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Submission + - Bus Messages Called Offensive When Read Backwards (cbslocal.com)

Submitted by sharkbiter
sharkbiter writes: The Port Authority is looking into bus slogans that some are calling offensive.

Officials say they’ve recently received complaints that one of its slogans, “Ziggin Zaggin,” is offensive when read backwards, seeming to spell out a racial slur. We might have to put some sort of vinyl covering on it to make sure the mark is completely covered,” Ritchie said.

Since it’s just nine buses out of 700 in the entire fleet that have this slogan, the Port Authority doesn’t anticipate a disruption in service.

Submission + - Secret Aerial FBI Program Uncovered By 23-Year-Old Journalist (cbslocal.com)

Submitted by sharkbiter
sharkbiter writes: The story was first reported by Sam Richards who put out information under the twitter handle @MinneapoliSam. The 23-year-old independent journalist first published the story of the FBI surveillance program on the website Medium on May 26.

His story featured screen grabs from FlightRadar24.com showing the circular routes the low-flying planes took over not just Minneapolis, but cities including New York, Chicago, Seattle, Phoenix and Dallas.

Richards said his investigation began when his friend noticed the low-flying suspicious flight and showed him the screen grab.

Submission + - Want a career in Linux? Take this edX course (betanews.com)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: There comes a point in every person's life when they must grow up and plan for their future. It is important to remember that you can be anything you want if you try hard enough. Of course, some jobs such as astronaut, President of the USA or NBA player are harder to get than others!

A smart choice in today's world is to be involved with Linux. There are many careers in Linux that are in demand nowadays. If you want to be a Linux Systems Admin, I have good news — you can now become qualified online thanks to a partnership between edX and the Linux Foundation.

Comment Re:other people's money (Score 1) 413

By golly, you're right! We should end all wars and tax the rich and middle-class until they're on the welfare rolls themselves! With the surplus of cash, we can raise the level of living for the 10 percent of Americans that are below the poverty level. What a wonderful world we'll live in with the government in total control of each and everyone's purse strings!

Oh wait! That's socialism! Never mind...

Comment Re:other people's money (Score 3, Interesting) 413

We keep on giving away money to people without the understanding that what we are giving has a price attached to it. Do we even worry about the effect that it's having on the very people that are receiving it?

Should we, (being givers), not teach those that receive our generosity what it means to be a recipient? Why do we have 6 generations of welfare recipients with each generation that's added not caring in the least where the money is coming from?

I walked from Potomac Avenue to the Navy Yard yesterday and came upon an entire community that relies upon government funded housing. They just hang out all day in a small park chatting with one another. They don't look like they're incapable of any sort of work.

I've worked for my living from the age of twelve to the present (decades, I won't say how many). Should I go and join them for awhile and see what it's like to have all my troubles taken care of by the government?

I'm just confused about all of this.

Submission + - Microsoft Punishes Gears of War Leakers (kotaku.com)

Submitted by sharkbiter
sharkbiter writes: Earlier today, following a number of video leaks from a wide-scale beta test of the upcoming Gears of War remake, the game testing company VMC said in a memo that Microsoft had both permanently banned the leakers from Xbox Live and temporarily disabled their consoles, rendering them useless. Said VMC: “Microsoft also permanently disabled their Xbox LIVE accounts (as well as other suspected accounts present on their Xbox One kits) and temporarily blocked all of their Xbox One privileges.

Submission + - Scientists Crack A 50-Year-Old Mystery About The Measles Vaccine (npr.org)

Submitted by sharkbiter
sharkbiter writes: Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles.

But something else happened.

Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half.

Submission + - Worker fired for disabling GPS app that tracked her 24 hours a day (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by sharkbiter
sharkbiter writes: "This intrusion would be highly offensive to a reasonable person," lawsuit says.

Southern California woman claims she was fired after uninstalling an app that her employer required her to run constantly on her mobile phone—an app that tracked her every move 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Submission + - Cherry blossoms also bring out the yakuza (japantoday.com)

Submitted by sharkbiter
sharkbiter writes: Yakuza are people too, and being Japanese, they have the same affinity for seasonal revelry as do any other citizen. But when they converge on public places for drinking and carousing, notes the subculture magazine Jitsuwa Bunka Taboo (June), a certain decorum is called for—but not necessarily followed.

Still, gang members might be advised by the local police to do whatever they can to “conceal their identity.”

“So rather than wearing flashy suits or jerseys, we’ll get our people to put on ordinary casual clothes like blue jeans and sweaters so as to look respectable,” relates a lieutenant from a gang based in northern Kanto. “At first we were thinking, ‘Dressed like this, nobody’s going to recognize us,’ but the more we drank, the rowdier we got, and eventually we’d break out in moody yakuza songs sung by the late Ken Takakura, like ‘Karajishi Botan’ or ‘Abashiri Bangaichi,’ which we’d sing ‘til tears ran down our cheeks.”

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