Of course tech companies want trained worker bees pouring from high school classrooms around the world. Ask yourself what is the biggest expense for these companies- of course; workers! How can they reduce that expense to satisfy their investors? By reducing payroll costs. How to do that? By increasing competition for jobs to the extent that new hires will be happy with minimum wage. And the way to do that is to assure that millions of adequately skilled programmers emerge from high schools every year.
(I haven't mentioned the cheap foreign labor pouring into the US, thanks to the efforts of these same corporate 'visionaries'.)
I suggest that this is a very poor career choice for American ten year olds. Most programming will be automated. Small code segments from large projects will done as piecework by the lowest bidder in an online exchange. Demands on coders will increase, rewards will fade. The aspiring 'code warrior' will have become a starving code monkey and there will be no money in it for anyone but Wall Street and marketers.
How can the reader tell when a word is a Proper Noun, Trademarked, etc; or when it is an Ordinary Word? I've complained about this before and some have claimed that the slashdot way is always used by journalists. Well that's not true and here is proof. Slashdot's way is stupid and unconscionable. Look at this summary extracted from today's headlines at Google news. Note the familiar publisher's names and how they handle capitalization in titles:
Dozens of coalition troops die in Houthi missile strike in Yemen CNN Finnish PM's offer to migrants: Take my spare house STLtoday.com Protests Continue in Southern Syrian City Voice of America 47 dead as rebels battle IS in north Syria: monitor Financial Express Vast, stubborn Fresno wildfire expected to rage through long weekend Los Angeles Times What have Bush, Clinton learned from voters attraction to the outsiders? Washington Post Police pay respects to slain Texas lawman Brownsville Herald Plainclothes cops keep eye out for Times Square hustlers seattlepi.com No more union coal mines remain in Kentucky, home of the deadly battles of... Fox Business Jobless rate falls to 5.1%, a 7-year low NWAOnline New England's ports, long past their prime, seek comeback with niches in... Fox Business Advisory Group Says BofA Should Split CEO and Chairman Roles New York Times Apple will show a lot more than iPhones at its September event Mashable Google may return to China with Android app shop: report Livemint Uber Expires Share Your ETA Links After 48 Hours I4U News Destiny composer Marty O'Donnell wins court case against Bungie Load The Game Farthest-ever 3.2-billion-years old galaxy detected The Indian Express Scientists hunt for clues in mysterious deaths of 60000 antelopes in four days Christian Science Monitor Predator population grows slowly in crowded environment: Study NYC Today University of Kansas Researchers Discover Quark-Gluon Plasma NYC Today Legionnaires' disease outbreaks in three states, 8 people died in Illinois The Standard Daily Scientists working on making a gadget to cure seasickness Nature World Report CDC is funding to help state health department to eradicate painkiller abuse The Standard Daily Take Aspirin to boost your immunotherapy treatment during cancer PPP Focus.com
There's too much science here. Who really cares about 2 degrees? Lots of predictions, statistical projections, meaningless numbers and scientific papers... I want blood and gore! I want great debates and powerful forces aligned with questionable business practices. Face it people, there is no life in science, the life is in the arguments that come after. More politics, please!
We can perform miracles when we apply science to the problem. All we need here is to reformulate plastics into a nutritious dietary enhancement. Plastics have long taken many forms, textures and other characteristics with the brilliant work of scientists and engineers. The only plastic on my 1950 Pontiac was a hood ornament that looked like amber. Today there's no place to put a magnet in your car- everything is plastic.
Furthermore, let's look on some past breakthroughs, like in the 70s when we created the Six Million Dollar Man and edible panties. Didn't Kennedy and dedicated American scientists put a man on the moon? We can do this people!
Apologizing for all caps in title; it seems to be required at slashdot.
from the summary "...the risk of getting caught or killed by law enforcement so that only depraved hatred, or religious fervor has been able to motivate someone to take on those risks as part of a plan to harm other people."
Of course this Rubalcava guy wants to stir up excitement, panic, whatever. That's what people do during the slow times between real disasters. But I doubt that there are no other ways to harm people without risk. I could make a list but for the fact that unimaginative people like Rubalcava would incite more panic with it.
Really, can't you think of ways to harm large numbers of people without risk to yourself? (Keep them to yourself, no need to advertise them.)
Why would you think that AVs are only for humans? Much of the world's transport has nothing to do with humans. Ships, planes, trains and road vehicles are used for products and materials delivery and even now there are very few humans in those vehicles or on the phone telling them where to go. In the future, shippers will find it expedient to remove the last remaining humans from the system.
"Cliff Bleszinski's Boss Key Productions Unveils LawBreakers Game Trailer"
When every word starts with a capital, none of the capitals have meaning. Entire sentences have no meaning. What possible benefit is there for this insane habit? Wake up Slashdot, use caps only when required.
Or, if you really want to be stupid, cap every letter: CLIFF BLESZINKSI blah blah.
I skipped the Discovery link to avoid hype and went directly to the Harvard link.
Disappointing. One expects a certain sobriety from scientists and yet something is terribly wrong here. The article is peppered with weasel words: an unusually vague 'theory'; and words like: could, might, if, potentially, would, and the ever dreadful 'assumes'. Let's hope that the actual paper will have a more solid foundation.
It is important that we always believe that there are competitors, enemies and evildoers surrounding us. Without this belief, we might shut down the worldwide military industrial complex that pays for the re-election campaigns of our leaders.
As many have said, it is insane to save things related to your personal interests on an anonymous server. Most of us have trilobytes of hard drive space available--so use it. Also, few web pages are worth saving due to the 30% devoted to content, 70% to obnoxious noise. So, some cleanup is desirable.
Here's what works on my Mac (YMMV): I find an interesting page that I haven't time to study right now so my first choice is to Copy the text and Paste it into a text editor. Perhaps there are pictures and charts that I want to include- I can copy & paste them too, but that's time consuming and some formatting is often lost.
The next option (brilliant, you'll agree) is to turn on the Add-On called HackTheWeb. Oooh, you're gonna like it. So now I can select elements of the page to Remove or maybe a central article to Isolate. On a very complex page it can be tricky to get just what you want without all the cruft. Get rid of the ads, doodads and other junk leaving a nice clean article to save.
Finally, with the Mac I go to the Print menu and verify that it looks like I expect, and then I Print to PDF. I have a clean copy ON MY DRIVE, and not some foreign server. The entire process takes 1-3 minutes but it results in an easy to read page that can be proudly shared with other interested parties.
"Statistics show that 20 percent of our water supply is lost every single day because of leaks in the pipes that make up the national infrastructure... Monitoring every pipe in real time would require the ability to gather and analyze huge volumes of data at speeds that are just not possible today. "
I'm not sure how 5G is going to help our 100 year old supply pipes that we can't even afford to repair. Perhaps we can plug the cracks with 5G Nokia phones.
This appears to be a promo aimed at ignorant investors. It's hard to believe that the Nokia CTO would write such nonsense to the tech savvy.
You seem to have ignored all the conflicting evidence right on this page about your calorie theory. Nor do you offer any authoritative source for your assurances (hopefully from real scientists living in this century who have not been bribed).
I consume massive quantities of fat, average protein, almost zero carbohydrates, and a generous quantity of vodka. Every measurable indicator of health is improved, my endurance is improved, my diabetes is gone and I'm losing weight like crazy. About 50 million people around the world have benefited from similar diets. How does your theory explain that?
"plenty of ag programs at public universities doing research on GMOs" - where do they get the money for this? Without knowing this, that research is useless.
'quarter billion dollars' - how is any part of that competitive with Monsanto research? If they put 100% of that to find the truth, the big M would still crush them. Don't forget their formidable legal department.
Today we have similar news about Coca-Cola planning to use science to convince us that sugar is not causing obesity. They will pay for that 'science', and nobody has the budget to prove it wrong. In fact, all the junk food purveyors will join Coke to prove junk food is good for you. And the government will reshape the Food Pyramid to assure continued profits for them.
Politicians, as I mentioned before, are spineless in the face of re-election ambitions. Coke and Monsanto are very helpful to politicians. You may rest assured that Monsanto goons are headed to Scotland with carrots and sticks to assure their local profits.
Disclaimer: I don't know that GMOs are unhealthy. I do know that Monsanto has hurt some farmers. They are a corporation, and in the US that means that their ONLY loyalty is to their shareholders.
I see ads; text ads. Google itself inserts text ads in some places. They work, I sometimes read them, sometimes follow a link. But pop-up ads, videos, slide shows, obstructive banners and any visual or audible noise are banned. Tracking web bugs and many scripts are banned. Often sites don't work for me because of this, so I just leave. Other than my bank and very few other businesses, all sites are disposable.
Advertisers are hurting themselves as well as those of us who have to suffer them. Sensible text ads can work, and they are very hard to block.
Does anyone here remember Burma Shave ads along rural highways? http://theshaveden.com/forums/...
Everyone loved them, cute little rhymes that concluded with a reminder to buy their product. Creativity in advertising today seems to be a matter of producing bigger, more obnoxious noise. There is much that can still be done with a whisper.
You get the science you pay for. And who's paying for it? Why, it's Monsanto! Do you see any non-profits who can buy a comprehensive study disproving Monsanto claims? Is there an elected official who will support an investigation of Monsanto? (Try to find one who doesn't get support from the company.) As usual, when a controversy arises you can usually follow the money to see who is behind the 'facts' we are presented with.
I worked for Apple for a time. And many other companies. I never revealed my race on those forms and I don't know of anyone who did. I doubt there are any valid statistics to be found.
"Bars, pubs and restaurants, I'm told, have toilets."
I'm sorry to see so much hatred toward the homeless. Do you see lots of homeless people in bars ordering $6 drinks? No. College kids, perhaps; and yes they pee in alleys after closing sometimes.
In the US we have liquor stores where people carry out bottles of far more affordable liquids. They rarely allow use of toilets. Yes, we have lots of homeless who drink, but we have many more who do not drink. Many who don't do drugs. Many who are simply way down on their luck or need medical attention.
Even sober people have to pee; and those areas where homeless people (men, women and children) end up won't offer a proper facility. Don't be an asshole- homeless people often have no other option.
Nostalgia has its place (among the aged and decrepit population). This space suit was built by committees and entrepreneurs who did their best to meet the anticipated requirements. A laudable goal. The primitive nature of this space suit is worthy of consideration as we consider future designs, and yet even our future designs fail to fully understand the reality of space.
Yes, this space suit (or a replica) deserves a place in some stupid museum for future earthlings to snicker at, but please--spend your donation dollars to fund a future suit that will protect astronauts of the future.
"Also, why the fuck are you calling brazillians "primitive", you mook?"
I have family there who will read these posts. I take every opportunity to annoy them. Maybe some day they will come back to the US and I can annoy them face to face in the comfort of my home. But I'm happy to insult a few/. readers while I'm at it. (I had to research 'mook'; hey, that's not a nice appellation!)
OS X and iOS constantly nag users to update system software and user apps. Sometimes an app is really improved, but far more often the update includes adware and other crap. There's no way to know because those 'enhancements' are not mentioned when you are asked to update. It's best to look around for other users who updated and reported on the result--if you have lots of time on your hands...
My question to you is: Is Fred a common name in Brasil? Or is this another case of Americans imposing their culture on a primitive, unsuspecting people?
Headlights that turn have been around a while. Citroen & BMW seem to have had them. The American car, Tucker, had many such innovations. BMW also had side lights that help in tight turns. Here are some links:
Interacting with a car or motorcycle on a country road or mountain curve can be a pleasure, a form of meditation sometimes. We will lose that as vehicles get smarter and more independent.
Slashdot Mirror
Of course tech companies want trained worker bees pouring from high school classrooms around the world. Ask yourself what is the biggest expense for these companies- of course; workers! How can they reduce that expense to satisfy their investors? By reducing payroll costs. How to do that? By increasing competition for jobs to the extent that new hires will be happy with minimum wage. And the way to do that is to assure that millions of adequately skilled programmers emerge from high schools every year.
(I haven't mentioned the cheap foreign labor pouring into the US, thanks to the efforts of these same corporate 'visionaries'.)
I suggest that this is a very poor career choice for American ten year olds. Most programming will be automated. Small code segments from large projects will done as piecework by the lowest bidder in an online exchange. Demands on coders will increase, rewards will fade. The aspiring 'code warrior' will have become a starving code monkey and there will be no money in it for anyone but Wall Street and marketers.
How can the reader tell when a word is a Proper Noun, Trademarked, etc; or when it is an Ordinary Word? I've complained about this before and some have claimed that the slashdot way is always used by journalists. Well that's not true and here is proof. Slashdot's way is stupid and unconscionable. Look at this summary extracted from today's headlines at Google news. Note the familiar publisher's names and how they handle capitalization in titles:
Dozens of coalition troops die in Houthi missile strike in Yemen ... ...
CNN
Finnish PM's offer to migrants: Take my spare house
STLtoday.com
Protests Continue in Southern Syrian City
Voice of America
47 dead as rebels battle IS in north Syria: monitor
Financial Express
Vast, stubborn Fresno wildfire expected to rage through long weekend
Los Angeles Times
What have Bush, Clinton learned from voters attraction to the outsiders?
Washington Post
Police pay respects to slain Texas lawman
Brownsville Herald
Plainclothes cops keep eye out for Times Square hustlers
seattlepi.com
No more union coal mines remain in Kentucky, home of the deadly battles of
Fox Business
Jobless rate falls to 5.1%, a 7-year low
NWAOnline
New England's ports, long past their prime, seek comeback with niches in
Fox Business
Advisory Group Says BofA Should Split CEO and Chairman Roles
New York Times
Apple will show a lot more than iPhones at its September event
Mashable
Google may return to China with Android app shop: report
Livemint
Uber Expires Share Your ETA Links After 48 Hours
I4U News
Destiny composer Marty O'Donnell wins court case against Bungie
Load The Game
Farthest-ever 3.2-billion-years old galaxy detected
The Indian Express
Scientists hunt for clues in mysterious deaths of 60000 antelopes in four days
Christian Science Monitor
Predator population grows slowly in crowded environment: Study
NYC Today
University of Kansas Researchers Discover Quark-Gluon Plasma
NYC Today
Legionnaires' disease outbreaks in three states, 8 people died in Illinois
The Standard Daily
Scientists working on making a gadget to cure seasickness
Nature World Report
CDC is funding to help state health department to eradicate painkiller abuse
The Standard Daily
Take Aspirin to boost your immunotherapy treatment during cancer
PPP Focus.com
There's too much science here. Who really cares about 2 degrees? Lots of predictions, statistical projections, meaningless numbers and scientific papers... I want blood and gore! I want great debates and powerful forces aligned with questionable business practices. Face it people, there is no life in science, the life is in the arguments that come after. More politics, please!
And no, facetious is not the same as feces.
"How about FORTH? It's the stack fantastic!"
That's right- simple, elegant, efficient and an RPN mind bender.
Or, consider Hypercard/Hypertalk- bulky, clumsy, inelegant; but loved by millions long ago.
We can perform miracles when we apply science to the problem. All we need here is to reformulate plastics into a nutritious dietary enhancement. Plastics have long taken many forms, textures and other characteristics with the brilliant work of scientists and engineers. The only plastic on my 1950 Pontiac was a hood ornament that looked like amber. Today there's no place to put a magnet in your car- everything is plastic.
Furthermore, let's look on some past breakthroughs, like in the 70s when we created the Six Million Dollar Man and edible panties. Didn't Kennedy and dedicated American scientists put a man on the moon? We can do this people!
Apologizing for all caps in title; it seems to be required at slashdot.
from the summary
"...the risk of getting caught or killed by law enforcement so that only depraved hatred, or religious fervor has been able to motivate someone to take on those risks as part of a plan to harm other people."
Of course this Rubalcava guy wants to stir up excitement, panic, whatever. That's what people do during the slow times between real disasters. But I doubt that there are no other ways to harm people without risk. I could make a list but for the fact that unimaginative people like Rubalcava would incite more panic with it.
Really, can't you think of ways to harm large numbers of people without risk to yourself?
(Keep them to yourself, no need to advertise them.)
Why would you think that AVs are only for humans? Much of the world's transport has nothing to do with humans. Ships, planes, trains and road vehicles are used for products and materials delivery and even now there are very few humans in those vehicles or on the phone telling them where to go. In the future, shippers will find it expedient to remove the last remaining humans from the system.
This appears to be the vision of a very small number of developers. One? Of course they welcome help but the single vision is important.
A person I greatly respected (my mommy) used to say, when she saw an ugly building, "It looks like it was built by a committee."
Have you ever noticed this effect in a software project?
"Cliff Bleszinski's Boss Key Productions Unveils LawBreakers Game Trailer"
When every word starts with a capital, none of the capitals have meaning. Entire sentences have no meaning. What possible benefit is there for this insane habit? Wake up Slashdot, use caps only when required.
Or, if you really want to be stupid, cap every letter: CLIFF BLESZINKSI blah blah.
I skipped the Discovery link to avoid hype and went directly to the Harvard link.
Disappointing. One expects a certain sobriety from scientists and yet something is terribly wrong here. The article is peppered with weasel words: an unusually vague 'theory'; and words like: could, might, if, potentially, would, and the ever dreadful 'assumes'. Let's hope that the actual paper will have a more solid foundation.
It is important that we always believe that there are competitors, enemies and evildoers surrounding us. Without this belief, we might shut down the worldwide military industrial complex that pays for the re-election campaigns of our leaders.
As many have said, it is insane to save things related to your personal interests on an anonymous server. Most of us have trilobytes of hard drive space available--so use it. Also, few web pages are worth saving due to the 30% devoted to content, 70% to obnoxious noise. So, some cleanup is desirable.
Here's what works on my Mac (YMMV): I find an interesting page that I haven't time to study right now so my first choice is to Copy the text and Paste it into a text editor. Perhaps there are pictures and charts that I want to include- I can copy & paste them too, but that's time consuming and some formatting is often lost.
The next option (brilliant, you'll agree) is to turn on the Add-On called HackTheWeb. Oooh, you're gonna like it. So now I can select elements of the page to Remove or maybe a central article to Isolate. On a very complex page it can be tricky to get just what you want without all the cruft. Get rid of the ads, doodads and other junk leaving a nice clean article to save.
Finally, with the Mac I go to the Print menu and verify that it looks like I expect, and then I Print to PDF. I have a clean copy ON MY DRIVE, and not some foreign server. The entire process takes 1-3 minutes but it results in an easy to read page that can be proudly shared with other interested parties.
"We should pass a law: if any public funding is used for research, the public has a right to free and unfettered access of your research results..."
ABSOLUTELY, and let's take that one step farther. If tax funded research leads to a patentable result--the patent belongs to the taxpayers.
Far too often, one of the researchers walks off the university campus, gets funding, and makes millions for himself from a patent that we paid for.
"Statistics show that 20 percent of our water supply is lost every single day because of leaks in the pipes that make up the national infrastructure...
Monitoring every pipe in real time would require the ability to gather and analyze huge volumes of data at speeds that are just not possible today. "
I'm not sure how 5G is going to help our 100 year old supply pipes that we can't even afford to repair. Perhaps we can plug the cracks with 5G Nokia phones.
This appears to be a promo aimed at ignorant investors. It's hard to believe that the Nokia CTO would write such nonsense to the tech savvy.
Nc = F - (Bmr + E) ?
You seem to have ignored all the conflicting evidence right on this page about your calorie theory. Nor do you offer any authoritative source for your assurances (hopefully from real scientists living in this century who have not been bribed).
I consume massive quantities of fat, average protein, almost zero carbohydrates, and a generous quantity of vodka. Every measurable indicator of health is improved, my endurance is improved, my diabetes is gone and I'm losing weight like crazy. About 50 million people around the world have benefited from similar diets. How does your theory explain that?
What part of 'follow the money' eludes you?
"plenty of ag programs at public universities doing research on GMOs" - where do they get the money for this? Without knowing this, that research is useless.
'quarter billion dollars' - how is any part of that competitive with Monsanto research? If they put 100% of that to find the truth, the big M would still crush them. Don't forget their formidable legal department.
Today we have similar news about Coca-Cola planning to use science to convince us that sugar is not causing obesity. They will pay for that 'science', and nobody has the budget to prove it wrong. In fact, all the junk food purveyors will join Coke to prove junk food is good for you. And the government will reshape the Food Pyramid to assure continued profits for them.
Politicians, as I mentioned before, are spineless in the face of re-election ambitions. Coke and Monsanto are very helpful to politicians. You may rest assured that Monsanto goons are headed to Scotland with carrots and sticks to assure their local profits.
Disclaimer: I don't know that GMOs are unhealthy. I do know that Monsanto has hurt some farmers. They are a corporation, and in the US that means that their ONLY loyalty is to their shareholders.
I see ads; text ads. Google itself inserts text ads in some places. They work, I sometimes read them, sometimes follow a link. But pop-up ads, videos, slide shows, obstructive banners and any visual or audible noise are banned. Tracking web bugs and many scripts are banned. Often sites don't work for me because of this, so I just leave. Other than my bank and very few other businesses, all sites are disposable.
Advertisers are hurting themselves as well as those of us who have to suffer them. Sensible text ads can work, and they are very hard to block.
Does anyone here remember Burma Shave ads along rural highways?
http://theshaveden.com/forums/...
Everyone loved them, cute little rhymes that concluded with a reminder to buy their product. Creativity in advertising today seems to be a matter of producing bigger, more obnoxious noise. There is much that can still be done with a whisper.
You get the science you pay for. And who's paying for it? Why, it's Monsanto! Do you see any non-profits who can buy a comprehensive study disproving Monsanto claims? Is there an elected official who will support an investigation of Monsanto? (Try to find one who doesn't get support from the company.) As usual, when a controversy arises you can usually follow the money to see who is behind the 'facts' we are presented with.
I worked for Apple for a time. And many other companies. I never revealed my race on those forms and I don't know of anyone who did. I doubt there are any valid statistics to be found.
"Bars, pubs and restaurants, I'm told, have toilets."
I'm sorry to see so much hatred toward the homeless. Do you see lots of homeless people in bars ordering $6 drinks? No. College kids, perhaps; and yes they pee in alleys after closing sometimes.
In the US we have liquor stores where people carry out bottles of far more affordable liquids. They rarely allow use of toilets. Yes, we have lots of homeless who drink, but we have many more who do not drink. Many who don't do drugs. Many who are simply way down on their luck or need medical attention.
Even sober people have to pee; and those areas where homeless people (men, women and children) end up won't offer a proper facility. Don't be an asshole- homeless people often have no other option.
I don't care for this.
Nostalgia has its place (among the aged and decrepit population). This space suit was built by committees and entrepreneurs who did their best to meet the anticipated requirements. A laudable goal. The primitive nature of this space suit is worthy of consideration as we consider future designs, and yet even our future designs fail to fully understand the reality of space.
Yes, this space suit (or a replica) deserves a place in some stupid museum for future earthlings to snicker at, but please--spend your donation dollars to fund a future suit that will protect astronauts of the future.
"Also, why the fuck are you calling brazillians "primitive", you mook?"
I have family there who will read these posts. I take every opportunity to annoy them. Maybe some day they will come back to the US and I can annoy them face to face in the comfort of my home. But I'm happy to insult a few /. readers while I'm at it. (I had to research 'mook'; hey, that's not a nice appellation!)
OS X and iOS constantly nag users to update system software and user apps. Sometimes an app is really improved, but far more often the update includes adware and other crap. There's no way to know because those 'enhancements' are not mentioned when you are asked to update. It's best to look around for other users who updated and reported on the result--if you have lots of time on your hands...
My question to you is: Is Fred a common name in Brasil? Or is this another case of Americans imposing their culture on a primitive, unsuspecting people?
Headlights that turn have been around a while. Citroen & BMW seem to have had them. The American car, Tucker, had many such innovations. BMW also had side lights that help in tight turns. Here are some links:
1948 Tucker- great photos: http://www.laubly.com/1948tuck...
How Adaptive Headlights Work: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/...
1934 patent US1952346 A: https://www.google.com/patents...
Interacting with a car or motorcycle on a country road or mountain curve can be a pleasure, a form of meditation sometimes. We will lose that as vehicles get smarter and more independent.