I had one of the most incredible dreams ever last week. I was laying on the couch watching something, not feeling too great, and I fell asleep, I think. Thinking I was still awake, I began to see this city by the sea/ocean, and I remarked to myself how incredible it was that I was able to visualize this city so well because I've never hallucinated before. Then I wondered if I could manipulate it like a 3D level, and I could, so I spent some time moving my mental camera around this space, flying like superman kinda but at low speed. Then a Telsa rocketship took off from the city and crashed into the sea, but it didn't explode, it burrowed like a torpedo and turned back towards land. A woman was on a bench by the ocean and it should have hit and hurt/killed her but the rocket just disappeared. Then I realized this must be a dream and woke up. It was so bizarre, I thought I had been awake the whole time.
It's pretty simple, Alphabet/Google make it far too easy for mistaken, false or frivolous claims. It's obvious why, usually the claimant has the heavy bags of money to use as a bludgeon, but it's not right.
What bothers me the most about the CA-Stole-Elections drumbeat is how devoid these kinds of articles are with evidence. They don't qualify which or how many votes were ultimately changed, but it's a well enough hypothesis so writer after writer keeps making bolder and broader claims about CA's influence.
Now how many votes are changed due to the media's overwhelming (90%+) negativity about Brexit and Trump? If CA swayed any votes at all, then our media is actively and aggressively engaging in much worse. To use an analogy, CA might have been a car bomb, but the ongoing bias in the media is a continuous artillery shelling of the public's perception of politics.
That sort of makes sense, but what are examples of other legitimate incentives that might compel a researcher to disclose the presence of a vulnerability before the vendor has a fix?
I always assumed the responsible part had multiple non-conflicting meanings, that 1) The researcher would not disclose it to the public until the vendor has a reasonable amount of time to fix it and 2) the vendor is assumed to want to do the right and responsible thing in fixing the flaw.
Decades of Hollywood shows has conflated the two classes as part of the same party animal regimen. Timothy Leary didn't help either. All my (cursory) research suggests either there are parallel worlds that makes no sense to logical people in this one or much more likely, they can sometimes induce states of temporary schizophrenia. That's about the only cause for concern I think. If I voted in favor of legalization and then next year we had a lot of new Timothy Leary's walking around spewing nonsense, ruining the lives of everyone in their family because they're taking them every day or week, I'd be extremely regretful of voting in favor of it. What you see now in the community though is a reverence and fear and respect that they didn't have in the 70's, so that's a good sign.
Good, now do something about shady websites at the top of most of my searches with DDG.
For instance, search for any late model car and you'll find a slew of websites like 2020-make-model.com or 2021modelmake.com etc. These sites look like they're all generated from a similar template with minor changes, with some real pictures along with short poorly written articles that are completely useless, at best they're speculative. They're just good enough to get into the top search results but don't actually provide consumers with any useful information.
Most people can build up a tolerance. I grew up with cats close to home and never noticed any allergy as a kid. When I got my own indoor cat though, I noticed itching and then flu-like symptoms that got progressively worse. Allergy medication completely relieved all symptoms, and rather than get rid of fluffy I took allergy meds daily for about 2 weeks, then every second ord third day for another month. Now I'm pretty much free of symptoms, but I occasionally pop a pill if the roof my mouth or hands start to itch for any reason.
At this rate, software developers are going to get worse reputations than lawyers before too long.
One app I use every day at work, I have to provide my email address ever day, then log in. Then the app passes authentication for some unknown reason to Microsoft's federation service of some kind, using my email address which it asks for again + password.
Prior to their recent 'redesign' it was perfectly streamlined before they "refreshed" the app with a brand new bullshit UI that just made everything worse. I literally can't think of a positive that came out with the new version, it's worse in every conceivable way.
Personally I think someone scammed the company into redesigning something that didn't need it, subcontracted it out to the lowest bidder and pocketed a nice stack of cash for themselves.
No doubt, the thing for most people, including anyone who hates paying taxes is the bottom line. I don't see any connection though between the bottom line paid and how forgiving people will be when they discover how easy it is to file. I suspect the word prominent is a misnomer at best, it just makes no sense to me.
I got my folks a bird feeder a few years ago when they bought a new house. I grew up a few miles from there, remembering only sparrows, blackbirds, robins, etc and on rare occasions a yellow bird, or a brown bird, or red-wing blackbird. But with a bird feeder, it was amazing to see the number of unique birds that show up now every few minutes, birds of all colors that I didn't even know lived in the area.
I bought a new AOC monitor from Amazon, sold by Amazon.com Services, Inc last year. When it got here, It was obvious it had been an open box item. The stand was wrapped in the worst, most unprofessional packing I've ever seen. It wasn't even in a plastic bag, but rather the plastic bag was wrapped around it with twisted, old, previously-used tape was used to bind it back up. Whoever repackaged it didn't even bother using new tape, even though the old tape was all twisted and nearly worthless. I ended up not liking the monitor and shipped it back.
By cheating, you're referring to the 17 'unbiased' errors, 100% of which somehow simultaneously helped the Hillary campaign and pushed a sham special council investigation and impeachment on the people, all the while the media was pinky swearing there was more evidence than there actually was, right?
Where is the lightning network, so people can buy common, small dollar amounts of goods and services with BTC? IMO that's going to be the next catalyst, it's slowly fading out until it's at least technologically possible to go mainstream.
They would be very wise to hire their own auditors, not necessarily to go into their client's businesses but to review the assessments most of them are already getting periodically, to make sure that evidence presented actually made sense and earned them a pass. It's been my experience that IT auditors are often book smart, but IT-experience poor. Some are simply not savvy or experienced enough to interpret their own framework the same way a week or a month later.
I find the E8 lattice incredibly interesting, if for no other reason to find out if it's truly representative of particle physics. It predicts more particles we haven't observed yet.
While it would be nice to be within walking distance of many daily places, there are real downsides: Noise, air quality, crime. I live in an incredibly quiet and peaceful neighborhood. I do have to drive a good 20 minutes to get to a major grocery store but Walmart is 10 mins away and a small grocery store less than 5. I do wish there was a coffee shop within 10 minutes of walking distance, but otherwise I can't imagine any upside for me personally in "walkable" cities. People selling their public transportation and walk-able cities just doesn't resonate with me at all, in fact it sounds horrible, but I'm glad the choices are there.
I see this point of view a lot, but it's got one major flaw: A lot of my trips to the grochery store/Costco/Sams Club include far more things than I can carry. The idea of not owning a car sounds like the exact opposite of a paradise to me.
Yeah the KJV was and is still a very good translation, and it was very controversial in it's day. The Catholic church didn't want the Bible in a "vulgar" or common tongue or even being able to read the Bible without their approval and guidance. The Latin Vulgate existed for the learned, and those who knew Latin objected also. I think that's why they felt the need to explain why they made the translation.
I wish I could remember it, or even just the word, but it was several years ago. It might have been the word 'prevent' which 400 years ago meant to precede, but I really don't know.