Google CEO Schmidt Predicts End of Online Anonymity

Just read this!

"... Google and Verizon went public today with their "policy framework" -- better known as the pact to end the Internet as we know it."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-aaron/google-verizon-pact-it-ge_b_676194.html

http://savetheinternet.com/fcc-comments

http://pol.moveon.org/google/

 

I find it humorous how certain political elements constantly complain about the "evil corporations" yet seem to have no problem whatsoever with government takeovers. At least with corporations we can vote with our wallets. With the government, you either abide or go to jail.

 

Those arguments hold some disturbing similarities to your opinion of "it's open source, therefore it's good and trustworthy". Most obvious is that they're ad hominem fallacies, in that you're judging the person instead of the merits of his arguments and data, and the category of the product instead of the actual quality of the product.

That tells us that the proportion of people who wish to work on kernel security bugs to people who wish to work on other bugs are disproportionately high. It also tells us that open-source project management can be a bit messy. What it DOESN'T tell is is that the open-source model has more qualified, respectable auditors than well-managed and well-financed closed-source software projects.

Of course it can. And the reverse is also true. Which is because open-source has little to do with it, if anything at all. The Mozilla team just had better ideas and made a better effort than Microsoft back in the early 2000s, and that was all there was to it.

 

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenbe...lying-drone-googles-next-privacy-controversy/

 

Interestingly, Google is also involved in the creation of “a federated login system that protects users from disclosure of private login data held by identity providers” (see PseudoID).

 

Eric Schmidt: "..one idea is that more and more searches are done on your behalf".....http://blogs.computerworld.com/16759/schmidt_offers_googles_most_chilling_big_brother_scenario_yet

Doesn't this guy admit that a lot of people want to, and are capable of doing their own thinking, choosing, planning etc......and it's their right as a human to do so without intrusion and bullying by big marketing juggernauts.