It's almost like if you give an 18-year-old a $60,000 deferred loan they'll waste it!! Whooda thunk?!

It doesn't matter what anyone can imagine. You still haven't produced the article in question even after being asked for it.

I'm sure some governments have known this for awhile. I wonder how many people have been framed? And how would you ever prove your innocence?

I have similar worries in regard to the proliferation of 'deep fakes' and other methods of realistic video editing that is indistinguishable from original recordings.

I imagine we will deal with these issues to the best of our ability as time goes on, but "Damn future, you scary!"

Considering I just went to Youtube and tried searching for "Black Panther Full Movie", "Lego Movie Full Movie", and "It Follows Full Movie", but could not find copies of any of these movies, I think it is safe to say that you are either ill-informed or a liar, or these movies you're talking about are sufficiently buried that the small proportion of people who access them shouldn't be a concern.

And to the point in the article, Youtube can't reasonably be expected to police everything someone uploads. They already try pretty hard and the systems they do have in place end up getting abused. If you can think of a happier medium or useful technical solution, please provide it, but arguing that Youtube is purely a cesspool of copyrighted material is not only incorrect, but not overly useful to anyone.

Woosh!

And here you are posting on Slashdot during working hours. Bad, worker bee, bad!

Maybe you said all the things you said somewhere other than Slashdot, because I can assure you that if those comments were made here, people weren't disagreeing with you. Slashdot is well known for it's support of privacy (including digital).

Your comment makes it sound like you were the only person on Slashdot saying that putting listening devices in your house is a bad idea. However, you can go back to any Slashdot story that mentions Google Home, Alexa, or any other device with an always-on microphone, and find large swaths of comments mentioning the privacy violation, at least one one of which has been modded up to +5 insightful.

I agree with the point of view expressed, but please... give off your high horse.

I find it odd how 'slavery' is so often framed as an American phenomenon, when it was/is a worldwide institution. The US was simply the last superpower to abolish it locally. Slavery is unfortunately alive and well, which should be clear to anyone willing to take a look around.

As for the topic at hand: The folks arguing for this might have a point if the terms being used were 'whitey' and 'blackey' or something equivalently racist, but I find the terms 'master' and slave' to be sufficiently "anodyne" considering they refer to a relationship between two things and neither term explicitly refers to a particular type of individual. Are we going to get rid of 'parent' and 'child' as well because some people were beaten by their parents?

Are you seriously suggesting that the word "fuck" is inherently childish?

Grow the fuck up.

Good job conflating a candidate's computer literacy with the competence of an IT department.

So Quake, but without all the nuance that makes it Quake.

I know, right?! It's almost as if humans have different preferences so choose to spend their money in different ways!

No pun intended?

I believe they call that a video game.

Depends on what you mean by "harder".

I've worked in both bars and restaurants, as well as in tech in the finance industry.

While, the tech work required more specialized skills and knowledge, the restaurant and bar work was certainly more grueling and left me more tired.

It's easier to find a qualified worker for the service industry, but for a candidate that is qualified for both the finance work is certainly easier.