If you have wood floors it is possible to train with thumps. Have to use clicks if not. My little one not only comes and goes when asked, but also follows hand directions and tattles on her sister when she gets in trouble (ie: eating a stash of rubber-bands).

When people see here come to get me for the first time they start making jokes about Ruby coming to tell me that Timmy is stuck in the well like Lassie (animal t.v. star). Then they start to realize that she really is talking to me and wanting me to follow her to see something and everyone gets kinda quiet and unsure of what to say.

Another take.

Though the Lapp figure is clearly identified as a Tolkienesque Wose, the melding of pagan mythology with Christianity over the years is fascinating.

Even more interesting is the range of names attributed to this one figure. A small selection:
Chläus - Pretty standard
Kinderfresser - Child Eater
Old Scratch - Used for Satan directly in early America

And before there were elves there were the dark helpers with names like:
Black Peter
Claws
The Dark One
The Dark Helper

Anyhow - agreed that this thing go much further back than any add campaign. At least far enough back for the symbols to infiltrate and merge with ancient pagan teachings all over the world.

I was mainly expressing solidarity through humor that someone who has gone through the labeling process might find funny. The fact that many self-diagnosed individuals like to brag about autism spectrum disorders does bother me, though.

It is pretty silly the way behaviorism is leading to subjective conditions. That doesn't mean there aren't millions of people that might be helped by a little more research into human behavior.

Way OT now, though. Anyhow, keep on rockin' ;)

The branding is lame, but the intention might have some wiggle room before being condemned to death. I have tried several times to find open source sites that were trying to bridge the knowledge gap with new Linux users. It is tough. If the subject is tackled with the same underlying educational bent as the old pub then maybe it will prove useful.

The biggest WIN would be if they could stake out the meeting ground between the uneducated user and the over-matched admin. I don't think anyone is doing this particularly well right now.

Focusing on threes would be good. A fluffy Esther Schindler type buzz-fest for the C level, an insightful feature/spec commentary for the implementors, and a consumer empowerment style review of associated devices/products for the honey-bees. Then you tie it together with well staffed forums.

That would be refreshing, right? If anything, a quick swim through the more technical parts of the forums could put some pie-in-the-sky C* types into their places ;) It can be healthy to clack decision makers in the balls on occasion.

If you suppress the speech centers in an average human they gain the abilities the GP is describing as well. I believe it has to do with the number of distinct visual reference points the brain is comparing. Therefore, even someone that appears to be angry may display cues that indicate an internally suppressed desire not to be angry. These cues may be embedded in alterations to the speed of facial reaction, dilation effects of the pupils, blush effects, and even visible pulse indicators (temple, neck).

Don't know if it U.S. only, but most Normals call it the 'people-picker,' because even in non-stressful situations enough information is being passed between the lines for the Norms to know something subconscious is influencing their feelings towards a new acquaintance.

People that are more sensitive usually start at the description: empathic. The wise stop there. The preds get further out from there the more 'evidence' of their 'power' they accumulate.

Wait, doing shit like that means you are autistic? I'm not sure that's right. Then again, I am occasionally seized by the certainty that the relative densities of thoughts in my skull produce surface-like tensions that can be bounced upon like a trampoline and also drown me... Anyhow, are you sure you aren't just a mental illn'iss'ist like the rest of us?

Relating back to the thread: based on my experience in a human skull our main concern should be not making any one thing both complex enough to fail as unpredictably as a human, and similar enough to a human that people don't know what they are dealing with when they encounter a failing unit.

So the creep factor they are talking about should preferably be increased to the point of being unmistakable for anything that is tied to sufficiently advanced algos for control. This is one of those cases where the triggering of grey matter you reference should be considered a helpful nudge in our design philosophy.

They do if you need to determine whether they exhibit normal spectrum deprivation symptoms. If Manning fails to break down properly we have seen only the beginning of the inquisition.

You just won my joke of the thread contest. There are a bunch of funny acronyms posted, but I read this joke after taking a sip of eggnog.. so you get the near catastrophe modifier.

They don't stop wars to share a nip over holiday any more. At least not at the public level.

The economics of data breaches don't work that way. If WL was really orchestrating the leaks then you would have a point.

As is, they must assume once something passes into their possession there is a ticking clock scenario. It is unlikely that leakers are undertaking the risk for information that they believe should be kept secret. WL is not exactly in a power position. If they fail to handle the leak in a responsible manner (ie: thorough redaction), and in a timely fashion they risk empowering less ethical parties.

I know Adrian Lamo has taken a lot of shit, but seriously, he is a great example of a less ethical party than WL. It just so happens that his hidden allegiances and lying mouth came out to be on the side of the U.S. Government. If that guy had been with the Strangers we would have had a serious issue that could only be solved by precipitating the crisis (ie: releasing early w/o full redaction to prevent empowering real enemies by allowing them initiative).

Long story short, the damage of WL not moving on leaked information could dwarf the damage done by the redacted releases.