But technology in the classroom is not going away, as one commenter notes.

Yeah, well, that commenter is a VP at an edtech company, so *of course* she would promote that line.

The US still has plenty of pieces of military death crap for you to get your war hard-ons.

"It casts a wider eye towards how a changing climate will affect defense missions in the future."

Tech people have a special obligation to quit using this Orwellian euphemism when talking about the US military.

Ain't technology great!

Pursued by the strivers and the authoritarians.

"The book-buying landscape for students and their families" has already been changed, by torrents and usenet.

This seems to hold true for most broad-interest sites like newspapers and magazines where comments can be downright awful, as opposed to sites like Slashdot with a self-selected and somewhat homogeneous audience. It seems unlikely that using only blogs for responsive dialog with authors and peers could come close to matching the feedback and community feel of comments such as we see here. Is there a technical solution, or is this a biological problem imposed on the internet?

Ummmm, I would not classify Slashdot among the non-broken sites with broadly thoughtful, intelligent comments. And the hokey voting system here works just as much to hide thoughtful, but unpopular, opinion as it does to make trolls invisible. I believe Jackson is holding up sites where depth of though reigns and which don't depend on technological thumbscrews to maintain a veneer of quality.

This is my favorite comment from slashdot ever.

from the video it looks like the perpetrator is some 20- or 30-something foolish dumbass.

ask yourself about morality.

"But after all of the lies and subterfuge is it even constructive to give voice to the talking points of intelligence officials?"

That's not dehumanizing, that's standard practice.

So we call him by the first name when we want to humanize him, make him sound like next-door regular folk, downplay his abusiveness. Right?

Concerns about ability to kill animals after relocation are a really big deal to most of us, Hemingway.

Not too easily purposed to warfare and domination of other peoples. Just what we need more of.

The research could be used for health-tracking apps, baby monitors, and for the military and law enforcement.'

Of course, always for the military and law enforcement. The ethos of technology development in this country, spreading to the world, increasingly sickens me.