You are right but it's no less stupid than thinking that the availably of military style rifles promotes this kind of thing, high-performance sports cars promote reckless driving or that porn promotes sex trafficking and slavery.

I'm in Higher Ed and we actually have our own Microsoft Certified trainer on staff as part of our IT Training group. We also have Comp TIA and Adobe training along with free access to Lynda.com. University students can take training most trainings nearly free, faculty and staff may pay something. If there is a paper (work)book you do have to pay for that but usually your department will cover that cost. When you have close to 20K employes across the system, of which 800 or so are IT related, then it pays to have trainers. You usually get one payed attempt at the certification test. After that you pay for it. This even applies to our hourly staff even if they aren't students. The issues we have are departments not letting their people take a week off to do the training or they won't pay the book fees.

Travel for training is different. The training or conference needs to be directly related to what you do or will be doing but usually the university will cover it for one member of a team.

In education our wages are much lower than industry but time off and retirement savings are better. We get about 4 to 6 weeks time off and in addition to regular salary we probably get 30% to 40% more in benefits.

It's a statement that's fairly illustrative of the arguments used by the "Environmentalist" (luddite) against any form of technologic progress. It's simple hyperbole.

Found some old recommendations I sent out to friends that weren't too tek savvy. It's fairly basic info that most should know.

I was looking into Life Lock and started reading what they actually do, which is in the fine print of their terms of service here.

http://www.dmachoice.org/ it's the primary service Life Lock uses to get you off of mailing lists and it's free. They also have some good info on how to keep secure online. There are several items you can go through to have your self removed form email and mail lists.

Then go to https://www.donotcall.gov/ and register your phone numbers for the do not call list.

Then go to https://www.optoutprescreen.com/ to remove your self from the credit card pre-approval lists.

If you want free credit reports use this site. https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp You can get 1 free report every year from each of the 3 reporting agencies. If you break it up you could get 1 every 2 month. I could get one from Equifax this month. Then in 2 months my wife could get one for them. Then in 2 months I could get one from TransUnion. etc... The reason to get them is mostly to see who has been looking at your credit. Then make sure all the loans are yours.

Now for your online stuff. Get an email account at google or some place else that you can use for those online registration things that you need to do from time to time. Use that account only for things that you are unsure about. Keep another account for the more important stuff like the banks. You could even have a 3rd account for your general email.

Most web browsers have an option too clear the cache and cookies. Look for it. In Safari on Mac look under the Safari menu then select Reset Safari... On Windows it's under the File Menu. In Firefox you need to look in the Preferences and the Security tab. Resetting and clearing out the cookies will also clear saved passwords. The reason to do this is because many web sites set tokens on your web browser called cookies that allow them to track you and what you do online. They can see where you are going and what you do online. For Windows this is a big problem because there are ways to install applications on the system without you knowing. Then your computer can be used to send email spam to others or even be used remotely to take over other computers. This is really only a problem on Windows but for Macs they can still track your online usage and figure things out about you that might make it easier to get you to click on something that would install an application that could take over your computer.

For email. Set your email program to not automatically read your mail and try to use the built-in spam filters. Also set the options to not download in-line pictures and such. The pictures in spam can be used to also track you and verify your email address. If you and I get the same piece of spam the picture will actually not be in the email it's actually a picture on a web server someplace. The name of the picture is unique to each spam email so when your mail program tries to access the picture from the internet the spammers computer ticks off the unique name your computer used to get the picture. That unique name is associated with your email address.

There has been not account compromise that you know of right? So there isn't much you can do. You should get your free credit report https://www.annualcreditreport.com/cra/index.jsp This is the truly free ones. You can get one free one each year from each agency, there are 3 agencies so you can get one every 4 months. Just keep track of your financial info. You might disassociate the address they are trying to get into from any financial accounts. Change all your passwords to something good and use a password manager so you don't have to do the online reset process.

Second that!

All nations have the right to self determination and also self defense. If they want to build nukes and rockets they can. However just like any right, if exercising it causes injures to someone else then you are fair game for retribution. Let them play with fire but if they launch on anything owned by another country then they should pay for it. Let them know if the they ever launch a nuke at the US or any of our allies that they will be annihilated.

It's called BOX and it's there for your University if you want. http://www.internet2.edu/news/pr/2011.10.04.box.html

There is an App for that. iYFS but it costs $3.99. OpenAFS is really a joke in this day with things like Box available. Even SharePoint lets you have WebDAV access from your i-A devices.

You obviously aren't the right kind of Christian. Christian Scientists, Jehovah Witnesses and may others have their readings of scripture to back them up. http://www.vaccineriskawareness.com/Vaccines-A-Religious-Contention-