Yes it's Rashida Jones I believe.

One analogy I've heard... If it ai were invented 50 years ago, but drones didn't exist yet for another 40 years. Then fast forward to like 2010 and you tell AI to make a drone. It would have advanced a lot in that time but it still wouldn't know how to make the drone because it conceptually didn't exist yet. Somebody would have to teach it. Might not be the best analogy, but it gets the point across. AI can do a lot of things, but even in the business automation space, no matter how good it gets it still need humans to give it direction and tell it what to do, and it still needs developers to teach it how to interact with whatever you're trying to develop that uses it. It will certainly change how we work, but it won't get rid of our jobs entirely. Some low level jobs sure, but until the software can write requirements and interpret the finicky and incomplete requests from humans, then just develop itself; it still needs us.

I'm surprised at the general lack of any mention in these comments regarding the last section of the bill, "...which may threaten the Sasquatch and its natural habitat." ðY£

Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Honestly, as much as I would hate to be a victim of this, I think in the end it will end up taking a lot of the insecure devices off the internet and force people and manufacturers pay more attention to security of these sorts of appliances.

I'm primarily an MS stack Azure developer, but the client I'm working with now has been working on duplicating and in some cases moving their Azure services to GCP. Mainly due to the Azure outage that happened earlier this year which as I understand was due to a DNS issue. My clients excuse was that "GCP was more stable." Then this happens in the middle of a go-live for one of the first major projects they've moved over. Had a good laugh over the irony of that one.

Sure, but you also have to consider raw materials. I don't believe there are any rare earth mining operations in the US at this point that produce the raw materials necessary for making most of this type of electronic equipment. While we could certainly make and assemble them here, most of the materials necessary would have to come from... guess where... China! China right know mines somewhere in the 90s percent of all rare earth material used in manufacturing, around the world, not just for the US. While this would perhaps be creating more jobs here in the US (which is good obviously), the situation is still the same in that we would still depend on China. Ideally we could help create mining operations here or in other countries and source that material from all over, but right now China is the only company that can keep up with the demand. Also in most cases to source that material from the US we would have to destroy thousands of acres of protected land, and create countless tons of waste that we'd be forced to dispose of, somehow. This is partially why China can do this so cheap, because they don't give a shit about where they are disposing of their waste. This is dirty little secret of the tech industry, your cell phones, laptops, literally everything leaves behind more toxic waste than can be safely disposed of, but that another story entirely.

Well said. This is the only sensible post in this thread.

I agree with this. Although for me it tends to be more of an ROI thing. The problem with IT, and in my case software development specifically, is that the people that sign the paychecks don't really understand what it takes to implement their shit and keep it running. Thus this ability is undervalued, underappreciated, and underpaid (sometimes). I always just felt like I could make more money, doing less work, by being in management rather than actually doing the work. Its a little backwards if you ask me, but its DEFINITELY become more apparent to me as I've gotten older and my tastes and lifestyle changes.

My opinion on that is not that it gets "harder" per say, But rather that other factors in my life become more important and/or distracting. The net effect being that I tend forget details that less important to my daily 'struggle' so to speak. In other words, when I was younger I would go home and get on my computer all evening, even after being on the computer all day. I kept myself immersed in that world, as such I remembered details like that because I was constantly involving myself with them. These days, I go home and often don't touch my computer. I find other activities more important to my mental health and well being and just don't think about work, at all.

Occasionally with a client I will have a hard push where I'm working 12-16 hour days and am non-stop thinking about work and that ability will resurface. The only thing I have noticed that I might attribute to my age is probably my patience for stupidity, and my willingness to adopt certain technologies or practices that I don't agree with.

I am a consultant currently working at a large client that has completely replaced MS office with G-Suite, including GMail for email. But that is the absolute extent to which any Google "cloud" applications are used. The rest of the environment (desktop wise) is a mixture of Windows 10, Linux, and Mac, also using both Azure and AWS for development via Visual Studio, VSCode, Eclipse, I mean, whatever they want to use honestly. They also use Power BI, and a handful of other data analytics tools that I've never heard of. Anyway, I could keep going, but my point is that most companies do so much more that just cant be done on a Chromebook. It's incredibly naive, and just plain ignorant to assume that a platform serving K-12 schools is even going to come close to providing the same functionality that companies use. Hell, I rarely ever even open any office suite type applications anymore, with the exception of needing to make the occasional flow chart. Anybody that needs to do REAL work is going to need to break out of the Chromebook walled garden, and get on a real desktop OS.

For the record, I pay for an Office 365 subscription for home use because it is easier than pirating it while trying to avoid detection during patches. And also because its a hell of a lot cheaper than buying the full suite even over the span of several years.

Additionally, I will admit I used to pirate every new version of Photoshop when it came out. But now that Adobe offers a subscription at a reasonable cost I don't have to do that any more either and I get access to the entire Adobe suite of applications without having to worry about cracks.

Both are a win/win for me in my opinion considering how much both of those suites usually cost. And certainly a welcome change from the pirating game.

I have checked the box to receive offers, but only when I have signed up with separate (dedicated) spam account. To the previous poster, yes I am in the IT field and occasionally TigerDirect or NewEgg will spam with decent deals that I will buy. That said, I agree with your frustrations about (un)checking the "send me special offers" box. Lots of retailers seem to go out of their way to obscure that as much as possible. For example; if you failed some validation check on the form after unchecking the box, it will magically re-check itself with no warning. Or they will have it in some obscure part of the form were most people don't notice it. Or even worse they ask you AFTER you have placed your order when most people usually just close the window and don't notice the opt-out at the bottom of the page. That's the kind of crap that pisses me off.