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At least OG can relax in his birthday chair while he waits on our side of the world to wake up.
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Or you could post it at midnight tonight (CST?) and wait for him to wake up!
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Greg Utas wrote: wait for him to wake up!
OG sleeps?!? 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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If he does, he'd be awoken by a Dij in the ribs
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Gotta love human ingenuity
except when it comes to securing our systems. 
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As a thought exercise, I've asked "what is the purpose of the criminal? what is their niche?"
The way we organically operate, things find a niche or they stop being a thing, or at least not stably a thing, and yet crime exists in pretty stable numbers throughout most any human population.
So what does crime do? Well, one thing it might do is show us what we can and can't accept as a society.
Consider that designer drugs don't become illegal until they are made illegal. In this instance, the criminal innovates, and society eventually responds. It's an evolutionary process. Stagnation doesn't carry the day - change does - and crime evolves, so our system of rules and order evolves to compensate. Criminality keeps things moving forward, in a sense.
I don't think it will ever be possible to have a crime free society. If even in the hypothetical, such a society would experience stagnation - a kind of perfect death, as it becomes unable to adapt.
Now, that's the bigger picture.
Looking at tech security as a microcosm of this: The hackers keep us honest. It's not only the hackers that want to get up to espionage. That want to get up to theft. Hacking isn't the source of all crime, or all human desire to screw other humans over out of expediency. It's just one angle.
So consider that these hackers force us to harden our systems against them, and in doing so, harden them against the corporate thieves, for example (that also come in less techie forms)
We may not like them, but maybe we need them.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Sorry way too late here for any sort of thought exercise. I was only admiring what people can can do.
Would agree with many of your points and would love play Devil's Advocate, but not tonight. 
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I'm such a horrible cynic about videos like that. I always ask myself - "if I mastered life would making videos about it be how I spent my time?"
Consequently I never give them the time of day. Maybe that's why I'm such a mess. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I tend to be the same way. I have felt the power of her approach for myself, though, and her approach is worth being aware of. I believe it needs more of an intellectual foundation, in order to be even more powerful, but I haven't figured out the secret to that!
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I just tried to book an apartment in Kyiv, but everyone I tried is booked solid for months! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The vacay hotspot of the year!
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Klangkarussell - Sonnentanz[^]
Last month I was in a store and this song was playing in the background.
Really loved it, luckily the store was empty and I could Shazam it.
Apparently, it was pretty popular song and everyone here knew it except me.
Klangkarussell is an Austrian electronic duo and this was their biggest hit.
It reached the top 10 in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and Switzerland.
I'd never heard it before.
It's danceable, yet summons mental images of tropical beaches (but I guess that's what you get with a sun dance).
Since then I've been listening to this album and this song in particular.
Also really love the song Sternenkinder, which features samples from the (original anime) Ghost in the Shell soundtrack.
But Sonnentanz is the well deserved SOTW!
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There was a song? For some reason I didn't notice. Can't imagine why it is so popular.
Oh well I guess I have to watch it again.
and again
and again ...
But seriously, nice chill music. When our weather clears up, I have to add it to the playlist when we're outside by the pool.
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Did you know the Sound of the Week started out as Song of the Week?
But then some members complained that "this isn't technically a song" (specifically when I posted an aria) and I changed the name from Song to Sound 
This was probably around six years ago (I've been doing this for quite some time).
And now I've made the mistake of calling a non-song a song again
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A wise person hears one word but understands two.
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I think it would be more pleasant with less distortion. (I know, I'm picky!)
Thanks for sharing.
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Very nice one! For this week I will pick Aphex Twin - Stone In Focus. I swear I've mentioned it before, but a search doesn't find it. And the stones make it a real banger!
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Very nice ambient piece
Reminded me of Carbon Based Lifeforms[^].
Their later work has more of a beat (but so does most of Aphex Twin's other work).
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It's fine, but that constant volume alternating sound thing is kind of nauseating.
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I think I know what you mean, but I couldn't imagine getting nauseous from it 
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Isolate just that part, listen to it on loop with headphones in a dark room, blindfolded, then get back to me...
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