I want fewer devices to buy / install / maintain and there is no reason why the Xbox one can't be the one box I need for all my TV-related entertainment. It has the horsepower and it is basically a PC anyways.
You should have been on the ball getting the broadcasters, streamers like Netflix/HBO/Amazon, TV tuner, DVR, Windows Store for movie rentals etc. all together in a one stop shop on the Xbox.
For now I'll just settle for a UI that isn't clunky and slow like it is running in 1980.. seriously the Xbox one interface is terrible.
Hopefully some of those ex-employees go to school, learn to build, program, maintain, and recycle the robots. Most of those jobs should pay better than $15/hr.
As for the rest, they can spend their time lobbying for UBI.
Sure, and there will be one of those jobs for how many hundreds(?) of people replaced?
And in six months buying a $25,000 robot will be cheaper than paying an employee $12/hr... And in a year buying a $15,000 robot will be cheaper than paying an employee $9/hr...
They're going to replace employees with robots anyhow, I don't buy that increasing the minimum wage to whatever has anything to do with it.
This guy gets it.
A lot of jobs are going to be replaced by robots and AI. The only question is can we manage the transition before it becomes a crisis.
I know people will chime in with the "people can retrain for new jobs" chrous but this time it really is different.
Convenience and security are always opposed. Having all your eggs in one basket sure is convenient but Office365 covers a wide variety of services in complex configurations and this sort of thing is bound to happen. It will happen to all of these big services (iCloud, Google, AWS etc.) if it hasn't already.
A simple configuration mistake can also be amplified into a very big problem.
And I say that as someone who thinks Office365 is helpful for my business.
"And while the company was not required to admit wrongdoing, it has agreed to hire a chief information security officer."
Wow, Golly Gee. A Chief Information Security Officer!!! That should do the trick right there.
Am I the only person on this planet that thinks that our current public communications and computing technology is completely incapable of securing anything?
I further think that the proposed solutions -- complex unique passwords, multi-factor authentication, BioID, ( http://www.discovery.com/tv-sh... ) etc aren't going to work. Anybody with me on that?
And I think that, yes, all that is likely to be a bit of a societal problem. Anybody else?
You're exactly right. It is impossible to secure anything.
All you can do is mitigate the risks as best you can.
A slap on the wrist like this does very little to increase the risks to companies.
They would take the low penalty rather than invest even more money in securing things to the level we are capable of (even that isn't 100% obviously).
Financial risks are all a company cares about, after all.
Here somewhere.. I understand people blocking ads.. I use an ad blocker all the time myself because most of the time the ads are so obnoxious and/or distributing malware etc.
On the other hand if you want good content someone has to pay for it.
Exactly. Something like 50% of new drugs are developed by research at universities - funded by our tax dollars - and they turn around and sell the rights to a pharma company who then charges us a high price for that drug that we already subsidized the development of.
I've read about this happening and there should be more control over the rights to the results of public research.
I know the argument always given is that someone has to produce the actual products of the research and the pharma company is already equipped to do so.. but the margins on those products should certainly be very limited for the public good.
Slashdot Mirror
lawsuits..
As soon as people completely wreck their Tesla's or injure themselves doing this..
sure it will.
This is the sort of thing people on slashdot always say until someone rips of open source code without giving changes back...
Or until they have had their own work stolen and then it is somehow a different story.
especially until they hit critical mass. Now YouTube is the default platform in and people are generating content exclusively for it.
valuation.. they'll be writing a good chunk of that off before long.
This should have been in there from day one.
I want fewer devices to buy / install / maintain and there is no reason why the Xbox one can't be the one box I need for all my TV-related entertainment. It has the horsepower and it is basically a PC anyways.
You should have been on the ball getting the broadcasters, streamers like Netflix/HBO/Amazon, TV tuner, DVR, Windows Store for movie rentals etc. all together in a one stop shop on the Xbox.
For now I'll just settle for a UI that isn't clunky and slow like it is running in 1980.. seriously the Xbox one interface is terrible.
Stack ranking is absolutely idiotic.
No matter how many times you "weed out" the bottom 20%.. guess what.. there is a new bottom 20%.
Meanwhile you are jettisoning 20% of your institutional knowledge every year and creating a workforce who is antagonistic to one another..
Only business school morons couldn't think this stuff up and actually think that it would work over the long haul.
executives can be removed from reality...
a solution looking for a problem.. that causes other problems.
This is a suspect phrase: "cheap renewable electricity".
It will only be "cheaper" by boosting the prices for all other types of electricity.
Boosting by attempting to properly price the complete costs of existing sources of energy to include all their current externalities?
Hopefully some of those ex-employees go to school, learn to build, program, maintain, and recycle the robots. Most of those jobs should pay better than $15/hr.
As for the rest, they can spend their time lobbying for UBI.
Sure, and there will be one of those jobs for how many hundreds(?) of people replaced?
And in six months buying a $25,000 robot will be cheaper than paying an employee $12/hr...
And in a year buying a $15,000 robot will be cheaper than paying an employee $9/hr...
They're going to replace employees with robots anyhow, I don't buy that increasing the minimum wage to whatever has anything to do with it.
This guy gets it.
A lot of jobs are going to be replaced by robots and AI. The only question is can we manage the transition before it becomes a crisis.
I know people will chime in with the "people can retrain for new jobs" chrous but this time it really is different.
Convenience and security are always opposed. Having all your eggs in one basket sure is convenient but Office365 covers a wide variety of services in complex configurations and this sort of thing is bound to happen. It will happen to all of these big services (iCloud, Google, AWS etc.) if it hasn't already.
A simple configuration mistake can also be amplified into a very big problem.
And I say that as someone who thinks Office365 is helpful for my business.
"And while the company was not required to admit wrongdoing, it has agreed to hire a chief information security officer."
Wow, Golly Gee. A Chief Information Security Officer!!! That should do the trick right there.
Am I the only person on this planet that thinks that our current public communications and computing technology is completely incapable of securing anything?
I further think that the proposed solutions -- complex unique passwords, multi-factor authentication, BioID, ( http://www.discovery.com/tv-sh... ) etc aren't going to work. Anybody with me on that?
And I think that, yes, all that is likely to be a bit of a societal problem. Anybody else?
You're exactly right. It is impossible to secure anything.
All you can do is mitigate the risks as best you can.
A slap on the wrist like this does very little to increase the risks to companies.
They would take the low penalty rather than invest even more money in securing things to the level we are capable of (even that isn't 100% obviously).
Financial risks are all a company cares about, after all.
The damage has been done and it is very hard to get trust back.
Here somewhere.. I understand people blocking ads.. I use an ad blocker all the time myself because most of the time the ads are so obnoxious and/or distributing malware etc.
On the other hand if you want good content someone has to pay for it.
They ignore the constitution, and Tamm is the one whose ethics are being questioned..
I am sure I saw a documentary where he did first question the validity of the wiretaps and he was shut down.
The fact that he did question it and blow the lid off it when they didn't fix the situation shows me that he is pretty good on the ethics front.
That is saying something for a lawyer. :)
because they got campaign financing and lobbying from entrenched ISPs?
That and the fact that Republicans have gone full pants-on-head retarded recently.
About time someone starts at least trying to stand up to this type of treatment.
answer is:
VERY at risk.
Like all infrastructure, management and budgeting is done on a by crisis basis.
The rest of the time it is ignored to make the numbers look good and keep the bonuses flowing.
Why is it that "conservatives" in so many countries have completely lost their minds?
The majority of Americans are morons.
(although I am sure the same apathy exists in many countries currently under wide-scale surveillance)
"If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about." *facepalm*
a pipe dream..
Exactly. Something like 50% of new drugs are developed by research at universities - funded by our tax dollars - and they turn around and sell the rights to a pharma company who then charges us a high price for that drug that we already subsidized the development of.
I've read about this happening and there should be more control over the rights to the results of public research.
I know the argument always given is that someone has to produce the actual products of the research and the pharma company is already equipped to do so.. but the margins on those products should certainly be very limited for the public good.
basic/pure research is done through government funding of some form.
Much to the chagrin of the free market zealots.
Drug companies spend more on marketing than they do on R&D.