NPR tax form 990 for the non-profit shows that the "All Things Considered" host made #331,000 in 2018. They could spend a few of that on a dinosaur story or two.

Based on the other salaries at the non-profit they have dozens of people making over 250,000 per year

https://projects.propublica.or...

NPR Form 990 - https://projects.propublica.or...

Spew billions of hours of deep fake video instead of trolling twitter tweets to influence people.

I should not have to prove financial loss to sue a company loses my personal data.

Company A loses my name, drivers license number, address, birthdate and social security number today

Company B loses the same data next month

Identity theft happens and I'm looking at $50,000 in credit card charges I did not make

Company B says it was not us, you cannot prove it

Company A says it was not us, it was Company B and you cannot prove it was us

What needs to happen is that company A and company B both pay towards a lifetime credit monitoring, credit fixing, identity theft insurance for me since the personal information lost does not expire. A 1 year free monitoring largely paid by the company's errors and omissions insurance policy is an insult at best.

I've had a company lose my name, address, credit card information and send me a letter saying we lost this, but it's too hard for us to fix it and we're not going to do anything (even credit monitoring at $20 a year) about it. My recourse, none since I cannot prove I was directly harmed by the company's failure.

A credit bureau a major hotel chain have been hacked and lost millions of persons detailed information - enough to get a credit card application approved - and yet they are still in business.

Wells Fargo commits identity theft/fraud by the tens of thousands and somehow, no one goes to jail, and they are still the in the top 5 largest banks in the USA and in business.

Only allowing me to collect a minimum of $100.00 from each and every company which loses my personal information will correct this.

Let's loop through or just pick a random set of operators, constants, exponents up to 8 in length then compute the result value and keep any that are within 5 percent of any of a set of known mathematical constants.

From the equations kept, lets add another 8 more items to the equation and recompute, if it gets closer to the constant, keep it

rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat

The question is does it find any equations which are as simple as or even simpler than the existing best known equation?

Then we can try, whenever known infinite series for computing PI is used, we can substitute a different infinite series, simplify and see what new easier simpler equations come out.

The media should come back in 90 days and ask - What's the outcome of the wastewater hack government investigation?
- When were the last audits done of the IT systems in the wastewater plant?
- What are the password expiration policies of the computers in the wastewater plant?
- What are the job requirements needed to have access to the wastewater plant computers?
- Are there any things which disqualify someone from getting a job with access to the wastewater plant computers? (felony conviction, hostile country of birth)
- Are any persons not employed by the county government allowed to access the wastewater plant computers?
- Has any elected or appointed official resigned, been fired, given leave with or without pay as a result of this hack? If so, are they eligible for government pension?
- Has any government employee been fired, given leave with or without pay as a result of this hack? If so, are they eligible for government pension? Cops lose their pension if they commit a felony on the job.


There's a million more but the gist is 'did anyone get punished for this unacceptable job performance?'

stories about dinosaur senators and congressmen mixing with other dinosaur government contractors and how they are using legal abet shady ways to milk tax payer money would be great for NPR to cover. NPR as a news agency needs access to leaders and rarely reports bad things about anyone for fear of excluding X headlines which could be written by favorable sound bites given by a leader. Local paper comes out against getting a baseball team to locate to the city, never, and miss out on the millions of words to be written about the daily box score from the home team.

Arguments that begin with "I have a conclusion based on unprovible numbers" should be avoided

Had two different SAAS vendors shut down with 30 days notice which my business used for invoicing and CRM. Small, cheap SAAS means high risk they will shut down without enough warning, tell you to pull your own data, and be unable to do any any data extract even if you pay them.

End result, we ran reports, got our data in PDF files or manually saved html pages and had to RE-ENTER it MANUALLY into our next system

Needless to say, we did not go with a mom and pop SAAS after those two disasters.

I was told that any SAAS agreement needs to have a monthly data dump sent to me or I can download and upload into a normal SQL database to be a viable SAAS vendor.

Azure seems better, though Microsoft can give 12 months notice before shutting down a service with no migration path and no replacement software service.

A financial firm making money off trading and selling financial products wants Apple to legitimize another financial product so quants around the world can trade more financial products

About as newsworthy as "Opposition party X criticizes the president"

- Someone's playing gotcha journalism or recording you

- Play noise in the background, mumble somewhat to prevent a gotcha soundbite

You will see this in interviews where gotcha question gets 25% of the answer, a side note to derail the sound byte, then the rest of the answer.

Classic interview response technique

Considering that most of the total energy and pollution used in building, owning, operating, driving, and recycling a car are in the mining, building and recycling parts of its total lifespan, Tesla does not have a good climate reputation. By that same logic, a coal mine could pollute for 100 years, then capture all its mining pollution starting today and claim it's carbon neutral. Make an electric car which requires nearly no maintenance and runs for 1,000,000 mile reliably and we're talking good climate reputation. Longer product lifespans means less pollution. Apple, Tesla, GM, Ford, HP, Sony, Samsung and a million other companies aren't listening though. There are government regulations existing on mean time before failure for certain products which could be extended to other products over time (car brakes, car transmission, ...)

India is large enough that it could block Twitter on these grounds, letting a home-grown company - favored by the government - and taxable - fill the Twitter gap. Witness what China has done with copycat platforms for its market.

You have to realize that the persons in the government setting these things up are not computer people, the contractors want to get it done and get paid and after the fact security holes are someone else's responsibility. The mayor, city council, etc. will be long out of office when the X hits the fan for these systems.

Literally, we need a strong new agency going after government corruption, self-dealing, pretend objective government leaders and nepotism.
For example, how many /. readers know that the leader of the House's husband is a Silicon Valley real-estate developer with a need for big technology companies getting a pass on government regulation. Big/small Silicon Valley tech benefits, he benefits, yet the media does not report at all that the person able to set federal tax policy legislation has an innate bias via her husband.
NPR rarely goes after government other than pointing out a president or an occasional senator. About as balanced as Microsoft saying we're not a monopoly because Apple has 4% of the computer market in the 1990s.

Computers interfacing with embedded systems are rarely updated especially by smaller companies or government agencies. Too costly, no one knows how it works, the original contractor is long gone out of business. The embedded system it interfaces with may be in use for decades without a significant update to its software.