When no one was looking, an Orlando thief took forty thousand dollars worth of cakes. He took $40k in cakes.
That's as many as four ten thousands.
And that's terrible.
When I still used FF with ABP, I would whitelist websites I liked, such as Hulu, etc because I liked their service and their ads weren't extremely unattractive.
When I first registered for Slashdot, after a little while I noticed the checkbox for disabling ads due to being a contributer. I thought it was a really cool thing of them to do, so I whitelisted Slashdot as well.
Exactly.
It's ok to worry about privacy, but if Google wants to use what random unimportant things I search for to be read by software (never people) to give me ads that are a) relevant, b) entertaining, c) (and most likely) never seen by me due to AdBlock, they're free to do as they please.
Especially if mining my (again, trivial) data contributes to the open source/philanthropic efforts put forth by them.
I find it funny that so many people are paranoid of Google having your information, and the only purpose they've shown for having it is to target advertising (which imo is better than CLICK HERE TO MELT THE ICE AND FREE THE WOMAN).
If you're truly worried about your privacy, you're a little too late for that, and it seems it's not Google you need to be worried about.
I would be surprised if they weren't planning on providing a linux client anytime soon.
You mean in-browser client. Only software ChromeOS runs is the browser, everything else is on a webpage.
However, I do agree that Google should be coming out with some linux client- they have native linux versions of Google Earth, Google Desktop, and Picasa, which work very well.
Not to mention Google uses their own mix of Ubuntu, so we'll see.
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cull the population down to a more manageable size. Now there's a solution that's not been tried before!
Sounds like a pretty modest proposal to me. I wonder why people in Ireland haven't thought of it before.
When no one was looking, an Orlando thief took forty thousand dollars worth of cakes. He took $40k in cakes.
That's as many as four ten thousands.
And that's terrible.
He's a pirate, from China no less. I doubt he cares about intellectual property problems.
It can still be argued that not everything against the law is necessarily wrong.
When I still used FF with ABP, I would whitelist websites I liked, such as Hulu, etc because I liked their service and their ads weren't extremely unattractive.
When I first registered for Slashdot, after a little while I noticed the checkbox for disabling ads due to being a contributer. I thought it was a really cool thing of them to do, so I whitelisted Slashdot as well.
However, I know I'm not most adblock users.
As far as I know, at least AT&T lets you buy a data-only plan if you walk in with a Blackberry.
every single site you visit.
Every single site someone visited. They don't link it with anything else, or keep your IP address, etc
Exactly. It's ok to worry about privacy, but if Google wants to use what random unimportant things I search for to be read by software (never people) to give me ads that are a) relevant, b) entertaining, c) (and most likely) never seen by me due to AdBlock, they're free to do as they please. Especially if mining my (again, trivial) data contributes to the open source/philanthropic efforts put forth by them.
I find it funny that so many people are paranoid of Google having your information, and the only purpose they've shown for having it is to target advertising (which imo is better than CLICK HERE TO MELT THE ICE AND FREE THE WOMAN). If you're truly worried about your privacy, you're a little too late for that, and it seems it's not Google you need to be worried about.
I would be surprised if they weren't planning on providing a linux client anytime soon.
You mean in-browser client. Only software ChromeOS runs is the browser, everything else is on a webpage. However, I do agree that Google should be coming out with some linux client- they have native linux versions of Google Earth, Google Desktop, and Picasa, which work very well. Not to mention Google uses their own mix of Ubuntu, so we'll see.
Bringing vile criminals like this to justice.