The Doctor @ drwho @beehaw.org

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If Luigi lives that long. We have a betting pool at work going that gives it 5:1 that he'll be a Texas suicide.

Explains why so many people don't seem to have consciences anymore, doesn't it?

They also have to keep their editors happy. One of an editor's jobs is to push back on the folks who write articles, and occasionally rewrite parts of them. And the editors have folks above them in the food chain pulling the strings. News companies aren't monoliths, they're spiderwebs of people pushing and pulling on other people because there are obligations all over the place.

To put it another way, "You can't say that or you're fired. You'll never work in this city again." And, because there aren't many celebrity journalists, it's a very real risk.

otherwise you’re just allowing the government to dictate moderation policies

I think that's what they're trying to do. They're trying to manipulate how this particular memeplex is being circulated from person to person as an information control measure. They don't want this idea catching on.

Does it really matter? The simulacrum is more real than real people these days, at least as far as the system as a whole is concerned.

Why not just let their constructs post at one another while us (mostly-) organics ignore them? Just like Usenet.

Supposedly. Whether or not it actually works is a different matter.

That's Craig, all right. He's a big believer in "If I do anything with enough confidence nobody will stop me."

Yeah, that's Craig. With a heaping side of spite for anything that breathes oxygen.

Depends on whether or not they have local phys.sec and how much of an asshole they want to be.

I do the same thing - it's a brag book. I make sure nothing proprietary goes into it but it always stays at home. Mostly, I keep it because I use it as a source of information when I update my resume' every few months.

Easily. A lot of people aren't capable of (and I'm not trying to spin a pun here, I swear) reflection anymore.

Because CEOs are actual people, while the rest of us are just proles and don't matter.

I can't tell if you're taking the piss or not about re-implementing initscripts.

cdparanoia. Still do.

Waah. My hydraulics leak for them.

Our security@ address at $dayjob gets about that many a month. Lots of folks blindly sending bug reports and "politely requesting a finder's fee for disclosing properly."

The shit of it is, they'll all for stuff we don't even use. IIS vuln reports when we only use Apache. Stuff like that.

I've been doing the same in pull-backups for years. It works nicely.

Outlier profiles don't get discarded. They get run through another statistical filtering step to smooth them out by eliminating the weird data points so that they're less than a couple of standard deviations away from the core aggregate.

They can, and they do. That kind of filtering is a grad school homework project.

I used to work for a company that did the kind of data analysis AdNauseam is meant to foil. It doesn't. If anything, it was kind of a joke around the office because the kind of junk that it throws out is easy to remove with a little statistical filtering. Just one more step in the processing pipeline.

Stick to just entering fake data when you have to enter data.