to show up as the rating.
I'll take a conglomeration of everyones opinion as opposed to a few critics butt-hole smell, I mean opinion.
Good point. It isn't like the talented employees leave the industry because they decided to pursue careers in real estate. They have more options and will move on to jobs that pay according to their skill set.
It took awhile for me to come around to using Netscape. Back in the day I preferred using Lynx from a dummy terminal because it was very fast and efficient. At the time the graphics on websites were not very interesting so I didn't feel a need to switch to a graphical browser. Eventually, I started to use Netscape, to surf the web. I can still remember the shooting stars passing by the "N" as my browser perused the ether of the Internet.
It wasn't long after that I became a Netscape bigot. Even after Netscape Communicator came out with its bloated bundled package and IE 4 and 5 started running more efficient I still stood behind Netscape. AOL bought Netscape and things started to slide downhill from there. Remember when AOL was still significant enough to buy out good software companies and rape them? LOL Remember the name AOL-Time Warner? Times have changed. I still continued to use Mozilla up until the Firefox uprising started.
Anyways, sorry to have rambled. Thanks for listing an old man reminisce.
Using the same handle on many sites is always a bad idea. Its way to easy to track information that way.
You make a very good point. I have spent a majority of my I.T. career working in the health care industry. Just like you I have seen people misuse the information that they have access too. One guy I worked with at a very large health insurance company would scour records for people he knew. Once he even looked up a girl he used to date and called her up from the number that was stored under her insurance information. It was common to see employees read through malpractice suits just for entertainment. Years back I worked for a drug store chain and I remember one employee who would look up the prescriptions of people she went to school with to see what meds they were on.
The idea of HIPPA securing medical data can be considered a sense of false security. Companies must show they are making a reasonable amount of effort to secure PHI. Making a reasonable amount of effort does not mean the information is very secure.
In my opinion HIPPA does not ensure the privacy of an individual's health information very much but merely gives everyone a false sense of privacy.
I am still waiting on all of those promises that XML was going to revolutionize the web.
This is the best post I have read all day. Well done sir, well done.
I was going to say NES is the best console of all time. Mainly because I remember the dry period of console gaming that occurred between the Atari 2600 and NES.
Then you mentioned Vectrex! Vectrex was awesome for its time. I still have a working Vectrex in my storage room. I take it out every now and then to play for the sake of nostalgia.
You say IT jobs should be treated as a "Skilled Trade" like plumbers, welders, electricians, etc... However, you only want Universities/Colleges to be allowed to teach this trade? Are you pushing for a University provided vocational program? Kind of like the B.A. in Plumbing the University of California system offers?
The smell doesn't mean they are dead. That is a normal smell for I.T. folks. Especially the guys supporting the servers.
You are thinking of Skin-a-max (Cinemax.)
I was thinking the same thing. The "internets" have been a fountain of mis-information for a very long time. Heck, I remember back in high school on BBSes, reading diatribes by Ufologists concerning the deal Eisenhower made with the aliens. That was in the late 80's early 90's. Quacks have always and will always be among us.
I am an avid user of Firefox but even I will admit that Firefox has more than a few vulnerabilities. If you think surfing the net without an active AV keeps you safe from malicious code on the net, well, lets just say, you have a false sense of online security. Hey, I tied in the article's title to my post!!!
Seriously, If you want to browse the web without AV and feel safe. Shell into your favorite Linux box and browse with "Links"
Did you remember to pick up some Zig Zags?