Is there currently a legitimate "who's who"? Was there ever?
The Marquis Who's Who that's been around for over 100 years is legit as it gets. They don't spam. I think someone they want to include, they send paper mail to, and they don't charge for being listed.
I think there are some British publications along those lines that have been around since the Tudors or something.
Spam touting bogus "Who's Who" publications ("You have been selected! Pay use $$$ and we'll put you in our publication that's only bought by other suckers!!") used to be really rampant. Maybe they still are, but I haven't seen one in a while... my rules for this sort of thing are pretty draconian, though.
But just the phrase "Who's Who" makes my eyelid twitch, and my "Ban the domain, ban the IP address, ban every phrase appearing anywhere in the email" finger starts to itch.
"Again we see those who pretend to believe that industrial/technological civilization can be run entirely on "sunny days when the wind is blowing" energy are continuing to engage in arithmetic denialism."
The ones who are in denial are those who don't understand that we have to reduce economic output because we're spending natural capital faster than it can be replenished. We are burning our house not even to stay warm, but just to see the pretty fire.
Assuming at least some trappings of democracy, or at least a vestige of "consent of the governed" is to be maintained... How do you propose to enforce universal destitution?
Current sunscreen products wash off fairly quickly, thus the admonition to re-apply regularly.
There are some dyes that are fairly indelible on skin, inks and such. The upper layer of the skin is permanently stained, and the stain doesn't go away until the stained layers wear away.
Is there (or could it be synthesized) such a dye that is opaque in UV but otherwise colorless? Apply once, good for a couple of days? (Actually, even if it did have some garish color in visible light, it might become a fashion statement. But I'm shooting for invisible to normal vision.)
For those who plan on spending a whole lot of their life in the sun, what about UV-protective tattooing? I'm not sure if tattoo pigments are too deep, and would be below the layers of skin that need protection, but maybe all-over tattooing with that transparent titanium dioxide sunscreen could be permanent protection.
Again we see those who pretend to believe that industrial/technological civilization can be run entirely on "sunny days when the wind is blowing" energy are continuing to engage in arithmetic denialism.
You're better off using the password manager in Chrome in my opinion; it even generates strong passwords now. LastPass has had several important security issues in the past few years.
Really? (google, google) Nope. Nothing I hadn't seen before, nothing really major, and all addressed very quickly when discovered. If I had a trivial master password, it might be an issue, but I don't.
A good password manager won't fill your google.com user ID and password into a g00gle.com web page. (I know LastPass won't; I'd assume others would balk at this, too.)
You can't seriously argue that his behavior was ethical, he knowingly published false papers and deliberately misled people. That he did so to reveal a major problem in the industry is beneficial to us, but does not excuse his behavior.
Compare with the attempts to prosecute legitimate security researchers for violating anti-hacking laws...
While you may feel like a boss by not giving a notice to your former employer, there's a strong possibility it will come back to bite you in the arse when it's time for references.
In theory, I'm too close to retirement for "references" to be much of a motivation.
In practice, I would give notice. It's just the right thing to do. Even if they were to massively tick me off. (Which isn't likely; the company is pretty good people.)
The few times I've been laid off, they didn't have any of that sort of "legal docs" for the two weeks severance pay.
Now, Cisco did have some legal docs. There was a fairly decent severance package without signing them. With signing them... let's just say, it was a pretty substantial bribe. Oh, yeah, where's that dotted line? Hey, do you want me to sign it twice?
Yeah... I looked at half a dozen or so examples yesterday. For anyone who has examined as many of those "I recorded a video of what you were doing while watching those naughty videos" extortion spams as I have, these look extremely familiar. They have that guy's fingerprints all over them.
A few days ago, I heard a story that US investigators had tracked down the identity of the person doing those previous extortion spams, he was Russian, but Russia refused to extradite. Maybe they will extradite now.
Better, maybe they will settle his hash in traditional Russian fashion.
Since I'm on the Do-Not-Call list, and have been since the day it became a thing, anyone who cold-calls me wanting to sell me something... They've started off violating the law by calling me, which means they are a scammer and fraudster by definition. No honest business would have made that call.
The political pollsters, I don't care if I waste their time. Actually, I do. I want to waste their time. Annoying gits.
Actual companies that I actually do business with, I'm fine with them making legitimate calls. Same with emails from companies I do business with. I get an annoying amount of email from them, but I don't consider those spam.
Constant. Absolutely relentless. Forged local numbers, someone hawking something in Chinese. Forged local number, "Your credit card/Thank you for staying at Marriot/Your student loan"... Constant. Three on my cell phone just today.
Things that make me long for the power from the movie "Scanners" to reach through the phone line with my mind and telekinetically set their computer on fire. Maybe them, too.
... is a camera with a robust case, and a lot of battery.
And not made out of that greased teflon stuff that Samsung uses, so the phone almost literally leaps out of your hand while you're trying to use it.
"Paper-thin" is not a feature I'm interested in.
My current phone, and previous phone, were Samsun Galaxy S phones, and my next one likely will be, too. But the first thing I do, before even opening the box, is buy a Seidio case for it.
I'm assuming there's no such FTL, because based on what we know, that's the way to bet.
Assuming some xenophobic aliens out there who would want to knock off any potential threats... Part of their calculation has to be "Never merely injure a threat."
If they were to attack (say, by boosting some relativistic rocks our way) they would have to be pretty dang assured of a one-shot sure-kill.
Far, *far* safer to just lay low. If FTL is impossible, no matter what Fermi said, it's probably so difficult to do interstellar travel that nobody ever does it. Certainly not in any big way. It would take some very powerful motivation to go to the trouble.
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Is there currently a legitimate "who's who"? Was there ever?
The Marquis Who's Who that's been around for over 100 years is legit as it gets. They don't spam. I think someone they want to include, they send paper mail to, and they don't charge for being listed.
I think there are some British publications along those lines that have been around since the Tudors or something.
Spam touting bogus "Who's Who" publications ("You have been selected! Pay use $$$ and we'll put you in our publication that's only bought by other suckers!!") used to be really rampant. Maybe they still are, but I haven't seen one in a while... my rules for this sort of thing are pretty draconian, though.
But just the phrase "Who's Who" makes my eyelid twitch, and my "Ban the domain, ban the IP address, ban every phrase appearing anywhere in the email" finger starts to itch.
There is literally no good reason to run the modern Firefox over Chromium. Not one.
Tree Style Tabs on the side of the window, not the top. Chrome's "tabs in a separate window" hack is an entirely inadequate substitute.
(Yes, I have a monstrous number of tabs open at work. Having to switch to Chrome would massively cut into my productivity.)
"Again we see those who pretend to believe that industrial/technological civilization can be run entirely on "sunny days when the wind is blowing" energy are continuing to engage in arithmetic denialism."
The ones who are in denial are those who don't understand that we have to reduce economic output because we're spending natural capital faster than it can be replenished. We are burning our house not even to stay warm, but just to see the pretty fire.
Assuming at least some trappings of democracy, or at least a vestige of "consent of the governed" is to be maintained... How do you propose to enforce universal destitution?
Current sunscreen products wash off fairly quickly, thus the admonition to re-apply regularly.
There are some dyes that are fairly indelible on skin, inks and such. The upper layer of the skin is permanently stained, and the stain doesn't go away until the stained layers wear away.
Is there (or could it be synthesized) such a dye that is opaque in UV but otherwise colorless? Apply once, good for a couple of days? (Actually, even if it did have some garish color in visible light, it might become a fashion statement. But I'm shooting for invisible to normal vision.)
For those who plan on spending a whole lot of their life in the sun, what about UV-protective tattooing? I'm not sure if tattoo pigments are too deep, and would be below the layers of skin that need protection, but maybe all-over tattooing with that transparent titanium dioxide sunscreen could be permanent protection.
Do you want a zombie apocalypse?
Because this is how you get a zombie apocalypse.
Again we see those who pretend to believe that industrial/technological civilization can be run entirely on "sunny days when the wind is blowing" energy are continuing to engage in arithmetic denialism.
You're better off using the password manager in Chrome in my opinion; it even generates strong passwords now. LastPass has had several important security issues in the past few years.
Really? (google, google) Nope. Nothing I hadn't seen before, nothing really major, and all addressed very quickly when discovered. If I had a trivial master password, it might be an issue, but I don't.
A good password manager won't fill your google.com user ID and password into a g00gle.com web page. (I know LastPass won't; I'd assume others would balk at this, too.)
"The more you tighten your grip, the more viewers will slip through your fingers."
You can't seriously argue that his behavior was ethical, he knowingly published false papers and deliberately misled people. That he did so to reveal a major problem in the industry is beneficial to us, but does not excuse his behavior.
Compare with the attempts to prosecute legitimate security researchers for violating anti-hacking laws...
Flypaperware. Once you install it, you're stuck, BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
While you may feel like a boss by not giving a notice to your former employer, there's a strong possibility it will come back to bite you in the arse when it's time for references.
In theory, I'm too close to retirement for "references" to be much of a motivation.
In practice, I would give notice. It's just the right thing to do. Even if they were to massively tick me off. (Which isn't likely; the company is pretty good people.)
The few times I've been laid off, they didn't have any of that sort of "legal docs" for the two weeks severance pay.
Now, Cisco did have some legal docs. There was a fairly decent severance package without signing them. With signing them... let's just say, it was a pretty substantial bribe. Oh, yeah, where's that dotted line? Hey, do you want me to sign it twice?
Yeah... I looked at half a dozen or so examples yesterday. For anyone who has examined as many of those "I recorded a video of what you were doing while watching those naughty videos" extortion spams as I have, these look extremely familiar. They have that guy's fingerprints all over them.
A few days ago, I heard a story that US investigators had tracked down the identity of the person doing those previous extortion spams, he was Russian, but Russia refused to extradite. Maybe they will extradite now.
Better, maybe they will settle his hash in traditional Russian fashion.
We can only hope.
Since I'm on the Do-Not-Call list, and have been since the day it became a thing, anyone who cold-calls me wanting to sell me something... They've started off violating the law by calling me, which means they are a scammer and fraudster by definition. No honest business would have made that call.
The political pollsters, I don't care if I waste their time. Actually, I do. I want to waste their time. Annoying gits.
Actual companies that I actually do business with, I'm fine with them making legitimate calls. Same with emails from companies I do business with. I get an annoying amount of email from them, but I don't consider those spam.
Constant. Absolutely relentless. Forged local numbers, someone hawking something in Chinese. Forged local number, "Your credit card/Thank you for staying at Marriot/Your student loan" ... Constant. Three on my cell phone just today.
Things that make me long for the power from the movie "Scanners" to reach through the phone line with my mind and telekinetically set their computer on fire. Maybe them, too.
... is a camera with a robust case, and a lot of battery.
And not made out of that greased teflon stuff that Samsung uses, so the phone almost literally leaps out of your hand while you're trying to use it.
"Paper-thin" is not a feature I'm interested in.
My current phone, and previous phone, were Samsun Galaxy S phones, and my next one likely will be, too. But the first thing I do, before even opening the box, is buy a Seidio case for it.
OTOH they probably aren't revealing the missing piece which is absolutely blockchain
(Picture of Bad Hair Day Meme Dude) ... but it's blockchain."
"I'm not saying it's blockchain
This "Schrodinger's Cat Scan" radar doesn't seem credible to me. Granted, "quantum" contains a lot of weirdness, but this just doesn't convince me.
Disinformation? Maybe.
Cover for some other technology entirely? I think I'd be more likely to believe that.
I'm assuming there's no such FTL, because based on what we know, that's the way to bet.
Assuming some xenophobic aliens out there who would want to knock off any potential threats... Part of their calculation has to be "Never merely injure a threat."
If they were to attack (say, by boosting some relativistic rocks our way) they would have to be pretty dang assured of a one-shot sure-kill.
Far, *far* safer to just lay low. If FTL is impossible, no matter what Fermi said, it's probably so difficult to do interstellar travel that nobody ever does it. Certainly not in any big way. It would take some very powerful motivation to go to the trouble.
A ballot is a blank sheet of paper.
You write on it the offices and the candidates you're voting for.
Spelling counts.
... as long as that stupid time change twice a year ends.
I want to see the headlines: "Unknown candidate 1337 h4x0r wins in a surprise write-in landslide."
That'll put the kibosh on this nonsense right quick.
"Next time you're visited
By little green aliens,
They're not there unless
They come back twice a week."
-- Dr. Jane, "A Scientist Looks At Things That Don't Exist".