1. The devices are all made differently with different points of failure. For instance a Treo has a knob of an antenna or a keyboard that can be damaged.
2. I'm pretty sure that majority of people arn't going to insure their iPhones with a 3rd party provider, since that isn't what AT&T tells them. AT&T will sell them the only official way to service an iPhone, aka Apple Care.
You are right there is a certain stigma to using version 1.0 software, but you get a much worse response if a customer realizes you just started version 1.0 at a higher number.
My experience with a small/medium software company has been to basically make the versions mean something. We use a reasonably standard formula for version control [major].[minor].[build].[revision].
Basic meanings given to new programmers:
Major: drastic, often incompatible, changes between code versions
Minor: published bugfix collections and minor user-driven feature additions
Build: single bugfixes and basically anytime you recompile something you send to customers
Revision: mostly unused, but handy when performing hotpatches for clients until a full bugfix is released
The other really important piece to do when using version control numbers is to keep records of changes and who was in charge of making them. This makes life much easier from a support standpoint because when something breaks, it's nice to narrow the source down to a few people who touched it last or who wrote it to begin with.
The easiest way to break into the software development industry is to simply be an intern for a small to medium sized company and do a good job while getting along with people. If you make yourself an integral part of their development team, they would be foolish to let you go.
ACU has a tradition of taking calculated risks when it comes to how they do business as an educational institution. This quality is what puts ACU on the map consistently as a leader in education. There are lots of other universities who have tried to pull off programs like this, and many have succeeded. ACU gets this large amount of publicity because it simply is an Apple product that has significant penetration into the student population. Having been involved with the rollout plan for when/how this project was to mature, it could have happened sooner. However, ACU made the decision to wait until there was enough software designed to make this more than just a toy/promotional tool. In fact, the semester before these were handed out several research groups were formed consisting of both students and faculty to determine how these devices could be used most efficiently and even begin to work on their own coding projects to achieve these goals.
These calculated risks are not just in how they were to be used in an educational setting, but also in the technology implementation. It was a significant challenge to provide that large a scale of wireless access. Having worked on it, I must admit that wireless deployment is an artform in how you balance capacity versus coverage with hundreds of environmental factors affecting your decisions. There are many great pieces of software to try and assist you making the optimal placement choices, but they frequently require large amounts of time for data entry for only a minor change in quality. When it boils down to is still the same procedure that has been used for years; deploy 90% of AP, turn it on and survey it, then use the remaining 10% to fill in the holes you missed. Sofar, most of the risky decisions that were made appear to have payed off and leave only a known portion to be expanded in the future.
I'm proud to have graduated from this university in May and have the privilege of working with the IS department for several years.
Having just graduated college with lots of friends beginning their teaching careers, I see a major shift in education during the last 3-8 years. New teachers today are not being taught how to teach. Instead they learn how to read one of a select few publisher's curriculum to instead of teaching a subject, teach a test. If students are having a hard time with a particular subject, many teachers do not have the option but to move on because they have to cover everything on an extensive test or lose funding from kids failing based on material that wasn't able to be covered.
While I do agree that it is good that more and more teachers are becoming trained on how to work with special needs children, I don't believe universities are actually preparing their students to exploit curiosity and bring forth ingenuity. I had planned to teach highschool Computer Science but got out of it simply because of the level of legalism in the classroom and having to worry about being sued or losing my job because poor little johnny didn't want to do his homework.
Personally I would love to see the trusty solid oak "board of education" get brought out of retirement and smack my own kids when they get out of line. I'd also love to see more parents stand beside their educators by getting more involved with their child's education through organizations like the PTA or just making sure kids do what they need to do to understand a subject and complete the evaluation requirements of a teacher.
And for anyone who says there isn't enough money going into the school system, you're right in some cases but not all. My local school system is dirt poor and big, while the district one town over is rich simply because of how the money is divided (mine is based on the yearly change in property values of the city). But simply shoving money at the problem doesn't make it go away, so the monetary argument is moot anyway.
I agree that learning these skills is important if computer security if what you plan to do legitimately for a living. As much as I would have loved to take a class like that in college, I don't believe ethically I could have participated. By having students practice these skills in the real world they are just adding to the already enormous problem. I believe a well built simulation environment could serve the purpose just as well without causing problems for other users.
So is there a line these students have crossed by practising their skills in the wild? Should a policeman learn to solve crime by committing it for example?
I just wonder how difficult the arming mechanism would be to wirelessly jam or hack. The whole bracelet thing just seems like a huge target that any terrorist would want to gain control of.
I also wonder why the DHS is considering this even when the Department of Corrections won't use this in a prison.
The mistake was he offered to sell it publicly (or at least pretend so). I'll avoid his capitalistic right to do so.
The way it normally happens is a politician "promises" to fix a problem or bring new life to a group of people for only the cost of their vote. Now that seems to me like the other side just passing some money under the table to me.
This whole business just sounds to me like a publicity stunt to get somebody re-elected.
Sounds like a really great exercise for malware writers to flood the data backend with entries from thier networks, and get random good people sued for child pr0n in the process.
And by scaring people out of downloading music, they instead expect people to go back to buying cd's. But let's not forget that all cd's will now have extreme drm (I'm thinking sony). But eventually they will learn that the entire model of selling music is not making enough money. Therefore the model will shift to leasing music. That way they can keep charging you by the play, or by a time period. However at that point, physically distributing the music is a liability, so you will have to use your overly drm'd player to contact their secured music streaming service. Now they have who you listen to, your personal information, total control over how/when/what you have available and for how much.
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Not really, you just tell them that you hide the real graphs for security reasons and only you have access to the real ones.
That's not terribly suprising for two reasons.
1. The devices are all made differently with different points of failure. For instance a Treo has a knob of an antenna or a keyboard that can be damaged.
2. I'm pretty sure that majority of people arn't going to insure their iPhones with a 3rd party provider, since that isn't what AT&T tells them. AT&T will sell them the only official way to service an iPhone, aka Apple Care.
You are right there is a certain stigma to using version 1.0 software, but you get a much worse response if a customer realizes you just started version 1.0 at a higher number.
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My experience with a small/medium software company has been to basically make the versions mean something. We use a reasonably standard formula for version control [major].[minor].[build].[revision]
Basic meanings given to new programmers: Major: drastic, often incompatible, changes between code versions
Minor: published bugfix collections and minor user-driven feature additions
Build: single bugfixes and basically anytime you recompile something you send to customers
Revision: mostly unused, but handy when performing hotpatches for clients until a full bugfix is released
The other really important piece to do when using version control numbers is to keep records of changes and who was in charge of making them. This makes life much easier from a support standpoint because when something breaks, it's nice to narrow the source down to a few people who touched it last or who wrote it to begin with.
The easiest way to break into the software development industry is to simply be an intern for a small to medium sized company and do a good job while getting along with people. If you make yourself an integral part of their development team, they would be foolish to let you go.
ACU has a tradition of taking calculated risks when it comes to how they do business as an educational institution. This quality is what puts ACU on the map consistently as a leader in education. There are lots of other universities who have tried to pull off programs like this, and many have succeeded. ACU gets this large amount of publicity because it simply is an Apple product that has significant penetration into the student population. Having been involved with the rollout plan for when/how this project was to mature, it could have happened sooner. However, ACU made the decision to wait until there was enough software designed to make this more than just a toy/promotional tool. In fact, the semester before these were handed out several research groups were formed consisting of both students and faculty to determine how these devices could be used most efficiently and even begin to work on their own coding projects to achieve these goals.
These calculated risks are not just in how they were to be used in an educational setting, but also in the technology implementation. It was a significant challenge to provide that large a scale of wireless access. Having worked on it, I must admit that wireless deployment is an artform in how you balance capacity versus coverage with hundreds of environmental factors affecting your decisions. There are many great pieces of software to try and assist you making the optimal placement choices, but they frequently require large amounts of time for data entry for only a minor change in quality. When it boils down to is still the same procedure that has been used for years; deploy 90% of AP, turn it on and survey it, then use the remaining 10% to fill in the holes you missed. Sofar, most of the risky decisions that were made appear to have payed off and leave only a known portion to be expanded in the future.
I'm proud to have graduated from this university in May and have the privilege of working with the IS department for several years.
The scary thing is it looks like several people have taken stubs to hire this person.
This sounds familiar to me.
Having just graduated college with lots of friends beginning their teaching careers, I see a major shift in education during the last 3-8 years. New teachers today are not being taught how to teach. Instead they learn how to read one of a select few publisher's curriculum to instead of teaching a subject, teach a test. If students are having a hard time with a particular subject, many teachers do not have the option but to move on because they have to cover everything on an extensive test or lose funding from kids failing based on material that wasn't able to be covered.
While I do agree that it is good that more and more teachers are becoming trained on how to work with special needs children, I don't believe universities are actually preparing their students to exploit curiosity and bring forth ingenuity. I had planned to teach highschool Computer Science but got out of it simply because of the level of legalism in the classroom and having to worry about being sued or losing my job because poor little johnny didn't want to do his homework.
Personally I would love to see the trusty solid oak "board of education" get brought out of retirement and smack my own kids when they get out of line. I'd also love to see more parents stand beside their educators by getting more involved with their child's education through organizations like the PTA or just making sure kids do what they need to do to understand a subject and complete the evaluation requirements of a teacher.
And for anyone who says there isn't enough money going into the school system, you're right in some cases but not all. My local school system is dirt poor and big, while the district one town over is rich simply because of how the money is divided (mine is based on the yearly change in property values of the city). But simply shoving money at the problem doesn't make it go away, so the monetary argument is moot anyway.
What exactly qualifies this as a crisis?
"Will you hold my weed officer while I get my geneticists exemption note?"
Right, but these people are actually pushing crap onto the internet; not just playing in simulator land.
I agree that learning these skills is important if computer security if what you plan to do legitimately for a living. As much as I would have loved to take a class like that in college, I don't believe ethically I could have participated. By having students practice these skills in the real world they are just adding to the already enormous problem. I believe a well built simulation environment could serve the purpose just as well without causing problems for other users.
So is there a line these students have crossed by practising their skills in the wild? Should a policeman learn to solve crime by committing it for example?
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What about using it or reselling it as a massive point to point wireless antenna?
I just wonder how difficult the arming mechanism would be to wirelessly jam or hack. The whole bracelet thing just seems like a huge target that any terrorist would want to gain control of.
I also wonder why the DHS is considering this even when the Department of Corrections won't use this in a prison.
The mistake was he offered to sell it publicly (or at least pretend so). I'll avoid his capitalistic right to do so.
The way it normally happens is a politician "promises" to fix a problem or bring new life to a group of people for only the cost of their vote. Now that seems to me like the other side just passing some money under the table to me.
This whole business just sounds to me like a publicity stunt to get somebody re-elected.
If this is true, google is going to get sued for trillions.
If you've never used it, here is a little trick with a google query (just replace Green Day with whomever you wish).
http://www.google.com/ie?q=%22parent+directory%22+mp3+OR+wma+OR+ogg+OR+wav+Green%20Day+-html+-htm+-download+-links&num=100&filter=0
Dude, your porn gave my computer an STD!
I suppose that they just really need more money to mount a defence against all the legal battles they are losing.
This sounds an awful lot like the early days of home computing with PC-compatible hardware. Maybe this is the year for Tandy to make a comeback.
I'd like to see the government try to stop all the wifi Point-to-Point antenna pointed across the Rio Grande or the Canadian Border.
I guess we'll have to add create a big rf fence or create a wifi border patrol.
What about adding a thermite compartment tied to an RFID or failed ownership confirmation?
Next up on the auction block, the moth Grace Hopper pulled from a Mark II on September 9th, 1947.
Sounds like a really great exercise for malware writers to flood the data backend with entries from thier networks, and get random good people sued for child pr0n in the process.
And by scaring people out of downloading music, they instead expect people to go back to buying cd's. But let's not forget that all cd's will now have extreme drm (I'm thinking sony). But eventually they will learn that the entire model of selling music is not making enough money. Therefore the model will shift to leasing music. That way they can keep charging you by the play, or by a time period. However at that point, physically distributing the music is a liability, so you will have to use your overly drm'd player to contact their secured music streaming service. Now they have who you listen to, your personal information, total control over how/when/what you have available and for how much.
Sounds like a good business to me.