The content was interesting, if you can look past the repetive "you are pushed to burnout" comments. It really detracts from the message and feels a lot like a powerpoint presentation
I thinks its only a matter of time before Anonymous gets labelled a terrorist organisation to increase the counter measures / invasive laws that can be used against them.
Disrupting Goverment sites and services would be considered as an attack as per the Australian Terrorism definition:
(e) seriously interferes with, seriously disrupts, or destroys, an electronic system including, but not limited to
(i) an information system; or
(ii) a telecommunications system; or
(iii) a financial system; or
(iv) a system used for the delivery of essential government services; or
(v) a system used for, or by, an essential public utility; or
(vi) a system used for, or by, a transport system.
I do like the variety of AMA posts on reddit, but the amount of crap to wade through in the comments is getting quite tiresome. They seem to be posted to HN a lot more lately also?
The problem lies in a small number of politicians holding the swing vote in our policy making. Unfortunately one of the main players is "Family First", a conservative Christian political group who are basically trying to impose 'good christian values' on all Australians. So to get a major parties policies through, they do 'deals' with these minor groups, like supporting extreme censorship.
Some things they oppose include abortion, euthenasia, cloning, needle exchange programs for drug users, unfiltered internet pornography...
It saddens me that our current politicians do not see the damage such policies will have in the future. They are trading our future freedom to ensure their current political aspirations are met.
I would guess the autonomous image recognition will be for use in the drones, which seems to be the way US warfare is heading.
It still makes me uncomfortable, the thought of armed drones wandering our skies. I often wonder if the future wars will be about cyber warfare in controlling those drones?
There are some valid points in this article, but the overtones of someone whinging about a free product "grinds my gears"
At some point did we come to expect perfection from a company that largely offers unprecedented services for free?
Take twitter as an example, its new and full of problems, no where near perfect. Yet all their issues are blindly written off as teething issues, even though we pay the same amount to use it as google.
Personally, I applaud googles efforts. There is a reason the tech savvy choose their products over others, because they are the best of the bunch, especially in the free arena.