Sorry, this is question #2, but since I know you'll be reading these and the number of questions seems light so far, I figured I'd ask. I love Artificial Heart, although the bonus tracks are a bit incongruous. "Today With Your Wife" chokes me up. Nice work.
Of course I read your whole post, but I'm not seeing your point. Are you saying privacy is less important when you're exhibiting your gaming skills than when you're exhibiting your IT skills?
It's funny...I was JUST posting about the availability error one comment above this one. Pseudorand, every sysadmin in the world is not like you. You are a unique and special snowflake. Maybe you should be a spy!
Thank you, Coward. That Xbox One summary was as clear as it could possibly be. It feels to me like it should be intuitively obvious to others, but I've come to believe that's fallacious thinking--the availability error that causes us to imagine other people to be like ourselves. I'm afraid you're guilty of the same fallacy when you say "if a person were thick enough to ignore the clear warnings". There is no "if" here. Normal everyday people ARE that "thick". It's people who see this problem clearly who are exceptional. Speaking of that...you may as well give up posting as Coward. Textual criticism will identify you and your posts when they want you. even if you're using tor.
It is the collective weight of people not giving a shit that gives the establishment the power to commit crimes against individuals who do give a shit.
Give a shit, please.
I don't see how Tepples is claiming Firefox OS can stop metadata collection. It's a matter of accepting the things we cannot change and changing the things that we can. We are unable to stop metadata tracking, but with enough collective effort we can stop hidden code in open source products from sabotaging our ability to encrypt data and transmit it. Mozilla deals in open source, so at least we can work on it. We can make metadata collection illegal, but secret organizations care little about such laws. Protecting our ability to run our own unsigned code and code signed by CA's we individually decide to trust...this is something the operating system can help do. The operating system can't fix the metadata collection problem or compromises at the media layer. You're correct about it being useless against the easiest avenue of government snooping. The metadata involved there has never been possible for users to hide. By the way, I didn't know I was debating one person, because you're posting as Coward.
Ah, yes, the two-option insult trick to discredit your opponent because you know that people tend to see a two-option list as complete. Nice try. I'm not being dense, and I'm obviously not stupid. The answer, as I suspect you know, my cowardly opponent, is that local encryption is not going to stop traditional location tracking at all. Who said or even implied that it would? We're talking about preserving the ability of users to be able to use trustworthy encryption AT ALL on their local devices, for practices as simple as encrypting a message. But you knew that already, didn't you, coward?
You don't really actually truly for real know how encryption works, do you, Coward? Or are you just hoping that readers will fall for your little trick to make the intelligentsia appear myopic?
I'm tired of entire premises. Can't we criticize a premise element? These entire premises are too much for me, especially because I'm off-premises today. I premise to try harder to grasp entire premises in future premises, if I understand the entire premises involved.
YouTube streaming quality is terrible, and has created a world where no one thinks they need to host their own media servers ever.
Facebook reduces all conversation to banality and creates dangerous delusions in its users.
If only these were the reasons the Turks banned these sites.
This is the way they force us to upgrade, which in turn forces peripheral manufacturers to write Windows 8.1 drivers, for which they get paid nothing.
It really is a sick little cycle. I'm tired of watching it.
Voice commands certainly don't require a device like a Kinect. Also, even under the best of circumstances, the day's not coming where you can twitch to trigger a voice command with any degree of precision that would be acceptable in an action game.
I'm thinking about the way we used to toss grenades at each other's feet in Quakeworld, and trying to imagine yelling "Grenade!" for each one. Seems like a good way to lose.
If I were the spy, I would have it log symbolically who was present in the room at what times, 24/7, using facial recognition and store them in an encrypted innocuous looking file outside of user-accessible storage. Then, if the machine is airgapped and disconnected, I simply collect the unit physically from any home where it looks like a resident may be an activist or have a chance at winning political office, or other power-enabling life developments. Then I use the data stored about who was in the room when to blackmail the activist into stopping any political actions.
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Sorry, this is question #2, but since I know you'll be reading these and the number of questions seems light so far, I figured I'd ask. I love Artificial Heart, although the bonus tracks are a bit incongruous. "Today With Your Wife" chokes me up. Nice work.
The notice you gave via RSS for the Portland gig a few months back was way too short. Thanks for doing the Humble Music Bundle. You rock.
You mean you see tearing when you watch video files? Like the way bad in-game movie playback does?
I'm in.
You SO do. You went there so fast...airbody nose you're talking about you.
What if the next presidential limo was an post Tesla-sale Apple iCar? Would it still be able to play FLAC?
Ah...gotcha. Well done, then. I agree. Sorry for going off half-cocked.
Of course I read your whole post, but I'm not seeing your point. Are you saying privacy is less important when you're exhibiting your gaming skills than when you're exhibiting your IT skills?
It's funny...I was JUST posting about the availability error one comment above this one. Pseudorand, every sysadmin in the world is not like you. You are a unique and special snowflake. Maybe you should be a spy!
Thank you, Coward. That Xbox One summary was as clear as it could possibly be. It feels to me like it should be intuitively obvious to others, but I've come to believe that's fallacious thinking--the availability error that causes us to imagine other people to be like ourselves. I'm afraid you're guilty of the same fallacy when you say "if a person were thick enough to ignore the clear warnings". There is no "if" here. Normal everyday people ARE that "thick". It's people who see this problem clearly who are exceptional. Speaking of that...you may as well give up posting as Coward. Textual criticism will identify you and your posts when they want you. even if you're using tor.
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It is the collective weight of people not giving a shit that gives the establishment the power to commit crimes against individuals who do give a shit. Give a shit, please.
I was wondering how we were going to pay for making sure that we are no longer free to move about the country. Now I know!
...and not your own. Do you give to the EFF?
I don't see how Tepples is claiming Firefox OS can stop metadata collection. It's a matter of accepting the things we cannot change and changing the things that we can. We are unable to stop metadata tracking, but with enough collective effort we can stop hidden code in open source products from sabotaging our ability to encrypt data and transmit it. Mozilla deals in open source, so at least we can work on it. We can make metadata collection illegal, but secret organizations care little about such laws. Protecting our ability to run our own unsigned code and code signed by CA's we individually decide to trust...this is something the operating system can help do. The operating system can't fix the metadata collection problem or compromises at the media layer. You're correct about it being useless against the easiest avenue of government snooping. The metadata involved there has never been possible for users to hide. By the way, I didn't know I was debating one person, because you're posting as Coward.
Ah, yes, the two-option insult trick to discredit your opponent because you know that people tend to see a two-option list as complete. Nice try. I'm not being dense, and I'm obviously not stupid. The answer, as I suspect you know, my cowardly opponent, is that local encryption is not going to stop traditional location tracking at all. Who said or even implied that it would? We're talking about preserving the ability of users to be able to use trustworthy encryption AT ALL on their local devices, for practices as simple as encrypting a message. But you knew that already, didn't you, coward?
You don't really actually truly for real know how encryption works, do you, Coward? Or are you just hoping that readers will fall for your little trick to make the intelligentsia appear myopic?
I'm tired of entire premises. Can't we criticize a premise element? These entire premises are too much for me, especially because I'm off-premises today. I premise to try harder to grasp entire premises in future premises, if I understand the entire premises involved.
YouTube streaming quality is terrible, and has created a world where no one thinks they need to host their own media servers ever. Facebook reduces all conversation to banality and creates dangerous delusions in its users. If only these were the reasons the Turks banned these sites.
This is the way they force us to upgrade, which in turn forces peripheral manufacturers to write Windows 8.1 drivers, for which they get paid nothing. It really is a sick little cycle. I'm tired of watching it.
Those who can't teach rely on snarky catchphrases to make themselves feel better about past classroom humiliations.
Doesn't this advice apply more to "without the cloud" than "with the cloud"?
1965 called and wants its catchphrase back, citizen.
Voice commands certainly don't require a device like a Kinect. Also, even under the best of circumstances, the day's not coming where you can twitch to trigger a voice command with any degree of precision that would be acceptable in an action game. I'm thinking about the way we used to toss grenades at each other's feet in Quakeworld, and trying to imagine yelling "Grenade!" for each one. Seems like a good way to lose.
If I were the spy, I would have it log symbolically who was present in the room at what times, 24/7, using facial recognition and store them in an encrypted innocuous looking file outside of user-accessible storage. Then, if the machine is airgapped and disconnected, I simply collect the unit physically from any home where it looks like a resident may be an activist or have a chance at winning political office, or other power-enabling life developments. Then I use the data stored about who was in the room when to blackmail the activist into stopping any political actions.