If "they understand that they need educated people to get their economies further," then why is the Russian economy (and that of most other eastern European economies) so sickly all the time? Perhaps (and that is granting the point without any proof) the Russians do a decent job of educating their populace or encouraging STEM or whatever, but they sure can't put all these skilled citizens to any useful purpose, otherwise Russia's economy would be bigger than one half that of California and not be completely dependent on world oil prices. There is obviously 'something' they don't understand about getting their economies further along. And as far as the USA's system goes, anyone checked lately on the strength of the US dollar compared to the Euro, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar, British pound, etc? Maybe all those so-called faults in the USA's system come with accompanying advantages.
Momentum. Cultural and historical momentum. The US has not always been on top. Nor will it remain on top forever. You are just lucky that you don't think outside your own generation's timeframe.
Want a secret to being a raging success at work? have the balls to make a decision and own it. So many executives are spineless pussies that refuse to make a decision. Be a underling that makes decisions owns those decisions and takes the credit when you are right and the blame when you are wrong, you will stand out dramatically against the scared pussy-willows of the rest of the corporation that the ones that matter will notice.
And you will piss off the ones that dont matter.
OR.. The existing 'spineless pussies' will own your successes (and will make absolutely sure you do not get the credit), and will blame you for the failures. So that is not a universal secret to success, although it is a good thing to aspire to.
The true secret to success is to be good and your job (including making decisions about your work), AND find a company that values and rewards that. Truly great companies have decision makers at all levels, or don't even have levels (eg Buurtzorg who have 10,000 employees and NO managers). If you have to be at the top to make a meaningful decision, move on!
I don't understand why the summary is saying that the parliament demands end-to-end encryption be "enforced" while the title says "endorsed".
Basic knowledge of EU structure is needed here. So fair that there is confusion... but the article is correct.
It is because of who is making the draft. The Euro Parliament cannot create a bill, only modify and accept or reject. Therefore passing a bill is "endorsing" it. The bill itself will "enforce" the encryption.
There will probably be some things we assume are easy which will still elude us in 50 years (like flying cars).
Flying cars have not eluded us, we have chosen not to make them.
It is not a question of how hard the problem is, it is a question of how valuable the end result is (what is the user experience?). The designs end up being too much of a compromise or too expensive or just too heavily regulated compared to having both a car (or cars) and a plane (or planes).
except the part about backup is accepted language but not technically correct it should be back-up or we should consider backupped correct (which it isn't therefore backup isn't therefore you are ok with language being bastardised and shouldn't try to be a language nazi)
So to have Google backup all my computer data? No thanks.
Google cannot "backup" your data.
"Backup" is a noun. You do a backup. Do do not backup something.
"Back up" is the verb you want. You back up something. Google backs up all your computer data.
But Google CAN be pedantic. And you can be wrong.
you can call for backup to back you up (extended from a military sense).
Technically, the verb should be phrasal verb back up, with a space, and the noun back-up. This is because up is a function word so it can't really be combined. If you consider the past tense of such a verb, have you backed up your files?, I think it becomes clear that there must be a phrasal verb at play here - unless people do actually say 'have you "backupped" your files?
Apple's AI efforts are basically just market followers to other companies who were already first. In fact, Tim Cook is pretty much banking his company's future on clones of other companies products.
Remind me again... you are talking about Apple right? The same company who has made their philosophy "Adopt existing music player tech and bring it all together with some Job's magic sauceTM, market it to the masses and call it new"... then repeat with phones, tablets, notebooks,...... and we are supposed to be surprised that they intend on doing the same thing in another field.
Personally I dislike Apple, however they have proven their business model works.
I like your thinking here but mining turns energy into money which is sort of contra to the ideals of employing renewables in the first place.
Whoever told you that? The goal of renewable energy (as a tech) is to have energy that won't run out (and green energy, energy that wont harm planet)
Also they were turning energy into a debt (negative prices). So for the power company it would be better to turn it into nothing, and better again to turn it into money (that could be used for further investment)
There was no threat to clean water that wasn't addressed in the regulatory process that approved the pipeline to begin with. Tell me, what fault do you find with the laws, regulations, and agencies involved?
Just because a process found no fault doesn't mean there isn't one. Politics/money/power. No-one should blindly accept results of any process. They should be free to question, free to object, free to protest.
You don't have a serious answer because you're not a serious person. At best you're engaging in an emotional outburst that lets you paint yourself as the embattled hero.
ignoring this little character assasination attempt. I'm quite calm about this all, as I don't have a stake in the battle, only the meta battle that people should be entitled to all protections regardless of their actions.
I'm not required to take you seriously. Yes, you have a right to the protection of law and freedom of speech. You don't have the right to trespass and destroy when you don't like the outcome of a legally made decision.
Correct you don't need to take me seriously, or anything seriously. Debate the points not the person.
You don't have the right to trespass/destroy. But you do have the right to protest. The two may even conflict. There might even need to be an arm of government dedicated to sorting out the application of laws to specific cases.
I hope all protesters are charged with (or at least considered for) all relevant offences, and I hope the judicial system weighs all appropriate considerations eliminating/reducing them as appropriate. Are they guilt free? No Was their access to clean water threatened? Maybe (cannot say 100% no, 99.9999% certainty is not enough) Should they have been there? Hell yes (as cannot say 100% certainty to point above). Should they wear the consequences of any UNJUST actions on their part? Yes.
Let's say that all of that were true, what's your argument? That they don't deserve clean water because they litter? Help me understand that position.
It's pretty clear, but I'll spell it out: The protesters are not adults to be taken seriously. They can't even manage the environmental stewardship issues that are well within their control. We're certainly not going to let them impose mob rule on infrastructure projects that have passed all the required regulatory approvals.
One more time... what's your argument? That because they are [insert literally anything here], that in a first world democratic nation they do not deserve a basic survival commodity of clean water?
So what else don't they deserve? Protection of the law? Freedom of speech?
Land of the free, home of the [people I approve of]
Chrome got such a market share because it made for a better (or less worse) experience. I used to swear by Firefox until, for a period, certain releases would just start consuming the entire system's resources. So I switched... to chrome.
Has the problem with Firefox gone away? Almost certainly.
But that is not enough to make me switch back. So long as chrome does not screw me over, and Firefox doesn't offer me anything revolutionary, I will remain. There is inertia with most customers.
Wan't to stop the big guys... offer a better alternative. If this article had been written in a year or two, Netflix would probably be in the group (in fact I'm surprised it wasn't already).
That's all they're making, not because they can't do better, rather there's not much profit in it... All of humanity is being held back by greed. If not for greed medical science would have already advanced our average life spans well into the triple digits with immortality just around the corner... but nooooooo..... we're all gonna die young because of a few greedy pricks.
Citation needed.
We don't know what we could have been discovered.
I don't like consumerism and the current dominating corpratocracy either, but even if we suspect that profit motives are holding us back, we do not have crystal balls into alternative realities to put numbers like that out there as fact. But I 100% agree that there are people we could've saved from dying if we cared about people over $
If you bet solely on stats, you might do OK against a bunch of amateurs, but pros will wipe the floor with you. Because they not only know the stats backwards, but can also read your tells, and know when and how to bluff you.
I'm curious as to how a computer does that, but I don't for a moment doubt that it's possible.
Look at it the other way... a machine has no tells (apart from maybe calculation time) so it removes an ability from the opponent, in effect lowering the opponent from pro to amateur playing the stats, and humans might know the stats to within a couple percent but the computer will know them exactly.
"Bring them down to your level and beat them with experience"
and big thick phones don't sell well. So, that's not going to do it.
A phone that is big and thick for the sake of it will not sell well. A phone with huge battery and crippled performance (compared to the best phone available) will not sell well etiher.
However a phone that has huge frickin letters all over the ads stating "flagship smartphone with one week battery life"... would probably sell like hotcakes. Otherwise battery cases would not sell so well.
They're all software engineers (which isn't a recognized profession, by the way)
Thanks but I won't take your word for that. Please show your reasoning.
If a software professional can be a member of a recognised professional engineering body - they can be a "Certified Practicing Engineer" just like any other engineer - then I would say that they are by definition a recognised profession.
It is equally hard to identify what is sexual harassment and what isn't. Yet having sexual harassment laws isn't an issue.
Really? You've never heard of donglegate I take it.
See original post "with some unfortunate cases on both sides"
There are always unfortunate cases in the enforcement of most things. The important part is that these are the minority and that there is community discussion (and outrage) if/when someone starts trying to enforce things in the grey area. So donglegate shows things are more or less working. I will start worrying when stuff like that doesn't generate outrage
life is a continuum. Most things fail to be put in discrete buckets.
It is equally hard to identify what is sexual harassment and what isn't. Yet having sexual harassment laws isn't an issue. If it is grey area it isn't prosecuted (or the trial can go either way with some unfortunate cases on both sides) but it allows us to find people guilty when it is far beyond the grey and into the universally wrong territory.
Banning for hate speech is similar. Yes some people have grey definitions of what is and isn't but you would only act on the extreme cases.
Eg "have you noticed that [insert underprivileged minority] don't seem to be as educated as us according to the high school drop out rates" (casual inference about education but someone might conflate that with intelligence) vs "I think we should burn all [insert minority here] people alive. I will personally give the first person who does so my life savings"
I don't think anyone hates tribalism. They might dislike the word itself as it makes us think of uncivilized people fighting each other on the plains of Africa 3000 years ago or whatever, but very few people hate "tribalism" as the concept of a group of people with shared identity working toward a common goal.
you missed the vital point as to why people DO hate tribalism.
"a group of people with shared identity working toward a common goal... against (at the expense of) another tribe" without the existence of the external party it is not tribalism.
Because all these identities require that your success comes at the expense of another's success, many people (including myself) lament the tribalism tendency of humanity. It is the main reason why people can do so many horrible things to others because the other is not from my group so they are not worthy.
Although I am not against tribalism when the consequences for losing side are low eg sports (where there are not fanatical rioting supporters).
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If "they understand that they need educated people to get their economies further," then why is the Russian economy (and that of most other eastern European economies) so sickly all the time? Perhaps (and that is granting the point without any proof) the Russians do a decent job of educating their populace or encouraging STEM or whatever, but they sure can't put all these skilled citizens to any useful purpose, otherwise Russia's economy would be bigger than one half that of California and not be completely dependent on world oil prices. There is obviously 'something' they don't understand about getting their economies further along. And as far as the USA's system goes, anyone checked lately on the strength of the US dollar compared to the Euro, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar, British pound, etc? Maybe all those so-called faults in the USA's system come with accompanying advantages.
Momentum. Cultural and historical momentum. The US has not always been on top. Nor will it remain on top forever. You are just lucky that you don't think outside your own generation's timeframe.
Want a secret to being a raging success at work? have the balls to make a decision and own it.
So many executives are spineless pussies that refuse to make a decision. Be a underling that makes decisions owns those decisions and takes the credit when you are right and the blame when you are wrong, you will stand out dramatically against the scared pussy-willows of the rest of the corporation that the ones that matter will notice.
And you will piss off the ones that dont matter.
OR..
The existing 'spineless pussies' will own your successes (and will make absolutely sure you do not get the credit), and will blame you for the failures. So that is not a universal secret to success, although it is a good thing to aspire to.
The true secret to success is to be good and your job (including making decisions about your work), AND find a company that values and rewards that. Truly great companies have decision makers at all levels, or don't even have levels (eg Buurtzorg who have 10,000 employees and NO managers). If you have to be at the top to make a meaningful decision, move on!
What menu operates like that?
The exaggeration menu.
It's a language setting under the "trying to make a point" menu, next to YELLING and expletives.
I don't understand why the summary is saying that the parliament demands end-to-end encryption be "enforced" while the title says "endorsed".
Basic knowledge of EU structure is needed here. So fair that there is confusion... but the article is correct.
It is because of who is making the draft. The Euro Parliament cannot create a bill, only modify and accept or reject. Therefore passing a bill is "endorsing" it. The bill itself will "enforce" the encryption.
There will probably be some things we assume are easy which will still elude us in 50 years (like flying cars).
Flying cars have not eluded us, we have chosen not to make them.
It is not a question of how hard the problem is, it is a question of how valuable the end result is (what is the user experience?). The designs end up being too much of a compromise or too expensive or just too heavily regulated compared to having both a car (or cars) and a plane (or planes).
except the part about backup is accepted language but not technically correct it should be back-up or we should consider backupped correct (which it isn't therefore backup isn't therefore you are ok with language being bastardised and shouldn't try to be a language nazi)
So to have Google backup all my computer data? No thanks.
Google cannot "backup" your data.
"Backup" is a noun. You do a backup. Do do not backup something.
"Back up" is the verb you want. You back up something. Google backs up all your computer data.
But Google CAN be pedantic. And you can be wrong.
you can call for backup to back you up (extended from a military sense).
Technically, the verb should be phrasal verb back up, with a space, and the noun back-up. This is because up is a function word so it can't really be combined.
If you consider the past tense of such a verb, have you backed up your files?, I think it becomes clear that there must be a phrasal verb at play here - unless people do actually say 'have you "backupped" your files?
So please dismount from that overly high horse.
Surprised at the number of users on /. that will "never use facebook" because fb harvest their personal data. Yet ask them on a forum...
Why pay all that $ to fb when you can just get it for nothing.
and the hex code visible in Apple's CSS files.
Apple has a fix for that. They'll simply copyright the letter 'F'.
Luckily we can still use 'f' in 3rd party browsers
Apple's AI efforts are basically just market followers to other companies who were already first. In fact, Tim Cook is pretty much banking his company's future on clones of other companies products.
Remind me again... you are talking about Apple right? The same company who has made their philosophy "Adopt existing music player tech and bring it all together with some Job's magic sauceTM, market it to the masses and call it new"... then repeat with phones, tablets, notebooks, ... ... and we are supposed to be surprised that they intend on doing the same thing in another field.
Personally I dislike Apple, however they have proven their business model works.
I like your thinking here but mining turns energy into money which is sort of contra to the ideals of employing renewables in the first place.
Whoever told you that? The goal of renewable energy (as a tech) is to have energy that won't run out (and green energy, energy that wont harm planet)
Also they were turning energy into a debt (negative prices). So for the power company it would be better to turn it into nothing, and better again to turn it into money (that could be used for further investment)
But for consumers it would have been great.
There was no threat to clean water that wasn't addressed in the regulatory process that approved the pipeline to begin with. Tell me, what fault do you find with the laws, regulations, and agencies involved?
Just because a process found no fault doesn't mean there isn't one. Politics/money/power. No-one should blindly accept results of any process. They should be free to question, free to object, free to protest.
You don't have a serious answer because you're not a serious person. At best you're engaging in an emotional outburst that lets you paint yourself as the embattled hero.
ignoring this little character assasination attempt. I'm quite calm about this all, as I don't have a stake in the battle, only the meta battle that people should be entitled to all protections regardless of their actions.
I'm not required to take you seriously. Yes, you have a right to the protection of law and freedom of speech. You don't have the right to trespass and destroy when you don't like the outcome of a legally made decision.
Correct you don't need to take me seriously, or anything seriously. Debate the points not the person.
You don't have the right to trespass/destroy. But you do have the right to protest. The two may even conflict. There might even need to be an arm of government dedicated to sorting out the application of laws to specific cases.
I hope all protesters are charged with (or at least considered for) all relevant offences, and I hope the judicial system weighs all appropriate considerations eliminating/reducing them as appropriate.
Are they guilt free? No
Was their access to clean water threatened? Maybe (cannot say 100% no, 99.9999% certainty is not enough)
Should they have been there? Hell yes (as cannot say 100% certainty to point above).
Should they wear the consequences of any UNJUST actions on their part? Yes.
I'm 54 and can still crank out a productive 36 hour work day (yes, seriously) at crunch time, but that's me;
Dr. Steven Strange??
It'd take me good part of a week to do that...
Let's say that all of that were true, what's your argument? That they don't deserve clean water because they litter? Help me understand that position.
It's pretty clear, but I'll spell it out: The protesters are not adults to be taken seriously. They can't even manage the environmental stewardship issues that are well within their control. We're certainly not going to let them impose mob rule on infrastructure projects that have passed all the required regulatory approvals.
One more time... what's your argument? That because they are [insert literally anything here], that in a first world democratic nation they do not deserve a basic survival commodity of clean water?
So what else don't they deserve? Protection of the law? Freedom of speech?
Land of the free, home of the [people I approve of]
Sounds like sore loser syndrome...
Chrome got such a market share because it made for a better (or less worse) experience. I used to swear by Firefox until, for a period, certain releases would just start consuming the entire system's resources. So I switched... to chrome.
Has the problem with Firefox gone away? Almost certainly.
But that is not enough to make me switch back. So long as chrome does not screw me over, and Firefox doesn't offer me anything revolutionary, I will remain. There is inertia with most customers.
Wan't to stop the big guys... offer a better alternative. If this article had been written in a year or two, Netflix would probably be in the group (in fact I'm surprised it wasn't already).
That's all they're making, not because they can't do better, rather there's not much profit in it... All of humanity is being held back by greed. If not for greed medical science would have already advanced our average life spans well into the triple digits with immortality just around the corner... but nooooooo..... we're all gonna die young because of a few greedy pricks.
Citation needed.
We don't know what we could have been discovered.
I don't like consumerism and the current dominating corpratocracy either, but even if we suspect that profit motives are holding us back, we do not have crystal balls into alternative realities to put numbers like that out there as fact. But I 100% agree that there are people we could've saved from dying if we cared about people over $
If you bet solely on stats, you might do OK against a bunch of amateurs, but pros will wipe the floor with you. Because they not only know the stats backwards, but can also read your tells, and know when and how to bluff you.
I'm curious as to how a computer does that, but I don't for a moment doubt that it's possible.
Look at it the other way... a machine has no tells (apart from maybe calculation time) so it removes an ability from the opponent, in effect lowering the opponent from pro to amateur playing the stats, and humans might know the stats to within a couple percent but the computer will know them exactly.
"Bring them down to your level and beat them with experience"
He will eventually become a marshall process that just processes interruptions from the kids as they dutifully carry out their (his) coding duties.
I have no problem with general news on Slashdot, but I think it is absurd that #1 was covered while #2 was not.
Was there a submitted story for number 2? Had someone taken the time to write a summary [and really badly edit it]?
Remember they will only show what is on the submissions
where breast feeding is a public offense
Here is a complete exhaustive list of all the American states where public breastfeeding is illegal:
1. Idaho
It is legal everywhere else.
That is 1 state above the threshold for making the criticism legitimate.
I mean breastfeeding... FFS... it is a normal part of life, completely non sexual, and in no way affects anyone other than mother and child.
and big thick phones don't sell well. So, that's not going to do it.
A phone that is big and thick for the sake of it will not sell well. A phone with huge battery and crippled performance (compared to the best phone available) will not sell well etiher.
However a phone that has huge frickin letters all over the ads stating "flagship smartphone with one week battery life"... would probably sell like hotcakes. Otherwise battery cases would not sell so well.
They're all software engineers (which isn't a recognized profession, by the way)
Thanks but I won't take your word for that. Please show your reasoning.
If a software professional can be a member of a recognised professional engineering body - they can be a "Certified Practicing Engineer" just like any other engineer - then I would say that they are by definition a recognised profession.
It is equally hard to identify what is sexual harassment and what isn't. Yet having sexual harassment laws isn't an issue.
Really? You've never heard of donglegate I take it.
See original post "with some unfortunate cases on both sides"
There are always unfortunate cases in the enforcement of most things. The important part is that these are the minority and that there is community discussion (and outrage) if/when someone starts trying to enforce things in the grey area. So donglegate shows things are more or less working. I will start worrying when stuff like that doesn't generate outrage
life is a continuum. Most things fail to be put in discrete buckets.
It is equally hard to identify what is sexual harassment and what isn't. Yet having sexual harassment laws isn't an issue. If it is grey area it isn't prosecuted (or the trial can go either way with some unfortunate cases on both sides) but it allows us to find people guilty when it is far beyond the grey and into the universally wrong territory.
Banning for hate speech is similar. Yes some people have grey definitions of what is and isn't but you would only act on the extreme cases.
Eg
"have you noticed that [insert underprivileged minority] don't seem to be as educated as us according to the high school drop out rates" (casual inference about education but someone might conflate that with intelligence)
vs
"I think we should burn all [insert minority here] people alive. I will personally give the first person who does so my life savings"
I don't think anyone hates tribalism. They might dislike the word itself as it makes us think of uncivilized people fighting each other on the plains of Africa 3000 years ago or whatever, but very few people hate "tribalism" as the concept of a group of people with shared identity working toward a common goal.
you missed the vital point as to why people DO hate tribalism.
"a group of people with shared identity working toward a common goal... against (at the expense of) another tribe"
without the existence of the external party it is not tribalism.
Because all these identities require that your success comes at the expense of another's success, many people (including myself) lament the tribalism tendency of humanity. It is the main reason why people can do so many horrible things to others because the other is not from my group so they are not worthy.
Although I am not against tribalism when the consequences for losing side are low eg sports (where there are not fanatical rioting supporters).