Will this work for people sending messages to other random people? Probably not. But imagine a corporation deploying this system to all of their computers. Suddenly, the boss can tell their employees to do unethical things, make illegal threats, and so on without any chance that the FBI is suddenly going to show up and arrest him with evidence of his misdeeds.
>what kind of idiot waves a pole around when moving at nontrivial speed near walls, beams, etc. that the pole can catch on?
Narcissists, that's who. And unfortunately, they are becoming more common. People these days are incredibly entitled, and it's not the younger generations, it's everyone.
>because a shot gun will go through walls but often not be deadly a few feet away from the wall on the other side where a bullet can go through multiple walls and remain deadly depending on the gun
Nope, you're wrong. Please do research before spewing this myth.
Because, in many cases, the banks crammed these loans down the throats of anyone and everyone they could find. Banks didn't give a fuck if you couldn't make the payments, they just kept issuing loans. They would lie to people about how much they would really cost or what an "interest only" mortgage really meant. Please don't pretend that the banks didn't have a large hand in causing this.
It's the same problem that's created the bubble we're in right now. Interest rates are so low that it's basically free money, so of course housing prices have skyrocketed in response. Once interest rates rise, prices will plummet down to a reasonable level, and a crapload of people will find themselves underwater on their mortgages overnight. Then come the homeowners defaulting on their loans, then come the government bailing out the banks with taxpayer money, and so on.
The summary sounds like it was written by a retarded monkey that had a stroke halfway through the paragraph. The blog post (not article) isn't any better.
Don't worry, they'll be sure to either quietly reduce this requirement, or to approve a 5G-USA spec that will allow telecoms to provide terrible speeds.
If by "respond" you mean "throw a temper tantrum because they can't hate fat people" then yes, users have "responded" to the decision to remove a few subreddits from reddit.
Nope. His system just applies a blur filter to the video and strips the audio. He hasn't done anything that a very small script couldn't have done. In fact, most programs commercially available for body cams (usually used by private security in malls and such to avoid lawsuits) have an option to do exactly that already. This guy is getting paid for doing zero useful work.
His "solution" is to blur everything, yes literally *everything*. The entire video is blurred so that you can't make out faces, which makes sense, but you also can't make out guns, weapons, street signs, small movements of hands, clothing, etc. Depending on the light, you often can't even tell the difference between a police officer and a trash can. It's worthless for any practical purpose.
This guy literally got a job to do nothing other than to copy data from a camera to a server and to post a public copy with blur filter applied to the whole thing. There's no face detection to selectively blur faces, there's no intelligence or any kind of special algorithm applied whatsoever. It's fucking stupid.
No researcher would be so reckless as to actually screw with an airplane's engines mid-flight. The fact that the FBI alleges that he did means that they know damn well they have nothing to do on, but need to paint this guy as a terrorist in order to save themselves looking like idiots for arresting a guy based on a single twitter message.
The only jobs that are "offshore-proof" are jobs that require a *very* high security clearance and can't be done by non-citizens for reasons of law and national security or jobs that literally cannot be done from a remote location, such as janitorial work. So, you have to either be the absolute top in your field or switch to menial labor.
Or, and I know this might sound ridiculous if you buy into right-wing politics, you could actually support politicians, laws, and unions that work towards ensuring that every American has a good paying job and that penalize companies for sending jobs out of the country.
Oh bullshit. If there's no right to employment then how do we have the responsibility to pay in order to live? You can either give people a right to employment and a right to be able to support themselves, or you have to give people a responsibility to pay for those who are denied work. You can't have it both ways. I prefer the former, although there are arguments for the latter as well. But this attitude that we can refuse to employ people and then get upset when they can't afford to live is just asinine.
There's also a loophole. You just transfer the skilled American to a "non-technical" position a day before you let them go. Yeah, maybe you can battle it in court, but good fucking luck hiring an attorney to battle a huge corporation when you have no job.
Actually, no. A common tactic is to take out a classified ad in a low-circulation newspaper. The ad is, of course, poorly written and looks like a scam. (Generally accepted practice is to run it in two news papers one day per week for two weeks) This is to reduce the chances of an American applying to the position. After all, what professional actually reads the classified ads? None that I can think of. And writing the ad poorly and like a scam is designed to dissuade any professional from calling about the job even if they happened to somehow stumble across it.
Nevertheless, sometimes an American will respond to the ad, which is where the "qualifications" section comes in. The company will publish a laundry list of qualifications that no one has. sometimes they'll demand more years of experience with a particular piece of software than the piece of software has been in existence for. (e.g. 10 years experience with Windows 8). More frequently, they'll just chain together arbitrary pieces of software that are totally unrelated. This allows them to trash the applications of any Americans. The foreign workers, however, know to put this huge list on their resumes, even if they don't actually have the experience. Importantly, there is no requirement for the company to verify the experience of any applicant. However, if an American attempts this same tactic, they'll exercise their *option* to call employers and check references to prove that the American is lying.
There are a fuckload of comments here that are making similar errors. It's a grammatical wasteland (more so than usual).
I wouldn't be surprised if the company mentioned by OP got a bunch of their workers, particularly the ones located outside of the US, to jump on here and try and help defend them.
We have to look at *all* cases, because the justice system is designed to punish the guilty and only the guilty. By letting innocent people be punished, you're destroying the entire reason for its existence.
It's bad enough that car manufacturers intent to install synchros into transmissions because the poor, coddled generation cannot handle the "complexity" of double-clutching and rev. matching. I hate modern manual transmission vehicles because I lose nothing of value, except the ability to feel superior to everyone who hasn't used one.
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You mean to tell me that a credit-card reader can read credit card numbers as the credit cards are swiped through the reader? Who would have thought?!
Holy shit, these conferences really have started to dredge the bottom of the barrel, haven't they?
Will this work for people sending messages to other random people? Probably not. But imagine a corporation deploying this system to all of their computers. Suddenly, the boss can tell their employees to do unethical things, make illegal threats, and so on without any chance that the FBI is suddenly going to show up and arrest him with evidence of his misdeeds.
Unless they miss.
>what kind of idiot waves a pole around when moving at nontrivial speed near walls, beams, etc. that the pole can catch on?
Narcissists, that's who. And unfortunately, they are becoming more common. People these days are incredibly entitled, and it's not the younger generations, it's everyone.
>because a shot gun will go through walls but often not be deadly a few feet away from the wall on the other side where a bullet can go through multiple walls and remain deadly depending on the gun
Nope, you're wrong. Please do research before spewing this myth.
Because, in many cases, the banks crammed these loans down the throats of anyone and everyone they could find. Banks didn't give a fuck if you couldn't make the payments, they just kept issuing loans. They would lie to people about how much they would really cost or what an "interest only" mortgage really meant. Please don't pretend that the banks didn't have a large hand in causing this.
Because bailing out homeowners is socialism but bailing out big business is "good for the economy".
Translation: A crapload of lobbying by the republicans.
It's the same problem that's created the bubble we're in right now. Interest rates are so low that it's basically free money, so of course housing prices have skyrocketed in response. Once interest rates rise, prices will plummet down to a reasonable level, and a crapload of people will find themselves underwater on their mortgages overnight. Then come the homeowners defaulting on their loans, then come the government bailing out the banks with taxpayer money, and so on.
The summary sounds like it was written by a retarded monkey that had a stroke halfway through the paragraph. The blog post (not article) isn't any better.
Don't worry, they'll be sure to either quietly reduce this requirement, or to approve a 5G-USA spec that will allow telecoms to provide terrible speeds.
Too bad people are forced to use Facebook. If they were free to leave then this wouldn't be an issue.
Oh wait.
This is perhaps the dumbest thing that's been posted to Slashdot this week. Robot passports? Are you fucking serious?
If by "respond" you mean "throw a temper tantrum because they can't hate fat people" then yes, users have "responded" to the decision to remove a few subreddits from reddit.
Nope. His system just applies a blur filter to the video and strips the audio. He hasn't done anything that a very small script couldn't have done. In fact, most programs commercially available for body cams (usually used by private security in malls and such to avoid lawsuits) have an option to do exactly that already. This guy is getting paid for doing zero useful work.
No, he's not.
His "solution" is to blur everything, yes literally *everything*. The entire video is blurred so that you can't make out faces, which makes sense, but you also can't make out guns, weapons, street signs, small movements of hands, clothing, etc. Depending on the light, you often can't even tell the difference between a police officer and a trash can. It's worthless for any practical purpose.
This guy literally got a job to do nothing other than to copy data from a camera to a server and to post a public copy with blur filter applied to the whole thing. There's no face detection to selectively blur faces, there's no intelligence or any kind of special algorithm applied whatsoever. It's fucking stupid.
No researcher would be so reckless as to actually screw with an airplane's engines mid-flight. The fact that the FBI alleges that he did means that they know damn well they have nothing to do on, but need to paint this guy as a terrorist in order to save themselves looking like idiots for arresting a guy based on a single twitter message.
The only jobs that are "offshore-proof" are jobs that require a *very* high security clearance and can't be done by non-citizens for reasons of law and national security or jobs that literally cannot be done from a remote location, such as janitorial work. So, you have to either be the absolute top in your field or switch to menial labor.
Or, and I know this might sound ridiculous if you buy into right-wing politics, you could actually support politicians, laws, and unions that work towards ensuring that every American has a good paying job and that penalize companies for sending jobs out of the country.
If you prefer to use PDFs for *security* reasons then you're an idiot. PDFs have been the attack vector for a crapload of malware.
If you think someone is going to die because they had regular headlights instead of these headlights then you're an absolute fucking retard.
Oh bullshit. If there's no right to employment then how do we have the responsibility to pay in order to live? You can either give people a right to employment and a right to be able to support themselves, or you have to give people a responsibility to pay for those who are denied work. You can't have it both ways. I prefer the former, although there are arguments for the latter as well. But this attitude that we can refuse to employ people and then get upset when they can't afford to live is just asinine.
There's also a loophole. You just transfer the skilled American to a "non-technical" position a day before you let them go. Yeah, maybe you can battle it in court, but good fucking luck hiring an attorney to battle a huge corporation when you have no job.
Actually, no. A common tactic is to take out a classified ad in a low-circulation newspaper. The ad is, of course, poorly written and looks like a scam. (Generally accepted practice is to run it in two news papers one day per week for two weeks) This is to reduce the chances of an American applying to the position. After all, what professional actually reads the classified ads? None that I can think of. And writing the ad poorly and like a scam is designed to dissuade any professional from calling about the job even if they happened to somehow stumble across it.
Nevertheless, sometimes an American will respond to the ad, which is where the "qualifications" section comes in. The company will publish a laundry list of qualifications that no one has. sometimes they'll demand more years of experience with a particular piece of software than the piece of software has been in existence for. (e.g. 10 years experience with Windows 8). More frequently, they'll just chain together arbitrary pieces of software that are totally unrelated. This allows them to trash the applications of any Americans. The foreign workers, however, know to put this huge list on their resumes, even if they don't actually have the experience. Importantly, there is no requirement for the company to verify the experience of any applicant. However, if an American attempts this same tactic, they'll exercise their *option* to call employers and check references to prove that the American is lying.
There are a fuckload of comments here that are making similar errors. It's a grammatical wasteland (more so than usual).
I wouldn't be surprised if the company mentioned by OP got a bunch of their workers, particularly the ones located outside of the US, to jump on here and try and help defend them.
No, you're wrong.
We have to look at *all* cases, because the justice system is designed to punish the guilty and only the guilty. By letting innocent people be punished, you're destroying the entire reason for its existence.
It's bad enough that car manufacturers intent to install synchros into transmissions because the poor, coddled generation cannot handle the "complexity" of double-clutching and rev. matching. I hate modern manual transmission vehicles because I lose nothing of value, except the ability to feel superior to everyone who hasn't used one.