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Comment Re:Who is going to give me a 4 day work week? (Score 1, Insightful) 74

I work for myself, I have 3 companies to run, who is going to give me a 4 day work week and what would that look like?

You own your own companies and you make your own choices. If you want to give yourself a 4 day work week, knock yourself out. Full stop.

That being said, you totally misstate Bernie's point. Bernie is pointing out a logical inconsistency and what he considers to be an inequity. He is suggesting that the benefits of improvements to technology should be more equitable, not unilaterally granted to the owners of the business while only the detrimental affects on labor, wages and employment fall to the workers.

But if as you say you are a person who runs three companies I presume you already know that.

Comment Re: Good Old San Fernando Valley (Score 4, Informative) 49

Shit, you're telling me the air quality was even worse here during the 60s?

Air pollution was WAY worse in the 1960s. Incomprehensibly worse. I was unable to breathe deeply without pain in the lungs and involuntary coughing, and my eyes were constantly red and stinging from the insanely high levels of nitrogen dioxide in the air. There was a photochemical smog layer so thick that you couldn't see the hillsides of the Angeles National Forest to the east. It was miserable. We moved out of L.A. County in 1968. When I visited a friend's home in Pasadena in the late 1970s it was worse still...after a nice lunch at his home I could barely breathe. I couldn't take the pollution and rather than spend the night as planned I had to drive home.

Comment President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (Score 5, Informative) 184

A cautionary statement from President Eisenhower back in 1961, noting that intelligence gathering and manipulation has always been a primary function of our military, as important as any physical munition. Information is power:

A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.

Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peace time, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.

Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United State corporations.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address

Comment BSD and Me (Score 4, Informative) 107

by divide overflow (#65404385) Attached to: FreeBSD: 'We're Still Here. (Let's Share Use Cases!)'
I currently create all my firewall/routers from specialized firewall distributions built on FreeBSD. I started creating my firewall/routers by rolling my own using Linux, then shifted to using OpenBSD in the late 1990s, then sometime around 2004 switched to firewalls built as custom distributions based on FreeBSD (m0n0wall, pfSense, OPNsense).

My main reason for using BSD variants is the extreme stability of the operating systems and relative infrequency of remote attack openings in their default installation configurations. These BSD-based firewall/router distributions perform quite well managing my 400mbit Internet data transfers on relative modestly performant small form factor single board computers.

Comment Seems like a reasonable move (Score 4, Interesting) 8

I don't know anything about Giannandrea but think it's possible that Apple decided that their AI effort would require more resources and management effort than currently allocated and having Giannandrea try to do both AI and robotics was asking too much and dividing his efforts.

If Apple decided Giannandrea wasn't doing his job they probably would have replaced him rather than moving smaller parts of his portfolio to other divisions. Doesn't it seem appropriate that robotics code development be done within the hardware division? That code seems pretty specialized and closely tied to hardware functions.

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