Those who worry are usually those who have something to hide or something criminal in the works.. Bottom line, you can't care about this, unless you do wrong or plan on doing wrong. That's kinda how I see it.
Security concerns are not about common people, or even criminals being tracked. It's aboud political opposition being tracked.
Snowden said he could listen in on conversations of anyone he wanted, including powerful people, and proceeded to do so as a test. No one came to get him for doing so without a warrant.
Among hundreds, maybe thousands of agents, it's trivial to insert an operative to listen to opposition.
He says he has data ready to release in case he's arrested. I hope it includes embarrasing conversations of said powerful people. Maybe then these jackasses will wake up.
All people want is a system design that tracks and records everything the government does, as it tracks and records everyhing we do, from Twitterers to opposition discussing political planning.
The closest thing to this in the US was PBS, which a few years ago went like this:
Republicans: We dislike this is serving as a government-funded think tank for the Left. We wish to cut government funding, which amounts to a whopping 18%.
Democrats: Why do you want children to die crossing the street because Big Bird won't be able to teach them to look both ways?
Ironically, my mind has almost done the same but in reverse. As a sci-fi buff, and futurist, I love the idea, and have since the '70s, but the potential for megadisaster, though incredibly low, is severe if it ever happens.
Maybe the US and Western Europe can do it right, or right-er, anyway, but what about plants popcorning up all over the world? Will they follow the latest and greatest? Especially if it involves nationalism by local politicians to design it themselves.
I like several cores to keep the UI from locking up, and for this or that idiotic java app hogging one of the cores.
But in general, I don't care about processors anymore. They just have to be fast enough to feed data to graphics cards. Any serious number crunching (SETI, e.g.) runs on the graphics GPU anyway.
It's not even close. My CUDA SETI doubled 8 years of normal processor totals in two weeks.
"the new canal should be able to allow passage for mega-container ships with a dead weight of up to 250,000 tonnes. This is more than double the size of the vessels that will be able to pass through the Panama Canal after its expansion,"
Meanwhile, factions in the US fight tooth and nail against deepening harbors by 5 feet (fights that have, so far, taken longer than the original Panama Canal to build), using regulatory blocks.
That's just to handle the new Panama size. These new super-supercargo ships, forget it.
Whether a nation is crushed under the weight of corruption and kickbacks (you must pay to get anything done) or well-meaning regulation (you must pay to get anything done) the result is the same. We are closer to Mexico with kickbacks than China, with a freer economy.
There's a lot more to freedom than just speech. Maybe the next empire will learn this. The US didn't, just like Europe before it.
The privacy isn't about the average yokel. It's about people in power tracking and hassling political opposition.
Was nobody listening to this Snowden guy? He said he could start listening to conversations of anyone at any time, including powerful people, and proceeded to do so as a test. No alarm bells went off somewhere -- "Whoa! Phone tap but no warrant!". He didn't even worry about internal tracking.
It's not about you. It's about inserting an operative as one of hundreds of terrorist agents, but who listens to opposition conversations, or, hell, business discussions for that matter.
By asking, "Do you care if they track your phone?" you've already missed the point.
I feel like Willy Wonka sarcastically admonishing kids for the umpteenth time, sighing and pointlessly mumbling halfheartedly, "Stop. Come back. Don't do it."
We are violating the American principle of not allowing the tools of tyrrany to be built in the first place.
This goes beyond the Peter Principle. There simply are no competent IT managers. Here's the mathematical proof:
1. All competent IT managers must be competent in their computers. 2. All managers must be competent in dealing socially with others. 3. The only truly competent computer people are those on the autism superiority hyperorder spectrum.
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Security concerns are not about common people, or even criminals being tracked. It's aboud political opposition being tracked.
Snowden said he could listen in on conversations of anyone he wanted, including powerful people, and proceeded to do so as a test. No one came to get him for doing so without a warrant.
Among hundreds, maybe thousands of agents, it's trivial to insert an operative to listen to opposition.
He says he has data ready to release in case he's arrested. I hope it includes embarrasing conversations of said powerful people. Maybe then these jackasses will wake up.
All people want is a system design that tracks and records everything the government does, as it tracks and records everyhing we do, from Twitterers to opposition discussing political planning.
That currently does not exist.
"Fine. Here's $5000. Now remove from your resume that you interned on Black Swan ."
Interestingly both sides claimed both that the 18% was vital and simultaneously irrelevant, depending on various points they were trying to make.
The closest thing to this in the US was PBS, which a few years ago went like this:
Republicans: We dislike this is serving as a government-funded think tank for the Left. We wish to cut government funding, which amounts to a whopping 18%.
Democrats: Why do you want children to die crossing the street because Big Bird won't be able to teach them to look both ways?
And that was that.
Ironically, my mind has almost done the same but in reverse. As a sci-fi buff, and futurist, I love the idea, and have since the '70s, but the potential for megadisaster, though incredibly low, is severe if it ever happens.
Maybe the US and Western Europe can do it right, or right-er, anyway, but what about plants popcorning up all over the world? Will they follow the latest and greatest? Especially if it involves nationalism by local politicians to design it themselves.
I like several cores to keep the UI from locking up, and for this or that idiotic java app hogging one of the cores.
But in general, I don't care about processors anymore. They just have to be fast enough to feed data to graphics cards. Any serious number crunching (SETI, e.g.) runs on the graphics GPU anyway.
It's not even close. My CUDA SETI doubled 8 years of normal processor totals in two weeks.
Even servers, isn't the bottleneck still I/O?
Whoosh! He was making a joke as to the hideous heat released.
Reread the OP, and the linked article.
The linked article states so in the abstract itself, using weasel words of "provides stronger evidence of causality".
The OP also strongly suggests it by mentioning asinine "forest bathing".
I will gladly go out on a limb (so to speak) and predict the ultimate validation of my use of "asinine".
Is there anything else you'd like me to do for you?
That would make a good game! Where can I buy?
Actually, since our tastes evolved eating bugs, most flavors are probably the flavor of this or that bug.
Mmmmmm...long chain hydrocarbons!
No. No no no. I assure you. It isn't.
Meanwhile, factions in the US fight tooth and nail against deepening harbors by 5 feet (fights that have, so far, taken longer than the original Panama Canal to build), using regulatory blocks.
That's just to handle the new Panama size. These new super-supercargo ships, forget it.
Whether a nation is crushed under the weight of corruption and kickbacks (you must pay to get anything done) or well-meaning regulation (you must pay to get anything done) the result is the same. We are closer to Mexico with kickbacks than China, with a freer economy.
There's a lot more to freedom than just speech. Maybe the next empire will learn this. The US didn't, just like Europe before it.
The privacy isn't about the average yokel. It's about people in power tracking and hassling political opposition.
Was nobody listening to this Snowden guy? He said he could start listening to conversations of anyone at any time, including powerful people, and proceeded to do so as a test. No alarm bells went off somewhere -- "Whoa! Phone tap but no warrant!". He didn't even worry about internal tracking.
It's not about you. It's about inserting an operative as one of hundreds of terrorist agents, but who listens to opposition conversations, or, hell, business discussions for that matter.
By asking, "Do you care if they track your phone?" you've already missed the point.
I feel like Willy Wonka sarcastically admonishing kids for the umpteenth time, sighing and pointlessly mumbling halfheartedly, "Stop. Come back. Don't do it."
We are violating the American principle of not allowing the tools of tyrrany to be built in the first place.
The Joker was right -- one or the other of those ships would have blown up quickly. How cloyingly strained was that scene.
Here's my ticket stub I'm sharing, now you can get in, too.
Don't let those fascists get you down, man! Everyone needs to see Iron Man 3.
Microsoft based their power savings on people accidentally starting IE right before turning off their monitors for the evening.
This is pretty sad astroturfing.
I heard this wasn't too bad.
This. The ball's back in the antivirus/security guy's court to put up or slink away as a hack.
This goes beyond the Peter Principle. There simply are no competent IT managers. Here's the mathematical proof:
1. All competent IT managers must be competent in their computers.
2. All managers must be competent in dealing socially with others.
3. The only truly competent computer people are those on the autism superiority hyperorder spectrum.
QED
> Getting them to do that while also not killing the right people is the hard part.
Advantage: Bad guys.
Thank god these aren't the kind who go into politics.
Someone please tell me City of Heroes code is in there! Help me, I'm dyin' here!
Can you please not imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
Does anybody on eiher side think the government won't use this system to track everyone here who posts in support of this guy?
Dear lord, please just let me be a paranoiac.
If this turns out like Slashdot, people will move there for the purpose of voting downmods.