pavement

Seems like it's going to be a noisy place.

Call it a hunch, but if the flares spew dirty and irregular, maybe there's an awareness that this sloppy spread of IR readings has benefits.

The nature of the data isn't given, but ~20TB of video wouldn't be unthinkable. A video operation, backing up original masters for safe keeping, offsite is pretty reasonable for a variety of scenarios.

  It needs to escort the MV-22 Osprey and have 
  comparable flight range, carry the same 
  weapons as an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter, and 
  execute missions ranging from electronic 
  warfare, command and control, airborne early 
  warning, and airstrikes.

Limited warfare is going to be really weird in the future, for troops on the ground. It's never anything to feel good about, but it seems less managable and more dangerous than ever.

I'd almost rather not know.

A framework for conceptual ideas is provided, but within this lengthy quantity of words, not much else is accomplished other than to admit that consiousness is safely a material reality.

I am not saying the thing you added four question marks onto.

There's something about Windows exploits that just feels like a canned hunt by now.

With stuxnet, there developed the sense that Windows received conspicuous attention from a special class of mysterious operators.

At this point, given the tiny cottage industry that feeds a handful of starving security analysts, I feel it's reasonable to presume that Windows is built to be a secure as possible, and that what's possible is mostly intentional and understood as a known quantity for special populations.

I think it's suicidally bad for this to become the default norm for human interaction. Among strangers it's a horrible idea, and among loved ones, a thousand times worse.

If social interaction has begun to feel rigid and sterile already, this sort of thing represents a deep freeze beyond anything we've ever experienced.

Everything points to confession and contrition now. Emotions become bottled and pressurized. Stiff behavior modification leaves no release valves.

Go ahead and experiment with this, if you don't believe me. I'll check out, without hesitation. I'll take my business elsewhere, anywhere.

Three years later and I still find the idea obnoxious and pandering to the unseen apparatus of encroaching social control.

Just a warning: nothing really to do with hair gel.

One minor tidbit:

  The Gauls [...] credited with the invention of 
  sapo, which was less an early form of soap, notes 
  Omrani, than a pomade that brightened the hair.

  The earliest baseball mention of a “southpaw” - as 
  found by Tom Shieber, senior curator at the National 
  Baseball Hall of Fame—appeared in the New York Atlas 
  in 1858, but in reference to a left-handed first 
  baseman, not a pitcher.

The first documented use of a phrase or term in print, does not mean that the writer used it according to the original intended context, especially since it does not specifically get used in a passage that explicitly states the intended use and origin.

The atlas doesn't explicitly state: "We decided to call him a southpaw, because we're inventing this new term, and not because of convention, and it means 1, 2 and 3, because x, y and z."

What, no graph of journalists salaries, comparing those who cover the tabs/spaces debate, versus those who don't?

  Timothy Morton wants humanity to give up some 
  of its core beliefs, from the fantasy that we 
  can control the planet to the notion that we 
  are ‘above’ other beings.

So... you're telling me there are too many chiefs, not enough Indians?

Worse still, sometimes merely being shot dead is preferable to other circumstances surrounding such murders.

Thanks! Shows how much I know about trading stocks...

  refactor

Geeze, I hope it compiles okay.

Which can be redefined in simpler terms, as "they just have ten times as many fucking shares."

Fine print is just deception wearing a tuxedo.

How does one prevent the use of real names among pseudonyms, pray tell? Pseudonyms, after all, are fiction by design.

  Study included 28 subjects (seven male and 
  21 female, age 18–65 years) completed the
  questionnaire and gave blood for testing 
  peripheral blood mononuclear cells telomere 
  length.

So, in other words anecdotal evidence, and an interesting sidebar, but really just some notes about one type of tissue sample across 28 people.

If it were any other look at any other tissue sample, what would you say about the sample size and the reliability of voluntary answers from subjects based on memory?

...and RTFA borrows from the older RTFM (which of course pairs with TFM), and "M" indicating the Manual, or rather Instructions Manual, harkening back to the "man" command in Unix.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM

The interesting part about this story is that if you're getting paid €15 an hour, to moderate facebook, and mark/flag garbage, you probably aren't doing anything important, and have saved no one's life. You are a cog in a machine that pays lip service to some misplaced idea that this sort of thing can intervene, and deflect negative outcomes into controlled results.

But, also even for all the nothing that this day job accomplishes, now we have an identity spill, and "terrorists" who don't really care about who they kill, so much as how many get killed (they will literally stab random people on the street, without warning, given the opportunity), now have a short list of people they can make easy news with. Not because they think this will matter, or get results, or slow down their open and flagrant use of facebook anyway, but because it's a splashy news item that they can use as a promotional device.

So nobodies accomplishing nothing, maybe get squished by people who know that these targets don't actually matter in a tactical or strategic sense, but incidentally as a public relations bump.

And so, if one person from the group of people suffers harm, the machine grinds onward on both sides unchanged, and this distraction evaporates, as more inconsequential crap gets dumped onto facebook, and faceless "whoevers" pick through the tin cans and banana peels looking for a smoking gun that will never appear. The difference being that they would be slightly less than random targets, but still nobodies, brought down by sacrificed expendable cannon fodder, entrapped into suicide attacks no matter what.

Technological advances don't seem to have an undo button, as far as I can tell. Once a technology of utility is unleashed, things keep advancing and the genie never goes back into the bottle.

I suppose technology can go backwards, but only by way of generation-spanning disaster. The fall of Rome is an obvious example. I guess this means we'll be dealing with this constant technological overload for the rest of our natural lives, huh?

Link references link:

https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/leveraging-open-source-...

Which references link:

https://opendri.org/resource/opendri-geonode-a-case-study-fo...

Which references PDF:

https://opendri.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/OpenDRI-and-G...

Titled:

  OPEN DATA FOR RESILIENCE INITIATIVE & GEONODE
  A CASE STUDY ON INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENTS IN OPEN SOURCE

This, uh... It just doesn't appear to be anything criminal.

I mean, it's not even unsavory. It's not embezzlement. It's not fraud. It's not even spam.

Is it a waste of electricity?

Oh... I guess so...

Yeah, wasting electricity is "kind of" irksome. Maybe. (depending on context)

Put it this way. Over the course of 12 hours, how many times does your mood change? Before your first cup of coffee, after a long day at work, getting stuck in traffic, going for a bike ride, feeling the embrace of your significant other. Seeing them flirt with your best friend, and your best friend flirting back.

Now, take any 4 weekends from the past six months and compare them, what was on your mind for each Saturday and Sunday? Count the things you might think about in a span of time for any day off.

Now, imagine that thrown into the middle of that, your friend shows you, in the palm of their hand, two tabs of acid.

Add psychedelic state to all your shifts in mood, stream of consciousness and common distractions, and dredge up the baggage of memories reaching back into your childhood, and include existential questions about what it means to exist.

Is that what we're calling Software Pulitzers now? Day jobs?

I'd suppose you have to be both, for immortality to matter, since immortality alone doesn't confer invulnerability.

Is this part of the same complex that runs prisons for profits, or a mixture of government operations and private companies?

I bet a number of countries in addition to Canada find the current scenario highly beneficial.