I know I would be happier telecommuting if it meant being able to migrate to someplace warm and sunny for the winter months. Being able to enjoy an endless summer would be an immense benefit.
On the other hand you have the omnipresent corporations vying to create a perfect profile of you and your spending habits. Anonymous transactions would be the natural enemy of those who sell your consumer information to insurance companies, for example, so I suppose it is to be expected to see shill posts downplaying the benefits of carrying cash.
Personally, I use credit and a store loyalty card for buying healthy food, and cash only for junk food and alcohol. I may not be able to control where my data ends up, but at least I can fuck with it.
CNN would still fall under the Time Warner umbrella, and so the usage of shills wouldn't necessarily be Zucker's decision. I have no idea what policies Time Warner has in place in protecting their subsidiaries though, and this is all just pure speculation anyway.
“People are like the media has an ethical... But, all the nice cutesy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school, you’re just like, that’s adorable. That’s adorable! This is a business. Especially cable news, you know? Cable news isn’t the New York Times, and it’s not even like NBC News. I mean NBC News still gets 20 million viewers a night. Cable news is getting a million. So, they got to do what they got to do to make their money.... I love the news business, but at the same time, I’m very cynical about it, and at the same time so are my colleagues. [Laughs] I’m not alone." -- CNN Health Producer John Bonifield
I think it is important to think of them as a profit driven corporation, first and foremost. Hiring 'reputation' firms like on this list should simply be expected. Sometimes I wonder if slashdot charges by the mod point.
The meaning is clear. CNN claims the right to identify people who post offensive content. Whether CNN has that right is the only question here.
This person is not a government figure, but a private citizen lawfully exercising their first amendment right under the expectation of anonymity.
The supposed purpose of CNN is to report information pertaining to the public's interest. It is not their mandate to be the thought police, to hold the public at large accountable to blasphemy laws of their own choosing. The subject is not a government figure, nor has a crime occurred, therefore CNN does not have the right to violate their privacy.
To go a step further and have the audacity to expect this person to modify their speech or else, is enough for any liberty conscious person to sit up and take notice.
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Educating children is hard work. It takes time, effort, and passion (which dies with burnout). If you want to find a killer app to fix education, make one that magically properly funds our K-12 education so that teachers make a living wage appropriate for their region and hours of work, reduces class sizes to 20 children per class, and guarantees healthy food for everyone working or learning on a K-12 campus. Do that and watch education improve.
Apps are not merely a replacement for teachers any more than you can just hand a kid a book and expect them to teach themselves. Unlike books though, apps are interactive and dynamic, and can be programmed to provide content that matches a student's comprehension level. What's more, apps also can provide useful feedback for instructors on where students are struggling and need coaching or encouragement.
You're right that education is hard. Just throwing extra money at schools, without improving teaching methods and efficiencies, is wasteful though. Small class sizes and proper nutrition is needed, but it isn't the solution to a one-size-fits-all type of instruction. Ideally every student would have a personal tutor, but the most realistic approach is to give the instructor means to be the most effective, freeing them from tedious work and rote instruction so that they can give students the individual attention they need. Apps can be a very useful tool for that.
Teaching models are changing, thankfully. Now we have the mobile technology that is inexpensive enough that each student can have a device, and there is interactive course material that adapts to the student's comprehension and provides the instructor with feedback on the student's progress.
It makes me jealous, actually, that the students that want to learn can do so at their own pace that doesn't involve just sitting there reading the text while the instructor deals with the mouthbreathers and kids with behavioral issues. More and more instruction is actually occurring out of class, and class time is being used for coaching and group activities.
TL;DR version: this person has no expectation of privacy thanks to a news event they helped create. If you want privacy, don't do shit like this or at least be better at hiding who the fuck you are.
In other words, if you produce satire/parody with the intent of being anonymous which is not flattering of CNN, which Trump finds amusing enough to broadcast via his platform, be prepared for a shitstorm if you do not take sufficient means of hiding your identity.
Last time I checked, CNN was masquerading as a respectable news organization that adhered to journalistic code of ethics. Turns out they consider themselves the arbiters of what is acceptable as a meme, and will use their unique position of power to enforce their will. That's the only part about this story that I find newsworthy.
CNN is not publishing "HanA**holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.
CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.
Emphasis mine. I take this to mean that CNN is now policing social media and will expose anonymous sources of political speech that they deem offensive. The only reason why this guy is news is because they wanted to put him there, under the laughable pretense that this animation encourages violence against reporters.
I find it interesting that CNN felt it necessary to track down this person and extract an apology over speech they deemed offensive to their brand, and played the victim card to cover what amounts to petty retribution. It would seem that they are already at their limit in how much they can negatively affect Trump, therefore they will attempt to use their influence over someone more vulnerable.
CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.
Just in case there was any doubt as to the kind of reputable news organization you actually are, CNN. I appreciate that.
As always, when a conservative criticizes someone, he ends up describing himself perfectly. You at least described Trump there.
How predictable that your first response is to slap a label on me. Thank you for proving my point about being fixated on identity.
Aside from zero evidence to suggest they tampered with the vote across the nation. There wasn't anything at all suggesting it in those leaked e-mails you mentioned.
Please note I didn't accuse them of tampering, only that they had the motive to do so. The clear evidence of conspiracy against Sanders in the emails means they could not be trusted to hold a fair and impartial election, and thus, there is no reason to believe or trust their official figures. They are not credible.
It would be nice if we had rules in congress that the makeup had to be similar to actual demographics of the country. Enough of these old white men making the rules (fwiw, I'm middle aged white man). Impossible to enact but would be nice to see.
Diversity quotas for congress, what a great idea. Because reverse discrimination isn't discrimination at all.
Such insufferable arrogance. To see it modded up so, speaks volumes to the culture that values identity first and foremost, and not integrity of character.
When the DNC chair has to resign because of leaked emails, there is no reason to have any confidence in their official tallies. There is no accounting for their thumb on the scales when there are myriad of ways for pressure and influence and procedural rules to affect results.
You question the intelligence of average voters and flyover state 'hicks', but I have to wonder who really has the learning disability when Clinton loyalists double down on being condescending douche bags and directing a constant barrage of irrational hate towards Trump when that very attitude is what helped get him elected.
I'm reminded of the youtube political commentators where many of them have urged their audience to support them via Patreon after the advertisement policy was changed. For me, their critical observations serve as an indispensable counter to the agenda-driven reporting, and I've taken to supporting them in this method.
I've noticed that many artists and musicians have turned to Patreon as well, seeming to find good results in the pay-what-you-want method of funding. That's not exactly your typical MBA style business plan, but if it still manages to produce good content or a useful service without necessarily requiring payment from everyone wanting to enjoy it, then I'm all for it.
Advertisement is pervasive both online and offline. What people want to avoid is advertisement that demands their attention and cannot be ignored, or in some cases actually malicious.
There may be new media, but its still using old fashioned payment methods. I'm not going to buy a subscription to every paywalled news service that happens to offer up an interesting article stub, and so far there hasn't been any universal micropayment system to fill in the void.
Given the critical mass of Google and Facebook single sign on for so many sites now, they would be in the unique position to act as brokers for any such micropayment system. Then we'll see if there is any real money to be made in new media.
A Russian company is far more vulnerable to what really are mafia tactics.
Exactly.
This comes in the wake of a senior executive of Kaspersky being arrested for classified reasons. The Krebs article speculates on some reasons for the arrest.
Even assuming Putin did not want to take advantage of Kasperky's position of having a software foothold on millions of machines, the corruption in Russia makes the firm particularly vulnerable to organized cyber criminals. That reason alone is enough to not trust Kaspersky code.
Extinct? Setting aside the cultures that venerate cattle, there will always be a demand for 'organic' meat and milk.
If however there are less feed lots that pack in cattle in inhumane conditions, producing pollution and requiring antibiotics, then fewer bovines in the world would be a good thing.
That's institutionalized racism in a nutshell. When you don't even realize you're doing it.
Or when you do realize you're doing it, but it suits your own purposes. Such as hand-waving away statistical data on violent crime and test scores as merely a byproduct of poverty; or enacting diversity quotas, or supporting affirmative action, or selectively allowing only certain race-based special interest groups, or setting a cultural double standard over the use of language. Make it acceptable to project lofty egalitarian values while in practice showing that some are more equal than others and need special exceptions because reasons.
Sort of like the group that idolizes violent gang culture in art and music, forms violent and destructive protests over issues perceived as a matter of race, and parades chanting for the death of police officers, all wanting to place the blame on officers first and foremost without any consideration of the long term effect of their actions and values. If that isn't institutionalized racism, it at least has to be perfect irony.
While it is true that cats tend to be independently minded, they also form bonds in a group and have an established hierarchy. They are very social, but also protective of each other when sufficiently bonded.
I've experienced cases where when a cat senses one of their group to be in danger or trapped, it will go and try to seek help. They will vocalize when they feel something is wrong or requires attention.
An example, one day one of our outside cats (an adopted stray) went missing. We didn't think much of it at first as its a pretty common occurrence, but after several days there was a change in behavior in one of the other outside cats. It became extremely vocal, following us around and demanding attention until we followed it. It led us to a small structure on a neighboring property and was acting very agitated. When we looked inside, we found the missing cat, which had been trapped and would have died had its partner not alerted us.
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I know I would be happier telecommuting if it meant being able to migrate to someplace warm and sunny for the winter months. Being able to enjoy an endless summer would be an immense benefit.
On the other hand you have the omnipresent corporations vying to create a perfect profile of you and your spending habits. Anonymous transactions would be the natural enemy of those who sell your consumer information to insurance companies, for example, so I suppose it is to be expected to see shill posts downplaying the benefits of carrying cash.
Personally, I use credit and a store loyalty card for buying healthy food, and cash only for junk food and alcohol. I may not be able to control where my data ends up, but at least I can fuck with it.
CNN would still fall under the Time Warner umbrella, and so the usage of shills wouldn't necessarily be Zucker's decision. I have no idea what policies Time Warner has in place in protecting their subsidiaries though, and this is all just pure speculation anyway.
“People are like the media has an ethical ... But, all the nice cutesy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school, you’re just like, that’s adorable. That’s adorable! This is a business. Especially cable news, you know? Cable news isn’t the New York Times, and it’s not even like NBC News. I mean NBC News still gets 20 million viewers a night. Cable news is getting a million. So, they got to do what they got to do to make their money.... I love the news business, but at the same time, I’m very cynical about it, and at the same time so are my colleagues. [Laughs] I’m not alone." -- CNN Health Producer John Bonifield
I think it is important to think of them as a profit driven corporation, first and foremost. Hiring 'reputation' firms like on this list should simply be expected. Sometimes I wonder if slashdot charges by the mod point.
The meaning is clear. CNN claims the right to identify people who post offensive content. Whether CNN has that right is the only question here.
This person is not a government figure, but a private citizen lawfully exercising their first amendment right under the expectation of anonymity.
The supposed purpose of CNN is to report information pertaining to the public's interest. It is not their mandate to be the thought police, to hold the public at large accountable to blasphemy laws of their own choosing. The subject is not a government figure, nor has a crime occurred, therefore CNN does not have the right to violate their privacy.
To go a step further and have the audacity to expect this person to modify their speech or else, is enough for any liberty conscious person to sit up and take notice.
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Educating children is hard work. It takes time, effort, and passion (which dies with burnout). If you want to find a killer app to fix education, make one that magically properly funds our K-12 education so that teachers make a living wage appropriate for their region and hours of work, reduces class sizes to 20 children per class, and guarantees healthy food for everyone working or learning on a K-12 campus. Do that and watch education improve.
Apps are not merely a replacement for teachers any more than you can just hand a kid a book and expect them to teach themselves. Unlike books though, apps are interactive and dynamic, and can be programmed to provide content that matches a student's comprehension level. What's more, apps also can provide useful feedback for instructors on where students are struggling and need coaching or encouragement.
You're right that education is hard. Just throwing extra money at schools, without improving teaching methods and efficiencies, is wasteful though. Small class sizes and proper nutrition is needed, but it isn't the solution to a one-size-fits-all type of instruction. Ideally every student would have a personal tutor, but the most realistic approach is to give the instructor means to be the most effective, freeing them from tedious work and rote instruction so that they can give students the individual attention they need. Apps can be a very useful tool for that.
Teaching models are changing, thankfully. Now we have the mobile technology that is inexpensive enough that each student can have a device, and there is interactive course material that adapts to the student's comprehension and provides the instructor with feedback on the student's progress.
It makes me jealous, actually, that the students that want to learn can do so at their own pace that doesn't involve just sitting there reading the text while the instructor deals with the mouthbreathers and kids with behavioral issues. More and more instruction is actually occurring out of class, and class time is being used for coaching and group activities.
TL;DR version: this person has no expectation of privacy thanks to a news event they helped create. If you want privacy, don't do shit like this or at least be better at hiding who the fuck you are.
In other words, if you produce satire/parody with the intent of being anonymous which is not flattering of CNN, which Trump finds amusing enough to broadcast via his platform, be prepared for a shitstorm if you do not take sufficient means of hiding your identity.
Last time I checked, CNN was masquerading as a respectable news organization that adhered to journalistic code of ethics. Turns out they consider themselves the arbiters of what is acceptable as a meme, and will use their unique position of power to enforce their will. That's the only part about this story that I find newsworthy.
CNN is not publishing "HanA**holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.
CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.
Emphasis mine. I take this to mean that CNN is now policing social media and will expose anonymous sources of political speech that they deem offensive. The only reason why this guy is news is because they wanted to put him there, under the laughable pretense that this animation encourages violence against reporters.
Even a stupid excuse to make an example of this guy is better than no excuse at all.
I find it interesting that CNN felt it necessary to track down this person and extract an apology over speech they deemed offensive to their brand, and played the victim card to cover what amounts to petty retribution. It would seem that they are already at their limit in how much they can negatively affect Trump, therefore they will attempt to use their influence over someone more vulnerable.
CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.
Just in case there was any doubt as to the kind of reputable news organization you actually are, CNN. I appreciate that.
As always, when a conservative criticizes someone, he ends up describing himself perfectly. You at least described Trump there.
How predictable that your first response is to slap a label on me. Thank you for proving my point about being fixated on identity.
Aside from zero evidence to suggest they tampered with the vote across the nation. There wasn't anything at all suggesting it in those leaked e-mails you mentioned.
Please note I didn't accuse them of tampering, only that they had the motive to do so. The clear evidence of conspiracy against Sanders in the emails means they could not be trusted to hold a fair and impartial election, and thus, there is no reason to believe or trust their official figures. They are not credible.
It would be nice if we had rules in congress that the makeup had to be similar to actual demographics of the country. Enough of these old white men making the rules (fwiw, I'm middle aged white man). Impossible to enact but would be nice to see.
Diversity quotas for congress, what a great idea. Because reverse discrimination isn't discrimination at all.
Such insufferable arrogance. To see it modded up so, speaks volumes to the culture that values identity first and foremost, and not integrity of character.
When the DNC chair has to resign because of leaked emails, there is no reason to have any confidence in their official tallies. There is no accounting for their thumb on the scales when there are myriad of ways for pressure and influence and procedural rules to affect results.
You question the intelligence of average voters and flyover state 'hicks', but I have to wonder who really has the learning disability when Clinton loyalists double down on being condescending douche bags and directing a constant barrage of irrational hate towards Trump when that very attitude is what helped get him elected.
So now to search news articles within a specific time frame, it can't be done from the news section, but only from the regular search.
Very nonplussed.
I'm reminded of the youtube political commentators where many of them have urged their audience to support them via Patreon after the advertisement policy was changed. For me, their critical observations serve as an indispensable counter to the agenda-driven reporting, and I've taken to supporting them in this method.
I've noticed that many artists and musicians have turned to Patreon as well, seeming to find good results in the pay-what-you-want method of funding. That's not exactly your typical MBA style business plan, but if it still manages to produce good content or a useful service without necessarily requiring payment from everyone wanting to enjoy it, then I'm all for it.
Advertisement is pervasive both online and offline. What people want to avoid is advertisement that demands their attention and cannot be ignored, or in some cases actually malicious.
There may be new media, but its still using old fashioned payment methods. I'm not going to buy a subscription to every paywalled news service that happens to offer up an interesting article stub, and so far there hasn't been any universal micropayment system to fill in the void.
Given the critical mass of Google and Facebook single sign on for so many sites now, they would be in the unique position to act as brokers for any such micropayment system. Then we'll see if there is any real money to be made in new media.
I'd rather be called a sexist, racist asshole than someone who pretends facts don't matter. I might be a jerk, but at least I'm honest.
Here on Slashdot, for that we have the -1 Troll mod.
Eternal penalty hold is my method of choice for Indian-accent cold callers.
A Russian company is far more vulnerable to what really are mafia tactics.
Exactly.
This comes in the wake of a senior executive of Kaspersky being arrested for classified reasons. The Krebs article speculates on some reasons for the arrest.
Even assuming Putin did not want to take advantage of Kasperky's position of having a software foothold on millions of machines, the corruption in Russia makes the firm particularly vulnerable to organized cyber criminals. That reason alone is enough to not trust Kaspersky code.
Extinct? Setting aside the cultures that venerate cattle, there will always be a demand for 'organic' meat and milk.
If however there are less feed lots that pack in cattle in inhumane conditions, producing pollution and requiring antibiotics, then fewer bovines in the world would be a good thing.
You know, if you can't go with, "Read The Fucking Manual," the joke loses something.
The droneship being named "Of Course I still Love You" while the rockets were crash landing makes up for it.
That's institutionalized racism in a nutshell. When you don't even realize you're doing it.
Or when you do realize you're doing it, but it suits your own purposes. Such as hand-waving away statistical data on violent crime and test scores as merely a byproduct of poverty; or enacting diversity quotas, or supporting affirmative action, or selectively allowing only certain race-based special interest groups, or setting a cultural double standard over the use of language. Make it acceptable to project lofty egalitarian values while in practice showing that some are more equal than others and need special exceptions because reasons.
Sort of like the group that idolizes violent gang culture in art and music, forms violent and destructive protests over issues perceived as a matter of race, and parades chanting for the death of police officers, all wanting to place the blame on officers first and foremost without any consideration of the long term effect of their actions and values. If that isn't institutionalized racism, it at least has to be perfect irony.
On a social level, they are basically sociopaths
While it is true that cats tend to be independently minded, they also form bonds in a group and have an established hierarchy. They are very social, but also protective of each other when sufficiently bonded.
I've experienced cases where when a cat senses one of their group to be in danger or trapped, it will go and try to seek help. They will vocalize when they feel something is wrong or requires attention.
An example, one day one of our outside cats (an adopted stray) went missing. We didn't think much of it at first as its a pretty common occurrence, but after several days there was a change in behavior in one of the other outside cats. It became extremely vocal, following us around and demanding attention until we followed it. It led us to a small structure on a neighboring property and was acting very agitated. When we looked inside, we found the missing cat, which had been trapped and would have died had its partner not alerted us.
That's not what I'd consider to be sociopathic.
How many people who set foot on the moon can you name? I would bet most people would be lucky to name the first one, let alone the rest of them.
That may be why history is documented, rather than relying on oral tradition. If you don't know, your favorite search engine will.