Comment I for one... (Score 3, Funny) 66
I for one welcome, our noodle slinging overlords.
Comment Why'd they have to take the patient elsewhere? (Score 5, Insightful) 167
Ok, so the patient needed to be admitted urgently, what about this would need them to take the patient to another hospital if they were in that much distress.
It takes a computer to treat patients?
Comment Re:Blocked on Permissions (Score 1) 115
But you installed it? Just curious, is there some value added activity to the app? I've never used it and never had a desire to try it out.
Value added no. It's entertaining. I don't install apps that are purely "value added". It's pretty random, I liken it to Vine, longer videos but pretty much that. I follow some comediahttps://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=15864016&cid=59773638#ns, cooks, espn, nfl, fail.army, etc. There is a random "For You" page that is what I can imagine is the trending tik toks of the day/week/etc..
Comment Blocked on Permissions (Score 1) 115
I have TikTok blocked from all permissions. I just watch videos there, you don't have to allow an app to do anything, you don't want it to be doing.
Comment RE: Microsoft Excel Can Now Turn Pictures of Table (Score 2) 82
I totally read that as edible tables.
Comment Re:Worthless (Score 4, Informative) 136
A good effort in principle but ultimately worthless, all websites/apps will do is add "you explicitly consent to allow X" in their TOS and carry on as usual. a firmer action would be to make any TOS that is over 1 A4 page long legally invalid.
Precisely what I came into here to comment on. You nailed it. No teeth.
Comment Re:Extortion (Score 1) 242
How is it really extortion? They are pointing out that if their Internet service is cut off they can't connect to devices connected to the Internet because their services is not active.
Submission + - Outsourced IT workers ask Sen. Feinstein for help, get form letter in return (computerworld.com)
dcblogs writes: A University of California IT employee whose job is being outsourced to India recently wrote Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for help. Feinstein's office sent back a letter addressing manufacturing job losses, not IT, and offered the worker no assistance. "I am being asked to do knowledge transfer to a foreigner so they can take over my job in February of 2017," the employee, wrote in part. The employee is part of a group of 50 IT workers and another 30 contractors facing layoffs after the university hired an offshore outsourcing firm. The firm, India-based HCL, won a contract to manage infrastructure services. Since the layoffs became public, the school has posted Labor Condition Applications (LCA) notices — as required by federal law when H-1B workers are being placed. UCSF employees have seen these notices and made some available to Computerworld. They show that the jobs posted are for programmer analyst II and network administrator IV. For the existing UCSF employees, the notices were disheartening. "Many of us can easily fill the job. We are training them to replace us," said one employee who requested anonymity because he is still employed by the university.
Comment Re:Wot? (Score 1) 79
It says not "standard panels" so we'll have to see on the day they announce it. Probably some sort of hybrid design that the cells are embedded in to possbly like sheets that form a roof sorta like the metal roofing I've seen around.
Comment Why.... (Score 1) 83
Why do we announce things of this nature? Wouldn't it be more in our interest to just keep this sorta thing like in an "Area 51" type logic. Sure we have the capability, sure we may or may not use it. I don't think we should just say, we are going to do more of it, so you other countries that may be our enemy now or in the future, get your shit together and raise your defense against energy weaponry.
Submission + - The Machines Are Coming
HughPickens.com writes: Zeynep Tufekci writes in an op-ed at the NYT that machines can now process regular spoken language and not only recognize human faces, but also read their expressions. Machines can classify personality types, and have started being able to carry out conversations with appropriate emotional tenor. Machines are getting better than humans at figuring out who to hire, who’s in a mood to pay a little more for that sweater, and who needs a coupon to nudge them toward a sale. It turns out that most of what we think of as expertise, knowledge and intuition is being deconstructed and recreated as an algorithmic competency, fueled by big data. "Machines aren’t used because they perform some tasks that much better than humans, but because, in many cases, they do a “good enough” job while also being cheaper, more predictable and easier to control than quirky, pesky humans," writes Tufekci. "Technology in the workplace is as much about power and control as it is about productivity and efficiency."
According to Tufekci technology is being used in many workplaces: to reduce the power of humans, and employers’ dependency on them, whether by replacing, displacing or surveilling them. Optimists insist that we’ve been here before, during the Industrial Revolution, when machinery replaced manual labor, and all we need is a little more education and better skills but Tufekci says that one historical example is no guarantee of future events. "Confronting the threat posed by machines, and the way in which the great data harvest has made them ever more able to compete with human workers, must be about our priorities," concludes Tufekci. "This problem is not us versus the machines, but between us, as humans, and how we value one another."
According to Tufekci technology is being used in many workplaces: to reduce the power of humans, and employers’ dependency on them, whether by replacing, displacing or surveilling them. Optimists insist that we’ve been here before, during the Industrial Revolution, when machinery replaced manual labor, and all we need is a little more education and better skills but Tufekci says that one historical example is no guarantee of future events. "Confronting the threat posed by machines, and the way in which the great data harvest has made them ever more able to compete with human workers, must be about our priorities," concludes Tufekci. "This problem is not us versus the machines, but between us, as humans, and how we value one another."
Comment Sooo... (Score 1) 191
What reason are we going to make up to invade the arctic? -_-
Comment Re:Boron? (Score 1) 39
The first time I read the headline I thought it said Chemists Build First "Buckyball" Made of Bacon .
Boron's OK, I suppose, but bacon would have been way wicked cooler.
Same here, I was just about to post that. Too funny.
Comment Free Speech (Score 4, Funny) 290
Hey, even photo copiers and faxes need freedom of speech.
Comment Re:What drugs and what protections from failure? (Score 1) 439
It will probably be in single pill form - i.e. you can't take half of it unless you are seriously trying to screw yourself or the system.
There are commercials on the radio, and they say it could be upwards of 100 pills. I know it's a political add, but there might and I say MIGHT be some truth to it being more than 1 pill.
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