"Warner Music Group becomes the first major music company to see physical media sales plunge to levels beneath streaming"

With practice you can win a coin toss most of the time.

http://www.wired.com/2010/11/s...

There is zero reason to assume it is a 50/50 chance.

Wait. Seriously?

I don't vote in the USA, but claiming that "one" party is the "honest" one, and the other isn't... is borderline hilarious.

They're all a bunch of crooks. The discussion of who's a bigger crook is laughable.

The reason that this election is different (Sanders and Trump) is because people have seen through the BS on BOTH sides of the US Government. The democratic establishment and the republican establishment alike are both equally terrified that their "chosen" horses might not win the race, and might get one-upped by the second-string horses that were just there to make the whole thing look legit.

Right now, at the peak of the biggest tech bubble in history, programming seems like a pretty sweet gig.

Except we are one significant market-swoon away from hordes of unemployed programmers looking to peddle their non essential skills in a job market not looking for them.

Coding is a great skill to have. All the best coders I know got started on their own. If you need a class, you're probably not going to ever be particularly good.

http://www.theatlantic.com/hea...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

The Cavendish banana is a tasteless, waxy disaster of a fruit.

It is the banana equivalent of the cardboard-flavored Red Delicious apple which has been so over-engineered for shelf-life and shiny skin that all traces of flavor vanished long ago. The fact that people still eat Cavendish bananas, Red Delicious apples and various varieties of ludicrously orange oranges with skins like pachyderms. is testament to the fact that American consumers really don't want fruit that tastes good as much as they want fruit that looks like it was rendered in a 3D program.

Here in Asia, other less "industrial-grade" bananas still exist. They are sweeter, more flavorful and won't survive a plane crash like your laboratory-born neo-fruit.

The death of the Cavendish could be a wonderful thing.

Which is why the *real* elephant in the room is *browser security* and the fact that javascript *still* isn't effectively sandboxed in 2015.

That alone would be a a shockingly big deal, but making it even bigger is the fact that the world's largest ad supported company also manufactures the world's most popular web browser -- oh, and bundles Flash.

Still though-- NoScript works. Don't kill off your favorite website just because out browsers are broken.

What's this "human tolerance" language and why is it so ridiculous?

Oh. Because there's an agenda at work. Never mind.

> "false, misleading, and inauthentic"

Like, advertising?

And before you say, "yes but we know advertising is advertising, and this is masquerading as something else"...

Consider the reality of "Native Advertising", the advertising industry's response to ad blocking: http://bit.ly/native_adverts

The Ferengi still used it... and the Federation used it to trade with the Ferengi.

Why does an anonymous leak site even store identifying information? Isn't the best defense to never even keep the data?

Aside from being defeated by loads of different adblock blockers (as well as the standard http://blockadblock.com/ generated scripts) there are loads of networks like PageFair that bypass AdBlock anyway. So "letting" acceptable ads through strikes me as a best option in a losing battle.

Sodium benzoate causes cancer. They knew about it for years. When it looked like the whole story was about to break, they *silently* pull it and replace it with potassium benzoate.

Does that cause cancer? The jury's still out, but the signs aren't good.

Bottom line is, there's little doubt that KO pumped Americans full of carcinogens for decades. And the "new" alternative is highly suspect.