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When Profiling Goes Wrong
huskymo writes "This morning's Wall Street Journal is carrying a funny story on TiVo and Amazon's automatic customer profiling. As most Slashdot readers probably know, TiVo keeps track of which programs you record and--if you haven't told it not to--records other programs it thinks you'd like. The article describes users that TiVo's mistaken for Korean, for gay, even for "a pregnant gay man.""
Funny as hell.
For TT.
I alternate between posting +5 and -1 Comments. Karma: +53 -47 = 6
No shit, it's not even a free reg, which is bad enough.
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Maybe this is another form of Slashdot advertising? I wonder if the WSJ pays them to link to the occasional story. ;-)
There aren't hundreds of posts bashing TiVo for profiling. Oh wait, that's because people can't even pretend to read the article because it requires a SUBSCRIPTION! heh.
As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.
"Communism is like having one [local] phone company " - Lenny Bruce
getting kickbacks from the Wall Street Journal now? I can see the future now: "According to the Wall Street Journal (blah blah paid registration blah blah) the IT market..." *sigh*
Why not fork?
This is some random Tivo review -- It is not the review mentioned in the story. Note the lack of profiling content in it.
You know,
Slashdot is selling ads, they need to to pay for bandwidth... Coudl it be they will link to stories on pay sites for a fee now?
Sorry, my foil beanie fell off, I think the alien rays got to me.
take care,
Steve
It's in the middle, genius.
will build up a profile of what you like and dislike. Then, if you want it to, it will spend its idle time (when it's not recording programmes you've specifically asked it
I alternate between posting +5 and -1 Comments. Karma: +53 -47 = 6
Oh yes, this is clearly talking about how profiling has gone awry. You will be destroyed Earthling, and I hope the moderators dumb enough to moderate you up will post in this story to revoke their mods.
Totally offtopic but every geek needs a free ASCII chart poster from copy disks.
And more pictures of University of Twente NOC Fire Arson
(4 Article text, here ya go.) posted on Tuesday November 26, @11:41AM (Replies:7; Score:-1, Informative)
This should be a new mod option. By the way, I have mod points, I think I'll run my own little bitchslap.pl on someone.
I alternate between posting +5 and -1 Comments. Karma: +53 -47 = 6
Your Art is appreciated.
You need a fucking paid subscription to read this article. Why even bother submitting it to Slashdot, as most certainly a large majority of its readers don't have a paid subscription.
But is your penis wreathed in long, curly tendrils of luxurious hair the every other normal male's?
I know we aren't supposed to read the article, but I figured this would be funny, so I... clicked the link! Imagine my (lack of) surprise when the article was displayed on my screen! This is my work machine, I just wiped the cookies yesterday, and I do not subscribe to WSJ Online. The only cookie on it is my /. login. What gives? Was the link changed or you people can't even be bothered with an extra click?
Karma: Incomprehensible (Mostly affected by posting at +5, reading at -1, and metamoderating everything unfair.)