Google boss turns Wave demise into success of sorts Google boss Eric Schmidt has labelled Wave, which the company just ditched, “a very clever product”. He was speaking to reporters at the Techonomy conference yesterday, just hours after the Mountain View Chocolate Factory confirmed that it was dumping Wave because no one was tinkering with the minimalist and very shaky real- …
@Google Boss Eric Schmidt: "true transparency and no anonymity" ... and ... "it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it."
No, Google will demand the end of privacy (because they gain from spying on everyone) and so Google will then try very hard to suggest the end of privacy to Governments who will be very happy to gain that level of state spying on everyone who will hide behind the business applications for such widespread raping of all our privacy. End result is the absolute destruction of privacy, liberty and freedom from state interference.
Which brings us back to, there has always been very good reasons why throughout history, people all around the world have tried and even died trying to protect their privacy, liberty and freedom from state interference. Fail to learn from history and we walk right back into the same problems again, only this time, with the power of ever better (yet ever more abused) technology, the state is becoming more powerful than at any time in history and yet the people in power have shown countless times how their kind cannot just be trusted with ever increasing power. Their actions have to be policed or they become part of the problem. Yet they are amassing more power than at any point in history. Almost unlimited knowledge on everyone is after all power so they have to be policed or they become part of the problem.
Therefore now Eric Schmidt is being so openly clear about his long term intentions about the end of privacy, its time to fight fire with fire as they say. Eric Schmidt wants true transparency and no anonymity, so its time to give it to him. Its time to use crowd sourcing to spy on his every move, to photograph his every move and put it all online, to dig through every aspect of his life (including his bins and put everything online), we need lists of everyone he speaks to and meets and their full details online, we need to blow open every secret he keeps and put it all online for all to see, we need to throw open every fact about him and do the same to his entire family and his friends and put it all online. Its gloves off time, no empathy no remorse put every aspect of his life online. To do to him what he wants to do to everyone. To in short declare outright war on this utterly arrogant ruthless two faced Narcissistic scumbag who wants to rape our privacy for his personal gain. Lets see how he likes true transparency and no anonymity. Lets make him the worldwide Guinea Pig to study in his brave new world of totally raped privacy. Lets see how long it takes him to squeal about people are raping his privacy!
Eric Schmidt, time for your "papers please"!
I recommend reading Jaron Lanier's excellent book "You Are Not a Gadget"; it offers a considered, thoughtful rebuttal of the world-view of Google and their techno-utopian fellow travellers.
And Schmidt's contention about production of data is wrong: exobytes of "information" is *produced* every second. Until the days of YouTube, however, the requirement to expend real effort to record it meant that only that information that was considered to be useful, meaningful or beautful was set down for posterity.
To coin a metaphor, Information is only the dirty soil that Knowledge grows in, and all Google have is data, which is barely even information.
That last statement scares the crap out of me:
"In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it."
Its like DNS for people:
# personlookup mr.firstname.surname.town.county.street
Name: mr.firstname.surname.town.county.street
Address: No 12 Smith Street, Smithtown, County Smithe, Post Code 123456
Notes: He spends time in his local pub, gets takeaway pizza and curry, click on the following links to see his Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, blaa blaa usage and posts.
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Time to find a non-American search engine and email provider me thinks.
A search engine/virtual machine which provided future relative information about one's role in Live Operational Virtualised Environments, would Lead by IntelAIgents Design in CyberIntelAIgent Securitized Systems.
If search engine controllers tweaked their algorithms to prime and pimp future needs with novel intelligence, rather than just pump and dump pages with present feeds, would new needs energise existing feeds with ITs Power and Currency of Growth MetaDataBase Controlled at Quantum Inner Sanctum Levels.
And if the protocols and algorithms are not smart enough to find the necessary future relative information for display, will it be provided with Revised Craft in Alternate Superior Research Criteria for Source and Being.
And QuITe AI Perfect Toy for New World Order Players who Dare to Care and Share Win Win.
"Then there’s the company’s privacy-lite, horribly creepy Buzz"
Idiot's phrase, really! There were only privacy complaints with Buzz at the very beginning, Google applied fixes immediately. Buzz is an outstanding product, which gets better and better. Thanks too threaded conversations, it is a significantly better tool than Twitter. Twitter is good only for broadcasting your message, but quite inconvenient for discussions. Buzz works for both purposes. For me as for many other people it's becoming a major source of information and a major discussion tool.
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