Wikileaks

The Wikileaks fiasco has become one of the most popular stories in the world lately. Over the last month, the site Wikileaks.org has been publishing hundreds of thousands of confidential government documents. This is the largest set of confidential government documents ever to be released to the public. Perhaps one of the biggest issues I have with this is the fact that reports are indicating that people, in particularly soldiers, are dying due to the leaked information. That makes this an issue that must be addressed. I think the issue isn't the leaked information itself, but the policies that have been put in place that allow people to have this confidential information. Information of this level of secrecy should be shared between as few people as possible. In the event that someone in this inner circle is fired or gets pissed off for some reason or another, they should probably be monitored, to make sure something like this doesn't happen. In my opinion, this is the government's fault. One person who is not to blame is Julian Assange. Assange is the founder of Wikileaks. He is being sought for rape and assault charges which he may or may not be guilty of. Many people in the media believe that the charges are fraudulent and are just being targeted at Assange because of his involvement with Wikileaks.

college - a place for lazy people

This has proven to be an enlightening semester. I've had several technology related classes in which I was far more knowledgeable than the rest of the class. Throughout these classes I had multiple people come ask me to help them with projects, homework, and other assignments. While I don't usually mind helping people, it became increasingly annoying as I realized most of these people are just lazy. It's not that everyone in my classes is too stupid to learn how to work with technology, it's that they haven't ever had to actually sit down and learn how to use a new technology. I think if we could find a way to force students to learn that real IT implementation consists of actually having to sit down and figure out how to use something you've probably never used or seen before, we might make great strides towards becoming a top 20 University. Friends I have who've graduated that seem to have this same problem are finding it very difficult to get jobs or promotions. It would look much better for Clemson to be graduating students who are going to be able to actually go out into the workforce and be productive. Very few students get immediate jobs in management. Typically you have to actually learn how to do something first before you get to manage other people who do that particular job.