Protecting privacy isn't the point. The point is that it's not Google's job to enforce the protection of your privacy - they're not hosting the breach - nor can Google stop what's happening on twitter / elsewhere on the web.
If google implemented some sort of magical context understanding blocking filter the people who cared would simply look for that gossip hit elsewhere and post it on twitter / whatever.
If anything this is more akin to the music industry insisting that ISPs should block what they want to block.
To be fair, I think a lot of geeks are quite forgiving of scifi because it's scifi. However imaginative the story, often it's just not that well done. On top of which the awards tend to be about acting i.e. it's hard to get a best picture nod without an actor/actress also, and it's hard to justify one of those when the protagonists spend their time in suits / cgi.
Look at the reception that Inception and LotR have received.
The problem is - so is the rest of the world. For now.
Assuming some smartypants doesn't press the big red button, America's world dominance will fade to nothing soon enough through Darwinian pressure to be an idiot, or (worse) pretend to be an idiot.
The problem is the same as always - that change is hard.
What we need to do, if we can see the world going all Star Trek/The Culture, is to start thinking about letting go of ideas that get in the way. Start designing a path to get us from here to there as painlessly as possible. That is going to be difficult because the ideas we're going to have to leave behind are things like capitalism, market forces, getting ahead, money, the American Dream. I bet that ruffles a few feathers, but that's the point, isn't it? Moving from what you know is difficult - even if that's just baling hay.
Mass Effect 2 - I had no problem finishing, but then I mostly play games for the same reason I read a book or watch a movie - I want to be gripped and immersed in the story - and in the case of a game, challenged by the difficulty. If that doesn't happen boredom creeps in fast. If it does I keep playing until I have to stop.
I dusted off Jedi Knight 2 about a week ago. I'd been playing for a while when I realized that if it had been a modern game I'd be near the end by now... and I still didn't even have any Force Powers. I'm pretty sure I'll finish it again. It'll take me longer than I did back in the day because life's just fuller, but I'll do it. On the other hand 'The Force Unleashed' is about as gripping as a butter vice... I can bash legions of stormtroopers about with my amazing powers... but meh...
Stopping the small spyware vendor does quite a lot. A vendor like Sony, which is -generally- above-board (meaning it doesn't spend most of its time torturing puppies and whatnot) and accountable to millions of customers, shareholders and legal parters has a lot to lose when it does something nasty. Witness the massive backlash against the root kit, and Sony's eventual decision to pull it once it became a PR nightmare. An aware consumer market can fight back when someone like Sony pulls this nonsense.
What is to stop Sony from sponsoring a small vendor to do their dirty work for them? With enough lawyers the vendor may not even be aware who is really hiring them - just that they are suddenly certified spyware free. Bingo insta profits and minimal risk.
This creates an impression of security where little exists.
Delisting is probably a bad idea as searchers will go to where they can find the artists listed and someone else will get revenue.
What google should do is list them sans paying adds - hence cutting off competition. The free ads surrounding the search should be to Groklaw and the sites of the various people the RIAA have screwed over the years.
It could also be done to legit files to further the purposes of opposing networks.
If this is mostly the work of the *AA etc on the other hand, I really think that courts should simply throw all their lawsuits on the subject out in future. No-one is allowed to go on vigilante justice sprees - regardless of their own virtue. They don't have the right until people give them the right - in court.
I think it's time to make a better torrent - so that _everyone_ trying to break them for whatever reason has to put more effort into it and pay more to do it. Think of it as Affirmative DRM.
Gee, I wonder why no-one wants to make a killing by simply making a good printer and supplying cartridges and/or refilling kits and ink at reasonable prices...
While informative generalisations are often handy (e.g. Making your Jewish girlfriend a Full English is probably not ideal - don't try it unless know better) it is far more usual to deal with people on a personal, individual rather than group level. When you do that statistical averages are meaningless.
So rather than getting offended about studies that may or may not be twaddle, recognise that for all intents and purposes other than those meant to insult these statistics are not relevant to any kind of human interaction whatsoever.
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is that it makes the lunatic fringe much easier to locate.
Protecting privacy isn't the point. The point is that it's not Google's job to enforce the protection of your privacy - they're not hosting the breach - nor can Google stop what's happening on twitter / elsewhere on the web.
If google implemented some sort of magical context understanding blocking filter the people who cared would simply look for that gossip hit elsewhere and post it on twitter / whatever.
If anything this is more akin to the music industry insisting that ISPs should block what they want to block.
Apart from Hero's Quest / Quest for Glory /shows his age
- which were great
To be fair, I think a lot of geeks are quite forgiving of scifi because it's scifi. However imaginative the story, often it's just not that well done. On top of which the awards tend to be about acting i.e. it's hard to get a best picture nod without an actor/actress also, and it's hard to justify one of those when the protagonists spend their time in suits / cgi.
Look at the reception that Inception and LotR have received.
The problem is - so is the rest of the world. For now.
Assuming some smartypants doesn't press the big red button, America's world dominance will fade to nothing soon enough through Darwinian pressure to be an idiot, or (worse) pretend to be an idiot.
You're right and you're wrong.
The problem is the same as always - that change is hard.
What we need to do, if we can see the world going all Star Trek/The Culture, is to start thinking about letting go of ideas that get in the way. Start designing a path to get us from here to there as painlessly as possible. That is going to be difficult because the ideas we're going to have to leave behind are things like capitalism, market forces, getting ahead, money, the American Dream. I bet that ruffles a few feathers, but that's the point, isn't it? Moving from what you know is difficult - even if that's just baling hay.
Mass Effect 2 - I had no problem finishing, but then I mostly play games for the same reason I read a book or watch a movie - I want to be gripped and immersed in the story - and in the case of a game, challenged by the difficulty. If that doesn't happen boredom creeps in fast. If it does I keep playing until I have to stop. I dusted off Jedi Knight 2 about a week ago. I'd been playing for a while when I realized that if it had been a modern game I'd be near the end by now... and I still didn't even have any Force Powers. I'm pretty sure I'll finish it again. It'll take me longer than I did back in the day because life's just fuller, but I'll do it. On the other hand 'The Force Unleashed' is about as gripping as a butter vice... I can bash legions of stormtroopers about with my amazing powers... but meh...
Waiter: Evil, Google? Google: No, thanks. But my customers will might have a smidgeon.
Even better - comment objectively on their taste.
Show them your stuff.
Look bored.
Aside from being the coolest parent ever you're likely to have a kid who doesn't hide stuff from you.
The world has changed.
OMFG! Someone always calls when you're about to get it on with a hot bitch!
In Soviet Russia all your base... are fully searchable?
Stopping the small spyware vendor does quite a lot. A vendor like Sony, which is -generally- above-board (meaning it doesn't spend most of its time torturing puppies and whatnot) and accountable to millions of customers, shareholders and legal parters has a lot to lose when it does something nasty. Witness the massive backlash against the root kit, and Sony's eventual decision to pull it once it became a PR nightmare. An aware consumer market can fight back when someone like Sony pulls this nonsense. What is to stop Sony from sponsoring a small vendor to do their dirty work for them? With enough lawyers the vendor may not even be aware who is really hiring them - just that they are suddenly certified spyware free. Bingo insta profits and minimal risk. This creates an impression of security where little exists.
Surely this makes things worse. Something masquerading as Consumer Friendly bypasses at least some scrutiny.
Well... some of us evolved anyway...
Patent the process of patenting new processes.
That'll fsck 'em.
First to file people. First to file.
Actually, we prefer Ethernaut, old bean.
Delisting is probably a bad idea as searchers will go to where they can find the artists listed and someone else will get revenue.
What google should do is list them sans paying adds - hence cutting off competition. The free ads surrounding the search should be to Groklaw and the sites of the various people the RIAA have screwed over the years.
That'd work.
Now I'm just not going to bother buying music.
Play only once?
or Rip only once?
this conforms to the inverse square law of ninja power - which simply states the following:
While 1 ninja is deadly, thousands of ninjas dancing up and down in pajamas can be obliterated by vin diesel's acting talent.
QED
It could also be done to legit files to further the purposes of opposing networks.
If this is mostly the work of the *AA etc on the other hand, I really think that courts should simply throw all their lawsuits on the subject out in future. No-one is allowed to go on vigilante justice sprees - regardless of their own virtue. They don't have the right until people give them the right - in court.
I think it's time to make a better torrent - so that _everyone_ trying to break them for whatever reason has to put more effort into it and pay more to do it. Think of it as Affirmative DRM.
Gee, I wonder why no-one wants to make a killing by simply making a good printer and supplying cartridges and/or refilling kits and ink at reasonable prices...
Neuter CEOs of companies that try to patent obvious things. They cannot be allowed to breed!
The only way to put Linux on the desktop.
While informative generalisations are often handy (e.g. Making your Jewish girlfriend a Full English is probably not ideal - don't try it unless know better) it is far more usual to deal with people on a personal, individual rather than group level. When you do that statistical averages are meaningless.
So rather than getting offended about studies that may or may not be twaddle, recognise that for all intents and purposes other than those meant to insult these statistics are not relevant to any kind of human interaction whatsoever.