In a way, it makes a perverse sense; my kids can deal with it. If not, oh well. Not my problem.
On a more optimistic note, when things do hit crisis level, I have little doubt that technology and engineering will provide solutions to a existential risk. The issue is the motivation ($$) behind such an effort. Until there is a demonstrable need, perhaps, what you are seeing is the best optimization of resources according to our collective will.
They're trained to detect common tools, water bottles, and other harmless items to harass people. This performance is what is incentivized and reinforced, so that's what is optimized.
Security theatre doesn't work. Security that works offends people.
Eventually people will get fed up with paying $4.99 in perpetuity to a dozen or more vendors, and we'll have single pay licensing again. Legislative changes relating to data protection will complicate cloud migration for some professions, and I imagine state spying is starting to have economic impact.
I've seen the cycles too; the difference there is a legion of programmers and a even bigger pile of code out there. Computers (hardware) are also trending to very low cost now as well.
Software trends to zero in volume as there's no marginal cost; I'd expect more and more core functionality to be free. This has already happened to some degree in the Apple ecosystem, and Microsoft is bundled with everything.
Another prediction: More and more functionality will come bundled into the OS, and you can factor on paying a subscription for it (or the fee when you upgrade).
You want to jump on the next big rage? Nice, clean applications, web based or not, devoid of crapware and malware and in-app-purchases and ads that do what they're supposed to, cleanly, nothing more, and easily connect together through standard interfaces. It's almost like someone built something like that before.
On the other hand, no application is complete until it has an email client..
The mill they're making is designed to turn pieces of high grade billet (commonly available) into real, functioning, accurate gun bodies.
You could always do this, but it required investment of time to gain the required skill. You also needed at least a $2500 mill and some brains.
Things change when it's a $500 box you put metal in and a weapon comes out. You can do that with a specialized gig and inexpensive stepper motor drives.
3D printing metal technology is advancing on a near daily basis.
Interesting times.
Look for laws controlling ammunition to be more popular.
If you're looking for people who generate a profit from their time, the curve is almost certainly U-shaped based on my now not-so-light 30+ years in the trenches.
Why is this any different than the population of other skilled professionals? You will see the same curve for musicians, for example; it's not necessarily about being able to eventually get the skill, but it's about doing so in a reasonable efficient amount of time proportional to the effort expended.
In terms of actually learning, the guy probably has a point - eventually, I could learn to play the violin - but having tried, I'm never going to do it professionally.
Ask me to develop OMAP firmware or drivers, otoh..
The #1 job for men in the United States is.. driving a truck.
It pays well.
Those two things make it ripe for disruption as there is a clear economic incentive; autonomous trucks don't need to stop. It's not clear even if you'd ever have to turn them off, save for regular maintenance. That is a huge economic motivator.
Trucks also follow well defined routes that are easier for the autonomous systems to deal with right now.
The Teamsters will of course freak out; but change, it is a comin'.
This runs contrary to any experience I've had with Apple, especially in their retail stores. If I can't walk in and try something without booking an appointment, it'll be awhile before I get around to buying one.
Seriously, if you know your stuff, it's a sucker play.
If you can hack, learn to hack the system, man.
Build a network of customers slowly, deliver what you say you will, on time, and your dance card will be filled in no time. Dividends are paid out at substantially lower tax rates than salary in every part of the western world I'm aware of.
This is an answer. It's not the answer a lot of people want to hear, but it certainly addresses most of the challenges.
Ultimately, the companies can't be doing so bad with their model, because stuff gets done, and they make money. If they don't, they go away, and new players step in.
Accept it, too little, too late, y'all missed the party.
Google Chat is still vastly superior to Facebook Messenger, but I'm using GC less. The killer is GMail; without it, I'd be almost migrated out of the Google ecosystem.
Rock, hard place. I won't even start on Apple.
What to think different? Open up your APIs again, the cool ones, make it easy to use Google for the infrastructure on third party apps, don't screw over the small guys who join in...and stop forcing the damn tie in, all that does is make people ANGRY.
If you have brilliant insight, please cite objections to the paper in question, which is quite interesting, and has enough experimental data to at least merit discourse.
If you HAD read the paper in question, you would understand the context I am asking the question. I doubt you have.
Clamouring to "mod parent down" smacks of professional jealosy or perhaps some other more basic inadquacy.
As you probably know, the most recent paper on Orch-OR as a proposed mechanism for consciousness may have a role for cellular automata in the underlying mechanism.
As you've advocated and made a compelling case for these systems, what are your thoughts on this?
This is insanity; you hire the best and brightest.
Promote tech and diversity, but the level of change they're talking about isn't possible without disruption; never mind any of the other related issues.
If I was a shareholder (I'm not); I would want the absolute best in the world advancing my technology. Regardless of race or gender. This is an arbitrary decree.
I moved out of the insanity completely 15 years ago.
I live in a small town. Canada is empty. I could walk five minutes to work, but I'm lazy, so I don't. There's no traffic here, I have 100mbps symmetric fiber internet, and my house (that I own) cost me 1/10th of similar housing in the GTA. I'm a 8 minute no traffic drive to an airport that can have me in YYZ in 3 hours gate to gate direct.
This magic internet thing is awesome!
North America is empty; the insanity that is large cities and million dollar tiny houres is just that.
People should wake up and realize _that_...best decision I ever made.
Slashdot Mirror
There are idiot proof toolkits to do this right now, and they've been around for some time..
Lots of books, science, theories, mitigations.
We just don't care.
In a way, it makes a perverse sense; my kids can deal with it. If not, oh well. Not my problem.
On a more optimistic note, when things do hit crisis level, I have little doubt that technology and engineering will provide solutions to a existential risk. The issue is the motivation ($$) behind such an effort. Until there is a demonstrable need, perhaps, what you are seeing is the best optimization of resources according to our collective will.
Oh yeah.. Get off my lawn.
..which is NOT to detect weapons.
They're trained to detect common tools, water bottles, and other harmless items to harass people. This performance is what is incentivized and reinforced, so that's what is optimized.
Security theatre doesn't work. Security that works offends people.
C'est la vie. Shoes off!
We will HAPPILY PAY MORE MONEY if you explain your circumstances.
We do not want to watch ads. Full up.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
The Internet.
Those who say things are impossible should get out of the way of those doing it..
Curious where your calculations come from that say it can't be done with any efficiency. (I am EE).
Why the @#$@ can't I get a home freestyle machine?
Seriously, I've even thought about getting the commercial one. I have a proper commercial tap for beer and fizzy water now.
Eventually people will get fed up with paying $4.99 in perpetuity to a dozen or more vendors, and we'll have single pay licensing again. Legislative changes relating to data protection will complicate cloud migration for some professions, and I imagine state spying is starting to have economic impact.
I've seen the cycles too; the difference there is a legion of programmers and a even bigger pile of code out there. Computers (hardware) are also trending to very low cost now as well.
Software trends to zero in volume as there's no marginal cost; I'd expect more and more core functionality to be free. This has already happened to some degree in the Apple ecosystem, and Microsoft is bundled with everything.
Another prediction: More and more functionality will come bundled into the OS, and you can factor on paying a subscription for it (or the fee when you upgrade).
You want to jump on the next big rage? Nice, clean applications, web based or not, devoid of crapware and malware and in-app-purchases and ads that do what they're supposed to, cleanly, nothing more, and easily connect together through standard interfaces. It's almost like someone built something like that before.
On the other hand, no application is complete until it has an email client..
This isn't about plastic f'ing guns.
The mill they're making is designed to turn pieces of high grade billet (commonly available) into real, functioning, accurate gun bodies.
You could always do this, but it required investment of time to gain the required skill. You also needed at least a $2500 mill and some brains.
Things change when it's a $500 box you put metal in and a weapon comes out. You can do that with a specialized gig and inexpensive stepper motor drives.
3D printing metal technology is advancing on a near daily basis.
Interesting times.
Look for laws controlling ammunition to be more popular.
..that's why I put the quantitative measure on those who generate a profit from their skill, or produce a profit on their time for others.
I am quite certain that curve is U-shaped.
If you're looking for people who generate a profit from their time, the curve is almost certainly U-shaped based on my now not-so-light 30+ years in the trenches.
Why is this any different than the population of other skilled professionals? You will see the same curve for musicians, for example; it's not necessarily about being able to eventually get the skill, but it's about doing so in a reasonable efficient amount of time proportional to the effort expended.
In terms of actually learning, the guy probably has a point - eventually, I could learn to play the violin - but having tried, I'm never going to do it professionally.
Ask me to develop OMAP firmware or drivers, otoh..
Don't turn it off, either, until the event is long over.
I've had police in my face before, and there is no democratizing tool quite has powerful as a lawyer on retainer and/or a recording device.
Tools like Meerkat and other live streaming services are going to change the world, and not necessarily in the way their authors intended.
The #1 job for men in the United States is.. driving a truck.
It pays well.
Those two things make it ripe for disruption as there is a clear economic incentive; autonomous trucks don't need to stop. It's not clear even if you'd ever have to turn them off, save for regular maintenance. That is a huge economic motivator.
Trucks also follow well defined routes that are easier for the autonomous systems to deal with right now.
The Teamsters will of course freak out; but change, it is a comin'.
It's a piece of technology. Like my phone, it'll be worthless in 3 or 4 years. The legacy sell I think will be a very tough one here.
The obvious solution is to buy it and return it if you don't like it; that boosts costs to Apple, though.
Yeah, I see this going well.
This runs contrary to any experience I've had with Apple, especially in their retail stores. If I can't walk in and try something without booking an appointment, it'll be awhile before I get around to buying one.
Boo, hiss. I hope they get an earful over this.
Seriously, if you know your stuff, it's a sucker play.
If you can hack, learn to hack the system, man.
Build a network of customers slowly, deliver what you say you will, on time, and your dance card will be filled in no time. Dividends are paid out at substantially lower tax rates than salary in every part of the western world I'm aware of.
This is an answer. It's not the answer a lot of people want to hear, but it certainly addresses most of the challenges.
Ultimately, the companies can't be doing so bad with their model, because stuff gets done, and they make money. If they don't, they go away, and new players step in.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
http://www.nspower.ca/en/home/...
Accept it, too little, too late, y'all missed the party.
Google Chat is still vastly superior to Facebook Messenger, but I'm using GC less. The killer is GMail; without it, I'd be almost migrated out of the Google ecosystem.
Rock, hard place. I won't even start on Apple.
What to think different? Open up your APIs again, the cool ones, make it easy to use Google for the infrastructure on third party apps, don't screw over the small guys who join in. ..and stop forcing the damn tie in, all that does is make people ANGRY.
A drug conviction can ruin your life, or at least, substantially alter your possible outcomes.
Yes, I understand the difference. Does it matter?
I don't think so.
Ad hominem attacks are lame.
If you have brilliant insight, please cite objections to the paper in question, which is quite interesting, and has enough experimental data to at least merit discourse.
If you HAD read the paper in question, you would understand the context I am asking the question. I doubt you have.
Clamouring to "mod parent down" smacks of professional jealosy or perhaps some other more basic inadquacy.
As you probably know, the most recent paper on Orch-OR as a proposed mechanism for consciousness may have a role for cellular automata in the underlying mechanism.
As you've advocated and made a compelling case for these systems, what are your thoughts on this?
This is insanity; you hire the best and brightest.
Promote tech and diversity, but the level of change they're talking about isn't possible without disruption; never mind any of the other related issues.
If I was a shareholder (I'm not); I would want the absolute best in the world advancing my technology. Regardless of race or gender. This is an arbitrary decree.
$hort. Profit.
2500 sq. ft. $50500 and $50k in renos. Enjoy the rat race.
I moved out of the insanity completely 15 years ago.
I live in a small town. Canada is empty. I could walk five minutes to work, but I'm lazy, so I don't. There's no traffic here, I have 100mbps symmetric fiber internet, and my house (that I own) cost me 1/10th of similar housing in the GTA. I'm a 8 minute no traffic drive to an airport that can have me in YYZ in 3 hours gate to gate direct.
This magic internet thing is awesome!
North America is empty; the insanity that is large cities and million dollar tiny houres is just that.
People should wake up and realize _that_. ..best decision I ever made.
..and route from there.
Problem solved. We're supposed to be the techies, remember?
I run three 30" 2650x1600s and fully intend on maxing out the VRAM on those cards.
I get a big hit in doing so. Boo.
Looking into returning them on principle and getting the 980s.. not sure if that hurts nVidia any, but might piss off their vendors a bit.