Yes, with the UK leaving the EU Common Market, this could be misleading. For instance, a UK company that currently sells dishwashers in the EU might be called:
dishwashers.eu
However, after the Brexit, and before a trade deal is agreed on (which will take forever), the UK company will only be selling dishwashers in the UK. So it would make more sense for them to call themselves:
dishwashers.co.uk
They can get.uk
"Let them eat UK!" -- Marie Antoinette
"England is a nation of shopkeepers! They taste awful!" -- Napolean
Yeah, but we'll kick your hairy ass in Waterloo!" -- English Shopkeepers
There's plenty of love to go around in Europe . . .
The real title should be "Apple Trains Beauhd To Put Apple Propaganda in More Slashdot Stories"
Actually . . . if you just slightly scratch the surface of this story, you'll see that it's not about teaching programming.
It's about teaching how to use Swift . . . a "programming" language that is a proprietary technology that belongs to Apple.
A programming course would have used something open and simple . . . like Python. Apple just wants to push Swift in this move.
Using a language owned by one vendor . . . kinda sorta puts you at the mercy of that vendor. Apple could easily, willy-nilly declare, "The Swift Programming Language cannot be used by Left-Handed Programmers!"
Just to be fair . . . I feel the same way about the "Go" language.
If there is one thing that we should have learned in the last 30 years, is that open languages, like C, Java and Python are very successful, because they run everywhere, which causes everyone to write in it, which causes libraries to written for whatever you need to do.
Proprietary languages never have a chance of achieving that.
Can you retrain thousands of older, high school educated factory workers to become coders, creative types, etc.?
Retraining is not the answer. Despite what a lot of folks would like to believe, you can't educate someone beyond their intelligence.
Retraining is not the answer.
We need to grow exports! Now let me explain in detail . . .
The IT industry cannot find enough workers with IT skills, so we are forced to import them as H1-Bs from places like India and China. This leads to a human trade imbalance.
So the answer is right in front of us: Instead of uselessly trying to retrain folks . . . we need to export them! Preferably, to those countries who sent us the H1-Bs!
A planet named Golgafrincham already successfully used this idea, and rid itself of hairdressers and telephone sanitizers, whose jobs had been replaced by AI and Automation.
Now . . . could someone please invent so AI Automation that can load, run and unload my dishwasher . . . ? Sometimes I just can't handle that task.
Even better . . . I would like to be able to put the entire contents of my apartment in the dishwasher: sofa, television and myself.
I'm very sorry, but Slashdot will soon be putting its new AI Automation pages online.
In the future, the "First Post! / First Comment!" messages will be generated automatically, so there will be no need for folks to feel that they need to do it.
There are plenty of re-training options available for you . . .
You see a lot of intense hero worship with Jobs and Musk. Little to none with Gates and Zuckerberg.
. . . and, yet, Zuckerberg was (still is?) eyeing the Democratic Nomination to go up against Trump. So maybe Zuckerberg just mistakenly believes that people worship him like a hero. And just maybe he has surrounded himself with Group Think "yes"-folks to support that illusion.
. . . or . . . fresh off the wacky conspiracy presses . . . the whole Facebook downfall was orchestrated by Oprah! She needed to take Zuckerberg off the field, to leave, um, "room" for herself.
. . . and then . . . the wackiest conspiracy postulates that Zuckerberg wanted Trump to win. He was hoping that some bad Trump years would guarantee a Democratic victory in the next presidential election, no matter who the Democrats field as a candidate . . .
All the tech companies that have one of these hot mics have a business model that can support it... except Facebook.
Remember, folks, a foreign device in your home DOES NOT need a hot mic to spy one you. It doesn't even need power to spy on you. There are plenty of passive listening devices that can be remotely activated, pioneered by this one:
Well, becoming a hermit helps a bit . . . but it doesn't prevent Facebook from compiling a thick dossier about you.
If two of your friends happen to use WhatsApp, and talk about you on it, Facebook now has that information and can now sell it.
Facebook is like the old East German secret police, the Stasi. About 10% of the East German citizens were working as "informal employees", in other words, "informants".
Facebook and WhatsApp users are today's "informal employees". Every time they use Facebook and WhatsApp . . . they are collecting information for the Stasi . . . Facebook.
If Facebook and WhatsApp users don't mind giving away their information . . . well, that's their decision.
What they don't realize, is that they are giving away potentially damaging information about others, as well.
It's getting awfully crowded.
Oh, well, maybe some venture capitalist will realize our potential, and start a social web site for hermits . . .
If a student uses it, how easy is this thing to lose?
. . . or get stolen.
Apple is going the printer cartridge and razor blade route on this one. They won't make any money on the pads, but will make a killing selling the replacement pencils . . . which seem to go M.I.A. regularly.
Gee, that's exactly what folks say about the "Easter Island" eyeless head statues, as well.
I'm thinking that Musk is going to follow that model, and produce a bunch of big stone Musk heads, modeled after himself. These will be placed all over the world, in the places that you would least expect a giant eyeless Musk head.
What will be the true business purpose of the Musk heads . . . ?
Only Musk will know, for sure . . . and he is not twitting about it!
which presumably he was there for, and trained to do,
. . . or he was some poor guy, so desperate for money, that he was willing to work for Uber, despite their stellar record of how they treat their employees.
With Uber, don't presume anything that will cost them money.
why is is this not simply a case of dangerous driving/driving without due care and attention?
Because Uber had a status in Arizona of being "more equal than others." The cops originally wanted to dust this under the rug . . . after all . . . it was just a homeless bag lady who died, right . . . ?
Someone at the police needs to call up Facebook and take a look at the driver's call data. Was he texting at the time of the accident . . . ?
we all know they are not good enough 'yet', so surely it's down to human failure, as any ordinary accident involving a motor vehicle.
"Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error."
Among the many safety concerns of autonomous vehicles . . . the biggest danger is mechanical:
The loose nut behind the wheel.
Autonomous cars safety mechanisms need to be human driver proof!
I mean, if eczema (seriously?) is a medical condition for which one can be protected from extradition, I don't see that any punishment is much of a likelihood?
Putin will soon announce that Russia's entire hacking community suffers from eczema, and thus are immune to US prosecution attempts.
What surprises me the most is how this did not happen before.
What surprises me the most . . . is that I am NOT surprised at these recent revelations. It's exactly what I suspecting that Facebook was doing, "under the covers" . . .
However, I am certain, that in the coming days, something Facebook is doing WILL be revealed that will surprise me. Oh, and that will probably be something *really* frightening, like:
"Facebook collects data on US military service personnel and sells it to Islamist organizations."
"Facebook tracks location data of Russian dissidents and sells it to the FSB so they can easily find the right person to poison."
Facebook has proven that they will do anything to make a buck, so hey, although those things might sound outrageous . . . they are completely probable in the Facebook universe.
Helping folks hack elections is small fry. Let's just wait and see when the whales get reeled in . . .
the solution ultimately involves putting a toll-free phone number where you have to open each pill to read it and having the patients call that number for free to confirm they took their pill, otherwise someone follows-up with them.
. . . so the patient:
1) Opened the pill.
2) Called the number.
. . . then, either . . .
3) Took the pill. No profit.
. . . or . . .
3) Sold it on the Black Market. Profit!
If the patient is not convinced of the seriousness of the illness, and that taking the medication is absolutely necessary . . . no elaborate scheme of pill taking monitoring will help.
Well, supposedly this device is only for "scanning", but of course, every bug spray smoking conspiracy theorist absolutely knows that the military is working on hard hacks to turn the device into a mind controller!
During WWII, the British MI6 Secret Service used it for strategic purposes:
"Shaken . . . not stirred!"
Stalin's spies in Canada discovered the project, and the Soviets commissioned an elite team of scientists to develop a weapon to combat the ice carrier in the coming Cold War.
The scientists decided that vodka laden bombs and torpedoes would melt the ice, and started extensive testing.
Stalin was later furious when he learned that the scientists had simply quaffed the vodka.
A similar project was started Los Alamos, using cheap Mexican Tequila . . . which ended up in margaritas for the staff.
Richard Feynman told this story in his book, "Surely, you want salt on the rim, Dr. Feynman".
The Los Alamos margarita ice experiments were essential in leading Feynman to find ice as the cause of the space shuttle explosion, and demonstrated this before Congress by putting a space shuttle rubber O-ring in a frozen margarita.
Glad I could wrap that up for everyone scientifically, once and for all.
. . . on the other hand . . . a loose nut behind the transporter console split Captain Kirk into two Captain Kirks! One was the "nice guy" Captain Kirk, the other one was the "mean and nasty" Captain Kirk.
The gag was only together could they function effectively as a whole Captain Kirk. Each half would have died without the other one. So it was very convenient to have someone like Scotty on board to stitch up the two Kirks again with a few shots of Scotch.
Slashdot Mirror
Not all of the people in the UK voted to leave.
Yes, they call themselves, "Scots" . . .
The UK will not be part of the .eu, right?
Yes, with the UK leaving the EU Common Market, this could be misleading. For instance, a UK company that currently sells dishwashers in the EU might be called:
dishwashers.eu
However, after the Brexit, and before a trade deal is agreed on (which will take forever), the UK company will only be selling dishwashers in the UK. So it would make more sense for them to call themselves:
dishwashers.co.uk
They can get .uk
"Let them eat UK!" -- Marie Antoinette
"England is a nation of shopkeepers! They taste awful!" -- Napolean
Yeah, but we'll kick your hairy ass in Waterloo!" -- English Shopkeepers
There's plenty of love to go around in Europe . . .
The real title should be "Apple Trains Beauhd To Put Apple Propaganda in More Slashdot Stories"
Actually . . . if you just slightly scratch the surface of this story, you'll see that it's not about teaching programming.
It's about teaching how to use Swift . . . a "programming" language that is a proprietary technology that belongs to Apple.
A programming course would have used something open and simple . . . like Python. Apple just wants to push Swift in this move.
Using a language owned by one vendor . . . kinda sorta puts you at the mercy of that vendor. Apple could easily, willy-nilly declare, "The Swift Programming Language cannot be used by Left-Handed Programmers!"
Just to be fair . . . I feel the same way about the "Go" language.
If there is one thing that we should have learned in the last 30 years, is that open languages, like C, Java and Python are very successful, because they run everywhere, which causes everyone to write in it, which causes libraries to written for whatever you need to do.
Proprietary languages never have a chance of achieving that.
Well, this sounds like a fail-proof plan!
Waitress: "Google, eggs, Google, sausage, Google and Spam."
PRK: Do you have something without any Google in it . . . ?"
Can you retrain thousands of older, high school educated factory workers to become coders, creative types, etc.?
Retraining is not the answer. Despite what a lot of folks would like to believe, you can't educate someone beyond their intelligence.
Retraining is not the answer.
We need to grow exports! Now let me explain in detail . . .
The IT industry cannot find enough workers with IT skills, so we are forced to import them as H1-Bs from places like India and China. This leads to a human trade imbalance.
So the answer is right in front of us: Instead of uselessly trying to retrain folks . . . we need to export them! Preferably, to those countries who sent us the H1-Bs!
A planet named Golgafrincham already successfully used this idea, and rid itself of hairdressers and telephone sanitizers, whose jobs had been replaced by AI and Automation.
Now . . . could someone please invent so AI Automation that can load, run and unload my dishwasher . . . ? Sometimes I just can't handle that task.
Even better . . . I would like to be able to put the entire contents of my apartment in the dishwasher: sofa, television and myself.
The federal endangered species act prohibits hourly employment for chimps.
. . . the chimp claims that he is a member of the new Gig Economy, and technically not an employee.
. . . and the chimp uses an app, to prove it!
Yay!
I'm very sorry, but Slashdot will soon be putting its new AI Automation pages online.
In the future, the "First Post! / First Comment!" messages will be generated automatically, so there will be no need for folks to feel that they need to do it.
There are plenty of re-training options available for you . . .
You see a lot of intense hero worship with Jobs and Musk. Little to none with Gates and Zuckerberg.
. . . and, yet, Zuckerberg was (still is?) eyeing the Democratic Nomination to go up against Trump. So maybe Zuckerberg just mistakenly believes that people worship him like a hero. And just maybe he has surrounded himself with Group Think "yes"-folks to support that illusion.
. . . or . . . fresh off the wacky conspiracy presses . . . the whole Facebook downfall was orchestrated by Oprah! She needed to take Zuckerberg off the field, to leave, um, "room" for herself.
. . . and then . . . the wackiest conspiracy postulates that Zuckerberg wanted Trump to win. He was hoping that some bad Trump years would guarantee a Democratic victory in the next presidential election, no matter who the Democrats field as a candidate . . .
. . . including Mr. Zuckerberg, natch.
It seems like this new feature was waiting to be launched much like those news articles ready for when people of fame/stature die.
Facebook needs more than a "new feature" or a "tweak".
This reminds me of the diesel scandal, with automakers saying that they could fix everything with a simple "tweak" . . .
Facebook needs a complete overhaul, top to bottom, left to right, up and down, and many other innumerable directions.
All the tech companies that have one of these hot mics have a business model that can support it... except Facebook.
Remember, folks, a foreign device in your home DOES NOT need a hot mic to spy one you. It doesn't even need power to spy on you. There are plenty of passive listening devices that can be remotely activated, pioneered by this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
To be sure, smash your Facebook Home Spy Speaker apart with a hammer, and look for hollow spaces . . .
Given Uber's history of flouting taxi and labor laws just about anywhere they operate, I expect them to test in California anyway, without a permit.
Uber is a high tech innovative company, with an App . . . who needs a permit . . . ?
"We don't pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes." -- Leona Helmsley
"We don't obey laws; only the little people obey laws." -- Uber
That's what I did... become a hermit I mean.
Well, becoming a hermit helps a bit . . . but it doesn't prevent Facebook from compiling a thick dossier about you.
If two of your friends happen to use WhatsApp, and talk about you on it, Facebook now has that information and can now sell it.
Facebook is like the old East German secret police, the Stasi. About 10% of the East German citizens were working as "informal employees", in other words, "informants".
Facebook and WhatsApp users are today's "informal employees". Every time they use Facebook and WhatsApp . . . they are collecting information for the Stasi . . . Facebook.
If Facebook and WhatsApp users don't mind giving away their information . . . well, that's their decision.
What they don't realize, is that they are giving away potentially damaging information about others, as well.
It's getting awfully crowded.
Oh, well, maybe some venture capitalist will realize our potential, and start a social web site for hermits . . .
If a student uses it, how easy is this thing to lose?
. . . or get stolen.
Apple is going the printer cartridge and razor blade route on this one. They won't make any money on the pads, but will make a killing selling the replacement pencils . . . which seem to go M.I.A. regularly.
. . . Death, by Snu Snu!
Tourism and jaywalking in China grow exponentially.
What are these for and who will want them.
Gee, that's exactly what folks say about the "Easter Island" eyeless head statues, as well.
I'm thinking that Musk is going to follow that model, and produce a bunch of big stone Musk heads, modeled after himself. These will be placed all over the world, in the places that you would least expect a giant eyeless Musk head.
What will be the true business purpose of the Musk heads . . . ?
Only Musk will know, for sure . . . and he is not twitting about it!
which presumably he was there for, and trained to do,
. . . or he was some poor guy, so desperate for money, that he was willing to work for Uber, despite their stellar record of how they treat their employees.
With Uber, don't presume anything that will cost them money.
why is is this not simply a case of dangerous driving/driving without due care and attention?
Because Uber had a status in Arizona of being "more equal than others." The cops originally wanted to dust this under the rug . . . after all . . . it was just a homeless bag lady who died, right . . . ?
Someone at the police needs to call up Facebook and take a look at the driver's call data. Was he texting at the time of the accident . . . ?
we all know they are not good enough 'yet', so surely it's down to human failure, as any ordinary accident involving a motor vehicle.
"Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error."
Among the many safety concerns of autonomous vehicles . . . the biggest danger is mechanical:
The loose nut behind the wheel.
Autonomous cars safety mechanisms need to be human driver proof!
Is this what slashdot is reduced to, giving free advertising to some wank site?
Slashdot's motto has always been: "Nudes for Nerds!"
So take very top ranking exec at self driving car company ? and have them walk in front of their car.
I wouldn't be surprised if they actually did this as part of an advertising gag:
"Our CEO is so confident of our car's safety, that he will walking out in front of a speeding car!"
Of course, the car will have been customized, with special "high level exec" detection sensors . . .
I mean, if eczema (seriously?) is a medical condition for which one can be protected from extradition, I don't see that any punishment is much of a likelihood?
Putin will soon announce that Russia's entire hacking community suffers from eczema, and thus are immune to US prosecution attempts.
What surprises me the most is how this did not happen before.
What surprises me the most . . . is that I am NOT surprised at these recent revelations. It's exactly what I suspecting that Facebook was doing, "under the covers" . . .
However, I am certain, that in the coming days, something Facebook is doing WILL be revealed that will surprise me. Oh, and that will probably be something *really* frightening, like:
"Facebook collects data on US military service personnel and sells it to Islamist organizations."
"Facebook tracks location data of Russian dissidents and sells it to the FSB so they can easily find the right person to poison."
Facebook has proven that they will do anything to make a buck, so hey, although those things might sound outrageous . . . they are completely probable in the Facebook universe.
Helping folks hack elections is small fry. Let's just wait and see when the whales get reeled in . . .
The real message should have read:
"You're dead, Jim." -- Bones
the solution ultimately involves putting a toll-free phone number where you have to open each pill to read it and having the patients call that number for free to confirm they took their pill, otherwise someone follows-up with them.
. . . so the patient:
1) Opened the pill.
2) Called the number.
. . . then, either . . .
3) Took the pill. No profit.
. . . or . . .
3) Sold it on the Black Market. Profit!
If the patient is not convinced of the seriousness of the illness, and that taking the medication is absolutely necessary . . . no elaborate scheme of pill taking monitoring will help.
cool!
Well, supposedly this device is only for "scanning", but of course, every bug spray smoking conspiracy theorist absolutely knows that the military is working on hard hacks to turn the device into a mind controller!
Sneak up behind someone, and yell:
"Brain tag! You're it!"
. . . and then plop the device on their head.
I'm assuming they melted it down for scrap.
During WWII, the British MI6 Secret Service used it for strategic purposes:
"Shaken . . . not stirred!"
Stalin's spies in Canada discovered the project, and the Soviets commissioned an elite team of scientists to develop a weapon to combat the ice carrier in the coming Cold War.
The scientists decided that vodka laden bombs and torpedoes would melt the ice, and started extensive testing.
Stalin was later furious when he learned that the scientists had simply quaffed the vodka.
A similar project was started Los Alamos, using cheap Mexican Tequila . . . which ended up in margaritas for the staff. Richard Feynman told this story in his book, "Surely, you want salt on the rim, Dr. Feynman".
The Los Alamos margarita ice experiments were essential in leading Feynman to find ice as the cause of the space shuttle explosion, and demonstrated this before Congress by putting a space shuttle rubber O-ring in a frozen margarita.
Glad I could wrap that up for everyone scientifically, once and for all.
. . . on the other hand . . . a loose nut behind the transporter console split Captain Kirk into two Captain Kirks! One was the "nice guy" Captain Kirk, the other one was the "mean and nasty" Captain Kirk.
The gag was only together could they function effectively as a whole Captain Kirk. Each half would have died without the other one. So it was very convenient to have someone like Scotty on board to stitch up the two Kirks again with a few shots of Scotch.