I’m not a joker, but I’d do it like: “/jk”

Informally, I phrase it like:

• WHAT do you want to protect? (e.g. money, personal info, business data, specific items/resources, etc.)
• WHO do you need to protect it from? (e.g. online scammers/criminals, business competitors, an enemy government, etc.)

Consultants come up with more formal approaches for their corporate clients, but the above is usually enough for your average person. Then they can start reading the technical information looking for answers to the questions: “HOW might the threat actors get to my assets?” and “HOW can I protect those assets?”

The very weird behaviour of most characters was special.

Yes, to expand on this: each of the characters had enough “story” to make a movie of their own, and there were a lot of characters. But it was paced well enough that it didn’t get overwhelming.

Also the casting was very well done. At the time Travolta was a bit of a has-been, and Samuel L Jackson was getting supporting roles but wasn’t as iconic as he is now.

The movie was very influential, so a lot of the innovations it made have been copied, so it seems more “normal” now.

Same energy.

Yeah, that’d work, go for it.

No doubt. I guess I’m just saying: add some safety criteria into the mix. Maybe as a subset of usability.

I hear ya, but… I believe there are a lot of safety features in modern cars that aren’t really in the “nice to use and maintain” category. e.g. I think cars are built to “crumple” in a way that keeps the human alive.

Every week we have a “monsterdon” watch party where we all watch the same movie at the same time and comment on it under #monsterdon.

Here’s more info on the movie we’re watching today: https://lemmy.ca/post/61058449

There are various other watch parties too, see a calendar here: https://livetweety.wordpress.com/

To put it in stark terms, Flashback is the novel in which I share the psychological and real-world reality (if not any details of the actual experience) of the day I came home from college early in my freshman year to discover that both of my parents had been diagnosed with cancer and would soon die. And it will also share the dawning perception of a nineteen-year-old – after my parents’ slow and hard deaths that year only six months apart, and after hospital and funeral expenses were paid – that my younger brother (still in high school) and I, the remnants of what had been a fairly happy family, were flat broke, jobless, and seemingly without a viable future. None of my story of this is in Flashback, per se, yet it’s all there behind the book. The emotions are there.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110806051551/http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message.htm

“Bela Lugosi’s Dead” is considered the harbinger of gothic rock music and has been immensely influential on contemporary goth culture.[23] In an article by The Guardian titled “Bauhaus invent goth”, the newspaper ranked the song number 19 on their list of the 50 key events in indie music history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_Lugosi's_Dead

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

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Very interesting article. I sometimes have to buy clothes for my elderly mobility-impaired aunt. At first I thought I could just go buy a bunch of “Size (whatever)” but as this article says that doesn’t work. So I took the pants that fit her best, measured it all over with a tape-measure, and went into the store. That STILL didn’t work because some pants “sit higher/lower” or had elastic that changed the way it fit.

When I was a kid we didn’t have a lot of money and clothes were more expensive. So various members of our extended family would make clothes for us (sewing or knitting). I now appreciate how awesome that was.

Without Dan Simmons and Hyperion, sci-fi literature would’ve been still been regarded as disposable paperbacks. Simmons did away with the trappings of early pulp sci-fi that held a shadow over the genre for many decades. Instead, Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion took the shape of the Western Canon and could be discussed as serious literature.

Hyperion was pretty good, but the 70s New Wave of science fiction had already done that: Ursula K. Le Guin, J. G. Ballard, Samuel Delany, etc. They deserve their credit.

I never understood and I never ever will I.

Oh, I understand it. Simmons was too eager to tell us why he didn’t like “certain people.”

Thanks for the info, I understand the perspective.

“Everyone knows something. Nobody knows everything.” If you focus on what you don’t know, ofc you will not feel smart. But you know something, so focus on that. Even if it’s not directly relevant, a lot of advances are made by taking ideas from a similar discipline and applying them to a current problem.

Why are people downvoting this? I might quibble with 1 or 2 points, but it’s good advice. (no, really, I’m interested in knowing why people are downvoting this…)

Once might be an error, but twice? I’m guessin it’s intentional. Like, why is this couple sitting underwater? The artist prolly put weird little things like that to make people look around for them. Whimsical, bc it’s the family section of the train.

I don’t know what a “claremont mckenna college” is but it seems like a bag of shite to me. Albeit I’m judging from a quick skim of this article.

Claremont McKenna is a respected college in LA, it’s just kinda small (1.5k students, part of a consortium of around 8.5k students in adjoining campuses). This article appears to be part of a “News” update of their web page describing a visiting speaker from Harvard; the talk was about the visiting speaker’s research.

Cross-instance link: !Episcopalian@lemmy.ml

Most people would rather do the least effort to preserve their sense of being a good person.

Well, it’s like that Occam’s Razor, right? It’s simpler to believe: “I don’t like it because of (excuse)” instead of “Some of my fundamental beliefs are completely wrong and I need to re-examine them.” Such a person may feel that this is not quite the full story, but are all our thoughts completely examined? It’s not necessarily malicious to say: I’ve figured this out ‘well enough’ for now, and I can move on to something else.

This is an important distinction because then to tell such a person that they’re “bad” or that they “hate” is completely meaningless to them. They don’t consciously hate, they just adopt oppressive philosophies and they’ve never needed to examine them.