It needs a countdown timer - a timer that starts when you his send and counts down five minutes before the post is actually sent, giving impulsive big mouths time to reflect on their spewings, and in which time the post can be withdrawn or modified.

Technology solving people's personal inadequacies which have been exacerbated and magnified by technology (social media).

That would be a start.

Can confirm, in Firefox incognito mode, disabling scripts on nytimes.com (using umatrix) will remove their incognito cock-block and allow you to read the articles.

>They just want the consumer-base to think they are more pissed than they would be from pirating, which is just stupid - there's no way in hell, no loophole, no technicality that would make selling keys worse than pirating copies.

Well, this is where you show your ignorance on the matter, I'm afraid, as do a number of other commenters here.

The problem arises from people using stolen credit cards to buy game keys. They then sell those keys on sites like G2A. The people whose cards have been stolen, discover this and reclaim the money/cancel the purchases through chargebacks. This hits the developers who have sold the keys and costs them more than a simple refund, so they lose money. The credit card thief, meanwhile has a nice tidy profit form their G2A sales.

So, it's a little more complicated than people would have imagined and results in real financial losses for the little indie developer.

>We'll have to start digitally signing video and audio somehow...

At least until they develop a means for doing this shit 'in the camera' on the fly, signing the output.

Y'know - replace every "cut taxes" with "raise taxes"; "lower mortality rates" with "murder infants in their cots" or some such shit.

>If I tell you the sky is green, is that in any real way dishonest?

If it is blue and you also don't believe it to be green (ie. are deluded) and say it is green, then yes, it is dishonest. In not just a 'real' way, but in a very simple and basic way.

To make such an argument suggests you are, in fact, not being honest with yourself.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.slashdot.org%2Fst...

Starting Thursday and following a software update, users in the EU opening Google's mobile app store will be presented with a choice of alternatives to Google search and Chrome. The Alphabet unit said options will vary by market, but Microsoft's Bing and Norway's Opera are notable competitors in the European search and browser market respectively.

The changes could help Google avoid additional fines after being scrutinized by the EU for almost a decade. The European Commission, the bloc's antitrust body, last year fined Google $4.8 billion for strong-arming device makers into pre-installing its Google search and Chrome browser, giving it a leg up because users are unlikely to look for alternatives if a default is already preloaded. The EU ordered Google to change that behavior and threatened additional fines if it failed to comply. In a statement, FairSearch, a group that includes Czech search engine Seznam.cz and Oracle, rejected the changes as insufficient. "It does nothing to correct the central problem that Google apps will remain the default on all Android devices," the group said. FairSearch filed one of the first complaints to the EU on Android.

"Google said today it will start giving European Union smartphone users a choice of browsers and search apps on its Android operating system, in changes designed to comply with an EU antitrust ruling [...]"

Meanwhile, in other unrelated news:

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt in a new interview rejected the notion that [governments have] a role to play in regulating big tech companies [...] "It's generally better to let the tech companies do these things[.]"

So, Eric, you're saying Google would have given mobile users a choice of browser had the EU not ruled that it violated antitrust law? Pull the other one, mate.

>As a content provider my self (photographer), it's disheartening to see my work pop up on social media in numbers without end and I only get compensation from the tiny Internet real estate that I initially did business with.

Mate, none of those people sharing your images on social media would have paid you to do that anyway. You realise that, right? Nothing, as such, not even the *opportunity* to make money from those images, has been lost in that respect.

One problem with IP law and the mentality that can surround it is that it gives some people the false impression that creative cultural expression is exactly the same as tangible material property. And it isn't.

I'm not saying that commercial operations should be free to use any image as they see fit without financial and legal obligations to the coyright holder, but I am saying that to expect people who use non-licensed copyrighted material casually on social media the same as if they should have paid for a license, is ridiculous.

European law, with this new copyright law, as well as others such as the so-called 'right to be forgotten' law, has shown itself to still hold to a pre-digital, pre-internet mentality. Copyright is not fit for the modern age, and laws such as the one just passed are, if anything, a step backward.

Stuckists stamping around in their sabots. Except this time, it's not the working classes calling a halt to the new age, it's the establishment and factory owners (which is why it's succeeding and will probably get a lot worse).

The problem is the opaqueness of what Google and other service providers, advertisers and tracking companies do. It's all secretive and so very well hidden from their users/customers/targets.

This surveillance, monitoring and logging needs to be made readily available to anyone whose interested in knowing, a couple of clicks and it's all laid out to see. Until that happens, you're damn right people aren't going to realise the extent. Why would they? How can they possibly know all the stuff scripts and cookies are doing behind the scenes?

As for asking questions about how much people really care about this sort of thing, I would say this: how can they know how much to care about it all if they have no idea what it is that's going on and the extent of it all?

People need to be made aware and become informed, and only then can they decide if they're happy about it all.

Christianity may have reformed itself by superseding the Old Testament with the New Testament, but modern Christianity in the United States can often be little different from the unreformed version, and in many ways, in the attitudes and behaviours of its members , resembles little more than some old world war cult.

It sometimes appears that American Jesus is little more than Odin in a kaftan.

Epic Game Store is shit though.

No email authentication (pretty basic, no?) so people can sign up with your email address. Near-constant friend request spam (from bots/scammers). No social 'facilities' beyond basic friends list and basic chat. It's not a social network, it's just a platform where people can meet in a game and maybe get together on a proper social network elsewhere.

Also, fuck Epic for their exclusivity deals on their shitty platform.

Because the Slashdot editors are such stellar professionals and the "alternative source" to the paywalled site goes to an article on actual fucking spaghetti (with no connection to the main story at all) (ffs), here's the main article's text:

Fast-Growth Chickens Produce New Industry Woe: ‘Spaghetti Meat’
Jacob Bunge March 10, 2019

Chicken companies spent decades breeding birds to grow rapidly and develop large breast muscles. Now the industry is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to deal with the consequences ranging from squishy fillets known as “spaghetti meat,” because they pull apart easily, to leathery ones known as “woody breast.”

The abnormalities pose no food safety risk, researchers and industry officials say. They are suspected side effects of genetic selection that now allows meat companies to raise a 6.3-pound bird in 47 days, roughly twice as fast as 50 years ago, according to the National Chicken Council.

That efficiency drive has helped U.S. meat giants such as Tyson Foods Inc., Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. , Perdue Farms Inc. and Sanderson Farms Inc. produce a record 42 billion pounds of chicken nuggets, tenders and other products in 2018. Now, it’s adding an estimated $200 million or more in annual industry expenses to identify and divert breast fillets that are too tough, too squishy or too striped with bands of white tissue to sell in restaurants or grocery stores, according to researchers at the University of Arkansas.

“There is proof that these abnormalities are associated with fast-growing birds,” said Dr. Massimiliano Petracci, a professor at the University of Bologna in Italy, who leads a team of researchers investigating the chicken breast problems in breeds used in commercial farms.

Two poultry-breeding firms—Cobb-Vantress, owned by Tyson, and Aviagen Inc.—supply the bulk of breeding stock for the world’s chicken companies, industry officials said. Years of matching up genetic lines has boosted each bird’s yield of breast muscle, the white meat that sells for a roughly 13% premium to overall wholesale chicken meat prices, according to U.S. Agriculture Department data.

Researchers and breeders are still trying to pin down the exact cause of problems, a Tyson spokesman said. “While there are some factors linked to the occurrence—including bird weight, feed ingredients and the time of year the bird is grown—even a combination of these factors will not necessarily produce the same issues consistently,” he said.

An Aviagen spokeswoman had no comment.

Spaghetti meat—a name researchers have given chicken breast fillets that can be picked up and pulled apart by hand, or punctured easily with a fingertip—began appearing in 2015 and now can be detected in around 4% to 5% of breast meat samples, researchers said.

“It looks like spaghetti noodles,” said Dr. Casey Owens, a University of Arkansas professor, adding that the affected muscle fibers have a stringy texture.

Researchers also began observing white striping in commercially raised chickens around 2010, with woody breast appearing on the scene around 2013, Dr. Petracci said. Woody breast has been found in around 10% of samples, while white striping occurs in around 30% of chicken breasts sampled, he said. The severity of the problems can vary widely and often doesn’t affect the entire breast, researchers said.

Meat scientists said they suspect the rapid growth rate of commercially raised chickens may lead breast muscle tissue to outgrow the oxygen supply provided by chickens’ developing circulatory systems, at which point muscle fibers can degrade. That can alter the density and texture of the meat, they said.

Some restaurant and grocery companies aren’t waiting for chicken companies to solve the problems. Burger chain Wendy’s Co. in 2016 noticed toughness in some of its grilled chicken sandwiches. The chain in 2017 began shifting its chicken supply to smaller birds, slaughtered before they reach 7.5 pounds, though the size of its chicken fillets have stayed the same.

The transition meant $30 million in higher costs for Wendy’s, because the smaller chickens have made meat suppliers’ operations less efficient. “But we noticed immediately, consumer feedback on our chicken products was consistently good, and better than it was prior to this change,” a spokeswoman said.

Grocery chain Whole Foods Market in 2016 said it would shift its chicken purchasing toward slower-growing varieties, citing animal welfare and quality benefits.

Panera Bread plans to start testing slower-growing birds following a Canadian study on different breeds, said Sara Burnett, the chain’s head of food and wellness.

Some chicken companies, including Mississippi-based Sanderson Farms, have begun slaughtering chickens at slightly younger ages to reduce the frequency of meat affected by woody breast. That cut in half the company’s number of “woody” chicken breasts, bringing the overall frequency to low single digits, said Chief Financial Officer Mike Cockrell.

Chicken industry officials are confident that their high-tech breeding operations eventually will be able to minimize the problems through genetic selection, the way the industry has resolved previous side effects of fast growth in birds, like weak leg bones and heart problems. The process, officials said, is likely to take another few years.

The U.S. Poultry and Egg Association over the past three years has invested half a million dollars in research projects to help pinpoint the cause of the problems and identify nutrients that could mitigate them.

One effort involves adapting bioelectrical technology used in the seafood industry, which could help detect abnormalities, said Dr. John Glisson, vice president of research for the Georgia-based trade group.

Encountering such chicken breasts as a consumer isn’t pleasant, said Dr. Glisson. He said he unknowingly bit into a woody breast-afflicted chicken sandwich a couple of years ago at a fast-food restaurant. “It’s like a piece of leather,” he said.

Sounds like slavery.

The idea that Facebook would give its users anything which Facebook couldn't exploit by datamining is laughable; a fairytale for children and the feeble-minded.

Everything Facebook has ever done can attest to this. If you use their platform, you will have value extracted from your useage, your privacy will be breached and any and all assurances to the contrary will prove to be false.

Fuck the Zuck.

>Our leaders are exactly the same.

This is the same bullshit as during the 2015 election: Trump and Hilary are the same.

Nope. They're not. The Chinese, who torture and murder their citizens and put them in correctional camps are not the same as the leaders here.

Our leaders might be shiity and corrupt and fail to live up to our expectations, but just a cursory glance at the way the Chinese state treats its citizens shows such claims of equivalence to be grossly ignorant and utterly false.