So basically, with this the review becomes an advertisement. If you invest enough (get enough fake reviews) you stand to make some profit.
Truth in advertising doesn't exist and now truth in reviews won't exist either.
Then again, this is about stuff on the internet. If you don't check the source, don't complain when what you see is not what you get.
...the roulette wheel in Ceasar's palace landed on red. (/s)
If you actually bother to look at the site you're commenting on, you will see that these are stories of people who did try to take responsibility, but found they were unable to control what Youtube kept pushing to their children or to dementing parents. Read the stories first, before jumping to the conclusion that it must be the victims fault.
Then again, reading the article.... this is slashdot, sorry, I forgot.
Just like with a lot of things, at a certain point, you will have to stop 'having a discussion' and start doing something.
There are many things we can do that will be beneficial and not controversial.
We can always have a discussion about the controversial proposed solutions, but at least start working with the ones that make common sense.
This is exactly why Basic Income will be sabotaged all the way to hell and back. (Not going into the other aspects of Basic Income for now)
When everyone gets enough 'to live' so doing work for someone else instead of spending time on a hobby is a choice you make to earn something extra... do you still think cleaning toilets will be a job that goes for just $5/hour?
Only if they have an 11 feet pole onboard.
If you are using ebooks on Windows, I'd suggest you look at Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/ )
It contains an epub reader program, but more importantly, the main program is excellent for maintaining your library.
It should say "The Rise of Fear based news stories in the quest for eyeballs"
I don't feel sorry for sites and advertisers, they did this to themselves.
If you keep pissing through the mail slot, don't expect any sympathy when you stand outside with a full bladder and find the mail slot nailed shut.
That is not really surprising as coding is an exceptional case.
There was even some scientific research about the effect of alcoholic beverages on programming skills:
https://xkcd.com/323/
I don't agree with the whole patent thing, the more I hear about it, the more I get the feeling that the person it is supposed to protect (lone developers can't afford the patent process and large corporations lock the marketplace down with them).
Still, if you have a patent, you don't need to sell it. You can license the patent. That what the whole idea was about. So you could make a great smartphone invention, have a patent, and Samsung and Apple would pay you money to use the patent without you having to sell it.
How convenient, he's only infallible on things that can't be proven.
Welcome to religion, you must be new here...
Actually, the opposite of what GP mentions is true.
From a dutch website that trains people in First Aid (in dutch):
Mag iedereen een AED bedienen?
Ja, iedereen in Nederland mag als goed burger een AED inzetten wanneer dit nodig is. De Minister van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport heeft in april 2002 opdracht gegeven via een Algemene Maatregel van Bestuur de Wet BIG zodanig te wijzigen dat het gebruik van de AED door medische leken is toegestaan. Hiermee is de mogelijkheid geschapen dat iedereen de AED mag hanteren. Het is niet verplicht om een AED en reanimatie cursus gevolgd te hebben, maar met name het volgen van een reanimatiecursus is wel zeer aan te bevelen.
Basically, the government amended the laws in 2002 so anyone is allowed to use an AED, even if untrained in CPR or the use of an AED. Of course, the site does recommend people do the training.
It's fine that people don't want to be educated. But they shouldn't be allowed to make decisions on issues they are willfully ignorant about.
As a currency it is just as trustworthy as any other imaginary money system. It's value is highly speculative, like the NYSE. Nobody really trusts the NYSE just as you shouldn't trust the value of BitCoin.
And this is basically the sad thing about the economy. Stock used to represent real value that a business had: The ground it stood on, the buildings it owned, it's warehouse stock, it's patents, the knowledge of the people working for it.
That has all changed into how much another fool will pay for it. If you look at the net-bubble of 2001, ISPs were being valued based on the number of subscribers to their service, times an imaginary amounts that investors though those subscriptions should be worth. However, it was never really backed by anything, other than some hope that another sucker would buy their calculation and be willing to pay even more for the same stock.
It would be nice if stocks could go back to what they were for: Investors believing in a company and supporting it by trading a percentage of that company's capital for an injection of money. Not like gambling in a casino or with art where you hope some other sucker is willing to pay more for imaginary value in the future than you did. Also my problem with intellectual property, it's usually based on imagined value, instead of actual proven value.
"The medium is the message." -- Marshall McLuhan
