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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not after it's been put through the blender.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can already fingerprint "smart"phones by the grav detector things
mircea_popescu: whereas if done on camera, much less rng, much less variation
mircea_popescu: (as the processing is usally done in gimp on a linux box)
mircea_popescu: seems more likely they want to be able to identify people/cameras , which raw does not allow
mircea_popescu: or is this a tacit admission that they don't have any valuable footage anyway.
mircea_popescu: so if i have footage that's valuable reuters aims not to buy it because of bureaucratic considerations ?
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what that reuters retardation is supposed to be.
mircea_popescu: it survives in romanian as a flavourful reflexive verb. to belabour oneself.
mircea_popescu: because lo and behold! romanians invented coke machine before you did.
mircea_popescu: this is like proposing to make a book for "intelligent people that aren't necessarily literate" cca 1215. orly ?
mircea_popescu: the last time someone could be useful in a professional capacity but not a programmer was perhaps 1935 ?
mircea_popescu: mostly because it had been dead so long it was stinking up the place.
mircea_popescu: and somewhere in the horse, you can hear a distance squeal.
mircea_popescu: possibly all the trouble since then entirely rests on mp's pathologically complex misunderstanding of what that original guy actually meant.\
mircea_popescu: ironically, my foray into bitcoin was started by random guy on the internet [at the time hadn't used irc at all in decade +] insisting i move into his "GPG" castle.
mircea_popescu: (this, incidentally, is the aspirational 2nd eigen state for "art", as hoped-for by various [failed, necessarily] artistes throughout the ages.)
mircea_popescu: phf except people on a regular basis DO share others' castles in the sky. it's just that they don't happen to be the very castles people hold most dear.
mircea_popescu: armies move because of the interplay of production and consumption. talk to the traders.
mircea_popescu: exactly. sort-of like trying to achieve military results by "asking the troops".
mircea_popescu: ironially, "programmers themselves" play exactly no part in all of this.
mircea_popescu: now, js.1 is how it's sold to users ; but js.2 is why it's appealing to business. and for a long time - really, as long as rsm seemed to have teeth - this appeared to them (understandably) as a required pontoon bridge to have, jic.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect the thing with js is like so : it has two eigenstates. js.1 is "well, kinda useful to do some tasks browsewr side". as exemplified by say the trilema text select thing. way cheaper to do that client side than server side. js.2 however is "deploy code you can update yourself". ie, no need to ask people to update it for you.
mircea_popescu: btcdrak next we're going to follow what the solidcoin guy says ? who's next, atlas ? taaki ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, asciilifeform, the objection is not to the "word problem" abstraction cast over the world. it's with the apparent expectation this does something to the world. that's all.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, do not expect they operate IN THE WORLD!
mircea_popescu: yea, this is the thing with psychic defenses : they are not optional, but necessary.
mircea_popescu: in the immortal words of that short, brunette scion of the wealthy dreyfuss fambly (hey, almost like the rothschilds, ok ?) "Ohh.. right. Cause if we're dating, what everyone saw was just a beautiful moment between two lovers."
mircea_popescu: the problem is not what you call it, but the bizarre notion that there is a switch somewhere.
mircea_popescu: don't tell me we accidentallied into a public-private corssover where i was discussing public matters and you were recounting your sex life.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im speaking of the thing. what were you speaking of ?
mircea_popescu: in truth and honestly, humanity has produced one single great idea since the beginning,
mircea_popescu: maybe it's possible to paint it green. so what if it is.
mircea_popescu: random arbitrary measure is irrelevant in this discussion.
mircea_popescu: trinque that's why i say "it's as if he reads his own text with a different part of the brain."
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's nothing wrong with taking pictures, as a memory aid.
mircea_popescu: why THE FUCK do you suppose they throw a fit ? "because towelheads" ?
mircea_popescu: when mircea_popescu burned a koran, bin laden's koran also burned.
mircea_popescu off to ammend the rule, 0 , 1, infitnity MINUS ONE, infinity.
mircea_popescu: this happens irrespective of whether they ALSO fell down in your picture or not.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, if i lean on the pile just the right way, whether you took the picture or not, they will fall down.
mircea_popescu: you snap out your camera, and take a picture of some objects in this room.
mircea_popescu: so we go into this room, where there's all sorts of furniture.
mircea_popescu: it's as if he reads his own text with a different part of the brain.
mircea_popescu: next thing you know teaching hasn't happened in 2o years. wow of wow.
mircea_popescu: because clearly this is a good thing, not like they'll now be more powerful than whatever force is "opressing" them into education.
mircea_popescu: they took a snapshot of the way educating the young worked, imagined that it's held in place by forces from mythology, and proceeded to "give kids a say"
mircea_popescu: it is also how idiot brits/everyone sunk the entire culture of the west after the war :
mircea_popescu: this is the substance of the misunderstanding. you imagine that if you take a picture of a pile of objects, you now have a SPECIAL pile of objects, that does other things.
mircea_popescu: once it becomes the c, your flimsy "federalist papers" won't protect you any more than yes, what trinque said.