Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 133
Put down that twinkie!
Comment Re:Except... (Score 2) 101
Gravity and friction are culturally biased =)
Submission + - Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerization? (npr.org)
turkeydance writes: What job is hardest for a robot to do? Mental health and substance abuse social workers (found under community and social services). This job has a 0.3 percent chance of being automated. That's because it's ranked high in cleverness, negotiation, and helping others. The job most likely to be done by a robot? Telemarketers. No surprise; it's already happening.
The researchers admit that these estimates are rough and likely to be wrong. But consider this a snapshot of what some smart people think the future might look like. If it says your job will likely be replaced by a machine, you've been warned.
The researchers admit that these estimates are rough and likely to be wrong. But consider this a snapshot of what some smart people think the future might look like. If it says your job will likely be replaced by a machine, you've been warned.
Orange County Public Schools To Monitor Students On Social Media 166
The Orlando Sentinel reports that Orange County, Florida, is undertaking a sweeping effort to snoop on the social media communications of the county's public school students and staff, for the nebulous task of "[ensuring] safe school operations," and say they will use the software (at a license cost of about $13,000 per year) "to conduct routine monitoring for purposes of prevention or early intervention of potential issues where students or staff could be at risk to themselves or to others." The software they're using is from Snaptrends, which offers "location-based social media discovery." According to one of the comments attached to the linked story, there are monthly fees, in addition to the annual licensing cost.
Comment Re:It's 1930s retro! (Score 4, Informative) 184
Someone might want to tell that to the
Disclaimer: If I'm mistaken and there isn't a anti-dice sentiment here, plz disregard
Comment Re:Not a new idea (Score 1) 33
That's gonna be awesome. "Dude my drone just got a totally awesome video of me <doing X> and you can see seventeen other Autonomous GoPro Drones in the background. Yay \o/"
Comment Re:climate change (Score 1) 33
Do you burst into flames when you go outdoors? No? It's ok then
Comment Re:Out of curiosity (Score 5, Funny) 321
I am not a "lost" sale - I was never a potential "sale" in the first place.
Omg, communist! By using AdBlock you have robbed the advertising ghouls of the opportunity to perform a non-customer to customer conversion against your will, using their superior ad-fu. It's just not something that should happen in a free and democratic police state. Shame on you =S
Comment Re:Out of curiosity (Score 5, Informative) 321
Here in Manchester (UK), there are an increasing number of HUGE eye-searingly bright digital displays on buildings, roadsides, on the sides of bridges under which the road passes... They are generally the slightly more upmarket version of the flash ads begging you to click - irritatingly distracting. I find it interesting that whoever grants these licenses would so casually prioritize ad revenue over driver safety. It's almost as if they don't actually care.
Comment Re:Out of curiosity (Score 5, Insightful) 321
10. No more "32 top reasons to click through 32 pages of eights ads" - type BS; thank you so much in advance.
Comment Re:Out of curiosity (Score 1) 321
I still have not figured out the bizarre-o world of the internet where some people want something for free, block any attempt to pay for it via ads
Umm, it's better for everyone this way (non-exhaustive list follows):
* People who don't want to watch ads don't have to
* These same people are not candidate customers so why bother advertising at them?
* By blocking the scripts, the media / assets are not downloaded, thus reducing bandwidth charges which are essentially wasted.
One might wonder if organizations might use whatever means possible to drive people to use ad-block =D
Comment Re:Websites are slowly catching on (Score 1) 321
In the future humanity will evolve a specialized subclass along the lines of the worker bee; it will be their role to watch all ads across available media: print / screen / roadside / building projection / contact-lens projection on inner eyelids / etc.
Comment Ahh (Score 1) 321
The Munich Regional Court ruled against media companies ProSiebenSat1 and IP Deutschland. The companies sued Eyeo, the company behind Adblock Plus, asking the court to ban the distribution of the free ad-blocking software, saying it hurts their ad-based business model.
At last I'm catching on. I see how it works now. The laws against distributing others' IP for profit are hurting my proposed business model of selling other people's IP for profit. Using the same logic, I'd like them repealed.
Submission + - Slashdot goes to shit
methano writes: Long time reader Methano is sick and tired of the stupid pop under ads screaming at him and the endless CPU churning flash ads that have come to characterize the experience of being a loyal Slashdot follower. He's seriously thinking of saying goodbye to a once enjoyable but now more often annoying web site.
Comment Re: This isn't a question (Score 1) 623
But not determine who may own a blue (however defined) car.
