And we're complaining that people with Ph.D.s, who normally go homeless in the real world, are managing to get high paying jobs?? We should be thanking the good fucking lord!
That I have never heard of Blackberry / RIM being in the news for resisting or challenging a government order to reveal customer data speaks a great deal to me.
At least I have some public signalling by Apple that they think about whether they should or not. Maybe BB thinks about this as well, but I don't hear about it.
Not only that, but after having gotten her dad fired, she feels the need to post yet another video about it. This is some kind of internet addiction / alternate internet-fueled reality / inability to just shut up and be quiet for a while when you've gotten slapped to the ground. How many lessons does it take?
Disparate impact is completely grounded on the principle that every demographic should be as well represented as every other demographic. That is where it is fundamentally flawed.
If that is the case, why do we bother testing people at all, since everyone should have the same intelligence / experience / desire / skill? Is that not just as determined from birth as race / gender / etc?
Singapore - the best example of how sometimes you need an authority to decide in favor of group rights over individual rights. Too much freedom can be a curse.
If Wisconsin is willing to pay subsidies of $10,000+ per year to employ old factory workers, Arkansas should pony up on the order of $100k each to educate these kids -- whose future and value with such skills is way more than someone who assembles pieces of things on an assembly line.
Well, then in that case, I suppose that 100 years from now when Google dies, some forethinking engineer's plan to release the encryption key of the entire library of the world secretly stored on our phones will be activated, and finally we'll get to read the books.
Well, actually, isn't the problem that they want to sell it / use it for commercial purposes? If Google simply wanted to put this on the web for absolutely free, with no links to anything else, couldn't they?
I thought it's only when you're trying to sell something that these issues arise.
Good options. But think before enabling such high security for things that don't need it. Forgetful parents for example -- give them these things and if they ever lose them or forget one piece of information, their accounts are gone forever.
Some things just need "good enough" security and the likelihood that anyone cares enough to hack them is a risk you accept for the practical real-world usability of the thing.
The story isn't that the guy found an exploit. There will always be bugs and exploits in a complex system.
The story is that with many large companies, there is no straightforward way for a member of the public to contact someone who is directly responsible for these kinds of issues, which are rising in importance. And/or that there is not someone in the company who has made it their job to actively go out and publicize that they are interested in hearing about such issues.
It happens. Companies get big and fat and distributed, and no one knows whether a particular issue is important or how to own the solution until it gets so big and attention-grabbing that someone at the top realizes they have to put a person on it...
For most of the past, free speech has come with the practical limitation that the person making the speech was associated to it, and had some burden of personal accountability. So, whether out of shame, counter-arguments, not being able to hide behind a fictitious agent, etc., people making demonstrably false statements would have limits to the quantity and quality of their speech. And, by the way, people's gullibility of it.
Now we have this new channel where everyone, including fake names and anonymous agents, are equal. In your Facebook feed, everyone has an equal voice, which contrary to some people's original idea of the internet, doesn't now make it possible for the best and most thoughtful opinions to be spread, but rather the worst. And not everyone is smart enough to tell the difference, or even has the time.
Newspapers, journalists, universities, governments, etc. previously served the role as our filter of what was "high quality". For good and bad, of course, because they're not always right.
But now we took off the filter. How do we get some of it back without taking away the parts we like?
I always find it interesting that when the (few) native Hawaiians and their opportunistic supporters go up the mountain, they always seem to do it using the roads that the telescope facilities built and manage/maintain. I guess that part of the desecration is just a nice time saver.
I guess the question is, are your meetings/trips really so important and your time so limited that you feel like rolling the dice of a 1-in-10-"ish" chance of not making it to your meeting... forever?
Maybe for Elon Musk, since he views every passing minute as another tick of the clock of his limited time here on Earth. But maybe for the rest of us mere mortals, planes are still ok enough....
What's the surprise? US is 4% of the global population and 24% of global GDP. Why would you expect any worldwide company to have its workforce concentrated there based on those stats? Companies have no particular allegiance to the US, friends, and its a mistake to think they do anymore.
As technically interesting as the phone might be, it's difficult to trust a small manufacturer and ecosystem to secure my private information on my devices against apps, 3rd parties, and hackers doing things that I don't know are being done. Essential phone -- what do you want to bet that they take any of that shit seriously, or have the resources to do so? Cmon, even Google doesn't police its apps and infrastructure well, what are the chances that a down-the-rung OEM does?
To be a serious player in the consumer phone market, with the functionality and support that you need to do a good job with security, features, apps, etc. you need a big team. And a big team is only supportable by selling millions and millions of phones. Anything less and they'll start to cheap out on these things.
As much as you may hate Google, Apple, Samsung, etc, they have the people they need to do the necessary jobs. A small player like this -- what odds do you put on that being true? Do you want to be the early adopter for them who is their beta tester?
I don't know where to find a good explanation of the idea, but my gut belief about our economy today is that there is a major oversupply of labor. We have too many people for what our economy supports. At least in most service + manufacturing sectors.
Cry all you want about stagnant wages, inability to find a job, etc, etc. -- there are just too many people now for what the economy can sustain.
Part of it is automation, but part of it is the legacy of the baby boom years where our economy expanded in jobs capacity, and now that shrank (jobs) but the number of people is growing. Too many people competing after too few jobs, what do you expect? And at the same time those people demand higher wages, while wanting cheaper prices for the things they buy! While trade and overseas manufacturing is able to effectively provide even more labor supply competition for the jobs we do still have here.
I thought the point of Ctrl-Alt-Del was that it generated a system-level interrupt that no other program would be allowed to supercede (I'm getting the exact terminology wrong here probably, but the point is), and only the operating system would be get a user to put in a password on the familiar login screen.
Otherwise, malicious or other programs might be able to spoof the login screen and capture a users credentials.
Good thinking, but it just led to some convoluted keyboard contortions as a result.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Do you, from even your own air travel, see how many equipment checks and processes there are to be done before an aircraft flies, and how often just the smallest electronics or airframe/engine problem grounds an aircraft?
And you're hoping that Joe Schmoe's car, that he's stored in his driveway, driven rattling down the highway hitting who knows what, is going to be converted suddenly into a flying apparatus that meets any kind of necessary safety regulations?
Keep on dreaming, and posting shit stories like this!
Why would any tech workers want to be in the environment of Washington DC, where your personal progress is based on other people's uniformed, unintellectual, non-measureable impression of you, that you have to influence by endless talking to people and convincing them based on non-refutable arguments?
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Most..expensive..ink...EVER!
$35 a cartridge, but man, $150M in shipping costs.
The paper isn't cheap either.
And we're complaining that people with Ph.D.s, who normally go homeless in the real world, are managing to get high paying jobs?? We should be thanking the good fucking lord!
That I have never heard of Blackberry / RIM being in the news for resisting or challenging a government order to reveal customer data speaks a great deal to me.
At least I have some public signalling by Apple that they think about whether they should or not. Maybe BB thinks about this as well, but I don't hear about it.
Not only that, but after having gotten her dad fired, she feels the need to post yet another video about it. This is some kind of internet addiction / alternate internet-fueled reality / inability to just shut up and be quiet for a while when you've gotten slapped to the ground. How many lessons does it take?
Disparate impact is completely grounded on the principle that every demographic should be as well represented as every other demographic. That is where it is fundamentally flawed.
If that is the case, why do we bother testing people at all, since everyone should have the same intelligence / experience / desire / skill? Is that not just as determined from birth as race / gender / etc?
Singapore - the best example of how sometimes you need an authority to decide in favor of group rights over individual rights. Too much freedom can be a curse.
If Wisconsin is willing to pay subsidies of $10,000+ per year to employ old factory workers, Arkansas should pony up on the order of $100k each to educate these kids -- whose future and value with such skills is way more than someone who assembles pieces of things on an assembly line.
Well, then in that case, I suppose that 100 years from now when Google dies, some forethinking engineer's plan to release the encryption key of the entire library of the world secretly stored on our phones will be activated, and finally we'll get to read the books.
Well, actually, isn't the problem that they want to sell it / use it for commercial purposes? If Google simply wanted to put this on the web for absolutely free, with no links to anything else, couldn't they?
I thought it's only when you're trying to sell something that these issues arise.
Good options. But think before enabling such high security for things that don't need it. Forgetful parents for example -- give them these things and if they ever lose them or forget one piece of information, their accounts are gone forever.
Some things just need "good enough" security and the likelihood that anyone cares enough to hack them is a risk you accept for the practical real-world usability of the thing.
The story isn't that the guy found an exploit. There will always be bugs and exploits in a complex system.
The story is that with many large companies, there is no straightforward way for a member of the public to contact someone who is directly responsible for these kinds of issues, which are rising in importance. And/or that there is not someone in the company who has made it their job to actively go out and publicize that they are interested in hearing about such issues.
It happens. Companies get big and fat and distributed, and no one knows whether a particular issue is important or how to own the solution until it gets so big and attention-grabbing that someone at the top realizes they have to put a person on it...
No they're not, they're $159. What are you talking about?
So, whenever two sports teams face off against each other, that doesn't constitute competition?
The new problem is this:
For most of the past, free speech has come with the practical limitation that the person making the speech was associated to it, and had some burden of personal accountability. So, whether out of shame, counter-arguments, not being able to hide behind a fictitious agent, etc., people making demonstrably false statements would have limits to the quantity and quality of their speech. And, by the way, people's gullibility of it.
Now we have this new channel where everyone, including fake names and anonymous agents, are equal. In your Facebook feed, everyone has an equal voice, which contrary to some people's original idea of the internet, doesn't now make it possible for the best and most thoughtful opinions to be spread, but rather the worst. And not everyone is smart enough to tell the difference, or even has the time.
Newspapers, journalists, universities, governments, etc. previously served the role as our filter of what was "high quality". For good and bad, of course, because they're not always right.
But now we took off the filter. How do we get some of it back without taking away the parts we like?
The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers...
One look at Vortex.com's front page, and I would quickly classify it as spam too...
I always find it interesting that when the (few) native Hawaiians and their opportunistic supporters go up the mountain, they always seem to do it using the roads that the telescope facilities built and manage/maintain. I guess that part of the desecration is just a nice time saver.
I guess the question is, are your meetings/trips really so important and your time so limited that you feel like rolling the dice of a 1-in-10-"ish" chance of not making it to your meeting... forever?
Maybe for Elon Musk, since he views every passing minute as another tick of the clock of his limited time here on Earth. But maybe for the rest of us mere mortals, planes are still ok enough....
What's the surprise? US is 4% of the global population and 24% of global GDP. Why would you expect any worldwide company to have its workforce concentrated there based on those stats? Companies have no particular allegiance to the US, friends, and its a mistake to think they do anymore.
As technically interesting as the phone might be, it's difficult to trust a small manufacturer and ecosystem to secure my private information on my devices against apps, 3rd parties, and hackers doing things that I don't know are being done. Essential phone -- what do you want to bet that they take any of that shit seriously, or have the resources to do so? Cmon, even Google doesn't police its apps and infrastructure well, what are the chances that a down-the-rung OEM does?
To be a serious player in the consumer phone market, with the functionality and support that you need to do a good job with security, features, apps, etc. you need a big team. And a big team is only supportable by selling millions and millions of phones. Anything less and they'll start to cheap out on these things.
As much as you may hate Google, Apple, Samsung, etc, they have the people they need to do the necessary jobs. A small player like this -- what odds do you put on that being true? Do you want to be the early adopter for them who is their beta tester?
What happened to Slashdot all day today??!!
I don't know where to find a good explanation of the idea, but my gut belief about our economy today is that there is a major oversupply of labor. We have too many people for what our economy supports. At least in most service + manufacturing sectors.
Cry all you want about stagnant wages, inability to find a job, etc, etc. -- there are just too many people now for what the economy can sustain.
Part of it is automation, but part of it is the legacy of the baby boom years where our economy expanded in jobs capacity, and now that shrank (jobs) but the number of people is growing. Too many people competing after too few jobs, what do you expect? And at the same time those people demand higher wages, while wanting cheaper prices for the things they buy! While trade and overseas manufacturing is able to effectively provide even more labor supply competition for the jobs we do still have here.
How can this work out possibly well?
I thought the point of Ctrl-Alt-Del was that it generated a system-level interrupt that no other program would be allowed to supercede (I'm getting the exact terminology wrong here probably, but the point is), and only the operating system would be get a user to put in a password on the familiar login screen.
Otherwise, malicious or other programs might be able to spoof the login screen and capture a users credentials.
Good thinking, but it just led to some convoluted keyboard contortions as a result.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Do you, from even your own air travel, see how many equipment checks and processes there are to be done before an aircraft flies, and how often just the smallest electronics or airframe/engine problem grounds an aircraft?
And you're hoping that Joe Schmoe's car, that he's stored in his driveway, driven rattling down the highway hitting who knows what, is going to be converted suddenly into a flying apparatus that meets any kind of necessary safety regulations?
Keep on dreaming, and posting shit stories like this!
Why would any tech workers want to be in the environment of Washington DC, where your personal progress is based on other people's uniformed, unintellectual, non-measureable impression of you, that you have to influence by endless talking to people and convincing them based on non-refutable arguments?