Forget homicidal AIs. We need snarky AIs. Nothing is more annoying than being laughed at by an AI, but everyone except Trump should be able to survive that.
High school students and their parents need to look at the long term trends are for jobs. Not every job is going to be replaced by a robot or an AI. The US currently has a shortage of skilled construction workers as American workers are aging out and foreign workers are going home. If they're willing to put in the hard work, students in time can make a six-figure income as a plumber, electrician or carpenter.
Who else is going to take care of the old people in developed countries and the new babies in the developing countries? The human population doubled twice in the 20th century but it won't even double once in the 21st century as the population peaks at 10B and declines to 6B by 2100.
The problem with more education is that most people stop learning once they get out of high school or college. The educational system does a piss poor job in teaching people to become lifelong learners. Once people think they don't have anything more to learn because they left school behind it's very unlikely that will go back to school, enroll in a boot camp or get certifications. The days of doing the same kind of work for 50 years and collecting a gold watch is long over.
With Firefox and Chrome having over 2/3 of the browser market between them, your bank will have not much of a choice.
Banks can be pretty stubborn. I did a Token Ring to Ethernet conversion project at a bank branch office in 2005. I was shocked to see Token Ring in the field. My previous experience with Token Ring was taking apart a NIC card to find an 80186 processor in 1995 and reading about them in certification exams prior to 2005. The five-year-old branch office had coaxial cables installed beside the already installed Ethernet cables. The bank was perfectly fine with 16Mbps for decades. The killer app for the conversion project was TV video. With 500 workstations at this branch office, 100Mbps Ethernet was required. I made an extra four hours of overtime because the high school kids plugged the Ethernet cable into the Token Ring NIC (which took coaxial and twisted pair) instead of the motherboard NIC and the project manager sent them home without checking their work.
In FORTRAN you easily see a 1000 lines program with 1 or 2 dozens of GOTOs, where the same program written in proper C or Pascal (and any other modern language) has zero.
For a while I was converting old BASIC games that I never got to work as a kid in the 1980's into Python scripts. Some BASIC games had an elaborate "fall through" decision structure at the end of the program that made it difficult to trace all the GOTOs going in and out. The behavior was in some ways similar to a SWITCH statement. Of course, Python has no SWITCH statement. Rewriting these GOTOs into function calls was an education in itself.
When Google Chrome pulled support for plugins on the PC, I had to use Mozilla Firefox for a Java app that my business bank uses for check deposits at home. Looks like that is going away. It'll be interesting to see if the business bank will move away from Java or keep it. I'll have to download the app on my iPhone.
Why such cynicism? Why not believe that quite a substantial number of people live within their means, and have no debt whatsoever?
I live in Silicon Valley. The few people who live a modest lifestyle here are janitors and virtual ditch diggers (which is what I do) on $50K or less per year. Everyone else is stressed out on owning big houses, big cars, big houses, big woman and big kids. They haven't gotten the memo that not everyone in Silicon Valley is a newly minted millionaire.
The 2.4GHz wireless at my 300+ unit apartment complex is congested between 7:00PM and 2:00AM when everyone is at home. Not a problem for me since I have to go to bed by 8:30PM to get up at 4:30AM to start work at 7:00AM. Switching to 5GHz wireless doesn't hurt either.
What is he actually talking about? Is there actually programs here in the US that offer an 18 month course that promise to make someone a "machine learning scientist", whatever that is?
There's a 12-month boot camp/nanodegree program for machine learning. That plus six months of on the job training should do the trick.
Oddly this may be sleep related, I had real problems with memory, turns out it was related to severe sleep apnea.
Since I work in government IT, I have to get up at 4:30AM to catch two local busses and an express bus to start work at 7:00AM. Most nights I'm drifting off at 8:30PM, sometimes 10:30PM or later. With a one-hour commute to and from work, I can quite deliberately forget about work as I never take work home. Weekends and three-day holidays are difficult to recover from on Monday mornings.
I've always kept a notebook at work to record my daily activities. Something that several managers tried to stop me from doing when they figured out I was documenting their actions as well as my own. It's hard to throw someone under the bus when they kept good documentation for the HR department.
That explains why I always seem to experience a case of the Monday's when dealing with government services.
Uh, no. Every bureaucrat on the planet has to have their meetings first thing on Monday mornings, putting a strain on limited government resources to meet the demand over the Intertubes. Fortunately, I'm only attendee to these meetings and I can multitask to better serve taxpayers.
I thought that was what the weekends were for. I keep a dead tree notebook at work to write down what I did each day and remind myself what I did from the week before. Otherwise, on Monday mornings, I'll have no clue to what to do.
I thought the "mountain lion" part was a pet sort of thing.
Build houses up in the foothills of Silicon Valley, you have to worry about wildlife. That would typically be deers, mountain lions, rattlesnakes and tarantulas. Some areas have wild boars that love to tear up the landscaping. Down in the valley you have to worry about late night visitors like possums, racoons and skunks.
So far Trump has not commented on the last jobs report from the Obama Administration, showing 227K jobs added to the economy and upticking the employment rate 4.8%. Trump did tweet about everything else at 3AM this morning to distract from the good news.
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Forget homicidal AIs. We need snarky AIs. Nothing is more annoying than being laughed at by an AI, but everyone except Trump should be able to survive that.
Lead poisoning from crumbling infrastructure should keep the riff-raff in check and contribute to the decline of Pax Americana.
Elderly care robots, of course.
In Japan, sure. US of A, unlikely.
High school students and their parents need to look at the long term trends are for jobs. Not every job is going to be replaced by a robot or an AI. The US currently has a shortage of skilled construction workers as American workers are aging out and foreign workers are going home. If they're willing to put in the hard work, students in time can make a six-figure income as a plumber, electrician or carpenter.
Who else is going to take care of the old people in developed countries and the new babies in the developing countries? The human population doubled twice in the 20th century but it won't even double once in the 21st century as the population peaks at 10B and declines to 6B by 2100.
The problem with more education is that most people stop learning once they get out of high school or college. The educational system does a piss poor job in teaching people to become lifelong learners. Once people think they don't have anything more to learn because they left school behind it's very unlikely that will go back to school, enroll in a boot camp or get certifications. The days of doing the same kind of work for 50 years and collecting a gold watch is long over.
When you say ALL, did you really mean it?
I read it on /., so it must be true.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/11/11/2138201/fbi-operated-23-tor-hidden-child-porn-sites-deployed-malware-from-them
The FBI will have to find a new way to entrap people into child poornography, as they operate all the child pornography websites on the Internet.
With Firefox and Chrome having over 2/3 of the browser market between them, your bank will have not much of a choice.
Banks can be pretty stubborn. I did a Token Ring to Ethernet conversion project at a bank branch office in 2005. I was shocked to see Token Ring in the field. My previous experience with Token Ring was taking apart a NIC card to find an 80186 processor in 1995 and reading about them in certification exams prior to 2005. The five-year-old branch office had coaxial cables installed beside the already installed Ethernet cables. The bank was perfectly fine with 16Mbps for decades. The killer app for the conversion project was TV video. With 500 workstations at this branch office, 100Mbps Ethernet was required. I made an extra four hours of overtime because the high school kids plugged the Ethernet cable into the Token Ring NIC (which took coaxial and twisted pair) instead of the motherboard NIC and the project manager sent them home without checking their work.
In FORTRAN you easily see a 1000 lines program with 1 or 2 dozens of GOTOs, where the same program written in proper C or Pascal (and any other modern language) has zero.
For a while I was converting old BASIC games that I never got to work as a kid in the 1980's into Python scripts. Some BASIC games had an elaborate "fall through" decision structure at the end of the program that made it difficult to trace all the GOTOs going in and out. The behavior was in some ways similar to a SWITCH statement. Of course, Python has no SWITCH statement. Rewriting these GOTOs into function calls was an education in itself.
When Google Chrome pulled support for plugins on the PC, I had to use Mozilla Firefox for a Java app that my business bank uses for check deposits at home. Looks like that is going away. It'll be interesting to see if the business bank will move away from Java or keep it. I'll have to download the app on my iPhone.
Why such cynicism? Why not believe that quite a substantial number of people live within their means, and have no debt whatsoever?
I live in Silicon Valley. The few people who live a modest lifestyle here are janitors and virtual ditch diggers (which is what I do) on $50K or less per year. Everyone else is stressed out on owning big houses, big cars, big houses, big woman and big kids. They haven't gotten the memo that not everyone in Silicon Valley is a newly minted millionaire.
Tell us more about how you work in government IT
How is that relevant to this discussion?
you were unemployed for two years
How is that relevant to this discussion?
you have hundreds of fake friends on linkedin,
I have 821 recruiters connected via LinkedIn when I checked last week. Most of my friends don't use LinkedIn since they're not technical workers.
and all the other shit you love to repeat ad nauseum
Yet you brought me a soapbox to stand on rather than stay on topic with a relevant comment.
because you're a fucking bigshot with too much money in your wallet and too much time on your hands.
You're confusing me with Mr. Trump.
In other news, people that have more debt on average also have more "stuff" to keep up with people who have more money.
FTFY — A.K.A., The American Dream.
The 2.4GHz wireless at my 300+ unit apartment complex is congested between 7:00PM and 2:00AM when everyone is at home. Not a problem for me since I have to go to bed by 8:30PM to get up at 4:30AM to start work at 7:00AM. Switching to 5GHz wireless doesn't hurt either.
Canning H1Bs would be the best thing to happen to the US tech sector.
The canneries went out of business years ago.
What is he actually talking about? Is there actually programs here in the US that offer an 18 month course that promise to make someone a "machine learning scientist", whatever that is?
There's a 12-month boot camp/nanodegree program for machine learning. That plus six months of on the job training should do the trick.
https://www.udacity.com/course/machine-learning-engineer-nanodegree--nd009
You have a very high user id, NO WAY you have been here since 1999.
I've been reading /. for 18 years. The other website I've read just as long is The New York Times.
Oddly this may be sleep related, I had real problems with memory, turns out it was related to severe sleep apnea.
Since I work in government IT, I have to get up at 4:30AM to catch two local busses and an express bus to start work at 7:00AM. Most nights I'm drifting off at 8:30PM, sometimes 10:30PM or later. With a one-hour commute to and from work, I can quite deliberately forget about work as I never take work home. Weekends and three-day holidays are difficult to recover from on Monday mornings.
But who are you to tell someone to Get Lost?
I've been here since 1999. Now get off my lawn!
I too have noticed a large drop in overall comment counts in /. as well.
Goatse ain't as popular on /. as it used to be.
Government employee huh?
I've always kept a notebook at work to record my daily activities. Something that several managers tried to stop me from doing when they figured out I was documenting their actions as well as my own. It's hard to throw someone under the bus when they kept good documentation for the HR department.
That explains why I always seem to experience a case of the Monday's when dealing with government services.
Uh, no. Every bureaucrat on the planet has to have their meetings first thing on Monday mornings, putting a strain on limited government resources to meet the demand over the Intertubes. Fortunately, I'm only attendee to these meetings and I can multitask to better serve taxpayers.
I thought that was what the weekends were for. I keep a dead tree notebook at work to write down what I did each day and remind myself what I did from the week before. Otherwise, on Monday mornings, I'll have no clue to what to do.
I thought the "mountain lion" part was a pet sort of thing.
Build houses up in the foothills of Silicon Valley, you have to worry about wildlife. That would typically be deers, mountain lions, rattlesnakes and tarantulas. Some areas have wild boars that love to tear up the landscaping. Down in the valley you have to worry about late night visitors like possums, racoons and skunks.
That is exactly what a Daddys Boy who's Daddy owns the company would say. Exactly.
Uh, no. My comment is a classic slam that is familiar to any Slashdotter who has been on the site since 1999.
The extremely low comment count proves that.
This is Slashdot, not an Alt-Right site. Get lost.
That kind of "fake news"?
So far Trump has not commented on the last jobs report from the Obama Administration, showing 227K jobs added to the economy and upticking the employment rate 4.8%. Trump did tweet about everything else at 3AM this morning to distract from the good news.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/03/the-unemployment-rate-ticked-up-slightly-cue-the-trump-twitter-distraction/