A mathematical way to smooth out errors in measurements, as with a GPS track

I watched porn on the Internet before I was legally allowed to. And I don’t think I’m at all screwed up by it. But every time I encounter a filtering system, I get to fully dwell in the hypocrisies of society, which screw people up a whole lot more than a bit of crappy porn.

Tom Morris talks about the problems of the proposed plans to filter the Internet, and why they don’t help anybody get around this stuff, just cut off material that is genuinely important. For some people, the Internet provides a real support network, and cutting it off is dangerous.

Sigh. I guess this will make it easier for non-librarians

— Charlie Stross Now, if I can just get Claire Perry (for whom I didn't vote) to understand this ()

from the page: " ..."Iran is a threat, but can we say that it will make a second Auschwitz?" Wiesel remarked. "I don't compare anything to the Holocaust…" --the westerners have trampled non-westerners by regarding the nazi holocaust as the Holocaust, "which is beyond all comparison". by equating their "enemy" country's regime with the nazi one, "whose badness is beyond all comparison", they demonize it and justify shattering its people's livings by their bombings and sanctions. by comparing other holocausts committed by the west in africa, middle-east, america, asia and oceania with the nazi holocaust, "whose victims' sufferings are beyond all comparison", they regard other holocausts as "trifles", belittle and neglect non-westerners' sufferings caused by them, and repeat colonizing and destroying other countries. to regard their sufferings as ones, "which are beyond all comparison", is different from to strive to ease their sufferings, which nothing can completely erase from them.