More like, they are more interested in flashy headlines, impressing their board members, and andvertising opportunities than they are interested in actual security.
Biometrics are dumb for security. Ultimately, they are even worse than passwords. When someone steals a few million irises from their database, the company can't send out a bulk email telling everyone to change their eyes.
I'm also a Boeing sales rep (odd conflict of interest I know.) Do you remember how the V-22 was the previous leader for the worst military financial disaster of all time? Yeah, that one turned out to be pretty useful after all.
You need to stop believing everything you read on internet blogs. The F-35 is the most advanced and most highly capable piece of equipment ever produced by humans. It's not the cluster internet blogs want you to believe it is.
Actually, when I started seeing the videos, military use was the first thing that popped in my head. A heads up display like this could make urban warfare far safer for the soldiers and make operations more effective.
I don't see why this would be controversial for the company. This is different than AI or robotics. This is about making soldiers and operations more effective for the human soldiers on the ground. This is no different than making a better individual radio or night-vision goggles.
In a follow up press release, SETI spokes person announced that they will be releasing an major upgrade to the popular SETI@Home software based on their AI implementation. The new software will be codenamed "Ultron".
I'm not talking about jobs. There may be more or fewer people actually picking berries in the US in 2028. The number of farm hands is dependent on a LOT of factors, and predicting numbers down to "400" in 8 years is absurdly fake precision. (The number of farm hands in America changes more than than every day.)
"There are more jobs in the United States; there are fewer jobs in the agricultural worker industry. More engineers, chemists, and doctors; fewer people riding tractors."
That's exactly my point. There are more different types of jobs today. There are more people that work in the agricultural industry doing chemistry, engineering, soil science, marketing, import shipping, just-in-time distribution, etc. Ultimately, there are actually MORE people working in agriculture today then at any time in American history, it's just fewer of them are driving tractors.
It's a fine bet. People's problems is that they tend think that the world as it is right now is in some sort of economic stability. It's not. It's constantly changing and always has been. Look at how much the world has changed today vs 10 years ago. Today there is hardly an industry that isn't heavily affected by mobile internet communications, for example. That whole industry basically didn't exist 10 years ago. And yet, I challenge you to find an industry that is employing fewer people today than 10 years ago. Even the much boohooed travel agent industry hasn't really declined, rather it's actually increased. Right, there are more people working in the travel arrangements industry today than there were 10 years ago. The jobs have just changed from agents to IT. The industry had changed dramatically, but there are no fewer jobs.
But my point was attacking the "Robots are coming" people. AI and robots will take a lot of jobs. But there will be more jobs created as a result.
Consider farming. Today, very few people are actual farmers. You probably don't actually know a person who has ever plowed or harvested a field. But you probably know lots of people that work in in the agricultural industry. There are people that make and service the machines, sell insurance, find temp employment. There are LOTS of different ag jobs today. And of course there are. It's a multi-hundred billion dollar industry in America. We aren't a farming society, but we still eat and it take a lot of people to make that possible.
I was going to say the same thing. He was wrong on all four accounts. There are MORE people in the car industry today than there were 50 years ago. There are MORE people in the music industry today then there were 50 years ago. There are MORE people working in consumer facing banking today then there were 50 years ago.
Yes, the jobs people do day-to-day have changed significantly. There aren't nearly as many people working at stand-alone mom-and-pop music stores, but the industry has grown significantly.
Here is a $100 bet I'll happily make with any "Robots/AI/Illegal Aliens/Whatever are going to take our jobs" people:
Pick any industry sector you like. Any industry at all. I'll bet a $100 to anyone that there will be more people working in that industry in 10 years than are working in that industry today.
Note: This is not about specific jobs. For example, "Travel Agent" is a job. If you wanted to choose "Travel Industry", I'll happily accept the bet.
Graduate assistant: "Sir, but if we do this, wouldn't it end the universe as we know it?" Professor: "That's called science, girl. Now, do you want me to sign off on your thesis defense or not. Throw the switch!"
I've been thinking about time lately. Why do we assume we only move forward in time? We move forward and backward in all the other dimensions, why assume we aren't oscillating back and forth in time? What difference would that make if we were? How would we know?
Consider the double slit experiment. Everyone reading this by now knows that if you send a single photon through a double slit it refracts as a wave until it hits the screen, then the "waveform" collapses and becomes a single point of light. Now imagine that quantum particle moving forward a ways, then moving backward a ways, vibrating back-and-forth in time. Each time it vibrates backward it interacts with itself as it's waveform briefly overlap it past self at the edges. This would cause it to refract against itself through the double slit. Then, once it's finally made it to the screen it appears to the observer as a single photon.
We are all just making things up as we go along. That's life. The whole world is run on bull shit. Trump didn't know how to be President. Neither did Obama. Neither did Bush. Neither did Clinton. Neither did Bush Sr. Neither did Reagan. Neither did Carter. (How far should I go back?) All of their elections were based solely on complete bull shit.
They just got enough people to believe that they could do it better than the other candidate and they were elected. They were best at bull shit and its all bull shit.
Honestly, that's the biggest reason why there are more men in executive positions. Men bull shit better than women. If you want to be successful, learn to bull shit.
You know that the "internet" is much bigger than the WWW, right? The WWW is only one application of the infrastructure we call the "internet".
The Internet is like a highway. Facebook and Twitter are like cars on that highway. Lots of the cars on the highway aren't doing anything particularly important. Some are. But the infrastructure the cars are traveling on isn't anywhere close to useless.
The same reason they haven't produced a car yet. They could, but they don't want to. They have good deals with their current suppliers, so why make that investment?
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Facebook is investigating how to patch the security vulnerability code named internally as "Users".
More like, they are more interested in flashy headlines, impressing their board members, and andvertising opportunities than they are interested in actual security.
Biometrics are used at customs, but not as a primary identification source. Your primary source of identification is still your passport.
Biometrics are dumb for security. Ultimately, they are even worse than passwords. When someone steals a few million irises from their database, the company can't send out a bulk email telling everyone to change their eyes.
I'm also a Boeing sales rep (odd conflict of interest I know.) Do you remember how the V-22 was the previous leader for the worst military financial disaster of all time? Yeah, that one turned out to be pretty useful after all.
You need to stop believing everything you read on internet blogs. The F-35 is the most advanced and most highly capable piece of equipment ever produced by humans. It's not the cluster internet blogs want you to believe it is.
That would be a technical problem they would have to solve, yes.
If the only use of this was the ability to identify friend-foe on the battlefield, it would be worth it.
Actually, when I started seeing the videos, military use was the first thing that popped in my head. A heads up display like this could make urban warfare far safer for the soldiers and make operations more effective.
I don't see why this would be controversial for the company. This is different than AI or robotics. This is about making soldiers and operations more effective for the human soldiers on the ground. This is no different than making a better individual radio or night-vision goggles.
In a follow up press release, SETI spokes person announced that they will be releasing an major upgrade to the popular SETI@Home software based on their AI implementation. The new software will be codenamed "Ultron".
I'm not talking about jobs. There may be more or fewer people actually picking berries in the US in 2028. The number of farm hands is dependent on a LOT of factors, and predicting numbers down to "400" in 8 years is absurdly fake precision. (The number of farm hands in America changes more than than every day.)
"There are more jobs in the United States; there are fewer jobs in the agricultural worker industry. More engineers, chemists, and doctors; fewer people riding tractors."
That's exactly my point. There are more different types of jobs today. There are more people that work in the agricultural industry doing chemistry, engineering, soil science, marketing, import shipping, just-in-time distribution, etc. Ultimately, there are actually MORE people working in agriculture today then at any time in American history, it's just fewer of them are driving tractors.
It's a fine bet. People's problems is that they tend think that the world as it is right now is in some sort of economic stability. It's not. It's constantly changing and always has been. Look at how much the world has changed today vs 10 years ago. Today there is hardly an industry that isn't heavily affected by mobile internet communications, for example. That whole industry basically didn't exist 10 years ago. And yet, I challenge you to find an industry that is employing fewer people today than 10 years ago. Even the much boohooed travel agent industry hasn't really declined, rather it's actually increased. Right, there are more people working in the travel arrangements industry today than there were 10 years ago. The jobs have just changed from agents to IT. The industry had changed dramatically, but there are no fewer jobs.
I agree, definitions are tricky.
But my point was attacking the "Robots are coming" people. AI and robots will take a lot of jobs. But there will be more jobs created as a result.
Consider farming. Today, very few people are actual farmers. You probably don't actually know a person who has ever plowed or harvested a field. But you probably know lots of people that work in in the agricultural industry. There are people that make and service the machines, sell insurance, find temp employment. There are LOTS of different ag jobs today. And of course there are. It's a multi-hundred billion dollar industry in America. We aren't a farming society, but we still eat and it take a lot of people to make that possible.
I was going to say the same thing. He was wrong on all four accounts. There are MORE people in the car industry today than there were 50 years ago. There are MORE people in the music industry today then there were 50 years ago. There are MORE people working in consumer facing banking today then there were 50 years ago.
Yes, the jobs people do day-to-day have changed significantly. There aren't nearly as many people working at stand-alone mom-and-pop music stores, but the industry has grown significantly.
$300 then.
Deal.
Here is a $100 bet I'll happily make with any "Robots/AI/Illegal Aliens/Whatever are going to take our jobs" people:
Pick any industry sector you like. Any industry at all. I'll bet a $100 to anyone that there will be more people working in that industry in 10 years than are working in that industry today.
Note: This is not about specific jobs. For example, "Travel Agent" is a job. If you wanted to choose "Travel Industry", I'll happily accept the bet.
Graduate assistant: "Sir, but if we do this, wouldn't it end the universe as we know it?"
Professor: "That's called science, girl. Now, do you want me to sign off on your thesis defense or not. Throw the switch!"
It's a fun thought experiment, but how could you make an experiment to test that?
I'm not high! I swear! I've been sober since.... shit.
I've been thinking about time lately. Why do we assume we only move forward in time? We move forward and backward in all the other dimensions, why assume we aren't oscillating back and forth in time? What difference would that make if we were? How would we know?
Consider the double slit experiment. Everyone reading this by now knows that if you send a single photon through a double slit it refracts as a wave until it hits the screen, then the "waveform" collapses and becomes a single point of light. Now imagine that quantum particle moving forward a ways, then moving backward a ways, vibrating back-and-forth in time. Each time it vibrates backward it interacts with itself as it's waveform briefly overlap it past self at the edges. This would cause it to refract against itself through the double slit. Then, once it's finally made it to the screen it appears to the observer as a single photon.
Ok, anonymous coward.
And you suffer from a ridiculously pronounced case of historical fiction.
We are all just making things up as we go along. That's life. The whole world is run on bull shit. Trump didn't know how to be President. Neither did Obama. Neither did Bush. Neither did Clinton. Neither did Bush Sr. Neither did Reagan. Neither did Carter. (How far should I go back?) All of their elections were based solely on complete bull shit.
They just got enough people to believe that they could do it better than the other candidate and they were elected. They were best at bull shit and its all bull shit.
Honestly, that's the biggest reason why there are more men in executive positions. Men bull shit better than women. If you want to be successful, learn to bull shit.
You know that the "internet" is much bigger than the WWW, right? The WWW is only one application of the infrastructure we call the "internet".
The Internet is like a highway. Facebook and Twitter are like cars on that highway. Lots of the cars on the highway aren't doing anything particularly important. Some are. But the infrastructure the cars are traveling on isn't anywhere close to useless.
The same reason they haven't produced a car yet. They could, but they don't want to. They have good deals with their current suppliers, so why make that investment?