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Wired: Adam Rogers 08.06.15 1:24 PM. "Google’s Search Algorithm Could Steal the Presidency"
"IMAGINE AN ELECTION—A close one. You’re undecided. So you type the name of one of the candidates into your search engine of choice. (Actually, let’s not be coy here. In most of the world, one search engine dominates; in Europe and North America, it’s Google.) And Google coughs up, in fractions of a second, articles and facts about that candidate. Great! Now you are an informed voter, right? But a study published this week says that the order of those results, the ranking of positive or negative stories on the screen, can have an enormous influence on the way you vote. And if the election is close enough, the effect could be profound enough to change the outcome." [^]
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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No, I won't say that is a bad thing, neither is a good thing at all. Google's due a good respect I'd say.
A vote is not the outcome (should not be the outcome) of a Google search, or even Bing search. A vote is how you chose someone to take command of the government. I haven't voted yet, but my vote would go to someone who is a good guy in his real life. Not his Google's life. I'd say a good candidate for any official seat would be someone who takes care of what others have to say about him and doesn't looses his temper. Simple.
At the end, I'd say someone whose vote is so paper thin that it could simply turn 180 degrees after a Google search of opponent doesn't deserve to be given a chance to vote.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: haven't voted yet, but my vote would go to someone who is a good guy in his real life.
Quite difficult to know about that real life. At the end we are speaking about the better actors and liers of the world, oh sorry... about politicians
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Not his Google's life
Do you prefer Facebook'`s?
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: At the end, I'd say someone whose vote is so paper thin that it could simply turn 180 degrees after a Google search of opponent doesn't deserve to be given a chance to vote.
Altough I agree that statement... Welcome to "like's" world.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Quote: Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote:
haven't voted yet, but my vote would go to someone who is a good guy in his real life.
Quite difficult to know about that real life.
Nope, I would love to. But you know, this is Pakistan. A lot of theocracy and the Mullahs (you aware of them?) claim us (community to which I belong; Ahmaddiya) to be infidels. That is why, our votes are totally cancelled away by claiming that an infidel cannot vote for, or take part in electorate for muslims. So why waste our time then, just to get a label of being infidel.
Nah, to compare Google against Facebook is like comparing donkey to horse. Indeed, Facebook is better, even if we compare it to Google+. I wonder what was Larry Page thinking when he tried to start Google+. But Google as being a search engine, well... A lot of politics going on. A lot of.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Don't think it is much better in other countries. Infidel or not... conservative or not... republican or not... center or not... it is overall just a mess.
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: But Google as being a search engine, well... A lot of politics going on
I would say it is business, not politics
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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True, no matter how much one agrees to another person on something, they would be ready to cut throats just because of a slight difference in psychology or theology at worse.
Uh huh, in this game. Politics and business are synonyms just to overcome the emotional meaning of one in a context.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Ofcourse if the first results are bad messages the candidat has a problem. Google is for the democrats and against the republicans.
I'll test my theory with Hilary Clint and Donald Trump. OMG
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I know quite a few republicans that are against any notion of Trump being president.
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Otherwise known as old media (Conde Nast) complaining about the influence of new media.
Its like all the newspapers running reports about the inaccuracies in Wikipedia. They just feel threatened.
I'd rather have Google influencing votes through their search algorithm that Rupert Murdoch through printing outright lies about politics.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Android's update strategy doesn't scale, and that's recipe for disaster. "I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software."
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However, "stable" doesn't mean "secure".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Every framework you've ever seen is really just an echo of this statement: My language sucks! "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. "
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It’s no secret that many (including Linux users) describe Windows as a very insecure operating system that’s prone to hacks and exploits because of its vulnerabilities, but one Israeli security startup is working to change people’s perception of Microsoft’s software. Isn't that an oxymoron, like 'jumbo shrimp' or 'military intelligence'?
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DECwindows?
But please stop confusing a GUI with an Operating System.
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Quote: it can be actually installed by any enterprise that wants to make sure that no hack is possible That's a mighty bold claim in 2015.
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Titanic = Unsinkable Ship...
...oh, wait...
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What they don't mention is that nearly none of your programs would run on it, since none would be allowed to access anything!
Wait! I could have done the same without any fuss whatsoever ... let me just ... there! Turned it off! Hack that you elephants!
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Quote: Morphisec is currently developing a Windows version that’s basically impossible to hack
Quote: Microsoft isn’t yet involved in the project
Did they steal the source code?
Quote: [...] says that internal testing showed that it can block 100 percent of the attacks Including social engineering?
Quote: Basically, this operating can block any zero-day attack, the founder says, thanks to the operating system randomizing all memory, which means that the hacker cannot target the computer memory and compromise the data stored on the drives. Because we all know that buffer overflow exploits are the only possible attack vector, right? ...And I'm not sure how randomizing memory is related to data stored on the drives
Good laugh anyway
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"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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They took the same model as in nuclear plants which are fail safe as everyone knows
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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The maker of Windows and Office has revised its bug-hunting schemes with improved rewards, bonuses and the addition of new valid programs. "I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride. I'm wanted dead or alive"
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Nice Bon Jovi quote. I love that song.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Web browsers and HTML5 technologies bring their own weaknesses to the world of Internet apps. "Then the second little pig built himself a house of sticks."
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3 of 4 items in his list were around before HTML 5:
Cross-site scripting, where intruders can steal information from a session in the browser
SQL injection, where a malicious query is used to extract information from a database in the browser
Cross-site request forgeries, where a user token is taken over to impersonate a user on the Web
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When have inconvenient facts ever gotten in the way of FUD?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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