Average radiation exposure is much higher for pilots than the maximum allowed for nuclear plant workers. Cancer rates are obviously not linear with dosage, and the level is none the less low enough that its unlikely to show an increase. You can google, by yourself, for numerous studies.
As well, these now become mandatory for train travel
Somebody's going to hijack Thomas the Tank Engine and crash him into the Freedom Tower, thus collapsing it... not likely. More likely is people switching to train travel, so the airlines purchased the regulation that train passengers must be harassed and punished as much as airplane passengers.
Not to mention the frequency range is about 6 to 10 orders of magnitude lower... Its not relevant beyond the "I don't understand therefore I'm scared, and I don't want to understand, so you do the math" level.
Says who? Do you have hard info on this type of radiation?
I do. If you really want result "X" and you are willing to pay a lot of money to someone to produce a report that looks like they did something science-y that co-incidentally matches the conclusions you were looking for, and you make it perfectly clear they'll never get another penny from their sole source of research funding (the fedgov) then yeah, I think I can predict the result.
Same thing as tobacco companies reporting their stuff is safe, or pretty much every pharmaceutical (coincidentally, most of them almost accidentally happen to be safe), etc etc. Even "x% of dentists prefer Y brand toothpaste".
The only real question is how psuedo-science-y it'll be. Will they play the natl security card and not release any data other than "I've got a PHD, trust me" or will they take the different track of contracting out to a subsidiary of the machine mfgr, or will they have the good taste to at least distance themselves into hiring the CEO's brother in law, or will they go the bribery track and the guy who plays along gets a plum job at the mfgr "safety scientist" or some BS next year... what exact form of corruption will they use is the only question, not will it be corrupt or not.
The funniest part is the journalist filter is calling them x-ray scanners but I'm guessing the actual report is THz scanners. Xrays see thru things, THz sees thru things, therefore a dumbass would assume they must be the same.
I doubt most people on instagram have current model releases for their photographs, so using these commercially could get any number of people sued, but based on the instagram policy, it very well could be the user who took them initially, then "gave instagram permission to use them commercially."
from the new policy:
you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your... photos
I grew up in a semi-pro photography household and learning by osmosis I can tell you this is a horrifying legal minefield for anyone who doesn't have well documented model releases.
Its exactly like a photo processor reserving the right to sell your photos to anyone they want if you develop film there, or a word processor author demanding the right to sell anything you type into the word processor to anyone they want. Crazy talk.
I recognize you're using language so as not to be convicted of practicing law without a license, and I'm not a lawyer either, but it seems very obvious that you'd be absolutely insane to upload a pic of any human being other than yourself unless you've got signed model releases for unlimited unrestricted distribution.
Its an interesting display of how technology sometimes creates minefields. If it cost my dad $1K or whatever worth of film and processing to make a file cabinet full of railroad industry stock footage photos, his adjacent filing cabinet full of model releases (mostly RR employees, some railfans, some museum visitors) and MOUs signed by corporate officers, etc, etc were worth at least $1K because they are what made his $1K of film stock worth $2K+ in the adjacent 3rd filing cabinet full of contracts to RR and model RR marketing/PR depts selling individual stock railroad photos. Now, with new technology you can make the equivalent of $1K worth of stock photos for "free" and you don't even need the fireproof film negative cabinet to store them, but rather than making it easier to be a semi-pro photographer all you're really going to do is get yourself sued into bankruptcy after not earning a penny of revenue. I don't think that's genuine progress and it seems the inevitable result of the new policy.
I've never seen it used for anything other than/r/gonewild... does it have a life beyond homemade pr0n for reddit users? Or is there any popular, real, wide spread (ha ha) demand for photo sharing other than homemade pr0n? Remember 100K fanatic users is only like one sixty-thousandth the world population, by popular I mean FB or google sized popularity, or at least WoW sized.
Companies who allow their employees to use their own personal numbers are allowing their employees to take customers with them out the door.
LOL I'm talking about a huge megacorp not a 3 person web startup. I don't even personally know salespeople much less work directly with them. I would not be surprised if they're lumped in with the call center as having special telecom rules for special people.
"Stealing the rolodex" only works for certain size companies with certain size customers when job hopping inside a oligarchical non-geographical monopoly industry.
I suspect GM marketing dept already has a perfectly good list of Ford owners, and if I job hopped absolutely none of the customers would care. Of what possible use would a list of SBC landline customers be for Verizon? Corrupt.mil contractors pretty much by definition only have one customer and the winner is selected by political process, not rolodex.
one of the seismically most active areas of the world?
No problem, don't build it in the south. From memory Japan is Fing huge compared to what westerners think (like your average USA guy thinks Japan is smaller than Maine, but its huge, from like 20 degrees N to like 50 degrees N, making it, I believe, "taller" in N-S direction than the entire USA). Also the south is geologically active whereas the north is getting to be about as geologically stable as Wisconsin.
Its kind of like saying the American West suffers horribly from earthquakes. Well, yeah, the city of San Francisco, sure. But not so bad in Montana as far as I know.
You can google up a map of seismic activity if you'd like. I'm about 99% certain the south is shaking it up and the far north is pretty much inert.
Finally this would not exactly be the worlds first earthquake resistant building. I think they can figure something out that'll work.
What did you download for 100 gigs? You're AC so don't worry about telling the world if its all furry pr0n I'm just idly curious. The largest torrent I ever downloaded was about 120 gigs of audiobooks and it took a couple months, at least a couple years ago. A somewhat overcompressed star trek series averages 50 or so gigs per series. Then again high def isn't going to make the plot of "spocks brain" or the space hippies any better. It would take me months to watch 100 gigs of stuff, even if I downloaded that much in a month (lets just say I finally watched the high def directors cut 4 hour LOTR: TT last week... I read the books back when PDP-11s roamed the earth so I already knew how it turned out, its not like I've been in suspense)
MACs aren't as hard to change/spoof as you'd think. Also it was either HP or SUN who was famous in the early 90s for shipping multiple cards with the same MAC. After all no one would ever plug two into the same LAN, right? This is no sea story I was there and saw the protocol analyzer traces with my own eyes. Hmm so we've got three cards on this test lan, and the analyzer only sees 2 mac addrs, wtf?
Now I could see tying into something you'd not want to give away/share... like a valid, chargeable CC number. This also takes care of the whole micropayment thing. So you can log into facebook (or slashdot?) but that login cookie will cost you 10 cents on a valid credit card and anyone with access to the account can see who paid for previous access...
I have noticed the death of the PBX. The desk phones are now nearly unused at the megacorp I work at. If you know someone you use their personal cell phone number, and if you don't know them you need the CYA audit trail that only email can provide. So the desk phones get dusty.
They have actually started ripping out the phones here. We'll probably always have them for queue, call center, help desk, help line type situations but the day of every drone having a phone are already over where I work.
Rather than being issued a laptop to work at home, my wife was issued rdesktop credentials to use as she saw fit, and had borrowing privileges at the travel laptop pool when she travels. Where I work they still use clunky as heck VPNs but I'm sure they'll catch up with the times and switch to a rdesktop/vnc solution sooner or later.
IT no longer creates new "client server apps" they create "intranet sites" and how you access them is pretty much seen as your responsibility.
9) The hospital went into lockdown and cleared four trauma rooms, but received only three patients, two of them dead children (according to the official story) and one mildly wounded adult.
I've noticed this too, and I believe the cops are trying to cover for being cowards. I've had minor wounds that just won't stop bleeding without medical attention and there's nothing cops love more than playing domination games with who's in control and who's allowed to do what on scene and act out their twisted little swat fantasies, so I suspect at least half the kids had a minor wound but were left untreated to slowly, painfully bleed out while cops played SWAT games, and if the truth came out they'd look bad and/or get sued, hence no pics, no autopsies, intimidation from officers, etc etc. From military experience its very hard to have a firefight, even a one sided ambush, with absolutely no wounded whatsoever. Simply mathematically astounding, is what I'd call it.
I don't think you actually do this, at least have not in some years. I in fact do tear drives apart and melt the exterior aluminum casting for... casting (duh, nothings a better casting raw material than cast product.. trying to cast extruded alloys is usually an exercise in futility).
Anyway I have the scar on my hand to prove that you don't do that kinda of stuff with modern glass platters, they are not safety glass they pretty much explode into shrapnel. Yes they do bend, in fact they bend pretty well before they shatter. Weird but true. I would hazard a guess that "most" drives bigger than 10 gigs are glass platter and very few below a gig are glass platter. Yes in the 90s they were all metal of various kinds, and made nice windchimes and targets.
One interesting observation is for decades all you need to completely disassemble a hard drive is about 4 torx size screws, like T5, T20 and a couple others. Also the color of platters follows no obvious pattern over the decades due to different chemistry.
But don't go telling kids now a days to smash up their platters, or there's gonna be sharper than razor glass shards everywhere and/or stitches.
You're assuming top down, I see no reason it couldn't be bottom up this time around, like the school's in 24x7 lockdown for adults, not allowed in until they log into a valid, active, and normal looking facebook account using a PC right outside the door. Which would be a big problem for a non-facebook parent like myself, and the response will be who cares its for the children blah blah whatever BS. Of course the solution is to use someone elses stolen account.
Here I go ruining all my mod points just to fix AC...
You could just ask 4chan. I recall seeing a (possibly fake) screencap that implied that someone was going to do something at 9am at a local school on some day.
OK AC I know something about you, and its that you subscribe to the subreddit/r/Imgoingtohellforthis or whatever its exactly called, because that's exactly where I saw what you're describing about 3 days after, like maybe Sunday or so. A pretty good photoshop job, compared to some.
I will say the very first posts on/r/imgoingtohellforthis like mere minutes after the news broke were all self referential about how they're pretty sure/r/igthft is going to have a field day with this, etc, and boy oh boy were they correct its been an absolute flood of bad jokes. Most of the time, I assure you/r/igthft is just intensely politically incorrect humor, lots of racism mostly. Like most things its 99% boring garbage and about 1% pure gold worth searching for. Hundreds of posts basically jokes along the line of "is it too early yet" is actually very unusual for/r/igthft
Posting AC for cowardice in the face of fibbers.
WTF does that even mean? English translation please.
They stopped accepting bitcoins because they started being questioned about its legality under the current banking laws. This is not their specialty, and probably never will be.
Bringing us back to my main point, thats exactly what they're doing now, just with a patina of "not invented here"
If you want to fight the law for the same reason as everyone else with the same goal, you'll probably do better going along with everyone else, rather than going it alone and pretending the greater community doesn't exist. You know, kinda like those CS and programmers and sysadmins who hang around the EFF instead of going it alone WRT freedom on the net.
LOL what we need is a BTC union... that'll go over real well here...
I've read numerous articles claiming that 99% or whatever twitter accounts have either one or zero tweets sent. Probably 99% of them are spammer accounts but 1% of them might be like my account, join up, WTF is this, bye bye, never log in again.
My guess is to control DB load you roll it out by archive size gradually. So corporate PR team who has sent 150K tweets gets it today, then drop the limit by 1K pre day or whatever...
How is it going to detect whether people were paid to write something?
Thanks for pointing out a minor bug in my project design. The answer, of course, is it doesn't matter. If a "tech" site is getting flooded with unemployed journalism grads posting stereotypical political talking points who cares if they're being paid or not, block the fools.
AstroturfBlock would be exactly like how I don't care if an ad account is in collections with the middlemen, or its a donation, or whatever, I just want adblock to block ads.
Sounds like they described the ideal business model for a bitcoin implementation. The EFF should accept bitcoins. Oh wait, they did, then the idiots stopped for no apparent reason.
Looks like a anti-design pattern of "not invented here". My gut level guess is we're about to see the release of a BTC fork called "effcoins" or something dumb like that. Exactly like BTC but it'll have a different name.
Don't get me wrong I'm a EFF cheerleader, love their goals and ideals, and I'm a past donator, they just really dropped the ball on this specific topic.
The profiling competition only bins into 10s / 20s / 30s which seems extremely lame. Can't they at least try Myers Briggs category or something? Maybe that would be too patented/copyrighted....
Wake me when they make something monetizable (OK the categorize tool reports: highly educated, technically oriented, 30s, raised in the midwest, ultra low TV viewing quotient, classical education literature coeff extremely high, also a high sci fi reading coeff, verbal indications of extreme physical attractiveness... mush that up against the user DB and... oh I see that's VLM (69642) trying to post as AC)
This would have been a lot more fun about two months ago to detect paid political astroturfers.
The ultimate AI-ish application would be an astroturfer plugin for chrome probably called "AstroturfBlock". So the site is a "tech" site, the contents are pure politics, and the text analysis system indicates an unemployed liberal arts degree holder... Go ahead and block it.
Twitter is a service primarily organized for paid PR shills release carefully crafted tweets under corporate branded officer names which journalists read and comment on. Its basically the worlds briefest PR news release distribution company which is open to the general public, although most people don't use it. Its completely inappropriate for an underling to issue his own news releases without talking to his boss first, and apparently Sr. VP Eng is not supposed to upstage the marketing department by releasing his own PR messages.
G+ is not quite the same business model. If you want to publish cat pictures or comment on your competitors, or whatever, do it there.
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Average radiation exposure is much higher for pilots than the maximum allowed for nuclear plant workers.
Cancer rates are obviously not linear with dosage, and the level is none the less low enough that its unlikely to show an increase.
You can google, by yourself, for numerous studies.
As well, these now become mandatory for train travel
Somebody's going to hijack Thomas the Tank Engine and crash him into the Freedom Tower, thus collapsing it... not likely. More likely is people switching to train travel, so the airlines purchased the regulation that train passengers must be harassed and punished as much as airplane passengers.
Not to mention the frequency range is about 6 to 10 orders of magnitude lower... Its not relevant beyond the "I don't understand therefore I'm scared, and I don't want to understand, so you do the math" level.
Says who? Do you have hard info on this type of radiation?
I do. If you really want result "X" and you are willing to pay a lot of money to someone to produce a report that looks like they did something science-y that co-incidentally matches the conclusions you were looking for, and you make it perfectly clear they'll never get another penny from their sole source of research funding (the fedgov) then yeah, I think I can predict the result.
Same thing as tobacco companies reporting their stuff is safe, or pretty much every pharmaceutical (coincidentally, most of them almost accidentally happen to be safe), etc etc. Even "x% of dentists prefer Y brand toothpaste".
The only real question is how psuedo-science-y it'll be. Will they play the natl security card and not release any data other than "I've got a PHD, trust me" or will they take the different track of contracting out to a subsidiary of the machine mfgr, or will they have the good taste to at least distance themselves into hiring the CEO's brother in law, or will they go the bribery track and the guy who plays along gets a plum job at the mfgr "safety scientist" or some BS next year ... what exact form of corruption will they use is the only question, not will it be corrupt or not.
The funniest part is the journalist filter is calling them x-ray scanners but I'm guessing the actual report is THz scanners. Xrays see thru things, THz sees thru things, therefore a dumbass would assume they must be the same.
I doubt most people on instagram have current model releases for their photographs, so using these commercially could get any number of people sued, but based on the instagram policy, it very well could be the user who took them initially, then "gave instagram permission to use them commercially."
from the new policy:
you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your ... photos
I grew up in a semi-pro photography household and learning by osmosis I can tell you this is a horrifying legal minefield for anyone who doesn't have well documented model releases.
Its exactly like a photo processor reserving the right to sell your photos to anyone they want if you develop film there, or a word processor author demanding the right to sell anything you type into the word processor to anyone they want. Crazy talk.
I recognize you're using language so as not to be convicted of practicing law without a license, and I'm not a lawyer either, but it seems very obvious that you'd be absolutely insane to upload a pic of any human being other than yourself unless you've got signed model releases for unlimited unrestricted distribution.
Its an interesting display of how technology sometimes creates minefields. If it cost my dad $1K or whatever worth of film and processing to make a file cabinet full of railroad industry stock footage photos, his adjacent filing cabinet full of model releases (mostly RR employees, some railfans, some museum visitors) and MOUs signed by corporate officers, etc, etc were worth at least $1K because they are what made his $1K of film stock worth $2K+ in the adjacent 3rd filing cabinet full of contracts to RR and model RR marketing/PR depts selling individual stock railroad photos. Now, with new technology you can make the equivalent of $1K worth of stock photos for "free" and you don't even need the fireproof film negative cabinet to store them, but rather than making it easier to be a semi-pro photographer all you're really going to do is get yourself sued into bankruptcy after not earning a penny of revenue. I don't think that's genuine progress and it seems the inevitable result of the new policy.
I've never seen it used for anything other than /r/gonewild ... does it have a life beyond homemade pr0n for reddit users? Or is there any popular, real, wide spread (ha ha) demand for photo sharing other than homemade pr0n? Remember 100K fanatic users is only like one sixty-thousandth the world population, by popular I mean FB or google sized popularity, or at least WoW sized.
Companies who allow their employees to use their own personal numbers are allowing their employees to take customers with them out the door.
LOL I'm talking about a huge megacorp not a 3 person web startup. I don't even personally know salespeople much less work directly with them. I would not be surprised if they're lumped in with the call center as having special telecom rules for special people.
"Stealing the rolodex" only works for certain size companies with certain size customers when job hopping inside a oligarchical non-geographical monopoly industry.
I suspect GM marketing dept already has a perfectly good list of Ford owners, and if I job hopped absolutely none of the customers would care. Of what possible use would a list of SBC landline customers be for Verizon? Corrupt .mil contractors pretty much by definition only have one customer and the winner is selected by political process, not rolodex.
I think you're a little too worried.
that almost never happens, and the question gets interesting when you start talking about the tradeoffs.
one of the seismically most active areas of the world?
No problem, don't build it in the south. From memory Japan is Fing huge compared to what westerners think (like your average USA guy thinks Japan is smaller than Maine, but its huge, from like 20 degrees N to like 50 degrees N, making it, I believe, "taller" in N-S direction than the entire USA). Also the south is geologically active whereas the north is getting to be about as geologically stable as Wisconsin.
Its kind of like saying the American West suffers horribly from earthquakes. Well, yeah, the city of San Francisco, sure. But not so bad in Montana as far as I know.
You can google up a map of seismic activity if you'd like. I'm about 99% certain the south is shaking it up and the far north is pretty much inert.
Finally this would not exactly be the worlds first earthquake resistant building. I think they can figure something out that'll work.
What did you download for 100 gigs? You're AC so don't worry about telling the world if its all furry pr0n I'm just idly curious. The largest torrent I ever downloaded was about 120 gigs of audiobooks and it took a couple months, at least a couple years ago. A somewhat overcompressed star trek series averages 50 or so gigs per series. Then again high def isn't going to make the plot of "spocks brain" or the space hippies any better. It would take me months to watch 100 gigs of stuff, even if I downloaded that much in a month (lets just say I finally watched the high def directors cut 4 hour LOTR: TT last week... I read the books back when PDP-11s roamed the earth so I already knew how it turned out, its not like I've been in suspense)
MACs aren't as hard to change/spoof as you'd think. Also it was either HP or SUN who was famous in the early 90s for shipping multiple cards with the same MAC. After all no one would ever plug two into the same LAN, right? This is no sea story I was there and saw the protocol analyzer traces with my own eyes. Hmm so we've got three cards on this test lan, and the analyzer only sees 2 mac addrs, wtf?
Now I could see tying into something you'd not want to give away/share... like a valid, chargeable CC number. This also takes care of the whole micropayment thing. So you can log into facebook (or slashdot?) but that login cookie will cost you 10 cents on a valid credit card and anyone with access to the account can see who paid for previous access...
an interesting take on the BYOD phenomenon
I have noticed the death of the PBX. The desk phones are now nearly unused at the megacorp I work at. If you know someone you use their personal cell phone number, and if you don't know them you need the CYA audit trail that only email can provide. So the desk phones get dusty.
They have actually started ripping out the phones here. We'll probably always have them for queue, call center, help desk, help line type situations but the day of every drone having a phone are already over where I work.
Rather than being issued a laptop to work at home, my wife was issued rdesktop credentials to use as she saw fit, and had borrowing privileges at the travel laptop pool when she travels. Where I work they still use clunky as heck VPNs but I'm sure they'll catch up with the times and switch to a rdesktop/vnc solution sooner or later.
IT no longer creates new "client server apps" they create "intranet sites" and how you access them is pretty much seen as your responsibility.
9) The hospital went into lockdown and cleared four trauma rooms, but received only three patients, two of them dead children (according to the official story) and one mildly wounded adult.
I've noticed this too, and I believe the cops are trying to cover for being cowards. I've had minor wounds that just won't stop bleeding without medical attention and there's nothing cops love more than playing domination games with who's in control and who's allowed to do what on scene and act out their twisted little swat fantasies, so I suspect at least half the kids had a minor wound but were left untreated to slowly, painfully bleed out while cops played SWAT games, and if the truth came out they'd look bad and/or get sued, hence no pics, no autopsies, intimidation from officers, etc etc. From military experience its very hard to have a firefight, even a one sided ambush, with absolutely no wounded whatsoever. Simply mathematically astounding, is what I'd call it.
I don't think you actually do this, at least have not in some years. I in fact do tear drives apart and melt the exterior aluminum casting for ... casting (duh, nothings a better casting raw material than cast product.. trying to cast extruded alloys is usually an exercise in futility).
Anyway I have the scar on my hand to prove that you don't do that kinda of stuff with modern glass platters, they are not safety glass they pretty much explode into shrapnel. Yes they do bend, in fact they bend pretty well before they shatter. Weird but true. I would hazard a guess that "most" drives bigger than 10 gigs are glass platter and very few below a gig are glass platter. Yes in the 90s they were all metal of various kinds, and made nice windchimes and targets.
One interesting observation is for decades all you need to completely disassemble a hard drive is about 4 torx size screws, like T5, T20 and a couple others. Also the color of platters follows no obvious pattern over the decades due to different chemistry.
But don't go telling kids now a days to smash up their platters, or there's gonna be sharper than razor glass shards everywhere and/or stitches.
You're assuming top down, I see no reason it couldn't be bottom up this time around, like the school's in 24x7 lockdown for adults, not allowed in until they log into a valid, active, and normal looking facebook account using a PC right outside the door. Which would be a big problem for a non-facebook parent like myself, and the response will be who cares its for the children blah blah whatever BS. Of course the solution is to use someone elses stolen account.
Here I go ruining all my mod points just to fix AC...
You could just ask 4chan. I recall seeing a (possibly fake) screencap that implied that someone was going to do something at 9am at a local school on some day.
OK AC I know something about you, and its that you subscribe to the subreddit /r/Imgoingtohellforthis or whatever its exactly called, because that's exactly where I saw what you're describing about 3 days after, like maybe Sunday or so. A pretty good photoshop job, compared to some.
I will say the very first posts on /r/imgoingtohellforthis like mere minutes after the news broke were all self referential about how they're pretty sure /r/igthft is going to have a field day with this, etc, and boy oh boy were they correct its been an absolute flood of bad jokes. Most of the time, I assure you /r/igthft is just intensely politically incorrect humor, lots of racism mostly. Like most things its 99% boring garbage and about 1% pure gold worth searching for. Hundreds of posts basically jokes along the line of "is it too early yet" is actually very unusual for /r/igthft
Posting AC for cowardice in the face of fibbers.
WTF does that even mean? English translation please.
Your thoughts on usability vs beauty... Must they always be opposed?
They stopped accepting bitcoins because they started being questioned about its legality under the current banking laws. This is not their specialty, and probably never will be.
Bringing us back to my main point, thats exactly what they're doing now, just with a patina of "not invented here"
If you want to fight the law for the same reason as everyone else with the same goal, you'll probably do better going along with everyone else, rather than going it alone and pretending the greater community doesn't exist. You know, kinda like those CS and programmers and sysadmins who hang around the EFF instead of going it alone WRT freedom on the net.
LOL what we need is a BTC union... that'll go over real well here...
how they are using the operating system
If the great unwashed are "using" the OS then they're doing it wrong.
From the end user perspective the OS is supposed to be an app launcher, not much else.
I've read numerous articles claiming that 99% or whatever twitter accounts have either one or zero tweets sent. Probably 99% of them are spammer accounts but 1% of them might be like my account, join up, WTF is this, bye bye, never log in again.
My guess is to control DB load you roll it out by archive size gradually. So corporate PR team who has sent 150K tweets gets it today, then drop the limit by 1K pre day or whatever...
How is it going to detect whether people were paid to write something?
Thanks for pointing out a minor bug in my project design. The answer, of course, is it doesn't matter. If a "tech" site is getting flooded with unemployed journalism grads posting stereotypical political talking points who cares if they're being paid or not, block the fools.
AstroturfBlock would be exactly like how I don't care if an ad account is in collections with the middlemen, or its a donation, or whatever, I just want adblock to block ads.
Sounds like they described the ideal business model for a bitcoin implementation. The EFF should accept bitcoins. Oh wait, they did, then the idiots stopped for no apparent reason.
Looks like a anti-design pattern of "not invented here". My gut level guess is we're about to see the release of a BTC fork called "effcoins" or something dumb like that. Exactly like BTC but it'll have a different name.
Don't get me wrong I'm a EFF cheerleader, love their goals and ideals, and I'm a past donator, they just really dropped the ball on this specific topic.
The profiling competition only bins into 10s / 20s / 30s which seems extremely lame. Can't they at least try Myers Briggs category or something? Maybe that would be too patented/copyrighted....
Wake me when they make something monetizable (OK the categorize tool reports: highly educated, technically oriented, 30s, raised in the midwest, ultra low TV viewing quotient, classical education literature coeff extremely high, also a high sci fi reading coeff, verbal indications of extreme physical attractiveness ... mush that up against the user DB and ... oh I see that's VLM (69642) trying to post as AC)
This would have been a lot more fun about two months ago to detect paid political astroturfers.
The ultimate AI-ish application would be an astroturfer plugin for chrome probably called "AstroturfBlock". So the site is a "tech" site, the contents are pure politics, and the text analysis system indicates an unemployed liberal arts degree holder... Go ahead and block it.
It is about which networks you use.
Twitter is a service primarily organized for paid PR shills release carefully crafted tweets under corporate branded officer names which journalists read and comment on. Its basically the worlds briefest PR news release distribution company which is open to the general public, although most people don't use it. Its completely inappropriate for an underling to issue his own news releases without talking to his boss first, and apparently Sr. VP Eng is not supposed to upstage the marketing department by releasing his own PR messages.
G+ is not quite the same business model. If you want to publish cat pictures or comment on your competitors, or whatever, do it there.