It looks more like a garden variety troll.

It warms my heart to see so many Slashdot friends from the old days commenting on this article. I first heard of Barlow and the EFF via Slashdot, back during the 1998 COPA protests. He helped open my eyes to the idea that the old laws for old technology were going to have unintended consequences when applied to new technology. He made me interested in activism, and his accomplishments still inspire me.

The internet has changed a lot since the late 90's, but the struggle between freedom and safety continues. May we never stop thinking about the consequences of going too far in either direction.

I'm a bit concerned that rescinding an emergency alert even involves a Twitter password. No important part of the broadcast system.

No one should be expected to go look at Twitter to confirm that a war just started. If anything, I'd think it would be reasonable to believe that the enemy starting a nuclear war, may be able to send out a fake tweet.

Both zip and tar already do, and have for years. I think that's why the poll is getting blind stares rather than responses.

Basically, it seems they're saying that it would be impossible to do, because we don't know how to do it. That brilliant logic has plagued us for centuries. We're living in a world of impossible sciences, according to people who didn't think it could be done.

They make the assumption that every particle in the universe would have to be recorded and mapped. It doesn't have to work that way. A block of space (like extra-atmospheric extra-terrestrial) doesn't need every block mapped. It just needs a sum of parts. 1 cubic meter block of space has an average of ## particles, and all surrounding blocks would behave likewise.

I'm not really arguing that the simulation idea is legitimate. I'm just indicating that their proof isn't proof.

It is cute that they mention an extra-terrestrial computer running the simulation. That makes no sense at all. If it's the computer running the simulation, why or how would it reside inside that simulation? If we were the simulation, wouldn't that mean that it runs on some form of computer, residing on that planet (or whatever unit they'd use)? It would be terrestrial, with all of us, and all of the universe, being on that planet.

I don't know how high anyone had to be to come up with this to start with, but clearly they had a good supply.

    I wasn't really expecting Google to do anything based on a comment on a glorified blog.

That explains a lot. Yesterday, all the extensions in Chrome disappeared. I re-added them, and it was fine. It would have been nice to have some sort of warning, or even a message saying what was done.

The article says they're doing it with the update to 58.0.3029.96 , and I just verified that's what mine is.

Next time, just ask, m'kay?

Retinal scan -> DNA scan -> biometric scan to verify identity, and that I'm not under duress, and finally a 4 digit PIN, "1234".

I wanna make sure no one gets on my phone and plays Candy Crush.

Ya, I spotted it immediately. He was really brave when he was sure he wouldn't have to do it. Kind of like all the people who claim they'll leave the country over [insert socio-political atrocity]. If they ever followed through, it would really be a newsworthy event.

Lesbian sharks are always relevant. If you don't like it, you need to address it directly with them.

BTW... Never, ever, tell an angry lesbian shark that she's wrong. Nothing good will ever come from it.

Let me field that answer. They'll use it, just like organizations kept using WinXP pre-SP3, until the new Director of IT came along and said "Are you fucking kidding me?! What incompetent idiot let you stay unpatched and critically open to everything that has come along in the last fucking decade?! Oh, the same one who thought it's a great idea to never upgrade hardware, despite your staff barely surviving on machines that crash daily, or catch fire like those two did last week."

Oh, are PCs dead again? What is this, the 15th consecutive year they have ceased to be?

That'd be option 3. The prosecution would call it assault and/or battery.

That's why I'll only share such findings anonymously. Or at least anonymous enough. Go ahead, sue or attempt prosecution on John Smith who lives at 1 Main St, Anytown USA.