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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Has anyone here stolen an ashtray from an alien space-ship?
But if someone said yes, would you believe them?
You might demand evidence but, if so, what would you accept as adequate evidence that would actually persuade you?
I've got an ashtray with a picture of Broadstairs in Kent on the bottom. Were I to claim that I stole it from an alien space craft you could not disprove my claim. Indeed, even if could be proven that the ashtray had been manufactured on Earth, this would still not disprove my claim that I stole it from an alien space craft. They could have bought it in the same gift shop as the one I visited in 1982.
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markrlondon wrote: You might demand evidence but, if so, what would you accept as adequate evidence that would actually persuade you?
Exactly true. People often say they want evidence of something when in reality they already have their mind made up and no amount of evidence would change it.
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The one who believes need no proof,
the one who doesn't believe discards all proof.
 
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Well that seems like it will get you nowhere. 
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Same place as many online conversations...
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Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: then they will have advanced tech;
Not necessarily. There's a whole lot of space and time out there. There's nothing to say they have to be like us in any way shape or form or tech.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
modified 4-May-20 14:18pm.
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ZurdoDev wrote: There's nothing to say they have to be like us in any way share or form or tech.
That's what I think too...
The probability of intelligent life or other kind of life as we know it might be reduced, but we haven't got all the knowledge of the universe.
Why must be life only based on carbon? or need oxigen to breath? or need gravity in aproximate values to earth? or solar light?
avoiding the term "intelligent"...
We already have examples of life in places in earth where 20 to 50 years ago would have been "impossible".
Why has to be impossible everything else?
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Nelek wrote: Why must be life only based on carbon?
Exactly. Whenever they mention they are looking for life on Mars, for example, that's really what they mean. Something carbon based.
The problem is we are so smart we just don't realize how dumb we are. But some people insist that their limited knowledge is enough to claim something about the universe for which they cannot possibly know.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: We are a lonely species, it seems; it may be just a wish.
I don't know if we are alone in the universe or not... but the implications of either possibility are scaring.
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That doesn't get them funding, so it has to be aliens.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Consumer Reports has analyzed the privacy policies of Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and WebEx and discovered that they may be collecting more data than many people realize. Everyone surprised must be new here
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Quote: . According to the report, all three companies reserve the right to collect information from your calls, including how long a call lasts, who’s participating in the call, and the IP addresses of everyone taking part.
I must not have a good imagination because I can't come up with any reason why I would care that they do this. Can anyone else?
Phone companies have been tracking data forever but most people did not know, but tracking data is not a new thing.
Heck, they used to handout a huge book that had everyone's name, phone number, and address in it FOR FREE to everyone. As far as I know, nobody really cared then. Not sure why we care now.
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Firefox Private Relay add-on to help users safeguard their email addresses from spammers. Does it come with one of those "Lone Ranger" masks to disguise yourself?
Or maybe a nice pair of glasses like Clark Kent?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Or maybe a nice pair of glasses like Clark Kent?
Or a beard, like Chuck Norris?
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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If Chuck Norris get a scam email, he just answers with "hello" and the scammers pay him what the email said.
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Previously it has been rumoured that Windows 10 2004/May 2020 Update would be rolling out on the 12th May to consumers, but now Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet reports that the release may be delayed till the 28th May. "And there was much rejoicing"
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An icon designer must have got the virus.
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Let me share a little marketing secret with you. Any press is good press[^]. As more people talk, post and write articles and continue to mention icons in the news... the marketing guys will push to keep mentioning icons in the press releases.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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As has been very adequately shown by current American politics, not all press is good press. Even Mr. Orange has gotten tired of the responses to his antics, so he hurries on to try the next topic. Marketing should as well, because at some point the general populace will think they are idiots. (Based on current conditions, that may still be a bit in the future for the icons.)
Best wishes,
David
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Twenty years on, the ILOVEYOU virus remains one of the farthest reaching ever. And I love you all as well
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Today, news broke that Zoom signed a deal with Oracle Cloud to host their cloud infrastructure, beating out AWS, Azure, and GCP.
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The Reuters article helpfully points out that Zoom has 217,000 terabytes a month of traffic flowing through it. If we assume all of that is from inside of Zoom’s environment out to the internet (it absolutely isn’t, but it’s a fine worst-case data transfer scenario) and all of it is moving to Oracle now that the deal is signed (certainly not happening, but work with me here), according to public pricing that data transfer would cost, per month: $11,186,406.55 on AWS, nobody knows on Azure because the pricing calculator thinks I’m screwing with it when I put that big of a number into it, and $1,843,630
Yet another harbinger of the end times.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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For Azure, the lowest advertised price is $0.05/GB* (above 500gb/mo the price is $contact u$), or $50/tb; and suggests a pre mega volume discount bill of $10.85m to host all of Zoom on Azure; slightly better than AWS but not world changing like the $1.8m Oracle lists.
* this is the price for your first 150-500TB in the default central US region to Zone 1, lower amounts are higher priced, but are a tiny fraction of Zoom's total, so I'm ignoring them as rounding error.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: The Reuters article helpfully points out that Zoom has 217,000 terabytes a month of traffic flowing through it.
Now the question is... is it just traffic or storage what are they looking for?
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