What I read does not shake my faith. [If it does...'
THAT was my exact line wrt: The Da Vinci Code. If a single movie can shake your faith, you don't have any to start with. "Protecting them" from evil movies, books, ideas, etc is just keeping the sheep together and dumb.
Your call is important to us, please hold.
Our menu options have changed, please listen to them all again.
Elect me, and I'll... {whatever.}
Order Now! Supplies are limited.
Thank you for holding -- so how can I make you hang up faster?
Who knows what new technology will allow authorities to uncover what you were doing years ago..
Like the internet, vs the "Right to be Forgotten" law?
I still think if it's listed somewhere on a website then Google (et all) should index and search it, as well as (of course) providing a link to it. If it's not true or someone has a problem, they can go correct the original hosting site, and soon the bad info will be gone from the search engines.
Making the engines not provide things is like adding on to the "dark web".
Hitler agrees completely with the "Right to be Forgotten", and wishes it would hurry up and be applied to everyone already. He's also upset about OTHER THINGS as well.
Hindsight is always 20/20. We've had at least a month or two of widespread technical improvements since then.
Personally I would have...
?? Then why didn't you?
Don't get me wrong -- I've also the same things many times over the years. I'm just now getting to the point where seeing that current knowledge and history of the past kinda helps guide you, while at the time there were no indicators or guidelines and they were fumbling around in the darkness.
We really do "stand on the shoulders of giants", and shorter people as well.
Really? So there's just one of them? -- one data?
I guess I really WOULDN'T download a car, then.
Don't worry: it's not the ACTUAL people, it's only some data about them -- y'know, METAdata. No big.
Or is that metapeople? Nope. Datapeople? Maybe. Peopledata? Again, maybe.
Just like all NICs have a unique MAC address*, let's just wait until an evil Russian spy corrupting FaceBook** appears in two different places at once. It should be easy to detect, I'm sure the NSA's computers will all immediately crash since it's never had to process data that way before. (New code path, dont-cha-know?)
* I've heard a decade ago that Compaq? issued some NICs with burned-in duplicate MACs which made for a fine mess. And then supposedly, this.
** an evil Russian spy corrupting FaceBook. Y'know, I'm not sure who'd be corrupting whom.
?? That's not a troll, I _LITERALLY_ don't read anything -- ANYTHING --from her/them. Period. Don't care if she says the sun rises in the East/West, the Earth is flat/round/square, whatever. Her sites are in the kill file; I don't waste my time with her, if it's actually useful I'm sure I'll bump across it some other way. But *not* from her.
Kinda like critics, for movies and otherwise: Some I like, some I don't, a LOT I've decided I'm not going to bother with. We don't think the same or like the same things, and that's fine. But I'm not going to see a movie (or whatever) they recommend just because they recommended it or they didn't.
digging through dusty file cabinets to retrieve the data and copy it
WHAAAT? YOU've seen those pictures of data centers on TV and movies, right? Those are just billions of pieces of paper -- ON A COMPUTER! And those places are drafty and noisy and sometimes even dark. And you want scribes to say in that tiresome environment, open cabinets, pull out drives and examine them? Each drive contain millions of pieces of paper, can you IMAGINE how heavy it is?
And you want and expect them to do it for free, when they require sumo wrestlers just to move a single drive around, never mind open it up and use a magnifying glass to search all thay tiny text.
I've never HEARD of such a stupid proposal in my life. Well, except for New Coke.
Is forcibly taking money from one person who works and giving it to someone who doesn't is morally acceptable?
It depends on which side has more people.
Actually, have extra and giving some away USED to be called charity, or 10% to the church, tithing. But the ones giving decided how much and exactly where it went.
NOW we seem to be pushing more for the government to take "what's necessary" and to decide "who has extra." Gee, isn't that sliding into communism, where everyone gets just what they need? (I need a porsche BTW -- one for each day of the month.)
Yeeeah. All that pr0n in my home directory? I collected it all from websites and was going to turn it all over to the authorities, I just hadn't quiiiite gotten around to it yet.
I like K. It's better than C or F because it appears later in the alphabet. And you don't have to bother with those silly negative numbers -- HOW can you have a negative temperature?
0K - a bit too cold.
300K - reasonable
3000K - a bit too hot.
6000K - a bit too hot AND bright. (Link)
-1K - you divided by 0.
More than 1,000 years ago, the Spanish archbishop Agobard of Lyon argued that no witch could control the weather because only God could understand it.
Some people complain Harry Potter is evil because of "magic". Same complaint for other shows.
Yet they go home, wave their hands, and suddenly night turns to day (hit the light power switch.)
Their house is somehow cool in the Dog Days of summer. (AC)
They open a door, pull out cold food that was cut/killed weeks ago, and it's still good. They put it in a different box, and 2 minutes later it's hot. (fridge, microwave.)
They handle a small box and suddenly demon voices imitating their friends are responding to them. (cell phone.)
They handle a different box and far-away scenes and audio appear, some that don't exist. (TV)
Noisy flying demons fly thru the clouds to induce rain. (Cloud seeding)
Be careful flinging around the word magic, because soon it might be everyday common knowledge. Burning all the witches might leave you stuck longer in the dark ages, struggling to survive.
OTOH, some witches might open up Pandora's box, never mind SkyNet.
as a step toward someday preventing inherited diseases
"the hope is that the approach could help blind people carrying the mutation have genetically related children whose vision is normal"
Very surprisingly to me, this is generally NOT an immediate accepted topic / action / result.
IT'S GONE NOW -- I read it and was shocked. I immediately thought of Ender's Game book 3? where the ?antagonist? -- who had to start and follow wood grain lines until the gods were satisfied -- didn't want to be cured, but also couldn't disrespect her father, so was cured against her will.
It said: A prominent disabilities activist spoke against the use of genetic editing to eliminate diseases from birth because it would be tantamount to a "genocide" against the culture of the disabled.
We're talking about removal of diseases," she said. "That's forever. That's a change -- a modification -- that will be passed on to future generations. So that's actually genocide. It's a form of eugenics where certain lived experiences are seen as undesirable and unimaginable."
... argued that disabled people are a community unto themselves and that eliminating their conditions means erasing the potential future of their culture. She asked, "Where is the line between what society perceives to be a horrible genetic mutation and someone's culture?"
I'm like: DO IT. And do it AGAIN just to make sure. And if you're bored, check to see if you need to do it AGAIN. If you want to be deaf, you can always stick bananas in your ears. Or your eyes. Or any other random orifices.
10F is not too cold. But 10F with 40mph winds is too cold. School can wait till Monday.
It's called snow days. You miss a day in winter, fine; you MAKE IT UP in summer. You don't skip it, do half-days, whatever to administratively cheat -- everything is simply pushed back a day. In particular, the start of summer vacation is as well. Oops.
You want and expect people to actually think? How quaint.
What if they notice the world usually can't be broken down into "my way" or "that's all wrong" within a 3-second soundbite? You might confuse their "Personal Truth" and make them hurt and upset.
Psst -- sometimes in anime, "Personal Truth" is the method used to magically change the world; you believe something hard enough that it actually becomes reality. I'm waiting with baited breath for the first actual magical wizard 20-somethings to appear.
Also psst -- back in the 70's in public high school, we studied that.
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What I read does not shake my faith. [If it does...'
THAT was my exact line wrt: The Da Vinci Code. If a single movie can shake your faith, you don't have any to start with. "Protecting them" from evil movies, books, ideas, etc is just keeping the sheep together and dumb.
Even more:
... {whatever.}
Your call is important to us, please hold.
Our menu options have changed, please listen to them all again.
Elect me, and I'll
Order Now! Supplies are limited.
Thank you for holding -- so how can I make you hang up faster?
Who knows what new technology will allow authorities to uncover what you were doing years ago..
Like the internet, vs the "Right to be Forgotten" law?
I still think if it's listed somewhere on a website then Google (et all) should index and search it, as well as (of course) providing a link to it. If it's not true or someone has a problem, they can go correct the original hosting site, and soon the bad info will be gone from the search engines.
Making the engines not provide things is like adding on to the "dark web".
Hitler agrees completely with the "Right to be Forgotten", and wishes it would hurry up and be applied to everyone already. He's also upset about OTHER THINGS as well.
Personally I would have ...
?? Then why didn't you?
Don't get me wrong -- I've also the same things many times over the years. I'm just now getting to the point where seeing that current knowledge and history of the past kinda helps guide you, while at the time there were no indicators or guidelines and they were fumbling around in the darkness.
We really do "stand on the shoulders of giants", and shorter people as well.
Really? So there's just one of them? -- one data? I guess I really WOULDN'T download a car, then.
Don't worry: it's not the ACTUAL people, it's only some data about them -- y'know, METAdata. No big.
Or is that metapeople? Nope. Datapeople? Maybe. Peopledata? Again, maybe.
Just like all NICs have a unique MAC address*, let's just wait until an evil Russian spy corrupting FaceBook** appears in two different places at once. It should be easy to detect, I'm sure the NSA's computers will all immediately crash since it's never had to process data that way before. (New code path, dont-cha-know?)
* I've heard a decade ago that Compaq? issued some NICs with burned-in duplicate MACs which made for a fine mess. And then supposedly, this.
** an evil Russian spy corrupting FaceBook. Y'know, I'm not sure who'd be corrupting whom.
What's the problem? It's only money.
Wow! Y2K38 came early.
?? That's not a troll, I _LITERALLY_ don't read anything -- ANYTHING --from her/them. Period. Don't care if she says the sun rises in the East/West, the Earth is flat/round/square, whatever. Her sites are in the kill file; I don't waste my time with her, if it's actually useful I'm sure I'll bump across it some other way. But *not* from her.
Kinda like critics, for movies and otherwise: Some I like, some I don't, a LOT I've decided I'm not going to bother with. We don't think the same or like the same things, and that's fine. But I'm not going to see a movie (or whatever) they recommend just because they recommended it or they didn't.
At this rate I'll be sleeping for nearly 200 hours per day this time next year.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
not have geographically redundant data centers?
We've already got one, with backups even -- let's go buy something new.
"Huffington." That's all I needed to know -- thanks, I'm done with this article.
If you don't have the skill to do it. Don't
Be at ease, citizen -- Dunning-Kruger Man is here you rescue you from your folly!
ALIENS. *FINALLY* someone is fessing up to it. Ob. link.
And an AI found it. You realize it takes one to know one, right?
digging through dusty file cabinets to retrieve the data and copy it
WHAAAT? YOU've seen those pictures of data centers on TV and movies, right? Those are just billions of pieces of paper -- ON A COMPUTER! And those places are drafty and noisy and sometimes even dark. And you want scribes to say in that tiresome environment, open cabinets, pull out drives and examine them? Each drive contain millions of pieces of paper, can you IMAGINE how heavy it is?
And you want and expect them to do it for free, when they require sumo wrestlers just to move a single drive around, never mind open it up and use a magnifying glass to search all thay tiny text.
I've never HEARD of such a stupid proposal in my life. Well, except for New Coke.
Is forcibly taking money from one person who works and giving it to someone who doesn't is morally acceptable?
It depends on which side has more people.
Actually, have extra and giving some away USED to be called charity, or 10% to the church, tithing. But the ones giving decided how much and exactly where it went.
NOW we seem to be pushing more for the government to take "what's necessary" and to decide "who has extra." Gee, isn't that sliding into communism, where everyone gets just what they need? (I need a porsche BTW -- one for each day of the month.)
having been given billions in subsidies by those same customers.
Oh no, you're wrong. That's money is from the government -- it's COMPLETELY different. (Sigh.....)
Just like my soul.
Or at least personality -- instead of the SuperBowl I watched this instead. Much funner.
I *DID* miss the Puppy Bowl though; I'm ashamed of that.
Yeeeah. All that pr0n in my home directory? I collected it all from websites and was going to turn it all over to the authorities, I just hadn't quiiiite gotten around to it yet.
Google Security Blog Info.
Chrome Extension
This is the 21st century, nobody is going to take pipe wrench to your ass.
If it was good enough for the Godfather, it's good enough for me.
No marks when done by a professional
Amateur. You ALWAYS sign your work. If I'd wanted deniability, then you wouldn't ever find the subject to start with.
What more is necessary to know?
I like K. It's better than C or F because it appears later in the alphabet. And you don't have to bother with those silly negative numbers -- HOW can you have a negative temperature?
0K - a bit too cold.
300K - reasonable
3000K - a bit too hot.
6000K - a bit too hot AND bright. (Link)
-1K - you divided by 0.
More than 1,000 years ago, the Spanish archbishop Agobard of Lyon argued that no witch could control the weather because only God could understand it.
Some people complain Harry Potter is evil because of "magic". Same complaint for other shows.
Yet they go home, wave their hands, and suddenly night turns to day (hit the light power switch.)
Their house is somehow cool in the Dog Days of summer. (AC)
They open a door, pull out cold food that was cut/killed weeks ago, and it's still good. They put it in a different box, and 2 minutes later it's hot. (fridge, microwave.)
They handle a small box and suddenly demon voices imitating their friends are responding to them. (cell phone.)
They handle a different box and far-away scenes and audio appear, some that don't exist. (TV)
Noisy flying demons fly thru the clouds to induce rain. (Cloud seeding)
Be careful flinging around the word magic, because soon it might be everyday common knowledge. Burning all the witches might leave you stuck longer in the dark ages, struggling to survive.
OTOH, some witches might open up Pandora's box, never mind SkyNet.
as a step toward someday preventing inherited diseases
"the hope is that the approach could help blind people carrying the mutation have genetically related children whose vision is normal"
... argued that disabled people are a community unto themselves and that eliminating their conditions means erasing the potential future of their culture. She asked, "Where is the line between what society perceives to be a horrible genetic mutation and someone's culture?"
Very surprisingly to me, this is generally NOT an immediate accepted topic / action / result. IT'S GONE NOW -- I read it and was shocked. I immediately thought of Ender's Game book 3? where the ?antagonist? -- who had to start and follow wood grain lines until the gods were satisfied -- didn't want to be cured, but also couldn't disrespect her father, so was cured against her will.
There was an article (actually, an opinion piece) that was (not any more!) at: https://www.pluralist.com/post....
It said: A prominent disabilities activist spoke against the use of genetic editing to eliminate diseases from birth because it would be tantamount to a "genocide" against the culture of the disabled.
Link. Other link Discussion
We're talking about removal of diseases," she said. "That's forever. That's a change -- a modification -- that will be passed on to future generations. So that's actually genocide. It's a form of eugenics where certain lived experiences are seen as undesirable and unimaginable."
The Eye of the Beholder
I'm like: DO IT. And do it AGAIN just to make sure. And if you're bored, check to see if you need to do it AGAIN. If you want to be deaf, you can always stick bananas in your ears. Or your eyes. Or any other random orifices.
10F is not too cold. But 10F with 40mph winds is too cold. School can wait till Monday.
It's called snow days. You miss a day in winter, fine; you MAKE IT UP in summer. You don't skip it, do half-days, whatever to administratively cheat -- everything is simply pushed back a day. In particular, the start of summer vacation is as well. Oops.
You want and expect people to actually think? How quaint.
What if they notice the world usually can't be broken down into "my way" or "that's all wrong" within a 3-second soundbite? You might confuse their "Personal Truth" and make them hurt and upset.
Psst -- sometimes in anime, "Personal Truth" is the method used to magically change the world; you believe something hard enough that it actually becomes reality. I'm waiting with baited breath for the first actual magical wizard 20-somethings to appear.
Also psst -- back in the 70's in public high school, we studied that.