People should never have been trusting media in the first place, digital or otherwise. And for the most part, they don't have to. Humans believe what they want to believe or are told to believe. Evidence has little to do with it.
If you are presenting your items to the system normally and they fail to register it, yes. If you are hiding the item in your jacket or cart to deliberately avoid the cashier's attention, that is shoplifting.
True. That sounds like a fine excuse for the accidental cases. When you are deliberately making an attempt to deceive the system, that is where it crosses the line.
>is it really shoplifting if their system fails to register the sale?
Why wouldn't it be shoplifting here if it is at any other store? If the cashiers and loss prevention officers don't notice you walking out with merchandise in your pocket, is it somehow worse because their eyes and brains are made of flesh instead of plastic and metal?
The cultural shift is happening but that doesn't mean the entirety of 4chan lingo is suddenly acceptable now. It merely means someone like Phillip De Franco can get away with opening every video by calling his viewers beautiful bastards.
For the same reason different populations might complain by calling the customer support hotline on the back of the box or by submitting a pull request. That's how this group has learned is "the way" to do this.
The intent of most death threats these days, almost certainly including these, is simply to express dissatisfaction, not to "place any person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury", even if that's how an outside observer unfamiliar with cultural context might interpret it.
Opposition to or support of unimportant things have real consequences, too. Just smaller ones, typically, but the butterfly effect can be a real bitch.
Principled doesn't mean stupid. You can research and calculate all you want to show someone that it's cheaper to euthanize their retarded child instead of raising them. Some people will still never do it.
The situation you describe isn't even that farfetched. There is a moderately popular deck called Four Horsemen that depends on repeating a set of steps to repeatedly shuffle your deck until the cards happen to be arranged in a sequence that allows you to win.
It's not your information in the sense of you having any ownership or control over it. It's just information about you. I got information about you by looking through your comment history. You cannot make me forget it. Lucky for you, I will anyway in a few minutes, since I am not in the business of selling that kind of information and thus don't really care.
He's one of the last people who needs to do self-promotion. Anyone here who studied CS in university probably did so using books Andrew Tanenbaum wrote.