A 50/50 split would give me pause for concern. I'd have to wonder if we really knew what what was going on. 50% on one side, with the remaining 50% split among 30 competing theories would be slightly better, but I'd still be cautious. An overwhelming majority (97% in this case) leads to me be believe that we're on the right track. I look at it this way. There's a right answer out there somewhere. Did 97% miss the mark, and some tiny minority actually figure it out? It's not that they all agree that makes it right, it's that there's so little argument over the big picture: we're contributing to climate change. Frankly, I don't see how we could cut down the number of trees we are and NOT affect the climate, just from that, but hey what do I know?
Mining Bitcoins isn't all that great either. It's getting more and more computionally intensive, which requires a lot of power, which means computers running on coal-burning power and being cooled by coal-burned power. There was an article here recently about the effect on the environment from Bitcoin mining, wasn't there?
On the one side is the overwhelming majority of the world's climate scientists (97% agree with anthropogenic climate change) who have repeatedly gone back and re-evaluated the data with the same conclusion, and on the other are people who want to keep consuming and polluting to their heart's delight with nary shred of scientific evidence to back up their claims that everything is hunky dory. Which side sounds more like a church again?
Your weird obession with denying the overwhelming evidence we're destroying the environment aside, I was referring to your statement that Reagan was President in the 70s.
Yeah, people have resisted new technology for hundreds of years. They typically lose, and we cope with the new technology until it's commonplace. Then you wonder how you ever lived without it. But if you want to be branded a Luddite, go for it!
The idea behind using metadata without names is building a network diagram showing who is in contact with whom. If you have one bad guy talking to another through an intermediary, it's not necessarily important to know the name or names of all the people in between, so much as it is important to know that they are in cahoots, so to speak. That information can then be the starting point for further investigation. With massive graphs of this sort, you can start to look for important nodes, identify roles and TTPs (tactics, techniques, and procedures), and flow of information from number and direction of links. I don't support the unconstitutional searching of Americans' data, but I do understand the methodology of network analysis. (IAA Intelligence Analyst)
Phone numbers are listed in things like telephone books. NSA (and other intelligence agencies; let's not forget about the rest of them) have been ingesting telephone directories, business cards, public records, FB pages, ad nauseum into massive databases for many years so that a new name/number/address/email etc can be matched to known correlates.
I totally agree with most groups, like sports. I defend LInux like a fanboi because I support the free software movement ideologically, and I use it. Not like a sports fan to me. On another topic, is the link in your sig SFW?
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A 50/50 split would give me pause for concern. I'd have to wonder if we really knew what what was going on. 50% on one side, with the remaining 50% split among 30 competing theories would be slightly better, but I'd still be cautious. An overwhelming majority (97% in this case) leads to me be believe that we're on the right track. I look at it this way. There's a right answer out there somewhere. Did 97% miss the mark, and some tiny minority actually figure it out? It's not that they all agree that makes it right, it's that there's so little argument over the big picture: we're contributing to climate change. Frankly, I don't see how we could cut down the number of trees we are and NOT affect the climate, just from that, but hey what do I know?
Mining Bitcoins isn't all that great either. It's getting more and more computionally intensive, which requires a lot of power, which means computers running on coal-burning power and being cooled by coal-burned power. There was an article here recently about the effect on the environment from Bitcoin mining, wasn't there?
On the one side is the overwhelming majority of the world's climate scientists (97% agree with anthropogenic climate change) who have repeatedly gone back and re-evaluated the data with the same conclusion, and on the other are people who want to keep consuming and polluting to their heart's delight with nary shred of scientific evidence to back up their claims that everything is hunky dory. Which side sounds more like a church again?
I sometimes joke with my Apple fanboi friends that they're paying four times as much for something twice as good. But it's worse than that, isn't it?
My comment was about Reagan being President in the 70s. Which he wasn't.
Bul tin foil hats block it, right?
Your weird obession with denying the overwhelming evidence we're destroying the environment aside, I was referring to your statement that Reagan was President in the 70s.
Ted Danson's prediction that all U.S. cities will be completely uninhabitable by 1980 because Reagan was president throughout the 1970's
Wait, what?
Rushed changes? WHAT rushed changes?
Well, I encrypted my hard drive and changed my passwords. Should I have waited?
he comes across as essentially saying that he's smarter and more moral than anyone in the executive, judicial, or legislative branches of government.
Those two bars are not especially hard to cross.
FFS no!. We do not need an interview with Anonymous Coward!
Yeah, people have resisted new technology for hundreds of years. They typically lose, and we cope with the new technology until it's commonplace. Then you wonder how you ever lived without it. But if you want to be branded a Luddite, go for it!
The idea behind using metadata without names is building a network diagram showing who is in contact with whom. If you have one bad guy talking to another through an intermediary, it's not necessarily important to know the name or names of all the people in between, so much as it is important to know that they are in cahoots, so to speak. That information can then be the starting point for further investigation. With massive graphs of this sort, you can start to look for important nodes, identify roles and TTPs (tactics, techniques, and procedures), and flow of information from number and direction of links. I don't support the unconstitutional searching of Americans' data, but I do understand the methodology of network analysis. (IAA Intelligence Analyst)
Phone numbers are listed in things like telephone books. NSA (and other intelligence agencies; let's not forget about the rest of them) have been ingesting telephone directories, business cards, public records, FB pages, ad nauseum into massive databases for many years so that a new name/number/address/email etc can be matched to known correlates.
So should the number of despotic regimes overthrown with it. And the number of people died in car crashes should be on Henry Ford's tombstone.
Things can be used for good and bad. Don't just focus on what you perceive as bad.
As seen in this T-shirt: The Revolution Will Not Be Telegraphed.
OK, not really, but it should be!
Gah! If only slashdot had a Preview button!
Last night I shot an AC in my pajamas. How he got in pajamas, I'll never know!
I totally agree with most groups, like sports. I defend LInux like a fanboi because I support the free software movement ideologically, and I use it. Not like a sports fan to me. On another topic, is the link in your sig SFW?
People still have TVs? Why not just watch it on your computer?
(won't even touch on the fact that it's an older spec...)
I'm sure glad you didn't touch on that!
Because Google resutls are how we measure things now? I guess?
BTW, I believe the reference is to when John Lennon said the Beatles were bigger than Jesus.
Human beings need rest, at least if you want them functioning properly and making sound decisions.
Actually, the Silk Road is back.
Wait, what? You can't install DEs of your choice on Ubuntu? o_O