Privacy is all about information control, we forget that one of the main sources of power is control of information.
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.
So Asimmetry of information gives those on top the best negotiating hand of cards, you might be getting all that convenience of service but will bite you back when you least expect.
Some examples:
- You start getting all that yummi mail spam, and direct marketing offers that you didn't ask for (like right before signed up for some service).
- When you feel defensive and start wondering if they are out to get you, your behaviour is seen as a proof of guilt or that you're up to no good (well, if you done nothing wrong what's there to hide, uhh??? a lot!!!).
- When you decide to change jobs, well that would make your current boss a little tiffed if he/she knew (oh, the consequences...).
- And there's the old, i have a women friend and it's purely platonic, and if my wife/girlfriend knows about it she's gonna be so furious that she'll make my life a living hell (wish is quite unfair since you ain't getting "any" from any of them).
So preserve some of your privacy for your own good, it might get in handy one of these days.
I remember when i was a child doing excessive homework as a collective punishement from my school teacher when someone misbehavied.
And I remember doing a lot of chores that didn't thaught me anything, like copying one text or more 5 times, or writting a bunch of words 10 times each, and i was doing the work completely numb.
Homework is necessary but too much is disrupting, it interferes with all other learning activities.
How did you feel if a book that you bought dissapeared in smoke 3 years after. You probably wouldn't buy the book in the fist place!
There are no standards, you can't play you DRMed avi files on your new DVD player or any other device except a Windows/PC (and that's when the files aren't locked to run only on your system).
If you bought something DRMed or download it in a subscription based service you better hope you don't REALLY need those files. In the case the content provider goes under, ceases to distribute, or simply disallows the use of a file, you can complain all you want because the file is not yours.
DRM is being pushed because content publishers and copyright holders fear digital copying. Altough there are more books, CDs and DVDs sold now than in any other time, more music is sold and more contents are on the market.
Like CSS, region coding and so on, DRM is a way to protect business models, to trap markets in price rigging schemes that milk every penny that a regional market can offer. Or do you think that prices are the same all over the world?
To this day DRM has been used has a tight fist strategy, intended to reduce consumer choice and to makes the consumer buy the same things all over again.
Google basically tracks the relevance of a page by the amount of links that refer to it and what links it refers to.
Blogs express mainly the views of those who write them, there's nothing wrong about that.
Because blogers usually refer each other on their blogs, and these references tend to cluster in narrow groups where the same views are shared, this increases the 'google relevance' of the blog and other satellite blogs that tag along.
These blogs with high 'google relevance' can be taken as genuine relevance, by this I say, they're considered truthful and a reference source for other writings.
But, what he is trying to say is high 'google relevance' can mean high noise output. And if you're trying to search about a subject you shouldn't trust google to point you to the most relevant references.
There are those who can't be critical when someone writes a post that panders to their prejudices and biases, so some blogs can be intoxicating them even more.
Although it can be said that some blogs can be a very relevant source of information about niche interests where motivated people can write about. And when there are very few outlets that cater these niches, blogs can fill the void by forming communities of shared interest.
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Privacy is all about information control, we forget that one of the main sources of power is control of information.
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.
So Asimmetry of information gives those on top the best negotiating hand of cards, you might be getting all that convenience of service but will bite you back when you least expect.
Some examples:
- You start getting all that yummi mail spam, and direct marketing offers that you didn't ask for (like right before signed up for some service).
- When you feel defensive and start wondering if they are out to get you, your behaviour is seen as a proof of guilt or that you're up to no good (well, if you done nothing wrong what's there to hide, uhh??? a lot!!!).
- When you decide to change jobs, well that would make your current boss a little tiffed if he/she knew (oh, the consequences...).
- And there's the old, i have a women friend and it's purely platonic, and if my wife/girlfriend knows about it she's gonna be so furious that she'll make my life a living hell (wish is quite unfair since you ain't getting "any" from any of them).
So preserve some of your privacy for your own good, it might get in handy one of these days.
Yes it is :)))
If nutrients only go to grow muscle cell the efficiency can go from 10 to 20 parts of food to 1 part of meat to only 2 or 5.
That is a very large saving of resources, it might be something to consider in the future.
I remember when i was a child doing excessive homework as a collective punishement from my school teacher when someone misbehavied.
And I remember doing a lot of chores that didn't thaught me anything, like copying one text or more 5 times, or writting a bunch of words 10 times each, and i was doing the work completely numb.
Homework is necessary but too much is disrupting, it interferes with all other learning activities.
What other nations?...
DRM is big pain in the butt for the consumer.
How did you feel if a book that you bought dissapeared in smoke 3 years after. You probably wouldn't buy the book in the fist place!
There are no standards, you can't play you DRMed avi files on your new DVD player or any other device except a Windows/PC (and that's when the files aren't locked to run only on your system).
If you bought something DRMed or download it in a subscription based service you better hope you don't REALLY need those files. In the case the content provider goes under, ceases to distribute, or simply disallows the use of a file, you can complain all you want because the file is not yours.
DRM is being pushed because content publishers and copyright holders fear digital copying. Altough there are more books, CDs and DVDs sold now than in any other time, more music is sold and more contents are on the market.
Like CSS, region coding and so on, DRM is a way to protect business models, to trap markets in price rigging schemes that milk every penny that a regional market can offer. Or do you think that prices are the same all over the world?
To this day DRM has been used has a tight fist strategy, intended to reduce consumer choice and to makes the consumer buy the same things all over again.
Google basically tracks the relevance of a page by the amount of links that refer to it and what links it refers to. Blogs express mainly the views of those who write them, there's nothing wrong about that. Because blogers usually refer each other on their blogs, and these references tend to cluster in narrow groups where the same views are shared, this increases the 'google relevance' of the blog and other satellite blogs that tag along. These blogs with high 'google relevance' can be taken as genuine relevance, by this I say, they're considered truthful and a reference source for other writings. But, what he is trying to say is high 'google relevance' can mean high noise output. And if you're trying to search about a subject you shouldn't trust google to point you to the most relevant references. There are those who can't be critical when someone writes a post that panders to their prejudices and biases, so some blogs can be intoxicating them even more. Although it can be said that some blogs can be a very relevant source of information about niche interests where motivated people can write about. And when there are very few outlets that cater these niches, blogs can fill the void by forming communities of shared interest.