If your job is filling out forms or collating information to produce reports, if it's taking notes, if it's taking inventory, if it's managing schedules, if it's producing documentation...

All those jobs are going to fall to IT. Not entirely, but it'll be human oversight and an AI replacing a team of white collar workers.

At the same time, it'll be embodied in robots and unskilled manual labor jobs will evaporate (this is already happening).

Good luck adjusting when the disruption is broad, deep, and rapid throughout the economy and workers can't retrain as quickly as jobs are eliminated. This isn't the automobile, this is "cheap obedient slaves with almost no support cost for those who can afford the upfront price tag".

I was really talking about in the beginning of Internet advertising.

I do actually recall what things were like before AOL and eternal September. Google didn't start the hire, they just perfected arson.

In the beginning, websites hosted their own ads. Then they farmed them out to someone else to manage, then that was (almost instantly) abused to deliver malware, then people started using adblockers and websites started implementing adblocker detection and refusing to serve people with such protections enabled.

Nobody seems to be willing to route both the original video and the ads through the same server to seamlessly splice the ads in and make ad detection and suppression more or less impossible.

I'm not sure Disney needs to worry much about inserting ads into streams; the low effort direct-to-video sequels they churn out are effectively merch and theme park ads.

If they give away access to that crap, they'll make it up on plushies and clothing and theme park ticket sales.

Orbital datacenters make no sense when you consider power consumption, radiator requirements, and speed of light delay communicating with the ground. The laws of physics say an orbital datacenter cannot work as efficiently as a terrestrial one.

My question, given that the datacenter concept is obviously a cover story, is what is it a cover story for? The most obvious is that it's to cover stock market fraud, but if satellites actually go up, then there are other, more sinister possibilities.

That factory will stop looking for full time workers now that they've discovered the desperate will take underpaid part time slots that don't require benefits.

We should be looking at this story with horror, not admiration.

Theft of IP is only OK when large American companies do it.

When I was young, I thought people blathering on about class war were propagandized idiots. Turns out I was the propagandized one.

People generally act based on their own selfish interests, and the rich want to be richer. They can buy policy, we can't. They are insulated from us by their wealth and we don't matter. We have no rights, we're not people because we're not rich. They can steal from us but can then wield the power of the government to prevent others from stealing from them in turn.

They don't need to form an army and march on us, they act based on their individual interests that happen to align with those of other rich people most of the time - and sometimes they do actually conspire against us.

In other civilised countries, if the lunch menu says $20, you pay $20. You don't need to bring an accountant with you.

How is it that in the US, gas stations and liquor stores can post honest prices, but IIRC, nobody else did?

I must admit, the title of the course sounds a bit political, but I thought best to look it up before leaping wildly to conclusions:

They're not going to identify where the weapons are deployed and they're more or less already notified in the public press that they're coming and from which countries. Also... it's not like Russia can do anything about it. They're not going to attack a NATO base to destroy a weapons cache. They can't strike all that far into Ukraine accurately enough to target anything specific either.

I'm all for Russia wasting effort that could have been applied elsewhere to give more advantage to them on the battlefield, though.

...that it's just New York City. Hopefully the idea will spread.

Laissez faire capitalism is great if everyone is honest. But in this reality there are a lot of incredibly dishonest people who will do anything for a buck. A modicum of base regulation is desirable to keep consumers from getting swindled at every turn. I applaud efforts like these.

Sinophobia still running rampant?

DLC and versions. It's still a treadmill for the consumer, but it's an honest one.

A la carte; new features can be sold. Every year you bundle them into the new base version... doesn't affect people with the old version who don't pay.

Every decade you set a new baseline and stop releasing DLC for your old version. Or every five years or whatever.

The point is, the subscription model isn't there for you, it's there for them. The new features aren't there for you, they are there to justify the subscription model. And to bloat the system so you have to buy new hardware which breaks your previous license because it was tied to the OS. It's 99% scam.

I still have WinNT running in a VM. It's idle, not connected to a network, essentially frozen, but it still works if I want to poke around. It would be dumb to open it to the Internet to any degree, but I could do it. I bought the OS, it's *mine*.

"We're not saying it was the Chinese ... but it was the Chinese."

Security updates due to newly discovered exploits? Yes.

ANYTHING ELSE NO! Do not change my OS from the one I purchased unless and until I explicitly request it.