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Article #625213Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
From: Dave Garland
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 15:57
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 15:57
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On 8/3/2018 5:02 AM, Peter Flass wrote: > Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: >> On 2018-08-02, ma...@mail.com <ma...@mail.com> wrote: >>> On 2018-08-02, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >>>> On 2018-08-02, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 16:51:44 -0400 >>>>> Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> It may actually be the same thing, an expectation of centralized >>>>>> computers taking care of everyone, instead of a whole lot of computers. >>>>> >>>>> That is certainly the picture that appears in every science fiction >>>>> mention of computers pretty much right up until reality did something >>>>> different. >>>> >>>> And now, under reality v2.0, the wheel is coming around again. >>>> We're going back to centralized computers taking care of everyone >>>> (FSVO "care"). There are still lots of computers everywhere, >>>> but they're just being used as terminals. >>>> >>> >>> Is Facebook the present reality of Eternal September (Not the site, the present >>> reality of the mob of people who would discover the Internet in September.) >> >> Most of the people on FB make the "eternal September" crowd look like >> intellectual giants. >> >> > > Look at the accusation that the Russians meddled in the election by posting > bogus stuff on Favebook. Who the heck gets their political information from > FB??? If there are many people doing this we have a lot more problems than > just Russians! > The same could be said of TV, junk mail, the National Enquirer, People Magazine, my brother-in-law, etc. People get their information (political or not) from what they're exposed to. And they'll absorb some of it even though they're not trying to. That's how advertising works. And a lot of people use Farcebook as their primary means of communication with the world. Their relatives and friends are there. They don't send letters any more, they do it all on Farcebook. In any case, a lot of the allegedly Russian stuff on Facebook wasn't obviously "politicial", it was things like "Save the 2nd Amendment" or "[insert religion here] is raping girls in [your hometown here]", stuff designed to inspire fear or widen divisions. It wasn't "Vote for Politician X".
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