That's exactly what you're doing when you accept the terms for accessing public wifi in a caf?, library, restaurant, airport, etc. Nobody every reads the terms, but clicking on the "Read and understand" checkbox and hitting OK is the network access provider's way of making SURE that they aren't liable for whatever you want to do on their network.
The bizarrest thing is that their very cluelessness means they can't take in any feedback, or actually acknowledge that that have no mastery of anything digital. Let's face it, the best techs don't go into government service. I know. I've worked with government techs. Shudder.
Took my a second to work out that IANAL is not a word, but acronym for I Am Not A Lawyer. Just for a second there, I wondered if Apple had launched a new WiFi sex toy.
Well said. It's absolutely, horribly correct. All Empires pretend to be beneficial, bringing peace and prosperity to their conquered territories. I think novel came out in 1948, penned by a Mr. Orwell.
This relationship is quite confusing, but it's really simple compared to the inter-relations of the all the telecommunications companies across the globe. A large poster was created in the late '90s that makes this web look very, very straightforward. Unfortunately, my Google-fu is not sufficient for the task of recovering this mythical image.
Open, easy to find information signals the death knell for whole rafts of businesses where analysis and statistical massaging of large bodies of information, publicly available if logistically once complex to capture, used to have value. With knowledge, networks and processing power, anyone with the inclination to act as an Arbitrageur can now do so, without swanky New York or City of London premises. And the people who have made billions for doing so for decades don't like this democratization one little bit. Wake up, Wizards of Wall street! The curtains are open, and we can see what you're doing back there!
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That's exactly what you're doing when you accept the terms for accessing public wifi in a caf?, library, restaurant, airport, etc. Nobody every reads the terms, but clicking on the "Read and understand" checkbox and hitting OK is the network access provider's way of making SURE that they aren't liable for whatever you want to do on their network.
Which is just fine, AFAIK.
Re: Mission Accomplished
The bizarrest thing is that their very cluelessness means they can't take in any feedback, or actually acknowledge that that have no mastery of anything digital. Let's face it, the best techs don't go into government service. I know. I've worked with government techs. Shudder.
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"he strikes me as a lawyer/lobbyist who is far more interested in advancing his own career than anything else."
You had him at lawyer/lobbyist. The rest of the sentence is redundant.
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Took my a second to work out that IANAL is not a word, but acronym for I Am Not A Lawyer. Just for a second there, I wondered if Apple had launched a new WiFi sex toy.
Re: Enforcement Industry
Well said. It's absolutely, horribly correct. All Empires pretend to be beneficial, bringing peace and prosperity to their conquered territories. I think novel came out in 1948, penned by a Mr. Orwell.
That's nothing! Look at the Telcos of the world!
This relationship is quite confusing, but it's really simple compared to the inter-relations of the all the telecommunications companies across the globe. A large poster was created in the late '90s that makes this web look very, very straightforward. Unfortunately, my Google-fu is not sufficient for the task of recovering this mythical image.
Time to retire the old business models, again!
Open, easy to find information signals the death knell for whole rafts of businesses where analysis and statistical massaging of large bodies of information, publicly available if logistically once complex to capture, used to have value. With knowledge, networks and processing power, anyone with the inclination to act as an Arbitrageur can now do so, without swanky New York or City of London premises. And the people who have made billions for doing so for decades don't like this democratization one little bit. Wake up, Wizards of Wall street! The curtains are open, and we can see what you're doing back there!