The FBI and local cops are flying supercameras over the country as we speak in heliocopters, planes, and drones. Eyes in the sky that see the entire city/countryside and can digitally zoom in retroactively. You are being hovered over and caught on video on your property all the damned time. Best those who worry about such things put burkhas on their teenaged daughters, 'cause it is way too late to worry about someone seeing their pink carcasses.
You are aware that your projectiles don't go into orbit? Those come down at the same speed, about, that you imparted when you shot at the socialist ISIS pedo spy drone - and if you missed. Firing into the sky is the same as firing randomly into a crowd. I doubt very much you can discharge firearms into the air legally. You may find that out the day you shoot a baby in a crib. It happens all the time in Chicago, though we tend to consider firing guns on our property illegal. Hell, the Mythbusters Team 2 fired a cannonball into an earthen embankment. Tried to -- the iron ball flew screaming out into the surrounding neighborhood and stopped in someone's house, as I recall. I'm as leave-me-alone as one can get, and even I don't think I can just fire a weapon into the air, Annie Oakley or not. You can *miss*.
Don't computerize the simple mechanical parts of a car. Just DON'T. You're collective playlists aren't worth the inevitable police and attacker control and surveillance of our cars.
No, you and you, you can't outsmart them. You can't be God King of Koding and Do It Right. There is always a way, if you permit freaking Turning machines to control your vehicle, for someone to take control.
A machine, a successful, elegant device that occupies the lowest possible fail state, is one that has as few moving parts as possible. Any turing box, by which I mean a programmable computer, that connects in is a complete failure of design if it is not utterly necessary. Brakes, steering, locks. and acceleration have been mechanical systems for over a century and a half. No need to interface hundreds of computers, sensors, and telematic holes into something that already WORKS.
"Pirating" meaning "watching TV". Or recording it.
We used to call it a VCR. We could record anything we wanted. And we weren't "pirates", a term that used to mean SELLING copyrighted content, usually in physical form. Which is still done at dealer tables in conventions all over the US, and no one is trying to take those people to prison.
I could repeat my points of the last, oh, sixteen years warning of definition drift and the removal of the right to record something happening on a screen in front of you. But, the liars won and now watching and recording TV is illegal unless the "owners" control your TV and, well, everything else connected to it. Encrypted BIOSes, HDCP, all the crap that has taken over what once was just watching TV and turned it into a worldwide ubercrime, a Prohibition III nightmare that is never going to end.
It was tried for a while, the 0 dollar wage. It was called slavery, and it DID work. The plantation owners were the wealthiest humans to ever walk the planet. Still might have been, adjusted for inflation. A great success. Those owners would have bought the world up with their wealth, bit by bit, had slavery not been sort-of stopped. Of course, normal non-slave humans were competing against free labor, and so barely got by, with lousy schools and dirt roads and abysmal ignorance that lasts to this day. We paid a lot for that free labor, didn't we? A truly "free" market - once side got their goods for free.
People were paid 18/hour in 1966 to work like a dog at McDonald's (you've never worked a restaurant chain job, I see). And the corporation grew into fantastically profitable giant. Seemed to work.
And people who get paid minimum wage don't get forty hour work weeks. They usually are capped at 18-29 hours, to avoid full-time employee status. And the work hours are jangled weekly so they can't get second jobs. Fun!
You're not everyone. And you've no imagination when it comes to life's little snafus. I take it life has treated you well. You've never really been too ill, or blacklisted, or locked into a bad situation because of family issues, or been unable to find employment because of past accusations or convictions, or had a nervous breakdown, or been hit by a car and been unable to function, or been employed in an industry that was gutted for profits.
And no, you've not seen the minimum wage jacked over the years. It was down to 40% of its original value even after all the "jacks", until finally someone performed arithmetic and found it started life at $18 an hour.
Worth, to whom? People who work 7 buck an hour burn a hell more calories than you do, probably. Your version of their worth has a lot with your perception of yourself. Who gets what is a rigged game.
Even with a poverty minimum wage, corporations were getting workers for no pay whatsoever - interns - with the promise that if they slave now, someone would smile on them someday and hire them. This is what happens when there are no real laws. After a time, people will be paying businesses to hire them for nothing - logical, same reason. And it is happening overseas - H1B and other workers are paying for the priviledge of not being paid much, or at all, when they bribe recruiting companies.
Your words are marked. It may be possible, but only if other states don't raise the MW. But they will. So, when all is done and you are wrong, will you admit it?
Said cramming is illegal in most American cities, even in private homes. They like to have it both ways - a reliable pool of impoverished people, and no impoverished people living anywhere in their town.
Austerity failed. Give up. And there is no inflation anywhere that didn't adopt the notion. The minimum wage was about 18/hour in 1966, and the republic did not fall. Some inflation took off later, but that was Vietnam and OPEC which blew our heads off. It is possible to pay a decent wage and survive as a business - if you don't demand infinitely growing profits. Inflation and profit slowing is the bugaboo of the wealthy, not the giant group of the people known as the nation. Germany kept its decent paying jobs, and is one of the powerhouses of the planet. They didn't worship corporate profit increases over all else. Balance is the key.
Or, McDonalds could make a bit less profit. Profits are not guaranteed. They could clear three billion rather than four billion a year, and do just fine. On the other hand, the free market would explode as people could *buy* things again. If they can't understand the concept of limiting their profits, we can tax them until they get the message.
Slashdot is news about Stuff that Matters. If you want pure tech, go to the tech section. The minimum wage matters to all of us; poverty drags everyone down. The minimum wage, adjusted for inflation since it was instituted in 1966, would be around $18 an hour. We've been intentionally pretending we don't understand math for fifty years as people fell back into poverty.
Other malfunctions have happened in other plane systems, one resulting in the plane shaking the passengers around like dice. All three computers received the same input and made the same mistake. The question is: can we understand that we've overcomplexified systems to the point that they are too unstable to use? We made the same mistake with cars and roadways in the past century once; we kept doubling down on the system's complexity as the carnage mounted, and to this day, we think the answer is better cars rather than toss the original solution out and make something simpler. We're addicted to complexity. MAkes more money, for one thing.
Airbus created the first commercial craft that were completely computer controlled. QED: they go boom often, and we hear about them often. It's not the brand, it's the belief that computers are the best and only solution in every system case, voting machines to cars to pacemakers to trucks to planes. Those systems will fail spectacularly because the paradigm is to treat them like PCs, updated frequently to fix endless streams of errors, when they should have been working correctly in the first and only place. Computers are "infinite" machines - they can be operated in an infinite number of ways, and that is really bad news when you are trying to control a simple and finite process. We are over-complexifying systems because we can. Every nail gets the same hammer. Bad engineering and it will fail.The question is whether the computer-addicted generation will be able to understand what the problem is.
Hyper-complex software, sensor arrays, and mechanical systems will fail. They will always fail; humans cannot anticipate all errors, all possible combinations of factors that can cause death and destruction. Humans can't build autonomous complex systems (no, really, they can't. We've barely started making such things) that can't fail. In this case, can't say that a human pilot or a mechanical backup would have made a dfference, but as the world goes forward, gleefully firing truck drivers and converting cars into remote-controllable computer complexes, such things will be so commonplace as not to be worth reporting. Which will feed back our certainty that all is well. It isn't.
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The FBI and local cops are flying supercameras over the country as we speak in heliocopters, planes, and drones. Eyes in the sky that see the entire city/countryside and can digitally zoom in retroactively. You are being hovered over and caught on video on your property all the damned time. Best those who worry about such things put burkhas on their teenaged daughters, 'cause it is way too late to worry about someone seeing their pink carcasses.
You are aware that your projectiles don't go into orbit? Those come down at the same speed, about, that you imparted when you shot at the socialist ISIS pedo spy drone - and if you missed. Firing into the sky is the same as firing randomly into a crowd. I doubt very much you can discharge firearms into the air legally. You may find that out the day you shoot a baby in a crib. It happens all the time in Chicago, though we tend to consider firing guns on our property illegal. Hell, the Mythbusters Team 2 fired a cannonball into an earthen embankment. Tried to -- the iron ball flew screaming out into the surrounding neighborhood and stopped in someone's house, as I recall. I'm as leave-me-alone as one can get, and even I don't think I can just fire a weapon into the air, Annie Oakley or not. You can *miss*.
Don't computerize the simple mechanical parts of a car. Just DON'T. You're collective playlists aren't worth the inevitable police and attacker control and surveillance of our cars.
No, you and you, you can't outsmart them. You can't be God King of Koding and Do It Right. There is always a way, if you permit freaking Turning machines to control your vehicle, for someone to take control.
A machine, a successful, elegant device that occupies the lowest possible fail state, is one that has as few moving parts as possible. Any turing box, by which I mean a programmable computer, that connects in is a complete failure of design if it is not utterly necessary. Brakes, steering, locks. and acceleration have been mechanical systems for over a century and a half. No need to interface hundreds of computers, sensors, and telematic holes into something that already WORKS.
"Pirating" meaning "watching TV". Or recording it.
We used to call it a VCR. We could record anything we wanted. And we weren't "pirates", a term that used to mean SELLING copyrighted content, usually in physical form. Which is still done at dealer tables in conventions all over the US, and no one is trying to take those people to prison.
I could repeat my points of the last, oh, sixteen years warning of definition drift and the removal of the right to record something happening on a screen in front of you. But, the liars won and now watching and recording TV is illegal unless the "owners" control your TV and, well, everything else connected to it. Encrypted BIOSes, HDCP, all the crap that has taken over what once was just watching TV and turned it into a worldwide ubercrime, a Prohibition III nightmare that is never going to end.
Rich people are richer because they, overwhelmingly, inherited capital from their parents.
It was tried for a while, the 0 dollar wage. It was called slavery, and it DID work. The plantation owners were the wealthiest humans to ever walk the planet. Still might have been, adjusted for inflation. A great success. Those owners would have bought the world up with their wealth, bit by bit, had slavery not been sort-of stopped. Of course, normal non-slave humans were competing against free labor, and so barely got by, with lousy schools and dirt roads and abysmal ignorance that lasts to this day. We paid a lot for that free labor, didn't we? A truly "free" market - once side got their goods for free.
And that is only if they weren't forced to take it out of the their net profits, instead of the customers' pockets. They've made a KILLING in profits.
People were paid 18/hour in 1966 to work like a dog at McDonald's (you've never worked a restaurant chain job, I see). And the corporation grew into fantastically profitable giant. Seemed to work.
And people who get paid minimum wage don't get forty hour work weeks. They usually are capped at 18-29 hours, to avoid full-time employee status. And the work hours are jangled weekly so they can't get second jobs. Fun!
You're not everyone. And you've no imagination when it comes to life's little snafus. I take it life has treated you well. You've never really been too ill, or blacklisted, or locked into a bad situation because of family issues, or been unable to find employment because of past accusations or convictions, or had a nervous breakdown, or been hit by a car and been unable to function, or been employed in an industry that was gutted for profits.
And no, you've not seen the minimum wage jacked over the years. It was down to 40% of its original value even after all the "jacks", until finally someone performed arithmetic and found it started life at $18 an hour.
Worth, to whom? People who work 7 buck an hour burn a hell more calories than you do, probably. Your version of their worth has a lot with your perception of yourself. Who gets what is a rigged game.
Perhaps they would be happier being employees, then. I await their conversion to the wage earner world. I will be waiting a long, long time, won't I?
Even with a poverty minimum wage, corporations were getting workers for no pay whatsoever - interns - with the promise that if they slave now, someone would smile on them someday and hire them. This is what happens when there are no real laws. After a time, people will be paying businesses to hire them for nothing - logical, same reason. And it is happening overseas - H1B and other workers are paying for the priviledge of not being paid much, or at all, when they bribe recruiting companies.
Your words are marked. It may be possible, but only if other states don't raise the MW. But they will. So, when all is done and you are wrong, will you admit it?
Said cramming is illegal in most American cities, even in private homes. They like to have it both ways - a reliable pool of impoverished people, and no impoverished people living anywhere in their town.
don't you people ever get tired of being wrong?
Austerity failed. Give up. And there is no inflation anywhere that didn't adopt the notion.
The minimum wage was about 18/hour in 1966, and the republic did not fall. Some inflation took off later, but that was Vietnam and OPEC which blew our heads off.
It is possible to pay a decent wage and survive as a business - if you don't demand infinitely growing profits. Inflation and profit slowing is the bugaboo of the wealthy, not the giant group of the people known as the nation. Germany kept its decent paying jobs, and is one of the powerhouses of the planet. They didn't worship corporate profit increases over all else. Balance is the key.
in 1966, the minimum wage was about 18 an hour, adjusted for inflation. The world did not end. Actually, we were doing pretty damned well.
Rich people get treated better, news at 10.
Or, McDonalds could make a bit less profit. Profits are not guaranteed. They could clear three billion rather than four billion a year, and do just fine. On the other hand, the free market would explode as people could *buy* things again. If they can't understand the concept of limiting their profits, we can tax them until they get the message.
Slashdot is news about Stuff that Matters. If you want pure tech, go to the tech section. The minimum wage matters to all of us; poverty drags everyone down. The minimum wage, adjusted for inflation since it was instituted in 1966, would be around $18 an hour. We've been intentionally pretending we don't understand math for fifty years as people fell back into poverty.
Dead is dead.
Too many points of failure. Too complex a system.
Other malfunctions have happened in other plane systems, one resulting in the plane shaking the passengers around like dice. All three computers received the same input and made the same mistake. The question is: can we understand that we've overcomplexified systems to the point that they are too unstable to use? We made the same mistake with cars and roadways in the past century once; we kept doubling down on the system's complexity as the carnage mounted, and to this day, we think the answer is better cars rather than toss the original solution out and make something simpler. We're addicted to complexity. MAkes more money, for one thing.
Airbus created the first commercial craft that were completely computer controlled. QED: they go boom often, and we hear about them often. It's not the brand, it's the belief that computers are the best and only solution in every system case, voting machines to cars to pacemakers to trucks to planes. Those systems will fail spectacularly because the paradigm is to treat them like PCs, updated frequently to fix endless streams of errors, when they should have been working correctly in the first and only place. Computers are "infinite" machines - they can be operated in an infinite number of ways, and that is really bad news when you are trying to control a simple and finite process. We are over-complexifying systems because we can. Every nail gets the same hammer. Bad engineering and it will fail.The question is whether the computer-addicted generation will be able to understand what the problem is.
An anecdote can be defined as "evidence we don't want to hear about."
Hyper-complex software, sensor arrays, and mechanical systems will fail. They will always fail; humans cannot anticipate all errors, all possible combinations of factors that can cause death and destruction. Humans can't build autonomous complex systems (no, really, they can't. We've barely started making such things) that can't fail. In this case, can't say that a human pilot or a mechanical backup would have made a dfference, but as the world goes forward, gleefully firing truck drivers and converting cars into remote-controllable computer complexes, such things will be so commonplace as not to be worth reporting. Which will feed back our certainty that all is well. It isn't.