However, I totally disagree on "he is sincere in what he says" part. If you prioritize money as your most concern, then you would agree to what he said. However, if you use logic and think about what "he" is doing, you would not use the word "sincere" at all because "he" is actually a classic case politician who promises everything while running for a position. I bet he won't be able to keep most (if not all) of his promises. If he could keep even 5% of his promises, it would be what he wanted to do -- screw other people. Simply look at how he presents himself -- sweet talk / praise to those who agree with him and bad mouth / talk down on those who disagree -- and you should see that he is very similar to a car salesman.
Funny. People complained that MS never changed, and it was just a boring old work company. They start doing weird things like... giving away an xbox with a surface pro purchase, and now they're just messed up or poorly-led or whatever. Meanwhile, no one cares that Apple basically does *nothing* new for 5 years at a time.
Are you being sarcastic??? If not, then you may need to understand that they are different situations. Never_changed != Does_nothing_new. Never change in the sense is to keep doing the way it is. It could be culture, behavior, etc. Does nothing new means there is no innovation of ideas or the way things work. Even though both situations can happen at the same time, they are still not the same. So why can't people make a complaint on just one and not the other?
I guess "Well the increasingly bizarre behavior out of Microsoft just keeps on coming." from the parent means "never changed" in your sense which would be different from "does *nothing* new."
Well, when the labor cost is not in question, you should be wary about material quality... I understand that phone companies in the U.S. are benefiting more on their services. As a result, they do not really care how much a phone cost. Remember when there were no smart phone, these companies were giving away a phone. Phone cost is just a small benefit they (phone companies) have been getting...
He shouldn't have allowed it to be drawn out so long.
After 30 days, he should have filed a lawsuit against Comcast in small claims, for the amount due.
Then the court may throw his case out because Comcast, at the time, could easily come up with a reason why the guy hadn't received the check yet. Then the guy would waste both time and money (court fee which would not be much). However, the guy could have filed a law suit for a much higher amount if he has already waited this long...
I think that's horrible. Why not use technology? I bet most of these ticket buying web sites have their own roll-your-own garbage Captcha. They don't care because they get the same amount of money of their tickets are bought by bots or real people. In fact, it can be their advantage to have bots buy out all the tickets. They get an instant "sold out" show and they no longer have a risk for unsold seats. The scalpers now incur that risk (and mitigate it by jacking up the price enough that it more than covers unsold tickets).
People who use the ticketing agents (and care about their fans) should demand those ticketing agents implement better bot detection.
Because technology can't solve some major problems. You are correct that ticket sellers don't care about who bought tickets. However, that's a short-sighted thought. Those resellers usually sell tickets at a lot higher price than their face value because they expect that they can't sell all tickets. As a result, there are empty seats in the venue. No artist or show likes to have empty seats in their show even though their tickets are sold out because audiences would think negatively of the show. They do not know what's going on but rather gauge on what they see. The empty seats make a negative impact on future shows.
The AC proposal may work (make harsh penalty) but it may not work in the U.S. due to the way the country is (and people are). Also the GP method (check ticket validity at the entrance) isn't going to work because a huge cost will fall onto the venue owner and may be passed on to artists (but not the ticket sellers). Even though TFA stated a somewhat reasonable solution (come out with a bill), it may not work at all because I can still see loop holes in operations...
Obesity kills far more humans than "rifles" ever will, and yet you see no artists blocking food emojis, and no companies worrying about what do to when someone posts a cake emoji.
Gotta love the logic surrounding this bullshit argument.
Yes, seriously. How could the parent is Insightful when it is obviously a fallacy -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... -- that attempts to associate 2 different events/statements as the same. Gotta love the logic surrounding this BULLSHIT argument.
There is not enough information is TFA. When did the Chinese company file for a patent?
It used to be that one (inventor or applicant) must prove where the invention idea came from when files for a patent. It was changed a while back and now it is "first to file" which is stupid. One conspiracy theory is that the Chinese company stole the design idea from Apple (using the loop hole in patent filing). An enforcible patent must be filed in the country it is enforced (or covered) in order for claims to be valid. My guess is that Apple did not file for a patent in China (but may have it in the U.S.) when they sent (outsource) their manufacturing to China. The Chinese company filed for a patent in China for what Apple asked them to do. Because the part is manufacturing there (China), the violation is valid. Just my guess...
How about he was in China at the time he was employed? He stole it for "local government" because he was not in the U.S. yet. Until May 2015, he was trying to sell the code to U.S. undercover in the U.S. Then he came to NY in December 2015 and was arrested. Everything is on TFA...
A lot of "hacks" involved social engineering. Realizing that people are too lazy to change default passwords fits that bill.
Please take a look at his original post... If the door is unlocked and there is a manual there with default password, do you mean you need to talk to social engineer with the box in order to get the password? Are we living in Futurama?
My initial reaction is duh. I have software on my phone for security audits that allow me to do the exact same thing. Only it's not meant to do 15 cards a sec. This is how contactless cards work. Maybe the PCI should just start listening to security professionals and do away with these things?
Or envelopes for contactless cards, which advertise as preventing any card reading, will be booming soon. Another way to make money but from different vendors...
While a smartwatch does tell time, that's generally not why people buy them. It's hardly fair to compare the two and then hold up the traditional watch as being superior simply because it never needs software updates.
And could you tell me what purposes of a smart watch are??? If you are talking about health (e.g. pulse, walking steps, etch.), then it is just an approximate measurement; however, the way they (sellers) advertise is the opposite (as if it is a reliable measurement device). Scheduling? That can come in any form and does not need to be a watch. Telling time? That is what a watch does...
Back in your day, people didn't need to do that much maintenance on their transportation because a horse and wagon doesn't need much, just a well-fed horse and maybe a little axle grease on the wagon wheels. Horse-drawn wagons also couldn't do most of the stuff a modern car or truck can, like drive at 75+mph safely, accelerate and brake quickly, work all day long on easily-available gasoline instead of needing to stop every so often for your horse to much grass and rest, blow cold or warm air on you as you travel, play music for you, etc.
Obviously, a watch that does nothing but tell you the time isn't going to have the maintenance needs that a networked microcomputer in a watch case has. As soon as you have a general-purpose computer running software and connected to a network, it needs to be regularly updated to avoid network-based attacks, and also possibly to stay compatible with other devices it communicates to.
And your reply still does not give a good reason why a watch needs to be a networked microcomputer... I don't see a reason to work things like that off my watch...
He can easily get 5-10% a year with an index fund, and some investments with a mix of bonds and stocks (including REIT) are at a 15% return.
Hmm... Doesn't this sound similar to something that happened before? And at the end, they lost all their money because of their greed hoping to get 15% or more return... Remember, in order to gain, some others must lose especially in stock investment...
The "other lizards" are dangerously bad. Trump at least is America First and knows enough about business deals to stop with the shitty stuff (NAFTA, TPP, Iran, Cuba, etc).
Hmm... not exactly. Trump knows very well how to work around all system in the U.S., but he has no idea on how to be diplomatic or work with other countries (or in global level). I don't believe that he knows enough at all.
With Trump, you are playing with fully loaded machine gun which he is pointing toward you and others... with Democrats, you are playing with 6 rounds in the chamber and the Democrat gets the gun first.
Doctor's income has very little to do with the skyrocketing cost of health care here in the US. In fact a huge portion of doctors don't actually have take home pay much different than a well paid software engineer. An internal medicine doctor in solo practice can work 70-100 hours per week and maybe take home $80-150K/year when all is said and done. Other doctors do better financially (particularly specialists) but the big drivers for health care costs are demonstrably not doctor's salaries. Those doctors who do make bigger salaries tend to be economically far more valuable than their take home pay.
Actually, I think it is a part of the cost as well. Doctors are supposed to pay for malpractice insurance which takes a big chunk out of the doctor's paid. In order to keep $80k~$150k/year, the real gross income for doctors is much higher than that (could be about double). As a results, a doctor visit (seeing a doctor) becomes higher charges. The cost of higher charges is kicking down to health insurance. Who is paying that? Of course, you. Reducing and/or getting rid of malpractice insurance would in turn reduce the cost of health insurance for people.
Prescription is another type of insurance which is different even though insurance company lump it up into "health insurance" type. The cost is high per what you said.
So all in all, insurance companies are making money off you all. They charge doctors for high malpractice insurance cost. Then they charge you more to match up with the malpractice insurance and blame on the doctor cost (which is actually coming from their own charges). It is a double dipping.
If you work from home, you can take your job with you.
New in-person social circle, same social media social circle.
If you are single, then it is possible if you are willing to do so and have resources to go to a different city. Most people aren't in that condition especially when there are families involved. Even worse, if you have younger kids (that aren't going to college yet). Moving from one place to another will be a horror that needs a lot of preparation...
Not gonna bang on about CS and H1Bs, since that's been beaten 10 times today, but for instance Pharmacy is more or less going to collapse in the next decade once robots can automate the operation of pharmacies/testing facilities, and that degree takes 6+ years to get, depending on aptitude. Law is becoming more and more automated (plus loads of lawyers never actually make it anywhere beyond public defense and the meager salary that entails), and soon enough we'll have medical computers that can accurately diagnose and treat patients with more success than humans can.
I think you are thinking too much on implementation but completely forget about maintenance. Yes, machine can replace work force, but machine can't fix itself or generate new functions. Besides, I don't see that a machine would be able to do that in at least a couple decades because currently real AI doesn't exist. And by the way, in order to get to the point where you are talking about, it still needs people. And if we finally get there, we still need people to maintain/improve it.
In conclusion, there will always be jobs in computers, but it would be different and may require different or more knowledges. It is an adaptation. However, those who can't adapt to the current may not be able to find a job. Those who can would have no problem. The situation would include those who just graduate and come out into the market. It is similar the "Survival of the Fittest."
It's called the post-graduation gap, as in having difficulty finding a job after you graduate, depending on what your area of study was.
I believe your post is more sarcastic than insightful. The gap year is more for high school, undergrad, and in between. If you finished undergrad, it would be a different story...
So you completely missed my point. If you actually read how I replied to the parent post, you would understand what I said. I even quoted the parent, but still I have no idea how some people replied to my post are missing my point and take another topic into the conversation...:-/
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Well, I agreed only on the money part.
However, I totally disagree on "he is sincere in what he says" part. If you prioritize money as your most concern, then you would agree to what he said. However, if you use logic and think about what "he" is doing, you would not use the word "sincere" at all because "he" is actually a classic case politician who promises everything while running for a position. I bet he won't be able to keep most (if not all) of his promises. If he could keep even 5% of his promises, it would be what he wanted to do -- screw other people. Simply look at how he presents himself -- sweet talk / praise to those who agree with him and bad mouth / talk down on those who disagree -- and you should see that he is very similar to a car salesman.
And as a "student," you would need to have money to buy them first before you can sell each or both...
Funny. People complained that MS never changed, and it was just a boring old work company. They start doing weird things like... giving away an xbox with a surface pro purchase, and now they're just messed up or poorly-led or whatever. Meanwhile, no one cares that Apple basically does *nothing* new for 5 years at a time.
Are you being sarcastic??? If not, then you may need to understand that they are different situations. Never_changed != Does_nothing_new. Never change in the sense is to keep doing the way it is. It could be culture, behavior, etc. Does nothing new means there is no innovation of ideas or the way things work. Even though both situations can happen at the same time, they are still not the same. So why can't people make a complaint on just one and not the other?
I guess "Well the increasingly bizarre behavior out of Microsoft just keeps on coming." from the parent means "never changed" in your sense which would be different from "does *nothing* new."
Well, when the labor cost is not in question, you should be wary about material quality... I understand that phone companies in the U.S. are benefiting more on their services. As a result, they do not really care how much a phone cost. Remember when there were no smart phone, these companies were giving away a phone. Phone cost is just a small benefit they (phone companies) have been getting...
He shouldn't have allowed it to be drawn out so long. After 30 days, he should have filed a lawsuit against Comcast in small claims, for the amount due.
Then the court may throw his case out because Comcast, at the time, could easily come up with a reason why the guy hadn't received the check yet. Then the guy would waste both time and money (court fee which would not be much). However, the guy could have filed a law suit for a much higher amount if he has already waited this long...
It might for you, but for me it just says "This IP has been automatically blocked."
I just clicked on it out of curiosity. I guess it thinks i am a scammer, despite having never used craigslist for anything before in my whole life.
IP blocking is not only for scam reason. If you really want to know, you need to check with the site...
I think that's horrible. Why not use technology? I bet most of these ticket buying web sites have their own roll-your-own garbage Captcha. They don't care because they get the same amount of money of their tickets are bought by bots or real people. In fact, it can be their advantage to have bots buy out all the tickets. They get an instant "sold out" show and they no longer have a risk for unsold seats. The scalpers now incur that risk (and mitigate it by jacking up the price enough that it more than covers unsold tickets).
People who use the ticketing agents (and care about their fans) should demand those ticketing agents implement better bot detection.
Because technology can't solve some major problems. You are correct that ticket sellers don't care about who bought tickets. However, that's a short-sighted thought. Those resellers usually sell tickets at a lot higher price than their face value because they expect that they can't sell all tickets. As a result, there are empty seats in the venue. No artist or show likes to have empty seats in their show even though their tickets are sold out because audiences would think negatively of the show. They do not know what's going on but rather gauge on what they see. The empty seats make a negative impact on future shows.
The AC proposal may work (make harsh penalty) but it may not work in the U.S. due to the way the country is (and people are). Also the GP method (check ticket validity at the entrance) isn't going to work because a huge cost will fall onto the venue owner and may be passed on to artists (but not the ticket sellers). Even though TFA stated a somewhat reasonable solution (come out with a bill), it may not work at all because I can still see loop holes in operations...
wisdom (which is more often than not the actual driving force in an individual's decision to "pirate" or not.)
I think the word you are looking for is "ethic" instead of "wisdom." ;)
Obesity kills far more humans than "rifles" ever will, and yet you see no artists blocking food emojis, and no companies worrying about what do to when someone posts a cake emoji.
Gotta love the logic surrounding this bullshit argument.
Yes, seriously. How could the parent is Insightful when it is obviously a fallacy -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... -- that attempts to associate 2 different events/statements as the same. Gotta love the logic surrounding this BULLSHIT argument.
There is not enough information is TFA. When did the Chinese company file for a patent?
It used to be that one (inventor or applicant) must prove where the invention idea came from when files for a patent. It was changed a while back and now it is "first to file" which is stupid. One conspiracy theory is that the Chinese company stole the design idea from Apple (using the loop hole in patent filing). An enforcible patent must be filed in the country it is enforced (or covered) in order for claims to be valid. My guess is that Apple did not file for a patent in China (but may have it in the U.S.) when they sent (outsource) their manufacturing to China. The Chinese company filed for a patent in China for what Apple asked them to do. Because the part is manufacturing there (China), the violation is valid. Just my guess...
How about he was in China at the time he was employed? He stole it for "local government" because he was not in the U.S. yet. Until May 2015, he was trying to sell the code to U.S. undercover in the U.S. Then he came to NY in December 2015 and was arrested. Everything is on TFA...
A lot of "hacks" involved social engineering. Realizing that people are too lazy to change default passwords fits that bill.
Please take a look at his original post... If the door is unlocked and there is a manual there with default password, do you mean you need to talk to social engineer with the box in order to get the password? Are we living in Futurama?
My initial reaction is duh. I have software on my phone for security audits that allow me to do the exact same thing. Only it's not meant to do 15 cards a sec. This is how contactless cards work. Maybe the PCI should just start listening to security professionals and do away with these things?
Or envelopes for contactless cards, which advertise as preventing any card reading, will be booming soon. Another way to make money but from different vendors...
saving 20k a year and living off of 75k a year
I guess you meant saving $33k a year and living off of $42k a year (taxes around $20k).
While a smartwatch does tell time, that's generally not why people buy them. It's hardly fair to compare the two and then hold up the traditional watch as being superior simply because it never needs software updates.
And could you tell me what purposes of a smart watch are??? If you are talking about health (e.g. pulse, walking steps, etch.), then it is just an approximate measurement; however, the way they (sellers) advertise is the opposite (as if it is a reliable measurement device). Scheduling? That can come in any form and does not need to be a watch. Telling time? That is what a watch does...
Back in your day, people didn't need to do that much maintenance on their transportation because a horse and wagon doesn't need much, just a well-fed horse and maybe a little axle grease on the wagon wheels. Horse-drawn wagons also couldn't do most of the stuff a modern car or truck can, like drive at 75+mph safely, accelerate and brake quickly, work all day long on easily-available gasoline instead of needing to stop every so often for your horse to much grass and rest, blow cold or warm air on you as you travel, play music for you, etc.
Obviously, a watch that does nothing but tell you the time isn't going to have the maintenance needs that a networked microcomputer in a watch case has. As soon as you have a general-purpose computer running software and connected to a network, it needs to be regularly updated to avoid network-based attacks, and also possibly to stay compatible with other devices it communicates to.
And your reply still does not give a good reason why a watch needs to be a networked microcomputer... I don't see a reason to work things like that off my watch...
Or lose it all in stock market. :P
He can easily get 5-10% a year with an index fund, and some investments with a mix of bonds and stocks (including REIT) are at a 15% return.
Hmm... Doesn't this sound similar to something that happened before? And at the end, they lost all their money because of their greed hoping to get 15% or more return... Remember, in order to gain, some others must lose especially in stock investment...
The "other lizards" are dangerously bad. Trump at least is America First and knows enough about business deals to stop with the shitty stuff (NAFTA, TPP, Iran, Cuba, etc).
Hmm... not exactly. Trump knows very well how to work around all system in the U.S., but he has no idea on how to be diplomatic or work with other countries (or in global level). I don't believe that he knows enough at all.
With Trump, you are playing with fully loaded machine gun which he is pointing toward you and others... with Democrats, you are playing with 6 rounds in the chamber and the Democrat gets the gun first.
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It would come down to whether or not Fitbit advertisement is a false advertising. Otherwise, I am not sure how these lawyers would win the law suit...
Doctor's income has very little to do with the skyrocketing cost of health care here in the US. In fact a huge portion of doctors don't actually have take home pay much different than a well paid software engineer. An internal medicine doctor in solo practice can work 70-100 hours per week and maybe take home $80-150K/year when all is said and done. Other doctors do better financially (particularly specialists) but the big drivers for health care costs are demonstrably not doctor's salaries. Those doctors who do make bigger salaries tend to be economically far more valuable than their take home pay.
Actually, I think it is a part of the cost as well. Doctors are supposed to pay for malpractice insurance which takes a big chunk out of the doctor's paid. In order to keep $80k~$150k/year, the real gross income for doctors is much higher than that (could be about double). As a results, a doctor visit (seeing a doctor) becomes higher charges. The cost of higher charges is kicking down to health insurance. Who is paying that? Of course, you. Reducing and/or getting rid of malpractice insurance would in turn reduce the cost of health insurance for people.
Prescription is another type of insurance which is different even though insurance company lump it up into "health insurance" type. The cost is high per what you said.
So all in all, insurance companies are making money off you all. They charge doctors for high malpractice insurance cost. Then they charge you more to match up with the malpractice insurance and blame on the doctor cost (which is actually coming from their own charges). It is a double dipping.
If you work from home, you can take your job with you.
New in-person social circle, same social media social circle.
If you are single, then it is possible if you are willing to do so and have resources to go to a different city. Most people aren't in that condition especially when there are families involved. Even worse, if you have younger kids (that aren't going to college yet). Moving from one place to another will be a horror that needs a lot of preparation...
Not gonna bang on about CS and H1Bs, since that's been beaten 10 times today, but for instance Pharmacy is more or less going to collapse in the next decade once robots can automate the operation of pharmacies/testing facilities, and that degree takes 6+ years to get, depending on aptitude. Law is becoming more and more automated (plus loads of lawyers never actually make it anywhere beyond public defense and the meager salary that entails), and soon enough we'll have medical computers that can accurately diagnose and treat patients with more success than humans can.
I think you are thinking too much on implementation but completely forget about maintenance. Yes, machine can replace work force, but machine can't fix itself or generate new functions. Besides, I don't see that a machine would be able to do that in at least a couple decades because currently real AI doesn't exist. And by the way, in order to get to the point where you are talking about, it still needs people. And if we finally get there, we still need people to maintain/improve it.
In conclusion, there will always be jobs in computers, but it would be different and may require different or more knowledges. It is an adaptation. However, those who can't adapt to the current may not be able to find a job. Those who can would have no problem. The situation would include those who just graduate and come out into the market. It is similar the "Survival of the Fittest."
It's called the post-graduation gap, as in having difficulty finding a job after you graduate, depending on what your area of study was.
I believe your post is more sarcastic than insightful. The gap year is more for high school, undergrad, and in between. If you finished undergrad, it would be a different story...
So you completely missed my point. If you actually read how I replied to the parent post, you would understand what I said. I even quoted the parent, but still I have no idea how some people replied to my post are missing my point and take another topic into the conversation... :-/