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You seem to have missed some of the darker shades of the GiTS future. Do you remember that they didn't even own their own body, because only the government and/or high profile criminals could finance such hardware?
So only the very rich could enhance their body any way they like, creating a world where a persons value is tied even stronger to their wealth
I merely added "after the event" to exclude ongoing investigations and operations. Although I'm not a big fan of wars, I can understand how some general wouldn't like the position of his snipers broadcasted in realtime.
However I don't think the public should be kept in the dark about these operations indefinitely, therefore I can't agree with your examples, except maybe the UFOs.
Publishing information that is classified is certainly unlawful, but it's not the same as "taking the law into your own hand". They don't judge the parties involved, but merely allow the public to come to their own conclusions.
Of course some people can and probably are misusing sites as wikileaks to further their own agendas, by only posting documents that support their side of the story. But is in this case the damage done by the information that the "lesser knowledgeable individuals" received or by the information that was withheld?
I'm not saying that every information should be available to everyone at any time, but I do believe(because it's hard to prove) that more damage has been done by missing or false information then by exposure of information that should not have been available to the public.
BTW: What would be a good example for information that should been kept secret (indefinitely/ longer then one month after the event)?
Your trust in our leaders almost scares me.
Upon which base would these leaders be elected, if they have the power to hide their underlings and their own actions from the public eye?
They do this without realizing the potential impact to national security or potential diplomatic damage
Would you prefer that none learns of human rights abuses, executions or torture and therefore everyone believes your country is "good", or that the world knows and your country is forces to become "better" in order to improve its public image?
It doesn't have to end up as a constant magnetization for someone to be able to recover the data. A predictable pattern would suffice.
Actually not even overwriting the disc with random data might be enough to ensure that noone can recover the data. Dedicated forensic experts can read overwritten data, by distinguishing between a 0 -> 1 and a 1 -> 1 magnetization (Simplified example).
This is not news, the university of applied sciences in Mannheim worked on this several years ago, and it is already implemented in their diplomas. Interestingly they discovered it as a side effect, while trying to cramp more data on a sheet of paper.
They are not hosting information IN Taiwan, they were hacked FROM Taiwan..
Forensic analysis revealed that hackers were able to gain access from four remote systems (3 systems residing in Taiwan and 1 system belonging to Harvard University)
But Microsoft counselled against taking such action.
"I cannot recommend people switch due to this one flaw," said John Curran, head of Microsoft UK's Windows group.
If anything, replacing them will save lives. I imagine that leaders will think twice about how bad they want us invading them when we've got an army full of machines that we have no emotion or time invested in.
Unfortunately that's only true when it comes to defending your country.
Imagine a president could simply send machines to attack the countries he has decided are rogue nations? Image how little that war would 'cost' him, how easy it would be to gather the support for his wars.
And if you believe the human cost of the 'rogue' nation might have an impact on the support of his population, then think about how much was talked about the dead of the coalition soldiers, and how little of the civilian casualties.
There is one big advantage that silverlight might bring to the Linux world: Competition
I would love to see a bit of pressure on Adobe to improve their Linux Flash support.
True the analogy is not working 100%, but what I wanted to say, is that google is doing more then "overlooking" malware. They are advertising these sites, thus making money with those ads.
I don't want to imply that they do this deliberately, but it's not an oversight, they could and should automatically compare the advertisers with their malware black lists.
Taking the local traffic cop a step further:
How would you react if you knew a cop received money to direct you to an dealer, although that dealer is wanted by the same police department?
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1 year ago we had almost the same article on slashdot, without calling it "near-future sci-fi". http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/20/202243/A-Video-Ad-In-a-Paper-Magazine
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You seem to have missed some of the darker shades of the GiTS future. Do you remember that they didn't even own their own body, because only the government and/or high profile criminals could finance such hardware?
So only the very rich could enhance their body any way they like, creating a world where a persons value is tied even stronger to their wealth
Europeans have developed this "Americans are dumb" paradigm
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There's nothing more idiotic (or dangerous) than a person stereotyping a group of people.
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First Google hit:
http://www.wfu.edu/~palmitar/Law&Valuation/Papers/1999/Leggett-pinto.html
Are you Irish? http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/20/1227210/Irish-ISP-To-Block-Access-To-Pirate-Bay
I merely added "after the event" to exclude ongoing investigations and operations. Although I'm not a big fan of wars, I can understand how some general wouldn't like the position of his snipers broadcasted in realtime.
However I don't think the public should be kept in the dark about these operations indefinitely, therefore I can't agree with your examples, except maybe the UFOs.
Publishing information that is classified is certainly unlawful, but it's not the same as "taking the law into your own hand". They don't judge the parties involved, but merely allow the public to come to their own conclusions.
Of course some people can and probably are misusing sites as wikileaks to further their own agendas, by only posting documents that support their side of the story. But is in this case the damage done by the information that the "lesser knowledgeable individuals" received or by the information that was withheld?
I'm not saying that every information should be available to everyone at any time, but I do believe(because it's hard to prove) that more damage has been done by missing or false information then by exposure of information that should not have been available to the public.
BTW: What would be a good example for information that should been kept secret (indefinitely/ longer then one month after the event)?
Your trust in our leaders almost scares me. Upon which base would these leaders be elected, if they have the power to hide their underlings and their own actions from the public eye?
They do this without realizing the potential impact to national security or potential diplomatic damage
Would you prefer that none learns of human rights abuses, executions or torture and therefore everyone believes your country is "good", or that the world knows and your country is forces to become "better" in order to improve its public image?
It doesn't have to end up as a constant magnetization for someone to be able to recover the data. A predictable pattern would suffice.
Actually not even overwriting the disc with random data might be enough to ensure that noone can recover the data. Dedicated forensic experts can read overwritten data, by distinguishing between a 0 -> 1 and a 1 -> 1 magnetization (Simplified example).
Which might explain why the original report is titled "Linux Breaks 1% on the Client"
the phrase "market share" means that they are only counting things that are purchased
Even though the second sentence says:
This data is derived by aggregating the traffic across our network of websites that use our service
It is hard to believe that this was a honest mistake.
An english article describing the technology: http://www.doit-online.com/cms/Focus/Software+Research?detailid=4409
This is not news, the university of applied sciences in Mannheim worked on this several years ago, and it is already implemented in their diplomas.
Interestingly they discovered it as a side effect, while trying to cramp more data on a sheet of paper.
This is the german page where you can test a diploma: https://zeugnis.hs-mannheim.de/
Forensic analysis revealed that hackers were able to gain access from four remote systems (3 systems residing in Taiwan and 1 system belonging to Harvard University)
If you're standing next to Bush, all the medias (and even Berlusconi and Sarkozy) will look leftist.(http://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2)
But Microsoft counselled against taking such action. "I cannot recommend people switch due to this one flaw," said John Curran, head of Microsoft UK's Windows group.
They changed the subjects every time in four consecutive years? With so little consistency the grades don't mean anything.
If anything, replacing them will save lives. I imagine that leaders will think twice about how bad they want us invading them when we've got an army full of machines that we have no emotion or time invested in.
Unfortunately that's only true when it comes to defending your country.
Imagine a president could simply send machines to attack the countries he has decided are rogue nations? Image how little that war would 'cost' him, how easy it would be to gather the support for his wars.
And if you believe the human cost of the 'rogue' nation might have an impact on the support of his population, then think about how much was talked about the dead of the coalition soldiers, and how little of the civilian casualties.
There is one big advantage that silverlight might bring to the Linux world: Competition
I would love to see a bit of pressure on Adobe to improve their Linux Flash support.
True the analogy is not working 100%, but what I wanted to say, is that google is doing more then "overlooking" malware. They are advertising these sites, thus making money with those ads. I don't want to imply that they do this deliberately, but it's not an oversight, they could and should automatically compare the advertisers with their malware black lists.
Taking the local traffic cop a step further:
How would you react if you knew a cop received money to direct you to an dealer, although that dealer is wanted by the same police department?
a paperclip that wants to spy on you and send all your personal details back to Redmond.
That's the beauty of cloud computing, your personal details won't have to be send back to Redmond, they will be stored there from the very beginning.
A more systematic approach to the same problem: http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/09/do-you-challenge-queue-jumpers-and-line.php