That, and if the office workers going outside, they'll spend some of their money at local businesses, which may have to hire more people, which would help the local economy, and maybe stabilize peoples' situations, so you do have less homeless and less crap on the streets. Just a long term thought. (One that the knee-jerk types wouldn't consider whilst they're busy exterminating people who, just imagine it, might not be in that situation due to their own faults or character flaws, but due to a series of unfortunate events not of their making). The knee-jerk types never seem to look far enough down the road to consider that one of those unfortunate people could be their son/daughter one day.

They also fail to remember the beneficial head start they likely received by being fortunate enough to be healthy/relatively wealthy/from a good family, etc.

For the video evidence to be accepted, it should have to be accompanied by an in person (or personally identifiable) affidavit. Problem solved.

"To hell with this death predictor... Sell the product that can read doctors' handwriting!!!"

Thanks for that! Made my day!
(where's my mod points when I need 'em)

^^ Slashdot comment as a cheap cloud storage mechanism?

Safari already treats self-signed certs as second class citizens. Websockets (for example) will not work with self signed certs in Safari.

I agree as well. I don't mind paying for quality content (not saying salon.com is or is not, I don't use it actually). This sounds like a reasonable compromise. If they don't show ads and don't abuse it--we'll see--I'd be fine with it. I've paid for Medium subscriptions because I don't like ads and will continue IF Medium is fairly compensating the writers in the long run (we'll see). I won't pay for digital newspaper subscriptions because they continue to show me ads even if I've paid. Actually, now that I think of it, I should click on a slashvertisement or two I suppose...I still get some amount of value/entertainment from this site, even though it's not as tech-y as it used to be.

4 AA batteries actually (on the original). And the keyboard consumed them like there was no tomorrow. Nice keyboard, but lousy on the power consumption side.

From the article: âoeFacebook isnâ(TM)t a luxury,â Darling said. âoeItâ(TM)s a utility in our lives. For something that big to be so secretive and powerful in how it accumulates your information is unnerving.â

That's one of her problems right there. It may be a utility, but it is not a mandatory utility. It is opt-in. Life goes on just fine without it. Some sheeple seem to think it's required that you sign up for a facebook account. It's a proven privacy violator. And as far as ethics go, Facebook is in the same category as uber. Just use other technologies instead.

Neuromancer by far. I read many other (Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, The Difference Engine and others) but Neuromancer was the most visionary I think.

Agrippa, a short story, is fascinating to read. I read just an ordinary text version I found online a decade or so ago but IIRC Gibson originally wanted it released on a floppy disk that would erase itself after it was read once (you'll have to read the story to understand why). The whole concept was very inventive.

Yes, because poor-to-begin-with, hurricane-ravaged, probably-hungry and traumatized people are great at suddenly being physically fit enough to work long hours digging trenches? Sure. Keyboard critics (probably sitting in their parent's comfortable basement) always think everything is so easy.

I looked into notifications for iPhone webapps somewhat recently, it is not *currently* possible. Sevice workers are in development but not currently available.

So far. If you extrapolate that argument though, coal, oil and nuclear should be phased out. That stat regarding nuclear is like saying Russian roulette is safe

If you keep using nuclear eventually that 90 deaths will dramatically increase, making it far more dangerous than solar/wind. There will be no mass destruction due to solar/wind.

The first copyright infringement case against this AI will be quite interesting.

Well the language may be ported over, but what about the frameworks? I haven't checked, but my guess is that is the piece that's missing

yes, Cargo cults!