Comment Equivalent to an $87.00 fine for $100k/year salary (Score 2) 64
Live Nation Entertainment reported $11.5 billion in revenue last year.
Comment Re:I don't think so (Score 1) 92
It works for the corporations that finance elected official's campaigns. It'll never change until American's change how campaigns are financed and change the laws that govern lobbyists through state level ballot initiatives.
Comment Re:O RLY (Score 1) 340
Unfortunately, infrared biometric scanners and cameras are already highly prevalent. An individual's thermal face print is as identifiable and unique as a fingerprint due to the ratio/measurements between major facial features.
Comment Re:O RLY (Score 1) 340
No, it's not possible that the CDC forgot all of the science learned by modern medicine on airborne viruses and suddenly rediscovered it in a few months.
Comment Re:can't help but wonder... (Score 1) 277
It sounds like a good time to move your business somewhere else. People and businesses need to quit banking with big national banks like Bank of America and Wells Fargo and start using smaller local banks. Geographic deregulation in the last 30+ years has led to oversized "too big to fail" banks that provide shitty customer service, higher fees, higher interest rates, and shady business practices. Bank local!
Comment Purdue Pharma's Sackler Family Wiring $1billion (Score 1) 34
Sackler family trying to stash $1 billion dollars around the same time seems relevant.
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Comment Cable News? (Score 1) 71
If we're going to break up Facebook because it "could change our culture, influence elections and empower nationalist leaders," maybe we should aim for certain cable news outlets (on both sides of the political spectrum), who are far more damaging.
Submission + - Tech Companies Are Paying Big Money To Kill a California Privacy Initiative (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader writes: As data-sharing scandals continue to mount, a new proposal in California offers a potential solution: the California Consumer Privacy Act would require companies to disclose the types of information they collect, like data used to target ads, and allow the public to opt out of having their information sold. Now, some of tech’s most prominent companies are pouring millions of dollars into an effort to to kill the proposal.
In recent weeks, Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber have all made substantial contributions to a group campaigning against the initiative, according to state disclosure records. The $195,000 contributions from Amazon and Microsoft, as well as $50,000 from Uber, are only the latest: Facebook, Google, AT&T, and Verizon have each contributed $200,000 to block the measure, while other telecom and advertising groups have also poured money into the opposition group. After Mark Zuckerberg was grilled on privacy during congressional hearings, Facebook said it would no longer support the group. Google did not back down, and the more recent contributions suggest other companies will continue fighting the measure.
In recent weeks, Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber have all made substantial contributions to a group campaigning against the initiative, according to state disclosure records. The $195,000 contributions from Amazon and Microsoft, as well as $50,000 from Uber, are only the latest: Facebook, Google, AT&T, and Verizon have each contributed $200,000 to block the measure, while other telecom and advertising groups have also poured money into the opposition group. After Mark Zuckerberg was grilled on privacy during congressional hearings, Facebook said it would no longer support the group. Google did not back down, and the more recent contributions suggest other companies will continue fighting the measure.
A Guitar Robot That Can Really Shred 88
botPatrol writes "As reported today by Create Digital Music and the Wired blog, PAM (Polytangent Automatic (multi-)Monochord) is a robot who has discovered a love for vintage Metallica riffs, and can churn them out non-stop at superhuman speeds without ever requiring anger management therapy or treatment for drug abuse."
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Mystery of the Dying Bees Solved 347
jamie points out news of a study attempting to explain the decline of honeybee populations across the US. As it turns out, the fungus N. ceranae that was thought to be killing off bee colonies had a partner in crime — a DNA-based virus that worked in tandem with N. ceranae to compromise nutrition uptake. From the NY Times:
"Dr. Bromenshenk's team at the University of Montana and Montana State University in Bozeman, working with the Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center northeast of Baltimore, said in their jointly written paper that the virus-fungus one-two punch was found in every killed colony the group studied. Neither agent alone seems able to devastate; together, the research suggests, they are 100 percent fatal. 'It's chicken and egg in a sense — we don't know which came first,' Dr. Bromenshenk said of the virus-fungus combo — nor is it clear, he added, whether one malady weakens the bees enough to be finished off by the second, or whether they somehow compound the other's destructive power. 'They're co-factors, that's all we can say at the moment,' he said. 'They're both present in all these collapsed colonies.'"
Reuters Ends Anonymous Comments 159
eldavojohn writes "In an effort to retain civility, it appears that Thompson Reuters has ended anonymous web comments. You may recall the defense of the anonymous commenter, but you need look no further than Reuters' own Dean Wright (Global Editor, Ethics, Innovation and News Standards of Reuters) for two lengthy editorials arguing against anonymity online. After reading his complaints against anonymous readers, it almost seems like they need a moderation system to decide what's worth reading and what's trash."
Comment priorities (Score 2, Interesting) 1139
It would be if we weren't spending 54% of our federal tax dollars fighting two wars and maintaining the second largest military in the world with more than 820 installations in at least 135 countries. After that maybe we could scale back on the 11% of federal spending that government bureaucracy gobbles up. Then we could lighten the tax load, so that more families could afford to have one income winner in the house. Which would drastically reduce social issues that lead to increased spending in the criminal justice system. This would free up even more money to start chipping away at the $ 13 trillion in national debt and the $110 Trillion in unfunded liabilities, which would let us spend money to bolster our education system, public services, research grants (including alternative energy sources) and finally some much needed infrastructure. Infrastructure that would include a nationwide rail system that will never pay for itself, but would be a great service for many Americans and allow me to sleep on my way to the office.
Comment Not shocking but a little scary. (Score 3, Insightful) 153
You're absolutely right. Neither Bush nor Kerry's people would allow them to debate Badnarik. Hell, Bush can barely debate one opponent anyway. But shouldn't this fact bother us a little bit?
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