Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:

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We also have a bunch of IT programs which are really business school programs
with some computing added.  I think those are pretty much worthless, but they
get a lot of students.

Oh, and I will say that most of the students that I deal with personally
are not CS students at all but engineering students.  They get one programming
class, usually in Matlab, and no basic computer literacy stuff at all.

This is really no worse than it was when I was in engineering school, when
students got one programming class in Fortran.  But it's not good, because
so many things are done with computers today.

They do teach mechanical drawing with cad/cam systems now instead of making
kids use those goddamn rapidographs like we had to use.
--scott
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