There is absolutely no shortage of qualified workers. There is shortage of corporate responsibility.
With corporations already shed responsibility for retirement and education they are now trying to shed responsibility for on-job job-specific training.
As a veteran of a tech sector, I had to escape into consulting/regulation side exactly because of this phenomena.
You are expected to upgrade/maintain your qualifications without any kind of time/money allowance from the employer, but then most corporations would not promote from within, so you are stuck at the same wage level. Then when you finally leave to get your promotion they expect to hire someone with exact qualifications you had, never mind the fact that you left because they didn't pay you enough.
Culture of promoting from within and investing in on-job training has to come back. You can't expect to perpetually suppress wages, not invest into your workers and have people willing to do it. Eventually people figure out this is bad field to work in and jump the ship.
I disagree. I remember when I was using DOS with Volkov Commander, then tried Window 3.0 and was blown away. That was radical UI change, and I never went back unless I had to, like to deal with 64K issues.
I admit, I am one of the last few ideologues in PC gaming. I would never consider AMD graphic card due to shitty drivers and I would never consider Intel CPU due to socket shenanigans. Yes, I am actually one of the rare few people who upgrades CPUs and cares about socket backwards comparability.
My current gaming rig uses Zambezi 8-core AMD CPU, still adequate but it shows its age. I am disappointed AMD hasn't come up with an upgrade, but I can wait.
My last gaming rig lasted me over 4 years and going. I started with Athlon X2 end ended with Phenom II X4. It is still in use as a media PC, and still capable of gaming.
Maybe it is dumb luck, but every AMD chip I had was running cool, overclocked well and lasted. Every Intel chip I owned didn't overclock well and had problems staying cool.
I don't see any kind of integration beneficial to Slashdot readers. Warts and all, we are a community and any "integration" is an attempt to turn us into a commodity.
Love 2002, much better than 1 and 3 series cars offered today.
I own multiple classic cars, but for your typical "must start every morning" commute use they are not practical. Plus, you have to be technically inclined or filthy rich to keep them on the road.
If you are kind of person that never changed their own oil - classic/vintage cars are not for you.
Cars are expected to last at least 10 years, many last much longer, well into mid 20s.
Such timescales are 'forever' in the sense of IT security. Just look at 'recent' examples - WEP was rolled out around 2000 and is now broken in just a couple minutes. Most cars made in 2000 are still on the road.
I'd go as far as saying that it is impossible to secure your car for its expected useful life without the use of physical security.
Damage is already done, now decision makers will have bias toward expecting false positives and would not trust any system like this.
As to keeping people safe, I don't see how you could contain release of weaponized virulent infection even if you detect it early on. Fortunately, at least for now, such weapon is extremely rare and not something you could cook up in a third-world Jihadist lab.
Technology is actually advancing at the accelerated rate, but to advance any given established area would take exponentially more effort, with each consecutive breakthrough taking more time. On top of that many innovations are limited by available energy sources, that is with denser and more available energy we will be able to do more at the existing level of technology. Unfortunately we are nowhere near close to matching, less beating, energy density of oil-derived products.
Some fields will appear to advance more quickly, but that is because they are newer fields with still enough low-hanging fruit.
Because of the time scales mentioned above, space ship capable traveling to nearest start would be incapable of supporting life. That is it will have to reconstruct life on the arrival and travel completely dormant.
As a civilization we do have enough time before estimated heat death of our universe to visit even most distant corner of the galaxy. With that said, every trip will be one-way, by the time "we" (whatever form it takes) arrive anywhere original civilization will be long since gone.
As a result multi-star civilization is extremely unlikely, you could have a civilization existing on multiple stars, just not at the same time. With this realization humanity's energy should be directed toward a) fully utilizing our system b) fully utilizing energy of the sun c) fully utilizing matter in our system. Only after all of this is achieved does it make sense to fire one-way, never-heard-back-from seeds at the stars.
Making airplanes isn't about technology, it is all about regulation and certification of components and complete product. Open sourcing wont help you with that.
I am not a web developer, and haven't worked as one since dot com (doh, first one in the 90s, not the social media meltdown that going on right now) bubble. Back then you could make a clear case that java was absolutely necessary.
What about today? Can we do without it? I run with no-script on all the time, and only occasionally have to enable something, it hardly ever breaks web pages these days.
Point I was trying to make is that until we centralized and aggregated spam-fighting, the problem of not getting spam looked unresolvable. I still remember my e-mailbox from late 90s...
This reminds me of an old SF idea that true AI would emerge from escalation of spam bots vs. spam filters. Thankfully I haven't seen spam in a long while, all it took is selling my privacy down the google river.
Now explain to me why dedicated machine only used for banking would need to keep flash, PDF reader and vulnerabilities fixed on next-day kind of schedule? Now let me assure, I don't bank with Nigerian princes, so twice a year cumulative security update seems reasonable to me.
You might disagree with me, but it is undeniable that silent updates attempt to take away freedom of such choice as to when to upgrade away from me.
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There is absolutely no shortage of qualified workers. There is shortage of corporate responsibility.
With corporations already shed responsibility for retirement and education they are now trying to shed responsibility for on-job job-specific training.
As a veteran of a tech sector, I had to escape into consulting/regulation side exactly because of this phenomena.
You are expected to upgrade/maintain your qualifications without any kind of time/money allowance from the employer, but then most corporations would not promote from within, so you are stuck at the same wage level. Then when you finally leave to get your promotion they expect to hire someone with exact qualifications you had, never mind the fact that you left because they didn't pay you enough.
Culture of promoting from within and investing in on-job training has to come back. You can't expect to perpetually suppress wages, not invest into your workers and have people willing to do it. Eventually people figure out this is bad field to work in and jump the ship.
If you send death threats to yourself, and your email gets intercepted and flagged, can you get charged?
I'd consider it a birth-defect, and sadly your only choice is a prosthetic neck-beard.
>>> If I kill you by accident, that is alright then?
No, but I don't expect you will get charged with premeditated murder. Intention matters.
I disagree. I remember when I was using DOS with Volkov Commander, then tried Window 3.0 and was blown away. That was radical UI change, and I never went back unless I had to, like to deal with 64K issues.
I admit, I am one of the last few ideologues in PC gaming. I would never consider AMD graphic card due to shitty drivers and I would never consider Intel CPU due to socket shenanigans. Yes, I am actually one of the rare few people who upgrades CPUs and cares about socket backwards comparability.
My current gaming rig uses Zambezi 8-core AMD CPU, still adequate but it shows its age. I am disappointed AMD hasn't come up with an upgrade, but I can wait.
My last gaming rig lasted me over 4 years and going. I started with Athlon X2 end ended with Phenom II X4. It is still in use as a media PC, and still capable of gaming.
Maybe it is dumb luck, but every AMD chip I had was running cool, overclocked well and lasted. Every Intel chip I owned didn't overclock well and had problems staying cool.
Sadly Information Security is now more about offloading liability and then seeking damages than actually delivering secure solutions.
They keep showing me adds for 127.0.0.1, but I can't seem to find where to by this great product. Anyone has any idea?
This is why we are getting unending stream of FBI agents, bill collectors, and brides abandoned at the altar streaming to out home! Damn you!
Well, hopefully, the premium comes from not having completely locked-down system. Oh wait, it runs Win8, never mind...
I don't see any kind of integration beneficial to Slashdot readers. Warts and all, we are a community and any "integration" is an attempt to turn us into a commodity.
Love 2002, much better than 1 and 3 series cars offered today.
I own multiple classic cars, but for your typical "must start every morning" commute use they are not practical. Plus, you have to be technically inclined or filthy rich to keep them on the road.
If you are kind of person that never changed their own oil - classic/vintage cars are not for you.
Cars are expected to last at least 10 years, many last much longer, well into mid 20s.
Such timescales are 'forever' in the sense of IT security. Just look at 'recent' examples - WEP was rolled out around 2000 and is now broken in just a couple minutes. Most cars made in 2000 are still on the road.
I'd go as far as saying that it is impossible to secure your car for its expected useful life without the use of physical security.
Damage is already done, now decision makers will have bias toward expecting false positives and would not trust any system like this.
As to keeping people safe, I don't see how you could contain release of weaponized virulent infection even if you detect it early on. Fortunately, at least for now, such weapon is extremely rare and not something you could cook up in a third-world Jihadist lab.
Diminishing returns.
Technology is actually advancing at the accelerated rate, but to advance any given established area would take exponentially more effort, with each consecutive breakthrough taking more time. On top of that many innovations are limited by available energy sources, that is with denser and more available energy we will be able to do more at the existing level of technology. Unfortunately we are nowhere near close to matching, less beating, energy density of oil-derived products.
Some fields will appear to advance more quickly, but that is because they are newer fields with still enough low-hanging fruit.
Because of the time scales mentioned above, space ship capable traveling to nearest start would be incapable of supporting life. That is it will have to reconstruct life on the arrival and travel completely dormant.
As a civilization we do have enough time before estimated heat death of our universe to visit even most distant corner of the galaxy. With that said, every trip will be one-way, by the time "we" (whatever form it takes) arrive anywhere original civilization will be long since gone.
As a result multi-star civilization is extremely unlikely, you could have a civilization existing on multiple stars, just not at the same time. With this realization humanity's energy should be directed toward a) fully utilizing our system b) fully utilizing energy of the sun c) fully utilizing matter in our system. Only after all of this is achieved does it make sense to fire one-way, never-heard-back-from seeds at the stars.
Making airplanes isn't about technology, it is all about regulation and certification of components and complete product. Open sourcing wont help you with that.
Lawsuits and probably retaliatory banning of itunes from all Win devices. MS isn't some shoestring app. developer.
I am not a web developer, and haven't worked as one since dot com (doh, first one in the 90s, not the social media meltdown that going on right now) bubble. Back then you could make a clear case that java was absolutely necessary.
What about today? Can we do without it? I run with no-script on all the time, and only occasionally have to enable something, it hardly ever breaks web pages these days.
I am observant Hedonist, and I am glad that science finally stopped this assault on my religious freedoms.
Point I was trying to make is that until we centralized and aggregated spam-fighting, the problem of not getting spam looked unresolvable. I still remember my e-mailbox from late 90s...
Interesting read.
This reminds me of an old SF idea that true AI would emerge from escalation of spam bots vs. spam filters. Thankfully I haven't seen spam in a long while, all it took is selling my privacy down the google river.
All well-meaning advice is appreciated.
Now explain to me why dedicated machine only used for banking would need to keep flash, PDF reader and vulnerabilities fixed on next-day kind of schedule? Now let me assure, I don't bank with Nigerian princes, so twice a year cumulative security update seems reasonable to me.
You might disagree with me, but it is undeniable that silent updates attempt to take away freedom of such choice as to when to upgrade away from me.
Perhaps, but was long-lasting shit and by the end of it I developed acquired taste.
I guess I have a lot of inertia.