Foreign students excel in American Universities. Therefore it is not higher education fault.
I am a foreigner and since I come from different background I feel that I understand what is wrong with education system here. I have a 6 year old son in USA. He went to Kindergarten at the age of 5 and I was amazed that he is getting graded and taught to spell and recognize words cut put etc.. etc.. I felt this is so wrong to teach children at such young age. I had hoped that K will be mostly play, activities and story telling. After 2 months I withdrew him from the school because I am sure if I had continued then it would have destroyed any imaginative/creative abilities he might be having. He will rejoin K this year.
Quoting Albert Einstein - Imagination is more important than knowledge.
At age 5 the brain is not fully wired(especially boys). Kids memory part is excellent at age 5. The analytical ability develops at a later age(left and right brain have to connect). When we teach kids to memorize and learn, their brains get trained to use memory to learn and thus the analytical brain will never be challenged or used at later ages. They will excel(by reading early) in early classes, say K3 etc. but when they grow up they will not have decision making, logical analysis abilities and will most likely end up at fast food chains taking orders. The best education systems in the world start teaching kids at age 6 or 7. For example Finland.
fantastic analysis, I wish to add little more philosophy to this - If I kill myself then I will save the planet and the environment a lot, so who ever says "save the planet" they should kill them selves first.
To even think that we are in some way superior to the planet and have the ability to decide the fate of our planet is very short sighted thought process. Earth controls us, not the other way. Just enjoy the virtual existence and die the virtual death. I am from the planet, planet is me and I am the planet. The person typing this is a mere virtual identity having no real existence. My body is real and so is the planet, rest is virtual.
So what you mean is that if we get rid of insurance then price should be 100 usd. I was rasied outside usa in another country, so as an outsiders perspective, what I observed here is that people are very very afraid of everything here. From Insurance to Pharma companies, are ripping out money using that fear. When a robber holds a gun and takes away money, people complain immediately. But people are willingly opting for getting robbed by the Insurance industry.
I had employer provided insurance for one year and withdrew once I realized that 1/4th of my salary was being paid by my employer for Insurance. Medical Science can't cure infectious diseases. You would be asking for a very miserable death if you opt for treating infectious diseases other than cuts/bruises from accidents. And penicillin is the medicine for cuts. Medical Science is very good at treating injuries or at surgery. They don't have a cure for anything else. Cuts etc treatment doesn't cost much out of pocket. Surgery is normally a planned activity, so one can always go to another country and get it done for less than 10k. There is no gurantee that one won't die from a car accident today, but we don't worry about it. Similarly there is no need to worry about death from infections. Insurance or no-insurance it does not matter in case of infectious diseases like malaria or TB. There are two outcomes, either you die in couple of months among loved ones or die a very very miserable death in hospital and after bankrupting your loved ones for one or two years.
One more important point is never to take any medication for fever. Fever is our own army, we should not kill fever. I am 36 years old and have been to the dirtiest countries in my life. I know I got infections too because I got fever, and fever has always cured the infection and me without any medication. Taking medication for fever is the worst thing one can do to himself. Taking medicines is equivalent to drinking dishwasher detergents. You are a big colony of bacteria too, so it will kill the bad bacteria in you and half of your good colony inside you. Body's immune system is far superior beyond anyone's imagination, help it and help yourself.
I hate people who work on weekends. Working on weekends means you were not smart enough to finish your work in the allocated project hours. If the project plan is poor and the work is impossible to complete in the regular allotted hours then lodge a complaint with your seniors or the HR and get your Project Manager fired.
Freshers like you are generally not smart enough, that is understandable but if your PM also rewards weekend and late hour work then people like you will be inducing an weekend work culture. If that happens to me, that is, if my PM forces me to work on weekends, yes I will do FTP during regular hours. FTP stands for - Full Time Pass. If the FTP privileges are also curtailed then I will start looking for a new job. Simple rule - Time = Money. We earn money to earn Quality time, not the other way i.e. give away the weekend quality time for money. I regularly fire freshers who end up working into weekends.
A keyboard is an absolute must for me. I hate touch screen keyboards. This is the reason I never bought any of those fat iphones. The best phone till today with 5 row keyboard is the htc g1. The other full keyboard ones are running stupid windows os. Droid and Nexus have impressive specs but does not have the basic functionality where I can type numbers without any additional effort. And yes I do type numbers very often. So G1 still beats all the phones out in the market as of today.
Unless the Humans attempted to develop machines to replace the functions of the plants.
That is exactly the point, there is no such technology (which we have invented) which already doesn't exist in nature. In fact, it exists in nature at a far superior level. There is infinitely superior technology even within a blade of grass. What we do is just emulate the technology in nature on a human scale(large) but in a very crude form. For example human body converts a variety of food into energy and we convert some crude forms(crude oil) in a very inefficient way. We all were once part of a ball of fire(lava).
Invention is nothing but discovering nature's technology and replicating it in a crude form on a human(larger size) scale. Infinitely superior technology already exists in the tiniest of particles. He who thinks we are technologically advanced is nothing but an Ignorant idiot.
I was a slackware guy in 1997/8 then Redhat and now Fedora. I am a sysadmin and some one requested me to troubleshoot nfs service on Ubuntu and I figured that it was a dhcp issue and fixed it by restrating the network service and thus nfs. But still have no clue where it stores the ip info. I was busy so gave up after about 15 mins of googling. Nfs service was also way different than on Fedora. Ubuntu service organization kind of looked old school 1997's Slackware type. I may be wrong but one thing is for sure I too don't want to try Ubuntu. I am a command line guy, so I judge distros on how well their files are organized, so I would say Fedora's file system organization is the best.
I am in a similar 24/7 sysadmin position. I am an hourly contractor and this is the best for such positions. Any call received after working hours will trigger my billing meter. July like a taxi meter the minimum for even a 5 mins call is 1 hour. If you are an employee then you are screwed.
Last recession taught me it doesn't matter how skilled you are, it is the "demand and supply market" that decides your fate. If you happen to be at the wrong company at wrong time, you will just get laid off. Skills do not matter at all. I work as a contractor, till 2007 I was with a city government, and I knew budget cuts are coming. Once you get laid off due to budget cut there will simply be no openings. So I switched early in May 2008 so that I have a contract through the recession. Recession is learning time, all your arrogance and ego at being skilled will vaporise. I am not sure if my contract will get renewed this year. But I have gone through one recession, if needed I will work at a gas station from day one but will not dip into savings, err. have no savings but have no loans either:-) Last recession taught me not to use credit cards and to prepay loans. Pre-Paid my 20000 car loan in 2 years(2007-2008). Installments were 400 but I paid 1500 a month. Sure I would have had savings if I had not done that but also more worries. No debt no worries. It would be a good time to take a vacation to third world countries where living is dirt cheap. For around 300 usd a month, you will get house, food, clothing and some entertainment too.
"Long-term backup media is currently DVD"
ha, you got to be kidding, one scratch or a bad player and it is trash. I hope you are not an sys admin for any company.
My office latop was left on by me(it has been on since 6 months) as I never carried it home. Today morning when I came to office the screen saver was frozen. I run xfce and xscreensaver, screen saver freeze is common on my fedora 9. So I tried ssh and ping from another machine but none worked. It was very hot too,(i never found it hot in the past even after a return from 4 days of vacation). I had to hard reboot. From the cron log messages it seems to have died around 7 pm on Dec. 31st.
Dec 31 16:01:01 linlap CROND[14254]: (root) CMD (run-parts/etc/cron.hourly)
Dec 31 17:01:01 linlap CROND[16688]: (root) CMD (run-parts/etc/cron.hourly)
Dec 31 18:01:01 linlap CROND[19115]: (root) CMD (run-parts/etc/cron.hourly)
Jan 2 08:43:39 linlap crond[2461]: (CRON) STARTUP (1.0)
Jan 2 08:43:41 linlap anacron[2518]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2009-01-02
Jan 2 08:43:41 linlap anacron[2518]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 65 min.
I agree, I grew up in India, it would take one whole new generation, that is another 50 years for an average indian administrative officer's mind set to evolve. Cops are most idiotic because that profession pays very very low salary, no housing(quaters will have a 20 year waitlist) and lots of risk. A city cop must take bribes just to afford rent. Lack of courts in india is a very big handycap, trials can simply go on forever. So normal citizen can't even think of going to court against corruption. It is so bad that I could not get my driver's license on my own, they just made me run around from one officer to another but when I paid an agent, no tests were taken and just went to the agent's shop two days later and collected it. No ethics, no right/wrong nothing, only money rules.
There never existed a security system which can't be broken. As security systems evolve, the break-ins into the system too. An intelligent animal called a human creates a security system, why it can't be broken by the same but another instance of this intelligent human animal? Agreed, different instances of this human have different level of intelligence yet there will always be an human instance more intelligent than the creator of the security system. We sometimes call this "Theory of natural progression". It is a matter of time and evolution when this too will be broken.
Ans: Only another species of animal much more intelligent than an human can create a secure system for the inferior species. For example - we can create a real secure system for a chimp. Therefore, from my point of view security systems are good for only comforting us with a false sense of security.
The nc (or netcat) utility is used for just about anything under the sun involving TCP or UDP. It can open TCP connections, send UDP packets, listen on arbitrary TCP and UDP ports, do port scanning, and deal with both IPv4 and IPv6. Unlike telnet(1), nc scripts nicely, and separates error messages onto standard error instead of sending them to standard output, as telnet(1) does with some.
Common uses include:
simple TCP proxies
shell-script based HTTP clients and servers
network daemon testing
a SOCKS or HTTP ProxyCommand for ssh(1)
and much, much more
No, it is not ok to walk into anyone's house if the door is open, a gentle man/woman should first knock? The kid should have notified them that he will test their security for free or whatever.
In this case the kid used a master key and got into the house, stole and then tells the owner that he should put a 1000 usd lock and this 100 usd lock sucks!! Is it still not breaking into? Agreed, public offices should have very very good locks but does that weak lock(wrong) make the kid's theft right?
From law's prespective - Kid should get punishment for breaking into and the owner too should get punished for putting confidential records in weak security.
Consider Ocean and wave. So many waves rise and fall due to various factors but for simplicity let us consider the factor is wind disturbance. So because of the disturbance a wave is born and rises up and then falls and dies. It produces action on the shore and because of that action there is reaction(s), one of the reaction is that the next wave will be either big or small. Lets name these waves A and B. Say the wave asks the question "who am I". The answer to that should be "you are the ocean" but the problem is who will answer who. The ocean will answer the wave, while the ocean tries to answer - the wave is already dead and the wave B is in existence now. Also, A was not constant, it was dynamically changing. A1, A2, A3...An. n=nth second. There never really was A but the Ocean it self. So should the Ocean answer Ocean? Wave it self is the ocean but the question arised because it thought that it is separate than the ocean. So the word "Wave" was born.
In life we all are like the wave, multiple waves, John, Tim, Harry etc.. We do action and there definitely is reaction.(newton's third law) But we should not be bothered, it is pointless and useless. The question only exists when there is a thought which says "I am wave A and not the ocean" - "I am John and not the Universe". You know your self, if you know how you are running your own body? If you don't, then you are an illusion.
Our current knowledge of moon is infinitely superior than the knowledge of our own ocean. They say, Grass is always greener on the other side or may be it is the quest to build more powerful missiles in the guise of moon missions. Not blaming India, six others did that too.
People often mistake L1 to be H1. L1 is a visa for inter company transfer. It means any one can be employed at India/China office and then will be transferred to work in usa office. The Embassy interview for L1 is just a formality. There is virtually no educational qualification criteria/check for L1. So even a 12th pass guy comes in on L1 visa then he is posted at various clients. There is no limit on number of L1 visas. H1b's have a 65000 yearly limit. H1B embassy visa process is tough, education qualification is 16 years education plus experience. While we all are crying about h1b, the companies recruit any one with ok english in india, after working for 1 year in india they are sent here on L1. I have not heard of any rejections in L1 applications.
L1 is the loop hole. It is the top secret one. I agree that there are about 30% h1bs who fake their experience(h1b criteria is 16yr edu + 3 years minimum work exp or 15 yr edu + 6 years work, 1 year education = 3 year work). 90% people on L1 have 15 year education or less and just 1 year exp.
In any economy downturn h1bs are the first to be fired because 90% of them work on corp to corp contracts which are very expensive. Example for a unix admin - 100+ per hour is paid by company A to vendor V, V keeps 35% and gives 65 to H1B holding company H, H pays about 30 to the employee who is new in USA or 40 if he is more than 2 years old in usa. H1b end up getting exploited till GC(6 to 8 years). L1s too get exploited but they are happy because they are rotated every year. So they have less expenses(no need to buy car or family home) in usa and carry all money as savings to india/china. Since h1b corp to corp is expensive, candidate has to be really skilled, but some do manage by changing clients(A) every 3 to 6 months by slipping through a phone interview(some one else giving the phone int in their name). On being found out they are fired in 3 to 6 months. Yet they manage to settle in low tech areas like managing remedy tickets etc in about 2 years of hire-fire cycle.
So in downturn, h1bs are fired first, then the citizen employee and are replaced by L1. L1's don't get overtime pay. They get about 3 to 4 k per month and yet that is a very good money because in india they get max 1k per month for 1+ year experience.
It looks like you sat a bit too long, but from a tech(phone) support to a developer is a complete switching of tracks, I would say, switch to Junior sys admin(Unix/Linux) or just sysadmin would be a good idea.
Phone Tech support is way different than normal tech support where you trouble shoot PC software, change keyboards, desktop support. Assemble PCs etc. I was a perl/cgi developer, switched to Sysadmin (have done Desktop trouble shooting to telephone systems to access card system support, windows, linux, solaris, qmail, oracle dba work), basically all in one in a small 100 people company during 2001 down time. The dumb project managers pissed me off a lot, they would screw up the estimation, we would be without work for weeks initially then they would ask us to work on weekend to cover their screw ups. Just like the 700 usd bailout plan. Also, there is less challenge in development, just query something from DB, take some input and then juggle around and put back stuff into a DB. Business Application Development is pretty stupid and boring. Network and Sysadmin work gives you control over what you do. But CAUTION: windows sysadmin work sucks, you are at the mercy of MS DOG patches n viruses.
Try UNIX sysadmin, you can try the indian goat herder way - where any graduate gets certified as solaris level 1 and 2 by memorizing a few commands from a question bank and jumps directly in as a solaris sysadmin in a fortune 500's dumb IT dept.
say, you are away from home and at work. Some one comes and checks your door lock strength and is able to break them, then leaves and writes about it in the local library and when you return home you don't really check the locks closely, so you don't realize.
You find out about the incident from local library on the weekend. Additionally the write up has a advice that says "people should put 1000 usd locks instead of 100 usd for better security" - What would be your reaction?
I have a vaio fj290p at home and it too over heats after an hour or two, the hp (company laptop) at office is left on by me for 5 days at a stretch and it is steady at the same temp. Even though there are factors like more AC in office etc, still I can't think of leaving the sony laptop on over night. I do leave the HP online(no sleep) to run the over night reporting scripts which are under development.
For me, the sony laptop sucks big time, it has a soft bios in windows and the oem xp won't run in vmware. Once a sony automatic update screwed up the the bios and I had to convince the support over 20 odd phone calls that bios needs reflashing. Then it had to be sent to their factory for re-imaging. When it came back a sony registration screen poped up asking for "how many movies I was per week" etc.. wtf. I will never buy anything sony again. They charged premium price of 1400 usd in 2006 and in return got a cheap soft bios and a cheap oem windows xp. I have gone through dual boot setups from Fedora 6 to 9 and unlike dell or hp every time I had to make the Fn keys work by patching. Fedora 9 is running quite good now, the motioneye cam has no motion in linux, so bought a logitech usb webcam. Can't get rid of Windows completely because my wife wants to watch netflix instant movies and does video chats on yahoo etc.
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I am a foreigner and since I come from different background I feel that I understand what is wrong with education system here. I have a 6 year old son in USA. He went to Kindergarten at the age of 5 and I was amazed that he is getting graded and taught to spell and recognize words cut put etc.. etc.. I felt this is so wrong to teach children at such young age. I had hoped that K will be mostly play, activities and story telling. After 2 months I withdrew him from the school because I am sure if I had continued then it would have destroyed any imaginative/creative abilities he might be having. He will rejoin K this year.
Quoting Albert Einstein - Imagination is more important than knowledge.
At age 5 the brain is not fully wired(especially boys). Kids memory part is excellent at age 5. The analytical ability develops at a later age(left and right brain have to connect). When we teach kids to memorize and learn, their brains get trained to use memory to learn and thus the analytical brain will never be challenged or used at later ages. They will excel(by reading early) in early classes, say K3 etc. but when they grow up they will not have decision making, logical analysis abilities and will most likely end up at fast food chains taking orders. The best education systems in the world start teaching kids at age 6 or 7. For example Finland.
To even think that we are in some way superior to the planet and have the ability to decide the fate of our planet is very short sighted thought process. Earth controls us, not the other way. Just enjoy the virtual existence and die the virtual death. I am from the planet, planet is me and I am the planet. The person typing this is a mere virtual identity having no real existence. My body is real and so is the planet, rest is virtual.
I had employer provided insurance for one year and withdrew once I realized that 1/4th of my salary was being paid by my employer for Insurance. Medical Science can't cure infectious diseases. You would be asking for a very miserable death if you opt for treating infectious diseases other than cuts/bruises from accidents. And penicillin is the medicine for cuts. Medical Science is very good at treating injuries or at surgery. They don't have a cure for anything else. Cuts etc treatment doesn't cost much out of pocket. Surgery is normally a planned activity, so one can always go to another country and get it done for less than 10k. There is no gurantee that one won't die from a car accident today, but we don't worry about it. Similarly there is no need to worry about death from infections. Insurance or no-insurance it does not matter in case of infectious diseases like malaria or TB. There are two outcomes, either you die in couple of months among loved ones or die a very very miserable death in hospital and after bankrupting your loved ones for one or two years.
One more important point is never to take any medication for fever. Fever is our own army, we should not kill fever. I am 36 years old and have been to the dirtiest countries in my life. I know I got infections too because I got fever, and fever has always cured the infection and me without any medication. Taking medication for fever is the worst thing one can do to himself. Taking medicines is equivalent to drinking dishwasher detergents. You are a big colony of bacteria too, so it will kill the bad bacteria in you and half of your good colony inside you. Body's immune system is far superior beyond anyone's imagination, help it and help yourself.
I hate people who work on weekends. Working on weekends means you were not smart enough to finish your work in the allocated project hours. If the project plan is poor and the work is impossible to complete in the regular allotted hours then lodge a complaint with your seniors or the HR and get your Project Manager fired. Freshers like you are generally not smart enough, that is understandable but if your PM also rewards weekend and late hour work then people like you will be inducing an weekend work culture. If that happens to me, that is, if my PM forces me to work on weekends, yes I will do FTP during regular hours. FTP stands for - Full Time Pass. If the FTP privileges are also curtailed then I will start looking for a new job. Simple rule - Time = Money. We earn money to earn Quality time, not the other way i.e. give away the weekend quality time for money. I regularly fire freshers who end up working into weekends.
A keyboard is an absolute must for me. I hate touch screen keyboards. This is the reason I never bought any of those fat iphones. The best phone till today with 5 row keyboard is the htc g1. The other full keyboard ones are running stupid windows os. Droid and Nexus have impressive specs but does not have the basic functionality where I can type numbers without any additional effort. And yes I do type numbers very often. So G1 still beats all the phones out in the market as of today.
Unless the Humans attempted to develop machines to replace the functions of the plants.
That is exactly the point, there is no such technology (which we have invented) which already doesn't exist in nature. In fact, it exists in nature at a far superior level. There is infinitely superior technology even within a blade of grass. What we do is just emulate the technology in nature on a human scale(large) but in a very crude form. For example human body converts a variety of food into energy and we convert some crude forms(crude oil) in a very inefficient way. We all were once part of a ball of fire(lava).
Invention is nothing but discovering nature's technology and replicating it in a crude form on a human(larger size) scale. Infinitely superior technology already exists in the tiniest of particles. He who thinks we are technologically advanced is nothing but an Ignorant idiot.
I was a slackware guy in 1997/8 then Redhat and now Fedora. I am a sysadmin and some one requested me to troubleshoot nfs service on Ubuntu and I figured that it was a dhcp issue and fixed it by restrating the network service and thus nfs. But still have no clue where it stores the ip info. I was busy so gave up after about 15 mins of googling. Nfs service was also way different than on Fedora. Ubuntu service organization kind of looked old school 1997's Slackware type. I may be wrong but one thing is for sure I too don't want to try Ubuntu. I am a command line guy, so I judge distros on how well their files are organized, so I would say Fedora's file system organization is the best.
I am in a similar 24/7 sysadmin position. I am an hourly contractor and this is the best for such positions. Any call received after working hours will trigger my billing meter. July like a taxi meter the minimum for even a 5 mins call is 1 hour. If you are an employee then you are screwed.
Last recession taught me it doesn't matter how skilled you are, it is the "demand and supply market" that decides your fate. If you happen to be at the wrong company at wrong time, you will just get laid off. Skills do not matter at all. I work as a contractor, till 2007 I was with a city government, and I knew budget cuts are coming. Once you get laid off due to budget cut there will simply be no openings. So I switched early in May 2008 so that I have a contract through the recession. Recession is learning time, all your arrogance and ego at being skilled will vaporise. I am not sure if my contract will get renewed this year. But I have gone through one recession, if needed I will work at a gas station from day one but will not dip into savings, err. have no savings but have no loans either :-) Last recession taught me not to use credit cards and to prepay loans. Pre-Paid my 20000 car loan in 2 years(2007-2008). Installments were 400 but I paid 1500 a month. Sure I would have had savings if I had not done that but also more worries. No debt no worries. It would be a good time to take a vacation to third world countries where living is dirt cheap. For around 300 usd a month, you will get house, food, clothing and some entertainment too.
Belief is nothing but accepting some one's lie as truth. That is lieing to self.
"Long-term backup media is currently DVD"
ha, you got to be kidding, one scratch or a bad player and it is trash. I hope you are not an sys admin for any company.
So MS would come up with this brilliant idea 2+3+5 = 11 -1 = 10 and then patent it.
May be you can patent - triple mouse clicks to open porn.
My office latop was left on by me(it has been on since 6 months) as I never carried it home. Today morning when I came to office the screen saver was frozen. I run xfce and xscreensaver, screen saver freeze is common on my fedora 9. So I tried ssh and ping from another machine but none worked. It was very hot too,(i never found it hot in the past even after a return from 4 days of vacation). I had to hard reboot. From the cron log messages it seems to have died around 7 pm on Dec. 31st. /etc/cron.hourly) /etc/cron.hourly) /etc/cron.hourly)
Dec 31 16:01:01 linlap CROND[14254]: (root) CMD (run-parts
Dec 31 17:01:01 linlap CROND[16688]: (root) CMD (run-parts
Dec 31 18:01:01 linlap CROND[19115]: (root) CMD (run-parts
Jan 2 08:43:39 linlap crond[2461]: (CRON) STARTUP (1.0)
Jan 2 08:43:41 linlap anacron[2518]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2009-01-02
Jan 2 08:43:41 linlap anacron[2518]: Will run job `cron.daily' in 65 min.
Nokia must have forgotten to pay the cops.
I agree, I grew up in India, it would take one whole new generation, that is another 50 years for an average indian administrative officer's mind set to evolve. Cops are most idiotic because that profession pays very very low salary, no housing(quaters will have a 20 year waitlist) and lots of risk. A city cop must take bribes just to afford rent. Lack of courts in india is a very big handycap, trials can simply go on forever. So normal citizen can't even think of going to court against corruption. It is so bad that I could not get my driver's license on my own, they just made me run around from one officer to another but when I paid an agent, no tests were taken and just went to the agent's shop two days later and collected it. No ethics, no right/wrong nothing, only money rules.
There never existed a security system which can't be broken. As security systems evolve, the break-ins into the system too. An intelligent animal called a human creates a security system, why it can't be broken by the same but another instance of this intelligent human animal? Agreed, different instances of this human have different level of intelligence yet there will always be an human instance more intelligent than the creator of the security system. We sometimes call this "Theory of natural progression". It is a matter of time and evolution when this too will be broken.
Ans: Only another species of animal much more intelligent than an human can create a secure system for the inferior species. For example - we can create a real secure system for a chimp. Therefore, from my point of view security systems are good for only comforting us with a false sense of security.
The nc (or netcat) utility is used for just about anything under the sun involving TCP or UDP. It can open TCP connections, send UDP packets, listen on arbitrary TCP and UDP ports, do port scanning, and deal with both IPv4 and IPv6. Unlike telnet(1), nc scripts nicely, and separates error messages onto standard error instead of sending them to standard output, as telnet(1) does with some.
Common uses include:
simple TCP proxies
shell-script based HTTP clients and servers
network daemon testing
a SOCKS or HTTP ProxyCommand for ssh(1)
and much, much more
In this case the kid used a master key and got into the house, stole and then tells the owner that he should put a 1000 usd lock and this 100 usd lock sucks!! Is it still not breaking into? Agreed, public offices should have very very good locks but does that weak lock(wrong) make the kid's theft right?
From law's prespective - Kid should get punishment for breaking into and the owner too should get punished for putting confidential records in weak security.
In life we all are like the wave, multiple waves, John, Tim, Harry etc.. We do action and there definitely is reaction.(newton's third law) But we should not be bothered, it is pointless and useless. The question only exists when there is a thought which says "I am wave A and not the ocean" - "I am John and not the Universe". You know your self, if you know how you are running your own body? If you don't, then you are an illusion.
Our current knowledge of moon is infinitely superior than the knowledge of our own ocean. They say, Grass is always greener on the other side or may be it is the quest to build more powerful missiles in the guise of moon missions. Not blaming India, six others did that too.
I've never seen an H1 anywhere hired for $100 an hour. I'd say $60 is pretty much max.
you are 17, that explains the above.
L1 is the loop hole. It is the top secret one. I agree that there are about 30% h1bs who fake their experience(h1b criteria is 16yr edu + 3 years minimum work exp or 15 yr edu + 6 years work, 1 year education = 3 year work). 90% people on L1 have 15 year education or less and just 1 year exp. In any economy downturn h1bs are the first to be fired because 90% of them work on corp to corp contracts which are very expensive. Example for a unix admin - 100+ per hour is paid by company A to vendor V, V keeps 35% and gives 65 to H1B holding company H, H pays about 30 to the employee who is new in USA or 40 if he is more than 2 years old in usa. H1b end up getting exploited till GC(6 to 8 years). L1s too get exploited but they are happy because they are rotated every year. So they have less expenses(no need to buy car or family home) in usa and carry all money as savings to india/china.
Since h1b corp to corp is expensive, candidate has to be really skilled, but some do manage by changing clients(A) every 3 to 6 months by slipping through a phone interview(some one else giving the phone int in their name). On being found out they are fired in 3 to 6 months. Yet they manage to settle in low tech areas like managing remedy tickets etc in about 2 years of hire-fire cycle. So in downturn, h1bs are fired first, then the citizen employee and are replaced by L1. L1's don't get overtime pay. They get about 3 to 4 k per month and yet that is a very good money because in india they get max 1k per month for 1+ year experience.
Phone Tech support is way different than normal tech support where you trouble shoot PC software, change keyboards, desktop support. Assemble PCs etc.
I was a perl/cgi developer, switched to Sysadmin (have done Desktop trouble shooting to telephone systems to access card system support, windows, linux, solaris, qmail, oracle dba work), basically all in one in a small 100 people company during 2001 down time. The dumb project managers pissed me off a lot, they would screw up the estimation, we would be without work for weeks initially then they would ask us to work on weekend to cover their screw ups. Just like the 700 usd bailout plan. Also, there is less challenge in development, just query something from DB, take some input and then juggle around and put back stuff into a DB. Business Application Development is pretty stupid and boring. Network and Sysadmin work gives you control over what you do. But CAUTION: windows sysadmin work sucks, you are at the mercy of MS DOG patches n viruses.
Try UNIX sysadmin, you can try the indian goat herder way - where any graduate gets certified as solaris level 1 and 2 by memorizing a few commands from a question bank and jumps directly in as a solaris sysadmin in a fortune 500's dumb IT dept.
You find out about the incident from local library on the weekend. Additionally the write up has a advice that says "people should put 1000 usd locks instead of 100 usd for better security" - What would be your reaction?
I have a vaio fj290p at home and it too over heats after an hour or two, the hp (company laptop) at office is left on by me for 5 days at a stretch and it is steady at the same temp. Even though there are factors like more AC in office etc, still I can't think of leaving the sony laptop on over night. I do leave the HP online(no sleep) to run the over night reporting scripts which are under development. For me, the sony laptop sucks big time, it has a soft bios in windows and the oem xp won't run in vmware. Once a sony automatic update screwed up the the bios and I had to convince the support over 20 odd phone calls that bios needs reflashing. Then it had to be sent to their factory for re-imaging. When it came back a sony registration screen poped up asking for "how many movies I was per week" etc.. wtf. I will never buy anything sony again. They charged premium price of 1400 usd in 2006 and in return got a cheap soft bios and a cheap oem windows xp. I have gone through dual boot setups from Fedora 6 to 9 and unlike dell or hp every time I had to make the Fn keys work by patching. Fedora 9 is running quite good now, the motioneye cam has no motion in linux, so bought a logitech usb webcam. Can't get rid of Windows completely because my wife wants to watch netflix instant movies and does video chats on yahoo etc.