Yeah, so if this is the cover story what other heat signatures might they be looking for?

It's not immediately obvious to me but something we should understand.

Detecting Zizians would help prevent these forest fires but it would be quite hard for a satellite to do that.

You mean the religious schools forcing their crap on kids and it being paid with taxpayer money?

The change to prioritize what you have installed over showing web content is a plus. I generally avoid using the search on the taskbar because I don't care about web content when I am doing a search for stuff already on my computer.

I keep hearing things like "my grandmother got so confused, I set her up on Zorin/Mint and she couldn't tell the difference."

The more people just use their PC's to get on websites the less they seem to notice if they use Windows or Linux.

It doesn't matter if it's bad - if China and Russia agree it's bad you have to be for it.

You can never agree with China because they have a totalitarian AI Surveillance Police State there so you must support a totalitarian AI Surveillance Police State here.

If you are against techo-feudalism you must be one of them Putin Lovers.

- The New York Times / Langley, apparently.

I'm amazed to find your comment is an isolated example of reading comprehension and critical thinking.

Many others are 'accepting the premise' and 'entering the frame' of the LA Times weirdos.

Didn't expect that today.

Young people see how poorly paid people in different fields are, and decide not to go in that direction. Health care is one example, where you hear about doctors being paid well, but then, all of the others getting paid very little. Nurses need to go on strike to get paid properly all over the place and on a regular basis, and that doesn't talk about the rest of the staff in a hospital.

You also have to look at where things will be in the next 20 years. With the Baby Boomers, when that generation dies off, there will be a drop in the need for health care jobs, or there will be an excessive number of them, but prices won't drop in the competition to bring in patients, so prices will remain high while there are too many health care offices around for the demand. Health care is actually an area that I expect will implode in the next 20 years. Technology jobs, yep, we are surrounded by technology, but the number of decent paying jobs are fairly low outside of the cities. How much can you charge to repair something that only costs $500 when new? So, lots of work to be done, but really, the pay doesn't reflect the level of skill needed, and that causes the overall economy to suffer as well.

The reality is that the culture in much of the USA doesn't favor education and having an educated population, and you need an educated population to handle the jobs that are available.

There are areas around the USA where people are against those with a college education. They complain that colleges "indoctrinate" people against religion, and nonsense like that. So, with a CULTURE and politicians that support that, it is no wonder we aren't teaching the skills needed for many jobs these days. That is when those same anti-education people complain about immigrants that come and take the available jobs.

Just be careful; a few old IBM sites had toxic waste problems. It sounds like they were just turning off the lights and water and walking away from these.

One woild hope everything was remediated but I wouldn't bet my own safety on it.

Yeah, that's why they mentioned the ancient Sony camera he lifted.

"Crime with a gun" is a separate crime according to NY.

SCOTUS will strike those down eventually. It's like saying "crime while praying" if it's a right.

Obviously he wasn't using the gun to jack a Betacam. He was probably worried about crackheads in there for the copper.

If the argument can be proved that they ruined the minds of an entire generation using a massive AI/Big Data model running at n terraflops by deliberately addicting children during the crucial neuronal pruning period of their lives, that is at a minimum going to cost the society tens of trillions of dollars and restitution would be far more than the proposed fines.

Nobody gets a second chance at that pruning stage, at least in this lifetime.

Their profits may be far lower than the damage they caused, but that characteristic is always true of parasitic entities.

This is basically the whole point of the Island of Pleasure warning in Pinocchio.

It remains to be seen what can be proved in Courts but the DSM-6 won't be kind to their arguments as outlined in TFS.

The idea is probably from 1950's comic books but the tech seems brand new since they don't need any landing legs and use a net-on-frame architecture.

People should pay attention because they didn't have orbital technology thirty years ago and now they have a space station, reusable rockets, and are about to have a Moon base.

And possibly ultra-long flighttime 'drones' that can fly over Picatinny Arsenal unimpeded; that much is uncertain. We have no explanation for their energy budget (at least white-world).

Having a country run by engineers rather than professional thieves who hire engineers to justify pillage has certain advantages (and disadvantages).

Let's not get too overconfident.

When China invites people because they have skill, they don't set the power of the government to harass those people. Here in the USA, the current administration is not only turning people away who want or wanted to come, but those who ARE allowed to come are then assaulted by ICE in many cases. That is what makes the USA obviously hostile toward immigrants as well as visitors.

They are secretly drawn to that sort of thing, but don't want to admit it to themselves. The moment they see it, their desire goes in a direction that they don't like to admit is there, and they freak out. So, don't show it so they can stay in the closet is their true reason.

Here in the USA, there is a fairly large group of people who are against higher education overall, as well as politicians who are worried about religion not being attractive for those with a greater amount of education. They claim that students are being indoctrinated against religion by higher education, but then they push for religion to be pushed in public schools. The fact that there isn't a HUGE push to teach math and science in the USA is a big part of why the USA has lost most of its edge. Those who are stupid but have a lot of money have also pushed a anti-education agenda because they feel intimidated by those who are more intelligent as well as more knowledgeable than they are.