I think Google should finally fess up to being that "Windows Support" guy, who keeps calling me, saying that I need to download a Windows Fix immediately!
He's always disappointed when I inform him that I use a MacBook Pro now. I had a ThinkPad in a former life, that I needed to send in for repairs for a broken Ethernet port.
After that, his calls started coming. Now . . . where is he getting phone numbers from . . . ?
I am not enthused when I think Google Assistance may be soon making these calls . . .
Ancient Roman athletes were in excellent physical condition, ate a healthy, mostly vegetarian diet, received the best medical care available and were outside a lot in fresh air.
Yet, a lot of them seemed die young.
Maybe we need to do some more research into the sport of Gladiators to fully understand this.
Among the folks who stash their illegally earned, stolen or just plain plundered cash in Swiss secret numbered accounts are:
Cocaine Cartel Barons, corrupt African government officials, the American mafia, crooks in the Vatican Bank, that Crown Prince of Nigeria who keeps sending me spam, the "Windows Support" guy who keeps calling me, wealthy American and German tax evaders . . . and Putin's oligarch mafia stooges.
Photon Torpedoes- If they reverse the polarity of neutrinos in the Photonic Quantum Analog Computing Chip, add some Higgs Bosons, and change Analog to Digital, the chip will produce Photon Torpedoes
Does tinfoil protect against Photon Torpedoes, or do I need to invest in a new hat?
They already have their suspicions, now they need to be valid and justifiable.
Oh, I think they'll just say:
"Being a foreigner wanting to enter the US is a valid and justifiable reason to be suspicious."
. . . as is, being a US citizen wanting to leave the US is also a valid and justifiable reason to be suspicious. The US is the greatest country in the world! Why would a US citizen want to go to any other country, which are all Hellholes?
I think the next IRS tax plan will be to "tax foreigners living and working abroad."
Anyway, I suppose it's better than killing Tigers and other endangered species for their bone(r)s because some old guys can't get a proper erection any more.
Using CRISPR technology, we should be able to grow billions of cockroaches with Rhino horns on their noses. That would
solve the demand problem for dubious aphrodisiacs.
However, students in university dormitories might not be able to deal with them, when they lay claim to the room.
If nowhere else, all their personal data is safely stored on a secure server in Russia.
I think that you have stated an interesting point right there.
We don't know where all that data is stored anymore. Facebook doesn't know either.
Benjamin Franklin wrote:
"Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead."
Giving access to a university professor is as giving access to the whole world:
"Hey, here is a link to all the Facebook data, which will help in your research . . . but please don't give the link to anyone else."
Oops! Who let the dogs out . . . ?
The US military tries to promote OPSEC . . . Operations security . . . but they are not always successful. A kiosk owner in Saudi Arabia knew when the invasion of Iraq was going to happen. All the US grunts came in to buy batteries for their devices.
Folks who know they have seriously valuable data are not on Facebook anyway. So for the rest of the Walmart shoppers, Carl's Jr. eaters and Ford F-150 drivers . . . what do they care . . . ?
There's at least one VR experience that records heatmaps of what parts of the environment you look at and for how long, and sends those to the developer (although they're upfront about this, for the app I know of).
I tend to look at women's posteriors, not their breasts.
I'm hoping this technology can confirm this inclination in other males, and influence the R&D budgets of women's underwear manufacturers.
Hmmm . . . the subjec saidt: "Old man yells at cloud (data)"
The cloud answers:
"My time . . . is yours . . . "
Unfortunately, everyone here is too young to get that joke . . .
"You are a true believer. Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses. Thou art a subject of the divine. Created in the image of man, by the masses, for the masses.
Let us be thankful we have an occupation to fill. Work hard; increase production, prevent accidents, and be happy.
[or] Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy more and be happy."
. . . has the Woz been smoking bug spray . . . ? I hear that is in these days . . .
Or in a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard".
Actually, this "could" is the problem right there.
In spookier organizations . . . or in companies with sensitive data . . . the data is compartmentalized. Access is based by someone having a "need to know", and accesses are logged. This is used for accountability and traceability purposes. If the identity of a spy is compromised . . . who knew the true name . . . ? This is how internal moles are caught.
In the case of Facebook, they don't seem to have any idea who "could" have had access to their data.
In other words . . . they are collecting data . . . but have no controls over who was able to access it.
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I think Google should finally fess up to being that "Windows Support" guy, who keeps calling me, saying that I need to download a Windows Fix immediately!
He's always disappointed when I inform him that I use a MacBook Pro now. I had a ThinkPad in a former life, that I needed to send in for repairs for a broken Ethernet port.
After that, his calls started coming. Now . . . where is he getting phone numbers from . . . ?
I am not enthused when I think Google Assistance may be soon making these calls . . .
Well, who else did we expect . . . ? Africanized Killer Bees . . . ? Maybe those pesky beavers, with all those dams they build . . . ?
At any rate, the title is politically incorrect. It should read:
NASA Says White Males Are Causing Massive Changes In Location of Water Around the World
Ancient Roman athletes were in excellent physical condition, ate a healthy, mostly vegetarian diet, received the best medical care available and were outside a lot in fresh air.
Yet, a lot of them seemed die young.
Maybe we need to do some more research into the sport of Gladiators to fully understand this.
Men do dangerous jobs.
Women also do dangerous jobs:
They live with men!
I, for one, would not want to live with myself, and would consider it as dangerous.
In fact, the weight of the unladen 787 with a minimal amount of fuel came closer to around 300,000 pounds.
So was it and African or European Model X . . . ?
You have to know these things if you're a King, like Musk.
They are made of pure gold or what lol ???
Back in the 70's, $6 Million would have bought you a whole Bionic Man.
But I guess Assange is not a former astronaut and test pilot, so Ecuador didn't consider that extra investment.
Although, it would have been definitely cool for them to be able to brag:
"We have a Bionic Man in our London embassy!"
Among the folks who stash their illegally earned, stolen or just plain plundered cash in Swiss secret numbered accounts are:
Cocaine Cartel Barons, corrupt African government officials, the American mafia, crooks in the Vatican Bank, that Crown Prince of Nigeria who keeps sending me spam, the "Windows Support" guy who keeps calling me, wealthy American and German tax evaders . . . and Putin's oligarch mafia stooges.
So the place is transparent as Area 51.
Photon Torpedoes- If they reverse the polarity of neutrinos in the Photonic Quantum Analog Computing Chip, add some Higgs Bosons, and change Analog to Digital, the chip will produce Photon Torpedoes
Does tinfoil protect against Photon Torpedoes, or do I need to invest in a new hat?
Why Photonic Quantum Analog? Because it *sounds* better!
I guess we'll see Photonic Quantum Analog Tube Monster Cables real soon.
They already have their suspicions, now they need to be valid and justifiable.
Oh, I think they'll just say:
"Being a foreigner wanting to enter the US is a valid and justifiable reason to be suspicious."
. . . as is, being a US citizen wanting to leave the US is also a valid and justifiable reason to be suspicious. The US is the greatest country in the world! Why would a US citizen want to go to any other country, which are all Hellholes?
I think the next IRS tax plan will be to "tax foreigners living and working abroad."
What sort of grievance could justify attacking a system that lets people borrow bikes?
Maybe he sells cars and he felt the bikes were hurting sales?
Oh, those questions answers it all easily:
Über did it.
If you don't like to be robocalled, don't robocall others.
. . . or robocall those making the robocalls.
The Telcos would love such an Cold to Hot Robocall war escalation, since it would generate more revenue.
Wasn't that in the opening credits to Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
"Those making the robocalls . . . have just been robocalled."
Nixons head must not be allowed to take over again!
Given another Clinton/Trump choice in 2020 . . . I'll vote for the third party disembodied pig head, instead.
Have they trialed this in any other countries, by chance?
The Cuba caused painful headaches. But what if such a system could also provide pleasure . . . ?
I was reminded of an ancient post-apocalypse Science Fiction film titled Genesis II, staring ubiquitous, universal actor John Saxon.
The folks in the future had cattle-prod sticks that could either cause pain or pleasure if you zapped someone with them.
Hey, Taser . . . get your heads out of your asses, and produce a pleasure Taser!
Such a device could be used to treat fentanyl addicts.
. . . or folks will start killing each other for batteries for the sticks.
Anyway, I suppose it's better than killing Tigers and other endangered species for their bone(r)s because some old guys can't get a proper erection any more.
Using CRISPR technology, we should be able to grow billions of cockroaches with Rhino horns on their noses. That would solve the demand problem for dubious aphrodisiacs.
However, students in university dormitories might not be able to deal with them, when they lay claim to the room.
...because there are not many hiring managers who understand the technology, so they throw money at it instead.
These days, if a hiring manager asks you if you are an A.I. expert . . . all you need to say is:
"I saw the movie!"
A.I. is the new blockchain Midas Touch goldmine.
they keep using android, and just add their own store, which just copies over all the apk's from the google play store and done.
Sounds easy . . . so that is why the US export laws are written to catch that.
If HP sells computers to folks in France, and those folks later sell them to Iran . . . HP is still on the hook.
By a coincidence out of the "Theater of the Hard to Believe" . . . I got a company internal email instructing us to review and obey US customs laws.
I'm assuming most of us are pulling down six figures
. . . "earning" six figures . . . and paying five figures in taxes.
Facebook already stated that they will afford the same EU type level of protection for ALL the user base.
"Why should I be interested in (or care about) the silly things that I said yesterday?" -- Konrad Adenauer, Former German Chancellor
Facebook lies like a rug.
We're not reading Zuckerberg's lips . . . we're reading his mind.
Bitcoin - the joke is on its users.
Unfortunately, when Bitcoin implodes, a lot of folks who are "too big to fail" will be affected.
And so the bill will be placed on the taxpayers.
The joke will be on our tab.
If nowhere else, all their personal data is safely stored on a secure server in Russia.
I think that you have stated an interesting point right there.
We don't know where all that data is stored anymore. Facebook doesn't know either.
Benjamin Franklin wrote:
"Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead."
Giving access to a university professor is as giving access to the whole world:
"Hey, here is a link to all the Facebook data, which will help in your research . . . but please don't give the link to anyone else."
Oops! Who let the dogs out . . . ?
The US military tries to promote OPSEC . . . Operations security . . . but they are not always successful. A kiosk owner in Saudi Arabia knew when the invasion of Iraq was going to happen. All the US grunts came in to buy batteries for their devices.
Folks who know they have seriously valuable data are not on Facebook anyway. So for the rest of the Walmart shoppers, Carl's Jr. eaters and Ford F-150 drivers . . . what do they care . . . ?
There's at least one VR experience that records heatmaps of what parts of the environment you look at and for how long, and sends those to the developer (although they're upfront about this, for the app I know of).
I tend to look at women's posteriors, not their breasts.
I'm hoping this technology can confirm this inclination in other males, and influence the R&D budgets of women's underwear manufacturers.
That is all.
Hmmm . . . the subjec saidt: "Old man yells at cloud (data)"
The cloud answers:
"My time . . . is yours . . . "
Unfortunately, everyone here is too young to get that joke . . .
"You are a true believer. Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses. Thou art a subject of the divine. Created in the image of man, by the masses, for the masses. Let us be thankful we have an occupation to fill. Work hard; increase production, prevent accidents, and be happy. [or] Let us be thankful we have commerce. Buy more. Buy more now. Buy more and be happy."
. . . has the Woz been smoking bug spray . . . ? I hear that is in these days . . .
Or in a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard".
Actually, this "could" is the problem right there.
In spookier organizations . . . or in companies with sensitive data . . . the data is compartmentalized. Access is based by someone having a "need to know", and accesses are logged. This is used for accountability and traceability purposes. If the identity of a spy is compromised . . . who knew the true name . . . ? This is how internal moles are caught.
In the case of Facebook, they don't seem to have any idea who "could" have had access to their data.
In other words . . . they are collecting data . . . but have no controls over who was able to access it.
It's "out in the wild" now.
Even worse, it could be stored in America.
This is, in fact, the correct answer . . . and you win the Internet for a week.
Your invitation to the Royal Wedding is in the mail.
Does Facebook have any deals with the NSA that allows them to mine their user data . . . ?
Without another Snowden . . . we will never know for sure . . .