This will probably give a boost to homemade OSes in Russia and China. Not every country has the tech to write their own OS but Russia and China sure do. They already do write their own OSes for military applications. At least with a home made OS you know the backdoors are there for your own National Security Agency to spy instead of the US NSA
The NSA should be required to provide the decryption services. After all Microsoft left the backdoors for the NSA to get in and the NSA has some of the best decryption tools in the world.
This is why countries should not trust US made software. It has backdoors installed for the NSA to sneak in. They would have been better off with Chinese software. It also would have backdoors but it would be cheaper.
Even with firewalled systems malware can get in. The Iranian centrifuge plants were not connected to the internet but the infection got brought in on USB sticks of scientists who wanted to show their colleagues pictures from their daughter's birthday party. Hackers can use social engineering to get across physical barriers
What the US and Israel did in Iran was a crime and the targetted company was a German company. They infected German process control equipment which could have led to a nuclear leak if their code was not perfect.
What the Russians have done is hack and release emails. If you are not doing shady stuff you are not affected at all by the leak of your emails. Clinton was affected because she was a crook. Macron was not because he wasn't a crook.
Equating the above 2 is like equating "Someone who drives drunk with someone who peeks through a window"
This would only be valid if Police was actually punished for their mistakes. Most often than not they are not so any computer system which can reduce mistakes even if it is punished for its new mistakes is an improvement.
30 year gig to "clean up" a site. Wish I had founded a company to snag this sweet gig. The profits would have enormous - funding the anti nuke nuts would have been a small portion of the profit margin.
With the eventual automation of all jobs what will be left for humans to do is fight over who owns the fruits of the labor that the automation is producing. So ultimately we may be left with lawyers and AI maintenance techs as the only human jobs. With automated judging systems , govt will be irrelevant but presenting arguments will still be a human job because it comes down to motivation - AIs have no motivation to do anything.
Doesnt really change the fact that the most spoken English Accent is Indian. And that is with only 30% of the population speaking English. As more speak it that accent will become more and more prevalent.
What people may not be aware of, is that computer languages, especially HTML and JavaScript will require people who want to enter the IT field to know at least elementary English. The keywords in HTML tags recognized by all browsers around the word are in English, as is the JavaScript language. While there are some interpreters of compiled languages like C++ in other languages (Chinese for C++ examples exists) the more popular languages have English keyword bases. (see like of non-English based computer languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...)
since this is the case, any country wanting "in" on the booming IT industry will have to know some basic English. The English speaking community got the core computer programming/formatting languages out first and as usual, first to publish will have more control it long term.
Computer Languages are made up of keywords. There is a constant struggle to make programming more accessible by making computer languages more readable by adding syntactic sugar. However for a people who grew up writing a language where every symbol is not a letter but a keyword , computer languages are as readable as their natural language. I expect languages to come out which use Chinese characters for Keywords.
Given that the largest population of English speaking folks is now in India, the Indian accent will eventually become the standard and American accents will be considered quaint like the British accent is considered nowadays.
Reminds me of a joke. All the Intelligence agencies are in a competition to find out whose best. The competition is to find a deer in a forest. The CIA goes first. They use Satellite images, do image analysis and find the deer in 5 hours The KGB goes next. They go and pour vodka at the roots of every tree. The Tree which starts swaying is the Drunk deer . They find it in 1 Hour MI6 goes next. They send out an agent in a female deer suit. The Deer comes running. They find it in 10 minutes Saddam's Iraqi intelligence goes next. They spend 20 hours and cant find the deer. Then they catch a tree and start beating it "Confess Confess You are a deer" American Law enforcement is beginning to look more and more like Saddam's Mukhabarat - stupid and lazy.
"I have no recollection of that." If top govt officials cant recall spending millions overseas funding terrorists seems like you could use the same for your phone PIN. I dont remember. After 10 incorrect attempt the phone wipes itself
Did you just subtract rent and then tax? Wish the IRS was that generous. Its Tax first and then Rent. 100K is 8K a month = 6 K a month after tax (marginal rate is 25 fed+9 state but not all income is taxed at marginal rate). Noone on a 100K is paying a 4500 apartment. They are probably sharing an apartment or a room so say 2k on rent. 4K. Health Insurance+Car+Car Insurance+utilities = Another 1 K. Leave 3K/pm for food, retirement savings, saving for a Downpayment
H1Bs can be looked upon as internships only for people with degrees but missing the local cultural context. By the time they get their Greencards they have the cultural context as well. So the lower pay during H1-GC process is just another kind of intern pay
As a parent of 2 young kids its a constant struggle to get them to play outdoor sports instead of video games. One argument I have been using is it may help you get a college scholarship if you are good at a sport. Now that argument is going away I wonder what excuse to get them out in the fresh air.
On the fighter pilots I read that during WW2 the Russians put a lot of women into Cockpits and Artillery regiments. The reasons were that Nazi troops were using rape as a weapon so they did not want to put women on the frontline on the ground where they could be captured and raped(pilots were not expected to survive being shot down so less chance of getting raped). Apparently many women are OK risking their lives but not risking getting raped for their country. Once they started doing that they realized women can fit into much smaller cockpits so they could design planes with smaller cockpits which increased the effectiveness of fighters. Ever since then there has been a maximum height for pilots. Men or women above that height cant become fighter pilots as they cant fit into the cockpit safely.
But my point was that men and women are different and they both have their strengths and weaknesses and its stupid to mandate they have exactly the same outcomes in all fields. Some fields will always be dominated by women and some by men. Rather than trying to force women into fields where men have a natural advantage focus should be on raising wages in fields where women dominate. Thats where the real discrimination is - fields like nursing which are considered "Women's work" have lower wages. The other part is that fields dominated by men have traditionally had worse work life balance than other fields as its considered that a man has a wife at home taking care of the kids. They have also been more higher paying with the assumption that a man needs to support a non working wife. IT is a prime example with its uncompensated overtime and its on call culture. This can be fixed by increasing work life balance while reducing salaries. You will see a much better mix as men with SAHM wives will leave the field while others who have working spouses will join as they can manage a family better. This may need job pairing where there are 2 people for each position and they each work 8 hours a day (with a 2 hr overlap to sync up) thus providing 14 hours of coverage without a need for on call or uncompensated overtime.
This study could be used as proof that Facebook is discriminating against male programmers by hiring female programmers with worse coding skills just to meet some "diversity" goals.
Just because their are fewer of a particular gender in an institution does not automatically translate to Gender Bias. There could be many reasons. After all noone ever accuses maternity wards of discriminating against men even though 100% of their clientele are female. Females mature much faster than males. By the time they get introduced to tech in schools nowadays they are already entering puberty and distracted by hormones. The key to get more women into tech is start introducing programming in elementary school and hook them on coding before they get sidetracked with stupid tween shit. Though one must ask the question - "Why is a society's priority to get more women into tech?" We dont see articles on how to get more men into nursing, teaching or rhythmic Gymnastics. People choose what interests them and social biases play a part in what interests them but unless someone is actually getting harmed by the choice why should Society spend resources balancing the trend? After all not all trends will ever be balanced.
Men are hardcoded to try and impress women. Mansplaning is not condecsension , its rather a guy trying to pretend to be smarter than he really is in order to impress a woman. Its rather pathetic.
Facebook has a manadate to hire more Female Engineers. As far fewer Female Engineers graduate than other Engineers one way to get the Quantity desired is to lower the Quality. Once you are letting in lesser Quality Engineers and then vetting their checkins at the existing standards its expected that more of the checkins will be rejected. I just hope code review standards are not lowered in order to avoid emotional trauma. What's next? 50% of surgeries have to be done by female surgeons? The President needs to be Female 50% of the time? 50% of combat casualties need to be female?
The Elite are always internationally mobile. The elite are never bound by Visa restrictions and national borders. They each like to keep their own chunk of serfs by erecting national borders. If National borders were to go down and folks could move easily people trapped in USA in a high cost environment would move to low cost countries and people with high level skills would be able to move around and sell their skills wherever needed. The elite try to hold their serfs on the land through fake concepts like patriotism and culture. People are basically the same and in a global society things would settle down to one best way of doing things. However than only one set of elites would have power. Nation states allow multiple sets of elites to exist.
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This will probably give a boost to homemade OSes in Russia and China. Not every country has the tech to write their own OS but Russia and China sure do. They already do write their own OSes for military applications. At least with a home made OS you know the backdoors are there for your own National Security Agency to spy instead of the US NSA
The NSA should be required to provide the decryption services. After all Microsoft left the backdoors for the NSA to get in and the NSA has some of the best decryption tools in the world.
This is why countries should not trust US made software. It has backdoors installed for the NSA to sneak in. They would have been better off with Chinese software. It also would have backdoors but it would be cheaper.
Even with firewalled systems malware can get in. The Iranian centrifuge plants were not connected to the internet but the infection got brought in on USB sticks of scientists who wanted to show their colleagues pictures from their daughter's birthday party. Hackers can use social engineering to get across physical barriers
Man that stream of consciousness was entertaining. I want some of what you are smoking. Which pharmacy do you use?
What the US and Israel did in Iran was a crime and the targetted company was a German company. They infected German process control equipment which could have led to a nuclear leak if their code was not perfect.
What the Russians have done is hack and release emails. If you are not doing shady stuff you are not affected at all by the leak of your emails. Clinton was affected because she was a crook. Macron was not because he wasn't a crook.
Equating the above 2 is like equating "Someone who drives drunk with someone who peeks through a window"
This would only be valid if Police was actually punished for their mistakes. Most often than not they are not so any computer system which can reduce mistakes even if it is punished for its new mistakes is an improvement.
30 year gig to "clean up" a site. Wish I had founded a company to snag this sweet gig. The profits would have enormous - funding the anti nuke nuts would have been a small portion of the profit margin.
With the eventual automation of all jobs what will be left for humans to do is fight over who owns the fruits of the labor that the automation is producing. So ultimately we may be left with lawyers and AI maintenance techs as the only human jobs. With automated judging systems , govt will be irrelevant but presenting arguments will still be a human job because it comes down to motivation - AIs have no motivation to do anything.
Doesnt really change the fact that the most spoken English Accent is Indian. And that is with only 30% of the population speaking English. As more speak it that accent will become more and more prevalent.
What people may not be aware of, is that computer languages, especially HTML and JavaScript will require people who want to enter the IT field to know at least elementary English. The keywords in HTML tags recognized by all browsers around the word are in English, as is the JavaScript language. While there are some interpreters of compiled languages like C++ in other languages (Chinese for C++ examples exists) the more popular languages have English keyword bases. (see like of non-English based computer languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...)
since this is the case, any country wanting "in" on the booming IT industry will have to know some basic English. The English speaking community got the core computer programming/formatting languages out first and as usual, first to publish will have more control it long term.
Computer Languages are made up of keywords. There is a constant struggle to make programming more accessible by making computer languages more readable by adding syntactic sugar. However for a people who grew up writing a language where every symbol is not a letter but a keyword , computer languages are as readable as their natural language. I expect languages to come out which use Chinese characters for Keywords.
Given that the largest population of English speaking folks is now in India, the Indian accent will eventually become the standard and American accents will be considered quaint like the British accent is considered nowadays.
Reminds me of a joke. All the Intelligence agencies are in a competition to find out whose best. The competition is to find a deer in a forest.
The CIA goes first. They use Satellite images, do image analysis and find the deer in 5 hours
The KGB goes next. They go and pour vodka at the roots of every tree. The Tree which starts swaying is the Drunk deer . They find it in 1 Hour
MI6 goes next. They send out an agent in a female deer suit. The Deer comes running. They find it in 10 minutes
Saddam's Iraqi intelligence goes next. They spend 20 hours and cant find the deer. Then they catch a tree and start beating it "Confess Confess You are a deer"
American Law enforcement is beginning to look more and more like Saddam's Mukhabarat - stupid and lazy.
I would say from the "Grab em by the pussy" tapes, Trump would be a big fan of laws against self-incrimination
"I have no recollection of that."
If top govt officials cant recall spending millions overseas funding terrorists seems like you could use the same for your phone PIN.
I dont remember.
After 10 incorrect attempt the phone wipes itself
Did you just subtract rent and then tax? Wish the IRS was that generous. Its Tax first and then Rent. 100K is 8K a month = 6 K a month after tax (marginal rate is 25 fed+9 state but not all income is taxed at marginal rate). Noone on a 100K is paying a 4500 apartment. They are probably sharing an apartment or a room so say 2k on rent. 4K. Health Insurance+Car+Car Insurance+utilities = Another 1 K. Leave 3K/pm for food, retirement savings, saving for a Downpayment
H1Bs can be looked upon as internships only for people with degrees but missing the local cultural context. By the time they get their Greencards they have the cultural context as well. So the lower pay during H1-GC process is just another kind of intern pay
As a parent of 2 young kids its a constant struggle to get them to play outdoor sports instead of video games. One argument I have been using is it may help you get a college scholarship if you are good at a sport. Now that argument is going away I wonder what excuse to get them out in the fresh air.
On the fighter pilots I read that during WW2 the Russians put a lot of women into Cockpits and Artillery regiments. The reasons were that Nazi troops were using rape as a weapon so they did not want to put women on the frontline on the ground where they could be captured and raped(pilots were not expected to survive being shot down so less chance of getting raped). Apparently many women are OK risking their lives but not risking getting raped for their country. Once they started doing that they realized women can fit into much smaller cockpits so they could design planes with smaller cockpits which increased the effectiveness of fighters. Ever since then there has been a maximum height for pilots. Men or women above that height cant become fighter pilots as they cant fit into the cockpit safely.
But my point was that men and women are different and they both have their strengths and weaknesses and its stupid to mandate they have exactly the same outcomes in all fields. Some fields will always be dominated by women and some by men. Rather than trying to force women into fields where men have a natural advantage focus should be on raising wages in fields where women dominate. Thats where the real discrimination is - fields like nursing which are considered "Women's work" have lower wages.
The other part is that fields dominated by men have traditionally had worse work life balance than other fields as its considered that a man has a wife at home taking care of the kids. They have also been more higher paying with the assumption that a man needs to support a non working wife. IT is a prime example with its uncompensated overtime and its on call culture. This can be fixed by increasing work life balance while reducing salaries. You will see a much better mix as men with SAHM wives will leave the field while others who have working spouses will join as they can manage a family better. This may need job pairing where there are 2 people for each position and they each work 8 hours a day (with a 2 hr overlap to sync up) thus providing 14 hours of coverage without a need for on call or uncompensated overtime.
How do you know I am a man? Check your bias
This study could be used as proof that Facebook is discriminating against male programmers by hiring female programmers with worse coding skills just to meet some "diversity" goals.
Just because their are fewer of a particular gender in an institution does not automatically translate to Gender Bias. There could be many reasons. After all noone ever accuses maternity wards of discriminating against men even though 100% of their clientele are female.
Females mature much faster than males. By the time they get introduced to tech in schools nowadays they are already entering puberty and distracted by hormones. The key to get more women into tech is start introducing programming in elementary school and hook them on coding before they get sidetracked with stupid tween shit.
Though one must ask the question - "Why is a society's priority to get more women into tech?" We dont see articles on how to get more men into nursing, teaching or rhythmic Gymnastics. People choose what interests them and social biases play a part in what interests them but unless someone is actually getting harmed by the choice why should Society spend resources balancing the trend? After all not all trends will ever be balanced.
Men are hardcoded to try and impress women. Mansplaning is not condecsension , its rather a guy trying to pretend to be smarter than he really is in order to impress a woman. Its rather pathetic.
Facebook has a manadate to hire more Female Engineers. As far fewer Female Engineers graduate than other Engineers one way to get the Quantity desired is to lower the Quality. Once you are letting in lesser Quality Engineers and then vetting their checkins at the existing standards its expected that more of the checkins will be rejected.
I just hope code review standards are not lowered in order to avoid emotional trauma.
What's next? 50% of surgeries have to be done by female surgeons?
The President needs to be Female 50% of the time?
50% of combat casualties need to be female?
The Elite are always internationally mobile. The elite are never bound by Visa restrictions and national borders. They each like to keep their own chunk of serfs by erecting national borders. If National borders were to go down and folks could move easily people trapped in USA in a high cost environment would move to low cost countries and people with high level skills would be able to move around and sell their skills wherever needed. The elite try to hold their serfs on the land through fake concepts like patriotism and culture. People are basically the same and in a global society things would settle down to one best way of doing things. However than only one set of elites would have power. Nation states allow multiple sets of elites to exist.