funny how americans blame the labour unions for the destruction of their car manufacturing. when the country and companies that forced that destruction have
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Soooo many questions. so few answers.
I'll start with my immediate thoughts. High dropouts are not absolutely a bad thing. In fact its pretty normal in all western schools that have zero focus on "how to learn". The "problem" is clearly earlier on in the education system, wherby students are reaching college age not knowing "how to learn", and suddenly finding its important.
Next up - the cost of learning/knowledge material. I know of textbooks from the US being priced in the multi thousand dollar range (or simply not available for student purchase). "Teachers/Lecturers" aren't that important (I say that having graduated with a joint 1st from a top UK university having acquired a lot of warnings criticizing me for hardly ever attending lectures, but I wasn't skipping the material, I was skipping lecturers reading from textbooks).
All that said, I am left feeling these stories are more about attacking education that provides chances for the lower classes in the US to become middle and upper classes. Nothing about this ITT tech story addresses this one way or the other. Where are the employment stats for those who successfully graduate? Where are the interviews with graduates? I just see a ton of hyperbole he said she said. And whenever I come across that I automatically assume its a political power based decision, rather than a rational "good for everyone" one.
I know that all sounds a bit confused - that happens with "immediate thoughts". Its a first attempt at thinking about something we haven't really been allowed to think about.
Why am I thinking along these lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
Education was set up as a "production line" into large public institutions. But the politicians destroyed the "large public institutions", and education doesn't teach people to be their own institution.
"If you are interested in the model of learning you don't start from this production line mentality"
Their growth rate is not going to slow or deviate significantly in our lifetimes.
Yes, I've seen the arguments to the contrary. But they are all based on wholly flawed assumptions.
the op is "Why China won’t own next-generation manufacturing".
Well. the worlds fastest super computers are what deliver next-generation manufacturing.
As for massively behind the us in nuclear capability.
Not for long. They already poached the US's best talent. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/542526/china-details-next...
How is that "vastly better"?
We're talking about production not the product. and that isnt complicated. Asian markets have an abundundant supply of highly skilled labour. western markets do not.
furthermore. that isnt a surpise. its policy.
Maybe if you close your eyes and click your heals together three times.
Meanwhile. in the slightly more real world.
http://theweek.com/articles/461968/rise-fall-detroit-timelin...
http://news.sky.com/story/china-signs-russian-gas-deal-worth...
were not part of a gas for weapons agreement.
which it. well. was.
then you have stuff like http://m.sputniknews.com/military/20160217/1034893494/russia...
the difference is. both china and russia sign deals "payment in kind" us signs deals where they get nothing but some of their debt paid off from other (broke) g8 countries.
you know that's not sustainable for the us right?
and the ussr. despite everything. destroyed us global military equipement sales.
China seems to be picking at a dead carcass tbh, not exactly much left to take.
US is so scared of chinese tech advancement they have banned exports of high end intel chips there. but that hasnt stopped them taking all the top places of the worlds fastest supercomputers.
As soon as a couple of Chinese unis overtake the ivy league colleges will there be anything left in the US except bones?
would you even know whether they have already?
perhaps you missed junes
China maintained its No. 1 ranking on the 47th edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s top supercomputers, but with a new system built entirely using processors designed and made in China. Sunway TaihuLight is the new No. 1 system with 93 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the LINPACK benchmark.
The US has virtually no education system, what does exist is expensive and not practically oriented.
Basic supply and demand. US has high demand for skills and totally non competitive supply. (even in tech now, which is why they need the H1B visa thing)
But dont expect it to get fixed. It's that way on purpose.
Only Samsung devices have been shown to give the baseband processor backdoor access to device storage. Afaik.
do unto others as you would have done unto you.
So still missing an explanation of why they should expect less.
We're not talking about "some people the US government employs".
We're talking about cyber criminals of the highest order of the kind the US wants everyone to believe even Guantanamo bay and the raft of torture there is too good for, committing the kind of crimes that attract multiple life sentences.
Why shouldn't somewhere like Germany order their extradition and subject them to the same fate similar European citizens have been subject too.
I'm sure they tell themselves "its OK cos its patriotic". Rest of the world doesn't/shouldn't see it that way.
Neither do I particularly. I was just suspending my general disbelief for a moment and judging "the US" by its own standards.
Manning.
If the US has that little respect for its own citizens. Why should these guys expect better treatment from rest of the world?
That is nothing so much against lawyers, the are essential in the real world where land is a finite resource.
But the better solution to problems in an environment when CPU ticks are not a finite resource, and bandwidth is nowhere near capacity are technical and educational problems, not legal ones.
I'd much rather lawyers just kept of the internet entirely.
Its a very big step to be in a situation where [i]everything[/i] you do on a computer comes with zero expectation of privacy, despite the corporate attempts to machinate the two because cloud.
I'm seeing a greater and greater move to "airgapped" (network but not internet connected) machines in the home for exactly this reason. (even if it is still very small scale, that's where these trends start).
I'm currently looking for a solution that blocks all connections by default for the entire network, with a simple gui to allow failed hostnames/ip addresses and with the option to demilitarise one or two server style machines for torrents and cloud services that then serve only that content to the rest of the internal network. (like hostfile blocking only at the IP level and defaulting to whitelist). Something like a blend of IPTABLES and wireshark with a simple ui.
I know they exist (I've seen something similar in large corporate offices), but not seen anything for SHO.
Still has windows 10 on it (my only windows machine) since I need occasionally to use the latest versions of office, and I use eclipse for the odd bit of programming I need to do away from my main dev machine (common workspace with linux is awesome).
Macbook Air was good, in 2008. couple of the staff use them.
Be aware, unlike the Macs the different versions of the XPS13 over the years are very different machines. Only this years model has the 14 hour battery life for example. But many stores (such as Amazon) stock old models.
I was actually commenting to collegues last week that Dell appear to have become the world leader in "real" computing - laptop, desktop and server. They have a lot of skeletons to shake though before they are perceived that way.
So an accidental thumb tap a touchpad + trying to delete a character produces a wait for the entire app to reload and then get back to where you were - which can take minutes assuming you were lucky and said app hadn't decided to wait 30 minutes to autosave.
In fact I had turned off fast tap on the touchpad for exactly this reason, glad I can turn it back on again.
If moving the mouse to the backspace button (seriously, the whole point of keyboard shortcuts is for people typing with both hands and not using the mouse) is such a problem, clean the mouse and turn up its sensitivity.
Or better yet, get a touchscreen, you'll never want to go back to mister mouse.
Wow, never thought that would need explaining here :(
and as a bonus, I just discovered the windows + left key, which is properly awesome on this shiney new(ish) xps 13 (much better than the old rotate screen functionality).
Just because people use some software or websites that publicly display themselves, does not mean they would ever be willing to accept everything they do on their computer being visible to random strangers.
Kids on the other hand... Stripping away privacy has them so unihibited the average not-even-teenagers-yet cyberkids are sexting friends and total strangers alike instead of drinking an old fashioned beer.
And I used to worry they would never learn to write by hand :(
https://sites.google.com/site/astudyofentropy/project-defini...
EDIT: Secondly
This "Furthermore, the flaw makes a part of the PRNG output completely predictable"
= Predict the random number generator no matter what it is seeded with.
Dear God.
On the plus side, these games have given the Russians near total access to all the important US systems, while they feed disinformation into their non hardened systems. So at least we can laugh at the irony.
wifi passwords by default for example.
And I don't care if pointing that out costs me mod points. Its seems on these types of conversations negative points are a mark of honesty.
"Secondly, there’s the implementation. This is a bit more tricky because there’s plenty of scope for influencing either the software implementations or the standards upon which that implementation is based." vs. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/15/still_200k_iot_heart...
And if you think the vulnerabilities of the shocking state of openssl stop at heartbleed (which is as obvious as backdoors get), you've obviously not given the code even a cursory glance over.
https obviously greater than http But if you trust it with your life you wont have a life. It's as simple as that. (and tls is basic compared to tor, and even that we have seen is broken to hell and back, or silkroad would still be running.)
Signal and especially OTR are the current state of the art. Apple went the security by obscurity route and once again proved it's inferior.
but basically totally broken by design.
http://www.interworx.com/community/is-ssl-tls-broken/
further tls:sender,recipient and server can read the message
end to end:only sender and reciever can read the messages even though a sever facilitates connecting them to each other.