What could possibly go wrong?

Were they not paying attention when other countries did this? Google simply said "ok, we don't want your news content anymore" and delisted from their platform news stories from those countries. And the news publishers then proceeded to be damaged by the reduced traffic.

Also the linked article is misleading trash, Australia is not the first to do this. Several European countries already have, including I believe France, Spain, and Germany.

I detect a definite shift in the tone of Slashdot. This is a place where rational responses used to get modded up and nonsense got modded down.

Lately I have seen too many posts like yours, that make a valid observation and draw a reasonable conclusion but get downvoted for reasons unstated.

Perhaps the Reddit hit mob has moved in? I would upmod you if I had points.

What you spout is sophistry at best. Mostly it looks like incoherant nonsense to me. I can't decide if it is intentional flamebait or frank idiocy.

I hope you enjoy stoking your ego with this condescending drivel.

I don't have mod points, but I'd mod you up if I could.

What you are saying is to my mind a fair analysis given the state of the world and your post certainly does not deserve the "troll" rating it has been given.

IoT devices compiling information and sending it out for the puspose of "monitoring your health?" What could possibly go wrong?

Consider cases where a period does not indicate the end of a sentence, like Mr. Smith or c. c. cummings. Those instances would be inappropriate for a double space.

why you get downvoted for this completely accurate response?

What you are saying is true. You don't deserve to moderated as "troll." I'd mod you higher if I had points. But I don't so this is the best I can do.

To anyone else reading: medical researchers have indeed begun questioning the use of ventilators for many COVID-19 patients. They are recommending that patients not be ventilated unless they are physically struggling to breathe, rather then when their O2 blood saturation drops below a certain level. For reason we don't yet understand, COVID-19 patients can better tolerate low O2 saturation levels than non-infected people can.

Therefore, to avoid negative ventilator side effects like lung injury that could worsen their prognosis, researchers are recommending that ventilators be eschewed until patients are in physical distress.

Some people find jazz music from the bebop and free jazz periods (1940~1960) to be off-putting because of the "noiselike" quality it can have. Melodies are based on exotic scales; underpinned with loose, experimental harmonies; performed in odd rhythmic patterns; interjected with endless, meandering solos... it can be lot for a casual listener to digest, let alone enjoy.

But not all jazz is like that! Music from the ragtime era of the 1890s right up through the swing era of the 1940s can also properly be called jazz music, and it is far more accessible to ordinary listeners. Music from those earlier periods features the "hot" groovin' rhythms that made it the popular dance music of its day. The feel of the earlier jazz music has a nearly irresistable allure that causes listeners to tap their feet and move their bodies! It has an effect completely unlike the ungrounded cerebral quality of late-era jazz music. Similar is the distance between Elvis Presley and Tool: it's all rock music, right?

In the 70s jazz rock, latin jazz, and funk finally brought jazz music home and integrated it with mainstream popular music again, where jazz continues to exert influence to this day.

All of which is to say, I don't think you actually dislike jazz music. What you dislike are the more esoteric (or perhaps pretentious and overwrought, depending on your point of view) styles of late jazz that have for some reason come to dominate public perception of jazz music. Much of the reason for the confusion is that jazz is hard to define, spanning nearly a century's worth of history, dozens of musical styles, and countless thousands of musicians who contributed to the genre. But for most of the history of jazz, the harmonies and timings do "fit well" as you say, even to the ears of untrained listeners. Deliberately disturbing dissonances and wacky rhythmic patterns are characteristic only of a small, if prominent, portion of the jazz cannon.

So please, do yourself a favor and don't throw all those beautiful babies out with the bebop bathwater! Don't discount all of jazz music just because a few famous explorers wandered too far off the farm! There is a ton of really great and easily relatable music out there under that broad heading "Jazz." And I think you really would enjoy much of it.

From TechCrunch.com:

In these conditions, in addition to their referral to the merits, the seizors requested the order of provisional measures aimed at enjoining Google to enter in good faith into negotiations for the remuneration of the resumption of their content.

Hence issuing an emergency order which gives Google three months to negotiate ''in good faith'' with press agencies and publishers to pay for reusing bits of their content.

Abusive practices the agency says it suspects Google of at this stage of its investigation are:
- The imposition of unfair trading conditions;
- circumvention of the law;
- and discrimination (i.e. because of its unilateral policy of zero renumeration for all publishers)

The order requires Google to display news snippets during the negotiation period, in accordance with publishers wishes, while terms agreed via the negotiation process will apply retrospectively from the date the law came into force (i.e. last October).

Google is also required to send in monthly reports on how it's implementing the decision.

''This injunction requires that the negotiations actually result in a proposal for remuneration from Google'' it adds.

It seems the French have attempted to make it impossible for Google to back out of displaying news articles from French publishing houses. By fiat, Google must link these things and Google must pay for it. Sounds to me like a contradictory and abusive order from the government.

What now? How can one reasonably define what Google must list among its results in light of this order? A specific set of publications determined by the government? That hardly seems fair to anybody, least of all French publishers themselves.

The only way this would make consistent logical sense is if Google was forced to list every post/article from every French domain, and pay every content creator a share of the ad revenue.

Also, we have seen from platforms like YouTube that advertisers do not deem all content equal. How does the law reconcile the content advertisers are willing to sponsor with what must be listed and remunerated by Google? I just don't see how this can work out without the French government essentially playing kingmaker here.


If I was Google, I might just give the French government the finger and delist all French domains from all Google platforms.

To be fair, these people are not "speaking poorly." They are simply speaking a dialect that is not mainstream and therefore was not well represented in the speech recognition training data. The dialect may be a poor approximation of General American English, but it isn't really correct to say that the people who speak it are "speaking poorly."

This is in the news because the equity parade is constantly on the march. "Look at how we perceive ourselves to be disadvantaged" is one of their staple moves.

Even if "no-code" development was a real thing, someone would have to know how to code in "no-code" in order to build the appropriate business logic and UI widgets into the program. Do they really think they can remove the complexity of computer logic with some kind of graphical interface? The idea seems ridiculous.

Doesn't this mean Sprint's stink will infect T-Mobile? Seems like a bad thing.

and available on BitTorrent forever...