Any talk about labor shortages is bullshit. What it really means is that they want to hire someone as close to 25 as they can find who already knows how to do the job. That way they get the cheapest labor from people with so little experience that they will not understand that they are being ripped off.
It's the hunt for the cheap complaint single use disposable worker. Someone who will get booted out before they qualify for any long term benefits like the 401K plan or longer vacation. Typically this means less then 5 years on the job. Someone gets a shot at three of these positions and then they are "too old" to be hired. It's easy when when there is an entire new generation of suckers in the pipeline.
And then there is the zero training requirement. The most job training that any company thinks they need is how to run a cash register. Anything beyond that is considered a waste of resources. Since the plan is always to flush the workers down the toilet why spend anything on training?
It's not like people over 35 use no drugs at all, but as the article makes clear the younger someone is the more likely it is that they at least smoke pot. So looking at an older demographic would help with the so called shortage, except that it would subject business to real life market forces, which they hate. Remember that businesses avoid actual competition at all costs. They would much rather be monopolistic big fish in a small pond while rigging the game for guaranteed profit and screaming about the "ebil govment herting free enterprize".
This is not like Snowden's raw data dump. ICIJ are real "journalists" and are very ethical about what they publish.
ICIJ is publishing the information in the public interest.
The new data that ICIJ is now making public represents a fraction of the Panama Papers, a trove of more than 11.5 million leaked files from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, one of the world’s top creators of hard-to-trace companies, trusts and foundations.
ICIJ is not publishing the totality of the leak, and it is not disclosing raw documents or personal information en masse. The database contains a great deal of information about company owners, proxies and intermediaries in secrecy jurisdictions, but it doesn’t disclose bank accounts, email exchanges and financial transactions contained in the documents.
With the online database, if there were any political figures in the US who had an offshore connection it would be all over the headlines by now. It is possible to search by country, so it is easy to find people or companies in a particular jurisdiction.
ICIJ is a very sophisticated organization and they use advanced big data techniques to create the database.
We believe in open source technology and try to use it as much as possible. We used Apache Solr for the indexing and Apache Tika for document processing, and it’s great because it processes dozens of different formats and it’s very powerful. Tika interacts with Tesseract, so we did the OCRing on Tesseract.
... Then we put the data up, but the problem with Solr was it didn’t have a user interface, so we used Project Blacklight, which is open source software normally used by librarians.
... We had the data in a relational database format in SQL, and thanks to ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) software Talend, we were able to easily transform the data from SQL to Neo4j (the graph-database format we used).
So there was a lot of data analysis and not much "selectively editing".
Winston Smith works as a clerk in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to rewrite historical documents so they match the constantly changing current party line. This involves revising newspaper articles and doctoring photographs—mostly to remove "unpersons," people who have fallen foul of the party.
Orwell couldn't conceive that Winston would be automated out of a job. That may be the only part he got wrong.
This is just the latest example of the erosion of situational awareness: the ability to monitor what is happening in the immediate environment. Smartphones, earbuds, and texting all displace attention from the "here and now" by redirecting mental focus to a non-local environment. Note that this is beyond what happens with reading a book or listening to music without headphones because of the immersive/interactive nature of the experience.
The loss of situational awareness makes people more susceptible to bad outcomes because the warning cues don't get through. Hence walking into traffic while looking at a screen. Obviously reading and walking can have the same result, but before the advent of current smartphones there were far fewer people who acted that irresponsibly. Also it was not social acceptable because most people realized the potential hazard. Now that smartphones are ubiquitous social norms have changed and people just don't care about what's going on around them.
A more direct way to say it is that people now act very stupidly in public. They inhabit a personal bubble and blindly assume that reality will never intrude. There will never be enough padding in the world to protect them from a lack of attention. To quote Forrest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does".
What moron decided that this should be posted? It's from the UK Mirror, for god's sake, one of the mindless rumor mongering UK tabloids. Nothing from crap merchants of that stripe should ever be allowed here. What's next: psychic alien two headed babies teleported to Earth using microwave ovens?
It's feeding the fucking trolls. We have enough of this kind of drivel clogging the pipes here already. It's not news, it's not for nerds and it doesn't matter. Why is it here?
I have a suggestion: fire the dumbfuck who decided let this get posted. Kick their ass off Slashdot. There has got to be some procedure for eliminating incompetent staff members. Clearly this points to the existence of lazy ass slackers who don't give a flying fuck and are just phoning it in. I bet they are watching porn, jerking off and then collecting their paycheck.
When the new guys took over they said they would fix a lot of stuff. If this is any example then they are just another clusterfuck of jerkoffs who are looking for a free ride involving zero effort. "Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss"
Just like other conspiracy cults before them, say flat earthers, anit-vaxxers, birthers, 9/11 conspiracy nutjobs, and UFO creeps, Slashdot is now home to the DDD: Drone Danger Denial cult.
1) The first rule of DDD: drones cannot cause any problem ever in any situation.
2) The second rule of DDD: always defend drones as harmless no matter what the circumstance. For example if firefighters call off aerial retardant drops because drones are flying in the fire zone: the missed drops didn't make any difference and/or drones didn't pose any interference and the authorities should have just kept flying.
In the current post three of the major denial themes are stated.
1) It wasn't a drone.
2) If there was a drone, nothing happened.
3) If there was a drone interaction, there was no actual damage.
It's so simple even the dullest of Slashdot Pundits can execute it with ease.
BTW, I've actually participated in a project with the FAA addressing bird strike mitigation. They take any physical impact on a aircraft very seriously. It's not just birds, but any strike by FOD (Foreign Object Debris). That includes anything on a runway, like trash. At DFW airport in Texas, they have a problem with foxes who live in the airport and are stuck by aircraft. They collect and monitor the corpses, and have a burial location for their bodies. The FAA has records of rodent strikes, when their carcasses are found on runways. Anything hitting a aircraft is considered very significant. Saying that it's not important is just a pledge of allegiance to the DDD. A true blue cult member.
I have a counter proposal: pull your head out of your ass before you lay into someone else.
When you client list is oriented towards repressive regimes that suppress dissent using tactics like torture and murder, it's not just "These guys just sell the software, they don't use it". It's like knowingly selling blood diamonds. There is no plausible deniability. The business model is based on violence and killing.
They are in the same category as drug cartels or the pirates of West Africa. The only difference is that Hacking Team has a veneer of legitimacy, and they also sell to first world countries like the US and Germany. Frankly I expect that "legitimate" governments abuse this software to engage in illegal acts both at home and all over the world.
Pulling the "shades of grey" argument in this case is utter bullshit. We know who they are, we know what they do, and we know who they work for. They have chosen to work for some of the worst governments on the planet. They have no excuse.
And if you had any doubts about the political motivation of Hacking Team, the emails revealed
Vincenzetti, the CEO, liked to end his emails with the fascist slogan "boia chi molla".
How stupid are you? Were you born that dumb, or did your parents pound you on he head with a brick because you were not as idiotic as they were?
Jesse Jackson is not a head of a publicly traded US corporation. Jesse Jackson was not advertising a product in that statement. He was saying that people shouldn't take drugs. Do you think that people should take drugs, is that your point? Are you an addict? Are you a wanna be drug dealer? What the fuck do you mean?
You are just another fucking KKK member on Slashdot. Get the fuck out of here and go masturbate to you picture of Trump or Hitler or whatever. You are such a rotten excuse for a human being that I can smell the stench through the screen.
It's has two dimensions for electrons confined in the material. An electron cannot move in the third dimension because it is restricted to motion in a plane. Similarly an electron or other particle (or wave) can be restricted to one dimension in a wire structure, because it only has one degree of freedom, i.e. motion along a line.
Your objection assumes that our experience of the world, in this case three dimensions, applies at all scale and in all conditions. Modern physics refutes this assumption.
You just admitted that you are a supporter of Weev, whether you admit it or not. You can lie to yourself about this all you like, but it's obvious to the rest of us.
So where is your swastika tattoo? On your skin and/or in your brain?
You know nothing about California. It'searthquake country, and fiber is fragile for earthquakes compared to copper. Copper has it's own independent DC power supply, and it will work even when other utilities are not available. Remember, POTS runs on the same wires, and it will keep going in an emergency.
I'm not sure about the backbone structure of cellular communications, but I have see that cell phones are also more effected by earthquakes then copper. Keeping copper as a backup is a good idea if you want to stay connected after the ground stops shaking.
The rich are people who pay only capital gains taxes at roughly 35% percent, which is far lower then normal humans pay. They are also those like Mitt Romney who have hundred of million of dollars in an IRA, which is impossible for normal humans as well.
And if you talk about taxes, a vast amount of our horribly complex tax code exists solely for the purpose of keeping "the rich" from paying taxes. Tax breaks are free money, and they invariably go to the rich.
Were you born that stupid, or did you practice to lower your mental abilities?
You're absolutely right. Nothing has changed since the later part of the 18th century. Only white men who own land can vote, women have no property rights, black people count as 3/5th of a while person, and native Americans have the same right to property as a deer or other wild animal.
I have a friend who has to use light therapy every day. She can't view any screen for an hour or so before she goes to sleep. When she gets up in the morning she uses a blue enhanced light. She also has a lamp with a therapeutic spectrum at work. If she doesn't take these precautions then she has sleep problems and that causes migraine headaches. This is a real big deal for her.
I can easily see how this could be of use to some users. These problems are idiosyncratic, so it varies between individuals. Making a blanket statement that it of no use is basically willful ignorance. It makes a quick headline, and helps no one in the long run.
This is a theatrical event put on for people in the US and to a lessor extent, Europe.
Since the US Government is spending so much on "security", they have to justify it by at least occasionally trying to catch somebody. As others have already pointed out, this has as much real world effect as putting a sign in you window telling the kids to stay off your lawn.
Many of the cyber attacks against US institutions and infrastructure are state sponsored. Picking out a few individuals and blaming them is a bad joke. The only time it might have an impact is if they go to Europe or a strong ally of the US like Australia and are arrested. I doubt they are that stupid.
Who is at fault for the horrible track record on cyber security in the US? How about the US Chamber of Commerce and the business interests it represents. Way back in 2012 the Obama administration tried to get a cyber security bill passed, and it got nowhere. It was viewed as being anti-business and government interference in private enterprise.
Democrats overwhelmingly supported the legislation, but for Republicans, it meant a stark choice between competing constituencies: national security officials and business leaders. Even after the bill's backers made the standards voluntary, the Chamber of Commerce, which spends more on lobbying than any other trade group, opposed it.
On Thursday, the Senate cyber-security bill failed to overcome a Republican-led filibuster. Analysts say the bill couldn't breach a wall of anti-regulatory sentiment that proved resistant to the dire warnings.
The measure fell short of the 60-vote threshold needed to end debate, 52 to 46, with 40 Republicans joined by six Democrats voting in support of the filibuster.
"Rarely have I been so disappointed in the Senate's failure to come to grips with a threat to our country," said Sen. Susan Collins, the ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee and one of the bill's chief sponsors, who had tried in vain to sway her GOP colleagues. Just four sided with her.
Since then Obama has signed various executive orders, but they all boil down to voluntary participation outside the government. And since even government outsources the actual work, nothing has changed. That's what happened when the Office of Personal Management was hacked. The data was obtained from the contractor.
So what has the Chamber of Commerce been doing since then? How about holding CyberSecurity Summits. I'm sure that Chinese, Russian and Iranian hackers have just given up because they know how impossible it will be to penetrate US organizations after they hold a "Summit".
There is no way to distinguish between an algorithmic trading failure and a cyber attack against the trading system.
How can real world value change by billions of dollars on a scale of milliseconds? The only real world events that can make that happen are nuclear weapons or meteor strikes. Even a massive earthquake lasts seconds, and huge storms take hours to days to do their damage.
High speed trading is a fictional construct because it creates a version of value that is decoupled from the real world. It is by definition a game that is only available to insiders. That's why incredible amounts of money are spent to build data centers as near as possible to trading hubs, since an advantage of milliseconds makes the difference between success and failure.
It is the opposite of a level playing field. It creates a system where there is a vast gap between insiders and everyone else. There is no free market capitalism with this kind of division of access.
For all the Libertards out there, being able to trade stock is not equivalent to high speed trading. High speed trading makes money on a millisecond scale. Trading outside that realm, even using computers is seconds behind which translates to trading in the past. First mover advantage is available only for the inside players. Free market capitalism doesn't really exist, it's just propaganda to keep the peasants from causing trouble.
So will that mean there will be hoards of robot H1B visa applicants from the moon taking jobs away from Earthlings? They'll work 24/7 for electricity and get paid using bulk shipments of raw materials to space that are easier to get from a inhabited planet with infrastructure.
How can a carbon based biological organism compete?
Slashdot Mirror
You will never get married. No woman would ever put up with your attitude. I expect you will not pollute the gene pool in the future.
It's the hunt for the cheap complaint single use disposable worker. Someone who will get booted out before they qualify for any long term benefits like the 401K plan or longer vacation. Typically this means less then 5 years on the job. Someone gets a shot at three of these positions and then they are "too old" to be hired. It's easy when when there is an entire new generation of suckers in the pipeline.
And then there is the zero training requirement. The most job training that any company thinks they need is how to run a cash register. Anything beyond that is considered a waste of resources. Since the plan is always to flush the workers down the toilet why spend anything on training?
It's not like people over 35 use no drugs at all, but as the article makes clear the younger someone is the more likely it is that they at least smoke pot. So looking at an older demographic would help with the so called shortage, except that it would subject business to real life market forces, which they hate. Remember that businesses avoid actual competition at all costs. They would much rather be monopolistic big fish in a small pond while rigging the game for guaranteed profit and screaming about the "ebil govment herting free enterprize".
How stupid are you? To claim that SS nothing to do with employment is delusional.
With the online database, if there were any political figures in the US who had an offshore connection it would be all over the headlines by now. It is possible to search by country, so it is easy to find people or companies in a particular jurisdiction.
ICIJ is a very sophisticated organization and they use advanced big data techniques to create the database.
So there was a lot of data analysis and not much "selectively editing".
Orwell couldn't conceive that Winston would be automated out of a job. That may be the only part he got wrong.
The loss of situational awareness makes people more susceptible to bad outcomes because the warning cues don't get through. Hence walking into traffic while looking at a screen. Obviously reading and walking can have the same result, but before the advent of current smartphones there were far fewer people who acted that irresponsibly. Also it was not social acceptable because most people realized the potential hazard. Now that smartphones are ubiquitous social norms have changed and people just don't care about what's going on around them.
A more direct way to say it is that people now act very stupidly in public. They inhabit a personal bubble and blindly assume that reality will never intrude. There will never be enough padding in the world to protect them from a lack of attention. To quote Forrest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does".
It's feeding the fucking trolls. We have enough of this kind of drivel clogging the pipes here already. It's not news, it's not for nerds and it doesn't matter. Why is it here?
I have a suggestion: fire the dumbfuck who decided let this get posted. Kick their ass off Slashdot. There has got to be some procedure for eliminating incompetent staff members. Clearly this points to the existence of lazy ass slackers who don't give a flying fuck and are just phoning it in. I bet they are watching porn, jerking off and then collecting their paycheck.
When the new guys took over they said they would fix a lot of stuff. If this is any example then they are just another clusterfuck of jerkoffs who are looking for a free ride involving zero effort. "Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss"
1) The first rule of DDD: drones cannot cause any problem ever in any situation.
2) The second rule of DDD: always defend drones as harmless no matter what the circumstance. For example if firefighters call off aerial retardant drops because drones are flying in the fire zone: the missed drops didn't make any difference and/or drones didn't pose any interference and the authorities should have just kept flying.
In the current post three of the major denial themes are stated.
1) It wasn't a drone.
2) If there was a drone, nothing happened.
3) If there was a drone interaction, there was no actual damage.
It's so simple even the dullest of Slashdot Pundits can execute it with ease.
BTW, I've actually participated in a project with the FAA addressing bird strike mitigation. They take any physical impact on a aircraft very seriously. It's not just birds, but any strike by FOD (Foreign Object Debris). That includes anything on a runway, like trash. At DFW airport in Texas, they have a problem with foxes who live in the airport and are stuck by aircraft. They collect and monitor the corpses, and have a burial location for their bodies. The FAA has records of rodent strikes, when their carcasses are found on runways. Anything hitting a aircraft is considered very significant. Saying that it's not important is just a pledge of allegiance to the DDD. A true blue cult member.
When you client list is oriented towards repressive regimes that suppress dissent using tactics like torture and murder, it's not just "These guys just sell the software, they don't use it". It's like knowingly selling blood diamonds. There is no plausible deniability. The business model is based on violence and killing.
They are in the same category as drug cartels or the pirates of West Africa. The only difference is that Hacking Team has a veneer of legitimacy, and they also sell to first world countries like the US and Germany. Frankly I expect that "legitimate" governments abuse this software to engage in illegal acts both at home and all over the world.
Pulling the "shades of grey" argument in this case is utter bullshit. We know who they are, we know what they do, and we know who they work for. They have chosen to work for some of the worst governments on the planet. They have no excuse.
And if you had any doubts about the political motivation of Hacking Team, the emails revealed
Vincenzetti, the CEO, liked to end his emails with the fascist slogan "boia chi molla".
That translates as "death to traitors".
We don't do competition here, just monopoly.
Really.
Jesse Jackson is not a head of a publicly traded US corporation. Jesse Jackson was not advertising a product in that statement. He was saying that people shouldn't take drugs. Do you think that people should take drugs, is that your point? Are you an addict? Are you a wanna be drug dealer? What the fuck do you mean?
You are just another fucking KKK member on Slashdot. Get the fuck out of here and go masturbate to you picture of Trump or Hitler or whatever. You are such a rotten excuse for a human being that I can smell the stench through the screen.
Department of Homeland Pork, Transportation Pork Administration
Your objection assumes that our experience of the world, in this case three dimensions, applies at all scale and in all conditions. Modern physics refutes this assumption.
It's the biggest scam going.
So where is your swastika tattoo? On your skin and/or in your brain?
I'm not sure about the backbone structure of cellular communications, but I have see that cell phones are also more effected by earthquakes then copper. Keeping copper as a backup is a good idea if you want to stay connected after the ground stops shaking.
And if you talk about taxes, a vast amount of our horribly complex tax code exists solely for the purpose of keeping "the rich" from paying taxes. Tax breaks are free money, and they invariably go to the rich.
Were you born that stupid, or did you practice to lower your mental abilities?
Next question?
You're absolutely right. Nothing has changed since the later part of the 18th century. Only white men who own land can vote, women have no property rights, black people count as 3/5th of a while person, and native Americans have the same right to property as a deer or other wild animal.
I can easily see how this could be of use to some users. These problems are idiosyncratic, so it varies between individuals. Making a blanket statement that it of no use is basically willful ignorance. It makes a quick headline, and helps no one in the long run.
1. Tear down the wrong house.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Since the US Government is spending so much on "security", they have to justify it by at least occasionally trying to catch somebody. As others have already pointed out, this has as much real world effect as putting a sign in you window telling the kids to stay off your lawn.
Many of the cyber attacks against US institutions and infrastructure are state sponsored. Picking out a few individuals and blaming them is a bad joke. The only time it might have an impact is if they go to Europe or a strong ally of the US like Australia and are arrested. I doubt they are that stupid.
Who is at fault for the horrible track record on cyber security in the US? How about the US Chamber of Commerce and the business interests it represents. Way back in 2012 the Obama administration tried to get a cyber security bill passed, and it got nowhere. It was viewed as being anti-business and government interference in private enterprise.
Since then Obama has signed various executive orders, but they all boil down to voluntary participation outside the government. And since even government outsources the actual work, nothing has changed. That's what happened when the Office of Personal Management was hacked. The data was obtained from the contractor.
So what has the Chamber of Commerce been doing since then? How about holding CyberSecurity Summits. I'm sure that Chinese, Russian and Iranian hackers have just given up because they know how impossible it will be to penetrate US organizations after they hold a "Summit".
How can real world value change by billions of dollars on a scale of milliseconds? The only real world events that can make that happen are nuclear weapons or meteor strikes. Even a massive earthquake lasts seconds, and huge storms take hours to days to do their damage.
High speed trading is a fictional construct because it creates a version of value that is decoupled from the real world. It is by definition a game that is only available to insiders. That's why incredible amounts of money are spent to build data centers as near as possible to trading hubs, since an advantage of milliseconds makes the difference between success and failure.
It is the opposite of a level playing field. It creates a system where there is a vast gap between insiders and everyone else. There is no free market capitalism with this kind of division of access.
For all the Libertards out there, being able to trade stock is not equivalent to high speed trading. High speed trading makes money on a millisecond scale. Trading outside that realm, even using computers is seconds behind which translates to trading in the past. First mover advantage is available only for the inside players. Free market capitalism doesn't really exist, it's just propaganda to keep the peasants from causing trouble.
How can a carbon based biological organism compete?