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* Posts by Daegroth

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15,000 London coppers to receive new crime-fighting tool: an iPad

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Re: The cost effective option?

Exactly my thoughts, why does it *need* to be an ipad? I did see an earlier post about tendering for suppliers, and the comment on Capita is valid, as are the comments on data protection. A modicum of common sense is required, unless the process is managed by a good in-house team, these contracted options tend to get expensive quickly for a product that doesn't really do what it's meant to.

I think the collection of big data on crime trends certainly has massive advantages in deployment planning etc, however I can't help but seethe every time I see 'iPad' and a government department mentioned together.

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Tony Blair closes RSA 2012, denounces WikiLeaks

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Re: What a fucking hypocrite!

And also remember that this is the PM who's government rolled out Freedom of Information legislation which has been completely mis-appropriated by journalists (usually from the Daily Mail) to turn any non-story into a ripping.

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Blocking Twitter, Facebook during riots not such a hot idea - MPs

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They needed a committee to figure this out, why am I not surprised anymore

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ANONYMOUS: Behind the mask, inside the Hivemind

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No clear purpose

Well after reading this article I'm not sure if I agree with them any more or less. Personally I think they're fooling themselves, or being fooled.

To quote the article:

"There are no "leaders" of Anonymous. Anonymous resists the concept of leadership so fiercely that anyone who attempts to take on a leadership role is ostracised. At the same time, Anonymous can – and does – contain sub groups which may have a more formalised social hierarchy than the group as a whole."

And then a couple of paragraphs later:

"There are many "strong personalities" who are active Anons. Quite often these individuals succeed in rallying other Anons, or serve to as organisers for some event, project or raid. Their contributions are generally appreciated."

So which is it? Does Anon disparage leadership or embrace it? It smacks of anarchism, and the problem with anarchism is it's an ideology, through history there have been many times that there have been attempts to formulate 'equal' groups the ultimate end is self-destruction because some people naturally have stronger personalities than others, the group tears itself apart. The difference with things like slavery and womens lib is that there was a clear and simple objective, something that Anon lacks, without it the notion of a self regulating system is complete tosh.

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Google Go strikes back with C++ bake-off

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Google+ as a platform

With the release of Google+ beta (which I haven't managed to register for before they closed it off). I am intrigued by Go, it's Google's own flava that they've been trying to push for some time now. If Google+ is to be at least as successful as Failbook then it'll need 3rd-party application support, and which language do you suppose they'll use to develop their own proprietary system?

Google have been very smart about all this, and love or hate them you've got to admire the skill with which they can come late to a market and blitz the competitors through good positioning and a bit of fore-thought.

I can't say I'd like another variant language out there, I'm a standards kind of guy, at least there's plenty of choices.

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Got a buck to send M Night Shyamalan to film school?

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I Feel ambivalence

about the M. Night thing, the problem is that his films are terrible, but the stories behind them are actually quite interesting. Like Unbreakable I thought was one of the best storylines ever as it was so original, and originality is something desperately missing from Hollywood these days. The same thing with Signs (I never rated 6th Sense that much anyway). The problem was that they were so poorly executed that the whole meaning of the message was lost by what tended to be a long drawn out over-indulgence in character reflection,

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Facebook gives users' names to advertisers

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Interesting fail

"It's just the latest privacy failing by Facebook..."

Hmmm, so that's why FB decided to let us all choose our own 'custom' URL for profile pages, not a failing at all, more like a plan to sell data that they thought they could get away with.

The only fail part about it was that they got caught

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