Remember the "Corona Hotline"?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristidosh/2019/08/15/corona-brings-tony-romo-back-for-the-corona-hotline/#65dc4bc470dd

>> realistically simulate sharing a room with a distant colleague

Why the fuck would anyone working from home want to do THAT?

I'll bite. If you're in marketing (and this conference, like most others, is primarily about marketing) then no, there are more than the two binary states. There's the official conference presentations - the "ON" - but the "OFF" is harder to define. There's the afterhours. There's the email and social media stuff about this or that product launch/release that goes on as people are thinking about the conference, and follow-ups to the marks who swiped their badges or whose names were purchased from the attendee lists. And if you were one of the working stiffs expecting to get paid to set up, tear down, serve food, pick up trash, etc. then your "ON" also has, er had, extra hours.

Attorneys get $98M cash for legal fees - customers get $5 coupon on purchase of $50 or more.

>> teh government was "highly irresponsible" and "in the pocket of big corporate interests."

Good thing there's no single-payer or centralized health care in America, AMIRIGHT? /s

>> I wonder how many will fail to read the article

Please count me among them: TFA's are for chumps. Straight to the comments like a good Slashdotter!

Now we have a BF magnifying glass!

Given that a major thrust of the effort is to take a somewhat stable system and port it to AWS services using Gov-flavored version of agile run by disinterested offshore contractors, the chances of breach would seem to be north of 100%.

DNA is explicitly listed in the deck, along with voice identification and tattoos. (See slide #20)

...no one gives a shit about Apple TV in any of its forms.

See also: "Glitter"

The ban on political ads doesnâ€(TM)t help either, since that tilts the flow of political information toward traditional news media, who still seems to think that pro-Corp politicians like the Clintons are a good idea. (Just a genxer wistfully thinking of the good old days when the internet was the Wild West of free speech.)

>> When's the last time you saw Apple donate something?

If it's to avoid the heel of state-mandated taxes or regulation, they'll find their checkbook. I suspect that's happening here now.

$2.5B of bribes to zoning officials would probably be a better way to go, if reports of NIMBY-ism and last-century ideas about density and building height are really to blame for the housing crunch,

>>>> concerned the Chinese company may be censoring politically sensitive content
>> Meanwhile, facebook allows politicians free reign to say anything

I'm not sure you're aware of what you're arguing. I personally like the Facebook/American approach: let free speech be free speech. If we want to punish companies that censor content, that's better than rewarding companies that censor content.

>> Having (used transportation) in SF

SF is like the suburbs compared to NYC traffic. I happily drive through downtown SF in my rented SUV when I visit with my family but wouldn't dream of trying to drive through Manhattan.

>> Like Twitter, Facebook's algorithm for sorting posts in a person's social media feed gives heavier weight to those that users share and comment on.

Maybe that's the problem. Instead of trying to tweak your algorithm to only show double-plus or state-approved content, just switch (back) to a display that lists everything some entity published in chronological order.