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  1. China is making itself an island of technology on Microsoft's Bing Search Engine Goes Offline In China (france24.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When species are isolated on an island they evolves differently becoming a different species. In my experience, Baidu does not give quality technical results compared to Google. As China isolates it self from the world socially and technically it will evolve down a different technical path and because tech is changing so fast I wonder how long before a totally new "species" of tech will evolve.

  2. By 2030 90% Americans will have no wealth on Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma Says the US Wasted Trillions on Warfare Instead of Investing in Infrastructure (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    50% have no wealth now! Using data from Congressional Budget Office study and doing a polynomial regression shows who got rich and who did not.

  3. Tax every H1-B $1000 a month for wage equity. on Trump Admin Takes First Steps To Overhaul H-1B Visa That Tech Companies Use To Hire Internationally (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Most American students leave university with 10,000 to 80,000 worth of student loans. While many H1-B workers total university cost is $8,000. A $1000 per month tax would put H1-B workers that same economic parity as American workers with student loans. And maintain a higher wages engineers have work hard for. If companies really want good talent then they should pay for it. The employer should pay some and the H1-B worker should pay some.

    Right now America is "out sourcing" education. It is cheaper to hire a H1-B than to provide a good education to Americans at an affordable cost. Corporation out sources manufacturing overseas starting in the 1980s and look how that turned out. Just think of the problems in 10 years if education is out sourced today.

  4. By 2032 90% of Americans will have no wealth on Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Right now 50% of Americans have no wealth! Using data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and using Jupyter notebook and numpy to create a regression plot, you can see where America is headed. Credit Suisse data agrees with the plot.

  5. Open source crypto to the rescue on Australia To Pass Bill Providing Backdoors Into Encrypted Devices, Communications (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Companies may have to comply, but people can tell the government where to go. There will be scripts that will setup VPNs, crypto social networks, encrypted devices with no backdoor. The analogy of this is drinking, underage people can not go to bars or buy, but they can always find a way around the law. Only if Australia wants to have the same distinction as China will they even come close to preventing crypto.

  6. I do not care about who's killed, if I make money on DeepMind, Elon Musk and Others Pledge Not To Make Autonomous AI Weapons (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I have been so fucked by the system and my disability that money is the only thing that is important in this world. I have a patent that every browser is infringing upon, but I do not have the money to fight for it and I lost it due to judicial abuse, so I have been chronic homeless and unemployed. I have already used openCV to create a facial recognition system that can target a person and use remote controlled devices.

    When Injustice is LAW
    Revolution is necessary

  7. Linkedin has blocked the method of getting data on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 1

    The repo is still available at https://gitlab.com/marge_innov.... But Linkedin has blocked the URL for the search and all the data has disappeared from the internet. The government using BLS and census bureau tracks and monitors almost everything. I think it is good for people to monitor the government.

    WHEN INJUSTICE IS LAW
    REVOLUTION IS NECESSARY

  8. Big business has eaten FOSS on Linux Foundation Celebrates Microsoft's GitHub Acquisition (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A leopard can not change it spots. Just two months ago I was using Microsoft chat to find out about installing Windows for the first time in 15 years. I was using FF and Ubuntu, and the chat window was broken, the input line covered the bottom of the chat history. so I had to keep hitting enter, enter so that I could see the last thing typed. Always just a little broken for not MS systems. The Linux foundation function is to support big business not the small developer or hacker. When money talks. the Linux Foundation bends over and takes it.

    The original Linux ideals are being lost to corporate money.

  9. I will sell my target recognition system to DOD on Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work To Grow Exponentially (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    I have create a target recognition system using opencv and caffe. I working now on getting it to run on a RasPi by simplifying the neural net. I used blue uniforms for this first test target category..

  10. Microsoft would sell it's soul for a dollar on Microsoft Wins A Big Cloud Deal With America's Intelligence Community (spokesman.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Sucks! It always works OK, with other Microsoft products, but is always just a little broken with non MS products. It used to FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt), EEE (Embrace Extend Extinguish), But it has always been not work the other product and still is. What is is Microsoft going to break in the government? There is no privacy from MS.

  11. How does someone find out if they are in the list and being watched? Paranoid

  12. Do not remove! libc is more than just code it is a philosophy.

  13. Should be illegal, allows sender to be in control on Google is Testing Self-Destructing Emails in New Gmail (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It is your mailbox, the receiver legally has the right to control their mailbox. That is like saying SPAM can not be deleted. But still Google has the email on their server. This takes the control of your email away from you. Very Microsoftish, knowing what is best for the user.

  14. I want GPU for Machine Learning, Want ML hardware on GPU Prices Soar as Bitcoin Miners Buy Up Hardware To Build Rigs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I want to buy GPUs for Machine Learning, but they are too expensive. I wish there was ML hardware that did not have to support Crypto mining, but just Machine Learning.

    I have setup one GPU inside a Linux container but I need more GPUs.

  15. Re:This is just pro H1B propaganda on Trump Says He Wants Skilled Migrants But Creates New Hurdles (apnews.com) · · Score: 1
    H-1B workers cause lower wages. https://www.nber.org/papers/w2...

    The H1B program is designed to replace Americans with cheaper offshore workers.

    Got a citation for that? Or is it just more racist bullshit from the likes of Breitbart, Fox News, etc.?

    Employers have used a work-around which clearly goes against the intent of H1B visas: fire the Americans and outsource their jobs to contracting companies that use mostly H1B employees. IMHO, this practice should not be legal.

    Can you cite a case where Americans were directly replaced by H1B workers?

  16. Why pay taxes for schools, when H-1B are cheaper on Trump Says He Wants Skilled Migrants But Creates New Hurdles (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Teachers in West Virginia went on strike, teachers in Oklahoma and Kentucky are going to strike because they do not get paid enough. Companies want more profit so they push for reduced taxes and lower wages. This removes a tax base for paying teachers.

    It is cheaper to hire workers from with $8000 university degrees and no student loans than to pay taxes to support education.

    The H-1B program was started in 1996 as a temporary solution for tech shortages. 22 years later there is still a tech work shortage because America schools are getting the funding they need to produce low cost education for the young people in America.

  17. I did not say China would start it. on When China Hoards Its Hackers Everyone Loses (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If trump wants to win in 2020 (if he is still President), he needs a war.

  18. China is preparing for war! on When China Hoards Its Hackers Everyone Loses (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    In most high end buildings have bomb shelters, Xi has extended his presidency, China has improved the great firewall to control the message, China has economically reinforced it's rare earth metals and increased is asymmetric warfare capabilities. I am not saying which country the war will be with but America is so divided now, the infrastructure is crumbling, wealth inequality is destroying support for the government and there is an idiot for president that cares more about his wealth than the people of America.
    If I wanted to knock the US off it's high and might, late 2019, early 2020 would be the optimal time frame.

  19. China is great at people control. on Chinese Police Begin Tracking Citizens With Face-Recognizing Smart Glasses (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The difference between America and China is in the US, the government watches the peoples money to control them but China is still heavy cash based so they have to use watching people to control the population. Once China becomes more plastic cash card oriented they will not have to use the cameras as much.
    America is car based but China is more pedestrian. That is why US police cars have cameras that have license plate recognition and China has facial recognition. Do not worry America, soon the police body cams will have face recognition.

  20. It is the protocols and APIs MS will use to EEE on Ask Slashdot: Should We Worry Microsoft Will 'Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish' Linux? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Every Android, every super computer uses the Linux kernel so for servers, Linux is winning. But it is the networks protocols, web protocols, sharing protocols and management protocols that MS will use to try to limit LInux.

  21. Xi does not have to be the "official" President on China Censors Social Media Responses To Proposal To Abolish Presidential Terms (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    What many western people do not understand that in China's politics, often the true leader does not have to be the "official" leader. That is why I do not think Xi will have a third term, he does not need to be official the still maintain control. One reason for Xi to have a third term is "war". China would need a popular and strong President to be able to maintain social order is rough times.
    This action of removing term limits may be an indication that China is expecting a confrontation in the 2020s and they are preparing the government for the possibility.

    Efficiency wins in economics. So which governance model is more efficient? Corporations fight to control the government or the government controlling the corporations? Which is America and which is China?

  22. Re:People will be pawns to business AI on AI Experts Say Some Advances Should Be Kept Secret (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    None of that is "AI". If you nutters redefine "analytics" as "AI" then the term is completely meaningless.

    Analytics, models, and the simulations will get more advance to be more efficient. The first lessons when learning machine learning are in analytic analysis, like regression, gradient decent. Can you tell me a definitive line between practical analytics and machine learning?

  23. People will be pawns to business AI on AI Experts Say Some Advances Should Be Kept Secret (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Now billions of dollars of stocks are traded each day by AI. Businesses will use AI for the competitive advantage. Governments will use AI for economic superiority. In the future, it will be AI against AI in competition. The poor person working for minimum wage are feeling the effects of AI. Business is using AI to determine the most efficient usage of labor, what is the optimal price of that product they are selling and the logistics of manufacturing. How can the average person compete with the money and AI of big business?

  24. Wrote my first program 1968, learned FORTAN 1971 on The Quest To Find the Longest-Serving Programmer (tnmoc.org) · · Score: 1

    I wrote my first program for a Olivetti calculator in 1968. Then taught myself FORTRAN using a teletype with a punch tape storage in 1971. By 1972 I was taking upper level classes at University of Omaha (now University of Nebraska at Omaha). Today I am programming machine learning and using WebAssembly. And still have no money.

  25. Open Source rules, die MPEG! on MPEG Founder Says the MPEG Business Model Is Broken (chiariglione.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For years MPEG licenses screwed people. Now that they have competition they say "we are sorry, we will work with you now". If AV1 did not come out, MPEG licenses would still cost too much.