Can't stop thinking about Steve McQueen (and Co) in The Great Escape when thinking about Obama's current NSA predicament. Specifically the aptly named 'mole' plan. Make the dirt by tunnelling where you aren't supposed to be covertly. Attempt to hide said dirt behind whilst pushing the occasional straw into the outside world before suffocating. When faced with exposure retreat back to the cooler to continue advocating to foreigners (a Scot in this instance) about how great American strategy is. Subconsciously setting unrealistic, unachievable and downright dangerous expectations given the unstable nature of environment and supposed partner. This predictably lead to the suicide of his supposed friend. Regardless Hilts himself learned a valuable lesson - hide behind the uniform - whilst showing little emotion or remorse. No?
While I think about it Hiltz did absolutely nothing for the greater good. James Garner contributed substantially more to help others with his brand transparent capitalism whilst maintaining an almost socialist commitment to his crew and friends. Your typical american male (myself included) wanted to be the cooler king but in retrospect the Ferret is a far better role model. Going to have to go and watch the film again now ;-)
and nobody is around to hear / tweet / media to exploit him - is he still a serial killer?
Would the Zodiac killer would have kept killing if the press at the time ignored him and hadn't kept publishing his cryptograms and gaining sales?
When it was finally agreed that the Tsunami damaged reactors in Japan, *weren't* going to meltdown did you stop watching?
The Dow jumps a few points in anticipation of another country collapsing
We have our fingers silently crossed that the trouble in Syria will escalate.
All things being equal the key factor here nothing to do with technology really - that largely affects speed of delivery.
It's called the News, or more specifically, Bad News. People watch it, talks about it and unfortunately once in a while will do anything to get in it, and history tells us, that is simply not news.
As a society we are obsessed by horror, dispair and destruction and we'll good pay money for it. That really requires a 'Sad but True' button.
Totally agree mate - these pirates, thieves and liars should be put against a wall and well - sanctioned. However what about that Other bunch of people who through voluntary action caused the loss of literally millions of jobs, destroyed communities not just within individual industries but within multiple sovereign states, destroying generations of 'futures' whilst making billions and actually causing the needless deaths of thousands by withholding basic human amenities. What do we do with them?
There has been lots of bitching by the banks against the Robin Hood tax. Detractors complain that it will make financial centres like London untenable by charging a .005% tax on stock market trades. I'm sure many would appreciate this move, however the likelihood of a mass migration of merchant bankers to Singapore or Australia is minimal.?
What isn't often discussed is a nifty side effect of the tax.?
Ever wonder how 'Rogue traders' can bring down banks? It's not huge transactions going south anymore - but death by a thousand papercuts.?
The modern stock market isn't run by people - it isn't the 'walls street' of the 80's with folk running around saying 'Buy! Sell!', it's largely automated. A nice system scraping teeny-weeny amounts of cash with each transaction. ?A fraction of a point up or down still makes money - if you do it often enough - millions of times a second. However margins on these kinds of trades is extremely low - ?often less than 0.005% of the total transaction!
Under the new tax it becomes economically unviable. The algorithms will need to change and ?the entire system will need to radically slow down to make it worth while.?
Fewer more considered transactions with a level of diligence attached ironically mean more stable markets. This is a good thing.?
Now apply the same thinking to SOPA
In the US 'infringing content' ?is flagged via the DMCA (digital millennium copyright act). Basically you notify a site that something is dodgy, they then have a short period of time to remove otherwise the host is liable which can cost potentially $150k per infringement. Motivation or what! This takedown process for most of the big content owners is largely automated - they no doubt use search engines to seek out apparently infringing content, index it, format it, approve it and fire it off.?
This automated output is received by site x - the larger of which (google/YouTube etc) will have an automated process which indiscriminately takes the content down. ?This explains why there are so many false positives across the board. ?
However painful, the current process does actually require some human interaction as theoretically you can be fined for false claims.
Not ideal but at least it's just taking individual bits of content down and not entire sites.?
The whole raison d'?tre of the bill is to shift the administrative burden (of proof) from the content owner to everyone else. SOPA would remove barriers increasing the speed of transaction exponentially and of course the collateral damage associated with it.
The doomsday scenario is what happens when big content write their tool to aid their quest for a rogue-free Internet. ?Let's just call it Skynet.?
Skynet connects to internal content dbase
Skynet ?searches web
Skynet ?'identifies' matches
Skynet emails site, ISP, Search engines, payment processors etc and flags site as 'dedicated to infringing'
Site goes down
Repeat millions of times?
Judgement day.
Maybe it's time to slow down a bit!
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Reckon you are just being mean.
Why shouldn't they be rewarded for going deep, undercover?
Is Obama the Cooler King or the ferret
Can't stop thinking about Steve McQueen (and Co) in The Great Escape when thinking about Obama's current NSA predicament. Specifically the aptly named 'mole' plan. Make the dirt by tunnelling where you aren't supposed to be covertly. Attempt to hide said dirt behind whilst pushing the occasional straw into the outside world before suffocating. When faced with exposure retreat back to the cooler to continue advocating to foreigners (a Scot in this instance) about how great American strategy is. Subconsciously setting unrealistic, unachievable and downright dangerous expectations given the unstable nature of environment and supposed partner. This predictably lead to the suicide of his supposed friend. Regardless Hilts himself learned a valuable lesson - hide behind the uniform - whilst showing little emotion or remorse. No?
While I think about it Hiltz did absolutely nothing for the greater good. James Garner contributed substantially more to help others with his brand transparent capitalism whilst maintaining an almost socialist commitment to his crew and friends. Your typical american male (myself included) wanted to be the cooler king but in retrospect the Ferret is a far better role model. Going to have to go and watch the film again now ;-)
If a serial killer, kills (repeatedly) in the woods...
and nobody is around to hear / tweet / media to exploit him - is he still a serial killer?
Would the Zodiac killer would have kept killing if the press at the time ignored him and hadn't kept publishing his cryptograms and gaining sales?
When it was finally agreed that the Tsunami damaged reactors in Japan, *weren't* going to meltdown did you stop watching?
The Dow jumps a few points in anticipation of another country collapsing
We have our fingers silently crossed that the trouble in Syria will escalate.
All things being equal the key factor here nothing to do with technology really - that largely affects speed of delivery.
It's called the News, or more specifically, Bad News. People watch it, talks about it and unfortunately once in a while will do anything to get in it, and history tells us, that is simply not news.
As a society we are obsessed by horror, dispair and destruction and we'll good pay money for it. That really requires a 'Sad but True' button.
Re: Jobs or loss of jobs ? will or will not be effective ? choose.
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB#/watch?v=eZGWQauQOAQ
Re: Re: Re: No matter how prolix you get, Mike, problem is still PIRACY.
Totally agree mate - these pirates, thieves and liars should be put against a wall and well - sanctioned. However what about that Other bunch of people who through voluntary action caused the loss of literally millions of jobs, destroyed communities not just within individual industries but within multiple sovereign states, destroying generations of 'futures' whilst making billions and actually causing the needless deaths of thousands by withholding basic human amenities. What do we do with them?
And another thing... SOPA vs Robin Hood vs Skynet
There has been lots of bitching by the banks against the Robin Hood tax. Detractors complain that it will make financial centres like London untenable by charging a .005% tax on stock market trades. I'm sure many would appreciate this move, however the likelihood of a mass migration of merchant bankers to Singapore or Australia is minimal.?
What isn't often discussed is a nifty side effect of the tax.?
Ever wonder how 'Rogue traders' can bring down banks? It's not huge transactions going south anymore - but death by a thousand papercuts.?
The modern stock market isn't run by people - it isn't the 'walls street' of the 80's with folk running around saying 'Buy! Sell!', it's largely automated. A nice system scraping teeny-weeny amounts of cash with each transaction. ?A fraction of a point up or down still makes money - if you do it often enough - millions of times a second. However margins on these kinds of trades is extremely low - ?often less than 0.005% of the total transaction!
Under the new tax it becomes economically unviable. The algorithms will need to change and ?the entire system will need to radically slow down to make it worth while.?
Fewer more considered transactions with a level of diligence attached ironically mean more stable markets. This is a good thing.?
Now apply the same thinking to SOPA
In the US 'infringing content' ?is flagged via the DMCA (digital millennium copyright act). Basically you notify a site that something is dodgy, they then have a short period of time to remove otherwise the host is liable which can cost potentially $150k per infringement. Motivation or what! This takedown process for most of the big content owners is largely automated - they no doubt use search engines to seek out apparently infringing content, index it, format it, approve it and fire it off.?
This automated output is received by site x - the larger of which (google/YouTube etc) will have an automated process which indiscriminately takes the content down. ?This explains why there are so many false positives across the board. ?
However painful, the current process does actually require some human interaction as theoretically you can be fined for false claims.
Not ideal but at least it's just taking individual bits of content down and not entire sites.?
The whole raison d'?tre of the bill is to shift the administrative burden (of proof) from the content owner to everyone else. SOPA would remove barriers increasing the speed of transaction exponentially and of course the collateral damage associated with it.
The doomsday scenario is what happens when big content write their tool to aid their quest for a rogue-free Internet. ?Let's just call it Skynet.?
Skynet connects to internal content dbase
Skynet ?searches web
Skynet ?'identifies' matches
Skynet emails site, ISP, Search engines, payment processors etc and flags site as 'dedicated to infringing'
Site goes down
Repeat millions of times?
Judgement day.
Maybe it's time to slow down a bit!