while IT support roles don't require a college degree, they do require prior experience.
At one time, companies would actually do on-the-job training to fill these kinds of positions. The employee was grateful for the opportunity and would stick with the company. The company would realize the investment they had made in the employee and keep them around. After decades of down-sizing, out-sourcing and job-hopping; I guess there's not enough trust on either side for that to work now.
How's the prospect of being operated on a by surgeon who didn't opt to take the medical license exam but nontheless feels his ability to make a positive contribution shouldn't be predicated on a single number sound to you?
What kind of liberal socialist commy pansy talk is that? Government regulation is oppression! Let the invisible hand of the market decide what surgeons are qualified. The incompetent ones will soon be out of business and the good ones won't have the added expense of all that unnecessary regulation. Some patients might die in the process but that's a small price to pay for freedom.
There are plenty of IT "Best Practices" that have been proven useless of just plain wrong. Forcing users to change passwords regularly just trains them to use insecure passwords. Forcing upper and lower case just trains users to always capitalize their password. Forcing numbers & punctuation just trains users to adopt the standard replacements (a = @, e = 3, etc). All of it is just an excuse to blame the victim when a breach inevitably happens.
In rare situations, some Syrians might find Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, or even Iraq to be closer.
Funny that you don't mention Israel in that list of neighbors. The one country that's done the most to destabilize Syria is also the one that's done nothing to help.
Is it really climate that drives people from Somalia or Bangladesh? Or is it instead the fact those countries are pretty unstable and people want to get to a more stable area?
Yes, but those countries are relatively more stable when climate (and thus food production) are closer to historical norms. Instability drives migration, but food shortages drive instability and climate drives food shortages.
HCF was just OK, I can see why it didn't pick up a lot of viewers. It was more about the emergence of tech and what that meant to more traditional companies
Translation: It was about the Gen-Xers that created tech, but Millennials aren't interested in anything that happened before 2010 when they started working.
Amazon let me order size 6 shoes even though I'm a size 10 wide! Don't they know I could injure my toes? Do they know they are stealing money from the poor shoe salespeople who are specially trained to measure my feet and make sure I get exactly the right size?
While that's true for the news sites, it's also true for Google as well. If Google can turn traffic into profits, the news sites should be able to as well.
The U.N.-backed study published Wednesday calculates that the amount of e-waste thrown away in 2016 included a million tons of chargers alone.
That's not necessarily all bad. Those older chargers (big wall warts that get warm when charging) wasted a lot of energy. The new small ones are much more efficient.
This confidence rests on the fact that ISPs highly value the open internet and the principles of net neutrality, much more than some animated activists would have you think. Why? For one, because it's a better way of making money than a closed internet.
Unfortunately, corporations can't be trusted to do the right thing, even when it is in their own best interest. CEOs are so focused on short-term gains that they will frequently do things that hurt their own long-term money making ability. A closed internet means more control (and thus lower risks). even if the future rewards are less than with an open internet. They would rather have 100% of a small pie than a small slice of a much larger pie.
Since the military will likely be a major user of AI, don't count on government implementing robotics law #1 (at least not without carving out an exemption for themselves).
That nice, but I can replace the battery on my Motorola G5 in 10 seconds with no tools but my fingers, no instructions from sketchy people on the internet and (most importantly) NOT VOIDING MY WARRANTY.
The solution to automation is not to do it. "Because we can doesn't mean we should".
Easy to say, not so easy to do. Once someone starts, everyone will need to do it to stay competitive. We've been trying (unsuccessfully) for the last 70 years to put the atomic genie back in the bottle and it's only gotten worse. Same with genetic engineering and bioweapons, and those are things that threaten life on this planet, not just the economy.
It seems to me that people have already accepted arbitrary levels of surveillance to their personal lives. What's one more?
There is a limit that the majority will no longer accept. Google Glass (a mobile, face-recognizing, video-recording device) was one that enough people pushed back against that it got canned.
No, it results in more diverse code. The mostly-white, mostly-male, mostly-young, mostly-upper-middleclass, mostly-Apple-using coders of Silicon Valley produce products that serve their own needs (and the needs of people like them) very well, but that doesn't represent the needs of the country (or world) as a whole.
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At one time, companies would actually do on-the-job training to fill these kinds of positions. The employee was grateful for the opportunity and would stick with the company. The company would realize the investment they had made in the employee and keep them around. After decades of down-sizing, out-sourcing and job-hopping; I guess there's not enough trust on either side for that to work now.
What kind of liberal socialist commy pansy talk is that? Government regulation is oppression! Let the invisible hand of the market decide what surgeons are qualified. The incompetent ones will soon be out of business and the good ones won't have the added expense of all that unnecessary regulation. Some patients might die in the process but that's a small price to pay for freedom.
Since when is a home-owners association equivalent to a democratically elected state legislature?
Trump has proven that we can have both at once.
There are plenty of IT "Best Practices" that have been proven useless of just plain wrong. Forcing users to change passwords regularly just trains them to use insecure passwords. Forcing upper and lower case just trains users to always capitalize their password. Forcing numbers & punctuation just trains users to adopt the standard replacements (a = @, e = 3, etc). All of it is just an excuse to blame the victim when a breach inevitably happens.
Funny that you don't mention Israel in that list of neighbors. The one country that's done the most to destabilize Syria is also the one that's done nothing to help.
Yes, but those countries are relatively more stable when climate (and thus food production) are closer to historical norms. Instability drives migration, but food shortages drive instability and climate drives food shortages.
It's the same way I.Q. tests discriminate against conservatives without input on their political beliefs.
Translation: It was about the Gen-Xers that created tech, but Millennials aren't interested in anything that happened before 2010 when they started working.
Grown-ups use the term "Electromagnetic Radiation" since "light" generally refers to the visible portion of the spectrum.
Amazon let me order size 6 shoes even though I'm a size 10 wide! Don't they know I could injure my toes? Do they know they are stealing money from the poor shoe salespeople who are specially trained to measure my feet and make sure I get exactly the right size?
While that's true for the news sites, it's also true for Google as well. If Google can turn traffic into profits, the news sites should be able to as well.
If you have to tell us then obviously you aren't American, didn't Putin teach you that in Russian troll school?
That's not necessarily all bad. Those older chargers (big wall warts that get warm when charging) wasted a lot of energy. The new small ones are much more efficient.
Unfortunately, corporations can't be trusted to do the right thing, even when it is in their own best interest. CEOs are so focused on short-term gains that they will frequently do things that hurt their own long-term money making ability. A closed internet means more control (and thus lower risks). even if the future rewards are less than with an open internet. They would rather have 100% of a small pie than a small slice of a much larger pie.
Since the military will likely be a major user of AI, don't count on government implementing robotics law #1 (at least not without carving out an exemption for themselves).
That nice, but I can replace the battery on my Motorola G5 in 10 seconds with no tools but my fingers, no instructions from sketchy people on the internet and (most importantly) NOT VOIDING MY WARRANTY.
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Both the article and summary state Vint Cerf is the father of the Internet and Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web.
...Because apartments are a finite resource and no one could ever possibly build more of them and increase competition thus lowering prices.
Easy to say, not so easy to do. Once someone starts, everyone will need to do it to stay competitive. We've been trying (unsuccessfully) for the last 70 years to put the atomic genie back in the bottle and it's only gotten worse. Same with genetic engineering and bioweapons, and those are things that threaten life on this planet, not just the economy.
You mean the Republican incompetence at running government is intentional? They may be smarter than I gave them credit for.
There is a limit that the majority will no longer accept. Google Glass (a mobile, face-recognizing, video-recording device) was one that enough people pushed back against that it got canned.
No, it results in more diverse code. The mostly-white, mostly-male, mostly-young, mostly-upper-middleclass, mostly-Apple-using coders of Silicon Valley produce products that serve their own needs (and the needs of people like them) very well, but that doesn't represent the needs of the country (or world) as a whole.