This is perhaps one of the most insightful articles I have ever read. I guess it also highlights my beef with Computer Science curriculum at the University level: it doesn't teach real world coding but coding to solve interesting theoretical or mathematical problems. It doesn't take a solid foundation in mathematics to be able to learn to code. I think learning to code much in the same way as one learns to be a machinist is a fabulous idea and making computer programming a blue collar, skilled job is long overdue. If such an option were open to me, I would be all over it in a heart beat. I have a degree in Criminal Justice yet I'm working as a Systems Admin and I don't particularly like it. I would love to be able to go to a vocational training program with apprenticeship and write software. This is so much better than importing H1B visas to do the work because it encourages development in America.
The task of a university is to help your understanding of principles, not to use the technology of a particular company.
If you want a Cisco certificate, take a class from Cisco.
Yes, I agree with this. I don't like the idea of a university stumping for a vendor. Personally, I'm against these vendor-specific certifications and in my experience these vendor training programs do not necessarily produce better network admins/engineers. For the most part it is a money making scheme. I've seen some really shitty network admins and engineers that brag about their CCNA and CCNP. Learning how to do things Cisco's way does not in of itself, make a better network engineer. You have to know the theory first. Plus, there is real competition out there in the form of Huawei and Vyatta and others. You would do better to learn the UNIX networking tools and then just apply that knowledge to the vendor specific stuff.
This is just indicative of how our society is going downhill. America cannot be viable long term on a service-based economy. We must do more manufacturing. Those that own the means of production have the ability to rapidly innovate. If we don't stem the tide of partisan corruption and sending manufacturing overseas, the United States is going to go the way of Rome and our future will be studying us in textbooks much like we study Ancient Rome.
As long as you are not telling other Chinese people how to break through the firewall, I doubt that Chinese government will go after you. They do not need to add stress to their relationship with the USA, and they would probably prefer to sneak something onto your laptop so they can get some trade secrets than to stop you from using a corporate VPN. The purpose of the firewall is to control Chinese citizens, not to harass foreigners.
At best this is an assumption you've made. The Chinese will willingly detain, try, and punish any foreigner that they feel poses a threat to state security. Moreover, it is probably the U.S. is more concerned with it's fragile relationship with China. When it feels threatened, the Chinese Communist Party will react and not care one iota about the world's reaction.
Knowingly, willingly, and recklessly violating the law in any foreign country is not a good idea, period. It is well known that China does not have the same due process laws and criminal procedure of the United States. You could be charged with a capital offense such as spying and there is very little anyone can do to help you. Your best bet is to take a vacation from work and enjoy your trip. That much said you could look at a tunneling service such as tunnelr which uses OpenVPN to encrypt your traffic and tunnel through a firewall but you do this at quite a bit of peril. What happens if a civil servant monitoring the Great Firewall "sees" a session with a lot of encrypted traffic and it is not going to one of the regular, acceptable locations? Tunnelr also offers SSH encrypted tunneling.
The answer is not in an all electric vehicle but in the use of hydrogen fuel in internal combustion engines. There have been advances in the technology for storing and transporting hydrogen that make it fairly viable. Plus, large scale changes don't have to be made to the existing infrastructure. The large sums of money spent in all electric vehicles would have been better put towards hydrogen or hydrogen fuel cells.
While I like the idea of DNT, it won't be long until folks find a way around it. Remember, Google found a way around the robots.txt file to let their bot continue to index a site despite explicit denial. Of course a lawsuit did end this.
I'll bet Apple is really wishing it didn't lobby so hard for software and hardware patents. It's funny to watch these companies try and sue each other out of existence over what really should be open standards. LTE should be open and patent unencumbered.
I'm not on the side of law enforcement but in this case the ruling is fair game. If you use an open, unencrypted wireless access point you do not have a heightened expectation of privacy.
In a word, no it is not. Effectively, policies like these create cartels and oligarchies of sorts. This creates opportunities for pricing manipulation and corruption. Effectively, this creates a kind of OPEC. It isn't a perfect analogy but I can see a Nuclear Fuel Bank as heading down a similar path.
Not only is innovation an abused word but so is engineer. I've seen positions for server, network, and desktop engineering. These are not engineering positions, they are implementation and configuration specialist positions. A true computer engineer is the one who designs and builds the microprocessors and motherboards and other associated components. A network engineer doesn't actually "engineer" anything, they implement and configure. These are sad and sorry times when we dilute the meaning of engineer to someone who has passed his or her MCSE, CCNP, etc. What about the masters and college grads with actual degrees in Engineering and have passed Professional Engineering exams? Those are the true engineers. We devalue these terms in the name of making some job look more exciting than it is or giving someone a fancy title instead of paying them the market wage. I have held a Desktop Support Engineer position and I steadfastly refused to call myself an engineer. Nope, I'm just simply Tier III support.
It looks like multiple law suits against American and the TSA are going to be filed. Clearly, Arjilit has the right to wear a tee shirt that mocks the TSA as this is a freedom of speech and expression issue. As long as Arjilit was cooperative and non-combative, it will be a bad day to be the director of the TSA and have to answer for this. I can see the director of the TSA taking some Rolaids or Alka Seltzer over this.
The FCC is flexing its muscles lately and a cavalier attitude just might end up costing AT&T money in terms of punitive fines then just allowing facetime over the cellular network without restrictions. AT&T was pretty cavalier about a merger with T-Mobile and see how well it worked out for them.
I read the article and was amazed at how brazen these guys were. They were committing crimes and they didn't even believe they were doing anything wrong. While Apple is far from saintly, the Geniuses behavior was no better. If the Geniuses were really that disgruntled, they should have banded together to take on Apple in a legal, socially acceptable way. The age old wisdom applies here: A divided enemy is more easily conquerable. Apple banks on the fact that its employees won't unite as they will fear for their jobs. If all of the Geniuses used their skills in technology to coordinate a nationwide work stoppage, then Apple would be forced to address and remedy these issues or suffer economic and reputation damage. If all of the Geniuses worked together, Apple would be squirming because terminating a few would be a tacit admission of guilt. Power is in the hands of the masses and hitting a corporation in its wallet is the fastest way to get it to listen and listen hard. I cannot condone criminality as a means of retribution, especially when an innocent third party become the target of the ire.
It isn't anti-science to know the ingredients, and their specifics, of what goes into the foods we eat. It is just the companies being concerned about giving away what could be harmful nutritional information. The lobbyists wail against it like children. This doesn't make any arguments against science.
And yet Apple contributes very little to the domestic US economy, i.e. no manufacturing jobs. What if Apple made its devices here in the US and accepted a value o 600 billion instead of 621 billion? I own Apple hardware but I hardly place Apple on any kind of pedestal.
I personally admire the courage of Julian Assange standing up to the US Government. I don't know that I would have the same amount of courage. The US has a nasty habit of mostly getting what it wants through force, fear, and intimidation. It takes someone truly fearless and I hope that Assange prevails. It is episodes like this that really make me support Ron Paul!
It would seem that one of the official sports of the hacktivist community is to continually embarrass Sony. I think this is positively hilarious that Sony still cannot get it right.
The Indians have a lot of work to do to improve life for their own population before they even look at a mission to Mars. It is irresponsible for the Indian government to even consider a mission to Mars when so much of India's population lives below the poverty line and the electricity grid is totally inadequate.
Thanks so much for posting this! I'm looking at Page Plus right now and dreaming of ditching Verizon! They have been sapping my family for $200 a month.
You're welcome. Page Plus has a major online dealer, Kitty Wireless, if you feel you would like a greater level of customer assistance but I've had no problem working directly with PP.
It's called "alternate revenue streams" and they will try to nickle&dime-XXL you for almost everything. A one-time charge would be plausible, but a MONTHLY fee? This is gauging. But... guess what? There's nothing you can do.
Actually, yes, there is a lot you can do. These days prepaid, non-contract cellular service compares favorably and most times you come out ahead. I used to be with Verizon Wireless until I discovered Page Plus Cellular in January of 2009 and haven't looked back. Page Plus Cellular uses Verizon's network and you can activate a Verizon-branded phone or buy one from PP's website. For 55.00 per month, I have unlimited talk, text, and 2GB of 3G web. That 55.00 per month includes taxes too. If you don't have a smart phone, you could go with Page Plus' 49.95 plan which gives you unlimited talk and text with 100mb of data. I don't mean to be an advert for Page Plus but the service is so good that I want to help others save money and say "no" to the ridiculous business practices of big telecom. The choice for me is contract-free!
I am curious what SCO will do with its UNIXWare product portfolio. I would love it if Unixware source code would be made publicly available on a public domain license. There is no telling what exciting things will change in the current open source world.
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This is perhaps one of the most insightful articles I have ever read. I guess it also highlights my beef with Computer Science curriculum at the University level: it doesn't teach real world coding but coding to solve interesting theoretical or mathematical problems. It doesn't take a solid foundation in mathematics to be able to learn to code. I think learning to code much in the same way as one learns to be a machinist is a fabulous idea and making computer programming a blue collar, skilled job is long overdue. If such an option were open to me, I would be all over it in a heart beat. I have a degree in Criminal Justice yet I'm working as a Systems Admin and I don't particularly like it. I would love to be able to go to a vocational training program with apprenticeship and write software. This is so much better than importing H1B visas to do the work because it encourages development in America.
The problem, AssMarlow, is that most people here at Slashdot have a serious cas of fellatio mouth.
Posted anonymously, too! Chickenshit!
The task of a university is to help your understanding of principles, not to use the technology of a particular company.
If you want a Cisco certificate, take a class from Cisco.
Yes, I agree with this. I don't like the idea of a university stumping for a vendor. Personally, I'm against these vendor-specific certifications and in my experience these vendor training programs do not necessarily produce better network admins/engineers. For the most part it is a money making scheme. I've seen some really shitty network admins and engineers that brag about their CCNA and CCNP. Learning how to do things Cisco's way does not in of itself, make a better network engineer. You have to know the theory first. Plus, there is real competition out there in the form of Huawei and Vyatta and others. You would do better to learn the UNIX networking tools and then just apply that knowledge to the vendor specific stuff.
This is just indicative of how our society is going downhill. America cannot be viable long term on a service-based economy. We must do more manufacturing. Those that own the means of production have the ability to rapidly innovate. If we don't stem the tide of partisan corruption and sending manufacturing overseas, the United States is going to go the way of Rome and our future will be studying us in textbooks much like we study Ancient Rome.
As long as you are not telling other Chinese people how to break through the firewall, I doubt that Chinese government will go after you. They do not need to add stress to their relationship with the USA, and they would probably prefer to sneak something onto your laptop so they can get some trade secrets than to stop you from using a corporate VPN. The purpose of the firewall is to control Chinese citizens, not to harass foreigners.
At best this is an assumption you've made. The Chinese will willingly detain, try, and punish any foreigner that they feel poses a threat to state security. Moreover, it is probably the U.S. is more concerned with it's fragile relationship with China. When it feels threatened, the Chinese Communist Party will react and not care one iota about the world's reaction.
Knowingly, willingly, and recklessly violating the law in any foreign country is not a good idea, period. It is well known that China does not have the same due process laws and criminal procedure of the United States. You could be charged with a capital offense such as spying and there is very little anyone can do to help you. Your best bet is to take a vacation from work and enjoy your trip. That much said you could look at a tunneling service such as tunnelr which uses OpenVPN to encrypt your traffic and tunnel through a firewall but you do this at quite a bit of peril. What happens if a civil servant monitoring the Great Firewall "sees" a session with a lot of encrypted traffic and it is not going to one of the regular, acceptable locations? Tunnelr also offers SSH encrypted tunneling.
The answer is not in an all electric vehicle but in the use of hydrogen fuel in internal combustion engines. There have been advances in the technology for storing and transporting hydrogen that make it fairly viable. Plus, large scale changes don't have to be made to the existing infrastructure. The large sums of money spent in all electric vehicles would have been better put towards hydrogen or hydrogen fuel cells.
While I like the idea of DNT, it won't be long until folks find a way around it. Remember, Google found a way around the robots.txt file to let their bot continue to index a site despite explicit denial. Of course a lawsuit did end this.
I'll bet Apple is really wishing it didn't lobby so hard for software and hardware patents. It's funny to watch these companies try and sue each other out of existence over what really should be open standards. LTE should be open and patent unencumbered.
I'm not on the side of law enforcement but in this case the ruling is fair game. If you use an open, unencrypted wireless access point you do not have a heightened expectation of privacy.
A giant anti-trust lawsuit!
In a word, no it is not. Effectively, policies like these create cartels and oligarchies of sorts. This creates opportunities for pricing manipulation and corruption. Effectively, this creates a kind of OPEC. It isn't a perfect analogy but I can see a Nuclear Fuel Bank as heading down a similar path.
Not only is innovation an abused word but so is engineer. I've seen positions for server, network, and desktop engineering. These are not engineering positions, they are implementation and configuration specialist positions. A true computer engineer is the one who designs and builds the microprocessors and motherboards and other associated components. A network engineer doesn't actually "engineer" anything, they implement and configure. These are sad and sorry times when we dilute the meaning of engineer to someone who has passed his or her MCSE, CCNP, etc. What about the masters and college grads with actual degrees in Engineering and have passed Professional Engineering exams? Those are the true engineers. We devalue these terms in the name of making some job look more exciting than it is or giving someone a fancy title instead of paying them the market wage. I have held a Desktop Support Engineer position and I steadfastly refused to call myself an engineer. Nope, I'm just simply Tier III support.
It looks like multiple law suits against American and the TSA are going to be filed. Clearly, Arjilit has the right to wear a tee shirt that mocks the TSA as this is a freedom of speech and expression issue. As long as Arjilit was cooperative and non-combative, it will be a bad day to be the director of the TSA and have to answer for this. I can see the director of the TSA taking some Rolaids or Alka Seltzer over this.
The FCC is flexing its muscles lately and a cavalier attitude just might end up costing AT&T money in terms of punitive fines then just allowing facetime over the cellular network without restrictions. AT&T was pretty cavalier about a merger with T-Mobile and see how well it worked out for them.
I read the article and was amazed at how brazen these guys were. They were committing crimes and they didn't even believe they were doing anything wrong. While Apple is far from saintly, the Geniuses behavior was no better. If the Geniuses were really that disgruntled, they should have banded together to take on Apple in a legal, socially acceptable way. The age old wisdom applies here: A divided enemy is more easily conquerable. Apple banks on the fact that its employees won't unite as they will fear for their jobs. If all of the Geniuses used their skills in technology to coordinate a nationwide work stoppage, then Apple would be forced to address and remedy these issues or suffer economic and reputation damage. If all of the Geniuses worked together, Apple would be squirming because terminating a few would be a tacit admission of guilt. Power is in the hands of the masses and hitting a corporation in its wallet is the fastest way to get it to listen and listen hard. I cannot condone criminality as a means of retribution, especially when an innocent third party become the target of the ire.
It isn't anti-science to know the ingredients, and their specifics, of what goes into the foods we eat. It is just the companies being concerned about giving away what could be harmful nutritional information. The lobbyists wail against it like children. This doesn't make any arguments against science.
And yet Apple contributes very little to the domestic US economy, i.e. no manufacturing jobs. What if Apple made its devices here in the US and accepted a value o 600 billion instead of 621 billion? I own Apple hardware but I hardly place Apple on any kind of pedestal.
I personally admire the courage of Julian Assange standing up to the US Government. I don't know that I would have the same amount of courage. The US has a nasty habit of mostly getting what it wants through force, fear, and intimidation. It takes someone truly fearless and I hope that Assange prevails. It is episodes like this that really make me support Ron Paul!
It would seem that one of the official sports of the hacktivist community is to continually embarrass Sony. I think this is positively hilarious that Sony still cannot get it right.
The Indians have a lot of work to do to improve life for their own population before they even look at a mission to Mars. It is irresponsible for the Indian government to even consider a mission to Mars when so much of India's population lives below the poverty line and the electricity grid is totally inadequate.
Thanks so much for posting this! I'm looking at Page Plus right now and dreaming of ditching Verizon! They have been sapping my family for $200 a month.
You're welcome. Page Plus has a major online dealer, Kitty Wireless, if you feel you would like a greater level of customer assistance but I've had no problem working directly with PP.
It's called "alternate revenue streams" and they will try to nickle&dime-XXL you for almost everything. A one-time charge would be plausible, but a MONTHLY fee? This is gauging. But... guess what? There's nothing you can do.
Actually, yes, there is a lot you can do. These days prepaid, non-contract cellular service compares favorably and most times you come out ahead. I used to be with Verizon Wireless until I discovered Page Plus Cellular in January of 2009 and haven't looked back. Page Plus Cellular uses Verizon's network and you can activate a Verizon-branded phone or buy one from PP's website. For 55.00 per month, I have unlimited talk, text, and 2GB of 3G web. That 55.00 per month includes taxes too. If you don't have a smart phone, you could go with Page Plus' 49.95 plan which gives you unlimited talk and text with 100mb of data. I don't mean to be an advert for Page Plus but the service is so good that I want to help others save money and say "no" to the ridiculous business practices of big telecom. The choice for me is contract-free!
I am curious what SCO will do with its UNIXWare product portfolio. I would love it if Unixware source code would be made publicly available on a public domain license. There is no telling what exciting things will change in the current open source world.
Then it is off to the Labour Camps! In Communist China, guilt is presumed :(