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So it's back to the concept of a recipe where the ingredients change, but the recipe sort of stays intact. Change too many ingredients and we have an entirely different dish. I like this analogy because it's less formal and more forgiving. Just make sure to stick to it in an informal manner and not abuse the leniency provided, and you shall be fine. Technically every substance is mood altering (sugar for example), but there are some that have a marked increase on judgement and mood that it is safe to treat them as suspect. When I refer to "recipe" I mean a loose guide to run with in times of crisis.

Seconded. There is a lot of noise on what diet is superior and which one works best. Intuitively a person knows when they've over indulged just as when we pull back when putting our hand in a flame. We just don't do it anymore, and design our lives around not ever having it happen again.

My only problem with this is the victim-hood that happens when this high carb crap clamours for our attention in ADs and the media. Invariably you will get victim-hood and people gorging and gulping their way to negate such imagery. I know I don't look at a McBigMac the same way when I've had one.

The problem with itemizing specific things to avoid or cut down, is they are too specific and end up becoming habits. Instead it is more suitable to form an over-arching doctrine. So instead of "Drink less beer", it should become "Avoid mood changing substances".

The reason for a more general approach is because the moment things are calcified like this, they are very difficult to uproot and change. Think of this as a recipe where the ingredients can be swapped out. The recipe doesn't change, but the ingredients do, and not so drastically that the recipe is destroyed.

Just ran Paul's article through Anonymouth https://github.com/psal/anonymouth Considerably changed and mangled beyond all recognition. It even sounds less persuasive in tone.

I solve this with the Cynefin Framework:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7oz366X0-8

What I love about Dave's work is that it's very Zen and self similar to nature. The more I observe complex systems, the more I realize they are just like self-organized nature. Complexity begets complexity. Novelty begets novelty. These ideas are not new.

Reminds me of this talk from Defcon 2008: https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-16/dc16-presentations/d...

Tool called Whitespace used to encrypt messages

So I should talk in Legal English all day? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_English which is the reverse of writing as one talks, because the Rule of Law surrounds us always, except for the criminals who flout it repeatedly throughout their day.

When I write, I self censor all the time, and it is no different when I talk. We forgive and forget. We silo only certain words to certain areas of the world. "What happens in Vegas" etc. Language only becomes a problem when it is committed permanently to the footnotes of the web. You can't overlook the law aspect. You also can't so easily withdraw a statement said online.

Did this article overlook the recent findings that Alcohol is similar in effects to low doses of Oxytocin and thus influences a 'trust decision'?

Some of the work of Distributed.net ( http://www.distributed.net/Main_Page ) is wonderful. Does anyone know if this idea could be more than it is currently, where computers (more than ever) are sitting idly and not contributing their cycles in any meaningful way? Even 5 minutes of raw CPU 100% usage per device could do some serious computation. Theoretically superseding modern supercomputers.

Yes it has turned into The Hacienda at this stage. It has its roots in Temporary Autonomous Zones / Pirate Utopias, but has since seen the attention of the gentrifiers.

The Hacienda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ha%C3%A7ienda

Gentrification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification

I like tools that rather than scan for signatures (which can be polymorphic in nature and bypass AV), they can look for out-of-place behaviour on the OS. The Sysinternals Suite is great for malware hunting: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062

And things like Reason Core are brilliant for nuking any rootkits that somehow get on to a system https://www.reasoncoresecurity.com/

Malware has grown up and is now residing in hardware and can survive entire OS re-installs. I feel sorry for Windows users these days because malware has grown up and it is not as obvious you have malware. In the past there were obvious signs you were infected and the malware made itself known (sort of stupid when you're an attacker really).

Also some of the 'second opinion' tools are interesting too:

http://www.surfright.nl/en/hitmanpro