I hate euphemisms, and "gig worker" is just a euphemism for slave-wage day laborer. We've been down that path before, is this really what we want to go back to? Color me shocked that people are resistant to voluntarily opting into this!
Why not just steal their tech and launch a homegrown version? It's not like the Chinese don't steal everyone's tech with government sponsorship. What goes around comes around.
Being able to build things isn't the issue. That's fine. As is learning to design those things after building enough of them. That's fine too.
But if they have a contract in place that stipulates that the parts are to be built exclusively for the client and the designs are to remain confidential, there's a problem if they start building the parts for other clients (including themselves) or sharing the designs with anyone else.
To draw an analogy, it's fine if a contractor knows how to build homes. It's fine if they eventually learn how to design their own homes after building enough of them. But if your general contractor steals your custom home's blueprints and sells them to a developer who builds a neighborhood of copycat houses right next to yours, that's not fine.
I don't know what's being alleged here, but it seems evident to me that they aren't simply talking about China learning how to manufacture and design stuff on their own.
Yeah, except you left out the part where you know that contractor you just did a deal with has stolen designs from 50 other designers and you still decide to do business with them anyways, and then act surprised when they steal your design too. Gee, who would have guessed that would happen?!?
Pretty much this. If I want a good tool I'll buy one made in the USA, Germany, Japan, or Canada. If I want a cheap use it once tool, I'll buy the one made in China from Harbor Freight. No way am I paying extra for a "name brand" tool like craftsman when it's made in China just like the much less expensive Harbor Freight one is. Their brand lost value immediately once they started importing Chinese junk with the Craftsman name put on it. Value wise your tools are only as good as what you will sell me *today*, yesterday doesn't matter.
So in other words it costs money. If I invested 10K one time and never made another contribution, over a 30 year period I'd have about 43K. That's assuming a modest 5% annual return. Last time I checked 43K > 19K.
Uhhh... the first amendment protects you from the government limiting free speech. It does not protect you from corporations limiting free speech. If anything a Govt. run ISP would legally have *MORE* 1A protections than a privately run ISP.
It's true that a warmer earth is expected to raise overall rainfall. The part you are missing is the rainfall pattern. The rainfall will tend to come in larger rains that have a larger time spread between rainfall events. The hotter temperatures between the rainfall activity will increase effective aridity.
From the Article:
"Feeding a world population of 10 billion is possible, but only if we change the way we eat and the way we produce food,” said Prof Johan Rockström at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.
Yeah, sorry, I'm not interested in changing my food consumption so that people in other countries can have more kids than they can generate resources to care for. I delayed having kids until I was able provide a stable home and adequate resources to raise them, it was a conscious choice. Sorry, but I'm not going to change my ways just because some people who didn't think things through are in a bad spot. How about if you live in a desert you don't have 5 kids?
I disagree. Artificially pushing people towards a certain career to "correct imbalances" is political correctness run amok. Men and women have different genetic compositions and biologically driven behaviors, and while there are certainly outliers men and women tend to have different interests. This has a real impact in career choices. You can try to recruit me all you want - but if I don't want to do the work because I have no interest in it then it's not going to happen, no amount of recruiting will change that. I like my job. I'm even allowed to have a beer at lunch. No amount of "women are over-represented, we need you!" is going to get me to consider changing my career.
Millions of barely (if we are lucky) competent people, piloting flying boxes composed of 2 tons of steel, after drinking 6 beers. What could possibly go wrong?
I'm still running a Core 2 Duo Laptop from 2006. It had a T5500 (1.67 GHz 2MB Cache) which I upgraded to a T7400 (2.17 GHz, 4MB cache) a few years back as the chip was $4.00 used.
I basically only browse, watch Netflix/YT, or do light office style work on that machine. If I'm doing any "real" work I'm using my desktop with a much more powerful CPU, 32 GB RAM, and triple monitor setup.
Laptops are only useful for light tasks, why replace it if it still does what's asked of it?
The I5 2500K was a 2011 release, not 2010. The Q6600 was 2007, not 2008. Your timelines are vastly different from reality. See the links direct from Intel regarding release dates
Proper security is to drop traffic by default, white list what you need. You never truly know what your devices will try to do. As an example fitting to this article, I installed security cameras outside my home and linked them to a linux based PVR for the interface/recording. I noticed that my firewall was dropping tons of data from the IPs assigned to the cameras. A quick dump of the traffic uncovered all cameras trying to connect out to a pair of IPs hosted on amazonaws. I never asked or gave consent for this to happen. The same thing would go with any other network device really, I don't want it to have access to the Internet unless I explicitly give it access.
master@EdgeRouter:~$ sudo tcpdump -i eth0 host 192.168.1.248
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
22:13:46.947684 IP 192.168.1.248.58611 > 192.168.1.1.domain: 895+ A? www.nwsvr1.com. (32)
22:13:46.948215 IP 192.168.1.1.domain > 192.168.1.248.58611: 895 1/0/0 A 54.247.103.91 (48)
22:13:48.191871 IP 192.168.1.248.14620 > ec2-54-245-98-57.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.32100: UDP, length 4
22:13:48.192026 IP 192.168.1.248.14620 > 123.56.159.92.32100: UDP, length 4
22:13:48.192104 IP 192.168.1.248.14620 > ec2-54-217-201-148.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.32100: UDP, length 4
Do you want your devices to serve you, or do you want your devices to serve the device maker or some other random person due to insecurity? It might seem extreme to some but as far as I'm concerned the only sane thing to do is treat *every* device as hostile until you know otherwise, drop all packets with a hardware firewall by default, and only approve the traffic you want to go out.
Processors have improved dramatically since 2006. I selected 3 chips that were all relatively high end for a desktop but reasonably affordable and popular chips (not extreme CPUs) from the stable of Intel corp. Namely: Q6600, I5-2500K, I5-8600K. The Core 2 Quads came out late 2006/early 2007, Sandy bridge in 2012 and Coffee Lake 2018, so a relatively even timeline distribution. Shortly after launch the Q6600 was $280, 2500K $220, 8600K $260.
Take a look at the benchmarks and performance scores, not to mention platform changes. We also went from no standard SATA SSDs during C2Q's reign to NVME SSDs for the 8600K. Just because you only use excel on small data sets which can still be done with a C2Q doesn't mean that there haven't been large gains.
Whatever, I only care what the data shows. Algorithms like these only latch on to signals in the data. As long as the data is correct and not forged with an inherent bias, then the findings are valid. If a certain group doesn't like the findings, maybe they should figure out how to address the underlying causes and not call an accurate analysis "bias" or "discriminatory" or whatever other term they want to use because their feelings got hurt.
For example the FBI crime data from 2016 (2017 data is not yet finalized) shows that in the USA black people commit murder at a much higher per capita rate than any other race. It also shows white people commit more sex crimes than any other race on a per capita measure. I'm in one of those two groups personally, and while I don't like to correlation, the analysis *is* accurate. Obese people have higher rates of heart disease and high blood pressure. Algorithms aren't "biased" against people with weight issues, they're just showing signals in the data.
People need to toughen the hell up. You don't get to define reality because you don't like how it looks - you can have your own opinions, but you don't get to have your own facts.
I've seen two vehicle related deaths. I saw a car get T-boned about 150 feet away from me, and later on I found on the person who was broadsided died. I also was about 70 feet from a pedestrian getting rolled over and crushed by a vehicle as the person was jaywalking.
I hate the term "car accident". Many times it's one or both parties being irresponsible, distracted, etc. To me a car accident is when say.... the brakes fail unexpectedly on a well maintained vehicle. Making a choice to look at a cell phone while driving and hitting something is a remarkably poor decision, not an accident.
Former Equifax “Chief Security Officer” Susan Mauldin has a bachelor’s degree and a master of fine arts degree in music composition from the University of Georgia. Look where "no expertise" got them (and us). Hey, let's hire butchers to be surgeons too, I mean they cut things after all, so it's sort of related!
First: Start making these devices in the USA, then I might buy one. As a a member of the manufacturing sector, location of production matters to me. I don't care about where the engineers work, that doesn't help me at all. As far as I'm concerned "designed in Cupertino" or whatnot has precisely zero value to me. Heck, I'd rather see "designed in Zhensong, made in USA" on the packaging. I don't see these engineers clamoring to bring manufacturing back to the USA, so why should I care about the plight of those engineers? In fact, most of them thought it was just dandy when our (and my) manufacturing jobs got moved overseas (and not robotics now too) because they could save 15 cents. Well, I say outsource the engineering, so I can save 15 cents too, and hey, just like they said to me, "that's not my concern".
Second: If it's all physically produced in China, it's pretty much the same risk anyways. Do you honestly think Chinese companies couldn't try to slip in a back door during the manufacture? Please! Given my first statement, if I have to buy Chinese made goods, I'll buy the ones that cost less.
Most of us can't afford a home on *ONE* person's salary. I don't see how this is a shocker. You mean it's tough to afford a home in a high demand area with high prices on one persons salary?!? You don't say!
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I hate euphemisms, and "gig worker" is just a euphemism for slave-wage day laborer. We've been down that path before, is this really what we want to go back to? Color me shocked that people are resistant to voluntarily opting into this!
Why not just steal their tech and launch a homegrown version? It's not like the Chinese don't steal everyone's tech with government sponsorship. What goes around comes around.
https://imgur.com/gallery/18R0...
Being able to build things isn't the issue. That's fine. As is learning to design those things after building enough of them. That's fine too.
But if they have a contract in place that stipulates that the parts are to be built exclusively for the client and the designs are to remain confidential, there's a problem if they start building the parts for other clients (including themselves) or sharing the designs with anyone else.
To draw an analogy, it's fine if a contractor knows how to build homes. It's fine if they eventually learn how to design their own homes after building enough of them. But if your general contractor steals your custom home's blueprints and sells them to a developer who builds a neighborhood of copycat houses right next to yours, that's not fine.
I don't know what's being alleged here, but it seems evident to me that they aren't simply talking about China learning how to manufacture and design stuff on their own.
Yeah, except you left out the part where you know that contractor you just did a deal with has stolen designs from 50 other designers and you still decide to do business with them anyways, and then act surprised when they steal your design too. Gee, who would have guessed that would happen?!?
Pretty much this. If I want a good tool I'll buy one made in the USA, Germany, Japan, or Canada. If I want a cheap use it once tool, I'll buy the one made in China from Harbor Freight. No way am I paying extra for a "name brand" tool like craftsman when it's made in China just like the much less expensive Harbor Freight one is. Their brand lost value immediately once they started importing Chinese junk with the Craftsman name put on it. Value wise your tools are only as good as what you will sell me *today*, yesterday doesn't matter.
So in other words it's a BS maneuver to sleaze your of paying the taxes that you should owe. 'Merica at it's finest.
And other malls are fighting..... https://www.wgrz.com/article/n...
So in other words it costs money. If I invested 10K one time and never made another contribution, over a 30 year period I'd have about 43K. That's assuming a modest 5% annual return. Last time I checked 43K > 19K.
Uhhh... the first amendment protects you from the government limiting free speech. It does not protect you from corporations limiting free speech. If anything a Govt. run ISP would legally have *MORE* 1A protections than a privately run ISP.
It's true that a warmer earth is expected to raise overall rainfall. The part you are missing is the rainfall pattern. The rainfall will tend to come in larger rains that have a larger time spread between rainfall events. The hotter temperatures between the rainfall activity will increase effective aridity.
From the Article:
"Feeding a world population of 10 billion is possible, but only if we change the way we eat and the way we produce food,” said Prof Johan Rockström at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.
Yeah, sorry, I'm not interested in changing my food consumption so that people in other countries can have more kids than they can generate resources to care for. I delayed having kids until I was able provide a stable home and adequate resources to raise them, it was a conscious choice. Sorry, but I'm not going to change my ways just because some people who didn't think things through are in a bad spot. How about if you live in a desert you don't have 5 kids?
I disagree. Artificially pushing people towards a certain career to "correct imbalances" is political correctness run amok. Men and women have different genetic compositions and biologically driven behaviors, and while there are certainly outliers men and women tend to have different interests. This has a real impact in career choices. You can try to recruit me all you want - but if I don't want to do the work because I have no interest in it then it's not going to happen, no amount of recruiting will change that. I like my job. I'm even allowed to have a beer at lunch. No amount of "women are over-represented, we need you!" is going to get me to consider changing my career.
Millions of barely (if we are lucky) competent people, piloting flying boxes composed of 2 tons of steel, after drinking 6 beers. What could possibly go wrong?
Security through obscurity... never a good plan.
Mine has two stickers: an AR-15 and a middle finger sticker. That's all they need to know.
I'm still running a Core 2 Duo Laptop from 2006. It had a T5500 (1.67 GHz 2MB Cache) which I upgraded to a T7400 (2.17 GHz, 4MB cache) a few years back as the chip was $4.00 used.
I basically only browse, watch Netflix/YT, or do light office style work on that machine. If I'm doing any "real" work I'm using my desktop with a much more powerful CPU, 32 GB RAM, and triple monitor setup.
Laptops are only useful for light tasks, why replace it if it still does what's asked of it?
The I5 2500K was a 2011 release, not 2010. The Q6600 was 2007, not 2008. Your timelines are vastly different from reality. See the links direct from Intel regarding release dates
https://ark.intel.com/products...
https://ark.intel.com/products...
Proper security is to drop traffic by default, white list what you need. You never truly know what your devices will try to do. As an example fitting to this article, I installed security cameras outside my home and linked them to a linux based PVR for the interface/recording. I noticed that my firewall was dropping tons of data from the IPs assigned to the cameras. A quick dump of the traffic uncovered all cameras trying to connect out to a pair of IPs hosted on amazonaws. I never asked or gave consent for this to happen. The same thing would go with any other network device really, I don't want it to have access to the Internet unless I explicitly give it access.
master@EdgeRouter:~$ sudo tcpdump -i eth0 host 192.168.1.248
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
22:13:46.947684 IP 192.168.1.248.58611 > 192.168.1.1.domain: 895+ A? www.nwsvr1.com. (32)
22:13:46.948215 IP 192.168.1.1.domain > 192.168.1.248.58611: 895 1/0/0 A 54.247.103.91 (48)
22:13:48.191871 IP 192.168.1.248.14620 > ec2-54-245-98-57.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.32100: UDP, length 4
22:13:48.192026 IP 192.168.1.248.14620 > 123.56.159.92.32100: UDP, length 4
22:13:48.192104 IP 192.168.1.248.14620 > ec2-54-217-201-148.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.32100: UDP, length 4
Do you want your devices to serve you, or do you want your devices to serve the device maker or some other random person due to insecurity? It might seem extreme to some but as far as I'm concerned the only sane thing to do is treat *every* device as hostile until you know otherwise, drop all packets with a hardware firewall by default, and only approve the traffic you want to go out.
Processors have improved dramatically since 2006. I selected 3 chips that were all relatively high end for a desktop but reasonably affordable and popular chips (not extreme CPUs) from the stable of Intel corp. Namely: Q6600, I5-2500K, I5-8600K. The Core 2 Quads came out late 2006/early 2007, Sandy bridge in 2012 and Coffee Lake 2018, so a relatively even timeline distribution. Shortly after launch the Q6600 was $280, 2500K $220, 8600K $260.
Take a look at the benchmarks and performance scores, not to mention platform changes. We also went from no standard SATA SSDs during C2Q's reign to NVME SSDs for the 8600K. Just because you only use excel on small data sets which can still be done with a C2Q doesn't mean that there haven't been large gains.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/c...
Or R, free and OSS.
Whatever, I only care what the data shows. Algorithms like these only latch on to signals in the data. As long as the data is correct and not forged with an inherent bias, then the findings are valid. If a certain group doesn't like the findings, maybe they should figure out how to address the underlying causes and not call an accurate analysis "bias" or "discriminatory" or whatever other term they want to use because their feelings got hurt.
For example the FBI crime data from 2016 (2017 data is not yet finalized) shows that in the USA black people commit murder at a much higher per capita rate than any other race. It also shows white people commit more sex crimes than any other race on a per capita measure. I'm in one of those two groups personally, and while I don't like to correlation, the analysis *is* accurate. Obese people have higher rates of heart disease and high blood pressure. Algorithms aren't "biased" against people with weight issues, they're just showing signals in the data.
People need to toughen the hell up. You don't get to define reality because you don't like how it looks - you can have your own opinions, but you don't get to have your own facts.
I've seen two vehicle related deaths. I saw a car get T-boned about 150 feet away from me, and later on I found on the person who was broadsided died. I also was about 70 feet from a pedestrian getting rolled over and crushed by a vehicle as the person was jaywalking.
I hate the term "car accident". Many times it's one or both parties being irresponsible, distracted, etc. To me a car accident is when say.... the brakes fail unexpectedly on a well maintained vehicle. Making a choice to look at a cell phone while driving and hitting something is a remarkably poor decision, not an accident.
Former Equifax “Chief Security Officer” Susan Mauldin has a bachelor’s degree and a master of fine arts degree in music composition from the University of Georgia. Look where "no expertise" got them (and us). Hey, let's hire butchers to be surgeons too, I mean they cut things after all, so it's sort of related!
First: Start making these devices in the USA, then I might buy one. As a a member of the manufacturing sector, location of production matters to me. I don't care about where the engineers work, that doesn't help me at all. As far as I'm concerned "designed in Cupertino" or whatnot has precisely zero value to me. Heck, I'd rather see "designed in Zhensong, made in USA" on the packaging. I don't see these engineers clamoring to bring manufacturing back to the USA, so why should I care about the plight of those engineers? In fact, most of them thought it was just dandy when our (and my) manufacturing jobs got moved overseas (and not robotics now too) because they could save 15 cents. Well, I say outsource the engineering, so I can save 15 cents too, and hey, just like they said to me, "that's not my concern".
Second: If it's all physically produced in China, it's pretty much the same risk anyways. Do you honestly think Chinese companies couldn't try to slip in a back door during the manufacture? Please! Given my first statement, if I have to buy Chinese made goods, I'll buy the ones that cost less.
Most of us can't afford a home on *ONE* person's salary. I don't see how this is a shocker. You mean it's tough to afford a home in a high demand area with high prices on one persons salary?!? You don't say!
SEE: http://www.pewresearch.org/ft_...