If you're handing the data over to the "public" Internet, then yeah... they should be able to collect it. How else do you do analysis, investigate and/or learn trends without a pool of data? Analysts shouldn't be able to just browse and see what they can find, though. There's too much noise for that, anyhow.
I know I'm in the vast minority here with seeing "less" wrong with this. With my job, I've never had any expectation of privacy for my entire adult life, so my opinion is obviously skewed.
Is this where the expectation of privacy comes from? Because only a subset of people have the capability to open the book, you expect it to be private?
The analogy would be better if the diary was left out in the open, but closed, mind you, for everyone to see. You still shouldn't open it, but it is sitting right there and not locked up.
Or everyday the diary was handed off to a random member of the public to hold on to... and not open, of course.
I think "replace" is more symbolic than literal. Replace the concept of local storage. You don't save to your hard drive or phone or tablet, you save to Dropbox and it's synced everywhere...
If dropbox goes out of business, then you lose syncing, but still have the "last" copy on all devices linked to your Dropbox account. Same thing if you discontinue the accout or they force you out.
If you want to go the tinfoil hat route, then you should be worried that Dropbox will command all of your devices to delete the local data once the account or service is terminated. Then you'd really lose the data...
It's more of a symbolic replacement of the hard drive. It turns anything local into a cache of sorts, with the "real" data synced to the servers.
Think of a "save to dropbox" dialog within Gmail. I can just click to send those pictures Aunt Judy sent me to dropbox and when I get home or on my laptop or on my phone, etc. they'll be synced to it automatically. They'll be there waiting for me. Yes, the physical hard drive / memory is not replaced, the but concept of "saving to my hard drive" turns into a "save to everywhere at the same time".
Stone did a Vertical Epic Ale that was released on 02.02.02, 03.03.03... up to 12.12.12 and meant to be enjoyed together on the last release (if you could wait).
In the move to RT on ARM, MS had to say screw it to #2 and #3 and the move to a tablet forced them to say screw it to #1, too. "Desktop Windows" on a tablet has been shown not to work time and time again. Hell, the move to to a tablet essentially removes #2 and #3 since most programs are shit if they aren't designed specifically for a tablet.
#2 and #3 were never really under MS control, either. MS hoped to follow the "build it and they will come" philosophy. It worked with iOS and Android, but I guess people are just too tired to go another step, MS/ARM/RT is horrible to program for or they carry enough of a grudge that they just won't.
So why, or rather when, would I buy an RT tablet? When it's cheap. Just like any other tablet, it'll do about 90% of what I need it to do, regardless of the OS.
I upgraded and have no problem using it. It's primarily my wife's computer though, and the kids play games on it. Other than for the first couple of days, I haven't had to show them how to do anything... I don't think it's THAT intuitive of an interface, but obviously (in my experience) it's decent.
GMail is free because Google can rifle through your mail, harvest your personal data and sell it in an anonymized form (or so they claim) to advertisers.
No data is sold, as I understand it. Harvested, yes. Then the advertisers tell Google what demographic they'd like to show ads to and Google shows the ad. No list is sent to advertisers. Just info on yes, X000 ads where shown to people we (Google) think are "moms" or whatever the demographic is.
Facebook does it the same way. If it's otherwise (minus conspiracy theory), please enlighten me.
Maybe I "don't know what I'm missing", but I have no issues with the KFHD, either. Ads on the lock screen sometimes recommend something useful, but are mostly ignored. It appears to have plenty of apps, games, etc. for my taste. Web browsing and email are good. I guess I "put up" with the carousel, but that's about it.
There's an add on the lock screen. You see it for a second or two, if you even notice it, while you unlock the device. That's it. Hardly "laden", but buy what you want.
True, but the OS has to be built in order to even attempt to build an application repository. Kind of a chicken-and-egg scenario, although you're guaranteed no applications will be built if the OS never is.
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What profile? Show me something I can read.
Or... he's just saying what his lawyers told him to say. I know, it's more fun to blame torture, though.
If you're handing the data over to the "public" Internet, then yeah... they should be able to collect it. How else do you do analysis, investigate and/or learn trends without a pool of data? Analysts shouldn't be able to just browse and see what they can find, though. There's too much noise for that, anyhow.
I know I'm in the vast minority here with seeing "less" wrong with this. With my job, I've never had any expectation of privacy for my entire adult life, so my opinion is obviously skewed.
Yes, I agree that encryption is equivilent to locking something up. A warrant should be required to decrypt.
But you send it via a changing, unknown, public-industry network run by people you don't know.
In order to be proactive on anything, you need historical data, othewise you're just reactionary.
Is this where the expectation of privacy comes from? Because only a subset of people have the capability to open the book, you expect it to be private?
The analogy would be better if the diary was left out in the open, but closed, mind you, for everyone to see. You still shouldn't open it, but it is sitting right there and not locked up.
Or everyday the diary was handed off to a random member of the public to hold on to... and not open, of course.
I think "replace" is more symbolic than literal. Replace the concept of local storage. You don't save to your hard drive or phone or tablet, you save to Dropbox and it's synced everywhere...
If dropbox goes out of business, then you lose syncing, but still have the "last" copy on all devices linked to your Dropbox account. Same thing if you discontinue the accout or they force you out.
If you want to go the tinfoil hat route, then you should be worried that Dropbox will command all of your devices to delete the local data once the account or service is terminated. Then you'd really lose the data...
It's more of a symbolic replacement of the hard drive. It turns anything local into a cache of sorts, with the "real" data synced to the servers.
Think of a "save to dropbox" dialog within Gmail. I can just click to send those pictures Aunt Judy sent me to dropbox and when I get home or on my laptop or on my phone, etc. they'll be synced to it automatically. They'll be there waiting for me. Yes, the physical hard drive / memory is not replaced, the but concept of "saving to my hard drive" turns into a "save to everywhere at the same time".
Dropbox largely syncs devices through the cloud, so you will always have your data, with or without Internet or Dropbox being operational.
So yes, you may lose control of copies of your data (by giving them over to a third-party), but you won't lose access.
That's a great list. The only thing on my wishlist is to lose the mandatory Appstore buying.
But I'm happy with a stock kindle fire HD, win8 on a laptop and Linux on other machines, so I'm easy to please.
You can age beer, too. Probably not 50 years, but 10-20 is possible.
http://zythophile.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/the-lost-art-of-extreme-aged-cask-ale/
Stone did a Vertical Epic Ale that was released on 02.02.02, 03.03.03 ... up to 12.12.12 and meant to be enjoyed together on the last release (if you could wait).
http://www.stonebrewing.com/verticalepic/#4
Good beer can come out of a can. These guys in Michigan make some great beer and their stuff comes in cans.
http://www.breweryvivant.com/index.php/the-beer/the-cans/
In the move to RT on ARM, MS had to say screw it to #2 and #3 and the move to a tablet forced them to say screw it to #1, too. "Desktop Windows" on a tablet has been shown not to work time and time again. Hell, the move to to a tablet essentially removes #2 and #3 since most programs are shit if they aren't designed specifically for a tablet.
#2 and #3 were never really under MS control, either. MS hoped to follow the "build it and they will come" philosophy. It worked with iOS and Android, but I guess people are just too tired to go another step, MS/ARM/RT is horrible to program for or they carry enough of a grudge that they just won't.
So why, or rather when, would I buy an RT tablet? When it's cheap. Just like any other tablet, it'll do about 90% of what I need it to do, regardless of the OS.
I upgraded and have no problem using it. It's primarily my wife's computer though, and the kids play games on it. Other than for the first couple of days, I haven't had to show them how to do anything... I don't think it's THAT intuitive of an interface, but obviously (in my experience) it's decent.
-John
The only reason I read the comments was to make sure this comment was here. Took way too much scrolling to reach, though.
No data is sold, as I understand it. Harvested, yes. Then the advertisers tell Google what demographic they'd like to show ads to and Google shows the ad. No list is sent to advertisers. Just info on yes, X000 ads where shown to people we (Google) think are "moms" or whatever the demographic is.
Facebook does it the same way. If it's otherwise (minus conspiracy theory), please enlighten me.
If you do a lot of reading, I agree. These are more general purpose tablets, even though they carry the "Kindle" name.
Maybe I "don't know what I'm missing", but I have no issues with the KFHD, either. Ads on the lock screen sometimes recommend something useful, but are mostly ignored. It appears to have plenty of apps, games, etc. for my taste. Web browsing and email are good. I guess I "put up" with the carousel, but that's about it.
There's an add on the lock screen. You see it for a second or two, if you even notice it, while you unlock the device. That's it. Hardly "laden", but buy what you want.
Yes, there's a menu of applications to start, just like on the start menu. It just takes up the full screen now, so it's called a start screen.
There's nothing to "bring back" as the start "menu" and the start "screen" perform the exact same functions.
So the program would have to be rewritten for the tablet UI? Isn't that a good thing, rather than just another program thrown onto a tablet?
True, but the OS has to be built in order to even attempt to build an application repository. Kind of a chicken-and-egg scenario, although you're guaranteed no applications will be built if the OS never is.