Category: Internet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT4sxQ3yYRw

Big Data and Data Science should help Google detect copyright infringements or detect terror motivational videos  on Youtube

 

 

What the world might need (in this writer’s much derided opinion) is a global set of volunteers to help find ISIS cyber army which uses the internet for motivation through videos and pictures in Instagram and Youtube, recruitment of sleeper lone wolves among carefully selected demographics among Western and Eastern locations , cyber retaliation targeted at law enforcement and military personnel culled from social media, propaganda for political and fundraising ( and real-time communication with both potential terrorists as well as internally using both encryption, and unorthodox methods of communicating)  .

 

Crowd sourced cyber intelligence which can be incentivized to prevent members of Anonymous being recruited by North Korea or ISIS bitcoins.  Think of volunteers that tried to fight in Russia’s fall to communism or volunteers that tried to fight against the Fascists in Spain. The West’s half hearted efforts in both these conflicts led the much bigger conflicts later on. Well does the free world need volunteers in the cyber terror fight against ISIS. Unfortunately the same people with a particular set of skills that can help FBI encrypt or decrypt phones, are people that have been aggressively prosecuted in the past. There is no cyber witness program and indeed no effort to reach out by counter-terrorism infrastructure to the hacker activist cyber infrastructure. This despite mutual suspicions of tax money wastage and cyber criminality. A house divided against itself will fall , in the real world and on the Internet.

Well what about Hemingway?  From my favorite website

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway#Spanish_Civil_War

Spanish Civil War

In 1937, Hemingway agreed to report on the Spanish Civil War for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA),^[86] arriving in Spain in March with Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens.^[87] Ivens, who was filming The Spanish Earth, wanted Hemingway to replace John Dos Passos as screenwriter, since Dos Passos had left the project when his friend José Robleswas arrested and later executed.^[88] The incident changed Dos Passos’ opinion of the leftist republicans, creating a rift between him and Hemingway, who later spread a rumor that Dos Passos left Spain out of cowardice.

Late in 1937, while in Madrid with Martha, Hemingway wrote his only play, The Fifth Column, as the city was being bombarded.

The Spanish Civil War took place from 1936 to 1939 and was fought between the Republicans, who were loyal to the democratic, left-leaningSecond Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a falangist group led by General Francisco Franco. The Nationalists won, and Franco then ruled Spain for the next 36 years, from April 1939 until his death in November 1975.

The Spanish Civil War seized the fears and hopes of the world, including not just diplomats and politicians, but intellectuals, religious leaders, and labor unions, as well. Opinion divided three ways. The right and the Catholics supported the Nationalists as a way to stop the expansion of Bolshevism. On the left, including labor unions, students and intellectuals, the war represented a necessary battle to stop the spread of fascism. Antiwar and pacifist sentiment was strong in many countries

 

A typical argument put by Google when confronted by music producers or artists (like Prince or Metallica) is that the number of youtube videos is too many to be taken down. But the problem is that search enables copyright infringement. Just make it tougher to search for copyrighted material available free than try to play whack a mole with the content one by one.

This can be easily prevented by following basic principles of web analytics-

1. identify the web searches which lead to copyright infringement ( for music or movies)
2. put a warning message that the search query leads to a copyrighted material which user does not have access
3. create a separate section for subscribers that allows users access to it  for money and share money with content creators (some streaming service)

even for my books (see https://www.google.com/search?q=free+download+r+for+business+analytics&oq=free+download+of+r+for+busine&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.11735j0j7&sourceid=chrome )  where I had to struggle to get search results purged one by one for ” Free Download of R for Business Analytics).

rather than purge the actual content- why not purge the search query- that means a search query is clearly malicious

Apparently Google can take a stand against guns and Youtube can do it against Porn but they are not willing to do so for Music! You are welcome, Musicians!

(This article was inspired by Prince)

 

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/04/21/the-prince-of-copyright-enforcement/

1. Should I cooperate with  my company/the government for technology to help find terrorists, knowing that the same company/ government will sell this technology to some regimes /allies to help find political dissidents
2. Should I help with statistics to help more people click more ads and buy more products or should I help with statistics to help local government do more with less corruption
3. Should I help save the planet with donating time and ideas for climate change or should I help save my job with donating time and ideas for product changes
4. Should I donate my time and energy to create and train more data scientists or should I use the shortage of data scientists to get a better salary
5. Should I be hypocritical about open source when it suits my career so I can push my startup and its investors to a profitable exit to sell out to companies that are not open source
6. Should I use open source for free forever and give talks for free only when it helps boost up my career or my company’s products
7. Should I help create very profitable data science for helping kill more people with lesser bombs or should I help create less profitable data science for helping find water and resources for more people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4l1L1VJd78

1. Read the lady’s profile. Copy and paste select lines
2. Create your response. Dont send immediately. Use the draft folder.
3. Finally make a response that is not LAZY, not CREEPY, and actually shows you are interested in meeting the person

Hi, I’m insert name here

start 1 an message explaining why I feels we have something in common

2 what those things are

3 funny or cheesy pick up line

4 question to make you see my profile

end regards, insert name here

ps I am real, and REALLY interested ( or some other thing from her online profile!)

 

Why these videos? Well free music is good music especially for artists that are already fulfilled.

Let us enjoy the technology that God has given us.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVdB-UKfxD4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgiQD56eWDk