Three Chapters of Paradigms Lost...
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seawasp... are up today -- chapters 4, 5, and 6 -- to catch up to where I intended to be in the posting by now.
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- 1: "Traditional Publishing" -- what I expect when I hear that.
- 2: The Duty of a Civilization and Weaponized Naivete
- 3: What current AI should, and should not, be used for -- ideal and realistic
- 4: AI, Testing, and Intelligence
- 5: Elon is right, and also very wrong.
- 6: The Straw Hats are not "conservatives".
- 7: I don't pray...
- 8: Went to the No Kings 2 Protest
- 9: Wasn't as bad as it could be...
- 10: But wait, there's more!
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Date: 2014-06-09 05:53 pm (UTC)Me, I'd do like my main character in Finders Keepers does. Get a disposable cell phone and pick a random point on the local map to call from. Then remove the battery from the phone when I wasn't using it. (For extra paranoia, stick the battery and phone in a Faraday cage when not in use)
More inconvenient than what Jason is doing, but very secure (at least if you are only making a few calls, if you are making enough, somebody might be able to get survielance stuff like traffic cams and find a correlation with your vehicle)
Ooops. Went a bit farther. I don't see *how* he can detect that there are multiple phones in use at Verne's end. That'd take equipment *physically connected* to the phone line and connected between the phone exchange and the house, at that.
You *might* be able to get that info by hacking into Verne's phone exchange, but I'd be surprised.
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Date: 2014-06-09 06:07 pm (UTC)Second "disposable cell phone"?
"My dear boy, this was *1999*".
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Date: 2014-06-09 06:10 pm (UTC)(Cue "the Dagger of Burning" from Anderson's "Three Hearts and Three Lions")
Hmmm. Come to think of it, a magnesium based incendiary bullet would be pretty nasty on *anything*, but especially on a vampire.
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Date: 2014-06-09 06:44 pm (UTC)Note that it's not just the UV. I.e., you can't burn a vampire with those old purplish "black lights".
"a magnesium based incendiary bullet would be pretty nasty on *anything*,"
Yeah, that's the
"How did you know he was a vampire?"
"Well, when I staked him he died... oh, wait."