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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 01:38 AM EDT |
British authorities on Thursday unveiled an ambitious plan to log
details about every Web visit, email, phone call or text message in the U.K. —
and in a sharply-worded editorial the nation’s top law enforcement official
accused those worried about the surveillance program of being either criminals
or conspiracy theorists.
The government insists it’s not after content. It
promises not to read the body of emails or eavesdrop on phone calls without a
warrant.
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- Every call, every email, every text: UK unveils bill aimed at logging citizens’ Web activity - Authored by: feldegast on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 01:47 AM EDT
- Every call, every email, every text: UK unveils bill aimed at logging citizens’ Web activity - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 06:01 AM EDT
- Every call, every email, every text: UK unveils bill aimed at logging citizens’ Web activity - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 06:13 AM EDT
- Be very afraid. The ISPs are already ordering the Microsoft servers to make this possible! ...nt - Authored by: Ian Al on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 07:44 AM EDT
- Some "social networking sites" are doing all that info gathering now, are they not? - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 09:23 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 03:05 AM EDT |
Econometrics is a travesty!
While its heavy reliance on
statistics often confuses us into believing that it is a form of applied
statistics, in reality it resembles computerised astrology: a form of hocus
pocus that seeks to improve its image by incorporating proper science’s methods,
displays and processes. Is this not too harsh a judgment on
econometrics?
Not in the slightest.
[...]
Valve’s digital economies
are a marvelous test-bed for meaningful experimentation.
Not only do we have
a full-information set (making sampling superfluous) but, more importantly, we
can change the economy’s underlying values, rules and settings, and then sit
back to observe how the community responds, how relative prices change, the new
behavioural patterns that evolve.
An economist’s paradise
indeed.
Yanis Varoufakis, VALVE[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Travesty - Authored by: stegu on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 04:22 AM EDT
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- Travesty - Authored by: ThrPilgrim on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 07:53 AM EDT
- Economists - Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 04:07 PM EDT
- Economists - Authored by: PJ on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 01:12 PM EDT
- Travesty - Authored by: Wol on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 07:28 AM EDT
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Authored by: tiger99 on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 07:54 AM EDT |
BBC Well, if the
security subsystem is independent of the OS and bootloader, and will be
available for use by any installed OS, this could solve many problems, by moving
things like DRM entirely out of the main OS, and allowing Linux etc to be able
to access copy-protected media. On the other hand, it could possibly be
greatly misused by a certain failing company, who allegedly manufacture
software, in the Pacific Northwest..... I would like to see more detail. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 08:19 AM EDT |
Issa said there needs to be a Citizens
Digital Bill of Rights
that will serve as a measure for, and
a check against additional legislative
overreaches fueled by
special interests, especially in the online
arena.
Issa posted a draft of the bill on the website that he
launched
both in opposition to SOPA, and to gain support for
the alternative rogue
website bill that he and Sen. Ron
Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced in 2011, the Online
Protection and
Enforcement of Digital Trade Act (S. 2029, H.R. 3782) (245
PTD,
12/21/11). Users can go to keepthewebopen.com and view
the proposed bill, and
they can also add edits or comments
to the text of the proposal.
“We
need a way to measure how we are going to insure that
networks are protected,”
Wyden, who was also taking part in
the discussion,
said.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 09:16 AM EDT |
Draft Communications Data Bill
"For many years our
police and security and intelligence agencies have used communications data from
landline telephones and mobiles to catch criminals and to protect the
public."
"This information – which does not include the content
of a phone call or email – has played a role in nearly every serious organised
crime investigation and in all major Security Service counter-terrorism
operations over the past decade and is fundamental to policing across the
UK."
"But the ability of the police and others to use this vital
tool is disappearing because communications data from new technologies is less
available and often harder to access. Without action there is a serious and
growing risk that crimes enabled by email and the internet will go undetected
and unpunished, that the vulnerable will not be protected and that terrorists
and criminals will not be caught and prosecuted. No responsible Government could
allow such a situation to develop unaddressed."
"The purpose of
this Bill, therefore, is to protect the public and bring offenders to justice by
ensuring that communications data is available to the police and security and
intelligence agencies in future as it has been in the past." link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 09:28 AM EDT |
There was a cute, but sad, story on
href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/neverseconds-shut-down/">Wired
a> about a little girl in the UK who had been taking pictures of her school
lunches and sharing the pictures with other children around the world. However,
school administrators became embarrassed by some of the photos and now forbid
the girl from bringing her camera to lunch. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: jplatt39 on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 10:10 AM EDT |
Marketplace reports that Seton Hall University Freshmen will be
receiving free Lumia 900 phones.
Here is the link in plain
text.
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/can-nokias-freebies-build-brand
-loyalty
And here is Information Week's post:
Information Week
Sorry if this is a repost, but I haven't seen it. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 11:15 AM EDT |
Linux creator Linus
Torvalds has won the Millennium Technology Prize and an accompanying cheque for
600,000 euros ($756,000; £486,000) from the Technology Academy of
Finland. --- The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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