A real one! I've only heard about you. I will savor this.

Yes. if they were good at what they did. The algorithm was wrong but made a good guess. they will refine it. That's the truth behind all this modern pagan noise. HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN!

No your comment is sad. Go and view the tagged pictures. And tell me that there is no similarity. Your lying or have so deeply fooled yourself that you have difficulty thinking un-good thoughts.

Amazing, modern man believes man descended from apes and when a computer algorithm mistakes a black colored and ape shaped ape descendant for, you know, an ape, it's because the photo alg guys are a bunch of frat boys.

It's sad the world is bending over backwards affecting this total bullshit 'how COULD this happen!!!!,' though really it isn't the world. It's media and blog bubble who are encouraged, nay, validated! by the corporate "This. Is. 100% not. ok" but show the pic and explain the story off-line and see how normal mankind really still is.

Offensive is an ambiguous term, but if you mean the man on man sex has become normal, you are kidding yourself. It's perception has not normalized because it isn't normal and never will be. The most ardent pc leftists will descend on a homo-sexual with insults more vile than you can imagine if sufficiently provoked. It's only that pseudo popular opinion in the west is increasingly driven by elites who can afford to have outlooks with little grounding in reality, because if you are Tom Cruise it really doesn't matter much that you worship a clam or some such.

In any case, proponents often confuse a live and let live attitude towards deviant behavior with respectful acceptance, but it is a lie, because no matter how debased and vapid the modern ethos, at base, most people still have some sense of their humanity and therefore are to some degree or another in touch with what constitutes human normalcy.

Yes this is incredibly insightful. It's banal at best, foolish at worst. But modern man made himself and life has no meaning.

It was actually an insightful comment. Not everyone has disavowed their human intuition as a valid source for knowledge. It's only relatively recently that much of mankind has made the laboratory the only source of knowing about he world. It's the reason philosophy is dead--interestingly it killed itself mainly, and the reason that modern man can recognize the different between a man and wife and man and partner and the reason why modern man recognizes such folly as a 'sex' change. The 'troll' simply appealed to commentators human sensitivity which on Slashdot is the indeed the classic troll.

I was thrown of by the link title: "Google is removing results related to the Confederate Flag"

Article "Google Shopping Will Yank Confederate Flags Following Amazon, eBay"

I don't have any issue with that.

Increasingly, these private companies are the gateway to the civilized on-line world. I am disturbed that they are wiping traces of things they don't like from the their parts of the web. This may be be their right, but it does not bode well that the largest information gate keeper in the modern world has taken pro-active steps towards making the web a right thinking place, and the tech geniuses of Slashdot think this is a thread about a fucking flag.

This should not have been modded troll. It's different opinion. The support for the contention is provided. It's not the favored opinion on this website but since when does an out of favor view get down-modded her (I kid, I kid).

Seriously, you guys who mod down things you don't agree with make this site poorer than it should be.

The key to healthy industry involvement is parents having money to pay for education and the choice to buy whatever education they wish. Industry should have a profit motivation to attract students. Between 6 and 20 thousand are spent per kid in the public school system (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/05/23/heres-how-much-each-state-spends-on-public-school-students/) I didn't read the link I'm just looking for a ball park. I'm guessing that enough money to motivate service providers to get in the game.

It's a dream come true, I'd actually have businesses competing for my kids to be in their schools. It's practically utopic. I don't see any obvious problems save for tremendous impact that would have on public school employees because a lot of them would be fired. (And to be fair, mostly because of this it will never ever ever happen.)

Industry should not be getting in to lower their labor costs, or at least the public should not facilitate that.

I agree with your first point and second part (though I don't use the word sexism but get what you mean). And with the first part of your third. And while I do believe it legitimate for Government to ban given forms of unjustified discrimination in given domains, such as employment, I do not believe the Government should be investigating or doing anything about about given fields being more or less socially welcoming to genders or race for that matter, though to be fair you didn't mention Government. I'm not a small Government advocate but I do strongly believe the Government stay out of Social engineering as such.

fair enough, I agree with that, too. just complicates things a bit cause what's to stop a bad or extremely needy parent from pocketing the cash. I don't like tests and curricular requirements. To be fair, I haven't thought this out, I just know that I like the idea, and hate the public school system.

ok, sorry, I was speaking to your words not your point.

I suspect he is a man, yes. what does that have to do with my post?

This again. You have to be Superman or Superwoman or be married to Superwoman or Superman (all bases covered!) or be a lesser hero married to another lesser hero to make enough money to support a family and Government and Industry are *worried* about gender distribution in a particular field of industry.

Either we live in Kafka Land or the real interests aren't being disclosed. Both may be true. Or maybe the real problems are truly intractable and this what our betters come up with to keep busy.

How about this. End public schools. Give a voucher for every child and let the parents decide where to spend it. Don't oversee anything. If parents want to send their children to donald duck academy then more power to them.Government shall accredit any 'school' on which the child is on site for what are now normal school hours. That will give you the opportunity to send your kid to math academy or whatever else you think is valuable. It would also encourage schools nobody ever thought of before. Industry could actually play a vital role (Disney cartoonist academy?) Haven't thought this out, really, but what is clear is none of the issues will be bettered without major change, and I deeply wish for once in memory to see even one major change in the direction of personal sovereignty.