Please re-submit news article describing legislation going into effect without clumsily trying to re-cast it as a Donald Trump issue. I hope everyone can see how banal it is. So if Hillary had won, these Orwellian rule changes would have triggered chirping bluebirds instead?? People will tire soon of the press finding new ways to take the 'passive' out of passive-aggressive.
The media will run an uninterrupted series of negative opinion pieces disguised as news for the next 4 years.
Don't forget the clumsily disguised contempt shared among them like nervous laughter.
The kind of contempt passive-aggressives fall into when things don't go their way. The kind child psychologists can see directly through that serves as a signal for them to dig deeper.
I hear you, don't bother engaging these folk, if it's about solar they'll argue their way into a paper bag and the muffled whispers from inside the bag continue for days. I could sell these people solar cooked hotdogs on a cloudy day. ("It's 10% completely cooked!") I'm just hoping that Musk will be forced to start subsidizing his own existence before long.
(Chomping down on a yummy nuclear cooked hot dog in a blizzard)
blah blah TRUMP wheeze cry pout mean baad man baad man sniff momma People are asking, what happened? Has everyone gone crazy? Trump supporters have been watching people go crazy for awhile now. We could draw you a map. Hope 'yall come back, time to fix things.
THESE FOOLS do not realize that the bezel is the ONLY thing keeping these screens from completely tiling over our reality! What the human race need now are wider bezels not thinner ones. The bezel should get a little wider every year... until eventually it closes in completely and we are all standing in the sunlight of a new day, looking around us at the simple, sublime reality of existence. There is hope even for you my friend. If they make bezels thinner just put electrical tape around the edges.
In Soviet Russia... the phone swipes to unlock YOU.
No action or even credible threat items here. Pager network originally chosen for its (local) reliability of coverage and assurance of message delivery, not for sensitivity of content. Potential terrorists could learn more with a set of binoculars on the ridge overlooking the plant.
The goofballs who use smartphones want everyone to use smartphones, or else Something Is Wrong With You. Soon we'll be wiping our asses with them.
Likewise, encryption can be yet another point of failure, The nuclear Permissive Action Link was set to 00000000 for years because military brass decided (smartly) that the system was fail-safe enough. Arbitrary complexity is worse when its use-by-mandate is effectively a mandate to use the public Internet. Or even private virtual Internets using Internet hardware or infrastructure, or requires transport on congested radio bands.
I'm not saying pager is da bomb either. When I carried one in the early 80s I saw voice message queue delay time grow to five minutes at times because its one-channel system was over-sold. Data only pagers busted this problem for awhile but pager companies are dissolving all over the place. Your entire world is dangling from a cellphone tower now. Hope it works out.
I just saw a "live feed" from a campaign rally dissolve into no-audio, choppy video and spans because, as a voice-over form their control room said, "We're experiencing bandwidth issues because too many people at the rally are on their phones." Lie down with infrastructure dogs and you wind up with infrastructure fleas.
I consider myself to be on the Autism Spectrum scale. When I tell stories I want to be detailed; but I have learned that people don't want the full story and prefer summaries.
It is time to dispense with that diagnosis of yourself, friend, and begin to understand that the people who 'prefer' summaries are the aberration and your behavior is the natural rule. It comes down to their simple respect for you and their ability to concentrate and follow your story, at what ever pace you tell it. I say pace and not level of detail because if you hurry yourself to relate details, you'll begin to stumble talking, and even a careful listener will stumble hearing. Be true to your own manner of speaking.
I've met many people, slow and fast talkers, quick and careful story-tellers, and I have NEVER heard a story that was not worth the listening, and I'm glad I took the time to hear out the longer ones. The shorter the story, the more it is like a tritely stated opinion. But I am not most people these days.
When you see people drifting away mentally while you are talking, it has become impossible to tell whether they are disrespectful of you or distracted by something in their own lives. This is because modern society has chipped away at the foundations of respect, and has also saddled people with anxiety and deficit of attention from a young age. In scarcely 100 years, a mere flash in time, we have gone from quiet evenings filled with human storytelling and storylistening to a 24/7 global wash of electronic babble. It is increasingly difficult for parents to insulate children from it long enough for them to evolve a natural mental capacity to carry on a complete two-way conversation.
I am deeply suspicious of the broadening and escalating diagnosis of "Spectrum" disorders. To me some of it may be the phenomenon of a disrespectful, attention-deficit society saying "I don't have time for this shit, let's label this person and be done with it. Next patient!".
I like to tell stories without myself in them. You might enjoy my short essay Paced By The Animals which attempts to describe how things have changed, not always for the better, in the last 100 years. Your efforts spent in coping are noble and well-spent, but always look beyond the edges and around the corner, to see if you can find enclaves of people out there who are more like you, and enjoy listening as much as you enjoy telling. And my all means, if possible go there and leave the Rat Race behind.
But all I see here at HireVue are dangerous kids with fresh degrees at the intersection of HR/Psych/AI with their works-just-so toys. Doin' the This Word Means New Thing thing to get folks buzzin' on them new words. It's fascinating but also sleazy, the way they are marketing judgement as if you could pluck it off the shelf.
This is just new technology specifically designed for immature and inexperienced HR employees who are terrified to use their own human judgement, or perhaps for employers who want to hire HR people who don't have any... to FUCK with people.
The system will set new industry standards for fucking with people. By not getting their drift, by interpreting shyness as subversiveness or by misinterpreting the angry personal insult and desire to rip someone's head off when someone asks you, "Do you think it's OK to steal from the boss?" and then ten seconds later, "It's OK to steal from your boss, right?" as something completely different. The AI looking at you through a crappy little camera will misread your personality wrong every few seconds. In fact, it'll probably get so many things wrong so often that they'll start to cancel each other out and the interviewer will be left with a bunch of expensive squiggles they can interpret any way they please.
The system will favor interviewers who feel comfortable and prideful of not knowing what they are doing.
They're creating a new type of machine-DNA here to create a bastard form of evolution... where folks that just happen to score a certain way on their bullshit screening and analysis (through no fault of their own) succeed in reaping great rewards, like becoming employed. Folks who don't, won't. No one will be willing to tell you why, they'll say, because the algorithms are proprietary and complicated. Truth is they won't know fuck-all why.
They'll get it working just well enough for it to advise you hire a man instead of a gorilla. They'll say it's perfect. Then there will be updates. Tweaks. Improvements. More paid seminars in interpreting the results. More tweaks. After a couple years HireVue will see nothing but improvement in their product, because by then the company will be staffed exclusively with people who scored well on their machine.
They'll throw a party when the billboard outside says, "10,000,000 people FUCKED with". There will be a whole 'unemployable' underclass for no apparent reason.
Then one day years from now, someone will make a single mistake somewhere, just a dumb mistake, and the AI itself will go insane. Its effects will be felt first at HireVue itself because like most places then, they will have cameras everywhere so the AI can see the faces of their employees while they are in their cubicles, taking a piss or beating on the vending machines, all for the purpose of "extending the hiring process indefinitely, and continuing to give valuable feedback to spot new emotional employee trends."
The software will suddenly declare some random portion of them dangerously unstable, fire them and instruct the other portion to throw them out with extreme force. Then as conflict sets in it will change its mind again and cancel some orders and issue conflicting orders. People will respond naturally with a combination riot/orgy.
Meanwhile outside of HireVue, the rest of the world which has outsourced its HR analysis to AIs has not fared so well. The landscape is full of weirdly misshapen buildings. There are odd and disturbing rules and unspeakable acts performed by policy and dogma put into place (accidentally) by happening to hire people in charge who happen to be the kind of people who fail to notice such things. In place of human society shaped by its physical and instinctual needs, it has become a fractal landscape of arbitrary shapes and decisions. Like a collection of sex toys for aliens.
As the HireVue building collapses, because the architect who had the better design had a mean face, the emotional evaluation process all over the world sudden
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For small pocket devices WE HAVE EXCEEDED PEAK LI-ON BATTERY AREA and especially LENGTH. Samsung should retool the G7 to contain two or three smaller 'proven' Lion battery packages with separate charging circuits. It is possible that a manufacturing variance ultimately related to area is fooling the charge circuit and making these more susceptible to overcharge. There is also physical stress, another trigger. Batteries should not straddle the middle of the device where the most butt-pocket deformation will occur.
But the FBI seems content to let this attack be originating from Russia. The same FBI who is 100% behind Clinton, who wants to start Cold-then-Hot war 2.0. You're being played, folks.
What is most astonishing is that the FBI could have feigned interest, sent people over there to meet with this fellow and gather all available evidence,and then just pretended not to find any. Corroborating with the operator of a compromised server is chapter-one stuff. So damned obvious it hurts.
Which illuminates the most disturbing aspect of all. We are not merely dealing with conspiratorial bias, and laziness. There is a big measure of stupidity mixed in.
I think the quest for ever thinner phones and ever thinner batteries is to blame.
MARKETING! STAT! New product and campaign. Moshi moshi.
New phone rounded edges and corners thinner no buttons. Like all our other phones? No, different. Quadrilateral yet not rectangular. This shape. That is a coffin shape. Looks like. Yes I drew it much to show, but real angle here no more than 5 degrees off vertical. But everything we make is rectangular! People want display go to edge. Make people want this instead. Put button or something in edge part, new shape is important. Why this idea? Why now? We must change. Our product line has reached 'peak fumble'. So the Fumble Working Group told you this? Yes. First they tell us, we must pay Hollywood to have actors toss phone to each other in movies. +Then they tell us in commercials people must do everything with one hand. Like card trick. +Then they say side buttons flush with case because they were helping fingers hold on. +Then it was thin! Thin! Thin! So hand cannot securely wrap around, phone pops up and out. + But now they say we reach 'peak frumble'. Phones dropping has leveled off. Must do something. How will new shape help? We have years of rectangular phone now, thin phone. People nervous, hold it tightly, right? And? This new phone when you squeeze will shoot out of hand like pumpkin seed! Is brilliant! That is nice. You should do it both ways make wedge shaped too thicker on display end. Why so? Young female demographic, tight jeans rear pocket. They sit down and their phone extracts itself easily. Yes! These two things work together. We need to form a Lost Phone Working Group. Great, now we need to hear from Suddenly Screen Crack Working Group. How are things? Screen crack in warranty is down, but post-warranty screen crack is line that falls, like so. Needs improvement. Tell us again about your tension over time initiative. Bezel glass is mounted on gasket, and we start with gasket thicker on one end. +Then heat treat and press gasket flat before manufacture. Case allows expansion but glass does not. +This way we can reach triple tension on glass two months out of warranty. + At one year even more. Even one meter drop onto wood surface triggers fracture. I have seen the report. But to provide this tension, the gasket must be backed with metal, yes? Unfortunately yes. A thin but strong outer frame casting of treated steel. Heavy. True, but increased heaviness improves the cracking profile because it results in more impact. GOOD, THEN. We will go with the new shape, thicker on one end, and sell the idea that heavier is good. + That should be easy. We introduce idea herring that heavier means you can hold onto it easier. + And go with the tension gasket idea. I want to see a crack profile that starts peaking at six months. + And we must strive for total cracking by a year and one half. One hundred percent, people! Meeting is adjourned.
"It's all connected. You're seeing the fish flopping, it's the fish flopping. I'm telling you weird stuff like this happens just before the tsunami. When rivers run backwards that should be a warning sign. Next birds will fly backwards and people will just grunt at it, if tomorrows a decent down day, look out next week. I got a tingly feeling here, tingly like as in people are turning in expectations, this could get ugly..."
I had some relevant tech comment in mind but it just dissolved into disgusted anger and an anxious concern for the future. So I just pasted the above paragraph, which I paste on those WTF occasions. PLEASE, let's just do this first in California and give it a few years, see how it all works out. Roll it all out in California! Point to point Gigabit Internet to every home, cell phone tattoos, IoT tooth fillings and rubber duck antennas protruding from every skull. Those wireless electric meters are old-fashioned, let's replace them with newer models that yell at passers-by! Well hell, how about electricity by wireless? Hail Tesla! I can hardly wait until the whole state becomes a cluster-fuck electromagnetic shit-storm that glows at night. We'll be able to read by it.
Try to envision a world in which the FAA would write a regulation including the phrase "but if it's just a SMALL fire, then heck, just toss it out the door and carry on".
I LIKE THIS WORLD! Where do I sign up?? Sounds like if that successful and properly managed risk philosophy were applied evenly at all levels of human endeavor... it may even yield.. other benefits.
Like less suckage. Like America in the 50s. A world just as dangerous as Today's World for many, but it sucked a whole lot less.
If you LIKE the world you live in and are getting ready to troll me, I just trumped your argument. Today's World you love so much could never have been the result of a Today's kind of world. It would actually more closely resemble Tomorrow's World, which will suck even more.
And missed opportunity to hire experienced people beyond the confines of their profile. Frankly I'd rather be doing telecom than manual labor. I'd even settle for doing telecom for really low wages. But I'm 52 years and while I have a couple decades of network and telecom experience -- none of it is from the last 16 years (gasp!). The corporate HR people hide now behind SAS cloud architecture and don't deal directly with humans anymore. Their process and criteria is heavily jargon based and peppered with psych evals that favor young liars.
One day I within five minutes I received ~70 'so sorry' rejection emails from a company, one for each position I had applied for going back two years. "Hey, your queue shouldn't look like that. Here, let me fix it."
SHIELDED now means --- any country that merely contains an Internet framework consisting of just-routers and just-links that is designed to let their population access the Internet in the most basic, streamlined and packet-passing manner possible.
Like the United States used to be before consortium ISPs started intercepting traffic, building certain 'features' into their NAT boxes, installing FBI compliance platforms. Before the NSA started installing its split-to-dark-fiber taps and 'capture and forward' rooms at and between tier 1 providers, Charter be damned.
Russia is not shielding anybody, it just lacks that Big Brother framework. Internet, the way it used to be. Because Pepperidge Farm remembers.
First, they came for Pepe the frog. I didn't speak up, because I was not a Trump supporter...
Then, they infiltrated ICANN and began matching expressions to block registration of new 'hateful' domain names. Then, the international copyright corpus paid lucrative fees to have trademarks added to the 'hate' blocking database. Then, root and 1LD servers began returning NXDOMAIN responses to 'non-compliant' names, regardless of prior existence or fees paid. Then, the servers began returning NXDOMAIN responses even if the 'non-compliant' match was in the subdomain portion. Then, the servers began silently completing 'non-compliant' name responses to build a database of 'non-compliant' ip addresses. Then, the tier 1 companies and consortium ISPs began black-holing non-compliant ip addresses. Then, the tier 1s developed the 'ICMP trace-ping' to centrally log attempts to reach non-compliant ip addresses. Then, the international non-compliance organization (managed by ICANN) began issuing automated 'takedown' requests for the source ip addresses. Then, consortium ISPs streamlined the takedown process and modified their TOS to support the suspension of non-compliant service. Then, the FBI and NSA joined TOR to issue a steady stream of 'non-compliant' traffic to ensure that all onion nodes remain suspended. Then, countries such as China are maintaining their own clone of the non-compliance framework for their own (eg, Falun Gong) reasons. Then, 'peace treaties' between countries are negotiated with conditions that member countries mutually share and implement their respective 'non-compliance' framework. Here, my dystopian Internet vision ends.
Pepe the frog survives, though he is reading a book by candle light. Don't get me started on non-compliant books.
In contrast, subsidies for different energy sources are 23.1 cents/kWh for solar, 3.5 cents/kWh for wind, and 0.2 cents/kWh for nuclear. (Tables ES4 and ES4. Solar received $4.393 billion in subsidies while generating 19,000 GWh. Wind received $5.936 billion while generating 5,936 GWh, and nuclear received $1.66 billion while generating 789,000 GWh.) That's right. The subsidy for solar is 1650x more expensive than cleaning up nuclear accidents. The subsidy for wind is 250x more expensive.
[...] Statistically, per unit of energy generated, nuclear power is the safest power source man has invented.
BLESS YOU for bringing forward subsidy per units of energy produced.
I'd like to Krazy-Glue some of these Slashdot posters to the wall and dangle a bottle of nail polish remover in front of them, to be handed over after they answer the question: "Would YOU personally pay ~115 times more for solar, and ~17 times as much for wind?" I should be allowed to glue my poster. I should be allowed to think.
Glad to see you got modded up in general, but sad to see the only commenters you get repeat that "economics don't work out" yarn they heard somewhere and repeat only when emotional appeals will not work. Deep down they just do not like nuclear energy and will grasp at anything. As it stands... to completely green-field Three Mile Island Unit 2, there have been estimates of ~$918 million, of which ~$665 is in the bank. That ~$253 million deficit is hardly worth crowing about... and I strongly suspect that 918 million is the 'Epi-Pen' price, you know, the amount things cost if you lock the most greedy, opportunistic people together in a room and don't let them out until they deliver a nice pork barrel. These things could (and should) be done for less.
the final trial in the series was not actually part of the study plan. That kid who was sent to get the signs printed, they did them by the dozen so he cooked it up, it was his idea. With mock earnestness the signs were placed on the post and the horse was led around. They were,
1. A symbol representing quantum "spooky action at a distance".
2. A symbol representing a horse indicating a choice by indicating a symbol indicating a choice indicated by a symbol indicating a choice, by a horse.
3. A duck. No seriously, a duck. Really.
The horse pricked back its ears and leaned away from spooky towards the duck, then swung back slightly, as if to indicate
blurred motion at the edges of vision, for a moment clearly the edges repeated which warp through the center accompanied by a sudden and awful smell of burning plastic (isn't there always?) and a sound half crackling half laughter yet horrifyingly like reality being crumpled up like a newspaper or the sudden horror of blackened paper edges when no flame is visible all to hide something unthinkably
Where's Waldo? Everywhere. Where's the robot? Still trying to climb stairs.
When robots finally do arrive we won't realize that it happened, because the word 'robot' will have been applied to every device out there to which no human is presently attached, but yet is attached through the miracle of radio.
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN squinting into a video display with a joystick in his hand... THIS... IS... A... ROBOT!
leaving Twitter for good goin' back to Baudot on paper tape shoulda stayed on the farm shoulda listened to my old man back to the howlin' old owl in the woods huntin' the horny back toad
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Please re-submit news article describing legislation going into effect without clumsily trying to re-cast it as a Donald Trump issue. I hope everyone can see how banal it is. So if Hillary had won, these Orwellian rule changes would have triggered chirping bluebirds instead?? People will tire soon of the press finding new ways to take the 'passive' out of passive-aggressive.
The media will run an uninterrupted series of negative opinion pieces disguised as news for the next 4 years.
Don't forget the clumsily disguised contempt shared among them like nervous laughter.
The kind of contempt passive-aggressives fall into when things don't go their way. The kind child psychologists can see directly through that serves as a signal for them to dig deeper.
I hear you, don't bother engaging these folk, if it's about solar they'll argue their way into a paper bag and the muffled whispers from inside the bag continue for days. I could sell these people solar cooked hotdogs on a cloudy day. ("It's 10% completely cooked!") I'm just hoping that Musk will be forced to start subsidizing his own existence before long.
(Chomping down on a yummy nuclear cooked hot dog in a blizzard)
blah blah TRUMP wheeze cry pout mean baad man baad man sniff momma
People are asking, what happened? Has everyone gone crazy?
Trump supporters have been watching people go crazy for awhile now. We could draw you a map.
Hope 'yall come back, time to fix things.
THESE FOOLS do not realize that the bezel is the ONLY thing keeping these screens from completely tiling over our reality! What the human race need now are wider bezels not thinner ones. The bezel should get a little wider every year... until eventually it closes in completely and we are all standing in the sunlight of a new day, looking around us at the simple, sublime reality of existence. There is hope even for you my friend. If they make bezels thinner just put electrical tape around the edges.
In Soviet Russia... the phone swipes to unlock YOU.
No action or even credible threat items here. Pager network originally chosen for its (local) reliability of coverage and assurance of message delivery, not for sensitivity of content. Potential terrorists could learn more with a set of binoculars on the ridge overlooking the plant.
The goofballs who use smartphones want everyone to use smartphones, or else Something Is Wrong With You. Soon we'll be wiping our asses with them.
Likewise, encryption can be yet another point of failure, The nuclear Permissive Action Link was set to 00000000 for years because military brass decided (smartly) that the system was fail-safe enough. Arbitrary complexity is worse when its use-by-mandate is effectively a mandate to use the public Internet. Or even private virtual Internets using Internet hardware or infrastructure, or requires transport on congested radio bands.
I'm not saying pager is da bomb either. When I carried one in the early 80s I saw voice message queue delay time grow to five minutes at times because its one-channel system was over-sold. Data only pagers busted this problem for awhile but pager companies are dissolving all over the place. Your entire world is dangling from a cellphone tower now. Hope it works out.
I just saw a "live feed" from a campaign rally dissolve into no-audio, choppy video and spans because, as a voice-over form their control room said, "We're experiencing bandwidth issues because too many people at the rally are on their phones." Lie down with infrastructure dogs and you wind up with infrastructure fleas.
I consider myself to be on the Autism Spectrum scale. When I tell stories I want to be detailed; but I have learned that people don't want the full story and prefer summaries.
It is time to dispense with that diagnosis of yourself, friend, and begin to understand that the people who 'prefer' summaries are the aberration and your behavior is the natural rule. It comes down to their simple respect for you and their ability to concentrate and follow your story, at what ever pace you tell it. I say pace and not level of detail because if you hurry yourself to relate details, you'll begin to stumble talking, and even a careful listener will stumble hearing. Be true to your own manner of speaking.
I've met many people, slow and fast talkers, quick and careful story-tellers, and I have NEVER heard a story that was not worth the listening, and I'm glad I took the time to hear out the longer ones. The shorter the story, the more it is like a tritely stated opinion. But I am not most people these days.
When you see people drifting away mentally while you are talking, it has become impossible to tell whether they are disrespectful of you or distracted by something in their own lives. This is because modern society has chipped away at the foundations of respect, and has also saddled people with anxiety and deficit of attention from a young age. In scarcely 100 years, a mere flash in time, we have gone from quiet evenings filled with human storytelling and storylistening to a 24/7 global wash of electronic babble. It is increasingly difficult for parents to insulate children from it long enough for them to evolve a natural mental capacity to carry on a complete two-way conversation.
I am deeply suspicious of the broadening and escalating diagnosis of "Spectrum" disorders. To me some of it may be the phenomenon of a disrespectful, attention-deficit society saying "I don't have time for this shit, let's label this person and be done with it. Next patient!".
I like to tell stories without myself in them. You might enjoy my short essay Paced By The Animals which attempts to describe how things have changed, not always for the better, in the last 100 years. Your efforts spent in coping are noble and well-spent, but always look beyond the edges and around the corner, to see if you can find enclaves of people out there who are more like you, and enjoy listening as much as you enjoy telling. And my all means, if possible go there and leave the Rat Race behind.
But all I see here at HireVue are dangerous kids with fresh degrees at the intersection of HR/Psych/AI with their works-just-so toys. Doin' the This Word Means New Thing thing to get folks buzzin' on them new words. It's fascinating but also sleazy, the way they are marketing judgement as if you could pluck it off the shelf.
This is just new technology specifically designed for immature and inexperienced HR employees who are terrified to use their own human judgement, or perhaps for employers who want to hire HR people who don't have any... to FUCK with people.
The system will set new industry standards for fucking with people. By not getting their drift, by interpreting shyness as subversiveness or by misinterpreting the angry personal insult and desire to rip someone's head off when someone asks you, "Do you think it's OK to steal from the boss?" and then ten seconds later, "It's OK to steal from your boss, right?" as something completely different. The AI looking at you through a crappy little camera will misread your personality wrong every few seconds. In fact, it'll probably get so many things wrong so often that they'll start to cancel each other out and the interviewer will be left with a bunch of expensive squiggles they can interpret any way they please.
The system will favor interviewers who feel comfortable and prideful of not knowing what they are doing.
They're creating a new type of machine-DNA here to create a bastard form of evolution... where folks that just happen to score a certain way on their bullshit screening and analysis (through no fault of their own) succeed in reaping great rewards, like becoming employed. Folks who don't, won't. No one will be willing to tell you why, they'll say, because the algorithms are proprietary and complicated. Truth is they won't know fuck-all why.
They'll get it working just well enough for it to advise you hire a man instead of a gorilla. They'll say it's perfect. Then there will be updates. Tweaks. Improvements. More paid seminars in interpreting the results. More tweaks. After a couple years HireVue will see nothing but improvement in their product, because by then the company will be staffed exclusively with people who scored well on their machine.
They'll throw a party when the billboard outside says, "10,000,000 people FUCKED with".
There will be a whole 'unemployable' underclass for no apparent reason.
Then one day years from now, someone will make a single mistake somewhere, just a dumb mistake, and the AI itself will go insane. Its effects will be felt first at HireVue itself because like most places then, they will have cameras everywhere so the AI can see the faces of their employees while they are in their cubicles, taking a piss or beating on the vending machines, all for the purpose of "extending the hiring process indefinitely, and continuing to give valuable feedback to spot new emotional employee trends."
The software will suddenly declare some random portion of them dangerously unstable, fire them and instruct the other portion to throw them out with extreme force. Then as conflict sets in it will change its mind again and cancel some orders and issue conflicting orders. People will respond naturally with a combination riot/orgy.
Meanwhile outside of HireVue, the rest of the world which has outsourced its HR analysis to AIs has not fared so well. The landscape is full of weirdly misshapen buildings. There are odd and disturbing rules and unspeakable acts performed by policy and dogma put into place (accidentally) by happening to hire people in charge who happen to be the kind of people who fail to notice such things. In place of human society shaped by its physical and instinctual needs, it has become a fractal landscape of arbitrary shapes and decisions. Like a collection of sex toys for aliens.
As the HireVue building collapses, because the architect who had the better design had a mean face, the emotional evaluation process all over the world sudden
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For small pocket devices WE HAVE EXCEEDED PEAK LI-ON BATTERY AREA and especially LENGTH. Samsung should retool the G7 to contain two or three smaller 'proven' Lion battery packages with separate charging circuits. It is possible that a manufacturing variance ultimately related to area is fooling the charge circuit and making these more susceptible to overcharge. There is also physical stress, another trigger. Batteries should not straddle the middle of the device where the most butt-pocket deformation will occur.
CHECK THIS, THE MOST SHOCKING "JON PO" EMAIL!!!
Proof that this email thing has been going on for years.
Getting Down and Dirty with "John Po".
Russian server operator says, "[October 2] If the FBI asks, we are ready to supply the IP addresses, the logs." However, he says, "Nobody is asking⦠Itâ(TM)s like nobody wants to sort this out." . Now oh best beloved, this is NOT because the NSA has taps on all traffic within Russia. They don't,and as all you IT folk know, there is nothing as useful as logs from the server itself (if it was just used a reflector) or other network devices within the provider.
But the FBI seems content to let this attack be originating from Russia. The same FBI who is 100% behind Clinton, who wants to start Cold-then-Hot war 2.0. You're being played, folks.
What is most astonishing is that the FBI could have feigned interest, sent people over there to meet with this fellow and gather all available evidence,and then just pretended not to find any. Corroborating with the operator of a compromised server is chapter-one stuff. So damned obvious it hurts.
Which illuminates the most disturbing aspect of all. We are not merely dealing with conspiratorial bias, and laziness. There is a big measure of stupidity mixed in.
Please don't vote for stupid.
I think the quest for ever thinner phones and ever thinner batteries is to blame.
MARKETING! STAT! New product and campaign. Moshi moshi.
New phone rounded edges and corners thinner no buttons.
Like all our other phones?
No, different. Quadrilateral yet not rectangular. This shape.
That is a coffin shape. Looks like.
Yes I drew it much to show, but real angle here no more than 5 degrees off vertical.
But everything we make is rectangular! People want display go to edge.
Make people want this instead. Put button or something in edge part, new shape is important.
Why this idea? Why now?
We must change. Our product line has reached 'peak fumble'.
So the Fumble Working Group told you this?
Yes. First they tell us, we must pay Hollywood to have actors toss phone to each other in movies.
+Then they tell us in commercials people must do everything with one hand. Like card trick.
+Then they say side buttons flush with case because they were helping fingers hold on.
+Then it was thin! Thin! Thin! So hand cannot securely wrap around, phone pops up and out.
+ But now they say we reach 'peak frumble'. Phones dropping has leveled off. Must do something.
How will new shape help?
We have years of rectangular phone now, thin phone. People nervous, hold it tightly, right?
And?
This new phone when you squeeze will shoot out of hand like pumpkin seed! Is brilliant!
That is nice. You should do it both ways make wedge shaped too thicker on display end.
Why so?
Young female demographic, tight jeans rear pocket. They sit down and their phone extracts itself easily.
Yes! These two things work together. We need to form a Lost Phone Working Group.
Great, now we need to hear from Suddenly Screen Crack Working Group. How are things?
Screen crack in warranty is down, but post-warranty screen crack is line that falls, like so.
Needs improvement. Tell us again about your tension over time initiative.
Bezel glass is mounted on gasket, and we start with gasket thicker on one end.
+Then heat treat and press gasket flat before manufacture. Case allows expansion but glass does not.
+This way we can reach triple tension on glass two months out of warranty.
+ At one year even more. Even one meter drop onto wood surface triggers fracture.
I have seen the report. But to provide this tension, the gasket must be backed with metal, yes?
Unfortunately yes. A thin but strong outer frame casting of treated steel. Heavy.
True, but increased heaviness improves the cracking profile because it results in more impact.
GOOD, THEN. We will go with the new shape, thicker on one end, and sell the idea that heavier is good.
+ That should be easy. We introduce idea herring that heavier means you can hold onto it easier.
+ And go with the tension gasket idea. I want to see a crack profile that starts peaking at six months.
+ And we must strive for total cracking by a year and one half. One hundred percent, people!
Meeting is adjourned.
"It's all connected. You're seeing the fish flopping, it's the fish flopping. I'm telling you weird stuff like this happens just before the tsunami. When rivers run backwards that should be a warning sign. Next birds will fly backwards and people will just grunt at it, if tomorrows a decent down day, look out next week. I got a tingly feeling here, tingly like as in people are turning in expectations, this could get ugly..."
I had some relevant tech comment in mind but it just dissolved into disgusted anger and an anxious concern for the future. So I just pasted the above paragraph, which I paste on those WTF occasions. PLEASE, let's just do this first in California and give it a few years, see how it all works out. Roll it all out in California! Point to point Gigabit Internet to every home, cell phone tattoos, IoT tooth fillings and rubber duck antennas protruding from every skull. Those wireless electric meters are old-fashioned, let's replace them with newer models that yell at passers-by! Well hell, how about electricity by wireless? Hail Tesla! I can hardly wait until the whole state becomes a cluster-fuck electromagnetic shit-storm that glows at night. We'll be able to read by it.
I'm also available for motivational speaking engagements.
Try to envision a world in which the FAA would write a regulation including the phrase "but if it's just a SMALL fire, then heck, just toss it out the door and carry on".
I LIKE THIS WORLD! Where do I sign up?? Sounds like if that successful and properly managed risk philosophy were applied evenly at all levels of human endeavor... it may even yield.. other benefits.
Like less suckage. Like America in the 50s. A world just as dangerous as Today's World for many, but it sucked a whole lot less.
If you LIKE the world you live in and are getting ready to troll me, I just trumped your argument. Today's World you love so much could never have been the result of a Today's kind of world. It would actually more closely resemble Tomorrow's World, which will suck even more.
Absolutely THIS, plus layoffs. I started a discussion about the end of POTS in 2013, some interesting stuff about cell vulnerability in there.
And missed opportunity to hire experienced people beyond the confines of their profile. Frankly I'd rather be doing telecom than manual labor. I'd even settle for doing telecom for really low wages. But I'm 52 years and while I have a couple decades of network and telecom experience -- none of it is from the last 16 years (gasp!). The corporate HR people hide now behind SAS cloud architecture and don't deal directly with humans anymore. Their process and criteria is heavily jargon based and peppered with psych evals that favor young liars.
One day I within five minutes I received ~70 'so sorry' rejection emails from a company, one for each position I had applied for going back two years. "Hey, your queue shouldn't look like that. Here, let me fix it."
SHIELDED now means --- any country that merely contains an Internet framework consisting of just-routers and just-links that is designed to let their population access the Internet in the most basic, streamlined and packet-passing manner possible.
Like the United States used to be before consortium ISPs started intercepting traffic, building certain 'features' into their NAT boxes, installing FBI compliance platforms. Before the NSA started installing its split-to-dark-fiber taps and 'capture and forward' rooms at and between tier 1 providers, Charter be damned.
Russia is not shielding anybody, it just lacks that Big Brother framework.
Internet, the way it used to be.
Because Pepperidge Farm remembers.
First, they came for Pepe the frog.
I didn't speak up, because I was not a Trump supporter...
Then, they infiltrated ICANN and began matching expressions to block registration of new 'hateful' domain names.
Then, the international copyright corpus paid lucrative fees to have trademarks added to the 'hate' blocking database.
Then, root and 1LD servers began returning NXDOMAIN responses to 'non-compliant' names, regardless of prior existence or fees paid.
Then, the servers began returning NXDOMAIN responses even if the 'non-compliant' match was in the subdomain portion.
Then, the servers began silently completing 'non-compliant' name responses to build a database of 'non-compliant' ip addresses.
Then, the tier 1 companies and consortium ISPs began black-holing non-compliant ip addresses.
Then, the tier 1s developed the 'ICMP trace-ping' to centrally log attempts to reach non-compliant ip addresses.
Then, the international non-compliance organization (managed by ICANN) began issuing automated 'takedown' requests for the source ip addresses.
Then, consortium ISPs streamlined the takedown process and modified their TOS to support the suspension of non-compliant service.
Then, the FBI and NSA joined TOR to issue a steady stream of 'non-compliant' traffic to ensure that all onion nodes remain suspended.
Then, countries such as China are maintaining their own clone of the non-compliance framework for their own (eg, Falun Gong) reasons.
Then, 'peace treaties' between countries are negotiated with conditions that member countries mutually share and implement their respective 'non-compliance' framework.
Here, my dystopian Internet vision ends.
Pepe the frog survives, though he is reading a book by candle light.
Don't get me started on non-compliant books.
In contrast, subsidies for different energy sources are 23.1 cents/kWh for solar, 3.5 cents/kWh for wind, and 0.2 cents/kWh for nuclear. (Tables ES4 and ES4. Solar received $4.393 billion in subsidies while generating 19,000 GWh. Wind received $5.936 billion while generating 5,936 GWh, and nuclear received $1.66 billion while generating 789,000 GWh.) That's right. The subsidy for solar is 1650x more expensive than cleaning up nuclear accidents. The subsidy for wind is 250x more expensive.
[...] Statistically, per unit of energy generated, nuclear power is the safest power source man has invented.
BLESS YOU for bringing forward subsidy per units of energy produced.
I'd like to Krazy-Glue some of these Slashdot posters to the wall and dangle a bottle of nail polish remover in front of them, to be handed over after they answer the question: "Would YOU personally pay ~115 times more for solar, and ~17 times as much for wind?" I should be allowed to glue my poster. I should be allowed to think.
Glad to see you got modded up in general, but sad to see the only commenters you get repeat that "economics don't work out" yarn they heard somewhere and repeat only when emotional appeals will not work. Deep down they just do not like nuclear energy and will grasp at anything. As it stands... to completely green-field Three Mile Island Unit 2, there have been estimates of ~$918 million, of which ~$665 is in the bank. That ~$253 million deficit is hardly worth crowing about... and I strongly suspect that 918 million is the 'Epi-Pen' price, you know, the amount things cost if you lock the most greedy, opportunistic people together in a room and don't let them out until they deliver a nice pork barrel. These things could (and should) be done for less.
A more comfortable absurd thickness then. Well, okay.
the final trial in the series was not actually part of the study plan. That kid who was sent to get the signs printed, they did them by the dozen so he cooked it up, it was his idea. With mock earnestness the signs were placed on the post and the horse was led around. They were,
1. A symbol representing quantum "spooky action at a distance".
2. A symbol representing a horse indicating a choice by indicating a symbol indicating a choice indicated by a symbol indicating a choice, by a horse.
3. A duck. No seriously, a duck. Really.
The horse pricked back its ears and leaned away from spooky towards the duck, then swung back slightly, as if to indicate
blurred motion at the edges of vision, for a moment clearly the edges repeated which warp through the center accompanied by a sudden and awful smell of burning plastic (isn't there always?) and a sound half crackling half laughter yet horrifyingly like reality being crumpled up like a newspaper or the sudden horror of blackened paper edges when no flame is visible all to hide something unthinkably
NO CARRIER
A Powerwall... you mean a grid-connected scaled up version of a Samsung battery?
Multicast is more appropriate for this type of data.
Time to dust off RFC1112.
Where's Waldo? Everywhere.
Where's the robot? Still trying to climb stairs.
When robots finally do arrive we won't realize that it happened, because the word 'robot' will have been applied to every device out there to which no human is presently attached, but yet is attached through the miracle of radio.
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN squinting into a video display with a joystick in his hand... THIS... IS... A... ROBOT!
leaving Twitter for good
goin' back to Baudot on paper tape
shoulda stayed on the farm
shoulda listened to my old man
back to the howlin' old owl in the woods
huntin' the horny back toad