Celebrate? Lets mourn our collective privacy. Lets mourn proportionality of outrage. Lets mourn moving on from your mistakes. Lets mourn minding your own business.
Many of these things only exist in the minds of MRAs and incels, people who feel that the world is against them.
Logical fallacy - poisoning the well. Not a good start.
Trigger warnings: Simply asking someone to warn you if they are going to start talking about something that might cause you severe mental anguish doesn't seem unreasonable.
The problem is that they are not asking, this implies that it is possible to reject this request. They are dictating, and using it to censor and enforce groupthink. I think even you would agree that freedom of expression and free exchange of ideas takes precedence. Last but not least, people demanding these trigger warning presume to speak for PTSD people. Why don't we let them decide it for themselves?
I know a guy who was attacked by a dog as a child and it's left him with a fear of them; I wouldn't just go into graphic detail about a dog attack around him.
Would you also demand all dog parks were closed because of this? Because this is how 'trigger warnings' are used in practice.
Safe spaces: Yes, sometimes people want to discuss things in a semi-private setting.
Not quite. People feel entitled to exclude others in a public space. Equal and unrestricted access to public spaces is sacrosanct, the alternative is some flavor of Jim Crow.
You correctly pointed out that there is a strong motivator, but I think you missed the mark that it is money via lawsuits. After all, only tiny minority of such cases ever go that far, and it is typically against college administrators overreach and overreaction.
I think real motivator is that victimized is a coveted social status. When group concept of privilege mutated and misapplied to become highly socially disadvantageous label applied to an individual, it is natural that maintaining social standing now demands negation or qualifiers of such label privilege. How you do that? You invent slights, blow trivial offenses out of proportion and proceed to claim to be oppressed by this or that -ism based on these.
I blame Social Sciences for creating this monster. They invented and promoted the idea that in order to have a valid opinion, one must necessary experience things first-hand. If you didn't, then you are privileged, and should just act as you told. Nobody likes doing that, so everyone suddenly jumps on the victimhood bandwagon just to not get silenced at every turn.
I would consider Clinton to be well into "corporate oligarchy" side of things and Trump's populism is close equivalent to SJW. Refuse to support the left-right establishment and shitty choices go away. Sanders. Rand. If you want to be purposefully destructive - Trump.
"The SJW cancer on the left is starting to worry me more than the corporate oligarchy on the right."
I don't understand why it should be one over or another. I'd be worried equally if I had terminal cancer prognosis and was on a death row for a crime I didn't commit at the same time.
I disagree with your comment. There is plenty of evidence, and the only way to overlook all of it is to purposely avoid looking.
Just to list some example from top of my head: rape epidemic moral panic, cultural appropriations moral panic, trigger warnings, prevalence of victimhood culture, campus sexual assault kangaroo courts, media-free safe spaces.
If we load these two ("windows phone dead", "the year of linux on the desktop" ) memes into hadron collider, would the result be a cat hole of memes that would engulf the internet past meme horizon so no fun could ever escape it?
Cloak and dagger backdoor is preferable to legislated backdoor. With NSA-style backdoors you could find and fix them and having them is not certainty. Also, totalitarian government won't have much success demanding NSA allow them to use these.
While I'd rather not have any backdoors, to choose between two evils I'd take my chances with NSA.
If digital privacy was an electric car, Homeland Security would disallow privately charging it. Instead, they'd make it mandatory to charge all electric cars from licensed diesel generators in the designated 'charge-up' stations. These generators would suffer from frequent fuel shortages.
The issue, as I understand it, is that demand and margins on these products are too low to allow research into making them cleaner. That is, existing designs are good enough and consumers are not willing to pay for redesign.
Regulation can fix this, but it will also make these products more expensive.
Cost cutting people, the ones that outsource jobs to meet bonus goals, are not making life better for anyone but themselves. They are social and business equivalent of dumping toxic waste into a river.
This is Utopian meritocratic feel-good outlook. I wish I could agree with you. Unfortunately, human condition gets in the way. Productive enables don't generally get rich, instead entrenched and corrupt power brokers do. Look at US in the last 50 years, less than a dozen of 'productive enablers' really made it, but metric f-ton of leeches golden parachuted into ridiculous wealth.
Step 1 - genetically engineer over-ambitious, amoral super humans
Step 2 - have them take over the world for a while
Step 3 - after world revolution overthrows these, freeze them and send them out to space
Step 4 - ???
Step 5 - Yell Khaaann!!
'I run Linux, therefore I am secure', which is unstated premise of original post, is not justifiable position position in 2015. Especially when you are dealing with high-value target like payment processing.
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Yes, because reading about Ubuntu is exactly kind of information one would need to survive when the apocalypse comes.
Celebrate? Lets mourn our collective privacy. Lets mourn proportionality of outrage. Lets mourn moving on from your mistakes. Lets mourn minding your own business.
Many of these things only exist in the minds of MRAs and incels, people who feel that the world is against them.
Logical fallacy - poisoning the well. Not a good start.
Trigger warnings: Simply asking someone to warn you if they are going to start talking about something that might cause you severe mental anguish doesn't seem unreasonable.
The problem is that they are not asking, this implies that it is possible to reject this request. They are dictating, and using it to censor and enforce groupthink. I think even you would agree that freedom of expression and free exchange of ideas takes precedence. Last but not least, people demanding these trigger warning presume to speak for PTSD people. Why don't we let them decide it for themselves?
I know a guy who was attacked by a dog as a child and it's left him with a fear of them; I wouldn't just go into graphic detail about a dog attack around him.
Would you also demand all dog parks were closed because of this? Because this is how 'trigger warnings' are used in practice.
Safe spaces: Yes, sometimes people want to discuss things in a semi-private setting.
Not quite. People feel entitled to exclude others in a public space. Equal and unrestricted access to public spaces is sacrosanct, the alternative is some flavor of Jim Crow.
You correctly pointed out that there is a strong motivator, but I think you missed the mark that it is money via lawsuits. After all, only tiny minority of such cases ever go that far, and it is typically against college administrators overreach and overreaction.
I think real motivator is that victimized is a coveted social status. When group concept of privilege mutated and misapplied to become highly socially disadvantageous label applied to an individual, it is natural that maintaining social standing now demands negation or qualifiers of such label privilege. How you do that? You invent slights, blow trivial offenses out of proportion and proceed to claim to be oppressed by this or that -ism based on these.
I blame Social Sciences for creating this monster. They invented and promoted the idea that in order to have a valid opinion, one must necessary experience things first-hand. If you didn't, then you are privileged, and should just act as you told. Nobody likes doing that, so everyone suddenly jumps on the victimhood bandwagon just to not get silenced at every turn.
I would consider Clinton to be well into "corporate oligarchy" side of things and Trump's populism is close equivalent to SJW. Refuse to support the left-right establishment and shitty choices go away. Sanders. Rand. If you want to be purposefully destructive - Trump.
"The SJW cancer on the left is starting to worry me more than the corporate oligarchy on the right."
I don't understand why it should be one over or another. I'd be worried equally if I had terminal cancer prognosis and was on a death row for a crime I didn't commit at the same time.
I disagree with your comment. There is plenty of evidence, and the only way to overlook all of it is to purposely avoid looking.
Just to list some example from top of my head: rape epidemic moral panic, cultural appropriations moral panic, trigger warnings, prevalence of victimhood culture, campus sexual assault kangaroo courts, media-free safe spaces.
I love points moderation system, but not tags. We need better tags, especially one for factually incorrect.
We also need "-0 disagree" tag so you could show displeasure at some dipshittery without necessary down-voting it.
Please, everybody knows that Glorious Nation of North Korea invented calculus long time before that.
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If we load these two ("windows phone dead", "the year of linux on the desktop" ) memes into hadron collider, would the result be a cat hole of memes that would engulf the internet past meme horizon so no fun could ever escape it?
In saner societies this service called universal healthcare and it is run by the government.
The NSA has backdoors.
Cloak and dagger backdoor is preferable to legislated backdoor. With NSA-style backdoors you could find and fix them and having them is not certainty. Also, totalitarian government won't have much success demanding NSA allow them to use these.
While I'd rather not have any backdoors, to choose between two evils I'd take my chances with NSA.
The Homeland Security position, as a car analogy:
If digital privacy was an electric car, Homeland Security would disallow privately charging it. Instead, they'd make it mandatory to charge all electric cars from licensed diesel generators in the designated 'charge-up' stations. These generators would suffer from frequent fuel shortages.
Did you know that it is possible to hack hard disk controller and have it dial home and leak data? Know-how is way beyond hacking web cams.
The issue, as I understand it, is that demand and margins on these products are too low to allow research into making them cleaner. That is, existing designs are good enough and consumers are not willing to pay for redesign.
Regulation can fix this, but it will also make these products more expensive.
Absolute hogwash.
Cost cutting people, the ones that outsource jobs to meet bonus goals, are not making life better for anyone but themselves. They are social and business equivalent of dumping toxic waste into a river.
This is Utopian meritocratic feel-good outlook. I wish I could agree with you. Unfortunately, human condition gets in the way. Productive enables don't generally get rich, instead entrenched and corrupt power brokers do. Look at US in the last 50 years, less than a dozen of 'productive enablers' really made it, but metric f-ton of leeches golden parachuted into ridiculous wealth.
I am fairly sure Toxic Dumping is against the law.
Why do you care what happens to your body after you die? You will be log gone by then.
I already did my part. This is exactly how I disposed of my mother-in-law's corpse.
Surprising, I expected in-silicone code to be more robustly tested prior to getting released. Turns out, code is code.
Too bad AMD is out of PC CPU race and Intel will got unpunished for such major flaw.
Step 1 - genetically engineer over-ambitious, amoral super humans
Step 2 - have them take over the world for a while
Step 3 - after world revolution overthrows these, freeze them and send them out to space
Step 4 - ???
Step 5 - Yell Khaaann!!
How am I suppose to make profit if I can't put my nuclear reactor C&C on the internet?!
'I run Linux, therefore I am secure', which is unstated premise of original post, is not justifiable position position in 2015. Especially when you are dealing with high-value target like payment processing.