Everyone around here is drooling over "Cloud", any question about CPU power or storage is answered with "cloud". If you ask my opinion we were shooting ourselves in the foot. We had data analytics stacking up daily and were months away from any sort of NDA agreement with a "cloud" vendor.
I couldn't even talk my boss into a $500 off lease Xeon 2011 to crunch numbers.
At some point we will be forced to measure these AI systems, by their pedigree (e.g., the "schooling" the have received), and the actual testing they have passed. This is not unlike how humans are (inaccurately) measured. That isn't today, but it might be coming sooner than you think...
What do you think you're doing when you solve a Google captchas? Google is running hundreds of thousands of video through AIs analyzing every frame.
Remember "Select all the road signs" a while ago? Now they seem to be on to billboards. You train it on a set of data and run it back on the hundreds of thousands of hours of data they have from the Google street view project.
The idea that anyone actually planning anything is discussing actual plans in the living room.
We have an Echo. It's a nice device and we're looking for a version 2 be it from Google or Apple. Almost all of our lights are on Z-wave with a few Hues mixed in.
I've always assumed the NSA was always listening so they can go ahead and listen to dinner plans. It takes nothing to unplug it. Step into another room.
Do you think the planners of the American Revolution walked around town mixing war and dinner plans where anyone could hear? A high school tech class should be able to build a Faraday's caged, sound proofed "cone of silence" in a weekend.
I don't say anything in front of Alexa or Ok Google I wouldn't say to my wife in a super market or restaurant where the NSA could be sitting next to me.
I got into *NIX and programming because I had a Mac growing up. OS X came along and I found Terminal.app and it was nonstop to a household of BSD and Linux machines. I was able to complete a lot of CS computer assignments locally while my peers fought for time on the universities old SUN machines. (Right before a deadline the whole thing ground to a halt).
Stop with this "Mechanization" bull shit. We don't have Mechanization and probably never will with the way technology is going. And no, a little cogged gear or cotton gin isn't Mechanization even though the hypesters and people wishing for Development dollars try to fool the ignorant into thinking it is.
I've accepted that Google has been bought out years ago. I still use them. If for nothing else than to keep up the appearances of a happy middle aged white American. I just gave up and accepted the NSA is always listening when I'm out and about.
I still have an Echo in the living room. It turns on and off lights. It's not difficult to unplug or put into a faraday's cage should I be planning a coup. It's not like I we mix in nation-state planning in with dinner recipes. It's in a fixed location in the house and not difficult to get out of range of either.
If you want to go 'off the grid' on the Internet it's not that hard either. VPNs, Tor, I2P.
The Clinton foundation has been called "a slush fund by Sunlight Foundation — a "progressive" foundation promoting nonprofit transparency.
Additionally:
Last year, Charity Navigator, a nonprofit watchdog that rates charities, put the Clinton Foundation on its “watch list” as a warning to potential contributors because so much Clinton Foundation money was going to salaries, overhead and luxury travel rather than to fulfilling its stated mission.
Threaded forums were invented for a reason. Flat threads don't scare well to a lot of users. Fark ran into the issue. Usenet ran into the issue. E-mail lists ran into the issue.
It didn't need to be. Reddit has proved itself a great containment forum for those sort of subreddits. Tumblr and Reddit are providing a great service to the rest of the Internet for exactly the reasons listed above.
Not everyone that needs containment agrees and sorry that they took coontown away from you but Stormfront runs a self hosted forum. No ads because, who wants to advertise there? You don't need Reddit. And if you *really* want to host your own content it's not that difficult. Quit relying on what Reddit and Twitter say you can say and host your own domain. You can get European VPSs for rather cheap.
Setting up a self hosted forum is trivial. If you spent half the time reading Nginx setup instructions as you did whining that coontown got shutdown you'd have your own little CoonTo.wn by now.
How did the math work out for internal combustion engines in the 1400s? Metallurgy and a lot of other fields weren't there yet. Give it time and change the math.
Or the Saudis. Who knows what Clinton got on that e-mail server. Who knows what Clinton Foundation / Secretary of State stuff mixed next to each other in a private e-mail account "off the books".
No. I mean in corporate America there are approved lists where you can buy products. If I need a ethernet switch I have a list of 4 places to buy it. Amazon is one of those places to some corporations. Our group just bought a $100 5 port NetGear switch because that's how it works.
So when I *need* a replacement video card I can't run down to the store and grab the $100 and use my company credit card to buy it. They aren't an approved supplier. I could use my personal money and do the $100 card but no thanks. Welcome to corporate America.
College is not on the job training It never has been. It never will be. If you want career training they have those, they're coincidentally called trades.
College will not teach you C. College will teach you the theory behind C.
learned about writing software
Because if a CS curriculum spends any time on how to write software you're in the wrong place. The largest complaint I hear out of CS and Engineering students is they feel like they were sold something else. College is NOT a 4 year degree on how to write Python and C. (or what ever else you want to learn).
I found For Profit there is less hand holding in teaching on how to use the app but covering theory and concepts are hard. For NFP the theory and concepts are easier but getting them on different tools and showing them when you need to break the rules gets harder.
Broken down it's the technicians vs the engineers.
The "For Profit" colleges filled a niche which was the fact that we forgot about the skilled trades in the US. Everything taught at ITT tech is a trade option in Germany. You don't need 4 years of theory you need a hands on approach to learning what you need to know to get the job done.
"Not for profit" colleges are how they've always been, theory based academia. If you don't want to learn the theory and learn stuff unelated ("well rounded student") then college isn't for you, try a trade.
Both are equally important jobs. But they're separate. You don't hire an electrician when you need an electrical engineer and you don't hire an electrical engineer when you need an electrician.
The same applies to computer based jobs. Despite what eveyone says on Slashdot a handfull of "code bootcamp" would do wonders in some organizations. If HR hands me another CS graduate that can tell me the *theory* behind Python's design and not actually write Python I'm going to raise hell again.
Oh come on. People are idiots. 90% of people pick one username and use it everywhere. Same username on Slashdot as well and with only 3 posts matches up with Paul's personal history.
Slashdot Mirror
At least you got funding.
Everyone around here is drooling over "Cloud", any question about CPU power or storage is answered with "cloud". If you ask my opinion we were shooting ourselves in the foot. We had data analytics stacking up daily and were months away from any sort of NDA agreement with a "cloud" vendor.
I couldn't even talk my boss into a $500 off lease Xeon 2011 to crunch numbers.
At some point we will be forced to measure these AI systems, by their pedigree (e.g., the "schooling" the have received), and the actual testing they have passed. This is not unlike how humans are (inaccurately) measured. That isn't today, but it might be coming sooner than you think...
What do you think you're doing when you solve a Google captchas? Google is running hundreds of thousands of video through AIs analyzing every frame.
Remember "Select all the road signs" a while ago? Now they seem to be on to billboards. You train it on a set of data and run it back on the hundreds of thousands of hours of data they have from the Google street view project.
The idea that anyone actually planning anything is discussing actual plans in the living room.
We have an Echo. It's a nice device and we're looking for a version 2 be it from Google or Apple. Almost all of our lights are on Z-wave with a few Hues mixed in.
I've always assumed the NSA was always listening so they can go ahead and listen to dinner plans. It takes nothing to unplug it. Step into another room.
Do you think the planners of the American Revolution walked around town mixing war and dinner plans where anyone could hear? A high school tech class should be able to build a Faraday's caged, sound proofed "cone of silence" in a weekend.
I don't say anything in front of Alexa or Ok Google I wouldn't say to my wife in a super market or restaurant where the NSA could be sitting next to me.
This is going to haunt them for a while.
Its the open source equivalent of downloading and burning a "Golden Master.
https://tmpnb.org/
Click link.
Program.
I got into *NIX and programming because I had a Mac growing up. OS X came along and I found Terminal.app and it was nonstop to a household of BSD and Linux machines. I was able to complete a lot of CS computer assignments locally while my peers fought for time on the universities old SUN machines. (Right before a deadline the whole thing ground to a halt).
Stop with this "Mechanization" bull shit. We don't have Mechanization and probably never will with the way technology is going. And no, a little cogged gear or cotton gin isn't Mechanization even though the hypesters and people wishing for Development dollars try to fool the ignorant into thinking it is.
they shed light on possible conflicts of interest.
And the transcripts to wall street wouldn't?
Having worked around IT. People really are that stupid.
I've accepted that Google has been bought out years ago. I still use them. If for nothing else than to keep up the appearances of a happy middle aged white American. I just gave up and accepted the NSA is always listening when I'm out and about.
I still have an Echo in the living room. It turns on and off lights. It's not difficult to unplug or put into a faraday's cage should I be planning a coup. It's not like I we mix in nation-state planning in with dinner recipes. It's in a fixed location in the house and not difficult to get out of range of either.
If you want to go 'off the grid' on the Internet it's not that hard either. VPNs, Tor, I2P.
The Clinton foundation has been called "a slush fund by Sunlight Foundation — a "progressive" foundation promoting nonprofit transparency.
Additionally:
Last year, Charity Navigator, a nonprofit watchdog that rates charities, put the Clinton Foundation on its “watch list” as a warning to potential contributors because so much Clinton Foundation money was going to salaries, overhead and luxury travel rather than to fulfilling its stated mission.
The IRS has brought down people the cops couldn't.
I doubt the IRS is holding back because it's an election year.
Jesus, how do you read that?
Threaded forums were invented for a reason. Flat threads don't scare well to a lot of users. Fark ran into the issue. Usenet ran into the issue. E-mail lists ran into the issue.
It didn't need to be. Reddit has proved itself a great containment forum for those sort of subreddits. Tumblr and Reddit are providing a great service to the rest of the Internet for exactly the reasons listed above.
Not everyone that needs containment agrees and sorry that they took coontown away from you but Stormfront runs a self hosted forum. No ads because, who wants to advertise there? You don't need Reddit. And if you *really* want to host your own content it's not that difficult. Quit relying on what Reddit and Twitter say you can say and host your own domain. You can get European VPSs for rather cheap.
Setting up a self hosted forum is trivial. If you spent half the time reading Nginx setup instructions as you did whining that coontown got shutdown you'd have your own little CoonTo.wn by now.
Damn, merging a Fark meme into a Slashdot thread. Bold move Cotton.
How did the math work out for internal combustion engines in the 1400s? Metallurgy and a lot of other fields weren't there yet. Give it time and change the math.
Or the Saudis. Who knows what Clinton got on that e-mail server. Who knows what Clinton Foundation / Secretary of State stuff mixed next to each other in a private e-mail account "off the books".
No. I mean in corporate America there are approved lists where you can buy products. If I need a ethernet switch I have a list of 4 places to buy it. Amazon is one of those places to some corporations. Our group just bought a $100 5 port NetGear switch because that's how it works.
So when I *need* a replacement video card I can't run down to the store and grab the $100 and use my company credit card to buy it. They aren't an approved supplier. I could use my personal money and do the $100 card but no thanks. Welcome to corporate America.
Because Amazon is an approved supplier for some companies. eBay is not.
$8 shipping on a $9 part. Hurray.
No thanks.
Ah yes. Why not just pay for people to do it in assembly! That's the solution. It'll be exactly what I need.
Sure development will take 40 times as long but it'll be worth it!
major career training
College is not on the job training It never has been. It never will be. If you want career training they have those, they're coincidentally called trades.
College will not teach you C. College will teach you the theory behind C.
learned about writing software
Because if a CS curriculum spends any time on how to write software you're in the wrong place. The largest complaint I hear out of CS and Engineering students is they feel like they were sold something else. College is NOT a 4 year degree on how to write Python and C. (or what ever else you want to learn).
I found For Profit there is less hand holding in teaching on how to use the app but covering theory and concepts are hard.
For NFP the theory and concepts are easier but getting them on different tools and showing them when you need to break the rules gets harder.
Broken down it's the technicians vs the engineers.
The "For Profit" colleges filled a niche which was the fact that we forgot about the skilled trades in the US. Everything taught at ITT tech is a trade option in Germany. You don't need 4 years of theory you need a hands on approach to learning what you need to know to get the job done.
"Not for profit" colleges are how they've always been, theory based academia. If you don't want to learn the theory and learn stuff unelated ("well rounded student") then college isn't for you, try a trade.
Both are equally important jobs. But they're separate. You don't hire an electrician when you need an electrical engineer and you don't hire an electrical engineer when you need an electrician.
The same applies to computer based jobs. Despite what eveyone says on Slashdot a handfull of "code bootcamp" would do wonders in some organizations. If HR hands me another CS graduate that can tell me the *theory* behind Python's design and not actually write Python I'm going to raise hell again.
Oh come on. People are idiots. 90% of people pick one username and use it everywhere. Same username on Slashdot as well and with only 3 posts matches up with Paul's personal history.