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Comment · 13 years ago
Sorry, I forgot this isn't really a forum full of hackers. Just news about hackers.
I'll remember not to comment without wearing my tie.
Comment · 13 years ago
Ah, darnit. I thought you meant the wine.
Comment · 13 years ago
I think that somebody is the EFF. HTTPS-Everywhere (look to the bottom of the page to DL the latest .xmi) has a LOT (certainly hundreds) in their list ... with qualifiers noted.
Comment · 13 years ago
That war drove the rise of -empires- seems no surprise at all (see e.g. Alexander). But is that civilization ("An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society") ?? I'm having trouble decoding the semantics to understand why this isn't trivial.
Comment · 13 years ago
That's ok, but I was more intrigued recently by
25840^2 + 43776^2 = 2584043776
which led me to Numberopedia. https://sites.google.com/site/numberopedia/
Comment · 13 years ago
The benefits of modest amounts of exercise are in how you FEEL (energized) more than how you LOOK.
Another benefit is that, because it takes little time, you're much more likely to do it.
Comment · 13 years ago
Well said!
Comment · 13 years ago
Absolutely. What makes (non-vocal) music "sad" is not inherent in the scales or harmonies used but in culturally-conditioned responses to them. The sad part is that some people can't enjoy truly beautiful music because of that kind of conditioning.
Comment · 13 years ago
Well said.
About a year ago I walked into "my" bank (hah!) and a guy pulled me over to his desk and "invited" me to sign a form (he said was mandatory) accepting or rejecting a $35 "overdraft insurance" fee. I "invited" him to check his computer and see how many overdrafts I'd had in the past 10 years ... and that my "insurance" was keeping my checkbook balanced.
Not sure what game was afoot there, but I'd bet that some of the people who were treated to that strong-arm tactic resigned themselves to paying that monthly graft. Vampire squid indeed.
Comment · 13 years ago
Baj. Jumbug. Their hedrons are only special cases of my 42-dimensional Universahedron, which certifiably and undeniably contains everything, including all possible universes. The proof is too small to publish in this post.
Comment · 13 years ago
We were building things that we didn’t need to build,” Johnson said at the time. “We were harboring fears that we didn’t need to have.”
Somebody needs to engrave that in huge letters on all that glass covering NSA headquarters.
Comment · 13 years ago
Goes back quite a ways. There's John Brunner's 1975 classic Shockwave Rider. See also early cyberpunk stuff (Gibson, Sterling et al): http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/. More recently, Stephenson Snow Crash, Stross Halting State.
Also thoroughly enjoyed both Cory's works, esp. LB.
Comment · 13 years ago
I know. It's as if (ex-CIA-case officer) Phil Agee's claim back in the mid-80s that America was about to be Latinized is true.
Healthcare, education, housing ... what's next?
Comment · 13 years ago
One of the more sensible theories I've heard is that the fluoridation push happened at about the same time as the need to ramp-up uranium hexafluoride use for enrichment processes ... and that the sudden demand for fluoride could be masked by a civilian "decay prevention" program.
See also: Donora death fog. http://www.fluoridation.com/donora.htm
Comment · 13 years ago
I never heard Robert Young say "fucking sue me" in Father Knows Best. But then fathers don't wear fucking fedoras these days either.