Really? What part of that joke triggered the censor trolls with mod points? Perhaps the reference to he who should not be mentioned?

No, I got that idea about the PET bottles because they put water in them and tie them around the base of telephone poles. Not exactly sure how it works, but apparently dogs don't want to mark the apparent wall of water?

But now I'm not sure if you know PET is from the chemical name of the kind of plastic. But I'd have to look it up to spell it correctly in English or katakana.

The whole idea of news for profit rather than to inform the public may be the root of the evil? When the REAL goal is to attract eyeballs for advertisers, the value of truth becomes dubious...

So we should blame "60 Minutes" because it was the first profitable news program? But that was built on the Golden Age of Journalism fantasy when frequency-based monopolies were auctioned off subject to the constraint of providing specified amounts of news as a public service. Or more blame to CNN for trying to do it on a 24-hour basis? Or FAUX for the complete facade of selling ads they don't actually care about?

I'm going to have to see how they write it, but definitely not in Romaji. However if if the original word was based on a foreign language there are lots of cases where the Japanese meaning is not closely related to the source meaning.

Funny joke? There was a long time when I had the impression that the Japanese called them PET bottles because they used them to discourage pets from pissing on telephone poles.

Hmm... I think it's an interesting question as to whether FAUX should be allowed to brand itself as news. They do want to sell advertising, but I think that's for credibility and their real business model is different. They can have as much money as they need under the table as long as they put out the "news" they are being paid for... Truth in advertising has become a rather sad joke, too.

Rage against the AI machine? People want wise oracles, but the AIs are stupid and some people are therefore learning to limit their thinking to what the AI is good at talking about. Even worse, some folks think the YUGE Orange Buffoon is some kind of gawd king...

How about updating the old song to "AI can do anything better than you"?

(And I think all the ACs could be replaced with a genAI set to the style of "stupid".)

Don't you wish you could fix your typos on Slashdot? At least for a short while.

But now you have me confused about what they call them in Japan... I'll need to visit an electronics store and pay attention to those displays.

Also whatever the "wise" AIs tell them. Time for some rage against the AI machines?

Unfortunately, I think most people are so into oracles that they will just learn to limit their thinking to the kinds of questions where the AI answers seem most useful. Especially for recommended cat videos.

Solution approach/Funny time:

Media can regain trust with more AI-generated cat videos!

Okay FP, but "Insightful"? You didn't say anything about the chain of security and the balance of motivation.

As regards your focus on physical security, it's actually one of the links in the chain that is relatively easy to reinforce and track. I think the weakest link usually turns out to be the people. (Interesting recent evidence from the human misuse of Enigma by many of the German soldiers in WW II. Any interest in the citation of the book? (I didn't think so.))

For number two I would actually rate complexity above physical security. (Again examples in that pesky book.)

Oh yeah, the balance of motivation. The attackers can be relied upon to scale their attacks to the value of the information. The defenders too often fail to match them. (Sometimes the defenders don't even want to admit how valuable the information is, but more often they probably don't even know.)

I think those are the big two, but now I wonder if Daikin is available outside Japan. Perhaps under a different label?

Pretty much sure all of them are reversible heat pumps these days and I'm not so sure those should be described as air conditioners in English.

Mod parent Funny and sad.

Solution approach question: Anyone have reportable experiences with those wristbands that are supposed to warn you if you're getting too close to heat-related illness? I'm definitely thinking of buying one before next summer. Judging by this year, I think that means around next April...

Just saw my first reference to them in a Japanese book published this year. It was about work safety on construction sites outdoors. The book did not mention the fan jackets, which surprised me. I saw a lot of those jackets this year, and even talked with a few of the wearers about their experiences. But they seem too expensive for my requirements and of dubious effectiveness.

Which reminds me of a third solution approach... Some kind of portable urine test? Do I need more fluid? More salt? Maybe the temperature is itself significant? Seems like those should be easy questions to answer.

You're arguing with a fool at best but more likely a worse argument with a troll's sock puppet. And you propagated the vacuous Subject, too.

For what it's worth I've lived most of my life in Japan, and even within that brief time the numbers show that the weather is becoming steadily more extreme. In particular the duration of pleasant weather between unpleasant summer and unpleasant winter used to be a couple of months and in recent years it's only a couple of weeks and sometimes only a few days. However Japanese weather records only go back to Meiji times, so when they say record-setting in Japan it only means about 170 years of quantitatively reliable records.

I was quite aware that I probably could have websearched for the 996 reference. But I decided it wasn't worth the effort at the time. (Also I'm trying to minimize my "Rage against the AI machines" now.) I actually had sufficient context when I first saw it to know that it is some form of zangyou. (But Slashdot still can't handle the cute Japanese word for "overwork"... Doesn't seem to be worth the effort of explaining that joke, so.)

As for the question of racism, I took the comment on its face. Perhaps an accident induced by his rush to FP, but after Slashdot notified him of my reply he could have stepped back in to clarify his vocabulary and his point of view and he chose not to. I do recognize your handle and associate it with some Funny comments. Are you vouching for his character? If so, on what real-world basis?

That's the joke I was looking for, as in the dead canary in the gambling mine. But the story expires thusly.

Fuck off you illiterate moron