A large robot with hidden, undocumented, surprise features is a danger. A potential killer. The particular one might seem funny, but it sets the precedent. If it trains the OEM-s to take this as a normal practice, then we will be doomed.
Sooner or later, some device will have such last-minute cute hack open for exploits.
The behavioural specs of the cars - or any public-use robots - must be fully transparent, compliant to whatever standards there will be, and open for public attestation or scrutiny.
Wait till you have Chinese or Russian-made connected cars. With telemetry and update channels ending up at their respective makers. Those are effectively civilian surveillance bots. With remote software update (giving potential full remote control), they also can "break away" from their drivers's control and do whatever the central hub tells them to do.
Then think of the reverse. US-made smart cars in Russia or China. Will Russia allow US-built, US-connected Teslas on their roads? Can you have an Israel-made car driving in Egypt? Lebanese or Iranian car in Israel?
With everyhing having a telemetry uplink up to their maker, the countries caring for they national safety have two options: - ban everything "smart", - terminate and proxy all connections.
We also need second and third intelligent species. They would pull us back to our senses before we nuked or boiled ourselves out of existence. Or take they could over where we failed.
My name and SSN are assigned to me. I cannot choose or change them. Thus, they should have no business value, esp no value in the credit / financial context. My address, my employment, my family are essentially fixed as well. Again - this data could be public. It should have no value.
"Identity theft" as perceived in the US must disappear. Stopping the criminals won't work - as long as there is anything of value, there will be intent and crime to get it. The value itself must change.
There are competent authorities for national security. They declare the policies, they set up the review and approval procedures and so on. Every country has them. Some other threads already mention them.
Why has the president need to step in? Which part of the current regulation failed? And, most importantly, do you WANT him to have this power?
"The president issued an order prohibiting the acquisition."
Why or how can a head of state interrupt a single business transaction?
Seriously... US is considered democracy par excellence. My guess is that the rest of the world simply has never understood the level of control that POTUS has over the country. So far, most presidents have not executed this control. But Trump has stepped down from governance to management. Is this how it should be? Do you (the US) plan to change this?
I have 3 kids, ages 7, 10, 4. All love Scratch. The 10yo is doing Python. All have tried some robotics programming (Lego WeDo / Mindstorms and Edison).
Whatever you do, remember that most of the kids are NOT nerds. Most programming textbooks and advice is written by nerds to nerds. For not-nerds, this is ultimately boring. They won't care about matrix multiplication, sorting algoritms, finding primes etc. But everyones loves graphics.
The first tasks should be graphical and/or game-like, with instant feedback and a fun factor. Let your kids draw boucing bubbles or a floating flower with changing colours. Let them design some simplest games - whack-a-mole, tic-tac-toe, hangman, etc.
Thus you will need a language with an easy graphics interface. Scratch is great for the first steps. From there... let us know:)
Unfortunately, the world looks at US for leadership and inspiration. Both in good and bad.
Not that I like it, but the trends from the 'states do spread over the globe with slow but unstoppable force. Maybe China will take over? But I doubt it would be a change for the better.
I have to correct myself. I did not mean that the government should provide free healthcare for all citizens; this would be a communist utopia. A mix of public and private / for-profit services should exist. The state should provide governance over the system and ensure that all citizens are covered, at least to a degree.
My point is that employers are not a part of this system.
The US situation where healthcare is so expensive and mis-governed that companies must kick in and use it as a hiring advantage - is perverse.
Our school got an of Videoton 1010B, a Hungarian copy of a French minicomputer. The mini itself was made in 1973-1974. We got it in 1985. http://www.mmkm.hu/index.php/c...
It had a classroom of 16x40 teletype displays, 64 kB hard drives the size of a big fridge, etc.
I have the printouts of the programs. It was pure hex, not even assembler or anything mnemonic.
Popular opinions often float at around 50%. If "a simple majority" would be sufficient for a major decision, then countries would switch their politics 180 degrees every second week.
Or as often as a referendum can be pulled. Which in a net-connected society would mean "instantaneously".
Perhaps American workers just value cash compensation over other benefits.
American workers are saving off for their kid's education and their own medical costs. Europeans just don't need to do that.
I worked for a large corporation with headquaters in US and branches everywhere. The Americans got paid a lot more - a LOT more. Their social insecurity was still showing off. Especially in family matters.
People getting 10x my salary stated "we cannot afford a second child". In my country, getting a child is a no-cost affair. All medical expenses are paid, a parent gets 1.5 years fully paid leave, education from kindergarten to university is free, etc. Even if you are unemployed, the state will cover your medical insurance and the child's basic needs.
What good are your "cash benefits" if you cannot have children???
Slashdot Mirror
https://livinglanguages.wordpr...
This estimation can be wrong in many ways, but the point remains: languages do die all the time.
A large robot with hidden, undocumented, surprise features is a danger.
A potential killer.
The particular one might seem funny, but it sets the precedent.
If it trains the OEM-s to take this as a normal practice, then we will be doomed.
Sooner or later, some device will have such last-minute cute hack open for exploits.
The behavioural specs of the cars - or any public-use robots - must be fully transparent, compliant to whatever standards there will be, and open for public attestation or scrutiny.
Wait till you have Chinese or Russian-made connected cars.
With telemetry and update channels ending up at their respective makers.
Those are effectively civilian surveillance bots.
With remote software update (giving potential full remote control), they also can "break away" from their drivers's control and do whatever the central hub tells them to do.
Then think of the reverse.
US-made smart cars in Russia or China.
Will Russia allow US-built, US-connected Teslas on their roads?
Can you have an Israel-made car driving in Egypt? Lebanese or Iranian car in Israel?
With everyhing having a telemetry uplink up to their maker, the countries caring for they national safety have two options:
- ban everything "smart",
- terminate and proxy all connections.
It is a fight waiting to happen.
All "our" phones are actually Chinese or Taiwanese or South Korean phones.
They may have all the backdoors in the world and the US would never know.
I read a lot while travelling - on planes and so on.
I borrow paper books from a next-door library.
Currently reading: "Hunting Eichmann"
https://www.goodreads.com/book...
The last book finished: "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves"
https://www.goodreads.com/book...
We also need second and third intelligent species.
They would pull us back to our senses before we nuked or boiled ourselves out of existence.
Or take they could over where we failed.
Immutable data should not have any value at all.
My name and SSN are assigned to me. I cannot choose or change them. Thus, they should have no business value, esp no value in the credit / financial context.
My address, my employment, my family are essentially fixed as well. Again - this data could be public. It should have no value.
"Identity theft" as perceived in the US must disappear.
Stopping the criminals won't work - as long as there is anything of value, there will be intent and crime to get it.
The value itself must change.
There are competent authorities for national security. They declare the policies, they set up the review and approval procedures and so on. Every country has them. Some other threads already mention them.
Why has the president need to step in?
Which part of the current regulation failed?
And, most importantly, do you WANT him to have this power?
"The president issued an order prohibiting the acquisition."
Why or how can a head of state interrupt a single business transaction?
Seriously... US is considered democracy par excellence. My guess is that the rest of the world simply has never understood the level of control that POTUS has over the country. So far, most presidents have not executed this control. But Trump has stepped down from governance to management.
Is this how it should be?
Do you (the US) plan to change this?
I have 3 kids, ages 7, 10, 4. All love Scratch. The 10yo is doing Python. All have tried some robotics programming (Lego WeDo / Mindstorms and Edison).
Whatever you do, remember that most of the kids are NOT nerds.
Most programming textbooks and advice is written by nerds to nerds.
For not-nerds, this is ultimately boring. They won't care about matrix multiplication, sorting algoritms, finding primes etc.
But everyones loves graphics.
The first tasks should be graphical and/or game-like, with instant feedback and a fun factor.
Let your kids draw boucing bubbles or a floating flower with changing colours.
Let them design some simplest games - whack-a-mole, tic-tac-toe, hangman, etc.
Thus you will need a language with an easy graphics interface. :)
Scratch is great for the first steps.
From there... let us know
Unfortunately, the world looks at US for leadership and inspiration.
Both in good and bad.
Not that I like it, but the trends from the 'states do spread over the globe with slow but unstoppable force.
Maybe China will take over? But I doubt it would be a change for the better.
Citizens should also gain the compensating right to require material to be ADDED to curriculums.
Then let's wait till 1st good guy steps in with pornhub printouts in hand (one hand).
Re-read the headline, replacing US with your favourite enemy.
Does it still hold?
If not, then the answer is "no".
US is not special in international law in any way.
I have to correct myself. I did not mean that the government should provide free healthcare for all citizens; this would be a communist utopia. A mix of public and private / for-profit services should exist. The state should provide governance over the system and ensure that all citizens are covered, at least to a degree.
My point is that employers are not a part of this system.
The US situation where healthcare is so expensive and mis-governed that companies must kick in and use it as a hiring advantage - is perverse.
European here.
Healthcare is a public service, not a corporate one.
Cook should pay salaries and taxes, and the gov't should do the rest.
The idea that Americans consider healthcare an employer's responsibility is simply awkward from our point of view.
Wrong.
Adults also learn.
Moving around in a slow shuffle, always at watch for sharp objects, is an essential parenting skill.
In dollars per hours played, Legos are dirt cheap.
I have 3 kids, boys & girls.
I count about 10000 hours total played.
Mostly emergent gameplay with existing bricks, not buying & assemblying new sets.
Wire.
https://wire.com/en/privacy/
Open source, open protocol, end-to-end crypto.
Based in Berlin thus not subject to US laws.
There needs to be a word for the use of terrorism in the pursuit of political aims. .
Metaterrorism.
Our school got an of Videoton 1010B, a Hungarian copy of a French minicomputer.
The mini itself was made in 1973-1974.
We got it in 1985.
http://www.mmkm.hu/index.php/c...
It had a classroom of 16x40 teletype displays, 64 kB hard drives the size of a big fridge, etc.
I have the printouts of the programs.
It was pure hex, not even assembler or anything mnemonic.
Looks like an onion, right?
Popular opinions often float at around 50%.
If "a simple majority" would be sufficient for a major decision, then countries would switch their politics 180 degrees every second week.
Or as often as a referendum can be pulled.
Which in a net-connected society would mean "instantaneously".
You don't call "encrypt and upload all your data, reset your device, restore data" a "hassle"?
Consumers disagree.
People will accidentally wipe the phones.
There would be 10 legitimate use and 10,000,000 acciddental customers with lost data and liability claims.
I, as a phone / OS provider, would fight this feature.
I, as a phone user, would fight this feature.
Imagine a prankster or a drunk friend or a child getting your phone and trying this out.
Perhaps American workers just value cash compensation over other benefits.
American workers are saving off for their kid's education and their own medical costs. Europeans just don't need to do that.
I worked for a large corporation with headquaters in US and branches everywhere. The Americans got paid a lot more - a LOT more. Their social insecurity was still showing off. Especially in family matters.
People getting 10x my salary stated "we cannot afford a second child". In my country, getting a child is a no-cost affair. All medical expenses are paid, a parent gets 1.5 years fully paid leave, education from kindergarten to university is free, etc. Even if you are unemployed, the state will cover your medical insurance and the child's basic needs.
What good are your "cash benefits" if you cannot have children???