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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...ns is increasing. That value is derived from stealing people’s attention, PC processing cycles, network bandwidth, or online preferences. And the fact... ...comprising fixed hardware and flexible software soon proved its worth: PC word processing software could be upgraded or replaced with better, competing ... ...d with better, competing software without having to junk the PC itself. Word processing itself represented a significant advance over typ- ing, dynamic... ...tz tone no longer con- trolled it. 31 Indeed, the entire protocol of in-band signaling could be and was eliminated. Controlling the network now requir... ...ware, and remote control software designed to turn the PC into a zombie when signaled from afar. The program is installed while Web surfing. It deceive... ...hting various political opinions—makes it generative at the content layer. A signal example of both recursive and group generativity can be found in t... ...(2001); World Wide Web Consortium, HTML Converters, http://www.w3.org/T ools/Filters.html (last visited May 16, 2007) (provid- ing information on vari... ..._3-6063169.html. 54. See Rebecca MacKinnon, China’s Internet: Let a Thousand Filters Bloom, YG O, June 28, 2005, http://yaleglobal.yale.e... ...Jr., Reluctant Gatekeepers: Corporate Ethics on Notes to Pages 111–13 281 a Filtered Internet, in A D: T P  P  G I...

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

... a demonstration of superior skills. The inverted narcissist is compelled to filter all of her narcissistic needs through the primary narcissist in h... ...of fully realising her inherent potentials without a primary narcissist to filter the praise, adulation or accomplishments through. She must have s... ...erland – Manager of the Research and Analysis Division – Manager of the Data Processing Division – Project Manager of the Nigerian Computerised Censu... ...any behavioural consistency, 'rules' of conduct or moral considerations. You signal to a narcissist that you are a willing source – and he is bound to...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

... efficient. Most of them sport weak or "semi-strong" efficiency. In some markets, a filter model - one that dictates the timing of sales and purchas... ...uber's "Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis" and elsewhere show that a filter model - trading with technical analysis - is preferable t... ...e space of two decades. This uncertainty is, inevitably, incorporated in the price signal. Moreover, because of time lags in the dissemination of ... ...market. A bullish consensus is indicated by low volatility. Thus, low VIX readings signal the time to buy. Whether this is more than superstition o... ...leading as publicly disclosed data. Finally, the market acted more on noise than on signal. As we all know, noise it perfectly randomized. Expertise... ...Market (price) predictions a. The Linear Model b. The Logarithmic Model c. The Filter Model d. The Relative Strength Model e. Technical Anal... ... Switzerland – Manager of the Research and Analysis Division – Manager of the Data Processing Division – Project Manager of the Nigerian Computeris...

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A History of U. S. Communications Security (Volumes I and Ii);1973

By: David G. Boak

...t may be impossible for the hostile CI)-ptanalyst to recover the underlying mesup becaDle of the processing given it, neither can the intended recipie... ...we lived on borrowed time with the AFSAY-816 and on the hope that, because its §5 '. transmitted signal was fast. complex, and directional, hostile in... ...ticular ==-_:' '" 0 ment. It is because of the.. anomalies that the reBection of the transmitted signal from the €"_ -~.-~::~f: iOnosphere is subject ... ...ed for the encryption ofTV si,gnals­ civision we call it. With the requirement for encrypting TV signals, we found ourselvesfa~ with the problem of ge... ...ures BellLabs suggested were: 1. Shielding (for radiation through spaceand magDetic fields), 2•. FilteriDg (for conducted signals OD powerlines, sipll... ...he ailDalliDe and asked if we were interested. Of course, we were. Some power line and sipalline filters were built and immediately installed on these... ...Can we find a way of elimiDatinl th..deadinr signals at~ source? Instead at tryinr to bottle up, filter out, shield. mask, or encapsulate these alDals... ...as a class. to be the ItroJ1ie8t emitten or space radiation or any equipment in wide use for the Processing of classified information. While, as I hav... ...d to process cl_1li6ed information at all in any overseas environment; that it be limited to the processing of CONFIDENTIAL information in the United ...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

... welfare, such as the ideas of physical fitness and pollution control. An obvious signal was the trend apparent in the socialization of healthcare ... ...ond is Joseph Klapper's (1965) two-step flow hypothesis in which an opinion leader filters and interprets information for his or her followers. Gro... ...or that audience. Because competition is ever present, one seeks to maximize the "signal to noise" ratio. One must take cognizance of competing in... ...e, personality, learning, cognition; decision making, social class and information processing. For present purposes, these are coalesced into the f... ...ams." Unpublished. Lambert, Zarrel V. 1977. "Nutrition Information: A Look at Some Processing and Decision Making DifficUlties." In William D. Perre... ...blic Opinion Quarterly 15, 679-91. Wilkie, William L. 1977. "Consumer Information Processing Issues for Public Policy Makers." Paper presented at t...

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The Path of Kabbalah

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...perceives the sensations of sight, sound, touch, smell and taste, through its filters. Behind the filters of the five senses are a “computer” and “s... ...ocessed egois- tically and reflects inside us as “this world.” If the egoistic processing did not influence us and insert its obstructions in us (as ... ... egoism puts into our internal computers. All information enters through five filters, called “the five parts of Malchut,” the five zones of the gov... ...e egoism can process, such as, “I feel good,” or, “I feel bad.” Every channel-filter that the signals go through has its own thickness (coarseness),... ...cess, such as, “I feel good,” or, “I feel bad.” Every channel-filter that the signals go through has its own thickness (coarseness), which differs f... ...come is expressed in our emotions and sensations. The brain can even send out signals based on past memories. If the mind begins to create imaginary...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

...tive and best known defense mechanism. People simply ignore unpleasant facts, they filter out data and content that contravene their self-image, pr... ...oid these painful emotional states by acquiring a narcissistic mode of information processing. Such learning may be by trial-and-error methods, or ... ...ration into a coherent sense of self-worth and self-esteem. 3. The discounting or filtering-out of contrarian information. Once Bowlby's "working ... ...simple dependence. It is easy to prove: the child indiscriminately reacts to human signals, scans for patterns and motions, enjoys soft, high pitch... ...ous circle is set in motion by the child's smiles, gurgles and coos. These powerful signals release social behaviour, elicit attention, loving respo... ...tion, loving responses. This, in turn, drives the child to increase the dose of his signaling activity. These signals are, of course, reflexes (fixe... ...Switzerland – Manager of the Research and Analysis Division – Manager of the Data Processing Division – Project Manager of the Nigerian Computeriz...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...False Modesty FAQ # 28: Warped Reality and Retroactive Emotional Content FAQ # 29: Narcissistic Signal, Stimulus and Hibernation Mini- Cycles FAQ #... ...structural weakness of the personality, which develops a deficient and/or dysfunctional stimuli-filtering mechanism. The ability of the individual t... ...accomplishments or a demonstration of superior skills. The inverted narcissist is compelled to filter all of her narcissistic needs through the pr... ...hologically incapable of fully realizing her inherent potentials without a primary narcissist to filter the praise, adulation or accomplishments thr... ...dquarters in Switzerland – Manager of the Research and Analysis Division – Manager of the Data Processing Division – Project Manager of the Nigeri... ...not constrained by any behavioural consistency, 'rules' of conduct or moral considerations. You signal to a narcissist that you are a willing sourc...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

... instance. It is composed on a word processor. I do not own full rights to the word processing software (merely a licence), nor is the laptop I use ... ...is article. Admittedly, it is a partial parallel, at best: the computer and word processing software are passive elements. It is my brain that do... ... involves the alteration of the entity's context - its surroundings, its codes and signals, its interactive patterns, its potential partners, frien... ...e other is to somehow "barcode" all the robots by implanting some remotely readable signaling device inside them (such as a RFID - Radio Frequency I... ... subset of the material one. We are membranes with a very particular hole-size. We filter through only well defined types of experiences, are equip... ...er-relation, association, analysis, synthesis, integration, and all other modes of processing and manipulation. But is this manipulation of informa... ...the example of quasars teaches us, not all regular or constant or strong or complex signals are artificial. Even the very use of language may be a ...

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

...hich the question is posed. Health (and its lack) is determined by employing three "filters" as it were: 1. Is the body affected? 2. Is the perso... ... must contain the following features: 1. Parity checks through back propagation of signals. The brain's electrochemical signals must move back (to... ... itself in response to data. In most man-made machines, the data is external to the processing unit. It enters and exits the machine through design... ...dea that there is a clear path leading from unconscious (or conscious) conflict to signal anxiety, to repression, and to symptom formation (be it n... ... the cases. Results are, probably, achieved without need for cognitive, conscious processing, in the other, unremembered, or disremembered cases. ... ...y than any other type of data. But dreams have an unlimited capacity of information processing at their disposal (the brain at night). In dealing wi... ...hich the question is posed. Health (and its lack) is determined by employing three "filters" as it were: 1. Is the body affected? 2. Is the perso... ...ned by any behavioural consistency, 'rules' of conduct or moral considerations. You signal to a narcissist that you are a willing source – and he is...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... Every time the center of the 2-dimensional Universe constricts, it flashes a signal, a 1- 2-3 punch of Dimensions. Every time this happens the 3 di... ...er-million in trillions of tons of water. Water found a more efficient way of processing all other Energies through it; by reversing its original pr... ...ticular kinds of radiation being absorbed by an Earth without an atmosphere to filter out certain wavelengths, or any other factors that were crucial... ... experiencing it. And what aids in that experience? The very things they are processing. What are they experiencing? The process. What are they p... ...scerning any separation between what is being processed and what is doing the processing. They are all equally relative to each other. You cannot... ...ticular kinds of radiation being absorbed by an Earth without an atmosphere to filter out certain wavelengths, or any other factors that were crucial... ...ncreased neural complexity of the evolving hominid brain allowed these neural signals to not only bounce around in a more highly dynamic and complex... ...es to the water bowl. When a human brain tells it it's thirsty, those neural signals bounce back and it has a thought which tells it: " I feel thir... ...t happens too fast. Human awareness is a reflective-interpreting-integrating-filter-gateway. To gain any kind of understanding about our awareness...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...as generated few masterpieces and a lot of trash. The absence of judicious filtering has unjustly given a bad name to whole segments of the industry ... ...sold to the private sector which was supposed to use it to transmit radio signals to receivers. In other words : the radio was passed on to private a... ... a network - we get an increase of N to the second power in its computing processing power. And these N computers are more powerful every year, acco... ..." There is nothing new in outsourcing back office work (insurance claims processing, air ticket reservations, medical records maintenance) to third... ... render many of the digital records indecipherable (try reading your word processing files from 1981, stored on 5.25" floppies!). Special emulators o... ...sia (where it is perfectly legal). Governments from China to Saudi Arabia filter Web content regularly. Following the September 11 attacks, restrict... ...er 3 billion now) and Web authoring becomes a routine task - the noise to signal ratio of garbage to useful information is bound to deteriorate. Sea... ...). It is a war zone where many fear to tread. the Wikipedia is a negative filter (see the next point). 3. The Might is Right Editorial Principle La... ...t this is not the main function of the advertising dollar. Modern economic signal theory has cast advertising in a new and surprising - though by no ...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

.... Advertising is concerned with the dissemination of information. Yet it is also a signal sent to consumers that a certain product is useful and qu... ...anism. Money is, thus, a unit of information and a conveyor or conduit of the price signal - as well as a store of value and a means of exchange. ... ...rned to glut. Demand failed to catch up with supply. In the absence of clear price signals - the outcomes of scarcity - the match between the two w... ... efficient. Most of them sport weak or "semi-strong" efficiency. In some markets, a filter model - one that dictates the timing of sales and purchas... ...uber's "Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis" and elsewhere show that a filter model - trading with technical analysis - is preferable t... ... quality of services from helpdesks to airline ticketing and from insurance claims processing to remote maintenance. Cultural mismatches between th... ...ilitate the unhindered exchange of goods, services, and capital (tax holidays, free processing zones, no red tape, double taxation treaties and free... ...atistical mechanics). The avalanche of video technologies, filming methods, digital processing, all this "new imagery" can be summarized in what Nob... ...ction or use of the definiendum that we can begin to look for it. The function/use FILTERS the world and narrows the set of candidates to the defin...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

.... Anarchy (as Organizing Principle) The recent spate of accounting fraud scandals signals the end of an era. Disillusionment and disenchantment wi... ... and is in a self- destructive and self-loathing mode. His anger does not contain a signal, which could alter his environment in general and the beh... ...ture consequences of their actions. In other words, their attention and information processing faculties are distorted, skewed in favour of the here... ... must contain the following features: 1. Parity checks through back propagation of signals. The brain's electrochemical signals must move back (to... ...itself in response to data. In most man-made machines, the data is external to the processing unit. It enters and exits the machine through design... ...h yet another window. The comparison with a computer is evident. There is input, a processing unit and output. What Searle tried to demonstrate is ... ...ction or use of the definiendum that we can begin to look for it. The function/use FILTERS the world and narrows the set of candidates to the defin... ...f candidates to the definiendum. A definition is a series of superimposed language filters. Only the definendum can penetrate this lineup of filter... ...hich the question is posed. Health (and its lack) is determined by employing three "filters" as it were: 1. Is the body affected? 2. Is the pers...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...conducive to the success of such efforts. The leader seems to be emitting a signal that tells his followers: I can increase your chances to win the... ...autonomy and security, and o have a say about your future. But WHAT is this signal? What information does it carry? How is it received and deciphere... ...? And how, exactly, does it influence their decision making processes? The signal is, probably, a resonance. The information emanating from the lea... ...cision-making processes involved in the selection of a leader. They are the filters, the membranes through which information seeps into the minds of... ...and leads to serious and ominous failures. The problem of the gathering and processing of information - a logistical constraint - is likely to be c... ...al. The adulation is often justified and plentiful, the feedback biased and filtered, the criticism muted and belated, social control either lacking... ...erland – Manager of the Research and Analysis Division – Manager of the Data Processing Division – Project Manager of the Nigerian Computerised Censu...

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