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Microsoft Tracking Behavior of Newsgroup Posters
theodp writes "Ever get the feeling your Usenet newsgroup list is being watched? By Microsoft? If so, consider yourself right. An interesting but troubling CNET interview with Microsoft's in-house sociologist goes into how the software giant is keeping a close eye on newsgroups and other public e-mail lists, tracking and rating contributors' social habits and determining "people who the system has shown to have value." Those concerned that it's not a good idea for computers to track their belongings and whereabouts are advised that they may ultimately have to fragment their identities, keeping multiple IDs and e-mail addresses."
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everyones watching! *looks around suspicously* drat! now i can't open discuss how i want to blow up the white house! BOO FREAKIN HOO
Those fucking assholes think public information is public. What will they think of next? The information I release publicly is MY PRIVATE PUBLIC INFORMATION, Misters Gates and Smith, thank you very much. God DAMN what a bunch of assholes. I'll bet they'll fucking read this post at Slashdot, too. Asshole! Get out of my public life!
News flash: Windows XP allows users to FDISK and format existing Linux installations and install Windows XP on that hard drive, RENDERING THE LINUX INSTALL UNUSABLE! AMAZING! BASTARDS! HOW COULD THEY!
Tell him if he doesn't stop, you'll fling poop over the top of the cube wall.
I think it's more likely that Apple employees are astroturfing, after all, every pathetic mac boosting comment is modded up +5 insightful. Wow! That guy likes his iPod! What insight!
Frankly MS exec probably just say "so a handful of linux zealots dont like us, hand me a billion dollar bill i need to dry my sobbing eyes"
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
How dare you slander the sacred Google? What are you? Some kind of conspiracy nut case? Get down on your knees and beg for forgiveness before the Google Gods de-list your web site and remove any reference to you from the Collective Knowledge Base...
scriptdead .asp. you know damnned well that fuddles is assissting the georgewellians in some last gasper attempt at herding US into some sort of poorly (as is everything that is greed/fear based .contrived funnellistic cesspool of corepirate nazi dominance/destruction/mindphuking ?pr? ?firm? hypenosys. forget it. even morons can figure that out.
.asp for va lairIE's whoreabull pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise?, used against the truth/to protect robbIE's payper liesense stock markup bosses/corepirate nazi 'sponsors'. yuk.
like you have some clue as to what in the fud you're pretending to know/write about?
meanwhile, here in the gnu millennium:
what's wrong with folks selling their kode? if it causes convenience, & interoperates with all the other kode on the planet, we say, no harm, no foul, so long as you fail to employ gangsterious/felonious practices to asphyxiate the 'competition'. sabotaging your free version of anything is a tad dastardly. if there's value added, without FUDging up the compatability, we'll pay. same with music. no more gouging dough though.
fortunately, mr stallman et AL, etcetera, is now offering comparable/superior software, to the payper liesense spy/bug wear feechurned models, in almost every circumstance. there'll be few, if any more softwar billyonerrors, as if there's a need for even won. tell 'em robbIE. you are won of the last wons whois soul DOWt, right?
what might happen to US if unprecedented evile/the felonious georgewellian southern baptist freemason fuddite rain of error, fails to be intervened on?
you already know that too. stop pretending. it doesn't help/makes things worse.
they could burn up the the main processor. that would be the rapidly heating planet/population, in case you're still pretending not to notice.
of course, having to badtoll va lairIE's whoreabully infactdead, pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise, robbIE's ego, the walking dead, etc..., doesn't slow us down a bit.
that's right. those foulcurrs best get ready to see the light. the WANing daze of the phonIE greed/fear/ego based, thieving/murdering payper liesense hostage taking stock markup FraUD georgewellian fuddite execrable are #ed. talk about a wormIE cesspool of deception? eradicating yOUR domestic corepirate nazi terrorist/gangsters will be the new national pastime.
communications will improve, using whatever power sources are available.
you gnu/software folks are to be commended. we'd be nearly doomed by now (instead, we're opening yet another isp service) without y'all. the check's in the mail again.
meanwhile... for those yet to see the light.
don't come crying to us when there's only won channel/os left.
nothing has changed since the last phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated 'news' brIEf. lots of good folks/innocents are being killed/mutilated daily by the walking dead. if anything the situations are continuing to deteriorate. you already know that.
the posterboys for grand larcenIE/deception would include any & all of the walking dead who peddle phonIE stock markup payper to millions of hardworking conservative folks, & then, after stealing/spending/disappearing the real dough, pretend that nothing ever happened. sound familiar robbIE? these fauxking corepirate nazi larcens, want us to pretend along with them, whilst they continue to squander yOUR "investmeNTs", on their soul DOWt craving for excess/ego gratification. yuk
no matter their ceaseless efforts to block the truth from you, the tasks (planet/population rescue) will be completed.
the lights are coming up now.
you can pretend all you want. our advise is to be as far away from the walking dead contingent as possible, when the big flash occurs. you wouldn't want to get any of that evile on you.
as to the free unlimited energy plan, as the lights come up, more&more folks will stop being misled into sucking up more&more of the infant killing
here?
yikes.
Your post would have been halfway insightful if you didn't insist on doing the 'M$' thing so much.