NVidia already has something named Project Shield -- although it has nothing to do with this. Wonder if this is confusing enough for a trademark case.
Not to mention the S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury will be pissed.
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Re: Project Shield
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Snowden mentioned Google as one of the companies that provides direct access to its backend to NSA - meaning that NSA can access information on Google users without needing a court order. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLrPquNK1Mc
Which Google repeatedly vehemently denied. > I’m not sure I can say this more clearly: we’re not in cahoots with the NSA and there’s is no government program that Google participates in that allows the kind of access that the media originally reported. Note that I say "originally" because you'll see that many of those original sources corrected their articles after it became clear that the PRISM slides were not accur…
Which Google repeatedly vehemently denied.
Probably because they're forced to do so by the authorities, like Lavebit was. So it becomes a question of who you are going to trust: Snowden (who has nothing to gain by lying) or Google (who is required by law to lie about it and risks losing a lot of money if their customers lose faith in them). I know who I trust in this case.
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#33Whoa, interesting Captcha (sorry to go on a tangent). Looks a bit like crowd-sourcing their street-view work (though could of course be sourced from all sorts of other things).
This started last year. Pretty smart usage, in my opinion.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha-...
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#34I think protect free expression online is too precious of an idea to be used there. But that's just my opinion.
Re: Project Shield
#35Hopefully this project will come with increased openness about Googles complicity in the PRISM scandal. It would be rather ironic if this ends up protecting free speech everywhere except in America.
It is quite ironic how the country that class itself the land of the free, and home of democracy, etc. exudes no fight for freedom within its own borders. Kinda ruins the whole freedom facade, when freedom is only given when it is inline with the government strategic plan.
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#36On an unrelated note, I had never seen the withgoogle.com domain before and I did some searching and found all these other projects, initiatives, landing pages, and even online courses: - Chromebook mobile site: http://us.chromebook.withgoogle.com - Developer Bus: http://developerbus.withgoogle.com - Full Value of Mobile: http://www.fvm.withgoogle.com - Google Analytics Academy: https://analyticsacademy.withgoogle.co…
My guess is that everything on a .google.com domain requires loads of security testing. This let's them put up a marketing site with out tons of auditing.
Re: Project Shield
#37NVidia already has something named Project Shield -- although it has nothing to do with this. Wonder if this is confusing enough for a trademark case.
Not to mention the S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury will be pissed.
not to be mistaken with… The Shield! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286486/
Re: Project Shield
#38Hopefully this project will come with increased openness about Googles complicity in the PRISM scandal. It would be rather ironic if this ends up protecting free speech everywhere except in America.
It is quite ironic how the country that class itself the land of the free, and home of democracy, etc. exudes no fight for freedom within its own borders. Kinda ruins the whole freedom facade, when freedom is only given when it is inline with the government strategic plan.
There have been protests, haranguing in the news, even an attempt to defund the NSA's metadata collection program which almost passed. What do you expect, molotov cocktails to be thrown at Congress? It's a big country and most people simply don't care.
Re: Project Shield
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you seriously just accuse Google of "a mafia protection kinda thing"? Seriously?
I'm assuming the OP was referring to a protection racket: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket >A protection racket is an operation where criminals provide protection to persons and properties, settle disputes and enforce contracts in markets where the police and judicial system cannot be relied upon. Of course, Google isn't threatening anyone with DDoS, (even assuming that they somehow make money of you).…
> I suppose it would be more reasonable to just compare it to a security firm though.
That's why the analogy is not interesting; the use of "mafia" is silly because it implies there's some criminal element to Google's intensions. For example, here's the opening line of that Wikipedia page:
> A protection racket is a scheme whereby a criminal group provides protection to businesses through violence outside the sanction of the law.
The only word this has in common with what Google is doing is "protection". The analogy captures nothing useful that "hiring a security guard" doesn't. But it also captures a whole universe of other implications that are entirely unwarranted and laughably unfair. It's a terrible analogy.
"You're just like a mafia don in that you also drive a car."
I should disclaim that I don't think the offering is above suspicion and criticism, just that the comparison to a protection racket is absurd.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see big time indirect revenue - with all of a sites actions/users moving through Google, they can gather way more (potentially private) information about a user - all the better to sell targeted ads on. Call me cynical, but that was the first thing I thought of when I saw this.
Call me cynical Cynicism is warranted when it comes to Google. The fact that they gave NSA direct access to their systems; the fact that their Street View cars collected personal information through wi-fi networks, etc. means that "Don't be evil" is just a facade.
Yeah I mean all those people who were broadcasting unencrypted information loud and clear to literally any device that receives wi-fi packets in the immediate vicinity, they have no culpability in this whatsoever!