"Yet a new piece in The New York Times.. hypothesizes that replacing human laborers with machines has proven economically devastating to a broad swath of society."
What the difference between replacing jobs with machines or some Chinese wage slave?
"Imagine a future in which fleets of self-driving cars navigate city streets, picking up anyone who requests a ride via their smartphone or tablet" link
Weren't self drive cars already depicted in Total Recall, see Johnny Cab..
"The following Top 10 community backed Linux boards are listed in alphabetical order, with links, price, project, and processor. They are described in more detail in the slide show below (click on View Gallery)."
"In previous years, we've brought a bunch of retired PCs and challenged the groups to disassemble (down to the motherboard) and reassemble them in working order.. Most students today only have laptops and tablets. As a result, this knowledge doesn't translate into the real world anymore"
That's because the manufacturers design them that way, making them ununrecoverable in the process, all the while preaching their 'green` credentials, fifty dollars to change a battery, come off it. I see students who expereience of electronics being reduced to wiping a touch screen as the equivalent of that 'Doctor` whose entire knowledge consisted of consultant colored slides in some magic little black bag.
"It really concerns me how little this sort of corporate behavior bothers those outside of technology circles. Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types." TheTrueHOOHA, Feb 2010
"I can authoritatively state that those specific question types absolutely cannot be asked without specific cause [i.e. reporting]. If you got asked this, there's a specific reason, creepster." TheTrueHOOHA, Nov 2008
'US colleges increasingly view anything published before 1990 as 'inaccessible' for students. So much for timeless themes`..
"For American college students, 1990 appears to be a historical cliff beyond which it is rumored some books were once written, though no one is quite sure what. Why have US colleges decided that the best way to introduce their students to higher learning is through comic books, lite lit, and memoirs?" link
"How is the Official Secrets Act not adequate to cover this?"
I think he means they're going after the IT staff, the current legislation only applies to high officials..
"Most of the legislation about state secrets is in the Official Secrets Act and it only concerns an official.. I think there is going to have to be a look at what happens when somebody possesses material which is secret without having authority"
"The New York Times says that what Microsoft needs now isn't just a CEO, but a catch-up artist, to regain the footing that it had a few years ago as the biggest name in software."
Without the WinTEL monopoly and the onerous lock-in contracts with the OEMs, Microsoft is just another tech company..
"Oh, the solar power haters* are going to love this oneâ"a recent study by Germanyâ(TM)s Institute for Future Energy Systems (IZES), conducted on behalf of of the German Solar Industry Association (BSW-Solar), has found that, on average, solar power has reduced the price of electricity 10% in Germany (on the EPEX exchange). It reduces prices up to 40% in the early afternoon, when electricity demand is peaking and electricity typically costs the most. Thereâ(TM)s a visual of that (in German) here:" link
According to the Fossel Fuel lobby in the UK, solar and wind isn't economical, drives up the cost of electricity and gas and is bad for the environment, the money should be given on the Fossel Fuel companies instead..
"Today's interviewee is Cryonics Institute (CI) Director Andy Zawacki, who takes Slashdot's Robert Rozeboom into the facility where they keep the tanks with frozen people in them"
How are they going to recover the brain to the same neurological state it was in when the patient was unfrozen. Regardless of any future scientific advances, information lost cannot be restored.
"Federal agents have launched a criminal investigation of instructors who claim they can teach job applicants how to pass lie detector tests"
Lie detectors don't work, all it does is give a pretext for the testor to claim you lied. If you believe that the machine and tester can detect lies then you are more likly to tell the truth or cop to lying. Lie detector machines are pseudoscience at its worst.
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'Prof. Furedy disputes the value of this procedure, known as the Control Question Test (CQT).
"It is not a test at all in the sense that, say, an IQ test is a test," he says.
The validity of IQ tests in determining intelligence may be controversial, but at least they are scientifically based and use standardized procedures, so the results found by one competent operator will be the same as those found by any other, says Furedy.
However, the so-called control questions of the CQT are designed by the individual examiner, based on discussions with the subject, and the entire examination can vary greatly in length and subject matter. Much of the procedure is often spent not trying to determine whether the subject is telling the truth but trying to elicit a confession of guilt. As a result it cannot be called a scientific or standardized test.
Even when administered by an "expert", the polygraph fails to distinguish between an anxious-but innocent person and an anxious-but guilty person, says Furedy'.
'By reading the second paragraph of the article you linked to':
Thanks for pointing that bit out, now could you provide an original source for that quote, something like this would do..
"The second count charged that the defendants had violated Section II of the Sherman Act by conspiring to eliminate competition in the sale of motor buses and supplies to National City Lines companies" ref
"Every weekday starting at dawn and continuing late into the evening, a shiny fleet of unmarked buses rolls through the streets of San Francisco.. that ease the stress of navigating congested Bay Area roadways"
The reason the roadways are congested is that the car lobby acted to shut-down the public transport system way back in the early twentieth century.
Slashdot Mirror
Shouldn't that be Kelihos, the peer-to-peer Windows botnet ..
"Yet a new piece in The New York Times .. hypothesizes that replacing human laborers with machines has proven economically devastating to a broad swath of society."
What the difference between replacing jobs with machines or some Chinese wage slave?
"Imagine a future in which fleets of self-driving cars navigate city streets, picking up anyone who requests a ride via their smartphone or tablet" link
..
Weren't self drive cars already depicted in Total Recall, see Johnny Cab
"I'm looking for suggestions for an activity that will give the students some hands-on, real world experience that will benefit them immediately".
Open Source Linux Boards Under $200
"The following Top 10 community backed Linux boards are listed in alphabetical order, with links, price, project, and processor. They are described in more detail in the slide show below (click on View Gallery)."
"In previous years, we've brought a bunch of retired PCs and challenged the groups to disassemble (down to the motherboard) and reassemble them in working order .. Most students today only have laptops and tablets. As a result, this knowledge doesn't translate into the real world anymore"
That's because the manufacturers design them that way, making them ununrecoverable in the process, all the while preaching their 'green` credentials, fifty dollars to change a battery, come off it. I see students who expereience of electronics being reduced to wiping a touch screen as the equivalent of that 'Doctor` whose entire knowledge consisted of consultant colored slides in some magic little black bag.
"this isnt about open source at all"
I see and from what corner of the multiverse do you come from, where Red Hat aren't allowed to make money out of the Cloud?
Withold access to the new APIs until their own stuff is out-the-door. Then third party developers will have to spend months playing catch-up ...
"It really concerns me how little this sort of corporate behavior bothers those outside of technology circles. Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types." TheTrueHOOHA, Feb 2010
"I can authoritatively state that those specific question types absolutely cannot be asked without specific cause [i.e. reporting]. If you got asked this, there's a specific reason, creepster." TheTrueHOOHA, Nov 2008
'US colleges increasingly view anything published before 1990 as 'inaccessible' for students. So much for timeless themes` ..
"For American college students, 1990 appears to be a historical cliff beyond which it is rumored some books were once written, though no one is quite sure what. Why have US colleges decided that the best way to introduce their students to higher learning is through comic books, lite lit, and memoirs?" link
"How is the Official Secrets Act not adequate to cover this?"
..
.. I think there is going to have to be a look at what happens when somebody possesses material which is secret without having authority"
I think he means they're going after the IT staff, the current legislation only applies to high officials
"Most of the legislation about state secrets is in the Official Secrets Act and it only concerns an official
"The New York Times says that what Microsoft needs now isn't just a CEO, but a catch-up artist, to regain the footing that it had a few years ago as the biggest name in software."
..
Without the WinTEL monopoly and the onerous lock-in contracts with the OEMs, Microsoft is just another tech company
> No one trusts Canonical outside of the die-hard Ubuntu fanboys ..
Canonical has contributed Ubuntu into the community, for free, any criticism of their business strategy is therefore groundless ...
"Oh, the solar power haters* are going to love this oneâ"a recent study by Germanyâ(TM)s Institute for Future Energy Systems (IZES), conducted on behalf of of the German Solar Industry Association (BSW-Solar), has found that, on average, solar power has reduced the price of electricity 10% in Germany (on the EPEX exchange). It reduces prices up to 40% in the early afternoon, when electricity demand is peaking and electricity typically costs the most. Thereâ(TM)s a visual of that (in German) here:" link
According to the Fossel Fuel lobby in the UK, solar and wind isn't economical, drives up the cost of electricity and gas and is bad for the environment, the money should be given on the Fossel Fuel companies instead ..
Why is Wind power so expensive? An economic analysis
Npower delivers clarity on the changing cost of energy
"Chrome sends lots of extra data to Google"
..
I can't see any evidence of 'extra data` in Wireshark
"We don't know since Google keeps the source code secret."
"The Chromium codebase consists of hundreds of thousands of files"
"Today's interviewee is Cryonics Institute (CI) Director Andy Zawacki, who takes Slashdot's Robert Rozeboom into the facility where they keep the tanks with frozen people in them"
How are they going to recover the brain to the same neurological state it was in when the patient was unfrozen. Regardless of any future scientific advances, information lost cannot be restored.
"Does Chrome still install and run background services on Windows? .."
Have you tried deselecting the box titled " Continue running background apps when Chromium is closed "
I've always assumed we have no privacy on the Internet ..
> I'd have a hard time believing that this could be faster than someone using something like autocomplete as done in .NET ..
autocomplete was around long before .NET as was context-sensitive-help before Microsoft renamed it Intellisense ..
> The instructor they arrested had trained two undercover agents posing as criminals that wanted to lie on the exam ..
"Documents in Dixon's case are filed under seal in federal court, and prosecutors didn't return calls seeking comment".
"Federal agents have launched a criminal investigation of instructors who claim they can teach job applicants how to pass lie detector tests"
Lie detectors don't work, all it does is give a pretext for the testor to claim you lied. If you believe that the machine and tester can detect lies then you are more likly to tell the truth or cop to lying. Lie detector machines are pseudoscience at its worst.
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The Ontario Skeptic, Volume 16, Number 3 (Fall 2003) pp.1, 6.
'Prof. Furedy disputes the value of this procedure, known as the Control Question Test (CQT).
"It is not a test at all in the sense that, say, an IQ test is a test," he says.
The validity of IQ tests in determining intelligence may be controversial, but at least they are scientifically based and use standardized procedures, so the results found by one competent operator will be the same as those found by any other, says Furedy.
However, the so-called control questions of the CQT are designed by the individual examiner, based on discussions with the subject, and the entire examination can vary greatly in length and subject matter. Much of the procedure is often spent not trying to determine whether the subject is telling the truth but trying to elicit a confession of guilt. As a result it cannot be called a scientific or standardized test.
Even when administered by an "expert", the polygraph fails to distinguish between an anxious-but innocent person and an anxious-but guilty person, says Furedy'.
'By reading the second paragraph of the article you linked to':
..
Thanks for pointing that bit out, now could you provide an original source for that quote, something like this would do
"The second count charged that the defendants had violated Section II of the Sherman Act by conspiring to eliminate competition in the sale of motor buses and supplies to National City Lines companies" ref
"That whole thing is seriously overblown. Yes it happened, but its effect was small."
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Yea, Tony Soprano said the same thing about the New Jersey waste management infrastructure
"In many cases GM wanted to get rid of trolleys so they could replace them with the buses they made"
Where did you make that up?
"Every weekday starting at dawn and continuing late into the evening, a shiny fleet of unmarked buses rolls through the streets of San Francisco .. that ease the stress of navigating congested Bay Area roadways"
The reason the roadways are congested is that the car lobby acted to shut-down the public transport system way back in the early twentieth century.