Several times a day we are now reminded how anal the world has become. By creating various ways to be more efficient and digitized we have also awakened equal number of Hydes that only end up helping the humans design a more complex lock with more passwords that will soon include the need for us to learn the cyrillic script - since anyone can hack a latinesque key.
Just this morning as I tried to update a blog the Captcha key popped up to make sure I was not a whack job computer algorithm trying to spoof an entry in and make some untoward comments or worse hijack the blog and cause a world wide panic.
Airports worldwide have taken the terrorism threat to mean different things to their public and implemented a non consistent and bizzare array of procedures to thwart people from carrying all manners of fluids or solids on to planes. The embarkation or getting to the gate itself is an exercise in undressing to varying degrees depending again on the whims of the policy makers and the aptitude and intellect of the person on the front lines.
Gaming the system is a natural inclination to a lot of people and to an extent it helps keep the purveyors of the service or products honest. As an example Airlines touting reward miles for flying have to actually let their customers use those so called rewards to get somewhere; instead they try to bury you in fine print not really letting you fly. Soon people realize there is no free lunch and start manipulating their earn so that they feel somewhat vindicated against the marketing gimmic that brands impose on the unsuspecting public.
Although I do not consume Facebook as a service I hear from the believers that the security apparatus has started becoming more sophisticated as the nerdy tool which was once a way to find the next chick or date in the form across the street transformed into a marketing engine that could (not sure myself if it will sustain). Pretty soon the user community will rebel against all the buttons and controls that protect your wild pics from that party you thought you did not go to but did because half of the public will be clueless on how to use them.
To see this tit for tat manifest into these ridiculous mechanisms has only made life more difficult since there really is no such thing as privacy or security when you are in the cloud. Ultimately you believe in the system to the extent you can afford to get hacked or peeped into or manipulated and just accept the risk. If not stay away from any form of organized procedure be it - flying or blogging or opening a bank account or getting a new phone because you my friend are going to be susceptible - just like our forefathers were more likely to catch a nasty virus (organic kind) compared to our generation.
This autumn the weather gods cooperated as we took a family trip in the northeast to see six states that qualify or makeup what is known colloquially in America as New England. Mass, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island (tiniest state in the union). The outing helped tally up the states we either lived in, visited or have worked in to 47. Guess which three have eluded this intrepid traveling family. Any rate the drive was all in about 1,800 miles and included some memorable geographic wonders or points of interest. Easternmost part of state of Massachusetts being one. Furthest drivable road east in Mass being another. Visit to all Ivy League schools (term harkens to a collegiate athletics conference and generally regarded as elite academic institutes of some repute worldwide) is another random bucket list item of which this trip afforded the chance to knock two more of the list. Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and Brown (and its sister institute the RISD - school f
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