My gravest concern is that the energy of contributors is finite, and that history will eventually be written by the rich. People will pay people to rewrite wikipedia to their liking. History books are written by the winners.
"Fucked is fucked. There really isn't a partial to it when it comes to data security."
Not really? The value of the data and the value of the target dictate the depth of the necessary encryption. I see the extent people go to in order to destroy a 1993 486X hard drive, as if someone is going to ever take the time to boot it up to retrieve their data. The article contributes necessary information, that I can browse news stories on my Safari browser, but I should hesitate to log into my bank account. Too many people are seeking complete invisibility of everything, when it's really only important to hide the juicy bits. We don't need to be afraid of every single spider, just the black widows and brown recluses.
Consume all the bandwidth? My god, the article is scary with his face taking up the 23" LCD screen. Hope that doesn't take off, he invaded my personal space.
Thoughtful, brilliant on topology, Nero is a great reference to "creative authority". Teeters a bit at schools reference, lost me when you got to the orcs. Maybe it distracted me, mental images of orcs and spies with authority compound my risk perception, especially in the same paragraph where my evolved nurture instincts had been stimulated by opening reference to "Schools?" Orcs, spies, authority and schools... Pink Floyd in Mordor.
I read that because of the USA rebroadcast of the Nelson Mandela tribute, under rigid interpretation of the CALM Act, the originally scheduled public service announcer for the hearing impaired, SNL's Garrick Morris, was replaced on the spot with someone who didn't really know sign language. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=butZyxI-PRs Talk about unintended consequences!
Because many competitive tournament visitors are atheletes, the State Department website designer chose to follow the vernacular to call it an "athletic visa". The US immigration code from the Immigration and Nationization Act of 1965 refers to "alien athletes, artists, and entertainers, and their spouses and children." The Starcraft gamer was issued a "P1" visa according to TFA which applies to "individual or team athletes, or members of an entertainment group (P-1B) that are internationally recognized. A maximum of 25,000 P visas are issued annually."[wikipedia] The whole article plays on a reader-friendly title for a government a web page..
In other words, P1 is the same for Gary Kasparov or Jet Li. It's designed to keep USA employers from issuing "track and field" competitions to pick grapes, without impeding Hollywood or Olympic events.
"If your website doesn't remove all of my clients copyrighted material immediately, I won't sue you, I will sue all your clients." When the "I agree to view porn" box (ahem, I've been told one has to click to enter those sites) may soon become a EULA.
Chairman Mao recognized that China was behind the west, and tried to remedy this by setting up government "insitutes" to study "electronic appliances". It was just another brick in the wall. China didn't develop until it decided to "leave those kids alone" under Deng Tsia Ping.
The main limitation of "Goldilocks Zone" is in the imagination. Papa Bear's porridge was the right temperature for Papa Bear. We are defining "life sustaining" as what would sustain our lives. Who would have predicted "vent and seep" communities on the ocean floor, living from heat from fissures? But those are easy... What's really hard to understand are life forms that have a civilization occur in a millisecond, or a synapse that takes a million years...
Good article. Having dealt with it for years, I think it's a little more complex than a general native tendency, however. A large packet of society defers decisions (outsources) to a higher authority. Those authorities demand structure to order the size of the authority delegated to them, and tend to view "outliers" collectively as a threat to that order. The hostility to creativity is particularly intense when the question is "moral authority". In science, the "out of the box" thinker has scientific method and an option or hope to "prove" or "demonstrate" their alternative, creative, view. In religion, a creative morality is considered a threat but it's very difficult to demonstrate credibility with anything other than generations of experience (I did X, which the Priestatollah said not to, and no hair on my palms etc).
Where science is vulnerable is when a morality is attached. I'm not advocating for scientists to be immoral. But certain branches of science (e.g. Environmental) are susceptible to moral authority, which makes them more susceptible to Priestatollahs opposing creative thinking.
The Taiwanese touch screen is on the loose. Android is the cheapest operating system. My dad, 77, has an iPad and it's fine and he uses it, but he'd have been just fine with a $45 Shenzhen special. These are becoming like light bulbs (which used to be considered "repairable" in the late 1800s) and there's no reason to pay hundreds for an Apple light bulb.
I submitted someone else's DNA. Small price to pay for invisibility. It's flawed because I could be tagged with my pal's traits. But in the near future, we'll be buying/selling "prime DNA" for our test submittals, on street corners, like clean pee at La Tour de France.
(OOps, I meant to submit anonymous coward, instead of this hacked 'retroworks' account).
http://asi.org/adb/06/09/03/02/093/redhousing.html This 1996 publication "Breeding Plants for the Mars Environment" seemed to put more thought into what species are likliest to thrive (on Mars), and was less human-centric. It does seem to make sense to test lichens, cacti, a wider variety of plants known for resilience in addition to turnips and basil.
1/3 Subscriptions, 1/3 Advertising, 1/3 Classifieds. That was the recipe for newspaper income in the 1970s and 80s. They retrenched initially and lost the Classifieds to Ebay and Craigslist. Now they have 2 which deny each other, if they give free access they gain Advertising, but lose subscriptions, if they charge for Subscription, they may lose Advertising.
The newspapers OWNED classifieds. They totally OWNED it. They blew it to ebay and Craigslist. So the NYTimes is a great example of playing catch-up ball.
He was a Ph.D, taught at University of Arkansas. Told me it definitely depended on the field, and that even a Doctorate in some fields (Business) was considered a bit questionable. But he said the number of people who get postdoc's is based on the number of people who A=(can't figure out what they want to do) + B=(can't find a job), more than C=(fields that need post-doctorates). So I looked at my dad, and quit at a Masters.
Ok well. Comparing a drone to a nuclear bomb, because drones are in the news, is like comparing a car accident to a train wreck. Land mines are probably the most controversial small-kill technology. The main difference is that drones are an incredibly expensive and complex way to kill a dozen people, as compared to, say, goons with machetes.
It should be easy enough for someone here to harvest phonebook or other records from 70 years ago, refresh and randomize birth dates, and begin to flood the identity theft market with fake personalities and random government identity records. That would greatly increase the amount of work for identity thieves, who actually benefit from passwords (which provide evidence it's bonafide identity they are stealing). For years I've promoted "camouflage" rather than invisibility. I now think the reason it has not taken off (disappearance of AntiPhorm?) is that it's equally a threat to Google, Bing, and advertising-based search engines. We can be less careful of our "identity needles" if we construct bigger "digital haystacks".
Federal officials have anonymously granted immunity to all who confess here (No Anonymous Cowards!) to drunken driving, porn viewing, shoplifting, debauchery, and hacking.
Dudes, for real, turn yourselves in. Totally cool. Totally. Listen... C'mon. It's cool.
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My gravest concern is that the energy of contributors is finite, and that history will eventually be written by the rich. People will pay people to rewrite wikipedia to their liking. History books are written by the winners.
"Fucked is fucked. There really isn't a partial to it when it comes to data security."
Not really? The value of the data and the value of the target dictate the depth of the necessary encryption. I see the extent people go to in order to destroy a 1993 486X hard drive, as if someone is going to ever take the time to boot it up to retrieve their data. The article contributes necessary information, that I can browse news stories on my Safari browser, but I should hesitate to log into my bank account. Too many people are seeking complete invisibility of everything, when it's really only important to hide the juicy bits. We don't need to be afraid of every single spider, just the black widows and brown recluses.
Consume all the bandwidth? My god, the article is scary with his face taking up the 23" LCD screen. Hope that doesn't take off, he invaded my personal space.
Thoughtful, brilliant on topology, Nero is a great reference to "creative authority". Teeters a bit at schools reference, lost me when you got to the orcs. Maybe it distracted me, mental images of orcs and spies with authority compound my risk perception, especially in the same paragraph where my evolved nurture instincts had been stimulated by opening reference to "Schools?" Orcs, spies, authority and schools... Pink Floyd in Mordor.
I read that because of the USA rebroadcast of the Nelson Mandela tribute, under rigid interpretation of the CALM Act, the originally scheduled public service announcer for the hearing impaired, SNL's Garrick Morris, was replaced on the spot with someone who didn't really know sign language. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=butZyxI-PRs Talk about unintended consequences!
Because many competitive tournament visitors are atheletes, the State Department website designer chose to follow the vernacular to call it an "athletic visa". The US immigration code from the Immigration and Nationization Act of 1965 refers to "alien athletes, artists, and entertainers, and their spouses and children." The Starcraft gamer was issued a "P1" visa according to TFA which applies to "individual or team athletes, or members of an entertainment group (P-1B) that are internationally recognized. A maximum of 25,000 P visas are issued annually."[wikipedia] The whole article plays on a reader-friendly title for a government a web page. .
In other words, P1 is the same for Gary Kasparov or Jet Li. It's designed to keep USA employers from issuing "track and field" competitions to pick grapes, without impeding Hollywood or Olympic events.
"If your website doesn't remove all of my clients copyrighted material immediately, I won't sue you, I will sue all your clients." When the "I agree to view porn" box (ahem, I've been told one has to click to enter those sites) may soon become a EULA.
Antiphorm http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20512864-antiphorm-lite or "cookie camouflage" would be easy and effective at creating a "digital haystack" so big that NSA could not monitor it. But Antiphorm disappeared, and
In other words, the Mouse Borg has begun.
Chairman Mao recognized that China was behind the west, and tried to remedy this by setting up government "insitutes" to study "electronic appliances". It was just another brick in the wall. China didn't develop until it decided to "leave those kids alone" under Deng Tsia Ping.
The main limitation of "Goldilocks Zone" is in the imagination. Papa Bear's porridge was the right temperature for Papa Bear. We are defining "life sustaining" as what would sustain our lives. Who would have predicted "vent and seep" communities on the ocean floor, living from heat from fissures? But those are easy... What's really hard to understand are life forms that have a civilization occur in a millisecond, or a synapse that takes a million years...
Good article. Having dealt with it for years, I think it's a little more complex than a general native tendency, however. A large packet of society defers decisions (outsources) to a higher authority. Those authorities demand structure to order the size of the authority delegated to them, and tend to view "outliers" collectively as a threat to that order. The hostility to creativity is particularly intense when the question is "moral authority". In science, the "out of the box" thinker has scientific method and an option or hope to "prove" or "demonstrate" their alternative, creative, view. In religion, a creative morality is considered a threat but it's very difficult to demonstrate credibility with anything other than generations of experience (I did X, which the Priestatollah said not to, and no hair on my palms etc).
Where science is vulnerable is when a morality is attached. I'm not advocating for scientists to be immoral. But certain branches of science (e.g. Environmental) are susceptible to moral authority, which makes them more susceptible to Priestatollahs opposing creative thinking.
The Taiwanese touch screen is on the loose. Android is the cheapest operating system. My dad, 77, has an iPad and it's fine and he uses it, but he'd have been just fine with a $45 Shenzhen special. These are becoming like light bulbs (which used to be considered "repairable" in the late 1800s) and there's no reason to pay hundreds for an Apple light bulb.
Actually, slashdot covered the mice gut bacteria transferred from small amounts of fecal material back in September. I wonder if it's too difficult to patent shit compared to drugs. http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/09/06/2130223/gut-bacteria-in-slim-people-extract-more-nutrients
Fat mice, when fed fecal matter from thin humans, lose weight. It seems much less expensive to me than pharmaceuticals, and there are no known side effects. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/health/gut-bacteria-from-thin-humans-can-slim-mice-down.html?_r=0
I submitted someone else's DNA. Small price to pay for invisibility. It's flawed because I could be tagged with my pal's traits. But in the near future, we'll be buying/selling "prime DNA" for our test submittals, on street corners, like clean pee at La Tour de France.
(OOps, I meant to submit anonymous coward, instead of this hacked 'retroworks' account).
Johannes Gutenberg gave us the periscope, history later developing to the cleptoscope. The "Office of Naval Intelligence" has already gone way above this recently, with the launch of NROL-39 http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/12/05/u-s-spy-rocket-launching-today-has-octopus-themed-nothing-is-beyond-our-reach-logo-seriously/ The drone is aka "middle management".
http://asi.org/adb/06/09/03/02/093/redhousing.html This 1996 publication "Breeding Plants for the Mars Environment" seemed to put more thought into what species are likliest to thrive (on Mars), and was less human-centric. It does seem to make sense to test lichens, cacti, a wider variety of plants known for resilience in addition to turnips and basil.
1/3 Subscriptions, 1/3 Advertising, 1/3 Classifieds. That was the recipe for newspaper income in the 1970s and 80s. They retrenched initially and lost the Classifieds to Ebay and Craigslist. Now they have 2 which deny each other, if they give free access they gain Advertising, but lose subscriptions, if they charge for Subscription, they may lose Advertising.
The newspapers OWNED classifieds. They totally OWNED it. They blew it to ebay and Craigslist. So the NYTimes is a great example of playing catch-up ball.
He was a Ph.D, taught at University of Arkansas. Told me it definitely depended on the field, and that even a Doctorate in some fields (Business) was considered a bit questionable. But he said the number of people who get postdoc's is based on the number of people who A=(can't figure out what they want to do) + B=(can't find a job), more than C=(fields that need post-doctorates). So I looked at my dad, and quit at a Masters.
Ok well. Comparing a drone to a nuclear bomb, because drones are in the news, is like comparing a car accident to a train wreck. Land mines are probably the most controversial small-kill technology. The main difference is that drones are an incredibly expensive and complex way to kill a dozen people, as compared to, say, goons with machetes.
It should be easy enough for someone here to harvest phonebook or other records from 70 years ago, refresh and randomize birth dates, and begin to flood the identity theft market with fake personalities and random government identity records. That would greatly increase the amount of work for identity thieves, who actually benefit from passwords (which provide evidence it's bonafide identity they are stealing). For years I've promoted "camouflage" rather than invisibility. I now think the reason it has not taken off (disappearance of AntiPhorm?) is that it's equally a threat to Google, Bing, and advertising-based search engines. We can be less careful of our "identity needles" if we construct bigger "digital haystacks".
See article on digital haystacks and cookie camouflage http://retroworks.blogspot.com/2010/09/simpler-ideas-cookie-camouflage-digital.html
Oh, by the way, I'm not really Retroworks. I find I get higher mods if I steal a /. identity rather than to submit AC
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Federal officials have anonymously granted immunity to all who confess here (No Anonymous Cowards!) to drunken driving, porn viewing, shoplifting, debauchery, and hacking.
Dudes, for real, turn yourselves in. Totally cool. Totally. Listen... C'mon. It's cool.
Didn't you read the summary??? Two investors sent TWEETS!!!! Case closed.