I think the problem may be that nine out of ten games released now are just Call of Duty with a different skin: CoD: Aliens, CoD: Zombies, CoD: Indiana Jones, CoD: Noir.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go blow on some contacts and reinsert.
Kurzweil claims that he spends "a few thousand dollars per day" (or roughly a million dollar a year) on diet pills and eating right. According to a Financial Times report from last year, Kurzweil's breakfast includes:
Berries (85 calories for a cup)
If my diet consisted largely of diet pills and "berries"--just "berries", no particular kind--I'm pretty sure I would be making wild predictions about the future too. That doesn't mean you should listen to them.
I try, but as a non-physicist/non-mathematician, all I can really get out of this saga is:
1. Some guy builds and runs a funky apparatus in his lab/garage, and gets some strange results. He reports these excitedly to the world at large.
2. He's obviously smart but possibly deranged, since he claims that the apparatus violates the conservation of momentum, which is a classic crackpot move.
3. Any reputable scientists who have these results brought to their attention uniformly and immediately dismiss them as obvious crackpottery.
4. One night, while drunk, a small group of reputable scientists build the apparatus in their own lab, as a joke, and observe the same strange results.
I know it's ancient tradition and all, but it seems to me like people are probably one of the worst things you can put on your currency. No matter who you choose, it's going to piss off at least a third of the population immediately, and there's a good chance that in fifteen to a hundred years you'll figure out that, by modern standards, the subject committed multiple atrocities.
A few years ago, if you had asked the average citizen to decide who was the least controversial person in American history, someone that would never ever be considered a villain, they might easily have suggested Bill Cosby. Him, or the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man.
After Harriet's had her day, I say we switch over to a big "20" on there instead of a portrait. Or maybe "XX" if people want something a little sexier.
What in your view qualifies someone as a security researcher?
"Kids today, and the computer security research they read! It's garbage! In my day, it was diffrerent. Babe Ruth, now, there was a real security researcher! And let me tell you, you can bet the Great Bambino never wore his pants down around his thighs, or tried to pass off mere cryptography theory as operational security best practices!"
Agreed (except I'm American, so I'd probably say "why the *%&$ should I care" instead).
Maybe it's just because I'm not a data center manager, or whatever, but I think I nodded off three times while reading the headline. I perked up briefly when I heard the word "embraced", but it was a false alarm.
I kind of miss when the Slashvertisements were for things it might actually be theoretically possible for me to someday use or buy.
Hey, son or daughter, you know those 17 trivial tasks that, for your own health and well-being, you should really do daily, and that your other parent and I have been reminding you to do every day since you were five years old, only now you're sixteen and sexually active, and you still have to be reminded to do those same 17 trivial tasks or else you don't do them, possibly for weeks at a time?
Yeah, please remember to do those 17 trivial tasks again today. Oh, and also, to always use proper protection during sexual intercourse.
There, that takes care of that. Now, your other parent and I are going to go relax and not worry at all.
It's absurd to say something is "partially dangerous". A rattlesnake is only partially dangerous: the dangerous part is the fangs. Even a hand grenade has a pin and stuff, so even it's only partially dangerous.
Researchers... recorded the brain activity of 50 people wearing an electroencephalogram (EEG) headset while they looked at a series of 500 images designed specifically to elicit unique responses from person to person -- e.g., a slice of pizza...
How long before the local pizzeria makes you sign a Terms of Service agreement that says they're allowed to scan your brainwaves while you're looking at a slice of pizza, and then sell that data to the highest bidder?
On a more serious note, using biometrics of any kind to secure systems is kind of dumb, because they can't be changed, even when they get compromised.
If the result of the poll was HMS Fuck It, then that's what it should be named. On the other hand, you probably shouldn't put things like that up for a public polling. That's just dumb and how you get Boaty McBoatFace. But they did do it and they should stick with that name.
For at least the last hundred years, they've been writing economics books like really boring Mad Libs:
"The __(segment of economy)__ is going to __(boom/crash)__ in the next __(time window)__ because __(jaggedy line graph of the economy)__ looks a lot like __(other jaggedy line graph that turns sharply up or down)__."
It must be nice to be able to pick your doctoral thesis with a dart board.
Going to court and obtaining a search warrant, or working under the proscriptions of laws like Patriot Act are in accordance with due process and the Consitution, until the Supreme Court rules otherwise, you ignorant fuckwit
Going to court and obtaining a search warrant is definitely Constitutional, no argument there. That's like, a direct quote, or something.
The Patriot Act I'm not so sure about. That's kind of like saying "quartering soldiers in someone's private residence is Constitutional until the Supreme Court rules otherwise". If your law is just the text of an existing amendment followed by the words "unless we really feel like it", I'm not likely to be very receptive to urgings to wait and see what SCOTUS has to say about it before making my own judgement.
The lot of you running around wetting your pants is just plain funny, and what exactly are you trying to protect? dickpics?
Yeah, seriously, all these dumb whiny incontinent idgits blathering about the "Constitution" and the "Fourth Amendment" and "due process" and "rule of law" and "inalienable human rights". Newbs, right? Just shut up already, nobody cares.
Silicon Valley billionaire [and Napster founder] Sean Parker... establish[ed] the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy,...under the program, intellectual property licensing... will be unified for the first time. The administration of all intellectual property will be shared across teams.
"Napsterman To Copyright Cure For Cancer", huh? If they succeed, karma dictates that pretty soon everyone will hoarding two full lifetimes worth of Parker Institutes cancer cures, even for cancers that they don't have and have no particular need to cure.
I don't completely agree, you have to define what it is classified as:
- Top Secret
- Secret
- Restricted
- Public
Just stating Classified doesn't really tell much about how sensitive it is.
I agree (except for your proposed "default to secret" policy--see below).
If some things are indeed "more secret" than other things at the same level of classification, that means that we don't have enough levels of classification. The exact meaning of each level of secrecy, and which roles will have access to it, should be well-defined and a matter of public record. It sounds from this story like that's not the case, at least in certain officials' imaginations--probably because a lack of clarity lets them do whatever they want, whenever they want, and say it's just a matter of discretion.
Rule of law, rule of law, rule of law.
And anything that isn't classified at all should be handled as if it's Secret.
Or, we could default to "public", because this is a democracy, and we already make more things secret than is healthy.
I agree with most of your user interface principles, except for the the "fifth grade reading level" one. You might have a point, but I really don't like talking down to grown-ass adults.
I've worked on software where I put a lot of thought into describing the error in clear, complete, accurate, and accessible terms, only to be told that the users aren't going to "even bother to read it because it's too long". In my view, the kind of people who object to error messages that are complete sentences and contain three-syllable words are the kind of people who won't read any error message under any circumstances, but whatever. "ERR 34: Bad srvc" it is. Choke on it.
I wonder how well the idea extends to a larger population though. It seems like only a matter of time before some idiot, through accident, carelessness, or even on purpose, punctures the thing.
I mean, it's going to be exclusively astronauts and ultra-rich people in this thing for the foreseeable future. It's not like an astronaut has ever done anything crazy like putting on a diaper and waiting in a car for hours to ambush and murder their romantic rivals. And it's not like an ultra-rich person has ever done anything crazy like proposing we built a thirty-foot wall along the entire Mexican border whose likely cost would rival that of the original moon landing, and then insist that the Mexican government pay for it.
As surprising as it might seem to some the Norks, Chinese and lost US battalions kill less Japs combined per decade than crazy gun people in the US kill every week.
From the news we get over here, I get the impression that, in Japan, by far the biggest wedge of the "Cause of Death" pie is labeled "self".
Bestiality is legal in a number of states. Only recently has there been a drive to have the government control what goes on in your hayloft, and even then it's usually after someone gets themselves fucked to death by a horse.
I know perverts are nothing if not dedicated, but I shudder at the thought of how much effort it would take to get a horse up into a hayloft.
As a corollary: Never trust a farmer with an elevator in his barn.
Slashdot Mirror
I think the problem may be that nine out of ten games released now are just Call of Duty with a different skin: CoD: Aliens, CoD: Zombies, CoD: Indiana Jones, CoD: Noir.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go blow on some contacts and reinsert.
(That sounds sexier than it is.)
Kurzweil claims that he spends "a few thousand dollars per day" (or roughly a million dollar a year) on diet pills and eating right. According to a Financial Times report from last year, Kurzweil's breakfast includes: Berries (85 calories for a cup)
If my diet consisted largely of diet pills and "berries"--just "berries", no particular kind--I'm pretty sure I would be making wild predictions about the future too. That doesn't mean you should listen to them.
I try, but as a non-physicist/non-mathematician, all I can really get out of this saga is:
1. Some guy builds and runs a funky apparatus in his lab/garage, and gets some strange results. He reports these excitedly to the world at large.
2. He's obviously smart but possibly deranged, since he claims that the apparatus violates the conservation of momentum, which is a classic crackpot move.
3. Any reputable scientists who have these results brought to their attention uniformly and immediately dismiss them as obvious crackpottery.
4. One night, while drunk, a small group of reputable scientists build the apparatus in their own lab, as a joke, and observe the same strange results.
5. Repeat steps 3-4 a bunch of times.
6. ???
7. Space probe to Alpha Centauri in my lifetime?
I know it's ancient tradition and all, but it seems to me like people are probably one of the worst things you can put on your currency. No matter who you choose, it's going to piss off at least a third of the population immediately, and there's a good chance that in fifteen to a hundred years you'll figure out that, by modern standards, the subject committed multiple atrocities.
A few years ago, if you had asked the average citizen to decide who was the least controversial person in American history, someone that would never ever be considered a villain, they might easily have suggested Bill Cosby. Him, or the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man.
After Harriet's had her day, I say we switch over to a big "20" on there instead of a portrait. Or maybe "XX" if people want something a little sexier.
Schneier is NOT a prominent security researcher.
What in your view qualifies someone as a security researcher?
"Kids today, and the computer security research they read! It's garbage! In my day, it was diffrerent. Babe Ruth, now, there was a real security researcher! And let me tell you, you can bet the Great Bambino never wore his pants down around his thighs, or tried to pass off mere cryptography theory as operational security best practices!"
and why the *%&£ should I care?
Agreed (except I'm American, so I'd probably say "why the *%&$ should I care" instead).
Maybe it's just because I'm not a data center manager, or whatever, but I think I nodded off three times while reading the headline. I perked up briefly when I heard the word "embraced", but it was a false alarm.
I kind of miss when the Slashvertisements were for things it might actually be theoretically possible for me to someday use or buy.
Meh, just teach them well and let them fuck.
Hey, son or daughter, you know those 17 trivial tasks that, for your own health and well-being, you should really do daily, and that your other parent and I have been reminding you to do every day since you were five years old, only now you're sixteen and sexually active, and you still have to be reminded to do those same 17 trivial tasks or else you don't do them, possibly for weeks at a time?
Yeah, please remember to do those 17 trivial tasks again today. Oh, and also, to always use proper protection during sexual intercourse.
There, that takes care of that. Now, your other parent and I are going to go relax and not worry at all.
It's absurd to say something is "partially dangerous". A rattlesnake is only partially dangerous: the dangerous part is the fangs. Even a hand grenade has a pin and stuff, so even it's only partially dangerous.
Let the record show that Hank Hill... er, Gary Herbert... really knows his pornography.
Researchers... recorded the brain activity of 50 people wearing an electroencephalogram (EEG) headset while they looked at a series of 500 images designed specifically to elicit unique responses from person to person -- e.g., a slice of pizza...
How long before the local pizzeria makes you sign a Terms of Service agreement that says they're allowed to scan your brainwaves while you're looking at a slice of pizza, and then sell that data to the highest bidder?
On a more serious note, using biometrics of any kind to secure systems is kind of dumb, because they can't be changed, even when they get compromised.
"And now, from the home office in Sioux City Iowa, the Top 10 Junkiest Space Missions:"
"10: Pinata 11"
"9: The International Space Dumpster"
If the result of the poll was HMS Fuck It, then that's what it should be named. On the other hand, you probably shouldn't put things like that up for a public polling. That's just dumb and how you get Boaty McBoatFace. But they did do it and they should stick with that name.
"RSS Hoisted by Our Own Petard"
"RSS Viral Marketing Backfire"
"RSS We Deserve This"
For at least the last hundred years, they've been writing economics books like really boring Mad Libs:
"The __(segment of economy)__ is going to __(boom/crash)__ in the next __(time window)__ because __(jaggedy line graph of the economy)__ looks a lot like __(other jaggedy line graph that turns sharply up or down)__."
It must be nice to be able to pick your doctoral thesis with a dart board.
Going to court and obtaining a search warrant, or working under the proscriptions of laws like Patriot Act are in accordance with due process and the Consitution, until the Supreme Court rules otherwise, you ignorant fuckwit
Going to court and obtaining a search warrant is definitely Constitutional, no argument there. That's like, a direct quote, or something.
The Patriot Act I'm not so sure about. That's kind of like saying "quartering soldiers in someone's private residence is Constitutional until the Supreme Court rules otherwise". If your law is just the text of an existing amendment followed by the words "unless we really feel like it", I'm not likely to be very receptive to urgings to wait and see what SCOTUS has to say about it before making my own judgement.
The lot of you running around wetting your pants is just plain funny, and what exactly are you trying to protect? dickpics?
Yeah, seriously, all these dumb whiny incontinent idgits blathering about the "Constitution" and the "Fourth Amendment" and "due process" and "rule of law" and "inalienable human rights". Newbs, right? Just shut up already, nobody cares.
Silicon Valley billionaire [and Napster founder] Sean Parker... establish[ed] the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy,...under the program, intellectual property licensing... will be unified for the first time. The administration of all intellectual property will be shared across teams.
"Napsterman To Copyright Cure For Cancer", huh? If they succeed, karma dictates that pretty soon everyone will hoarding two full lifetimes worth of Parker Institutes cancer cures, even for cancers that they don't have and have no particular need to cure.
Which is nice until someone [exploits these cables to] delete all your cat photos.
No, you're thinking of Cat Negative One cables.
I don't completely agree, you have to define what it is classified as: - Top Secret - Secret - Restricted - Public
Just stating Classified doesn't really tell much about how sensitive it is.
I agree (except for your proposed "default to secret" policy--see below).
If some things are indeed "more secret" than other things at the same level of classification, that means that we don't have enough levels of classification. The exact meaning of each level of secrecy, and which roles will have access to it, should be well-defined and a matter of public record. It sounds from this story like that's not the case, at least in certain officials' imaginations--probably because a lack of clarity lets them do whatever they want, whenever they want, and say it's just a matter of discretion.
Rule of law, rule of law, rule of law.
And anything that isn't classified at all should be handled as if it's Secret.
Or, we could default to "public", because this is a democracy, and we already make more things secret than is healthy.
I agree with most of your user interface principles, except for the the "fifth grade reading level" one. You might have a point, but I really don't like talking down to grown-ass adults.
I've worked on software where I put a lot of thought into describing the error in clear, complete, accurate, and accessible terms, only to be told that the users aren't going to "even bother to read it because it's too long". In my view, the kind of people who object to error messages that are complete sentences and contain three-syllable words are the kind of people who won't read any error message under any circumstances, but whatever. "ERR 34: Bad srvc" it is. Choke on it.
If assholery is outlawed, only criminals will have assholes.
I wonder how well the idea extends to a larger population though. It seems like only a matter of time before some idiot, through accident, carelessness, or even on purpose, punctures the thing.
I mean, it's going to be exclusively astronauts and ultra-rich people in this thing for the foreseeable future. It's not like an astronaut has ever done anything crazy like putting on a diaper and waiting in a car for hours to ambush and murder their romantic rivals. And it's not like an ultra-rich person has ever done anything crazy like proposing we built a thirty-foot wall along the entire Mexican border whose likely cost would rival that of the original moon landing, and then insist that the Mexican government pay for it.
So just relax, guy.
As surprising as it might seem to some the Norks, Chinese and lost US battalions kill less Japs combined per decade than crazy gun people in the US kill every week.
From the news we get over here, I get the impression that, in Japan, by far the biggest wedge of the "Cause of Death" pie is labeled "self".
"Great Scott! 12.7mm DShKMs?"
Bestiality is legal in a number of states. Only recently has there been a drive to have the government control what goes on in your hayloft, and even then it's usually after someone gets themselves fucked to death by a horse.
I know perverts are nothing if not dedicated, but I shudder at the thought of how much effort it would take to get a horse up into a hayloft.
As a corollary: Never trust a farmer with an elevator in his barn.
Dark Web Mapping Reveals That Half of the Content Is Legal
Yes, sir, certainly she was old enough, that's not the issue. The problem is that a llama can't legally consent to anything, even if she's over 21.