Yeah, but that's just splitting hairs. If you factor in all the *nex's , people are blowing about the same amount. It's just more diversified.

Why wouldn't one? Based solely on who_stole_my_kidney's anecdotal argument, and your rather content-free counter-argument, I'd be inclined to follow his advice.

TO: WeatherGang
FROM: J. Bezos
SUBJECT: Weather Conspiracy Theories


Guys,
I know you're not that great at the whole internet thing and all, being a newspaper and such. But one of my other companies is actually pretty good at it. So take my advice. Don't feed the trolls.

Regards,
Jeff

Prostrate cancer? What is that, like a benign tumor or something?

Huh. You know how you can take your social security earlier in exchange for a smaller monthly payout? Take a good look at that.

Agreed. And fully half of those people die younger than the median mortality age in that group.

Where, exactly, do you anticipate wearing them that how they make you look matters? Your argument about Google Glass is somewhat founded. But not Rift. Hell, the whole point of Rift is that if you and the other people in the room are all wearing them, to each other you look like the ripped manly warriors slaying Orcs in the forest rather than a bunch of flabby gamers waiting to cancer from the radon in your parents' basement.

If Random Joe doesn't share it with anybody, they probably don't give a shit. The NSA is perfectly happy to let Random Joe sit around enjoying his porn collection. But when people start working together, they get interested. They care if Random Joe is going to share it with somebody at somepoint. And they're real interested in that. Even if they never decrypt it, they can tell that Random Joe uploaded it, and Random Bob downloaded it. Now, the interesting question is what is the relationship between Random Joe and Random Bob? That connection between those two is valuable information, and you can get it without ever decrypting the actual data.

By making all the writers that they license to use the technology incorporate anti-piracy detection software in the driver? Then use some kind of unlocking scheme so that the hardware will only write when using their drivers? That sounds about right.

Do we know for a fact that it is Yahoo that is in fact driving this change? Maybe it was a strategic decision that has been in the works for some time. Without transparency into the organization, we don't know for sure where it came from.

The other thing to remember is that its fun to scream at corporations about censoring you, but most of the stuff we use is funded by advertising. If the place becomes a pornorific cesspool, their ability to get legitimate companies to advertise there will vanish, and then the thing will likely be gone. It's just like the old free press argument. It applies to YOUR press. If some other paper won't print your letter to the editor, buy a press and start your own paper. Or create your own Tumbler. If your proposed culture is really that much better, people will move.

Yeah, but how do you know it's a honeypot, and not just a normal 404 situation? If you start excluding every site on the internet that has missing pages in one of its indexes, you aren't going to have a very good data set.

Which is another way of saying "not producing anything useful, until something sufficiently unlikely that it may never happen, happens, and then producing services of immeasurable value". The point is, we're willing to pay them to do something for which there is no guaranteed return on investment. That's a good measure of how much we value life.

That's exactly the point I'm trying to make. A miracle is something that happens against incredible odds. Something that is inexplicable. This event could have gone a variety of different likely ways, and it went in one that was pretty positive. That's good luck, not a miracle.

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Going slightly off topic, but still on the topic of the crash, I'm getting sick of hearing how this was a "miracle". It cheapens the word to say so. I would say it was fortunate that it wasn't worse. The plane could have flipped over instead of spinning. The contact with the sea wall could have been worse. There are lots of things left to chance. But, overall, these kind of crashes tend to be pretty survivable these days. Calling it a "miracle" cheapens the amount of effort that goes into preparation for this sort of thing, and also tends to give you this sense that it's not your responsibility to do better.

There's a reason that people can get off the planes in 90 seconds. There's a reason that the fuel doesn't get spread all over the runway in a crash like this. There's a reason that the interior takes longer to catch fire than your sofa would under the same circumstances. It was engineered that way. The plane costs many millions of dollars more than it needs to in order to fly for just these reasons. There were fire trucks and fire fighters just sitting around getting paid doing nothing, just in case something like this happened.This was planning, and the willingness to spend large amounts of money and effort to protect human life. Plus a bit of luck. But not a miracle.

That's the point. If you have low tech, script kiddie type malware, which you found, it means that you were very, very vulnerable to uncommon, highly targeted malware. The stealthy kind that even nuclear physicists don't notice.