the google car is no worse then a pair of eyes walking down the street or one of the millions of camera's around the place.
Exactly! And for everybody half-reasonable, this is the beginning and the end of the whole story about Google Street View "invading privacy".
Please
Again, there is no such thing as privacy in a public place. Google Street View is a very cool and useful service and I can't stand mental midgets opposing it for their anal retentive reasons.
It's not your software. It's their software.
How is that different than any other software you "buy?" I can go pick up DVD containing Office 2007 but I don't own Office 2007. I own a nice piece of plastic and a license granting me use of the software.
The striking difference is that you will be able to continue using your copy of Office 2007 even after Microsoft goes titsup.
I've seen lots of links and stories about the kid in Paris who got glass in his eye, and apparently he won't turn over the iPod for testing.
Why would he surrender the evidence to Apple? So that they can conveniently destroy it?
Apple says they're aware of fewer than ten incidents, and that these all seem to be caused by "external force", not battery issues.
Apple says. Excuse me if I prefer listening to a less biased source.
Now if Apple could just invent a docking station... so corporate users wouldn't have to plug in half a dozen cables every day. Of course you could go out an buy the Apple Monitor, which would eliminate 1 cable...
Is this what you are looking for?
The only thing the war on drugs accomplishes is making criminals extremely wealthy.
I would add the hypocritical and corrupt government and justice to the list of those who profit on the war on drugs, but they are also criminals themselves, anyway.
Otherwise, very well written. Mod up.
FYI, the iPhone 3GS has voice commands built-in now. Too bad it wasn't there from the start...
Perhaps so, but this fact doesn't address RCourtney's concern about upload of contact lists to untrustworthy parties.
This makes me wonder how aborting a human life far less developed than a toddler can still draw so much debate, while relatively little concern is shown for the thousands of lost lives of unwanted pets euthanized every year in animal shelters.
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Are you new to the internet? Since when is anything posted on facebook "private"??
Exactly. I have to wonder what kind of a cretin modded you down for saying this.
Sometimes, it's the ignorant friend who posts the data that you want to keep private for you. Even if you're not a Facebook user.
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This is the argument I raise in most discussions about Facebook. While the above is perfectly feasible everywhere on the Web (not to mention other services such as Usenet,) the main problem is that Facebook encourages such behavior. Facebook doesn't only make business on making its users give up their own personal information (which I cannot object), but also others', mostly without their consent.
Take the contact list import function as an example. It asks you for your user name and password on a third party web mail (probably with a hypocritical "We promise not to abuse it" disclaimer) to download your whole address book and spam your peers. Anybody using such a function a decade ago would have been declared an idiot, but today it seems to be perfectly normal and acceptable to do so.
My only problem with Facebook is that why they can't allow a complete account removal. They just disable the accounts. With a simple log in, the account is re - enabled.
I joined Facebook on the insistence of my friends. However, I no longer feel it useful, they are too many cluttered apps (which I can't tolerate) and other stuff which make it simply unusable. I tried to delete my account, it doesn't work.
You know what I am going to answer, don't you? It's your own fault.
Grow a backbone and get a habit of telling your friends to go and fuck themselves when appropriate. Otherwise you could end up doing worse things than signing up for a bullshit web site next time you succumb to peer pressure.
We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a clever but highly unmotivated trick. -- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra"
