Looking forward to seeing this in graffiti form, sprayed all over some government building, giving the OCR-using hackers code to enter the (physical) backdoors that these scribbles are inevitably going to be indicating ..
If you used a wheel to move something heavy from one place to another, you're a transhuman.
If you used fire to disinfect your recently caught prey, you're a transhumanist.
If you read a book ..
The only conclusion to be made from this article, is that humans have been on a transformation treadmill for a long, long time - long enough that we can no longer recognize transformation when we see it, or we are so tired of acknowledging it that we just don't any more, or such that we need to see it before we believe it is happening - i.e. next years new iPhone purchase, etc.
Can't imagine any other scenario? Perhaps they were looking for a missing colleague? One would never know, for as long as hostility and antagonism is the reaction to assumptions made, instead of .. you know .. having empathy for someone out there on the mountain in the middle of the night, looking for something/someone ..
Sorry, but none of this makes any sense to me. First rare wildlife, now lost colleagues? Tenerife has a mountain rescue service with helicopters and off-roaders.
Having empathy is great, but it still most likely that the availability of ultra-bright lamps is causing people to use them unnecessarily. There is an abundance of evidence that artificial light hurts natural ecosystems, not to mention inconveniencing astrophotographers, and I don't think it's unreasonable to take a dim view of those who use bright lights in uninhabited environments like this.
The example given was just an example - and in fact, an assumption cannot be made that the light-bearers were intentionally trying to interfere in a photo session.
It is entirely unreasonable to think that strangers on a mountain will account for a random photography project in their thinking. So the blame game doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
The onus of responsibility for having a clear shot, obviously lays with the photographer. Just because a photo is being taken, doesn't mean that others can't access the public space, too ..
Ok how about a simple reason like this - they just went for a night walk in the wilderness and are using lamps to see where they are going. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
>> I don't think it's unreasonable to take a dim view of those who use bright lights in uninhabited environments like this.
I think it is, but it's the internet, we don't have to agree.
I think its more troubling to think that someones Very Important Thing™ might be being disturbed by someone elses More Important Thing™.
Whining about flashlights ruining your shot is one thing - not having compassion for someone who might be searching the mountain for a lost colleague, or any one of a number of other possible scenarios, is another thing entirely.
Its quite psychopathic to not at least consider that there might have been a more noble purpose behind those flashlights than just "some random creep ruining my special shot".
In this scenario, the onus of responsibility is on the photographer, not the other visitors, to ensure the sterility of their scene. Why didn't the author climb up there and talk to them, or coordinate at the visitors center, or some such effort - instead of just immediately jumping to hostile blame.
Very troubling to think the author did not even consider that those people were searching for their long lost colleague after reciveing mysterious signals coming from the Teide crater. All of which indicating an exact point in space and time where a portal would appear and contact could finally be made. Actually quite psychopathic they didn't consider this at all.
Now that I think of it, since they were shouting to turn off the lights ... If I heard some people shouting something I can't understand in the dark near a 3700m peak, I would presume there might be people who need help and try to locate them. It would make sense that they came into their direction.
There's nothing in the article that indicates they reached out - there is plenty in the article to indicate that the assumption of entitlement to the mountain was being made, in spades.
Back in the early days of the Web, there was a company started that would allow anyone to annotate any web site - basically, you could go to any site, and add your own little notes to it, for others to view.
It didn't last long - there was some sort of rebellion against them as a service and it turned out they couldn't find a way to make money with it. (Akin to that push service that pushed news to everyones' screensavers, which seemed like a good idea at the time)
This feels like that.
I wonder how long it will last until the door is closed for folks to re-purpose others content in this way?
The mice aren't being studied for their mice-ness, they've been industrialised for their ease-of-production and easy-to-slaughter mammalian analog attributes.
Wheras Axoloti and co., are still being studied for their unique characteristics.
At that scale, wouldn't it make sense to just have raw block i/o copies being done to a disk image, and then mount the image onboard to do the actual data transfers?
Seems to me a majority of the overhead with 1000 SD cards is in the filesystem translation layer, multiplied by the USB contention dealing with so many devices.
So if it were me, I'd have a big fat, fast mounted filesystem whose purpose is only to serve as a dd destination, get the dd done as quickly as possible with system bus buffer sizes, and then do the data transfer 'offline' once the SD has been mirrored...
CD-ROM block sizes were 2048 bytes (2k), so its not entirely unreasonable to design what we now consider low-memory devices around the technology, nor is it a requirement that huge-memory systems be tied to CD-ROM drives...
Get yourself a retro computer and you can appreciate all that joy with renewed vigour! :)
I regularly return to my old 80's 8-bit machine (Oric Atmos, FOREVER!) just so that I can remind myself how great we've got it in this day and age of near-infinite memory, the network-is-the-computer, and endless pixels for days. Nothing sharpens the mind stronger than a misplaced RTS or a failure to budget for room on the stack ..
Looking forward to seeing this in graffiti form, sprayed all over some government building, giving the OCR-using hackers code to enter the (physical) backdoors that these scribbles are inevitably going to be indicating ..