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Comment AhHah! You have a smoking gun! (Score 1) 705

Let us consider that the schools in which you are talking about having this mandate is in our public school system (AKA Socialized School). Of course this mandate will never happen. It should, but it won't. I bet dollars to donunts our private schools already have made this mandate.

I can't help but think that we may be in a similar situation with health care if that becomes socialized.

How would you like having a claim turned down for a preventative gene test early in life that will be a precuror or something that helps your health success many many years from the date of the test.

Comment It's the soft stuff on the inside. (Score 1) 216

It is a common understanding that the weakest link in information security is people. Until we are able to tell what people are thinking and protect ourselves from either their malice or ignorance it will be a problem.

Education of users is clearly a fundemental pillar in information security. I am sure social engineering schemes will continue to improve in their effectiveness in exploiting vulnerabilities.

Working againist this cause is that no one will be able to concretely say that an information security program created revenue (except of security product suppliers). The only real hook that keeps executives funding security is the criminal and civil exposure they deal with. Keeping the execs out of jail is worth funding.

Comment The Big Media-of-Media Shift (Score 5, Interesting) 94

I think this is pretty big news.

It seems just like when Virgin Atlanic airlines took advantage of complacent and poorly managed (at the top) Pan Am Airlines and cherry picted talent. Look who is around now. I think we may finally be seeing the shift in media from print to web for newspapers. It is a big ship and it takes time. Industries reinvent themselves, sometimes as other companies.

Comment Expert Criteria (Score 1) 1146

Consult experts, those who have been married several times. You know how repetition sets the learning experience.

Oh Yeah. Have lots of sex. And explore sexual frontiers together. It is not what you do today. It is about what you look forward to tomorrow.

Comment Phrasing Please! (Score 1) 119

The director of this department is Alex Trebeck.

When they happen on an AVI or WAV the score is doubled.

The final round consists of a handwritten query and a wager of how many hits the target query will actually manifest.

It is all so exciting. Exciting enough on which to base a TV show!

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Drive Fast. Take chances.

Comment Underappreciated (Score 1) 401

There are many skills in this area that stay the same through the technology bubble we are witnessing in information technology. When you write you need two things. 1.) Purpose 2.) Target audience.

Concentrating on Audience for this reply... a very good technique is to use a "personna" or "profile." Create a fictious person providing an age, gender, education level, personal habits and so on. You then write that that target. Of course, not everyone who reads will fit in the personna exactly, but your personna will will have a bell curve associated of applicability to other audiences. Agree on the personna with all who are contributing material.

It works almost like magic.

Comment Welfare state (Score 1) 485

New York is a welfare state.

It is real condition http://mises.org/story/2225

OUR system needs fuel in form of money. Anything that can be considered (at least to a tipping point) as a social negative will be taxed like crazy to keep the machine running. It is a process like perpetual motion. It will attrify and die eventually unless we come to our senses and correct the current system.

Tax revolt NOW!

Comment Re:Not a first (Score 1) 330

It is a dissapointment that the frequency and mode were not described in the article, esp. since it was a science article. The frequency, mode, power and antenna certainly provide "a never been done before" criteria.

Ham radio was and still is at the forefront of comunications technology. This article describes a simple publicity stunt to promote a particular school.

73's N2TYQ

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