It was a campaign with a debate in which China came up twenty-four times (not favorably), more than all the mentions of Social Security, middle class, Afghanistan, and Medicare combined.
By Evan Osnos October 17, 2012 If you want to understand the strangely starring role that China has come to play in this campaign, consider that it came up, by my count, twenty-four tines in the debate — more than the mentions of Social Security, middle class, Afghanistan, and Medicare combined.
To put this in perspective, Recorded Future, which collects intelligence from more than 600,000 sources, including social media and underground forums, queried their data warehouse for mentions of connected vehicle security.
There was apparently no mention of security.
These days any talk of the cloud almost invariably includes mention of security issues.
So while we should not be surprised to find zero mention of security and privacy in Pichai's pitch for a "personal Google," nor should we give Google a pass for failing to be transparent with consumers about the massive trade-off they are making when they pay for its hardware with their privacy (and their cash!).
"It is shameful they continue to complain of the protests that took place four years ago," said Mehdi, a teacher who asked that his family name not be mentioned for reasons of security.
The benefits claimed include jobs (perhaps lots of them), improvements to the UK's abysmal trade balance, not to mention security of energy supply.
He never mentions Social Security or Medicare.
Not to mention the security of this approach: The WAP caps water utility payment at 2.5percentt of monthly income -- what the federal government views to be the affordability threshold.
