>> You can never get to actually discussing policy because no one can agree to any facts
If two people agreed on these facts:
- 700,000 human babies were aborted before they were born in the US last year with 7,000 aborted during their final trimester - US taxpayers avoided $3,500,000,000 of social program expenses last year due to fewer births to mothers dependent on social programs - 700,000 would-be mothers were each freed of the time and expense of childcare (and potentially severed a lifelong tie to a dirtbag father if not a rapist) last year by exercising their legal right to abort their pregnancy - Millions of baby parts were recycled and used to make useful products and help medical research
Are you still sure you could get them to agree on abortion policy? Or even discuss it? (I'd bet that before a discussion even began, abortion proponents would be trying to change "babies" to "fetuses" or "embryos" and abortion opponents would be trying to change "aborted" to "killed" or "murdered".)
>> Ev Williams is not a fan of the increasingly homogenised media he currently sees
And yet people whine about Fox News or MSNBC, which gets their audiences because they provides an alternative viewpoint to what people see as a homogenised (CSB/NBC/CNN/ABC/etc.) media. As for Ev, his complaint sounds particularly phony since his company and other tech companies are in the process of INCREASING the homogenisation of media, with their avowed initiatives to limit fringe communications (that could potentially offend someone).
>> when it didn't have a large and growing library of exclusive content that is winning critical acclaim
Netflix's original content (including and especially current "House of Cards") is for shit.
I signed up for the "video store on demand" quality, especially the all-you-can-eat, kind-of-watch-it-in-the-background while my kids eat cereal, I work on taxes, etc.
They're opening the door to competitors who just do the "old Netflix" if they keep it up with their current "let's make original content" kick.
>> 80% of those who will be affected by the price increase did not realize it was coming
80% sounds low. I didn't know about it until I read about it on SlashDot, and that hardly ever happens!
However, it's still less than the $40-50/month I used to pay for cable and I watch more stuff...so I'd expect a couple more annual increases as time goes on.
>> over Baltimore and DC, probably investigating drug distribution
What's the point then if Obama's just going to toss them back on the streets as non-violent offenders? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/president-obama-commutes-sentences-of-about-100-drug-offenders/2015/12/18/9b62c91c-a5a3-11e5-9c4e-be37f66848bb_story.html
Gimme the pic, let me look at it for the 3.4 seconds I'm interested in it, and let me get the hell out of there. The site linked from TFA (www.nextrembrandt.com) felt like a throwback to the days when people actually built "sites" with Flash. Yeech!
"Knows your address" made me laugh. Of course, there are lists that have email addresses and physical addresses in different columns. Good phishing emails already insert variables like your name (if known) in the right places - it's trivial to also put in an address too.
>> It's 'Not Realistic' To Shut Down Internet >> not be possible to shut down areas of the Internet that terrorists use
Big difference. Unfortunately, I see these kind of inquiries leading to a "why don't we have a great big 'murican firewall" train of thought in a year or two.
>> one of the world's leading security firms mentions how the world is currently in the "Dark Ages" of computer security
What leading firm? All I saw here was "Kaspersky." (Ducks.)
(And of course, they're going to say that. What else would they say: "you guys can pull back a bit on IT security spending - things are getting better?")
Clippy was once a "toy" Microsoft sent to annoy millions of office workers just trying to get something written and go the hell home.
After a sex change (not that there's anything wrong with that), he/she's back to annoy over a billion people as "Cortana" (que the ESPY awards) whether they are at work or not. http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/15/5617234/clippy-replaces-cortana-in-windows-phone-easter-egg
I want other networks to make the investments in content, get burned, and for Netflix to pick up the least crispy remains a few years later. New Netflix shows like House of Cards (which began to suck after just two seasons) just aren't needed: compared to what I do watch on Netflix its original content is only a small fraction.
...this poorly written wall of text. At first glance this looks like an India-sourced whitepaper.
"Most hospitals invest significant resources into security. Vendors may limit local IT staff in terms of how well a turnkey solution is designed to prevent infection. In short, hospital IT staff seem to be in the position of having to respond to rather than prevent these types of incidents."
I thought we heard this "story" last month. The consensus seemed to be that it wasn't "government mass surveillance" that was causing people to self-censor, it was the prospect of being fired or failing to get a job because someone might be offended by something someone dropped on social media ten years ago.
Slashdot Mirror
>> You can never get to actually discussing policy because no one can agree to any facts
If two people agreed on these facts:
- 700,000 human babies were aborted before they were born in the US last year with 7,000 aborted during their final trimester
- US taxpayers avoided $3,500,000,000 of social program expenses last year due to fewer births to mothers dependent on social programs
- 700,000 would-be mothers were each freed of the time and expense of childcare (and potentially severed a lifelong tie to a dirtbag father if not a rapist) last year by exercising their legal right to abort their pregnancy
- Millions of baby parts were recycled and used to make useful products and help medical research
Are you still sure you could get them to agree on abortion policy? Or even discuss it? (I'd bet that before a discussion even began, abortion proponents would be trying to change "babies" to "fetuses" or "embryos" and abortion opponents would be trying to change "aborted" to "killed" or "murdered".)
Better make two of those...
...in case the first one hits a dust spec at 134 million miles per hour.
>> fly at 20 percent of the speed of light
>> Ev Williams is not a fan of the increasingly homogenised media he currently sees
And yet people whine about Fox News or MSNBC, which gets their audiences because they provides an alternative viewpoint to what people see as a homogenised (CSB/NBC/CNN/ABC/etc.) media. As for Ev, his complaint sounds particularly phony since his company and other tech companies are in the process of INCREASING the homogenisation of media, with their avowed initiatives to limit fringe communications (that could potentially offend someone).
Obligatory:
Ten thousand Swedes ran through the weeds, chased by one Norwegian.
Then may I suggest an obligatory "value of not-money" cartoon:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/exposure
>> But how do you get 1.2 billion people, many of whom have never seen a bank or opened an account, to send digital payments to each other?
Where, pray tell, did these people get the "digital money" from then if they've "never seen a bank" or "opened an account."
>> when it didn't have a large and growing library of exclusive content that is winning critical acclaim
Netflix's original content (including and especially current "House of Cards") is for shit.
I signed up for the "video store on demand" quality, especially the all-you-can-eat, kind-of-watch-it-in-the-background while my kids eat cereal, I work on taxes, etc.
They're opening the door to competitors who just do the "old Netflix" if they keep it up with their current "let's make original content" kick.
>> 80% of those who will be affected by the price increase did not realize it was coming
80% sounds low. I didn't know about it until I read about it on SlashDot, and that hardly ever happens!
However, it's still less than the $40-50/month I used to pay for cable and I watch more stuff...so I'd expect a couple more annual increases as time goes on.
Does that also mean ending phrases with "So..." and "stuff like that"?
Driverless trucks will be great for China. They've been dying for something to fix their labor shortage.
Maximum Overdrive
>> over Baltimore and DC, probably investigating drug distribution
What's the point then if Obama's just going to toss them back on the streets as non-violent offenders?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/president-obama-commutes-sentences-of-about-100-drug-offenders/2015/12/18/9b62c91c-a5a3-11e5-9c4e-be37f66848bb_story.html
We were told we were getting black helicopters, not Cessnas!
Gimme the pic, let me look at it for the 3.4 seconds I'm interested in it, and let me get the hell out of there. The site linked from TFA (www.nextrembrandt.com) felt like a throwback to the days when people actually built "sites" with Flash. Yeech!
"Knows your address" made me laugh. Of course, there are lists that have email addresses and physical addresses in different columns. Good phishing emails already insert variables like your name (if known) in the right places - it's trivial to also put in an address too.
>> It's 'Not Realistic' To Shut Down Internet
>> not be possible to shut down areas of the Internet that terrorists use
Big difference. Unfortunately, I see these kind of inquiries leading to a "why don't we have a great big 'murican firewall" train of thought in a year or two.
>> one of the world's leading security firms mentions how the world is currently in the "Dark Ages" of computer security
What leading firm? All I saw here was "Kaspersky." (Ducks.)
(And of course, they're going to say that. What else would they say: "you guys can pull back a bit on IT security spending - things are getting better?")
Clippy was once a "toy" Microsoft sent to annoy millions of office workers just trying to get something written and go the hell home.
After a sex change (not that there's anything wrong with that), he/she's back to annoy over a billion people as "Cortana" (que the ESPY awards) whether they are at work or not.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/15/5617234/clippy-replaces-cortana-in-windows-phone-easter-egg
This is why certain people shouldn't read SlashDot on...April Fools Day.
(In fact, I'm only here today to watch and comment on the OVER-reaction of people who don't realize what SlashDot becomes on April 1.)
I never though a Venn diagram of SlashDot's and CBS's audiences would intersect. I stand corrected.
I want other networks to make the investments in content, get burned, and for Netflix to pick up the least crispy remains a few years later. New Netflix shows like House of Cards (which began to suck after just two seasons) just aren't needed: compared to what I do watch on Netflix its original content is only a small fraction.
Can we please get a tech story soon?
Federal scam alerts and air pollution are...not really why we're all here.
...this poorly written wall of text. At first glance this looks like an India-sourced whitepaper.
"Most hospitals invest significant resources into security. Vendors may limit local IT staff in terms of how well a turnkey solution is designed to prevent infection. In short, hospital IT staff seem to be in the position of having to respond to rather than prevent these types of incidents."
Er...what?
I thought we heard this "story" last month. The consensus seemed to be that it wasn't "government mass surveillance" that was causing people to self-censor, it was the prospect of being fired or failing to get a job because someone might be offended by something someone dropped on social media ten years ago.
You say this is a "popular" browser, but who really runs a non-standard browser anyway? (I just haven't seen it.)