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Bill Gates Knows What You Did Last Summer
theodp writes "Give Bill Gates your 'pictures, videos, documents, e-mail, instant messages, addresses, calendar dates/scheduling information (e.g., birthdays, anniversaries, appointments), voice mail, phone logs, RSS feeds, subscriptions, bookmarks, mail lists, project management features, computing device data, tasks and location data,' and he'll improve your 'quality of life.' That's the promise behind a patent issued Thursday to Bill Gates and his 20 co-inventors for 'Personal Data Mining', which Microsoft notes 'can include a monetization component' that 'could initiate an auction to sell information to the highest bidder.'"
Not for everyone.
The way to combat this is to kill the monetization component. The way to do that is to beat Bill to the punch and give all your data to everyone before he does, so they have to motivation to buy it.
"Sacrifice for the good of The State" - The State
Gates can have all that stuff, but there's no way I'm giving him my chair
Privacy is to quality of life as hookers are to blackjack.
It looks like you're getting married, would you like to...
() Perform background check on your fiance
() Take out a loan to pay for the reception
() Invite Clippy... Please? I'm so lonely...
'pictures, videos, documents, e-mail, instant messages, addresses, calendar dates/scheduling information (e.g., birthdays, anniversaries, appointments), voice mail, phone logs, RSS feeds, subscriptions, bookmarks, mail lists, project management features, computing device data, tasks and location data,
... and then he will use your virtual avatar and put it into a military robot... we know where that goes!
Vivin Suresh Paliath
http://vivin.net
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Essential? What kind of blackjack do you play? I want in on that action.
see this link
http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
He started watching Caprica.
Ummm...used Linux? :P
The reprogramming task force is on the way to you.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
I was camping in a middle of a fucking forest with a herd of hippies, that's what I did.
So, how can you improve the quality of my life, mr. Gates? Can you give me a bigger forest? More hippies? Less villagers with pitchforks?
...for Gates patenting their complete business model. Is it more evil that Google didn't patent it, or is it worse that they kept it on the down-low?
#1 - Store loyalty cards? GET RID OF THEM.
A few friends and I used to rotate our Kroger cards randomly about once a week. We were all from different walks of life, so I can imagine what Kroger thought after a while. "One week: 5 packs of Ramen and a 24-banger of Bud. Next week: Filet, salmon, fresh vegetables, and a couple $30 bottle of wine. Next week: Weight Watchers Meals and 'Vitamin Water'. WTF?"
"This post contains words, known to the State of California to cause thought. Wash brain thoroughly after reading."
Have you been searching Google Images for "megan fox nipslip?".
Sincerely,
Bill Gates.