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mancamikulic

Why We All Have 'Internet-Addiction Genes' - Robert Wright - The Atlantic - 0 views

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addiction internet human beings modern world habbit genes

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  • : A gene that seems to be (very modestly) correlated with internet addiction also plays a role in nicotine addiction.
  • A gene that seems to be (very modestly) correlated with internet addiction also plays a role in nicotine addiction.
  • internet addiction is not a figment of our imagination
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  • Whether heavy internet use deserves to be called an addiction or just a hard-to-break habit is a question about a behavior pattern and its attendant psychological states.
  • To answer it we ask such things as how strong the cravings for the internet are, what lengths a person will go to in order to satisfy them, and so on.
  • Human beings are biochemical machines "designed" by natural selection to, among other things, form habits.
  • The habit-forming machinery involves the release of reward chemicals, such as dopamine, that make us feel good upon attaining these goals
  • In the modern world, there are shortcuts to getting these rewards
  • And there's some evidence (though here I'm approaching the limits of my comprehension of the science) that people with a particular variant of a gene involved in building acetylcholine receptors are more susceptible to nicotine addiction than other people
  • the main point is this: the biochemical mechanisms (including genes) involved in chemical addictions will naturally be the mechanisms involved in habit formation more generally since habit formation is what they were originally designed for.
  • whether it's a habit or an addiction, it is going to involve pleasure-dispensing biochemical mechanisms of the sort that can get us addicted to such chemicals as nicotine and cocaine
  • After all, the internet, like these chemicals, allows us to trigger our neuronal reward mechanisms with much less work,
  • it wasn't possible, in a very small and technologically primitive social universe, to at any time of day launch an observation or joke
  • the internet, like a pack of cigarettes or lots of cocaine, lets you just sit in a room and repeatedly trigger reward chemicals that
  • And all of us have lots and lots of these genes--genes that make us susceptible to internet addiction.
  • some of these genes may vary from person to person in ways that make some people particularly susceptible to internet addiction
  • In fact, there will turn out to be so many genes which are so modestly correlated with internet addiction
  • that if journalists write stories every time such a gene is found, or is thought to have been found, they will find that they're not shedding much actual light on the situation.
  • These genes are really just genes for being human.
petra funtek

After Leveson: the internet needs regulation to halt 'information terrorism' | Media | ... - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...leveson-report-internet

information terrorism misuse

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  • After Leveson: the internet needs regulation to halt 'information terrorism'
  • We are heading into a future of no regulation with the internet where its monoliths will have plenty of clout, pretty well unfettered by democratic national governments (but not totalitarian ones, like China).
  • How does information terrorism work?What's coming in the future could be far more deadly, involving widespread smears, character assassinations and the destruction of companies and maybe even institutions. And by then we may not have a vigorous press to hold it to account.
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  • Citing "freedom of expression", which like motherhood and apple pie is impossible to attack, they will host their anonymous contributors' bullying, lies, smears, breathtaking invasions of privacy
  • To illustrate an example of information misuse, it's worth recounting the alarming experience of a work colleague at the hands of Facebook. Someone he did not know took his name and set up a Facebook page purporting to be his, along with a photo and several intimate details, some true, some false.
  • it is no longer reasonable for the big players - the Googles, Facebooks, YouTubes and Twitters - to say: "Nothing to do with us, guv, we only provide the pipes. What goes through them, that's up to the folk who put it there."
  • An entirely new information world is rising in which each of us can be readers and editors, contributors and subscribers, and maybe even proprietors, at the same time.
petra funtek

Social networks: after privacy, beyond friendship | openDemocracy - 0 views

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facebook social networking my space personal details

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  • irst, research shows that social-networking sites are a serious risk when accessed at work.
  • Facebook at work". It may sound ridiculous, but the purpose is to ensure that employees are not putting their personal and corporate data out to tender.
  • The second reason is that once uploaded, personal details can become public possession - and not just for now but, effectively, forever. News Corp bought MySpace to exploit what previously had been unthinkable to advertisers: customers telling you what they want without you even asking.
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  • he irony in all this is that Facebook - which in September 2007 overtook MySpace in Britain as the preferred site for individual users - was originally set up to mirror rather than overturn the "intimacy" and exclusiveness of real-world, face-to-face networks. Andrew McCollum, one of the founders of Facebook, explained to me that they based the project on a pretty closed community, namely university colleges.
  • Social networks: after privacy, beyond friendship
Katja Saje

Arhiv | Delo - 0 views

www.delo.si/...iral-internetno-vohljanje.html

ITU nadzorovanje internetni promet internetne vsebine dpi pregledovanje

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  • Mednarodna zveza za telekomunikacije (ITU) potrdila standard za podrobno pregledovanje internetnega prometa (deep packet inspection, dpi).
  • Internetni promet je sestavljen iz t. i. paketov. V vsakem je del vsebine (spletne strani, datoteke ali česa drugega), paket pa je opremljen še s kopico drugih podatkov, od glave (header) do opisa protokolov, storitev in še marsičesa. Glava je nekakšna kuverta, v njej so zapisani glavni podatki, da lahko brskalnik ali drug program iz več paketkov, ki lahko potujejo povsem neodvisno drug od drugega, sestavi pravo vsebino.
  • Z dpi pa vidijo tako vrsto internetnega prometa kot njegovo vsebino. Zakaj je to pomembno? Operaterji lahko tako »upravljajo« promet. Kar v praksi pomeni, da upočasnjujejo ali celo blokirajo posamezne vrste prometa, denimo torrente ali telefonijo IP (skype). Lahko pa bi tudi ponujali naročnino na hitrejši youtube, morda posebej prodajali dostop do facebooka.
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  • pojasnilo ITU, zakaj so sprejeli standard, gre v tej smeri. Češ, operaterji so doslej namenjali »preveliko« pasovno širino posameznim uporabnikom ali storitvam. Zdaj, ko vsebine postajajo vse bolj potratne glede količine podatkov, pa dpi po besedah ITU omogoča »natančno in vzdržno upravljanje prometa, ki raste eksponentno«.
  • Telekom, T-2 in Simobil zanikali uporabo dpi, medtem ko Amis ni odgovoril. Na Simobilu so dejali, da o tem »trenutno ne razmišljajo«, na T-2 pa, da »do zdaj niso delali tovrstnih pregledov«.
Nuša Gregoršanec

BBC News - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the internet's future - 0 views

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  • Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the internet's future
  • Censorship is the biggest threat to the development of the internet, according to Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales.
  • More than 40 countries practise censorship
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  • Wikipedia has encountered particular difficulties with censorship in the past in China. The Chinese government periodically blocked the site between 2004 and 2008, when restrictions were lifted to coincide with the Olympics.
  • What really excites Mr Wales is the idea of many people in the developing world using the internet for the first time.
  • "Massive numbers of people are going to come online from cultures we don't normally interact with."
  • This could have huge implications for governments which are unused to dealing with a well informed networked public. However, Mr Wales acknowledged one potential pitfall of all the extra users blogging and adding other material.
Katja Jerman

Will Apple's iWatch introduce the age of wearable technology? - Telegraph - 0 views

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apple iWatch wearable technology google glass iPhone

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  • Apple is developing a smart watch as it seeks to repeat its trick with the iPhone and iPad and spur a new market
  • curved touchscreen made from a new type of flexible glass, an array of sensors to monitor exercise patterns and heart rate, “wave and pay” function, access to maps, voice control and wireless integration with the iPhone.
  • That could allow the wearer to take calls and read messages without having to delve into their pocket or bag, or mean the iphone would know when it was in its owner’s hand an unlock automatically.
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  • it is beyond the experimentation phase and heading towards production
  • that the age of “wearable technology” is nigh
  • “Apple can launch a new product like no other company because it owns its own retail channel, has privileged real estate in other retailers, and has a brand that’s recognized even by two-year-olds.”
  • There were mobile phones with internet access, mapping software and even touchscreens before the iPhone was introduced in 2007, they just failed to capture mainstream attention.
  • Likewise, wearable technology and smart watches are not Apple ideas. The firm in fact already benefits from third party wearable accessories such as the Nike FuelBand and FitBit, which link to the iPhone and track exercise.
  • All the main technologies – screens, processors, GPS, mobile software, Bluetooth wireless networking – are already mature and in mass use. The problem is cramming them into something small enough to look stylish on a wrist
  • its rival is working on a computer you wear on your face. Google Glass, a project led by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, suggests a near future in which reality is augmented via a pair of spectacles with all the capabilities of a smartphone.
  • Already in public testing, Google Glass’ tiny screen projects the web into your field of vision, while “bone conduction” headphones transmit sound directly through your skull, allowing you to hear your environment at the same time through your ears.
Katja Jerman

Facebook's new promoted-post feature sparks privacy concerns | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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  • new feature allows its users to promote their friends' posts
  • Facebook announced the launch of a new feature on Friday that allows users to pay to promote their friends' posts. In return for a fee, Facebook promotes the post so that more people see it
  • already sparked privacy concerns because you don't have to give your consent for a post to be promoted by one of your friends.
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  • feature is intended to be helpful to users
  • But users could just as easily promote embarrassing status updates in jest or out of cruelty.
  • applies to users with fewer than 5,000 friends and subscribers
  • pay the $7 fee
Katja Jerman

Letters: Big data and big problems for personal information | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...-problems-personal-information

data personal information problems privacy identification security

shared by Katja Jerman on 06 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • describes a new product to collect and mine user data online
  • PII is a predetermined list of attributes that could identify an individual
  • personally identifiable information?
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  • Identifiably personal information (IPI, if you must) is any set of data which by inspection could lead to the identification of an individual from a group, with a given level of confidence in a given time
  • is based on solid academic work on differential privacy and security threat modelling.
  • could turn data science into data surveillance.
  • Data mining by many businesses seeks to predict trends in purchasing behaviour, monitor customer response to service delivery and assess their marketing strategy against those of their rivals.
  • The real power of social media mining is establishing a "pattern of life" from which anomalies might stand out
Katja Jerman

Rugby star's sons rack up £3,200 iPhone bill in three hours - Telegraph - 0 views

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iPhone app tiny monsters bill

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  • Rugby star's sons rack up £3,200 iPhone bill in three hours
  • Rugby star's sons rack up £3,200 iPhone bill in three hours
  • his sons, aged six and eight, were playing the game on his iPhone after memorising his password.
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  • The boys spent more than £1,000 an hour creating their own mini monsters in the popular game.
  • During this time they bought virtual food for the monsters 54 times, paying up to £69.99 a time for a “mountain of food” for each monster.
  • The app for the iPhone is free to download but various extras, known as “in-app billing”, require cash payments to move up levels and develop monsters.
  • My kids did £3,200 playing a game called tiny monsters - it was £69 for some food for virtual monsters. Absolutely disgusting
  • The cash was eventually refunded after Tiny Monsters accepted the purchases were not authorised by the user.
Mateja Žnidaršič

Kitajska: Internetni ponudniki bodo lahko s spleta brisali zapise in strani z ''nezakon... - 0 views

www.dnevnik.si/...istracijo-z-imenom-in-priimkom

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  • Kitajska je danes zaostrila pravila uporabe interneta v državi, saj bodo morali uporabniki ponudnikom spletnih storitev za dostop do interneta zaupati svoje osebne podatke.
  • V preteklih mesecih so splet in spletna družbena omrežja uporabniki namreč uporabili za organizacijo množičnih protestov, razkrinkali pa so tudi nekaj članov komunistične stranke, ki so na spletu objavljali negativne komentarje in izražali negativna stališča.
  • družbena omrežja uporabljajo za kritiko oblasti in izpostavljanje korupcije v njeni sredi.
Katja Kotnik

Razprava o spletu in njegovi moči: Osebni podatki so danes valuta | Dnevnik.si - 0 views

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  • razprava o uporabi spleta in njegovi moči.
  • Splet je na nek način s pravnega vidika podoben odprtemu morju. Ne pripada nikomur in je hkrati od vseh,
  • največja junaka in škodljivca Facebook in Google,
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  • Na spletu se dogaja veliko slabih stvari
  • Splet je na nek način s pravnega vidika podoben odprtemu morju. Ne pripada nikomur in je hkrati od vseh,“ je poudarila. Na spletu se dogaja veliko slabih stvari.
  • Mnogi denimo tarnajo nad spletnim piratstvom in kako jih ta odnaša dobičke. Vendar Musarjeva poudarja, da bi za to morali ponuditi nove načine potrošnje, ne pa v vse povprek omejevati splet.
  • največja junaka in škodljivca Facebook in Google, saj sta tesen del naših življenj, hkrati pa zaradi svojih storitev omogočata kršitve človekovih pravic.
  • Facebook je „tretja največja država na svetu“.
  • zasebnosti na spletu
  • Pri zasebnosti je tako potrebna določena mera previdnosti. Nihče ne more odgovarjati za neumnost in naivnost uporabnikov.
  • Osebni podatki pa so danes praktično valuta. Zanje ali z njimi poslujemo.
  • splet tudi eden največjih konsenzov na svetu.
Katja Kotnik

BBC - WebWise - Internet Basics - Internet basics - 0 views

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  • internet is a worldwide network of computers
  • you can find almost anything
  • library
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  • our mobile phone company, home phone, cable television provider, or even your local supermarket chain can offer you an internet connection.
  • one that allows you to access the internet quickly and view large files, such as watching television programmes or listening to the radio through your computer.
Mateja Žnidaršič

Microsoft: An expensive error | The Economist - 0 views

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  • Microsoft, maker of the Windows 8 operating system and the Internet Explorer web browser, has been fined €561m ($732m) by the European Union’s antitrust regulators for breaking a promise to offer its customers a choice of the browser they would like to use to surf the internet on their personal computers.
  • Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was once dominant in the browser world,
  • Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari
Katja Jerman

Why the entertainment industry's release strategy creates piracy | Technology | guardia... - 0 views

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entertainment industry piracy

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  • If you want people to buy media, you have to offer it for sale. If it's not for sale, they won't buy it, but many of them will still want to watch or hear or play it, and will turn to the darknet to get – for free – the media that no one will sell to them.
  • Today it's hard to find any knowledgeable person who thinks that making more money by delaying a release to an optimal date is possible, except to the extent that the knowledgeable person is selling something.
mancamikulic

Več kot polovica uporabnikov je na internetu večkrat dnevno | Dnevnik.si - 0 views

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raziskave internet spletne strani 24.ur uporabniki

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  • raziskave MOSS
  • spletna stran 24ur.com, sledita ji najdi.si in siol.net
  • 53,01-odstoten doseg
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  • 24ur.com je zabeležila 671.947 različnih slovenskih obiskovalcev
  • najdi.si (496.444 obiskovalcev; 39,17-odstotni doseg;
  • siol.net (485.845 obiskovalcev; 38,33-odstotni doseg
  • sledijo rtvslo.si, bolha.com, zurnal24.si, vizita.si, zadovoljna.si, avto.net in itis.si
  • 64. mestu
  • 608 milijonov prikazov
  • Raziskava MOSS poteka pod okriljem Slovenske oglaševalske zbornice
  • 97 odstotkov celotnega spletnega trga
  • 74 odstotkov oz. 1.267.467 mesečnih uporabnikov
  • starih od 10 do 75 let
  • Večkrat dnevno
  • Več kot polovica uporabnikov na internetu večkrat dnevno
  • 55 odstotkov takih, ki internet uporabljajo večkrat dnevno
  • 30,1 odstotka
  • 55 odstotkov moških in 45 odstotkov žensk
  • 37 let
  • zaposlenimi v podjetji
  • 37-odstoten
Katja Saje

Readers' privacy is under threat in the digital age | Books | The Guardian - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...readers-privacy-under-threat

privacy readers surveillance enforcement digital age

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  • Every time you read a newspaper on your computer or buy an ebook, you can leave an electronic trail behind you. That trail is potentially lucrative for business, and is a new source of surveillance for government and law enforcement.
  • Retailers and search engines, most notably Amazon and Google, can now gather an astonishingly detailed portrait of our book-reading habits: what we buy, what we browse, the amount of time we spend on a page and even the annotations we make in an ebook.
  • Amazon also reserves the right to disclose information when it "believes release is appropriate to comply with the law". A stronger protection for our privacy should require a warrant before personal data is released.
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  • Awareness of the problem is growing, from Google's catastrophic launch of its social network Buzz in 2010, which shared users' contacts without their permission, to the revelation last year that Facebook was still tracking users' browsing information after they had logged out.
  • The new possibilities for surveillance undermine the fundamental privacy of the act of reading.
Katja Saje

The Facebook generation is in the grip of National Attention Deficit Disorder - Telegraph - 0 views

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facebook social networks young generation disorder attention

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  • If you think your friends are online, you’re missing the human dynamic of a real relationship. You can’t see facial expressions; can’t hear the tone of voice – all you’re dealing with is digital messages, which are usually meaningless and never meaningful.
  • So what can be done? The first step is to bring the issue into the public consciousness.
Katja Saje

Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy? | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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google glass privacy public misuse social deprivation

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  • Google Glass is the most hotly anticipated new arrival in "wearable computing" – which experts predict will become pervasive.
  • The next stage is computers that fit on to your body, and Google's idea is that you need only speak to operate it.
  • (To activate Glass you need to tilt your head, or touch the side, and then say, "OK Glass, record a video" or "OK Glass take a picture".)
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  • Google has become the company which knows where you are and what you're looking for. Now it's going to be able to compute what it is you're looking at."
  • The first, and most obvious, is the question of privacy. The second is: how will we behave in groups when the distraction of the internet is only an eye movement away?
  • For Google, "privacy" means "what you've agreed to", and that is slightly different from the privacy we've become used to over time. So how comfortable – or uneasy – should we feel about the possibility that what we're doing in a public or semi-public place (or even somewhere private) might get slurped up and assimilated by Google?
  • we already live in a world where the boundaries of what's private and what's public are melting.
  • Google doesn't want to discuss these issues. "We are not making any comment," says a company spokesperson. But other sources suggest that Google's chiefs know that this is a live issue, and they're watching it develop.
  • "People will have to work out what the new normal is,"
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