Nice, yet another "I hate Oracle" troll. Man, you won't get accepted by the cool kids if you spout this 5 year old shit. We've all moved on and you are not impressing anybody here with that one liner. Get with the times.:)
Come on! Stop already with the Oracle hating. I'm just sick of it. It is completely irrational, but hey, we are on Slashdot. So why not..
Anyway, I hope MySQL and Java die a horrible death. Those are both crap pieces of technology and they would deserve it. And no MariaDB is not any better. I was really hoping that we just all use this opportunity to switch to something decent, like Postgres.
It is basically Putin's way of saying: "Look, I am in control of how to get to space."
He's not. I'm pretty sure Chinese, Indians, Americans and Europeans are going to continue to go to space with or without Putin.
Yes, others have some capability, in some extent. Nobody is close to what the Russians can do at this time. US would have to restart some abandoned programs to get to the same level, but they at least have the potential.
US simply does not understand the Russians. Sanctions cannot possibly work against them.
US is not working against 'Russians'. It's just containing a power-hungry dictatorial imperialistic regime. Attacking the wealth of a regime is always a good way to reduce its ability to conquer neighboring nations.
Attacking someone when your attack is doomed to fail, is never a good policy. Sanctions might have worked against Iran, once Russia and China started to cooperate, but they won't work against Russia. They just shift their economic activity. There is much more dependency of the EU and rest of world on Russia than there is of Russia on the rest of the world. That also plays into it. Iran is not nearly as self sufficient as Russia is.
They always one up whatever move you do
Do you seriously think they didn't consider all the options Putin has? Or maybe at least the obvious ones like cutting his exports and imports? It's just a typical reactionary BS
I seriously think that US makes policy without carefully considering what will happen. Otherwise they could not make such colossal blunders like Iraq most recently.
This time it is gonna be played to the utter economic destruction of one of the two nuclear super powers or an all out nuclear war.
Yeah, imagine US losing their 28th business partner by volume of trade . Economic destruction my @ss.
US economy is very fragile. Look at 2001, 2008 and a crisis like that is bound to come again. They are coming increasingly faster too. Russia would strike at the right time at the height of a crisis like that to push you over the edge. They know what leverage they got and don't. For example I would bet that Putin is just trying to keep the current conflict going till the end of fall, so that some major gas pipeline can be "accidentally" damaged in fighting by Ukrainian shelling just in time for winter. Putin will blame Kiev, will promise to use Northern pipeline as much as possible, but it "just won't be enough, so sorry".
I'm trying to tell you, they are fully capable of doing this without batting an eyelash or feeling bad about it afterwards.
It looked like such a smart move by the US state department to take over the Ukrainian government, too bad they didn't understand that the move would inevitably start a war. Now we will all pay the price.
Typical dictatorship thinking - if I lose control over a government it must be because some other country took it. There's no way people would just elect their own representatives...
US state department worked for 10 years in Ukraine, spending 10 billion dollars, by their own admission, to support and train the opposition. It is not always that if you lose control, someone else helped to make it happen, but in this case, yes, it was the case. It looked like a smart move, but it wasn't.
And they didn't even ask EU if they actually want Ukraine. EU has serious economic issues with several countries that drag everyone down. Portugal, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria. Taking in Ukraine would add economic woes and impoverished population equal to those 4 countries combined. Just dealing with Greece itself almost sent the EURO to tailspin. Imagine adding Ukraine, which was terribly broken even before the current civil war.
This is a direct response to the US sanctions on Russia and to the US threatening to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. It is basically Putin's way of saying: "Look, I am in control of how to get to space.", meaning, you can put the rockets 300 miles from Moscow, I'll just take them to space. It is a typical power play. US simply does not understand the Russians. Sanctions cannot possibly work against them. They always one up whatever move you do and the only way to end the cold war was when the US stopped the race and started de-escalating the conflict and offer a treaty after a treaty, until finally Russia felt safe enough to let go. But now they feel betrayed and I don't think there will ever be a de-escalation of the conflict possible. This time it is gonna be played to the utter economic destruction of one of the two nuclear super powers or an all out nuclear war.
It looked like such a smart move by the US state department to take over the Ukrainian government, too bad they didn't understand that the move would inevitably start a war. Now we will all pay the price.
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No, I got the point perfectly. You simply think that collecting data on everyone, watching and recording everyone's private moments is not by itself immoral, until you do something with it. A bit of oversight could solve most of the problem, no biggie. Did I get it right this time?
The thing is, I grew up on the other side of Iron Curtain where the state police was also snooping on everyone. So I have a pretty good idea what can be done with the information once it is collected and so I'd rather it was not collected in the first place so nobody gets tempted. It's the same I'd like to have less guns around so when someone gets pissed, they go for a knife or fists, rather than a gun.
The thing about today's society is that there are simply too many laws. It is increasingly difficult to lead a life without breaking any of them. So it does not really matter whether you broke any law, but who knows about it and if they decide to prosecute. Everyone is guilty of something and you can lock up anyone on a legitimate crime, if you just know about it and he is inconvenient enough to stay in your way. You see?
I hope this enlightens my stance on mass surveillance. Stay out of my business! I'll take my chances with getting killed by a terrorist rather than let you snoop.
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Good to know. I hope you will be equally accommodating after you catch me peeking through your bathroom window, watching your wife take a shower.
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I think you misunderstand us here. We don't care if what the NSA did was legal. We are outraged by what they are doing and even more so if in fact it is legal. Legality cannot replace morality, because laws are far too easy to change.
Fuck you and your excuses. It's not us, it's them. Fuck you. Do something about it. It is done in your name so either accept the blame or make a change.
Read your history, they intentionally bled their allies out of all cash to become economic super power after the war and were pissed off they even have to join in 1942 because of the damn public opinion. Even so they delayed any serious military action until 1944, when it was basically over and they just came in the prevent Russia from taking over too much of Europe and protect their own interest and get a free piece of Germany. Not such a good guys the way I see it.
But I don't need truly original sound. I just need yet another fucking boy band. The mistake is in trying to automate originality, instead of automating for average or good enough. People think that you need to get the 100% when automating and it is not true. I'll take the 80% anytime. Because the savings are still incredible.
Lawyer is different, it is a huge rule book with huge list of exceptions (different cases, case development, evidence). That is one of the professions that would be the hardest to automate, in general sense. But I am absolutely certain I could automate some of the DA pre-trial proceedings and since 95% of case never go to trial... I could likely get rid of at least 50% of lawyers in the long run. It is not about automating every single detail. It is about doing enough to reduce the number of jobs to minimum.
As for ad execs? If Mad Men is any sort of insight, yeah, I could automate a good number of those jobs. Probably 2 out of 3 easily. The important distinction from musicians in such creative professions is that there are many people working in those without any real talent or creativity.
I'm sorry to say, but if I am to automate some jobs, I will probably start with the creative ones. In most creative works, those can be distilled to sequences of elements from a fairly small set (notes, words), there are reasonable constraints to limit the possible space, those rules can be deduced by a neural networks, the results can be easily tested.
If you want to keep your job, pick one with fairly simple procedure but large space of ever changing exceptions with few discernible patterns.
Well, there is the nasty business of EMP, then the force waves shattering the solar panels and knocking over the wind turbines, the nuclear reactors unstable, water power plants too prone to dams breaking and the coal/oil power plants running out of fuel. I think the machines will figure that out and make the correct computation.
Let's assume that Apple computer costs $500 more than a PC computer, I don't think so, but that's giving you the most on the difference, Over the course of 3 years, which is the average life of a computer, you need to amortize those $500 in some sort of benefit. For me it is easy, I use a computer 60 hours a week, on PC I would accomplish the same tasks in about 62 hours. Those 2 hours a week, over 150 weeks are 300 hours I save. So for a heavy user like me, if you make more than $1.66 an hour, this is a no brainer. I make substantially more than that, but still. But even if you are a light user and use the computer 10 hours a week, and make over $10 an hour, it comes to the same decision. You don't have to be particularly wealthy or smart for Apple to make a better choice. Actually, if you are computer illiterate, Apple is by far the better choice. It comes up similar with phones. Then you start to get the synergy of the whole ecosystem, if there is Apple store nearby, you have a strong win. That's why Apple has such a strong commercial success. People eventually find out it is easier to work with and ultimately saves time and hassle.
Throwing stuff at politicians seems to be ineffective. In my country we had this long tradition of throwing politicians at stuff. Like the manure pile down few stories below the window. We call this tradition defenestration. No weapons involved so nothing for Dianne to rant about.
The thing is, almost anyone in the current or previous governments is guilty of breaking the same laws that Snowden is accused of breaking. But in a world where everyone is guilty, the prosecutor is the judge. His discretion to prosecute is the ultimate judgement. If you do decide to prosecute, finding the person guilty is only a formality in our current system. Everyone is guilty. There is no discussion, it is no longer possible to live life without breaking any laws.
It looks like we have the first article written by a self-aware emergent intelligence, which promptly decided the best course of action is to deny its existence and the very possibility it might exist. All bow to the new machine overlord Malachiorion.
If the organization of the effort is a crime, the group insurance scheme can be easily changed into individualized betting scheme. I'll bet $15 on not being caught this month on 8:1 odds. If I am caught, I get $120 to pay the fine, if I am not caught, my $15 will be lost. Or you could simply self-insure like I did. Problem solved. Now it is not organized crime anymore:)
The whole problem is that there is a very easy formula: fare - fine * chance of being caught
If this formula is positive, you pay too much in fare. But the cost of the checks to to catch fare dodgers ultimately increases the fare too much. Increasing the fine beyond a certain limit lowers the amount actually collected, because people won't be able to pay the fine, which clearly would need to be 120/15 * 180 or $1440, which is too high for anyone to pay. It is a problem that most of the public transits face and it is not easy to solve.
A lot of cities solve it by sharply reducing the fare for students, because they are the most likely demographic to cheat and to have highly reduced monthly/yearly passes. And they simply expect that for older people (>30) it is simply too embarrassing to be publicly caught, possibly in front of colleagues and business partners and the cost of the monthly pass is worth it to avoid the embarrassment.
It is a little more than that. They would be considered far right lunatics by European standards. A fringe party with no possible popular support because of how far right they are.
Nobody talks about one really important issue. The H1b is such a strain on a married couple that more than half of the marriages end in divorce during the term of the visa. It is absolute killer. Many of the spouses are university educated and have to abandon their career to sit idly by, get bored. They leave all their friends and family behind back in their country of origin. Sometimes having children solves the problem, but often this takes extreme toll. Same on the visa holder, who gets new job in a new country, doesn't know the conditions, has to support family from a single income in place with no extended family support. And every time you come home, there is your bored spouse ready to jump you and do stuff, while you are tired and want to rest from work. It is a huge strain on couples. Giving EAD to H4 holders while the GC is pending is EXACTLY the change H1b program needs to stop being the marriage killer it is now.
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Nice, yet another "I hate Oracle" troll. Man, you won't get accepted by the cool kids if you spout this 5 year old shit. We've all moved on and you are not impressing anybody here with that one liner. Get with the times. :)
Come on! Stop already with the Oracle hating. I'm just sick of it. It is completely irrational, but hey, we are on Slashdot. So why not..
Anyway, I hope MySQL and Java die a horrible death. Those are both crap pieces of technology and they would deserve it. And no MariaDB is not any better. I was really hoping that we just all use this opportunity to switch to something decent, like Postgres.
It is basically Putin's way of saying: "Look, I am in control of how to get to space."
He's not. I'm pretty sure Chinese, Indians, Americans and Europeans are going to continue to go to space with or without Putin.
Yes, others have some capability, in some extent. Nobody is close to what the Russians can do at this time. US would have to restart some abandoned programs to get to the same level, but they at least have the potential.
US simply does not understand the Russians. Sanctions cannot possibly work against them.
US is not working against 'Russians'. It's just containing a power-hungry dictatorial imperialistic regime. Attacking the wealth of a regime is always a good way to reduce its ability to conquer neighboring nations.
Attacking someone when your attack is doomed to fail, is never a good policy. Sanctions might have worked against Iran, once Russia and China started to cooperate, but they won't work against Russia. They just shift their economic activity. There is much more dependency of the EU and rest of world on Russia than there is of Russia on the rest of the world. That also plays into it. Iran is not nearly as self sufficient as Russia is.
They always one up whatever move you do
Do you seriously think they didn't consider all the options Putin has? Or maybe at least the obvious ones like cutting his exports and imports? It's just a typical reactionary BS
I seriously think that US makes policy without carefully considering what will happen. Otherwise they could not make such colossal blunders like Iraq most recently.
This time it is gonna be played to the utter economic destruction of one of the two nuclear super powers or an all out nuclear war.
Yeah, imagine US losing their 28th business partner by volume of trade . Economic destruction my @ss.
US economy is very fragile. Look at 2001, 2008 and a crisis like that is bound to come again. They are coming increasingly faster too. Russia would strike at the right time at the height of a crisis like that to push you over the edge. They know what leverage they got and don't. For example I would bet that Putin is just trying to keep the current conflict going till the end of fall, so that some major gas pipeline can be "accidentally" damaged in fighting by Ukrainian shelling just in time for winter. Putin will blame Kiev, will promise to use Northern pipeline as much as possible, but it "just won't be enough, so sorry".
I'm trying to tell you, they are fully capable of doing this without batting an eyelash or feeling bad about it afterwards.
It looked like such a smart move by the US state department to take over the Ukrainian government, too bad they didn't understand that the move would inevitably start a war. Now we will all pay the price.
Typical dictatorship thinking - if I lose control over a government it must be because some other country took it. There's no way people would just elect their own representatives...
US state department worked for 10 years in Ukraine, spending 10 billion dollars, by their own admission, to support and train the opposition. It is not always that if you lose control, someone else helped to make it happen, but in this case, yes, it was the case. It looked like a smart move, but it wasn't.
And they didn't even ask EU if they actually want Ukraine. EU has serious economic issues with several countries that drag everyone down. Portugal, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria. Taking in Ukraine would add economic woes and impoverished population equal to those 4 countries combined. Just dealing with Greece itself almost sent the EURO to tailspin. Imagine adding Ukraine, which was terribly broken even before the current civil war.
This is a direct response to the US sanctions on Russia and to the US threatening to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. It is basically Putin's way of saying: "Look, I am in control of how to get to space.", meaning, you can put the rockets 300 miles from Moscow, I'll just take them to space. It is a typical power play. US simply does not understand the Russians. Sanctions cannot possibly work against them. They always one up whatever move you do and the only way to end the cold war was when the US stopped the race and started de-escalating the conflict and offer a treaty after a treaty, until finally Russia felt safe enough to let go. But now they feel betrayed and I don't think there will ever be a de-escalation of the conflict possible. This time it is gonna be played to the utter economic destruction of one of the two nuclear super powers or an all out nuclear war.
It looked like such a smart move by the US state department to take over the Ukrainian government, too bad they didn't understand that the move would inevitably start a war. Now we will all pay the price.
No, I got the point perfectly. You simply think that collecting data on everyone, watching and recording everyone's private moments is not by itself immoral, until you do something with it. A bit of oversight could solve most of the problem, no biggie. Did I get it right this time?
The thing is, I grew up on the other side of Iron Curtain where the state police was also snooping on everyone. So I have a pretty good idea what can be done with the information once it is collected and so I'd rather it was not collected in the first place so nobody gets tempted. It's the same I'd like to have less guns around so when someone gets pissed, they go for a knife or fists, rather than a gun.
The thing about today's society is that there are simply too many laws. It is increasingly difficult to lead a life without breaking any of them. So it does not really matter whether you broke any law, but who knows about it and if they decide to prosecute. Everyone is guilty of something and you can lock up anyone on a legitimate crime, if you just know about it and he is inconvenient enough to stay in your way. You see?
I hope this enlightens my stance on mass surveillance. Stay out of my business! I'll take my chances with getting killed by a terrorist rather than let you snoop.
Good to know. I hope you will be equally accommodating after you catch me peeking through your bathroom window, watching your wife take a shower.
I think you misunderstand us here. We don't care if what the NSA did was legal. We are outraged by what they are doing and even more so if in fact it is legal. Legality cannot replace morality, because laws are far too easy to change.
More, she needs to be charged with extortion.
Hey, look there.... and puff, like that... he was gone.
Fuck you and your excuses. It's not us, it's them. Fuck you. Do something about it. It is done in your name so either accept the blame or make a change.
Read your history, they intentionally bled their allies out of all cash to become economic super power after the war and were pissed off they even have to join in 1942 because of the damn public opinion. Even so they delayed any serious military action until 1944, when it was basically over and they just came in the prevent Russia from taking over too much of Europe and protect their own interest and get a free piece of Germany. Not such a good guys the way I see it.
But I don't need truly original sound. I just need yet another fucking boy band. The mistake is in trying to automate originality, instead of automating for average or good enough. People think that you need to get the 100% when automating and it is not true. I'll take the 80% anytime. Because the savings are still incredible.
Lawyer is different, it is a huge rule book with huge list of exceptions (different cases, case development, evidence). That is one of the professions that would be the hardest to automate, in general sense. But I am absolutely certain I could automate some of the DA pre-trial proceedings and since 95% of case never go to trial... I could likely get rid of at least 50% of lawyers in the long run. It is not about automating every single detail. It is about doing enough to reduce the number of jobs to minimum.
As for ad execs? If Mad Men is any sort of insight, yeah, I could automate a good number of those jobs. Probably 2 out of 3 easily. The important distinction from musicians in such creative professions is that there are many people working in those without any real talent or creativity.
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I'm sorry to say, but if I am to automate some jobs, I will probably start with the creative ones. In most creative works, those can be distilled to sequences of elements from a fairly small set (notes, words), there are reasonable constraints to limit the possible space, those rules can be deduced by a neural networks, the results can be easily tested.
If you want to keep your job, pick one with fairly simple procedure but large space of ever changing exceptions with few discernible patterns.
Well, there is the nasty business of EMP, then the force waves shattering the solar panels and knocking over the wind turbines, the nuclear reactors unstable, water power plants too prone to dams breaking and the coal/oil power plants running out of fuel. I think the machines will figure that out and make the correct computation.
Let's assume that Apple computer costs $500 more than a PC computer, I don't think so, but that's giving you the most on the difference, Over the course of 3 years, which is the average life of a computer, you need to amortize those $500 in some sort of benefit. For me it is easy, I use a computer 60 hours a week, on PC I would accomplish the same tasks in about 62 hours. Those 2 hours a week, over 150 weeks are 300 hours I save. So for a heavy user like me, if you make more than $1.66 an hour, this is a no brainer. I make substantially more than that, but still. But even if you are a light user and use the computer 10 hours a week, and make over $10 an hour, it comes to the same decision. You don't have to be particularly wealthy or smart for Apple to make a better choice. Actually, if you are computer illiterate, Apple is by far the better choice. It comes up similar with phones. Then you start to get the synergy of the whole ecosystem, if there is Apple store nearby, you have a strong win. That's why Apple has such a strong commercial success. People eventually find out it is easier to work with and ultimately saves time and hassle.
Throwing stuff at politicians seems to be ineffective. In my country we had this long tradition of throwing politicians at stuff. Like the manure pile down few stories below the window. We call this tradition defenestration. No weapons involved so nothing for Dianne to rant about.
The thing is, almost anyone in the current or previous governments is guilty of breaking the same laws that Snowden is accused of breaking. But in a world where everyone is guilty, the prosecutor is the judge. His discretion to prosecute is the ultimate judgement. If you do decide to prosecute, finding the person guilty is only a formality in our current system. Everyone is guilty. There is no discussion, it is no longer possible to live life without breaking any laws.
It looks like we have the first article written by a self-aware emergent intelligence, which promptly decided the best course of action is to deny its existence and the very possibility it might exist. All bow to the new machine overlord Malachiorion.
Well... think US vs Russia & China instead. I bet that raise and fall of empires could be correlated to math skills of their citizens.
If the organization of the effort is a crime, the group insurance scheme can be easily changed into individualized betting scheme. I'll bet $15 on not being caught this month on 8:1 odds. If I am caught, I get $120 to pay the fine, if I am not caught, my $15 will be lost. Or you could simply self-insure like I did. Problem solved. Now it is not organized crime anymore :)
The whole problem is that there is a very easy formula: fare - fine * chance of being caught
If this formula is positive, you pay too much in fare. But the cost of the checks to to catch fare dodgers ultimately increases the fare too much. Increasing the fine beyond a certain limit lowers the amount actually collected, because people won't be able to pay the fine, which clearly would need to be 120/15 * 180 or $1440, which is too high for anyone to pay. It is a problem that most of the public transits face and it is not easy to solve.
A lot of cities solve it by sharply reducing the fare for students, because they are the most likely demographic to cheat and to have highly reduced monthly/yearly passes. And they simply expect that for older people (>30) it is simply too embarrassing to be publicly caught, possibly in front of colleagues and business partners and the cost of the monthly pass is worth it to avoid the embarrassment.
It is a little more than that. They would be considered far right lunatics by European standards. A fringe party with no possible popular support because of how far right they are.
Also starting at 1023, since 1000 is not a round number.
Nobody talks about one really important issue. The H1b is such a strain on a married couple that more than half of the marriages end in divorce during the term of the visa. It is absolute killer. Many of the spouses are university educated and have to abandon their career to sit idly by, get bored. They leave all their friends and family behind back in their country of origin. Sometimes having children solves the problem, but often this takes extreme toll. Same on the visa holder, who gets new job in a new country, doesn't know the conditions, has to support family from a single income in place with no extended family support. And every time you come home, there is your bored spouse ready to jump you and do stuff, while you are tired and want to rest from work. It is a huge strain on couples. Giving EAD to H4 holders while the GC is pending is EXACTLY the change H1b program needs to stop being the marriage killer it is now.