IIRC he is in charge, at least somewhat. The mess that happened with their currency where the economy semi-collapsed and people starved was Kim Jong Un's call. He also cleaned house and terminated (in the "send flowers" sense) a lot of the top brass that he felt wasn't sufficiently loyal.
He may be clueless, but he does have a lot of control.
In another NK note, The Worm's visit made me think of what I think is Shaquille ONeal's best quote:
We can go back to the dawn of man, and see that one of his core personality traits is The Story. From Cave Paintings telling stories of animals and hunts, to epic poems with strong rhyming so they can be orally passed on, to books, to plays, to movies, to TV, to Youtube, to blogs, to Twitter/Pinterest/FLickr/Tumblr/WhateverItIsToday... It's kind of all been a way for stories to get transmitted.
(end of bad music score)
So you dislike this specific medium... fine for you. Shakespeare had a lot of sex in his works, so he could sell tickets to the groundlings. I guess he's too lowbrow for you. The Bible has sex and violence and violent sex in it. Too lowbrow for you as well.
Don't blame the medium. Don't assume you know what people are watching. Don't disdain people for using a medium. Should I look down at you - Oh he's reading, and I know Penthouse Forum letters are written text, so he must be below me, so if he's reading text, he's a moron.
Unfortunately, doctors are generally woefully unequipped to treat pain, particularly long-term pain. Plenty of addicts are made by the medical profession, something they don't like to admit.
This immediately made me think of football.. Both with Brett Favre addicted to Vicodin, and the story of Keith McCants as told in 30 for 30: Broke. We get these athletes and tell them to play through pain, shoot them up with anything to get them on the field, then wonder why they're addicted in the offseason/retirement.
Ignoring them is pretty much what started the sabre rattling.
Think of North Korea not as a crazy guy, but as a sociopath. Think American Psycho.. not stupid, but will kill you without even blinking. What are their goals? To exist is one. To be fed. To have a lot of cash.
So, the North Korean economy is shit. They basically exist like the mafia - some foreign cash for renting out slave labor, a lot of money from counterfeiting, and extortion by threatening to blow people up. A lot of this sabre rattling comes from sanctions - threatening to turn off that money hose. If we just walk away, then the money doesn't go to the people in power, then they're in trouble. So, NK needs to be crazy every once in a while to do a cash grab.
The one balance NK actually needs to keep is not piss off China too much. China is the one ally they have, and gives them some (not a lot) of UN cover. I don't think it's a coincidence that this new round of sabre-rattling comes when even China said "hey, that's enough, knock it off".
I'm a relatively new Chicago driver (got my license at 33, about 8 years ago) because I walked and took public trans for a long period of my life. Chicago driving really makes you crazy. I tend to try to leave safe following distances between me and the car in front of me. In chicago if you have a safe following distance of a car length and 4 inches, there will be a new car 2" in front of your bumper in about 3 seconds. Cars passing 30mph faster than you on the right, cars cutting you off, cars honking at you at intersections because you choose not to plow through the pedestrians there...
I've driven a few other places on vacation, including Boston (which is crazy) but no other place is as antagonistic as Chicago. It's like "how dare you be ahead of me, I'm going to cut you off".
Oddly, Nissans and Minivans tend to be the worst out there. Cabs are predictable - they're gonna be fast, but it's about their job, so it's not about you.
On the plus side, maybe John Q. Public will still feel the crunch at tax time. That leads to some hope that even if we're (collectively) ok with the slaughter of countless "other people" (not us) that somewhere we'll get tired of paying for all the bullets.
I'm not so confident with that. As we debate how we can kickstart the US economy we're hampered somewhat in what we can do since we don't have a bunch of cash laying around from the Clinton years. Why? Bush tax cuts, and two unfunded wars. Do we debate the impact of the unfunded wars? Do we debate how much money was wasted in Iraq? Nahhh. Even in Obama's first term, all the debate was about what Obama did to create the deficit/debt. Barely anything about the money spent in wars and trying to get Saddam (we already shifted focus away from Bin Laden at that time).
When they had the JSF contest between the X-32 (Boeing) and the X-35 (Lockheed Marting), they already saw the handwriting on the wall. A lot of people at those firms fought hard for the contract because they felt that this would be the last big run of manned warplanes, at least for the US (where the big money was). Boeing lost, and as consolation got some tanker contracts, knowing there wouldn't be many big expensive fighter planes for it down the road.
Mind you competition was decided way back in 2001, way before the Predator/Reaper entered our daily lexicon (and even some really bad movies). This has been coming for a while.
This reminded me of the Star Trek episode (original Shatner-ized series) where the aliens encountered "evolved" to pushbutton war. Basically they just declared you "hit" like Battleship and you were supposed to exterminate yourself. It led to a war that never ended.
This probably isn't targeted at any gamer you know. GPUs are now better thought of as vector/parallel processing machines. Im sure a lot of Wall Street firms will pick these up, and the "graphics" card will never ever drive a monitor.
The other class would be guys who need to do visualizations. We've been promised "real time raytracing" for years now. Maybe Industrial Light and Magic will pick some up.
Though this seems draconian, sometimes Yes, you Do need to have rules like this.
You create your spreadsheet. It grows warts, you add macros. It starts doing things you couldn't before. You share it with the guy next to you. Soon you have real money flowing through a spreadsheet with excel macros.
Now, how do I support that? I don't even know about it. Is it backed up? is there a single version or do two people have slightly different calculations? Is it on some fileshare, where people who shouldn't be able to see the data, can (good luck with SOX). What happens when one guy goes and he takes the knowledge with him?
So, our rule, no messing around with local DBs. If money ever flows through it, you'd better have it in a real DB, backed up, maintained by a real DBA. This makes it so impractical (do you really gain anything by putting it in a SQLite store for a week) that for all practical purposes, there are no local dbs.
I always thought a Vertu was like the "I Am Rich" app - an easy way to broadcast that you have enough money to purchase expensive frivolous things. As such the cascade of "well, the Galaxy S4 has more RAM...." will also be irrelevant.
I guess I'm just too paranoid - I'd always think of these phones as a big "please rob me" signs, even worse than an iPhone. I guess you'd hire a phone bodyguard when you got one.
All our servers are RHEL. All our desktops are also RHEL (well, mostly CentOS actually).
We build on desktops, and roll out to the servers.We have minor compatibility issues rolling out from point release differences of RHEL - say, code compiled on RHEL5.6 desktops didn't work on 5.5 servers. I can't imagine how many issues we'd have if we used Fedora, or worse yet (for compatibility) a completely different distro.
"Yeah, but you can compile on compile servers." Why would we have nice Linux desktops that all we do is run ssh to compile on an overused compile server?
So, we run RHEL on desktops for compatibility with prod targets, for solidness. The solidness which is really the whole point of RHEL. Google can choose to do whatever they want, but the reasons for our desktop distro makes sense to me. When you have billions going through your servers, you don't want to be messing around with distro incompatibility issues.
Of course, they "know" evolution is wrong, though they have a weak grasp on what it actually is.
I believe in evolution, but I actually have some sympathy for Creationists, at least as Evolution is a harder theory to get your head around than most people think.
Say you have a Creationist, one who believes we were specially created by God, in His image, cause He likes us. Now, to that person, try to sell Evolution. It's just a rule set;
Things change randomly, most of these changes will get you killed, but if a small genetic change is good enough to keep you alive and get you laid, that small change will persist to a new population which will be better for it. Iterate.
That's it.
C: How do humans come in? E: Well, we're the current end of that line. C: But, who said there should be humans? E: Umm, no one. We're just the species that ended up after iterating that rule a few billion/trillion times. C: Can you predict what we're gonna evolve into? E: Umm, no. I don't know what random changes will happen, and which of those will get you laid. C: Why not? You can predict elements that don't exist and how they'll react, but you can't predict evolution? I thought science creates models that allow prediction... This Evolution doesn't sound like science to me.... E: Ummmmmm... C: Are we going to be smarter? E: Dunno, only if being smarter gets you laid... Hmm, I guess not.
So, you want me to replace "I'm the chosen creation of God, center of the Universe" with "you're the product of more or less a series of random genetic events that had consequences." Under evolution, you're just a roadbump on a path - there were things before us, there will be things after us; we're the cosmic middle child.
Doesn't seem like a choice I'd make. I'd prefer being the scion of God, even if deep down I know it's not true.
There's some interesting theory that the second amendment wasn't the "oppose government when it steps on my freedom" but more to allow the slave patrol militias to keep operating.
Im not sure how you'd prove the reasoning of people long since gone one way or the other, but the reference to militias (which the slave patrols were called) and the reference to State rather than Country is consistent with the theory.
if so, it's not so much freedom, as much as freedom for whites to own others.
I have both a RaspPI (revB) with XBMC and an AppleTV2 jailbroken to run XBMC.
The AppleTV is rock solid, and pretty easy to use. The RasbPI gets hung sometimes, and requires a power-cord out powercycle (no power button, like the ATV2). The RaspPI also doesn't have a real remote. I have iOS remotes for it that work, and my TV can talk to it over HDMI, but it's still a little wonky. Having real USB on the PI is a plus, but the ports are unused in my house at this point.
So, the AppleTV is nicer looking, more solid under XBMC, has builtin WiFi, has a paired remote, and is easier to use. For some people (my wife for example) this is a better solution, worth the $40 or so price difference between the original price of an ATV2 and a PI with case and power supply. People spending $200 for a used ATV2 strike me as slightly odd at this point, with some other non-branded solutions probably better than either a $200 ATV2 or the PI revB.
crApple? Jeez... I thought calling it Micro$oft was bad. Yes, the troll was a fanboi. But you bit and went the wrong way.
Apple is much better at having a consistent platform than Android is. You have phones coming out 4 months ago stranded with no updates. Your iPhone 3G goes back (possibly) 4 years, and a minimum 2 years. It's a much different situation.
I have an iPod touch, gen 2, which has been stranded. I wish I could get an update on it. but the CPU on it is too old, so they don't support CPU hog IOS5 on it.
Windows CE for phones for 2002. I haven't seen much since then that makes them seem like they have more of a clue now then before. The problem before was that they tried a Desktop-Mouse metaphor on a phone. Now they're forcing a touchscreen phone UI on a desktop.
I remember the whole PlaysForSure fiasco, where at first, PlaysForSure was a new DRM that was incompatible with a good chunk of the players out at the time. Then, PlaysForSure servers got shut off, stranding people who bought their music legitimately.
For music, at least I can re-get the music someplace else. But for docs, these are my files, I can't go to documentbay.se and get my files from there.
I think a lot of people will be careful with this.
Yes, think of the publishers. Think of the people who work in publishing houses. Think of everybody. Why does "think of the consequences of your actions" necessarily have to be a bad thing? He didn't say "don't do this cause someone may make less of a bonus", he said "think of the consequences of having a large group of people who are trained for one type of work now out of that work".
But information wants to be FREE! Every book should be FREE! Well, that's great and all, but how do I (theoretical publisher me) then buy food? You may think that publisher me shouldn't get money for these books, but can you please convince my landlord to not need money for rent? I mean, I'm not owning this room, I'm just taking up space. And can you have Safeway give me free food? I mean, tomatoes get their energy from sunshine, it's not like the farmer can add more sun.... Its just a plant right?
The economy is a complex system with a purchase/wage cycle at its core. Wages are not just costs, siphoned away from the system like a leaky pipe. They're also inputs to the system. The dollar you pay the publisher has some money going to the secretary who then buys coffee from Starbucks, then the barrista buys a magazine... etc. You're saying to not only pull some money from entering this cycle, but that even thinking about the hit to the cycle is a bad thing.
If you want to keep people employed then give them something of positive value to do,
We're going through a sea-change in jobs. A lot of friction is going away. Jobs where people studied for years and added value for years are now disappearing very quickly. At first it was manufacturing, but people thought "oh that's low value, you don't add much" so we didn't care. Officework went next, people adding value by thinking and typing, that went away with tech. Ever hear of a secretarial pool? Probably not; jobs that added value at one time, replaced by tech. Think you're job is safe? Probably not.
What are the jobs that you think we should do? What are they jobs that are "relatively safe", meaning there are enough jobs out there where you can get one and at least make enough money to pay back your student loans for college and then make an economic profit out of your sacrifice for schooling? I'll remind you that school costs are going up, scholarships are going down, and current jobs are being lost. Oh, and you'll probably have to redo that cycle at some point, since whole industries are being downsized. Saved by Entrepreneurship? Probably not; new companies are "efficient" meaning making a lot of money, but creating few new positions. All the billions that Apple gets makes very few jobs in the US.
Hmm, manufacturing is out. Driving (taxi, trucks) soon will be (thanks Google et al). IBM's Watson beat Ken Jennings, who knows what low end mental work it can do. Lawyers are looking for work, even volunteer jobs at decent firms are at a premium. Being a doctor will be less lucrative. Where do you think these publishers should work now? Sure, take away their jobs, but at least think of the consequences?
The interesting mix, is that just a few stories down on the home page is the story about the Facebook VOIP app that only can call Facebook users that have phone numbers on their profiles. Sometimes it's obvious that Facebook is moving too fast to realize how their different systems interact.
Slashdot Mirror
GP post was a joke, referring to how the first iPod was slammed, including in Slashdot
IIRC he is in charge, at least somewhat. The mess that happened with their currency where the economy semi-collapsed and people starved was Kim Jong Un's call. He also cleaned house and terminated (in the "send flowers" sense) a lot of the top brass that he felt wasn't sufficiently loyal.
He may be clueless, but he does have a lot of control.
In another NK note, The Worm's visit made me think of what I think is Shaquille ONeal's best quote:
Bitcoin cash: $150
Electricity spent mining cash: $20
Breaking everyone's favorite geek currency: Priceless
(Dramatic music plays)
We can go back to the dawn of man, and see that one of his core personality traits is The Story. From Cave Paintings telling stories of animals and hunts, to epic poems with strong rhyming so they can be orally passed on, to books, to plays, to movies, to TV, to Youtube, to blogs, to Twitter/Pinterest/FLickr/Tumblr/WhateverItIsToday... It's kind of all been a way for stories to get transmitted.
(end of bad music score)
So you dislike this specific medium... fine for you. Shakespeare had a lot of sex in his works, so he could sell tickets to the groundlings. I guess he's too lowbrow for you. The Bible has sex and violence and violent sex in it. Too lowbrow for you as well.
Don't blame the medium. Don't assume you know what people are watching. Don't disdain people for using a medium. Should I look down at you - Oh he's reading, and I know Penthouse Forum letters are written text, so he must be below me, so if he's reading text, he's a moron.
This immediately made me think of football.. Both with Brett Favre addicted to Vicodin, and the story of Keith McCants as told in 30 for 30: Broke. We get these athletes and tell them to play through pain, shoot them up with anything to get them on the field, then wonder why they're addicted in the offseason/retirement.
Ignoring them is pretty much what started the sabre rattling.
Think of North Korea not as a crazy guy, but as a sociopath. Think American Psycho.. not stupid, but will kill you without even blinking. What are their goals? To exist is one. To be fed. To have a lot of cash.
So, the North Korean economy is shit. They basically exist like the mafia - some foreign cash for renting out slave labor, a lot of money from counterfeiting, and extortion by threatening to blow people up. A lot of this sabre rattling comes from sanctions - threatening to turn off that money hose. If we just walk away, then the money doesn't go to the people in power, then they're in trouble. So, NK needs to be crazy every once in a while to do a cash grab.
The one balance NK actually needs to keep is not piss off China too much. China is the one ally they have, and gives them some (not a lot) of UN cover. I don't think it's a coincidence that this new round of sabre-rattling comes when even China said "hey, that's enough, knock it off".
And WTF Dennis Rodman?
I'm a relatively new Chicago driver (got my license at 33, about 8 years ago) because I walked and took public trans for a long period of my life. Chicago driving really makes you crazy. I tend to try to leave safe following distances between me and the car in front of me. In chicago if you have a safe following distance of a car length and 4 inches, there will be a new car 2" in front of your bumper in about 3 seconds. Cars passing 30mph faster than you on the right, cars cutting you off, cars honking at you at intersections because you choose not to plow through the pedestrians there...
I've driven a few other places on vacation, including Boston (which is crazy) but no other place is as antagonistic as Chicago. It's like "how dare you be ahead of me, I'm going to cut you off".
Oddly, Nissans and Minivans tend to be the worst out there. Cabs are predictable - they're gonna be fast, but it's about their job, so it's not about you.
On the plus side, maybe John Q. Public will still feel the crunch at tax time. That leads to some hope that even if we're (collectively) ok with the slaughter of countless "other people" (not us) that somewhere we'll get tired of paying for all the bullets.
I'm not so confident with that. As we debate how we can kickstart the US economy we're hampered somewhat in what we can do since we don't have a bunch of cash laying around from the Clinton years. Why? Bush tax cuts, and two unfunded wars. Do we debate the impact of the unfunded wars? Do we debate how much money was wasted in Iraq? Nahhh. Even in Obama's first term, all the debate was about what Obama did to create the deficit/debt. Barely anything about the money spent in wars and trying to get Saddam (we already shifted focus away from Bin Laden at that time).
When they had the JSF contest between the X-32 (Boeing) and the X-35 (Lockheed Marting), they already saw the handwriting on the wall. A lot of people at those firms fought hard for the contract because they felt that this would be the last big run of manned warplanes, at least for the US (where the big money was). Boeing lost, and as consolation got some tanker contracts, knowing there wouldn't be many big expensive fighter planes for it down the road.
Mind you competition was decided way back in 2001, way before the Predator/Reaper entered our daily lexicon (and even some really bad movies). This has been coming for a while.
This reminded me of the Star Trek episode (original Shatner-ized series) where the aliens encountered "evolved" to pushbutton war. Basically they just declared you "hit" like Battleship and you were supposed to exterminate yourself. It led to a war that never ended.
This probably isn't targeted at any gamer you know. GPUs are now better thought of as vector/parallel processing machines. Im sure a lot of Wall Street firms will pick these up, and the "graphics" card will never ever drive a monitor.
The other class would be guys who need to do visualizations. We've been promised "real time raytracing" for years now. Maybe Industrial Light and Magic will pick some up.
Dilbert is coding protection software to keep minors from viewing porn.
Dogbert: So, you're pitting your intellect against the collective sex drives of every teenager on the planet?
Dilbert: Yes.
Dogbert: Did you know that if you put a little hat on it a snowball can last a long time in hell?
Though this seems draconian, sometimes Yes, you Do need to have rules like this.
You create your spreadsheet. It grows warts, you add macros. It starts doing things you couldn't before. You share it with the guy next to you. Soon you have real money flowing through a spreadsheet with excel macros.
Now, how do I support that? I don't even know about it. Is it backed up? is there a single version or do two people have slightly different calculations? Is it on some fileshare, where people who shouldn't be able to see the data, can (good luck with SOX). What happens when one guy goes and he takes the knowledge with him?
So, our rule, no messing around with local DBs. If money ever flows through it, you'd better have it in a real DB, backed up, maintained by a real DBA. This makes it so impractical (do you really gain anything by putting it in a SQLite store for a week) that for all practical purposes, there are no local dbs.
I always thought a Vertu was like the "I Am Rich" app - an easy way to broadcast that you have enough money to purchase expensive frivolous things. As such the cascade of "well, the Galaxy S4 has more RAM...." will also be irrelevant.
I guess I'm just too paranoid - I'd always think of these phones as a big "please rob me" signs, even worse than an iPhone. I guess you'd hire a phone bodyguard when you got one.
All our servers are RHEL. All our desktops are also RHEL (well, mostly CentOS actually).
We build on desktops, and roll out to the servers.We have minor compatibility issues rolling out from point release differences of RHEL - say, code compiled on RHEL5.6 desktops didn't work on 5.5 servers. I can't imagine how many issues we'd have if we used Fedora, or worse yet (for compatibility) a completely different distro.
"Yeah, but you can compile on compile servers." Why would we have nice Linux desktops that all we do is run ssh to compile on an overused compile server?
So, we run RHEL on desktops for compatibility with prod targets, for solidness. The solidness which is really the whole point of RHEL. Google can choose to do whatever they want, but the reasons for our desktop distro makes sense to me. When you have billions going through your servers, you don't want to be messing around with distro incompatibility issues.
I believe in evolution, but I actually have some sympathy for Creationists, at least as Evolution is a harder theory to get your head around than most people think.
Say you have a Creationist, one who believes we were specially created by God, in His image, cause He likes us. Now, to that person, try to sell Evolution. It's just a rule set;
That's it.
C: How do humans come in?
E: Well, we're the current end of that line.
C: But, who said there should be humans?
E: Umm, no one. We're just the species that ended up after iterating that rule a few billion/trillion times.
C: Can you predict what we're gonna evolve into?
E: Umm, no. I don't know what random changes will happen, and which of those will get you laid.
C: Why not? You can predict elements that don't exist and how they'll react, but you can't predict evolution? I thought science creates models that allow prediction... This Evolution doesn't sound like science to me....
E: Ummmmmm...
C: Are we going to be smarter?
E: Dunno, only if being smarter gets you laid... Hmm, I guess not.
So, you want me to replace "I'm the chosen creation of God, center of the Universe" with "you're the product of more or less a series of random genetic events that had consequences." Under evolution, you're just a roadbump on a path - there were things before us, there will be things after us; we're the cosmic middle child.
Doesn't seem like a choice I'd make. I'd prefer being the scion of God, even if deep down I know it's not true.
There's some interesting theory that the second amendment wasn't the "oppose government when it steps on my freedom" but more to allow the slave patrol militias to keep operating.
Im not sure how you'd prove the reasoning of people long since gone one way or the other, but the reference to militias (which the slave patrols were called) and the reference to State rather than Country is consistent with the theory.
if so, it's not so much freedom, as much as freedom for whites to own others.
I have both a RaspPI (revB) with XBMC and an AppleTV2 jailbroken to run XBMC.
The AppleTV is rock solid, and pretty easy to use. The RasbPI gets hung sometimes, and requires a power-cord out powercycle (no power button, like the ATV2). The RaspPI also doesn't have a real remote. I have iOS remotes for it that work, and my TV can talk to it over HDMI, but it's still a little wonky. Having real USB on the PI is a plus, but the ports are unused in my house at this point.
So, the AppleTV is nicer looking, more solid under XBMC, has builtin WiFi, has a paired remote, and is easier to use. For some people (my wife for example) this is a better solution, worth the $40 or so price difference between the original price of an ATV2 and a PI with case and power supply. People spending $200 for a used ATV2 strike me as slightly odd at this point, with some other non-branded solutions probably better than either a $200 ATV2 or the PI revB.
crApple? Jeez... I thought calling it Micro$oft was bad. Yes, the troll was a fanboi. But you bit and went the wrong way.
Apple is much better at having a consistent platform than Android is. You have phones coming out 4 months ago stranded with no updates. Your iPhone 3G goes back (possibly) 4 years, and a minimum 2 years. It's a much different situation.
I have an iPod touch, gen 2, which has been stranded. I wish I could get an update on it. but the CPU on it is too old, so they don't support CPU hog IOS5 on it.
IIRC, he was detected, just wasn't shot down. More due to "what do we do what do we DO" than any stealthiness of such a basic plane.
Windows CE for phones for 2002. I haven't seen much since then that makes them seem like they have more of a clue now then before. The problem before was that they tried a Desktop-Mouse metaphor on a phone. Now they're forcing a touchscreen phone UI on a desktop.
This will not end as well as they'd like.
I remember the whole PlaysForSure fiasco, where at first, PlaysForSure was a new DRM that was incompatible with a good chunk of the players out at the time. Then, PlaysForSure servers got shut off, stranding people who bought their music legitimately.
For music, at least I can re-get the music someplace else. But for docs, these are my files, I can't go to documentbay.se and get my files from there.
I think a lot of people will be careful with this.
But Hyperbole is like the best thing EVER
Yes, think of the publishers. Think of the people who work in publishing houses. Think of everybody. Why does "think of the consequences of your actions" necessarily have to be a bad thing? He didn't say "don't do this cause someone may make less of a bonus", he said "think of the consequences of having a large group of people who are trained for one type of work now out of that work".
But information wants to be FREE! Every book should be FREE! Well, that's great and all, but how do I (theoretical publisher me) then buy food? You may think that publisher me shouldn't get money for these books, but can you please convince my landlord to not need money for rent? I mean, I'm not owning this room, I'm just taking up space. And can you have Safeway give me free food? I mean, tomatoes get their energy from sunshine, it's not like the farmer can add more sun.... Its just a plant right?
The economy is a complex system with a purchase/wage cycle at its core. Wages are not just costs, siphoned away from the system like a leaky pipe. They're also inputs to the system. The dollar you pay the publisher has some money going to the secretary who then buys coffee from Starbucks, then the barrista buys a magazine... etc. You're saying to not only pull some money from entering this cycle, but that even thinking about the hit to the cycle is a bad thing.
We're going through a sea-change in jobs. A lot of friction is going away. Jobs where people studied for years and added value for years are now disappearing very quickly. At first it was manufacturing, but people thought "oh that's low value, you don't add much" so we didn't care. Officework went next, people adding value by thinking and typing, that went away with tech. Ever hear of a secretarial pool? Probably not; jobs that added value at one time, replaced by tech. Think you're job is safe? Probably not.
What are the jobs that you think we should do? What are they jobs that are "relatively safe", meaning there are enough jobs out there where you can get one and at least make enough money to pay back your student loans for college and then make an economic profit out of your sacrifice for schooling? I'll remind you that school costs are going up, scholarships are going down, and current jobs are being lost. Oh, and you'll probably have to redo that cycle at some point, since whole industries are being downsized. Saved by Entrepreneurship? Probably not; new companies are "efficient" meaning making a lot of money, but creating few new positions. All the billions that Apple gets makes very few jobs in the US.
Hmm, manufacturing is out. Driving (taxi, trucks) soon will be (thanks Google et al). IBM's Watson beat Ken Jennings, who knows what low end mental work it can do. Lawyers are looking for work, even volunteer jobs at decent firms are at a premium. Being a doctor will be less lucrative. Where do you think these publishers should work now? Sure, take away their jobs, but at least think of the consequences?
The headline just writes itself sometimes.
The interesting mix, is that just a few stories down on the home page is the story about the Facebook VOIP app that only can call Facebook users that have phone numbers on their profiles. Sometimes it's obvious that Facebook is moving too fast to realize how their different systems interact.