Read this article and you'll know why government, private companies, and individuals may not want their data in the "cloud", particularly when you know half of the Internet traffic likely transits through US soil:
The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
You're right, thanks for the clarification. But isn't then WIkiPedia doing exactly that? Republishing without licensing? What about all the other web pages listing ISO classifications?
A good place to start would be with ISO. Few know that most ISO standards are licensed products:
http://www.iso.org/iso/licence_agreement
Yes, you technically need to pay if you want to use standard country codes....
*K
Actually, it only helps you gain weight the time you quit, to add to the weeks of withdrawal suffering (unless it kills you before this happens of course)
There is a difference between getting access to information and use it properly. UN Fundamental statistical principle (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/statorg/FP-English.htm) or the US Title V Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency (CIPSEA - http://www.eia.doe.govosscipsea.pdf/ for example dictate what is deemed acceptable. You can commonly get access to data for "research or scientific" purposes but it is often explicitly forbidden to use it for re-identification or even commercial purposes. This is just was WSJ did: map data to individuals and publish it. So of course you can do it, but it doesn't mean it's right or even legal.
Ageer, this represents a serious breach of privacy. What would you think if your car location data would be publicly available? So anyone can basically know when/where you went? I have no problem if this you authorize to publish your data but not like this.
If you're not too young, remember when stuff used to work with about 1 Mb of RAM? I can understand a 3.5Mb printer driver, but 200Mb to make it work smoothly? Do you realize how much code and data that is? OK, maybe half of that is dedicate to windows bug workaround but many developers have sadly been pampered by speedy processors and too much memory. They have lost sense of what code efficiency is about (expect for games, hight performance computing, and some other exception).
The other issue you'll have to deal with is inequality. Who gets access to treatment? The one who don't may not be too happy about it. Already today, if you are born in the US, your have a decent chance to live until 75.5. This is #34 on the list (and wil likely go down thanks to obesity and other health issues) but still twice as long as the one at the bottom. How would you feel if I you would know that in most countries, people live to an average of 140 years? I think I would like to move there... What if this gap gets much larger....
Earth can sustain a few billion more, then obviously you'll need to expand to other moons/planets as any good sci-fi classic would teach you. The chance of self-destruction by one idiot with unlimited power however increases so rapidly lately that this will likely be a non-issue.
Slashdot Mirror
Yup but that guy lost his job, been replaced by Facebook and Twitter
So should I focus on making sure my heart is beating, breathing regularly, or digest food?
You mean everyone should get an Internet User License and an Insurance policy against Uninsured Users? :-)
Not yet all of them, but soon: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
Note that you can readily buy your own USB or PCI quantum number generator generator: http://www.idquantique.com/true-random-number-generator/products-overview.html
Read this article and you'll know why government, private companies, and individuals may not want their data in the "cloud", particularly when you know half of the Internet traffic likely transits through US soil: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
Actually, NeXT should have won,.Problem is that the cube was just 15 years ahead of its time. It eventually did win as a chunk of MacOS X.
Obviously all these tunneling neutrinos are the cause for earthquakes.... turning the planet into a superposition of Swiss cheese or Pamesan
You're right, thanks for the clarification. But isn't then WIkiPedia doing exactly that? Republishing without licensing? What about all the other web pages listing ISO classifications?
A good place to start would be with ISO. Few know that most ISO standards are licensed products: http://www.iso.org/iso/licence_agreement Yes, you technically need to pay if you want to use standard country codes.... *K
I would rather go with a classic here: The C Programming Language Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language *K
Maybe it's time to fork Java, and then go to court....
Can't wait for the mutants to emerge! Godzilla will have some serious contenders to play with.
So we saved $184B! Nice!
Actually, it only helps you gain weight the time you quit, to add to the weeks of withdrawal suffering (unless it kills you before this happens of course)
There is a difference between getting access to information and use it properly. UN Fundamental statistical principle (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/statorg/FP-English.htm) or the US Title V Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency (CIPSEA - http://www.eia.doe.govosscipsea.pdf/ for example dictate what is deemed acceptable. You can commonly get access to data for "research or scientific" purposes but it is often explicitly forbidden to use it for re-identification or even commercial purposes. This is just was WSJ did: map data to individuals and publish it. So of course you can do it, but it doesn't mean it's right or even legal.
Ageer, this represents a serious breach of privacy. What would you think if your car location data would be publicly available? So anyone can basically know when/where you went? I have no problem if this you authorize to publish your data but not like this.
Guess Wikileaks feels good about not being hosted there anymore.... their critical information could have been "lost" as well....
Then wonder what slashdot.xxx would be worth
If you're not too young, remember when stuff used to work with about 1 Mb of RAM? I can understand a 3.5Mb printer driver, but 200Mb to make it work smoothly? Do you realize how much code and data that is? OK, maybe half of that is dedicate to windows bug workaround but many developers have sadly been pampered by speedy processors and too much memory. They have lost sense of what code efficiency is about (expect for games, hight performance computing, and some other exception).
They look like cereal boxes on wheels.... what's the top speed on these things? Can't wait for the first house crash headline.
Snow Crash and the Seven Proxies?
Wait until he throws the iPhone down the stairs....
The other issue you'll have to deal with is inequality. Who gets access to treatment? The one who don't may not be too happy about it. Already today, if you are born in the US, your have a decent chance to live until 75.5. This is #34 on the list (and wil likely go down thanks to obesity and other health issues) but still twice as long as the one at the bottom. How would you feel if I you would know that in most countries, people live to an average of 140 years? I think I would like to move there... What if this gap gets much larger....
Earth can sustain a few billion more, then obviously you'll need to expand to other moons/planets as any good sci-fi classic would teach you. The chance of self-destruction by one idiot with unlimited power however increases so rapidly lately that this will likely be a non-issue.