Bruce Schneier also finds data is actually a toxic asset. ?
Tag: Insights
Politicians
This line from Matt Taibbi sadly sums up what “high-profile” politicians have become.
[…] they’re not even people, but are […] just robo-babbling representatives of unseen donors.
— Matt Taibbi in How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable
“Defense Wins”
Nicolas Weaver explains how a “defense wins” policy in a combined offense and defense environment doesn’t sound not very convincing (case in point: the NSA reorganization).
Instead, NSA seems intent on ensuring that they will never be trusted again. The objective reality is this: from the perception of those outside the government, merging the IAD and SIGINT missions is tantamount to eliminating IAD entirely. Trust is a matter of perception as much as reality. “Defense wins?” Whatever the actual truth, for now, the rest of the world says “HA!”
Internet > Alkohol
Eine representative Umfrage besagt, dass Deutsche eher bereit sind auf Alkohol als auf das Internet zu verzichten. ?
Hadischatzen
Ich lass mich nicht gern hadischatzen! ?
hadischatzen
jemanden liebevoll zur Eile anhalten
Beispiele:
Hadi Schatz, wir müssen los!
Hadi Schatz, gidelim artık!
Saatlerce
A: Eşin nece konuşuyor?
B: Saatlerce.
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https://twitter.com/riyadpr/status/697867983436259328
Double The Profit With 29% More Ads
In Q4 2015 Facebook seems to have doubled their profits by increasing ads by 29% (Source German).
Oh, so much “relevant” “content”, I’m impressed.
Maciej Cegłowski on Website Obesity
Maciej Cegłowski has a great and funny talk about The Website Obesity Crisis. ?
Digitalisierung durch WhatsApp
So wahr ? … WhatsApp hat so einige Teile meiner Familie digitalisiert, die sich davor sehr schwer damit getan haben.
Oh, The Losses … All Those Losses
It seems pirates have found the ultimate weapon to kill the music industry: copying music to /dev/null … all the time! ?
Money Quote:
Last week, Sunde told TorrentFreak that he’d already made 120 million copies and “cost” the music industry $150 million in losses, at least by the music industry’s preferred accounting practices counting the dollar value of any copied song as lost revenue.