medicine, law, banking, government work, education...
More professionalism and stability and experience makes you more valuable.
Each of those fields have guilds (or unions) that keep the barrier to entry high, so the compensation stays high. For example, the trend for lower-cost routine medicine done by Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and even Pharmacists is being negated by even higher professional requirements. Many of those jobs once only required a Masters, will now require a Doctorate. Thanks to the American Medical Association and doctors' control of state licensing boards, the increase in cost in this area is disregarded under the guise of 'quality'. There was a recent story about a doctor in Oklahoma who used Skype to treat patients, and the state board came down on him hard, not because he caused harm to a patient, but because remote medicine causes harm to their business model.
Lawyers used to have an apprentice system, where one could 'read the law' under another practicing attorney and become a lawyer in one's own right. Now, years of classroom time is required, and courts often won't allow anyone who hasn't taken the Bar Exam to practice law before them, and to even take the exam, law school is required.
Teachers now have educational-specific degree requirements, so even if you have a Masters in your field (for example, mathematics) you cannot teach Algebra 1 to high school students, or often even teach in a classroom at all. Teachers' unions and state boards restrict who can teach, so if you wanted to take a year or two out of your main career path and be a teacher, you can't. Again, under the guise of 'quality'.
So maybe what we need is our own IT Guild, that licenses software developers, sets professional standards, and puts up barriers to entry. If software engineering was held to some of the standards physical engineers have, like safety, security, stability, we'd be able to push for state licensing, and we'd have the ability to say no to poor coding hackjobs our bosses ask for. We could even have a tax on code produced outside of the country, to negate the cost savings of moving projects overseas. I doubt it will happen though, we pay for our freedom with the risks of not having our own IT Guild.
Let's have our great media investigate if this is poor planning...or good planning if once the initial load gets through then they didn't overspend on equipment they don't need.
Or if there is a secret effort by the people who want this to fail to hire botnets and hackers to DDOS it... I wouldn't put it past them.
Would be something to see a considerable amount of traffic going out from Newscorp ip addresses into the healthcare.gov servers.
nothing unusual, aside a few million malformed packets...
That would be an even more stupid idea than Newscorp buying MySpace.
Project Managers can learn giving only minimal time for QA, at the very end of the project, with no time allotted for corrections is bad practice.
I imagine most readers are worried about super-strength people, but on a more practical basis, this could be used to prevent genetic predisposition to disease, like breast cancer gene carriers being able to ensure their child won't be carriers of the gene, or even the mentally ill from passing on genes related to say, schizophrenia.
I really want to slam Slashdot for publishing this story with the reference to autism in it. That is no different from pointing out any other unrelated personal characteristic like race or national origin as part of a news story about a person.
It is disgusting profiling and really does not belong in a reasonable news story.
His lawyer is already bringing it up, as a possible mitigating factor. So slam him and his lawyer for bringing it up, not for Slashdot for providing details you find unfavorable.
If his initials were NSA, would you really be surprised by this?
I can't be the only person who tapes over the camera in my laptop and disables it. Apparently my tin foil hat isn't tight enough, as I haven't unplugged the wires internally yet.
It sounds like George Lucas was never able to fully delegate responsibility for the worlds he created, so he had to be involved with everything. The executives would try to manage him by limiting what they told him in order to get a desired result. That kind of gaming killed their gaming.
I don't know why any sane company would be "spurred by the imminent availability of Windows 8.1" to drop XP. It's much more about XP's end of support on April 8, 2014. We can't have soon-to-be-unpatched boxes and laptops on our network, although I'm sure some will be in hiding past that date (VMs, second systems, etc).
In Massachusetts, one party is completely dominant, to the point that 81% of the House, 90% of the Senate, and the Governor are all from the same party. It doesn't matter which party, this kind of stupidity is rampant in one party states because there is little criticism in most areas of law until after the fact. Utah has similar numbers for the other party, so I imagine the same stupidity happens there.
Software is big business in MA, and one of the few growth areas outside of biotech. Did we want to kill a golden goose?
Playing devil's advocate here, knowing the specific flow of multiple vehicles can help with more specifics of popular routes. Using the across-the-road counters won't do that, and snow plows rip them up, so you can't reliably use them for 1/4 of a year.
I don't know about NYC, but at least outside of Boston, the general trend for road planning isn't for throughput but for traffic-causing "traffic calming" measures, designed to make driving slower and push people to mass transit.
Apple took ideas from Xerox and others, and put them together in a commercially-successful way. Xerox did make some money from Apple's popular work via stock. The Stones took music from black blues musicians and some pop flavor, and found commercially success. The blues musicians did make some money from the Stones' bringing their music into the mainstream.
Steve Jobs got screwed out of his own company after initial success in part by youth and immaturity. The Stones got screwed out of their own pre-1971 copyrights by Allen Klein, and paid "the price of an education."
Apple was sliding into obscurity without Steve Jobs. Neither did as well apart. The Stones were sliding into obscurity in the 80s when Mick Jagger went solo, leaving Keith Richards to play with his own new band. Neither was a great success solo.
Early Apple founder Ronald Wayne is largely forgotten after he sold his share and left. The Stones founding guitarist Brian Jones is largely forgotten after he left the band and died shortly after.
How an unencrypted, largely unregulated band transmissions cannot be considered 'radio communications' that are 'readily accessible' simply makes no sense. If I have a wireless network that is blasting out huge wattage, the FCC would get involved. So it is radio communications, which can be accessed with a $20 wireless card and a generic PC. Not only are our politicians out of touch with technology, but so are the judges they appoint.
You mean the Blackberry device that didn't come with an email app at launch? And doesn't have it's own cell connection, requiring a Blackberry to piggyback off of? The device reeks of 'design by committee'.
The reason for all of this isn't for 'safety' or even revenue, but so those in power can have evidence to screw over who they don't like. Do you think the court is going to care if you are among the majority breaking some minor law? The argument that if the majority ignores a law does not seem to matter, which is pitiful, if one considers the only authority any government has is by the consent of the governed.
Take the highway speed limit in your area, which is almost certainly well below the average speed. They won't get you, usually, unless you exceed the average significantly. But it gives the police the power to pull over almost any vehicle going above the artificially low speed limit. And those that do follow the law will be 'suspicious' by 'failing to follow the prevailing speed'.
Using roadside cameras, they can target anyone. They can use these cameras to tell the average speed of the targeted vehicle, and they could write a ticket for that vehicle each day, remotely and possibly even automatically targeted. It's only a matter of time before automated toll devices (EZ-Pass) are used in this way, already in some areas using these devices gets a discount, so you pay extra either way.
Whether this town is doing this for 'safety', revenue, or some more nefarious reason, I can't tell from the story. The only thing we can do is stay the hell away and not spend our money there. I'm going to put my tinfoil hat back on now.
We need to take a good hard look at how we're treating education. Is college a place where kids can receive a good general education, or are they vocational schools?
Neither. High school is the place to receive a good general education, college is the place to learn about a specific subject area. That our colleges have to provide a general education speaks volumes about our high schools.
The largest reason I don't have cable TV, except for the cost, is that I cannot choose what channels I pay for. By only having tiered packages available, I cannot avoid having my money going to things I don't watch or find repugnant. I simply don't want my money going to Fox News, MSNBC, MTV, or the flavors of ESPN.
The major content creators (Viacom, Disney, Fox, etc) force cable companies to bundle their offerings, so if you want something popular (say, Nickelodeon) you also end up with the second rate crap or worse (Nick at Nite, CMT, etc). It's very anti-consumer, but no politician wants to get on the bad side of media.
One even more morally disgusting thing is that the NFL can blackout games in taxpayer-funded stadiums. I'm curious if this happens in other countries with football/soccer or other sports?
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Each of those fields have guilds (or unions) that keep the barrier to entry high, so the compensation stays high. For example, the trend for lower-cost routine medicine done by Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and even Pharmacists is being negated by even higher professional requirements. Many of those jobs once only required a Masters, will now require a Doctorate. Thanks to the American Medical Association and doctors' control of state licensing boards, the increase in cost in this area is disregarded under the guise of 'quality'. There was a recent story about a doctor in Oklahoma who used Skype to treat patients, and the state board came down on him hard, not because he caused harm to a patient, but because remote medicine causes harm to their business model.
Lawyers used to have an apprentice system, where one could 'read the law' under another practicing attorney and become a lawyer in one's own right. Now, years of classroom time is required, and courts often won't allow anyone who hasn't taken the Bar Exam to practice law before them, and to even take the exam, law school is required.
Teachers now have educational-specific degree requirements, so even if you have a Masters in your field (for example, mathematics) you cannot teach Algebra 1 to high school students, or often even teach in a classroom at all. Teachers' unions and state boards restrict who can teach, so if you wanted to take a year or two out of your main career path and be a teacher, you can't. Again, under the guise of 'quality'.
So maybe what we need is our own IT Guild, that licenses software developers, sets professional standards, and puts up barriers to entry. If software engineering was held to some of the standards physical engineers have, like safety, security, stability, we'd be able to push for state licensing, and we'd have the ability to say no to poor coding hackjobs our bosses ask for. We could even have a tax on code produced outside of the country, to negate the cost savings of moving projects overseas. I doubt it will happen though, we pay for our freedom with the risks of not having our own IT Guild.
How did you determine the best game speed for WarCraft? Do you feel the increased speed in the sequels detracts from the strategy element?
That would be an even more stupid idea than Newscorp buying MySpace.
Project Managers can learn giving only minimal time for QA, at the very end of the project, with no time allotted for corrections is bad practice.
Is anyone surprised that a company that is already battered by a poor security reputation would be compromised in this way?
That they are doing their own billing isn't surprising considering their size, but not a place I'd put a personal card number.
No. A single incident without a fatality is rarely a cause for such panic unless this is hyped by those opposed to electric cars.
'Eugenics' is a poisoned word, if they go that way it will surely be called something else.
I imagine most readers are worried about super-strength people, but on a more practical basis, this could be used to prevent genetic predisposition to disease, like breast cancer gene carriers being able to ensure their child won't be carriers of the gene, or even the mentally ill from passing on genes related to say, schizophrenia.
But loves garden gnomes.
His lawyer is already bringing it up, as a possible mitigating factor. So slam him and his lawyer for bringing it up, not for Slashdot for providing details you find unfavorable.
If his initials were NSA, would you really be surprised by this?
I can't be the only person who tapes over the camera in my laptop and disables it. Apparently my tin foil hat isn't tight enough, as I haven't unplugged the wires internally yet.
Amazing they would kill completed games.
It sounds like George Lucas was never able to fully delegate responsibility for the worlds he created, so he had to be involved with everything. The executives would try to manage him by limiting what they told him in order to get a desired result. That kind of gaming killed their gaming.
Pale Moon is a Firefox variant that largely keeps a traditional browser layout and has the latest security patches. It works with the few plugins I use, including NoScript.
It's still a better design than rows of generic gray or beige cubes.
I don't know why any sane company would be "spurred by the imminent availability of Windows 8.1" to drop XP. It's much more about XP's end of support on April 8, 2014. We can't have soon-to-be-unpatched boxes and laptops on our network, although I'm sure some will be in hiding past that date (VMs, second systems, etc).
In Massachusetts, one party is completely dominant, to the point that 81% of the House, 90% of the Senate, and the Governor are all from the same party. It doesn't matter which party, this kind of stupidity is rampant in one party states because there is little criticism in most areas of law until after the fact. Utah has similar numbers for the other party, so I imagine the same stupidity happens there.
Software is big business in MA, and one of the few growth areas outside of biotech. Did we want to kill a golden goose?
Traffic counters like the Traf-O-Data? :)
Playing devil's advocate here, knowing the specific flow of multiple vehicles can help with more specifics of popular routes. Using the across-the-road counters won't do that, and snow plows rip them up, so you can't reliably use them for 1/4 of a year.
I don't know about NYC, but at least outside of Boston, the general trend for road planning isn't for throughput but for traffic-causing "traffic calming" measures, designed to make driving slower and push people to mass transit.
Apple took ideas from Xerox and others, and put them together in a commercially-successful way. Xerox did make some money from Apple's popular work via stock.
The Stones took music from black blues musicians and some pop flavor, and found commercially success. The blues musicians did make some money from the Stones' bringing their music into the mainstream.
Steve Jobs got screwed out of his own company after initial success in part by youth and immaturity.
The Stones got screwed out of their own pre-1971 copyrights by Allen Klein, and paid "the price of an education."
Apple was sliding into obscurity without Steve Jobs. Neither did as well apart.
The Stones were sliding into obscurity in the 80s when Mick Jagger went solo, leaving Keith Richards to play with his own new band. Neither was a great success solo.
Early Apple founder Ronald Wayne is largely forgotten after he sold his share and left.
The Stones founding guitarist Brian Jones is largely forgotten after he left the band and died shortly after.
Is Google getting hit with this because they asked for an open, public hearing with another court so that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court could be publicly debated? Seems like the deck is stacked against them.
How an unencrypted, largely unregulated band transmissions cannot be considered 'radio communications' that are 'readily accessible' simply makes no sense. If I have a wireless network that is blasting out huge wattage, the FCC would get involved. So it is radio communications, which can be accessed with a $20 wireless card and a generic PC. Not only are our politicians out of touch with technology, but so are the judges they appoint.
Can't tell if you're serious or not, but we live in a 3D reality, are you really worried 3D is going to hurt their vision?
How much longer before genetic engineering gives us humans the night vision many of our fellow mammals have?
Does this mean the HuffPost won't be posting stories or pieces that quote anonymous sources "close to the situation"?
You mean the Blackberry device that didn't come with an email app at launch? And doesn't have it's own cell connection, requiring a Blackberry to piggyback off of? The device reeks of 'design by committee'.
The reason for all of this isn't for 'safety' or even revenue, but so those in power can have evidence to screw over who they don't like. Do you think the court is going to care if you are among the majority breaking some minor law? The argument that if the majority ignores a law does not seem to matter, which is pitiful, if one considers the only authority any government has is by the consent of the governed.
Take the highway speed limit in your area, which is almost certainly well below the average speed. They won't get you, usually, unless you exceed the average significantly. But it gives the police the power to pull over almost any vehicle going above the artificially low speed limit. And those that do follow the law will be 'suspicious' by 'failing to follow the prevailing speed'.
Using roadside cameras, they can target anyone. They can use these cameras to tell the average speed of the targeted vehicle, and they could write a ticket for that vehicle each day, remotely and possibly even automatically targeted. It's only a matter of time before automated toll devices (EZ-Pass) are used in this way, already in some areas using these devices gets a discount, so you pay extra either way.
Whether this town is doing this for 'safety', revenue, or some more nefarious reason, I can't tell from the story. The only thing we can do is stay the hell away and not spend our money there. I'm going to put my tinfoil hat back on now.
Neither. High school is the place to receive a good general education, college is the place to learn about a specific subject area. That our colleges have to provide a general education speaks volumes about our high schools.
The largest reason I don't have cable TV, except for the cost, is that I cannot choose what channels I pay for. By only having tiered packages available, I cannot avoid having my money going to things I don't watch or find repugnant. I simply don't want my money going to Fox News, MSNBC, MTV, or the flavors of ESPN.
The major content creators (Viacom, Disney, Fox, etc) force cable companies to bundle their offerings, so if you want something popular (say, Nickelodeon) you also end up with the second rate crap or worse (Nick at Nite, CMT, etc). It's very anti-consumer, but no politician wants to get on the bad side of media.
One even more morally disgusting thing is that the NFL can blackout games in taxpayer-funded stadiums. I'm curious if this happens in other countries with football/soccer or other sports?