theBlueSage’s Comments

• May 11th, 2016 @ 8:02am

  Piping Data has a cost

  on Is It Really That Big A Deal That Twitter Blocked US Intelligence Agencies From Mining Public Tweets?
  Coming from a pure firehose perspective, having a consumer of the firehose comes with a cost. It is not like the hose is pouring info into the ether and people stand under the spray. When someone attaches to the firehose it create a separate hose connection. The data flowing through that hose connection to the consumer has a network bandwidth cost. How much that cost is will depend on the total amount of firehose consumed. IMHO, I would assume that the snoops will have that hose in wide open, 24/7 mode. Depending on the size of the draw (one listening process, 5000 listening processes) the bandwidth cost can get huge.
• Aug 22nd, 2012 @ 1:03pm

  goodbye art

  on Oxford Professor Says Mankind Is Ethically Obligated To Create Genetically Engineered Babies
  the problem with removing anti-social gene traits (by removing those with behavior markers) is that you lose the brilliance exhibited by people who have managed to come to terms with them, or at least co-exist with them, most often artists ...
  
  no more alcoholic traits? - goodbye Dlyan Thomas
  no more depression traits? - goodbye Van Gogh
  no more propensity for deafness? - goodbye Mozart, Beethoven
  
  The mark of a society is more about the ability for it to absorb and develop its differences, not eliminate of them. I see nothing wrong with the recognition that a person is born with a behavioral marker, but the person should not then be saddled with the expectation of marker appearance, let alone be removed from the gene pool on the off chance.