True, but this could be said about every truly anonymous internet service. There's for example a huge amount of incredibly scary and wrong stuff available on the TOR network. Child pornography, black market with every possible commodity, contract killing, you wouldn't believe (I did not when I first saw it).
But there are people's lives depending on this service somewhere in the world and that's why it must not be shut down. We may even need more services like it in case other parts of the world go to hell too...
With this kind of services or protocols we can either have no anonymity at all or we just have to accept the fact that this is what we pay for real and absolute anonymity. (And hope that the dangerous freaks will be hunted down and locked down in real world.)
Well that gave me goosebumps. Bleak future indeed, I immediately thought of the Doomsday Clock.
I like the idea of a new subreddit spawned by this: http://www.reddit.com/r/theeternalwar.
It could be interresting to see if anybody finds a way to save the world from hell.
Maybe it's time to relive good old memories of times spend with old Civ games. :)
As someone who just finished reading Snow Crash today (great stuff btw, can't wait for another Stephenson's book) I'd be thrilled to see this and try it in action.
As someone who's been into martial arts for some time I'm very sceptic about this. There's a lot more to realistic fighting than just swinging and clashing swords: footwork, body movement, weight transfer...
Nevertheles, even if it won't turn out to be perfect it could stil be a lots of fun. I'll be watching their progress.
After I got my B.S. in computer science three years ago I decided to start "from scratch" and applied to molecular biology and genetics. I was fascinated by research done in immunology, cancer biology and many other fields which helped prolong human life considerably during 20th century.
However after some time I realised that improving human health and prolonging life is just one side of the coin and that there is something equally important (and sadly often neglected especially in the media): we should strive very strongly on improving quality of life and not "only" it's length.
There's a very good chance that you and me will live quite a long life, according to statistics. But over the last year I experienced some things that really shook my personal and professional view on this... That's probably the same for anyone who had at least some experience with any case of mental deterioration disease, not only in case of elderly people even though they're affected most often. I've realized there is no point in living into one's eighties without some dignity or without being able to enjoy it.
Luckily for as all there's an amazing research being done in the field of neuroscience so I have my hopes up.
It is false. Most of the time, at least. But then again I wasn't expressing my opinion but a probable opinion of Your Regular Customer.
Yes, Heroku should put up a different error notification when the problem is on their side, but I doubt it would make that much of a difference in the eyes of the user.
Customers usually don't care about the reason for outage. They gave you money. If the service is running, good. If it's not, you screwed up. No matter what actually happened, you should've been prepared. Sad but true.
But there are people's lives depending on this service somewhere in the world and that's why it must not be shut down. We may even need more services like it in case other parts of the world go to hell too...
With this kind of services or protocols we can either have no anonymity at all or we just have to accept the fact that this is what we pay for real and absolute anonymity. (And hope that the dangerous freaks will be hunted down and locked down in real world.)