A skeptic doesn't swallow anything as truth, that includes the belief that homeopathy doesn't work because nobody has proven it yet, do you not know how science works?
Medical science begins with the assumption that a treatment does not work, until shown otherwise. You know scientific experimentation begins with a hypothesis, and that hypothesis is either supported or not supported by the experiment(s). Science does not set out to prove that X does not do Y, that is the null hypothesis, which is unprovable. For further demonstration of this idea, see any of our religion debates.
This guy is going to die someday and his wife and kids are going to toss all this crap right into the dustbin.
It belongs in a museum!
Seriously though, Wolfram seems like an intelligent guy; as such, I doubt he's expecting to care about his data after he's dead. Further, if he enjoys his (unusual) hobby at the detriment of no one, he should absolutely carry on. Finally, having some idea of his meticulousness, he's probably already got the meta-analytics he needs to make an objective determination of the psychological/physiological/monetary value(s) he derives from personal analytics. =)
The only difference between the politicians on left and the right is which set of corporations they support.
FTFY. Sane, intelligent individuals, no matter how far left or right, recognize corporations for what they are: Unfeeling, nearly unbounded forces of nature, with their own welfare as their sole objective. The illusion of altruism that may come from a corporation is either coincidental alignment of human/corporate values, or intentional manipulation in order to separate more monetary lifeblood from the easily manipulated.
Guys, corporations are not people, Citizens United notwithstanding. And they sure as hell aren't your pal. They're not even human, and supposing for a moment they were, they'd be the most sociopathic, morally-bankrupt, vicious apes to walk the Earth. Anyone who needs to cling emotionally to a massive hierarchical organization to feel right, please find a non-profit/charitable organization to be the object of your affection.
My apologies for the tangent. With all the 1984 prophecies unfolding these days, this is one unexpected facet that I find particularly depressing and almost completely ignored.
Not that there's anything wrong with your comment, but I was pointing out that ISPs will still know which sites you are visiting (by IP address). This is a well known problem in secure communications; they know who you are talking to even though they don't know what you have said. And with the current belief of guilt by association, that will still be a problem.
Think 'dissidents read slashdot'.
I know; I know they know the IP your client's requesting, I just wanted to point out the availability and benefit EFF's plugin provides. Certainly, it's preferable to leak only your 4-byte destination IPs to Eve (and Mallory), as opposed to leaking destination IPs, plus kBs-GBs of cleartext payload data transferred to/from said IP. Using HTTPS will still allow Eve to know the site you're communicating with, but not the individual, nor the topic of discussion, without using techniques that are more costly in terms of time, money, effort, risk, reliability, etc.
TLS does nothing to prevent your ISP from knowing which sites your are going to, only the data you are sending and receiving from them.
That's why I use EFF's HTTPS Everywhere. Neither my ISP, nor any other entity between my machine and destination address, have a legitimate need to examine the contents of my traffic. I'm astounded by the number of users here that don't prefer secure connections, as evidenced by number of http links to sites that support https.
3. Teach kids to stand up when a teacher enters and leaves a room [...]
Respect is something that is earned, not something gained through codification. Furthermore, teaching society to bow to authority figures on sight sounds doubleplus ungood to me.
Holy hell, warn some of us at work before posting that. Not that I mind reading up on it, but one thing I don't want to look at (at work or at home) is another man's junk.
I registered as permanent absentee when I turned 18 and since then I get every ballot, local or otherwise, in the mail without having to re-apply each time. Of course, my address is permanent and a residence, so I assume postage is much simpler...but is this "permanent absentee" status just a perk of my jurisdiction? (Alameda country, CA.)
It's probably just a perk of your jurisdiction, what with the Mythbusters shooting off bowling ball cannons and neutron bombs every weekend.
[A]re you kidding, those bony runway models look very bad naked. They would look even worse without their fake boobs. Those are not porn starlet material.
Exactly.
I find it incredible that anyone, advertisers included, regard supermodels as a standard of beauty. For one thing, the physical structure of a supermodel is incompatible with the ingrained human ideal of feminine attractiveness. For example, (off the top of my head...) wide hips and normal (i.e., extant) breasts are preferred; they suggest reduced risk of childbirth complications, and ability to provide nourishment, respectively. Porn producers are intelligent enough to recognize and cater to these ideals. I haven't seen evidence of any porn genre that utilizes the supermodels' body-shape.
In my mind, it seems the fashion industry is aiming closer to the shock-value of old-fashioned freak/geek shows. If girls are basing their diets on these horrors, perhaps she should put down the Cosmo/Seventeen and pick up some healthy, wholesome porn.
Yes, and of course us Swedes are among the best of the lot when it comes to "Socialism". And even so, our economy grows faster than yours and our GDP per capita is higher than yours. (And no, we don't have any oil to sell, that's the Norwegians).
FTFY.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I'd like to, but the DEA would probably come and smash down my door and shoot my family.
Game play style and interactions for psychological assessment. Think criminal psychologists and theory rooms. Not just which games played but how they play them, it could be very revealing, patterns of gaming behaviour will reflect psychopathy, hence trigger pre-emptive style investigation.
They are likely trying to spot and tie psychopaths to particular locations as probable investigatory targets for existing crimes. With psychopaths 1% general population and >15% prison population it would likely improve their catch quota, basically fishing expeditions.
Additionally, 100% of the corporate-person population is essentially psychotic.
I think it would be interesting* to see if software used to automate business decisions and transactions show any significant similarities to psychotic human game-play in equivalent game theory models.
* Mostly as a thought experiment; I see no practical applications of this knowledge in our society.
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A skeptic doesn't swallow anything as truth, that includes the belief that homeopathy doesn't work because nobody has proven it yet, do you not know how science works?
Medical science begins with the assumption that a treatment does not work, until shown otherwise. You know scientific experimentation begins with a hypothesis, and that hypothesis is either supported or not supported by the experiment(s). Science does not set out to prove that X does not do Y, that is the null hypothesis, which is unprovable. For further demonstration of this idea, see any of our religion debates.
This guy is going to die someday and his wife and kids are going to toss all this crap right into the dustbin.
It belongs in a museum!
Seriously though, Wolfram seems like an intelligent guy; as such, I doubt he's expecting to care about his data after he's dead. Further, if he enjoys his (unusual) hobby at the detriment of no one, he should absolutely carry on. Finally, having some idea of his meticulousness, he's probably already got the meta-analytics he needs to make an objective determination of the psychological/physiological/monetary value(s) he derives from personal analytics. =)
The only difference between the politicians on left and the right is which set of corporations they support.
FTFY. Sane, intelligent individuals, no matter how far left or right, recognize corporations for what they are: Unfeeling, nearly unbounded forces of nature, with their own welfare as their sole objective. The illusion of altruism that may come from a corporation is either coincidental alignment of human/corporate values, or intentional manipulation in order to separate more monetary lifeblood from the easily manipulated.
Guys, corporations are not people, Citizens United notwithstanding. And they sure as hell aren't your pal. They're not even human, and supposing for a moment they were, they'd be the most sociopathic, morally-bankrupt, vicious apes to walk the Earth. Anyone who needs to cling emotionally to a massive hierarchical organization to feel right, please find a non-profit/charitable organization to be the object of your affection.
My apologies for the tangent. With all the 1984 prophecies unfolding these days, this is one unexpected facet that I find particularly depressing and almost completely ignored.
Not that there's anything wrong with your comment, but I was pointing out that ISPs will still know which sites you are visiting (by IP address). This is a well known problem in secure communications; they know who you are talking to even though they don't know what you have said. And with the current belief of guilt by association, that will still be a problem.
Think 'dissidents read slashdot'.
I know; I know they know the IP your client's requesting, I just wanted to point out the availability and benefit EFF's plugin provides. Certainly, it's preferable to leak only your 4-byte destination IPs to Eve (and Mallory), as opposed to leaking destination IPs, plus kBs-GBs of cleartext payload data transferred to/from said IP. Using HTTPS will still allow Eve to know the site you're communicating with, but not the individual, nor the topic of discussion, without using techniques that are more costly in terms of time, money, effort, risk, reliability, etc.
TLS does nothing to prevent your ISP from knowing which sites your are going to, only the data you are sending and receiving from them.
That's why I use EFF's HTTPS Everywhere . Neither my ISP, nor any other entity between my machine and destination address, have a legitimate need to examine the contents of my traffic. I'm astounded by the number of users here that don't prefer secure connections, as evidenced by number of http links to sites that support https.
The situation is similar to the LA riots, where lives and property of [innocents] are in danger. What do you do?
Consider it a learning experience, and stop disregarding the rights and wishes of the populace.
You forgot part:
You wanna play rough? Okay!
Say hello to my ray shielding garment[!]
3. Teach kids to stand up when a teacher enters and leaves a room [...]
Respect is something that is earned, not something gained through codification. Furthermore, teaching society to bow to authority figures on sight sounds doubleplus ungood to me.
Bullshit. Popular opinion is what gets modded up around here.
You can get an unpopular opinion modded up like this:
I know this will get modded down, but [insert unpopular opinion here]
Currently the dominant social theory in the USA is, in effect, that the ideal is a predator/prey structure with human beings in both roles.
What? What social theory is that? I don't think I've ever heard of such a thing.
Arguably, (American) conservatism favors a predator/prey societal structure.
Holy hell, warn some of us at work before posting that. Not that I mind reading up on it, but one thing I don't want to look at (at work or at home) is another man's junk.
Try this one instead: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Erotic_electrostimulation
Better yet, install EFF's HTTPS Everywhere.
There's no good reason to expose as much plaintext as possible to as many hops and packet sniffers as possible.
The Titanic on made one journey, going west. Obviously the port side was the sunny one.
Not to mention, the starboard side was painfully icy.
News for nerds ?
Stuff that matters ?
This is "stuff" (concrete)... that matters. Yes, seriously.
Maybe you're just not a stuff nerd... ;D
Well, nerd-up, motherfucker!
[...] causing a tsunami a couple thousand feet high, striking LA and washing over the mountains into the Central Valley.
LA could use a good hosing down.
Perhaps it's difficult to fashion a wheel from diamonds and hungry lions?
I could go for some Roundup Chili right about now...
Monsanto's in the prepared food business now? ;(
Reminds me of the time some old lady chastised me for taking jobs away from American autoworkers.
"Look ma'am, my Honda was built in here in the USA. Where was your Ford built again, Mexico?"
We're Japan's Mexico.
I registered as permanent absentee when I turned 18 and since then I get every ballot, local or otherwise, in the mail without having to re-apply each time. Of course, my address is permanent and a residence, so I assume postage is much simpler...but is this "permanent absentee" status just a perk of my jurisdiction? (Alameda country, CA.)
It's probably just a perk of your jurisdiction, what with the Mythbusters shooting off bowling ball cannons and neutron bombs every weekend.
+1 Purple Heart for RTFA for us. Thanks for your service.
What are you trying to hide?
Only criminals hide things.
Yes. Especially the billions of criminals hiding their indecent exposure on a daily basis.
[A]re you kidding, those bony runway models look very bad naked. They would look even worse without their fake boobs. Those are not porn starlet material.
Exactly.
I find it incredible that anyone, advertisers included, regard supermodels as a standard of beauty. For one thing, the physical structure of a supermodel is incompatible with the ingrained human ideal of feminine attractiveness. For example, (off the top of my head...) wide hips and normal (i.e., extant) breasts are preferred; they suggest reduced risk of childbirth complications, and ability to provide nourishment, respectively. Porn producers are intelligent enough to recognize and cater to these ideals. I haven't seen evidence of any porn genre that utilizes the supermodels' body-shape.
In my mind, it seems the fashion industry is aiming closer to the shock-value of old-fashioned freak/geek shows. If girls are basing their diets on these horrors, perhaps she should put down the Cosmo/Seventeen and pick up some healthy, wholesome porn.
Yes, and of course us Swedes are among the best of the lot when it comes to "Socialism". And even so, our economy grows faster than yours and our GDP per capita is higher than yours. (And no, we don't have any oil to sell, that's the Norwegians).
FTFY.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I'd like to, but the DEA would probably come and smash down my door and shoot my family.
So what does the shantytown version look like?
Something like this?
Game play style and interactions for psychological assessment. Think criminal psychologists and theory rooms. Not just which games played but how they play them, it could be very revealing, patterns of gaming behaviour will reflect psychopathy, hence trigger pre-emptive style investigation.
They are likely trying to spot and tie psychopaths to particular locations as probable investigatory targets for existing crimes. With psychopaths 1% general population and >15% prison population it would likely improve their catch quota, basically fishing expeditions.
Additionally, 100% of the corporate-person population is essentially psychotic.
I think it would be interesting* to see if software used to automate business decisions and transactions show any significant similarities to psychotic human game-play in equivalent game theory models.
* Mostly as a thought experiment; I see no practical applications of this knowledge in our society.
(S+V+MP)
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