Fake news/biased news whatever it is isn't new, has been tricking people for years.
Now google 'dont be evil' is in a position where it can 'do no good'. What happens if RT reports as they did correctly that 'moderate rebels' were getting medical treatment from Israel which is now verified that they probably just were ISIS?
Whats been lost to stop a few Putin Trolls and alt right bigots is democratic press freedom
Oh phew at least they acted legally says their own internal investigation.
I burnt the house down then tried to incriminate the neighbour but hey my own investigation team says i am not guilty of the latter. Lets try and forget the house burning incident too;-)
Poor Americans, this is like most of you are enrolled in an anti-lottery. That means if you win some criminal chose your identity to conduct fraud.
If USA had a real government department to enforce this stuff they would have shut down equifax immediately. In the same way as banks work: banks don't/cant go broke but if run badly at solvency risk the auditors come in and take over the administration of the bank. Equifax just uses this whole turbid event to try and sell dodgy insurance products against a breach they created. Ultimate white collar criminals.
Stock buybacks and whatnot.
Talking to all kinds of engineers who have to deal with these people the whole corporate stucture is flawed by design.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
but wait for the weak counter argument... they [apple] recycle their electronics...
at ~20% efficiency.
Greenwashed and defective by design.
https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
Exactly. If anything they HELPED the NSA by deleting a zero-day instead of analysing it and distributing the code to the common AV database.
If anything it shows as the hard evidence shows Kaspersky benchmarks really well with heuristic AV scans.
Doubt Trumpland will apologise for this. It [kaspersky] is now a political pinyata. Don't let facts get in the way of that;-)
When visiting a site for the first time you get a message saying you are visiting a site that uses cookies.
Some sort of dialogue that explains at minimum why.
Governments legislated this regulation. By corollary why not legislate a policy advising a site map of all the javascript resources being loaded by a page.
Its the stuff that can really do malware damage, standardise a system to easily inform site visitors what the JS is doing
At least this way when you go to a non-legit site (eg: pirate site) you know what you're up for possibly. Plus obviously search engines should tell you if a page in the search results mines digital currency.
Its not unprecedented in the IT world to have an entity push something through an 'update'/'backdoor' that stops a computer from working. Replace the word russian government with microsoft windows update There's your precedent.
Kaspersky BENCHMARKS the shit out of Norton, McCrapee and most others reliably over longer periods of time.
Show us the code, the detail and the proof it has a backdoor or exploit. An open availability of technical explanations proving there is an exploit makes it credible. We've got them for just about everything else so this one stands at odds as an outlier which should ring alarm bells that its political and not founded.
There are two layers of logic to this:
You take the risk Kaspersky installs malware via some backdoor because Kremlin (no proof yet still waiting). Considers your desktop machine a valid target. Under this situation assuming everyone has a ticking time bomb installed on their computer for the Kremin to manipulate is not unprecedented. Welcome to the last 20+ years of insecure by design Adobe flash products.
You ARE ACTUALLY running something that is of state,corporate 'secret' level, controls a national grid, controls some real world system that could kill people, controls governmental sensitive emails. Then why is it running anything other than a hardened lunix BSD OS anyway?!?
The word you're missing is share buybacks.
As soon as that happens its a lighthouse announcing the CEO's dont give a toss about innovation or R&D:
http://evonomics.com/ralph-nad...
This is the kicker...
They install Norton and get pwned by ordinary malware now!
There is a reason Kaspersky is the best AV scanner its made by ex-criminals who know the trade;-)
Thats the crux of the problem. Great they're reducing the conspiracy rubbish saturation. But there are also serious credibility issues with mainstream *cough* Rupert Mourdoch owned media on many certain issues.
Presumably this means cells don't get damaged when frozen using his method?
One less barrier so people could be frozen and re-animated!;-)
"Dubochet succeeded in vitrifying water -- he cooled water so rapidly that it solidified in its liquid form around a biological sample, allowing the biomolecules to retain their natural shape even in a vacuum"
A deep neural network, a massive dataset brings you a statistical correlation where one is expected to be found and its called AI now?
This is impressive in itself but even the futurists singularity proponents like Ray Kurzweil are not calling this 'AI' as 'The AI' for the singularity. Or true 'thinking' AI in the sense of human cognition.
There is a massive gap in understanding the definition of AI, its a 'magic hat' term that is ambiguous and over-reaching. The progress should be appreciated for what it is, however all too often it is used to abuse and obfuscate other issues in society like involuntary unemployment and some of the structural faults of rent-seeking capitalism in its current form.
One of the reasons this never happened was you cant hold a computer legally accountable. Sue the algorithm? There is so many positions of seniority in every facet of any organisation that exist because there must be an element of 'human' responsibility ensured.
On top of the fact it misconstrues what 'expert systems' are. Same hype these days with the use of the word AI
I don't know there are a lot of assumptions about what is CS degree, its probably different now. Eg: version control software, mobile phones+software development were not in the course.
This was my CS degree in a nutshell from early 2000's. The Software engineers did 80% the same subjects.
There were plenty of electives: eg: i could add subjects for math, ethics, or neural networks, video games, social-science, electrical engineering, operating system design and probably few more.
1st year undergrad:
*Some sort of introduction to SWE: usually java/c++ (or both).
*Some sort of SWE #2 course. (bring in the algorithms, more Object Oriented concepts)
*Discreet maths.
*Ethics course.
*Basic start on Web stack, usually the fundamental ideas of networking + HTML, CSS, Javascript.
*Basic EE logic gates, basic components of computers.
2nd year undergrad:
*Introduction to graphics course, rasterise objects how frame buffers work, bottom up understanding of graphics and some specific low-level graphics programming.
*SWE #3 course: more algorithms, more on how to tackle problems transforming requirements into code.
*Database theory, learn one of the major DB systems out there. SQL.
*Formal modelling of logic for critical areas of the code (where an error could cause physical harm to someone).
*Computer architecture intro: how IO works, how compilers work,assembly language.
*Algorithms course, Big/little Oh, Turing, types of computation, many may algorithms, new and old, fast and slow. Build your own.
*Ties together full web stack for writing deploying web pages. server side/client side, setting up a web server, security, was basically LAMP plus multiple physical computers/load balancing/fail safe.
3rd year:
*SWE #4, The big software project: Working in teams, development paradigms, writing code with other people, documentation at a professional level. (Usually went into another part of the Uni and helped another field eg: write medical software/bioinformatics)
*Comparative languages. A variety of languages eg: scheme/lisp stuff through to perl, python etc.
*Concurrent programming: fine-course grained parallelism, threads, breaking apart problems to make them concurrent, debugging, signals/semaphores, the tradeoffs.
*Compiler design: write a compiler, design a language.
*3d computer graphics course. Basically understanding stuff the the level of quake video game. Build a 3d engine.
*All the security/software vulnerability, history of malware, almost up the the point how to write a virus/virus scanner/. Test code for security issues.
*Machine Intelligence, theory of AI, neural networks, use machine learning to solve a problem + integrate into a SW project.
What is the CS degree like now?
I think the register article is looking at a very narrow requirement which could be satisfied by non-degree but that misses the point.
You could train for job X and just follow the branches off a tree of skills that fit exactly what job X requires. Juxtapose that to CS/Engineering degree and its the whole gaumut/scope of that field. Its the platform on which you stand to THEN specialise to fiat any such job.
The larger issue is as long as there is involuntary employment with the inherent instability of market based solutions you're guaranteed to have a 'working' skills shortage. The graduate is not enough because the company does not want to take a graduate and develop their skill into the specific tools set instead they want a ready made person who by sheer coincidence uses every little tool they currently develop software with.
The tasks most ripe for automation are first and foremost at the top. Ironically they are the CEO's who are telling all other layers of the workforce that they will be 'automated'. Look at how good the decisions of CEO's are and shareholders. They mostly get things wrong and cost a lot.
An AI expert system and a flattened corporate hierarchy where groups of people make decisions would be correct more often and less expensive.
I respectfully disagree that say circuit level board repair could be entirely automated. You're dealing with CMOS devices, the fundamental chemistry of this stuff is that it does not last long, do you make machines to repair the machines that repair the machines? There are trade off's but the urgency of the E-waste issue has millions of jobs associated with it. As opposed to greenwashing the problem:
One of the best things about a former colleague who got into the smart-home industry say is all those sensors are constantly breaking and needing repair. Never been busier. One form of automation has opened up an entirely new path to create jobs.
As for AI supplanting comp-sci/SW engineers welcome to an open discussion where a few people would have a quibble or two about that;-)
"I don't want to work more than 20 hours a week, and at least a 3 month vacation a year. I want to have a life, not be a slave."
That is a workable JG. It has been trialled and is similar to 'Full employment Initiatives' which were part of the reforms post WW2 in USA, Canada, UK, Australia.
You turn up when you want and get paid. So if you want to only work 9 hours one week then that's it. UBI has many good points but they are also encompassed in a JG.
Exactly. The Roman empire collapsed a few hundred years later under very similar mechanics to what's happening around the world now.
Call it artificial scarcity of money/keystrokes. Rome had many factors that caused its downfall but as soon as you start privatising armies and running the empire under basically austerity forgetting how money works it becomes brittle and unable to respond to challenges.
Even the 'dont panic' automation articles are not comprehensive. They ignore the larger context if you're sitting in an artificial non-optimal domain because there is not full employment + looking at automation and then narrowing it based on what the private sector sees as 'profitable' work (Marx was empirically right about the tendency of the rate of profit to fall over time). We can be led to believe robots will utterly take all the jobs and miss the causation/loopbacks in the system.
" Couple this with a minimum wage and you have a situation where there are going to be a large number of people who are incapable of selling their labor because no one considers what they can offer a fair trade in exchange for their money"
Last time this happened was an unskilled workforce (soldiers) that came back from WW2. Some places the unemployment rate eg: australia would have been 45% or more... Wonder what happened? Did they get re-skilled into civilian work? Or did we just ignore the most important lesson of the 20th century that 1945-1975 full employment was achieved very quickly (no hidden/underemployment)
"it's just an observation of supply and demand in price-based market economies"
Just a tangential comment: Supply and demand does not set price. Most prices are 'mark up' prices and set by static tranches cost of the manufacturing process plus the markup amount and hence actually inflexible to change in demand.
" Despite the enormous wealth expansion is bringing into the city, you are reaching the point where Rome can't pay for expansion by taxes and do it with volunteers."
Problem with that logic on just this specific point is that in Rome as with modern economies today taxes don't pay for spending. Its the other way around you have to issue a currency BEFORE you tax it back. Do this over X iterations and as long as issued/spent/created unit of account is greater than what is taxed back your civilisation remains solvent.
In Rome they understood this as in the archaeological sites in Pompeii some of the accounting is preserved. Roman one such example in a book the brief history of money: A governor asking for an expansion of credit tallies or minted coin to employ for more labour resources to expand the city. What it brings into focus is the point: If money is a soft constrain then what are the hard constraints? Eg: how many people, resources that can be brought to bear to make something. Taxation is for subservience and to keep people operating under the empire/country that they live in: sovereignty that's how the British colonised so many places they make people work for some form of legal IOU else they put law enforcement/the army onto you.
Define useful? Is it something profitable or that needs to be done measured by any plethora of benchmarks?
Example of work that needs to be done: Circuit level diagnosis to fix/recycle a piece of electronics may not have much monetary gain but its a job with purpose. Even if it may be cheaper to buy a new item. 'Useful' can fit a whole bunch of different contexts, it would be useful the item did not entirely/partially end up in land-fill and become a poison to the environment.
Here is a challenge, walk into any university, any STEM department and ask the question: 'what could be done better in this field if you have enough manpower to redo a chosen area of your industry?'
The list is miles long for software engineering/computer science for instance. If we had enough engineers we could finally rewrite entire legacy software stacks+standards that haphazardly become de-facto industry standards that are security nightmares. Point is people are a resource to be put to work not to sit idle.
Amazon has many jobs that cant be automated because they need to employ a human.
This is because many jobs require legal responsibility to be exercised and that does not exist under law for a robot. Put simply you cant send a robot to jail when it ships the wrong medicine to a patient killing them.
Many of the jobs are stable because of this factor. Look at the legal issues with self driving cars for instance. That is just the tip of the ice berg, most admin jobs that involve coordination that could potentially harm someone is NOT possible to automate entirely because it needs HUMAN for legalities.
Slashdot Mirror
One word: Ruper Murdoch
Fake news/biased news whatever it is isn't new, has been tricking people for years.
Now google 'dont be evil' is in a position where it can 'do no good'. What happens if RT reports as they did correctly that 'moderate rebels' were getting medical treatment from Israel which is now verified that they probably just were ISIS?
Whats been lost to stop a few Putin Trolls and alt right bigots is democratic press freedom
Oh phew at least they acted legally says their own internal investigation.
I burnt the house down then tried to incriminate the neighbour but hey my own investigation team says i am not guilty of the latter. Lets try and forget the house burning incident too ;-)
Poor Americans, this is like most of you are enrolled in an anti-lottery. That means if you win some criminal chose your identity to conduct fraud.
If USA had a real government department to enforce this stuff they would have shut down equifax immediately. In the same way as banks work: banks don't/cant go broke but if run badly at solvency risk the auditors come in and take over the administration of the bank. Equifax just uses this whole turbid event to try and sell dodgy insurance products against a breach they created. Ultimate white collar criminals.
Stock buybacks and whatnot. Talking to all kinds of engineers who have to deal with these people the whole corporate stucture is flawed by design. http://www.businessinsider.com...
but wait for the weak counter argument... they [apple] recycle their electronics... at ~20% efficiency. Greenwashed and defective by design. https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
Exactly. If anything they HELPED the NSA by deleting a zero-day instead of analysing it and distributing the code to the common AV database. If anything it shows as the hard evidence shows Kaspersky benchmarks really well with heuristic AV scans. Doubt Trumpland will apologise for this. It [kaspersky] is now a political pinyata. Don't let facts get in the way of that ;-)
When visiting a site for the first time you get a message saying you are visiting a site that uses cookies. Some sort of dialogue that explains at minimum why.
Governments legislated this regulation. By corollary why not legislate a policy advising a site map of all the javascript resources being loaded by a page.
Its the stuff that can really do malware damage, standardise a system to easily inform site visitors what the JS is doing
At least this way when you go to a non-legit site (eg: pirate site) you know what you're up for possibly. Plus obviously search engines should tell you if a page in the search results mines digital currency.
Its not unprecedented in the IT world to have an entity push something through an 'update'/'backdoor' that stops a computer from working. Replace the word russian government with microsoft windows update There's your precedent.
Kaspersky BENCHMARKS the shit out of Norton, McCrapee and most others reliably over longer periods of time.
Show us the code, the detail and the proof it has a backdoor or exploit. An open availability of technical explanations proving there is an exploit makes it credible. We've got them for just about everything else so this one stands at odds as an outlier which should ring alarm bells that its political and not founded.
There are two layers of logic to this:
The word you're missing is share buybacks. As soon as that happens its a lighthouse announcing the CEO's dont give a toss about innovation or R&D: http://evonomics.com/ralph-nad...
This is the kicker... They install Norton and get pwned by ordinary malware now! There is a reason Kaspersky is the best AV scanner its made by ex-criminals who know the trade ;-)
Thats the crux of the problem. Great they're reducing the conspiracy rubbish saturation. But there are also serious credibility issues with mainstream *cough* Rupert Mourdoch owned media on many certain issues.
Presumably this means cells don't get damaged when frozen using his method? One less barrier so people could be frozen and re-animated! ;-)
"Dubochet succeeded in vitrifying water -- he cooled water so rapidly that it solidified in its liquid form around a biological sample, allowing the biomolecules to retain their natural shape even in a vacuum"
Too much Hype.
A deep neural network, a massive dataset brings you a statistical correlation where one is expected to be found and its called AI now?
This is impressive in itself but even the futurists singularity proponents like Ray Kurzweil are not calling this 'AI' as 'The AI' for the singularity. Or true 'thinking' AI in the sense of human cognition.
There is a massive gap in understanding the definition of AI, its a 'magic hat' term that is ambiguous and over-reaching. The progress should be appreciated for what it is, however all too often it is used to abuse and obfuscate other issues in society like involuntary unemployment and some of the structural faults of rent-seeking capitalism in its current form.
One of the reasons this never happened was you cant hold a computer legally accountable. Sue the algorithm? There is so many positions of seniority in every facet of any organisation that exist because there must be an element of 'human' responsibility ensured.
On top of the fact it misconstrues what 'expert systems' are. Same hype these days with the use of the word AI
I don't know there are a lot of assumptions about what is CS degree, its probably different now. Eg: version control software, mobile phones+software development were not in the course.
This was my CS degree in a nutshell from early 2000's. The Software engineers did 80% the same subjects.
There were plenty of electives: eg: i could add subjects for math, ethics, or neural networks, video games, social-science, electrical engineering, operating system design and probably few more.
1st year undergrad:
*Some sort of introduction to SWE: usually java/c++ (or both).
*Some sort of SWE #2 course. (bring in the algorithms, more Object Oriented concepts)
*Discreet maths.
*Ethics course.
*Basic start on Web stack, usually the fundamental ideas of networking + HTML, CSS, Javascript.
*Basic EE logic gates, basic components of computers.
2nd year undergrad:
*Introduction to graphics course, rasterise objects how frame buffers work, bottom up understanding of graphics and some specific low-level graphics programming.
*SWE #3 course: more algorithms, more on how to tackle problems transforming requirements into code.
*Database theory, learn one of the major DB systems out there. SQL.
*Formal modelling of logic for critical areas of the code (where an error could cause physical harm to someone).
*Computer architecture intro: how IO works, how compilers work,assembly language.
*Algorithms course, Big/little Oh, Turing, types of computation, many may algorithms, new and old, fast and slow. Build your own.
*Ties together full web stack for writing deploying web pages. server side/client side, setting up a web server, security, was basically LAMP plus multiple physical computers/load balancing/fail safe.
3rd year:
*SWE #4, The big software project: Working in teams, development paradigms, writing code with other people, documentation at a professional level. (Usually went into another part of the Uni and helped another field eg: write medical software/bioinformatics)
*Comparative languages. A variety of languages eg: scheme/lisp stuff through to perl, python etc.
*Concurrent programming: fine-course grained parallelism, threads, breaking apart problems to make them concurrent, debugging, signals/semaphores, the tradeoffs.
*Compiler design: write a compiler, design a language.
*3d computer graphics course. Basically understanding stuff the the level of quake video game. Build a 3d engine.
*All the security/software vulnerability, history of malware, almost up the the point how to write a virus/virus scanner/. Test code for security issues.
*Machine Intelligence, theory of AI, neural networks, use machine learning to solve a problem + integrate into a SW project.
What is the CS degree like now?
I think the register article is looking at a very narrow requirement which could be satisfied by non-degree but that misses the point.
You could train for job X and just follow the branches off a tree of skills that fit exactly what job X requires. Juxtapose that to CS/Engineering degree and its the whole gaumut/scope of that field. Its the platform on which you stand to THEN specialise to fiat any such job.
The larger issue is as long as there is involuntary employment with the inherent instability of market based solutions you're guaranteed to have a 'working' skills shortage. The graduate is not enough because the company does not want to take a graduate and develop their skill into the specific tools set instead they want a ready made person who by sheer coincidence uses every little tool they currently develop software with.
must be a socialist then. ;-)
No such thing as 'free markets' complexity theory proves this. Also supply and demand does not set prices.
Define which tasks are ripe for automation?
The tasks most ripe for automation are first and foremost at the top. Ironically they are the CEO's who are telling all other layers of the workforce that they will be 'automated'. Look at how good the decisions of CEO's are and shareholders. They mostly get things wrong and cost a lot.
An AI expert system and a flattened corporate hierarchy where groups of people make decisions would be correct more often and less expensive.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
I respectfully disagree that say circuit level board repair could be entirely automated. You're dealing with CMOS devices, the fundamental chemistry of this stuff is that it does not last long, do you make machines to repair the machines that repair the machines? There are trade off's but the urgency of the E-waste issue has millions of jobs associated with it. As opposed to greenwashing the problem:
https://motherboard.vice.com/e...
One of the best things about a former colleague who got into the smart-home industry say is all those sensors are constantly breaking and needing repair. Never been busier. One form of automation has opened up an entirely new path to create jobs.
As for AI supplanting comp-sci/SW engineers welcome to an open discussion where a few people would have a quibble or two about that ;-)
That is a workable JG. It has been trialled and is similar to 'Full employment Initiatives' which were part of the reforms post WW2 in USA, Canada, UK, Australia.
You turn up when you want and get paid. So if you want to only work 9 hours one week then that's it. UBI has many good points but they are also encompassed in a JG.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
Exactly. The Roman empire collapsed a few hundred years later under very similar mechanics to what's happening around the world now. Call it artificial scarcity of money/keystrokes. Rome had many factors that caused its downfall but as soon as you start privatising armies and running the empire under basically austerity forgetting how money works it becomes brittle and unable to respond to challenges.
Even the 'dont panic' automation articles are not comprehensive. They ignore the larger context if you're sitting in an artificial non-optimal domain because there is not full employment + looking at automation and then narrowing it based on what the private sector sees as 'profitable' work (Marx was empirically right about the tendency of the rate of profit to fall over time). We can be led to believe robots will utterly take all the jobs and miss the causation/loopbacks in the system.
" Couple this with a minimum wage and you have a situation where there are going to be a large number of people who are incapable of selling their labor because no one considers what they can offer a fair trade in exchange for their money"
Last time this happened was an unskilled workforce (soldiers) that came back from WW2. Some places the unemployment rate eg: australia would have been 45% or more... Wonder what happened? Did they get re-skilled into civilian work? Or did we just ignore the most important lesson of the 20th century that 1945-1975 full employment was achieved very quickly (no hidden/underemployment)
"it's just an observation of supply and demand in price-based market economies"
Just a tangential comment: Supply and demand does not set price. Most prices are 'mark up' prices and set by static tranches cost of the manufacturing process plus the markup amount and hence actually inflexible to change in demand.
[link to all the data] http://socialdemocracy21stcent...
" Despite the enormous wealth expansion is bringing into the city, you are reaching the point where Rome can't pay for expansion by taxes and do it with volunteers."
Problem with that logic on just this specific point is that in Rome as with modern economies today taxes don't pay for spending. Its the other way around you have to issue a currency BEFORE you tax it back. Do this over X iterations and as long as issued/spent/created unit of account is greater than what is taxed back your civilisation remains solvent.
In Rome they understood this as in the archaeological sites in Pompeii some of the accounting is preserved. Roman one such example in a book the brief history of money: A governor asking for an expansion of credit tallies or minted coin to employ for more labour resources to expand the city. What it brings into focus is the point: If money is a soft constrain then what are the hard constraints? Eg: how many people, resources that can be brought to bear to make something. Taxation is for subservience and to keep people operating under the empire/country that they live in: sovereignty that's how the British colonised so many places they make people work for some form of legal IOU else they put law enforcement/the army onto you.
Define useful? Is it something profitable or that needs to be done measured by any plethora of benchmarks?
Example of work that needs to be done: Circuit level diagnosis to fix/recycle a piece of electronics may not have much monetary gain but its a job with purpose. Even if it may be cheaper to buy a new item. 'Useful' can fit a whole bunch of different contexts, it would be useful the item did not entirely/partially end up in land-fill and become a poison to the environment.
http://jobguarantee.org/ https://medium.com/modern-mone...
Here is a challenge, walk into any university, any STEM department and ask the question: 'what could be done better in this field if you have enough manpower to redo a chosen area of your industry?'
The list is miles long for software engineering/computer science for instance. If we had enough engineers we could finally rewrite entire legacy software stacks+standards that haphazardly become de-facto industry standards that are security nightmares. Point is people are a resource to be put to work not to sit idle.
Amazon has many jobs that cant be automated because they need to employ a human.
This is because many jobs require legal responsibility to be exercised and that does not exist under law for a robot. Put simply you cant send a robot to jail when it ships the wrong medicine to a patient killing them.
Many of the jobs are stable because of this factor. Look at the legal issues with self driving cars for instance. That is just the tip of the ice berg, most admin jobs that involve coordination that could potentially harm someone is NOT possible to automate entirely because it needs HUMAN for legalities.
UBI is a poor solution. A job guarantee is better.
There is more work NOW than at any point in human history.
Best to not conflate capitalisms profit crisis with what needs to be done. Id be a melting ice cap on it.