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Facebook Wants to Skip the Off-Site Links, Host News Content Directly 51

The Wall Street Journal, in a report also cited by The Next Web and others, reports that Facebook is to soon begin acting not just as a conduit for news links pasted onto users' timelines (and leading to articles hosted elsewhere) but also as a host for the articles themselves. From the WSJ article: To woo publishers, Facebook is offering to change its traditional revenue-sharing model. In one of the models under consideration, publishers would keep all of the revenue from ads they sell on Facebook-hosted news sites, the people familiar with the matter said. If Facebook sells the advertisement, it would keep roughly 30% of the revenue, as it does in many other cases. Another motivation for Facebook to give up some revenue: It hopes the faster-loading content will encourage users to spend more time on its network. It is unclear what format the ads might take, or if publishers will be able to place or measure the ads they sell within Facebook. It seems likely Facebook would want publishers to use its own advertising-technology products, such as Atlas and LiveRail, as opposed to those offered by rivals such as Google Inc.

Comment Re:Sanders amazes me (Score 1) 395

i dont know whats worse: the blatant bullshit this idiot spews, or the idiot who modded him insightful.
of course, thats assuming he's not just sock puppet modding his own comments, which im already half convinced he does.

no one with more than a single brain cell should be capable of stating or reading the words

"They are perfectly equal already — there are no laws singling them [LGBT] out in any way."

let alone be taken seriously and modded up for saying it.

theres also the "universal health care" presented once again as if the idea is a brand new concept never before tried, and his once again showing his support for the ownership of politicians by those with the most "speech".

Comment Re:Can he win? (Score 4, Informative) 395

Bullshit.

Clinton (both of them) is a centrist, a "new democrat", almost identical politically to the moderate republicans of the 50s, with the biggest exceptions being things like gay rights. He was only "liberal" in comparison to the extreme conservatism the GOP has carved out for itself as it pushed ever more rightward.

Comment Re:Sanders amazes me (Score 1) 395

cause lord knows its not like social democratic policies have EVER been tried before, right?

just like guns are a totally unique problem to the US that no country has ever faced or solved before, right?

or healthcare?
or border policies?
or telecom regulations?

no, you're right. these are totallly unique things never before seen by anyone except the US.

Comment Re:Did a paid shill write this summary? (Score 4, Insightful) 179

Why do these people act so shock that the agency that is largely responsible for space holds most of the assets in space, even if theose assets ultimately complement other agencies? I thought cooperation between agencies is a good thing? (Or should scientific research have the sort of systemic walls between agencies that let to the intelligence failure known as 9/11 ??)

NASA has the bulk of space based sensors monitoring the Earth.
This is of course, completely logical.
Even for assets actually owned by other agencies, they still interact and support them, particularly in the launching and maintaining aspects.

But NASA has the bulk. So the gameplan here lays itself out. First they reduce NASA's earth monitoring capability. Note they dont kill it outright...they rarely do. First you reduce its capability and effectiveness to justify further cuts in the future. And then you just never replace that capability in the agencies they argued should have it.

Such as:
http://thinkprogress.org/clima...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad...

We know this is the game plan, because the GOP has -already tried- to interfere with NOAA's earth monitoring and climate research capabilities, and defund it's climate research. Whereas with NASA They claim that work is best left to NOAA, when talking about NOAA they instead claim that NOAA's true mission is "weather forecasting", not "climate research", as if understanding the bigger picture better and monitoring the planet wouldn't improve the ability to predict weather to as a byproduct.

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