A hammer isn't a value system either. That doesn't make carpenters inherently untrustworthy.

While I'm definitely not a fan of their ouvre, Fox News is the fourth most popular cable channel, behind only Disney, Nickelodeon, and Adult Swim. As much as you may not like that, they certainly do have a "large enough following".

Then there's no such thing as a news service. Some may be more informative than others, but they're all ultimately entertainment.

First they lose all the Time Warner channels, then they lost CBS, now they lost all the Fox Channels...

Pretty soon there's going to be no actual channels left on DISH.

Like Hans Blix!

This could actually be a good thing. The existence of security breach insurance would necessarily require quantifying how much risk a particular organization creates. The insurer is now a third party that has an incentive to make sure the company is following best practices and the ability to punish companies that don't (through denial of coverage or through increased premiums).

Looks like spottswoode is some faggy yourowpeeing.

Spottswoode: This isn't about sex, Anonymous Coward, it's about trust!

No, I completely get your point. You're completly missing my point: pointing out that Argument A for conclusion X is a bad argument does not mean I disagree with conclusion X. It doesn't matter how fantastic Liberal Arts degrees are, bringing up Peter Jackson as an argument as to why they are is a crappy argument.

Spottswoode: From what I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.N.C.E has gathered, it would be 9/11 times 100.
Gary Johnston: 9/11 times a hundred? Jesus, that's...
Spottswoode: Yes, 91,100.

He was responding directly to the quote, "most of the jobs with a liberal arts degree involve asking 'Do you want fries with that?'"

If the only alternatives he can point to are the unicorns, he's not actually refuted the point.

This is like advising him to stop taking classes and put all his money into lottery tickets because Gloria MacKenzie won $370 million in Powerball. The number of people who get to be Peter Jackson is such a vanishingly small slice of the human population that using his success as the basis for your career path is ridiculous.

Usual suspects are whining about how UNFAIR it is that all the low cost housing is being demolished and replaced with new housing the former residents can't possibly afford.

...to deal with all of the suddenly abandoned properties whose owners decide the cost of retrofitting the building costs more than the building is worth and just walk away from them?

Then I murder them en masse

Except you don't because they're still all over the place. You just murder them until you stop noticing them again.

Unless this hypothetical AI is singularly focused on some inscrutable but unobtrusive goal, or so vastly intelligent that various inconvenient physical laws are cleverly bent, I'm not sure why 'ignored' would even be on the table.

How much time do you spend thinking about the ants in your front yard?