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Bill Gates Knows What You Did Last Summer

Posted by samzenpus on from the tell-us-everything dept.

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.'"

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  1. Hmm by goldaryn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gates can have all that stuff, but there's no way I'm giving him my chair

  2. Re:And you were worried about Google? by MozeeToby · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  3. He wants to recreate you virtually!! by vivin · · Score: 4, Funny

    '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

    I like
  4. We know something about Bill Gates too by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    He started watching Caprica.

  5. What did I do last summer? by harry666t · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?