I care not about these two stations. They're not good as the old days like in the (19)80s. I used to watch Bob Ross's paintings, This Old House, Sesame Street, Nature, NOVA, National Geographic, Wild America, 3-2-1 Contact, Reading Rainbow, Square One Television (Mathnet!), The Voyage of the Mimi, etc. These days, pretty much NOTHING! :(

Does anyone remember the very old colored animal shows (filmed in 1970s?)? IIRC, each episode was like 30 minutes, different topics, and the ending credits showed a jeep driving at a distance in a sunset driving?

So you're a sys admin who specializes in reghosting machines when the auto-updater fails? (Because actually spending the time to fix each machine would be a huge waste of resources over just ghosting a fresh image or rolling to a backup and reinstalling)? Someone needs to do it but I wouldn't give it a fancy title. Much less one with security in it- nothing in there has anything to do with security, its general administration stuff.

Or tell them you computer won't boot up since it cannot find an operating system or something.

Well, we just learned you don't know what a systems programmer is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.... Pretty much the opposite of devops, which in and of itself is usually just an attempt by management to make devs work overtime in support roles instead of hiring more IT people (and usually a bad idea, but that's a side rant).

At my employer (40k employees)

This is supposed to impress someone? The more employees you have, the more deadweight you have, and the higher the probability that an individual working there is just that. The fact you need to state that rather than your accomplishments makes it 100%.

So you don't want to join the highly lucrative job that requires your degree, but you want to join a job where the demand is decreasing and can be more easily outsourced. Not to mention- wtf does a "security support specialist" do? I have 15 fucking years in this field and I could only make a vague guess. A websearch for "define security support specialist" basically had 2 solid definition- one is a guy the sherriff's office was looking to hire that ran the fingerprinting software for booking, the other is someone who would be working at Guantanimo Bay. So you have a made up job title that means exactly nothing. Nor would anyone smart hire right into security in IT anyway- it's a complex field, its the position you graduate into after proving you know your stuff over a period of years, not an entry level position.

If that's what you have a passion for, go for it. Of course I'd say the same thing if you wanted to be a professional soap box racer. But don't complain about your degree when you don't have a full degree, and when you're using it to try to get a job that doesn't actually exist, and to a position that's far above entry level in a declining field. You aren't having problems because of the degree, you're having problems because you're underqualified and over-entitled. Especially don't complain about the utility of the degree if there's other career paths that greatly desire that degree, are highly lucrative, but you don't want to do. That's your fault, not the field's.

CS is for programming. Not IT and definitely not helpdesk. And not vaguely defined "security" jobs. If you want to program, there's a negative unemployment rate in some parts of the country right now and has been for a few years- there's more jobs than people if you have some skill. If you don't want to program or get a phd and do research, its a useless degree. Formerly IT included a lot more programming as systems were highly customized and home built. Now IT is cheap and getting cheaper, because all of the complex tasks are automated or scripted these days with a lot more COTS software. You still need a small number of smart people, but a much smaller team than the old days and not everyone on the team needs to be top notch. Expect that trend to continue.

The other problem- you have an associates degree. Probably from a community college. That's a great thing to do if you're then transferring to a 4 year college to finish your degree. Its absolute garbage for getting a job- you have neither work experience nor the understanding of theory that a full degree should give you, combined with the utter lack of rigor generally associated with a lower college. Basically, it counts for nothing- nobody is going to hire you for hard programming with it, the jobs you are qualified for like simple web dev work would have hired you without it. You'd have been better off writing a portfolio of some simple web pages and apps that you could show off if you weren't willing to get a full degree.

No, it increases it. There's a half dozen ideas I have on the drawing board that I could never touch, because I know it comes too close to filed patents on a dozen issues and I could never protect myself in court. This makes it easier to explore these ideas. If anything, this will lead to more pushing of the boundaries and combining of good ideas to make great software, and fewer people sticking to safe ideas because there's no patent issues.

/. is bad too. :P

Ditto. I still wear a Casio Data Bank 150 watch. It is old school, but useful to me since I don't use a PDA and phone. I just need a smartwatch with basic features that do not require a mobile phone: Calendar/Scheduler, phone directory, calculator, etc.

I want a new watch like Casio Data Bank 150. No phone requirement. I guess this Apple watch isn't it since it requires a phone. 6th generation iPod nano would work, but it lacks features like a simple scheduler, phone directory, etc. Not even a way to install apps. :(

That is why I prefer to go 100% naked!

Why don't youget a gun? :P

I heard this on a local Los Angeles talk radio a couple weeks ago. The lawyer inventor was debating with the talk radio guys. http://www.poughkeepsiejournal... has the article and video about it. I couldn't find the audio recording (don't think they have any?) except http://www.kfiam640.com/onair/... ...

To me, things are still buggy and easily broken. :(

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