Well, the whole affair took place in a computer lab with tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment on hand. Hopefully the university has security cameras installed that would have captured everything.
Really, I don't have a vested interest in who acted improperly. If anything, I am more predisposed to come out against the police. But in this instance, I find myself blaming the gentleman who was tased. According to eyewitnesses, it was him who escalated the incident into what you saw on YouTube, not the officers. Really, I'm only interested in the truth.
After all the reading, the argument really seems to come down to this: The guy picked a fight with the cops and resisted arrest. Should the cops have tackled him and handcuffed him or tased him and handcuffed him? According to their department policy, the officers were correct to dry-tase him (in other words, use the "cattle-prod" functionality rather than the needles) to cause pain-compliance, rather than to beat him. Whether or not the subsequent tasings were necessary to gain compliance and complete the arrest is hard to know without being there.
Again, hopefully the computer lab was adequate surveillance footage to establish whether or not the officers acted properly.
At any rate, it is surprisingly difficult to restrain a person who is flailing uncontrollably without causing injury to that person. A perfect case in point would be my one year old. Sometimes, she makes up her mind that she does not want to have a diaper put on her after a changing, and she squirms and flails like crazy. Now I'm 10 times her size, and I'm pretty sure I could physically produce more than enough force to get her flippin' diaper on. But could I do it without injuring her? I'm not so sure I could. (In case you find yourself in that situation ever, give the squirmy kid a little toy to hold onto. Distraction works wonders.)
But more to the point, do you really think that you are your two or three closest buddies could apply handcuffs to a squirming, uncontrollably flailing, belligerent, 200lb man and do it without a greater-than-50% chance of injuring him? Yeah, good luck with that. Let me know how it turns out.
My first reaction to the story and the video was that the police misused their tasers. But after reading several eyewitness accounts, I am 100% convinced that the first tasing was justified. It was also, according to the LA Times, justified under the department's standards. In other words, the police officers were acting in accordance with their standards. As for the following taser hits? It's hard to know without being there. Personally, I can't figure out why they needed to tase a man who was already in handcuffs. But on the flip side, the guy was going nuts. Grabbing onto desks, flailing and kicking, etc., trying to resist arrest. Should they have just beaten him at that point instead of tasing him? I wasn't there, so I don't really know, but again, using a taser as a pain-compliance device is valid under their department procedures. (Personally, I would argue that it should not be valid, but my opinion is irrelevant to whether or not the officers acted according to procedure.)
From reading all of the eyewitness accounts I could find, it's pretty clear to me that this student picked a fight with the officers and didn't like the results. I normally tend to side against the cops when something like this happens, but after reading the facts, what I think really happened is that the cops were actually too lenient with him before anything on the YouTube video happened. The cops actually tried to reason with him, but he was not willing to act reasonable and was screaming and shouting and attracting a crowd. Eventually, the situation got out of hand and the cops had to reign it back in pronto. That's when the tasers came out. If the cops would have just arrested the gentleman for criminal trespass right away (he was already asked to leave before the cops were even called), he wouldn't have had the chance to create a scene. I think the cops tried a little hard to reason with the guy to just leave, and were rewarded by him putting them in a tough situation, and later with this huge maelstrom.
I'm not convinced what the officers did was all bad, just some bad.
Remember, you only got to see a tiny piece of the situation, and not even very well at that.
After reading some accounts like this one, it seems pretty clear that tasing the guy once was justified. Tasing him again while in handcuffs, of course, was unjustified.
During "after hours" in Powell, they send security around every half an hour or hour to check ID's and ensure that you're actually a student. The guy refused. Loudly. Was told that was fine if he didn't want to show it, he would just have to leave. Refused. Campus security couldn't get him to leave, and the police couldn't get him to leave. He was absolutely not trying to leave on his own power. At one point they started to try and drag him out, and he just went limp and started grabbing onto things.
Another eyewitness said that the officers had already tried unsuccessfully to restrain him with compliance holds before using his taser. I'm having a hard time coming up with a reason why the first taser use was excessive given the background information. Again, tasing a restrained, unarmed person is never justified.
Regarding threatening to tase a mob participant while the officers were in the process of subduing a belligerent person, it may have come out poorly, but that was not the time or place to demand a badge number. Wait until the officers have the situation under control, and then you can ask for whatever number you want. Heck, if you wait a few hours, you can go read the arrest report and get every detail down to the serial numbers of the tasers fired.
Since you are from Barcelona, you would probably feel most at home in Miami. It's hot and shitty down there, but you should pick up the Cuban language pretty quickly. Lots of hot chicks wearing no clothes. Much overpriced nightlife.
Yeah, you'll feel right at home there.
Nothing against Spain, of course. It's my favorite European country. I'm just used to milder weather.
What a waste of time. I wish I could have traded my 3 semesters of calc for more numerical methods courses.
I mean, really. You give me a math problem and a tolerance, and I can get you your answer within the tolerance, and get it quick. Even if you have your symbolic answer, eventually you're going to need the damn answer as a number within a specific tolerance anyway. Otherwise, what use was finding the answer? And how will you store that irrational number once you've got it?
Biggest waste of 3 semesters I can imagine. I learned enough calc in high school to get this far in life. I don't foresee needing any more.
In my undergraduate CS classes, they were all theory, but all had an implementation component. Some classes were taught in C++, some in Java, some in LISP/Prolog/etc. (guess which classes those are?), and yet some other classes let you implement in your choice of language as long as it's available on the CS instructional machines (I used perl once when I was pissed at the TA).
When you're teaching algorithms, you can teach in any language. The graduates will know both the theory and the languages, having their cake and eating it too.
It's possible to work your way through college in most US States. And most US States have decent state schools. I know plenty of people who worked their way through college when I went. Loans are not mandatory.
To see the math, consider that you can make about $10-15/hr doing really menial labor. Let's compromise at $12.50 (when I was in high school and college many many years ago, I made over $20/hr waiting tables, but let's be conservative.) So you work 40 hrs/wk during summer vacation, that $12.50 * 40 * 13 = $6500. Annual tuition at my Alma Mater is currently $7460.24, so you've got a little ways to make up during the year (when I was at school there it was cheaper. You could make all your tuition during the summer and work during the year for beer money). That leave a shortfall of $960.24, which you'll have to make during the year. You'll need to make an extra $24.62/week (or work 2 hours per week) during the school year to make up the difference. Work 10/wk, and you have your beer money still.
Yes, I know you have to eat and live somewhere. Live at home. Yes, it sucks to live at home, but suck it up! This is your future. I know plenty of folks who lived at home to save $$. Can't bear to stay at home? Living in my fraternity house currently costs $500/month, which includes rent, food, utilities, cable, phone, internet, beer. Everything. You can do better with a cheap apartment+ramen, but really it's not necessary to live like that. Anyhow, you can make, working 10 hours per week at $12.50/hr, right about that $500/month figure.
So yes, it is possible in the year 2006 to work your way through college without taking on any debt in the US and A. You may not have the same experience as some rich kid going to some small private liberal arts college, but there's a dirty little secret out there: employers don't give a hoot where you went for undergrad. It's basically "You went to a top 5 school" or "You didn't". So if you go to an expensive school that isn't Harvard, Yale, Stanford, or MIT, you just wasted about $100,000.00. I'm just sayin'.
No, putting SMTP in MUTT isn't the way to do it -- it would break the UNIX design philosophy of "do one thing and do it well".
I definitely agree with this rule, and I will admit up front that I use mutt for email and my SMTP is handled by qmail (outgoing and incoming).
That being said, rules are meant to be broken. When you are designing an email client, it is reasonable to assume that your user will want to send email as well as receive it, and with more and more desktop Linux systems, it is also reasonable to assume that a lot of your users don't need to have an MTA configured on their machines. They may not want to configure an MTA or even know how. A trivial SMTP client is dead simple to implement. I understand mutt's decision not to include it, I respect their decision, and I humbly submit that they should have broken the "do one thing well" rule and just including a trivial SMTP client.
I mean, c'mon. It's easy and helpful.
Actually, I just remembered why I'm irritated at mutt for not speaking SMTP. At work, I must use Windows, and I installed mutt under cygwin. When I tried to send email, it didn't work, so I scratched my head and remembered I didn't configure SMTP. Well, low and behold you can't configure SMTP because it isn't even there. Well, that makes mutt totally useless under pine. Unless you're trying to tell me I should attempt to get qmail working on windows under cygwin--frankly, I don't even know if it's possible--just so I can send a bloody email. Yeah, so I downloaded this program called "Thunderbird" which implements this thing called "outgoing email".
Sometimes you have have petty stuff that you did as a young adult expunged. If it's really bothering you that much, it might be worth looking into.
All depends on what you did. If you stole a shirt or got into a barfight, you might stand a chance. If you murdered your ex... well... yeah, good luck.
Cop: We're going to need to search your vehicle
Motorist: I do not consent to a search of my vehicle.
Cop: Why not? What are you hiding?
Motorist: I do not consent to a search of my vehicle.
Cop: If you cooperate, this will go a lot easier.
Motorist: I do not consent to a search of my vehicle.
Cop: Fine, have it your way. I'm going to call for a K9 unit to come sniff your car. It could take 5 minutes. It could take an hour. Your choice if you want to cooperate or not. What are you hiding in there? Drugs?
Realize the cop is bluffing. Most police departments do not have the budget for a drug-trained dog. Especially not the small-town ones that tend to pull this trick. Think about it. You run a small police department. Do you blow your K9 budget on a) attack dogs, b) bomb-sniffing dogs, or c) drug-sniffing dogs. The safety of your officers is at stake here. Do you really need that drug dog?
Just stick to your "I do not consent, but I will not physically resist" line. If they get an attack dog to come bark on command and then search your vehicle, your attorney will have that search suppressed in all of 10 seconds once it comes out that the dog is not drug-trained.
Hey, old man. The topic here is the Digital Generation's poor grasp of how the Internet works, not "some asshole pontificating about how clearly he communicates with respect to science majors."
I constantly encounter situations where I use my college skills to write and speak clearly. In fact, I'm struck by how well those skills have aged at this point in my career versus the skills of IT/CS majors my age
But just so this isn't a "mee too!" post, I'll add that while I still run smartd, I pretty much just ignore anything it emits. I run Linux Software Raid (RAID5) and when a disk gives up the ghost, I just swap it out and rebuild.
Funny thing: I had been running LVM with no RAID for a few years with no problems when one day I said to msyelf, "You know what? This just doesn't feel safe. If one of my drives goes splat, I lose everything." So I switch to LVM on top of RAID5. Wouldn't you know it, about a month later, I lose a drive. It would have been catastrophic failure. I would have probably shrieked so loud the neighbors down the block would call 9-1-1. But instead, I just said, "darn," walked down to best buy, bought a disk, plopped it in, and rebuilt the array. It's IDE, so I had to shut down the machine to do it, but that's about the only bummer about it.
At this point, I would never build another machine without RAID. Not after it saved my behind like that.
What, exactly, do you want the school to do? You keep asking for more, but you don't mention what.
The professor can't retroactively encrypt the data, nor can anybody unsteal the computers that contained it.
The only thing you mention is that you want to see the professor disciplined. Will this bring your data back? Will you benefit from the discipline of a professor whose class you took years ago?
What more do you want the school to do for you? You mentioned that you felt 90 days of credit monitoring was insufficient. Of course, now you can personally monitor it yourself free of charge.
Just decide what it is you want and ask the school for it. You never know. If your request is reasonable, you just might get it.
The performance delta between a C++ and a Java server app is often fairly negligible*
Well, what I've seen is it is not negligible at all. For my current client, we needed a parser for a big honkin' logfile, so I whipped up a perl script to do handle it. As far as the last time I was informed, perl is considered to be on par with C once you get done loading the interpreter.
At any rate, the script was taking a long time to run, so on a lark, I implemented the exact same logic--basically line for line--in Java using Java's perl regular expressions, and I'll be damned if the Java parser didn't run in 1/3 the time of the perl script.
That's right. Java beat perl by a factor of 3 at perl's bread and butter: slicing and dicing log files. Sun has really come a long way with the performance of their JVM and JDK classes, and deserves some recognition for it.
For the most part, that has to do with the 10% of people that are dicks to them for no reason.
It is the responsibility of law enforcement to maintain professionalism. If a client is being rude to me, I don't get to whip out a taser and fry the hell out of them. But cops do this routinely. Why, exactly, is this tolerated?
I'm not sure what country you live in, but in the US, it's standard to get what's called a "second opinion". Surprisingly few people actually do it, but I've been a big believer in them after seeing what happened to my Aunt. She has an extremely painful skin disease that was being misdiagnosed for about 15 years. Her treatments weren't helping, but she just stuck with 'em. She finally decided to see someone else about it, and is doing so much better with her correct diagnosis and treatment.
Now, I advise people to get second opinions on anything more complicated than your most basic of ailments. Also, I give a doctor two chances to get the treatment right. If it ain't working after that, I go see someone else for the third attempt. It's nothing personal, but different people have different perspectives on things, and if one doc isn't getting it right, maybe someone else will see something that he/she missed.
At any rate, I'm glad your finacee is doing better.
The police were doing their rightful job in investigating you.
It's one thing to investigate a lead, and it's quite another to release his name to the local papers as a suspected drug dealer.
If the police had so little difficulty proclaiming to the public his guilt, then they shouldn't be bothered so much by publicly admitting his innocence. Really, I'm not sure why suspects should be named at all until trial. Why do we need to go ruining peoples lives when there is not even enough evidence against them to go to trial?
Computer Science is theory. If you can't pick up all 7 of your pet items after earning an undergrad Comp Sci degree by reading 7 books, then you are a moron.
If, on the other hand, you want to go to trade school, go to trade school. Universities are not a place to learn practical job skills. My databases class was not "Database programming" in the sense that you picture it. It was "How to design and implement a relational database". Practical? No. I have never since implemented an RDBMS. Useful? Yes. It helped me understand what the hell was going on when I typed SELECT blahdy blah FROM bladhy blah and why it's so damn slow (or fast or whatever). No amount of learning SQL will provide that insight.
I would first work on your communication skills. Those two sentence-like things you typed in were hardly intelligible.
To answer what I think is your question: it depends.
Should you finish your degree? Well, what do you want to do after you finish? Is a degree a requirement?
Regarding importance placed on background checks, it also depends. What, exactly, did you do? If it was something pretty minor, can you get the record expunged? An attorney can answer that for you. Assuming you can't get rid of it, are you clean since then? How old were you when they happened? If you were 19 years old, got falling down drunk, and took a swing at a cop who was being a jerk anyway, personally, I'd be understanding if you were clean ever since. If you were 30 years old, lost it, and broke your wife's jaw, you'd be out of luck.
Some companies say they do, but never actually perform the background check.
The positions got filled eventually, but often weeks or months later then when we actually needed them. It caused project slippage, which in turn hurt both companies bottom line.
What you want is smart people who can come up to speed quickly. Who cares if your applicant is a 6 or a 8 or a whatever-it-is-on-your-arbitrary-scale in VB if he or she is sharp as nails? Is VB so hard to learn? Would it take weeks or months for this person to learn it? Because that's how long you're sitting with an open req. Time is money, pal.
Now the third company, we needed SysAdmins, we were cash strapped, and we were up front about it.
Let me tell you what these competant sysadmins were thinking when you told them that. They said in their heads, "Not my problem, dude." But it's your own fault for not getting creative. Maybe you could attract someone good with other perks. Did you consider offering 6 weeks of vacation? I mean, you'd be getting someone who can do the work of two admins, so you'd be coming out ahead in the long run.
If you aren't exactly what they need they aren't going to pay as much for you, period. Unfair? Nope. The company isn't getting your best work from you until you get up to speed with their needs.
But in the meantime, the company isn't getting anything done at all. Who's really losing now?
Like I said before. Go find smart people and let them learn. That's the secret you've been looking for.
But you should have at least have heard of ADO if you are that much of a VB guru. I've never used TopLink before, but at least I know what the hell it is, and I can talk about Hibernate with you until you want to gouge your eyeballs out with a fork.
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Really, I don't have a vested interest in who acted improperly. If anything, I am more predisposed to come out against the police. But in this instance, I find myself blaming the gentleman who was tased. According to eyewitnesses, it was him who escalated the incident into what you saw on YouTube, not the officers. Really, I'm only interested in the truth.
After all the reading, the argument really seems to come down to this: The guy picked a fight with the cops and resisted arrest. Should the cops have tackled him and handcuffed him or tased him and handcuffed him? According to their department policy, the officers were correct to dry-tase him (in other words, use the "cattle-prod" functionality rather than the needles) to cause pain-compliance, rather than to beat him. Whether or not the subsequent tasings were necessary to gain compliance and complete the arrest is hard to know without being there.
Again, hopefully the computer lab was adequate surveillance footage to establish whether or not the officers acted properly.
At any rate, it is surprisingly difficult to restrain a person who is flailing uncontrollably without causing injury to that person. A perfect case in point would be my one year old. Sometimes, she makes up her mind that she does not want to have a diaper put on her after a changing, and she squirms and flails like crazy. Now I'm 10 times her size, and I'm pretty sure I could physically produce more than enough force to get her flippin' diaper on. But could I do it without injuring her? I'm not so sure I could. (In case you find yourself in that situation ever, give the squirmy kid a little toy to hold onto. Distraction works wonders.)
But more to the point, do you really think that you are your two or three closest buddies could apply handcuffs to a squirming, uncontrollably flailing, belligerent, 200lb man and do it without a greater-than-50% chance of injuring him? Yeah, good luck with that. Let me know how it turns out.
My first reaction to the story and the video was that the police misused their tasers. But after reading several eyewitness accounts, I am 100% convinced that the first tasing was justified. It was also, according to the LA Times, justified under the department's standards. In other words, the police officers were acting in accordance with their standards. As for the following taser hits? It's hard to know without being there. Personally, I can't figure out why they needed to tase a man who was already in handcuffs. But on the flip side, the guy was going nuts. Grabbing onto desks, flailing and kicking, etc., trying to resist arrest. Should they have just beaten him at that point instead of tasing him? I wasn't there, so I don't really know, but again, using a taser as a pain-compliance device is valid under their department procedures. (Personally, I would argue that it should not be valid, but my opinion is irrelevant to whether or not the officers acted according to procedure.)
From reading all of the eyewitness accounts I could find, it's pretty clear to me that this student picked a fight with the officers and didn't like the results. I normally tend to side against the cops when something like this happens, but after reading the facts, what I think really happened is that the cops were actually too lenient with him before anything on the YouTube video happened. The cops actually tried to reason with him, but he was not willing to act reasonable and was screaming and shouting and attracting a crowd. Eventually, the situation got out of hand and the cops had to reign it back in pronto. That's when the tasers came out. If the cops would have just arrested the gentleman for criminal trespass right away (he was already asked to leave before the cops were even called), he wouldn't have had the chance to create a scene. I think the cops tried a little hard to reason with the guy to just leave, and were rewarded by him putting them in a tough situation, and later with this huge maelstrom.
Remember, you only got to see a tiny piece of the situation, and not even very well at that.
After reading some accounts like this one, it seems pretty clear that tasing the guy once was justified. Tasing him again while in handcuffs, of course, was unjustified.
Another eyewitness said that the officers had already tried unsuccessfully to restrain him with compliance holds before using his taser. I'm having a hard time coming up with a reason why the first taser use was excessive given the background information. Again, tasing a restrained, unarmed person is never justified.Regarding threatening to tase a mob participant while the officers were in the process of subduing a belligerent person, it may have come out poorly, but that was not the time or place to demand a badge number. Wait until the officers have the situation under control, and then you can ask for whatever number you want. Heck, if you wait a few hours, you can go read the arrest report and get every detail down to the serial numbers of the tasers fired.
Yeah, you'll feel right at home there.
Nothing against Spain, of course. It's my favorite European country. I'm just used to milder weather.
I mean, really. You give me a math problem and a tolerance, and I can get you your answer within the tolerance, and get it quick. Even if you have your symbolic answer, eventually you're going to need the damn answer as a number within a specific tolerance anyway. Otherwise, what use was finding the answer? And how will you store that irrational number once you've got it?
Biggest waste of 3 semesters I can imagine. I learned enough calc in high school to get this far in life. I don't foresee needing any more.
In my undergraduate CS classes, they were all theory, but all had an implementation component. Some classes were taught in C++, some in Java, some in LISP/Prolog/etc. (guess which classes those are?), and yet some other classes let you implement in your choice of language as long as it's available on the CS instructional machines (I used perl once when I was pissed at the TA).
When you're teaching algorithms, you can teach in any language. The graduates will know both the theory and the languages, having their cake and eating it too.
To see the math, consider that you can make about $10-15/hr doing really menial labor. Let's compromise at $12.50 (when I was in high school and college many many years ago, I made over $20/hr waiting tables, but let's be conservative.) So you work 40 hrs/wk during summer vacation, that $12.50 * 40 * 13 = $6500. Annual tuition at my Alma Mater is currently $7460.24, so you've got a little ways to make up during the year (when I was at school there it was cheaper. You could make all your tuition during the summer and work during the year for beer money). That leave a shortfall of $960.24, which you'll have to make during the year. You'll need to make an extra $24.62/week (or work 2 hours per week) during the school year to make up the difference. Work 10/wk, and you have your beer money still.
Yes, I know you have to eat and live somewhere. Live at home. Yes, it sucks to live at home, but suck it up! This is your future. I know plenty of folks who lived at home to save $$. Can't bear to stay at home? Living in my fraternity house currently costs $500/month, which includes rent, food, utilities, cable, phone, internet, beer. Everything. You can do better with a cheap apartment+ramen, but really it's not necessary to live like that. Anyhow, you can make, working 10 hours per week at $12.50/hr, right about that $500/month figure.
So yes, it is possible in the year 2006 to work your way through college without taking on any debt in the US and A. You may not have the same experience as some rich kid going to some small private liberal arts college, but there's a dirty little secret out there: employers don't give a hoot where you went for undergrad. It's basically "You went to a top 5 school" or "You didn't". So if you go to an expensive school that isn't Harvard, Yale, Stanford, or MIT, you just wasted about $100,000.00. I'm just sayin'.
That being said, rules are meant to be broken. When you are designing an email client, it is reasonable to assume that your user will want to send email as well as receive it, and with more and more desktop Linux systems, it is also reasonable to assume that a lot of your users don't need to have an MTA configured on their machines. They may not want to configure an MTA or even know how. A trivial SMTP client is dead simple to implement. I understand mutt's decision not to include it, I respect their decision, and I humbly submit that they should have broken the "do one thing well" rule and just including a trivial SMTP client.
I mean, c'mon. It's easy and helpful.
Actually, I just remembered why I'm irritated at mutt for not speaking SMTP. At work, I must use Windows, and I installed mutt under cygwin. When I tried to send email, it didn't work, so I scratched my head and remembered I didn't configure SMTP. Well, low and behold you can't configure SMTP because it isn't even there. Well, that makes mutt totally useless under pine. Unless you're trying to tell me I should attempt to get qmail working on windows under cygwin--frankly, I don't even know if it's possible--just so I can send a bloody email. Yeah, so I downloaded this program called "Thunderbird" which implements this thing called "outgoing email".
All depends on what you did. If you stole a shirt or got into a barfight, you might stand a chance. If you murdered your ex... well... yeah, good luck.
Cop: We're going to need to search your vehicle
Motorist: I do not consent to a search of my vehicle.
Cop: Why not? What are you hiding?
Motorist: I do not consent to a search of my vehicle.
Cop: If you cooperate, this will go a lot easier.
Motorist: I do not consent to a search of my vehicle.
Cop: Fine, have it your way. I'm going to call for a K9 unit to come sniff your car. It could take 5 minutes. It could take an hour. Your choice if you want to cooperate or not. What are you hiding in there? Drugs?
Realize the cop is bluffing. Most police departments do not have the budget for a drug-trained dog. Especially not the small-town ones that tend to pull this trick. Think about it. You run a small police department. Do you blow your K9 budget on a) attack dogs, b) bomb-sniffing dogs, or c) drug-sniffing dogs. The safety of your officers is at stake here. Do you really need that drug dog?
Just stick to your "I do not consent, but I will not physically resist" line. If they get an attack dog to come bark on command and then search your vehicle, your attorney will have that search suppressed in all of 10 seconds once it comes out that the dog is not drug-trained.
Would an English major really posses the skills to operate a cash register? I think not.
Funny thing: I had been running LVM with no RAID for a few years with no problems when one day I said to msyelf, "You know what? This just doesn't feel safe. If one of my drives goes splat, I lose everything." So I switch to LVM on top of RAID5. Wouldn't you know it, about a month later, I lose a drive. It would have been catastrophic failure. I would have probably shrieked so loud the neighbors down the block would call 9-1-1. But instead, I just said, "darn," walked down to best buy, bought a disk, plopped it in, and rebuilt the array. It's IDE, so I had to shut down the machine to do it, but that's about the only bummer about it.
At this point, I would never build another machine without RAID. Not after it saved my behind like that.
The professor can't retroactively encrypt the data, nor can anybody unsteal the computers that contained it.
The only thing you mention is that you want to see the professor disciplined. Will this bring your data back? Will you benefit from the discipline of a professor whose class you took years ago?
What more do you want the school to do for you? You mentioned that you felt 90 days of credit monitoring was insufficient. Of course, now you can personally monitor it yourself free of charge.
Just decide what it is you want and ask the school for it. You never know. If your request is reasonable, you just might get it.
At any rate, the script was taking a long time to run, so on a lark, I implemented the exact same logic--basically line for line--in Java using Java's perl regular expressions, and I'll be damned if the Java parser didn't run in 1/3 the time of the perl script.
That's right. Java beat perl by a factor of 3 at perl's bread and butter: slicing and dicing log files. Sun has really come a long way with the performance of their JVM and JDK classes, and deserves some recognition for it.
You can clearly see in the video that both of the man's hands are restrained. What was he trying to grab the gun with? His left pinky toe?
Now, I advise people to get second opinions on anything more complicated than your most basic of ailments. Also, I give a doctor two chances to get the treatment right. If it ain't working after that, I go see someone else for the third attempt. It's nothing personal, but different people have different perspectives on things, and if one doc isn't getting it right, maybe someone else will see something that he/she missed.
At any rate, I'm glad your finacee is doing better.
If the police had so little difficulty proclaiming to the public his guilt, then they shouldn't be bothered so much by publicly admitting his innocence. Really, I'm not sure why suspects should be named at all until trial. Why do we need to go ruining peoples lives when there is not even enough evidence against them to go to trial?
Not sure anything I said had to do with computational linguistics. Must be that DeVry education messing things up again.
If, on the other hand, you want to go to trade school, go to trade school. Universities are not a place to learn practical job skills. My databases class was not "Database programming" in the sense that you picture it. It was "How to design and implement a relational database". Practical? No. I have never since implemented an RDBMS. Useful? Yes. It helped me understand what the hell was going on when I typed SELECT blahdy blah FROM bladhy blah and why it's so damn slow (or fast or whatever). No amount of learning SQL will provide that insight.
To answer what I think is your question: it depends.
Should you finish your degree? Well, what do you want to do after you finish? Is a degree a requirement?
Regarding importance placed on background checks, it also depends. What, exactly, did you do? If it was something pretty minor, can you get the record expunged? An attorney can answer that for you. Assuming you can't get rid of it, are you clean since then? How old were you when they happened? If you were 19 years old, got falling down drunk, and took a swing at a cop who was being a jerk anyway, personally, I'd be understanding if you were clean ever since. If you were 30 years old, lost it, and broke your wife's jaw, you'd be out of luck.
Some companies say they do, but never actually perform the background check.
Like I said before. Go find smart people and let them learn. That's the secret you've been looking for.
But you should have at least have heard of ADO if you are that much of a VB guru. I've never used TopLink before, but at least I know what the hell it is, and I can talk about Hibernate with you until you want to gouge your eyeballs out with a fork.