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Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 11:23 pm
by Vince
TPRJones wrote:GORDON wrote:... but I do wonder how much of our info is sold and surrendered to the government..
By Google, probably not much at all. Government doesn't pay diddly. Now selling your info to advertisers, that's another story.
I don't buy that for a second. Google is being given jet fuel and a landing strip by the military if I recall an article somewhere.
There's a reason the feds never sued them for all the passwords and email they "accidentally" picked up with their little Google mobiles.
Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 11:24 pm
by Vince
TheCatt wrote:I think the latter is more likely than the former. Google isn't evil. Google has made my life better.
Until they hit bottom (or OD) the heroin addict thinks his dealer is making his life better as well.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 10:18 am
by Malcolm
Vince wrote:TheCatt wrote:I think the latter is more likely than the former. Google isn't evil. Google has made my life better.
Until they hit bottom (or OD) the heroin addict thinks his dealer is making his life better as well.
Google isn't providing shit that poisons me. It's what they do with my incidental data that annoys me.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 11:59 am
by TheCatt
I love what they do.
Today I started getting reminders of where I parked my car.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 12:12 pm
by Malcolm
I like Gmail. I hate the fact that Google's scraping it for advert info.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 12:15 pm
by GORDON
Malcolm wrote:I like Gmail. I hate the fact that Google's scraping it for advert info.
98% of what i use gmail for is just forwarding my dtman.com email through it, and allowing it to scrub the spam. They can scrape for advertising all they want, I don't see their ads in my email client.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 12:39 pm
by TheCatt
GORDON wrote:Malcolm wrote:I like Gmail. I hate the fact that Google's scraping it for advert info.
98% of what i use gmail for is just forwarding my dtman.com email through it, and allowing it to scrub the spam. They can scrape for advertising all they want, I don't see their ads in my email client.
Hah, that's what I do with my primary account as well.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 12:54 pm
by GORDON
I'll go to gmail directly when on the road, but that is usually no more than 10% of the year.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 8:33 am
by Paul
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 1:25 pm
by Malcolm
John Oliver's take:
Worse, "the guy who used to run the cable industry's lobbying arm is now running the agency tasked with regulating it." This would be Tom Wheeler.
"That's the equivalent of needing a babysitter and hiring a dingo," he said.
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:32 pm
by TheCatt
Internet Fuckery
The video is long, about 13 minutes, but worth it.
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:33 pm
by TheCatt
Apparently the same people who coded healthcare.gov made the FCC site.
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 9:37 pm
by Malcolm
TheCatt wrote:Apparently the same people who coded healthcare.gov made the FCC site.
I can't even tell if that's a joke.
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 9:51 pm
by TheCatt
Malcolm wrote:TheCatt wrote:Apparently the same people who coded healthcare.gov made the FCC site.
I can't even tell if that's a joke.
Joke... but, go to the site, it's completely crashed.
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 9:55 am
by Leisher
BitTorrent giving us a glimpse at a possible future.
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:43 am
by GORDON
So is that a changing electronic billboard, and the website is the bullshit they envision for the future?
If do, the website is subtle. I know what I am looking at and it still looks legit.
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 11:01 am
by Leisher
I believe the billboard does change. Might not be electronic though.
Click the link to see the website, and then try clicking on a plan. You'll see what they've done.
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2014 1:27 pm
by Malcolm
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:32 pm
by Malcolm
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:57 pm
by Troy
Payola, a word I had to look-up. Sounds right though.
