Then they should call it "flat rate", not unlimited.
Anyone who thinks "unlimited" means "infinite," for timed (monthly) service on a network with bandwidth obviously subject to technology limits, is either being disingenuous or ignorant.
Of course it's not infinite, but an e.g. "unlimited 5mbps plan" should mean there are no other limits besides the fixed bandwidth.
1- First one only had to not use their services. Now one needs to disable caching or use private browsing.
2- "They just know that someone, somewhere goes to the websites" EXACTLY. If it was truly anonymous, they couldn't know that you're the same person that visited two unrelated sites! I
And as I said twice already, having a list of the websites you visit is more than enough to uniquely identify you. Not to mention GeoIP, that gives them a lot (no, it's not perfect, but it cuts down a whole lot).
And if you're that worried about analytics, google themselves released a blocking addon
First, you only had to not use their services. Now, you need to install an addon for blocking something most people don't even know it exists.
That's what I'm "crying" about. Your lies on how "easy" it is for a normal person to protect herself.
I'll stop mentioning MS after you stop mentioning IE. You said "google was bypassing IE's feature" which was false. IE was allowing invalid responses.
As you said, Google was wrong. In this discussion, the rest is irrelevant.
4- Anonymous - Adjective: Not identified by name; of unknown name- It's fking anonymous. They can't contact you in any way shape or form. They can know that someone somewhere, goes to A B or C. That is anonymous. If they are using a computer, they fking need a variable name at the very least. Stop nitpicking and/or acting like an idiot.
Your name is irrelevant - they can identify you as an individuals. Finding out your name from that data is easy.
The web has google in it. If you want to search for something, you'll even use it as a verb. If you dislike google, don't use the internet. It'd be a better place without you in it, at least.
So you admit you were lying about just having to "not use Google's services". You have to cut yourself off the whole Internet if you don't want to be tracked by Google. Great "choice" - I just have to switch careers and pay for college again! Piece of cake, right?
6- Ohhh. That's so much better, you did not pay to have more than 100MB of e-mail, you payed to have a machine serving your files and an internet connection powerful enough to send them. Thank god you said that, and here I was thinking that the simple commodity of the normal man being able to access their e-mails for free from anywhere without any kind of hassle whatsoever was good. If it wasn't for you my life would have no meaning
*paid
First, I never said they didn't provide a valuable service for the normal man. I said I didn't care for it.
Second, you don't seem to know how the Internet works. When you send a file using Gmail, you do know that the file has to be transfered to Gmail's servers through your home internet connection, right? Transferring from your PC -> Gmail -> Other PC cannot, by simple logic, be faster than PC -> PC directly.
Thirdly, that "machine" can be a simple router with an USB port. You don't need exactly a supercomputer to serve some files over the web.
1- You clearly have no idea of how ETags work, do you? They can track you when you're there, but then you leave and delete what might make it possible to recognize you again. Instead of spouting technical terms as if you know what you were talking about, you should read on the real use of ETags and why, for example, if there is a cache server inbetween you and the site there is no tracking possible. Just stop already, it's embarrassing.
I got to a random website - let's say, Slashdot - and I get a file from Google Analytics with a certain Etag. Then the next day I go to a porn website which also uses Google Analytics, so my browser requests the same file, sending the ETag in the headers. Pow, they have my unique identifier associated with both Slashdot and the porn site.
Now, pray tell, how exactly does deleting the cache *after* visiting the porn website helps?
And do you even know what anonymous identifiers are? Anonymous statistics. They even go as far as, if by any chance they go past some personal information, like device ID, they ignore it and generate a random anonymous identifier. As I said in your quote, anonymous statistics. That's it. From those links you gave me, it still is browser based. Just change your browser, computer, or simply don't go to google supported sites.
Truly anonymous statistics don't need identifiers - you just log whatever information you want from the request. Identifiers are only useful if you want to track people across multiple requests. That's called profiling.
And as I said, calling it "anonymous" just because you don't manually gave them your name is asinine. Your web history has more than enough information to uniquely identify you.
Do you own a cell phone? Do you know that every single cell phone operator gathers information about where you are, where and what path you took all the time and, in some countries, they even have so save that data for up to 6 months?
And I've complained about that too. So what? That doesn't excuse Google.
Any shop does that and I'm sure you never bitched about it.
Again, there's a difference between logging a single purchase and tracking using identifiers. I don't use cards, therefore shops have no way of identifying me (they can't use video, legally).
Your ISP keeps logs of EVERYTHING you did for ever 3 months in most countries. I'd disconnect from the internet if I were you.
I trust my ISP more than I trust Google.
And again, don't want google analytics? Don't visit the fking site. You're free to do whatever the fk you want, just don't fking go to sites with any connection to google. If you use the Internet, you need to bow to its mechanics. Stop bitching.
Again, 99.9% of the population has no fucking idea Google Analytics is being loaded on the background, nor should they have to.
2- I even said google were wrong to use a sentence a machine can't understand. Yes, google were wrong in that. But a browser trusting an invalid response as correct? Are you fking kidding me? Using your example, if you tried to get into my back account and actually managed to do it because the bank accepted your fake credentials... Yes, you'd be a thief, but the one I'd be taking to court was my bank for being incompetent.
Again, yes, MS are often incompetent. There's a reason their software doesn't touch my laptop. But it's fucking irrelevant to this discussion.
3- No, what I said was, if you don't want to get into this new privacy policy, don't use their services. But if you're paranoid, just clear your cookies. And people as paranoid as you can afford and know how to do that already. I said that as an alternative for idiots that don't what to suffer from any tracking whatsoever, even anonymous. That's it.
1- You have one hour, 2, a day. The time you were watching porn and didn't want to be tracked. Sigh... You clear your cache so you don't get tracked! What's your point, really?
Deleting the content *after* accessing the porn websites is useless: you're already logged by their servers! You need to delete anything that may identify you *before* you go to the porn website.
There are two kinds of tracking at play here. The one they associate with your account (what I meant when I said you shouldn't use their services) and the sudo-anonymous data that they collect when you enter a certain website. They don't know who you are, where you live and very easily you can hide from it, it's just anonymous statistics.
Wrong. Even if you're not logged in, they still build a profile on you - that's why they need Anonymous identifiers. And uniquely identifying someone is extraordinarily easy - you only need 33 bits of information.
But you can also opt out of it... if you see a page with google ads, don't go there if you don't want to be tracked by google...
Even if they don't have Google ads, they probably have Google Analytics, which is invisible to the common user.
And how do you know if the site has Google ads without visiting it and being tracked as a result?
But in todays internet, everyone tracks you and most are hundreds of times more creepy than google (at least with them you know exactly what your data is used for - they are quite upfront with it).
Well, I guess the guys who robs you $1000 is actually a nice guy, at least he didn't rob you $10000.
To sum up, don't like google, don't use websites where they're present. If you're really that bothered you can even send an e-mail to the webmaster saying why you're not on their site right now. It's your choice all the way.
As I said above, 1) there's no way of telling if they're "present" unless you're very knowledgeable and 2) to find out if the site has Google loggers, you have to be logged.
2- You mentioned IE. Google put a link to their privacy policy in the field that clearly stated what they did. IE didn't understand it but still thought it was a valid response. It's a bigger fail by MS than google.
If I find a bug in your websites bank and take money from your account, am I not a thief?
3- See the part where I mentioned incognito mode and clearing your cookies. You want to play dumb, be my guest, but it's extremely easy to avoid cookies.
YOU are playing dumb. You started this conversation saying "You only need to not use their services", now suddenly I have to know what a cookie is and how to disable them? Why?
4- The whole google complaining is an hypocrisy. They always were clear where they got their money
Being clear about where they got their money is not the problem, mr. strawman.
if it wasn't for google you'd still be paying to have e-mail with more than 100MB of space or using the calendar on the wall. You owe google a whole lot
Back the fuck off! Did I have a choice of whether I wanted to be helped? No? Then I don't owe them shit.
Secondly, I don't give a fuck over those "advantages". I have plenty of space on my HD for all the email I want to store (yes, I use a real email client which downloads the emails) and there are plenty of good calendaring applications available.
But the funny is that I actually like Google for many other reasons; I just don't like their tracking, which has the potential of being extremely dangerous and is unavoidable unless you know more about tech than 99,9% of the population, and I particularly don't like shills (unpaid, which is even more sad), regardless of whether they're defending Google, Facebook or MS.
1- Deleting the last hour only helps if the file with the tracking ETag was planted in the last hour. And besides, why should the user have to do that?
You said: "Don't want google to track you while you watch porn, don't use their services.", but now he needs to be an expert in tracking technologies?
2- We're talking about Google, not IE. 3- Google puts cookies even if you're logged out. 4- I'm not saying Facebook is better - on the contrary, I still trust Google way more than I ever trusted FB. But the fact that they do wrong is irrelevant to whether Google is wrong or not. And the fact that some complainers may be hypocrites is irrelevant too.
Well, if he's worried about the cookies, he can use a feature present on most modern browsers to go incognito or private or whatever. That works if they track with cookies. Most modern browsers will also let you delete things selectively (as in, "last hour").
If they track by IP (Which I doubt) then, good luck since most of the world is behind dynamic IP's that change every 4 days or so.
If they're going by your addon signature or any shady tactic like that (which I doubt, since they seem to be under a whole lot of scrutiny lately), simply don't install all your stuff on a "porn browser, creating a bogus signature.
What if they track by ETag? Wait, you didn't know it was possible? Yeah, that's exactly the problem.
Even chrome is getting a "do not track" button, so there is also that.
Assuming the service respects it. Safari and IE already had a "do not save third-party cookies" and many services, including Google, were evading it.
Either way, the only thing they are doing now that they didn't do before is sharing the info throughout your account. If he doesn't have an account, what's his problem? Because every ad company will track you.
Canceling your account now doesn't mean they'll delete all the information they already have on you, it just means they won't show it. Oh, and "everyone does it" is not an excuse.
And furthermore, I highly doubt that everyone complaining doesn't have a social network account or something like that. Those are far worse because, since google uses the analytics themselves, they won't be sharing anything relevant with no one else in order to get a competitive edge. Facebook is not on the advertising business, so they DO share the info of their users with others (which, in my opinion, is way worse).
First, that doesn't excuse Google.
Secondly, some of us do NOT have Facebook accounts. What you believe is with you, but it doesn't change reality.
Thirdly, Facebook is in the advertising business, yes. On their own website.
See those Facebook buttons in almost every website? That's Javascript being loaded from Facebook's domains, and your browser is sending your login cookies along.
Are they tracking? It's impossible to know. But they are getting the information of what sites you're visiting.
Parent's point is that the one "using their services" is the porn website (using Google Analytics), not the user, who will be tracked even though he isn't using any Google service.
Oh really, Mr. shill? So where's that opt-in option?
From Microsoft privacy statement:
Collection of Your Personal Information
We collect information as part of operating our Websites and services.
- At some Microsoft sites, we ask you to provide personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address, or telephone number. We may also collect demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. If you choose to make a purchase or sign up for a paid subscription service, we will ask for additional information, such as your credit card number and billing address.
- In order to access some Microsoft services, you will be asked to sign in with an e-mail address and password, which we refer to as your Windows Live ID. By signing in on one Microsoft site or service, you may be automatically signed into other Microsoft sites and services that use Windows Live ID. For more information, see the Windows Live ID privacy supplement.
- We collect additional information about your interaction with Microsoft sites and services without identifying you as an individual. For example, we receive certain standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring Web site addresses. We also use Web site analytics tools on our sites to retrieve information from your browser, including the site you came from, the search engine(s) and the keywords you used to find our site, the pages you view within our site, your browser add-ons, and your browser's width and height.
- We use technologies, such as cookies and web beacons (described below), to collect information about the pages you view, the links you click and other actions you take on our sites and services.
- We also deliver advertisements (see the Display of Advertising section below) and provide Web site analytics tools on non-Microsoft sites and services, and we collect information about page views on these third party sites as well.
- When you receive newsletters or promotional e-mail from Microsoft, we may use web beacons (described below), customized links or similar technologies to determine whether the e-mail has been opened and which links you click in order to provide you more focused e-mail communications or other information.
No opt-in here! The only thing you can do is opt-out of the advertising (not data collection).
More:
Sharing of Your Personal Information
Except as described in this statement, we will not disclose your personal information outside of Microsoft and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your consent.
So, you can't even choose not to share your personal information with some subsidiaries and affiliates.
Oh, and that centralization of data people are criticizing Google for?
In order to offer you a more consistent and personalized experience in your interactions with Microsoft, information collected through one Microsoft service may be combined with information obtained through other Microsoft services. We may also supplement the information we collect with information obtained from other companies. For example, we may use services from other companies that enable us to derive a general geographic area based on your IP address in order to customize certain services to your geographic area.
Except those dumb terminals were, well, dumb, while nowadays the "terminals" are essentially the same as the "mainframe" but slower. So you can have hybrid configurations were a dedicated machines handles the base load and spins up remote resources on demand to handle peaks. If those resources are unavailable, the dedicated machine can still do the job, just with some performance degradation.
A good example would be a script on your laptop that started an EC2 instance running distcc to reduce your compilation time from hours to minutes. If the instance can't be loaded, you could still compile, it just takes more time.
I don't know what supermarkets you have there, but here they have very similar - I'd say 99% in presentation (not taste) - store and name brands being sold side by side.
Only if you bothered to look. I seriously doubt most network admins will.
In fact, considering that most paid wifi networks I've seen - including ones owned by major ISPs - use captive portals and block all connections but still let this pass, I seriously doubt most network admins are even competent enough to know it can be done in the first place.
AUX in means you're using the phone's DAC, which is often shittier than the one in the car radio, due to size and power constraints.
It'd much better if they implemented an USB sound card interface. It's standartized by the USB spec - which means a generic driver would work for any device - and it'd transmit the sound as a digital signal to the radio.
Slashdot Mirror
A simple search reveals that Ruby has fork() and exec() too. The problem is the "properly written" part.
Then they should call it "flat rate", not unlimited.
Anyone who thinks "unlimited" means "infinite," for timed (monthly) service on a network with bandwidth obviously subject to technology limits, is either being disingenuous or ignorant.
Of course it's not infinite, but an e.g. "unlimited 5mbps plan" should mean there are no other limits besides the fixed bandwidth.
I'm older and hand held phones don't come in the large print edition
Actually they do, we got my grandmother a ZTE S302 exactly because it had nice big letters.
It's probably a pain to read and write SMSes in, because only a couple of words fit in the screen.
Then all plans are and always have been unlimited, they just reduce your bandwidth to zero! (Or to 1kbps).
Calling that unlimited makes it lose all meaning.
1- First one only had to not use their services. Now one needs to disable caching or use private browsing.
2- "They just know that someone, somewhere goes to the websites" EXACTLY. If it was truly anonymous, they couldn't know that you're the same person that visited two unrelated sites! I
And as I said twice already, having a list of the websites you visit is more than enough to uniquely identify you. Not to mention GeoIP, that gives them a lot (no, it's not perfect, but it cuts down a whole lot).
And if you're that worried about analytics, google themselves released a blocking addon
First, you only had to not use their services. Now, you need to install an addon for blocking something most people don't even know it exists.
That's what I'm "crying" about. Your lies on how "easy" it is for a normal person to protect herself.
I'll stop mentioning MS after you stop mentioning IE. You said "google was bypassing IE's feature" which was false. IE was allowing invalid responses.
As you said, Google was wrong. In this discussion, the rest is irrelevant.
4- Anonymous - Adjective: Not identified by name; of unknown name- It's fking anonymous. They can't contact you in any way shape or form. They can know that someone somewhere, goes to A B or C. That is anonymous. If they are using a computer, they fking need a variable name at the very least. Stop nitpicking and/or acting like an idiot.
Your name is irrelevant - they can identify you as an individuals. Finding out your name from that data is easy.
The web has google in it. If you want to search for something, you'll even use it as a verb. If you dislike google, don't use the internet. It'd be a better place without you in it, at least.
So you admit you were lying about just having to "not use Google's services". You have to cut yourself off the whole Internet if you don't want to be tracked by Google. Great "choice" - I just have to switch careers and pay for college again! Piece of cake, right?
6- Ohhh. That's so much better, you did not pay to have more than 100MB of e-mail, you payed to have a machine serving your files and an internet connection powerful enough to send them. Thank god you said that, and here I was thinking that the simple commodity of the normal man being able to access their e-mails for free from anywhere without any kind of hassle whatsoever was good. If it wasn't for you my life would have no meaning
*paid
First, I never said they didn't provide a valuable service for the normal man. I said I didn't care for it.
Second, you don't seem to know how the Internet works. When you send a file using Gmail, you do know that the file has to be transfered to Gmail's servers through your home internet connection, right? Transferring from your PC -> Gmail -> Other PC cannot, by simple logic, be faster than PC -> PC directly.
Thirdly, that "machine" can be a simple router with an USB port. You don't need exactly a supercomputer to serve some files over the web.
1- You clearly have no idea of how ETags work, do you? They can track you when you're there, but then you leave and delete what might make it possible to recognize you again. Instead of spouting technical terms as if you know what you were talking about, you should read on the real use of ETags and why, for example, if there is a cache server inbetween you and the site there is no tracking possible. Just stop already, it's embarrassing.
I got to a random website - let's say, Slashdot - and I get a file from Google Analytics with a certain Etag. Then the next day I go to a porn website which also uses Google Analytics, so my browser requests the same file, sending the ETag in the headers. Pow, they have my unique identifier associated with both Slashdot and the porn site.
Now, pray tell, how exactly does deleting the cache *after* visiting the porn website helps?
And do you even know what anonymous identifiers are? Anonymous statistics. They even go as far as, if by any chance they go past some personal information, like device ID, they ignore it and generate a random anonymous identifier. As I said in your quote, anonymous statistics. That's it. From those links you gave me, it still is browser based. Just change your browser, computer, or simply don't go to google supported sites.
Truly anonymous statistics don't need identifiers - you just log whatever information you want from the request. Identifiers are only useful if you want to track people across multiple requests. That's called profiling.
And as I said, calling it "anonymous" just because you don't manually gave them your name is asinine. Your web history has more than enough information to uniquely identify you.
Do you own a cell phone? Do you know that every single cell phone operator gathers information about where you are, where and what path you took all the time and, in some countries, they even have so save that data for up to 6 months?
And I've complained about that too. So what? That doesn't excuse Google.
Any shop does that and I'm sure you never bitched about it.
Again, there's a difference between logging a single purchase and tracking using identifiers. I don't use cards, therefore shops have no way of identifying me (they can't use video, legally).
Your ISP keeps logs of EVERYTHING you did for ever 3 months in most countries. I'd disconnect from the internet if I were you.
I trust my ISP more than I trust Google.
And again, don't want google analytics? Don't visit the fking site. You're free to do whatever the fk you want, just don't fking go to sites with any connection to google. If you use the Internet, you need to bow to its mechanics. Stop bitching.
Again, 99.9% of the population has no fucking idea Google Analytics is being loaded on the background, nor should they have to.
2- I even said google were wrong to use a sentence a machine can't understand. Yes, google were wrong in that. But a browser trusting an invalid response as correct? Are you fking kidding me? Using your example, if you tried to get into my back account and actually managed to do it because the bank accepted your fake credentials... Yes, you'd be a thief, but the one I'd be taking to court was my bank for being incompetent.
Again, yes, MS are often incompetent. There's a reason their software doesn't touch my laptop. But it's fucking irrelevant to this discussion.
3- No, what I said was, if you don't want to get into this new privacy policy, don't use their services. But if you're paranoid, just clear your cookies. And people as paranoid as you can afford and know how to do that already. I said that as an alternative for idiots that don't what to suffer from any tracking whatsoever, even anonymous. That's it.
And I repeat, most p
1- You have one hour, 2, a day. The time you were watching porn and didn't want to be tracked. Sigh... You clear your cache so you don't get tracked! What's your point, really?
Deleting the content *after* accessing the porn websites is useless: you're already logged by their servers! You need to delete anything that may identify you *before* you go to the porn website.
There are two kinds of tracking at play here. The one they associate with your account (what I meant when I said you shouldn't use their services) and the sudo-anonymous data that they collect when you enter a certain website. They don't know who you are, where you live and very easily you can hide from it, it's just anonymous statistics.
Wrong. Even if you're not logged in, they still build a profile on you - that's why they need Anonymous identifiers. And uniquely identifying someone is extraordinarily easy - you only need 33 bits of information.
But you can also opt out of it... if you see a page with google ads, don't go there if you don't want to be tracked by google...
Even if they don't have Google ads, they probably have Google Analytics, which is invisible to the common user.
And how do you know if the site has Google ads without visiting it and being tracked as a result?
But in todays internet, everyone tracks you and most are hundreds of times more creepy than google (at least with them you know exactly what your data is used for - they are quite upfront with it).
Well, I guess the guys who robs you $1000 is actually a nice guy, at least he didn't rob you $10000.
To sum up, don't like google, don't use websites where they're present. If you're really that bothered you can even send an e-mail to the webmaster saying why you're not on their site right now. It's your choice all the way.
As I said above, 1) there's no way of telling if they're "present" unless you're very knowledgeable and 2) to find out if the site has Google loggers, you have to be logged.
2- You mentioned IE. Google put a link to their privacy policy in the field that clearly stated what they did. IE didn't understand it but still thought it was a valid response. It's a bigger fail by MS than google.
If I find a bug in your websites bank and take money from your account, am I not a thief?
3- See the part where I mentioned incognito mode and clearing your cookies. You want to play dumb, be my guest, but it's extremely easy to avoid cookies.
YOU are playing dumb. You started this conversation saying "You only need to not use their services", now suddenly I have to know what a cookie is and how to disable them? Why?
4- The whole google complaining is an hypocrisy. They always were clear where they got their money
Being clear about where they got their money is not the problem, mr. strawman.
if it wasn't for google you'd still be paying to have e-mail with more than 100MB of space or using the calendar on the wall. You owe google a whole lot
Back the fuck off! Did I have a choice of whether I wanted to be helped? No? Then I don't owe them shit.
Secondly, I don't give a fuck over those "advantages". I have plenty of space on my HD for all the email I want to store (yes, I use a real email client which downloads the emails) and there are plenty of good calendaring applications available.
But the funny is that I actually like Google for many other reasons; I just don't like their tracking, which has the potential of being extremely dangerous and is unavoidable unless you know more about tech than 99,9% of the population, and I particularly don't like shills (unpaid, which is even more sad), regardless of whether they're defending Google, Facebook or MS.
The Shareholder Wealth Maximization Myth.
By the way, Sergey, Larry and Eric alone control more than 50% of the voting power.
1- Deleting the last hour only helps if the file with the tracking ETag was planted in the last hour. And besides, why should the user have to do that?
You said: "Don't want google to track you while you watch porn, don't use their services.", but now he needs to be an expert in tracking technologies?
2- We're talking about Google, not IE.
3- Google puts cookies even if you're logged out.
4- I'm not saying Facebook is better - on the contrary, I still trust Google way more than I ever trusted FB. But the fact that they do wrong is irrelevant to whether Google is wrong or not. And the fact that some complainers may be hypocrites is irrelevant too.
Well, if he's worried about the cookies, he can use a feature present on most modern browsers to go incognito or private or whatever. That works if they track with cookies. Most modern browsers will also let you delete things selectively (as in, "last hour").
If they track by IP (Which I doubt) then, good luck since most of the world is behind dynamic IP's that change every 4 days or so.
If they're going by your addon signature or any shady tactic like that (which I doubt, since they seem to be under a whole lot of scrutiny lately), simply don't install all your stuff on a "porn browser, creating a bogus signature.
What if they track by ETag? Wait, you didn't know it was possible? Yeah, that's exactly the problem.
Even chrome is getting a "do not track" button, so there is also that.
Assuming the service respects it. Safari and IE already had a "do not save third-party cookies" and many services, including Google, were evading it.
Either way, the only thing they are doing now that they didn't do before is sharing the info throughout your account. If he doesn't have an account, what's his problem? Because every ad company will track you.
Canceling your account now doesn't mean they'll delete all the information they already have on you, it just means they won't show it. Oh, and "everyone does it" is not an excuse.
And furthermore, I highly doubt that everyone complaining doesn't have a social network account or something like that. Those are far worse because, since google uses the analytics themselves, they won't be sharing anything relevant with no one else in order to get a competitive edge. Facebook is not on the advertising business, so they DO share the info of their users with others (which, in my opinion, is way worse).
First, that doesn't excuse Google.
Secondly, some of us do NOT have Facebook accounts. What you believe is with you, but it doesn't change reality.
Thirdly, Facebook is in the advertising business, yes. On their own website.
See those Facebook buttons in almost every website? That's Javascript being loaded from Facebook's domains, and your browser is sending your login cookies along.
Are they tracking? It's impossible to know. But they are getting the information of what sites you're visiting.
Parent's point is that the one "using their services" is the porn website (using Google Analytics), not the user, who will be tracked even though he isn't using any Google service.
I don't like lying shills, therefore I'm a Google fanboy? Good argument.
Oh really, Mr. shill? So where's that opt-in option?
From Microsoft privacy statement:
Collection of Your Personal Information
We collect information as part of operating our Websites and services.
- At some Microsoft sites, we ask you to provide personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address, or telephone number. We may also collect demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. If you choose to make a purchase or sign up for a paid subscription service, we will ask for additional information, such as your credit card number and billing address.
- In order to access some Microsoft services, you will be asked to sign in with an e-mail address and password, which we refer to as your Windows Live ID. By signing in on one Microsoft site or service, you may be automatically signed into other Microsoft sites and services that use Windows Live ID. For more information, see the Windows Live ID privacy supplement.
- We collect additional information about your interaction with Microsoft sites and services without identifying you as an individual. For example, we receive certain standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring Web site addresses. We also use Web site analytics tools on our sites to retrieve information from your browser, including the site you came from, the search engine(s) and the keywords you used to find our site, the pages you view within our site, your browser add-ons, and your browser's width and height.
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Oh, and that centralization of data people are criticizing Google for?
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The replacements already existed before MU was shutdown, they just get used more.
There are. Search for "hybrid hosting", "hybrid cloud" and similar.
Except those dumb terminals were, well, dumb, while nowadays the "terminals" are essentially the same as the "mainframe" but slower. So you can have hybrid configurations were a dedicated machines handles the base load and spins up remote resources on demand to handle peaks. If those resources are unavailable, the dedicated machine can still do the job, just with some performance degradation.
A good example would be a script on your laptop that started an EC2 instance running distcc to reduce your compilation time from hours to minutes. If the instance can't be loaded, you could still compile, it just takes more time.
The government issiued currency is backed by the whole economy and not just by one company.
Yeah, tell me how did that work out for Germans and Poles circa 1923, Brazilians circa 1994, Greeks circa 1944, Peruvians circa 1990... shall I go on?
There's Hacker News, but I'm not sure if you'll prefer it.
I'd much rather be able to build a custom RSS feed so my RSS feed wouldn't see the stories I'm not interested in.
That's what Yahoo Pipes is for.
Take for example this pipe, clone it, then add one filter for each section you want to take out.
I don't know what supermarkets you have there, but here they have very similar - I'd say 99% in presentation (not taste) - store and name brands being sold side by side.
There are far, far more fart apps on the 40 android market stores than on the AppStore.
That's because the Android Market is open.
App Store has the disavantages of being closed without the advantages of banning the 400+ fart apps.
That depends on the car. Some have surprisingly good acoustic insulation.
Only if you bothered to look. I seriously doubt most network admins will.
In fact, considering that most paid wifi networks I've seen - including ones owned by major ISPs - use captive portals and block all connections but still let this pass, I seriously doubt most network admins are even competent enough to know it can be done in the first place.
AUX in means you're using the phone's DAC, which is often shittier than the one in the car radio, due to size and power constraints.
It'd much better if they implemented an USB sound card interface. It's standartized by the USB spec - which means a generic driver would work for any device - and it'd transmit the sound as a digital signal to the radio.