The DEA and FDA have unconstitutional power, thanks to a little bill Nixon pushed through so he could arrest hippies. Now it will take some serious congressional balls to "look soft" on the war on drugs, in order to reverse this unconstitutional affront to our system of checks and balances.

The reality is the contract the studio has with the film makers probably has a "if this isn't released for some reason" clause in the contract... it probably doesn't have an "If we want to give away free copies to everyone for a PR move" clause. Even if Sony wanted to it couldn't do that... because Sony itself created a world where it is stuck between a lawyer brigade and a hactivist group.

It's an "established" neighborhood that is probably a bit above my social class. My cross-street had the "shortcut" problem so the voters pressured the city to do the ultimate "dick move" to the short-cutters. 4 lanes became 2 lanes + bike lane on each side, and they added stop signs at every other cross street.

It went from "oh lets avoid traffic" to "why bother?"

Almost nobody lives in Florida and commutes to Manhattan. Why is that? The pay is better in Manhattan and housing is cheaper in Florida.

oh but it takes 13 hours to get from jacksonville to manhattan. If it took 13 hours to get from long beach to culver city, people wouldn't try to live in Long Beach and work in Culver City, simple as that.

I am not saying crowded roads are awesome, but people make the decision every day to not work 13 hours from their home even if it doesn't "feel" like it.

I know it is already +5, but damn, this is the funniest thing I have read in days.

they could name it "Office 365"

Oh wait...

In an "interconnected" world there is no such thing as "secure" only "more secure" or "less secure"

How long can a private company be on "everyone's radar" before they can no longer do business? This may not be successful, but eventually there will be cases of large corporations basically unable to do business because a relative few can wield a lot of "digital power" over a company with a large presence.

I am not going to overstate the power of "hacktivists"/DDOS/Botnet but suppose these actions continue, how much will it cost Sony to combat this kind of thing? $1,000,000 for every dollar spent hacking them? It seems like there is a limit.

If enough people want a corporation wiped from the internet, there doesn't really seem like a practical way to survive. Not fearmongering, or cheering against Sony specifically... just wondering.

Here is a revolutionary new way to sit in a lecture...

Sit in your seat, pull out a pen, pull out a pad of paper ("spiral notebook", "Legal Pad", whatever).

If the professor/lecturer says something important... write it down. If the professor is boring, doodle idly while you listen.


Leave the laptop, ipad, phone at home.

John: Just put up your hand and say, 'I swear I won't kill anyone.'
Terminator: [Raises hand] I swear I will not kill anyone.
[stands up and shoots the guard on both knees]



He'll live.

yeah, when amazon gas partial outages like last year... it makes plenty of headlines http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-we... http://www.businessweek.com/ar...

"5 Meaningless buzzwords not worth your time"

Yeah yeah these things exist... and have existed for decades.

I want small-scale farming bots... preferably solar powered. I want a magical garden that requires no effort, but which provides me with some fruits/veggies/grains.

In a professional dangerous situation, companies tend to have an E&O policy (Errors and omissions). This is different from a typical liability scenario that you are describing. In an E&O policy, in order for your rate to return back to normal after a loss, you must mitigate the scenario that caused the loss, such as replacing riggings with safer models, increasing training, etc etc.

A loss is still expensive, and it does increase rates as I described.

Source: For the last decade I have coded and run automated professional risk assessment software for E&O at a Fortune top 10 company.

It is cheaper to hire people to do it, even if occasionally you have to pay a higher spike in insurance rates when a person dies.

Until human life is A LOT more expensive, or robot solutions are a lot cheaper, it will be cost effective to skinsource menial but complex and dangerous jobs.

We like to pay lipservice to all kinds of factors, but it all comes down to money.

We won't betray you, but if we do, we will just hire a female CEO and blame it all on her.