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Comment CBS is irrelevant (Score 1) 180

Broadcast TV networks in general are a fading image in the public eye. CBS, in particular, has gone out of its way to annoy (Star Trek Discovery) and considers itself a streaming provider. It'll take more than an overproduced sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a sequel to gain enough eyeballs to make it worth their while. They're edging towards irrelevancy and gaining speed.

Submission + - Apple fires employee after daughter's iPhone X video goes viral

HockeyPuck writes: In a brutal reminder of the secrecy tech companies enforce on employees, Apple recently fired an employee after his daughter posted a video of the iPhone X. Apple has reportedly fired a iPhone team member after his daughter Brooke posted a hands-on video showing off his iPhone X before launch. His daughter took down the video as soon as Apple requested it, but the takedown came too late to prevent the clip from going viral, leading to seemingly endless reposts and commentary.

Submission + - Wall Street's Research Jobs Are the Most Likely To Be Upended By AI (qz.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Research analysts are the most likely employees on Wall Street to find themselves working with—or being replaced by—robots, according to a survey by Greenwich Associates. By next year, some 75% of banks and financial firms will either explore or implement artificial intelligence technologies, harnessing a variety of digital services to extract insights from mountains of data. While AI is probably near the peak of its hype cycle, several factors have helped it gain traction in recent years, according to Greenwich. Billions of images and documents are now available online for training computers to spot patterns and other high-level tasks. Advances in graphical processing units, which are adept at the kind of data crunching required by AI, are making sifting through daunting datasets much easier. The cloud has also made it cheaper for researchers and startups to boost their computing power to service sophisticated AI-enabled systems. AI makes sense for financial research, as machines can crunch reams of data more quickly than human analysts and, with the right data, identify obscure correlations and patterns.

Submission + - The Untold Story of John Draper, the Hacker Who Inspired Apple's Founders (dailydot.com)

blottsie writes: This new profile on John Draper, aka Captain Crunch, dives into Draper's history as one of the original "phone phreaks" and how his creation helped inspire Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who gave a rare interview for the profile.

“Over time, I liked seeing Draper every few months to hear more about these unbelievable phone tricks that they could turn into movies one day,” Wozniak tells the Daily Dot. “Jobs started avoiding Crunch, however, afraid that it would put us too close to getting arrested. And Jobs didn’t have a feeling for what I saw as good, the exciting and entertaining knowledge that Draper had of ways to do impossible things.”


Submission + - SPAM: Study links rapid ice sheet melting with distant volcanic eruptions

schwit1 writes: "Over a time span of 1,000 years, we found that volcanic eruptions generally correspond with enhanced ice sheet melting within a year or so," Francesco Muschitiello, a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said in a news release.

The volcanoes of note weren't situated next-door, but thousands of miles from the ice sheet, a reminder of the unexpected global impacts of volcanic activity.

The new research — detailed this week in the journal Nature Communications — suggests ash ejected into the atmosphere by erupting volcanoes can be deposited thousands of miles away. When it's deposited on ice sheets, the dark particles cause the ice to absorb more thermal energy and accelerate melting.

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Comment Self Delivery = death of Auto Dealers (Score 2) 77

The folks you should be afraid of is the NADA (National Automobile Dealers Association) as they'll fight self-driving (and potentially self-delivering) vehicles to their dying breath. Oh, BTW, they're one of the largest lobbying groups at both the state and national levels. Expect laws to enable self-delivery to be delayed a number of years due to this boneheaded lot.

Comment Be reasonable.. (Score 0) 86

A reasonable way for policing these kinds of breaches is to enact legislation requiring those companies pay each and every person whose identity was leaked a reasonable compensation. In my case, that would be about $120 per year as I've already had to close hacked accounts, change personal data and hire an independent identity management firm to clean up the mess and control future issues. 145m x $120 = bankruptcy for Equifax. Sounds good to me.

Comment Over 60 (Score 2) 291

Over 60 and in tech pre-sales. I show up in a room of 20 something IT folks and they act surprised when I not only know what they're doing in dev/ops but can tell them how they got where they are and how to get where they need to go. Occasionally, I have to remind them I've seen many of the wrong turns and stupid (failed) projects first-hand and can add some perspective to their own plans. Sadly, I'm acutely aware of the view of age and experience in the industry at large and have experienced firsthand HR moves where companies carefully carve out the over-50 crowd for "HR actions" while preemptively claiming no age bias by tossing in a few younger folks in the mix. I personally know *many* folks in my same age bracket that simply can't find any work in the field, despite having all relevant certifications and experience. Companies are hurting themselves by their blind HR policies that target age as a negative attribute. "The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas." -- Carl Sagan

Comment Balkanization (Score 2) 232

It's interesting that much of the "fake news" circulating today is, at its core, designed to balkanize national populations, increase factional friction and reduce cohesiveness of organizations such as NATO and the EU. It's time to ask who would benefit most from such a move? "The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas." -- Carl Sagan

Comment GM != leadership (Score 4, Insightful) 382

Elon's had a long history of proving naysayers like this wrong. My money's (literally) on him to pull this off. The folks truly terrified of self-driving cars are the National Auto Dealers Association (NADA) who stand to lose the most when you can order a car online and have it deliver itself.

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