The school administrators, unlike the people who actually make the schools work, such as it is, tend to be paid pretty well.

I get so tired of hearing the school systems stress technology so much, because they are inevitably 20-30 years behind in their understanding of how to best utilize it, leave alone secure their systems. I always fantasized about teaching a computer class that didn't even touch a keyboard for the first half year...

I recall Windows 3.51 was quite secure for the time. But once they merged the DOS branch of the OS with the NT branch, things got a lot worse for several years.

It's good to hear AWS has never been hacked because just about every other company with data has been. A lot of people rely on AWS, and what you are saying is accurate and if they are running their systems correctly, there can be a reasonable expectation that they will be secure. That's nice to know.

> What I learned is that teachers have literally no time for anything.

The school system in the U.S. is notorious for this. Teachers get so much stuff dumped on them, much of which has little to do with actual teaching. It's a truly thankless job that cannot be fixed by dumping more money into the system. It's fundamentally broken. There are plenty of good teachers, but their effectiveness becomes more and more fettered every year.

Source: father of 4, and husband to a school teacher

In my experience the two worst things to combine are "education system" and "technology".

If the script kiddies are hacking your system, you've got bigger problems.

Is "script kiddies" still a thing?

I'm so old.

Can you call a person a security expert who fails to secure their devices from theives?

Its quite clear that this civilisation does not possess the intelligence or clout needed to steer this ship away from climate collapse.
Unfortunately there is no planet B - only a naive schoolboy would think that sending rockets to, and colonising a desolate lifeless mars is possible without accellerating the demise of our home.

Nearly all so called "clean" water across the planet is polluted with microplastics, given that water is vital ingredient in the beer making process this is not in the slightest bit unexpected. Once again a study from the department of the fucking obvious.

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I dont disagree with your sentiment.

There is little point in wasting time pursuing a high-flying career any more. Im glad to see that this is happening.
By the time students come out of the higher education system we will be 4-5 more years into global socio-economic collapse
and 4-5 more years in to climate breakdown.

It is far better that kids today focus on preparing for an extreme weather future where multiple crop failures and food shortages are the norm.

Having a law degree isnt going to help here.

I commend Intel employees who have grown a conscience and sought employment elsewhere.

We’re kidding ourselves if we think EVs are a drop-in “solution.” Building an EV burns about twice the carbon of making an ICE, and scrapping a perfectly functional ICE adds nearly another tonne of COe. Run the numbers: ramping up EV sales by 10%/year for a decade actually adds ~650 million tonnes of COe from manufacturing, even after accounting for fewer ICEs scrapped.

That’s just swapping one carbon-intensive system for another — tailpipes for furnaces and mines. The problem isn’t just the drivetrain, it’s the scale: 75 million new cars every year.

The real win isn’t “replace every ICE with an EV,” it’s cutting the carbon out of steel, aluminum, and batteries, cranking up recycling, and maybe even questioning whether churning out this many new cars is sustainable at all. Otherwise, it’s just business as usual in a greener paint job.

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Another waste of time and funds on a study from the department of the fucking obvious and nothing done about it.
Once again another reason not to refute the fact that theres only a 5% chance of us getting off this trajectory
to catastrophic climate collapse that will lead to the extinction of much of life, except perhaps a few lucky
extremophiles within decades.

Perhaps if we were to fund action,instead of reports that tell us what we already know we might stand a better chance,
but i dont think thats looking likely.