Walt Ruppar

"According to a new proposal in New Scientist, our digital identities will be more secure if they are based on data from our everyday life, culled from cell phones and online transactions. The idea comes from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Human Dynamics Laboratory. The lab is a pioneer of “reality mining,” which is the practice of studying how people behave by using the crumbs of digital data our actions produce. Reality mining is “what you do and who you do it with.” Or in MIT-over-my-head-speak: “Reality Mining defines the collection of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behavior. This new paradigm of data mining makes possible the modeling of conversation context, proximity sensing, and temporospatial location throughout large communities of individuals. Mobile phones are used for data collection, opening social network analysis to new methods of empirical (information gained by means of observation) stochastic (random) modeling.” Even Google can’t define the word “temporospatial.” Find it. I dare you." - Walt Ruppar from Bookmarklet

I really liked the way Obama started his address, and I'll paraphrase...On 9/11 we were attacked by the Taliban, whom were based in Afghanistan... For the 1st time in history, the UN backed a full on attack in retaliation to this un-warranted attack resulting in the loss of many innocent American lives... As scary is it is, do I think we should be going back into Afghanistan? Hell Yes! We, along with the other UN member forces, need to finish what we started. - Walt Ruppar

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" What is following? Following is a way to receive information, in the form of tweets, from a person, company, or organization. If an account seems interesting, you can follow that account and see their updates in your timeline. This page discusses some of the limits and best practices regarding following on Twitter. What are the limits? We don’t limit the number of followers you can have. However, we do monitor how aggressively users follow other users. We try to make sure that none of our limits restrain reasonable usage, and will not affect most Twitter users. We monitor all accounts for aggressive following and follow churn (repeatedly following and un-following large numbers of other users). You can read more about these below, but if you don’t follow or un-follow hundreds of users in a single day, and you aren’t using automated methods of following users, you should be fine. Please note that the only automated following behavior that Twitter allows is auto-follow-back (following... more... - Walt Ruppar from Bookmarklet