And what would you have him do my friend? With all those would would have the power to act upon all neatly bought and paid for? It has been an opensecret for a long time that H1-B not about importing talent but a means to depress the market wages for a long time now. Yet suddenly his coming forward would break the tide? Please, the powers that be have been and will continue to sell the US public down the river just to get another coin in their pocket.
You want change? Don't berate someone working a low level slot when shit started happening way above his pay grade and he had no one to turn to. Start looking at real solutions, like better representation from our elected officials. Course most of those are bought and paid for too so we are all supremely fucked.
Modding for performance usually means tinkering with spark timing, injection timing, fuel pressure, etc which increase the likelihood of an engine fire.
And if their car catches on fire then they only have themselves to blame for not knowing what they are doing.
If a modder decided to write code without a clue directly to the ECU he is most likely gonna brick it and be out $300. If not he will be using an ECU programmer in which case the same problem applies as when the previous generations tuned their carbs or fuel injectors.
And when the mod for performance causes and engine fire where the ECU is destroyed and all evidence of modification is gone?
And what if the factory programming causes the car to explode if it goes under 55 MPH? Should we ask congress to mandate Keanu Reeves ride with every driver for safety?
Soldiers have the up or out rules that limit there you don't want to lose a good tech guy who does not want to go management or be forced out of the unit due to there rank being too high
Probably the best solution if they insisted upon the new "cyber warrriors" being a member of the service would be direct appointment as warrant officers. There is less focus on up or out and the rank is specifically designated as a technical position so there is no risk of being forced into management like with the higher enlisted and officer ranks.
As the Supreme Court decided in Plessy v. Ferguson, separate but equal facilities are just fine.
Hey Doc Brown, welcome back to the 21st Century! How was life back in the early 1900's? Get to see some of those flappers everyone was talking about back then? Awesome! Hey listen, you might of come back too soon Doc. Cause you missed that Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education back in 1954. The courts pointed out that even if everything about the schools are equal there is still the inherently unequal treatment of the segregated populations. Just an FYI so you don't bother citing it again. Now go on and get back to helping out Marty with his crazy mix ups, poor kid is always getting into a bind.
I'm sorry, but auto manufacturers have a point. Not anyone is competent to reprogram embedded car software. Unfortunately, bugs can be deadly. How would you feel about, say, 10% of the cars on the road running custom software by the next door kid?
People have been tinkering and modifying their cars ever since the first Model T rolled off the assembly line, yet surprisingly civilization has survived. Or are you one of those people that thinks because it's "on a computer" it is scary and dangerous? If the kid next door starts trying to reprogram his ECU without knowing what he is doing he is more likely to brick the damn thing than anything else so he won't be going anywhere near a freeway after that unless he pushes it there.
Cars are killing much more people than guns. In fact, I would go further than the auto manufacturers. Nobody should be allowed to drive a car. How many people on the roads shouldn't have even a driver's license at all? A lot. And you are ready to see those people hacking their own car software? No way!
Oh blow it out your ass, the percentage of the driving population that is interested in modding their own vehicles is rather low, and a good portion of that crowd is more about the spoilers and ground effects than anything. What you are doing using jumped up hyperbole to try and scare people about a non existent threat. I do not support limiting people from modifying something they legally own, however if there ever came some legislation barring you from going outside I would back it 100% because I am convinced you are scared of your own shadow.
So what you saying is we must prohibit everyone from being able to modify their vehicles because someone somewhere might do something illegal? Do you realize how stupid that sounds? I mean what kinda Orwellian world do you want to live in where everything is banned unless approved by the government? Do you want people to wear coded chastity belts, only unlockable by approved agents, as well in order to prevent rape? Jeez, of all the arguments against people modifying their own cars this is the most mewly mouthed bullshit i have ever heard.
No lets call a spade a spade, the reason the auto manufacturers are proposing this is to lock out independent repair shops and drive all that sweet sweet repair shop money back to their sponsored and sanctioned dealerships. Any argument about illegal car mods and the like are just bullshit out the gate.
I'll grant you that civil forfeiture is a form of search and seizure, but is it unreasonable in all contexts?
Taking a person's property without an associated criminal conviction, if you think that is reasonable in any context I wonder what you would think is actually unreasonable?
Er, when you say "clearing".....?
[fearing the worst].
Burned the people inside to death or near enough so they stopped fighting. What do you think the flamethrower did? Spewed chocolate bunnies inside to make the enemies lapse into a diabetic coma?
This is hilarious. Every day slashdotters either complain that it's *obvious* we need less regulation. And in a separate thread, it's *obvious* we need more regulation.
*protip* slashdotters as you so put is is not a hive mind, people post here from all walks of life and have differing opinions. In fact I have seen opinions from both sides of the political spectrum that have been rated +5 insightful in the same thread. And they were both right, it was insightful and made you think. The last thing this site needs is to become an echo chamber of samethought and goodthink. If you are looking for that there are plenty of other websites out there, may I recommend Tumblr or yahoo news?
If this ever happens, expect Fact Engine Optimization to become a new industry, and do exactly what SEO did to the reliability and utility of search engines.
Finally! It is the tautology club's moment to shine
Nah, not SJW, marketers. They noticed that social topics got more page views than pure technical articles and decided to push more social/hot button articles to increase that.
Hell, I can get behind that. Freaking autoplay is bullshit. I came to slashdot for the comments, cause the articles are usually five days old (or a dupe). Following a comment thread and then going back up top should not require me to click pause on the same damn video three times.
why was the government employee even flying the drone at 3AM?
To be fair, when you're drunk at 3am flying a quadrocopter into the white house is one of the more sane choices people can make. At least he kept his pants on when he was doing it.
The government should defend the Constitution instead of tear it apart.
Unfortunately the constitution and the associated bill of rights were intended to be limits upon the government so it is not surprising to see the government tearing at those walls. It is after all in it's nature to try to expand it's power, much like fire will continue to seek more fuel or a wild animal will feed again.
What is rather disappointing is to see the people, who are supposed to be the ultimate checks on the government, react with such antipathy towards these encroachments on their rights. The constitution and bill of right was designed so that they was a constant struggle between the will of the governments insatiable lust for power over the governed and the citizens desire to be free of the encumbrance of the government. But lately the people have abandoned their post and thrown their lot behind whoever has a letter behind their name that pleases them the most.
Ya know, I am starting to think that is true. For all these articles and tumblr postings and tweets decrying the low population of women and minorities in STEM and especially comp sci I have not seen much from those leading the charge for more enrollment in computer science. If these leaders encouraged their followers ( a good portion of which are college age or soon to be) to switch majors to CS this diversity problem would be solved within 2-6 years. And there is more than enough scholarships to finance it even. But alas I think this is less about making a change and more about making noise.
Companies that don't hire the best employees fail.
False. Just look at the board of directors of many companies - the companies survive based on inertia and cronyism, not merit.
Sorry, but I think the OP was referring to down in the trenches where the real work is done and production matters.
Though you are probably right about the so called leadership positions. After hearing about some of Balmers escapades I am sure we could replace most of them with gorillas and no one would notice.
What is the diversity of the active slashdot user base? Maybe we could have a poll limited to logged-in people only to keep people from tilting the stats?
Perhaps, but what would be the cowboy neal option?
AI's will not be WEIRD, not 'evil'. They will want to do strange things, not kill us, or hurt us. They won't try to kill us, but instead try to create a massive, network devoted to deciding which species of from has more bacteria in it's toe.
OMG, they'll be grad students! It's worse than I thought!
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And what would you have him do my friend? With all those would would have the power to act upon all neatly bought and paid for? It has been an open secret for a long time that H1-B not about importing talent but a means to depress the market wages for a long time now. Yet suddenly his coming forward would break the tide? Please, the powers that be have been and will continue to sell the US public down the river just to get another coin in their pocket.
You want change? Don't berate someone working a low level slot when shit started happening way above his pay grade and he had no one to turn to. Start looking at real solutions, like better representation from our elected officials. Course most of those are bought and paid for too so we are all supremely fucked.
You are loved and help is available
Awe, that's cute. What will you do about those who do not seek help? Those who consider themselves just fine?
Modding for performance usually means tinkering with spark timing, injection timing, fuel pressure, etc which increase the likelihood of an engine fire.
And if their car catches on fire then they only have themselves to blame for not knowing what they are doing. If a modder decided to write code without a clue directly to the ECU he is most likely gonna brick it and be out $300. If not he will be using an ECU programmer in which case the same problem applies as when the previous generations tuned their carbs or fuel injectors.
And when the mod for performance causes and engine fire where the ECU is destroyed and all evidence of modification is gone?
And what if the factory programming causes the car to explode if it goes under 55 MPH? Should we ask congress to mandate Keanu Reeves ride with every driver for safety?
Soldiers have the up or out rules that limit there you don't want to lose a good tech guy who does not want to go management or be forced out of the unit due to there rank being too high
Probably the best solution if they insisted upon the new "cyber warrriors" being a member of the service would be direct appointment as warrant officers. There is less focus on up or out and the rank is specifically designated as a technical position so there is no risk of being forced into management like with the higher enlisted and officer ranks.
As the Supreme Court decided in Plessy v. Ferguson, separate but equal facilities are just fine.
Hey Doc Brown, welcome back to the 21st Century! How was life back in the early 1900's? Get to see some of those flappers everyone was talking about back then? Awesome! Hey listen, you might of come back too soon Doc. Cause you missed that Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education back in 1954. The courts pointed out that even if everything about the schools are equal there is still the inherently unequal treatment of the segregated populations. Just an FYI so you don't bother citing it again. Now go on and get back to helping out Marty with his crazy mix ups, poor kid is always getting into a bind.
And risk a trademark infringement lawsuit? Why would they do that?
I'm sorry, but auto manufacturers have a point. Not anyone is competent to reprogram embedded car software. Unfortunately, bugs can be deadly. How would you feel about, say, 10% of the cars on the road running custom software by the next door kid?
People have been tinkering and modifying their cars ever since the first Model T rolled off the assembly line, yet surprisingly civilization has survived. Or are you one of those people that thinks because it's "on a computer" it is scary and dangerous? If the kid next door starts trying to reprogram his ECU without knowing what he is doing he is more likely to brick the damn thing than anything else so he won't be going anywhere near a freeway after that unless he pushes it there.
Cars are killing much more people than guns. In fact, I would go further than the auto manufacturers. Nobody should be allowed to drive a car. How many people on the roads shouldn't have even a driver's license at all? A lot. And you are ready to see those people hacking their own car software? No way!
Oh blow it out your ass, the percentage of the driving population that is interested in modding their own vehicles is rather low, and a good portion of that crowd is more about the spoilers and ground effects than anything. What you are doing using jumped up hyperbole to try and scare people about a non existent threat. I do not support limiting people from modifying something they legally own, however if there ever came some legislation barring you from going outside I would back it 100% because I am convinced you are scared of your own shadow.
So what you saying is we must prohibit everyone from being able to modify their vehicles because someone somewhere might do something illegal? Do you realize how stupid that sounds? I mean what kinda Orwellian world do you want to live in where everything is banned unless approved by the government? Do you want people to wear coded chastity belts, only unlockable by approved agents, as well in order to prevent rape? Jeez, of all the arguments against people modifying their own cars this is the most mewly mouthed bullshit i have ever heard.
No lets call a spade a spade, the reason the auto manufacturers are proposing this is to lock out independent repair shops and drive all that sweet sweet repair shop money back to their sponsored and sanctioned dealerships. Any argument about illegal car mods and the like are just bullshit out the gate.
I'll grant you that civil forfeiture is a form of search and seizure, but is it unreasonable in all contexts?
Taking a person's property without an associated criminal conviction, if you think that is reasonable in any context I wonder what you would think is actually unreasonable?
Er, when you say "clearing".....? [fearing the worst].
Burned the people inside to death or near enough so they stopped fighting. What do you think the flamethrower did? Spewed chocolate bunnies inside to make the enemies lapse into a diabetic coma?
How did these get through submission moderation? Were they even subjected to it?
Dice owns slashdot so I am pretty sure they got fast tracked to the front page.
This is hilarious. Every day slashdotters either complain that it's *obvious* we need less regulation. And in a separate thread, it's *obvious* we need more regulation.
*protip* slashdotters as you so put is is not a hive mind, people post here from all walks of life and have differing opinions. In fact I have seen opinions from both sides of the political spectrum that have been rated +5 insightful in the same thread. And they were both right, it was insightful and made you think. The last thing this site needs is to become an echo chamber of samethought and goodthink. If you are looking for that there are plenty of other websites out there, may I recommend Tumblr or yahoo news?
If this ever happens, expect Fact Engine Optimization to become a new industry, and do exactly what SEO did to the reliability and utility of search engines.
Finally! It is the tautology club's moment to shine
Relevant XKCD http://xkcd.com/359/
Except she doesn't run the company. The CEO, CTO, CFO, etc. are all male. Could this be just another slashvertisement?
*shakes 8 ball* signs point to yes
Nah, not SJW, marketers. They noticed that social topics got more page views than pure technical articles and decided to push more social/hot button articles to increase that.
Hell, I can get behind that. Freaking autoplay is bullshit. I came to slashdot for the comments, cause the articles are usually five days old (or a dupe). Following a comment thread and then going back up top should not require me to click pause on the same damn video three times.
why was the government employee even flying the drone at 3AM?
To be fair, when you're drunk at 3am flying a quadrocopter into the white house is one of the more sane choices people can make. At least he kept his pants on when he was doing it.
The government should defend the Constitution instead of tear it apart.
Unfortunately the constitution and the associated bill of rights were intended to be limits upon the government so it is not surprising to see the government tearing at those walls. It is after all in it's nature to try to expand it's power, much like fire will continue to seek more fuel or a wild animal will feed again.
What is rather disappointing is to see the people, who are supposed to be the ultimate checks on the government, react with such antipathy towards these encroachments on their rights. The constitution and bill of right was designed so that they was a constant struggle between the will of the governments insatiable lust for power over the governed and the citizens desire to be free of the encumbrance of the government. But lately the people have abandoned their post and thrown their lot behind whoever has a letter behind their name that pleases them the most.
Ya know, I am starting to think that is true. For all these articles and tumblr postings and tweets decrying the low population of women and minorities in STEM and especially comp sci I have not seen much from those leading the charge for more enrollment in computer science. If these leaders encouraged their followers ( a good portion of which are college age or soon to be) to switch majors to CS this diversity problem would be solved within 2-6 years. And there is more than enough scholarships to finance it even. But alas I think this is less about making a change and more about making noise.
Companies that don't hire the best employees fail.
False. Just look at the board of directors of many companies - the companies survive based on inertia and cronyism, not merit.
Sorry, but I think the OP was referring to down in the trenches where the real work is done and production matters. Though you are probably right about the so called leadership positions. After hearing about some of Balmers escapades I am sure we could replace most of them with gorillas and no one would notice.
What is the diversity of the active slashdot user base? Maybe we could have a poll limited to logged-in people only to keep people from tilting the stats?
Perhaps, but what would be the cowboy neal option?
I'm sorry, I'm not putting that in my mouth.
Universal response to a fag in your mouth: Light the end on fire. The problem will take care of itself no mater what country you are in.
AI's will not be WEIRD, not 'evil'. They will want to do strange things, not kill us, or hurt us. They won't try to kill us, but instead try to create a massive, network devoted to deciding which species of from has more bacteria in it's toe.
OMG, they'll be grad students! It's worse than I thought!