Einstein discovered a way to describe how the Universe and everything in it works, in mathematical terms.
Using the math he created, people can predict how things in our Universe should work, before they even try to do something.
That'd be my opening shot, anyway. Beyond that it'd depend on what the 9-year old asked me about.
Someone (who is a parent) once told me that if a child can ask a question, then they're probably ready for the answer. So I'd let the child drive the conversation, as opposed to drowning them in a bunch of information.
This sounds like an awesome way to use CRISPR technology, and synergistically it'll probably help advance the further development of CRISPR, so I applaud the idea -- but don't hold your breath waiting for it, there'll have to be quite a bit of extensive testing done to ensure we don't create more problems with this than we solve; don't need to be creating genetic diseases in people trying to cure their cancer.
You're the one bringing 'legislation' into this, I said NOTHING about that, so I'll just disregard that as idiotic. ALL I SAID is that it should be fast-tracked, that we should AS A CIVILIZATION get off the idea that ICEs are the only thing that matters and off the idea that these newfangled electric cars are just for tree-huggers and other environmentalist whackos and that they BELONG in the mainstream. While we're at it get people to stop being all superstitiously weirded out about nuclear power in ANY OF IT'S FORMS (NOT JUST URANIUM HIGH PRESSURE REACTORS) so we can stop burning shit just to make electricity.
If everything is HTTPS will that stop nosy ISPs and even nosier government agencies (or anyone else for that matter) from snooping? So far as I know, it won't.
As opposed to what, exactly? Chrome, which almost certainly has as much Google spyware baked into it as a Huiwei-made smartphone? Miscreant-o-soft 'Edge', and it's associated 'telemetry' (read as: spyware)? Any of the fringe browsers, which are likely to be garbage and full of malware, too? Firefox is just as likely to be the cleanest in that regard.
Oh okay guess there's nothing I can do about anything so why even try, I'll just get every always-on device on the planet like most of you seem to do, put cameras everywhere too (for my SAFETY of course!), get a Facebook and Twitter account again, share EVERY SINGLE ASPECT of my daily life with the whole world, and be like a frog on a dissection tray, splayed open for every government agency and corporation that wants to know any little fucking thing about me, including what kind of porn I like, how and when I masturbate, and what my last bowel movement was like. FOR MY PROTECTION, OF COURSE; since all the above only EVER have my best interests at heart!
Or I can continue to not be an abject yellow-bellied coward that knuckles under to violations of my human rights like most people and FIGHT BACK any way I can.
>implying most people are 'remotely competent'.
They're not. I am orders of magnitude more 'competent' than the average smartphone user. Therefore I refuse to own one. I'm on the verge of dumping wireless entirely in fact, really don't use it enough to justify it.
Read the article. Has nothing to do with installing anything. Your Android phone can be infected with this malware without you doing anything and you'll never even know.
Tell me why, again, I should ever have a smartphone?
But Rick, you can't be one of the cool kids if you don't have one!
But Rick, you're a luddite if you don't have one!
But Rick, you're not interesting enough for anyone to spy on!
But Rick, you're obviously paranoid and wearing a tinfoil hat, you should just calm down and get one anyway!
..and all the other lame-ass crap people post when I say this.
If you want what's left of your privacy, and actual data security preserved, GET RID OF YOUR SMARTPHONE!
Republicans who vote against it are declaring they don't give a fuck about NN.
If Trump won't sign it then he also declares that he's for coporate interests and against NN for American citizens.
Either way they come out clearly on one side of the fence or another.
This is just another iteration of that. Nobody cares how many pieces of paper you have to show them all they care about is how many years of experience you have.
Useful advice, sans snarkiness and insults, on my Slashdot? Remarkable. I'll see if my CU does things like that. That *would* solve that part of the problem -- so long as that particular system is also secure from 'data breaches'. If they were able to get into a database that allowed them to see past the obfuscation then it wouldn't be much better than just using a normal CC. But it's worth investigating.
I've looked into that, watched the YouTube video about it, even emailed the guy behind it, and from what he tells me the government isn't in the least bit interested in the technology, and without their support production-level power plants based on it won't ever happen.
Go look up Dominionism again. They want to bring about the Apocalypse as soon as possible, by wrecking the Earth and everyone on it. Not Christian at all. They just want Zombie Jesus to show up as quick as they can manage to 'take them all home'. Pence is one, Betsy DeVos is another, as examples. They hide in plain sight.
The Internet, at least here in the U.S., should be treated like any other public utility, this goes some of the distance to proving that, and I think it's the best possible future for it.
Do you all see why it is I started using cash for everything I possibly can? Because 'data breaches' like this keep happening, and there's no end in sight.
For all in-person purchases possible I use cash.
The next step in my overall strategy will be to find a prepaid debit card (i.e. not linked to any of my accounts) that I can recharge when I need to make online purchases. Put just enough money in it to do what I need to do. If it gets compromised, cut it up and get another one.
Pre-emptive strike on (the usual) comments:
* Don't care if you think 'carrying cash is dangerous'. Never been robbed, don't go anywhere I'd get robbed, don't give a damn what you say about it.
* Don't care what you say about 'the world going cashless' and neither do I beleive it'll happen anyway; don't bother even saying it won't discuss it.
* Don't give a damn about your personal insults (calling me a 'luddite', which is totally inaccurate, calling me an 'old man', or whatever). You're wasting your time won't even read your silly insults just save yourself the time.
* Don't care if you think I'm paranoid. Doesn't affect you, why should you even care, mind your own business. See above: 'Insults'.
* Do you just argue to argue? Nothing better to do? Get another hobby, not interested in being your entertainment.
* Not telling any of you to carry cash, calm the hell down, do whatever you want -- but be aware of YOUR risk factor.
* Trollololol? Go away, you've been spotted.
Instead of propping up the coal industry how about that money be spent educating and training displaced coal miners so they can work in the solar industry? They'll have jobs and I'm sure they'll be much happier every day working above ground instead of dark dangerous mines.
You are referring to the uber-nutjobs commonly referred to as "Dominionists". For a soft-core preview of what a Dominionist-run country would be like, try reading The Handmaids Tale -- but the reality of a Dominionist world would be orders of magnitude worse, I assure you. Try reading up on it, but don't blame me if you have digestion issues and anxiety problems over it for a while.
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Einstein discovered a way to describe how the Universe and everything in it works, in mathematical terms.
Using the math he created, people can predict how things in our Universe should work, before they even try to do something.
That'd be my opening shot, anyway. Beyond that it'd depend on what the 9-year old asked me about.
Someone (who is a parent) once told me that if a child can ask a question, then they're probably ready for the answer. So I'd let the child drive the conversation, as opposed to drowning them in a bunch of information.
But did you listen? Nope.
This sounds like an awesome way to use CRISPR technology, and synergistically it'll probably help advance the further development of CRISPR, so I applaud the idea -- but don't hold your breath waiting for it, there'll have to be quite a bit of extensive testing done to ensure we don't create more problems with this than we solve; don't need to be creating genetic diseases in people trying to cure their cancer.
You're the one bringing 'legislation' into this, I said NOTHING about that, so I'll just disregard that as idiotic. ALL I SAID is that it should be fast-tracked, that we should AS A CIVILIZATION get off the idea that ICEs are the only thing that matters and off the idea that these newfangled electric cars are just for tree-huggers and other environmentalist whackos and that they BELONG in the mainstream. While we're at it get people to stop being all superstitiously weirded out about nuclear power in ANY OF IT'S FORMS (NOT JUST URANIUM HIGH PRESSURE REACTORS) so we can stop burning shit just to make electricity.
Chrome 58.90%
Firefox 13.29%
Internet Explorer 13.00%
Edge 3.78%
Safari 3.42%
Sogou Explorer 1.68%
Opera 1.57%
QQ 1.35%
UC Browser 0.73%
Yandex 0.63%
Looks pretty fringy to me.
If everything is HTTPS will that stop nosy ISPs and even nosier government agencies (or anyone else for that matter) from snooping? So far as I know, it won't.
As opposed to what, exactly? Chrome, which almost certainly has as much Google spyware baked into it as a Huiwei-made smartphone? Miscreant-o-soft 'Edge', and it's associated 'telemetry' (read as: spyware)? Any of the fringe browsers, which are likely to be garbage and full of malware, too? Firefox is just as likely to be the cleanest in that regard.
We need to get away from these 'mature' technologies in transportation sooner or later, so why not sooner? Fast-track it.
Oh okay guess there's nothing I can do about anything so why even try, I'll just get every always-on device on the planet like most of you seem to do, put cameras everywhere too (for my SAFETY of course!), get a Facebook and Twitter account again, share EVERY SINGLE ASPECT of my daily life with the whole world, and be like a frog on a dissection tray, splayed open for every government agency and corporation that wants to know any little fucking thing about me, including what kind of porn I like, how and when I masturbate, and what my last bowel movement was like. FOR MY PROTECTION, OF COURSE; since all the above only EVER have my best interests at heart!
Or I can continue to not be an abject yellow-bellied coward that knuckles under to violations of my human rights like most people and FIGHT BACK any way I can.
If you care about your privacy and security then maybe you should think twice about using "always on" wireless devices like these.
>implying most people are 'remotely competent'.
They're not. I am orders of magnitude more 'competent' than the average smartphone user. Therefore I refuse to own one. I'm on the verge of dumping wireless entirely in fact, really don't use it enough to justify it.
Read the article. Has nothing to do with installing anything. Your Android phone can be infected with this malware without you doing anything and you'll never even know.
But Rick, you can't be one of the cool kids if you don't have one!
But Rick, you're a luddite if you don't have one!
But Rick, you're not interesting enough for anyone to spy on!
But Rick, you're obviously paranoid and wearing a tinfoil hat, you should just calm down and get one anyway!
..and all the other lame-ass crap people post when I say this.
If you want what's left of your privacy, and actual data security preserved, GET RID OF YOUR SMARTPHONE!
Republicans who vote against it are declaring they don't give a fuck about NN.
If Trump won't sign it then he also declares that he's for coporate interests and against NN for American citizens.
Either way they come out clearly on one side of the fence or another.
This is just another iteration of that. Nobody cares how many pieces of paper you have to show them all they care about is how many years of experience you have.
Useful advice, sans snarkiness and insults, on my Slashdot? Remarkable. I'll see if my CU does things like that. That *would* solve that part of the problem -- so long as that particular system is also secure from 'data breaches'. If they were able to get into a database that allowed them to see past the obfuscation then it wouldn't be much better than just using a normal CC. But it's worth investigating.
Try reading what I wrote again, EVERY WORD this time, okay?
They're scarier because they're getting appointed (not elected, appointed) to government posts. Like Betsy DeVos.
I've looked into that, watched the YouTube video about it, even emailed the guy behind it, and from what he tells me the government isn't in the least bit interested in the technology, and without their support production-level power plants based on it won't ever happen.
Anyone with basic math skills can see UBI won't work for 300,000,000 people.
Go look up Dominionism again. They want to bring about the Apocalypse as soon as possible, by wrecking the Earth and everyone on it. Not Christian at all. They just want Zombie Jesus to show up as quick as they can manage to 'take them all home'. Pence is one, Betsy DeVos is another, as examples. They hide in plain sight.
The Internet, at least here in the U.S., should be treated like any other public utility, this goes some of the distance to proving that, and I think it's the best possible future for it.
Do you all see why it is I started using cash for everything I possibly can? Because 'data breaches' like this keep happening, and there's no end in sight.
For all in-person purchases possible I use cash.
The next step in my overall strategy will be to find a prepaid debit card (i.e. not linked to any of my accounts) that I can recharge when I need to make online purchases. Put just enough money in it to do what I need to do. If it gets compromised, cut it up and get another one.
Pre-emptive strike on (the usual) comments:
* Don't care if you think 'carrying cash is dangerous'. Never been robbed, don't go anywhere I'd get robbed, don't give a damn what you say about it.
* Don't care what you say about 'the world going cashless' and neither do I beleive it'll happen anyway; don't bother even saying it won't discuss it.
* Don't give a damn about your personal insults (calling me a 'luddite', which is totally inaccurate, calling me an 'old man', or whatever). You're wasting your time won't even read your silly insults just save yourself the time.
* Don't care if you think I'm paranoid. Doesn't affect you, why should you even care, mind your own business. See above: 'Insults'.
* Do you just argue to argue? Nothing better to do? Get another hobby, not interested in being your entertainment.
* Not telling any of you to carry cash, calm the hell down, do whatever you want -- but be aware of YOUR risk factor.
* Trollololol? Go away, you've been spotted.
Instead of propping up the coal industry how about that money be spent educating and training displaced coal miners so they can work in the solar industry? They'll have jobs and I'm sure they'll be much happier every day working above ground instead of dark dangerous mines.
You are referring to the uber-nutjobs commonly referred to as "Dominionists". For a soft-core preview of what a Dominionist-run country would be like, try reading The Handmaids Tale -- but the reality of a Dominionist world would be orders of magnitude worse, I assure you. Try reading up on it, but don't blame me if you have digestion issues and anxiety problems over it for a while.