Category Archives: #Philosophy

Need to have your computer fixed ?

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People hear that I am technology consultant, and ask me to fix their computers.  This is my questionnaire from now on.

  • Is it running windows XP ? Get a new computer
  • Is it more than 5 years old ? Get a new computer
  • Is it less than 4 years ago ?  Google the problem. It’s what I am going to do anyway.
  • Did you buy it less than a year ago ? Contact the vendor once you still have the original receipt
  • Is it a Mac ? You have to get new computer

 

Which brings up to the big question….

  • Will I fix your computer ? No.
  • Why ?
    • Because computers as of recent are designed to fail after their warranty. It is called planned obsolescence. Google it.
    • The time that it would take to determine the problem and fix it, would make it cost prohibitive.
    • And the most important reason, once I touch it, you will want me to fix every thing on it. At a discount.

 

To repeat ……

 

Want to blame someone ?

  • Predatory capitalism
  • Planned Obsolesce

 

The future !!

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#CRISPR

#Genetic Engineering

Jennifer Doudna, Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

90 hacker friendly boards

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Our New Year’s guide to hacker-friendly single board computers turned up 90 boards, ranging from powerful media playing rigs to power-sipping IoT platforms.

Community backed, open spec single board computers running Linux and Android sit at the intersection between the commercial embedded market and the open source maker community. Hacker boards also play a key role in developing the Internet of Things devices that will increasingly dominate our technology economy in the coming years, from home automation devices to industrial equipment to drones.

[hackerboards.com]

Here’s What Happens to Your Brain When You Have to Defend Your Beliefs

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A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports, titled “Hard-wired: The brain’s circuitry for political belief,” found the brain has a defense mechanism that kicks in when your political views are challenged.

As Vox’s Brian Resnick explains, it turns out that the brain links your political views with your identity, and just like the brain steps in to defend the body when it senses danger, it kicks in to protect your identity when it senses it’s at risk.

[via attn.com]

Intellect…..

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We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes.

— Pierre Simon Laplace, A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities[3]