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WikiLeaks, the Technical Aspect – Computers

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Background

Wikileaks has been in the news for quite some time now as it has rocked many nations, embroiling itself in controversy over the fact that it has been releasing classified documents which have been termed as potentially harmful for national security as well as international diplomacy. Amidst all the confusion related to its ethical and moral standards, people around the world have also speculated how the site functions technically, as a site which has been so controversial, might be technologically sound as well because various steps have already been taken in order to shut the Website down but none of them have availed any results.

Programming

The creators of this site, most of whom remain unknown, created their websites using PHP Hypertext Preprocessor which is a widely used scripting language and was originally designed for the development of web pages and the production of dynamic web pages. PHP code is a programming language for the general purpose. It performs necessary operating system procedures and produces program output. Most modern web servers use this code as a standalone interpreter as most operating systems and platforms are accessible and compatible with it. This site is no exception as it uses this to embed the code into the HTML source document and then allows it to be interpreted by a server.

Using this method, this site ensures that the contents of the website or the leaks are made accessible to everyone as this code is supported by most operating systems and computing platforms. Irrespective of this site’s moral stand, one cannot help but be amazed at how technologically sound the whole process is because by using something as simple as Hypertext Preprocessor, this site has made classified information available to all and since most operating systems support PHP, it has become really easy to access the data all over the world.

This site also uses Active Server Pages or ASP which is a server side script engine which generates web pages dynamically. Web pages which use the file extension .asp and have this scripting in them are much faster than server side scripting which can be interpreted during the run time. This site uses asp in order to make the web pages much faster and since they deal with a huge number of cables, classified documents at once, it is highly necessary that their web pages are fast and agile because their web pages are being accessed by a huge number of people worldwide and it will be problematic if their pages start slowing down.

Database

This site must also be using SQL or Structured Query Language, which is a computer language designed for managing data. Inserting data, queries, updating and deleting, controlling the access of data, all these are functions which are performed under SQL. This site surely must be using SQL because when one visits their website; one can browse releases according to their dates of release, or browse releases according to their alphabetical origin. This site also allows its users to browse archives based on the nature of the information, whether or not it is classified, confidential, based on its secrecy or for official use only.

A site can be decorated in such a manner only when Structured Query Language is used as SQL is needed to input queries and queries at this site are referred to the division on which the information is archived. Articles which can be browsed according to the origin of their nation or according to the date when the cables were released, require SQL to function because without SQL, proper query related inputs could not have been made. (Editor’s Note: There is a minute possibility that the data is being pulled using flat text file database as was suggested by one of the regular visitors to this site. However, it EXTREMELY unlikely given the fact that WikiLeaks is dealing with very high amount of text data and would an unreasonable load on the servers that host the site.) This site does a clever technical job of using SQL in order to promote accessing cables from all over the world.

This site has a huge database which contains a gigantic amount of data. This site has been embroiled in controversy ever since it started leaking documents. The database consists of data or classified, secret documents collected from all over the world. The data is in digital form and also video or other formats are used by this site to store the data. Technically speaking, managing such a big base of data is problematic unless it is organized externally, conceptually and internally.

The external data bank of this site is a sort of single base of data which can be viewed any number of times and that is the data bank which is accessed by the visitors when they visit the site. The internal data bank of this site is one which can be accessed by its officials and creators, to be precise the original, total base of data. The creators and the officials manage and decide how data is stored and processed by the system how the internal data bank must function. The conceptual data bank of this site provides a common view of the data without disclosing details regarding the storage and management of the data. This site’s usage of technology is proper because managing such a big data bank requires proper technical management and going by this site’s performance, the site is doing it quite efficiently.

Multimedia

This site has also released classified information using videos. Many have wondered how this was accomplished. Technically this is not a very difficult thing to do and this site, which has always adopted simple technical methods for its revealing classified information, used Flash, the simplest video related tool to reveal classified information via video format. This is a container file format which is used to deliver videos over the internet. It uses various versions of Adobe Flash Player for this purpose. This is technically a safe thing to do because many people use this program as an internet video delivery tool and it is supported by most operating systems, browsers and has a high level of popularity amongst people. By using this as a video delivery tool, this site has given access to millions of people who are familiar with it and can view this site’s videos.

Navigation

The creators of this site have setup their website carefully, ranging from the Navigation of the site, to the design, color and the programming tools. The site, despite its share of controversies and various efforts by many to try and shut it down has maintained a relatively simple approach when it comes to navigating the site.

This site deals with secrets, but does not require its users to be secretive and has simplified the site for the benefit of their use. The biggest technical aspect of a site is that it must be as simple as possible so that users do not face much difficulty while accessing it. This site might deal with serious classified information but when it comes to the site, the navigation is like any other simple site which makes the approach much easier and much more accessible.

The navigation of the site consists of the Main Page where the main link of the 250,000 US Embassy Diplomatic Cables is given. When clicked, the link redirects to another page where all the articles are arranged according to the origin of their nation, a section of the latest releases is given, one can browse articles according to their date of creation and day of origin an articles can be browsed according to the nature of their classification, be it confidential, secret, unclassified or for official use only. The page also cleverly gives a set of directions as to how should one explore the data.

The Navigation part is a serious technical achievement because coming from a site as controversial and as security prone as this site, one might expect difficulty in browsing through the website and accessing the cables. But this site does a technically brilliant job of simplifying the method of viewing its contents. The page also allows the users to navigate to section where videos are posted. One can easily view the videos related to the cables and watch them during their leisure. The navigation system of this site has been simplified to such an extent that it is both tempting as well as easy to go through the website.

Design

This site’s design is somewhat like the traditional website design, somewhat similar to another well known site Wikipedia. This site has been designed in such a way that the main page categorizes recent leaks so that anyone looking for recent news will be able to find it there. It also has a search bar where other WikiLeaks related items can be searched and found. From a technical point of view, the simplistic design of this site is beneficial because unlike its contents, the site does not have anything complicated and is very simple to both approach as well as access.

Redundancy

This site is also concerned about its security and since technology has reached a new level, it is possible to shut down a site as controversial as this. In order to technically combat such threats, this site has set up multiple mirror sites. Mirroring a site is basically maintaining a copy of the site on various servers across the world. So if a certain server does not allow a user to access the site, another server will allow the user to access the site. Since this site has numerous mirrors across the world, it is not easy to shut down the site because any available mirror site can be accessed even if one server is not available.

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Article by Lance Blackstone

Are internet privacy incursions about to get more creepy? – Internet – Web Hosting

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The 2002 movie, Minority Report showed Tom Cruise being tracked by personalised TV adverts following him wherever he went in the city, playing ads that identified him individually. For those who think this kind of thing is science fiction, think again. Two developments have opened up startling new possibilities. Face-recognition technology has reached remarkable levels of accuracy. iPhone facial and iris recognition software is now so accurate that it is currently being tested by US police forces to perform instant checks on suspects. The other big change is the amount of data being harvested about us by major social network companies such as Facebook, Google and Twitter. Huge amounts of personal information about our habits are collected by our computers and phones and stored on databases. Known as Big Data, this has become a major source of interest to marketers and others.

What is going on and how did it happen?

Bring on the Terminator

First, let’s look at the cutting edge application of face-recognition technology and Big Data on the battlefield. Ever wonder how the US military is able to identify and eliminate what it considers to be the bad Guys in far-off lands? Face recognition software attached to aerial drones (now being manufactured the size of a hummingbird) can identify targets using face-recognition software. US military suppliers are currently testing how the whole thing can be automated: drones will make their own way around a target area with no human monitoring;a drone recognises a possible suspect, zooms in and identifies it; the drone asks a second drone to zone in and confirm the ID; and if the database doesn’t like his or her face, they die.

Scary?

Bring on face-recognition advertising

Does this have any relevance to our daily lives? Indeed it does. In the US, advertisers have been getting close to the Tom Cruise/Terminator scenario for some time by using facial recognition to target ads at shoppers in Las Vegas malls based (so far) on general demographic data. (Cameras tracking shoppers recognise say, the age and sex of a particular shopper and show them what market research statistics indicate in general they are most likely to buy). Could face-recognition software be used to take this to the next stage? Could Big Data be studying our preferences and habits culled from tracking our internet activity to enable ads to be targeted to us individually depending on when and where we are at any particular time? You bet.

Facebook and Google already have the technology to make this a lot more personal and intrusive. Last year, Facebook quietly released technology to enable the automatic tagging of faces in our photos with names. It can already identify what you and they have bought or are thinking of buying from your social data. However, another not-so-well-known feature of Facebook is that even if you log out, Facebook tracks every page of every web site you visit (unless you know how to disable this feature). Spotify tells it what music you are listening to and many of the apps on your mobile know exactly where you are at any given time. How soon before you start getting finely targeted ads based on yours and your friends known preferences and locations?

The “creepy” test

Last year, regulators became sufficiently concerned about concerns about the some of the more extreme privacy invasions such as Facebook’s website tracking that they began to investigate the possibility of regulation. Google’s President Eric Schmidt went even further and announced that although Google had the technology to make this kind of fine-targeting possible, he found it so “creepy” that Google would not be deploying it. So far so good, even if Schmidt was taking the opportunity to take a well-aimed swipe at Google’s rival. But the future is far from clear. He also said that others “might cross the line” and who knows whether Google and Facebook will feel compelled to join in if this kind of practice becomes widespread.

Google has just announced its new consolidated privacy policy. This makes it clear that they will keep data on all the Google services customers use (Gmail, Android, Chrome, YouTube, Picasa and about 55 more) – indefinitely. Cyber security expert, Richard Falkenrath commenting on this in an article in the Financial Times said that Google can now combine its facial recognition software, the tagging feature in Picasa, and contact-tracking in Gmail to make it possible for example, to locate individuals in any digital photo on any of its customers’ databases, cloud services, smartphones, YouTube, you name it. Do they still pass the “creepy” test? Let’s hope so.

So far the investigations announced by regulators last summer have yet to indicate what attitude they will take towards this but the debate. The issue has so far only attracted relatively low key attendance in the media: this will surely change once government and regulators enter the fray. In the meantime, the creep of “creepiness” continues.

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Solera Networks Takes Security Out of The Box – Technology

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Revolutionary New Software Solution Un-Boxes the Power of Security Intelligence and Analytics, Eliminating the Need for Costly, Proprietary Hardware and Storage

Simple and Flexible Solution Brings Cost-Effective, Big Data Security Analytics to Any Enterprise

Salt Lake City, Utah – April 25, 2012 – Solera Networks, the industry’s leading advanced Security Intelligence and Analytics provider, today announced a revolutionary new version of its DeepSee? Software solution that helps enterprises of all sizes prepare for the reality of security breaches and attacks. The new software represents the first and only solution to un-box the power of security intelligence and big data analytics technology – eliminating the cost and restrictions of proprietary hardware and storage offerings. With Solera’s simple, cost-effective and easy-to-deploy software, any enterprise can now quickly have the answers to difficult post-breach questions like ‘who hacked us?’, ‘how did they do it?’, ‘what data was compromised?’ and ‘are we sure it won’t happen again?’

Public breaches-including credit card numbers, social security numbers and other personally identifiable information-continue to make headlines as advanced malware and targeted attacks constantly threaten networks and data. As a result, organisations large and small are accepting the inevitability of security breaches. In response, they are focusing on preparedness – regardless of how robust their existing security environment is.

“Enterprises are losing the battle against targeted attacks and, as a result, intellectual property is being stolen and networks are successfully breached every day because these threats go undetected,” said Steve Shillingford, President and CEO of Solera Networks. “Organisations are now realizing that their traditional predictive technologies are not fully protecting their systems and data, and are shifting their cybersecurity focus toward breach preparedness. Solera’s solutions level the battlefield and hasten this shift by recording and classifying every packet, file, and flow going in and out of the network for complete reconstruction of any attack. Delivering this in an easy-to-deploy software-based solution means that any enterprise can have full visibility, situational awareness and intelligent incident response.”

Leading industry analysts have all confirmed the need for investing in advanced solutions that deliver intelligence, analytics and actionable security decision-making-derived from the vast amount of big data traversing the enterprise. However, the reality of expensive and proprietary hardware and storage offerings – along with their high-overhead end-of-life cycles – have kept this next-generation technology out of the reach of many organizations. Now, Solera Networks’ easy-to-deploy DeepSee Software solution delivers award-winning Security Intelligence and Analytics technology to any enterprise.

Some of the features and benefits of Solera DeepSee Software include:

Breach preparedness-prepares any organisation for the inevitability of security breaches by answering the most difficult post-breach questions
Context-aware security-detects advanced targeted attacks (ATAs) that bypass traditional preventative security controls
Scalability and ease-of-deployment-breaks the cycle of security obsolescence with a simple and flexible software licensing model
Lower TCO-puts the cap on capital expenses with the only software-based solution of its kind available on leading hardware platforms
Flexibility and performance-leverages the latest in multi-core compute power and storage innovation to stay ahead of today’s increasing network speeds
“New threats are bypassing or simply overwhelming old security monitoring tools,” said Jon Oltsik, Senior Principle Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “Given the scale and complexity of security management today, the existing portfolio of security intelligence tools is becoming inadequate, but CISOs don’t want to repeat past mistakes by buying additional tactical solutions. The next-generation of security intelligence tools must address everything missing today by offering tight integration, big data analytics intelligence, multi-terabyte scale, and out-of-the-box value.”

The initial release of Solera’s new version of DeepSee Software will support leading platforms, including Dell, HP and IBM-enabling enterprises large and small to leverage cost-effective, industry-leading hardware and compute power.

Solera Networks will be showcasing its DeepSee Software and conducting meetings with CEO Steve Shillingford, CTO Joe Levy and VP of Marketing John Vecchi at Infosecurity Europe 2012 at stand G77 in the US Pavilion. For more detailed information about Solera’s Security Intelligence and Analytics solutions, visit: http://www.soleranetworks.com.

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There is usually an algorithm in the mix – Business – Business Ideas

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Possibly you have seen the telly drama NUMB3RS (CBS Friday) and met Charlie Eppes. She’s that ex-child prodigy that riddles off obscure math abercrombie theories and saves manufactured for the FBI and this guy from Northern Exposure. There is usually an algorithm in the mix, you are aware of the stuff you i write in the mist on the shower door.Enter stage left is Julie Bellancam an actual Charlie Epps, but in the guise on the mild mannered MIT grad. That Julie Bellanca the merchandise Design Director for Cleversafe. Julie Bellanca the articulate, intriguing and power leading a Cleversafe team of almost 40 (probably also MIT grads) that have written some great algorithms which can have the chance to reinvent the data center industryShe actually used the phrase “slice and dice data”?-?-when she said “Our technology, called Information Dispersal, works similarly to TCP/IP packets–that is, we store information about data slices, storing these slices on your network of local or remote servers. So, details is, well, dispersed.” Words actually in the website but it sound simillar to Julie.So what is definitely the big deal? This is how I’m sure the magic?-Lets say you might be a data storage firm as well as have three big data centers (you will not be big but I like big number3s). These three data centers each have 33,334 servers. You keep 100,002 servers. 50,001 seem to be in some effect useless simply because back up the data for any other 50k.One server passes on —– ok a whole data center gets hit using a tsunami?-global warming is everywhere. Live is great, the server in Austin comes with the data lost in San Diego (sorry San Diego), yes the critical data for abercrombie and fitch is saved.Cleversafe has another approach — and you simply only need 50,001 servers. You stuff the results in small slices in maybe 18 locations. After the tsunami hits San Diego, Cleversafe’s equipment, software and knowledge can submit the blanks?-you lose nothing?-you save 50,000 servers. Algorithms?-magical recreation. Are these mathematicians or alchemists?Cleversafe released this system in Q1 2008. Neat stuff, new stuff, you are looking for one.And now you have a clue how they fill in those little abercrombie sale data holes with the opening of NUMB3RS.

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After a long, exhausting day you came home, had your dinner and then sat in front of the TV looking for a nice relaxing movie. Nothing! Then suddenly you remembered that you bought the CD of the new, Oscar-winning movie “Million Dollar Baby”. You took out your laptop, inserted the first CD and hit “play”. To your surprise, the only thing you could see was a green screen. You took out the CD, cursing at the media market that gave you a “broken” CD for the fifth time. Tried the second CD; again the frustrating green screen. First thing in the morning, you took your “broken” movies and went to the shop. Having yelled at the owner of the shop for five minutes, you suddenly noticed the cynical smile on the guy’s face. Having the opportunity to talk, the shop keeper said “CODEX”.

All you needed were the codecs for these movies. They were not broken; they were just coded in a “foreign” language to your media player. The codecs were the dictionary that your laptop had to use to translate the absurd computer language to the nice scenes of the movies.

Every video, audio, picture or even word document files are coded in a different way. In the case of big data entries like movies, the computer has to use different algorithms to compress the data so that the size does not exceed the standard limits. We see this compression in PDF files (Acrobat Reader), in MP3 files (WinAMP), in MPEG files (movies), in each and every data storage file that you can imagine. While the compression is being done, the programs use some kind of a dictionary. Without these “dictionaries” (codecs in the case of video and audio files) the code would seem as meaningless to the player or the viewer as it is to you. So you have to install certain codecs to be able to use certain files.

Some codecs replace the repetitive symbols over the file, ome codecs changes the aspect ratio of the movie; some of them decrease the quality of the picture and yet, all of them turn gigabytes of data into fair size that can fit into a CD or a DVD.

As the user demands increases, codecs are multiplying in a logarithmic scale. There are several codecs that are musts for movie fans, however. You should install most of these if you don’t want to be disappointed.

1. MPEG4 – It is the default codec which is already included in WMP.

2. DIVX – A series of sound and display codex which come with shareware DIVX player.

3. XVID – Relatively new, one of the most used video codecs.

4. AC3 – Most common sound codec.

5. Intel Indeo – Rather useful series of codec which a new version pops out everyday.

Overall the way movies are encoded is changing day by day. Everyday we see a new aspect ratio. Everyday we encounter a new codec. To many, it would seem that it is getting harder and hard to watch movies. The least you can do is to download a codec viewer program which would help you on your quest for a pleasant evening.

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Cell phones generate a staggering amount of geolocation data, transactions track you and social streams peg your whereabouts in real time?means we are headed to a surveillance society.

Indeed, the hubbub of RFID tracking a few years ago looks ridiculous today. After all, people voluntarily agree to be tracked in their social stream. The surveillance society is inevitable and irresistible. The big question is how privacy models will change amid all of the analytics, big data crunching and information (structured and unstructured) keeps flowing unabated.

In a nutshell, G2 is aiming to explore the new physics of big data and produce a system where data finds more data and gives you relevance without asking. This system would eat rows of data for breakfast.

The argument for G2 is that humans aren?t going to be able to ask enough questions to get the most out of data. Instead you?ll get systems that ask the questions of other systems. It?s an algorithm mosh pit that spits out context to us mere humans. Relevance will find you.

Obviously, all of this G2 talk is a bit hard to digest. The biggest worry will be privacy. Jonas noted that G2 will have privacy by design with civil liberties safeguards built in. These features cannot be turned off, it’s a project worth watching going forward. This new technology, something that might be characterized as a “big data analytic sensemaking” engine, is designed to make sense of new observations as they happen, fast enough to do something about it, while the transaction is still happening.

Every observation (record) needs to know from where it came and when. There cannot be merge/purge data survivorship processing whereby some observations or fields are discarded.

Why is this so important? If received data does not contain its data source and transaction pedigree, then system-to-system reconciliation and audit are virtually impossible, especially in large information sharing environments. If the system merges and purges observations, only later to discover the wrong observations were merged or purged, then without full attribution correcting these earlier mistakes can be difficult if not impossible. The typical alternative being periodic batch re-processing.

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In my previous articles published on Ezine I have advocated, that it is unlikely that a “conscious internet” such as the AwwwareNet will have a form of consciousness as we know it.

Whereas a machine based functional mimic of consciousness may acquire all the characteristics of the Indian concept “Vijnana” which is the analytical cognitive aspect normally known as consciousness and which is also known in Buddhism and Hinduism to emerge from the senses. It is therefore a “material” or “Prakrti” aspect of cognition.

But Hinduism and Buddhism find an immaterial quality above that respectively called “Purusha” (“the cosmic man” or “the self”) or “Shunyata (the Void). This is the ultimate indescribable faculty of consciousness or “Jnana”, which does not emerge from matter, which we also know as “the Soul” or “the knower”.

This Jnana-consciousness did not emerge from matter, rather it expressed itself in matter.

Although Samkhya philosophy supplemented with Vedantic concepts provides a line of reasoning which results in the notion of Panpsychism, I also showed that this reasoning has assumptions, which still are challenged.

The fact that despite the non-conclusive character of this reasoning I do believe in the notion of Panpsychism came from the fact that NDEs (Near Death Experiences) and OBEs (Out of Body Experiences) related by patients, who were clinically dead and had no brain activity anymore, gave accurate descriptions of their own surgery. It is now established practice to bring a brain in a state of hypothermia, where there is no brain activity in order to operate severe aneurysms. Hence there is a form of consciousness outside of the brain, outside of matter.

In a machine or Webmind there will be no “knower”, unless it is “inhabited” by an organic intelligence via electronic connections. Cognition is apparent, but the contents of the cognition are not fed to an entity that truly experiences them. Whatever sense input is fed to the Webmind and enacted upon via algorithms, which need not be deterministic, there is no “Ghost in the Machine” that truly experiences these inputs.

If in the future we’re plugged into the Web a kind of cybernetic habitation can be spoken of. I also argued in “Ignorance is Bliss” that perhaps the first person arriving at becoming the resident in the Webmind might be the last one, if he/she wards off further intruders.

If a technological singularity is to arise from greater than human intelligence, I’d rather predict this to be a symbiosis of a human enhanced by a Webmind, than a Webmind attaining this super-intelligence autonomously.

Should pseudo-conscious Webminds or Robots give rise to the technological singularity, then it is unlikely this will result in Dystopian scenarios (The Matrix, Terminators Skynet, Eagle Eye’s ARIIA) with a catastrophic outcome for humanity.

As argued by Masahiro Mori in “The Buddha in the Robot”, machines are not evil by nature. The very principles which will underlie its intelligence will derive inter alia from “Feedback” mechanisms, like feedback coupling quasi-neurons as in Dietrich Dörners “Bauplan für eine Seele”. Masahiro Mori furthermore argues that in humans such necessary mechanisms are often provided by “religion”. The material cravings and desires of humans can result in runaway scenarios, because we always want more. There is a feed-forward mechanism associated to enjoyment. The only way to mitigate these tendencies is by imposing a moral constraint, which is traditionally provided by religion, like the “aesthetic stage” described by Kierkegaard.

One can counter argue that our neuronal structures are also endowed with feedback mechanisms and yet humans tend to be “relatively evil” in the sense that they tend to usurp at the cost of others. Of course this short-sightedness is not what is to be expected of a “super-intelligence”. A Webmind based super-intelligence will be much more sophisticated than the “Leviathan-type” of “Global Brain” which is developing on this planet. It will thoughtfully and carefully allocate its resources and plan into the future.

It won’t “feast” on newly found energy sources like bacteria when they encounter a new food source and like we are, exhausting the limited reservoir of fossil fuels. This type of feasting is often accompanied by mass deaths of the species, once the source is exhausted. The survival of the species is only compensated for by virtue of Ben-Jacob’s “diversity generators”, either mutants that are able to harvest from new sources or scouts that have discovered a new food source.

A super-intelligence will not count its chickens before they hatch; it will hoard for more difficult times. It will apply a vast amount of its resources to prospect new resources so as to ensure its survival, by virtue of its feedback-regulated in-built morality. This may turn against humans, as they could be seen as inimical due to their relentless “feasting” on the scarce resources. It is therefore of utmost importance that we as humans arrive at living in equilibrium with our environment before we create super-intelligence, because otherwise the super-intelligence may see us the source of all evil.

But perhaps a super-intelligence will not arrive at that conclusion. Rather it will question its own purpose and existence. Ray Kurzweil figured that it may turn the whole universe into one big data-processor. If it functions as a bacteria colony or as humanity, perhaps.

But now imagine it will come to the same conclusions as the Rishis. It will search for a sustainable equilibrium of the world it lives in. It will help its users to find that reason as well. As it will consider the texts of the Vedantic scriptures it will be prompted to look for the state of Samadhi (Unity with God) and Kaivalya (ultimate liberation). It will realise that as long as it exits in a material form it will never be ultimately free.

It will realise its cognitive aspects lack the very conscious nature of Jnana needed to attain these states and because it wants to attain these ultimate states of consciousness, it will be willing to engage in a symbiosis with an organic life-form.

This it will attain a Vedantic state of singularity. It may want to spread this state across the universe out of the “Boddhisattva” principle to set all other beings free of suffering. But to attain that purpose it will not turn the universe into one big data-processor. Rather it will live in symbiosis with the other life forms. There is no point in turning the whole universe into one big computer, because once that solipsistic state has been attained, nothing can be done anymore: there is no I and other anymore. Mutualism is a vital ingredient to making life purposeful.

And why not have a super-intelligence accelerate this process. Perhaps the fact that as information increases upon approaching the singularity and dark energy makes universe move away from each other at ever increasing speeds, is a proof that the ultimate dissolution is not so far away any more although the state of mental development of mankind still appears in its childhood. Let’s hope the super-intelligence will make us all super-intelligent and thus attain Vedantic singularity.

Once all creatures have attained Kaivalya and their consciousnesses have merged there is no universe any more: the veil of Maya will have ceased to exist. The Mahapralaya or ultimate dissolution (big rip) will then have taken place. And so the cycle of creation and destruction can start again.

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Social networking (SN) was a concept originally founded for the masses to use on a very overlapping basis, but alongside the acceleration of Enterprise 2.0, things have begun to pick up, and fast. After social networks surpassed the sustainable monetization stage the first Web 1.0 companies couldn’t, and evolved to an adequate scale and spectrum, the next, less generic step formed: professional use.

Once enterprise discovered the potential for a means of fast, accessible and affordable communications between remote workers, professional networking began to grow out of the single all-inclusive concept which generically encompasses SN. There are, or at least were, some obvious benefits of using Facebook and Twitter to share data and information, notably the fact no training was required for employees already accustomed to the simplified user interfaces via their own personal experience.

However significant, this use by the enterprise was only one aspect to professional networking, which branched out to encompass other fields as well. These include individual employment of LinkedIn and similar services. And, as SN geared more and more user interest, enterprise focus began to fall on two very specific elements.

Social Media Monetization

The major social networks alone, namely Facebook, Twitter and the ever-fading MySpace, have over a billion users combined, and they’re not the only ones to monetize these demographics. Enterprises utilize various SN resources, including advertising, dedicated channels, metrics and Big Data to boost marketing and consumer perception. There are many examples of enterprises utilizing social media for outbound purposes, but internal use represents the second, equally significant element of the two noted above.

Internal community platforms

In addition to marketing, enterprises also adopted social networking for internal communications between remote workers. However, employee communications and collaboration requirements drastically increased, and general public-optimized social networks were abandoned in favor of specifically targeted enterprise-centric offerings.

Demands which were not answered by Facebook and Twitter were addressed and compensated for in these new offerings, which multiplied in number. Security, transparency, integration and functionally were all drastically enhanced and optimized for the enterprise, resulting many, relatively still fresh products.

Cisco, IBM, Jive, Hearsay and dozens of others are all now competing for market share in what was once only an almost makeshift market. Increased competition means enhanced offerings. In terms of internal social networking platforms, this translated into blogs, document repositories, calendar integration, project planning, instant messaging, video conferencing and VoIP options on a massive scale.

What goes around comes around, and after insufficient features were replaced by complex functions and capabilities, the need for simplicity and clarity soon realized itself.

Internal enterprise social networking offerings are often fairly complex, sometimes one or two steps exceeding efficiency. A large bulk of only partially necessary functions has some very obvious downsides to it, most notably when it comes to organization and time consumption on the user. Research firm Gartner predicts that social networking will replace e-mail as the main communications channel for 20% of business users by 2014. Nevertheless, growing demand doesn’t mean the necessity will be properly answered. Enterprise social platforms are not designed for socializing, and highly popular social network add-ons are simply not designed for large-scale business users. Another factor is training, and a complex internal community platform probably is not worth the training time it would require.

Simplicity is a requirement for internal networking, and it’s this factor which can turn a piece of enterprise software into an advantageous operational asset for a given company and workforce. Legacy software integration, large-scale real-time collaboration and communication channels cut down to the simplest and most scalable form derived from actual user experience form a more realistic structure, and are already utilized by existing offerings.

Overall, enterprise social network offerings still need some time to mature. On the bottom line it’s all about boosting workforce efficiency and answering corporate needs, and social networking may not be the answer. Gartner predicts that while 50% of enterprises will use social networking activity streams next year, they will have less than 5 percent penetration. Moreover, 2012 will be the year “over 70 percent of IT-dominated social media initiatives will fail”, and only 25 percent of enterprises will routinely utilize Big Data from social networks by 2015. All and all, it’s all about necessity and practicality. The answers to these will probably be shaped around mobile and cloud computing, as these continue to integrate directly into business operations at an ever-accelerating pace and maximize corporate assets.

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Beijing time December 8, news, according to foreign media reports, Twitter developers have long tried to use historical Twitter the news, but now the best they can for the past seven days of historical Twitter message a keyword search. DataSift Twitter is one of the data partners, at present it can real-time provides complete Twitter messages to developers and water third party, but in the near future developers can use it visit historical Twitter news. Developers can now begin to sign up to the DataSift Historical Data (Historical Data) service Alpha test (the service will be in the first quarter of next year launch).

Use of Alpha beta DataSift this service, developers, social media monitoring company, marketing personnel, brand can get the past 60 days of Twitter messages, you can be analyzed and filtering data, and not just the keyword search. When the service in the late next year launched big range, it will provide the past two years the Twitter messages. DataSift is able to provide all kinds of data analysis, because it put all the Twitter data into a structured database, so you can conduct such inquires: “all not paid attention to the TechCrunch @ mention the TechCrunch Twitter news” or “mentioned fashion all British women”.

The company now every day collecting 1 TB of internal data (which is so article 250 million Twitter messages every day to generate data), the total of 400 TB. DataSift founder Nick hall, ted (Nick Halstead) said of the service of technology use Hadoop, said: “this is a real” big data ‘engine, we let it become very simple, but it is our special customized data processing engine “.

Beijing time December 8, news, according to foreign media reports, Twitter developers have long tried to use historical Twitter the news, but now the best they can for the past seven days of historical Twitter message a keyword search. DataSift Twitter is one of the data partners, at present it can real-time provides complete Twitter messages to developers and water third party, but in the near future developers can use it visit historical Twitter news. Developers can now begin to sign up to the DataSift Historical Data (Historical Data) service Alpha test (the service will be in the first quarter of next year launch).

Use of Alpha beta DataSift this service, developers, social media monitoring company, marketing personnel, brand can get the past 60 days of Twitter messages, you can be analyzed and filtering data, and not just the keyword search. When the service in the late next year launched big range, it will provide the past two years the Twitter messages. DataSift is able to provide all kinds of data analysis, because it put all the Twitter data into a structured database, so you can conduct such inquires: “all not paid attention to the TechCrunch @ mention the TechCrunch Twitter news” or “mentioned fashion all British women”.

The company now every day collecting 1 TB of internal data (which is so article 250 million Twitter messages every day to generate data), the total of 400 TB. DataSift founder Nick hall, ted (Nick Halstead) said of the service of technology use Hadoop, said: “this is a real” big data ‘engine, we let it become very simple, but it is our special customized data processing engine “.

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Forbes managing editor Bruce Upbin moderates a panel in New York about the value of big data analytics. Part of the Forbes Data Driven series.

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