...You got a culinary degree and specialized in cake decorating, now a 3D frosting printer can do the job for 1/3 the cost in 1/2 the time. Do you try to stick in the pastry world? Re-train on bread baking? Try being a high-end chef? Or do you bail on your entire training and career and try to retrain on something else?
And half-way through that retraining, when the machines take over that job, when then?
This is exactly why we must Solve for Greed.
The billionaire replacing all employees with robots will realize only after the fact that it was paid employees that drove revenue. Greed blinds the billionaire to only think about short-term profits driven by automation. Greed doesn't give a fuck about long-term impact, even if it results in a bullet hole in their own foot.
Unless we solve for greed, there are few viable outcomes. We often speak of UBI as an answer, but the quality of life will be horrible due to lack of funding. We can't even force the wealthy to pay fucking taxes. There's no way in hell we're going to legislate the wealthy to fund UBI to be anything more than Welfare 2.0 for the unemployable masses. Billions of people won't work, and will be reliant upon some form of welfare. Millions will die off due to welfare-grade healthcare, which will be designed to execute a population cull and make it look as non-evil as possible.
We must find a way to fix the wealth inequality and disparity, and eradicate a pointless desire to become a trillioniare. We must show that we are an intelligent race that has value even in the absence of employment. We must not let something as pathetic as Greed destroy us.
"Restaurant-queuing seems to be a cultural phenomenon associated mostly with America. It's not unusual to see a mile-long queue for a restaurant in America but in other parts of the world if there's a few waiting by the door people deem it to be busy and quickly move on to the next place."
Densely populated areas of people with disposable income create a queuing demand. The concept is not unique to America. See well-known noodle shops in Japan where people wait hours for their favorite bowl.
...Either there are not enough restaurants in the US or the management is incompetent or they are just greedy and they accept way too many reservations, just like the US airlines.
There are a metric fuckton of restaurants in the US. The REAL problem is many of them do not accept reservations. They see queues as a way to drive popularity based on hype. Long queues somehow mean it must be the place to eat, and the wait is somehow worth it. This tactic is also a way to drive more revenue by enticing customers to purchase overpriced drinks at the bar while they wait for a table.
The pathetic part is realizing that this bullshit no-reservation policy works. If we want to change this, then we have to get rid of the fucking stupid mentality that queues are somehow hip and cool.
Really? You honestly thing a company with virtually unlimited resources didn't think of that? (Or the Parent's "changing a pixel" comment?) I realize that what they are doing doesn't follow the definition of "hash" as we traditionally think about it, where changing one bit in the source changes the hash. But I'm pretty sure FB didn't just get outsmarted by two ACs on Slashdot.
I'm pretty sure you don't know who Achilles was.
"The victim can then report the photo to Facebook, which will create a hash of the image that the social network will use to block further uploads of the same photo."
Sure as hell looks like Facebooks heel is showing. This is likely a best-effort service. It sure as shit isn't priority #1 for Facebook, and thus there are not "unlimited" resources.
And IF there were additional controls put in place to filter, it would mean Facebook would need to store the actual image. Cue the disgruntled FB employee and darknet dump in 3...2...
I hear talk about retraining workers and can't help but wonder if it's a realistic solution. The people I know that are really good at things, be it computers or music or martial arts, started doing it when they were young. How is an older, newly trained (inexperienced) worker going to compete with them?
Politically correct answer: Many people in the world have a chosen job or profession based on their natural abilities, which can often limit their capability to be retrained.
Politically incorrect answer: There are a lot of stupid people out there that can only do simple jobs. The kinds of jobs that automation will replace soon. Retraining is pointless and essentially impossible.
Exactly this. If you like the environment, vote for things like this. Take down things like dikes and dames and allow Nature to return to itself.
I would agree with this to some extent.
Humans can be redisplaced from rural places where they are tearing up the enivronment and moved back into cities where they belong and can be managed.
Uh, OK, this is where you lost me. Move them back where they belong? As if a city is some kind of natural formation of concrete and greed. And we're talking about (rural) farmers here. You also going to vote for higher taxes to subsidize the growth in welfare to sustain farmers when you remove them from the job they know? And please don't attempt to throw a steaming political pile of STEM in my face as the solution here. Natural limitations often define the kind of job people do in life, and not every brain is cut out for a STEM job.
Earth gets to heal Herself and people become less of a plague on Earth. In the long run concentrations of populations is a good thing for efficiency of people, management of people (no one is X miles away from an administrative body), and biodiversity can regain its roots (no pun intended) throughout the rest of the lands and waters.
Ah, so efficiency of people is the goal here? Well, fuck it, let's not stop with all those "greedy" rural land owners. You spoiled bastards in your houses with your half-acre yards need to go too. I say we cram every human into apartment buildings like sardines; you know, for efficiency's sake. That way no one has grass-filled yards to waste water on, tends of thousands of separate air conditioners can be removed from the environment in favor of massive 100-story high-rise living, where everyone gets a standard-issue 750SF of administratively controlled living space. And of course, let's not forget in 10 years when cities are 10-million strong in population, the efforts we'll go through to re-route streams and rivers, once again cutting off natural habitats in order to provide enough water to feed the concrete jungle we insisted on shoving every human into.
I agree there needs to be a balance here, but cities are not where every human belongs. Part of the point of keeping our planet beautiful is to enjoy it, which often means populating areas that are not a fucking cancerous cesspool of concrete wasteland.
That's a common, defeatist, and ultimately self-fulfilling argument.
The GP was right. Stores are selling what they can convince people to buy, because they want the money. If pitching so-called smart TVs as better than normal ones and thus being able to sell them successfully at a higher price works, that's what they'll do.
On the other hand, if enough potential customers ask about products without the junk or start asking tricky questions about the realities of these devices that waste the sales people's time, and particularly if those potential customers are then leaving the store without making a purchase, the stores will go back to demanding simpler units that they can sell. And if customers are giving their money to people who supply good, "dumb" TVs today then the stores and manufacturers offering that option also have a direct incentive to continue.
Voting with your wallet is possibly the most successful form of lobbying for change that humanity has yet conceived.
The overwhelming majority of customers don't care enough to voice an opinion. They are voting with their wallets by buying the subsidized "smart" product, because they're happy to trade their digital soul for a cheaper price tag.
As the world flattens, there will never be enough "potential" customers to create alternatives or lobby against features no one asked for. The consumer opinion no longer matters, and it's time people wake up to that fact. We will watch the "dumb" electronics market be replaced by "smart" products riddled with revenue streams, because profit by any means is what truly matters. A decade from now you won't be able to buy a fucking toilet bowl brush that doesn't broadcast shitty ads with every flush.
Linux is garbage. Open source is generally garbage. It will continue to be garbage as long as developers reopens to criticism by telling users to go solve the problems themselves. That's the typical open source response, to tell users that if they don't like something to go code up a fix on their own. As long as there are so any hostile attitudes from Linux and open source developers, it will continue to be garbage. The criticism tells developers how to improve the software. When the criticism is dismissed, it drives away users and the software remains garbage. Linux and open source are garbage and are not real solutions for most problems. Linux zealots like you are far too conceited to even accept there's a problem, let alone to actually fix the issues and make your software usable. Windows, iOS, and macOS all have their issues, but all are far superior to Linux.
Open Source is dismissive by offering users dozens of alternatives, allowing them to DIY on any hardware. You call this "garbage".
Apple is dismissive by offering consumers no alternatives running on custom laser-sealed hardware. You call this "courage".
What fucking CIO wants to be kept in the dark about something like that?
One that would like a chance to offload some shares before they tank?
Exactly. And yet the investigation results amounted to nothing more than a Jedi mind trick, which will most likely be accepted by other equally corrupt regulatory agencies doing subsequent investigations.
Don't even know why we maintain moral and ethical regulations in business anymore. Not like anyone actually enforces them.
"...security experts have recommended and advocated for most of these measures for years."
This tends to highlight the chances of security experts being heard this time around.
I've come to the conclusion that manufacturers like burning themselves on the proverbial stove over and over again. It's reached a level of ignorance that is beyond reproach. Watch and see how proposed standards will be ignored due to a potential impact on profits. Greed is all that matters.
And drawn on.Geekmux should name one single e-reader that can be written on as easily as paper with as many different colour pens.
Digital highlighting isn't science fiction. Pretty sure an iPad iPencil can do that and far more. If a tablet/eReader doesn't exist today, then you build one based on the requirements.
Space stations are full of reliable lo-tech solutions.
1,000 pages/month for 17 years is over 200,000 pages. Assuming A4-sized, that weighs over a ton. Need to archive and dispose of a years worth of digital output? Take an hour to sync it to ground-based server. Need to archive and dispose of a years worth of paper? Wait for the next multi-million-dollar transport.
In the face of current technology, "lo-tech" starts to be viewed as ignorant, even when reliability is taken into account.
Finding an alternative to paper output in 2017 isn't rocket science. Managing the logistics of thousands of pages of disposable paper output on the ISS is.
I'm sure you know far better than the NASA engineers who work on the ISS program.
Paperless Office is such a longstanding joke in the industry that it sits on the mantle right next to Year of the Linux Desktop and IPv6.
Given that fact, I don't see how NASA is any different from every other large organization who continues to demand printing and faxing capability for little or no valid reason. To further elaborate the level of mass ignorance, the 2017 office now mandates scanners, just so they can complete the pointless circle of turning paper back into ones and zeros.
big companies that reward their executives with stock, or large numbers of options, usually put restrictions on the sale as part of the contract. For example, the most common contract is that they can sell their stock, but only on a 6-month schedule. So they had to have it scheduled for sale at least 6 months ahead of time. I have no knowledge of Equifax in particular, but this is SOP. It would raise a shit ton of eyebrows if not. And, if it's only just a little over a million bucks, that sounds to me like they had it scheduled. Because, if they were playing the inside they'd have made a shit-ton more than that between them.
And is it also SOP for the board of the company being investigated to be in charge of the investigation? To be fair, that is what reeks of the most bullshit here.
Well that, and the fact that executives are playing dumb to not knowing about the largest breach in company history for days. Either they're corrupt and knew about the breach, or they're incompetent for holding a keep-me-in-the-dark policy regarding cyberattacks. Which is it?
These investigators were hired by the same board that hired a team of executives who had no clue about computer security and apparently had no idea that one of the largest failures of computer security ever had occurred several days earlier. With that sort of hiring record, I'm not sure I'd trust anyone they hired.
Trust? What the hell makes you think this has to do with trust?
To give you an idea of just how fucked up the system really is, the board members are going to get rewarded for this, which is exactly why the only acceptable result was the fabricated bullshit we're seeing. The board investigated and found executives to be not guilty, and thus of the highest caliber, affirming an excellent capability to select only the best personnel to run a company. Golden resume fodder right there.
Executives had no idea of the largest breach in company history for days? What a load of shit. At minimum I'd be firing the CIO for not having a policy of immediate notification for a cyberattack of this magnitude. What fucking CIO wants to be kept in the dark about something like that? Same goes for the board for that matter; it's a public company. Attacks can (and did) affect stock price, which is also the reason executives were notified in person, also known as that old-fashioned untraceable way of informing stock holders of a good time to sell.
Acutally it's sensible. They know there's an issue, and they're doing something about it. Continuous improvement.
I'll believe in continuous improvement when we start actually punishing greed and corruption that often creates these problems in the first place.
That would also include the NHTSA, not just car manufacturers. A damn good example of this would be when NHTSA allowed Takata to continue to install defective airbags well after they fined them $70 million for it.
Defects will continue in record numbers. Why? Because greed has proven it's worth it.
is still probably better than our newest retail printers sold in supermarkets.
Exactly what I was thinking. (Wouldn't be surprised if it was an old LaserJet 4/5)
Don't see how some shitty current-era all-in-wonder device is gonna replace that kind of stability, no matter who makes it. They really don't make 'em like they used to these days (on purpose)
Paper doesn't need power to view it. A sheet of paper can be stuck on anything in a space station. It can also be put on a clipboard. There are lots of clipboards up there, I'll bet.
Uh, a space station has a finite amount of space.
A fucking eReader is the easy solution for a power budget. Probably consumes less power than a device shitting out 1,000 pages every month. The only thing there are "lots of" right now is piles and piles of pointless shit laying around in paper form, taking up valuable real estate.
Slashdot Mirror
Politically incorrect best answer: People can be made into Soylent Green when they outlive their usefullness.
With all the shit we ingest that's legal to put into our food supply?
No fucking way in hell would I eat that.
...You got a culinary degree and specialized in cake decorating, now a 3D frosting printer can do the job for 1/3 the cost in 1/2 the time. Do you try to stick in the pastry world? Re-train on bread baking? Try being a high-end chef? Or do you bail on your entire training and career and try to retrain on something else?
And half-way through that retraining, when the machines take over that job, when then?
This is exactly why we must Solve for Greed.
The billionaire replacing all employees with robots will realize only after the fact that it was paid employees that drove revenue. Greed blinds the billionaire to only think about short-term profits driven by automation. Greed doesn't give a fuck about long-term impact, even if it results in a bullet hole in their own foot.
Unless we solve for greed, there are few viable outcomes. We often speak of UBI as an answer, but the quality of life will be horrible due to lack of funding. We can't even force the wealthy to pay fucking taxes. There's no way in hell we're going to legislate the wealthy to fund UBI to be anything more than Welfare 2.0 for the unemployable masses. Billions of people won't work, and will be reliant upon some form of welfare. Millions will die off due to welfare-grade healthcare, which will be designed to execute a population cull and make it look as non-evil as possible.
We must find a way to fix the wealth inequality and disparity, and eradicate a pointless desire to become a trillioniare. We must show that we are an intelligent race that has value even in the absence of employment. We must not let something as pathetic as Greed destroy us.
TL; DR - Solve for Greed.
"Restaurant-queuing seems to be a cultural phenomenon associated mostly with America. It's not unusual to see a mile-long queue for a restaurant in America but in other parts of the world if there's a few waiting by the door people deem it to be busy and quickly move on to the next place."
Densely populated areas of people with disposable income create a queuing demand. The concept is not unique to America. See well-known noodle shops in Japan where people wait hours for their favorite bowl.
...Either there are not enough restaurants in the US or the management is incompetent or they are just greedy and they accept way too many reservations, just like the US airlines.
There are a metric fuckton of restaurants in the US. The REAL problem is many of them do not accept reservations. They see queues as a way to drive popularity based on hype. Long queues somehow mean it must be the place to eat, and the wait is somehow worth it. This tactic is also a way to drive more revenue by enticing customers to purchase overpriced drinks at the bar while they wait for a table.
The pathetic part is realizing that this bullshit no-reservation policy works. If we want to change this, then we have to get rid of the fucking stupid mentality that queues are somehow hip and cool.
Only winning move is not to play.
Your "winning" move is nothing more than an anomaly.
Game Over.
Really? You honestly thing a company with virtually unlimited resources didn't think of that? (Or the Parent's "changing a pixel" comment?) I realize that what they are doing doesn't follow the definition of "hash" as we traditionally think about it, where changing one bit in the source changes the hash. But I'm pretty sure FB didn't just get outsmarted by two ACs on Slashdot.
I'm pretty sure you don't know who Achilles was.
"The victim can then report the photo to Facebook, which will create a hash of the image that the social network will use to block further uploads of the same photo."
Sure as hell looks like Facebooks heel is showing. This is likely a best-effort service. It sure as shit isn't priority #1 for Facebook, and thus there are not "unlimited" resources.
And IF there were additional controls put in place to filter, it would mean Facebook would need to store the actual image. Cue the disgruntled FB employee and darknet dump in 3...2...
We already have laws against stalking, spying, and harrassment. Why do those laws not apply here?
Because you failed to grasp the point of that EULA you never read.
You know how a lawyer spells consent?
I Agree.
I hear talk about retraining workers and can't help but wonder if it's a realistic solution. The people I know that are really good at things, be it computers or music or martial arts, started doing it when they were young. How is an older, newly trained (inexperienced) worker going to compete with them?
Politically correct answer: Many people in the world have a chosen job or profession based on their natural abilities, which can often limit their capability to be retrained.
Politically incorrect answer: There are a lot of stupid people out there that can only do simple jobs. The kinds of jobs that automation will replace soon. Retraining is pointless and essentially impossible.
No, retraining is not realistic.
Time for new privacy laws, I guess.
New privacy laws would imply that there is a society that actually wants it.
Our society doesn't give a shit about privacy. Hasn't for a very long time now.
Sadly, those that still fight for privacy have now become an anomaly, so you stand out even more.
Exactly this. If you like the environment, vote for things like this. Take down things like dikes and dames and allow Nature to return to itself.
I would agree with this to some extent.
Humans can be redisplaced from rural places where they are tearing up the enivronment and moved back into cities where they belong and can be managed.
Uh, OK, this is where you lost me. Move them back where they belong? As if a city is some kind of natural formation of concrete and greed. And we're talking about (rural) farmers here. You also going to vote for higher taxes to subsidize the growth in welfare to sustain farmers when you remove them from the job they know? And please don't attempt to throw a steaming political pile of STEM in my face as the solution here. Natural limitations often define the kind of job people do in life, and not every brain is cut out for a STEM job.
Earth gets to heal Herself and people become less of a plague on Earth. In the long run concentrations of populations is a good thing for efficiency of people, management of people (no one is X miles away from an administrative body), and biodiversity can regain its roots (no pun intended) throughout the rest of the lands and waters.
Ah, so efficiency of people is the goal here? Well, fuck it, let's not stop with all those "greedy" rural land owners. You spoiled bastards in your houses with your half-acre yards need to go too. I say we cram every human into apartment buildings like sardines; you know, for efficiency's sake. That way no one has grass-filled yards to waste water on, tends of thousands of separate air conditioners can be removed from the environment in favor of massive 100-story high-rise living, where everyone gets a standard-issue 750SF of administratively controlled living space. And of course, let's not forget in 10 years when cities are 10-million strong in population, the efforts we'll go through to re-route streams and rivers, once again cutting off natural habitats in order to provide enough water to feed the concrete jungle we insisted on shoving every human into.
I agree there needs to be a balance here, but cities are not where every human belongs. Part of the point of keeping our planet beautiful is to enjoy it, which often means populating areas that are not a fucking cancerous cesspool of concrete wasteland.
That's a common, defeatist, and ultimately self-fulfilling argument.
The GP was right. Stores are selling what they can convince people to buy, because they want the money. If pitching so-called smart TVs as better than normal ones and thus being able to sell them successfully at a higher price works, that's what they'll do.
On the other hand, if enough potential customers ask about products without the junk or start asking tricky questions about the realities of these devices that waste the sales people's time, and particularly if those potential customers are then leaving the store without making a purchase, the stores will go back to demanding simpler units that they can sell. And if customers are giving their money to people who supply good, "dumb" TVs today then the stores and manufacturers offering that option also have a direct incentive to continue.
Voting with your wallet is possibly the most successful form of lobbying for change that humanity has yet conceived.
The overwhelming majority of customers don't care enough to voice an opinion. They are voting with their wallets by buying the subsidized "smart" product, because they're happy to trade their digital soul for a cheaper price tag.
As the world flattens, there will never be enough "potential" customers to create alternatives or lobby against features no one asked for. The consumer opinion no longer matters, and it's time people wake up to that fact. We will watch the "dumb" electronics market be replaced by "smart" products riddled with revenue streams, because profit by any means is what truly matters. A decade from now you won't be able to buy a fucking toilet bowl brush that doesn't broadcast shitty ads with every flush.
"Now, many musicians are clamoring for cassettes as a way to physically distribute their music."
Don't you idiots know anything? Vinyl is where it's at in 2017. GTFO with this new-old cassette bullshit.
Fuckin' Millennials. Can't even do pointless hipster retro right.
Linux is garbage. Open source is generally garbage. It will continue to be garbage as long as developers reopens to criticism by telling users to go solve the problems themselves. That's the typical open source response, to tell users that if they don't like something to go code up a fix on their own. As long as there are so any hostile attitudes from Linux and open source developers, it will continue to be garbage. The criticism tells developers how to improve the software. When the criticism is dismissed, it drives away users and the software remains garbage. Linux and open source are garbage and are not real solutions for most problems. Linux zealots like you are far too conceited to even accept there's a problem, let alone to actually fix the issues and make your software usable. Windows, iOS, and macOS all have their issues, but all are far superior to Linux.
Open Source is dismissive by offering users dozens of alternatives, allowing them to DIY on any hardware. You call this "garbage".
Apple is dismissive by offering consumers no alternatives running on custom laser-sealed hardware. You call this "courage".
You have one hell of a way of defining conceited.
Don't buy such a TV. Simple law of economics.
We live in the era of never-asked-for-this-shit features, which means you'll get what the manufacturer says you need.
The only simple thing to understand here, is that your opinion no longer matters.
Hundreds of new emoji are coming with iOS 11.1 !! Youhou !!!
Proper spelling will always come secondary to smiling turds.
What fucking CIO wants to be kept in the dark about something like that?
One that would like a chance to offload some shares before they tank?
Exactly. And yet the investigation results amounted to nothing more than a Jedi mind trick, which will most likely be accepted by other equally corrupt regulatory agencies doing subsequent investigations.
Don't even know why we maintain moral and ethical regulations in business anymore. Not like anyone actually enforces them.
"...security experts have recommended and advocated for most of these measures for years."
This tends to highlight the chances of security experts being heard this time around.
I've come to the conclusion that manufacturers like burning themselves on the proverbial stove over and over again. It's reached a level of ignorance that is beyond reproach. Watch and see how proposed standards will be ignored due to a potential impact on profits. Greed is all that matters.
And drawn on.Geekmux should name one single e-reader that can be written on as easily as paper with as many different colour pens.
Digital highlighting isn't science fiction. Pretty sure an iPad iPencil can do that and far more. If a tablet/eReader doesn't exist today, then you build one based on the requirements.
Space stations are full of reliable lo-tech solutions.
1,000 pages/month for 17 years is over 200,000 pages. Assuming A4-sized, that weighs over a ton. Need to archive and dispose of a years worth of digital output? Take an hour to sync it to ground-based server. Need to archive and dispose of a years worth of paper? Wait for the next multi-million-dollar transport.
In the face of current technology, "lo-tech" starts to be viewed as ignorant, even when reliability is taken into account.
Finding an alternative to paper output in 2017 isn't rocket science. Managing the logistics of thousands of pages of disposable paper output on the ISS is.
I'm sure you know far better than the NASA engineers who work on the ISS program.
Paperless Office is such a longstanding joke in the industry that it sits on the mantle right next to Year of the Linux Desktop and IPv6.
Given that fact, I don't see how NASA is any different from every other large organization who continues to demand printing and faxing capability for little or no valid reason. To further elaborate the level of mass ignorance, the 2017 office now mandates scanners, just so they can complete the pointless circle of turning paper back into ones and zeros.
The term is buttload. ISO standard buttload.
Ah yes. I stand corrected.
big companies that reward their executives with stock, or large numbers of options, usually put restrictions on the sale as part of the contract. For example, the most common contract is that they can sell their stock, but only on a 6-month schedule. So they had to have it scheduled for sale at least 6 months ahead of time. I have no knowledge of Equifax in particular, but this is SOP. It would raise a shit ton of eyebrows if not. And, if it's only just a little over a million bucks, that sounds to me like they had it scheduled. Because, if they were playing the inside they'd have made a shit-ton more than that between them.
And is it also SOP for the board of the company being investigated to be in charge of the investigation? To be fair, that is what reeks of the most bullshit here.
Well that, and the fact that executives are playing dumb to not knowing about the largest breach in company history for days. Either they're corrupt and knew about the breach, or they're incompetent for holding a keep-me-in-the-dark policy regarding cyberattacks. Which is it?
These investigators were hired by the same board that hired a team of executives who had no clue about computer security and apparently had no idea that one of the largest failures of computer security ever had occurred several days earlier. With that sort of hiring record, I'm not sure I'd trust anyone they hired.
Trust? What the hell makes you think this has to do with trust?
To give you an idea of just how fucked up the system really is, the board members are going to get rewarded for this, which is exactly why the only acceptable result was the fabricated bullshit we're seeing. The board investigated and found executives to be not guilty, and thus of the highest caliber, affirming an excellent capability to select only the best personnel to run a company. Golden resume fodder right there.
Executives had no idea of the largest breach in company history for days? What a load of shit. At minimum I'd be firing the CIO for not having a policy of immediate notification for a cyberattack of this magnitude. What fucking CIO wants to be kept in the dark about something like that? Same goes for the board for that matter; it's a public company. Attacks can (and did) affect stock price, which is also the reason executives were notified in person, also known as that old-fashioned untraceable way of informing stock holders of a good time to sell.
Acutally it's sensible. They know there's an issue, and they're doing something about it. Continuous improvement.
I'll believe in continuous improvement when we start actually punishing greed and corruption that often creates these problems in the first place.
That would also include the NHTSA, not just car manufacturers. A damn good example of this would be when NHTSA allowed Takata to continue to install defective airbags well after they fined them $70 million for it.
Defects will continue in record numbers. Why? Because greed has proven it's worth it.
Off-topic, but the end of your comment made me think there's probably an "Ass engineer" at RealDolls.
That job title might make finding another job a little difficult
Especially if you want to get paid an assload of money.
is still probably better than our newest retail printers sold in supermarkets.
Exactly what I was thinking. (Wouldn't be surprised if it was an old LaserJet 4/5)
Don't see how some shitty current-era all-in-wonder device is gonna replace that kind of stability, no matter who makes it. They really don't make 'em like they used to these days (on purpose)
What? This is easy. Power budget.
Paper doesn't need power to view it. A sheet of paper can be stuck on anything in a space station. It can also be put on a clipboard. There are lots of clipboards up there, I'll bet.
Uh, a space station has a finite amount of space.
A fucking eReader is the easy solution for a power budget. Probably consumes less power than a device shitting out 1,000 pages every month. The only thing there are "lots of" right now is piles and piles of pointless shit laying around in paper form, taking up valuable real estate.