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Works for me on Arch Linux + Firefox 38. In one room I could not search one specific object though.

If life feels awful, what makes you continue on the same path?

I was feeling like that a few years ago. I stopped, thought about what was wrong, and took a different path. Now I'm making much less money, I'm not working in things I don't believe in and I interact with people I like. Much better than before.

"many people hate their jobs, but they are considerably more miserable doing nothing"

Why assume we can either work or do nothing? Of course doing nothing sucks! What about doing something instead?

Could the problem be that most people have been trained to do what they're told, instead of being creative?

From "Deforestation and net forest area change, 2010"

* Around 13 million hectares of forest were converted to other uses or lost through natural causes each year in the last decade compared to 16 million hectares per year in the 1990s. * The net change in forest area in the period 2000–2010 is estimated at –5.2 million hectares per year (an area about the size of Costa Rica), down from –8.3 million hectares per year in the period 1990–2000.

http://www.fao.org/forestry/30515/en/

Someone described this as "high WTF factor".

http://larseidnes.com/2015/01/05/the-wtf-factor-quantifying-...

This is from 6 years ago, and I still haven't seen anything as good: http://createdigitalmotion.com/2009/06/magical-3d-warping-te...

From the name, I used to think that anesthesiologists just "put people to sleep" or stopped patient's pain.

My view is now different. Their job (for what I'm told) is also to keep people alive and stable. They administer drugs and employ machines and techniques to control body temperature, blood pressure, oxygen levels, heart rate and others. Sometimes it's a simple colonoscopy (like in the article), but other times they are treating people who just had a stroke or a bad accident. They have to react in seconds to the response they SEE on the patient (data coming from machines, but also body movement, change in skin color, eye movement, bleeding, and many subtle changes), connecting knowledge and years of experience. It's also an art to be able to put tubes and needles on all kinds of "strangely" shaped bodies (specially in old people).

A more precise title would be "new machine could one day replace some anesthesiologists". I think it's going to take a while before we can trust machines to keep us alive during emergencies and operations.

"But now, after the procedure, she said she saw a potential upside, too: There was no human error, either."

I knew it. Programmers are not human.

That unit system might allow comparing black holes to other black holes. But our sun does not have the same density as a black hole, or? The nature article [1] does not compare it to the size of our sun, but to its mass.

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7540/full/nature1...

In this thread it looks like there are only two options: smart TV and dumb TV. But there's a third one: no TV. It has it's own set of advantages.

Can you really get out of it?

I closed my account years ago. Use NoScript, Disconnect, uBlock. But my profile is probably still there. It's been mentioned that they keep profiles of people who don't have an account.

I can imagine they could attach this comment and my online activity in other platforms to that profile. Even tell my friends about them.

That would make a good episode of Black Mirror. Titled "The Privacy Freaks", it would show people in a social network observing the lives and making fun of the absurd things privacy concerned people do to stay "out".

You're filling out a few fields with fake data, but filling thousands of "fields" daily, for real. Those come from your behaviour: what sites you visit, when, with what frequency, what do you click, what do you install, who are your contacts, when do you sleep, when do you move, how often you send messages... I can not even imagine how long the list must be from all the things you can extract from someone's internet + mobile behaviour.

Edit: and that's what I find most troubling: that someone can know much more about me than myself. Things that you can only realize from looking at the data over time, things that are invisible when experienced on real time.

I and most of my friends and family in Spain have at some point spent hours trying to solve problems with our Telefónica phone and internet connections. Popularly it's known as Timofónica (Scam-ofonica).

When I hear the company's president mumbling [1] about how Google owes them money because Telefónica provides the networks, but Google makes the money thanks to their networks, I wonder how has the company grown so large, and how can a director be so incapable of coherent expression.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTOAyZxOTy0

Edit: I leave this comment because I like Mozilla and enjoy Firefox, but I was dismayed to discover a few weeks ago that Telefónica was involved with Hello.

Would having a logo for privacy be a good idea?

A logo we can place in all our websites? Together with some kind of sentence, like "I support privacy", or "healthy minds need privacy", or "privacy is a human need", or something better you can come up with?

Is there one already?

This discussion so far contains: 52 times "terror", 11 times "safe", 5 times "fear". I'm tired of those words. Having no TV and reading no news I don't see any connection between those words and the world that surrounds me.

It's sad to see homeless or drunk people in the street, but that's the worst I see.

I think eating healthy, exercising, having friends and a job does much more for our "safety" than ridiculous laws and surveillance.

I don't understand why people fear so much. Is it not possible to just refuse to fear? Be conscious about the effects it has. Talk about it. Why not just be brave and ignore the nonsense? Living with fear is no good life. We can't choose what happens in the world, but we can choose what we feel about it. We will die if we have to die. So what? It's not the end of the world.

edit: I remember seeing the tv in Finland. They play hours of crime-related series every day. What can you think of the world if you just see murders all day?

Your comment made me remember a documentary titled "The Trouble with Experts" which I found interesting. It can be found in youtube atm.

A faraday bag probably helps to reduce the tracking: http://killyourphone.com/

I think it's a poor comparison. You need water to stay alive and to not stink. Electricity is easier to avoid, but why do that? Electricity and running water don't disturb me with notifications, are not as addictive as social networks, don't make me waste time, don't track me (as much as a smartphone).

I find that having no TV, no smart phone and no facebook reduces the noise. I don't miss them.

Our connections and cpus get faster, our memories and hard drives larger, but then we write slower and bigger software to compensate.

It reminds me of Newton's third law: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

"you wouldn't accept lag offline, so why do it online? get up to 1000 Mbit/s fiber today."

I find this contradicting. They talk about lag, but offer bandwidth. What about latency? Shouldn't they talk about milliseconds of delay from your computer to the server and back?

Why not limit the amount of messages people can send per day? 3 for instance? Wouldn't that make you think before sending a message? Maybe users could choose to only receive messages from people who send less than N messages per day.

It would be funny if messages from users who are reported as annoying get redirected to a horny bot which keeps them "entertained" :)

Similar to how Meteor is installed: curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh

After downloading it asks for your password.

"I removed the Disqus comments"

Wouldn't that by itself be enough to account for the download time differences?

Even if data was continuously sent, you could still analyze the data by protocol. You can find out who sends e-mails to who, who our contacts are in Twitter, Facebook, Skype, how often we exchange data with them...

One could build an anonymization tool that adds randomness addressing those one by one.

For instance, to avoid our e-mail exchanges being analyzed, this tool could exchange random e-mails in the background with people we don't know. Just to mess up with who our contacts are.

To make a list of "users of Tor" being no longer useful, the tool would send and receive data to the Tor network one random day per week.

It would anonymize searches (this already exists) by making random searches. It should visit random websites

But would you add random contacts to your Facebook account? To Skype? ...

Dealing with all aspects is hard, it would waste electricity and resources, and I think it would just make analysis harder, not impossible.

In that case one could create an extension that creates a PGP keypair _for the recipient_, attaches encrypted crap to the e-mail, and deletes the private key. Is that what you mean?

The idea is to add by default an encrypted message to all e-mails that contain nothing useful, to make it indistinguishable from e-mails that do contain useful encrypted stuff. Is that possible? Does it make any sense?

I wonder if I could get my account really deleted and my data put offline by breaking the terms [1] (posting ads and logos or sharing my password for example).

I'm afraid it would not work, though. Probably they delete the recent content, leave the rest online, and refuse me to log in...

Did anyone try?

[1] https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms

What if we all start attaching files with random content to our e-mails? An extension could do this automatically. Can the output of "dd if=/dev/urandom of=unicorns.pgp bs=1 count=1024" be easily distinguished from a real pgp file? No one could ever decrypt these files.

I still think the one used by the Spanish Congress is worse. URL for legal document 162/000609:

http://www.congreso.es/portal/page/portal/Congreso/Congreso/...

Last summer we listened to music in a rowing boat in a lake in the middle of nowhere in Finland. Streaming from YouTube. It felt somehow wrong. Like "into the wild", with a 20€ unlimited data plan, and the ability to send live video from the forest. Later, when driving back to civilization, we spent 2 hours playing our favorite tracks in a moving car. Again streaming.

Beautiful :) I didn't know people were moving around such large sums. I saw a 3400 bc bubble, and a 2000+ bc bubble floating out there. I wish I was able to distinguish what was going on directly from the sounds. Those huge bubbles sounded exactly like the small ones, and when I saw 50 bubbles appear at once, that also did not sound any different than a single bubble. The amount of simultaneous sounds seems to be limited to a very low number.