I just responded copiously to an Ask MetaFilter question about this topic.
In case something unfortunate happens to my reply, I’ll copy it in toto over here, but here’s the link to my answer too.
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Just a short update. It turns out that even the venerable Peter Guttman (who proposed in 1996 or so that we use a 35-pass wipe according to a strict algorithm to protect our old/deleted data) thinks that with today’s storage and recovery technologies, only a few passes are now needed to protect us from snooping. I used [...] Last night, we had a wonderful protein rich dinner with silverbackbutch and biblespice, to celebrate various birthdays and victories! It was a good time. They helped drink beer from our fridge that has been languishing and needs to be drunk before October. They also brought cognac soaked peaches and fine chocolate. We got more than a little [...] hlwiley asked me in a recent comment whether I thought were any useful analogies to be made in the -isms spaces. I responded that while I thought in general, analogies are really sticky and tricky and dangerous things, I would think about it and get back to it. Here’s my attempt at starting the conversation. In which I shall attempt to explain how I think entitlement/privilege is related to docentry/tokenism, reverse racism and how I think you can use your entitlement/privilege for good. Updated: To try to clarify a bit. After a particularly good talk with H, I have a lot to say. I want to break it down and talk about it in chunks both from the point of view of not knowing exactly how much energy I’ll have tonight to do it and also from the point of view of being able to [...] So I downloaded Fable II Pub Games a few days ago and have been steadily accumulating inventory items and unlocking higher stakes games. (I probably will buy and play Fable II, probably with the birthday mad money my Mom sent me – Thanks Mom!) This evening, while unlocking higher stakes games in Keystone (which is a [...] A meme! via sparkymonster. |
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