*Sigh* I haven't been on Slashdot in a couple of years. This is a perfect example of why I lost interest: What used to be a site with a broad range of opinions, often challenging the hypothesis of the articles presented, is now championing the supposed "fact-checkers" whose primary purpose is censorship, not some altruistic goal of educating the gullible or the extremists. But no, most of the comments are preaching to the choir. "Right bad/stupid, left good/smart." This study is circular logic. If those in power decide what is misinformation, and use that as an excuse to censor, then of course the biggest source of supposed misinformation is going to be whatever poses the greatest threat to the current power. Just because you generated your "proof" through two or three different layers of private companies doesn't mean it is independent. And slashdot has clearly taken their 30 pieces of silver too.

My wife was offered a full-time job that was subcontracted, with Google as the client. They offered her 7 USD per hour. I'll bet that the company in the middle was getting plenty of money out of the deal, but because it was contracted out, they can get away with paying a pittance for a highly skilled full-time position.

Lately I've been sent a lot of requests to work additional shifts at a sporting goods store in Idaho. I considered going, but I don't think it's really worth the hassle of a 16+ hour commute from New Zealand.

This is a big problem for small businesses there who use Paypal for payment processing, especially when they do most of their selling through sites such as eBay -- suddenly they suddenly have to find another solution. Apparently many people are looking into setting up bank accounts outside of Turkey to get around it; one of the options a lot of people are considering is Estonia's e-Resident scheme, which allows you to register your company and use a bank account in Estonia.

Not just neckbeards, creative hairstyles and makeup can easily break facial recognition algorithms. You can already find some nice examples and tutorials for this online. I sort of like the idea of a future where everyone is wearing ziggy stardust kind of makeup.

super serial?

Sounds good, as long as they don't use squirrel bones as a raw material. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9exB1XR10ck

It's not necessarily lazy. It's a convenient I/O interface for the stomach, and the perfect accompaniment for the Cinco Food Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-o7YG3x0DI

...If it means I don't have to deal with the TSA!

In art school, there wasn't a lot of criticism, and they were nice about it -- tried to encourage you a lot. However, when I started working as an animator, if there was something wrong with a scene it had to be redone. If you didn't do it right, you didn't get paid. So, you learn pretty quickly not to be too sensitive to criticism.

Pick one and do it well. Primitive animation can be funny or cute, but it needs to be designed with that in mind - as a low budget animation, something which will be shown on screen rather than in print. This can work on a small screen quite well. If you want to make a comic though, tacking on a few sound effects and screen wipes really adds very little, and is more likely to disrupt the experience.

Sadly I don't think that's ever going to happen. The current NZ government is way too cosy with the US government, far more so than any other NZ government that I can recall...

It's all a bit of a mess really. Here's an article giving a few more details: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10808032

The US government has illegally copied his data, in the hope of extraditing him of charges of illegally copying other peoples data.

If you want to follow any discussion taking place on a facebook page, you usually have to "Like" it first. The word implies that you are supporting it, but you might just do it for the sake of curiosity, not to show how you genuinely feel about a subject.