It should be in a database.
Who ever created it should be ordered to check all the calculations with a 1960's mechanical calculator each time there is an update.
Reselling is definitely shady. But there would be no scope for such schemes if the price was fair. It's not.
A thief is a thief, and there is nothing more ignoble than a thief who commits his crimes in the name of a worthy cause.
The legendary Robin Hood robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Was he wrong? Was his cause not worthy? He was fighting greed-- excessive, damaging taxation and hoarding of wealth. Today, greed has again arisen to become one of our biggest problems, with these super rich using their immense wealth to corrupt our systems to unfairly direct even more wealth to them.
Your use of the term "thief" prejudices your argument. Copying is not theft. Copying is copying. Pirating a TV signal, maybe that should be a crime, but it shouldn't be lumped in with theft. For years, the entertainment industry has been trying to convince the world that sharing is theft. Don't do their dirty work for them.
Yes, I am aware TorrentFreak ran the story. They are one of the few exceptions to the near universal censoring and propagandizing the media does on this issue.
Yup. It's pretty hard to do the right thing when the oil cartel that has invaded Alberta keeps threatening to shit itself and is actively trying to engineer a separatist movement entirely for its own benefit. Here's hoping Carney eventually finds a way to disembowel them.
The last game Sweeney did the artwork for was ZZT. As much as I love playing around with AI art generation for fun, he's really not an expert on this.
Society must acknowledge that sharing of info should be encouraged, and be thankful that technology has made sharing incredibly easy. Need to work harder on systems that can fairly compensate producers while encouraging sharing, not continue to base compensation on the restriction of sharing. Especially not to the point of outlawing sharing and wasting resources enforcing that and causing still more waste of lives that have to spend ruinously to fight to defend themselves from the legal mess.
One thing that makes this issue most intractable is that the organs who report on it are thoroughly convinced that sharing is contrary to their own interests. How is the public to hear unbiased reporting on this matter when no one with a metaphorical megaphone will give one?
Even when it's true, trying to deflect blame by publicly blaming the victim is usually a very bad idea. Their PR department was either asleep, not consulted, or vetoed.
"compared to entry-level electrical engineering" should be "compared to recent graduates with electrical engineering degrees doing relevant entry-level work"
Proofreading the rest of my post above is left as an excercise to the apprentice AI proofreader created 5 years from now.
"Low skilled" is relative: As far as "trades being low-skilled" it may be that apprentice-level electricians (on the way to becoming a Master Electrician) are low-skilled compared to entry-level electrical engineering (on the way to becoming a Professional Engineer). Even your average PE electrical engineer is "low-skilled" compared to somebody. Likewise, your apprentice engineer is "high skilled" compared to the same person when they were 16 and flipping burgers or sweeping floors.
Proofreading for common things like spelling, grammar, and style-guide compliance is something I see AIs becoming very good at in the next 5-10 years if not sooner. Even pre-AI spell-check and grammar-check was usually better than nothing, provided you took it as "a suggestion" rather than "the computer is all-knowing." But even a good 2030-era AI proofreader will have difficulty (flagging "errors" that aren't) if your writing style is not what it considers "correct."
AI-assistants that direct people how to do things like indoor wiring and plumbing may cut down on trades, provided the legal landscape allows it. AI assistants can also help an advanced apprentice-or-higher level person do some work that is more advanced than his level would indicate. But then again, so can having an expert co-worker standing over your shoulder as you ask him questions.
But any time you've got a situation where "if things go south DURING the job, bad things happen" you want an expert there who can react faster than an AI-bot can tell a less experienced person "STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND TURN THAT KNOB CLOCKWISE 1/4 TURN RIGHT NOW OR YOU WILL HAVE AN EXPLOSION."
In other words, I don't think you'll have a huge loss of trades workers because of AI. Some reshuffling and some loss, maybe, but not a huge lost.
Robot machine operators that can operate machines with no people around or in other situations where a "bad event" may destroy equipment but not hurt or kill anyone may be good candidates for robots.
Administrative roles that pretty much operate on a "checklist" or "do it by the book" are candidates for automation, but be careful here: Some of these "do it by the book" roles are intended to do things like catch fraud. For these roles you want people who can "do it by the book" but who have a "spidey sense" to detect when someone is trying to "do the paperwork just right to get past the AI-robo-administrator" but who is in fact trying to do something bad, like steal money.
How about 2^30 seconds?
It has to, it's your desktop
Why does it have to be that way?
You can kill explorer.exe if you don't want a desktop.
Paper tapes from the 1750s are still readable if they were stored properly. Finding looms from that era are a different matter (but you could make a modern reproduction).
After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.
