BTW, i just want to make sure you don't think I am trying to give a holier that thou speech. I've rolled stop signs, I consistently drive over the limit etc. However, I pay attention to my driving, and I believe that makes my driving alot safer than someone who stay well within the law, and doesn't pay any attention at all to what they're doing!
Honestly, 90% of the problems on the roads are not due to us not having enough techology in our vehicles. Alot of it is due to incompetent drivers.
If people on the road started to pay attention to how they were driving, and drive within the bounds of caution, we wouldn't need all this fancy technology to protect us.
Consider how many people get into collisions because they are busy chatting away on a cell phone, and are not paying any attention at all to the road in front of them.
Or what about on highways, when there is an accident? Sure, that in itself will cause traffic problems, however, how much of these problems can be attributed to rubberneckers who slow the whole system down even more?
I believe that if more people thought about it, and tried to put more thought into their driving, we wouldn't need all this.
Right... This guy had a decently bad experience. Everyone makes mistakes. Obviously this case had a fair bit of incompetence, but I doubt this is the standard.
Also, keep in mind that 90% of what is termed "Computer Forensics" has nothing to do at all with network activity.
Computer Forensics deals mostly AFAIK with such things as:
1. A suspected pedophile is arrested, and they pull his computer. They find stuff like kiddie porn, and MSN logs where he tries to get little ones to meet him in the park etc.
2. A stock broker gets arrested for insider trading. They check his stored e-mail for any and all information they can to see if this if there is any trace.
3. Almost always they will use utilities to try to reclaim deleted data.
Most if not all Computer Forensics people are highly trained professionals, although this may not be the case in small towns with localized police forces. Please don't make the assumption that they are all frauds.
You're right in that it's a fair generalization that Computer Science grads are good with that type of puzzle, RPG or and real "logic" games...
However, like you mentioned, forensics would be alot similar to debugging, and how many programmers do you know who *like* debugging?
Also, in response to the main subject of this comments thread, when have you *ever* seen an accurate portrayal of real police work in a episodal TV show?
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BTW, i just want to make sure you don't think I am trying to give a holier that thou speech. I've rolled stop signs, I consistently drive over the limit etc. However, I pay attention to my driving, and I believe that makes my driving alot safer than someone who stay well within the law, and doesn't pay any attention at all to what they're doing!
This is like putting the cart before the horse.
Honestly, 90% of the problems on the roads are not due to us not having enough techology in our vehicles. Alot of it is due to incompetent drivers.
If people on the road started to pay attention to how they were driving, and drive within the bounds of caution, we wouldn't need all this fancy technology to protect us.
Consider how many people get into collisions because they are busy chatting away on a cell phone, and are not paying any attention at all to the road in front of them.
Or what about on highways, when there is an accident? Sure, that in itself will cause traffic problems, however, how much of these problems can be attributed to rubberneckers who slow the whole system down even more?
I believe that if more people thought about it, and tried to put more thought into their driving, we wouldn't need all this.
Wow.. no bitterness there...
Right... This guy had a decently bad experience. Everyone makes mistakes. Obviously this case had a fair bit of incompetence, but I doubt this is the standard. Also, keep in mind that 90% of what is termed "Computer Forensics" has nothing to do at all with network activity. Computer Forensics deals mostly AFAIK with such things as: 1. A suspected pedophile is arrested, and they pull his computer. They find stuff like kiddie porn, and MSN logs where he tries to get little ones to meet him in the park etc. 2. A stock broker gets arrested for insider trading. They check his stored e-mail for any and all information they can to see if this if there is any trace. 3. Almost always they will use utilities to try to reclaim deleted data. Most if not all Computer Forensics people are highly trained professionals, although this may not be the case in small towns with localized police forces. Please don't make the assumption that they are all frauds.
You're right in that it's a fair generalization that Computer Science grads are good with that type of puzzle, RPG or and real "logic" games... However, like you mentioned, forensics would be alot similar to debugging, and how many programmers do you know who *like* debugging? Also, in response to the main subject of this comments thread, when have you *ever* seen an accurate portrayal of real police work in a episodal TV show?