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When is a company's Facebook post not an ad?
Posted: November 17, 2014 at 3:40 am
Facebook has decided to exert more control over posts that it deems "overly promotional." Ultimately, though, isn't every Facebook post by a company promotional?
Are the people Facebook is putting first its users? Or is the profit motive too hard to resist? James Martin/CNET
How human are corporations?
This thought has been niggling at me like a dyspeptic cornerback all weekend. I've been thinking, you see, about Facebook suddenly deciding to curtail companies' enthusiasm for posting overly commercial messages to the site.
The pain, so Facebook says, is felt by the users, who don't want to see too many corporate messages. The pain, so I suspect, is felt by Facebook, which realizes that there's a lot more money to be made from companies.
Now it'll be harder for brands to post "overly promotional" messages. Well, it'll be easy to do it. It's just that Facebook may easily make these posts disappear into its algorithmic ether, where commercial messages float in a nothingness and have only each other to talk to.
It's odd to think that brands would be on Facebook for any other reason than to be promotional. Altruism is rarely at the heart of a brand's mission statement. (Yes, even Facebook's.)
Facebook's true purpose in this latest move -- a wild guess, this -- is to get brands to pay more money for "conventional" ads. Given that the company says Facebookers won't suddenly see more ads, the price of those ads to corporations will surely rise.
The company's new delineation of which posts will be deemed overly promotional and which ones won't is curious. As my colleague Ian Sherr describes, it includes: "ones that encourage people to buy a product, install an app, sign up for sweepstakes or reuse the content from an ad."
What possible reason could there be for a company to post something to Facebook, other than to encourage people to buy its product? Every corporate post on Facebook is, in some sense, advertising.
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After three years, rights panel gets chairperson
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After a gap of three years, the State Human Rights Commission has got a chairperson. Mrs. Justice (retd.) T. Meenakumari, former Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court, will hold the post for five years or till she attains the age of 70, according to a notification issued by Public Secretary Jatindra Nath Swain on Saturday.
Governor K. Rosaiah made the appointment, after the selection committee was said to have met last week and made its recommendation.
The post has been lying vacant since August 2011, when Mr. Justice (retd.) A.S. Venkatachalamoorthy laid down the office at the end of his five-year tenure. The Commission has two members: Jayanthi and K. Baskaran. Ms. Jayanthi, a former civil servant, is the acting chairperson. In September last, the Supreme Court asked the State to fill the vacancy expeditiously.
Mrs. Justice Meenakumari was the first Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court, holding the post between March23, 2013 and August 3, 2013, when she retired. She also served as a judge of the Andhra Pradesh, Madras and Patna High Courts.
It was in April 1997 that the SHRC was constituted in Tamil Nadu under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.Justice S. Nainar Sundaram was the first Chairperson, who held the post till his death in September 2001. There had been many acting chairpersons before Mr. Justice Venkatachalamoorthyassumed office in August 2006. Under the law, a State Commission should include a Chairperson who has been a Chief Justice of a High Court; one member who is or has been a High Court judge; one member who is or has been a district judge; and two members having knowledge of, or practical experience in, matters concerning human rights.
The New Delhi-based World Human Rights Commission and Rescue Centre has welcomed Ms. Justice Meenakumaris appointment.
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Should Science End Humankind?
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"I want you to hold off on your intellectual gag response," the speaker told us. "I want you to stay with me through this 'til we get to the end."
The speaker was Paul Horn, former executive director of research at IBM. He's the man behind Watson, the machine that beat humans at Jeopardy. Horn is a highly informed, deep thinker on future technology. His talk was called "The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines." His purpose was to get us thinking more deeply about a revolution that, if it comes, would be unlike anything humanity has experienced so far in its long history.
Horn's main argument was that, in the near future, we will build machines surpassing us in intelligence. What the machines those machines then build will surpass their own creator's intelligence. This process will rapidly continue until, very soon, it yields a new force on the planet superintelligence. This runaway process is often called the "singularity" and Horn's main job was to argue that, given current trends in technology, something more or less like it is coming.
What happens next (not the subject of Horn's talk), depends on your level of optimism. If you think things will turn out badly, well, then, you know the story. Skynet. The Matrix. Robot overlords.
But if you're an optimist, then you think something wonderful is going to happen. With the help of our super-intelligent machines we become more.
"More what?" you ask. Well, more than human. We become the next step in evolution and that will mean humanity, as we know it, will come to an end. What comes next will be a new post-human era (transhumanism, the step in between, is an idea we've covered before in this blog).
But now comes the real question. Even under the most optimistic scenario where a post-human transformation is available to everyone regardless of race, creed or (the more likely stumbling block) economic status, is it still a good idea? More to the point, is actively developing technologies to put us at the intellectual level of a schnauzer relative to future post-human beings ethical, just and proper?
Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford, identifies the core value of transhumanism in the ideal of human potential. Thus, for a transhumanist, raising future generations to the heights our current potential is all that matters. As Bostrom puts it:
"This affirmation of human potential is offered as an alternative to customary injunctions against playing God, messing with nature, tampering with our human essence, or displaying punishable hubris."
Bostrom runs through the limits that can be overcome when we transcend the current version of humanity: lifespan, intelligence, bodily functionality, sensory modalities, special faculties and sensibilities. Thus, in a post-human world our children's' children may live for centuries, see in all wavelengths of the spectrum and think trillions of times faster and more deeply than we can even imagine.
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Jason (Subhead) – Futurism – Video
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Futurist Gerd Leonhard Flash Interview at Finco Sonae event in Lisbon: how tech changes humanity – Video
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Futurist Gerd Leonhard Flash Interview at Finco Sonae event in Lisbon: how tech changes humanity
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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! Let’s Play! (Part 2): The Lost Legion – Video
Posted: November 15, 2014 at 11:44 pm
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! Let #39;s Play! (Part 2): The Lost Legion
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The Working Of Philae, The Comet Lander / Wie Funktioniert… Der Kometenlander Philae? – Video
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LEGO BATMAN 3 – Walkthrough Part 5 Space BAT Battle! – Video
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LEGO BATMAN 3 - Walkthrough Part 5 Space BAT Battle!
LEGO BATMAN 3: Beyond Gotham Walkthrough Space Suits you Sir! Welcome to Part 5 of our Lego Batman 3 guide. This features co-op commentary with the Kwings! LEGO BATMAN 3 Part 6 ...
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Lets Play Lego Batman 3 – Firefly & Giant Cyborg! (Part 6 BEYOND GOTHAM) Space Station Infestation – Video
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Lets Play Lego Batman 3 - Firefly Giant Cyborg! (Part 6 BEYOND GOTHAM) Space Station Infestation
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Striking Pictures From International Space Station Reveal Gorgeous Earth
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Image courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun," Canadian poet Robert Service wrote in 1907. Above, astronauts witnessed the phenomena firsthand from the International Space Station, which orbits roughly 205 miles (330 kilometers) above the Earth's surface.
Astronauts made the image looking north across the Aleutian Islands, 20 minutes after local midnight in early August 2013. The space station was in its "top of the orbit," according to NASA, the northernmost latitude it reaches (51.6 degrees north). The Aleutian Islands are not visible on the dark side of the day-night line.
The thin clouds above the midnight sun are known as noctilucent clouds (night-shining clouds) or polar mesospheric clouds, since they occur over the poles during the summer. Astronauts describe them as among the most beautiful sights from space. According to NASA, data suggest the clouds may be getting brighter and appearing at lower latitudes as a result of global warming.
This photo and those that follow were all made by astronauts from the International Space Station since last year. The station launched in 1998 and is a project of five international space agencies, in the United States, Russia, Canada, Japan, and Europe. The station supports a crew of up to six people and has orbited the Earth more than 90,000 times, playing host to wide variety of scientific experiments and observations. (See more space station photos.)
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