That's funny, my password is "NSA_CockBlock1!". Just under the max 16 chars, and with upper and lower case letters, a number, and two symbols.
Where I have greater latitude, my password tends to be a variation on: "fuck the NSA I hope a plane full of anthrax crashes on each of their buildings killing them all."
You're an idiot. I just a neighborhood on how the house quality. A poor neighborhood has poor quality housing (little better than shacks), a rich neighborhood has big houses and expensive apartment buildings.
Now everyone lives in the USA, and not everyone is a racist.
So what's the bloody point of linking to a short URL "service"? This isn't twitter you fucknut. Just link to the URL directly: http://sareeahkeelyn.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/cart13.jpg In fact, that's easier than making a short URL to link to. I think you must be insane.
Where I live we have four seasons. The long dry, the long wet, the short dry, and the short wet.
And as stated by others, the weather is really nice. Actually, at the moment it's a bit cool, sometimes it goes as low as 21 degrees! It does get a little hot sometimes (up to 35 degrees), but just don't go outside.
And, we use an aircon at most one month a year when it does get really hot. Where I lived previously it used to get into the 40s for two or three months a year. And then bloody cold in the winter. Who could love that?
Of course, you shouldn't blame Tor for this. I'm sure Freenet could equally be used, but Tor is just easy. Instead, blame the OS manufactures, and the owners of the bot-ridden machines. Seriously. It's your fault if you don't know enough about your car that you ignore the oil light and it seizes up on a highway. And it's your fault if your machine is turned into a cog of part of a greater machine, bending to the whims of some "hacker".
Maybe it's time to bring back computers with the OS stored in ROM, so that is is reset to a clean state every time the computer is restarted.
Except that litecoin and other alts are basically pointless (except for the ones that implement inflation, which are not pointless, merely worthless at this stage). Oh, one bitcoin is too large, if only there were a way pay a fraction... Oh wait, there is. Consider: one bitcoin can be divided up into 10,000,000 pieces. That's better than the USD, which can only be divided into 100 pieces.
The only reason I can think of for most of the alt-chains is to be a money grubber for the creators and early adopters. This is a case where I can say, most alt-chains probably are what people accuse bitcoin of, "pump'n'dump". Push the price up, and get out before it collapses.
Seriously, what can I bit with litecoins again? Is there anything I can buy with litecoins that I can't with bitcoins? So what's the point?
Get rid of them. Swap them for bitcoin and do it as soon as you can. Any alt-chain is likely to be worth exactly nothing. Only the inflationary ones are interesting. But don't keep them, because they'll lose their value as time goes by. Use bitcoins, and spend them like a regular currency.
It'd be like having lots of Estonian Kroon while living in the USA. Useless, you can't even spend them in Estonia (who have switched to the Euro). Sure you could change them, for now, but sooner or later you won't be able to.
An archivist should keep the original as much as possible. Otherwise, what's the point? Would it be acceptable to photocopy a letter and than discard the original because it's too old? No. You photocopy (or actually non-destructively scan these days), and then you keep the original in a climate controlled environment. People can work off the copy, but sooner or later someone will want to look at the original.
At a minimum you take high-resolution photos of the media and record those photos (and the type of media, etc.) along with the copy of that you are putting into your fancy database.
What's the point of archiving anything? It's too keep it for posterity.
Geeze, what do they teach archivists these days...
Disclaimer: I'm not an archivist, but I have done a lot of study and work in the digital sector (including archiving).
Yeah, funny thing about quinine, you really have to take a lot more than is in your modern G&T to get that anti-malarial effect. Not to mention modern drugs are much better!
Though I do use the excuse that I don't want to get malaria every time I do have a G&T...
If only there were shots for malaria. Luckily there is a shot for yellow fever, so I don't have to worry about that one.
As for anti-malarial drugs, I don't take 'em. But then again, where I am there aren't that many malarial mosquitoes, and the side-affects aren't nice if you take the drugs for too long.
Um, so as a vegetarian, you, what? eat fish? (OK, sure, fish oil, not quite the same, but it's still not vegetarian.)
Out of interest, why are you a vegetarian?
And, if you are having trouble eating enough protean, increase the number of beans and bean products in your diet. E.g. lentils, tofu, and hummus are all great foods. Also, try peanut butter on cheese! (But get peanut butter that is 99% or so peanuts, and 0% sugar. And get decent cheese, like Cheddar or Emmental, not that plastic stuff Americans eat.)
Umm, I realize that I may well be telling you stuff you already know, especially if you have put any thought into your diet, which I guess you have. Sorry if it sounds patronizing.
This is a good point. I too think that a lot of people merely read the same books that everyone else reads due to the sociality of it. The same reason that everyone watches the same TV shows. So they can all discuss how good they are, or how awful it was that that dreadful women got selected over that darlingly handsome man. (On/. we just get people making the same point over and over.)
Also, while the idea of Mr Haselton is quite good, it doesn't require quite as much space for it. E.g. point 2 could be halved. In fact you could probably get rid of half of the text, and still have the same impact of the idea, with more people likely to read the full thing.
I would encourage some famous authors to setup a fiction site like the one suggested. I think that if they did it publicly, they could easily get a lot of people joining up. Go for it!
How's that hope and change working out for you? You don't really think that Ron Paul, or any politician, would actually change things do you? Ron Paul gets elected. He spends a month being briefed on everything. He suddenly ramps up the wars on terrorism and drugs.
People like you suddenly do what many Obama supporters have done. Oh, he's nothing like the previous bastard. Wiretapping's fine! Our hero can do nothing wrong.
Realize the truth! The only way to freedom is to destroy the system. You want no TSA or similar? Smash the federal (and state) governments. Introduce true democracy (ground-up, those who are affected get a vote, etc.). Introduce communism. Etc.
So I guess if you locked your trunk and glove compartment, then you would have a reasonable exception of privacy. Because these places would be locked, and thus not easily accessible to the valet. (Assumes your ordinary car key does not open your truck, and that it is not accessible from inside the vehicle.)
Maybe next time put some small bags of crushed white powder (e.g. corn flour, or crushed paracetamol), under the seats. And maybe a few pieces of plastic with C4 written on them (you know, like plastic explosives, not many people are going to know what plastic means in that context). Sue the airport when your car gets destroyed in a controlled detonation. Buy a new, better, car.
I like Ubuntu and Debian. They have "app stores" (apt-get install freeciv), and they work well. (I don't use the Ubuntu software center, mainly 'cause I don't want to see ads.) And, the stuff I can install from the main repositories is trustworthy. It's Free Software, and the source is available if I want to look at it. I also trust the organizations behind Debian and Ubuntu to pull software that is found to be unworthy of trust.
But, Apple? Google? I don't trust them. Not only don't I trust them, I don't trust their app stores. I don't trust the software in them. There isn't sufficient review to prevent malicious software getting in. Not only that, the software isn't Free, and so even if I want to look at the code, I can't.
And studies like this show that my lack of trust is probably a good thing. Because the software available is potentially malicious and intrusive (and I get to define what is malicious for me, and invading my privacy is malicious).
Yes. My sleep is more important than getting woken up at 4am with an alert telling me about a missing child in a city the size of NYC. Who is going to be looking out their window at that time of the morning?
Let's think about the math. Add up all those minutes of missed sleep. Work out how that equates to minutes of life lost (people dieing earlier), add the car accidents because some people can't get back to sleep if woken up at 4am, and are drowsy when they drive/step off the curb.
Adds up to more than one child's life is worth.
Fuck the child. No wait. Forget the child, it's going to be fucked anyway (presumably that's why it got kidnapped?).
Why yes, yes I am an anarchist. Unless you think that all people who rule will rule well (and by extension, there will never be a bad ruler), then you too should be an anarchist.
Let's start with monarchy. Monarchy is a great system, if the monarch is fair, just, not prone to being petty, etc. But actually, you still have to deal with the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy needs to be good, and the individuals within it need to either be good, or be prevented from being bad by rules that are enforced.
But, what if the monarch is a bad person? The whole system is bad. End of story. That's why monarchy is not suggested as a good system, because monarchs can not be guaranteed as good.
We can take this analysis and extend it to all forms of government. It doesn't work quite as well for "democracy" (where the people elect their rulers), but it still works. Especially, when the elections and the electoral system are absurd as they are in the USA (and the UK, and any place with first-past-the-post voting).
I think you get my point (even if you don't agree).
Frankly, if a site like/. can't survive without ads, then I don't care. Bye bye. There are loads of sites that have news without ads (check the national broadcasters for some examples). Facebook = do not want anyway, I'd love to see them die. Video sharing or steaming sites? Meh, fuck 'em. I don't use them anyway.
I am confident that most of the sites that I visit regularly would still survive without advertising (though it maybe harder). Maybe they have to implement some sort of bonus scheme for people who subscribe (like/.), but advertising, it's a pox.
Not that I see very much advertising anyway (NoScript + RequestPolicy, rather than deliberately blocking them). And the advertising I do see is mostly, well, irrelevant to my interests (e.g. for shit that is not available to me).
In the real Cuban missile crisis you had American soldiers manning missiles that were a few minutes away from Moscow. One country the missiles was in, is called Turkey.
What's good for the goose (Americans putting missiles just over the border from the USSR) should be good for the gander (Russians putting missiles just over the border from the USA). But nope. More Americunt Exceptionalism.
I can't see how the UN could fuck the domain system up much more than the USA already has. But still, how about fuck the statists? Let's get a proper decentralised DNS system in place, and use that instead. Meanwhile, we can use alt-roots.
Seriously, the USA has proven that they can't be trusted with control of the Internet. Demonstrated it totally. Anyone who thinks otherwise must be insane, or suffering from selective blindness.
Oh, yeah, we're going to take your domain of you because you link to sites that host torrent files (which themselves aren't copyrighted material, but merely link to copyrighted material). For example.
So yeah, fuck the USA, fuck ICANN, and maybe let's see if the UN (who manage the international postal telephone systems) can't do a better job. Or even better, let's say "fuck authority", and go it alone.
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That's funny, my password is "NSA_CockBlock1!". Just under the max 16 chars, and with upper and lower case letters, a number, and two symbols.
Where I have greater latitude, my password tends to be a variation on: "fuck the NSA I hope a plane full of anthrax crashes on each of their buildings killing them all."
You're a moron.
You're an idiot. I just a neighborhood on how the house quality. A poor neighborhood has poor quality housing (little better than shacks), a rich neighborhood has big houses and expensive apartment buildings.
Now everyone lives in the USA, and not everyone is a racist.
So what's the bloody point of linking to a short URL "service"? This isn't twitter you fucknut. Just link to the URL directly:
http://sareeahkeelyn.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/cart13.jpg
In fact, that's easier than making a short URL to link to. I think you must be insane.
Where I live we have four seasons. The long dry, the long wet, the short dry, and the short wet.
And as stated by others, the weather is really nice. Actually, at the moment it's a bit cool, sometimes it goes as low as 21 degrees! It does get a little hot sometimes (up to 35 degrees), but just don't go outside.
And, we use an aircon at most one month a year when it does get really hot. Where I lived previously it used to get into the 40s for two or three months a year. And then bloody cold in the winter. Who could love that?
Of course, you shouldn't blame Tor for this. I'm sure Freenet could equally be used, but Tor is just easy. Instead, blame the OS manufactures, and the owners of the bot-ridden machines. Seriously. It's your fault if you don't know enough about your car that you ignore the oil light and it seizes up on a highway. And it's your fault if your machine is turned into a cog of part of a greater machine, bending to the whims of some "hacker".
Maybe it's time to bring back computers with the OS stored in ROM, so that is is reset to a clean state every time the computer is restarted.
Except that litecoin and other alts are basically pointless (except for the ones that implement inflation, which are not pointless, merely worthless at this stage). Oh, one bitcoin is too large, if only there were a way pay a fraction... Oh wait, there is. Consider: one bitcoin can be divided up into 10,000,000 pieces. That's better than the USD, which can only be divided into 100 pieces.
The only reason I can think of for most of the alt-chains is to be a money grubber for the creators and early adopters. This is a case where I can say, most alt-chains probably are what people accuse bitcoin of, "pump'n'dump". Push the price up, and get out before it collapses.
Seriously, what can I bit with litecoins again? Is there anything I can buy with litecoins that I can't with bitcoins? So what's the point?
Get rid of them. Swap them for bitcoin and do it as soon as you can. Any alt-chain is likely to be worth exactly nothing. Only the inflationary ones are interesting. But don't keep them, because they'll lose their value as time goes by. Use bitcoins, and spend them like a regular currency.
It'd be like having lots of Estonian Kroon while living in the USA. Useless, you can't even spend them in Estonia (who have switched to the Euro). Sure you could change them, for now, but sooner or later you won't be able to.
This. I logged in to say this.
An archivist should keep the original as much as possible. Otherwise, what's the point? Would it be acceptable to photocopy a letter and than discard the original because it's too old? No. You photocopy (or actually non-destructively scan these days), and then you keep the original in a climate controlled environment. People can work off the copy, but sooner or later someone will want to look at the original.
At a minimum you take high-resolution photos of the media and record those photos (and the type of media, etc.) along with the copy of that you are putting into your fancy database.
What's the point of archiving anything? It's too keep it for posterity.
Geeze, what do they teach archivists these days...
Disclaimer: I'm not an archivist, but I have done a lot of study and work in the digital sector (including archiving).
Yeah, funny thing about quinine, you really have to take a lot more than is in your modern G&T to get that anti-malarial effect. Not to mention modern drugs are much better!
Though I do use the excuse that I don't want to get malaria every time I do have a G&T...
If only there were shots for malaria. Luckily there is a shot for yellow fever, so I don't have to worry about that one.
As for anti-malarial drugs, I don't take 'em. But then again, where I am there aren't that many malarial mosquitoes, and the side-affects aren't nice if you take the drugs for too long.
Je ne suis pas un poisson.
Um, so as a vegetarian, you, what? eat fish? (OK, sure, fish oil, not quite the same, but it's still not vegetarian.)
Out of interest, why are you a vegetarian?
And, if you are having trouble eating enough protean, increase the number of beans and bean products in your diet. E.g. lentils, tofu, and hummus are all great foods. Also, try peanut butter on cheese! (But get peanut butter that is 99% or so peanuts, and 0% sugar. And get decent cheese, like Cheddar or Emmental, not that plastic stuff Americans eat.)
Umm, I realize that I may well be telling you stuff you already know, especially if you have put any thought into your diet, which I guess you have. Sorry if it sounds patronizing.
This is a good point. I too think that a lot of people merely read the same books that everyone else reads due to the sociality of it. The same reason that everyone watches the same TV shows. So they can all discuss how good they are, or how awful it was that that dreadful women got selected over that darlingly handsome man. (On /. we just get people making the same point over and over.)
Also, while the idea of Mr Haselton is quite good, it doesn't require quite as much space for it. E.g. point 2 could be halved. In fact you could probably get rid of half of the text, and still have the same impact of the idea, with more people likely to read the full thing.
I would encourage some famous authors to setup a fiction site like the one suggested. I think that if they did it publicly, they could easily get a lot of people joining up. Go for it!
How's that hope and change working out for you? You don't really think that Ron Paul, or any politician, would actually change things do you?
Ron Paul gets elected. He spends a month being briefed on everything. He suddenly ramps up the wars on terrorism and drugs.
People like you suddenly do what many Obama supporters have done. Oh, he's nothing like the previous bastard. Wiretapping's fine! Our hero can do nothing wrong.
Realize the truth! The only way to freedom is to destroy the system. You want no TSA or similar? Smash the federal (and state) governments. Introduce true democracy (ground-up, those who are affected get a vote, etc.). Introduce communism. Etc.
So I guess if you locked your trunk and glove compartment, then you would have a reasonable exception of privacy. Because these places would be locked, and thus not easily accessible to the valet. (Assumes your ordinary car key does not open your truck, and that it is not accessible from inside the vehicle.)
Maybe next time put some small bags of crushed white powder (e.g. corn flour, or crushed paracetamol), under the seats. And maybe a few pieces of plastic with C4 written on them (you know, like plastic explosives, not many people are going to know what plastic means in that context). Sue the airport when your car gets destroyed in a controlled detonation. Buy a new, better, car.
I like Ubuntu and Debian. They have "app stores" (apt-get install freeciv), and they work well. (I don't use the Ubuntu software center, mainly 'cause I don't want to see ads.) And, the stuff I can install from the main repositories is trustworthy. It's Free Software, and the source is available if I want to look at it. I also trust the organizations behind Debian and Ubuntu to pull software that is found to be unworthy of trust.
But, Apple? Google? I don't trust them. Not only don't I trust them, I don't trust their app stores. I don't trust the software in them. There isn't sufficient review to prevent malicious software getting in. Not only that, the software isn't Free, and so even if I want to look at the code, I can't.
And studies like this show that my lack of trust is probably a good thing. Because the software available is potentially malicious and intrusive (and I get to define what is malicious for me, and invading my privacy is malicious).
So. Also, `info' apparently means something in over 30 languages as well.
Yes. My sleep is more important than getting woken up at 4am with an alert telling me about a missing child in a city the size of NYC. Who is going to be looking out their window at that time of the morning?
Let's think about the math. Add up all those minutes of missed sleep. Work out how that equates to minutes of life lost (people dieing earlier), add the car accidents because some people can't get back to sleep if woken up at 4am, and are drowsy when they drive/step off the curb.
Adds up to more than one child's life is worth.
Fuck the child. No wait. Forget the child, it's going to be fucked anyway (presumably that's why it got kidnapped?).
Why yes, yes I am an anarchist. Unless you think that all people who rule will rule well (and by extension, there will never be a bad ruler), then you too should be an anarchist.
Let's start with monarchy. Monarchy is a great system, if the monarch is fair, just, not prone to being petty, etc. But actually, you still have to deal with the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy needs to be good, and the individuals within it need to either be good, or be prevented from being bad by rules that are enforced.
But, what if the monarch is a bad person? The whole system is bad. End of story. That's why monarchy is not suggested as a good system, because monarchs can not be guaranteed as good.
We can take this analysis and extend it to all forms of government. It doesn't work quite as well for "democracy" (where the people elect their rulers), but it still works. Especially, when the elections and the electoral system are absurd as they are in the USA (and the UK, and any place with first-past-the-post voting).
I think you get my point (even if you don't agree).
Sorry I don't understand. Do you have a car analogy?
Frankly, if a site like /. can't survive without ads, then I don't care. Bye bye. There are loads of sites that have news without ads (check the national broadcasters for some examples). Facebook = do not want anyway, I'd love to see them die. Video sharing or steaming sites? Meh, fuck 'em. I don't use them anyway.
I am confident that most of the sites that I visit regularly would still survive without advertising (though it maybe harder). Maybe they have to implement some sort of bonus scheme for people who subscribe (like /.), but advertising, it's a pox.
Not that I see very much advertising anyway (NoScript + RequestPolicy, rather than deliberately blocking them). And the advertising I do see is mostly, well, irrelevant to my interests (e.g. for shit that is not available to me).
Damn, you outed me. Actually, a) I'm not an Americunt. b) I'm an anarchist.
The alternatives are clear and obvious (alt-roots to start, a proper decentralized DNS system to finish). The end.
In the real Cuban missile crisis you had American soldiers manning missiles that were a few minutes away from Moscow. One country the missiles was in, is called Turkey.
What's good for the goose (Americans putting missiles just over the border from the USSR) should be good for the gander (Russians putting missiles just over the border from the USA). But nope. More Americunt Exceptionalism.
I can't see how the UN could fuck the domain system up much more than the USA already has. But still, how about fuck the statists? Let's get a proper decentralised DNS system in place, and use that instead. Meanwhile, we can use alt-roots.
Seriously, the USA has proven that they can't be trusted with control of the Internet. Demonstrated it totally. Anyone who thinks otherwise must be insane, or suffering from selective blindness.
Oh, yeah, we're going to take your domain of you because you link to sites that host torrent files (which themselves aren't copyrighted material, but merely link to copyrighted material). For example.
So yeah, fuck the USA, fuck ICANN, and maybe let's see if the UN (who manage the international postal telephone systems) can't do a better job. Or even better, let's say "fuck authority", and go it alone.