I personally think there are 2 forms of constant everpresent data retention and personal tracking:
1) the Big Brother version, where its used to control you and make sure you stay in line, or
2) the Star Trek version, where its used to beam you out of a dead end situation, or access anything, anywhere.
The problem isnt the data retention, its the use of that data. The data is simply a tool, it is neither good or bad. Having that mountain of personal data in 20 or 30 years will be stupendous, I will be very glad that so much of my personal correspondence with friends and relatives will be archived forever. However, the misuse of that data could be catastrophic and we must be VERY careful that it remains safe from prying eyes. I believe that unless Facebook goes south in a bad way, they will have stupendous security for the foreseeable future, so that really only leaves the law and facebook itself as possible threats. So they need to be open about what they do with it, and it seems that ever since Beacon they have been. Let's hope that doesn't change, because the government is threat enough...
But really... so? Your employer probably keeps much the same set of data on you, as does your cell phone company, your cable company, your credit card company, your government etc... data retention the day after data transmission started, and its not going to go away. There are enough technical reasons to keep everything that you will never convince them not to, even though that's clearly not the main reason for it.
Notice its not kids freaking out about this, but the generation in power, so just wait 50 years and no one will care, and it will seem normal. When Rome introduced the census they had to send soldiers and quite literally put people to the sword to get their data, but soon towns just collected the information and sent it in.
Unfortunately the hippies didn't really get into power, the assholes who jealously watched them getting laid through the classroom windows did, and thats why they are so angry and bitter, and think they know better than people who actually contribute to humanity...
Him filing a trademark is not the same as suing, even though no one has claimed thats even what happened. Your comment suggests you dont know whats happening, you know, since the facts are wrong.
Bittorrent will kill it anyway, the underlying heart of the technology is so brilliant and scalable that it will never be stopped. As long as there are switched IP networks, the idea of a bittorrent is forever.
Doubting the Gates foundations commitment to world health?
Common Mike, even I gotta say this one takes it a bit far. I'm pretty sure when Gates created the first significant dent in malaria in Africa ever, without a single drug, he was just thinking about the industry.... He has personally shown a greater commitment to world health than probably anyone but Borlaug.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Did you learn nothing from the Robber Baron era, Mike?
+1 reading comprehension.
My point is, saying that corporations will abuse the populace when they get powerful so the government has to chop them off at the knees forgets the fact that the government abuses people as hard or harder than any corporation out there (except maybe Monsanto or BP)
Not only that, but the methods used are clearly being used to spy on foreign nationals in their own countries that happen to access American resources. This is a huge violation of a number of trade treaties, but if the US Fed wants it.......
Agreed, but when it was actually patented it was a fundamental technological advance, because the routed worldwide network was impossible without it, and it included things such as NAT and basic fire walling.
From what I understand, which is fairly good, yet obviously incomplete, the patents alleged are TCP/IP and Samba, along with some underlying filesystem stuff in ext4 that MS patented for NTFS.
They didn't develop TCP/IP, but they bought the patents in the 90s.
Its amazing how a few generations of poverty and repression can bring a people together... too bad the Americans are too "patriotic"to learn from the trials of other nations...
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1) the Big Brother version, where its used to control you and make sure you stay in line, or
2) the Star Trek version, where its used to beam you out of a dead end situation, or access anything, anywhere.
The problem isnt the data retention, its the use of that data. The data is simply a tool, it is neither good or bad. Having that mountain of personal data in 20 or 30 years will be stupendous, I will be very glad that so much of my personal correspondence with friends and relatives will be archived forever. However, the misuse of that data could be catastrophic and we must be VERY careful that it remains safe from prying eyes. I believe that unless Facebook goes south in a bad way, they will have stupendous security for the foreseeable future, so that really only leaves the law and facebook itself as possible threats. So they need to be open about what they do with it, and it seems that ever since Beacon they have been. Let's hope that doesn't change, because the government is threat enough...
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But really... so? Your employer probably keeps much the same set of data on you, as does your cell phone company, your cable company, your credit card company, your government etc... data retention the day after data transmission started, and its not going to go away. There are enough technical reasons to keep everything that you will never convince them not to, even though that's clearly not the main reason for it.
Notice its not kids freaking out about this, but the generation in power, so just wait 50 years and no one will care, and it will seem normal. When Rome introduced the census they had to send soldiers and quite literally put people to the sword to get their data, but soon towns just collected the information and sent it in.
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You lie
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Doubting the Gates foundations commitment to world health?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Did you learn nothing from the Robber Baron era, Mike?
My point is, saying that corporations will abuse the populace when they get powerful so the government has to chop them off at the knees forgets the fact that the government abuses people as hard or harder than any corporation out there (except maybe Monsanto or BP)
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Re: Did you learn nothing from the Robber Baron era, Mike?
Government? RIAA? MPAA?
Thank you, troll proven wrong perpetually by his own words.
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They didn't develop TCP/IP, but they bought the patents in the 90s.
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