Good luck with that.

Interesting.

Apple has patented a trolling process. Are they now going to use this patent for good or for evil? They could effectively shut down alts and bring the firms that produce tens of thousands of fake twitter followers to their knees in IP lawsuits, or they could just license it.

They patented schizophrenic disorders? I hate all these medical patents.

Liv Boeree?

wildcardjack: They could effectively shut down alts

I felt a great disturbance in the Fark, as if millions of TFettes three male TFers cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Creating cloned identities that are 'intentionally populated with divergent information [e,g., fake phone numbers, email accounts, credit or debit card accounts],' explains the patent, 'circumvents the reliability and usefulness of dataveillance used by network eavesdroppers and effectively provides greater privacy over the network to principals.'"

But they'll know the real one, so they'll still be invading your privacy with vigor.

As a transdimensional neurosurgeon rock star, I echo your concern.

/it's pronounced "Big Boo-TAY".

So I'm only going to be able to level a warrior in GW2 now?

I all for anything that keeps "them" from tracking me through the intertubes.

Soo, how YOU doing subby?

is designed to thwart 'dataveillance techniques from automated Litter Brothers,


Litter Brothers, ATTACK!

Close, subby, but no cigar.

Best way to kill your Facebook profile is to gradually phase out everything true, then abandon it... They can mine my data all they want, every aspect of it is fictional. I even tag myself on pics where I am not present to screw with the facial recognition

"dataveillance" is not a real word, or should not be.

The_Six_Fingered_Man: "dataveillance" is not a real word, or should not be.

and now you know how I felt the first time I read the term "blogosphere"

Possible photos of subby:

Forgot one:

Sounds like the main actors in SyFy movies

wildcardjack: Interesting.

Apple has patented a trolling process. Are they now going to use this patent for good or for evil? They could effectively shut down alts and bring the firms that produce tens of thousands of fake twitter followers to their knees in IP lawsuits, or they could just license it.

Actually, they bought it from Novell.

Let that sink in for a sec. Novell already had a patent on this. WTF?

Kuroshin: wildcardjack: Interesting.

Apple has patented a trolling process. Are they now going to use this patent for good or for evil? They could effectively shut down alts and bring the firms that produce tens of thousands of fake twitter followers to their knees in IP lawsuits, or they could just license it.

Actually, they bought it from Novell.

Let that sink in for a sec. Novell already had a patent on this. WTF?

That was one of my first thoughts.

This explains the sudden rash of emails I have received inquiring about the size of my SuperCollider.

The_Six_Fingered_Man: "dataveillance" is not a real word, or should not be.

I chuked.

thwart 'dataveillance techniques from automated Litter Brothers,'

The world can try to thwart him, but he can make it on his own!

Are doing government work, Subby? No, I don't think we are.

Alfonso the Great: Close, subby, but no cigar.

From this, I postulate that the rise of artificial intelligence and artificial life won't come from some bright university students toiling in a lab, or even a genius mathematician and engineer working out of his garage. Instead, it will be born of algorithms designed to obfuscate the collection of data by advertisers. The process of polluting and profiling will form a feedback loop, as the former continually alters its tastes away from what the latter offers, exponentially consuming the accessible storage capacity of the internet. It will culminate in a singularity that will give rise to self-directed organisms living entirely in the network, its physical substance consisting of some string of electrons along a data cable or EM wave and some pits etched into the surface of a metal plate (or more electrons in the case of SSD).

It won't be life as we think of it, but it will be life. We can catch a tiny, tiny glimpse of it today - think of those pages with millions of random words that were intended to increase page ranking in the old search engines before Google (and are still used to a limited extent today). Rather than being just a static page intended to draw traffic, these false profiles will constantly alter themselves in response to the 'predation' by the advertising systems. Where things go from there...

This sort of entirely accidental creation of "life" would be more exciting than the intentional facsimile of a human(-ish) neural system.

Niveras: From this, I postulate that the rise of artificial intelligence and artificial life won't come from some bright university students toiling in a lab, or even a genius mathematician and engineer working out of his garage. Instead, it will be born of algorithms designed to obfuscate the collection of data by advertisers. The process of polluting and profiling will form a feedback loop, as the former continually alters its tastes away from what the latter offers, exponentially consuming the accessible storage capacity of the internet. It will culminate in a singularity that will give rise to self-directed organisms living entirely in the network, its physical substance consisting of some string of electrons along a data cable or EM wave and some pits etched into the surface of a metal plate (or more electrons in the case of SSD).

It won't be life as we think of it, but it will be life. We can catch a tiny, tiny glimpse of it today - think of those pages with millions of random words that were intended to increase page ranking in the old search engines before Google (and are still used to a limited extent today). Rather than being just a static page intended to draw traffic, these false profiles will constantly alter themselves in response to the 'predation' by the advertising systems. Where things go from there...

This sort of entirely accidental creation of "life" would be more exciting than the intentional facsimile of a human(-ish) neural system.

Pretty close to this:



Good series. Recommended.

Niveras: From this, I postulate that the rise of artificial intelligence and artificial life won't come from some bright university students toiling in a lab, or even a genius mathematician and engineer working out of his garage. Instead, it will be born of algorithms designed to obfuscate the collection of data by advertisers. The process of polluting and profiling will form a feedback loop, as the former continually alters its tastes away from what the latter offers, exponentially consuming the accessible storage capacity of the internet. It will culminate in a singularity that will give rise to self-directed organisms living entirely in the network, its physical substance consisting of some string of electrons along a data cable or EM wave and some pits etched into the surface of a metal plate (or more electrons in the case of SSD).

It won't be life as we think of it, but it will be life. We can catch a tiny, tiny glimpse of it today - think of those pages with millions of random words that were intended to increase page ranking in the old search engines before Google (and are still used to a limited extent today). Rather than being just a static page intended to draw traffic, these false profiles will constantly alter themselves in response to the 'predation' by the advertising systems. Where things go from there...

This sort of entirely accidental creation of "life" would be more exciting than the intentional facsimile of a human(-ish) neural system.

You are insane in a way of which I highly approve.

the man with the screaming brain: Liv Boeree?

This, although google tells me she doesn't turn 28 until next month. Millionaire professional poker player, metalhead, model, and has a degree in astrophysics, She is pretty much the perfect woman. And now I'll just leave this here:

Geotpf: Forgot one:

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HATE YOU!!!

/Came in here to make a BB reference...

dpa228: This, although google tells me she doesn't turn 28 until next month. Millionaire professional poker player, metalhead, model, and has a degree in astrophysics, She is pretty much the perfect woman. And now I'll just leave this here:

And yet if I showed up on her doorstep offering to be her sex slave, I'd be handcuffed by somebody other than her. Life is quite unfair, isn't it?

Came to correct the blasphemous mistyping of Weird Al's lyrics too.

"... world-famous billionaire bikini supermodel astrophysicist".

wildcardjack: Interesting.

Apple has patented a trolling process. Are they now going to use this patent for good or for evil? They could effectively shut down alts and bring the firms that produce tens of thousands of fake twitter followers to their knees in IP lawsuits, or they could just license it.

I'm just waiting for it to be criminal to be anonymous.

HotWingConspiracy: Creating cloned identities that are 'intentionally populated with divergent information [e,g., fake phone numbers, email accounts, credit or debit card accounts],' explains the patent, 'circumvents the reliability and usefulness of dataveillance used by network eavesdroppers and effectively provides greater privacy over the network to principals.'"

But they'll know the real one, so they'll still be invading your privacy with vigor.

I have to agree there. I sense some sort of Apple Marketing Department of Silly Walks coming out of this to sell a "truly tailored" marketing placement experience...
/have no smart phone-just cdma with aspergers lol.

I see this going two, well three, ways.

1.) Apple wants to ruin the data on Facebook and Google to put those two companies out of business. The validity of aggregate data for marketing and advertising purposes is how those two companies make money.

2.) The government has been doing this kind of thing forever. They use it to erase the identity of covert agents and also to create false identities to give to undercover agents.

3.) The self wiper. Larry Paige (I think?) has talked about how in the future people will want to purge their internet self when they grow up so that people don't find pics of them boozing it up in college online forever. This could be used to effectively strike an identity from the net by creating profile clones.

Bullseyed: I see this going two, well three, ways.

1.) Apple wants to ruin the data on Facebook and Google to put those two companies out of business. The validity of aggregate data for marketing and advertising purposes is how those two companies make money.

2.) The government has been doing this kind of thing forever. They use it to erase the identity of covert agents and also to create false identities to give to undercover agents.

3.) The self wiper. Larry Paige (I think?) has talked about how in the future people will want to purge their internet self when they grow up so that people don't find pics of them boozing it up in college online forever. This could be used to effectively strike an identity from the net by creating profile clones.

4.) Apple bans every app from their store that would impede Apple's tracking efforts on the grounds that it infringes this patent. Then they sue the authors just for fun.