I like the phrase - "The loss of liberty is worse than the threat of terror." I think it would make a nice T-Shirt. Just curious, isn't leaving the U.S. because our democracy is threatened the opposite of patriotism?
Perhaps show her how to calculate the odds of becoming a princess when one is not born as one. I'm not much of one for trying to force anyone into a specific path, but there is a bias in societies teaching that boys are expected to have jobs that pay, even if it isn't fun because it's what we are expected to do. Girls get allowed to believe they can eat rainbows for breakfast and live in castles made of ice cream. Fortunately most women are capable and ambitious and they figure out an education and career path that works for them just like men. Bringing more basic electronics, physical science, hands on mechanical skills and computer skills training into more years of K-12 would help. I had some great classes in some of those subjects in K-12, but only what, six semesters one period a day out of the entire time in K-12 and today's students are lucky if they get that.
There's a big difference between being able to read posts and being able to associate a specific post with the source IP and other details without the site even consenting to that information being released. Having at least minimal capability to actually maintain anonymity without using TOR would be nice. You would still see the IPs of readers, but with HTTPS a reader and a poster would look externally identical and posts couldn't be attributed. That said I have no confidence Dice's CEO wouldn't cough up your name if a Google exec or the like called them up and said they really wanted to know who posted a defamatory comment.
Please stop the Big Data wet dream of sensors all over collecting information they have no business having. The security nightmare of millions of half-ass secured devices leaking data 24 hrs a day is not a good thing for society. There could be plenty of value in certain devices communicating, but on an intranet only and with very limited extranet access only if and when appropriate. The current model where things just get stuck on the internet with no limitations is the wrong approach for the consumer and the health of the internet.
That's why they want all the technology. If they can automate online learning then useless teachers that can't be fired can go back to sitting in the corner and being glorified babysitters. Well at least that's the pitch they have bought into. That combined with an army of parents who think doing shit on an iPad is the way to make their kids tech savvy. One good teacher at $70,000 per year with 30 students is $2333.33 per year per student. Figure out where the rest of the $9000+ is going and cut everything that isn't helping students. Oh, and for the love of God, nobody should be exempt from being fired for being shitty at their job, quickly and efficiently.
I welcome another source, but it isn't clear that you'll have much impact on available content. Most news is just noise. Everybody has the same stories at the same time it seems I think partly because the average reader's attention span isn't there to focus on deeper analysis, but deeper analysis is expensive in terms of author time and someone who spends two months researching a story worth telling rightly wants to get paid for it. There is value in the tidbits we passively consume on a daily basis, but it would be nice to broaden access to serious journalism from different sources around the globe and hopefully increase the amount of serious in depth pieces published. Maybe the site could create a financial incentive for independent content creators who produce unbiased coverage of social significance.
I much agree. There may be some risks, but AI designers have the ability to define the constraints on AI behavior, we have the ability to know what the AI is "thinking", AI will likely always have a defined scope of what it can control by it's own decisions. The effect on economics and employment is worth considering since humans in business don't seem to have any awareness of the gainful employment of people being a noble goal that is as beneficial to society as profit are. I feel at some point business may need to adapt to consider maximizing value to society, their employees and their shareholders. Focus on short term benefit to shareholders at the expense of all others is not the kind of thinking that will serve us well in the future.
+1 on cash for that reason. I also add my personal gripe that many businesses when processing returns or buying age restricted products will scan your ID without asking for consent. Ok, BestBuy, you scanned my ID to return an item, now what info did you collect and who gets to use the data? Hmm, no sir, I don't like it.
Crime in transit - When we have automated buses there will be nobody to radio for assistance when a crime is in progress on the bus. If buses get automated, please add a button near each seat that can be pushed discretely to bring police in on a live video feed and display location. That said, I doubt in the law suit happy U.S. that we'll see driver-less buses in the next 20 years outside a few limited test cases. When they way the cost of a high tech automated bus vs. a standard bus and low paid driver, I doubt the automated vehicle will win. Private industry IMO will be likely to offer a bus that targets only the middle class, which might just be successful and it's a niche municipalities are unlikely to fill.
Age discrimination exists, but it depends on the role, the person and how they are perceived. Being over 35 and still working at a junior level in terms of skills is not well received. Having not gotten any new or renewed certifications in the last 12 years doesn't look great. Then look at Fed Chair Janet Yellen, at 68 clearly nobody cared about age. They are happy to have someone with experience. A resume doesn't have your age on it and it can be written to make your age less obvious. Bring energy and enthusiasm to the interview and I really doubt most times your age will really be the deciding factor. The grizzled cynicism that is the badge of honor of veteran IT workers doesn't always sell with the young companies where being positive is considered a job requirement.
If they want better security then stop with the unnecessary technology. I don't want a car that unlocks or locks every time I walk up to it or walk away. The GPS should be isolated, not integrated and should do it's best to maintain privacy. There should be no possible way in the world for a radio signal to control anything, but the door locks. Cars should not be as Ford says "A computer on wheels". I'm quite happy with my luxury car from the 90's and although some modern features are nice I really think it's a step in the wrong direction to train the public that a car should have a huge list of electronic gadgetry. How about simple reliable cars that people can actually afford to buy.
How about starting with practical needs instead of futurist personal office on wheels crap. In most areas we need more trains and large buses that get people from suburbs to cities and between cities. Then we could use a large number of mid sized trolleys or shuttles to get people from the stations to their destinations. Individual rental vehicles could be available at the stations as needed to increase the flexibility of the system. We have tens of thousands of drivers traveling individually in large cities because the alternatives are not robust, clean, time efficient and highly-flexible. How many jobs could a serious project like that create? Oh no, let's just let legislators continue to suckle at the teat of the auto and oil lobbyists, because progress is too hard. Trillion dollar wars protect freedom, but infrastructure spending can clearly only lead to socialism.
Everything you said is true. The U.S. ideals still exist though and there are plenty of us fighting to restore some decency in our care for others. The Republicans have long had a mind control lock on those you say "often really *aren't* alright" despite having the "I'm alright Jack, screw you" attitude. If the Fox News crowd ever wakes up to the facts of their own constant manipulation it could change quite a bit, but I think that will take a generation to weed out. Ultimately Americans love our country and even if we see it through the lens of reality mixed with hopes and ideals, there will never be another place that feels like home. I've traveled, but I could never really feel like I belong anywhere else. I hope America renews it's freedoms, becomes more progressive and inclusive and that in time becomes a place more Europeans could feel at home.
"The specter of Kill Bots waging war without human guidance or intervention has already sparked significant political backlash, including a potential United Nations moratorium on autonomous weapons systems. This issue is particularly serious when one considers that in the future, many countries may have the ability to manufacture, relatively cheaply, whole armies of Kill Bots that could autonomously wage war. This is a realistic possibility because today a great deal of cutting-edge research on robotics and autonomous systems is done outside the United States, and much of it is occurring in the private sector, including DIY robotics communities. The prospect of swarming autonomous systems represents a challenge for nearly all current weapon systems, which partly drives the emphasis on DEWs. (Directed-Energy Weapons)"
Also interesting was the comments on how privacy issues affect security of DoD staff, while they don't seem to concerned about how it affects civilian security. See "Expanding Privacy Issues page" 19.
"Monitoring of individuals and populations using sensors, wearable devices, and IoT will provide detection and predictive analytics that can move toward a health maintenance-based, rather than a disease-based medical model, and also enhance operational readiness. However, there will be many risks involved as these systems are implemented, for example, the many ways that digital data or privacy information can be compromised, issues of ownership or of access to the data. These systems will also require new enterprise-level models for the management and exploitation of potentially huge amounts of health related data."
Above excerpts from "Policy Challenges of Accelerating Technological Change: Security Policy and Strategy Implications of Parallel Scientific Revolutions" by James Kadtke and Linton Wells II at CTNSP
An open market in the U.S. specifically. We don't want to, nor should we have to openly compete with foreign labor. It doesn't have to be eliminated, there is value in having some foreign labor, but it's our duty as Americans to put U.S. interests first. In order for the U.S. to produce more STEM workers the jobs have to be there for them when they graduate and the jobs available have to pay real money. Not enough people will be engineers because it is fun, many will become engineers if it's a virtual guarantee of a high wage position. Executive admins are making more than many engineers today and engineers are making the same as they did 10 years ago or more.
Educating the kids on how not to get hurt is about all they can do. The NYPD is so out of control and they still want to pretend they are doing the right thing. StopandFrisk needs to end, period. Broken Windows policing needs to end. There is no choice, but for young people of color in some areas to fear the police because the police don't give a fuck about their rights or even their physical safety. If a black man in New York wants to survive he can only be polite, immediately comply with all instructions no matter how stupid and either keep his hands on the wheel or on his head for the duration of the interaction. White people do actually give a shit, it will just take some time for the cops to listen.
The fake X close button is something I really fear will become a broad way of exploiting vulnerable users. Many of the X buttons even in seemingly legitimate pop-ups don't tell you anything about the action it will take even by doing a mouse over. Users are accustomed to blindly clicking the X to close even if it doesn't look like a regular Windows close button. I spent some time using the Firefox "inspect element" feature and I didn't find any that did something nasty on close, but it seems like this trend of embedding a close button or X into in-page popups is ripe for exploitation. I would encourage sites allowing this kind of advertising to define a standard to allow users to better know the safety of the close action. It would take a lot to train users to Alt-F4 every time they get one of those if they aren't running NoScript.
I think that is a very true and logical assessment. It's just unfortunate that Google has become so ubiquitous. People can choose to use another search engine, but rarely do. It's already very difficult to run a business if Google isn't putting your business high in their ranks. I believe for the time being the listing process is mostly working, but as they continue on I worry that Google could become the gatekeepers of the internet. Pay the fee and kiss the ring or the internet will never know you exist.
That's what worked for DSL with the 1996 telecommunications act. The physical logistics of copper telephone wires worked out well for that. Just a cross connect to the competitor's DSLAM (Digital Service Line Access Multiplexor) which occupied space in the CO. It only really worked though, when the rates for the last mile were fixed at low rates.
I'd be very interested to know how the logistics of doing something like that for Cable could work out.
I don't have a clear idea of the equipment at the cable company hub locations. If the existing CLECs (Competitive Local Exchange Carriers) could get access into the cable networks and compete, it could do a lot for competition and rescue the remaining CLECs from obsolescence.
SDN - (Software Defined Networking) makes my list. Huge potential, but also huge potential to get it wrong or to insist on automated systems to replace humans that are perfectly capable of managing environments. I fear how complex and vendor software dependent the industry may become.
I agree with you about the risk of internet segmentation. Logically it makes a lot of sense, but there in lies the rub. Humans cannot be trusted with power, so even if segmenting the internet makes a degree of sense both technically and in terms of security, once segmented, it will never again enjoy real freedom.
Segmented in this case meaning anything from firewall choke points to separate physical networks to some global VLAN/MPLS scheme.
It's good for self promotion and too know whats happening in your former colleagues careers and maintain contact. I don't want to have to worry about updated personal email addresses for 300 people every time they change. Yes, I probably contact someone through the site at most twice a year, but it keeps me connected and gives exposure when wanted. I turn off public search-ability when I'm not looking for a job. I've also had at least one friend tell me an interviewer knocked him for not having a well developed Linkedin profile. I can almost understand that if you just have a resume on your desk and you are trying to evaluate someone, but once the actual human being is sitting in front of you in an interview, who gives a fuck about their Linkedin?
Facebook for work, no thanks. Facebook is not trusted and their thinking is off. Linkedin partly has value because it is outside your office sphere, but it is socially OK to be out there, where as being on job hunting websites is frowned upon by HR. Facebook for work would, at best be the all-out bullshit zone. A place where you network with peers and business contacts and paint some fluffed up edited version of yourself for professional consumption. In my reality there is more risk there than there is benefit. I have enough worries about what Linkedin does with my info, I won't be opening up more.
Slashdot Mirror
I like the phrase - "The loss of liberty is worse than the threat of terror." I think it would make a nice T-Shirt. Just curious, isn't leaving the U.S. because our democracy is threatened the opposite of patriotism?
Perhaps show her how to calculate the odds of becoming a princess when one is not born as one. I'm not much of one for trying to force anyone into a specific path, but there is a bias in societies teaching that boys are expected to have jobs that pay, even if it isn't fun because it's what we are expected to do. Girls get allowed to believe they can eat rainbows for breakfast and live in castles made of ice cream. Fortunately most women are capable and ambitious and they figure out an education and career path that works for them just like men. Bringing more basic electronics, physical science, hands on mechanical skills and computer skills training into more years of K-12 would help. I had some great classes in some of those subjects in K-12, but only what, six semesters one period a day out of the entire time in K-12 and today's students are lucky if they get that.
There's a big difference between being able to read posts and being able to associate a specific post with the source IP and other details without the site even consenting to that information being released. Having at least minimal capability to actually maintain anonymity without using TOR would be nice. You would still see the IPs of readers, but with HTTPS a reader and a poster would look externally identical and posts couldn't be attributed. That said I have no confidence Dice's CEO wouldn't cough up your name if a Google exec or the like called them up and said they really wanted to know who posted a defamatory comment.
Please stop the Big Data wet dream of sensors all over collecting information they have no business having. The security nightmare of millions of half-ass secured devices leaking data 24 hrs a day is not a good thing for society. There could be plenty of value in certain devices communicating, but on an intranet only and with very limited extranet access only if and when appropriate. The current model where things just get stuck on the internet with no limitations is the wrong approach for the consumer and the health of the internet.
That's why they want all the technology. If they can automate online learning then useless teachers that can't be fired can go back to sitting in the corner and being glorified babysitters. Well at least that's the pitch they have bought into. That combined with an army of parents who think doing shit on an iPad is the way to make their kids tech savvy. One good teacher at $70,000 per year with 30 students is $2333.33 per year per student. Figure out where the rest of the $9000+ is going and cut everything that isn't helping students. Oh, and for the love of God, nobody should be exempt from being fired for being shitty at their job, quickly and efficiently.
I welcome another source, but it isn't clear that you'll have much impact on available content. Most news is just noise. Everybody has the same stories at the same time it seems I think partly because the average reader's attention span isn't there to focus on deeper analysis, but deeper analysis is expensive in terms of author time and someone who spends two months researching a story worth telling rightly wants to get paid for it. There is value in the tidbits we passively consume on a daily basis, but it would be nice to broaden access to serious journalism from different sources around the globe and hopefully increase the amount of serious in depth pieces published. Maybe the site could create a financial incentive for independent content creators who produce unbiased coverage of social significance.
I much agree. There may be some risks, but AI designers have the ability to define the constraints on AI behavior, we have the ability to know what the AI is "thinking", AI will likely always have a defined scope of what it can control by it's own decisions. The effect on economics and employment is worth considering since humans in business don't seem to have any awareness of the gainful employment of people being a noble goal that is as beneficial to society as profit are. I feel at some point business may need to adapt to consider maximizing value to society, their employees and their shareholders. Focus on short term benefit to shareholders at the expense of all others is not the kind of thinking that will serve us well in the future.
+1 on cash for that reason. I also add my personal gripe that many businesses when processing returns or buying age restricted products will scan your ID without asking for consent. Ok, BestBuy, you scanned my ID to return an item, now what info did you collect and who gets to use the data? Hmm, no sir, I don't like it.
Crime in transit - When we have automated buses there will be nobody to radio for assistance when a crime is in progress on the bus. If buses get automated, please add a button near each seat that can be pushed discretely to bring police in on a live video feed and display location. That said, I doubt in the law suit happy U.S. that we'll see driver-less buses in the next 20 years outside a few limited test cases. When they way the cost of a high tech automated bus vs. a standard bus and low paid driver, I doubt the automated vehicle will win. Private industry IMO will be likely to offer a bus that targets only the middle class, which might just be successful and it's a niche municipalities are unlikely to fill.
Age discrimination exists, but it depends on the role, the person and how they are perceived. Being over 35 and still working at a junior level in terms of skills is not well received. Having not gotten any new or renewed certifications in the last 12 years doesn't look great. Then look at Fed Chair Janet Yellen, at 68 clearly nobody cared about age. They are happy to have someone with experience. A resume doesn't have your age on it and it can be written to make your age less obvious. Bring energy and enthusiasm to the interview and I really doubt most times your age will really be the deciding factor. The grizzled cynicism that is the badge of honor of veteran IT workers doesn't always sell with the young companies where being positive is considered a job requirement.
Smile or Die
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That would be a gift. Now if the Democrats just realize that Hillary can't win we'll have something.
Re: The republican candidate list now includes (at least)
Mitt Romney - Fuck wad, but might have a chance.
Jeb Bush - Sorry, your brother fucked up your chances.
Scott Walker - How much Koch brother's dick can you suck?
Chris Christie - Too fat, nobody is trusting that Jersey boy with foreign policy.
Sarah Palin - Seriously again? Getting tea bagged by the Tea Party isn't going to cut it this time either.
Bobby Jindal - No offense, but no one has heard of you and Republicans aren't going for an Indian president.
Carly Fiorina - Fired from HP and female? Nuff, said.
If they want better security then stop with the unnecessary technology. I don't want a car that unlocks or locks every time I walk up to it or walk away. The GPS should be isolated, not integrated and should do it's best to maintain privacy. There should be no possible way in the world for a radio signal to control anything, but the door locks. Cars should not be as Ford says "A computer on wheels". I'm quite happy with my luxury car from the 90's and although some modern features are nice I really think it's a step in the wrong direction to train the public that a car should have a huge list of electronic gadgetry. How about simple reliable cars that people can actually afford to buy.
How about starting with practical needs instead of futurist personal office on wheels crap. In most areas we need more trains and large buses that get people from suburbs to cities and between cities. Then we could use a large number of mid sized trolleys or shuttles to get people from the stations to their destinations. Individual rental vehicles could be available at the stations as needed to increase the flexibility of the system. We have tens of thousands of drivers traveling individually in large cities because the alternatives are not robust, clean, time efficient and highly-flexible. How many jobs could a serious project like that create? Oh no, let's just let legislators continue to suckle at the teat of the auto and oil lobbyists, because progress is too hard. Trillion dollar wars protect freedom, but infrastructure spending can clearly only lead to socialism.
Everything you said is true. The U.S. ideals still exist though and there are plenty of us fighting to restore some decency in our care for others. The Republicans have long had a mind control lock on those you say "often really *aren't* alright" despite having the "I'm alright Jack, screw you" attitude. If the Fox News crowd ever wakes up to the facts of their own constant manipulation it could change quite a bit, but I think that will take a generation to weed out. Ultimately Americans love our country and even if we see it through the lens of reality mixed with hopes and ideals, there will never be another place that feels like home. I've traveled, but I could never really feel like I belong anywhere else. I hope America renews it's freedoms, becomes more progressive and inclusive and that in time becomes a place more Europeans could feel at home.
"The specter of Kill Bots waging war without human guidance or intervention has already sparked significant political backlash, including a potential United Nations moratorium on autonomous weapons systems. This issue is particularly serious when one considers that in the future, many countries may have the ability to manufacture, relatively cheaply, whole armies of Kill Bots that could autonomously wage war. This is a realistic possibility because today a great deal of cutting-edge research on robotics and autonomous systems is done outside the United States, and much of it is occurring in the private sector, including DIY robotics communities. The prospect of swarming autonomous systems represents a challenge for nearly all current weapon systems, which partly drives the emphasis on DEWs. (Directed-Energy Weapons)"
Also interesting was the comments on how privacy issues affect security of DoD staff, while they don't seem to concerned about how it affects civilian security.
See "Expanding Privacy Issues page" 19.
"Monitoring of individuals and populations using sensors, wearable devices, and IoT will provide detection and predictive analytics that can move toward a health maintenance-based, rather than a disease-based medical model, and also enhance operational readiness. However, there will be many risks involved as these systems are implemented, for example, the many ways that digital data or privacy information can be compromised, issues of ownership or of access to the data. These systems will also require new enterprise-level models for the management and exploitation of potentially huge amounts of health related data."
Above excerpts from "Policy Challenges of Accelerating Technological Change: Security Policy and Strategy Implications of Parallel Scientific Revolutions" by James Kadtke and Linton Wells II at CTNSP
An open market in the U.S. specifically. We don't want to, nor should we have to openly compete with foreign labor. It doesn't have to be eliminated, there is value in having some foreign labor, but it's our duty as Americans to put U.S. interests first. In order for the U.S. to produce more STEM workers the jobs have to be there for them when they graduate and the jobs available have to pay real money. Not enough people will be engineers because it is fun, many will become engineers if it's a virtual guarantee of a high wage position. Executive admins are making more than many engineers today and engineers are making the same as they did 10 years ago or more.
What is it they want the internet companies to do that they are not? Maybe I'm dense, but I'm not clear what he believes they failed to do.
Yes, please. May I suggest we add
6. No Koch lobbyists allowed to pollute the decision making.
And I know robot Karate! Alert: Micro-bot senses danger.
Educating the kids on how not to get hurt is about all they can do. The NYPD is so out of control and they still want to pretend they are doing the right thing. StopandFrisk needs to end, period. Broken Windows policing needs to end. There is no choice, but for young people of color in some areas to fear the police because the police don't give a fuck about their rights or even their physical safety. If a black man in New York wants to survive he can only be polite, immediately comply with all instructions no matter how stupid and either keep his hands on the wheel or on his head for the duration of the interaction. White people do actually give a shit, it will just take some time for the cops to listen.
The fake X close button is something I really fear will become a broad way of exploiting vulnerable users. Many of the X buttons even in seemingly legitimate pop-ups don't tell you anything about the action it will take even by doing a mouse over. Users are accustomed to blindly clicking the X to close even if it doesn't look like a regular Windows close button. I spent some time using the Firefox "inspect element" feature and I didn't find any that did something nasty on close, but it seems like this trend of embedding a close button or X into in-page popups is ripe for exploitation. I would encourage sites allowing this kind of advertising to define a standard to allow users to better know the safety of the close action. It would take a lot to train users to Alt-F4 every time they get one of those if they aren't running NoScript.
I think that is a very true and logical assessment. It's just unfortunate that Google has become so ubiquitous. People can choose to use another search engine, but rarely do. It's already very difficult to run a business if Google isn't putting your business high in their ranks. I believe for the time being the listing process is mostly working, but as they continue on I worry that Google could become the gatekeepers of the internet. Pay the fee and kiss the ring or the internet will never know you exist.
That's what worked for DSL with the 1996 telecommunications act. The physical logistics of copper telephone wires worked out well for that. Just a cross connect to the competitor's DSLAM (Digital Service Line Access Multiplexor) which occupied space in the CO. It only really worked though, when the rates for the last mile were fixed at low rates.
I'd be very interested to know how the logistics of doing something like that for Cable could work out.
I don't have a clear idea of the equipment at the cable company hub locations. If the existing CLECs (Competitive Local Exchange Carriers) could get access into the cable networks and compete, it could do a lot for competition and rescue the remaining CLECs from obsolescence.
SDN - (Software Defined Networking) makes my list. Huge potential, but also huge potential to get it wrong or to insist on automated systems to replace humans that are perfectly capable of managing environments. I fear how complex and vendor software dependent the industry may become.
I agree with you about the risk of internet segmentation. Logically it makes a lot of sense, but there in lies the rub. Humans cannot be trusted with power, so even if segmenting the internet makes a degree of sense both technically and in terms of security, once segmented, it will never again enjoy real freedom.
Segmented in this case meaning anything from firewall choke points to separate physical networks to some global VLAN/MPLS scheme.
It's good for self promotion and too know whats happening in your former colleagues careers and maintain contact. I don't want to have to worry about updated personal email addresses for 300 people every time they change. Yes, I probably contact someone through the site at most twice a year, but it keeps me connected and gives exposure when wanted. I turn off public search-ability when I'm not looking for a job. I've also had at least one friend tell me an interviewer knocked him for not having a well developed Linkedin profile. I can almost understand that if you just have a resume on your desk and you are trying to evaluate someone, but once the actual human being is sitting in front of you in an interview, who gives a fuck about their Linkedin?
Facebook for work, no thanks. Facebook is not trusted and their thinking is off. Linkedin partly has value because it is outside your office sphere, but it is socially OK to be out there, where as being on job hunting websites is frowned upon by HR. Facebook for work would, at best be the all-out bullshit zone. A place where you network with peers and business contacts and paint some fluffed up edited version of yourself for professional consumption. In my reality there is more risk there than there is benefit. I have enough worries about what Linkedin does with my info, I won't be opening up more.