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Comment And little of value was lost (Score 1) 39

Yes, there are a few useful corners of social media.

And you could watch symphonies on TV too. And educational stuff. But kids didn't, did they? Or those who did were a rounding error.

And then of course there's the fact that social media is a million times worse than TV ever was. You wouldn't let your kids wander down every dark alley of every city on earth, so why would you let them wander every corner of the internet?

Comment Er (Score 1) 64

Meetings that give a voice to all

This is what drags meetings out, usually.

It's especially lame when there is some meeting protocol that requires everyone to speak."Um, yeah; I agree with the last ten people that we should do what the powers that be have already decided we should do anyway".

Comment Re:In ur radar, hacking ur storm cloudz (Score 4, Informative) 71

The muppet in the hot seat, Bureau CEO Stuart Minchin, cited switching from HTTP to HTTPS as one of the main points during one of the regular grillings he has been getting from the media over the past few weeks, because apparently the data of Australians was on the line.

On a decent web host, that's a single click to install a free Let's Encrypt certificate, lol.

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