oh yeah ? and then where is that self-perpetuating, end-of-hollywood idea ? it has been more than a decade since internet has entered living rooms. where is that idea ?
apple does not have the means to catalogue all spendings of almost every western citizen on the planet, and link those spending directly to their identity. if they had it, maybe they could do it.
There's apparently more truth than I realized to the saying "never argue with an idiot, they'll only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience". Rather than acknowledge any of the actual trends that are occurring around you, you instead shoot from the hip of your wonderfully insightful gut and instead respond with "oh yeah? prove it!" ?
Well, after this post I guess it's up to the mods, because I'm done with this bullshit you're trying to perpetuate.
You're right, obviously nobody is waiting at all for Apple to tell them how to shell out thousands of dollars for their next lifestyle change.
And of course these "major mopol[ies]" are completely incapable of investing resources in ideas that perpetuate themselves, and are actually just investing blindly in this media convergence, whereas people like you and the author of TFA are the key visionaries?
Get a grip, Visa can predict a divorce with 90% accuracy based simply on spending habits. There is nothing that large corporations with immense social and behavioral datamining capabilities aren't able to do when it comes to creating an idea that "perpetuates itself", which simply reads as an intellectual opiate. All they really need is a high production-value (still a key point from my first post) Farmville that they can stream to your TV set.
The author's got a cute idea and all, completely bypassing all forms of the traditional and incumbent media... but it's completely idiotic and ignores the fact that the market has already realized this (but better) long ago and is still working out the tweaks. Case(s) in point:
Google TV, Apple TV, and now Ubuntu (with their shit desktop-ruining Unity sidebar and all) have been vying for attention (and feasibility) for when the combination of entertainment, interactivity, and gadgetry finally triforce together to create the ultimate couch-potato farm (second only to the Matrix breeding pods).
What TFA doesn't acknowledge is that not only is the market paradigm shifting away from the traditionally simply-consumed media and towards a more immersive crap-fo-tainment hub, but that people still want quality in all of the touchable surfaces so to speak. That is to say, people want production value (to be generated efficiently by the incumbents still), a reliable and familiar infrastructure for content delivery (ATT, Comcast, Verizon, etc.) and finally a yummy physical object to view it on (TheOnion's iMat, anyone?).
The author's suggestion that we are at some sort of precipice where the next jump is to be made by some grass-roots or novel concept is completely silly. For the last decade we've been witnessing the convergence of TV's, video games (i.e. consoles effectively becoming computers with better DRM), the internet (tablets, Google/Apple/Ubuntu TV) to create a giant glob of brain-melting mush. The fact is we aren't at some turning-point where we are about to re-define media and take it to a new direction, we are instead about to witness the complete convergence of every form of media possible in an attempt to make a buck. And with such big names (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Linux, every Viacom and ATT et al.) already trying to cover every single square foot of this, unless this guy's got big plans for the newly freed up white-spaces he's just wasting his breath.
What is exactly wrong with water? Before I ran E85 in my overpowered turbo-charged engine, I injected water. The waters cools down the combustion chamber so that I can run at higher pressures which means more power for the same amount of fuel.
I am unsure why water is one of your complaints.
LoL because if you actually did have an "overpowered" (wtf does that even mean?) turbo-charged engine with water injection, then you were either a complete idiot who blindly ordered a water-injection kit online and asked a shop to install it, or are just subtly and cleverly trying to test my knowledge of something that you already know: Water is corrosive regardless of how useful it might be in forced-induction techniques.
The fact that rubber and metal fuel lines all the way from the gas tank to your injectors are meant to handle hydrophobic, non-polar hydrocarbons means that moisture getting in the system will always cause a corrosive effect, regardless of timescale. Compound that with the fact that alcohols (such as ethanol) are infinitely soluble in water and vice versa, I'm sure you see the natural conclusion?
As a tangent, Mr. car guy, I'm sure you run your high performance vehicle only on the best tires with a nitrogen fill rather than air, right? Because you also know that the diatomic Nitrogens are inert and have a much lower moisture (and oxygen) content to prevent your tires from corrosion (magic word of the day I guess), right?
Why do you think they recommend storing any vehicle with a full gas tank for those people who live in areas with wither? Because the giant tank of nonpolar fluid it will keep the moisture out of your system and prevent corrosion not only in your tank but all the way down the fuel line. They even sell fuel stabilizers for this period of inactivity to keep your gasoline from breaking down when you do this.
So I hope that answers your brilliantly posed (and obviously rhetorically posed, because you obviously knew these things to begin with, being such a car wunderkind, right?) questions C:
Ming
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From what I gathered from folks who have been doing this for many decades: this will be a very painful learning experience for everyone involved and this seems to be the sentiment whether the wind blows right or left.
What was the lesson exactly?
That it's a total douche move to lobby for subsidies to grow corn in order to make a completely unrealistic and net energy/money losing biofuel? That it's a bigger douche move to switch from growing actual foods to growing this shit and driving up prices of general foodstuffs that would have grown on the same land, as well as the cost of meats from livestock that used to feed off of dent corn? That it's really fucking annoying when many of the country's engines are being rotted away from the inside-out up by the water-loving ethanol that corn lobbyists demanded be put into gasoline? Or that it was a completely idiotic idea to then invest "long-term" (but ironically very short-sightedly) in the Land of Oz that they managed to make for themselves?
I live in Wisconsin and go to school with quite a few farmers, and can relate to them and feel bad for them on an individual level, but some of the assholes at the top of this heap, namely the lobbyists for subsidies, can go fuck themselves for how much trouble they've caused in the name of greed.
I guess it shouldn't be surprising anymore that the concept of "per capita" is once again completely omitted to make a headline rather than a point? 7000 MTon vs 5000 MTon... hmm doesn't sound impressive enough, let's try 754% vs 21%!! Oh my god!
How about 5.4 Ton/person (China) vs. 16.7 Ton/person (U.S.)? Or better yet, how about 90+% of U.S. consumer needs being shifted to China?
Not only is China already more efficient in what it does for the CO2 it's producing compared to the U.S., it's supplying the rest of the world too. What's the complaint here?
Well, in the Apple walled garden, people willingly sign the contracts with such stipulations, but just bitch about it afterwards. Here it's possibly very much so a breach of contract.
It lets heat go in one direction only! That the biggest change in Thermodynamical Law since Claude Shannon. Now convert it a transistor, and with a maxwell daemon, (Quantum Weak Measurement, + Quantum Computer, + Classical Prediction Logic) and we have (possibly) a free entropy device, capable of turning waste (heat) energy back to useful energy.
From TFA:
Depending on which ring the light enters first, it will either pass in the forward direction or be dissipated backward, which creates one-way transmission.
It seems to more just act as a nonlinear lens, dissipating (or more likely scattering) preferentially in the backwards direction.
This is obviously just a distraction to throw off other (r)e-tailers towards the much more useful (but too obvious to be patented) kungfu of forcing people to choose between a handful of options (two in this case) and then categorizing them based on that! Next up, using pizza chains to do marketing demographic research: Would you like a free Coke or Pepsi with your delivery?
...Looks like the MBA's have finally found their way to the USPTO. So much for patent reform.
Maybe we haven't identified all the places to look in our limited understanding of nature. So, sure we have axed a few "known" anthropomorphic places, but maybe we don't know WTF anyway. Socrates would say that we know nothing and this is really a search for nothing. For instance, what if the effect we attribute to a particle is responsible when hundreds of particles interact in aggregate? Maybe this is all being handled, but one particle to rule them all seems like it is an idea out of fantasy.
I'm sorry, but blindly applying the zeroth order concept of epistemology and then namedropping Socrates really doesn't give you the pass to blindly comment on something that you can't remotely grasp...
Hilarious thing is that over 90% of geothermal energy is generated by the fission of nuclear isotopes anyway. All it does differently is during disposal when the earth just kind of farts it out as Radon into our basements.
Uhm, how about a reality check? The fact that they're doing anything even remotely directed towards this drug cartel is showing some balls, (and risks showing some intestines and other body parts while hanging off of a bridge if any the Anon are located in Mexico.)
What would you (and the summary author) like Anonymous to do? Step away from their core competency of hacking, pick up a pitchfork and fly to Mexico? Maybe some nice meaningful physical actions right? The kind that Mexican and American Police have failed at for years now?
You are correct to post as AC. The funding is 90% DOD. The source escapes me, but a Princeton professor is probably more than willing to dispute your claim.
It's a bit more subtle than what you think the word "maintenance" means in this case:
Hydrogen bombs utilize tritium (2neutrons 1 proton). Unfortunately, tritum has a 13 year half-life (When did the cold war end?), after which it decays to 3He (1 neutron 2 protons). Think back to basic chemistry and you'll recall Hydrogen loves to bond, and Helium is a noble gas.
[/science] The gist of this is that our old stockpile is becoming less effective at blowing things up due to the stochastic (random) decay of tritium in the warheads, and a large impetus for NIF is to examine the yield of such a warhead given an asymmetric fusion reaction (best yields come from fusing as much of your tritium warhead as possible, but that can't happen if the reaction is lopsided for some reason!).
So even though this is for basic "maintenance", keep in mind that it's been ~two decades since the cold war, all the warheads from back then are over 50% helium floating around, and this technology is really designed to obviate the need for full-scale testing. Another irony is that we get to give other countries crap for doing weapons testing rather than being peaceful like us, where they're really just too poor to afford a petawatt laser system.
And by the way, what's our way of not getting called out on violating nonproliferation? We take what's left of the good stuff (tritium) in the warheads, reprocess them with new technologies, and actually replenish the stockpile with more effective warheads than the ones we removed.
"The UK company AWE and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have now joined with [the DOD funded National Ignition Facility in the U.S.] to help make laser fusion part of their nuclear weapons testing program as well.
It's hopefully pretty straightforward to assume that no 2nd grader will really be interested in the process of software development.
My suggestion is to start off trying to relate it to something they know and use. There has been educational software for as long as there's been the hardware to run it. OG Oregon trail (spacebar for hunting) to Newschool oregon trail (mouseclick for hunting), to that time traveling mathdog game that I always forget the name of. Try to find out if they play any educational computer games in their curriculum, and then divulge the dark underbelly of the development process that would to into such a game!
And of course, even that isn't without methodology. Children of all ages (incl. us) all love a good story. They will most likely learn more from an example story of a funny situation regarding the software development process, in relation to a game they play, than any template directly trying to assault the subject matter, regardless of how well done it is.
It just shows that most people have double standards. When they or someone they know do it, it's all good. When it's someone else, it's the root of evil.
Or it just shows that when someone reads TFA, they realize the summary and headline is misleading and that the man in question actually has a decent bit of experience and insight in software patents. And when they don't read it they start making up generalized statements based on an incorrect summary to sound like they have enough general knowledge to offer insight on everything at first glance.
It pains me to say this, but as much as I hate the TSA, I think this summary, especially its title, was a misleading pile of trash.
First off, TFA itself very reasonably states that the TSA is simply worried about this, due to recent intelligence from U.S. officials. Anyone remember the Bin Laden hard drives full of data? Honestly, this is probably the most credible source of anything yet.
Furthermore, the only thing thing at all in the article, that mentions any tangible implementation by the TSA that we'd notice and be encumbered by, consists of:
"As a precaution, passengers flying from international locations to U.S. destinations may notice additional security measures in place. These measures are designed to be unpredictable, so passengers should not expect to see the same activity at every international airport," Kimball said.
Sanity check? Pass.
Why point this out? Because the summary headline is dumb enough to say something to the effect that we will not be able to fly if we've had an official surgery from a US hospital because TSA is reacting to a common sense threat. Well they're not, it was simply an article reporting on an official briefing, and TSA stepping up their current (albeit often distasteful) methods.
The people using the internet might be just as dumb, but who said the majority of the spam is getting through to these people anymore?
You have to keep in mind that the bright people who've made most of today's everyday technology possible (to those who don't appreciate this point, maybe teach yourself general relativity prior the next time you poke your TomTom) are also writing spam filters on the server side too nowadays (with great financial incentive for the providers via reduced overhead), not just the client side.
I remember in this asshole's "heyday" when I had to manually block send-from addresses in hotmail, and now only the most grammatically well-crafted emails get through, and are still reported fishy.
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oh yeah ? and then where is that self-perpetuating, end-of-hollywood idea ? it has been more than a decade since internet has entered living rooms. where is that idea ?
apple does not have the means to catalogue all spendings of almost every western citizen on the planet, and link those spending directly to their identity. if they had it, maybe they could do it.
There's apparently more truth than I realized to the saying "never argue with an idiot, they'll only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience". Rather than acknowledge any of the actual trends that are occurring around you, you instead shoot from the hip of your wonderfully insightful gut and instead respond with "oh yeah? prove it!" ?
Well, after this post I guess it's up to the mods, because I'm done with this bullshit you're trying to perpetuate.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/9/2693228/ubuntu-tv-has-unity-inspired-ui-will-ship-on-televisions-by-end-of
Unity, on TV sets, by the end of this very year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_TV#Second_generation
Apple TV second generation sales (Good thing SOPA blackout is over)
http://reviews.cnet.com/apple-tv-review
Apple TV Reviews
http://www.google.com/tv/
http://googletv.blogspot.com/2011/01/samsung-and-google-tv.html
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/from_ces_a_few_hints_about_the_future_of_tv.php
CES 2010: Apps on smart TV's, "The Future of TV"
You're on the fucking internet for god sake, use it to get learned.
You're right, obviously nobody is waiting at all for Apple to tell them how to shell out thousands of dollars for their next lifestyle change.
And of course these "major mopol[ies]" are completely incapable of investing resources in ideas that perpetuate themselves, and are actually just investing blindly in this media convergence, whereas people like you and the author of TFA are the key visionaries?
Get a grip, Visa can predict a divorce with 90% accuracy based simply on spending habits. There is nothing that large corporations with immense social and behavioral datamining capabilities aren't able to do when it comes to creating an idea that "perpetuates itself", which simply reads as an intellectual opiate. All they really need is a high production-value (still a key point from my first post) Farmville that they can stream to your TV set.
The author's got a cute idea and all, completely bypassing all forms of the traditional and incumbent media... but it's completely idiotic and ignores the fact that the market has already realized this (but better) long ago and is still working out the tweaks. Case(s) in point:
Google TV, Apple TV, and now Ubuntu (with their shit desktop-ruining Unity sidebar and all) have been vying for attention (and feasibility) for when the combination of entertainment, interactivity, and gadgetry finally triforce together to create the ultimate couch-potato farm (second only to the Matrix breeding pods).
What TFA doesn't acknowledge is that not only is the market paradigm shifting away from the traditionally simply-consumed media and towards a more immersive crap-fo-tainment hub, but that people still want quality in all of the touchable surfaces so to speak. That is to say, people want production value (to be generated efficiently by the incumbents still), a reliable and familiar infrastructure for content delivery (ATT, Comcast, Verizon, etc.) and finally a yummy physical object to view it on (TheOnion's iMat, anyone?).
The author's suggestion that we are at some sort of precipice where the next jump is to be made by some grass-roots or novel concept is completely silly. For the last decade we've been witnessing the convergence of TV's, video games (i.e. consoles effectively becoming computers with better DRM), the internet (tablets, Google/Apple/Ubuntu TV) to create a giant glob of brain-melting mush. The fact is we aren't at some turning-point where we are about to re-define media and take it to a new direction, we are instead about to witness the complete convergence of every form of media possible in an attempt to make a buck. And with such big names (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Linux, every Viacom and ATT et al.) already trying to cover every single square foot of this, unless this guy's got big plans for the newly freed up white-spaces he's just wasting his breath.
What is exactly wrong with water? Before I ran E85 in my overpowered turbo-charged engine, I injected water. The waters cools down the combustion chamber so that I can run at higher pressures which means more power for the same amount of fuel.
I am unsure why water is one of your complaints.
LoL because if you actually did have an "overpowered" (wtf does that even mean?) turbo-charged engine with water injection, then you were either a complete idiot who blindly ordered a water-injection kit online and asked a shop to install it, or are just subtly and cleverly trying to test my knowledge of something that you already know: Water is corrosive regardless of how useful it might be in forced-induction techniques.
http://www.cartuningtips.com/92-water-injection
search: corrosion
The fact that rubber and metal fuel lines all the way from the gas tank to your injectors are meant to handle hydrophobic, non-polar hydrocarbons means that moisture getting in the system will always cause a corrosive effect, regardless of timescale. Compound that with the fact that alcohols (such as ethanol) are infinitely soluble in water and vice versa, I'm sure you see the natural conclusion?
As a tangent, Mr. car guy, I'm sure you run your high performance vehicle only on the best tires with a nitrogen fill rather than air, right? Because you also know that the diatomic Nitrogens are inert and have a much lower moisture (and oxygen) content to prevent your tires from corrosion (magic word of the day I guess), right?
Why do you think they recommend storing any vehicle with a full gas tank for those people who live in areas with wither? Because the giant tank of nonpolar fluid it will keep the moisture out of your system and prevent corrosion not only in your tank but all the way down the fuel line. They even sell fuel stabilizers for this period of inactivity to keep your gasoline from breaking down when you do this.
So I hope that answers your brilliantly posed (and obviously rhetorically posed, because you obviously knew these things to begin with, being such a car wunderkind, right?) questions C:
Ming
From what I gathered from folks who have been doing this for many decades: this will be a very painful learning experience for everyone involved and this seems to be the sentiment whether the wind blows right or left.
What was the lesson exactly?
That it's a total douche move to lobby for subsidies to grow corn in order to make a completely unrealistic and net energy/money losing biofuel?
That it's a bigger douche move to switch from growing actual foods to growing this shit and driving up prices of general foodstuffs that would have grown on the same land, as well as the cost of meats from livestock that used to feed off of dent corn?
That it's really fucking annoying when many of the country's engines are being rotted away from the inside-out up by the water-loving ethanol that corn lobbyists demanded be put into gasoline?
Or that it was a completely idiotic idea to then invest "long-term" (but ironically very short-sightedly) in the Land of Oz that they managed to make for themselves?
I live in Wisconsin and go to school with quite a few farmers, and can relate to them and feel bad for them on an individual level, but some of the assholes at the top of this heap, namely the lobbyists for subsidies, can go fuck themselves for how much trouble they've caused in the name of greed.
Wow, what a bunch of badasses we have here. Way to slam a dead teenager for not being as cool as you are. Real men, you are.
Or as talented...
I guess it shouldn't be surprising anymore that the concept of "per capita" is once again completely omitted to make a headline rather than a point?
7000 MTon vs 5000 MTon... hmm doesn't sound impressive enough, let's try 754% vs 21%!! Oh my god!
How about 5.4 Ton/person (China) vs. 16.7 Ton/person (U.S.)?
Or better yet, how about 90+% of U.S. consumer needs being shifted to China?
Not only is China already more efficient in what it does for the CO2 it's producing compared to the U.S., it's supplying the rest of the world too. What's the complaint here?
Well, in the Apple walled garden, people willingly sign the contracts with such stipulations, but just bitch about it afterwards. Here it's possibly very much so a breach of contract.
It lets heat go in one direction only! That the biggest change in Thermodynamical Law since Claude Shannon.
Now convert it a transistor, and with a maxwell daemon, (Quantum Weak Measurement, + Quantum Computer, + Classical Prediction Logic)
and we have (possibly) a free entropy device, capable of turning waste (heat) energy back to useful energy.
From TFA:
Depending on which ring the light enters first, it will either pass in the forward direction or be dissipated backward, which creates one-way transmission.
It seems to more just act as a nonlinear lens, dissipating (or more likely scattering) preferentially in the backwards direction.
This is obviously just a distraction to throw off other (r)e-tailers towards the much more useful (but too obvious to be patented) kungfu of forcing people to choose between a handful of options (two in this case) and then categorizing them based on that!
Next up, using pizza chains to do marketing demographic research: Would you like a free Coke or Pepsi with your delivery?
Maybe we haven't identified all the places to look in our limited understanding of nature. So, sure we have axed a few "known" anthropomorphic places, but maybe we don't know WTF anyway. Socrates would say that we know nothing and this is really a search for nothing. For instance, what if the effect we attribute to a particle is responsible when hundreds of particles interact in aggregate? Maybe this is all being handled, but one particle to rule them all seems like it is an idea out of fantasy.
I'm sorry, but blindly applying the zeroth order concept of epistemology and then namedropping Socrates really doesn't give you the pass to blindly comment on something that you can't remotely grasp...
The EPA? ;)
Hilarious thing is that over 90% of geothermal energy is generated by the fission of nuclear isotopes anyway. All it does differently is during disposal when the earth just kind of farts it out as Radon into our basements.
Fuck it, we're going full-on batshit.
What's so funny about this? He's just quoting the third episode where we'll be seeing some hardcore bat-anal.
Uhm, how about a reality check? The fact that they're doing anything even remotely directed towards this drug cartel is showing some balls, (and risks showing some intestines and other body parts while hanging off of a bridge if any the Anon are located in Mexico.)
What would you (and the summary author) like Anonymous to do? Step away from their core competency of hacking, pick up a pitchfork and fly to Mexico? Maybe some nice meaningful physical actions right? The kind that Mexican and American Police have failed at for years now?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/03/mexico-police-garay-drugs-crime
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0726/How-Mexican-killers-got-US-guns-from-Fast-and-Furious-operation
You are correct to post as AC. The funding is 90% DOD. The source escapes me, but a Princeton professor is probably more than willing to dispute your claim.
http://www.gensuikin.org/english/NIF_mission.htm
It's a bit more subtle than what you think the word "maintenance" means in this case:
Hydrogen bombs utilize tritium (2neutrons 1 proton). Unfortunately, tritum has a 13 year half-life (When did the cold war end?), after which it decays to 3He (1 neutron 2 protons). Think back to basic chemistry and you'll recall Hydrogen loves to bond, and Helium is a noble gas.
[/science] The gist of this is that our old stockpile is becoming less effective at blowing things up due to the stochastic (random) decay of tritium in the warheads, and a large impetus for NIF is to examine the yield of such a warhead given an asymmetric fusion reaction (best yields come from fusing as much of your tritium warhead as possible, but that can't happen if the reaction is lopsided for some reason!).
So even though this is for basic "maintenance", keep in mind that it's been ~two decades since the cold war, all the warheads from back then are over 50% helium floating around, and this technology is really designed to obviate the need for full-scale testing. Another irony is that we get to give other countries crap for doing weapons testing rather than being peaceful like us, where they're really just too poor to afford a petawatt laser system.
And by the way, what's our way of not getting called out on violating nonproliferation? We take what's left of the good stuff (tritium) in the warheads, reprocess them with new technologies, and actually replenish the stockpile with more effective warheads than the ones we removed.
The next sentence was made with a magnet on my left hemisphere.
The previous sentence was made with a magnet on my right hemisphere.
Which one is tru-WHO GIVES A SHIT I HAVE NO MORALS WARWRWERWARWAAWKLERJA
"The UK company AWE and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have now joined with [the DOD funded National Ignition Facility in the U.S.] to help make laser fusion part of their nuclear weapons testing program as well.
Fixed!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility
Logowriter FTW. And that turtle was so cute. Penup, pen down!
It's hopefully pretty straightforward to assume that no 2nd grader will really be interested in the process of software development.
My suggestion is to start off trying to relate it to something they know and use. There has been educational software for as long as there's been the hardware to run it. OG Oregon trail (spacebar for hunting) to Newschool oregon trail (mouseclick for hunting), to that time traveling mathdog game that I always forget the name of. Try to find out if they play any educational computer games in their curriculum, and then divulge the dark underbelly of the development process that would to into such a game!
And of course, even that isn't without methodology. Children of all ages (incl. us) all love a good story. They will most likely learn more from an example story of a funny situation regarding the software development process, in relation to a game they play, than any template directly trying to assault the subject matter, regardless of how well done it is.
It just shows that most people have double standards. When they or someone they know do it, it's all good. When it's someone else, it's the root of evil.
Or it just shows that when someone reads TFA, they realize the summary and headline is misleading and that the man in question actually has a decent bit of experience and insight in software patents. And when they don't read it they start making up generalized statements based on an incorrect summary to sound like they have enough general knowledge to offer insight on everything at first glance.
How do they know it wasn't the other way around? Maybe we Europeans brought it as a gift to our New World brothers.
Later, a more effective microbe known as "smallpox" was used, with much better intended results ;)
It pains me to say this, but as much as I hate the TSA, I think this summary, especially its title, was a misleading pile of trash.
First off, TFA itself very reasonably states that the TSA is simply worried about this, due to recent intelligence from U.S. officials. Anyone remember the Bin Laden hard drives full of data? Honestly, this is probably the most credible source of anything yet.
Furthermore, the only thing thing at all in the article, that mentions any tangible implementation by the TSA that we'd notice and be encumbered by, consists of:
"As a precaution, passengers flying from international locations to U.S. destinations may notice additional security measures in place. These measures are designed to be unpredictable, so passengers should not expect to see the same activity at every international airport," Kimball said.
Sanity check? Pass.
Why point this out? Because the summary headline is dumb enough to say something to the effect that we will not be able to fly if we've had an official surgery from a US hospital because TSA is reacting to a common sense threat. Well they're not, it was simply an article reporting on an official briefing, and TSA stepping up their current (albeit often distasteful) methods.
The people using the internet might be just as dumb, but who said the majority of the spam is getting through to these people anymore?
You have to keep in mind that the bright people who've made most of today's everyday technology possible (to those who don't appreciate this point, maybe teach yourself general relativity prior the next time you poke your TomTom) are also writing spam filters on the server side too nowadays (with great financial incentive for the providers via reduced overhead), not just the client side.
I remember in this asshole's "heyday" when I had to manually block send-from addresses in hotmail, and now only the most grammatically well-crafted emails get through, and are still reported fishy.