Comment Re:surprised, yet not surprised. (Score 1) 157
It sure looks like Google is in charge of Waze's ads...
It sure looks like Google is in charge of Waze's ads...
I seem to remember that the "Do no evil" thing was coined by Marissa Meyer.
She's also the one who said there'd never, ever be ads on the Google.com main page - which is now happening.
I'm not a huge fan of hers, but it is interesting to note that some of these philosophical changes at Google coincided with her apparently being expelled from the inner circle at the company.
You can disable them and use 3rd-party tools like Waze or any of the many others.
FYI Google bought Waze several months ago, and the two services are being integrated already. I'm seeing Google ads on Waze at times, and Waze alerts show up on Google Maps.
All my credit cards apparently have a unique 8-digit beginning.
Yeah, I noticed that.
The "Fancy Haired One"? What's scary is that could be applied to several people of similar political bent.
Nowhere in the article does it say it can track what you buy, there's no way an app can track purchases you made outside of your phone unless it's somehow linked to your bank/credit card account... this is just to track where you were. Basically, Google is stalking you, nothing new there.
Bluetooth LE beacons can let an enabled app determine your location to a reasonably precise location at a given time - say a checkout line (and as I recall, Android permissions are all or nothing, ask only at install) - it'd be trivial to send that info back to the mother ship. And if Google is partnering with the store, they are probably getting date + time + which register information about purchases made at the store.
I'm sure Google can put two and two together.
And even with iOS's finer grained permissions, experience leads me to believe people tend to just grant permissions whenever they're asked for without thinking about it.
Firefox is only browser on android and desktop that will support adblock plugin soon.
Mac Safari has AdBlock as well.
If they ban them completely, they'll invariably screw up the language when they try to cover every possible contingency, and - bam, presto, cars won't be allowed to have a transmission anymore.
But does he get a teapot and groupies?
Well, sheesh - you named the robot "Stabby"... what did you THINK was going to happen?
Sounds like it's a mixed bag for all browsers (I'm mainly referring to the comments):
Try actually reading the summary.
You're setting a pretty high bar there...
Theora Jones was somewhat older than ten, though.
Or maybe it's a riff on the old Amazon Mechanical Turk.
I got an invite from Google to participate in this, as I imagine a lot of folks here did. But it seemed like they were basically asking me to spend my time and effort mainly towards helping Google expand their brand...
BootCamp in Mac OS X is free.
Except installing Wndows on a Mac costs you a piece of your soul...
It seems that more and more mathematicians are using a new, high level language named "research student".
