When someone (person, company or state) knows all about you, it will be a matter of time when that information will be abused, cause although your life is transparent theirs is not.
Why will their life not be transparent? I thought the whole "privacy is dead" thing applied to everyone.
Why is it that anytime anybody does anything that builds upon a previous idea owned by Corporation X, the entire/. community goes around raving about the horrors of corporations and of governments? How many of you have even READ the DMCA? It's not nearly as draconian as everyone here seems to think it is, but even more importantly, it has NOTHING to do with this story.
Whoa, Mike, freak out much? Guuge never suggested that we live in a theocracy but rather that because we DON'T live in a theocracy that he is able to freely speak his mind. Sheesh, relax!
I'm sorry, but I just don't agree. If you take a very loose interpretation of a god, perhaps some cosmic binding force, then you'll find some scientists jumping on board. However, the monotheistic view presented by the Bible is totally incompatible reason.
Satellite radio plus Napster/Rhapsody seem to me the best value in music. Not only can explore Napster/Rhapsody for new music, seek out artists without any commitment, and browse New Music Tuesdays, you also get the picks of DJs at XM/Sirius. I've come across innumerable bands in the past two months with XM, and there's no way I could ever go back to life without it.
And that somehow means that he has complete faith in corporations? Utter BS. He has a community that has an ideal, and he doesn't want it dilluted with advertising, which could easily, in his mind, have a negative effect on the quality of the site.
But quantum physics allows particles like atoms, electrons and photons to be in two places at once--meaning they can represent 0 and 1 simultaneously, allowing more complex calculations.
I'm a Libertarian, but I have never been one to object to a National ID system.
With decreasing costs of technology, there will be a day not far from now in which all public areas are under constant digital surveillance, and digital security equipment will associate faces on the screen to individuals, and the government will be able to see everything that you've done in public, and everywhere in public that you've gone. But these changes will also occur in the private sector. The private sector will continue to erect cameras, link their surveillance networks, and build a human-tracking system even more compromising than what the public sector could ever provide.
Such is the way of the future, and a national ID is such an infinitesimally small part of the end of privacy that I believe you simply must be deluded to cling to such hopes.
I think it's entirely possible that free accounts, of which there could be millions, offer no form of protection. Think logically the amount of storage that that would require for a small company like Lycos, and the likely small staff they have. I just can't imagine them having a massive backup system.
If they do, of course, then shame on them. But why be so quick to accuse them of being lazy or inept?
"In a recent IndustryWeek article, Mathew Hayward, assistant professor at the University of Colorado, does a Q&A on his new book, "Ego Check: Why Programmers' Hubris Is Wrecking Companies And Careers And How To Avoid The Trap", which shows how programmers' inflated egos can impact what they decide to produce, when they will produce it, and in what language and with what buzzword they will create it in. What failures (colossal or otherwise) have you been involved in that could be attributed to Programmers' Hubris?"
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Not sure if this site copied Jeff Atwood's post with permission or not, so I'm posting the original link to Coding Horror: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001198.html
Surely that's the first time it's been fortunate to be on AOL.
No... but /mine/ are.
*cough* Ron Paul *cough*
You're completely forgetting Novell's commitment to Mono. Mono has a great chance of reaching parity.
Why is it that anytime anybody does anything that builds upon a previous idea owned by Corporation X, the entire /. community goes around raving about the horrors of corporations and of governments? How many of you have even READ the DMCA? It's not nearly as draconian as everyone here seems to think it is, but even more importantly, it has NOTHING to do with this story.
Whoa, Mike, freak out much? Guuge never suggested that we live in a theocracy but rather that because we DON'T live in a theocracy that he is able to freely speak his mind. Sheesh, relax!
But humans had fire, and some animals have lights. Therefore God could have created light first, then the sun, then fireflies, FTW.
"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us, and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
- Charles Darwin
I'm sorry, but I just don't agree. If you take a very loose interpretation of a god, perhaps some cosmic binding force, then you'll find some scientists jumping on board. However, the monotheistic view presented by the Bible is totally incompatible reason.
If you're going to reply to parent, at least reply to the right one.
Wait 'til you get sued for copyright infringement, since your song is satire, not a parody. :(
Satellite radio plus Napster/Rhapsody seem to me the best value in music. Not only can explore Napster/Rhapsody for new music, seek out artists without any commitment, and browse New Music Tuesdays, you also get the picks of DJs at XM/Sirius. I've come across innumerable bands in the past two months with XM, and there's no way I could ever go back to life without it.
And how many of them legal?
And that somehow means that he has complete faith in corporations? Utter BS. He has a community that has an ideal, and he doesn't want it dilluted with advertising, which could easily, in his mind, have a negative effect on the quality of the site.
Ah... nevermind. Wikipedia has a pretty good article on it.
I'm a Libertarian, but I have never been one to object to a National ID system.
With decreasing costs of technology, there will be a day not far from now in which all public areas are under constant digital surveillance, and digital security equipment will associate faces on the screen to individuals, and the government will be able to see everything that you've done in public, and everywhere in public that you've gone. But these changes will also occur in the private sector. The private sector will continue to erect cameras, link their surveillance networks, and build a human-tracking system even more compromising than what the public sector could ever provide.
Such is the way of the future, and a national ID is such an infinitesimally small part of the end of privacy that I believe you simply must be deluded to cling to such hopes.
Duh. South Korea is SkyNet.
Even more competition in the workplace? Oh hell no....
While we're pondering cre-azy ideas, how about we revive that euthanasia debate?
I think it's entirely possible that free accounts, of which there could be millions, offer no form of protection. Think logically the amount of storage that that would require for a small company like Lycos, and the likely small staff they have. I just can't imagine them having a massive backup system.
If they do, of course, then shame on them. But why be so quick to accuse them of being lazy or inept?
"In a recent IndustryWeek article, Mathew Hayward, assistant professor at the University of Colorado, does a Q&A on his new book, "Ego Check: Why Programmers' Hubris Is Wrecking Companies And Careers And How To Avoid The Trap", which shows how programmers' inflated egos can impact what they decide to produce, when they will produce it, and in what language and with what buzzword they will create it in. What failures (colossal or otherwise) have you been involved in that could be attributed to Programmers' Hubris?"
This assumes that the Google and YouTube teams aren't set to make interface improvements to YouTube.com. That is simply not the case.