And we also have AI's that can land passenger planes better than pilots (on clear days with smooth air). The commonality with mammogram analysis is not intelligence, but attentiveness. Analyzers get tired of looking at the same gray squiggly lines and miss stuff. Pilot's get lazy after a 10 mile stabilized approach that looks exactly it did the last 50 times she flew into the same airport.
A cloth mill down the road used to employ thousands. Now there is a guy to occasionally deliver new thread bobbins. The machines load the thread themselves.
Most of the easy to replace manufacturing jobs have already been replaced. The fast food workers will be replaced when they demand a $15/hr minimum.
I write software test automation. I've written scripts over the last three months that replace what 6 people did in a year. On the bright side, I have seen my salary increase 25% over the last two years.
There are far more choices. Like: Get a job in Austin or Raleigh, NC, make only 80% as much, but walk the 10 minutes to work from your $900/month luxury apartment.
Cultures differ. I find the European mindset of desiring the state to provide for their needs to be immature. Maturity, in my opinion, requires a realization that no one has a right to another person's labor....no matter how much they claim to "need" it.
The Republican weaponization of Clinton's misdeed was to claim that this behaviour made Bill unfit to govern.
Jeesh! Are Democrats STILL spreading that lie!?
The "weaponization" was about Bill Clinton LYING under oath about this example of sexual harassment in a court case about a previous example of sexual harassment. He lost his law license and paid a $600,000 fine for his infraction (if I'm remembering correctly).
It's not that we're tired of hearing it. It's that half of us never cared in the first place, and the other half only want to use the difference to try to win a political debate (not understanding that the other side doesn't care).
Oh really? Number of open jobs requiring Computer Science degrees: 500,000. Number of yearly CS graduates: 50,000. That's a factor of 10:1 in one industry.
A degree doesn't expire every year, you know. There are people who got a degree over the last few years still looking for jobs. There are people who have been "aged out" still looking. All your number says is that we can't cover the current set of openings with just new graduates from this single year.
Really? Have you checked the profit margins of the typical software company or compared it to practically any other industry? The companies charge what the market can bear. The squeeze every last dollar they can out of Americans. They will continue to do so.
But, wouldn't those same pressures and temperatures be involved in a volcanic eruption? "We came here from another world" sounds more like an episode from Enterprise:TNG than a valid scientific theory. There is no practical implication, and no possible way to test it until we can get to other planets and find some samples that haven't been corrupted by being on this planet.
Dude, we're talking about one of the larger "state-of-the-art" datacenters in the WORLD. No way they're going to allow a little bit of open source automation in there that could prevent a minimum numb-nut from turning off the AC. How would that look?
We had someone accidentally turn off the AC in our datacenter for a day. (Please! Don't ask how this could ever be allowed to happen!!) Six months later, we had one hard drive after another needing replacement. I wouldn't have thought anything of it, except that the veteran admin I was working with predicted at the time of the cooling outage that it would happen, and then reminded us all of it when the drives started dying.
The cooling system is there because temp rated components are EXPENSIVE!!
I have a friend that built a Stearman (a biplane used as a trainer during WWII). It is a certified airplane, so everything has to be exactly like the original. He started with nothing but a dataplate. Once he built the entire airplane, the FAA considered it to be the original.
How can the get any idea of what your household is like, unless they collect the data? You can't.
How would you determine algorithmically which data is "general" and which data is "specific"? It isn't possible, because there is no acceptable line between general and specific data.
Ipso facto, they're collecting ALL the data, and her statement is absurd.
Maybe not a 'legal' precedent, but most certainly a 'social' precedent.
It tells everyone that the trolls can be taken down. Notice how the trolls are backing off of Newegg. The trolls know Newegg will fight back. The trolls know that Newegg will take out their best moneymakers. Better to go pick on somebody that won't put up a fight. Well, when the rest of the playground sees that the bully will back down if you punch him in the nose, the bully's control is greatly curtailed.
A patent is property. That is why companies give bonuses to engineers that come up with patentable ideas. Only people can be awarded patents, and for the company to then take ownership, they have to pay for them.
BTW, on a sad note, does anyone remember when Lucent actually innovated stuff?
I was working for them in the early 90's when they broke off from AT&T. No. I don't remember when they ever innovated anything. Even at that time, they were milking the telephone cow.
Then I worked for Alcatel in the 2000-2002 timeframe. They were also a huge rent seeking corporation, intent on riding their old technology wagon for as long as possible.
And that Clinton gave us 8 years of peace and prosperity,
Unless you count Bosnia, or that ugly little thing going on in Somalia. Must admit, there were plenty of jobs under Clinton. Remember the running joke, "I know there are lots of jobs. I have three of them."
Now, please stop learning your history from Rachel Maddow. It irritates those of us that actually lived through it sober enough to remember it.
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And we also have AI's that can land passenger planes better than pilots (on clear days with smooth air). The commonality with mammogram analysis is not intelligence, but attentiveness. Analyzers get tired of looking at the same gray squiggly lines and miss stuff. Pilot's get lazy after a 10 mile stabilized approach that looks exactly it did the last 50 times she flew into the same airport.
Computers aren't smart, but they don't get lazy.
A cloth mill down the road used to employ thousands. Now there is a guy to occasionally deliver new thread bobbins. The machines load the thread themselves.
Most of the easy to replace manufacturing jobs have already been replaced. The fast food workers will be replaced when they demand a $15/hr minimum.
I write software test automation. I've written scripts over the last three months that replace what 6 people did in a year. On the bright side, I have seen my salary increase 25% over the last two years.
There are far more choices. Like: Get a job in Austin or Raleigh, NC, make only 80% as much, but walk the 10 minutes to work from your $900/month luxury apartment.
Cultures differ. I find the European mindset of desiring the state to provide for their needs to be immature. Maturity, in my opinion, requires a realization that no one has a right to another person's labor....no matter how much they claim to "need" it.
The Republican weaponization of Clinton's misdeed was to claim that this behaviour made Bill unfit to govern.
Jeesh! Are Democrats STILL spreading that lie!?
The "weaponization" was about Bill Clinton LYING under oath about this example of sexual harassment in a court case about a previous example of sexual harassment. He lost his law license and paid a $600,000 fine for his infraction (if I'm remembering correctly).
It's not that we're tired of hearing it. It's that half of us never cared in the first place, and the other half only want to use the difference to try to win a political debate (not understanding that the other side doesn't care).
Oh really? Number of open jobs requiring Computer Science degrees: 500,000. Number of yearly CS graduates: 50,000. That's a factor of 10:1 in one industry.
A degree doesn't expire every year, you know. There are people who got a degree over the last few years still looking for jobs. There are people who have been "aged out" still looking. All your number says is that we can't cover the current set of openings with just new graduates from this single year.
Really? Have you checked the profit margins of the typical software company or compared it to practically any other industry? The companies charge what the market can bear. The squeeze every last dollar they can out of Americans. They will continue to do so.
Don't understand the need for English classes? Haven't been reading /. long, have you? :-)
But, wouldn't those same pressures and temperatures be involved in a volcanic eruption? "We came here from another world" sounds more like an episode from Enterprise:TNG than a valid scientific theory. There is no practical implication, and no possible way to test it until we can get to other planets and find some samples that haven't been corrupted by being on this planet.
Dude, we're talking about one of the larger "state-of-the-art" datacenters in the WORLD. No way they're going to allow a little bit of open source automation in there that could prevent a minimum numb-nut from turning off the AC. How would that look?
Well, it is what I started with 8*)
EMC2 at www.linuxcnc.org
Robotics is about controlling motors via a computer. Building a mill or router will get you started.
You really think Bruce Willis will live that long? Or that they'll continue to create "Die Hard" puns?
CO2 would be heavier (thermal mass), suppress fire and corrosion, and best of all would be cheap.
We had someone accidentally turn off the AC in our datacenter for a day. (Please! Don't ask how this could ever be allowed to happen!!) Six months later, we had one hard drive after another needing replacement. I wouldn't have thought anything of it, except that the veteran admin I was working with predicted at the time of the cooling outage that it would happen, and then reminded us all of it when the drives started dying.
The cooling system is there because temp rated components are EXPENSIVE!!
I have a friend that built a Stearman (a biplane used as a trainer during WWII). It is a certified airplane, so everything has to be exactly like the original. He started with nothing but a dataplate. Once he built the entire airplane, the FAA considered it to be the original.
Simple logic would tell you that she is lying.
How can the get any idea of what your household is like, unless they collect the data? You can't.
How would you determine algorithmically which data is "general" and which data is "specific"? It isn't possible, because there is no acceptable line between general and specific data.
Ipso facto, they're collecting ALL the data, and her statement is absurd.
Maybe not a 'legal' precedent, but most certainly a 'social' precedent.
It tells everyone that the trolls can be taken down. Notice how the trolls are backing off of Newegg. The trolls know Newegg will fight back. The trolls know that Newegg will take out their best moneymakers. Better to go pick on somebody that won't put up a fight. Well, when the rest of the playground sees that the bully will back down if you punch him in the nose, the bully's control is greatly curtailed.
A patent is property. That is why companies give bonuses to engineers that come up with patentable ideas. Only people can be awarded patents, and for the company to then take ownership, they have to pay for them.
BTW, on a sad note, does anyone remember when Lucent actually innovated stuff?
I was working for them in the early 90's when they broke off from AT&T. No. I don't remember when they ever innovated anything. Even at that time, they were milking the telephone cow.
Then I worked for Alcatel in the 2000-2002 timeframe. They were also a huge rent seeking corporation, intent on riding their old technology wagon for as long as possible.
And that Clinton gave us 8 years of peace and prosperity,
Unless you count Bosnia, or that ugly little thing going on in Somalia. Must admit, there were plenty of jobs under Clinton. Remember the running joke, "I know there are lots of jobs. I have three of them."
Now, please stop learning your history from Rachel Maddow. It irritates those of us that actually lived through it sober enough to remember it.
I think the real issue in the combat situation is that the WRONG lives will be lost. You generally want some lives to be lost in a combat situation.
Those that would deign to create a fool-proof $anything, underestimate the creativity and ingenuity of fools.
It worked for the Yamamoto!
ON STAR...BLAZERS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Blazers