The robots are doing all jobs, one person owns all the robots and only people that are useful to this one person have jobs
And then all the unwashed masses rise up and kill that one person, destroy his robots and the world falls into another dark age. This has happened before, it will happen again. I just don't want to see it in my lifetime or my children's lifetime (for their sake) because it's going to be a shitfest. So the real question to me, is how do we stop it from happening. Basic minimum wage might help for a bit, but at the end of the day everyone wants a nice fancy house with fancy cars and fancy toys. The world's wealth distribution is top heavy. They just released a report in my country about the 20 richest people, at the top of the list the richest person has more money than our entire country pays out in social grants to people without jobs, and our unemployment rate is ~40%. That's fucked up. So the richest people get to do amazing accounting tricks to not pay tax, so the majority of the tax burden is falling on the middle class, who after they wipe the tax mans shit out of their eyes are not actually middle class anymore. This is a recipe for civil unrest and a changing of the current world order, violently. No one (even the poor) really want that, but if things continue the way they are it's going to happen, desperate times call for desperate measures. When a man's child is crying because it's hungry he will do anything. Sticking your head in the sand and saying "it's happened before" is not going to mean shit to the people kicking down your door and standing you up against a wall.
ATM's are a form of "banking robots" and they have been hacked plenty times already. Not sure about where you are, but in my country if you go into the bank and draw money from your account instead of using the ATM the bank charges are WAY higher, I suppose to deter people from doing it.
I used to avoid credit/debit cards (mostly because I don't want to be tracked) but I have kind of given up on that, it's just way more convenient and safer to work with plastic. Too many people have been robbed shortly after drawing large amounts of cash (inside job, cashier tells a partner outside the bank) that it's just too damn dangerous to walk around with a lot of cash, even if it's hidden from sight. I still prefer cash for a lot of things, especially small purchases like lunch etc. but with the smart chips and NFC in bank cards and more retailers having the newer NFC card machines if I see that they have one I will just tap instead of using cash, even though I would normally have used cash. You just tap, and if it's a small transaction you don't even need to enter your PIN. I need to get one of those sleeves to protect it methinks. I haven't heard of anyone "skimming" with NFC scanners in my country yet, but it's just a matter of time before it starts happening.
ctually, you will get your printer/scanner/fax machine up and running in about 2 seconds on linux
That's fucking hilarious, hand the keyboard to your mother before attaching the printer and see how long it takes HER, not YOU. With windows you plug it in and it MIGHT ask you to click next a few times, most times in windows 10 it just starts working. But perhaps the last time you used windows was with XP - seems your knowledge of where it's at today is lacking.
I left because I was bored, the company I was working for last had some long term employees, basically we used to call the furniture. They were also very stingy with system knowledge, trying to get any information out of them was practically impossible unless you went and stood at their desks and bugged them until they helped. So I didn't - I would dig into the code and figure it out for myself, but that meant that it would take me twice as long to complete certain tasks and they started complaining about that. Left shortly afterwards. To be honest that was a pain, but I could have just put in a couple more hours and everything would have been fine, but I didn't want to. Code might be code, but I am heartily sick of financial code, I've been doing it for the majority of my career, and as one BA (who used to code) said to me about financial software and why she changed to being a BA, financial code is all the same, you read some data, you change some of it, and then write it back again. Boring ass shit. I was once tasked to finding a 2 cent discrepancy in a balance of a trillion - took me two fucking weeks (no one else had been able to find it) if I ever have to do that again I will resign on the spot. Life is too short for that shit. Now I work for a huge company in one of their teams doing IoT stuff, love it. I work overtime not because it's required of me, but because I am having so much fun.
They are not trying to run an ISP dipshit, they are enforcing a legally binding contract, which is what lawyers do, and I would say most politicians are lawyers. So they are doing what the fuck they are paid and trained to do.
Clearly he was not able to do so, possibly because he was a fucking moron who broke into someones house to ask for their wifi password. If this is not a clear case of internet addiction then I don't know what is.
I agree, but I don't know what actually went down in the end. If someone who realizes they are going to get fired logs into the system and changes the admin password just before he is frog marched out the door means they have shoddy processes... yeah, perhaps. Fuck, I work in IT I have lots and lots of admin rights, if I wanted to I could do the exact same thing in the next five minutes to a lot more systems than he did. They placed their trust in someone who failed their trust. I would also like to point out (and something I did not mention) is that the system x was in development, if it was in production there would have been two million piles of change control paperwork. I know the bank, their systems are rock solid, their processes appropriately anal retentive. In IT you give a lot of power to a few key individuals, if one of them turns out to be an ass hat, what can you do? To work at my level you need to get through 2 or 3 interviews, assessments, background checks and security clearances, and since I used to work primarily on the financial side of things there are in depth financial background checks etc. as well. I don't know how it works in other countries, but here if you have a slightly dodgy credit history you are not going to get work at a financial institution, at least not in IT. I only know of one person who worked there with a bad credit rating, and she was given the green light because of politics, someone in the upper echelons wanted a female in our team.
I think you are missing the point of why they actually call it over the top services. Cable companies came in and installed your cable (with internet blah blah) and TV, now Netflix et al are offering a competing service using the very infrastructure that the cable companies had to physically install. So they are competing with the cable companies using the cable companies infrastructure, they are offering a service (streaming) over the top of the infrastructure that the cable companies paid a LOT of money to install so that they could have you as a client. And now a lot of people are cutting the cord, not on the internet bit, but on the crappy repeating, ad laden, bunch of crap TV bullshit the cable companies want to shove down your throat. So now they are losing revenue, because when they did their initial business planning you were supposed to be a loyal customer for the next x years, which is what they built into their business model and justified the expense of laying the physical cable for, but if you cut the cord, their business model starts to go south. We have a very similar issue here, where the local cell service providers are complaining about whatsapp etc using their infrastructure to send text messages "over the top" of the infrastructure they provide, and because it's cheaper to send a whatsapp than a text message people prefer to use that. Cutting a lot of their profits. I can understand their complaints to a degree, they did lay the initial infrastructure and it cost a lot of money, but WHY is it cheaper to use alternate methods to send a message now? How long did it take for me to pay "off" my installation costs and WHY is it still costing me the same (or more) to send a message via the traditional methods. To me they where milking their customers and making a fuck ton of money, and now that business model has become obsolete, and instead of changing and adapting they are whining and complaining and trying to get back their lost profits. Another similar issue where I live is that a single company owned the rights to the "local loop", the last mile of copper to your house from the exchange. Other companies could come in and "compete" but the final (and crucial) last mile to your house was BY LAW owned by this single company. But then fiber got really cheap, and a lot of companies said we are not going to use the copper in the last mile laid at great expense by this other company, we are going to lay new lines of fiber, right to the customers door. It took a couple years in court, but they lost, and I have fiber, it would never have happened as swiftly if this one company had managed to maintain their strangle hold.
To me if it is going to cost xyz to connect me to your network, charge me that initial fee. Don't tack on all sorts of sundry shit and expect me to keep forking out money for the next decade. Trust me, it is a LOT less expensive to just pay for it upfront and get it done with, because if you are "paying it off" over a couple years you are paying way more than what it is worth. If you can't save up to do that, then that you can't afford it. Instant gratification may take too long, but sometimes it's better to wait.
In other news, scientists have created a better battery! Or was it a mouse trap? I'll get my hopes up when I can buy it. Getting tired of all this sensationalist crap that never see's the light of day.
As soon as a company knows you can hack things at some point they will ask you to hack something. I once worked for a big bank in my country, and they had a falling out of some sorts with the only guy who knew the admin password for system x. The system belonged to them, so when they asked me to hack it and recover the password I did not see anything wrong with it. I have done a LOT more questionable hacks (for companies) that made me question if I should be doing what I was doing, but most of them were "defensive" hacks, and were never actually used (that I know of at least). I've also reverse engineered stuff just to see how it works, but then who hasn't seen something cool in software and wanted to know how it was done? It's actually scary when you realize how much consumer electronics is built on top of a small CPU running custom firmware, which you can hack. TV's, dishwashers, washing machines, microwaves, usb storage drives, hard drives, fucking light switches, it's nuts, and with IoT gaining momentum it's only going to get worse. My current job is building management software for smart buildings, lots of fun, also lots of frustration, and bring a warm jacket, because you are going to spend time sitting on the floor in a data center with your laptop keeping your genitals warm. I was once called out to a client in the middle of summer (and it gets HOT here) and arrived in a t-shirt and shorts with sandals, only to end up spending most of the day in the data center freezing my balls off.
And after the first nuke drops every ebook will be gone.
Don't get me wrong, I almost exclusively use ebooks, but to say that physical books are obsolete is a bit shortsighted.
We currently live in a small cottage so space is a big problem and I had to get rid of a LOT of books, but I kept my favorites, and when we had regular load shedding that came in handy.
"Oh my god I forgot to charge my kindle!" was not a problem, I just go to the book shelf and pick a book.
What I would like is a full set of encyclopedia's but they are not cheap and finding a second hand set is proving troublesome.
He got elected because the only other running candidate was fucking worse than he was. If you don't want people like Trump getting elected, field a better opponent, or actually try having a democracy instead of a 2 party system. I find it amusing that America tries to force democracy on everyone (whether they want it or not) but they themselves are not running a democracy.
I like eating meat, I don't eat a lot of it, but I do like some meat with my meals. My wife is almost a vegan (again) but bacon is her one weakness. I find food without a meat portion to be bland and unfulfilling. That's my choice, just as it's my wife's choice to no longer eat meat. I don't give a fuck if the cow takes up more space, it also produces more poop and contributes to the glue you use to stick your kids poster to something. I can also wear it on my feet (the leather, not the steak, or the whole cow). How about finding a substitute for decent leather, there are NONE that come close.
Not true for most
When they killed something it had to either be preserved (usually with smoking or salting) or eaten, so there would be periods where there was a LOT of meat eaten during migrations etc. and long periods where mostly veggies were eaten. A lot would depend on tribe and location.
Clearly we should be going for the least amount of deaths per human
Well we could start with forcing America to stop fighting wars against everything, I reckon that would be a good place to start. A couple of Americans killed in 9/11 and when everyone wiped the shit out of their eyes America had illegally invaded three countries and killed MILLIONS of people. I know that in the USA "black lives matter" but seriously, how many black people were in the two towers?
Why is a cow's life worth more than a cute bunny's?
It's not, I would eat the bunny too. I have been involved in raising bunnies for eating, they are vicious horrible fucking creatures, they are fucking cannibals as well. Eat them all!
I think you are missing the point. You can go to a steak house and they will cater (somewhat) for veggies, with at least a menu item or two. Not a lot, but then why the fuck are you trying to be a vegetarian in a steak house? But they DO cater for you veggie mother fuckers. But if a non veggie goes to a vegetarian restaurant there are NO options for meat eaters.
"But you went to a vegetarian place and asked for meat!"
Well you went to a steak house and asked for a veggie dish, who is bending over backwards and who is being a self centered opinionated dick?
Fuxor, I used bending over and dick in the same sentence,/. is going to have a field day, but I am tired and can't be bothered to reword it.
Go nuts.
I would mod you...
A lot of veggies are not eating meat for ethical reasons, not taste reasons. So for a lot of them this is a win. Personally I would eat a human without batting an eyelid, protein is fucking protein, I promise that you won't suffer for long before you become a substitute pork chop. Unless you resist, in which case some tenderising may be required.
Over the top services are a description given to services like Netflix etc. which you are paying to give you "services" over the "top" of your current internet connection. They did not have to put a satellite into orbit, or worry about cables and dishes etc. They are able to supply "cable" type services without have to lay the cable. So they are inherently cheaper, which is what the old school cable and satellite companies are whining about. Because they laid the cable for your internet (and cable TV) but people no longer want the TV part, which is where they made most of their money.
To me, if they just stopped fucking repeating stuff, and cut out all the shit I would never watch I might actually pay for it. The only thing I miss is the sports, but then if there is a good game on I just go to the local pub, it's more fun that way anyway (although the wife tends to get annoyed).
Exactly this. I cancel Netflix every 3 months or so for about 3 months. In 3 months I have watched all that I care about and in 3 months they have changed content for me to watch for the next 3 months. In between I just pirate the shit out of everything, I would pay for it if it was affordable and most of all available. But it's not so I pay for it when I am able, and pirate the rest.
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And then all the unwashed masses rise up and kill that one person, destroy his robots and the world falls into another dark age. This has happened before, it will happen again. I just don't want to see it in my lifetime or my children's lifetime (for their sake) because it's going to be a shitfest. So the real question to me, is how do we stop it from happening. Basic minimum wage might help for a bit, but at the end of the day everyone wants a nice fancy house with fancy cars and fancy toys. The world's wealth distribution is top heavy. They just released a report in my country about the 20 richest people, at the top of the list the richest person has more money than our entire country pays out in social grants to people without jobs, and our unemployment rate is ~40%. That's fucked up. So the richest people get to do amazing accounting tricks to not pay tax, so the majority of the tax burden is falling on the middle class, who after they wipe the tax mans shit out of their eyes are not actually middle class anymore. This is a recipe for civil unrest and a changing of the current world order, violently. No one (even the poor) really want that, but if things continue the way they are it's going to happen, desperate times call for desperate measures. When a man's child is crying because it's hungry he will do anything. Sticking your head in the sand and saying "it's happened before" is not going to mean shit to the people kicking down your door and standing you up against a wall.
ATM's are a form of "banking robots" and they have been hacked plenty times already. Not sure about where you are, but in my country if you go into the bank and draw money from your account instead of using the ATM the bank charges are WAY higher, I suppose to deter people from doing it.
I used to avoid credit/debit cards (mostly because I don't want to be tracked) but I have kind of given up on that, it's just way more convenient and safer to work with plastic. Too many people have been robbed shortly after drawing large amounts of cash (inside job, cashier tells a partner outside the bank) that it's just too damn dangerous to walk around with a lot of cash, even if it's hidden from sight. I still prefer cash for a lot of things, especially small purchases like lunch etc. but with the smart chips and NFC in bank cards and more retailers having the newer NFC card machines if I see that they have one I will just tap instead of using cash, even though I would normally have used cash. You just tap, and if it's a small transaction you don't even need to enter your PIN. I need to get one of those sleeves to protect it methinks. I haven't heard of anyone "skimming" with NFC scanners in my country yet, but it's just a matter of time before it starts happening.
That's fucking hilarious, hand the keyboard to your mother before attaching the printer and see how long it takes HER, not YOU. With windows you plug it in and it MIGHT ask you to click next a few times, most times in windows 10 it just starts working. But perhaps the last time you used windows was with XP - seems your knowledge of where it's at today is lacking.
I left because I was bored, the company I was working for last had some long term employees, basically we used to call the furniture. They were also very stingy with system knowledge, trying to get any information out of them was practically impossible unless you went and stood at their desks and bugged them until they helped. So I didn't - I would dig into the code and figure it out for myself, but that meant that it would take me twice as long to complete certain tasks and they started complaining about that. Left shortly afterwards. To be honest that was a pain, but I could have just put in a couple more hours and everything would have been fine, but I didn't want to. Code might be code, but I am heartily sick of financial code, I've been doing it for the majority of my career, and as one BA (who used to code) said to me about financial software and why she changed to being a BA, financial code is all the same, you read some data, you change some of it, and then write it back again. Boring ass shit. I was once tasked to finding a 2 cent discrepancy in a balance of a trillion - took me two fucking weeks (no one else had been able to find it) if I ever have to do that again I will resign on the spot. Life is too short for that shit. Now I work for a huge company in one of their teams doing IoT stuff, love it. I work overtime not because it's required of me, but because I am having so much fun.
They are not trying to run an ISP dipshit, they are enforcing a legally binding contract, which is what lawyers do, and I would say most politicians are lawyers. So they are doing what the fuck they are paid and trained to do.
Clearly he was not able to do so, possibly because he was a fucking moron who broke into someones house to ask for their wifi password. If this is not a clear case of internet addiction then I don't know what is.
I agree, but I don't know what actually went down in the end. If someone who realizes they are going to get fired logs into the system and changes the admin password just before he is frog marched out the door means they have shoddy processes... yeah, perhaps. Fuck, I work in IT I have lots and lots of admin rights, if I wanted to I could do the exact same thing in the next five minutes to a lot more systems than he did. They placed their trust in someone who failed their trust. I would also like to point out (and something I did not mention) is that the system x was in development, if it was in production there would have been two million piles of change control paperwork. I know the bank, their systems are rock solid, their processes appropriately anal retentive. In IT you give a lot of power to a few key individuals, if one of them turns out to be an ass hat, what can you do? To work at my level you need to get through 2 or 3 interviews, assessments, background checks and security clearances, and since I used to work primarily on the financial side of things there are in depth financial background checks etc. as well. I don't know how it works in other countries, but here if you have a slightly dodgy credit history you are not going to get work at a financial institution, at least not in IT. I only know of one person who worked there with a bad credit rating, and she was given the green light because of politics, someone in the upper echelons wanted a female in our team.
I think you are missing the point of why they actually call it over the top services. Cable companies came in and installed your cable (with internet blah blah) and TV, now Netflix et al are offering a competing service using the very infrastructure that the cable companies had to physically install. So they are competing with the cable companies using the cable companies infrastructure, they are offering a service (streaming) over the top of the infrastructure that the cable companies paid a LOT of money to install so that they could have you as a client. And now a lot of people are cutting the cord, not on the internet bit, but on the crappy repeating, ad laden, bunch of crap TV bullshit the cable companies want to shove down your throat. So now they are losing revenue, because when they did their initial business planning you were supposed to be a loyal customer for the next x years, which is what they built into their business model and justified the expense of laying the physical cable for, but if you cut the cord, their business model starts to go south. We have a very similar issue here, where the local cell service providers are complaining about whatsapp etc using their infrastructure to send text messages "over the top" of the infrastructure they provide, and because it's cheaper to send a whatsapp than a text message people prefer to use that. Cutting a lot of their profits. I can understand their complaints to a degree, they did lay the initial infrastructure and it cost a lot of money, but WHY is it cheaper to use alternate methods to send a message now? How long did it take for me to pay "off" my installation costs and WHY is it still costing me the same (or more) to send a message via the traditional methods. To me they where milking their customers and making a fuck ton of money, and now that business model has become obsolete, and instead of changing and adapting they are whining and complaining and trying to get back their lost profits. Another similar issue where I live is that a single company owned the rights to the "local loop", the last mile of copper to your house from the exchange. Other companies could come in and "compete" but the final (and crucial) last mile to your house was BY LAW owned by this single company. But then fiber got really cheap, and a lot of companies said we are not going to use the copper in the last mile laid at great expense by this other company, we are going to lay new lines of fiber, right to the customers door. It took a couple years in court, but they lost, and I have fiber, it would never have happened as swiftly if this one company had managed to maintain their strangle hold.
To me if it is going to cost xyz to connect me to your network, charge me that initial fee. Don't tack on all sorts of sundry shit and expect me to keep forking out money for the next decade. Trust me, it is a LOT less expensive to just pay for it upfront and get it done with, because if you are "paying it off" over a couple years you are paying way more than what it is worth. If you can't save up to do that, then that you can't afford it. Instant gratification may take too long, but sometimes it's better to wait.
In other news, scientists have created a better battery! Or was it a mouse trap? I'll get my hopes up when I can buy it. Getting tired of all this sensationalist crap that never see's the light of day.
As soon as a company knows you can hack things at some point they will ask you to hack something. I once worked for a big bank in my country, and they had a falling out of some sorts with the only guy who knew the admin password for system x. The system belonged to them, so when they asked me to hack it and recover the password I did not see anything wrong with it. I have done a LOT more questionable hacks (for companies) that made me question if I should be doing what I was doing, but most of them were "defensive" hacks, and were never actually used (that I know of at least). I've also reverse engineered stuff just to see how it works, but then who hasn't seen something cool in software and wanted to know how it was done? It's actually scary when you realize how much consumer electronics is built on top of a small CPU running custom firmware, which you can hack. TV's, dishwashers, washing machines, microwaves, usb storage drives, hard drives, fucking light switches, it's nuts, and with IoT gaining momentum it's only going to get worse. My current job is building management software for smart buildings, lots of fun, also lots of frustration, and bring a warm jacket, because you are going to spend time sitting on the floor in a data center with your laptop keeping your genitals warm. I was once called out to a client in the middle of summer (and it gets HOT here) and arrived in a t-shirt and shorts with sandals, only to end up spending most of the day in the data center freezing my balls off.
And after the first nuke drops every ebook will be gone.
Don't get me wrong, I almost exclusively use ebooks, but to say that physical books are obsolete is a bit shortsighted.
We currently live in a small cottage so space is a big problem and I had to get rid of a LOT of books, but I kept my favorites, and when we had regular load shedding that came in handy.
"Oh my god I forgot to charge my kindle!" was not a problem, I just go to the book shelf and pick a book.
What I would like is a full set of encyclopedia's but they are not cheap and finding a second hand set is proving troublesome.
He got elected because the only other running candidate was fucking worse than he was. If you don't want people like Trump getting elected, field a better opponent, or actually try having a democracy instead of a 2 party system. I find it amusing that America tries to force democracy on everyone (whether they want it or not) but they themselves are not running a democracy.
Not just for free, the do it for FUN, I know, because I used to do it.
Fair enough, but I actually had a different context in mind when I answered the question, I apologize for my misunderstanding.
I like eating meat, I don't eat a lot of it, but I do like some meat with my meals. My wife is almost a vegan (again) but bacon is her one weakness. I find food without a meat portion to be bland and unfulfilling. That's my choice, just as it's my wife's choice to no longer eat meat. I don't give a fuck if the cow takes up more space, it also produces more poop and contributes to the glue you use to stick your kids poster to something. I can also wear it on my feet (the leather, not the steak, or the whole cow). How about finding a substitute for decent leather, there are NONE that come close.
And then think about how I would rather eat ground beef than cheap beans. Supply and demand, no one wants to eat your cheap ass beans.
But I loved the comment "Maybe you need to do some work on your parser."
Not true for most
When they killed something it had to either be preserved (usually with smoking or salting) or eaten, so there would be periods where there was a LOT of meat eaten during migrations etc. and long periods where mostly veggies were eaten. A lot would depend on tribe and location.
Well we could start with forcing America to stop fighting wars against everything, I reckon that would be a good place to start. A couple of Americans killed in 9/11 and when everyone wiped the shit out of their eyes America had illegally invaded three countries and killed MILLIONS of people. I know that in the USA "black lives matter" but seriously, how many black people were in the two towers?
It's not, I would eat the bunny too. I have been involved in raising bunnies for eating, they are vicious horrible fucking creatures, they are fucking cannibals as well. Eat them all!
I think you are missing the point. You can go to a steak house and they will cater (somewhat) for veggies, with at least a menu item or two. Not a lot, but then why the fuck are you trying to be a vegetarian in a steak house? But they DO cater for you veggie mother fuckers. But if a non veggie goes to a vegetarian restaurant there are NO options for meat eaters.
/. is going to have a field day, but I am tired and can't be bothered to reword it.
"But you went to a vegetarian place and asked for meat!"
Well you went to a steak house and asked for a veggie dish, who is bending over backwards and who is being a self centered opinionated dick?
Fuxor, I used bending over and dick in the same sentence,
Go nuts.
I would mod you... A lot of veggies are not eating meat for ethical reasons, not taste reasons. So for a lot of them this is a win. Personally I would eat a human without batting an eyelid, protein is fucking protein, I promise that you won't suffer for long before you become a substitute pork chop. Unless you resist, in which case some tenderising may be required.
Good point, we do run Java for some third party software we use.
Can they? Can they really? It's taking a while...
Over the top services are a description given to services like Netflix etc. which you are paying to give you "services" over the "top" of your current internet connection. They did not have to put a satellite into orbit, or worry about cables and dishes etc. They are able to supply "cable" type services without have to lay the cable. So they are inherently cheaper, which is what the old school cable and satellite companies are whining about. Because they laid the cable for your internet (and cable TV) but people no longer want the TV part, which is where they made most of their money.
To me, if they just stopped fucking repeating stuff, and cut out all the shit I would never watch I might actually pay for it. The only thing I miss is the sports, but then if there is a good game on I just go to the local pub, it's more fun that way anyway (although the wife tends to get annoyed).
Exactly this. I cancel Netflix every 3 months or so for about 3 months. In 3 months I have watched all that I care about and in 3 months they have changed content for me to watch for the next 3 months. In between I just pirate the shit out of everything, I would pay for it if it was affordable and most of all available. But it's not so I pay for it when I am able, and pirate the rest.