That depends on how much "success" the majority would like to achieve. To be successful as a species, they only need to stay alive long enough to reproduce and have their offspring survive long enough to reproduce. If that's full extent of success that the majority wants, then yes, it could still be achieved in a horrid hellscape of murder and mayhem.
On the other hand, if the majority wants to live in a world of cooperation and mutual benefits then that takes a lot more than just surviving. The majority will eventually realize that giving in to the dark side of human nature, the theft, fraud, violence, murder, etc., holds back society. No need for a god or religion for a society to come to that realization. It's just logical.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., a lead sponsor, has said, the bill would "help the private sector defend itself from advanced cyber threats."
If that's really all the bill does, why is it needed? Why would intertube experts in "cybersecurity" need help from the morons in Congress to do their job?
Really? How about a hacker selling malware to the highest bidder that could be used to assassinate someone with a medical implant, or while they are recovering in the hospital after surgery? That's just two I can think of off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more.
Exactly this. It will be interesting to see how the "ship the beta, we'll fix it later with patches" style of development holds up in any renewed interest in space travel. So far it's not looking good.
My point being that is is not "pointless fear-mongering." Age discrimination in software engineering is a fact. Although I believe it has less to do specifically with age or experience and more to do with the general race-to-the-bottom in all businesses; cutting corners, outsourcing, robbing people of pensions they paid for, phasing out medical coverage, dumping older employees to save on payroll and insurance, etc.
Say what? I started programming in the mid '70's. There were already "software engineers" and "computer scientists" back then. Computers were around long before "personal computers" and needed programming.
The only way I get work as a programmer now is as an consultant. It is not because I haven't kept up with tech, languages and tools. Around 10 years old head hunters started telling me it would be easier to find work for for me if I rewrote my resume to hide my true age and years of experience.
The majority of my clients are through referrals, they've never seen me in person and have no idea how old I am.
True. But if a manufacturer is given the choice of adding more storage at increased cost, or using the minimum amount of storage required so they can keep their profit margins as high as possible, they will choose the later. A small amount of NVRAM is going to be a lot cheaper than a big SSD.
I was wondering how much data is saved before it is overwritten with new data, and found this in the text of the bill...
The EDR is designed to record data related to vehicle dynamics and safety systems for a short period of time, typically 30 seconds or less.
Thirty seconds would make this completely useless as evidence for a speeding stop or red light stop, etc. Just make sure you are driving under the speed limit for at least 30 seconds before coming to a stop and you've wiped out any evidence.
I had completely forgotten about this company, but they had a 3D chat program back in the mid-90's called Worlds Chat. It had some innovative features like proximity filtering of messages. There was another program that came out a little later that allowed you to claim land and build structures on it, even allowing you to upload surface map image files for custom structures. It had proximity filtering of structure and map detail downloading. But it was horribly slow on dial-up and the average cpus of the time.
IANAL, but IMHO they could very well have a valid claim.
Any OS that can be pwned by an exploit in *any* software running in user mode is insecure. Sorry, but those are the facts.
The reason for using an exploit in MS-Office is because is one of the most commonly used software products on Macs since its very beginning. So developing an exploit that uses a commonly used software means a better chance of spreading it.
Ah! Read the article on Nature.... That's exactly what they are doing. They are trying to get atomic resolution images at 30KeV, which is pretty amazing. Back when I worked on TEMs, you needed a minimum of 400KeV to get a decent atomic resolution image.
I was a field service engineer in the 1980's for an electron microscope company. I read TFA and I have no idea what the hell they are talking about. After an installation of a sufficiently high voltage TEM I used to take atomic resolution images to prove the thing was working. And diffraction imaging is extremely common.
The only thing I can think of that this might improve is TEM imaging at low voltages. As the accelerator voltage of the electron beam decreases, the field strength of the electromagnetic lenses needs to be decreased to bring everything into alignment and focus. Because of that, noise has a greater effect on the system which effectively reduces resolution.
If this process involves any physical movement or integration of multiple images over time, it will never produce an atomic resolution image.
Cell phone companies are phasing out simple cell phone. As the old ones break down and get replaced, the percentage of smart phone owners will go up. Cell phones companies want it this way because they get a much greater profit margin off of smart phones.
Don't forget the cost of living and standard of living in that calculation. The other big change that started happening around the late 70's/early 80's is dual income families started becoming the norm. When that happened all prices adjusted to put everyone back at the same level (or worse) of purchasing power as when single income families were the norm. In the 50's and 60's it was common for a single income family to be able to buy a house and raise some kids. Now that's a privileged held for the top 1%. But hey, at least we have iPods so it was all worth it right?:-D
Even as the pay scale of remaining US staff has been flat since 2000
It has been essentially flat (adjusted for inflation) since the 1980's, which is also when the outsourcing trend got started. I'm ashamed to say I was there, and part of it. Seemed awesome at the time to have less than 100 engineers, sales, and support people running factories in Asia with thousands of employees. The electronics manufacturing industry created today's outsourcing model back then. As other industries began to copy it, the electronics industry started moving the outsourcing higher and higher up the food chain.
Someone needs to start an Outsource-Your-CEO business model. That might get some attention.:-)
and like all other government regulations aimed at destruction of competitiveness, you will only achieve the opposite of your goal - more jobs will leave US for other locations.
Yeah, because that's the way it was before globalization became the economic policy de jure. Oh wait. No, that's when the US had a strong labor market, a higher standard of living, lower unemployment, and less severe economic recessions.
Having actually read the text at the links in the post (astonishing, isn't it?), it sounds to me like this is all done automatically with no human review.
The posts in the YouTube forum refer to copyright owners submitting Content IDs to YouTube. Apparently Google does some sort of audio and video analysis on all uploaded content to look for CID matches. An automated notice is then sent to the entity that submitted the CID. That entity is then supposed to have a human review the video to see if the analysis got it right. If the entity confirms to Google that they own all or part of the content, then ads are added to the video, with proceeds going to Google and the content owner. If the uploader of the video disputes the claim, the ads are stopped until the dispute is resolved.
One poster claims that Rumblefish automatically confirms a copyright violation with no human review. It seems to me that the YouTube/Google end of the system is working well enough. The point of failure is Rumblefish.
I can not remember a single earthquake in California, whether it killed people or not, that was predicted by California seismologists. Maybe after the next big quake in CA we can have some Italian scientists testify against the California scientists!
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How is this any different than the "fuzzy logic" concept that rears it's ugly head every 10 years or so?
"Idiots" buy triple A rated investment instruments, find out too late they were lied to, world economy crashes.
That depends on how much "success" the majority would like to achieve. To be successful as a species, they only need to stay alive long enough to reproduce and have their offspring survive long enough to reproduce. If that's full extent of success that the majority wants, then yes, it could still be achieved in a horrid hellscape of murder and mayhem.
On the other hand, if the majority wants to live in a world of cooperation and mutual benefits then that takes a lot more than just surviving. The majority will eventually realize that giving in to the dark side of human nature, the theft, fraud, violence, murder, etc., holds back society. No need for a god or religion for a society to come to that realization. It's just logical.
From TFA...
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., a lead sponsor, has said, the bill would "help the private sector defend itself from advanced cyber threats."
If that's really all the bill does, why is it needed? Why would intertube experts in "cybersecurity" need help from the morons in Congress to do their job?
Really? How about a hacker selling malware to the highest bidder that could be used to assassinate someone with a medical implant, or while they are recovering in the hospital after surgery? That's just two I can think of off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more.
Exactly this. It will be interesting to see how the "ship the beta, we'll fix it later with patches" style of development holds up in any renewed interest in space travel. So far it's not looking good.
My point being that is is not "pointless fear-mongering." Age discrimination in software engineering is a fact. Although I believe it has less to do specifically with age or experience and more to do with the general race-to-the-bottom in all businesses; cutting corners, outsourcing, robbing people of pensions they paid for, phasing out medical coverage, dumping older employees to save on payroll and insurance, etc.
Say what? I started programming in the mid '70's. There were already "software engineers" and "computer scientists" back then. Computers were around long before "personal computers" and needed programming.
The only way I get work as a programmer now is as an consultant. It is not because I haven't kept up with tech, languages and tools. Around 10 years old head hunters started telling me it would be easier to find work for for me if I rewrote my resume to hide my true age and years of experience.
The majority of my clients are through referrals, they've never seen me in person and have no idea how old I am.
True. But if a manufacturer is given the choice of adding more storage at increased cost, or using the minimum amount of storage required so they can keep their profit margins as high as possible, they will choose the later. A small amount of NVRAM is going to be a lot cheaper than a big SSD.
Anyone remember this article that was posted a not insignificant period of time ago?
Smart meters reveal what you're watching
I was wondering how much data is saved before it is overwritten with new data, and found this in the text of the bill...
The EDR is designed to record data related to vehicle dynamics and safety systems for a short period of time, typically 30 seconds or less.
Thirty seconds would make this completely useless as evidence for a speeding stop or red light stop, etc. Just make sure you are driving under the speed limit for at least 30 seconds before coming to a stop and you've wiped out any evidence.
I had completely forgotten about this company, but they had a 3D chat program back in the mid-90's called Worlds Chat. It had some innovative features like proximity filtering of messages. There was another program that came out a little later that allowed you to claim land and build structures on it, even allowing you to upload surface map image files for custom structures. It had proximity filtering of structure and map detail downloading. But it was horribly slow on dial-up and the average cpus of the time.
IANAL, but IMHO they could very well have a valid claim.
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Any OS that can be pwned by an exploit in *any* software running in user mode is insecure. Sorry, but those are the facts.
The reason for using an exploit in MS-Office is because is one of the most commonly used software products on Macs since its very beginning. So developing an exploit that uses a commonly used software means a better chance of spreading it.
Facebook files lawsuit against UC system for use a timelines!
They are just wasting it anyway!
Ah! Read the article on Nature.... That's exactly what they are doing. They are trying to get atomic resolution images at 30KeV, which is pretty amazing. Back when I worked on TEMs, you needed a minimum of 400KeV to get a decent atomic resolution image.
I was a field service engineer in the 1980's for an electron microscope company. I read TFA and I have no idea what the hell they are talking about. After an installation of a sufficiently high voltage TEM I used to take atomic resolution images to prove the thing was working. And diffraction imaging is extremely common. The only thing I can think of that this might improve is TEM imaging at low voltages. As the accelerator voltage of the electron beam decreases, the field strength of the electromagnetic lenses needs to be decreased to bring everything into alignment and focus. Because of that, noise has a greater effect on the system which effectively reduces resolution. If this process involves any physical movement or integration of multiple images over time, it will never produce an atomic resolution image.
Cell phone companies are phasing out simple cell phone. As the old ones break down and get replaced, the percentage of smart phone owners will go up. Cell phones companies want it this way because they get a much greater profit margin off of smart phones.
Don't forget the cost of living and standard of living in that calculation. The other big change that started happening around the late 70's/early 80's is dual income families started becoming the norm. When that happened all prices adjusted to put everyone back at the same level (or worse) of purchasing power as when single income families were the norm. In the 50's and 60's it was common for a single income family to be able to buy a house and raise some kids. Now that's a privileged held for the top 1%. But hey, at least we have iPods so it was all worth it right? :-D
Even as the pay scale of remaining US staff has been flat since 2000
It has been essentially flat (adjusted for inflation) since the 1980's, which is also when the outsourcing trend got started. I'm ashamed to say I was there, and part of it. Seemed awesome at the time to have less than 100 engineers, sales, and support people running factories in Asia with thousands of employees. The electronics manufacturing industry created today's outsourcing model back then. As other industries began to copy it, the electronics industry started moving the outsourcing higher and higher up the food chain.
Someone needs to start an Outsource-Your-CEO business model. That might get some attention. :-)
and like all other government regulations aimed at destruction of competitiveness, you will only achieve the opposite of your goal - more jobs will leave US for other locations.
Yeah, because that's the way it was before globalization became the economic policy de jure. Oh wait. No, that's when the US had a strong labor market, a higher standard of living, lower unemployment, and less severe economic recessions.
Having actually read the text at the links in the post (astonishing, isn't it?), it sounds to me like this is all done automatically with no human review.
The posts in the YouTube forum refer to copyright owners submitting Content IDs to YouTube. Apparently Google does some sort of audio and video analysis on all uploaded content to look for CID matches. An automated notice is then sent to the entity that submitted the CID. That entity is then supposed to have a human review the video to see if the analysis got it right. If the entity confirms to Google that they own all or part of the content, then ads are added to the video, with proceeds going to Google and the content owner. If the uploader of the video disputes the claim, the ads are stopped until the dispute is resolved.
One poster claims that Rumblefish automatically confirms a copyright violation with no human review. It seems to me that the YouTube/Google end of the system is working well enough. The point of failure is Rumblefish.
I can not remember a single earthquake in California, whether it killed people or not, that was predicted by California seismologists. Maybe after the next big quake in CA we can have some Italian scientists testify against the California scientists!
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