The actual link to the motherboard story is this one:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmotherboard.vice.com%2Fe...

This post links to a totally different article.

It's worth noting that much of the top-5 songs in the past 10 - 15 years have all been written by the same tiny handful of songwriters.

Obviously Max Martin tops this list, and has been writing #1's since at least 1997. He has dominated the pop charts even more in the past decade. He has either written or co-written most #1 pop songs you can think of for the past 5 years. He also produces the songs he writes for the singers that release them. Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Maroon 5, P!nk, Kelly Clarkson - every single one of them had a #1 with Max Martin in the past few years - and some (Timberlake) since the beginning of their careers.

Whenever I hear that a song by Katy Perry is a "dis track" against Taylor Swift I just go "They're written by the same guy!" In fact he might be suggesting these tracks to specific artists with that kind of press in mind.

Martin himself might be single-handedly responsible for the actual stats this article outlines.

And when it's not Max Martin, it's one of his protegés, e.g.: Dr. Luke.

The only real reason Reddit is no longer Open Source, is because they don't want the world to see their algorithms used to censor voices they don't like. To be very specific, their rewrite their algorithms to ensure that r/the_donald doesn't hit the front page. They have also implemented these modifications on individual posts within threads to make a particular viewpoint not seem popular; posts that would have 1500 up votes are reduced to just under 20. If a post that Reddit hates, proves to be too popular in spite their skewed algorithms, they automatically delete the post and often times the thread underneath it. If you only knew, Reddit's censorship is Orwellian.

Reddit is shit, they don't hire any Americans and the Americans they might accidentally hire do not, in anyway, represent actual Americans across the rest of the country. There is zero collaboration across racial, gender, political and cultural divides at all at Reddit; not a single shred. For example of Reddit's intolerance and lack of diversity, I know one of their employees who is able to get people on board, and this person has and will refuse to hire anyone who so much as admits they "like America".

This ransomware has actually previously been defeated (April 2016), and a key generator tool was released:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bleepingcomputer.c...

fyi

Nerdist
Under The Influence
Radiolab
Serial (when it's back)
My Favorite Murder
Reply All
Crimetown
Talk Nerdy To Me
99% Invisible
Science Vs.
Oh No Ross and Carrie
Here's The Thing
Spark

I still routinely check out a few more every few months. Behind the Liner Notes, Song Exploder, BBC's The Inquiry, the Allusionist, etc. etc. etc.

I've been in IT for over twenty years. I have never, ever, felt there was a general consensus in favor of the aptitude, creativity, productivity, quality of workmanship from H1-B workers, F1 Visa interns, or in general 'Indian or Chinese' workers. For the SJWs, there are some really good ones, nothing is 100%. But, there's not that many to warrunt a perceivable pattern of excellence. If they were so good, or even as good as Americans, then why don't they create their own globally influential Apple/Microsoft or IBM? They seem only good enough to do what they're told, what buttons to press at the factories, to complete complex actions without a cognitive understanding of why.

Every individual I had met who had "outsourced" software development, only did so becuase they didn't have enough money for the real programmers; like people who buy fake Rolexes, they do so for the necessity of image while attending high-brow meetings, yet can't actually fit the bill. The moment they became somewhat successful, the first to go was the outsourced contracts; but it is an uphill battle, it's difficult to become successful with sub-par production quality. Then if the company becomes public and has to start answering to shareholders, they return back to the sub-par quality of H1-Bs for the sake of reduced labor costs, because competent programmers, architects and designers are expensive. This is practical, becuase they don't need the expertise to build the infrastracture and their development cycle shifts into more of a maintenance mode; with small feature additions/enhancements being more manageable given all the rest of it.

So, I have never met a true-blue American IT professional, face-to-face, proclaim admiration of foreign IT workers coming into the American workplace. Maybe, an "American"-in-double-quotes, a foreign national who became naturalized who strives for more of his own people in the workplace might have signed this petition, but not a real American. And, certainly not the one forced to train the foreigner to be laid off afterwards; such as has happened at Disney, which is why I refuse to purchase any more Disney products/theme park tickets/even Pixar films.

Becuase of this, I seriously doubt that 100,000 American IT professionals signed this petition.

Woops! Advanced Persistent Threat = APT.

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Hello Brian. I'm a long time reader and fan.

I had a question regarding the frequency with which we hear about China being a major source of "state-sponsored" advanced persistent threat (APC) hacking. Many news outlets have referred to "Unit 61398" as a source for much of these attacks and data thefts.

Should we take Chinese hacks seriously as a threat? Do you feel it's an issue that will ever be resolved?

Thanks

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So now that the labels own the website, what will they do with it?!

They have a crappy reputation for shutting down sites which actually function pretty well in terms of giving consumers what they actually want, and then never reviving them again.

Wouldn't it make sense for the labels to operate these things? Why don't they? It's been over 15 years now.

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Amen! Given the Google's level of customer service for wallet (the only freaking way you can GIVE them money), I would not trust them with anything significant.

Reddit comments are exactly of OMGWTF kind.

If it was, would you trust it? I mean, people haven't been using it during their daily routines for years, so it is definitely not at super reliable level. Sure, they should be able to do it in case of emergencies, but under normal conditions it is much safer to just ground the flights.

While they keep fighting their own customers, Indie artists and movie makers are slowly eating their market share. Seriously, even these days I can find enough quality shows and even movies to watch on YouTube. Give it another XY years and Hollywood would be squeezed into some small niche market only few people will care about and I will not be one of them.

I think it is actually higher in Bay Area. http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/0...

The problem is, many people say that. Virtually none of them do.