kcheyfitz - Slashdot User

Comment Build a better blocker (Score 1) 247

by kcheyfitz on Thursday December 31, 2015 @01:38PM (#51216891) Attached to: Chrome Extension Offers Trump-Free Browsing

At last, a digital tool as useful as ad blockers.

Comment Eternal life (Score 1) 385

by kcheyfitz on Friday December 04, 2015 @02:46PM (#51058365) Attached to: Harvard Prof. Says Cure For Aging Could Emerge Within 5 Years

As pipe dreams go, this isn't such a bad one, assuming that some other set of geniuses (not geneticists) has figured out where we find the resources to support everyone's living forever.

Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos (middleeastmonitor.com) 529

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 29, 2015 @09:33PM from the but-cameras-never-lie dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Various sources report Israel's Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Tzipi Hotovely meeting with representatives of Google and YouTube to discuss censoring Palestinian videos believed to incite violence. Original aricle (in Hebrew) from Maariv The open question is how Google and Youtube will define "inciting violence." Currently, all foreign journalists in the Palestinian territories are required to register with the Israeli military, and all footage must be approved through the Israeli Military Censor's office before being released. However, according to the article in alternet individual Palestinians have been uploading videos showing violence by Israeli soldiers, including execution-style killings, and highlighting the living conditions in the territories, which Israeli authorities consider inflammatory.

Comment Just mice (Score 1) 126

by kcheyfitz on Friday May 15, 2015 @11:23AM (#49697967) Attached to: How SpaceX and the Quest For Mars Almost Sunk Tesla Motors

How did we all know it would be the mice on Mars that would attract the most attention?

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