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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Insomnia II: Bat-sounds

 I don't know what a bat sounds like, I'm trusting Google/YouTube.

That loud thing around 500 feet away could just be a pissed-off bird...

But it sounds like a very nervous fire alarm with a low battery, or maybe more like those car-alarm-remotes.


I don't think, judging from the YouTube-sounds, that bats sound the same, they're varied.
This one really does sound dull and unimaginative...chirp-chirp-chirp, a single note faster and slower.
So maybe it's some copycat finch or sparrow, how the hell would I know.
If I googled birdcalls, this could end up being a book...I'll assume it's a bat, it's simpler that way.
Whut?
"Baby bird??"
OK

What's disturbing is, a working pristine computer is *supposed* to tell everyone where you live, give out your credit card to anyone who asks, and announce to the world that you love Pink petunias (or GMC trucks, whatever)
You live in idaho, you gamble tons, you visited Amazon 32-times last week,
and you favor flowers over guns
Your handle is "Fortescue_96" and you're liberal

If you're looking to start a virtual business (This is a fast moving train-of thought, and me the terrible slow typist)
uh,
You could start by researching the computer-histories of law enforcement personnel, Religious Icons and generic Superstars.
So...You could sell people an instant politically correct screensaver, *history*, files (ok I haven't gotten all the nitty-gritties worked out), letters to some virtual editor extolling the virtues of vitamins...
in other words, when they come to seize your PC (or Google subsumes it)
You could look like Mother Theresa's cousin.
But no...They'd merely have to  look at your Online accounts, the histories of your ISP and your phone-logs that cannot be erased (ever, for all time) 
You're fucked.
OK do the theme-thing and say you're a religious backslider with a temptress-friend (I don't know)
This next pic has several terms you're supposed to know.
And I don't understand a &^%$ word it says, but it SOUNDS like they're taking High Bandwidth and slicing it up like a pie, to save money, and people who want more than ONE slice of pie are vulnerable to an attack by pie-stealers.
Read it carefully and you'll see, that companies demand access to tons of stuff that "hackers" also want.
(Obvious question: block access to the stuff hackers want, from everyone everywhere.
It's, ya know, a thought, But like I just said, I do not understand the marketing-terms thrown into this informational sandwich.

Well...There you go again.
Do you know now what "Edge Networking" is? Not from the above I don't.



My take: residential neighborhood, tiny streets, has ONE tiny street connected to a superhighway which connects Another residential neighborhood (and its own set of tiny streets).
If that single tiny street to the superhighway is blocked for whatever reason, the superhighway is unused, people go hungry, the supermarket loses money (omg, "Loses money," call the FBI, quick!!)

A site completely blocking access to the article unless I click something first, has a googled summary.










See, now, (ahem) (harrumph) It's a distinction (Plessy v Ferguson, et al, ibid) "edge" vs EDGE 





Topical (OK maybe not)
People who want to "verify your identity" in crowded stores or online or in phone calls,
by asking your date of Birth, your phone number.
OK the person in line behind you now has your phone number, 
and any site wanting you to play their game knows your birthdate, as well as your bank, your drug store, the DMV, your doctor....
I'm missing the part where they actually verify ANYthing by knowing your number or DOB.
Creepy jealous boyfriend has no office-persona to disguise his prison-voice with, unless he's a recovering addict with a new job (I don't really know), and he wants to verify that the person he's speaking to is really me.
Bye! H.A.N.D.

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