No, not all of it is available on video today. There are not cameras everywhere, especially in bathrooms. Even in the corridor example it would be a simple matter to avoid a camera.
And even the information were the same, it makes all the difference in the world how easy is to index it. I would challenge you to find all the video records made by city cameras that contain Jane Doe in the last month. Good luck with that. Even with high end image recognition algorithms you will be hard pressed to get even a good percentage of them. Now if you want to do this before you are suspecting that someone specifically did something it gets even harder, because you would have do this with everybody.
The harder it is to get information from you the more privacy you get, it doesn't really matter if the motive is because the information does not exist or because it is really hard to data mine it.
There were several books that talked about that, not a single one. And even if they are all statistically wrong (or even didn't make any statistical analysis) you just need to glimpse the Federal Law Code to understand that it is simply impossible to follow all the laws. I leave you with an interesting video on the subject:
Simple. Camera information will be used when something happens at some public place and people go there looking for the registers. You can't single the films/tapes of a given person. It is much less invasive than a RFID that can trace all your movements and position in a given environment, and bring information like:
- Mr Anderson was alone with Miss Smith at the same physical spot for 30 min in the corridor, this morning.
- Jane Doe went to the bathroom 15 times today.
- Mr Black was talking with these three people who are affiliated with the communist party this afternoon
- Miss Parks talked alone for 40 min with the reporter that made that article saying bad things about our university.
That is how US laws are designed. The average lawful citizen commits three felonies a day. It is simply impossible to live without breaking any law. Your only protection is the lack of evidence about most of them. Make available more information about you and basically the government can put you to jail at its discretion.
The more devices like this you have attached to you the less likely you will get any privacy. The fact that some exist, and some are even mandatory, does not make it acceptable to impose more. Actually even those mandatory ones, like passports, are abusive in my view.
If you opt for being tracked it is your choice, but nobody should be forced to accept it.
Yes. Being tracked violates people's privacy. I know that things like privacy are outdated concepts, especially compared to the interests of business, but some of US still feel it is a fight worth fighting.
The more information you give to third parties about you the more control you give up over your live. The less the government and companies can know about you the better.
Delegating processing power to a server only works when the individual load or the demand is small. Costs do not escalate linearly with processing power demand, actually they escalate very badly, because you end need bigger data centers, special cooling, complex database and redundancy systems and a lot of other problems that appear as the demand grows. Albeit bandwidth and latency are problems too, processing power is the main problem in centralization for this kind of application, that is why popular database licenses use number of processors to charge and not the size of the data flow.
Their benchmark scores are irrelevant, the only thing that matters is whether supply exceeds demand. If you want to deliver some types of games to some types of gaming device, you're going to need additional external processing power.
Their benchmark score is very relevant. The cost to buy a more powerful client device is irrelevant next to the service costs users would have to pay to keep the games running in a centralized model. The game market is very competitive and when you have to charge a lot more than the alternatives to be able to deal with server power escalation you will close shop quickly.
No it does not. It is much easier to deal with processor hungry processes client side. You can never beat the costs of using the CPU power of client hardware for free, especially considering how powerful client side CPUs are at the present. Certainly latency and bandwidth are also problems, but MMORPGs, for example, deal with it reasonably well. Processing power is not so easily dealt with.
That is one of the most stupid applications for cloud computing. Centralizing processor hungry processes. Can anyone take a guess how badly it will become as this escalates?
Just on the official list there were citizens from UK, France, Russia, Egypt, China, Pakistan, Turkey, Canada, Uganda. Most of them were released, because they were innocent, after years of detention without formal accusations. Nothing justifies this, especially not your fantasy "War against Terror". Guantanamo was a crime against Humanity.
Just check the alleged motives why most of these guys were arrested:
Badrzaman Badr: A writer with a masters degree in English literature. At the time of his detention he was already imprisoned in Afghanistan for writing satirical articles that lampooned both the U.S. and the Taliban.
Or Abdullah Kamel Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari who was arrested for wearing a Casio wrist watch.
Only in 1996 and 1997, after Jobs again was there as advisor that Apple got in real trouble.
And after Gil Amelio were sacked, Jobs continued to do stupid things as in:
Apple having over a 10% market share until 1997 when Steve Jobs was re-hired as interim CEO to replace Gil Amelio. Jobs promptly found a loophole in the licensing contracts Apple had with the clone manufacturers and terminated the Macintosh OS licensing program ending the Macintosh clone era. The result of this action was that Macintosh computer market share quickly fell from 10% to around 3%.
He was very lucky iPod was so well accepted, if not for that he would have killed Apple for good.
NEXT was an horribly failure, as everything Jobs did before the iPod, and only survived because Apple who was well in 1995 bought it from Jobs to get him back as adviser. It can be speculated that Apple's horrible two years of 1996 and 1997 that sacked Gil Amelio had his hand, or do you think it is a coincidence that Apple started to nosedive just after Jobs came back in 1996.
Your post make absolutely no sense. You are just saying that companies had more power over their slaves and employees in the past, which has absolutely nothing to do with their global power and influence over governments and market.
The corporations you so much defend, which end with the profits your delusions think would go to the developers, are responsible for much more impoverishment than anything given for free. The creator's, the programmers, never had the control.
Stallman defends the users' right to control their system. Jobs (and you) defend a world where a few corporations control everything you can do or not. And please, Jobs didn't create anything. He just used pre-existent ideas from others and abused the patent system.
Argentina does what it does because it decided to do so. A Sovereign nation decides what it wants to do. Nobody can force Argentina to practice reciprocity on this. It is their choice. To give you an example, US sent a lot of "suspects" arbitrarily to Guantanamo, some of them Argentinians, but fortunately Argentina didn't try to apply reciprocity to this. It is not because US does something wrong that you need to do the same back.
I made a statement. Neither he nor you offered a single argument to disprove it, and although I am touched by your concern about my Karma, it is going well, and despite what you may think, this discussion is not a popularity contest for the attention of those with moderation points today. If that is all the argument you have you are more stupid that him. Go lick Jobs dead balls and shut up.
Before talking to you I thought nobody can be that stupid. Do you have a bank account? Do you watch TV? Watch movies? Do you have a car? Have you ever took the subway? Do you buy things in stores? Do you use electricity? Gas? Phone? Internet? You are so ignorant that it never occurred to you that use hundreds of systems without even knowing it, and all those systems are maintained by the exact useless geeks you so much hate, and many of those systems are complex beyond your feeble mind's capacity to imagine and need constant maintenance.
But then again I am quite sure that with your intellectual level a cave would be the right place to you.
Corporations are bigger today and concentrate more money than ever in History, and considering money buys politics and laws they also have more influence on the government than ever.
Apple was better 12 years later than in 1985, rest assured. Jobs almost destroyed Apple, and only didn't accomplish it because the director board forced him to retire, resign or whatever term you prefer to use, you idiot. The dumb fanboy who thought Jobs entered apple 15 years ago is you. Go change your dippers and be quiet.
What the fuck are you talking about? Jobs took Apple from near bankruptcy to the most successful tech company in the world in the 15 years before he retired.
How short are people memories. Jobs put Apple into near bankruptcy before he was forcibly retire the first time in 1985.
Successful with Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad. But it wasn't ever luck.
Mac wasn't very successful in any incarnation, it always were and still is a niche product. It was also what near bankrupted Apple in the 80s and pushed Jobs out of the company board of directors. The iProducts were the only thing where he could claim real success, and it was sheer luck more than anything else that made it possible.
Multinational companies have many legal challenges every year. Some they win, some they lose. That one the various tach companies were not found guilty of anything, but simply given a code of conduct to use. And what the fuck does it have to do with anything in the thread preceding.
This was illegal, immoral and it has everything to do with Jobs posture. He didn't worry too much about things being illegal or immoral. He did what he wanted, as the sociopath he was,
You are one of those blind people that can't see how much depends on computers nowadays and how much giving the control of our computers to another party affects us now and will affect us even more in the future. Fighting for user freedom is every bit as important as fighting for freedom of speech, democracy, human rights and any other worthy fight out there.
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No, not all of it is available on video today. There are not cameras everywhere, especially in bathrooms. Even in the corridor example it would be a simple matter to avoid a camera.
And even the information were the same, it makes all the difference in the world how easy is to index it. I would challenge you to find all the video records made by city cameras that contain Jane Doe in the last month. Good luck with that. Even with high end image recognition algorithms you will be hard pressed to get even a good percentage of them. Now if you want to do this before you are suspecting that someone specifically did something it gets even harder, because you would have do this with everybody.
The harder it is to get information from you the more privacy you get, it doesn't really matter if the motive is because the information does not exist or because it is really hard to data mine it.
There were several books that talked about that, not a single one. And even if they are all statistically wrong (or even didn't make any statistical analysis) you just need to glimpse the Federal Law Code to understand that it is simply impossible to follow all the laws. I leave you with an interesting video on the subject:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Simple. Camera information will be used when something happens at some public place and people go there looking for the registers. You can't single the films /tapes of a given person. It is much less invasive than a RFID that can trace all your movements and position in a given environment, and bring information like:
- Mr Anderson was alone with Miss Smith at the same physical spot for 30 min in the corridor, this morning.
- Jane Doe went to the bathroom 15 times today.
- Mr Black was talking with these three people who are affiliated with the communist party this afternoon
- Miss Parks talked alone for 40 min with the reporter that made that article saying bad things about our university.
That is how US laws are designed. The average lawful citizen commits three felonies a day. It is simply impossible to live without breaking any law. Your only protection is the lack of evidence about most of them. Make available more information about you and basically the government can put you to jail at its discretion.
The more devices like this you have attached to you the less likely you will get any privacy. The fact that some exist, and some are even mandatory, does not make it acceptable to impose more. Actually even those mandatory ones, like passports, are abusive in my view.
If you opt for being tracked it is your choice, but nobody should be forced to accept it.
Yes. Being tracked violates people's privacy. I know that things like privacy are outdated concepts, especially compared to the interests of business, but some of US still feel it is a fight worth fighting.
The more information you give to third parties about you the more control you give up over your live. The less the government and companies can know about you the better.
Proxies, yes. MITM, not that I know.
Their benchmark scores are irrelevant, the only thing that matters is whether supply exceeds demand. If you want to deliver some types of games to some types of gaming device, you're going to need additional external processing power.
Their benchmark score is very relevant. The cost to buy a more powerful client device is irrelevant next to the service costs users would have to pay to keep the games running in a centralized model. The game market is very competitive and when you have to charge a lot more than the alternatives to be able to deal with server power escalation you will close shop quickly.
No it does not. It is much easier to deal with processor hungry processes client side. You can never beat the costs of using the CPU power of client hardware for free, especially considering how powerful client side CPUs are at the present. Certainly latency and bandwidth are also problems, but MMORPGs, for example, deal with it reasonably well. Processing power is not so easily dealt with.
That is one of the most stupid applications for cloud computing. Centralizing processor hungry processes. Can anyone take a guess how badly it will become as this escalates?
We both did, I guess. You are by far the most obnoxious, though.
Just check the alleged motives why most of these guys were arrested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Guantanamo_Bay_detainees
Things like:
Badrzaman Badr: A writer with a masters degree in English literature. At the time of his detention he was already imprisoned in Afghanistan for writing satirical articles that lampooned both the U.S. and the Taliban.
Or Abdullah Kamel Abdullah Kamel Al Kandari who was arrested for wearing a Casio wrist watch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#Financial_history
Only in 1996 and 1997, after Jobs again was there as advisor that Apple got in real trouble.
And after Gil Amelio were sacked, Jobs continued to do stupid things as in:
Apple having over a 10% market share until 1997 when Steve Jobs was re-hired as interim CEO to replace Gil Amelio. Jobs promptly found a loophole in the licensing contracts Apple had with the clone manufacturers and terminated the Macintosh OS licensing program ending the Macintosh clone era. The result of this action was that Macintosh computer market share quickly fell from 10% to around 3%.
He was very lucky iPod was so well accepted, if not for that he would have killed Apple for good.
NEXT was an horribly failure, as everything Jobs did before the iPod, and only survived because Apple who was well in 1995 bought it from Jobs to get him back as adviser. It can be speculated that Apple's horrible two years of 1996 and 1997 that sacked Gil Amelio had his hand, or do you think it is a coincidence that Apple started to nosedive just after Jobs came back in 1996.
Your post make absolutely no sense. You are just saying that companies had more power over their slaves and employees in the past, which has absolutely nothing to do with their global power and influence over governments and market.
You seem to be unable to grasp the meaning of the word useless, maybe because of your mental impairment.
The corporations you so much defend, which end with the profits your delusions think would go to the developers, are responsible for much more impoverishment than anything given for free. The creator's, the programmers, never had the control.
Stallman defends the users' right to control their system. Jobs (and you) defend a world where a few corporations control everything you can do or not. And please, Jobs didn't create anything. He just used pre-existent ideas from others and abused the patent system.
Argentina does what it does because it decided to do so. A Sovereign nation decides what it wants to do. Nobody can force Argentina to practice reciprocity on this. It is their choice. To give you an example, US sent a lot of "suspects" arbitrarily to Guantanamo, some of them Argentinians, but fortunately Argentina didn't try to apply reciprocity to this. It is not because US does something wrong that you need to do the same back.
I made a statement. Neither he nor you offered a single argument to disprove it, and although I am touched by your concern about my Karma, it is going well, and despite what you may think, this discussion is not a popularity contest for the attention of those with moderation points today. If that is all the argument you have you are more stupid that him. Go lick Jobs dead balls and shut up.
Before talking to you I thought nobody can be that stupid. Do you have a bank account? Do you watch TV? Watch movies? Do you have a car? Have you ever took the subway? Do you buy things in stores? Do you use electricity? Gas? Phone? Internet? You are so ignorant that it never occurred to you that use hundreds of systems without even knowing it, and all those systems are maintained by the exact useless geeks you so much hate, and many of those systems are complex beyond your feeble mind's capacity to imagine and need constant maintenance.
But then again I am quite sure that with your intellectual level a cave would be the right place to you.
And I will bring you to Washington DC and we will see who has more power, the "people" or the guys who locked your bootloader, and their associates.
Corporations are bigger today and concentrate more money than ever in History, and considering money buys politics and laws they also have more influence on the government than ever.
Apple was better 12 years later than in 1985, rest assured. Jobs almost destroyed Apple, and only didn't accomplish it because the director board forced him to retire, resign or whatever term you prefer to use, you idiot. The dumb fanboy who thought Jobs entered apple 15 years ago is you. Go change your dippers and be quiet.
What the fuck are you talking about? Jobs took Apple from near bankruptcy to the most successful tech company in the world in the 15 years before he retired.
How short are people memories. Jobs put Apple into near bankruptcy before he was forcibly retire the first time in 1985.
Successful with Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad. But it wasn't ever luck.
Mac wasn't very successful in any incarnation, it always were and still is a niche product. It was also what near bankrupted Apple in the 80s and pushed Jobs out of the company board of directors. The iProducts were the only thing where he could claim real success, and it was sheer luck more than anything else that made it possible.
Multinational companies have many legal challenges every year. Some they win, some they lose. That one the various tach companies were not found guilty of anything, but simply given a code of conduct to use. And what the fuck does it have to do with anything in the thread preceding.
This was illegal, immoral and it has everything to do with Jobs posture. He didn't worry too much about things being illegal or immoral. He did what he wanted, as the sociopath he was,
You are one of those blind people that can't see how much depends on computers nowadays and how much giving the control of our computers to another party affects us now and will affect us even more in the future. Fighting for user freedom is every bit as important as fighting for freedom of speech, democracy, human rights and any other worthy fight out there.