Leaked Internal Messages Reveal Co-Worker Support For Fired Google Engineer's Controversial Memo

James Damore, now a former Google employee, caused outrage when he circulated a manifesto on Friday, complaining about Google’s “ideological echo chamber” alleging women have lower tolerance for stress and that conservatives are more conscientious. The chess master, who studied at Harvard, Princeton and MIT and worked at Google's Mountain View HQ, was fired on Monday after the search giant’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, said portions of Damore’s 10-page memo “violate our code of conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes” despite saying in the same memo that Google employees shouldn't be afraid of speaking their minds.

But, according to screenshots obtained by Wired, internal discussions that followed Damore's memo and its fallout show Google employees both embracing and advancing its views. Damore himself indicated in the following message that his former coworkers had reached out privately to express "their gratitude for bringing up these very important issues." Others chimed in publicly as well.

As an example, the following Google employee blasted the inability of some people to understand and/or acknowlege "how distribution differences aren’t stereotypes and can’t be applied to individuals...it’s basic statistical logic."

I put almost agree on go/pc-considered-harmful-poll. I thought it needed way more citations. Also, I would have left off anything about “marxism”. You could have made the same points about diversity/psychological safety without them. Adding them in just made the doc seem political. Although, I don’t think either would have changed the reaction.

My biggest concern is the number of people who don’t understand how distribution differences aren’t stereotypes and can’t be applied to individuals. It’s basic statistical logic. Regardless of wether [sic] or not there are differences and if they are biological or cultural, this is just a blatant logical fallacy.

For example, men’s average height is higher than women’s average height. You would never just assume a woman can’t be taller than 5’9”, but you would expect more men to be above 5’9”.

Of course, intellectual honesty isn't the point of the 'progressive' movement, is it? The talking heads of the Left are all too eager to put on their science hats when discussing climate change but are less eager to entertain scientific facts when they're deemed 'inconvenient.'

Meanwhile, the following Googler tied the whole Damore controversy back to the 2016 Presidential election.

Fired Coder Speaks Out On Google's "Potentially Illegal Practices", "Recorded Meetings" And "Science Denial"

For those who have managed to avoid this storyline, James Damore, now a former Google employee, caused outrage when he circulated a manifesto on Friday, complaining about Google’s “ideological echo chamber,” alleging women have lower tolerance for stress and that conservatives are more conscientious. By Monday, the chess master, who studied at Harvard, Princeton and MIT and worked at Google's Mountain View HQ, was fired after the search giant’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, said portions of Damore’s 10-page memo “violate our code of conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes” despite saying in the same memo that Google employees shouldn't be afraid of speaking their minds.

Now, for the first time, the former Googler sat down for a YouTube interview with University of Toronto professor of psychology, Jordan Peterson, to discuss the circumstances leading up to the release of his controversial memo and the fallout that has resulted since.

In this first exchange, Damore explains that he decided to write his now-infamous memo after attending a 'secretive' Google "diversity summit" in which he says presenters talked about "potentially illegal practices" intended to "try to increase diversity...basically treating people differently based on what their race or gender are."

Damore also talks about how he originally published his memo over a month ago but upper-management largely ignored it until it started to garner media attention. Then, once it went viral, upper management organized a coordinated attack and misrepresented facts in order to silence him.

On why he was fired:

And finally, an interesting tidbit in which Damore once again points out that Google's progressives are all too eager to put on their science hats when discussing climate change but are less eager to entertain scientific facts when they're deemed 'inconvenient.'

Google Fires Programmmer James Damore For blowing Whistle On Corporation's Politically Correct Hypocrisy

Sources in Silicon Valley are reporting that internet tech corporation Google, known for iys uber - liberal stances on political and social issues, has ssacked a software engineer whose authored an internal memo that caused a furore for claiming that gender inequality in the tech industry may be partly down to biological differences between men and women.

In his paper entitled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”, James Damore accused the internet giant of pushing a “politically correct monoculture”, shaming dissenters into silence and stifling debate on diversity.

The ex-employee has said he is looking into possible legal remedies, although experts have cast doubt on whether he has grounds for a successful legal action.

Earlier, Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has cut short his holiday in Europe to return to the US to deal with the affair. He reportedly told employees in a note on Monday that parts of Damore’s memo "violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace". Google’s vice-president of diversity, Danielle Brown, sent a memo saying the engineer’s essay "advanced incorrect assumptions about gender".

Damore claimed in his 3,000-word document that circulated inside the company last week that “Google’s left bias has created a politically correct monoculture” which prevented honest discussion of equality.

"The distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and… these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership," Damore wrote.

The engineer began his article saying he valued “diversity and inclusion” and did not “endorse using stereotypes”, and concluded in the same vein: “I strongly believe in gender and racial diversity”, he said, accusing Google of creating discriminatory practices in trying “to achieve a more equal gender and race representation”.

Damore has received support in conservative media outlets such as Breitbart News, with commentators claiming the dismissal is an example of corporate intolerance for alternative views that do not follow a left-wing, politically correct bias.

Google is in the midst of a US Department of Labor investigation into whether it pays women less than men. Leading tech companies including Google, Facebook and Uber, have said they are trying to improve hiring and working conditions for women.

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Google’s Secret Programs Aim To Deliver Control of the Human Race

Excellent piece from Squawker.org and a timely reminder of Google's political ambitions. As someone with thirty years IT experience behind him, I have to say some of the claims made in the article are far fetched, but no citicism of the writers or publisher. One of the nasteir aspects of the way Google works is they make exaggerated claims about where they are in the development of some of their technology wanks in order to persuade us that what they are doing to further their control freak agenda is really for our benefit.

Leaked Internal Messages Reveal Co-Worker Support For Fired Google Engineer's Controversial Memo

James Damore, now a former Google employee, caused outrage when he circulated a manifesto on Friday, complaining about Google’s “ideological echo chamber” alleging women have lower tolerance for stress and that conservatives are more conscientious. The chess master, who studied at Harvard, Princeton and MIT and worked at Google's Mountain View HQ, was fired on Monday after the search giant’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, said portions of Damore’s 10-page memo “violate our code of conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes” despite saying in the same memo that Google employees shouldn't be afraid of speaking their minds. But, according to screenshots obtained by Wired, internal discussions that followed Damore's memo and its fallout show Google employees both embracing and advancing its views. Damore himself indicated in the following message that his former coworkers had reached out privately to express "their gratitude for bringing up these very important issues." Others chimed in publicly as well. As an example, the following Google employee blasted the inability of some people to understand and/or acknowlege "how distribution differences aren’t stereotypes and can’t be applied to individuals...it’s basic statistical logic." I put almost agree on go/pc-considered-harmful-poll. I thought it needed way more citations. Also, I would have left off anything about “marxism”. You could have made the same points about diversity/psychological safety without them. Adding them in just made the doc seem political. Although, I don’t think either would have changed the reaction. My biggest concern is the number of people who don’t understand how distribution differences aren’t stereotypes and can’t be applied to individuals. It’s basic statistical logic. Regardless of wether [sic] or not there are differences and if they are biological or cultural, this is just a blatant logical fallacy. For example, men’s average height is higher than women’s average height. You would never just assume a woman can’t be taller than 5’9”, but you would expect more men to be above 5’9”. Of course, intellectual honesty isn't the point of the 'progressive' movement, is it? The talking heads of the Left are all too eager to put on their science hats when discussing climate change but are less eager to entertain scientific facts when they're deemed 'inconvenient.' Meanwhile, the following Googler tied the whole Damore controversy back to the 2016 Presidential election. For example, there is broad consensus in all American companies that everyone should be treated the same regardless of race and gender and that sexual harassment or other mistreatment of employees should not be tolerated. But I do not think there is consensus on the following things, which are treated as obvious and noncontroversial at Google. Different recruitment/hiring process for employees on color of their skin Open stereotyping of employees by race and gender on internal sites without public outcry that makes such instances rare over time Weekly public (though thankfully anonymous) shaming of employees for misdeeds as slight as anachronistic use of “guys” for a mixed gender group Frequent references to documents that stigmatize open disagreement with a a rage [sic] of positions Call for employees to give each other hugs at an all hands meeting because the wrong candidate won a presidential election in the country, following by a mass mailing on how to help your kids deal with grief due to the same occurrence We could go on, or start a centithread on any of these subjects. I understand that these things feel normal and necessary to many holding strong progressive values, especially coming from colleges which are largely run along these norms today. Many feel that the country suffered a huge setback in 2016 and sick to use [sic] other venues, including workspaces with largely sympathetic employee base, to advance their values forward. Google as shining light in the sea of darkness right?

Fired Coder Speaks Out On Google's "Potentially Illegal Practices", "Recorded Meetings" And "Science Denial"

For those who have managed to avoid this storyline, James Damore, now a former Google employee, caused outrage when he circulated a manifesto on Friday, complaining about Google’s “ideological echo chamber,” alleging women have lower tolerance for stress and that conservatives are more conscientious. By Monday, the chess master, who studied at Harvard, Princeton and MIT and worked at Google's Mountain View HQ, was fired after the search giant’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, said portions of Damore’s 10-page memo “violate our code of conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes” despite saying in the same memo that Google employees shouldn't be afraid of speaking their minds. Now, for the first time, the former Googler sat down for a YouTube interview with University of Toronto professor of psychology, Jordan Peterson, to discuss the circumstances leading up to the release of his controversial memo and the fallout that has resulted since. In this first exchange, Damore explains that he decided to write his now-infamous memo after attending a 'secretive' Google "diversity summit" in which he says presenters talked about "potentially illegal practices" intended to "try to increase diversity...basically treating people differently based on what their race or gender are." Peterson: "Why did you do this?" Damore: "About a month and a half ago, I went to one of our diversity summits, all of it unrecorded and super-secret and they told me a lot of things that I thought just were not right." Peterson: "Ok, what do you mean 'unrecorded and super-secret?'" Damore: "Most meetings at Google are recorded. Anyone at Google can watch it. We're trying to be really open about everything...except for this. They don't want any paper trail for any of these things." "They were telling us about a lot of these potentially illegal practices that they've been doing to try to increase diversity. Basically treating people differently based on what their race or gender are." Peterson: "Ok, why?" Damore: "Because I think it's illegal. As some of the internal polls showed, there were a large percentage of people who agreed with me on the document. So, if everyone got to see this stuff, then they would really bring up some criticism." Damore also talks about how he originally published his memo over a month ago but upper-management largely ignored it until it started to garner media attention. Then, once it went viral, upper management organized a coordinated attack and misrepresented facts in order to silence him. Damore: "I actually published this document about a month ago; it's only after it had gone viral and leaked to the news, that Google started caring." "There was a lot of upper management that started to call it out and started saying how harmful it is. This sort of viewpoint is not allowed at Google." Peterson: "Yeah, what sort of viewpoint exactly? The idea that there are differences between men and women that might actually play a role in the corporate world? That's an opinion that's not acceptable?" Damore: "Yeah, it seems so. And there's a lot of misrepresentation by upper-management just to silence me, I think." On why he was fired: Peterson: "What was there rationale for firing you exactly? What was the excuse that was given?" Damore: "So, the official excuse was that I was perpetuating gender stereotypes." And finally, an interesting tidbit in which Damore once again points out that Google's progressives are all too eager to put on their science hats when discussing climate change but are less eager to entertain scientific facts when they're deemed 'inconvenient.' Damore: "I'm not sure how they can expect to silence so many engineers and intelligent people and just deny science like this"

Tuesday 8 August, 2017

Google Fires Programmmer James Damore For blowing Whistle On Corporation's Politically Correct Hypocrisy

Sources in Silicon Valley are reporting that internet tech corporation Google, known for its uber - liberal stances on political and social issues, has ssacked a software engineer whose authored an internal memo that caused a furore for claiming that gender inequality in the tech industry may be partly down to biological differences between men and women.

In his paper entitled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”, James Damore accused the internet giant of pushing a “politically correct monoculture”, shaming dissenters into silence and stifling debate on diversity.

The ex-employee has said he is looking into possible legal remedies, although experts have cast doubt on whether he has grounds for a successful legal action.

Earlier, Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has cut short his holiday in Europe to return to the US to deal with the affair. He reportedly told employees in a note on Monday that parts of Damore’s memo "violate our Code of Conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace". Google’s vice-president of diversity, Danielle Brown, sent a memo saying the engineer’s essay "advanced incorrect assumptions about gender".

Damore claimed in his 3,000-word document that circulated inside the company last week that “Google’s left bias has created a politically correct monoculture” which prevented honest discussion of equality.

"The distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and… these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership," Damore wrote.

The engineer began his article saying he valued “diversity and inclusion” and did not “endorse using stereotypes”, and concluded in the same vein: “I strongly believe in gender and racial diversity”, he said, accusing Google of creating discriminatory practices in trying “to achieve a more equal gender and race representation”.

Damore has received support in conservative media outlets such as Breitbart News, with commentators claiming the dismissal is an example of corporate intolerance for alternative views that do not follow a left-wing, politically correct bias.

Google is in the midst of a US Department of Labor investigation into whether it pays women less than men. Leading tech companies including Google, Facebook and Uber, have said they are trying to improve hiring and working conditions for women.

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Google’s Secret Programs Aim To Deliver Control of the Human Race

Excellent piece from Squawker.org and a timely reminder of Google's political ambitions. As someone with thirty years IT experience behind him, I have to say some of the claims made in the article are far fetched, but no citicism of the writers or publisher. One of the nasteir aspects of the way Google works is they make exaggerated claims about where they are in the development of some of their technology wanks in order to persuade us that what they are doing to further their control freak agenda is really for our benefit.

Ask yourselves, is it better to do things for yourself and reject intrusive technology or to let yourself be ensalved by a bunch of semi austistic nerds who plan to control us through machines. Gooogle plans are a lot less advanced than they would have us believe, we can still resist - The Daily Stirrer

“The average American doesn’t realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists … It’s shocking how the system actually works.”

“We don’t need you to type. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.”

– Eric Schmidt: former Google CEO and current chairman

Google Collects ALL of our Data:

Ever heard of Big Data? Everything you have ever typed in their search engine, app, web browser …

… your likes, tweets, posts, comments, photos, passwords, account numbers, security questions and answers … all of it mined and collected.

Gmail Now Has More Than 1B Monthly Active Users

They have algorithms that can take this data and use it to manipulate the way you think and believe.

Google Manipulates Research and Laws:

Google has paid scholars millions to produce hundreds of papers supporting its policy interests, following in the footsteps of the oil and tobacco industries. who produce papers that support its business and policy goals.

• Google fined a record €2.4 billion by the EU for manipulating search results: “… abused its dominant position by systematically favoring” its own shopping comparison service …“… what google has done is illegal.”
• David Balto, former policy director of the Federal Trade Commission published a paper funded by Google that supports Google’s stance that it is not a monopoly.
• A non profit organization known as Google Transparency Project recently published a paper, citing “329 research papers published between 2005 and 2017 on public policy matters of interest to Google that were in some way funded by the company …”

This manipulation covered: “a wide range of policy and legal issues of critical importance to Google’s bottom line, including antitrust, privacy, net neutrality, search neutrality, patents and copyright.”

• List of research papers funded by Google.
• Wall Street Journal even calls them out.

They Are Developing Mind Control Technology:

Former Google executive Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen told CNBC:

“I figured out how to put basically the functionality of an M.R.I. machine?—?a multi-million dollar M.R.I. machine?—?into a wearable in the form of a ski hat …

… If I threw you into an M.R.I. machine right now … I can tell you what words you’re about to say, what images are in your head. I can tell you what music you’re thinking of.”

Mind control technology has been around for decades:

• Princeton began parapsychology research in 1979.
• CIA has been heavily invested in all things psychological since the 1950’s, including remote viewing, telepathy, telekinesis … and most importantly mind control.

We have all heard about the infamous MK Ultra Project.

• We have robots that can be controlled with thoughts.
• Elon Musk has created a new company known as Neuralink whose goal is to merge the human brain with machines.

“Elon Musk is talking about silicon nanoparticles pulsing through our veins to make us sort of semi-cyborg computers.”

Google Has Artificial Intelligence:

AlphaGo: a sub program of DeepMind beat the best human at the world’s hardest board game Go. This shocked experts in the A.I. community because it demonstrates that a machine can learn and think, not just like a human, but better than a human. Instead of calculating all of its moves in advance, which in this board game is impossible because the amount of moves are limitless, AlphaGo used reinforcement learning and neural networks to mimic the learning process of the human brain.

What is Google DeepMind and what can it do?

According to their website, the goal of DeepMind is to solve intelligence by combining machine learning with systems neural science to build powerful general purpose learning algorithms.

It uses deep reinforcement learning, meaning it has no programmed boundaries … no rules …it learns from experience.

It starts from scratch, then competes against itself millions of times, continuously updating and discarding previous versions until it becomes flawless at its task.

They left it to play space invaders overnight. At first, it lost its 3 lives in seconds. Within 8 hours, it performed at super human levels.

DeepMind has now been deployed across numerous Google platforms: image search, speech recognition, its search engine, fraud detection, spam detection, hand writing recognition, Street View detection, translation.

It has taught itself to walk, run, and navigate tough terrain without any human help.

DeepMind can dream, create music and and what some are calling a new form of art.

It has created its own encryption and its own language that can translate any language it doesn’t know.

It has no rules, no boundaries. It can problem solve and master anything in ways we cannot fully explain. If needed, it can expand upon its algorithms.

Simply put, it can write its own code. (editor's note: No it can't, it can assemble snippets of code written by humans, Google's computers and software are subject to the same limitations as applies when I wrote my first program over 50 years ago. Things simply got smaller and faster.)

DeepMind can even create its own A.I.

Check out these A.I. Headlines:

• Scientists made an AI that can read minds.
• Commercial A.I. gets weaponized for the war on terror.
• Russian weapons maker Kalashnikov developing killer AI robots.
• Apple Devices Will Soon Have Their Own A.I.
• RUSSIA DEVELOPING AUTONOMOUS ‘SWARM OF DRONES’ IN NEW ARMS RACE WITH U.S., CHINA
• MIT uses A.I. to develop a nightmare machine. These are some of the scariest images you will ever see.

Google Has Bought Into DARPA:

DARPA has recently developed a machine that can 3D print living bacteria. Their goal is to streamline the genetic manufacturing process to create what they call living foundries.

Combine this project with DARPA’s transhumanism projects: the notion that man can alter the human condition fundamentally by augmenting the body with machines and other means.

“Soldiers having no physical, physiological, or cognitive limitation will be key to survival and operational dominance in the future.”

Finally you have their Targeted Neuroplasticity Training program, in which they aim to hack the brain to ‘upload’ skills.

Super soldiers with any skillset necessary, that can be mass produced from machines located anywhere so long as they can receive radio communication.

They don’t even have to be human.

Human-Animal Chimeras Are Gestating on U.S. Research Farms

Google Will Be Quantum by the End of this Year:

Quantum computing takes advantage of the strange ability of subatomic particles to exist in more than one state at any time. This means it can be a 1 and a 0 at the same time, utilizing far less energy to complete computations. However, unlike a usual bit, they can store much more information than just 1 or 0, because they can exist in any superposition of these values.

Have you heard anything about the rise of blockchain technology?

Blockchain will eliminate the need for centralized institutions like banks or governments to facilitate trade, evolving age-old models of commerce and finance into something far more interesting: a distributed, transparent, autonomous system for exchanging value.

Blockchain is radically transforming our economy.

Decentralized technology because blockchain is a distributed database across all computers of the designated block. In order to hack a blockchain, you would have to hack all computers simultaneously.
There’s just one minor hiccup no one seems to be addressing.
Within the conventional computing world … yes, this is an impossible task.
A quantum computer, however can hack all computers at once because it can be all computers at once.

In Summary:

Google is collecting and feeding all of our data into algorithms that affect our behavior.

They manipulate research and politics to their advantage. They are developing cutting edge artificial intelligence combined with quantum computing. They have invested in mindcontrol technology combined with everything DARPA: our military intelligence. Google is at this point perfectly positioned for world domination whenever they feel they are ready.

Author’s Note: If you are going to use my material, at least link it back to squawker.org. I always try and show the same courtesy.

Can we please all wake up now? Let’s get this party started.

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Google Is About To Start Tracking Your Offline Behavior, Too

by Josie Wales, The Anti - Media

It’s no secret that Google already monitors its users’ online shopping activity, but now it will follow them out of their homes and keep a close eye on every interaction they make. The tech giant announced a new system to track users’ in-store credit card purchases Tuesday in a statement published on the company’s official blog.

Google rolled out the new tool at Google Marketing Next, an annual event geared toward advertisers where the company unveils its newest innovations in marketing. “Store sales management” works by pulling data from Google’s third-party partnerships, which capture approximately 70% of credit card transactions in the United States. The system then streamlines user information in order to generate reports automatically sent to merchants who opt in. The reports will measure the effectiveness of online advertisements by matching in-store transactions back to Google ads.

According to the Associated Press:

"Google says its computers rely primarily on log-in information, such as email addresses, to identify the people clicking on ads. It then matches that data with other identifying information compiled by merchants and the issuers of credit and debit cards to figure out when digital ads contribute to an offline purchase.”

This is ultimately an upgraded version of Google’s “store visits measurement,” which was rolled out in 2014 and updated in March 2017. This tool utilizes deep learning technology to analyze vast amounts of user data, including email addresses, ad clicks, browser and location history, and user surveys.

Miro Copic, a marketing professor at San Diego State University, told the Associated Press that “the privacy implications of this are pretty massive, so Google needs to tread very carefully.”

Reproduced here under Creative Comons licence, acknowledgements to Josie Wales and The Anti Media

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Quality Content? On Planet Google The New Quality Is Anti - Quality

American activist site Alternet posted a story with the interesting headline

7 Surprising Ways Porn Is Changing

Users of Internet pornography are probably familiar with the site YouPorn. And maybe RedTube. There's also Tube8, XTube, ExtremeTube, and PornHub. The list goes on. These sites, often referred to as the "tube sites,” host a wide array of free (and largely pirated) user-generated content that's starting to change the porn industry. Listed below are seven of the most surprising ways porn is changing.

1. There's a lot less content.

Industry insiders will confirm that porn production is at an all-time low. Colin and Angie Rowntree have been in the porn business for over 20 years. Back in 1994, the AVN Hall of Fame inductees founded the BDSM website Wasteland.com. In 1999, Angie started Sssh.com, a porn site "for women, by women.” Colin estimates that at least 50% of the small studios have gone under in the past 10 years. Angie told me, "A lot of the little tiny mom-and-pop ones are gone, and those were the ones that had original ideas.”

Colin added, "If you want to get new content, quality content that's actually well made, somebody has to pay the performers. Somebody has to pay the cameraman. Somebody has to pay the editors. Somebody has to pay for all this stuff. And if nobody is paying to buy it, the whole thing comes tumbling down — which it currently is.”

Colin is right of course and his words apply to everything on the net, not just porn. It was inevitable that the hippy ideology of the founding beardies would lead to this, all that caring, sharing, join-hand-and-sing-kumbafuckingya bollocks could never work. It takes time and resources to make video content, be it porn, comedy, documentary or highbrow drama.

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I Told You Google Were Evil

Dr. Evil's even more evil twin, Dr. Google (source)

Google eavesdropping tool installed on computers without permission

I was always puzzled by they way Google became so dominant in the internet search market, OK Google would return a million results on your search and nerdy types are always impressed by big numbers but really, nerds aside, who would consider 'most linked', 'most viewed', 'most recent' and likely to earn most advertizing revenue as the best criteria foe grading the quality of content?

When however I learned beyond reasonable doubt last year that Google is really a subsidiary of the United States Department Of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) things made sense. Almost anything can be made to happen if you have unlimited money to throw at making it happen.

It also explains why Google (corporate motto - Don't be evil) are the most evil corporate business on the planet (well, apart from Monsanto maybe, but they are the only serious contenders.

So how evil are Google? Have a read at this from The Guardian:

Privacy campaigners and open source developers are up in arms over the secret installing of Google software which is capable of listening in on conversations held in front of a computer.

First spotted by open source developers, the Chromium browser – the open source basis for Google's Chrome – began remotely installing audio-snooping code that was capable of listening to users.

It was designed to support Chrome's new "OK, Google” hotword detection – which makes the computer respond when you talk to it – but was installed, and, some users have claimed, it is activated on computers without their permission.

"Without consent, Google's code had downloaded a black box of code that – according to itself – had turned on the microphone and was actively listening to your room,” said Rick Falkvinge, the Pirate party founder, in a blog post. "Which means that your computer had been stealth configured to send what was being said in your room to somebody else, to a private company in another country, without your consent or knowledge, an audio transmission triggered by … an unknown and unverifiable set of conditions.”
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The spyware feature is installed by default as part of Google's Chrome browser. But open source advocates are up in arms about it also being installed with the open source variant Chromium, because the listening code is considered to be "black box”, not part of the open source audit process.

"We don't know and can't know what this black box does,” said Falkvinge.

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Google and the Government Will Collect data On Your Farts

Levi's and Google working on interactive, internet device-linked fabric, how effing insane are these people? Are they gathering data on your fart and logging how often you scratch you belly?

Actually the claims they make for this new fabric are even crazier. I'm not saying the stuff will not do what they say, but FFS who apart from total nerds would want it. Throughout the day we all do stuff we don't want to share with the internet.

Project Jacquard – named after the inventor of a type of loom – was revealed during the internet giant's annual developers' conference in San Francisco on Friday.

"We are enabling interactive textiles,” ATAP's Emre Karagozler said while showing off the new smart textiles. "We do it by weaving conductive threads into fabric.”

To answer one of the key questions around the material itself, Karagozler explained: "It is stretchable; it is washable … It is just like normal fabric.”

The new type of threads used for the material can be woven into any shape, size or pattern and be made either to stand out or be invisible. The interactive material would be able to understand various gestures like crossing your legs or swiping your sleeve with your fingers.

The special fabric would also be capable of sending the data wirelessly to smartphones and other devices, opening up an array of new types of applications, aside from the most basic communication commands like placing a phone call and sending a text message.

"It becomes a home to new forms and applications we haven't thought of yet. The potential is that the input is the gesture – crossing your legs, swiping, saving, lifting,” Vice President of Innovation for Levi's said.

While not exactly an option for everyone, the interactive fabric would even be capable of notifying its wearer if they were gaining weight and be ready to suggest gyms, yoga classes and offer other health-related tips, founder of software development company FocusMotion, Grant Hughes noted.

Source: Russia Today

It sounds to us like a new advance in creepiness from the world's creepiest corporation. Steer well clear of Google in future.

How Law Enforcement Can Use Google Timeline To Track Your Every Move

Recent changes to Google’s Timeline feature may provide government agencies even greater access to users’ location history data, allowing them to track a person’s every move over long periods, according to a document recently circulated to law enforcement. "The personal privacy implications are pretty clear but so are the law enforcement applications," according to the document, titled "Google Timelines: Location Investigations Involving Android Devices," which outlines the kind of information investigators can legally demand from ISPs and the Searh operator. We have reported elsewhere in this document and elsewhere in our site that Google IS NOT Joe Ordinary's friend. The Google Timeline ostensibly allows users to look back at their movements on a map. That's fine. That the same information can now be examined by law enforcement is not so fine. It may help catch perpetrators of certain crimes by exposing false alibis, but the potential for misscarriages of justice. If a crime is committed by a man five feet eleven tall, with mid brown hair and blue eyes, the fact that he was in the area does not prove brown - haired Joe Five - Eleven is guilty. "It is now possible to submit a legal demand to Google for location history greater than six months old," the report says. “This could revitalize cold cases and potentially help solve active investigations.” The report was written by a law enforcement trainer, Aaron Edens, and provides detailed guidance on the wealth of historic location information available through Google Timeline and how to request it. A copy of of the document was obtained by The Intercept, it exposes the frightening levels of control governments are now seeking, with the aid of internet technologies to exercise over citizens. The expansion of Google’s Timeline feature, launched in July 2015, allows investigators to request detailed information about where someone has been — down to the longitude and latitude — over the course of years. Previously, law enforcement subpoenas to the company could only yield recent location information. The 15-page document includes details of information the author found being stored in his own Timeline: extremely specific historic location datadata going back to 2009. Those six years of data, he writes, show the kind of information that law enforcement investigators can now subpoena from Google.

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Google: I told you they were evil

Nobody who reads Boggart Blog or Little Nicky Machiavelli can say they have not been warned about how evil Google are, but if you need reminding this story from govtslaves.info has all the information you need.

"Google has managed to boost its revenues by billions of dollars this year by attacking thousands of smaller businesses who make money from affiliate programs. It does this by deliberately favoring large brands in its search results.

"This war is largely secret because very few people understand this shift. Google manages to deflect attention through publicity about projects such as Google+, or its self-driven cars — none of which are revenue generating businesses.

"Yet in its core business, under the renewed leadership of CEO Larry Page, Google has launched an incredibly aggressive strategy targeting mostly small firms. You can see how effective this has been in the following numbers culled from its financial reports.

"For example, for the whole of last year, Google's revenues from its own sites could barely keep pace with growth in revenues from its AdSense partner network — mostly small firms."

Read all at govtslaves.info

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The media, the so called 'experts' and politicians hail every technological advance as if it will transport us from reality to a utopian paradise. but does Artificial Intelligence and related internet and computer technology pose threats to human society that far outweigh any possible advantages? Whatever, Google plan to put machines in our place on top of the food chain.


Google a step closer to developing machines with human-like intelligence

Computers will have developed "common sense” within a decade and we could be counting them among our friends not long afterwards, one of the world's leading AI scientists has predicted. Professor Geoff Hinton, who The Guardian reports was hired by Google two years ago to help develop intelligent operating systems, said that the company is on the brink of developing algorithms with the capacity for logic, natural conversation and even flirtation.


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Google Meets White House Officials Every Week Why?

Google is massive. Its dominant position in the internet seach market was achieved with little apparent effort and in a relatively short period. Just over ten years ago Google trailed Yahoo although many self styled experts insisted iut was the best search engine (this was never true, unless you agree that the most viewed or most linked to item must automatically be the best quality information available). That was just over a decade ago.

Since then, while web journalist (who had enjoyed Google's lavish hospitality or just had sheep like tendencies) continued to insist on google's superiority even while Google carried on a battle with people who were trying (and often succeeding) in bumping their web sites up the listings by dubious means such as link spamming.

Now Google does everything it seems (but still delivers crap search results based on commercial considerations rather than quality of content). From running the most powerful web ads network in the world (and rigging its search results to ensure the pages that will bring it most revenue get the most traffic) to building "terminator” robots for the government.

Soon, as we have reported Google will use a new algorithm to determine search engine position. This new algorithm is supposed to weed out "false” data. Essentially, at least within the Google world Google is seeking to determine what is "true” online and what is not.

Given the close relationship the company has with the Obama administration, an administration which has shown itself to be severely "truth challenged," in its dealings with the public, this is of some concern.

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Thousands To Make Legal Stand Againt UK Government Surveillance

On Monday, the human rights group Privacy International launched a campaign that will make it possible for people anywhere in the world to challenge covert spying operations involving Government Communications Headquarters(GCHQ), or the USA's National Security Agency.

In the few days since the launch, thousands of people have already signed up to join the unprecedented legal campaign against government mass surveillance programmes.

A historic court ruling earlier this month that deemed intelligence sharing between GCHQ and the NSA to have been unlawful because of the extreme secrecy shrouding it has made such a challenge to the two governments possible.

Members of the public now may now take part in a lawsuit against the spying in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the court that handles complaints in the UK about surveillance operations conducted by police and security agencies.

Anyone wanting to join the legal challenge to submit their name, email address and phone number through a this page on the Privacy International website. The group intends to lodge a case against GCHQ with the court that will seek to discover whether each participant's emails or phone calls have been illegally obtained by surveillance organisations in violation of the privacy and freedom of expression provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights and The Geneva Convention.

If it is established that any of the communications have been unlawfully collected, the court could force GCHQ to delete them from its vast repositories of intercepted data.

By Tuesday evening,(16 February) more than 10,000 people had signed up to the campaign, a spokesman for Privacy International said.


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Google Driverless Car Project - there are still a few snags to be ironed out

Google Driverless Car Project

Google have bought some real cars but there are still a few snags to be ironed out

Ok, we've been pretty scathing about the Google driverless car project, basing our view on the prototype Wankermobile revealed amid much hype and even more ROTFLOAO among people who drive proper cars. The future of personal transport was going to look like the kind of toy car that might be found in a Kinder egg if the publicity could be believed.

Since then Google backed off the idea that they were going to build their own 'mobility-scooter-with-a-roof' type vehicles and bought some proper cars from real car manufacturers to convert into computer driven models.

And now they are claiming to be on the verge of putting the first commercially viable self-driving car on the road again. And again the Search Engine company are not being entirely truthful, there are many problems to be resolved before Google computer driven car can take to the roads, and some of them could prove insurmountable.

We'll leave aside the practicalities like the technology not working in bad weather or the fact that computers have no way of interpreting meaning therefore the cameras, microphones and sensors that react to stimuli cannot tell if a sound is a police or ambulance siren or a domestic burglar alarm going off, not can they tell whether a police officer is waving them to slow down or a grandma is waving to her family as they walk away from her door.

Even the most advanced prototypes, and those developed by Mercedes and Toyota are way ahead of Google, are having a hard time interpreting emergency sirens. If they are ever to be allowed onto real streets, autonomous cars will need to be able to respond appropriately to police instructions or the needs of emergency service.

Those things can easily be dealt however with providing the world is prepared to adapt in order to accommodate Google. From our point of view the real driverless car killer will be insurance. Because the driverless cars are not truly driverless but rather are driven by machines, who will be responsible in the event of an accident. because despite Google's claims that their technology is infallible and will eliminate accidents, there will still be accidents.

There will always be accidents, that is why car insurance is mandatory.

Quite how insurance would work when cars have no human in control remains unclear. The question of who pays out in the event of a crash involving a driverless car is still being debated and is seen as a major barrier to letting them loose on highways. Would the car maker, the component manufacturer or the owner of the data centre that was providing mapping information be liable. Or would the person sitting in the car be held legally responsible for it even though they were not in control. I can't manufacturers or computer operators taking responsibility and holding humans responsible for cars they are not driving is not going to be a selling point.

Several problems that will arise if these vehicles ever become popular spring to mind. Radar is increasingly being used on cars, eventually cross interference will render them navigation systems unreliable. Likewise a street full of Lidar units all spinning laser beams across each other will interfere. Several friends still involved in the industry have worked with Lidar type units and can tell you they don't work when its raining or foggy.

Then there is the problem of perception. While science fanboys (and girls) will continue to wax lyrical about a future in which we are all slaves to machines (or in their language free to do kewel things like spending fortunes playing computer games with in-app billing on our iPhones)the majority have a more down to earth view of technology's potential and limitations.

If recent surveys are to be believed, driverless car developers have failed at the first hurdle as it seems much of the public would be reluctant to ride in one of the cars. Half of Britons responded that they would be unwilling passengers in driverless cars over safety concerns, with 16 per cent professing to feel 'horrified' by the notion of unmanned vehicles driving on British roads. Four in ten would not trust an autonomous car to drive safely, believing it would jeopardise the welfare of drivers, cyclists and pedestrians, a survey from price comparison site uSwitch.com found.

Just like the reality of Google Glass (recently withdrawn from the marketplace) - and almost all Google's other great ideas that launch to enormous fanfare and then slip away into oblivion, people love to believe in the 'Google Geeks' beavering away at solving the world's problems in amazingly innovative ways (One geek cited Google Maps as an example but maps have been around for several thousand years and Google were not the first to put them online,)the reality is that Google is a one-trick-pony and not a very good trick at that.

It is a commercially successful search engine even if the results it produces are manipulation to deliver the most profitable links rather than the best quality information.

The real genius of Google is how it managed to monetise it's one trick - how much money it's managed to shake out of a world of consumers by telling them that the service is 'free' when it actually holds businesses to ransom by threatening deindex them if they don't cooperate. And of course, the costs of cooperating with Google are as always passed on to the consumer in the end.

These days Google sits on multi-billion dollar cash reserves generated by selling its shares to dupes rather than from trading profits. but with public outrage about the company's tax avoidance growing the directors worry about how to spend the money.

It is run by middle class white men who are obsessed with delivering solutions for which problems must be invented and that nobody other than geeks could give a flying fuck about.

This automated car is just another step in the direction of the one speed society - where everyone is dragged down to the level of the lowest common denominator, everyone holds the opinion of the stupidest and most sheep like and we all do as we are told.

Oh dear. What have I done, badmouthing Google, one of the Geek tribe's sacred cows? If The Daily Stirrer allowed comments, brainwashed trolls would be fighting each other to leave angry, rude, nonsensical abuse for anyone who refuses we will all be much happier when we surrender our individuality and let Google do our thinking for us.

O

r as Google chairman Eric Schmidt put it: "I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next."

The Daily Stirrer is happy to tell Eric what he should do next: "Eric mate, fuck the fucking fuck off."

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Google's Wankermobile Self Driving Car Can't Drive Itself

People are starting to trust Boggart Blog and our friend Little Nicky Machiavelli. That's because we are always right. And we always try to sound a weeny bit humble when we say I told you so.

Recently the usual types got a bit huffy when we mercilessly mocked the much hyped Google self driving car, or Wankermobile because it looked like the kind of car you would get out of a Kinder Surprise egg (only the Google jobbie wouldn;t go as fast). Oh you are anti - science, you are anti progress, you are anti-road-safety, they said. We're not any of those. Fatsally has a very high tech BMW, it's fast and runs clean and has lots of gadgets, even a Sat Nav which Sally does not use because she isn't brain dead and can read a map (that's through growing up with three brothers) I'm not against safety but the only two accidents I've had in a forty odd yeard driving career occurred whem my car was standing still and the ones that hit me we going well under the speed limit. So statistically the faster I'm going the safer I am.

And as for the science bit, well let's have the latest on the Google Wankermobile. Things are not going well we hear. As usual then, those semi autistic clowns at Google obsessed over the technology and didn't think the practical considerations through properly.

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from The Guardian
Google's driverless car may remain a prototype, but the FBI believes the "game changing” vehicle could revolutionise high-speed car chases within a matter of years. The report also warned that autonomous cars may be used as "lethal weapons”.

In an unclassified but restricted report obtained by the Guardian under a public records request, the FBI predicts that autonomous cars "will have a high impact on transforming what both law enforcement and its adversaries can operationally do with a car.”

In a section called Multitasking, the report notes that "bad actors will be able to conduct tasks that require use of both hands or taking one's eyes off the road which would be impossible today.”

The restricted (but not secret) report obtained by the Guardian under a FoI request states that the FBI predicts driverless cars "will have a high impact on transforming what both law enforcement and its adversaries can operationally do with a car.”


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The report states:

One nightmare scenario could be suspects shooting at pursuers from getaway cars that are driving themselves.

The report, written by agents in the Strategic Issues Group within the FBI's Directorate of Intelligence, says, "Autonomy … will make mobility more efficient, but will also open up greater possibilities for dual-use applications and ways for a car to be more of a potential lethal weapon that it is today.”

Well that certainly proves Guardian writers will be potential customers for Wankermobiles. These monstrosities, (designed for Google by the people who make Kinder Surprise toys) will do a maximum of 20mph flat out. I cannot see how the FBI's fears that Darth Vader or other intergalatic criminals will want them.

Who the fuck in their right mind other than a middle class, left wing, safety craving wuss would use one as a getaway car?

EU taking on Google - Well One German Publisher Is

Those New World Order fanatics at The Guardian, bless them, seldom miss a trick when it comes to promoting the single European Superstate and the globalist agenda. Their latest misrepresentation is to try and make us feel the European Union is somehow protecting our freedoms even as the bureau rats of Brussels are taking them away.

The fight to stop Google grabbing control of all the information in the world is not being led by Junkhead, Van Rompuy-pumpy, Baroness Ashton and the rest (they are pushing the neo-feudal Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership which would enable corporations like Google to override sovereign laws made by national governments) but by a German publishey big German publisherr - a very big and influential German publisher.

Mathias Döpfner is CEO of Axel Springer SE, Europe's biggest newspaper publisher, which owns its bestselling tabloid, Bild. His stated mission declares that Springer should become "the world's leading digital publisher " This conflicts just a tad with Google's stated mission that their aim is to become the world's ONLY digital publisher.

Axel Springer prepared to defend their position by introducing a partial paywall for Bild's online offering, bought TV news channel N24, and repositioned the print publishing operation behind flagship broadsheet, Die Welt, so that the web editors now commission content and a team of 12 editors compile the print edition from the online bounty.

Then Döpfner, a former journalist himsel felt it was time to pick a battle with the biggest player in new media: Google.

In April 2014, he lobbed a grenade in the form of an open letter to Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, in which he accused the Search Engine Giant of operating a business model that "in less reputable circles would be called a protection racket", and of discriminating against competitors in its search rankings (Google deny this but it is very obviously true). Google's motto was "if you don't want us to finish you off, you'd better pay", he wrote .

Last Wednesday, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We need a simple rule of fair and transparent search criteria, and I think the product that has the highest traffic should be on the top rank and the product that has the lowest traffic should be on the lowest rank. But unfortunately, Google is not respecting that."
In a speech on Monday, Döpfner went even further, saying that Google was "abusing its dominant position", This looks like hypocrisy coming from the head of a media empire which for decades abused its dominant market-position in the German media to impose a reactionary agenda on policymakers, but on the other hand it is no more hypocritical than google whose corporate motto ought to read "Don't be evil, that's our job".



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UK government plan to raise motorway speeding fines to £10,000 causes ructions.

The maximum fine for speeding on the motorway is to be quadrupled to £10,000 as part of sweeping reforms to the penalties which can be imposed by magistrates, the Government has announced.

Other fines for breaking the limit on dual carriageways and other roads will also increase four-fold from £1,000 to £4,000, along with the maximum fine for using a mobile telephone at the wheel.

Motoring groups condemned the massive increases as "draconian” and warned they could deter innocent motorists from challenging speeding tickets in the court through fear that they could be hit with crippling penalties.

Some people are rejoicing at this move saying it will improve road safety although while the poor bloody car driver always gets the blame, statistics show that more than half of the deaths on the road are down to jaywalking or drunk pedestrians.

There is a possibility of course that the government has an ulterior motive. Is it possible that the Google nerds have bribed Cammers and Gideon to harass car driver and tax us off the road as a way of promoting Google's Self Driving Wankermobile, the mobility scooter with a roof that will be driven via the internet by a computer program so the kind of anally retentive nerds who might think such a vehicle is "kewl" will be able to have a wank while being transported to their destination at 5 mph.

When you start joining the dots it all becomes clear.

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