This will NOT lead to more security. It will lead to the same sloppy lack of security with ever harsher laws against using a computer in any way except for the approved way sanctioned by some committee and it's agents.
Get drunk and leave a thumbdrive full of unencrypted state secrets on a bar counter? no problem. Pick up and read that thumbdrive? Prison.
I had the pleasure of meeting George Hart at a recent Maker Faire. George is one of the people working on getting this museum up and running. Go Google some of his art / math. It's fantastic, beautiful and fun. Also Google his daughter Vi Hart. She has a great blog and some fun YouTube videos. She's the one wearing forearm warmers at any math related gathering (don't ask).
Yes, because people tutoring some kids on the side are the real criminals in our financial system. Not the bankers who nearly destroyed the global economy with their greed. Go get those tutors and handymen! We can't allow corruption at any level.
The parent post mentioned outing a gay kid to his uptight conservative family. So if the family sends the kid to a "deprogramming" camp to wring the "gay" out of him, no sweat off your brow for outing him, it's his uptight family's fault, right?
Ding ding ding! You just figured out what's wrong with 4chan,/b/, Anonymous, etc. There is no "they" there. Some are do-gooders. Some are do-badders. Some do anything for "lulz", even if it hurts someone. Some are "white-knights". So while on the one hand "they" fight to expose corporate and governmental corruption, on the other hand "they" are laughing because some naive kid's life just got ruined.
That will be great until some scumbag a few rungs up the ladder from you decides he's going to fuck your wife and if you both don't like it he will make your lives a living hell with all the "subversive" things he has on you. You aren't actually subversive at all, but with tens of thousands of items of information about you he will find some angle to paint you as a problem that needs correcting.
Good luck trading freedom for the illusion of security.
Ha! No, you're not missing any subtle reference. The spell checker helpfully changed it to "pick-nick" for me, hopefully not an example of the kind of medical diagnoses we can look forward to in the future.
> It will also make humans more dumb and less thoughtful over time. That is, diagnostic skills will go down as diagnosis becomes done more and more by computer. The excellent doctors will still be excellent, but there will be even *less* requirement to really *think* about a problem than there is now.
And THAT is when us programmers will finally be the last thinking humans on Earth! Mwah-hah-hah! You pretty little Eloi go on having your pick-nicks in the sun while we... um... toil in our basements to make better digital doctors...
Honestly, I'm more afraid of a drunk driver killing me or having a heart attack than being killed by terrorists. Statistically I'm right. Nobody would stand for 100% of drivers being frisked for Alcohol at checkpoints, yet we roll over when barely trained (compared to intelligence officers) staff grope our privates and x-ray us in the name of security theater.
I find it very hard to believe that the average American thinks the TSA pat-downs and porno-scans make them any safer at all. I can think of 10 ways to cause mayhem despite the TSA right off the top of my head, and I'm not trying. What a terrorist wouldn't do would be to try the exact same method that was tried before, ie: bomb in the shoe, etc. And that is exactly what the TSA is looking out for.
I sat in a waiting room for 2 hours while I could hear the doctor in the room next to me making cold calls for a multi-level marketing business. Needless to say I've never gone to that doctor again. But I didn't post any reviews online, I wish I had thought of that.
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This experiment is being conducted right now by the TSA.
Coincidentally, an upcoming Ubuntu release will be named 'Sickly Snail'.
This will NOT lead to more security. It will lead to the same sloppy lack of security with ever harsher laws against using a computer in any way except for the approved way sanctioned by some committee and it's agents.
Get drunk and leave a thumbdrive full of unencrypted state secrets on a bar counter? no problem.
Pick up and read that thumbdrive? Prison.
That was the most polite "woosh" I've ever read.
Not only is it not good for the USA, the USA will conduct secret treaty meetings that pressure other countries to outlaw Roundabouts.
I had the pleasure of meeting George Hart at a recent Maker Faire. George is one of the people working on getting this museum up and running. Go Google some of his art / math. It's fantastic, beautiful and fun. Also Google his daughter Vi Hart. She has a great blog and some fun YouTube videos. She's the one wearing forearm warmers at any math related gathering (don't ask).
> you could be making $150,000 a year, live in a mansion, have 8 cars.
I take it you don't line in New York or LA or San Francisco or... the USA...
That isn't come on knowledge.
Yes, because people tutoring some kids on the side are the real criminals in our financial system. Not the bankers who nearly destroyed the global economy with their greed. Go get those tutors and handymen! We can't allow corruption at any level.
The parent post mentioned outing a gay kid to his uptight conservative family. So if the family sends the kid to a "deprogramming" camp to wring the "gay" out of him, no sweat off your brow for outing him, it's his uptight family's fault, right?
Ding ding ding! You just figured out what's wrong with 4chan, /b/, Anonymous, etc.
There is no "they" there. Some are do-gooders. Some are do-badders. Some do anything for "lulz", even if it hurts someone. Some are "white-knights".
So while on the one hand "they" fight to expose corporate and governmental corruption, on the other hand "they" are laughing because some naive kid's life just got ruined.
That will be great until some scumbag a few rungs up the ladder from you decides he's going to fuck your wife and if you both don't like it he will make your lives a living hell with all the "subversive" things he has on you. You aren't actually subversive at all, but with tens of thousands of items of information about you he will find some angle to paint you as a problem that needs correcting.
Good luck trading freedom for the illusion of security.
Ha! No, you're not missing any subtle reference. The spell checker helpfully changed it to "pick-nick" for me, hopefully not an example of the kind of medical diagnoses we can look forward to in the future.
"Please state the nature of the medical emergency..."
Medical Assistant XP Plus: It appears you are trying to make a list of symptoms, shall I turn that into a formatted, numbered list for you?
> It will also make humans more dumb and less thoughtful over time. That is, diagnostic skills will go down as diagnosis becomes done more and more by computer. The excellent doctors will still be excellent, but there will be even *less* requirement to really *think* about a problem than there is now.
And THAT is when us programmers will finally be the last thinking humans on Earth! Mwah-hah-hah! You pretty little Eloi go on having your pick-nicks in the sun while we... um... toil in our basements to make better digital doctors...
But... we like pick-nicks too...
People have been arrested for *dancing* in the Jefferson Memorial, so, no I don't think the US would put up with millions camping outside the Capitol.
I wouldn't plan on any trips to Thailand if I were you.
Honestly, I'm more afraid of a drunk driver killing me or having a heart attack than being killed by terrorists. Statistically I'm right. Nobody would stand for 100% of drivers being frisked for Alcohol at checkpoints, yet we roll over when barely trained (compared to intelligence officers) staff grope our privates and x-ray us in the name of security theater.
I find it very hard to believe that the average American thinks the TSA pat-downs and porno-scans make them any safer at all. I can think of 10 ways to cause mayhem despite the TSA right off the top of my head, and I'm not trying. What a terrorist wouldn't do would be to try the exact same method that was tried before, ie: bomb in the shoe, etc. And that is exactly what the TSA is looking out for.
The brain had just enough time for a single thought: "fuck!"
I think you've summed it all up quite nicely. And haven't.
Re: your sig:
> If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
Not if every possible universe exists simultaneously and every time you roll a die you simply move to the matching universe-state.
I sat in a waiting room for 2 hours while I could hear the doctor in the room next to me making cold calls for a multi-level marketing business.
Needless to say I've never gone to that doctor again. But I didn't post any reviews online, I wish I had thought of that.
If a cop pulls you over and you get out of the car without being asked, prepare for a world of hurt.