Techerous

My name is Bill, I am a recent graduate in Information Sciences and Technology from Penn State University and this is a place for me to post or give my 2 cents on the fascinating world of technology. I am now working for a pretty big technology related company whose name I will leave out just to avoid any possible complications, however far-fetched them happening may be. Music gets included from time to time as well.

November 11, 2012 11:07 pm
Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don’t Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future

This post captures every aspect of how we are consuming entertainment today perfectly.

August 22, 2012 10:53 pm
The New Rise of a Summer Hit: Tweet It Maybe

I’m not really a fan of any of the music spoken of in this article, but it fails to bring up the point that they all have a tendency to embrace social media rather than shun it for it’s piracy.  The future of music involves recorded music being the promotional tool, not the product.

July 1, 2012 8:11 pm
wired: YouTube is developing a secret weapon against the internet’s worst commenters. You know who you are. As loathsome as these comments may be, does this kind of count as censorship?

wired:

YouTube is developing a secret weapon against the internet’s worst commenters.

You know who you are.

As loathsome as these comments may be, does this kind of count as censorship?

June 28, 2012 9:05 pm
thedailywhat: Even Computers Love Cats of the Day: 16,000 linked Google computers, 10 million random YouTube thumbnail images, and over a billion connections in between led to one result: the computers, without human guidance, learned what a cat is. Google’s attempt of simulating the human brain, with thousands of processors in conjunction with thinking software, discovered the house cat. It’s a huge step forward in computing, and the best part is…it’s learning. [smithsonian] Same story I posted a couple of days ago, but this one has a picture of a cat, let’s see how it does now!

thedailywhat:

Even Computers Love Cats of the Day: 16,000 linked Google computers, 10 million random YouTube thumbnail images, and over a billion connections in between led to one result: the computers, without human guidance, learned what a cat is.

Google’s attempt of simulating the human brain, with thousands of processors in conjunction with thinking software, discovered the house cat. It’s a huge step forward in computing, and the best part is…it’s learning.

[smithsonian]

Same story I posted a couple of days ago, but this one has a picture of a cat, let’s see how it does now!

September 13, 2011 12:49 am
Bubble Boys

Out in Silicon Valley, the last bastion of full employment, the Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerbergs of the future are staying up all night writing code in dorms.

June 25, 2011 4:11 pm

thedailywhat:

This Is Informative, You Should Watch It of the Day: “How Green Is Your Internet?”: Hungry Beast’s Dan Ilic explores the facts and figures behind the oft ignored energy expenditure of Internet usage.

[nerdcore.]

Informative, but I must point out the irony that you are in fact watching yet another online video to see this haha.

(Source: thedailywhat, via color-my-dreams)

December 2, 2010 3:43 pm
"We will prevent terms that are closely associated with piracy from appearing in Autocomplete. While it’s hard to know for sure when search terms are being used to find infringing content, we’ll do our best to prevent Autocomplete from displaying the terms most frequently used for that purpose."

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Kent Walker, General Counsel for Google.  One of their points for how to improve copyright protection, however I find this one particularly harmful and a little too close to censorship.
3:41 pm
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/12/making-copyright-work-better-online.html

How is there second bullet point NOT censorship?