I don't think anyone is implying a sinister causation. The problem is these tools only comprehend data aggregates and not human beings, and that can be both self-reinforcing and self-limiting. Whether it's Facebook, Google, news sites or whatever, we live in an increasingly strict reality bubble where individuals are simply not exposed to things they're not expected to have an interest in. As we pass more and more control over to automated filtering tools, the more this will be a problem and the less well informed we'll be. It's effectively automated corporate sponsored self-censorship.
Or, y'know, they could just pay an appropriate level of income tax and let educational professionals decide how best to invest that money. Of course that wouldn't boost their collective ego nearly so much. Still. Once you've made enough money from stock market bubbles to reduce social responsibility to charity who are we to argue?
Because there are things people do for money we should have laws against? Just because a law doesn't prevent all transgressions doesn't make it a bad law.
I'm in the middle of it at the moment. It's not high art or anything but it is a terrifically exciting read. It's the kind of page turner Dan Brown might write were he both technically and narratively competent.
Not that I use Macs, but surely "generally not hidden" it's a lot worse than "always hidden" or "never hidden"? How is the user supposed to know when to expect a file extension when these are hidden *sometimes*? At least on Windows it's consistent.
You're a dick. Or a troll. Or both. No wonder you're posting as AC. The only rule in life is that there are no rules. You make your own path and the wisdom others seek to enforce on you isn't worth shit against the wisdom you earn for yourself. I've met plenty of people of all ages, male and female, who for one reason or another haven't had access to the same life choices as the rest of us. The best people the OP's daughter will ever meet will be people who don't fit in, who make mistakes, who have regrets, and I choose to post that not as an AC because that's how the world works, not how you're bitter little worldview makes it appear.
The best advice I would give to her is to live her life. Make her mistakes. Don't be like the rest of us and don't be told that's the only path she can take. The worst sin in life is follow in someone else's footsteps. I did and it certainly didn't make me happy.
Heh, you're assuming they'd attack in space ships as if they'd escaped from some 1950s B-Movie. If they've travelled this far to 'attack' us (Whatever that might mean in this context) their technology would be so far in advance of our own we wouldn't even know we were being threatened. Hell. We might have fought and lost that battle already and you'd never know.
Heh, if only they stopped at renationalising. The East Coast Mainline was brought back into public hands and returned £1bn to the taxpayer while also maintaining some of the highest customer service ratings in the UK. The obvious thing to do then is to sell it back to the private sector to regain it's status as an utter fucking shambles. At which point we'll bail out the clowns that are in charge, run it ourselves for a while, make it successful, sell it back to the clowns, wait for it to fail, bail out the clowns and run it ourselves for a while. It's like a very expensive wealth transfer Groundhog Day, except not as funny.
Meanwhile, the main privatised commuter line between Brighton and London, a journey of only 40-odd miles, failed to arrive on time ONCE in an ENTIRE YEAR. You can thank Southern Rail for that. Douchebags.
And don't get me started on the omnishambles that was Hinchingbrooke Hospital.
Fact is, there are some things that cannot and should not be privatised because the drive for profit is diametrically opposed to the quality of service they're intended to provide. Only libertarian wingnuts and the halfwits running this country seem to think differently.
Well. Congratulations America on finally fucking the internet. You've spent the last thirty years trying to undo and legislate against a technology you designed to withstand a nuclear war. Now you've succeeded. I'm not sure whether to be impressed or appalled. If only the Soviets attacked with lawyers rather than warheads you wouldn't have stood a chance.
Well, you say child porn websites. I guess if you overlook the inadvertent blocks of Wikipedia and the wayback machine then yes, probably most of it isn't very pleasant. Given that the IWF is something of a law unto itself though I guess you'd never know. Down the memory hole we go.
As for 'fabulous web-filters'. Yes, we do. One of them is called Cleanfeed. And that started as child porn block. And now it's blocking links to downloads of copyrighted content at the behest of the MPA. I'm not sure what it'll be blocking tomorrow, or next month, or next year. Or why. Oh well. At least it's not a opaque, commercially provided entity with little in the way of oversight or transparency with the power to silently fence off content the powers that be don't agree with.
Ah. Hang on...
It differs because society hadn't already consigned them to the history books. Glad to see the spirit of Ayn Rand is alive and kicking. Hooray for us. Bagsie next trip to Rapture!
Of course they're at war. This is one of the most incompetent and scientifically illiterate governments in living memory. It's packed full of lunatic ideologues like Ian Duncan Smith and Teresa May who sideline professional academic advice time and time again in favour of their own prejudicesstupidity and ignorance. I just wish their misguided, harmful and plain unworkable policies wouldn't wreck this countries social and political fabric for generations to come. It would be funny if the human cost wasn't so high
And you know what? In spite of this, the main opposition is still unable to differentiate itself as a better alternative than this shower of charlatans, bigots and liars.
Heh, I know it's bad form to reply to your own post, but a quote from the Guardian story on this made me laugh.
The papers said the body of one male worker at the plant had been "found carbonised", but it added that there was no evidence that the explosion had "caused any radioactive leak".
A spokesman for the French atomic energy authority told journalists: "For the moment, there is nothing coming out."
Would this be the same "they" who concocted the tissue of lies and half truths regarding the damage to the Fukushima plant, or is it some other reputable "they" who always tell the truth, no matter the personal cost, when something bad happens to their employers on their watch?
Frankly, in light of the current reputation of the nuclear industry, I think it's understandable people might be a little oversensitive to, ooh, I don't know, explosions at a nuclear waste processing site.
Rather a healthy skepticism about the words of a tarnished industry than a collective head in the sand blindly accepting the word of PR as truth. Sheesh. You're just as bad as those who insist on claiming the sky is falling all the time.
Heh, Mensch is a loudmouth with only a tangential connection to reality. I wouldn't take what she had to say too seriously. Besides. I don't see why the policy on digital rights should be any less zig-zag and arbitrary than anything else that shower come up with. Cameron, Gove et al have been making up policy on the hoof since they returned to power. This is just one more example of the woeful disconnect between what reality is and what they'd like it to be. Ah well. I guess we all get the politicians we deserve.
Christ. What a waste of time. A self selecting young, predominantly urban, affluent, middle class, college educated demographic is generally more liberal than the rest of the population? Well, I for one, am shocked.
No, not really. What would be more interesting is in looking at what the distribution for those attitudes looks like. I'd guess Mac users would represent a classic bell curve while PC users would have a much less predictable pattern. But then I wouldn't expect the people who do this kind of "research" have any interest beyond trolling in the first place. No questions about conformity or deference to authority either. That'd be an interesting outcome...
Surely blocking traffic to expertsexchange would only force people to visit sites like EnthusiasticAmateurSexChange, DufusOnTheStreetSexChange and NotSureWhatItWasButNowItsDamnedScarySexChange instead?
No-one wants that. Clearly your solution falls victim to the law of unintended consequences. Think before you post next time.
Heh, nothing against you personally, but when I read comments about "how installing {insert Linux distro here} on Granny's machine meant problems dropped by 90%", I wonder if Granny simply stopped using her computer quite so much or whether she simply doesn't ask for advice anymore...
"Goddammit Marv, I asked our son to speed up our computer and now we can't use it anymore! I'll be jiggered if I'm going back to him for advice..."
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And with a technocratic, authoritarian gov't, they have some leeway to take drastic measure that would be difficult if not impossible in a democracy
Heh. Am I the only one reading between the lines there?
I don't think anyone is implying a sinister causation. The problem is these tools only comprehend data aggregates and not human beings, and that can be both self-reinforcing and self-limiting. Whether it's Facebook, Google, news sites or whatever, we live in an increasingly strict reality bubble where individuals are simply not exposed to things they're not expected to have an interest in. As we pass more and more control over to automated filtering tools, the more this will be a problem and the less well informed we'll be. It's effectively automated corporate sponsored self-censorship.
Um. You'll notice that in all your examples, the only injury is to the drivers pride. (And\Or wallet).
Or, y'know, they could just pay an appropriate level of income tax and let educational professionals decide how best to invest that money. Of course that wouldn't boost their collective ego nearly so much. Still. Once you've made enough money from stock market bubbles to reduce social responsibility to charity who are we to argue?
Because there are things people do for money we should have laws against? Just because a law doesn't prevent all transgressions doesn't make it a bad law.
I'm in the middle of it at the moment. It's not high art or anything but it is a terrifically exciting read. It's the kind of page turner Dan Brown might write were he both technically and narratively competent.
Not that I use Macs, but surely "generally not hidden" it's a lot worse than "always hidden" or "never hidden"? How is the user supposed to know when to expect a file extension when these are hidden *sometimes*? At least on Windows it's consistent.
You're a dick. Or a troll. Or both. No wonder you're posting as AC. The only rule in life is that there are no rules. You make your own path and the wisdom others seek to enforce on you isn't worth shit against the wisdom you earn for yourself. I've met plenty of people of all ages, male and female, who for one reason or another haven't had access to the same life choices as the rest of us. The best people the OP's daughter will ever meet will be people who don't fit in, who make mistakes, who have regrets, and I choose to post that not as an AC because that's how the world works, not how you're bitter little worldview makes it appear.
The best advice I would give to her is to live her life. Make her mistakes. Don't be like the rest of us and don't be told that's the only path she can take. The worst sin in life is follow in someone else's footsteps. I did and it certainly didn't make me happy.
Tredinnick's a nut who has form for this kind of statement.
Still. At least he's not on the House of Commons Health Committe or anything. What's that? Oh...
So. Er. Be pleasant, polite, engaged and confident? Perhaps that's what attracts a potential partner rather than pseudo-manipulative mind tricks?
Heh, you're assuming they'd attack in space ships as if they'd escaped from some 1950s B-Movie. If they've travelled this far to 'attack' us (Whatever that might mean in this context) their technology would be so far in advance of our own we wouldn't even know we were being threatened. Hell. We might have fought and lost that battle already and you'd never know.
Heh, if only they stopped at renationalising. The East Coast Mainline was brought back into public hands and returned £1bn to the taxpayer while also maintaining some of the highest customer service ratings in the UK. The obvious thing to do then is to sell it back to the private sector to regain it's status as an utter fucking shambles. At which point we'll bail out the clowns that are in charge, run it ourselves for a while, make it successful, sell it back to the clowns, wait for it to fail, bail out the clowns and run it ourselves for a while. It's like a very expensive wealth transfer Groundhog Day, except not as funny.
Meanwhile, the main privatised commuter line between Brighton and London, a journey of only 40-odd miles, failed to arrive on time ONCE in an ENTIRE YEAR. You can thank Southern Rail for that. Douchebags.
And don't get me started on the omnishambles that was Hinchingbrooke Hospital.
Fact is, there are some things that cannot and should not be privatised because the drive for profit is diametrically opposed to the quality of service they're intended to provide. Only libertarian wingnuts and the halfwits running this country seem to think differently.
Same as the old. What a scumbag.
Well. Congratulations America on finally fucking the internet. You've spent the last thirty years trying to undo and legislate against a technology you designed to withstand a nuclear war. Now you've succeeded. I'm not sure whether to be impressed or appalled. If only the Soviets attacked with lawyers rather than warheads you wouldn't have stood a chance.
Well, you say child porn websites. I guess if you overlook the inadvertent blocks of Wikipedia and the wayback machine then yes, probably most of it isn't very pleasant. Given that the IWF is something of a law unto itself though I guess you'd never know. Down the memory hole we go.
As for 'fabulous web-filters'. Yes, we do. One of them is called Cleanfeed. And that started as child porn block. And now it's blocking links to downloads of copyrighted content at the behest of the MPA. I'm not sure what it'll be blocking tomorrow, or next month, or next year. Or why. Oh well. At least it's not a opaque, commercially provided entity with little in the way of oversight or transparency with the power to silently fence off content the powers that be don't agree with. Ah. Hang on...
It differs because society hadn't already consigned them to the history books. Glad to see the spirit of Ayn Rand is alive and kicking. Hooray for us. Bagsie next trip to Rapture!
Of course they're at war. This is one of the most incompetent and scientifically illiterate governments in living memory. It's packed full of lunatic ideologues like Ian Duncan Smith and Teresa May who sideline professional academic advice time and time again in favour of their own prejudices stupidity and ignorance. I just wish their misguided, harmful and plain unworkable policies wouldn't wreck this countries social and political fabric for generations to come. It would be funny if the human cost wasn't so high
And you know what? In spite of this, the main opposition is still unable to differentiate itself as a better alternative than this shower of charlatans, bigots and liars.
I despair at this country. I really do.
"If it's Boeing, I ain't going..."
Heh, I know it's bad form to reply to your own post, but a quote from the Guardian story on this made me laugh.
The papers said the body of one male worker at the plant had been "found carbonised", but it added that there was no evidence that the explosion had "caused any radioactive leak".
A spokesman for the French atomic energy authority told journalists: "For the moment, there is nothing coming out."
Emphasis, mine, obviously.
Would this be the same "they" who concocted the tissue of lies and half truths regarding the damage to the Fukushima plant, or is it some other reputable "they" who always tell the truth, no matter the personal cost, when something bad happens to their employers on their watch?
Frankly, in light of the current reputation of the nuclear industry, I think it's understandable people might be a little oversensitive to, ooh, I don't know, explosions at a nuclear waste processing site.
Rather a healthy skepticism about the words of a tarnished industry than a collective head in the sand blindly accepting the word of PR as truth. Sheesh. You're just as bad as those who insist on claiming the sky is falling all the time.
Heh, Mensch is a loudmouth with only a tangential connection to reality. I wouldn't take what she had to say too seriously. Besides. I don't see why the policy on digital rights should be any less zig-zag and arbitrary than anything else that shower come up with. Cameron, Gove et al have been making up policy on the hoof since they returned to power. This is just one more example of the woeful disconnect between what reality is and what they'd like it to be. Ah well. I guess we all get the politicians we deserve.
Christ. What a waste of time. A self selecting young, predominantly urban, affluent, middle class, college educated demographic is generally more liberal than the rest of the population? Well, I for one, am shocked.
No, not really. What would be more interesting is in looking at what the distribution for those attitudes looks like. I'd guess Mac users would represent a classic bell curve while PC users would have a much less predictable pattern. But then I wouldn't expect the people who do this kind of "research" have any interest beyond trolling in the first place. No questions about conformity or deference to authority either. That'd be an interesting outcome...
Surely blocking traffic to expertsexchange would only force people to visit sites like EnthusiasticAmateurSexChange, DufusOnTheStreetSexChange and NotSureWhatItWasButNowItsDamnedScarySexChange instead?
No-one wants that. Clearly your solution falls victim to the law of unintended consequences. Think before you post next time.
Depends, are we talking Duck Hunt?
"Goddammit Marv, I asked our son to speed up our computer and now we can't use it anymore! I'll be jiggered if I'm going back to him for advice..."