My mother graduated from high school and swore like a French whore. My father graduated from the sixth grade, joined the Army and built buildings, swore less than my mother. I didn't learn language until I was in the sixth grade and my classmates taught me all the swear words to fill out a barnyard. However, behavior, politeness and desire to sit down prevented me from using language around adults.
Specifically, English; which is an evolving language and has been since it separated from the Latin language.
English was for commoners. Latin for priests. French for royalty. And drawings of penises for the illiterate.
Sadly we have had educators claiming what "you" want is all that matters, to the detriment of millions of students.
I don't blame the instructors for that. I blame the parents. If parents don't expect their children to behave, the children will have no expectations to follow. I grew up in a household that children were expect to be seen than heard or else the belt came out. Teachers always marveled how quiet and polite I was.
Students unable to communicate correctly should not have been admitted to college, because they shouldn't have received their high school diploma.
I graduated from the eighth grade, skipped high school and went to community college. I had college-level reading comprehension but fifth-grade skills in everything else. I didn't learn to properly communicate until I took Small Group Communications in my last semester.
This is basic stuff, and they graduate high school without learning it.
First day of Junior Engineering in the eighth grade, the instructor told us that "Yo!" wasn't an appropriate classroom response. We also got advice on brushing our tongue when brushing our teeth and using deodorant.
The community college I went to was pretty laid back with most instructors being called by their last name. The other community college in the district was more uptight with instructors insisting on being called "Instructor" before their last name. Never understood that stick-up-the-wazoo attitude, as they were teaching the same material and getting paid the same rate.
I guess that $50k a year is worth selling out your soul and sitting on 0day exploits until they become available to the public by means of illegal hacking.
My job is to aggressively patch workstations. This outbreak had zero impact at where I work.
Then you guys send it out in the wild to see how good it works, because why not, it's been patched.
It's unwise for any intelligence agency to reveal their bag of tricks. Although the Russians got burned pretty good this time around.
If you did, they'd know you aren't anywhere close enough to the real stuff to have caused anything.
Since people assume the worse about me, I have no trouble letting them think that I work for the NSA, CIA or FBI. Silicon Valley has a long history of government skunkwork projects. If the media, whistle blowers and political extremists contact me, I can simply brush them off.
How the times have change... If you didn't have an $2,500 Apple ][ at home in the early 1980's, your family must have been poor. A $100 Chromebook for each kid isn't that much of a big deal. Unless, of course, $100 is a big deal for some families.
I'm guessing you work at a company that is IT related.
I worked in government IT. The three-letter agency I work for is definitely not IT-related. I've gotten blowback from friends who think I work for the NSA (I can neither confirm nor deny) and was responsible for what happened this weekend.
So someone plugs in a USB flash drive to a computer on your restricted VLAN to copy some MP3s they want to listen to, spreads that infection to that computer, which then spreads it to the rest of the devices on the VLAN.
If you plugged a USB stick into a workstation at my job, the USB port would shut down and security will stop by in five minutes to confiscate the USB stick. Authorized USB sticks have built-in hardware encryption and are registered with an authentication server.
My work has the legacy patches ready for deployment even though WinXP, Win8 and Win2K3 systems got banished from the network last year. Never know when a tech is going to plug a decommissioned system into the network without verifying that it has a current Windows OS.
Let's say, as an example, there is an ultrasound machine that was based around Windows XP.
Medical devices should be kept on a separate VLAN behind an ACL with a no access to the Internet and a dedicated update server. Exposure to the General VLAN can cause problems. From what I read about the British hospital, there network isn't highly structured.
I haven't had an virus outbreak on my personal PCs in 10+ years. If you practice safe computing by keeping your PCs up to date, avoiding naughty bits on the Internet, and being careful not to click on links and/or attachments in email, you won't have any problems.
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When, pray tell, was that?
Probably the 16th century when Shakespeare started writing for the unwashed masses, as English was the commoner's language.
This is about language.
My mother graduated from high school and swore like a French whore. My father graduated from the sixth grade, joined the Army and built buildings, swore less than my mother. I didn't learn language until I was in the sixth grade and my classmates taught me all the swear words to fill out a barnyard. However, behavior, politeness and desire to sit down prevented me from using language around adults.
Specifically, English; which is an evolving language and has been since it separated from the Latin language.
English was for commoners. Latin for priests. French for royalty. And drawings of penises for the illiterate.
Sadly we have had educators claiming what "you" want is all that matters, to the detriment of millions of students.
I don't blame the instructors for that. I blame the parents. If parents don't expect their children to behave, the children will have no expectations to follow. I grew up in a household that children were expect to be seen than heard or else the belt came out. Teachers always marveled how quiet and polite I was.
Students unable to communicate correctly should not have been admitted to college, because they shouldn't have received their high school diploma.
I graduated from the eighth grade, skipped high school and went to community college. I had college-level reading comprehension but fifth-grade skills in everything else. I didn't learn to properly communicate until I took Small Group Communications in my last semester.
This is basic stuff, and they graduate high school without learning it.
First day of Junior Engineering in the eighth grade, the instructor told us that "Yo!" wasn't an appropriate classroom response. We also got advice on brushing our tongue when brushing our teeth and using deodorant.
The community college I went to was pretty laid back with most instructors being called by their last name. The other community college in the district was more uptight with instructors insisting on being called "Instructor" before their last name. Never understood that stick-up-the-wazoo attitude, as they were teaching the same material and getting paid the same rate.
Also, having a black MacBook will help.
Running the latest version of Linux Mint!
I guess that $50k a year is worth selling out your soul and sitting on 0day exploits until they become available to the public by means of illegal hacking.
My job is to aggressively patch workstations. This outbreak had zero impact at where I work.
Then you guys send it out in the wild to see how good it works, because why not, it's been patched.
It's unwise for any intelligence agency to reveal their bag of tricks. Although the Russians got burned pretty good this time around.
Wow, self-aggrandize much?
This is Slashdot. You must be new around here.
If you did, they'd know you aren't anywhere close enough to the real stuff to have caused anything.
Since people assume the worse about me, I have no trouble letting them think that I work for the NSA, CIA or FBI. Silicon Valley has a long history of government skunkwork projects. If the media, whistle blowers and political extremists contact me, I can simply brush them off.
If you buy Microsoft software, you get what you paid for.
I haven't that problem since Windows XP. Then again, I'm not running on minimum spec hardware.
If you use pirated software, you get what you paid for.
Maybe if your family could have cut into your food budget, they could have afforded two Apples.
My family liked to eat cantaloupes. We weren't into apples. Not sure how this is relevant to childhood computers.
How the times have change... If you didn't have an $2,500 Apple ][ at home in the early 1980's, your family must have been poor. A $100 Chromebook for each kid isn't that much of a big deal. Unless, of course, $100 is a big deal for some families.
I'm guessing you work at a company that is IT related.
I worked in government IT. The three-letter agency I work for is definitely not IT-related. I've gotten blowback from friends who think I work for the NSA (I can neither confirm nor deny) and was responsible for what happened this weekend.
Can a Windows XP machine use the SMB client protocol without allowing inbound packets?
Windows XP has SMB 1, which less secure than SMB 2 or 3 (found on Windows Vista or later and Windows 2008 or later).
So someone plugs in a USB flash drive to a computer on your restricted VLAN to copy some MP3s they want to listen to, spreads that infection to that computer, which then spreads it to the rest of the devices on the VLAN.
If you plugged a USB stick into a workstation at my job, the USB port would shut down and security will stop by in five minutes to confiscate the USB stick. Authorized USB sticks have built-in hardware encryption and are registered with an authentication server.
Just say NO to Android phones.
All the cool kids are using Perl 6!
When is Perl 6 supposed to come out? ;)
My work has the legacy patches ready for deployment even though WinXP, Win8 and Win2K3 systems got banished from the network last year. Never know when a tech is going to plug a decommissioned system into the network without verifying that it has a current Windows OS.
Let's say, as an example, there is an ultrasound machine that was based around Windows XP.
Medical devices should be kept on a separate VLAN behind an ACL with a no access to the Internet and a dedicated update server. Exposure to the General VLAN can cause problems. From what I read about the British hospital, there network isn't highly structured.
I haven't had an virus outbreak on my personal PCs in 10+ years. If you practice safe computing by keeping your PCs up to date, avoiding naughty bits on the Internet, and being careful not to click on links and/or attachments in email, you won't have any problems.
Open Hash would have been a more appealing name.
/. should hold a collection and enroll you for this course:
That would be a waste. Comedy requires intelligence and the ability to play the fool. The AC has neither.
[...] the group of people you spend your time with is not slashdotters.
Funny you should mention that... none of my coworkers have ever heard of Slashdot. Seems like Slashdot is a leftover relic of the dot com bust.
/. is written in perl ...
That would explain why /. haven't been updated in 20 years.