Electric car sales in the US have just 1.1% market share. Saying you're laying off due to electric cars is a red herring. There is currently zero market in the US for autonomous cars, so any discussion about them is premature.
As far as automation - they already tried and failed..... Saturn was a GM company. "Saturn, A new kind of car, a new kind of company", was the slogan. Saturn had highly automated plants, and it still failed.
If you're not selling capacity, you cut capacity - business 101. US Auto sales fell 4% in Q3 2018, that's huge. Don't forget GM just went through bankruptcy, so it isn't stuck with legacy debt either. The economy is turning, despite record setting trinket sales on black Friday/cyber Monday, big ticket item sales are down (homes, appliances, cars etc) , and GM is adjusting.
It's absolutely true in general. Ever try to bring a business PCI complaint?I have, I'm also responsible for a CJIS environment and I'm CISSP certified.
My experience, professional work and certifications, tell you you're wrong.
Bullshit. There isnt a single application of BC that cant be built, faster, cheaper and with increased performance WITHOUT blockchain. as to secure.... You pointed out its "distributed". Any distributed system is only as secure as its least secure node. Every link in the chain can't possibly ensure every other link is secure (ie all patched, secure environment, pen tested, you know, security requirements) therefore the entire chain must be classified ad insecure. Hence... Blockchain is bs buzzwords.
"don't be evil" - google
"we don't share your data" - Face book
"don't be silly on bear stearns" - Jim Cramer, Mad Money
" We can't be sued for lying to shareholders because it was obvious we were lying" - Wells Fargo CEO
"you can't possibly use all that 10Mb hard drive" - someone said about the 10Mb PC hard drive
Ya, manufacturing tried that - remember "Saturn! A new kind of car, a new kind of company!"... Relied heavily on automation to reduce expenses.... where is Saturn now? gone....
For any dynamic automation to work, you need true AI. We're decades away from true, real, AI. What we have today is "task programming". The task of converting speech to text with zero grasp of context, meaning or relationships. suggestions are nonsensical, auto-correct is hilarious. nope, no IA there...
The "task" of driving a car, with zero understating of why it's going to x destination.
Don't confuse algorithms with with self learning, self adjusting synapses and dynamic physical changes as all brains self modify as they learn.
When your self driving car notices your garage door needs adjustment, or that you need to refill the cat box in the garage (because it 'noticed'), without these being added as code rule constructs, then you might have something.
Given that Google can’t make this a viable business model, its clear there’s no impending “robot revolution” just about to displace millions of workers via automation. Like most things, fear and hype are fed by the ignorant
It’s so comforting to know that a tyrannical, vindictive, petulant child who brazenly lies before congress (“shadow profiles”) is ultimately lord god over a greedy international corporate behemoth that can alter democracy and contains all user personal information what could possibly go wrong?
I've had to have all my cards replaced at least once in the past year due to failed chips. Additionally, all merchants take cards without chips anyway, so what's the point?
The notion of "hate speech" is nonsensical in a Country with true freedom of speech. There is a difference between speech and promoting criminal acts. Unfortunately, we in the US of given up rational thought and are no longer able to tell the difference.
"AS HIROSHIMA SMOULDERED, OUR ATOM BOMB SCIENTISTS SUFFERED REMORSE"...
Wanting Governments to give up easy and cheap mass citizen surveillance,
Wanting billion dollar global corporations to give up the power of harvesting every nuance of our personal lives for marketing dollars,
Wanting people to take back rational thought and fund institutions with editors, fact checkers and individuals actually held accountable instead of the instant gratification of being "liked",
Wanting acronym agencies to forgo the power of global spying with the push of a button
Tim, you and Dr. Oppenheimer know what it's like to "want".... or maybe you're just one of the "cry baby scientists" as referred to by President Truman after he dropped a couple of bombs
So the Pentagon is calling the 1st amendment "insurrection"
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
And Lord Trumkin believes he can invalidate the 14th Amendment with a waive of a pen.
Amendment XIV, Section 1.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."
Yet, he's the most popular Republican president with his base in the modern era. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Meanwhile the Right continues to deny any and all correlation between the talking head hate site FauxNoise, Trumpkin's rhetoric, and an increase in hate crimes. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/p...
And as to the "rapture" part: http://jesusplusnothing.com/st... https://theonlinedisciple.word...
"For every Christian, the goal is to be along in the rapture. That glorious moment when Jesus takes those who belong to Him up to heaven to be with Him eternally. This is part of the series of events described in the book of Revelation that will occur during the end times." https://activechristianity.org...
These people really believe this. I'm not trying to troll you or use strawman arguments. But don't be like them and dismiss statements out hand because you disagree with them. The fact is, these people vote and are in control of the US House, Senate, Oval Office and now have the Majority on the Supreme Court.
You said no one - here's one. You lose.
“As a Christian, I believe that there is a creator in God who is much bigger than us,” Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) told constituents last week at a town hall in Coldwater, Mich. “And I’m confident that, if there’s a real problem, he can take care of it.” https://www.washingtonpost.com...
sorry Dude, you need to pay attention to what the Christians are saying.
we have 12 years... 6 will be with the US under the control of people who push capitalism, less environmental regulation, and more profit of the future. That leaves 6 years for truly positive action.
Now consider that the US just went from 1st place to 2nd for CO2 emissions: https://www.ucsusa.org/global-...
In the US, the Right completely disagree that humans have the ability to change the environment – or species count. And they own the House, Senate, White House and are really busy appointing Corporate Friendly federal judges. In the US, Evangelicals and people of deep religious faith believe its nonsense that humans can affect planet as only God can. And if it is changing, its Gods will and God will save us (or those deemed worthy). Many of them are actually looking forward to the mass destruction of humanity believing we approach the “rapture”. A completely made up bs word never used in any scripture but signifying the end of time when believers will be rescued. So, why fix what will be wonderful?
A recent study says we have till 2030 – or just 12 short years – to fix this mess. https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
Also realize that there’s 2 years left of Lord Trumpkin and his army of Climate Change deniers busy rolling back environmental regulations. Then there’s another election, and probability shows the incumbent likely to win. Even though he lost popular vote last time, and since he’s become the most popular POTUS with his base since Reagan. Likely giving him 4 more years, or ½ of the total time we have left to fix the environment. Can the world fix it in 6 years despite the US doing it's best to ruin it? I wouldn’t bet on those odds.
So, like most societies before ours that found religion, and it’s faith-over-fact requirements, faith will ultimately end the human species. But, as George Carlin pointed out – in the end, the planet. Humans will be just another failed experiment.
Nothing new 40 years ago it was the “disenfranchised youth” – US educated I might add – that overthrew the Shaw of Iran and plunged the country into Sharia law. Taking a country from a global educational and social leadership roll to a terrorist theocracy.
The problem with attempting to equate 3rd world behaviors(ie, what happens in Brazil) to the US is that people under 30 don’t vote in the US and for the most part, are so busy watching themselves on Instagram, they don't think far enough ahead to bother to vote..
As someone who works for one of these companies that has a "wellness" program, it's not so voluntary. Companies get an insurance break for having a certain percentage of employees participate. In our case, we need 25% employee wellness program participation which includes an online survey asking question about weight, activity levels, eating habits, hobbies - all of which they claim are non-personal. Given that the organization gets a cost reduction for participation levels, you can guess how hard participation is "encouraged"...
What, you don't think your owned by the corporation you work for? you're delusional
And I'm dead fucking serious.. Nobody makes decisions at a business but the guy who's name is over the door. Workers are owned, any ideas they have at the office belong the corporation. It's really your choice - if you don't like the direction a company is doing, or what it's doing with your work, leave. That's really the only choice you have.
You can start your own company, you can work somewhere else or you can shutthefuckup. Some day when your noble-ism gets you unemployed, you've got a family to take care of and a roof to put over your head you'll remove your cranium from your rectum and realize you just need to work. Till then, just take the advice of those who've been there before.
you think I'm extreme... try telling your employer you disagree with what their doing and you won't do the job for which you were hired...hope you like unemployment.
And we completely trust FB not to gather all information it can about our private lives and personal conversations in our homes and not sell that to marketeers.
Never mind Zuck lied before congress about shadow profiles.
You work for someone else. They pay you to do a job. Shut up and do it. If you don't like what you do, quit and do something else... news flash - that next company is doing something equally awful or worse...
The Goal of a company is to make profit. period.
Don't like it - go to work for a non-profit at a 1/3 the salary. Either way, shut up and work.
Slashdot Mirror
Electric car sales in the US have just 1.1% market share. Saying you're laying off due to electric cars is a red herring. There is currently zero market in the US for autonomous cars, so any discussion about them is premature.
As far as automation - they already tried and failed..... Saturn was a GM company. "Saturn, A new kind of car, a new kind of company", was the slogan. Saturn had highly automated plants, and it still failed.
If you're not selling capacity, you cut capacity - business 101. US Auto sales fell 4% in Q3 2018, that's huge. Don't forget GM just went through bankruptcy, so it isn't stuck with legacy debt either. The economy is turning, despite record setting trinket sales on black Friday/cyber Monday, big ticket item sales are down (homes, appliances, cars etc) , and GM is adjusting.
Here come the Kaiju!
It's absolutely true in general. Ever try to bring a business PCI complaint?I have, I'm also responsible for a CJIS environment and I'm CISSP certified.
My experience, professional work and certifications, tell you you're wrong.
Time to stop calling them "influencers" and call them what they really are, pitch whores.
If you don't think social media is good, don't use it. End of story.
Bullshit. There isnt a single application of BC that cant be built, faster, cheaper and with increased performance WITHOUT blockchain. as to secure.... You pointed out its "distributed". Any distributed system is only as secure as its least secure node. Every link in the chain can't possibly ensure every other link is secure (ie all patched, secure environment, pen tested, you know, security requirements) therefore the entire chain must be classified ad insecure. Hence... Blockchain is bs buzzwords.
"don't be evil" - google
"we don't share your data" - Face book
"don't be silly on bear stearns" - Jim Cramer, Mad Money
" We can't be sued for lying to shareholders because it was obvious we were lying" - Wells Fargo CEO
"you can't possibly use all that 10Mb hard drive" - someone said about the 10Mb PC hard drive
"we'll support it 10 years!" - Ubuntu....
The real question, "how big a sucker are you?"
Ya, manufacturing tried that - remember "Saturn! A new kind of car, a new kind of company!"... Relied heavily on automation to reduce expenses.... where is Saturn now? gone....
For any dynamic automation to work, you need true AI. We're decades away from true, real, AI. What we have today is "task programming". The task of converting speech to text with zero grasp of context, meaning or relationships. suggestions are nonsensical, auto-correct is hilarious. nope, no IA there...
The "task" of driving a car, with zero understating of why it's going to x destination.
Don't confuse algorithms with with self learning, self adjusting synapses and dynamic physical changes as all brains self modify as they learn.
When your self driving car notices your garage door needs adjustment, or that you need to refill the cat box in the garage (because it 'noticed'), without these being added as code rule constructs, then you might have something.
Given that Google can’t make this a viable business model, its clear there’s no impending “robot revolution” just about to displace millions of workers via automation. Like most things, fear and hype are fed by the ignorant
It’s so comforting to know that a tyrannical, vindictive, petulant child who brazenly lies before congress (“shadow profiles”) is ultimately lord god over a greedy international corporate behemoth that can alter democracy and contains all user personal information what could possibly go wrong?
I've had to have all my cards replaced at least once in the past year due to failed chips. Additionally, all merchants take cards without chips anyway, so what's the point?
The notion of "hate speech" is nonsensical in a Country with true freedom of speech. There is a difference between speech and promoting criminal acts. Unfortunately, we in the US of given up rational thought and are no longer able to tell the difference.
"AS HIROSHIMA SMOULDERED, OUR ATOM BOMB SCIENTISTS SUFFERED REMORSE"...
Wanting Governments to give up easy and cheap mass citizen surveillance,
Wanting billion dollar global corporations to give up the power of harvesting every nuance of our personal lives for marketing dollars,
Wanting people to take back rational thought and fund institutions with editors, fact checkers and individuals actually held accountable instead of the instant gratification of being "liked",
Wanting acronym agencies to forgo the power of global spying with the push of a button
Tim, you and Dr. Oppenheimer know what it's like to "want".... or maybe you're just one of the "cry baby scientists" as referred to by President Truman after he dropped a couple of bombs
So the Pentagon is calling the 1st amendment "insurrection"
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
And Lord Trumkin believes he can invalidate the 14th Amendment with a waive of a pen.
Amendment XIV, Section 1. "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."
Yet, he's the most popular Republican president with his base in the modern era.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Meanwhile the Right continues to deny any and all correlation between the talking head hate site FauxNoise, Trumpkin's rhetoric, and an increase in hate crimes.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/p...
vote people, get out and vote.
And as to the "rapture" part: http://jesusplusnothing.com/st...
https://theonlinedisciple.word...
"For every Christian, the goal is to be along in the rapture. That glorious moment when Jesus takes those who belong to Him up to heaven to be with Him eternally. This is part of the series of events described in the book of Revelation that will occur during the end times."
https://activechristianity.org...
These people really believe this. I'm not trying to troll you or use strawman arguments. But don't be like them and dismiss statements out hand because you disagree with them. The fact is, these people vote and are in control of the US House, Senate, Oval Office and now have the Majority on the Supreme Court.
You said no one - here's one. You lose.
“As a Christian, I believe that there is a creator in God who is much bigger than us,” Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) told constituents last week at a town hall in Coldwater, Mich. “And I’m confident that, if there’s a real problem, he can take care of it.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
sorry Dude, you need to pay attention to what the Christians are saying.
we have 12 years... 6 will be with the US under the control of people who push capitalism, less environmental regulation, and more profit of the future. That leaves 6 years for truly positive action.
Now consider that the US just went from 1st place to 2nd for CO2 emissions:
https://www.ucsusa.org/global-...
and maybe your missing the big picture.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Ted Cruz: Evidence doesn't support global warming:
https://www.npr.org/2015/12/09...
GOP leaders view climate change as fake science:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
GOP-Climate change education is propaganda:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer...
Next lie, snoflake?
In the US, the Right completely disagree that humans have the ability to change the environment – or species count. And they own the House, Senate, White House and are really busy appointing Corporate Friendly federal judges. In the US, Evangelicals and people of deep religious faith believe its nonsense that humans can affect planet as only God can. And if it is changing, its Gods will and God will save us (or those deemed worthy). Many of them are actually looking forward to the mass destruction of humanity believing we approach the “rapture”. A completely made up bs word never used in any scripture but signifying the end of time when believers will be rescued. So, why fix what will be wonderful?
A recent study says we have till 2030 – or just 12 short years – to fix this mess.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
Also realize that there’s 2 years left of Lord Trumpkin and his army of Climate Change deniers busy rolling back environmental regulations. Then there’s another election, and probability shows the incumbent likely to win. Even though he lost popular vote last time, and since he’s become the most popular POTUS with his base since Reagan. Likely giving him 4 more years, or ½ of the total time we have left to fix the environment. Can the world fix it in 6 years despite the US doing it's best to ruin it? I wouldn’t bet on those odds.
So, like most societies before ours that found religion, and it’s faith-over-fact requirements, faith will ultimately end the human species. But, as George Carlin pointed out – in the end, the planet. Humans will be just another failed experiment.
Nothing new 40 years ago it was the “disenfranchised youth” – US educated I might add – that overthrew the Shaw of Iran and plunged the country into Sharia law. Taking a country from a global educational and social leadership roll to a terrorist theocracy.
The problem with attempting to equate 3rd world behaviors(ie, what happens in Brazil) to the US is that people under 30 don’t vote in the US and for the most part, are so busy watching themselves on Instagram, they don't think far enough ahead to bother to vote..
As someone who works for one of these companies that has a "wellness" program, it's not so voluntary. Companies get an insurance break for having a certain percentage of employees participate. In our case, we need 25% employee wellness program participation which includes an online survey asking question about weight, activity levels, eating habits, hobbies - all of which they claim are non-personal. Given that the organization gets a cost reduction for participation levels, you can guess how hard participation is "encouraged"...
view point is irrelevant. do what your told self righteous millennial.
What, you don't think your owned by the corporation you work for? you're delusional
And I'm dead fucking serious.. Nobody makes decisions at a business but the guy who's name is over the door. Workers are owned, any ideas they have at the office belong the corporation. It's really your choice - if you don't like the direction a company is doing, or what it's doing with your work, leave. That's really the only choice you have.
You can start your own company, you can work somewhere else or you can shutthefuckup. Some day when your noble-ism gets you unemployed, you've got a family to take care of and a roof to put over your head you'll remove your cranium from your rectum and realize you just need to work. Till then, just take the advice of those who've been there before.
you think I'm extreme... try telling your employer you disagree with what their doing and you won't do the job for which you were hired...hope you like unemployment.
And we completely trust FB not to gather all information it can about our private lives and personal conversations in our homes and not sell that to marketeers.
Never mind Zuck lied before congress about shadow profiles.
You work for someone else. They pay you to do a job. Shut up and do it. If you don't like what you do, quit and do something else... news flash - that next company is doing something equally awful or worse...
The Goal of a company is to make profit. period.
Don't like it - go to work for a non-profit at a 1/3 the salary. Either way, shut up and work.