The perfect solution to all of this, is have one box that sits under your TV, which aggregates many different sources into one subscription plan, With different tiers and plans available based off of what you want. Oh wait.....

She must be a glutton for punishment, time to delete her account maybe?

It was a tour to "stimulate small business interest in Facebook", sounds like a very right wing endeavor. If it was a tour to promote "free shit to entitled schmucks", I'm sure it would of been a left wing leaning agency.

If I were the judge in the case, I would probably just throw the case out because:
1. He should have had data recovery run on it, Recuva is a free 2 minute download that takes just a couple clicks, anybody in IT can do it for you if you cant figure it out. If this is one of the odd cases that has to go to an expert(it probably still can), your looking at a couple hundred $$ at most. So failure of due care.
2. No backups, it cant of been that important.
3. Proof the videos existed.
4. How did he arrive at the $250,000 valuation? Did he have a buyer willing to pay that much for the video? Was there a $250k project he was working on that got erased? Is every single hour of video worth $500?
This REALLY sounds like a scam to me.

Well... Seems to me the primary difference here is that we stole from the British Empire (a super power, which arguably stole it's tech anyway), when we we're recently liberated British colony (2nd world country equivalent). As opposed to being a super power conducting state sponsered corporate espionage against another super power.

The AI's job is to #1 obey the laws, #2 prevent an accident and #3 arrive at its destination. In that order specifically. As long as #1 is being followed, it is not liable for any incidents that occur. Hitting a person violates #2 and would prevent #3 At no point will the AI ever make a decision about who dies, it's beyond the scope of it's programming and should always remain so. The reaction is straight forward: Step 1. brake as hard as it can, Step 2. Swerve to avoid if it can do so safely. This is not iRobot where the machine is calculating odds of survival and making a choice based off that, there is no thought process. It is completely pre-programmed reactions.

A head hunter called me a couple months ago offering me sysadmin position at the Tulare CA plant they were starting up, at a really good rate. Something diddnt smell right so I did not go for it, and now I'm really glad I didn't.

There are multiple major factors: 1. The primary cause: Ending forest management and trying to return it to an semi "virgin" state. - Ending controlled and managed logging which removed dead, diseased and otherwise unhealthy trees. - Lack of control allows the Pine Bark Beetle infestation to wipe out huge sections of forest. - Ending grazing contracts, allowing grass and brush to grow uncontrolled. 2. Despite trying to have a "virgin" forest, we fight the fires which are essential in the self management process, allowing the bark beetle to continue to spread, and allowing the tree and brush density to increase to nearly 3x healthy levels. 3. Increased CO2 levels promote additional growth, which adds more fuel. We either need to manage it properly, or leave it completely alone.

Pretty accurate actually, It's just basic statistics. You disregard outliers as anomalies and look at trends. Over the course of a few weeks you get a good picture of how customers see your employees, if you have a 3* average across your staff you cut back the hours on the staff that average below your base average, and watch them more closely. Workload may be too much, they may not be a good fit, they may need more supervision etc. etc. Sure it messes with peoples lives, by making them more directly accountable for their performance. A poor experience drives customers away, no customers means the restaurant goes under, restaurant going under means entire staff is unemployed. So yeah, get rid of crappy servers.

So let me get this straight... A system put in place to help identify poor wait staff, and subsequently justify removing said wait staff, is allowing managers to do just that? And the effected wait staff is taking to the internet to complain about it? OMG this is a national crisis!

I've seen this stuff first hand and it's kind of shocking. My four year old daughter was watching Frozen or My Little Pony videos on my tablet, I hear screams coming from whatever she's watching so I look, and its a crudely animated parody of My Little Pony where everything is getting killed and full of foul language, it made South Park look tame. It was the kind of stuff 15 year old me would of thought was funny, but not a little girl. So the YouTube thing pretty much ended then and there. She has the run of NetFlix Kids now though.

One of the biggest pains when shopping around for a job was not knowing the employer's range. This isn't going to a damn thing about "wage gap", but it will help people like me who go into an interview and start the process only to find out later that "oh we misrepresented the job, our cap is %25 less then what you want"

Ironically the Sierra Club called it and actually tried to make them fix it 12 years ago. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/...