There's quite a difference between face detection ("Hey, it's a human") and face recognition ("Hey, it's Peter G. of Quahog, Rhose Island"). Blurring faces only requires face detection.
You could encrypt all the data in the database, but that would only protect you from somebody able to access the database but not any of the decryption code (somewhat unlikely).
Assuming full access to the database and code, is there any way to protect against being able to link identification with the rest of the personal information.
I can only come up with the obvious client-side encryption, but will the network as a whole still be able to use the data as it's supposed to (in this case; find adult friends)?
Just look at what happened when MySpace got out of fashion. Some other site(s) takes over and the world just keeps on spinning like nothing happened, because nothing did.
Any developer worth his salt has neatly modularized the social media code, fully expecting their own code to outlast atleast some of the currently popular social media sites.
The thing is; not everybody is experienced. All of us, including you, has had to download it for the first time in their live at some point. If I tell a new collegue to install Putty, there's a chance he'll download the wrong version because he won't trust the site he sees. Unless I tell him the correct site, but having to do so pretty much proves the point.
Like the still (supposedly) supported Windows 7 and even Vista? Windows 8 is good for tablets but it isn't a serious desktop OS; the most recent desktop version of Windows is 7.
A checksum does you no good if you're on the wrong download page. I'm pretty sure the checksum published by the hackers will match the hacked download file.
In this particular situation; because at first glance the main download page, site and URL doesn't look "official" at all. http://www.chiark.greenend.org... It would be pretty easy to confuse a slightly more modern looking page for the "main download page".
Given the Microsoft Study Finds Technology Hurting Attention Spans story posted to Slashdot in the last few days it would seem that Redmond's Marketing and R&D people are at cross-purposes.
You assume Microsoft thinks short attention span is a bad.
Let's see if I get this straight; They find some (minor) ADA violation, sue the company and offer a cheaper settlement. Now the company no longer has to fix the ADA violation and can't get sued for it again? Just trying to figure out exactly how many parties are getting screwed by these "lawyers".
It's not just the implied associations; popular music lyrics are usually about the life of 20-somethings. I'm now 38 and still enjoy ~1/5th of regular new pop music, but the rest just seems to be talking about things I simply don't care about any more. I'm also less likely to follow pop fads. Looking back, I no longer enjoy the pop fads of my own youth either.
It's the same with movies. Who over 30 would watch a Twilight movie? Who would have probably watched it back when they were 20?
Then disallow calling 911 from NSI phones and start giving away free but registered 911-only SIM cards with the phones. Heck, make it empty but upgradable pre-paid cards and telecom providers will probably pay you money to give them away.
Holy crap, you mean all this time the pirates could have actually been stealing movies and thus kept the rest of the world from ever seeing them? I guess we're lucky they only made copies.
App developers aren't some special magical people that have extraordinary powers to influence users. They have a moral responsibility not less or more than that of a store clerk, a fashionmodel, a garbage collector or pretty much everyone else.
I think you're using the reasoning that only religious people can be atheophobic. That would explain why you though you saw a rational used that wasn't. Both religious and non-religious people can be atheophobic. Unless you define all non-religious people as atheists ofcourse, in which case this all is merely a semantics argument. Then again, perhaps even atheists can be atheophobic;)
Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Completing an art college does not make you an artist, it makes you a craftsman at best. Having people willing to hand over their own money for what you've created makes you an artist. This does not include government subsidies and grants; that's OTHER people's money.
FWIW, I do like some of modern art. Skill shouldn't be any factor; if somebody can create something mindnumbingly awesome with minimal technical skill, I'd still consider it art, because it's still mindnumbingly awesome and I'd pay for it.
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There's quite a difference between face detection ("Hey, it's a human") and face recognition ("Hey, it's Peter G. of Quahog, Rhose Island").
Blurring faces only requires face detection.
You could encrypt all the data in the database, but that would only protect you from somebody able to access the database but not any of the decryption code (somewhat unlikely).
Assuming full access to the database and code, is there any way to protect against being able to link identification with the rest of the personal information.
I can only come up with the obvious client-side encryption, but will the network as a whole still be able to use the data as it's supposed to (in this case; find adult friends)?
I guess ROT2^513+8 encryption is too strong for the Aussies to crack?
Holy shit!
https://www.google.nl/search?q...
Just look at what happened when MySpace got out of fashion.
Some other site(s) takes over and the world just keeps on spinning like nothing happened, because nothing did.
Any developer worth his salt has neatly modularized the social media code, fully expecting their own code to outlast atleast some of the currently popular social media sites.
The thing is; not everybody is experienced.
All of us, including you, has had to download it for the first time in their live at some point.
If I tell a new collegue to install Putty, there's a chance he'll download the wrong version because he won't trust the site he sees. Unless I tell him the correct site, but having to do so pretty much proves the point.
Like the still (supposedly) supported Windows 7 and even Vista?
Windows 8 is good for tablets but it isn't a serious desktop OS; the most recent desktop version of Windows is 7.
A checksum does you no good if you're on the wrong download page.
I'm pretty sure the checksum published by the hackers will match the hacked download file.
In this particular situation; because at first glance the main download page, site and URL doesn't look "official" at all.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org...
It would be pretty easy to confuse a slightly more modern looking page for the "main download page".
[...] like art and music in school. If Microsoft has its way, they would only learn Powerpoint.
Well obviously! You certainly don't need to learn music any more: http://research.microsoft.com/...
Just listen to some of these creative, inspired and varied songs: http://research.microsoft.com/...
Given the Microsoft Study Finds Technology Hurting Attention Spans story posted to Slashdot in the last few days it would seem that Redmond's Marketing and R&D people are at cross-purposes.
You assume Microsoft thinks short attention span is a bad.
Let's see if I get this straight;
They find some (minor) ADA violation, sue the company and offer a cheaper settlement.
Now the company no longer has to fix the ADA violation and can't get sued for it again?
Just trying to figure out exactly how many parties are getting screwed by these "lawyers".
This. Simpsons went downhill for quite a while, but it's improved a lot the last 2 years or so.
It's not just the implied associations; popular music lyrics are usually about the life of 20-somethings.
I'm now 38 and still enjoy ~1/5th of regular new pop music, but the rest just seems to be talking about things I simply don't care about any more.
I'm also less likely to follow pop fads. Looking back, I no longer enjoy the pop fads of my own youth either.
It's the same with movies. Who over 30 would watch a Twilight movie? Who would have probably watched it back when they were 20?
The people who's data was spied upon, never agreed to any EULA.
Then disallow calling 911 from NSI phones and start giving away free but registered 911-only SIM cards with the phones.
Heck, make it empty but upgradable pre-paid cards and telecom providers will probably pay you money to give them away.
as it allows people to steal six movies from us
Holy crap, you mean all this time the pirates could have actually been stealing movies and thus kept the rest of the world from ever seeing them? I guess we're lucky they only made copies.
We could just call the cat "God" instead and suddenly it'll have millions of devout followers.
App developers aren't some special magical people that have extraordinary powers to influence users.
They have a moral responsibility not less or more than that of a store clerk, a fashionmodel, a garbage collector or pretty much everyone else.
I think you're using the reasoning that only religious people can be atheophobic. That would explain why you though you saw a rational used that wasn't. Both religious and non-religious people can be atheophobic. Unless you define all non-religious people as atheists ofcourse, in which case this all is merely a semantics argument. Then again, perhaps even atheists can be atheophobic ;)
My conclussion being what exactly?
Gerald the pink-furred cat only exists in your imagination.
Spoken like a true atheophobe..
Art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Completing an art college does not make you an artist, it makes you a craftsman at best.
Having people willing to hand over their own money for what you've created makes you an artist.
This does not include government subsidies and grants; that's OTHER people's money.
FWIW, I do like some of modern art. Skill shouldn't be any factor; if somebody can create something mindnumbingly awesome with minimal technical skill, I'd still consider it art, because it's still mindnumbingly awesome and I'd pay for it.
The last electrical device after humanity ends will be the deathray which the aliens used to blast humanity out of existance.