The british had a long-standing tradition of mis-treating many, many talented citizens of the Realm that had the misfortune of being practicing homosexuals.
"Charles Babbage, FRS (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871)[1] was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.[2] Considered a "father of the computer",[3] Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex designs.["
"Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 - 27 November 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine; thanks to this, she is sometimes considered the world's first computer programmer."
Are you honestly looking for suggestions on training to take that will be good for the next 5 years?
First off, in this job market, don't expect to sail into an upper-level position, so you are likely looking at a grunt-level job.
My advice would be to learn either network security OR virtualization - your diverse skill set will augment either of those two areas, and in security you may have an advantage not being a twenty-something with dubious credentials (AKA self-taught). I think you are honestly at the end of your career, or at least, you can see it from where you are - your greatest strengths are your previous experiences, look for a way to build on them in a growing segment of the industry.
The 77 cents on the dollar argument is based on adding up the incomes of all the working women in the country, dividing it by the number of women in the country, and doing the same for the men. The actual calculation ignores experience, ability, time on the job, nature of the work, etc. Such a conclusion is only possible in the most abstract of discussions - on the personal level it is undetectable.
Does your employer have a men's pay scale and a women's pay scale? No, none do. It's illegal, and every few years we remind everyone my passing ever more regulations prohibiting the practice.
Does it make any sense that if women are paid less than men, why aren't there more women in the workforce, since an all-women workforce (if this were true) would be 3/4ths the cost of an all-male workforce?
A big part of the comparison is also based on the difference between "earnings" and pay rate - women who, on average, work fewer hours at the same rate as a man have less earnings, despite being paid 100 cents for every dollar a man earns for the same work.
"most intro biology students (who have good teachers) eventually have the "a ha" moment somewhere in the first semester."
I'll just bet their a ha moment doesn't come about as a result of the teacr simply repeating "settled sciece" ovr and over again, but in working with the students to understand why their misconceptions are wrong, and why the what the teacher is saying is correct.
In Science you are either right or wrong, your proof shouldn't rely on who or how many other scientists agree with you - you either have proven your theory or not.
Simple, because it is science class - teach the children, don't dictate to them, welcome their challenges as a sign of an engaged, but misinformed, student and work to inform their decisions.
If a student is forced to accept what is told to him without question by either a person behind a lecturn or behind a pulpit, the pulpit stands a better chance of winning over the student - the church offers snacks.
I would imagine it is the role of the science teacher to educate, not pontificate - if students enter the classroom with different ideas, theories, or beliefs I would expect the teacher to entertain their ideas, beliefs, and theories and then work with the student to understand how their ideas, beliefs and theories balance against scientific facts.
The teacher is not obliged to give equal time to all theories that the students preset, but the science teacher has the task of equiping the students to come to their own conclusions based on facts. A science teacher that can't (or doesn't want to) defend the ideas and concepts they are teaching needs to find another profession.
Religions typically teach the "One True Belief" on a subject and ask the followers to "believe without proof, as an exercise of their faith," not science.
In our school district, computer usage in kindergarten is minimal (three or four computers per kindergarten class, some have none at the teacher's request).
We have NO password requirement for K-2 students, it can be anything they want (123), but they also have no email access and typically don't access internet (running local "edutainment" programs on Macs.
What state requires computer usage in Kindergarten?
My local school district has several Verizon FiOS 115 Mb/sec connections for the district of 4,000 K-12 students. It isn't that expensive, but it is essentially residential-grade service.
They pay about $200/connection per month, probably $1K/month - much cheaper than the subsidized business class service the district had before, and much faster.
Our in school wire network is Fast Ethernet to the desktop, Gigabit backbone.
It was non-trivial to get this service at a public school, due to rate regulations.
Did you notice the size of the solar array Apple is building which, along with a bio-gas generator will only provide 60% of the power they need? You'd have to double the area to fully power the facility (double the solar panels and double the bio-gas generators) - this doesn't scale well with current technology IMHO.
Imagine how big a solar array that provides 100% of their power needs would have to be?
Please spec out a 134Kw solar array - I think you are looking at about a 10,000 square foot array - to power and cool FOUR servers at a cost of around a quarter million dollars (before incentives and subsidies).
Uh, I don't think this will scale.
What would it take to power a Sun "Datacenter in a Box" with it's 600 Amp, 208V three phase power requirement from solar panels? That would be a good indication of this concept's ability to "scale"...
We (the US Gov't and the taxpayers) subsidise research into solar panels, the design of solar panels, the manufacture of solar panels, the purchase of solar panels, and the installation of solar panels, and then when these panels start producing power we require electric utilities to buy the excess power they generate at a premium. And amazingly, we do all this subsidising with borrowed money from China so as to prevent China from "owning" the solar market. Guess what, China does "own" the solar market - either directly or as lein holders against "our" domestic solar industry, built with borrowed Chinese money.
First off, the four servers are "fairly" beefy - four servers, each with dual 12-core CPUs, 64 Gig RAM, etc. and their datacenter include cooling (running air conditioning off of a solar arry seems like a bad idea, kinda like running a laser printer off battery power)...
If you really wanted to shoot for zero power from the grid, rather than throwing a huge solar Array at powering (and cooling) four big servers, why not re-engineer the datacenter to require less power all together? If we have to pack a dozen or so high-velocity fans inside a 1U rack server, maybe we should consider sacrificing space for power demands and use a 4U case that can tolerate higher temperatures? Why not investigate powering the datacenter off of DC, rather than several conversions to and from AC to DC? Why not study the concept of more lower-power CPUs instead of fewer high-power CPUs?
All they are really proving is that they can run a datacenter with a power requirement of NKW by building a solar array that supplies NKW x 24 hours worth of power every day in the few hours each day sunlight is available each day.
Maybe I should embark on a similar effort, put an HP microserver in a tool shed out back, throw up a few solar panels and deploy some batteries, then have my cable company run a line out to the shed and have my server & ISP router powered off the batteries charged by the solar panels... The microserver doesn't need special cooling, and it requires just under 200 watts electricity, so figuring in a small safety margin of 50% to power the cable router and loss due to storage/conversion I would need 24 x 300 watts about 2.25KW solar array and I figure a 24 hour battery that could hold 7.2KW of power (what is the proper scale for such an item? Half the daily power consumption?)
Only the 2.25KW solar array would be about 224 square feet - to power one little HP microserver 24x7 (or any 300 Watt load).
Wait, so theiur definition of "net zero" is that during the handful of hours each day the sun is shining their 134KW solar array will be pumping power into the power grid, then their servers will draw power off the grid? That makes for an interesting experiment/proof of concept (which is, to be fair, all they are refering to this as), but is this really a model for sustainability in any way?
If it takes something like 134KW solar array to reliably produce 24 hours of electricity for four servers, please run the numbers and explain to be how, say, Google could do this for one of their datacenters without covering an area measures in tens of square miles with solar panels.
The real test would be to disconnect from the power grid and store the electricity locally, seeing what it takes to pull IT off the grid.
First off, don't confuse the concept of capitalism with the current practice of what we refer to as "capitalism", second, there's an easy way for us to end "chronic government support" - have the government stop supporting industries.
Capitalism is all about freedom - freedom to do what you want, charge what you want, prosper or not on your own - the rewards and the responsibility are your own.
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I think theres an extra "FBI" in the title - "FBI Hunt For Child Porn FBI Thwarted By Tor"
Many slaves were captured by rival tribes and traded to slave trades for trinkets, sold into the slave trade by their fellow countrymen.
The british had a long-standing tradition of mis-treating many, many talented citizens of the Realm that had the misfortune of being practicing homosexuals.
The only witness of the alleged theft was a suspected bugger...
Charles Babbage & Ada Lovelace?
For you young whipper-snappers:
It is still used by many major corporations, and many not-so-major ones.
COBOL, like the Mainframe, has had almost as many funerals as it has birthdays...
Are you honestly looking for suggestions on training to take that will be good for the next 5 years?
First off, in this job market, don't expect to sail into an upper-level position, so you are likely looking at a grunt-level job.
My advice would be to learn either network security OR virtualization - your diverse skill set will augment either of those two areas, and in security you may have an advantage not being a twenty-something with dubious credentials (AKA self-taught). I think you are honestly at the end of your career, or at least, you can see it from where you are - your greatest strengths are your previous experiences, look for a way to build on them in a growing segment of the industry.
The 77 cents on the dollar argument is based on adding up the incomes of all the working women in the country, dividing it by the number of women in the country, and doing the same for the men. The actual calculation ignores experience, ability, time on the job, nature of the work, etc. Such a conclusion is only possible in the most abstract of discussions - on the personal level it is undetectable.
Does your employer have a men's pay scale and a women's pay scale? No, none do. It's illegal, and every few years we remind everyone my passing ever more regulations prohibiting the practice.
Does it make any sense that if women are paid less than men, why aren't there more women in the workforce, since an all-women workforce (if this were true) would be 3/4ths the cost of an all-male workforce?
A big part of the comparison is also based on the difference between "earnings" and pay rate - women who, on average, work fewer hours at the same rate as a man have less earnings, despite being paid 100 cents for every dollar a man earns for the same work.
I'll just bet their a ha moment doesn't come about as a result of the teacr simply repeating "settled sciece" ovr and over again, but in working with the students to understand why their misconceptions are wrong, and why the what the teacher is saying is correct.
Exactly.
In Science you are either right or wrong, your proof shouldn't rely on who or how many other scientists agree with you - you either have proven your theory or not.
If you rely on concensus, you haven't proven it.
Simple, because it is science class - teach the children, don't dictate to them, welcome their challenges as a sign of an engaged, but misinformed, student and work to inform their decisions.
If a student is forced to accept what is told to him without question by either a person behind a lecturn or behind a pulpit, the pulpit stands a better chance of winning over the student - the church offers snacks.
I would imagine it is the role of the science teacher to educate, not pontificate - if students enter the classroom with different ideas, theories, or beliefs I would expect the teacher to entertain their ideas, beliefs, and theories and then work with the student to understand how their ideas, beliefs and theories balance against scientific facts.
The teacher is not obliged to give equal time to all theories that the students preset, but the science teacher has the task of equiping the students to come to their own conclusions based on facts. A science teacher that can't (or doesn't want to) defend the ideas and concepts they are teaching needs to find another profession.
Religions typically teach the "One True Belief" on a subject and ask the followers to "believe without proof, as an exercise of their faith," not science.
In our school district, computer usage in kindergarten is minimal (three or four computers per kindergarten class, some have none at the teacher's request).
We have NO password requirement for K-2 students, it can be anything they want (123), but they also have no email access and typically don't access internet (running local "edutainment" programs on Macs.
What state requires computer usage in Kindergarten?
My local school district has several Verizon FiOS 115 Mb/sec connections for the district of 4,000 K-12 students. It isn't that expensive, but it is essentially residential-grade service.
They pay about $200/connection per month, probably $1K/month - much cheaper than the subsidized business class service the district had before, and much faster.
Our in school wire network is Fast Ethernet to the desktop, Gigabit backbone.
It was non-trivial to get this service at a public school, due to rate regulations.
Did you notice the size of the solar array Apple is building which, along with a bio-gas generator will only provide 60% of the power they need? You'd have to double the area to fully power the facility (double the solar panels and double the bio-gas generators) - this doesn't scale well with current technology IMHO.
Imagine how big a solar array that provides 100% of their power needs would have to be?
You know, powering the datacenter by burning wood is renewable. Just sayin'
Here in New Jersey we are putting tiny solar panels on telephone poles to prove how stupid we are aboout green energy.
Please spec out a 134Kw solar array - I think you are looking at about a 10,000 square foot array - to power and cool FOUR servers at a cost of around a quarter million dollars (before incentives and subsidies).
Uh, I don't think this will scale.
What would it take to power a Sun "Datacenter in a Box" with it's 600 Amp, 208V three phase power requirement from solar panels? That would be a good indication of this concept's ability to "scale"...
Have you factored in the government subsidies? ;^)
We (the US Gov't and the taxpayers) subsidise research into solar panels, the design of solar panels, the manufacture of solar panels, the purchase of solar panels, and the installation of solar panels, and then when these panels start producing power we require electric utilities to buy the excess power they generate at a premium. And amazingly, we do all this subsidising with borrowed money from China so as to prevent China from "owning" the solar market. Guess what, China does "own" the solar market - either directly or as lein holders against "our" domestic solar industry, built with borrowed Chinese money.
We'll show them!
First off, the four servers are "fairly" beefy - four servers, each with dual 12-core CPUs, 64 Gig RAM, etc. and their datacenter include cooling (running air conditioning off of a solar arry seems like a bad idea, kinda like running a laser printer off battery power)...
If you really wanted to shoot for zero power from the grid, rather than throwing a huge solar Array at powering (and cooling) four big servers, why not re-engineer the datacenter to require less power all together? If we have to pack a dozen or so high-velocity fans inside a 1U rack server, maybe we should consider sacrificing space for power demands and use a 4U case that can tolerate higher temperatures? Why not investigate powering the datacenter off of DC, rather than several conversions to and from AC to DC? Why not study the concept of more lower-power CPUs instead of fewer high-power CPUs?
All they are really proving is that they can run a datacenter with a power requirement of NKW by building a solar array that supplies NKW x 24 hours worth of power every day in the few hours each day sunlight is available each day.
Maybe I should embark on a similar effort, put an HP microserver in a tool shed out back, throw up a few solar panels and deploy some batteries, then have my cable company run a line out to the shed and have my server & ISP router powered off the batteries charged by the solar panels... The microserver doesn't need special cooling, and it requires just under 200 watts electricity, so figuring in a small safety margin of 50% to power the cable router and loss due to storage/conversion I would need 24 x 300 watts about 2.25KW solar array and I figure a 24 hour battery that could hold 7.2KW of power (what is the proper scale for such an item? Half the daily power consumption?)
Only the 2.25KW solar array would be about 224 square feet - to power one little HP microserver 24x7 (or any 300 Watt load).
Wait, so theiur definition of "net zero" is that during the handful of hours each day the sun is shining their 134KW solar array will be pumping power into the power grid, then their servers will draw power off the grid? That makes for an interesting experiment/proof of concept (which is, to be fair, all they are refering to this as), but is this really a model for sustainability in any way?
If it takes something like 134KW solar array to reliably produce 24 hours of electricity for four servers, please run the numbers and explain to be how, say, Google could do this for one of their datacenters without covering an area measures in tens of square miles with solar panels.
The real test would be to disconnect from the power grid and store the electricity locally, seeing what it takes to pull IT off the grid.
First off, don't confuse the concept of capitalism with the current practice of what we refer to as "capitalism", second, there's an easy way for us to end "chronic government support" - have the government stop supporting industries.
Capitalism is all about freedom - freedom to do what you want, charge what you want, prosper or not on your own - the rewards and the responsibility are your own.
This is slashdot - what's a gym?
I think you overestimate his limit - I suspect he hits his limit all the time.
Shhh - The Gov't will force them to include men in 5% of the lesbian scenes...