layman here, but it surprises me that something is considered cryptographically secure when a mere 10x bruteforce cost factor makes a difference. even 300x sounds small. how difficult is it then to bruteforce with 1000 iterations? it should be unfeasible with foreseeable technology. the need to make anything unfeasible 10 times more unfeasible is counterintuitive to me.

ok, but this is just our cultural karma. say, any musician that seeks fame and fortune must go for canned commercial tunes and videoclips in the fashion of the moment. there's still a lot of musicians that won't get fame or fortune, but produce honest, original and good quality music.

the issue here was cost as in "time is money and if you have to produce 5-6 stories a day, it's just impossible to do them professionaly". a reporter might be sensationalist and even a bit biased and still take the time to do some investigation or fact checking, if he just isn't asked to do so for 5-6 stories a day.

in the end what happens is that there is not enough demand for professional journalism in the market. that's us. we have been trained into to gossip and bias, we want it, it sells, it pacifies ... so why should it change? i guess the last thing that media corporations want is informed and critical reading, so much for informed, critical writing.

at some point it will be even machine generated!

i'd say newspapers are struggling to maintain an outdated business model, as customers are not wlling to pay to support the overweight accumulated on it for decades, just for gossip which can be found for free elsewhere. if newspapers actually did invest in delivering investigation journalism instead of printing gossip this could change. maybe! there's a risk. i would gladly pay for it, but i don't know if there really exists a big enough market for that. but for sure it also would require strong work ethics and real passion for the subject, and those are not characteristics you'll find in nowadays direction boards. to these it's irrelevant if they are selling news, footballs, napkins or burgers. they rather just keep publishing the gossip that works and go for advertising, or grab funding from interest groups. if they are not already owned by such groups. for that you don't need first class professionals. underpaid copywriters are just fine.

of course it's not black or white, but i do not think there is a direct and relevant relationship between what customers pay and the quality of work / remuneration of professionals doing actual work. that isn't true in any big business nowadays.

you are not listening.
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the reporters' salary is but an anecdotical tiny fraction of any news suscription you pay. this renders your entire argument pointless because your measures are meaningless.

also inaccurate. how many stories has a reporter to produce to cover the salary of an executive in the media industry?

fire the executive, hire 50-70 reporters. voilà: professional journalism in every story.

so you can read. great!

keep practicing and someday this will become a very useful skill. :-)

stances on things like abortion and gay marriage are just attitudes to herd popular support into opposing factions. works pretty well given there's enough uneducated population to create the illusion of a tension, an actual clash of ideologies where there is none, really.

politics is about power, and has always been extreme right wing. abortion? gays? death penalty? environment? religion? wellfare? education? power doesn't give a flying fuck about these issues.

now you just wait for my hitman, smartass!

is there any difference? this is iS, formerly known as syrian freedom fighters, remember? the pattern is old, already.

TFA is bullshit, it is only sort of correct about the 30-year war ... which has been already going on for 15. it's all the same war, the war US needs to keep its declining influence. 15 more til it rots, she prophesies? could be. anyway that's a lot of mayhem still to unleash ...

but it just could be another instance of the "magical three months syndrome". remember, when every month some random moron from defense projected that the current kill and destroy operation would be resolved in the next three months? well, three months have passed many many times and we're still on the same spot. it's probably because there is no intention whatsoever to move away from that spot.

which "rebel side"? you mean the fascist western backed coup d'état that overthrew a legitimate elected government and threw the country into civil war?

and you guys still speak of "cold" wars? lol.

why should it? all serious espionage and terrorism going on does so on behalf of some government, usually as a proxy for some elite.

the rest are petty criminals in comparision, more a nuisance than a serious problem for governments or elites.

today's eternities aren't what they used to be, built to last forever ...

this wasn't intentional but i like it :D

a two-way databinging model like angular's is a specific mvc use case where the good old observer pattern makes a lot of sense. it indeed allows for much cleaner code given that you know the context.

"reactive" is basically the same thing, with a cooler name and applied indiscriminately to everything else. go figure, but it's all the rage.

you're doing it wrong, you forgot the catchy t-shirt.