That's thirteen paragraphs down, by which time most of us would have moved on. This style of writing seems to have spread everywhere. Is it an attempt to portray the interviewee in a less formal and more interesting light. I see something similar on television 'science' documentaries. A picture of a scientist in her bath (a quantum physicist) or another standing on a mountain gazing rapturously into the firmament (a cosmologist). The shot being taken from a swooping drone. No doubt the scientists are having deep thoughts. The thing is, none of this is actually communicated to us in the body of the program. Back to the article, what it doesn't present is the evidence that Shakespeare the Gent. from Stratford is the same as Shakespeare the Player.
"This document provides technical details regarding the tools and infrastructure used by the Russian civilian and military intelligence Services (RIS) to compromise and exploit networks and endpoints associated with the U.S. election"
A great big distraction from the real issue, being the contents of the emails as leaked by Wikileaks in retaliation for framing Assange with that honeypot operation in Sweden. The technical source of the hack being Microsoft Windows. The same one they're running Homeland Security on :)
Dear Erik Sletteberg, Peter Demling, Gert Sønderby: the fact that Eich donated to Prop 8 is nobody’s business except his own and the state legislator of California and his hounding from Mozilla was a total disgrace. Personally, as far as I am concerned you can go and marry your kangaroo, I don’t care, ignorance is bliss.
Just even hint at criticising MICROS~1 and you get voted down, wanna talk to a sex pervert and that's ok on ycombinator.com, you people have some strange priorities.
Sounds to me like a good test of character. It would be interesting if this self described 'black software engineer' would tell us who the founder/CEO was and the name of the company. Why do all the Black kids sit at the same table at school? Why do all the Asian kids sit at the front of the class? Why is it ok for rap singers to say nigger but not anyone else? I really want to know.
@rawnlq: "We should be more optimistic that all of these UI issues will be figured out once it actually gets adoption."
The future as nightmare more likely. The theme of the video is how this technology is going to further alienate people rather than facilitate communication. You can already see a contemporary version where people everywhere, faces buried in their devices obsessively txting and no doubt looking up their 'friends' on Facebook. Anything but instigate a conversation with the person sitting next to them. See 'The Congress (2013)' for an interesting variation on the theme. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/
I tried, indeed I did try, trice upon a time I didst, sorry, I just can't, I just can't get to the end of the article; reminds me of trying to tackle a Henry James novel in school, one knows one is not going to succeed but regardless one forges ahead in the vain glorious hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel, or at least an end to the paragraph, only to flounder, in a miasmic fugue of cognitive disphoria .. :)
ps: It's a fiction that LSD helped certain people in their creativity. These so-called psychonaut are selling a dangerous form of snakeoil. Terence Mckenna and the rest, after decades communicating with DMT machine elves etc, what have they brought back from the 'other side', absolutely nothing of value. Going on the blurb on Amazon 'Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America' reminds me of 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'. A very interesting section in there on 'Ken Kesey'. He of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ' fame. I don't think Tom Wolfe could have wrote 'Acid Test' if he actually was on LSD.