The reason education means less and less is the same reason technology does with each passing week:
Before we "globalized" our economy, our labor force was a limited size and so we had to automate and use technology and training to increase output. Now that we are competing in a marketplace where labor is orders of magnitude more plentiful, there is no reason to automate and no reason to train. We can pay 10, or even 50, what we previously paid 1, to do the same job.
The chinese government is building city after city, housing millions, over a spread of a few years. We've gutted ourselves to the point where as a "service based economy" we can't rebuild one damaged city, let alone construct any new ones.
If we want to be competitive... we need to either close our borders to trade, or we need to move away from a service based economy back to an industrial one. This is why education is worthless... and the only reason people are demanding it is because the unemployment rate is sky-high and they can write wish lists for employee qualifications and get them.
Confuse customers so the only guidance they have is the price. "Well, it's more expensive so it has to be better!" Once you get consumers thinking that, they're easy pickings. Oops. I should have sugar-coated that with some intellectual discourse to obscure that simple truth... Oh well.
It took two years and a task force of how many, costing how much, to bring down three people? 8--12 million computers infected? That sure says a lot about the state of network security, and law enforcement's ineptitude for technology. We could give them supreme lord powers and allow summary executions and they'd still be behind because they just don't understand the technology.
I hope you Americans reclaim your civil freedoms soon...
To state one must "reclaim" a freedom precludes its existence to begin with. Or put another way -- what Americans have been calling "rights" all these years were really privileges that the ruling party/authority could remove from an individual or group at will.
...the agency included a clause that says Web hosts and Internet service providers may voluntarily elect to shut down the sites of customers involved in these kinds of situations.
The word voluntary has a markedly different meaning when used by law enforcement and government than by the public. As a recent example, the kidnapping of an Iranian nuclear scientist was reported as having left the country "voluntarily". Businesses aren't stupid: If you get a letter from the authorities saying your computer might have terrorist information on it, it's probably best to launch it into space now instead of risking the public hysteria or government's heavy-handed tactics that could land you, your family, and your friends all in jail on "suspicion" of one thing or another.
Here's one: I worked for one of the top national retail firms. Their POS systems were booted using PXE, and there was no firwalling between the stores and corporate HQ. In other words, the network topology was completely flat. Setup a PXE server at any store, distribution center, or headquarters, and you could respond to PXE requests sent by the POS systems. The store's location was coded into the DNS RR, and followed an easy to understand naming convention -- they also were powered down every evening. Which means, you had about a 10 minute window each day where if you disabled or DDoS'd the one PXE server on the network, you would be able to send a bootable image to every POS server in that timezone.
They fired me three days after reporting this flaw, calling me a security risk.
Yeah, and if there's even a slight problem with the coolant system -- the liquid turns to gas, expands 1,500x its original size... and is surrounded by ceramic, metal, plasma, and several thousand degree temperatures at a critical point on the airframe.
The other benefit is it creates fear in those who would have otherwise pirated songs.
I've been regularly advertising to friends, family, and online about the size of my music and movie collection and daring them to find me and sue me. Six years now, no letters. -_- Sadface.
Use the hardware that give you the most "computing units" (targeted to your computing needs, i.e. floating-point, database access, etc) per watt. That should automatically take care of not using wasteful (heat-producing) hardware.
Your security should be more costly to bypass than what the security is protecting. If you can't do this, you're making a business proposition to the world: "Hey, free profit at my expense. Inquire Within." If you don't want to pay to protect it properly, then the best you can hope for is that someone else's stuff is more shiny than yours.
Stereotyping search queries causes problems: One, a lot of people lie about their age and other stats. Two, just because it's true for the group doesn't mean it's true for the individual. For example, gays and lesbians have far different profiles than their heterosexual demographically-matched counterparts. Profession can mean a lot to a search too, or even race. And I'm sure this isn't motivated at all by making more targeted advertisements, too! Last, what if you want to know what other people not from your demographic group are seeing?
Then they should quit their jobs, because they are no longer scientists. They are ignoring the data. Might as well go write fiction instead - like maybe some submissions to Asimov's Science Fiction magazine.
Failure teaches us more than success, often. Asking someone to quit because they made a mistake denies the reality of the work: Sooner or later, you're gonna fuck it up. And in my opinion, the person who's experienced failure is more valuable than the one who hasn't.
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The reason education means less and less is the same reason technology does with each passing week:
Before we "globalized" our economy, our labor force was a limited size and so we had to automate and use technology and training to increase output. Now that we are competing in a marketplace where labor is orders of magnitude more plentiful, there is no reason to automate and no reason to train. We can pay 10, or even 50, what we previously paid 1, to do the same job.
The chinese government is building city after city, housing millions, over a spread of a few years. We've gutted ourselves to the point where as a "service based economy" we can't rebuild one damaged city, let alone construct any new ones.
If we want to be competitive... we need to either close our borders to trade, or we need to move away from a service based economy back to an industrial one. This is why education is worthless... and the only reason people are demanding it is because the unemployment rate is sky-high and they can write wish lists for employee qualifications and get them.
If only there was some group that they could hire to fight copyright violations...
Most places where this would be useful can't afford a TV to hook it up to.
Confuse customers so the only guidance they have is the price. "Well, it's more expensive so it has to be better!" Once you get consumers thinking that, they're easy pickings. Oops. I should have sugar-coated that with some intellectual discourse to obscure that simple truth... Oh well.
It took two years and a task force of how many, costing how much, to bring down three people? 8--12 million computers infected? That sure says a lot about the state of network security, and law enforcement's ineptitude for technology. We could give them supreme lord powers and allow summary executions and they'd still be behind because they just don't understand the technology.
First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.
And thus the obligatory "Slashdot automobile analogy" requirement is fulfilled.
Yeah. I feel dirty too.
So if my car breaks and crashes into a state trooper, killing him, I can claim that my shoddy repairs were an act of god? AWESOME! *goes for a drive*
1986: Hey man, want a copy of this movie I got? Sure, I'll just pop it in my VCR and make a duplicate.
2010: Hey man, want a copy of this movie I got? knock, knock Aw crap, it's the police! *thud* *smack* ow! ow! ow!
RIAA -- Advocating social and technological progress since... ha ha, never you dopes!
What do you even say to that kind of idiot?
"Case dismissed."
I hope you Americans reclaim your civil freedoms soon...
To state one must "reclaim" a freedom precludes its existence to begin with. Or put another way -- what Americans have been calling "rights" all these years were really privileges that the ruling party/authority could remove from an individual or group at will.
...the agency included a clause that says Web hosts and Internet service providers may voluntarily elect to shut down the sites of customers involved in these kinds of situations.
The word voluntary has a markedly different meaning when used by law enforcement and government than by the public. As a recent example, the kidnapping of an Iranian nuclear scientist was reported as having left the country "voluntarily". Businesses aren't stupid: If you get a letter from the authorities saying your computer might have terrorist information on it, it's probably best to launch it into space now instead of risking the public hysteria or government's heavy-handed tactics that could land you, your family, and your friends all in jail on "suspicion" of one thing or another.
Here's one: I worked for one of the top national retail firms. Their POS systems were booted using PXE, and there was no firwalling between the stores and corporate HQ. In other words, the network topology was completely flat. Setup a PXE server at any store, distribution center, or headquarters, and you could respond to PXE requests sent by the POS systems. The store's location was coded into the DNS RR, and followed an easy to understand naming convention -- they also were powered down every evening. Which means, you had about a 10 minute window each day where if you disabled or DDoS'd the one PXE server on the network, you would be able to send a bootable image to every POS server in that timezone.
They fired me three days after reporting this flaw, calling me a security risk.
Yeah, and if there's even a slight problem with the coolant system -- the liquid turns to gas, expands 1,500x its original size... and is surrounded by ceramic, metal, plasma, and several thousand degree temperatures at a critical point on the airframe.
What could possibly go wrong?
The other benefit is it creates fear in those who would have otherwise pirated songs.
I've been regularly advertising to friends, family, and online about the size of my music and movie collection and daring them to find me and sue me. Six years now, no letters. -_- Sadface.
Use the hardware that give you the most "computing units" (targeted to your computing needs, i.e. floating-point, database access, etc) per watt. That should automatically take care of not using wasteful (heat-producing) hardware.
There are trade-offs there as well. -_-
So basically, if you can't develop social skills you do what every other animal does: Become a predator. And if you fail at that, you're dinner.
You can eyeball a plane going 150 mph at 60,000 feet without sensors?
You can see satellites orbiting the Earth with the naked eye if you know what you're looking for...
it has a 150-foot wingspan, will cruise at approximately 150 knots...
...and will only be deployed in places where Surface to Air Missiles are unavailable and the natives don't have radar.
Your security should be more costly to bypass than what the security is protecting. If you can't do this, you're making a business proposition to the world: "Hey, free profit at my expense. Inquire Within." If you don't want to pay to protect it properly, then the best you can hope for is that someone else's stuff is more shiny than yours.
Or reason to. In the 60s, people attempted to create non-government currency in this country. They were arrested and jailed.
and the moment it's cracked the world economy collapses? Nah. Pass.
We are borg. Resistance is futile. Make us a sammich and give us your wallet, man-slave.
Stereotyping search queries causes problems: One, a lot of people lie about their age and other stats. Two, just because it's true for the group doesn't mean it's true for the individual. For example, gays and lesbians have far different profiles than their heterosexual demographically-matched counterparts. Profession can mean a lot to a search too, or even race. And I'm sure this isn't motivated at all by making more targeted advertisements, too! Last, what if you want to know what other people not from your demographic group are seeing?
Then they should quit their jobs, because they are no longer scientists. They are ignoring the data. Might as well go write fiction instead - like maybe some submissions to Asimov's Science Fiction magazine.
Failure teaches us more than success, often. Asking someone to quit because they made a mistake denies the reality of the work: Sooner or later, you're gonna fuck it up. And in my opinion, the person who's experienced failure is more valuable than the one who hasn't.