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Big Brother Really Is Watching Us All 405

siddesu writes "The BBC has a nice high-level overview of some technologies for surveillance developed in the US and the UK. 'The US and UK governments are developing increasingly sophisticated gadgets to keep individuals under their surveillance. When it comes to technology, the US is determined to stay ahead of the game ... But it [a through-the wall sensing device in development] will also show whether someone inside a house is looking to harm you, because if they are, their heart rate will be raised. And 10 years from now, the technology will be much smarter. We'll scan a person with one of these things and tell what they're actually thinking.'"

Comment Re:Obligatory Subject Here (Score 1) 388

- '...nature is _NOT_ "efficient" like computers are "efficient". Natural systems are enormous, ad-hoc, kludges.' - 'May I suggest that most computers and computer software nowadays are truly internally enormous, ad-hoc, kludges as well.' As I see, you both agree, that natural systems are ad-hoc and kludges, which is not so naturally true. If "natural systems" means food webs, neuron networks, Ãkosystems, cell's chemical networks and things like that, then there ARE (freshly explored) laws regulating these systems. All mentioned are scale-free networks, which means that the degree distribution function (it shows how many links belongs to every single member of the network) follows a power law. In spite of that, the degree distribution function of a random network, which is not scale-free follows a Gauss-spin; and this fact is much too likely telling us: nature is not built on coincidence. See more about this in BarabÃsi Albert-LÃszlÃ's homepage at http://www.nd.edu/~alb and in his book: Linked (issued one year ago).
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Journal Journal: Barabási Albert-László's Linked

There is a huge sweep of books about the theory of networks, and one of the most authentic is transylvanian born BarabÃsi's Linked. He is a theoretical physicist exploring the field for many years, so the information in this book comes at first hand. He dicusses the history of this quite young specialty with a lot of examples and in a very comprehensible manner. I wrote this entry to celebrate the hungarian publishing of this book.

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