I would so mod this funny if I had points.

I really doubt the government will have the best interest of all people, so long as the wealthy donors benefit... it's working.

"It was justified based on the algorithms determination that this was a credible threat, despite the fact it was an elementary school. The regulatory AI agrees."

Considering roughly 29% of the world population lives in two countries that are more focused on growth and money than citizen health, this easily shows a scary statistic. Get China and India to clean up their industry and bam, 65% of the world population now lives in in this horrid air quality.

I get it, the poor children who didn't choose to be born in these countries are going to suffer, but really this is not news.

Automate enough people out of jobs and you'll destroy capitalism in the US. Once enough people are not able to find work, you're going to have to support them or be overtly for the mass death of your own neighbors. The 0.1% will not survive this unscathed by economic policy. Eventually enough people will be pissed off to the point of voting for socialism since those who run the business are making it impossible for the former employed to live.

Bilderberg group going after Jones attempting to discredit him. He must be on to something with his latest malarky.

Because millennials.

You have it wrong.

It obviously costs money to store all those photos since they do require, you know, physical memory space and such.

This is a natural move, install something that lets us market to you and gather more data on you or stop using our free service.

I'll delete my account if they delete my photo's. Stop trying to squeeze a dime out of me, I have no real need for your service.

It is not technically difficult or expensive to send messages into space. We've been sending them since 1895, at the speed of light. We just don't consider them to be intentional messages since they're daily broadcasts to us. Granted the majority are too weak to be of any real use, but that's the whole point, they arrive at Proxima in 4.5 years instead of X0,000 years.

The aliens knowing that they've received a sentient-species-transmission, and then more importantly, deciphering and understanding it is another order higher in requirements for successful communication, but pales compared to the sheer vastness of space. Due to distance, interference, evolution and power requirements the odds are against:

• A. Them receiving a usable signal
• B. Them deciphering it without anything to compare it to other than the signals following it
• C. Them having the technical savvy to locate the source
• D. Them having the technical savvy to send us back a usable signal
• E. Us understanding that we're receiving a response
• F. Us deciphering the response
• G. Us comprehending what they send
  
  Consider we've been transmitting into space for 121 years so far, that encompasses (from what I can find on stars within 100 ly) something like 10,000 stars. A response at that point takes effectively two and a half centuries to return, so for all intents and purposes they should be considered extinct, while being a mathematical possibility. And that's at the speed of light, not at the speed of Voyager.

Walk around like the guys in Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Trench coat, wide brimmed hat and a bandana. If enough people do it you're back to being relatively more anonymous.

Better yet, someone make the police shrouds from A Scanner Darkly.

Of course these ideas will only work until law "enforcement" come up with biomechanical movement analysis to figure out who you are based on how you move.

I get people being angry about Systemd, change is hard on people and giving up behaviours/knowledge that the community has prided as a point of recognition feels like losing a culture divergence from the Unix philosophy. Unfortunately they're looking at it from the wrong perspective.

The proper perspective is to understand that Systemd is a significant conceptual step towards targeting the enterprise with Linux. This change has made it so Linux effectively now has a centrally manageable remote process control system built in by default. This is an additional level of control over user space processes, which at the enterprise level, is a very valuable feature. Effectively the *nix version of Microsofts "Applocker" in an environment where a user often operates at higher levels of permissions. That's how enterprises operate their networks and a significant step up in securing Linux from that point of view.

Don't dare say sudo in response, great single system low user count idea, but again I'm talking about the enterprise level, hundreds of thousands of servers, desktops and accounts.

Is a rip of a 1940's comic strip tech.

I wonder if it'll be able to play lemmings.

I can't imagine this is hurting their operations when their main goal these days is simply making products thinner to sell new versions.