- Further study and monitoring of the economic impact of A.I. on jobs.
I really doubt the government will have the best interest of all people, so long as the wealthy donors benefit... it's working.
- Creating a clear U.S. policy regarding the development and use of "Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems."
"It was justified based on the algorithms determination that this was a credible threat, despite the fact it was an elementary school. The regulatory AI agrees."
Considering roughly 29% of the world population lives in two countries that are more focused on growth and money than citizen health, this easily shows a scary statistic. Get China and India to clean up their industry and bam, 65% of the world population now lives in in this horrid air quality.
I get it, the poor children who didn't choose to be born in these countries are going to suffer, but really this is not news.
Automate enough people out of jobs and you'll destroy capitalism in the US. Once enough people are not able to find work, you're going to have to support them or be overtly for the mass death of your own neighbors. The 0.1% will not survive this unscathed by economic policy. Eventually enough people will be pissed off to the point of voting for socialism since those who run the business are making it impossible for the former employed to live.
It is not technically difficult or expensive to send messages into space. We've been sending them since 1895, at the speed of light. We just don't consider them to be intentional messages since they're daily broadcasts to us. Granted the majority are too weak to be of any real use, but that's the whole point, they arrive at Proxima in 4.5 years instead of X0,000 years.
The aliens knowing that they've received a sentient-species-transmission, and then more importantly, deciphering and understanding it is another order higher in requirements for successful communication, but pales compared to the sheer vastness of space. Due to distance, interference, evolution and power requirements the odds are against:
A. Them receiving a usable signal
B. Them deciphering it without anything to compare it to other than the signals following it
C. Them having the technical savvy to locate the source
D. Them having the technical savvy to send us back a usable signal
E. Us understanding that we're receiving a response
F. Us deciphering the response
G. Us comprehending what they send
Consider we've been transmitting into space for 121 years so far, that encompasses (from what I can find on stars within 100 ly) something like 10,000 stars. A response at that point takes effectively two and a half centuries to return, so for all intents and purposes they should be considered extinct, while being a mathematical possibility. And that's at the speed of light, not at the speed of Voyager.
Walk around like the guys in Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Trench coat, wide brimmed hat and a bandana. If enough people do it you're back to being relatively more anonymous.
Better yet, someone make the police shrouds from A Scanner Darkly.
Of course these ideas will only work until law "enforcement" come up with biomechanical movement analysis to figure out who you are based on how you move.
And in what way does this new mechanism "enhance security"? Running something in the background after you log out doesn't give you any more privileges than if you remained logged in.
I get people being angry about Systemd, change is hard on people and giving up behaviours/knowledge that the community has prided as a point of recognition feels like losing a culture divergence from the Unix philosophy. Unfortunately they're looking at it from the wrong perspective.
The proper perspective is to understand that Systemd is a significant conceptual step towards targeting the enterprise with Linux. This change has made it so Linux effectively now has a centrally manageable remote process control system built in by default. This is an additional level of control over user space processes, which at the enterprise level, is a very valuable feature. Effectively the *nix version of Microsofts "Applocker" in an environment where a user often operates at higher levels of permissions. That's how enterprises operate their networks and a significant step up in securing Linux from that point of view.
Don't dare say sudo in response, great single system low user count idea, but again I'm talking about the enterprise level, hundreds of thousands of servers, desktops and accounts.
For me it's not a matter of trust; it's a matter of Federal law. The industry I work in is heavily regulated by the Feds and drug tests are mandatory.
By taking your position, you've eliminated yourself from tons of high paying, secure jobs.
Your brush isn't as big as you think. I work for a top 3 US bank, a very heavily federal regulated industry. Over my 17 year career here I haven't been drug tested once. I hold down a senior position in a very high profile group in charge of a huge quarterly release and risk management. My manager is also a representative for NORML. Your argument is limited to your specific industry/situation, not all.
I can count on one hand the number of nights I haven't smoked weed in the past two years. I never let it affect my work judgement. My employer is right not to care since I'm a high level performer for them despite morons who feel I should be considered degenerative addict.
Stop confusing people who have poor judgement with those who are capable of recreationally using "drugs" in a responsible way.
I disagree. Sony's not been able to turn a profit for a while,
they're probably running very lean on the in-house technology
infrastructure side of the business. Probably too busy trying
to come up with, patent, and profit off some revolutionary new
piece of hardware.
I could totally buy North Korea getting into Sony. They could
easily hire Russian, Chinese, or some other hackers to do it.
This isn't the nerds versus the suits, it's one businessman-nerd against a bunch of non-businessmen nerds.
These are super nerds. They're so smart that they cast baffled-courtroom-of-nerdrage at the jury, unfortunately lining up to only win this dungeon on the next roll with a perfect 12.
I really miss listening to radio since it was the way I used to discover new music. These days within two songs I can tell if a station is owned by ClearChannel since it's ALWAYS the exact same robotic programming designed to keep the largest possible audience. Plus its almost always the same songs for most of the programming hour. The problem is people have more choice, so that kind of monotonous programming is a dinosaur.
I live in San Diego and the spectrum is nearly full here. I've tried to scan it, but honestly stopping every 200-400 hertz takes longer to find a station than anywhere I'm driving (and that's about a 20 minute minimum). 90% of it is useless redundant programming unless I want to listen to Mexican oldies (which I don't). The local rock station plays Pop, Hip-Hop and the occasional R&B song. Plus there's the DJ who stops every 2 songs to monologue with some "after the break find out which band blah blah blah" to hook you for the commercials which tend to take up at least 20 minutes per hour. All told I'd be surprised if they played more than 30 minutes of music per hour. Not to mention the requisite 3 Led Zeppelin and 2-3 Pink Floyd songs per hour, which at this point have a pavlovian response for me to change the station. All told you get maybe 1-2 new songs in an hours worth of programming, and even then it's probably some made to sell band instead of some band with actual talent.
It's no wonder why pirate radio would be taking off. I've always wanted to run a radio station from the days I started doing college radio. I was actually thinking about it just two days ago, it's simple, cheap and relatively available to just about anyone. I would love to stumble across one that fit a format I like.
I see this a little from both sides. Here's my take from a TBTF financial institution perspective.
I talked to the head of our wholesale line of business when looking for a new career opportunity and he basically stated to me that the H1B workers, at least on paper and in his tangible measures, can run laps around the domestic applicants. One of my former peers went to manage for our experimental development group and admitted that they have better experience out of school. They get hands on nitty-gritty internships, if not full on work experience while doing their studies. Every summer on their resumes is filled with some form of relevant job experience rather than a blank area where it can be inferred that trips to Cozumel to binge drink and chase ass took place. Very hard to compete with that since most American's are raised to believe if you just work hard you will be successful here. It's true to a degree, but we're really are shined all through school with that one. Everyone knows someone who makes it look easy to be successful.
Now, this isn't to say that they are superior in all respects. I've had US contractors come through who are laughing at the "talent" we're using. One guy who left us for a much better gig when he realized just how bad he was getting paid literally said we were "scraping the bottom of the barrel". So take it for what it is, some are good, some are bad, but on paper they look 10x better. Obviously this is due to contractor placement agencies that inflate resumes. People have admitted to me that their agency put experience on their resume that they never had. But employers don't care because they can be gone tomorrow and a replacement will arrive in 7 days. There's
Here's the real rub though. Nowadays it's getting really hard to have an intern do real work for no money, unless you're Disney. So interns will come through and be handed joke/busy work to keep them doing something so that they can tag working at XXX company on their resume to enter the work force. Companies used to like interns because it was slave labor and good publicity, now its just not worth it. Interns who do "meaningful" work have to be paid accordingly. The last thing a corporation wants to do is hire someone with absolutely zero experience into an internship and pay them to actually do stuff. So H1B's fit this bill perfectly. Companies can easily make this case in their benefit, the US schools aren't producing grads that can compete because there's no real comparison to the experience they are provided.
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I would so mod this funny if I had points.
- Further study and monitoring of the economic impact of A.I. on jobs.
I really doubt the government will have the best interest of all people, so long as the wealthy donors benefit... it's working.
- Creating a clear U.S. policy regarding the development and use of "Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems."
"It was justified based on the algorithms determination that this was a credible threat, despite the fact it was an elementary school. The regulatory AI agrees."
Considering roughly 29% of the world population lives in two countries that are more focused on growth and money than citizen health, this easily shows a scary statistic. Get China and India to clean up their industry and bam, 65% of the world population now lives in in this horrid air quality.
I get it, the poor children who didn't choose to be born in these countries are going to suffer, but really this is not news.
Automate enough people out of jobs and you'll destroy capitalism in the US. Once enough people are not able to find work, you're going to have to support them or be overtly for the mass death of your own neighbors. The 0.1% will not survive this unscathed by economic policy. Eventually enough people will be pissed off to the point of voting for socialism since those who run the business are making it impossible for the former employed to live.
Bilderberg group going after Jones attempting to discredit him. He must be on to something with his latest malarky.
Because millennials.
You have it wrong.
It obviously costs money to store all those photos since they do require, you know, physical memory space and such.
This is a natural move, install something that lets us market to you and gather more data on you or stop using our free service.
I'll delete my account if they delete my photo's. Stop trying to squeeze a dime out of me, I have no real need for your service.
The aliens knowing that they've received a sentient-species-transmission, and then more importantly, deciphering and understanding it is another order higher in requirements for successful communication, but pales compared to the sheer vastness of space. Due to distance, interference, evolution and power requirements the odds are against:
Consider we've been transmitting into space for 121 years so far, that encompasses (from what I can find on stars within 100 ly) something like 10,000 stars. A response at that point takes effectively two and a half centuries to return, so for all intents and purposes they should be considered extinct, while being a mathematical possibility. And that's at the speed of light, not at the speed of Voyager.
Walk around like the guys in Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Trench coat, wide brimmed hat and a bandana. If enough people do it you're back to being relatively more anonymous.
Better yet, someone make the police shrouds from A Scanner Darkly.
Of course these ideas will only work until law "enforcement" come up with biomechanical movement analysis to figure out who you are based on how you move.
And in what way does this new mechanism "enhance security"? Running something in the background after you log out doesn't give you any more privileges than if you remained logged in.
I get people being angry about Systemd, change is hard on people and giving up behaviours/knowledge that the community has prided as a point of recognition feels like losing a culture divergence from the Unix philosophy. Unfortunately they're looking at it from the wrong perspective.
The proper perspective is to understand that Systemd is a significant conceptual step towards targeting the enterprise with Linux. This change has made it so Linux effectively now has a centrally manageable remote process control system built in by default. This is an additional level of control over user space processes, which at the enterprise level, is a very valuable feature. Effectively the *nix version of Microsofts "Applocker" in an environment where a user often operates at higher levels of permissions. That's how enterprises operate their networks and a significant step up in securing Linux from that point of view.
Don't dare say sudo in response, great single system low user count idea, but again I'm talking about the enterprise level, hundreds of thousands of servers, desktops and accounts.
Is a rip of a 1940's comic strip tech.
I wonder if it'll be able to play lemmings.
I can't imagine this is hurting their operations when their main goal these days is simply making products thinner to sell new versions.
How thoroughly modern and such a novel idea.
Got it, the all knowing Google apparently isn't so hip to this.
What's a Skimer?
For me it's not a matter of trust; it's a matter of Federal law. The industry I work in is heavily regulated by the Feds and drug tests are mandatory. By taking your position, you've eliminated yourself from tons of high paying, secure jobs.
Your brush isn't as big as you think. I work for a top 3 US bank, a very heavily federal regulated industry. Over my 17 year career here I haven't been drug tested once. I hold down a senior position in a very high profile group in charge of a huge quarterly release and risk management. My manager is also a representative for NORML. Your argument is limited to your specific industry/situation, not all.
I can count on one hand the number of nights I haven't smoked weed in the past two years. I never let it affect my work judgement. My employer is right not to care since I'm a high level performer for them despite morons who feel I should be considered degenerative addict.
Stop confusing people who have poor judgement with those who are capable of recreationally using "drugs" in a responsible way.
I disagree. Sony's not been able to turn a profit for a while,
they're probably running very lean on the in-house technology
infrastructure side of the business. Probably too busy trying
to come up with, patent, and profit off some revolutionary new
piece of hardware.
I could totally buy North Korea getting into Sony. They could
easily hire Russian, Chinese, or some other hackers to do it.
This isn't the nerds versus the suits, it's one businessman-nerd against a bunch of non-businessmen nerds.
These are super nerds. They're so smart that they cast baffled-courtroom-of-nerdrage at the jury, unfortunately lining up to only win this dungeon on the next roll with a perfect 12.
^^ Kilohertz, not Hertz.
Break up the ClearChannel/IHeartRadio monopoly.
I really miss listening to radio since it was the way I used to discover new music. These days within two songs I can tell if a station is owned by ClearChannel since it's ALWAYS the exact same robotic programming designed to keep the largest possible audience. Plus its almost always the same songs for most of the programming hour. The problem is people have more choice, so that kind of monotonous programming is a dinosaur.
I live in San Diego and the spectrum is nearly full here. I've tried to scan it, but honestly stopping every 200-400 hertz takes longer to find a station than anywhere I'm driving (and that's about a 20 minute minimum). 90% of it is useless redundant programming unless I want to listen to Mexican oldies (which I don't). The local rock station plays Pop, Hip-Hop and the occasional R&B song. Plus there's the DJ who stops every 2 songs to monologue with some "after the break find out which band blah blah blah" to hook you for the commercials which tend to take up at least 20 minutes per hour. All told I'd be surprised if they played more than 30 minutes of music per hour. Not to mention the requisite 3 Led Zeppelin and 2-3 Pink Floyd songs per hour, which at this point have a pavlovian response for me to change the station. All told you get maybe 1-2 new songs in an hours worth of programming, and even then it's probably some made to sell band instead of some band with actual talent.
It's no wonder why pirate radio would be taking off. I've always wanted to run a radio station from the days I started doing college radio. I was actually thinking about it just two days ago, it's simple, cheap and relatively available to just about anyone. I would love to stumble across one that fit a format I like.
features JJ Fad.
That ability to portray a sow's ear as a silk purse is Dyson's real revolutionary accomplishment.
So basically they're the Apple of the home appliance world?
So sue me for being too lazy to really fine tune the math.
I see this a little from both sides. Here's my take from a TBTF financial institution perspective.
I talked to the head of our wholesale line of business when looking for a new career opportunity and he basically stated to me that the H1B workers, at least on paper and in his tangible measures, can run laps around the domestic applicants. One of my former peers went to manage for our experimental development group and admitted that they have better experience out of school. They get hands on nitty-gritty internships, if not full on work experience while doing their studies. Every summer on their resumes is filled with some form of relevant job experience rather than a blank area where it can be inferred that trips to Cozumel to binge drink and chase ass took place. Very hard to compete with that since most American's are raised to believe if you just work hard you will be successful here. It's true to a degree, but we're really are shined all through school with that one. Everyone knows someone who makes it look easy to be successful.
Now, this isn't to say that they are superior in all respects. I've had US contractors come through who are laughing at the "talent" we're using. One guy who left us for a much better gig when he realized just how bad he was getting paid literally said we were "scraping the bottom of the barrel". So take it for what it is, some are good, some are bad, but on paper they look 10x better. Obviously this is due to contractor placement agencies that inflate resumes. People have admitted to me that their agency put experience on their resume that they never had. But employers don't care because they can be gone tomorrow and a replacement will arrive in 7 days. There's
Here's the real rub though. Nowadays it's getting really hard to have an intern do real work for no money, unless you're Disney. So interns will come through and be handed joke/busy work to keep them doing something so that they can tag working at XXX company on their resume to enter the work force. Companies used to like interns because it was slave labor and good publicity, now its just not worth it. Interns who do "meaningful" work have to be paid accordingly. The last thing a corporation wants to do is hire someone with absolutely zero experience into an internship and pay them to actually do stuff. So H1B's fit this bill perfectly. Companies can easily make this case in their benefit, the US schools aren't producing grads that can compete because there's no real comparison to the experience they are provided.
Dyson builds yet another product that 98% of the world will never buy.