Huh ... that Julie Childs show you're complaining about is on ... HBO Max, not Netflix

I think what this means is that DHS doesn't have confidence in the security checks outside the US, not that the measures in the US don't work. That's why this doesn't apply to flights from the US TO Europe.

Even if you're using https, your ISP can tell a lot by seeing the websites/hostnames you are visiting and times/etc. I think you're completely missing the point ...

Innovative!!! It sounds like Java ... (or basically any other bytocode compiled language ...)

I've been on slashdot a looooong time. Never supported wikileaks, and Assange seemed like an asshole from day 1.

"The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy." - 2012

You don't even have to guess who tweeted that right?

I've been leading some CoderDojo sessions on Raspberry Pi programming at the local library, and the Pi is a great teaching tool.

However, I feel like the software that comes with the Raspbian distribution is falling behind. Two key examples:

* Scratch - The 1.x version of Scratch that comes pre-installed is pretty ancient. While this is partly due to some bad technology choices the Scratch team has made, it'd be great if out of the box we'd have an option for Scratch 2.0 support (or some competing equivalent)

* Minecraft Pi - the mcpi library is a great teaching tool, but the problem is the outdated Minecraft that comes with the default install. It's stuck in an alpha version, with a lot of limitations. Not saying that we need the full "game", but it'd be nice if it didn't have arbitrary limitations like only 5 players in one server (I wish I could have the whole class in the same world) or lots of issues with mouse input/etc.

* python - IDLE3 is not a great python IDE. The auto complete seems very inconsistent, to almost non-functional. Also, why do we default to python2 instead of python3 in the terminal?

I know these projects are not owned by the Raspberry Pi team, but Scratch and Minecraft Pi are part of the appeal of learning to program on the Pi (which has almost nothing to do with the hardware). I was disheartened when a member of my Dojo stopped by asking if he could just do all his programming in python with Minecraft on his PC, I had a feeling there was frustration with its limitations, when I think this little piece of hardware should be the 1st choice a student should look for learning how to code.

>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

Also reminds me of the Coca-Cola image generator that had a big blacklist of words you couldn't put in the captions. Here the AI is writing the captions, but seems a similar blacklist idea.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

Report from consultancy recommends enterprises adopt best practices by hiring best-practice consultants.

The airplane aisle, or what?

There was a rash of people submitting jobs to Mechanical Turk and then not paying anyone. The person paying can rate work as unacceptable and not pay, and there's no real oversight if they just do that all the time (and Amazon doesn't police this at all, or even provide a reputation mechanism). So some academics put together a third-party site, Turkopticon, that people use to rate jobs, payers, etc., which has made it a lot easier to avoid the people on the site who won't pay. Seems like a good idea to extend it to "the real world".

True, that's not far off. I think I last installed Linux in 2008. At the time, suspend/resume was very flaky, which was kind of a dealbreaker for a laptop. (It would often appear to work, but then various things would be broken in mysterious ways after resume.) It could well be reliable by now. But still, lots of Unixy people use OSX on their laptops, even when their preferred work environment on a VPS or remote server is Linux.