Blamestorming. I had to do a triple-take on that one. One to misread it and realise it wasn't what I expected, two to accurately read it and be surprised, and three to make sure I'd actually read what I thought I read.
I learned a new word -- thanks!! I think I'll steal, no sorry, copy it, since you still have use of the original.
"You wouldn't download a car, would you?" No, I already have one of those. Now a boat or a nuclear reactor or a GF -- THOSE might be interesting.
OTOH, I might download a car every day if it's already full of gas. No more trips to the gas station! And a dirty car? No more trips to the car wash, either. THINK of all of the water and time we'll save -- that'll give us more time to go mudding!
a tech/media corporate decides who allegedly committed alleged crimes
Those NAUGHTY, EVIL IP addresses -- they should remove them from the available DHCP range and make them go stand in the corner until they see the transmission errors of their ways.
Good. Send a pipe bomb to all of my enemies at my school with 2-day shipping. Oh, make sure they're rated 4 stars or better. And make this a Subscribe & Save entry as well. Thanks -- I'm glad you're my friend!
disenfranchising felons (and making it impossible for them to get their rights back)
GOOD. It's a shame it's not permanent; I thought that was one of the effects of committing a serious crime. OTOH, once you've served your time you're supposed to have "completed your punishment for your crime against society", so I guess I that need to agree with you here. (Bah! I hate it when I have to be consistent.)
and my personal favorite stationing armed police in riot gear outside polls in predominately black neighborhoods to "keep order"
Really? I did early voting the other day in my "predominately black neighborhood". There were 30 people in line when I got there, 40 when I left. I was one of 3 Black-Impaired people in line. No guards, no police, just a few bored poll-workers and 2 officials? who actually activated the touch machines with their paper trail that showed the result of you pressing buttons in real-time.
Of course the library is maybe 1,000 feet from the area police substation, so I guess the police in riot gear were taking a smoke break.
OTOH, it's not Tuesday, when the clubs and tear-gas would have a greater effect. I sure am glad there are no black policemen or I'd be worried!
Bingo, me too. I'm too poor to get an iPhone, I've got a years old Android or two. I get internet ONLY (29Mb/6Mb), and then OTA for Tivo. Well, and then add in Roku, Fire and Plex, and HiDive. I also (accidentally) have Verizon unlimited* internet as a backup for the few times Comcast goes down.
* the OLD actually-unlimited plan, with limited voice and text. Which is full speed unlimited data until 100GB DL, and then it switches to 0.0T since they drop you next month, so I hear. And if you heavily target a single site it's magically unreachable the next month but works fine elsewhere. It's amazing how sensitive the internet is.
. No customer-owned modems allowed for business accounts at all. They claim it's to "maintain the quality of their business network"
I've got Comcast Business, with a force-rented modem. I understand that it's actually for support -- if you call with a problem as a business customer, you want it fixed. And they don't want to futz with yet ANOTHER modem, and what's it's password, and what do you mean you don't know?
Besides, if you're a "business customer" then that's just another ongoing cost of doing business, no big. This way they know *everything* up past the demarc to your edge of the network and they know EXACTLY what to expect once they get there.
They also give you (most of) the controls for it as well, so you can make reasonable changes. One of the techs was surprised that I had changed from their default/24 network. Not that it bothered him at all, but apparently no one else bothers to do so.
You can even imagine some distant future where a corporate AI conglomerate that takes over Netflix vanishes some Netflix original content you enjoyed, for some inscrutable reason...
I'll be zapped for this, but fine: Disney and The Song of the South. Findable, but basically gone. I understand Disney bought all of the available copies and buried it, intending for it never to be released again.
Fantasia? There are a couple of Framing Improvements in the current release. And we won't even talk about the "improvements" to Star Wars from the original 1977? release. (Han shot first. And: Star Trek TMP3: Keep Spock Dead.)
Also, there are some cartoons which I remember fondly which are now "culturally insensitive". I thought cartoons were supposed to be a caricature of reality. I loved the two hopping minor birds and the little boy always chasing them. (AKA the Coyote?)
My mom loved Little Black Sambo -- she though he was so ingenious climbing the tree and letting the tigers turn to butter.
Oh, and there's Polock jokes (I told one today as a matter of fact), there's Blond Jokes which I used to collect (Do you know why a Blond Woman had bruises by her belly button? Gurer ner Oybaq zra, gbb.) and Black and White and Asian and Eskimo and English and American jokes as well.
In an old popular Nature/Science show, The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, I understand JC used cattle-prods and such to make the animals do what he wanted on demand for the camera. I understand he thought it was better to coerce a few animals in order for people to understand the species in general. Now-a-days those shows would probably be burned as heresy. Oh, and if I got it right here, That Terrible Evil Person is also the inventor of scuba, as in underwater scuba gear.
Having things online is extremely handy. But like all important things, you need multiple copies in your possession or you DON'T actually have them.
severely harming the criminal -- by having him arrested
What? Just being arrested is being severely harmed? No. At best they GOTCHA or at worst it's a waste of everyone's time. But we want to make absolutely sure the bad guys never get away, right?
More like:
if Is_This_A_Person() then Report(Yes);
else Report(No);
Of course bringing asset forfeiture into the picture:
if Is_This_A_Person() then Report(Yes);
if Is_This_An_Object() then Report(Yes);
else Report(No);
So, and I'm guessing here, Honor used to be a much more vaunted concept (hence duels to the death for the insulted) than today, and "random" imprisonment by the King (or their representative) used to be much more of a harsh and permanent thing.
I fear for the day we're 100% efficient, since NO ONE'S innocent of everything. Of course the ones making the rules are exempt, almost by definition. With computer security, computer administrators are usually exceptions so they can help implement, check, and debug (and repair!) the rules.
I'll just keep using Google News & Weather, which is better anyway.
oh wait
THIS. I came here to basically say this. I used it until a few weeks ago when it's data source was forcibly retired. I tried the new app, hated it, told google so (I'm sure they took notice!), and removed it.
I'm now using other, non-Google apps for news. RSS readers are great! (Although I'm sure they're tracking me anyway.)
Naaaaa -- don't you know, it's like the CLOUD baby, where everything goes and you push responsibility as far as you can and then right out the window. There's NO problems at all that an online contract or ROM update won't fix. And of course with surface mount chips, unfixable hardware, and no one ever reading the legals, they'll have to buy your *next* product with it's OWN new problems.
Planned Obsolescence? That's so 1990s. Now they need to pay you for your new product while the old one's still working! It's a joy to behold! Catch up with the times already baby; the Good Times are Here!
the project could generate an exabyte (1 billion gigabytes) of raw data every day, the equivalent of 300 LoCs.
Bytes, meters, inches, gallons, tons, carets, troy ounces, femtoseconds, microwatts -- pshaw, I was WONDERING when we were going to get back to normal units of measurement. Now who wants a pony?
Back on Topic: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
-- A. S. Tanenbaum
Yes. Then FIRE THEM. And even better, that solves the GUI problem that every-version-has-a-change-somehow. How? Because the "helper" still wants to help so they rearrange the GUI to look/be "better" for next time. And then they do it again. And AGAIN.
You change it when you NEED to change it, not because it's Tuesday and this field suddenly needs to be over there.
It's one thing if you get it wrong and everyone (EVERYONE) complains, it's another if it's a major upgrade with new fields and options. It just sucks though when someone does a GUI.randomize() just because they can.
"What's THAT?" they say. That's a computer. "But where the monitor?" It doesn't have one. "(smugly) Then it's not a computer, is it?
A friend of mine has a picture of a guy praying: Lord, please grant me the ability to stab people over UDP. It's this, but improved. I think he was doing port knocking with attitude.
But they didn't draw maps and they didn't make this discovery known to the rest of the world. There's the difference.
You mean you're discriminating against his highly important historical import just because he couldn't draw and was highly introverted?
That's racist -- I'll sic the SJWs on you if you don't correct your impudent way of thinking. And BTW, get the name right: it was Leif Ericsdaughter. The next thing you know, you'll say zi didn't know how to use the internet.
I suppose I tend to frequently use the same phrases there.
Me too:
No.
Have you rebooted it? Really? The TV, or the box under it?
CAPSLOCK IS JUST TO THE RIGHT OF THE A key.
Your printer probably IS out of paper/ink/toner.
No.
The FBI/CIA is NOT watching you type. You are NOT the 1,000 viewer today. Microsoft will NOT call you.
Ever.
No, I don't know what your passwords are. Try PASSWORD.
Unless YOU are now installing a NEW software package, you do NOT need to install anything else. NOTHING. No Thing. Click Cancel.
Do NOT disable the virus scanner.
Yes, Windows Updates sucks.
Have you checked your backups lately?
No Bit- or ANYTHING-Coin. If it's not denominated in Dollars, ignore it.
If you do that, I won't help you anymore. I will know if you do. Don't do that.
No.
Forget four letter words, I'm trying to get them to understand TWO-letter words. One in particular.
Like over a decade ago (I can't find any trace of it now!) I remember the ?NSA? producing a limited quanity of "special" hardware tampered-with chips, and giving them out to computer companies, asking their techs to find as many problems as they could.
There were supposedly password-bypassing tweaks and other inside goodies. Never heard a follow-up of what the results were.
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between problem-solving and blamestorming
Blamestorming. I had to do a triple-take on that one. One to misread it and realise it wasn't what I expected, two to accurately read it and be surprised, and three to make sure I'd actually read what I thought I read.
I learned a new word -- thanks!! I think I'll steal, no sorry, copy it, since you still have use of the original.
"You wouldn't download a car, would you?" No, I already have one of those. Now a boat or a nuclear reactor or a GF -- THOSE might be interesting.
OTOH, I might download a car every day if it's already full of gas. No more trips to the gas station! And a dirty car? No more trips to the car wash, either. THINK of all of the water and time we'll save -- that'll give us more time to go mudding!
a tech/media corporate decides who allegedly committed alleged crimes
Those NAUGHTY, EVIL IP addresses -- they should remove them from the available DHCP range and make them go stand in the corner until they see the transmission errors of their ways.
Good. Send a pipe bomb to all of my enemies at my school with 2-day shipping. Oh, make sure they're rated 4 stars or better. And make this a Subscribe & Save entry as well. Thanks -- I'm glad you're my friend!
disenfranchising felons (and making it impossible for them to get their rights back)
GOOD. It's a shame it's not permanent; I thought that was one of the effects of committing a serious crime. OTOH, once you've served your time you're supposed to have "completed your punishment for your crime against society", so I guess I that need to agree with you here. (Bah! I hate it when I have to be consistent.)
and my personal favorite stationing armed police in riot gear outside polls in predominately black neighborhoods to "keep order"
Really? I did early voting the other day in my "predominately black neighborhood". There were 30 people in line when I got there, 40 when I left. I was one of 3 Black-Impaired people in line. No guards, no police, just a few bored poll-workers and 2 officials? who actually activated the touch machines with their paper trail that showed the result of you pressing buttons in real-time.
Of course the library is maybe 1,000 feet from the area police substation, so I guess the police in riot gear were taking a smoke break.
OTOH, it's not Tuesday, when the clubs and tear-gas would have a greater effect. I sure am glad there are no black policemen or I'd be worried!
Bingo, me too. I'm too poor to get an iPhone, I've got a years old Android or two. I get internet ONLY (29Mb/6Mb), and then OTA for Tivo. Well, and then add in Roku, Fire and Plex, and HiDive. I also (accidentally) have Verizon unlimited* internet as a backup for the few times Comcast goes down.
* the OLD actually-unlimited plan, with limited voice and text. Which is full speed unlimited data until 100GB DL, and then it switches to 0.0T since they drop you next month, so I hear. And if you heavily target a single site it's magically unreachable the next month but works fine elsewhere. It's amazing how sensitive the internet is.
. No customer-owned modems allowed for business accounts at all. They claim it's to "maintain the quality of their business network"
I've got Comcast Business, with a force-rented modem. I understand that it's actually for support -- if you call with a problem as a business customer, you want it fixed. And they don't want to futz with yet ANOTHER modem, and what's it's password, and what do you mean you don't know?
/24 network. Not that it bothered him at all, but apparently no one else bothers to do so.
Besides, if you're a "business customer" then that's just another ongoing cost of doing business, no big. This way they know *everything* up past the demarc to your edge of the network and they know EXACTLY what to expect once they get there.
They also give you (most of) the controls for it as well, so you can make reasonable changes. One of the techs was surprised that I had changed from their default
You can even imagine some distant future where a corporate AI conglomerate that takes over Netflix vanishes some Netflix original content you enjoyed, for some inscrutable reason...
I'll be zapped for this, but fine: Disney and The Song of the South. Findable, but basically gone. I understand Disney bought all of the available copies and buried it, intending for it never to be released again. Fantasia? There are a couple of Framing Improvements in the current release. And we won't even talk about the "improvements" to Star Wars from the original 1977? release. (Han shot first. And: Star Trek TMP3: Keep Spock Dead.)
Also, there are some cartoons which I remember fondly which are now "culturally insensitive". I thought cartoons were supposed to be a caricature of reality. I loved the two hopping minor birds and the little boy always chasing them. (AKA the Coyote?)
My mom loved Little Black Sambo -- she though he was so ingenious climbing the tree and letting the tigers turn to butter.
Oh, and there's Polock jokes (I told one today as a matter of fact), there's Blond Jokes which I used to collect (Do you know why a Blond Woman had bruises by her belly button? Gurer ner Oybaq zra, gbb.) and Black and White and Asian and Eskimo and English and American jokes as well.
In an old popular Nature/Science show, The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, I understand JC used cattle-prods and such to make the animals do what he wanted on demand for the camera. I understand he thought it was better to coerce a few animals in order for people to understand the species in general. Now-a-days those shows would probably be burned as heresy. Oh, and if I got it right here, That Terrible Evil Person is also the inventor of scuba, as in underwater scuba gear.
Having things online is extremely handy. But like all important things, you need multiple copies in your possession or you DON'T actually have them.
severely harming the criminal -- by having him arrested
What? Just being arrested is being severely harmed? No. At best they GOTCHA or at worst it's a waste of everyone's time. But we want to make absolutely sure the bad guys never get away, right?
More like:
if Is_This_A_Person() then Report(Yes);
else Report(No);
Of course bringing asset forfeiture into the picture:
if Is_This_A_Person() then Report(Yes);
if Is_This_An_Object() then Report(Yes);
else Report(No);
Or for the latter, a much simpler:
Report(Yes);
BF would NOT be happy with this. That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer
So, and I'm guessing here, Honor used to be a much more vaunted concept (hence duels to the death for the insulted) than today, and "random" imprisonment by the King (or their representative) used to be much more of a harsh and permanent thing.
I fear for the day we're 100% efficient, since NO ONE'S innocent of everything. Of course the ones making the rules are exempt, almost by definition. With computer security, computer administrators are usually exceptions so they can help implement, check, and debug (and repair!) the rules.
I'll just keep using Google News & Weather, which is better anyway.
oh wait
THIS. I came here to basically say this. I used it until a few weeks ago when it's data source was forcibly retired. I tried the new app, hated it, told google so (I'm sure they took notice!), and removed it.
I'm now using other, non-Google apps for news. RSS readers are great! (Although I'm sure they're tracking me anyway.)
and then maybe it will stop.
Naaaaa -- don't you know, it's like the CLOUD baby, where everything goes and you push responsibility as far as you can and then right out the window. There's NO problems at all that an online contract or ROM update won't fix. And of course with surface mount chips, unfixable hardware, and no one ever reading the legals, they'll have to buy your *next* product with it's OWN new problems.
Planned Obsolescence? That's so 1990s. Now they need to pay you for your new product while the old one's still working! It's a joy to behold! Catch up with the times already baby; the Good Times are Here!
Au contraire - who said that it was YOUR data to begin with? You're just the person in the picture while still in your house.
If you didn't want the insides of your home to become public property, you shouldn't have put it all out there to begin with.
even string theory is more plausible than supersymmetry
Just like Scientology believes in Xenu, I was under the impression that String Theory's hidden ultimate idea is that God is a Cat. It that not right?
I'll stop laughing when they break some crypto.
I hear they've already broken ROT-13 with this. Next in their sights is double ROT-13. Woe is me with my encrypted joke answers.
the project could generate an exabyte (1 billion gigabytes) of raw data every day, the equivalent of 300 LoCs.
Bytes, meters, inches, gallons, tons, carets, troy ounces, femtoseconds, microwatts -- pshaw, I was WONDERING when we were going to get back to normal units of measurement. Now who wants a pony?
Back on Topic: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. -- A. S. Tanenbaum
They can always amp-up the emitters if they have a lawless uprising in the city.
THAT's no moon, it's a .... errrm, well it IS a moon, but that's not what I meant.
TL;DR: Muscle Memory.
Yes. Then FIRE THEM. And even better, that solves the GUI problem that every-version-has-a-change-somehow. How? Because the "helper" still wants to help so they rearrange the GUI to look/be "better" for next time. And then they do it again. And AGAIN.
You change it when you NEED to change it, not because it's Tuesday and this field suddenly needs to be over there.
It's one thing if you get it wrong and everyone (EVERYONE) complains, it's another if it's a major upgrade with new fields and options. It just sucks though when someone does a GUI.randomize() just because they can.
record the double slit experiment and find out what is really going on.
All of the electrons have a happy face with a tongue sicking out as they pass thru either/both/neither slits.
Link I like #2 personally.
account name "admin," no password.
I know some admins like that.
"What's THAT?" they say. That's a computer.
"But where the monitor?" It doesn't have one.
"(smugly) Then it's not a computer, is it?
A friend of mine has a picture of a guy praying: Lord, please grant me the ability to stab people over UDP. It's this, but improved. I think he was doing port knocking with attitude.
Or new music is crap and I already ripped/pirated everything I'll ever want to listen to decades ago.
UNTIL your hard drive dies, like mine just did. Brother, can you spare a MP3?
But they didn't draw maps and they didn't make this discovery known to the rest of the world. There's the difference.
You mean you're discriminating against his highly important historical import just because he couldn't draw and was highly introverted?
That's racist -- I'll sic the SJWs on you if you don't correct your impudent way of thinking. And BTW, get the name right: it was Leif Ericsdaughter. The next thing you know, you'll say zi didn't know how to use the internet.
Thank you. That's what I was about to say, but you did it nicer.
I suppose I tend to frequently use the same phrases there.
Me too:
No.
Have you rebooted it?
Really? The TV, or the box under it?
CAPSLOCK IS JUST TO THE RIGHT OF THE A key.
Your printer probably IS out of paper/ink/toner.
No.
The FBI/CIA is NOT watching you type. You are NOT the 1,000 viewer today. Microsoft will NOT call you. Ever.
No, I don't know what your passwords are. Try PASSWORD.
Unless YOU are now installing a NEW software package, you do NOT need to install anything else. NOTHING. No Thing. Click Cancel.
Do NOT disable the virus scanner.
Yes, Windows Updates sucks.
Have you checked your backups lately?
No Bit- or ANYTHING-Coin. If it's not denominated in Dollars, ignore it.
If you do that, I won't help you anymore. I will know if you do. Don't do that.
No.
Forget four letter words, I'm trying to get them to understand TWO-letter words. One in particular.
Art is about things like communicating ideas and finding new ways to express them. So: DRM (Digital Rights Management) is now Art?
THAT's a way of expressing yourself -- by saying "NO". (Corporations are People Two.)
* someone wanted to demonstrate they could get the press to print anything, no matter how ridiculous.
Here's an article about a series of academic-journal hoaxes which were trying to get printed in the "the best journals in the relevant fields." --- Is Huge Publishing Hoax 'Hilarious and Delightful' or an Ugly Example of Dishonesty and Bad Faith?
Of the 20, seven papers were accepted, four were published online, and three were in process when the authors [stopped.]
"It could be all of the above. But really, the story is bullshit." -- I complete agree with you here.
Like over a decade ago (I can't find any trace of it now!) I remember the ?NSA? producing a limited quanity of "special" hardware tampered-with chips, and giving them out to computer companies, asking their techs to find as many problems as they could.
There were supposedly password-bypassing tweaks and other inside goodies. Never heard a follow-up of what the results were.