He made the mistake of trying to do the right thing. He kept offering the correct passwords to the personnel that were authorized to accept them. The city refused to follow their own security policy.
Of course it does, since he was arrested for not turning the passwords over to UNAUTHORIZED personnel. That most certainly would have created a great deal of legal exposure for him. When this was originally reported, he was offering to hand the passwords over to authorized personnel but the city refused to accept them.
And just a janitor with keys, he refused to hand the keys to unauthorized personel, and insisted that he only give them back to people who had authorization to have those keys.
He didn't do that because he was offering the passwords to the city per the city's security policy. He was arrested and prosecuted for not divulging the passwords in violation of the city's security policy. Of course, if he had, he would still have been legally vulnerable.
When this went down, it was not reported that he refused to turn over the passwords. He refused to hand over the password to unauthorized individuals and in unauthorized ways.
Except when this story was originally reported, the city COULD use the network. They chose not to, claiming that they thought he might have compromised the system in other ways. As well as it being originally reported that Terry Childs continually offered to divulge the password to the individual and in the way that the cities security policy dictated. The city refused to follow their own procedure, and insisted that he violate the city's security policies by divulging the passwords to an unauthorized individual over the phone, which was also unauthorized.
Unless new facts have come to light that contradicted what was reported when it happened, Terry Childs has been sent to jail as an innocent man because he didn't realize that the law is a joke and works at the whim of those in power.
No, you only need to be about 2 levels above the subject you are teaching to teach. So, for the vast majority of people, including the poor career hotel maid, they are qualified to teach at least up to about the 5th or 6th grade. By the time the student is getting beyond their parents, they should be at the stage where the vast majority of their work is self study anyway. There are lots of resources for covering areas the kids need help on at the higher grades. The fact is that most people are leaving high school with about a 7th grade education. The public schools are mostly without *qualified instructors*. Yes, even the teachers are lacking in their education. The few that do know *way more* about a subject than your 10-year old pupils are few and far enough between that they are lost in the noise.
While I have sympathy for the people who truly must use the public school as a baby sitter, it is not the best way to raise a child. Each of us should be doing the best we can for our children. For the truly poor, that may very well be to use free state baby sitting, but pretending that stuffing your kid into a holding facility is the best thing for them is a symptom of our anti-intellectual society.
Do you really think that being out of school is going to lead to gang activity? That depends dramatically on where you live. After all, the Steubenville "Rape Gang" wasn't a neighborhood gang. They were a public school sponsored gang.
If we didn't spend so much on the wealthier kids, we could have more to spend on those that need it. Adding lots of arts/music/drama/civics/etc. are not going to fix our educational system. In the current environment, they just make things worse. Other more fundamental fixes would need to be made before the fun stuff made things better.
Providing a superior education to the public school system only takes about 2 hours a day in lower grades. In upper grades, it takes less time from the parent and maybe 3 or 4 hours a day from the student. While having a single income family is really helpful in homeschooling, it isn't an absolute necessity.
The point you didn't make, but is related to your post is that due to economics, most people use the public school as baby sitters. The schools happily take on this role while at the same time complaining about it.
Homeschooling is better mostly because public schools suck. In theory, public schools should be able to offer far superior educational experience. In practice, the public school system is so broken at every level that it offers an inferior education at more than 10x the cost of homeschooling.
Almost. It prevents bullying of nerds by having the smart kids associating with other smart kids. They can do fun stuff like science experiments instead of pretending that football is something more important than a stupid game.
Got you beat, 100% of the home schooled kids I know are completely normal well adjusted people with no wacky parents. I have a decent sampling, five from one family, three of which are attending university now, belong to the guy in the cubical next to me who insisted on home schooling because of the public school systems race to the bottom in terms of increasing class sizes combined with the no-one left behind mentality. He wanted to make sure his kids weren't getting pulled down because teachers in public school have to cater to the lowest common detonator. Which by the way is a huge issue because if you're stuck in a class with a bunch of morons, in most cases, you're stuck with them until you graduate high school, meaning they will always be pulling you and the rest of the class down.
That is why we homeschool.
One of the reasons that many people think homeschooled kids are "weird" is that homeschooled kids generally are not taught that they must always stay at the level of the other kids their age. So, when a 10 year old joins into a conversation with adults, and makes valid coherent points, public schooled kids and adults think it is 'weird'.
This ONN Today Now! interview pretty well illistraits what is meant when people claim homeschooled kids are 'weird', 'socially awkward', or 'religious nut-bags'.
The vast majority of kids with whack-a-doodle right wing parents who teach them magic-fairy-universe-creator myths are in the public schools. Your confusion is understandable, as public schooled kids spend so few waking hours under the care of their biological parents, that the biological parents could barely be considered baby sitters.
Hi. Nice to meet you. I am a homeschooling parent. My child has been taught from day one that magic isn't real. That includes magic that gets called 'miracle'. Every single kid or adult that has every tried to convince him that magic is real has been publicly schooled. Making a point to teach your child that magic, while fun to pretend some times, isn't real, gives you a clear view of just how nut-bag religious public schooled people are.
Approximately 86% of Americans are religious nut-bags. Approximately 1.7% of Americans children are homeschooled. Thus, the vast majority of religious nut-bags are in the public schools. Your children's teachers are likely the religious nut-bags you are talking about, and if you think that your kids are not being indoctrinated into thinking magic is real by the public school, you are fooling yourself.
People that like to pull out the claim that home schooled kids are young earth creationists generally, are religious nut-bags themselves. They just want every kid to go to public school where they will be taught that God didn't create the earth 6000 years ago, he did it much longer ago than that. The idea that magic isn't real, doesn't even show up on the radar, so since the homeschooled kids don't follow your religious nut-bag thinking, you assume that they belong to some competing nut-bag group.
Of course, if you have children, it would not be surprising that you wouldn't know what kind of nut-bag magical thinking they are being indoctrinated into, as the children are under your care for so little of their waking hours that you could barely be called a parent.
They could use solar for daytime running, and electrolysis of water into hydrogen, and then use the hydrogen produced during the day to run their servers at night. Obviously, they would need to run the numbers to see if the cost of solar + conversion losses are cheaper or more expensive than the alternatives, but it should be a lot cleaner.
It has always seemed to me that the obvious use for fuel cells was to act as a storage/smoothing device to be coupled with photovoltaic.
Doing software development, I think you are giving us too much credit in thinking that we don't fall prey to many of the same problems. One problem I see is that a lot of people get confused between "truly fine examples of educators" and "teachers that I like". I have known many teachers that I liked, but that were not good educators.
Sadly, I don't think our current education system can be fixed. The problems with our public education exist on every level. It is the parents, the teachers, the administration, the unions, the state legislature, the federal legislature, the courts, and even the POTUS. Fixing one level won't yield visible result, so getting a single level fixed and kept fixed is unlikely. Getting all of the players to get their act together at the same time is equally unlikely.
This is why we dropped out of the system. We homeschool our kids, and because of that, our children are getting a far better education than they would get were we to put them in the system. Home schooling, and alternative schools are becoming more and more popular. A large part of that is because the public school system is completely broken, and even if it could be fixed, it won't be fixed before our children would have their education destroyed.
The issue here is that 'experts' in education really are not experts at all. Child education and the related child psychology are self selecting career paths that end up as an echo chamber of bad ideas. One of the outcomes of them having no more idea on how to teach than any other reasonably intelligent adult, they take the route of changing things to achieve the goal of appearing like they are improving the situation.
This breaks down due to our complete lack of respect for middle management. Middle management is seen as nothing more than a warm body to fill space. Thus, people that are only good as biological space heaters get hired into the position. Since the vast majority of people in the position are a waste of space, the position is seen as a low skill job, and cycle continues.
I have worked for good middle management, and bad middle management. I am 3x-4x as productive working for good middle management. I also spend far less time in meetings with good middle management. Good middle management will call meetings when there is a purpose, and will invite people who will be useful for that meeting. Bad middle management will look to marginalize or get rid of people who don't show up to their standing meetings about nothing.
Bad meetings are just one sign of poor middle management.
I don't know what you are talking about. I use CEC every day. Most manufacturers call there CEC something different, but they should all work the same. Or, maybe I just hit on the perfect combo of RaspBMC and Vizio TV.
Either the act of steering needs two hands or it does not. In fact, shifting gears is generally done at the time that two hands on the wheel would be the most beneficial. The fact that many cars are made in such a way that taking your hand of the wheel is necessary doesn't change level of danger in doing so. The fact that there is no need for a gear shift, light switch, or even a wiper switch means that you are advocating for a "The activity is really dangerous unless I do it." stance.
Until, part of logging into the register becomes running a test paper through the tester. This is one of those attacks that would be high risk, high skill, and low payoff.
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He made the mistake of trying to do the right thing. He kept offering the correct passwords to the personnel that were authorized to accept them. The city refused to follow their own security policy.
Of course it does, since he was arrested for not turning the passwords over to UNAUTHORIZED personnel. That most certainly would have created a great deal of legal exposure for him. When this was originally reported, he was offering to hand the passwords over to authorized personnel but the city refused to accept them.
And just a janitor with keys, he refused to hand the keys to unauthorized personel, and insisted that he only give them back to people who had authorization to have those keys.
He didn't do that because he was offering the passwords to the city per the city's security policy. He was arrested and prosecuted for not divulging the passwords in violation of the city's security policy. Of course, if he had, he would still have been legally vulnerable.
Since I knew that he was offering up the passwords, it seems implausible that no one at the city was aware that he was offering up the passwords.
Which was what the security policy required of him. He was arrested for not turning the passwords over to unauthorized individuals.
When this went down, it was not reported that he refused to turn over the passwords. He refused to hand over the password to unauthorized individuals and in unauthorized ways.
Except when this story was originally reported, the city COULD use the network. They chose not to, claiming that they thought he might have compromised the system in other ways. As well as it being originally reported that Terry Childs continually offered to divulge the password to the individual and in the way that the cities security policy dictated. The city refused to follow their own procedure, and insisted that he violate the city's security policies by divulging the passwords to an unauthorized individual over the phone, which was also unauthorized.
Unless new facts have come to light that contradicted what was reported when it happened, Terry Childs has been sent to jail as an innocent man because he didn't realize that the law is a joke and works at the whim of those in power.
No, you only need to be about 2 levels above the subject you are teaching to teach. So, for the vast majority of people, including the poor career hotel maid, they are qualified to teach at least up to about the 5th or 6th grade. By the time the student is getting beyond their parents, they should be at the stage where the vast majority of their work is self study anyway. There are lots of resources for covering areas the kids need help on at the higher grades. The fact is that most people are leaving high school with about a 7th grade education. The public schools are mostly without *qualified instructors*. Yes, even the teachers are lacking in their education. The few that do know *way more* about a subject than your 10-year old pupils are few and far enough between that they are lost in the noise.
While I have sympathy for the people who truly must use the public school as a baby sitter, it is not the best way to raise a child. Each of us should be doing the best we can for our children. For the truly poor, that may very well be to use free state baby sitting, but pretending that stuffing your kid into a holding facility is the best thing for them is a symptom of our anti-intellectual society.
Do you really think that being out of school is going to lead to gang activity? That depends dramatically on where you live. After all, the Steubenville "Rape Gang" wasn't a neighborhood gang. They were a public school sponsored gang.
If we didn't spend so much on the wealthier kids, we could have more to spend on those that need it. Adding lots of arts/music/drama/civics/etc. are not going to fix our educational system. In the current environment, they just make things worse. Other more fundamental fixes would need to be made before the fun stuff made things better.
While it may be a minuscule fraction, it is the majority of what people still living in 1920's rural Kansas are going to experience.
Providing a superior education to the public school system only takes about 2 hours a day in lower grades. In upper grades, it takes less time from the parent and maybe 3 or 4 hours a day from the student. While having a single income family is really helpful in homeschooling, it isn't an absolute necessity.
The point you didn't make, but is related to your post is that due to economics, most people use the public school as baby sitters. The schools happily take on this role while at the same time complaining about it.
Homeschooling is better mostly because public schools suck. In theory, public schools should be able to offer far superior educational experience. In practice, the public school system is so broken at every level that it offers an inferior education at more than 10x the cost of homeschooling.
Almost. It prevents bullying of nerds by having the smart kids associating with other smart kids. They can do fun stuff like science experiments instead of pretending that football is something more important than a stupid game.
Got you beat, 100% of the home schooled kids I know are completely normal well adjusted people with no wacky parents. I have a decent sampling, five from one family, three of which are attending university now, belong to the guy in the cubical next to me who insisted on home schooling because of the public school systems race to the bottom in terms of increasing class sizes combined with the no-one left behind mentality. He wanted to make sure his kids weren't getting pulled down because teachers in public school have to cater to the lowest common detonator. Which by the way is a huge issue because if you're stuck in a class with a bunch of morons, in most cases, you're stuck with them until you graduate high school, meaning they will always be pulling you and the rest of the class down.
That is why we homeschool.
One of the reasons that many people think homeschooled kids are "weird" is that homeschooled kids generally are not taught that they must always stay at the level of the other kids their age. So, when a 10 year old joins into a conversation with adults, and makes valid coherent points, public schooled kids and adults think it is 'weird'.
This ONN Today Now! interview pretty well illistraits what is meant when people claim homeschooled kids are 'weird', 'socially awkward', or 'religious nut-bags'.
The vast majority of kids with whack-a-doodle right wing parents who teach them magic-fairy-universe-creator myths are in the public schools. Your confusion is understandable, as public schooled kids spend so few waking hours under the care of their biological parents, that the biological parents could barely be considered baby sitters.
Hi. Nice to meet you. I am a homeschooling parent. My child has been taught from day one that magic isn't real. That includes magic that gets called 'miracle'. Every single kid or adult that has every tried to convince him that magic is real has been publicly schooled. Making a point to teach your child that magic, while fun to pretend some times, isn't real, gives you a clear view of just how nut-bag religious public schooled people are.
Approximately 86% of Americans are religious nut-bags. Approximately 1.7% of Americans children are homeschooled. Thus, the vast majority of religious nut-bags are in the public schools. Your children's teachers are likely the religious nut-bags you are talking about, and if you think that your kids are not being indoctrinated into thinking magic is real by the public school, you are fooling yourself.
People that like to pull out the claim that home schooled kids are young earth creationists generally, are religious nut-bags themselves. They just want every kid to go to public school where they will be taught that God didn't create the earth 6000 years ago, he did it much longer ago than that. The idea that magic isn't real, doesn't even show up on the radar, so since the homeschooled kids don't follow your religious nut-bag thinking, you assume that they belong to some competing nut-bag group.
Of course, if you have children, it would not be surprising that you wouldn't know what kind of nut-bag magical thinking they are being indoctrinated into, as the children are under your care for so little of their waking hours that you could barely be called a parent.
I can understand how your experiences could lead you to believe that, but for the most part, the rest of us don't all live in 1920's rural Kansas.
They could use solar for daytime running, and electrolysis of water into hydrogen, and then use the hydrogen produced during the day to run their servers at night. Obviously, they would need to run the numbers to see if the cost of solar + conversion losses are cheaper or more expensive than the alternatives, but it should be a lot cleaner.
It has always seemed to me that the obvious use for fuel cells was to act as a storage/smoothing device to be coupled with photovoltaic.
We could just solve the mouthbreathers problem with Nasonex.
Doing software development, I think you are giving us too much credit in thinking that we don't fall prey to many of the same problems. One problem I see is that a lot of people get confused between "truly fine examples of educators" and "teachers that I like". I have known many teachers that I liked, but that were not good educators.
Sadly, I don't think our current education system can be fixed. The problems with our public education exist on every level. It is the parents, the teachers, the administration, the unions, the state legislature, the federal legislature, the courts, and even the POTUS. Fixing one level won't yield visible result, so getting a single level fixed and kept fixed is unlikely. Getting all of the players to get their act together at the same time is equally unlikely.
This is why we dropped out of the system. We homeschool our kids, and because of that, our children are getting a far better education than they would get were we to put them in the system. Home schooling, and alternative schools are becoming more and more popular. A large part of that is because the public school system is completely broken, and even if it could be fixed, it won't be fixed before our children would have their education destroyed.
The issue here is that 'experts' in education really are not experts at all. Child education and the related child psychology are self selecting career paths that end up as an echo chamber of bad ideas. One of the outcomes of them having no more idea on how to teach than any other reasonably intelligent adult, they take the route of changing things to achieve the goal of appearing like they are improving the situation.
"Number Sentence" is a perfect example of this.
This breaks down due to our complete lack of respect for middle management. Middle management is seen as nothing more than a warm body to fill space. Thus, people that are only good as biological space heaters get hired into the position. Since the vast majority of people in the position are a waste of space, the position is seen as a low skill job, and cycle continues.
I have worked for good middle management, and bad middle management. I am 3x-4x as productive working for good middle management. I also spend far less time in meetings with good middle management. Good middle management will call meetings when there is a purpose, and will invite people who will be useful for that meeting. Bad middle management will look to marginalize or get rid of people who don't show up to their standing meetings about nothing.
Bad meetings are just one sign of poor middle management.
I don't know what you are talking about. I use CEC every day. Most manufacturers call there CEC something different, but they should all work the same. Or, maybe I just hit on the perfect combo of RaspBMC and Vizio TV.
Either the act of steering needs two hands or it does not. In fact, shifting gears is generally done at the time that two hands on the wheel would be the most beneficial. The fact that many cars are made in such a way that taking your hand of the wheel is necessary doesn't change level of danger in doing so. The fact that there is no need for a gear shift, light switch, or even a wiper switch means that you are advocating for a "The activity is really dangerous unless I do it." stance.
Until, part of logging into the register becomes running a test paper through the tester. This is one of those attacks that would be high risk, high skill, and low payoff.