People used to react to headlines in making a decision to purchase a newspaper. Now they search for topics of interest in making a decision to click through to whomever has the info they wanted before they went looking for news.
Once they had the newspaper in their hands, they unfolded it to discover that the only interesting headline was above the fold on the front page, and the rest was crap written by communications majors.
Now they read the article, then go back to the search engine to find other things they want to know, often on exactly the same topic.
I.e., newspapers are no longer 80 pages long, 300 on Sunday. They're 1 story deep, 24/7/365 (but really 9-5 on weekdays because even on the internet you can't get people to work any time other than the space between breakfast and dinner).
The salacious nature of headlines has actually been reduced. "If it bleeds it leads" is no longer the most profitable strategy. Breadth of topics and close tracking of current topicality are more valuable, and more likely to get people to pluck the leaves from your tree (and with them the parasitic corporate eggs ads that are glued to their undersides).
The Wall Street Journal has been doing that sort of thing for nearly a century.
Their credulity for their own post hoc ergo propter hoc is all but criminal.
And remember, Yahoo is an aggregator, not a producer. All of those self-satisfied fallacious explanations are generated by other organs.
They haven't had to go the route of seeding headlines with search-engine buzzwords yet, because the financial sites react more to ticker symbols in the body of the articles. Which is why many articles are little more than paragraph-formatted lists of which stocks had a similar direction of motion that day.
Did the shoe and underwear bombers even try to reach the cockpit?
The thing that makes aircraft so interesting as a target is that one small piece of damage to it causes a flaming ball of wreckage raining bodies and shards of metal down on the countryside.
What they really proved, at long last, is that gaseous systems are stable for small perturbations.
In layman's terms: the Butterfly Effect is bogus. It takes a very large perturbation to convert a stable portion of atmosphere into a storm, and the flutter of a butterfly's wings is not significant to tipping the balance.
You can buy device at your local Fry's Electronics for $2 (yes, two bucks, batteries included) that has a magnetic sensor on one end and a UV LED on the other. It's about the size of a thumb drive.
With it, you can detect the magnetic ink and the fluorescent strip (which has the denomination printed on it) that are now used on all United States currency of $5 or greater (and maybe the $1 but I didn't check any and I don't have one on me now).
Those invisible-ink pen things were a total scam. These doobers, on the other hand, work great.
Once they're ubiquitous, the counterfeiting will dry up.
The regulations will be changed as airports are reconfigured to fit planes with longer wings.
The 70% savings in fuel cost will be sucked up somewhere, as long as the airlines end up with an 0.25% profit increase in the quarter in which their first passenger flight is flown.
By 2035 it's almost certain those will be carbon-fiber aircraft.
The fuel will be somewhere in the fuselage, possibly in the seat cushions (oh don't roll your eyes like that would make flying any more dangerous).
Moving the moment of inertia in will make the aircraft less stable about its forward axis, but computer flight algorithms will keep it from wobbling too much.
Of course, when the airlines get these, there will be a "green" fee, a "designed by MIT" fee and an "environmental feel good" fee added onto your ticket price along with all the junk fees.
And then there's the fee for adding on the fees...
A locked cockpit door would just keep the screams of the passengers from reaching the pilots as the aircraft split in two from the bomb. It would do nothing to alleviate the need to search people and luggage getting on aircraft.
Apple lost the use of one of several hundred test phones for a few days, and one of its employees was embarassed.
But he deserved to be embarassed, because he was a drunken moron who let the source of his income literally fall out of his possession.
The unit itself could probably be valued at a few thousand dollars
The test time lost, a few thousand more dollars. But it could be argued the drunken moron wasn't taking valid data anyway; so unless Apple wants more embarassment, it will not press this in court.
Last I checked, if you have $5000 and you sold something for $8500, you don't have an extra $2500 that came from a mysterious source, you lost $3500 somewhere unknown.
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Correct.
People used to react to headlines in making a decision to purchase a newspaper. Now they search for topics of interest in making a decision to click through to whomever has the info they wanted before they went looking for news.
Once they had the newspaper in their hands, they unfolded it to discover that the only interesting headline was above the fold on the front page, and the rest was crap written by communications majors.
Now they read the article, then go back to the search engine to find other things they want to know, often on exactly the same topic.
I.e., newspapers are no longer 80 pages long, 300 on Sunday. They're 1 story deep, 24/7/365 (but really 9-5 on weekdays because even on the internet you can't get people to work any time other than the space between breakfast and dinner).
The salacious nature of headlines has actually been reduced. "If it bleeds it leads" is no longer the most profitable strategy. Breadth of topics and close tracking of current topicality are more valuable, and more likely to get people to pluck the leaves from your tree (and with them the parasitic corporate eggs ads that are glued to their undersides).
Haha! Fooled you back! I looked in the Firehose and saw all the well-researched actual tech articles.
No, that's the nature of finance reporting.
The Wall Street Journal has been doing that sort of thing for nearly a century.
Their credulity for their own post hoc ergo propter hoc is all but criminal.
And remember, Yahoo is an aggregator, not a producer. All of those self-satisfied fallacious explanations are generated by other organs.
They haven't had to go the route of seeding headlines with search-engine buzzwords yet, because the financial sites react more to ticker symbols in the body of the articles. Which is why many articles are little more than paragraph-formatted lists of which stocks had a similar direction of motion that day.
Your feelings misled you.
1981.
Thanks for fertilizing my zoysia. Now scram.
Google collected broadcast data by accident, but as yet has not violated my privacy.
So the German government wants Google to violate my privacy by giving my data to the German government.
Which is (as many have pointed out) exactly who i want to be protected from when I decide to consider my data private.
Germany needs to be sat down in the back of the EU with a tall, cone-shaped hat on its head. Again.
Then the airlines will charge a fee for royalties paid to Ticketmaster, and a fee for collecting the royalty from you.
Did the shoe and underwear bombers even try to reach the cockpit?
The thing that makes aircraft so interesting as a target is that one small piece of damage to it causes a flaming ball of wreckage raining bodies and shards of metal down on the countryside.
Yeah, apparently the application suspends notquitewrong.com accounts.
Only in the presence of large perturbations delivered head-on with great force.
What they really proved, at long last, is that gaseous systems are stable for small perturbations.
In layman's terms: the Butterfly Effect is bogus. It takes a very large perturbation to convert a stable portion of atmosphere into a storm, and the flutter of a butterfly's wings is not significant to tipping the balance.
You can buy device at your local Fry's Electronics for $2 (yes, two bucks, batteries included) that has a magnetic sensor on one end and a UV LED on the other. It's about the size of a thumb drive.
With it, you can detect the magnetic ink and the fluorescent strip (which has the denomination printed on it) that are now used on all United States currency of $5 or greater (and maybe the $1 but I didn't check any and I don't have one on me now).
Those invisible-ink pen things were a total scam. These doobers, on the other hand, work great.
Once they're ubiquitous, the counterfeiting will dry up.
Mod parent up.
Not only because he's right, but because I want the groupthink aligned with presumption of innocence on the part of Law Enforcement.
The Airplane-mode switch is near the top of most System menus.
Seriously, if the average user can find it, the Secret Service can.
The local Barney Fife wasn't going to be able to figure out there was evidence on the phone anyway, so that angle is moot.
"We are the Google. You have already been indexed."
The bigger you are, the less likely you are to see that every tiny thing you do is free of someone else's IP.
The regulations will be changed as airports are reconfigured to fit planes with longer wings.
The 70% savings in fuel cost will be sucked up somewhere, as long as the airlines end up with an 0.25% profit increase in the quarter in which their first passenger flight is flown.
By 2035 it's almost certain those will be carbon-fiber aircraft.
The fuel will be somewhere in the fuselage, possibly in the seat cushions (oh don't roll your eyes like that would make flying any more dangerous).
Moving the moment of inertia in will make the aircraft less stable about its forward axis, but computer flight algorithms will keep it from wobbling too much.
Of course, when the airlines get these, there will be a "green" fee, a "designed by MIT" fee and an "environmental feel good" fee added onto your ticket price along with all the junk fees.
And then there's the fee for adding on the fees...
Fail.
"Academia" has three syllables. Use "Elites" instead.
Fail.
We'd blow up white people too if they were the ones shouting "Jihad!" and strapping C4 to their children.
Fail.
The last people who wanted to build a jobs program were the Bush administration.
Fail.
A locked cockpit door would just keep the screams of the passengers from reaching the pilots as the aircraft split in two from the bomb. It would do nothing to alleviate the need to search people and luggage getting on aircraft.
Interesting. I don't remember writing it that way. Did someone edit the submission before it was posted? Or has it just been a long weekend?
What exact "civil damages" would there be, here?
Apple lost the use of one of several hundred test phones for a few days, and one of its employees was embarassed.
But he deserved to be embarassed, because he was a drunken moron who let the source of his income literally fall out of his possession.
The unit itself could probably be valued at a few thousand dollars
The test time lost, a few thousand more dollars. But it could be argued the drunken moron wasn't taking valid data anyway; so unless Apple wants more embarassment, it will not press this in court.
$10-15k isn't going to bankrupt Gizmodo.
Last I checked, if you have $5000 and you sold something for $8500, you don't have an extra $2500 that came from a mysterious source, you lost $3500 somewhere unknown.