saul_goodman

We describe "consuming" information and media just like food. I would settle for all media and advertisements having a required Nutrition Facts label:

Serving size: 1200 words / 60 seconds

Total commercial advertisement content: 600 words

Total US Government sponsored content: 300 words

Total foreign government sponsored content: 100 words

Total NGO sponsored content: 200 words

% of daily content of society shaping propaganda: 30%

% of daily content of subliminal content: 15%

% of daily content of emotional manipulation: %40

% of daily content of Gen5 warfare: 20%

I thought we already a place like that called Twitter...

Sadly the system is incentivized to kill off "harmless pirates", especially if they are doing something interesting. It's always going to be in the best interest of commercial broadcast operators to lodge complaints against pirates competing in their band. If you are in the business of selling advertisements on any band of radio (AM/FM/TV/etc), you don't want listeners possibly soaking up air time from anyone else when it costs you money to run your station. So the deck is always stacked against pirates in common broadcast bands. On the other hand, the shortwave broadcast band has much less locality so it's easier to do interesting things on those bands. But of course there's only a fraction of people who actually listen to shortwave broadcast bands, at least in the US.

"Apple has excellent IPv6 support on their devices, fully supporting automatic configuration of 464XLAT on devices with NAT64, and overall an excellent attitude to forcing IPv6 support from developers"

Other operating systems are bit of hit or miss"

My iPhone works, what's wrong with the rest of you for not doing this??!!

But in all seriousness, I think this will be a security nightmare for quite a while if there is some forced conversion to ipv6. I realize IPv6 wasn't created yesterday, but I assume it's got plenty of security holes waiting to be discovered until I see otherwise. The only way you are going to see it be used by end-users is if the various *nix distros roll out IPv4-less images. Same for Windows/etc. Otherwise you are begging for a security nightmare of epic proportions with software that is accidentally using the wrong stack by default, firewalls not filtering anything as expected, etc.

And who thinks it's a good idea to make all the things globally accessible? It's an internet of shit out there already, this would make it even worse.

In my head I've always read that as rando-mart. I have a mental image of a small high-density city street shop with anything you could possibly want to buy including small ascii art images of my ssh keys.

Yea, oddly this has not yet bubbled to the surface of this story. Your government at work!

"Always has been"

Very good talk. However I would only disagree with her on the idea that funding will dry up for particle physicists and that the model of funding helps to drive the useless cycle if bad ideas in physics (and any government funded science).

1) Obtaining grants to continue study in any field of science is greatly improved if you are iterating on an established idea that is already understood. Getting a grant on a completely novel idea outside of the mainstream field of thoughts is going to be much harder. Along with this is the reality that government grants are managed by a revolving door of industry and university insiders which is both a terrible and great thing. On one hand you don't want lobotomized bureaunaughts making uninformed decisions on which researchers to support. On the other hand your knowledgable staff on granting agencies are going to be the ~top of a given field and as such will weed out non-mainstream ideas for funding as "they already know" that a new line of thought to be foley.

2) While governments freely waste taxpayers money, they still do it strategically. After Hiroshima the world understood how important it is to keep a close eye on the physics community. Every country with a viable nuclear program must continue to engage in this game of useless increments in particle physics. Making progress is not what is important, what is truly important is that a country has its own base of physics knowledge and active development so that should another physics breakthrough happen elsewhere then they have a chance of recreating it on their own within a short enough window for it to make a difference. If you didn't already have physicists engaged in their craft then you would be 5-10 years behind the curve of any post-nuclear-physics breakthrough. The same game is played in many other fields of science...

American exceptionalism is dead. Persia was once known for their strong pursuit of knowledge and science, it's why the majority of the visible stars in the sky have Arabic names even to this day. Then the region transitioned heavily into religion. That's not an indictment of religion, just that we are watching our own downfall by valuing political beliefs above the actual requirements of any given job. It's probably too late to correct at this point as there will always be people willing to do what is asked of them, to proselytize the desired belief system to the next generation. Our union will just fracture as so many before have been fractured.

Hehe. One time I was in a ride share from Berlin to Essen.

"Where are you from" I respond with something mid-western. "How far from New York or LA is that?" "I can drive a day in any direction and still be in the middle of nowhere".

It was cute to see the confused looks on everyones faces. I get it though, you drive a couple hours in any direction in Europe and you are likely to be in another country or a body of water.