This is actually the angle I predict. Not just an alleged techguy, but deliberately assembling conditions such that "I don't have access to the key even if I wanted to.", kind of like breaking up a key into parts and splitting them among your lieutenants or minions or whatever.
We've been able to build workaround canaries and deadman switches with little tech, at this stage we can probably set conditions such that "I can't procure the key even under duress, an unknown third party/system has to re-equip me and will observe me first."
Not yet. In my dictionary, protolife (read, pre-life) is self-replicating assemblies, including prions but also tin pest and even fire. Any construct that has that seemingly self-preserving reproduction, which inadvertently causes population and sustained presence, the scoreboard of something well-evolved and adapted.
However, only protolife with variance can evolve. I'm not sure it's exhaustively impossible to see tin pest change: Consider some kind of unusual variant or alloy that is less susceptible to being eroded by water, and more importantly, populates as much and as often and either it reaches nearby environments or it is a "mutation" of some noticeable frequency. Some, most, or all tin pest would be of this variety. And yet ultimately, like GP said, this lacks real mutation, the chain of possibilities isn't there. It only coincides with sustained presence.
GP's prion is some kind of brown goo scenario, but it seems like it leans on an abundance of inert proteins, or protobiosphere. I still lean towards this endpoint because of increased variant options over tin by sheer chemistry, because "more stable" variants will probably be (inadvertently) leveraging properties that are more True Scotsman "life", like incidental locomotion. Or maybe they clump. Or, hell, I don't know, because disclaimer: I'm speculating out my ass and don't know shit about the subject.
> Even if it were [moral], there would be technical challenges
Ha ha oh wow. Since when did this ever start showing up in statements? Last I checked we still have people (from plebs to politicians) saying crap like "We should show everyone's name on the internets!"
And even multi-million corporates saying crap like "Let's base policy around the user's location because we can tell where they are." Then some tech says something about "proxies and VPNs" and the decision makers say something about "Fix it. We'll sue. We'll lobby it into illegal. Do something."
You don't have to know tech, just know that things like "the (federal) LEOs can look the guy up" and "they can be controlled through their ISP" are not hard rules. That there are few hard limits to internet use at all. You can do whatever you want case-to-case but it's different when you try to declare encompassing laws. You don't have to know tech, just look at restrictive countries. You can control most people most of the time (techwise) but don't assume that's a reflection of your power, it reflects people using tech the easy (insecure) way.
Hopefully we'll dodge more bullets in the future. I'm glad we didn't set the wrong precedent on "an IP address is useful evidence but can not be equated to an individual".
It's somewhat more dystopian if you're trapped in the walled garden and coughing up yet again for even more overpriced stuff (read, adapters) just to interface with the rest of the planet's devices. Generation after generation.
But even then, they're obviously able to afford form over function. First world problem indeed.
Everyone knows which one that is without even clicking. The context tends to be relevant pretty often.
More importantly, "We need to develop [a] universal" is a cute coincidence of words - we already have exactly that. Granted, it'll never be perfect ubiquity, and we still need adapters even from one USB to another...
...but at least engineers now know what the correct choice for "a universal interface port" on the side of a laptop is, and when someone says "Do you have a phone charger lying around?" there's a best-response.
Those aren't being censored. FoS doesn't override property laws, or laws against endangering human life.
FoS doesn't override anything. It means you won't be censored, is all.
If you'll excuse me, someone somewhere is dropping the "shouting FIRE in a theater" line (which is prohibited-but-not-censored for endangering human life)
Your physique may vary, but somewhere around six or seven simultaneous bodies the diminishing returns will outpace the gains of adding more females to my equation. Most of us can probably raise that intersecting point with a controlled diet and exercise regime. The frail or elderly may have to settle for "two girls at the same time."
> When a digital device has to sit and spin after every single click or action, it's hard to resist the temptation to jump ship.
Fixed.
A book has better real estate than a phone. A book has absolutely, non-figuratively, zero UI lag. A book is lightweight, portable, you can drop it on concrete from 10ft and you don't need to stress over keeping track of a valuable. It's paper, it's worthless.
It's hard to resist the temptation to jump shit when GUI devs dick around with faders and sliders and icon bullshit, and endless bloat. And then it's menus within menus of navigation - we pound the life out of hotkeys and shortcuts to get around it.
> benefits to the public from not taking action
Any content left in place continues to benefit its original purpose.
Content isn't meant to benefit the public. It's meant to benefit consumers.
Any content removed will, of course, serve no purpose whatsoever.
So far, these observations extend to any silenced content, not just adult. Mark Twain said "Censorship is telling a man he can't have steak because a baby can't chew it."
That said, Google has the right to censor what they own. Yes, it's "censorship", and it's quite allowed and legal. It might not be "right", but at least in this case we're not losing anything that's very exclusive - to most of us, pr0n is pr0n.
They might edu discount you a tiny bit. If you buy them by the thousands. Otherwise expect to pay shelf price, or you build a time machine to the 90's Apple.
Source: Local district IT, already seeing them give iPrices the finger, but not looking forward to endless hours of scut work that will result from deploying everyone's new chromebooks.
It's funny. My first thought was "Yep, gonna see more VPN sales." and then I realized, we already are. Consider the frequency of mentions, then of mentions of specific offers, then even the frequency of straight-up ads promising to solve spying.
It's no wonder there's so much effort in owning TOR nodes and branding it a pedorist tool. The number of people who use TOR has increased, yes, but more dramatic is the ballooning number of people aware (and interested). Say what you will about his patriotism (or lack) but Snowden got a lot of people covering up the red blinky weakspots they didn't know they had.
Here's a couple of little QoL perks I haven't seen (I skimmed) mentioned:
* Text-to-link (or something like that) or any other equivalent that will grab URLs and hyperlink them. You should (as always) double-check the actual destination of a weird link/post/message.
* Text-to-image (or something like that) is a toss-up. Any direct IMG link will be displayed in-page (handy on forums), but sometimes it makes layouts look a little awkward. You can blacklist sites (use wildcard) or pages from triggering it.
* Used to have one that would try to capture text fields (like the post I'm writing) and would allow for some historical fetching, like if your browser crashes or a Next Page load fails. L*S did one gag dedicated to just this. Might want to check the fine boilerplate (I didn't) or just skip it if you're super-tinfoil, seeing captures of yourself can feel uncanny. Some of you may already be in the habit of clipboard/notepad dumping for safety, but consider that automation is consistent.
Echoing on NoScript and RequestPolicy, they're privacy tweaks but also improve safety. After whitelists are done, page layout and even load times can improve. Take control of what your machines accesses.
Look. Look there, at that guy. The young, healthy frycook.
Maybe he's heard that without exclusive skills, he'll end up in terrafoam someday, so he's decided to try and buy a ticket from the diploma printers, and trying to scrape together at least SOME of the gouging education costs (which have long since skyrocketed past "easily afforded with a 20h/wk part-time") rather than become another sucker hooked by the predatory student loan system.
Is there anything for this guy to do? We're already post-labor. We don't pay shit for "labor". There are no ditch diggers. Even those burgers he's flipping, he's only paid because he has the "skills" required for a warm body to deliver a result. The warm body itself is worthless.
Is there anything for this guy to do? He has a few options today, but the moment a robo-cook's cost ticks under his $8/hr or whatever? The existence of that job will evaporate. Globally. "Overnight", if you will.
Is there anything for this guy to do? There's a lot of naive posts saying "There will be jobs" with examples like fucking scientist. We have an ideal, motivated homo sapien right here, eager to work and rearing to go, and no robo-owner will look twice because nothing he does is worth money.
We're in tech, we've got some of the best tickets for The Ark, but we're not going to need ten billion robot repairmen.
Slashdot Mirror
I think I've seen one of his comics get linked once.
...Daily. In every tech site's discussions.
Or twice.
BUT SERIOUSLY GUYS PASSWORD REUSE EVERYONE NEEDS A THROWAWAY TIER
This is actually the angle I predict. Not just an alleged techguy, but deliberately assembling conditions such that "I don't have access to the key even if I wanted to.", kind of like breaking up a key into parts and splitting them among your lieutenants or minions or whatever.
We've been able to build workaround canaries and deadman switches with little tech, at this stage we can probably set conditions such that "I can't procure the key even under duress, an unknown third party/system has to re-equip me and will observe me first."
Compared to hearing "You will reported to the Ministry of Love for patriotic rehabilitation." I'll take a trolling any day.
Either you're "with us"*...
...or you're a pedorist drug dealer.
*OBEY
>Whatever is in general use in a language is for that reason grammatically correct.
THEN IF IT WASN'T IN GENERAL USE IT WAS FUCKING WRONG
"Incorrect", "Improper", whatever.
I'm also looking at you, UD.
Not yet. In my dictionary, protolife (read, pre-life) is self-replicating assemblies, including prions but also tin pest and even fire. Any construct that has that seemingly self-preserving reproduction, which inadvertently causes population and sustained presence, the scoreboard of something well-evolved and adapted.
However, only protolife with variance can evolve. I'm not sure it's exhaustively impossible to see tin pest change: Consider some kind of unusual variant or alloy that is less susceptible to being eroded by water, and more importantly, populates as much and as often and either it reaches nearby environments or it is a "mutation" of some noticeable frequency. Some, most, or all tin pest would be of this variety. And yet ultimately, like GP said, this lacks real mutation, the chain of possibilities isn't there. It only coincides with sustained presence.
GP's prion is some kind of brown goo scenario, but it seems like it leans on an abundance of inert proteins, or protobiosphere. I still lean towards this endpoint because of increased variant options over tin by sheer chemistry, because "more stable" variants will probably be (inadvertently) leveraging properties that are more True Scotsman "life", like incidental locomotion. Or maybe they clump. Or, hell, I don't know, because disclaimer: I'm speculating out my ass and don't know shit about the subject.
So what happens if I post a list here, UK ISPs block slashdot?
"Treating the symptom" is often considered a poor use of resources. And whack-a-mole doesn't even accomplish that. What's worse than "poor"?
> Even if it were [moral], there would be technical challenges
Ha ha oh wow. Since when did this ever start showing up in statements? Last I checked we still have people (from plebs to politicians) saying crap like "We should show everyone's name on the internets!"
And even multi-million corporates saying crap like "Let's base policy around the user's location because we can tell where they are." Then some tech says something about "proxies and VPNs" and the decision makers say something about "Fix it. We'll sue. We'll lobby it into illegal. Do something."
You don't have to know tech, just know that things like "the (federal) LEOs can look the guy up" and "they can be controlled through their ISP" are not hard rules. That there are few hard limits to internet use at all. You can do whatever you want case-to-case but it's different when you try to declare encompassing laws. You don't have to know tech, just look at restrictive countries. You can control most people most of the time (techwise) but don't assume that's a reflection of your power, it reflects people using tech the easy (insecure) way.
Hopefully we'll dodge more bullets in the future. I'm glad we didn't set the wrong precedent on "an IP address is useful evidence but can not be equated to an individual".
It's somewhat more dystopian if you're trapped in the walled garden and coughing up yet again for even more overpriced stuff (read, adapters) just to interface with the rest of the planet's devices. Generation after generation.
But even then, they're obviously able to afford form over function. First world problem indeed.
Everyone knows which one that is without even clicking. The context tends to be relevant pretty often.
...but at least engineers now know what the correct choice for "a universal interface port" on the side of a laptop is, and when someone says "Do you have a phone charger lying around?" there's a best-response.
More importantly, "We need to develop [a] universal" is a cute coincidence of words - we already have exactly that. Granted, it'll never be perfect ubiquity, and we still need adapters even from one USB to another...
A1 doesn't empower you to commit illegal acts via speech/opinion. Like endangering human lives.
Those aren't being censored. FoS doesn't override property laws, or laws against endangering human life.
FoS doesn't override anything. It means you won't be censored, is all.
If you'll excuse me, someone somewhere is dropping the "shouting FIRE in a theater" line (which is prohibited-but-not-censored for endangering human life)
Your physique may vary, but somewhere around six or seven simultaneous bodies the diminishing returns will outpace the gains of adding more females to my equation. Most of us can probably raise that intersecting point with a controlled diet and exercise regime. The frail or elderly may have to settle for "two girls at the same time."
Because I have years of experience with computers.
lol imaginary property.
You might wanna practice on a hot dog first or you'll tear it right off.
> When a digital device has to sit and spin after every single click or action, it's hard to resist the temptation to jump ship.
Fixed.
A book has better real estate than a phone. A book has absolutely, non-figuratively, zero UI lag. A book is lightweight, portable, you can drop it on concrete from 10ft and you don't need to stress over keeping track of a valuable. It's paper, it's worthless.
It's hard to resist the temptation to jump shit when GUI devs dick around with faders and sliders and icon bullshit, and endless bloat. And then it's menus within menus of navigation - we pound the life out of hotkeys and shortcuts to get around it.
> benefits to the public from not taking action
Any content left in place continues to benefit its original purpose.
Content isn't meant to benefit the public. It's meant to benefit consumers.
Any content removed will, of course, serve no purpose whatsoever.
So far, these observations extend to any silenced content, not just adult. Mark Twain said "Censorship is telling a man he can't have steak because a baby can't chew it."
That said, Google has the right to censor what they own. Yes, it's "censorship", and it's quite allowed and legal. It might not be "right", but at least in this case we're not losing anything that's very exclusive - to most of us, pr0n is pr0n.
They might edu discount you a tiny bit. If you buy them by the thousands. Otherwise expect to pay shelf price, or you build a time machine to the 90's Apple.
Source: Local district IT, already seeing them give iPrices the finger, but not looking forward to endless hours of scut work that will result from deploying everyone's new chromebooks.
Sounds thick. Maybe even sarcastic.
And yet, it's still better than the current leading motive for "art".
It's funny. My first thought was "Yep, gonna see more VPN sales." and then I realized, we already are. Consider the frequency of mentions, then of mentions of specific offers, then even the frequency of straight-up ads promising to solve spying.
It's no wonder there's so much effort in owning TOR nodes and branding it a pedorist tool. The number of people who use TOR has increased, yes, but more dramatic is the ballooning number of people aware (and interested). Say what you will about his patriotism (or lack) but Snowden got a lot of people covering up the red blinky weakspots they didn't know they had.
Here's a couple of little QoL perks I haven't seen (I skimmed) mentioned:
* Text-to-link (or something like that) or any other equivalent that will grab URLs and hyperlink them. You should (as always) double-check the actual destination of a weird link/post/message.
* Text-to-image (or something like that) is a toss-up. Any direct IMG link will be displayed in-page (handy on forums), but sometimes it makes layouts look a little awkward. You can blacklist sites (use wildcard) or pages from triggering it.
* Used to have one that would try to capture text fields (like the post I'm writing) and would allow for some historical fetching, like if your browser crashes or a Next Page load fails. L*S did one gag dedicated to just this. Might want to check the fine boilerplate (I didn't) or just skip it if you're super-tinfoil, seeing captures of yourself can feel uncanny. Some of you may already be in the habit of clipboard/notepad dumping for safety, but consider that automation is consistent.
Echoing on NoScript and RequestPolicy, they're privacy tweaks but also improve safety. After whitelists are done, page layout and even load times can improve. Take control of what your machines accesses.
Look. Look there, at that guy. The young, healthy frycook.
Maybe he's heard that without exclusive skills, he'll end up in terrafoam someday, so he's decided to try and buy a ticket from the diploma printers, and trying to scrape together at least SOME of the gouging education costs (which have long since skyrocketed past "easily afforded with a 20h/wk part-time") rather than become another sucker hooked by the predatory student loan system.
Is there anything for this guy to do? We're already post-labor. We don't pay shit for "labor". There are no ditch diggers. Even those burgers he's flipping, he's only paid because he has the "skills" required for a warm body to deliver a result. The warm body itself is worthless.
Is there anything for this guy to do? He has a few options today, but the moment a robo-cook's cost ticks under his $8/hr or whatever? The existence of that job will evaporate. Globally. "Overnight", if you will.
Is there anything for this guy to do? There's a lot of naive posts saying "There will be jobs" with examples like fucking scientist. We have an ideal, motivated homo sapien right here, eager to work and rearing to go, and no robo-owner will look twice because nothing he does is worth money.
We're in tech, we've got some of the best tickets for The Ark, but we're not going to need ten billion robot repairmen.
Elapsed time to Lovejoy's Law: 3 hours 14 minutes
/highfive.
Not bad for a 3D-printing article,
Not when I can make more locking out users and forcing them to pay me every time they need to flip a switch or reset something.