Gonster - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Without proof of community (Score 1) 152

by Gonster on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:12PM (#63428878) Attached to: What If Social Media Were Not for Profit?

The beauty of SLASHDOT is the hierarchical up-voting. Harder to game depending on the community's up-voting or down-voting of the poster's "reputation". Will the poster's posts get enough up-votes to be broadcast or rise based om merit? Will the votes be difficult to "game" by factions?

Submission + - MIT Libraries ends Elsevier negotiations (mit.edu)

Submitted by gam on Thursday June 11, 2020 @11:40AM

gam writes: Standing by its commitment to provide equitable and open access to scholarship, MIT has ended negotiations with Elsevier for a new journals contract. Elsevier was not able to present a proposal that aligned with the principles of the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts.

Submission + - New Surveillance System May Let Cops Use All of the Cameras (wired.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 19, 2016 @10:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: The system, which is just a proof of concept, alarms privacy advocates who worry that prudent surveillance could easily lead to government overreach, or worse, unauthorized use. It relies upon two tools developed independently at Purdue. The Visual Analytics Law Enforcement Toolkit superimposes the rate and location of crimes and the location of police surveillance cameras. CAM2 reveals the location and orientation of public network cameras, like the one outside your apartment. You could do the same thing with a search engine like Shodan, but CAM2 makes the job far easier, which is the scary part. Aggregating all these individual feeds makes it potentially much more invasive.

Submission + - Privacy Commissioner of Canada Rules Bell's Targeted Ad Program Violates the Law (michaelgeist.ca)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @11:30AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has released the long-awaited decision on Bell's targeted ads program. The Commissioner's press release soft-pedals the outcome — "Bell advertising program raises privacy concerns" — but the decision is clear: Bell's so-called relevant ads program violates Canadian privacy law. As Michael Geist explains, the key issue in the case focused on whether Bell should be permitted to use an opt-out consent mechanism in which its millions of customers are all included in targeted advertising unless they take pro-active steps to opt-out, or if an opt-in consent model is more appropriate. The Commissioner ruled that opt-in consent is needed, but Bell is refusing to comply with the ruling.

Comment Re:Human nature? (Score 1) 358

by Gonster on Friday January 20, 2006 @06:03PM (#14522504) Attached to: NASA Warns of Cluttered Space

Where have I heard of the Cascade Effect? Where the disintegration of one large piece of space garbage is caused by a hit from a smaller piece of garbage which creates another cloud of smaller pieces going forth to destroy other orbiting objects and having those pieces go forth, etc., etc.

Eventually all communications/defense/whether observing and other satellites will die an ignominious death and further manned space flight will become impossible. How many years would it take for that Junk-o-sphere to settle down to nice Saturn-like rings?

Is it time to invest in fiber optics?

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