And a mere 10 years from now, the number of ex-truckers employed in VR (cool software made by a few highly educated people and cheap hardware made by Chinese robots), electric vehicles (aka cars - we make them now, mostly with robots), smart phones (cheap hardware made by Chinese robot again) and data analytics (a handful of highly educated people assisted by software) will be so small as to be practically non-existent.
"The jobs crisis we have in the U.S. is that we don't have enough workers,"
Oh, bullshit. The jobs crisis you have in the Bay Area tech bubble may be that you don't have enough workers (who are under 30, with Stanford CS degrees, and don't mind 95 hour work weeks and living 8 to an apartment), but the jobs crisis the rest of the country has is that the market wage for someone who graduated from high school 20-30 years ago and didn't finish college or reach master status in a trade is rapidly approaching zero.
Most of us have come to accept that black hats will never be punished, because on the internet it's very easy to involve multiple unfriendly countries in a crime, and when you put American and Russian agents on the same case it's very hard to get them to stop playing "my country has the biggest dick therefore I'm in charge" and start cooperating to catch the black hat. There's a subtle difference.
Because if you buy a TV for picture quality and non-smart features (4k, deep color, whatever), you'll probably end up with 'smart' just because it's the default now. 'Dumb' is getting hard to find in the middle market segment, it's either $10k audiophile grade nonsense, or $199 Walmart specials that aren't 'smart' because they're still using a chipset from 2008.
If only computing devices had some sort of a virtual pointer... One could use a dedicated peripheral to position this "pointer" over the green, underlined IFTT in the article summary. One could then press a button on the controller for this "pointer" and have a document describing exactly what the hell "IFTT" stands for and what the "If this, then that" service it refers to does delivered to them.
This is the USPTO we're talking about here. Instant messaging services and Node.js libraries probably both fall under a category like "Products and services pertaining to computers, electronic calculators, magnetic or paper tapes, teletypes, slide rules, and abacuses"...
Python is like BASIC: It allows a lay person to build a 90% working tool in less time than it would take to build a consensus on what type of muffins should be at the kickoff meeting for the project to develop a requirements document for the 100% solution, and that irritates a certain type of IT people the same way PCs with BASIC irritated mainframe programmers.
A mobile i5 from 2012, with half as many cores, running at half the clock speed, probably at half the voltage of the Athlon.
You're benching Intel's 17 watt netbook CPU from 2012 versus AMD's 95 watt underdesk spaceheater from 2010, and think that's a good thing for AMD when they nearly tie?
Or they thought having an SLA for refills meant their fuel trucks get through... even when trees/power lines/National Guard soldiers are blocking the road.
Those trying to influence somebody with a good one will have the tricks of a modern mentalist: perfect recall, suggestions for how to curry favor, ease maintaining friendships and influencing strangers
Information is power, think before handing too much of it over to the marketing dudebros.
They also don't try to change velocity, or emit EM radiation to sense what's around them, or even emit waste from a power source. If one of those objects lit up a RADAR looking for rocks crossing their path, or fired a thruster big enough to bring an aircraft carrier size craft into Earth orbit, somebody would notice in a big hurry.
So you can share every movement and temperature fluctuation with your friends on panterest, obviously!
I bought the "Bobby Flay filter" through in-pan purchase, so it always looks like I'm doing something with steak and blue corn and ancho chiles, even when it's really just mac & cheese from a box.
Dear US military and federal contracting wanker-sphere, I know you were 30 years late discovering this whole internet thing, so imagery and phrases from 1980s cyberpunk still sound super-duper-cutting-edge to you, but can you please stop using "cyber" as a catch-all for everything connected to computers? Thanks.
PS: When you leave a laptop full of citizen's private information on the bus, and a million people's social security numbers turn up on pastebin the next day, that's called "negligence" not "a cyberattack".
An app can hardly be less secure than the current system. Knowing the target's name and room number is all it takes to "hack" most hotel locks - just ask the front desk clerk to make you a new key!
That only worked because the people harmed by having their satellite cards bricked were willfully infringing DirecTV's copyrights, and suing DTV for frying their smartcards would be admitting it in court. At absolute best the pirates might get triple actual damages, but 3x the cost of a smartcard is next to nothing, and then the counter-suits would have been a slam dunk for DTV to win $750,000 statutory damages from each of them.
If FTDI wants to use that strategy they're going to have to contend that every end-user of a device with a counterfeit FTDI chip knew it was fake. Doesn't sound plausible to me, but the US courts are generally tech-idiotic so I suppose it's not entirely impossible.
They're also playing the class-action lawsuit lottery.
In fact, it might be worth the $5 to buy one of those cheap shit USB-to-serial adapters, let them brick it, and hope the settlement is that they have to give everyone affected a genuine FTDI one...
The average user isn't going to have (or be able to write) a secure random word selector. He's going to look at the "new password" field and think up 4 words, and they're almost certain to be related somehow.
The hash of "rrrybgdts" is going to be cracked in half a second with the right ruleset. Passphrases don't help the root problem, that "memorable" implies low-entropy.
And taxing fuel at a higher rate instead of this CAFE silliness. But that's never going to happen because if we know one thing about economics in America it's that all taxes are always bad.
So they're just like the 1970s cartoons with one real animator and an army of terrible inbetweeners that you're getting nostalgic for, but with more accurate color...
They didn't stop, but they did make it opt-in. If something crashes and you click "Close the program and check with Microsoft for a solution", it still beams the core dump up to the Redmond mothership.
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And a mere 10 years from now, the number of ex-truckers employed in VR (cool software made by a few highly educated people and cheap hardware made by Chinese robots), electric vehicles (aka cars - we make them now, mostly with robots), smart phones (cheap hardware made by Chinese robot again) and data analytics (a handful of highly educated people assisted by software) will be so small as to be practically non-existent.
"The jobs crisis we have in the U.S. is that we don't have enough workers,"
Oh, bullshit. The jobs crisis you have in the Bay Area tech bubble may be that you don't have enough workers (who are under 30, with Stanford CS degrees, and don't mind 95 hour work weeks and living 8 to an apartment), but the jobs crisis the rest of the country has is that the market wage for someone who graduated from high school 20-30 years ago and didn't finish college or reach master status in a trade is rapidly approaching zero.
Most of us have come to accept that black hats will never be punished, because on the internet it's very easy to involve multiple unfriendly countries in a crime, and when you put American and Russian agents on the same case it's very hard to get them to stop playing "my country has the biggest dick therefore I'm in charge" and start cooperating to catch the black hat. There's a subtle difference.
Because if you buy a TV for picture quality and non-smart features (4k, deep color, whatever), you'll probably end up with 'smart' just because it's the default now. 'Dumb' is getting hard to find in the middle market segment, it's either $10k audiophile grade nonsense, or $199 Walmart specials that aren't 'smart' because they're still using a chipset from 2008.
If only computing devices had some sort of a virtual pointer... One could use a dedicated peripheral to position this "pointer" over the green, underlined IFTT in the article summary. One could then press a button on the controller for this "pointer" and have a document describing exactly what the hell "IFTT" stands for and what the "If this, then that" service it refers to does delivered to them.
But alas, it is futile dream.
This is the USPTO we're talking about here. Instant messaging services and Node.js libraries probably both fall under a category like "Products and services pertaining to computers, electronic calculators, magnetic or paper tapes, teletypes, slide rules, and abacuses"...
Python is like BASIC: It allows a lay person to build a 90% working tool in less time than it would take to build a consensus on what type of muffins should be at the kickoff meeting for the project to develop a requirements document for the 100% solution, and that irritates a certain type of IT people the same way PCs with BASIC irritated mainframe programmers.
You're right. Notebook, not netbook.
Still it's a long way from benchmarking AMD's enthusiast desktop chip versus Intel's enthusiast desktop chip.
A mobile i5 from 2012, with half as many cores, running at half the clock speed, probably at half the voltage of the Athlon.
You're benching Intel's 17 watt netbook CPU from 2012 versus AMD's 95 watt underdesk spaceheater from 2010, and think that's a good thing for AMD when they nearly tie?
Or they thought having an SLA for refills meant their fuel trucks get through... even when trees/power lines/National Guard soldiers are blocking the road.
Those trying to influence somebody with a good one will have the tricks of a modern mentalist: perfect recall, suggestions for how to curry favor, ease maintaining friendships and influencing strangers
Information is power, think before handing too much of it over to the marketing dudebros.
They also don't try to change velocity, or emit EM radiation to sense what's around them, or even emit waste from a power source. If one of those objects lit up a RADAR looking for rocks crossing their path, or fired a thruster big enough to bring an aircraft carrier size craft into Earth orbit, somebody would notice in a big hurry.
So you can share every movement and temperature fluctuation with your friends on panterest, obviously!
I bought the "Bobby Flay filter" through in-pan purchase, so it always looks like I'm doing something with steak and blue corn and ancho chiles, even when it's really just mac & cheese from a box.
Dear US military and federal contracting wanker-sphere,
I know you were 30 years late discovering this whole internet thing, so imagery and phrases from 1980s cyberpunk still sound super-duper-cutting-edge to you, but can you please stop using "cyber" as a catch-all for everything connected to computers? Thanks.
PS: When you leave a laptop full of citizen's private information on the bus, and a million people's social security numbers turn up on pastebin the next day, that's called "negligence" not "a cyberattack".
An app can hardly be less secure than the current system. Knowing the target's name and room number is all it takes to "hack" most hotel locks - just ask the front desk clerk to make you a new key!
That only worked because the people harmed by having their satellite cards bricked were willfully infringing DirecTV's copyrights, and suing DTV for frying their smartcards would be admitting it in court. At absolute best the pirates might get triple actual damages, but 3x the cost of a smartcard is next to nothing, and then the counter-suits would have been a slam dunk for DTV to win $750,000 statutory damages from each of them.
If FTDI wants to use that strategy they're going to have to contend that every end-user of a device with a counterfeit FTDI chip knew it was fake. Doesn't sound plausible to me, but the US courts are generally tech-idiotic so I suppose it's not entirely impossible.
They're also playing the class-action lawsuit lottery.
In fact, it might be worth the $5 to buy one of those cheap shit USB-to-serial adapters, let them brick it, and hope the settlement is that they have to give everyone affected a genuine FTDI one...
The average user isn't going to have (or be able to write) a secure random word selector. He's going to look at the "new password" field and think up 4 words, and they're almost certain to be related somehow.
The hash of "rrrybgdts" is going to be cracked in half a second with the right ruleset. Passphrases don't help the root problem, that "memorable" implies low-entropy.
All you have, less the costs you impose on others through pollution, use of state services, etc.
We *should* be using L/100km, like everyone else.
And taxing fuel at a higher rate instead of this CAFE silliness. But that's never going to happen because if we know one thing about economics in America it's that all taxes are always bad.
They mandate a whopping three hours a week (oh! tyranny!), and that law has been in effect since 1990.
So they're just like the 1970s cartoons with one real animator and an army of terrible inbetweeners that you're getting nostalgic for, but with more accurate color...
They didn't stop, but they did make it opt-in. If something crashes and you click "Close the program and check with Microsoft for a solution", it still beams the core dump up to the Redmond mothership.
Well, shit. That's what I get for not ssh-ing into a Mac to check.