I see that particularly in the workplace, as young people need a lot more social support than before. Not only do they lack agency, but many times it's to a point where without frequent social support, they have difficulties doing their work because of emotional discomfort.
I agree 100%. Many of them appear to be socially inept and need constant hand-holding.
Maybe it's time we recognize that being "extremely social" is in fact a mental illness. To me, our society that pushes socialization to the extreme instead of teaching children and encouraging adults to be independent is a sick society.
Being "independent" is not mutually exclusive with being "social", even "extremely social".
That said, I think a lot of the people who are "extremely social" are faking it or have no sense of identity beyond the social circles they inhabit.
And how many actual, real-life friends does she have? That is, people she's actually met once or twice face to face? How many does she actually do stuff with on any kind of regular or semi-regular basis? Would she still be 'friends' with them if her internet connection went down for a few years?
Facebook friends aren't friends, they're just people who clicked on a link. It's like claiming that "I'm the Ruler Of The Entire Universe", as long as you count my chair as "the entire universe".
Personally I think Facebook has done more to separate and isolate people that it's done to bring them together. Oh sure, it can foster communication, but that's not the same thing by any means.
Half the problem is that many, many American/Western women make terrible partners. They're self-centered, self-absorbed perpetually unhappy, and will dump you in a heartbeat for something "better". They're not your partner, they're your competitor. It's very very hard to have a real relationship with most American/Western women. And I speak from 50+ years of combined dating and marriage experience.
If anything and I mean anything goes wrong, it's going to be your fault because your job sole job in life (in her mind) is to make her "happy" and "satisfied", whatever that means. If you don't make her happy all the time, that's gonna be a problem- your problem, not hers.
If you can't read her mind and know/predict exactly what she wants, you're screwed. ("You don't understand me!") If you can't fulfill her every whim, you're screwed. If one day she wakes up and decides you're not her "soulmate" anymore, you're screwed. If you suggest to her what to do, you're domineering and controlling, but if you let her do whatever she wants, you're a wimp. No matter how well off you are, remember that that will be her baseline in terms of expectations during your marriage. Drop below that for any reason and you're in trouble. Not her, YOU. You don't like her friends? Tough shit, deal with it. She doesn't like your friends? Get rid of them.
From my experience you're far better off looking abroad for a wife and partner. Ask me how I know.:)
"If you look at what our Congress is doing for tech, it's failing. It's putting all of us in danger,"
As much as I hate Brianna Wu, I can't disagree with her on this. Almost every other thing she's said, yes, but not this.
We're putting utter incompetents and creation-apologists in charge of critical administration positions dealing with technology (as well as just about everything else, for that matter) and if you think this won't come back to bite us in the ass, you're mistaken.
Maybe Twitter should offer a subscription-based tier which provides 256 character messages, URLs are not counted towards the character limit, and a threaded message structure.
Yes, they should definitely reinvent the bulletin board.
These keys tie the generation of that information to a physical object which cannot be duplicated
We've heard that before as well, and it seems that sooner or later some clever bastard always manages to spoof it or clone it or whatever.
Like I said, I've love it if the claim that it's "impossible for attackers to guess or phish" were true, but would you bet your home, job, or bank account that this will still be true in a year?
The basic problem is that if you rely on signals that come over a wire, you can never really know who or what is on the other end.
Did you know that there is a little scan bar at the bottom of the video that you can use to skip over all of that?
Yes, but it's a pain in the ass to try and scrub back and forth to find what you want and skipping forward or backward by 30 seconds is unreasonably difficult- it ends up moving me a minute or two which is too much. Often I just want to review the last 30 or 40 seconds, or I want to skip ahead to get to the meat of the video. After all this time Youtube still won't implement real skip controls.
Amazon video does it right- they have controls to let you skip forward and backward by 10 seconds at a time and I love it.
Netflix on the other hand only allows backwards skipping, which is just annoying.
I'm seeing more and more ads on Youtube, and more and more, when I see an unskippable ad, I just close Youtube. It turns out that there's more than enough content out there to keep me entertained, and sitting through a 20 - 30 second ad isn't worth it.
I use Adblock and I haven't seen an ad on Youtube in a year or two. Even the videos with 20 ads spaced every 3 minutes apart throughout the video never appear.
The trend I've noticed is that videos are longer...most of the videos used to be 5- or 10-minutes long, now they're 20 or 25 minutes. I just don't want to watch stuff for that long unless it's something I'm really, really interested in. There are a few channels with long videos that I like, but most of the 20-minute videos could be done in 5 minutes. It's just more blather and time-wasting crap now.
That must be why the stock market rallied upon Trump's election. I'm guessing they realize things are bound to improve after 8 years of "War on Jobs, errr, Coal", no-growth "recovery", and shrinking labor participation rates.
That's right, you're guessing (and you're not very good at it).
When President Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 7,949.09 and the unemployment rate was at 9.3 percent.
Today after Obama's two terms in office the Dow Jones is at 19,933.81, which is the highest it's ever been, and the unemployment rate is 4.9 percent, almost half of what it was.
But don't let any of them fuckin' facts get in your way, AC.
As if anyone who's involved in anything nefarious would give the nice folks at Customs and Immigration information that would incriminate themselves or lead to anything suspicious.
Why not just ask everyone coming in if they have "plans to bomb any buildings, commit a terror attack, or engage in any criminal activity"?
Those that say "yes" or "maybe" can be pulled aside for questioning and everyone else can just skip on through.
They learned nothing from it. They don't give a fuck about their users, and they've proved it so many times that I've lost count.
"but there was one particular moment in particular where, you know, the red X in the dialog box which typically means you cancel didn't mean cancel,"
Bullshit. There had to be dozens and dozens of people involved in the decision to implement that UI-breaking "feature", if not a hundred or more.
The fact that all of them signed off on it tells you everything you need to know about Microsoft. They'll happily break their own product and deceive you in order to trick you into "upgrading".
Vulgar as it may be, I'm sad to see your comment has been modded as flamebait. It's a genuine problem that FF fans have been downplaying for way too many years.
It would have been modded down even if I'd said "pretty please". It's a sign of the downvoter's irrational defense and denial of a genuine problem.
Some of the numpty's here deny it because they haven't personally seen it, so "obviously" the problem must not exist.
I think their downvoting just proves my point, otherwise why would they care enough to waste a mod point?:)
Er, what? Unless they physically capture and restrain you, they can't stop you from "fiddling" with your bitcoins.
You're right, the government that would freeze your funds and sue you would never do that. Except that's often exactly what they do when they freeze your funds and sue you- they incarcerate you to prevent you from fleeing.
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And? You can trade bitcoins for cash and get all of those things.
Well fuck me, why wouldn't I just use some of the cash or gold I've stashed in various secure locations to do those things? Then I wouldn't have to convert my bitcoins (assuming my bitcoins weren't also legally subject to seizure, which they almost certainly would be).
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A lot of those exchanges haven't lost their clients' money,
Really? So all that talk about people losing their bitcoins was just twaddle and hot air? That's interesting, because that seemed to be what the fuss was all about- people losing their bitcoins and therefore the money tied up in them.
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But that's better than the idea that daddy government will make sure everything is safe and ok for you, as long as they don't get a bee up their butt, and decide to take everything you own.
Heh, and you really think that daddy government wouldn't/doesn't know about your bitcoins? Besides, if they "decide to take everything you own" you can bet that would include just about anything that might be able to allow you to retrieve your bitcoins (computers, safety deposit boxes, records, thumbdrives, etc etc etc etc). Really, when they seize your stuff, they seize all your stuff. They're not amateurs at this and they know all about bitcoin, especially if they've had you on their radar.
Jesus christ, not this "solar roadway" bullshit again.
"That might not sound very impressive for 30,000 square feet of solar panels -- and it kind of isn't, especially for its $5.2 million price tag."
That's right, it's not very impressive, not at all. How much electricity could you buy for $5.2 million? Probably enough to light those street lamps for 50 years.
How often will these things fail? Probably far too often, and then they'll have to shut down a lane of traffic to replace them. Brilliant. (And if they're quick and easy to replace they'll be quick and easy to steal. Uh-oh.)
It another seemingly great idea that falls flat on its face when you add reality and money into the equation.
What if your bank or government decides to freeze your funds and then sue you?
Lol, like they wouldn't be able to prevent you from fiddling around with your bitcoins?
Better yet, can you buy a plane ticket with bitcoins to flee the country or make your house payment? Can you go to the grocery store and buy food with bitcoins? Can you buy a gun or gasoline with bitcoins? Will your lawyer accept bitcoins? No, no, no, no, no, and probably no.
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With Bitcoin, your security is in your own hands.
As we've seen, with Bitcoin, your security is in anything but your own hands.
Mt. Gox, Bitstamp, Bter, Mycoin, Gatecoin, Exco.in, Poloniex, Justcoin, Cavirtex, Cryptsy, Bitfinex, Neo & Bee, BIPS, Flexcoin, PicoStocks, Kipcoin, CryptoRush, ShapeShift, Blockchain.info, Moolah, MintPal, bitXoin...tell me again how the security was in the hands of the owners of those bitcoins?
And if you add up all the losses due to corporate failures like Gox, et al, you'll get a total that is probably rounding error compared against the frauds committed in dollars for the same period.
And if you add up all the bitcoin usage compared to the usage of non-virtual currencies you'll get a total that is probably rounding error compared against those non-virtual currencies for the same period. (In truth, it probably wouldn't even amount to a rounding error.)
Here's the thing, though- If my bank get robbed or hacked, I'll still have my money. Woo hoo!
But if your bitcoin wallet or exchange gets robbed or hacked, that money is gone. (I know, technically it's still out there somewhere, but it's gone as far as you're concerned.) And people accept this strangely enough. You can even still see it in the blockchain lists or whatever, being transferred or traded, but it's no longer yours in terms of being useful or accessible to you.
If your bank got robbed and they told you your money was still "out there somewhere" but that you couldn't spend it or get it back, would you accept that? I wouldn't.
You'd have thought that by now the various manufacturers would have gotten the message that the vast majority of people simply do not want a smart watch.
They just aren't that useful to most people and they also aren't that practical...otherwise everyone would be wearing and using them.
Yeah, I have the terrible risk of having bought coins for $50 and now having them worth $875.
Until some weasel steals them from your wallet or your exchange rips you off or you lose the keys or whatever.
Do any of these ring a bell? Mt. Gox, Bitstamp, Bter, Mycoin, Gatecoin, Exco.in, Poloniex, Justcoin, Cavirtex, Cryptsy, Bitfinex, Neo & Bee, BIPS, Flexcoin, PicoStocks, Kipcoin, CryptoRush, ShapeShift, Blockchain.info, Moolah, MintPal, bitXoin....that's just a short list of recent scandals, wallets, and exchange frauds where people lost their bitcoins.
But props to you for making a killing on them, for as long as it lasts anyway.
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I see that particularly in the workplace, as young people need a lot more social support than before. Not only do they lack agency, but many times it's to a point where without frequent social support, they have difficulties doing their work because of emotional discomfort.
I agree 100%. Many of them appear to be socially inept and need constant hand-holding.
Maybe it's time we recognize that being "extremely social" is in fact a mental illness. To me, our society that pushes socialization to the extreme instead of teaching children and encouraging adults to be independent is a sick society.
Being "independent" is not mutually exclusive with being "social", even "extremely social".
That said, I think a lot of the people who are "extremely social" are faking it or have no sense of identity beyond the social circles they inhabit.
My sister has 1500 facebook friends
And how many actual, real-life friends does she have? That is, people she's actually met once or twice face to face? How many does she actually do stuff with on any kind of regular or semi-regular basis? Would she still be 'friends' with them if her internet connection went down for a few years?
Facebook friends aren't friends, they're just people who clicked on a link. It's like claiming that "I'm the Ruler Of The Entire Universe", as long as you count my chair as "the entire universe".
Personally I think Facebook has done more to separate and isolate people that it's done to bring them together. Oh sure, it can foster communication, but that's not the same thing by any means.
Half the problem is that many, many American/Western women make terrible partners. They're self-centered, self-absorbed perpetually unhappy, and will dump you in a heartbeat for something "better". They're not your partner, they're your competitor. It's very very hard to have a real relationship with most American/Western women. And I speak from 50+ years of combined dating and marriage experience.
If anything and I mean anything goes wrong, it's going to be your fault because your job sole job in life (in her mind) is to make her "happy" and "satisfied", whatever that means. If you don't make her happy all the time, that's gonna be a problem- your problem, not hers.
If you can't read her mind and know/predict exactly what she wants, you're screwed. ("You don't understand me!")
If you can't fulfill her every whim, you're screwed.
If one day she wakes up and decides you're not her "soulmate" anymore, you're screwed.
If you suggest to her what to do, you're domineering and controlling, but if you let her do whatever she wants, you're a wimp.
No matter how well off you are, remember that that will be her baseline in terms of expectations during your marriage. Drop below that for any reason and you're in trouble. Not her, YOU.
You don't like her friends? Tough shit, deal with it. She doesn't like your friends? Get rid of them.
From my experience you're far better off looking abroad for a wife and partner. Ask me how I know. :)
"If you look at what our Congress is doing for tech, it's failing. It's putting all of us in danger,"
As much as I hate Brianna Wu, I can't disagree with her on this. Almost every other thing she's said, yes, but not this.
We're putting utter incompetents and creation-apologists in charge of critical administration positions dealing with technology (as well as just about everything else, for that matter) and if you think this won't come back to bite us in the ass, you're mistaken.
Maybe Twitter should offer a subscription-based tier which provides 256 character messages, URLs are not counted towards the character limit, and a threaded message structure.
Yes, they should definitely reinvent the bulletin board.
"Emulation" is the word of the day. Anything can be faked.
That's it in a nutshell.
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"Impossible" is great snake oil
Yep, and when they say it's "almost impossible", that means it's still possible.
These keys tie the generation of that information to a physical object which cannot be duplicated
We've heard that before as well, and it seems that sooner or later some clever bastard always manages to spoof it or clone it or whatever.
Like I said, I've love it if the claim that it's "impossible for attackers to guess or phish" were true, but would you bet your home, job, or bank account that this will still be true in a year?
The basic problem is that if you rely on signals that come over a wire, you can never really know who or what is on the other end.
"the keys provide a 'cryptographic assertion' that's just about impossible for attackers to guess or phish."
Do you know how many times we've heard this kind of claim in the past?
I'd love for it to be true this time but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Did you know that there is a little scan bar at the bottom of the video that you can use to skip over all of that?
Yes, but it's a pain in the ass to try and scrub back and forth to find what you want and skipping forward or backward by 30 seconds is unreasonably difficult- it ends up moving me a minute or two which is too much. Often I just want to review the last 30 or 40 seconds, or I want to skip ahead to get to the meat of the video. After all this time Youtube still won't implement real skip controls.
Amazon video does it right- they have controls to let you skip forward and backward by 10 seconds at a time and I love it.
Netflix on the other hand only allows backwards skipping, which is just annoying.
I'm seeing more and more ads on Youtube, and more and more, when I see an unskippable ad, I just close Youtube. It turns out that there's more than enough content out there to keep me entertained, and sitting through a 20 - 30 second ad isn't worth it.
I use Adblock and I haven't seen an ad on Youtube in a year or two. Even the videos with 20 ads spaced every 3 minutes apart throughout the video never appear.
The trend I've noticed is that videos are longer...most of the videos used to be 5- or 10-minutes long, now they're 20 or 25 minutes. I just don't want to watch stuff for that long unless it's something I'm really, really interested in. There are a few channels with long videos that I like, but most of the 20-minute videos could be done in 5 minutes. It's just more blather and time-wasting crap now.
That must be why the stock market rallied upon Trump's election.
I'm guessing they realize things are bound to improve after 8 years of "War on Jobs, errr, Coal", no-growth "recovery", and shrinking labor participation rates.
That's right, you're guessing (and you're not very good at it).
When President Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 7,949.09 and the unemployment rate was at 9.3 percent.
Today after Obama's two terms in office the Dow Jones is at 19,933.81, which is the highest it's ever been, and the unemployment rate is 4.9 percent, almost half of what it was.
But don't let any of them fuckin' facts get in your way, AC.
As if anyone who's involved in anything nefarious would give the nice folks at Customs and Immigration information that would incriminate themselves or lead to anything suspicious.
Why not just ask everyone coming in if they have "plans to bomb any buildings, commit a terror attack, or engage in any criminal activity"?
Those that say "yes" or "maybe" can be pulled aside for questioning and everyone else can just skip on through.
"In addition, stream-ripping is mentioned as an emerging threat."
Yeah, well good luck with stopping that. There's no practical way to prevent stream ripping unless (until) they put DRM in your eardrums.
"...We learned a lot from it obviously."
They learned nothing from it. They don't give a fuck about their users, and they've proved it so many times that I've lost count.
"but there was one particular moment in particular where, you know, the red X in the dialog box which typically means you cancel didn't mean cancel,"
Bullshit. There had to be dozens and dozens of people involved in the decision to implement that UI-breaking "feature", if not a hundred or more.
The fact that all of them signed off on it tells you everything you need to know about Microsoft. They'll happily break their own product and deceive you in order to trick you into "upgrading".
Fuck you, Microsoft.
Vulgar as it may be, I'm sad to see your comment has been modded as flamebait. It's a genuine problem that FF fans have been downplaying for way too many years.
It would have been modded down even if I'd said "pretty please". It's a sign of the downvoter's irrational defense and denial of a genuine problem.
Some of the numpty's here deny it because they haven't personally seen it, so "obviously" the problem must not exist.
I think their downvoting just proves my point, otherwise why would they care enough to waste a mod point? :)
Er, what? Unless they physically capture and restrain you, they can't stop you from "fiddling" with your bitcoins.
You're right, the government that would freeze your funds and sue you would never do that. Except that's often exactly what they do when they freeze your funds and sue you- they incarcerate you to prevent you from fleeing.
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And? You can trade bitcoins for cash and get all of those things.
Well fuck me, why wouldn't I just use some of the cash or gold I've stashed in various secure locations to do those things? Then I wouldn't have to convert my bitcoins (assuming my bitcoins weren't also legally subject to seizure, which they almost certainly would be).
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A lot of those exchanges haven't lost their clients' money,
Really? So all that talk about people losing their bitcoins was just twaddle and hot air? That's interesting, because that seemed to be what the fuss was all about- people losing their bitcoins and therefore the money tied up in them.
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But that's better than the idea that daddy government will make sure everything is safe and ok for you, as long as they don't get a bee up their butt, and decide to take everything you own.
Heh, and you really think that daddy government wouldn't/doesn't know about your bitcoins? Besides, if they "decide to take everything you own" you can bet that would include just about anything that might be able to allow you to retrieve your bitcoins (computers, safety deposit boxes, records, thumbdrives, etc etc etc etc). Really, when they seize your stuff, they seize all your stuff. They're not amateurs at this and they know all about bitcoin, especially if they've had you on their radar.
I will mention some of my other offerings: hyperloop, water seer, and magic beans.
Bingo, and thank you.
And don't forget the latest stupid idea, "spinning solar panels". There's so much wrong with the idea I hardly know where to start.
Jesus christ, not this "solar roadway" bullshit again.
"That might not sound very impressive for 30,000 square feet of solar panels -- and it kind of isn't, especially for its $5.2 million price tag."
That's right, it's not very impressive, not at all. How much electricity could you buy for $5.2 million? Probably enough to light those street lamps for 50 years.
How often will these things fail? Probably far too often, and then they'll have to shut down a lane of traffic to replace them. Brilliant. (And if they're quick and easy to replace they'll be quick and easy to steal. Uh-oh.)
It another seemingly great idea that falls flat on its face when you add reality and money into the equation.
What if your bank or government decides to freeze your funds and then sue you?
Lol, like they wouldn't be able to prevent you from fiddling around with your bitcoins?
Better yet, can you buy a plane ticket with bitcoins to flee the country or make your house payment? Can you go to the grocery store and buy food with bitcoins? Can you buy a gun or gasoline with bitcoins? Will your lawyer accept bitcoins? No, no, no, no, no, and probably no.
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With Bitcoin, your security is in your own hands.
As we've seen, with Bitcoin, your security is in anything but your own hands.
Mt. Gox, Bitstamp, Bter, Mycoin, Gatecoin, Exco.in, Poloniex, Justcoin, Cavirtex, Cryptsy, Bitfinex, Neo & Bee, BIPS, Flexcoin, PicoStocks, Kipcoin, CryptoRush, ShapeShift, Blockchain.info, Moolah, MintPal, bitXoin...tell me again how the security was in the hands of the owners of those bitcoins?
But you are clearly interested enough to comment on it.
It's just my way of getting blithering cunts to respond to me.
Great...something I have no interest in is now available for use on another thing I have no interest in. lol
And if you add up all the losses due to corporate failures like Gox, et al, you'll get a total that is probably rounding error compared against the frauds committed in dollars for the same period.
And if you add up all the bitcoin usage compared to the usage of non-virtual currencies you'll get a total that is probably rounding error compared against those non-virtual currencies for the same period. (In truth, it probably wouldn't even amount to a rounding error.)
Here's the thing, though- If my bank get robbed or hacked, I'll still have my money. Woo hoo!
But if your bitcoin wallet or exchange gets robbed or hacked, that money is gone. (I know, technically it's still out there somewhere, but it's gone as far as you're concerned.) And people accept this strangely enough. You can even still see it in the blockchain lists or whatever, being transferred or traded, but it's no longer yours in terms of being useful or accessible to you.
If your bank got robbed and they told you your money was still "out there somewhere" but that you couldn't spend it or get it back, would you accept that? I wouldn't.
You'd have thought that by now the various manufacturers would have gotten the message that the vast majority of people simply do not want a smart watch.
They just aren't that useful to most people and they also aren't that practical...otherwise everyone would be wearing and using them.
Yeah, I have the terrible risk of having bought coins for $50 and now having them worth $875.
Until some weasel steals them from your wallet or your exchange rips you off or you lose the keys or whatever.
Do any of these ring a bell? Mt. Gox, Bitstamp, Bter, Mycoin, Gatecoin, Exco.in, Poloniex, Justcoin, Cavirtex, Cryptsy, Bitfinex, Neo & Bee, BIPS, Flexcoin, PicoStocks, Kipcoin, CryptoRush, ShapeShift, Blockchain.info, Moolah, MintPal, bitXoin....that's just a short list of recent scandals, wallets, and exchange frauds where people lost their bitcoins.
But props to you for making a killing on them, for as long as it lasts anyway.