Or a psychiatrist could be secretly recording live sessions, then playing them back with his drinking buddies and they are howling in laughter at your problems.
RIght? There's a million ways to be violated. Choose one and flavor with your brand a paranoia.
Either the doctor is a professional, or he or she is not a professional. If they are a professional, the integrity of the confidentiality of a therapy session is something they will ensure and stand behind with their reputation. Or they won't engage in the telepsychiatry session.
There are people in this world whose problem is they trust too easily. Then there are people in this world with a deficit of trust: they are too careful. You need to get over your hangups.
of course, in the past, they TRIED to be unbiased, but those with vested interest sensed plots and subtle bias nonetheless (unconscious, unpurposeful, or illusionary)
and so the new landscape (same as the old landscape: see "yellow journalism") is pure unadulterated bias all the time everywhere
i actually like it: keeps your bullshit filter healthy... why is your instinct that a media source SHOULD be unbiased? just assume it isn't always, and filter appropriately. depend upon YOURSELF to filter out the bias, depend on no media source to do that for you
there's no nefarious plot here, it's just simple human laziness. allowing for the lazniess to occur is where things go bad. this is why transparency is good: it keeps people competent and honest. people take shortcuts when no one is watching. which is fine unless your job involves the public trust, when it involves losses in money and life
people have to stop thinking of politicians and policeman and every other part of authority as "us" vs an unknowable alien "them". they are us: human beings. why do they do the things they do that you dislike? look into your own human nature for the answer, don't imagine evil masterminds at work. and then understand how to fix the problem structurally to avoid simple failures of human nature, laziness and incompetence being the most obvious and most common
do not attribute to evil what is probably just lazniess and stupidity
do you know how long and how many iterations it took before we finally had an incandescent bulb?
the basic idea is sound. it is hard. plenty of roads are dead ends. but the naysayer adds nothing but the desire to kill the will to try. they also add nothing we don't already know: it's hard. no, really?
you need to eat, and you need a roof over your head. you steal from a store, you trespass to sleep away from the elements, you are excusable
anything else is criminality, and you should simply be punished
why is this so hard for you to understand?
poverty and corruption do not excuse more criminality. oh sure, they create more criminality, but only in the minds of those who already corrupt themselves
there is justifications for doing something you have to do in the face of bad rules. then there are excuses for criminals, which you seem to believe. so you are a gullible fool, or you excuse criminality, for whatever stupid reason
"we are assembling basic materials into an interesting shape"
you:
"that's not very descriptive, what is the goal of your efforts here?"
wright brothers:
"ok, you asked, but we don't say what we are trying to do because we get laughed at by simpletons. since you are an engineer, and have some appreciation of what mankind can do with his imagination, we'll level with you: we hope to build flying machines that someday will whisk people around the globe, used more than railroads"
you:
"more than railroads! I denigrate that which is provably a waste of time and money based on known workings of this universe."
you're a dolt. stick to engineering and implementing technologies other people create, and stop showing off your colossal lack of imagination
actually, engineer is not a term you deserve. a plumber fixes toilets. an engineer designs new uses for technology, creatively. a scientist invents new technology. based on your lack of imagination and lack of appreciation for mankind's historical achievements in the striving for new technology, you rank somewhere below plumber. at least a plumber has to get creative now and then
to do that, as an engineer, you should be ashamed of yourself
the common joe might bloviate ignorantly about how silly basic research is, and confuse basic research claims and evidence with the end-all be-all of claims and evidence, but you really should know better
yet, looking at other comments here on slashdot, it seems the intelligence to appreciate basic research has indeed been replaced by this kind of ignorant jump to judgment
you know what? paint on grass clippings does sound silly. but i thought we had a scientific bent here, and this would be EXCITING
Ok, you're either a clever troll or an idiot yourself.
Unemployment does not excuse criminality like this. if someone is broke, I excuse them from shoplifing from the supermarket. They need to eat. But I don t excuse them from breaking into houses, or this hacking. Unemployment is not an excuse to commit any crime you want.
People make excuses all the time for bad behavior. Stop believing their lame excuses, unless you yourself are also stupid.
"hi, i'm arnold, i stole your tv. would you like to hire me to put a lock on the bathroom window i broke into?"
i'm trying to put myself in the thinking here, and no... i just can't understand. i've reached my stupidity simulation threshold. i simply cannot understand a person this dumb
i am just smashed thermodynamically to pieces by the kind overreaction here
one wonders if a complete shock wave of annihilation of common sense has occurred
what do we do as a society if we utterly and eruptive eviscerate and detonate our sense of proportion?
a violent cataclysm of frothing hysteria is bursting forth and is explosively convulsively disintegrating mental composure here in a frenzied fulminating volcano of bursting boiling meteoric rage and---
not because the BSI is in the business of making absolute security recommendations, but because it is in the business of making best-of-the-pack recommendations
BSI is 100% right for citing Chrome bundling flash as a reason for recommendation
when adobe pushes a security update, chrome automatically pushes a browser update. and if the user leaves the browser running for days, chrome starts politely reminding them they have to close and reopen the browser. this is as good as you can do to make sure flash is as up-to-date as possible
it is not the most ideal model of security, period. it is simply best-of-the-pack security model. and so it deserves a recommendation for that practice from BSI
it's called HTML5, and it will eventually kill flash
'It would seem to me that "Chrome's habit of bundling Adobe Flash" would be a detriment. But that's just me.'
and you are wrong. people want to see flash. and if a browser did not offer them flash, they simply wouldn't use the browser
so give google credit for meeting users half way: "look, you want flash, and you don't care about your security, so we are going to give you what you want in the most secure way possible, in spite of yourself"
don't hold against google their attempts to maximize security within the parameters of user expectations. of course, there will always be people who will judge google, and others, against absolute ideal security standards. and such people will only be called insightful on slashdot. the rest of us understand the needs of satisfying real world users
this is the level of outrage and moral coherence you work on
mentally, if not chronologically, you're just a teenager
the idea is not to extend the word "fascism" to every power structure you dislike. in fact, we dislike the same power structures infecting the USA and other countries
the idea is to oppose these power structures on the merits of how these power structures suck and work against the rights and freedoms of us all
tv was supposed to kill the cinema house in the 1950s
vhs was supposed to kill the cinema house in the 1980s
internet was supposed to kill the cinema house in 2010s
all the while, money keeps being made in the cinema house, hand over fist. the cinema house is not dying. the business model still works. the studio system just needs good security around the digital copies distributed to the cinemas, and they will be making tons of money for decades to come
they will even have a dvd market and a streaming market. they just can't act like that's so important to them or that piracy is such a threat, and to charge decent prices
that's the end of this entire topic
now fuck off hollywood and understand the internet has changed the copyright landscape and you can't do a damn fucking thing about it. all that remains is for you to accept the fucking obvious and to stop spending so much time and money warping our laws and punishing random idiots. this is called denial. get the fuck over it, move on, keep making money making films. nothing threatens your cinema house
consider a movie they made for a quarter billion dollars and grossed $2.8 billion dollars. "Avatar". In 2010
dead business model huh?
isn't that an amazing concept: make money in the CINEMA HOUSE
i know there is a contingent of slashdotters who say the cinema house is dead (prices, cell phone noise, crying babies, etc.). but watching a movie alone at home by yourself, no matter how palatial your AV set up (and forget your friends, nobody has friends who show up exactly when you want to watch exactly what you want) just does not compare with the pseudosocial experience of watching a movie in the dark with a crowd. we're social animals. shared reaction = heightened reaction = more pleasurable experience
You're a moron. All the link is saying is that surprise rare events have shaped history. Its not fucking complicated, and more importantly, its absolutely right. But I encourage your hatred of philosophy, maybe you'll marry your stated belief with your actions and stop sharing your ideas, to our benefit.
So we stop trying? We ignore our ability to gauge probability and costs and do nothing regardless of how cheap and easy some black swans cost to prevent?
The sun occasionally will zap us with enough solar wind/ radiation to induce current in sites that could knock out all power transformers on the northern hemisphere. Probability: very rare. Costs to prevent: low (small advance warning system of a few minutes, auto kick off transformers from long power lines).
Your advice is to do nothing even if the cost is low?
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Or a psychiatrist could be secretly recording live sessions, then playing them back with his drinking buddies and they are howling in laughter at your problems.
RIght? There's a million ways to be violated. Choose one and flavor with your brand a paranoia.
Either the doctor is a professional, or he or she is not a professional. If they are a professional, the integrity of the confidentiality of a therapy session is something they will ensure and stand behind with their reputation. Or they won't engage in the telepsychiatry session.
There are people in this world whose problem is they trust too easily. Then there are people in this world with a deficit of trust: they are too careful. You need to get over your hangups.
never was. never will be
of course, in the past, they TRIED to be unbiased, but those with vested interest sensed plots and subtle bias nonetheless (unconscious, unpurposeful, or illusionary)
and so the new landscape (same as the old landscape: see "yellow journalism") is pure unadulterated bias all the time everywhere
i actually like it: keeps your bullshit filter healthy... why is your instinct that a media source SHOULD be unbiased? just assume it isn't always, and filter appropriately. depend upon YOURSELF to filter out the bias, depend on no media source to do that for you
it's the way OUR minds work
there's no nefarious plot here, it's just simple human laziness. allowing for the lazniess to occur is where things go bad. this is why transparency is good: it keeps people competent and honest. people take shortcuts when no one is watching. which is fine unless your job involves the public trust, when it involves losses in money and life
people have to stop thinking of politicians and policeman and every other part of authority as "us" vs an unknowable alien "them". they are us: human beings. why do they do the things they do that you dislike? look into your own human nature for the answer, don't imagine evil masterminds at work. and then understand how to fix the problem structurally to avoid simple failures of human nature, laziness and incompetence being the most obvious and most common
do not attribute to evil what is probably just lazniess and stupidity
do you know how long and how many iterations it took before we finally had an incandescent bulb?
the basic idea is sound. it is hard. plenty of roads are dead ends. but the naysayer adds nothing but the desire to kill the will to try. they also add nothing we don't already know: it's hard. no, really?
right, just stop using youtube
nice way to convince people to focus on security
you need to eat, and you need a roof over your head. you steal from a store, you trespass to sleep away from the elements, you are excusable
anything else is criminality, and you should simply be punished
why is this so hard for you to understand?
poverty and corruption do not excuse more criminality. oh sure, they create more criminality, but only in the minds of those who already corrupt themselves
there is justifications for doing something you have to do in the face of bad rules. then there are excuses for criminals, which you seem to believe. so you are a gullible fool, or you excuse criminality, for whatever stupid reason
you:
"what are you doing?"
wright brothers:
"we are assembling basic materials into an interesting shape"
you:
"that's not very descriptive, what is the goal of your efforts here?"
wright brothers:
"ok, you asked, but we don't say what we are trying to do because we get laughed at by simpletons. since you are an engineer, and have some appreciation of what mankind can do with his imagination, we'll level with you: we hope to build flying machines that someday will whisk people around the globe, used more than railroads"
you:
"more than railroads! I denigrate that which is provably a waste of time and money based on known workings of this universe."
you're a dolt. stick to engineering and implementing technologies other people create, and stop showing off your colossal lack of imagination
actually, engineer is not a term you deserve. a plumber fixes toilets. an engineer designs new uses for technology, creatively. a scientist invents new technology. based on your lack of imagination and lack of appreciation for mankind's historical achievements in the striving for new technology, you rank somewhere below plumber. at least a plumber has to get creative now and then
seriously: you are on the wrong website
no, good comparison. the methods used to arrive at INITIAL results doesn't change the fact we are talking about INITIAL results
what is with the anti-basic research prejudice on slashdot of all places?
what is useless is to denigrate basic research
to do that, as an engineer, you should be ashamed of yourself
the common joe might bloviate ignorantly about how silly basic research is, and confuse basic research claims and evidence with the end-all be-all of claims and evidence, but you really should know better
yet, looking at other comments here on slashdot, it seems the intelligence to appreciate basic research has indeed been replaced by this kind of ignorant jump to judgment
you know what? paint on grass clippings does sound silly. but i thought we had a scientific bent here, and this would be EXCITING
imagine that
so shame on you slashdot
Ok, you're either a clever troll or an idiot yourself.
Unemployment does not excuse criminality like this.
if someone is broke, I excuse them from shoplifing from the supermarket. They need to eat. But I don t excuse them from breaking into houses, or this hacking. Unemployment is not an excuse to commit any crime you want.
People make excuses all the time for bad behavior. Stop believing their lame excuses, unless you yourself are also stupid.
"hi, i'm arnold, i stole your tv. would you like to hire me to put a lock on the bathroom window i broke into?"
i'm trying to put myself in the thinking here, and no... i just can't understand. i've reached my stupidity simulation threshold. i simply cannot understand a person this dumb
I should hope so.
He guest stars on Yo Gabba Gabba, he figured prominently in Men in Black II, and who can forget "Just A Friend"?
The Clown Prince of Hip Hop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biz_Markie
what the hell am i modded interesting for?
where's my funny mod?
ahhhh... i see
mod me interesting, and therefore flag my comment as a serious one, and therefore get me popped by the security goons
pretty clever slashdot!
jokes on me!
i am just smashed thermodynamically to pieces by the kind overreaction here
one wonders if a complete shock wave of annihilation of common sense has occurred
what do we do as a society if we utterly and eruptive eviscerate and detonate our sense of proportion?
a violent cataclysm of frothing hysteria is bursting forth and is explosively convulsively disintegrating mental composure here in a frenzied fulminating volcano of bursting boiling meteoric rage and---
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yes, that is true
but the BSI recommendation is still good
not because the BSI is in the business of making absolute security recommendations, but because it is in the business of making best-of-the-pack recommendations
you're wrong
BSI is 100% right for citing Chrome bundling flash as a reason for recommendation
when adobe pushes a security update, chrome automatically pushes a browser update. and if the user leaves the browser running for days, chrome starts politely reminding them they have to close and reopen the browser. this is as good as you can do to make sure flash is as up-to-date as possible
it is not the most ideal model of security, period. it is simply best-of-the-pack security model. and so it deserves a recommendation for that practice from BSI
it's called HTML5, and it will eventually kill flash
'It would seem to me that "Chrome's habit of bundling Adobe Flash" would be a detriment. But that's just me.'
and you are wrong. people want to see flash. and if a browser did not offer them flash, they simply wouldn't use the browser
so give google credit for meeting users half way: "look, you want flash, and you don't care about your security, so we are going to give you what you want in the most secure way possible, in spite of yourself"
don't hold against google their attempts to maximize security within the parameters of user expectations. of course, there will always be people who will judge google, and others, against absolute ideal security standards. and such people will only be called insightful on slashdot. the rest of us understand the needs of satisfying real world users
so what you are telling me is that i am a slave, because i am not ready to start shooting people?
"dad, can i borrow the car keys"
"no, son"
{insert babbling about corporate fascism}
this is the level of outrage and moral coherence you work on
mentally, if not chronologically, you're just a teenager
the idea is not to extend the word "fascism" to every power structure you dislike. in fact, we dislike the same power structures infecting the USA and other countries
the idea is to oppose these power structures on the merits of how these power structures suck and work against the rights and freedoms of us all
or rant about fascism
your choice
tv was supposed to kill the cinema house in the 1950s
vhs was supposed to kill the cinema house in the 1980s
internet was supposed to kill the cinema house in 2010s
all the while, money keeps being made in the cinema house, hand over fist. the cinema house is not dying. the business model still works. the studio system just needs good security around the digital copies distributed to the cinemas, and they will be making tons of money for decades to come
they will even have a dvd market and a streaming market. they just can't act like that's so important to them or that piracy is such a threat, and to charge decent prices
that's the end of this entire topic
now fuck off hollywood and understand the internet has changed the copyright landscape and you can't do a damn fucking thing about it. all that remains is for you to accept the fucking obvious and to stop spending so much time and money warping our laws and punishing random idiots. this is called denial. get the fuck over it, move on, keep making money making films. nothing threatens your cinema house
(again, it will fall on deaf ears):
charge money for real world venues, cinema houses
cinema houses are dying?
consider a movie they made for a quarter billion dollars and grossed $2.8 billion dollars. "Avatar". In 2010
dead business model huh?
isn't that an amazing concept: make money in the CINEMA HOUSE
i know there is a contingent of slashdotters who say the cinema house is dead (prices, cell phone noise, crying babies, etc.). but watching a movie alone at home by yourself, no matter how palatial your AV set up (and forget your friends, nobody has friends who show up exactly when you want to watch exactly what you want) just does not compare with the pseudosocial experience of watching a movie in the dark with a crowd. we're social animals. shared reaction = heightened reaction = more pleasurable experience
i don't like cockroaches
i'm going to start ranting about cockroach fascism
do you think that will make me sound more intelligent?
I recognize that the USA can become a fascist state. I also recognize it currently isn't a fascist state.
Additionally, I am not a ballerina. However, with hard practice, I can become one.
Any other amazing lines of thought we need to ruminate on today?
You're a moron. All the link is saying is that surprise rare events have shaped history. Its not fucking complicated, and more importantly, its absolutely right. But I encourage your hatred of philosophy, maybe you'll marry your stated belief with your actions and stop sharing your ideas, to our benefit.
So we stop trying? We ignore our ability to gauge probability and costs and do nothing regardless of how cheap and easy some black swans cost to prevent?
The sun occasionally will zap us with enough solar wind/ radiation to induce current in sites that could knock out all power transformers on the northern hemisphere. Probability: very rare. Costs to prevent: low (small advance warning system of a few minutes, auto kick off transformers from long power lines).
Your advice is to do nothing even if the cost is low?