>> Commission Vice-President for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip said that "deep in my heart ... I hate geoblocking,"

What is this crap? "Search your feelings?" How about checking to see what the law says?

>> Günther Oettinger, worrying about protecting the European film industry

Protecting the what? Bah ha ha ha, er, yes, I'm certain there is a "European file industry." (Cough.)

>> "We must not throw the baby out with the bathwater."

Sorry, but you already did when you created the EU. And if the baby is digital access rights by country, everyone but film industry business types are quite ready to chuck that baby in the wood chipper.

No, wait. That came out wrong.

The real booth babes aren't on the floor at RSA. Go to the vendors' afterparties, or check out around in one of the creepy "party busses" prowling the city during RSA and you'll see where vendors have diverted their "women for hire" budgets.

>> Are we ever going to make strong passwords? Ever?

I doubt it. The momentum is swinging the other way with mobile devices; people want passwords they can type quickly on touch-screens with their stubby thumbs without switching keyboards.

>> the Superintendent (said) the hackers did not access any personal information about students, families or teachers

He knows this because the hackers told him?

Seriously - the only people I know who are still on Facebook daily are soccer moms busy shuttling kids seven different ways. That's a pretty powerful demographic in terms of household purchasing power, but to say that it's key to media domination...misses the fact that there's Twitter and whole webs of social media that people over 25 don't even see. (I "borrow" my kids tablets and phones once in a while just to see how far they and their classmates are off mainstream social media grid.)

>> Scientists, philosophers, funders and policy-makers...should develop a proposal for an international charter for AIs

Er...no. How about just letting engineers figure these things out like we always have?

>> STEM is a dangerous gamble to be in these days

I read the article. Even at the low wages mentioned, the woe-be-gotten STEM grad student is still making 2-3x than a barista...in their preferred field. By my scoring, STEM's still winning.

Here in the US, colleges still send thick glossy booklets full of pretty pictures of campus locations students will hardly ever see in rare weather conditions with attractive and diverse people they'll never meet. Then we wonder why we have millions of non-STEM graduates serving coffee and whining about "student debt relief" for their useless degree(s). To me, all the "extra" college grads we have in the country are a much bigger deal than "just" 15K people getting a little wiser on how the world really works.

>> If desktops and laptops had such a vast array of apps created by modern-day slave labor, I doubt people would use the inferior, small screen phones or tablets.

Duh, they do. Look at the millions of apps available for Windows machines (including Flash-based games)...and that's a big reason why Microsoft has prospered over the years.

OK, if they want to guess how far we are from disaster caused by nuclear weapons, that's fine. But why co-mingle "climate change" - is this just a "we need funding" thing?

It's already on the bottom of every web page.

>> Slashdot is a Dice Holdings, Inc. service.

Anyone who's been here more than two weeks already knows that most of "Nerval's Lobster" submissions come in the form of "compare similar terms X and Y often found on resumes"

>> If you are a semi-oldtimer on the PC gaming scene

Yeesh...I guess those of us who played Zork should be in a nursing home.

>> a bid to foil the NSA, security chief John Stewart says

Both John Stewarts are funny guys.

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