It's the equivalent of Google listening to what people are saying sitting at the corner coffee shop. Face it, when you're talking in public with strangers standing right next to you listening, you don't expect what you say to go unheard.
No, it's the equivalent of Google planting microphones hooked up to recorders in every cafe, other public places, outside my house and then claiming, this is a common area, any conversations here can be heard by anyone who's close-by, so what's wrong in recording them?
The point is that these are NOT publicly available maps - I think it's important for everyone to understand that. There's no way I can get the images of the area in question that Google is offering anywhere else - not offline anyways. And the double standards wrt White House being blurred out and "high security" buildings of other countries not is what everyone's trying to highlight here. India has had a very strict policy about this forever - not just since 9/11 unlike most countries so it's not like we're suddenly paranoid, which you lot are.
A stupid thing coming from a smart man is stupid alright, but I was trying to tell you that the two men at the top in India aren't your average politicians. And Kalam isn't playing to the gallery when he's saying this - he doesn't need to as he isn't elected by the general public like someone's already pointed out.
Actually this just underlines that America is truly blessed having a moron for a President and some politicians do know what they're talking about. Between the two of them, India's current President and Prime Minister have more degrees (and not just on paper) than perhaps all of your presidents put together, so when Kalam speaks about defence/ space and Singh talks about economy they know what they're talking about.
It would be naive to think that Google has so far not been associating searches with Google IDs already. That is the whole idea behind there huge "takeover" of the world, isn't it? To borrow from what I read somewhere when Gmail was released, they know what yourinterestsare, what you buy, who yourfriends are etc etc.
They're sitting on a gold mine of information. Gmail was the carrot they offered to everyone to get them to sign up, because not everyone blogs but, surely, everyone needs email. And boy were they right! Everyone's moved to gmail and viola - you can now map every little thing they do.
I'm sure they use it internally in one form or the other - evil or otherwise i.e. to give me "better" ads - exactly what I need:roll: Only now they've decided to "open" part of it to the public - "we have all this information with us anyways, let's give some of it to the public and win some more brownie points in the process"
Of course, Yahoo! does that as well, and I'm sure MSN too. They've had the "IDs" all along - Google had it the hard way - they HAD to come up with Gmail or they had no chance.
not a steam engine in India with 1000 people sitting on top of the box cars!
The Indian steam engine you're talking about perhaps:
"Automatic door opening and closing mechanism and the train cannot move unless all doors are closed and locked. If a door opens accidentally in the moving train, brakes will apply automatically, bringing the train to a halt."
parent poster = self;// Didn't intend to post as AC.
Two things that malfunctioned for the parent post:
1. "Public Terminal" - thought it stuck around for atleast sometime.
2. Of course, Missing html tags.
I think it's the easiest way of having a no/ limited responsibility associated with a product. If anything goes wrong, you can't complain because after all the software/ site is in beta and you "willingly" decided to become "testers".
Google could go ahead and wipe off the Gmail slate today saying it'll now be shut off for a month while we work on it and reopen afresh a month when anyone can take up user names on a first-come-first-serve basis like any other email site - all because they've used the "beta" tag so far. The fact that it would be a disastrous PR exercise withstanding.
Though I guess any of the free (and many paid as well) could shut shop anyday if they decided to - actually reading the Terms and Conditions of any site is an indicator enough.
The beta tag helps them get the best of both worlds as I see it - make money off the product/ feature while they refine it, and still absolve themselves off a lot of blame.
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It's the equivalent of Google listening to what people are saying sitting at the corner coffee shop. Face it, when you're talking in public with strangers standing right next to you listening, you don't expect what you say to go unheard.
No, it's the equivalent of Google planting microphones hooked up to recorders in every cafe, other public places, outside my house and then claiming, this is a common area, any conversations here can be heard by anyone who's close-by, so what's wrong in recording them?
The difference is that we trust Google.
Rookie mistake.
More like, "It's like y2k, only real!" ;-)
A stupid thing coming from a smart man is stupid alright, but I was trying to tell you that the two men at the top in India aren't your average politicians. And Kalam isn't playing to the gallery when he's saying this - he doesn't need to as he isn't elected by the general public like someone's already pointed out.
Actually this just underlines that America is truly blessed having a moron for a President and some politicians do know what they're talking about. Between the two of them, India's current President and Prime Minister have more degrees (and not just on paper) than perhaps all of your presidents put together, so when Kalam speaks about defence/ space and Singh talks about economy they know what they're talking about.
Mod parent up
The "main" DNS servers - http://www.root-servers.org/presentations/wsis.pdf
It would be naive to think that Google has so far not been associating searches with Google IDs already. That is the whole idea behind there huge "takeover" of the world, isn't it? To borrow from what I read somewhere when Gmail was released, they know what your interests are, what you buy, who your friends are etc etc.
They're sitting on a gold mine of information. Gmail was the carrot they offered to everyone to get them to sign up, because not everyone blogs but, surely, everyone needs email. And boy were they right! Everyone's moved to gmail and viola - you can now map every little thing they do.
I'm sure they use it internally in one form or the other - evil or otherwise i.e. to give me "better" ads - exactly what I need :roll: Only now they've decided to "open" part of it to the public - "we have all this information with us anyways, let's give some of it to the public and win some more brownie points in the process"
Of course, Yahoo! does that as well, and I'm sure MSN too. They've had the "IDs" all along - Google had it the hard way - they HAD to come up with Gmail or they had no chance.
The Indian steam engine you're talking about perhaps:
"Automatic door opening and closing mechanism and the train cannot move unless all doors are closed and locked. If a door opens accidentally in the moving train, brakes will apply automatically, bringing the train to a halt."
Check out this , this and this.
On second thoughts, why bother. I forgot I am at /.
:roll:
Two things that malfunctioned for the parent post:
1. "Public Terminal" - thought it stuck around for atleast sometime.
2. Of course, Missing html tags.
Not really.. I thought I would, but no.
to get the 1st comment on a thread !!!
I thought this was old news - Master Card has been pushing Paypass for around two years now.
I still don't see why it's such a big deal.
Google could go ahead and wipe off the Gmail slate today saying it'll now be shut off for a month while we work on it and reopen afresh a month when anyone can take up user names on a first-come-first-serve basis like any other email site - all because they've used the "beta" tag so far. The fact that it would be a disastrous PR exercise withstanding.
Though I guess any of the free (and many paid as well) could shut shop anyday if they decided to - actually reading the Terms and Conditions of any site is an indicator enough.
The beta tag helps them get the best of both worlds as I see it - make money off the product/ feature while they refine it, and still absolve themselves off a lot of blame.
No joke... I finished downloading the 2004.2 Live CD image for PPC yesterday - over DIALUP!! Damn you Murphy!