Epic is behaving with epic stupidity. They've just created a public relations nightmare. Because suing a member of their primary demographic just makes so much goddamned sense....
At times I want to think so but I believe the vast majority of people to be decent. Our views are often skewed by the news because the news is 99.99% negative because that is what sells - if it bleeds, it leads. The most selfless acts are often done by the people that have the least amount to give. A homeless man gave his last 20 dollars so a woman could buy gas for her car and get home safely. In gratitude, this woman set up a GoFundMe page that is now above 300,000.00. This is at least some anecdotal evidence that human beings have the capacity to do wonderful things.
I do not think it is economically feasible or possible for AI to supplant human beings. There will come a tipping point when artificial intelligence will displace enough employees that the economy will collapse, and in a serious way too. As we have seen from the Great Recession of 2008, mass unemployment causes a fast downward spiral. The US economy is one based on goods and services so once people no longer have the means to trade currency for these goods and services, businesses are forced to close their doors. Only the wealthiest of persons and corporations can weather this kind of storm.
The more immediate danger actually is coming from our politicians. Politicians are making short term decisions to benefit the wealthy (both sides of the isle) with reckless disregard to the future. Politicians are weighing in on matters that they're wholly unqualified to even speak of, let alone draft legislation effecting policy. I see the danger of playing and pretending to be an expert in matters that one is not as a more immediate threat. Honestly, I think we will end up destroying ourselves before robots will really have the opportunity.
You don't know how "the web" works. Anyone can make their own DNS system and many of us do. It's easy and changes nothing about the rest of the internet.
I have my own DNS servers too. As you say, anyone can stand one up. Just choose your favorite *NIX distribution and configure Unbound and NSD. BOOM! There you go.
I want to know what problem they are hoping to solve. Anyone can stand up their own DNS infrastructure. All you need is two static IP addresses and (preferrably) two computers. Just load your choice of operating system and Unbound and NSD. If the Russians are hoping to control politically objectionable material, DNS is the wrong way to go about it. If they're concerned about being denied access to the DNS system, there are easy ways to get around that too. It seems to me that Vladimir Putin does not really understand how the internet works.
Sure, I like innovation but most television providers still deliver their content at 720p. The Verizon FiOS install guy quietly admitted to Verizon only offering HD content at 720p. Why in the sam hill would I pony up the money for a 10K TV when content is nowhere near ready.
It is true that Facebook is a giant but nothing has been created (post MySpace) that can remotely compete it. I am sure it's not for the lack of trying but for getting the project to gain traction. Facebook has the mindshare of almost 100% of social media users out there. The challenge is getting enough people curious about an alternative. I know that there is DIASPORA* which is a nice idea but it is clunky and not easy to setup. The idea behind DIASPORA* is that you still own, host, and control your content but is not . The DIASPORA* node that you create simply joins a mesh network of sorts with other nodes. The decentralization is really nice but it's a hard platform to monetize because the data is not stored centrally making it much harder to mine.
The key is to create an alternative that has the spit shine of Facebook, is built completely on open source, is standards-based and can be installed and ran with the simplicity of an Android or iPhone app. It also needs a catchy name - too many of some of these projects have geeky names that do not appeal to the masses. For example, DIASPORA* has negative biblical implications so I never would've used this. Software engineers and programmers are generally excellent at writing code but suck at marketing. In order to gain traction, it's going to take the cooperation of engineering and business-types working together. Sadly, they rarely work together well.
I think we can argue that Amazon has Walmart as a competitor, but Walmart is really only able to compete on goods, not so much services. Walmart is not doing anything in content. As for Google, well Duck Duck Go gives me search results that are just as a accurate and useful so I use Duck Duck Go. Also, I have the benefit of not being spied on by using Duck Duck Go. Facebook basically eliminated its competition, MySpace. And newsflash, Intel is still the enemy - think Intel Management Engine.
It's just for shooting yourself in the leg. The government has nukes, our little rifles won't mean squat. Also, corporations and government are effectively the same thing, so no, arms are not for use against either one.
Eh, not really. Even the government is not stupid enough to drop nukes on its own people. If they did that, there would be no country left to govern.
Does your right to bear arms include going against corporations? Or is it just for going against the government?
These days corporations are acting a lot like government, so I think that right should apply to corporations as well as government. However, this is only my 0.02 and is worth that much or less.
I can only hope that there will be a sudden outbreak of common sense and that the courts will uphold net neutrality. ISPs should really only be access providers whom can optionally offer their own competing content services without harming competition by charging extra for access to, and throttling, the competition. Big Telecom has complained about the expense of building out their networks and maintaining them. Really, these networks have been subsidized by government granting them duopolies, or in some cases, monopolies. And in other cases, municipalities have offered tax breaks to Big Telecom for building out high speed data, which in effect, is a tax payer subsidy.
I do not want a return to the days of AOL, Prodigy, and CompuServe. Those days were truly walled gardens. You could not send email outside of those services. Bulletin boards were open only to subscribers and there was no sharing of content amongst the online services. If you wanted information on both a CompuServe and an AOL forum, you'd need subscriptions on both services. Then, as if to add insult to injury, you were sometimes charged exorbitant per minute usage fees on top of the monthly fee. Perhaps, the only more generous of services was Prodigy. At least with Prodigy, it was just about an all you can eat.
Perhaps a more practical way to kill the profit from the ISPs is to reduce our dependence on them. If we all spent less time in front of a screen, went outside more, and engaged in hobbies then we can watch the ISPs bleed as no one uses their branded shit.
The idea is sound but, as is too often the case, Big Telecom will lobby to make these kinds of VPNs illegal or restrict them. When something is about to cut into their profit margin, the likes of AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast are not above using the courts to get their way or lobbying for laws favorable to them.
There really is no job that is safe from automation anymore. I quit technology and became a truck driver. In the next 10 or so years, a truck driver will be obsolete. For now, the money is good and the only way you'll get fired is if you have an accident. Trucking companies need me more than I need them.
The hiring process is broken and misses some really good candidates but I see this as being a failure in corporate culture. An unwillingness to train, develop, and grow a candidate virtually assures that the candidate you get will probably search for a better opportunity in two years. An employee that feels the company is as invested in them as they are in it, is more likely to stay. But these days, companies seem to accept a certain amount (or even encourage) turnover. Their business model even takes this into account. These days, financials beyond the current quarter don't matter.
Higher education is NOT necessarily career preparation. It teaches theory, not necessarily reality. In my old career as a Systems Engineer, I met so many people with masters degrees that had no idea how to actually turn a Windows server into a domain controller, let alone plan complex systems. I have a degree in Criminal Justice which might as well be basket weaving. I learned through teaching myself and a whole lot of studying how today. A college degree doesn't even accurately predict who will work harder. There are plenty of college grads that don't engage in life long learning. Learning and growing is a personal decision.
I think humans have a very natural fear of the dark. This might explain why outdoor lighting is increasing. We fear becoming victims as our primary sense is sight. Our ancestors fear becoming prey at night.
This is about the best news I could read all day long. MBAs contribute nothing to the economy other than maximizing profits at the expense of humanity. May the MBA die an ignoble death!
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Epic is behaving with epic stupidity. They've just created a public relations nightmare. Because suing a member of their primary demographic just makes so much goddamned sense ....
Humanity is trash
At times I want to think so but I believe the vast majority of people to be decent. Our views are often skewed by the news because the news is 99.99% negative because that is what sells - if it bleeds, it leads. The most selfless acts are often done by the people that have the least amount to give. A homeless man gave his last 20 dollars so a woman could buy gas for her car and get home safely. In gratitude, this woman set up a GoFundMe page that is now above 300,000.00. This is at least some anecdotal evidence that human beings have the capacity to do wonderful things.
I do not think it is economically feasible or possible for AI to supplant human beings. There will come a tipping point when artificial intelligence will displace enough employees that the economy will collapse, and in a serious way too. As we have seen from the Great Recession of 2008, mass unemployment causes a fast downward spiral. The US economy is one based on goods and services so once people no longer have the means to trade currency for these goods and services, businesses are forced to close their doors. Only the wealthiest of persons and corporations can weather this kind of storm.
The more immediate danger actually is coming from our politicians. Politicians are making short term decisions to benefit the wealthy (both sides of the isle) with reckless disregard to the future. Politicians are weighing in on matters that they're wholly unqualified to even speak of, let alone draft legislation effecting policy. I see the danger of playing and pretending to be an expert in matters that one is not as a more immediate threat. Honestly, I think we will end up destroying ourselves before robots will really have the opportunity.
This happens for the entire workforce. Move along, nothing to see/read here.
You don't know how "the web" works. Anyone can make their own DNS system and many of us do. It's easy and changes nothing about the rest of the internet.
I have my own DNS servers too. As you say, anyone can stand one up. Just choose your favorite *NIX distribution and configure Unbound and NSD. BOOM! There you go.
I want to know what problem they are hoping to solve. Anyone can stand up their own DNS infrastructure. All you need is two static IP addresses and (preferrably) two computers. Just load your choice of operating system and Unbound and NSD. If the Russians are hoping to control politically objectionable material, DNS is the wrong way to go about it. If they're concerned about being denied access to the DNS system, there are easy ways to get around that too. It seems to me that Vladimir Putin does not really understand how the internet works.
Sure, I like innovation but most television providers still deliver their content at 720p. The Verizon FiOS install guy quietly admitted to Verizon only offering HD content at 720p. Why in the sam hill would I pony up the money for a 10K TV when content is nowhere near ready.
It is true that Facebook is a giant but nothing has been created (post MySpace) that can remotely compete it. I am sure it's not for the lack of trying but for getting the project to gain traction. Facebook has the mindshare of almost 100% of social media users out there. The challenge is getting enough people curious about an alternative. I know that there is DIASPORA* which is a nice idea but it is clunky and not easy to setup. The idea behind DIASPORA* is that you still own, host, and control your content but is not . The DIASPORA* node that you create simply joins a mesh network of sorts with other nodes. The decentralization is really nice but it's a hard platform to monetize because the data is not stored centrally making it much harder to mine.
The key is to create an alternative that has the spit shine of Facebook, is built completely on open source, is standards-based and can be installed and ran with the simplicity of an Android or iPhone app. It also needs a catchy name - too many of some of these projects have geeky names that do not appeal to the masses. For example, DIASPORA* has negative biblical implications so I never would've used this. Software engineers and programmers are generally excellent at writing code but suck at marketing. In order to gain traction, it's going to take the cooperation of engineering and business-types working together. Sadly, they rarely work together well.
I think we can argue that Amazon has Walmart as a competitor, but Walmart is really only able to compete on goods, not so much services. Walmart is not doing anything in content. As for Google, well Duck Duck Go gives me search results that are just as a accurate and useful so I use Duck Duck Go. Also, I have the benefit of not being spied on by using Duck Duck Go. Facebook basically eliminated its competition, MySpace. And newsflash, Intel is still the enemy - think Intel Management Engine.
It's just for shooting yourself in the leg. The government has nukes, our little rifles won't mean squat. Also, corporations and government are effectively the same thing, so no, arms are not for use against either one.
Eh, not really. Even the government is not stupid enough to drop nukes on its own people. If they did that, there would be no country left to govern.
Does your right to bear arms include going against corporations? Or is it just for going against the government?
These days corporations are acting a lot like government, so I think that right should apply to corporations as well as government. However, this is only my 0.02 and is worth that much or less.
I can only hope that there will be a sudden outbreak of common sense and that the courts will uphold net neutrality. ISPs should really only be access providers whom can optionally offer their own competing content services without harming competition by charging extra for access to, and throttling, the competition. Big Telecom has complained about the expense of building out their networks and maintaining them. Really, these networks have been subsidized by government granting them duopolies, or in some cases, monopolies. And in other cases, municipalities have offered tax breaks to Big Telecom for building out high speed data, which in effect, is a tax payer subsidy.
I do not want a return to the days of AOL, Prodigy, and CompuServe. Those days were truly walled gardens. You could not send email outside of those services. Bulletin boards were open only to subscribers and there was no sharing of content amongst the online services. If you wanted information on both a CompuServe and an AOL forum, you'd need subscriptions on both services. Then, as if to add insult to injury, you were sometimes charged exorbitant per minute usage fees on top of the monthly fee. Perhaps, the only more generous of services was Prodigy. At least with Prodigy, it was just about an all you can eat.
Perhaps a more practical way to kill the profit from the ISPs is to reduce our dependence on them. If we all spent less time in front of a screen, went outside more, and engaged in hobbies then we can watch the ISPs bleed as no one uses their branded shit.
The idea is sound but, as is too often the case, Big Telecom will lobby to make these kinds of VPNs illegal or restrict them. When something is about to cut into their profit margin, the likes of AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast are not above using the courts to get their way or lobbying for laws favorable to them.
Both Mad Mike and the Coyote have been shopping at ACME.
College degrees have been the new high school for quite some time. I would say 20 years now. It's really sad.
There really is no job that is safe from automation anymore. I quit technology and became a truck driver. In the next 10 or so years, a truck driver will be obsolete. For now, the money is good and the only way you'll get fired is if you have an accident. Trucking companies need me more than I need them.
The hiring process is broken and misses some really good candidates but I see this as being a failure in corporate culture. An unwillingness to train, develop, and grow a candidate virtually assures that the candidate you get will probably search for a better opportunity in two years. An employee that feels the company is as invested in them as they are in it, is more likely to stay. But these days, companies seem to accept a certain amount (or even encourage) turnover. Their business model even takes this into account. These days, financials beyond the current quarter don't matter.
Higher education is NOT necessarily career preparation. It teaches theory, not necessarily reality. In my old career as a Systems Engineer, I met so many people with masters degrees that had no idea how to actually turn a Windows server into a domain controller, let alone plan complex systems. I have a degree in Criminal Justice which might as well be basket weaving. I learned through teaching myself and a whole lot of studying how today. A college degree doesn't even accurately predict who will work harder. There are plenty of college grads that don't engage in life long learning. Learning and growing is a personal decision.
There is no low low enough for Corporate America to sink to.
I think humans have a very natural fear of the dark. This might explain why outdoor lighting is increasing. We fear becoming victims as our primary sense is sight. Our ancestors fear becoming prey at night.
It was not Microsoft Excel that was revolutionary but Lotus 1-2-3. Lotus was the real ground-breaker and all Microsoft really did was copy Lotus.
Really? Mitt didn't have the whole stutter thing going on though.
This is about the best news I could read all day long. MBAs contribute nothing to the economy other than maximizing profits at the expense of humanity. May the MBA die an ignoble death!
Thus dude was one cool cat. Loved it!