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Comment Re:Social engineering. (Score 1) 71

by whoever57 (#66287319) Attached to: How Social Media Spurred a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco

The people behind Cambridge Analytica didn't go away. They just let one company fold and moved on. How many other entities are involved in the same manipulation via social media?

I suspect that the same people who are bankrolling Nigel Farage and others created the social media storm that caused the mass storming of Ceuta.

Comment Re: Goodhart's Law (Score 1) 77

Colonial and post-colonial American workers/yeomanry were the highest paid workers in the entire world. Yeomans' paradise ! In the north/west capital / property chased labor and wages reflected that.  Southern states excepted where slavery corrupted the white culture ... yeomanry whites worked to buy slaves rather than themselves produce value.  Nobody feels free to mention it -- out of "white-guilt" --  but black  slaves did culturally better ... moving from the neolith to post-Enlightenment .

Comment probably not (Score 1) 55

by noshellswill (#66286536) Attached to: Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts
Danger ranger is vastly overstating  bio-electric eves-dropping. That brain-implant procedure   took years and cost $30-million;   they won't get cheaper. And why bother with MRI when ... you can just record somebody speaking ? How abouts discovering "hidden" thoughts ?  Do we really need an electromagnetic Freud when a "smart" woman and  bottle of gin reveal all ?

Comment Re:Atomic Structure (Score 1) 22

by noshellswill (#66285682) Attached to: Behold the 'Glueball,' a Strange New Form of Matter
"The great advancements that make our lives better always begin in ... " .... experiments , anecdotes and one-off observations. It's called science. "Did that sling-shot really break when you whipped it?" ... " What do you mean, the  falling rock and cannon ball hit ground together?" ....  "Oh, a falling man experiences no weight ..."

Comment sailor boyz (Score 1) 123

by noshellswill (#66284004) Attached to: Zuckerberg's Superyacht Reportedly Declined To Help Stranded Boat
Always a silver lining when intentions become clear. We now know what Zuks sailors think of other sailors ... not explorers of the deep, but enemies ! Think about:  Athenian fleet meets  Xerxes, and drive Dodona oak spears  into Persian eyes ... British  Nile-fleet meets Brueys and drive Scottish cannon-balls into French breasts. So Zuks "fleet"  follows a long and glorious history of savage disdain. Now ... finally ...  do you wonder how Zuks "sailors" behave "in port " ?

Comment Re:Not making things is a strategic vulnerability (Score 1) 70

Yes ... 100% completely. The question is not   of fact , but of possibilities. Any ( strategic ) foreign manufacture increases the importers threat-surface. With good-will that makes no difference. But ... and you can deduce from my sig ... only self-interest not good-will exists among nation-states. Foreign manufacture is an unforced error-of-security , valuing convenience above lowed risk.  REM/// only the paranoid survive. EOF.

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