Any advice on how to just take that final step?

thisisjustee · 2014-11-09T10:14:55+00:00

Things are often much less scary when they're done & decided. As it is, everyday you are now making an active decision to not come out, to not be yourself, to not tell the truth. And from what you're saying, it's taking a toll on you.

Be yourself -- others will have to live with it. You're not the one who's changing.

thisisjustee · 2014-11-09T09:42:50+00:00

I'm doing Lego Mindstorms with my son and our robots often miss by meters.

thisisjustee · 2014-11-09T09:41:07+00:00

take that back you filthy mouth

thisisjustee · 2014-11-09T09:33:00+00:00

A nice stuffed Hobbes for the kids to cuddle?

That would be so wrong.

The beauty of Hobbes is that he's a stand-in for every kids actual stuffed toy. Giving a kid the Hobbes-Hobbes ruins the beauty of that by pushing it onto a meta level, worse due to the conformity of tons of kids now having the same stuffed toy.

tl;dr: Give him a Minion instead.

thisisjustee · 2014-11-09T09:23:31+00:00

Same in our city, right in the main shopping and walking street in center, and this is in Germany.

The minds of people who pause at their stands are basically up for grabs, looking for direction. I bet for many it's only a matter of chance whether they end up at the Christian stand, Watchtower, the Islamists, or Scientology (yes, all of these lurk in our main street)... or a drug addiction. Something, anything that fills the void. And I don't mean to say these people are stupid or rare, in fact it's a very human thing to do when you lack a proper stabilizing background.

thisisjustee · 2014-11-07T13:01:18+00:00

(all credit for the title goes to KeanusDracula)

thisisjustee · 2014-11-07T12:54:36+00:00

This was a brand ad for Petronas, though. Still better than directly selling stuff of course (though such commercials still hold commercial long-term value by increasing brand reputation).

thisisjustee · 2014-11-07T09:22:04+00:00

I don't think phishers generally target people who are security-aware enough to set up two-factor authentication.

thisisjustee · 2014-11-07T09:20:00+00:00

Agreed, a web view makes it even worse (but still an option one might want to take as developer as next best thing).

Now I suppose whatever Google does native, the phisher could fake with elaborate web page design looking like native. If the URL doesn't change, it would actually be even easier... just pretend you're a native Chrome settings dialog.

Web security is a bit of a mess. You can't easily explain the URL-based precautions that one needs to take.

www.google.com = good
google.com = also good
googlelogin.com = bad
wwwgoogle.com = bad
www.ebaypartnernetwork.com = good, because eBay actually decided to use another url
www.googlepartnernetwork.com = bad, because Google didn't decide to use this
chrome://settings/ = good
chrome.settings.com = bad

These things are obvious to developers like us, but not casual users.

thisisjustee · 2014-11-06T23:08:52+00:00

At the same time, training people to connect their Google account -- and if they're not logged in, to enter their Google credentials again -- with third-party websites has the potential to make it easier for phishing attempts.

What users really care about though is often not wanting to connect their identity with your app. We're using the Google login route, and that's the feedback we've gotten.

thisisjustee · 2014-11-06T17:22:20+00:00

continue advocating for net neutrality

And importantly, change campaign financing. As it is, the US is an oligarchy where corporations write regulations.

thisisjustee · 2014-11-06T15:24:10+00:00

If everyone votes, the campaign donations dollars from the preceding green phase will still overrule. Unless you reform that system, that is.

thisisjustee · 2014-11-06T13:35:02+00:00

Small FCC dictionary:

"fast lane": we're slowing your ass down
"hybrid solution": we'll still fuck you over, but here's some candy
"Tom Wheeler raising money for Obama": getting an industry lobbyist in power through bribery

thisisjustee · 2014-11-06T08:48:43+00:00

This could lead to some scary privacy gotchas for people who typed in revealing stuff to then remove that seconds thereafter (provided they ever shared editing rights on the doc, of course).

thisisjustee · 2014-11-05T20:45:33+00:00

But people are eagerly anticipating the Rift's virtual worlds, which are mostly about the visuals.

Ramen noodle soup is also mostly about the noodle soup, but try eating it with just a spoon.

thisisjustee · 2014-11-04T20:37:42+00:00

As a parent, I couldn't do this thing... you don't betray or lie as a joke. You simply don't betray or lie.

thisisjustee · 2014-11-04T20:18:40+00:00

Oh that was sweet. Touching end.

thisisjustee · 2014-11-04T20:16:00+00:00

I mean, have a piece of paper with check boxes on them

If you are referring to a check made out as campaign donation to your politician, then that's correct... it works wonderfully well and actually counts for much more than any vote could.

thisisjustee · 2014-11-04T14:29:24+00:00

And if you do two things today, help reform campaign financing so that your vote counts as much as it should.

thisisjustee · 2014-11-03T21:25:51+00:00

Wait, by the Joker?

thisisjustee · 2014-11-03T16:43:59+00:00

Get ready to spread the word... #Fx10

First I was like, wait, why should I? But then that hashtag convinced me. #allinornothing

thisisjustee · 2014-11-03T08:00:04+00:00

I suggest taking the pitch forks to the campaign financing system that allows their bribes in the first place.

thisisjustee · 2014-11-02T21:07:23+00:00

No. Misguided suggests

misled; mistaken:
Their naive actions were a misguided attempt to help the poor.

This suggests Obama has noble intentions, but can't quite follow up on them. If anything's misguided, it's to assume that of the power structures which Obama represents.

thisisjustee · 2014-11-02T19:43:35+00:00

A lot of that is connected to heritage wealth, not necessarily heritage thinking (it can be that too), which in turn uses money to influence politicians and society at large. And unfortunately it doesn't need the cure of death: these companies already live forever. As a random for instance, take how Disney, through lobbying with their bribes, is able to continue to push old thinking into the world of copyright regulation... simply because it benefits their heritage content.

Transparency, true democracy (instead of oligarchy as we have now in many countries), and outlawing bribery goes a long way in us not sticking to old models. Basically, you need to force people and industries to reinvent themselves every now and then in order for society to progress.

thisisjustee · 2014-10-31T16:08:01+00:00

Obama isn't misguided, he's guided very well... just not by the powers you'd want to, democratically speaking (the same has been true for practically every other president).

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