Terminally III?
Is that, like, the sequel to Terminally II?
For more information about Nokia's efforts see:
http://www.nokia.com/technology/upcoming-innovations/indoor-positioning
http://conversations.nokia.com/2008/09/23/indoor-positioning-coming-to-life/
The first rule of seeking relationship advice on Slashdot:
1. Do not seek relationship advice on Slashdot.
"Next-Gen Nuclear Power Plant Breaks Ground In China"
Oh no, that is very unfortunate, I'm sad to hear about the breakage.
Do they yet know how much ground has been broken? Is it severely broken?
I suspect that this has been caused by the atomic radiation from the power plant.
Let's hope that the Chinese can get that ground fixed, they need all the space they need as there are so many of them.
You seem to worry much about losing your privacy. Most social networking sites have rather extensive privacy settings, so you get to select in detail what should be revealed and to whom.
The problem of course then is that managing these privacy settings can be quite tricky, if you don't have a clear picture of what knobs you have available to turn.
Here is a rather recent and extensive walk-through of the most central privacy settings Facebook offers:
Everyone interested in computer-age digital rights should see the Swedish Pirate Party's founder Rick Falkvinge's presentation "Copyright regime vs. civil liberties". Good stuff.
As I understood, the colo in question was not shut down per se, it was simply severed from its internet connectivity as its upstream/backbone internet providers terminated their contract with them. Nothing special about that; business relationships are initiated and terminated all over the world every day.
Consequently, there was no "vigilanteism" in the strict sense as such, where normals citizens take the law in their own hands and act as if they had higher authority than they really have.
It was simply a case of concerned security researchers going to the upstream providers with evidence and saying "look what scum you do business with by providing connectivity, this is bad for the internet on the whole and it hurts your reputation", and the ISPs in question took action. If innocent customers of the rouge colo got hurt when the lines got cut, then they simply have to suffer the consequences of picking a bad host to buy services from.
Of course, if the proof the security researchers had gathered also proved that the shut-down colo in question had committed crimes, then the appropriate authorities need to be involved. But that is another chain of events, separate from the disconnection of the lines.
If the UI is now snappier and more responsive so that the user feels more happy with his user experience, isn't that still good progress even if in reality the speedup is only subjective? Everything that makes the user more content using the product is good, right?
BLISS is ignorance.
