I can usually tell the worth of a Educator (teacher) by their desire to learn. I work in a school district, and the better teachers tend to want to learn new stuff. The lessor teachers figure they are done "learning" because they finished college or similar attitude. Everything being equal, those teachers that still love to learn are better teachers, than those that don't want to learn anything else.

Most Standardized testing fails at the student's level. They are great for people who have no contact with students (Politicians, High Level Administrators etc), but they do NOTHING to help the kids learn anything. And because of that, they are more or less worthless for students, and everything for people getting paid stupid amounts of money to generate standards based testing.

And standards based testing is EXPENSIVE, and negatively impacts seat time in classrooms. And my experience is that by the time the results are back, it is too late to help anyone on anything, except those that don't have any contact with student.

If you are posting "Private" or "Personal" stuff on social networks, you're the fool. And you're not fooling anyone.

Ever heard of "Screen Capture" and "Revenge sites"? Yeah, you're "private" life isn't as private as you think it is.

But you do have one advantage, most people don't really care about your dick pics or whatever.

Cisco is one of the worst companies that certify, because their version of networking is strange compared to everyone else's.

They had Baltar working for them, and I don't blame him. Who wouldn't give up secrets to Six?

Being "anonymous" on a "social network". I know plenty of people who have "fake" accounts, and everyone knows who they are, they aren't fooling anyone.

Unless you're paying for your social networking, you are the product. Google is just up front with it.

You don't. Stay with Facebook idiots, where you belong.

Or, as I put it, the people who aren't on Google+ are the reason I am on Google+

There is a reason why they are called "Unwashed masses"

I don't consider exploits to be defective. Defects require no outside "help"

This would be the same as saying the Twin Towers were defective because the couldn't withstand airplane crashing into it (extreme example).

To me, defective is something that breaks all on its own.

They did not ship a defective unit. The unit was shipped worked fine. The problem was it was exploitable, which is not a defect, it is a lack of foresight.

Any sufficient level of incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

I point you to Admiral Adama of (Battlestar Gallactica) wise words ... "Do not network the ships computers"

Yeah, I can see it now. NSA Linux, "Freedom Edition with Proprietary Patriot Act Protection!"

And a Obama working with Boehner will get it done.

If you're going to ignore year of experience because of some Cert number on a resume, you get what you deserve. I know plenty of people with certs who can't do shit that people with years of active experience can do blindfolded. Why? Because a Cert doesn't teach you how to think on the fly to solve incredible problems where the book says "it should be running".

Not that certs are worthless, but experience is worth more than certs in my book.

Some Certs used to be good, but no longer are. My Novel Certs are useless. And anyone wanting me to get certified at this point better be paying me for the Certs. If my 30 years of experience (yeah, getting old) doesn't count for anything, no cert is going to fix that.