418 I'm a teapot

2022-02-25 Thread William Waites
Yesterday, as Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, some people on the Internet noticed a strange thing. I'm not going to comment on the big picture except to say that the situation is terrible, the invasion criminal and the failure of other countries to do anything meaningful to stop it,

Re: The Left Needs a New Strategy

2021-01-15 Thread William Waites
Dmytri Kleiner writes: > Federated small groups with voluntary structures that analyze and > iterate. [...] The trouble is the western left has mostly abandoned > this strategy in favour of third party "advocacy" or "mobilizing" or > other punditry and doesn't want to be on the same team as the

Marcel Salathé: I fear we will need stronger measures

2020-03-26 Thread William Waites
Marcel Salathé: I fear we will need stronger measures Interview by Sylvie Logean for Le Temps Original: https://www.letemps.ch/sciences/marcel-salathe-crains-ne-devions-aller-vers-mesures-plus-strictes Translation by William Waites 2020/03/25 EPFL professor expresses his

Re: Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health

2020-03-22 Thread William Waites
James Wallbank writes: > And, shockingly, the value of a lawyer who is not working is, > apparently, greater than the value of a waste disposal worker who is > working! Necessary to point out that, at least as of now, lawyers, especially junior ones taking legal aid cases, are being required to

Re: Should use mobile phone data to monitor public health efforts?

2020-03-18 Thread William Waites
Felix Stalder writes: > So, is there a possibility to use this data without it turning > it into an authoritarian power grab? I think there is, under the > following guidelines: > > - Data needs to be deleted after immediate purpose of the analysis > has been achieved. The thing is these data

Re: rage against the machine

2019-03-29 Thread William Waites
> To my limited understanding, the black box in the airplane is not a > device to limit the complexity of the pilots' interaction with, or > understanding of, the plane by reducing a complex process to a simple > in/out relationship. > > No, it's a flight recorder. During the flight, it has no

Re: Why I won't support the March for Science

2017-04-24 Thread William Waites
> What it really needed for me to believe in the efficacy of science as a > political force ... When this event was advertised on a departmental mailing list here in Edinburgh, it was specifically described to be "non-political". That struck me as at best nonsensical but at the same time oddly

A Veillance Ansatz

2015-12-06 Thread William Waites
This short article is to try to put discussion about surveillance into theoretical framework. It is far from rigorous and is more a guide to a certain way of thinking about the topic. The word `sousveillance', coined in the late 90s by Steve Mann in analogy with `surveillance' was meant to

nettime What should GCHQ do?

2015-05-24 Thread William Waites
Edinburgh, May 24 2015 Back in late April, an invitation [1] was circulated around the School of Informatics which asked academics for ideas about what projects they should fund in the area of ``Cyber Defense''. Presumably the same invitation went out to various universities and other

Re: nettime Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy

2014-12-27 Thread William Waites
Salut Michel! Congratulations on the publication of your book. I would like to read it but am concerned that I would have to break the law to do it. Using Free Software on my computer to read it means breaking the law because all of the distributors employ some sort of Digital Restrictions

nettime Surveillance in Scotland -- More of the Same

2014-05-21 Thread William Waites
Surveillance in Scotland -- More of the Same Edinburgh, May 2014 There is a petition [1] in front of the Scottish Parliament to conditionally grant Edward Snowden

nettime BCP 188: Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack

2014-05-13 Thread William Waites
Just now from our engineers: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7258.txt Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)S. Farrell Request for Comments: 7258Trinity College Dublin BCP: 188 H. Tschofenig

Re: nettime Harassing People for Watching a Movie in a Cinema

2014-01-22 Thread William Waites
We used to say, back when collaborating with Steve Mann in the late 1990s that it isn't a camera, it's a visual memory prosthetic. I think it's an accurate description. It's disappointing that the writer was intimidated into giving up all of his memories to the police in order to clear his name

Re: nettime Privacy, Moglen, @ioerror, #rp12

2012-05-09 Thread William Waites
with old-fasioned word of mouth. The cloud starts to diffuse. social networks like facebook, linkedin and google+ become redundant and wither away... One can hope, right? William Waites Edinburgh [1] http://www.claireperry.org.uk/downloads/independent-parliamentary-inquiry-into-online-child