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Steve_Lockstep

  1. @SimonEdhouse Oh FFS I DON'T trust a letter writer because it was delivered by Australia Post! Sorry mate, I'm out.
  2. @SimonEdhouse Trust in the system is on a different level from interpersonal trust in a transactional counter party. Yes?
  3. @SimonEdhouse And pharmacists do not trust doctors; they don't have to even *know* the doctors! Instead they trust the *system*
  4. @paulmadsen With better data they would have known you were a pro family Canadian, fretting about the gays infiltrating *parliament*
  5. .@SimonEdhouse Splitting hairs? Consider that pharmacists trust prescription system (service) so they don't have to trust doctors (txn)
  6. RT @KPMGglobal: @Steve_Lockstep tx for sharing #biometrics article < I'd like to see you explore challenges of cancel/reissue, & spoofing
  7. When and how did molecular biologists realize that the genetic code is the same for all living thing… Answer: qr.ae/RBLHe on @Quora
  8. My hovercraft is full of eels. #justsaying
  9. @SimonEdhouse Confusion of levels? Creating services is higher level activity & requires trust; transactions are lower level and do not
  10. @SimonEdhouse I think precise, not defeatist. Why bang on about trust when all we usually need is reliable proof of a specific assertion?
  11. #Biometrics ... bit.ly/LeifbA via @kpmgglobal < Closes with nice honest list of four "key challenges" - one or two are fatal
  12. .@SimonEdhouse Right! So trust isn't the be all and end all. That is: it's good to trust; it's better not to lockstep.com.au/blog/2011/01/1…
  13. @SimonEdhouse If mistrust of FB doesn't predict abandoning FB, where does that leave "trust", purportedly the cornerstone of cyberspace?
  14. Sure, adolescents think hangovers are funny. But too many at 30+ yet to grow out of it. Our legal drug culture runs soooo deep
  15. Bus ad saying "crisp white shirt hides a hangover" surely normalizes regular dangerous drinking and a legal drug culture #notawowserbut
  16. @marthaheller Collective "mgt problems" incl centralization, comms, training, employee svcs, social connection etc - all transformed by ICT
  17. @marthaheller Ok, more nuanced now. Worst case where "Mgt is the problem" different situation from collective "management problems"
  18. Internet engineers co-opted the fuzzy idea of Trust, then agonized to no end over defns, when it was always an ill fit for assertions mgt
  19. RT @shaundakin: We may not trust Facebook but we don't quit it either < More evidence then that Trust is an epic red herring?
  20. Is there a type of masochism endemic in technologists? An inferiority complex? Suit envy? #management