I asked myself the same thing: isn't the better question with a third part?

Who loses: Google, China, or the Chinese people?

Then the answer is obvious (to us enlightened Western Capitalists at least), but more frustratingly unsolvable - just how does one dismantle a massive, successful, Communist regime?

I keep thinking about the parallels of this with the older digital media of hand-copied books. Computers are much better than humans at copying data exactly, but much worse at understanding data once a small part of it has been corrupted.

We don't have to trust one neurotic monk anymore, but it's still possible for small corruptions to leak in. I wonder which has better data integrity: paintings inside a dark, windless cave, or a bunch of computers yelling ON and OFF at each other.

Apparently he judges phones by different standards than I do. It sounds like he wanted a traveling internet connection with a good interface. I personally prefer my tiny little Zoolander phone which plays music, calls people good and has a mediocre interface for checking email.

The really magical part of the brain is its ability to selectively throw away massive amounts of incoming data before it even begins processing it. We develop a system by which to determine what portions of incoming data are worth considering, and the rest goes into really shoddy temporary storage for a few seconds (just in case) before being destroyed forever. We shouldn't try to get computers to process as much information as we pretend we do, we should train them to recognize what can bear to be ignored based on an overall feeling of the incoming sample.

Imagine looking at a really pixelly jpeg that has a flesh colored blob in it with two darker blobs at the center and a darker area circling around the top. Based on the hundreds of thousands of times you've seen that type of information, I'll bet you could very effectively decide which portion you'd want to increase clarity on. I'll bet we could get a computer to decide, too. And maybe you're wrong about it being a face, and it's actually a satellite photo of Hawaii in inverted colors. Then all you get is the bad stuff in temp storage or a chance to re-scan.

Are the Feds allowed to search your house if you have worthless locks? If I live in a shanty on rented property with a door that has no mechanism, is anyone allowed to see it? No, it's illegal, but you're still an idiot if you put anything valuable in there. Fortunately, the government usually has to follow the law, so I would hope they couldn't search your shanty.

I would hope the same would apply to the very poor security of private data on facebook.

I'm speculating on both counts, obviously.

Link them to this /. article.

This kind of thing is pretty terrifying to me and it serves as a reminder of how desperately we need good, free, public education.

Why should we believe they won't be responding to this as they respond to all the lawyers who flex at them from across the sea?