In the NSA there is no racism, there is clasism. You have the "normal" people that must be watched, herded, manipulated, iied and considered with no rights, of which any vulnerability is exploited, every minor offense is collected for a potential future use, and every hot photo or video is shared for fun.
In the other hand you have the favored ones that are untouchables, the aligned politicians, CEOs of collaborating companies, good part of the 0.01%, certain foreigners and people that buy their pertenence to that class putting enough money high enough, no matter which shady thing they are doing, even accidentally collected info is promptly discarded.
Now you named beer advertising, why not focus a little in something pretty similar, like tobacco advertising? Yes, it pays dividends. It causes addiction, and very cruel death to more people each single year than terrorists, sharks, AIDS, extreme weather, even nazis, ever. But it pays a lot, enough to have something left to push propaganda in movies all along past century, common commercials, and to fund studies that "prove" that they are harmless or tried to hide or deny reports that caused cancer.
Culture has advanced a little, most people acknowledge by now the danger of tobacco use, still the tobacco industry is pretty strong, pretty denialist, and keep attacking countries with anti-tobacco laws.
With that precedent, how much time must we wait till most people acknowledge the global climate change? How much time their efforts to deny the truth and keep screwing things we must stand?
Billons were spent between 2003 and 2010 to deny climate change (pdf) and probably even more has been used for that goal in the last 3 years. In any case, is more money that was ever used to measure climate change, to detect dangerous asteroids, and prevent the spreading of pandemic diseases.
Maybe science should stop doing warnings and studies and let things happens with no preparations from our side. We deserve it.
Still that didn't stopped facial recognition in facebook, phone cameras, vigilance/on street cameras, kinect, silently activated webcams and the whole NSA surveillance ecosystem.Adding something so visible as google glass to the mix is not something that would make a big difference.
Also were suggested to put all americans in maximum security prisons, to avoid to be attacked by foreigners. They could keep working from jail for their safety, but their salaries will have a cut to maintain the jail system safe for them.
Other options like killing all the americans to avoid them to be killed by terrorists, and killing everyone with a doomsday device to avoid the same, if well would be effective for the security of american goals, were discarded as, for now, excessive.
Bingo. Maybe for watching movies having 1080p or 720p would be "good enough", maybe for monowindows desktop environments (android or win8) it won't hurt a lot, but for having a lot of windows open that must have readable text more resolution (specially vertical) matters there. 1980x1024 is "good enough", but having more won't hurt.
I bet the penalty for whoever puts public that ex-public domain information will be more than 30 years this time. The next Aaron Swartz better don't get into activities like supporting the Occupy movement or similars because they know that political persecution goes unpunished in US.
You can't avoid it playing that game. Uneven distribution of wealth creates assholes. And when money plays with politics, all derives to get even more rigged. If the people that make the rules is outside the economy and its influence, you would have a chance, but when both combines you have big assholes with big power that couldn't care less about people, unless is for ways to make more power and more money. NSA is a symptom of a bigger problem.
The robots of Asimov stories were smart enough to understand all the consequences of his actions, to be self-concious, to follow even ambiguous orders, to understand what is being human. We don't have robots or computers that smart yet. Our actual robots follow what we program on them, a drone don't know what is a human life, just now that should go to a certain GPS coordinate at certain speed. The ones that still need rules are humans, specially the ones in positions of power that in practice seem to be above them.
Funny thing is that economy should be the least of the concerns. Trust, freedom, peace, and probably lives should be the (maybe not so obvious?) consequences.
Yes, is your doctor fault that you have collesterol at almost lethal levels, not what you ate (assuming that is your diet/activity the responsible one). Without his intervention giving you a chance to try fix things, you would had a happy life the short time you had left.
The elephant in the room is the NSA and the people are behind it. That is the actual threat. How much till some "emergence" forces to strip even more rights?
Companies/organizations from other countries aren't forced by law to both do it, and not tell that they did it. Even if you includes countries like UK, Sweden, South Korea and a few others as compromised, there is plenty of room for independent development. And, of course, open source solutions indepently reviewed. But the point is, if you want security, don't buy anything from US companies. Weakening crypto means that not only NSA can access it.
The NSA metadata collection (and related programs, like weakening crypto) is the attack. The damage done to the country is something that will become even more evident in the next months/years.
Not only you help spy on your family and friends, help to demolish remaining US freedoms, but also you get not paid for that! How you can refuse that great deal?
For that you have Ubuntu Touch, built on top of base cyanogenmod. In fact, there are a lot of different linux mobile OSs that could be built over base cyanogenmod/android, Sailfish, or Firefox OS seem to be between those.
If you want to protect your information (even from hackers not paid by the government) in any way you will get into their monitoring list. Is not if, is when (and that moment could be in the past already), you will be monitored. And even if you think you have nothing to hide, they could have anotheropinion.
Don't play boiling frog or by the time you decide that something must be done will be already too late.
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In the NSA there is no racism, there is clasism. You have the "normal" people that must be watched, herded, manipulated, iied and considered with no rights, of which any vulnerability is exploited, every minor offense is collected for a potential future use, and every hot photo or video is shared for fun.
In the other hand you have the favored ones that are untouchables, the aligned politicians, CEOs of collaborating companies, good part of the 0.01%, certain foreigners and people that buy their pertenence to that class putting enough money high enough, no matter which shady thing they are doing, even accidentally collected info is promptly discarded.
Now you named beer advertising, why not focus a little in something pretty similar, like tobacco advertising? Yes, it pays dividends. It causes addiction, and very cruel death to more people each single year than terrorists, sharks, AIDS, extreme weather, even nazis, ever. But it pays a lot, enough to have something left to push propaganda in movies all along past century, common commercials, and to fund studies that "prove" that they are harmless or tried to hide or deny reports that caused cancer.
Culture has advanced a little, most people acknowledge by now the danger of tobacco use, still the tobacco industry is pretty strong, pretty denialist, and keep attacking countries with anti-tobacco laws.
With that precedent, how much time must we wait till most people acknowledge the global climate change? How much time their efforts to deny the truth and keep screwing things we must stand?
Billons were spent between 2003 and 2010 to deny climate change (pdf) and probably even more has been used for that goal in the last 3 years. In any case, is more money that was ever used to measure climate change, to detect dangerous asteroids, and prevent the spreading of pandemic diseases.
Maybe science should stop doing warnings and studies and let things happens with no preparations from our side. We deserve it.
Now is our turn to do the acknowledge that it is happening, avoiding its worst effects, and if possible, fixing it.
GCHQ is already very busy with Slashdot and NSA should be far ahead of it.
Submited the story earlier but wasn't voted. The paper can be found here
Still that didn't stopped facial recognition in facebook, phone cameras, vigilance/on street cameras, kinect, silently activated webcams and the whole NSA surveillance ecosystem.Adding something so visible as google glass to the mix is not something that would make a big difference.
At least denialism is better funded than science. Who needs a future?
excepting the DNA part (still) we are already where you are proposing, in fact a bit worse.
Also were suggested to put all americans in maximum security prisons, to avoid to be attacked by foreigners. They could keep working from jail for their safety, but their salaries will have a cut to maintain the jail system safe for them.
Other options like killing all the americans to avoid them to be killed by terrorists, and killing everyone with a doomsday device to avoid the same, if well would be effective for the security of american goals, were discarded as, for now, excessive.
It probably can be used to change people behaviour and even (political) thinking. Just don't use it to make people hate Ludwig van music.
Bingo. Maybe for watching movies having 1080p or 720p would be "good enough", maybe for monowindows desktop environments (android or win8) it won't hurt a lot, but for having a lot of windows open that must have readable text more resolution (specially vertical) matters there. 1980x1024 is "good enough", but having more won't hurt.
Oh, wait, even XKCD is blocked according to http://urlchecker.o2.co.uk/. Even wikipedia is blocked.
Probably the people behind this wants that the UK population be at least as stupid as them. In the race to the bottom there is no winner.
I bet the penalty for whoever puts public that ex-public domain information will be more than 30 years this time. The next Aaron Swartz better don't get into activities like supporting the Occupy movement or similars because they know that political persecution goes unpunished in US.
You can't avoid it playing that game. Uneven distribution of wealth creates assholes. And when money plays with politics, all derives to get even more rigged. If the people that make the rules is outside the economy and its influence, you would have a chance, but when both combines you have big assholes with big power that couldn't care less about people, unless is for ways to make more power and more money. NSA is a symptom of a bigger problem.
The robots of Asimov stories were smart enough to understand all the consequences of his actions, to be self-concious, to follow even ambiguous orders, to understand what is being human. We don't have robots or computers that smart yet. Our actual robots follow what we program on them, a drone don't know what is a human life, just now that should go to a certain GPS coordinate at certain speed. The ones that still need rules are humans, specially the ones in positions of power that in practice seem to be above them.
Funny thing is that economy should be the least of the concerns. Trust, freedom, peace, and probably lives should be the (maybe not so obvious?) consequences.
Yes, is your doctor fault that you have collesterol at almost lethal levels, not what you ate (assuming that is your diet/activity the responsible one). Without his intervention giving you a chance to try fix things, you would had a happy life the short time you had left.
The elephant in the room is the NSA and the people are behind it. That is the actual threat. How much till some "emergence" forces to strip even more rights?
Companies/organizations from other countries aren't forced by law to both do it, and not tell that they did it. Even if you includes countries like UK, Sweden, South Korea and a few others as compromised, there is plenty of room for independent development. And, of course, open source solutions indepently reviewed. But the point is, if you want security, don't buy anything from US companies. Weakening crypto means that not only NSA can access it.
If your house is burning and someone yell "fire!", you should blame him or the one that actually started the fire?
The NSA metadata collection (and related programs, like weakening crypto) is the attack. The damage done to the country is something that will become even more evident in the next months/years.
Not only you help spy on your family and friends, help to demolish remaining US freedoms, but also you get not paid for that! How you can refuse that great deal?
For that you have Ubuntu Touch, built on top of base cyanogenmod. In fact, there are a lot of different linux mobile OSs that could be built over base cyanogenmod/android, Sailfish, or Firefox OS seem to be between those.
If you want to protect your information (even from hackers not paid by the government) in any way you will get into their monitoring list. Is not if, is when (and that moment could be in the past already), you will be monitored. And even if you think you have nothing to hide, they could have another opinion.
Don't play boiling frog or by the time you decide that something must be done will be already too late.