Not quite. The "mob" of the Internet is a complex beast, and it's difficult to get its constituents to agree on most things. It only acts in unison when it perceived a clear threat to itself or a clear and nearly universal potential for mischief.
I don't know if I'm stealing this from you or made it up myself, but the analogy of the internet to an ant colony works really well sometimes. Individually, each member is too weak and too stupid to do anything really, really significant, but get a sufficient number of heads in one direction...
I don't know if I'm stealing this from you or made it up myself, but the analogy of the internet to an ant colony works really well sometimes. Individually, each member is too weak and too stupid to do anything really, really significant, but get a sufficient number of heads in one direction...
Hey guys, has anyone here already read Michio Kaku's Hyperspace???
Is it worth buying this book? I've had a look at Amazon, at the general summary and stuff but I'm undecided. How complex is it? Is it really twisted and confusing? Because I don't really like stories like that. I mean, interesting, yes. But when it's all just a tangled web, then that's not cool either.
Hey guys, has anyone here already read Michio Kaku's Hyperspace???
Is it worth buying this book? I've had a look at Amazon, at the general summary and stuff but I'm undecided. How complex is it? Is it really twisted and confusing? Because I don't really like stories like that. I mean, interesting, yes. But when it's all just a tangled web, then that's not cool either.
It's awesome, and very accessible. Buy it if it's anything less than 20 bucks for the paperback.
Not quite. The "mob" of the Internet is a complex beast, and it's difficult to get its constituents to agree on most things. It only acts in unison when it perceived a clear threat to itself or a clear and nearly universal potential for mischief.
A more apt comparison is that the Internet as a whole generates memetic events as an almost immune response to any perceived threat, particularly the limiting of the flow of information.
Do you think it's likely that disgruntled coders will start leaking source code when such anonymizing networks become common? And, on that note, what other, more low-level information do you think will be leaked? White-hat exploit papers?
Do you think it's likely that disgruntled coders will start leaking source code? And, on that note, what other, more low level information do you think will be leaked? White-hat exploit papers?
We've already seen source code leakage. And in cases where there is a political issue relating to software, we usually don't even need the actual source code to discover the problem. Electronic voting machines anyone?
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Is it worth buying this book? I've had a look at Amazon, at the general summary and stuff but I'm undecided. How complex is it? Is it really twisted and confusing? Because I don't really like stories like that. I mean, interesting, yes. But when it's all just a tangled web, then that's not cool either.