Yes, which is why Google is testing the concept on slashdot...
Slashdot's readership is primarily well-off, privacy-obsessed geeks. I'm not sure it tells Google a lot about the general population of internet users.
Seriously? When you buy an app from an app developer, they need your contact information for payment processing. That's how it's always worked, and it's hardly been a secret.
But everyone on slashdot pays by bitcoins, anonymously, don't they?
We don't want the government/google/alien lizards to know we paid for Angry Birds Anime Edition do we?
it also makes me a bit sad that once my dad is gone, so will the stories be.
No, because you and your other relatives pass them on to their children, and so on. After a few generations, not much is left, but that's because most stories aren't that interesting.
However, if you want to, then the process of videoing your dad/whoever reminiscing for a while is easily enough done. It's the idea that you need a live 24/7 feed that I find weird.
Yes, it is a bit narcissistic to select yourself and to think that your immediate friends and family want to sit through 24 hours of your boring life. Not necessarily true, however, if you consider it from a downstreamer's point of view. Ideally you would record your life and disallow access to it until you're dead.
That's an entirely different question. To be honest, with the number of TV shows, YouTube videos and Facebook postings around, I don't think that future generations are going to have a lack of information about our times.
That notwithstanding, there are many things we do because we know no-one is watching. And that are not necessarily illegal things. Or would they really want to take
the camera in the bedroom and on the toilet as well?
I agree absolutely about the toilet. Who the HELL is ever going to be interested in watching your Greatest Shits?
I, for one, am extremely grateful that there are no recordings of me during my high school and college years. I like to look back on myself as a youthful combination of poet, musician, lover and philosopher.
Unfortunately, I'm fairly sure I was just another teenage wanker.
An interesting scenario is one where you could ask a psychologist "do you think it is about something that happened in my childhood?". Then you hand the full tapes and an expert could do an accurate review of what actually happened.
Yes, because obviously you're going to have recorded your father raping you, or whatever the "something" is.
You would not be asking what the point was if a worst-case scenario involving your child went down, and video of the event was nearly instantly uploaded to remote servers. You could stick with GPS only, but don't you think you'd have a better shot at the most favorable possible outcome if you had video, too? Or even if you couldn't change the outcome of events in any way, the video of your child's life could very easy go from trivial to one of your most treasured possessions, heaven forbid.
I think if my kid was kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered, I'd rather not have a video of their last hours, thank you very much.
Hell, even the times I was bullied would have been nice to have. They'd make some damn-fine blackmail now. I have proof that a number of people attacked me, and from it happening at a rich private school, I'd imagine all of them are milionaires, and probably a few billionaires in there too.
Yes, because obviously the kids bullying you wouldn't object to being filmed.
I recently did a stint working for the police as a temp at the property and evidence warehouse. As one can understand, it is in no one's interest (besides the perpetrator, of course) for evidence to go missing. Therefore there are rigorous methods of accounting. But as a last step the ENTIRE WAREHOUSE (save the restrooms) are under video surveillance.
That is hardly an indictment of an Orwellian Britain, unless you find it evil that there are CCTV cameras in police stations and outside jewellery stores too.
Here's a free clue: you don't have a right to do what you like in those places. If you want to dress up as a rabbit and wank off to child porn, do it at home.
I guess it depends on your definition of light, though. For me, light is anything that I can throw into a backpack easily.
It sounds like the Apple marketing department's definition of light/thin, i.e. something fractionally lighter/thinner than the competition whose lightness/thinness will totally transform your life from dull, plodding computer user into a breathtakingly attractive artist/musician/poet.
This is hardly surprising, with Android smartphones, tablets and chromebooks as well as Google web apps if you've invested in that Google platform - and so many people have - then you probably don't *need* Windows.
I have "invested" in Android (phone and tablet) but I most certainly need a proper OS to do real work on, whether it's Windows, Linux or OSX.
Security theatre isn't the problem, it's a symptom of the military-industrial-complex (now branching out into pervasive monitoring and other totalitarian activities). The problem is the idea that we're constantly at war (with other countries, illegal aliens, drugs, sexuality). I'm not a pure libertarian, but this is the most fundamental agreement I have with libertarians: that sacrificing freedom for the appearance of security is a sure sign you're going to lose all your freedoms... one by one.
Yes, but the fundamental error that libertarians make is to equate the military-industrial complex with the government, and say that if you neuter the latter you do the same to the former, and somehow end up with a near-perfect collection of small, competing businesses. Whereas in fact, you would simply hand the large corporations complete, unaccountable power.
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If there's anything more pathetic than a Star Wars fanboy criticising Star Trek fanboys for being too geeky, I've yet to meet it.
Or you can just use DuckDuckGo
One of the few website names that makes Yahoo! and Bing sound classy.
I'm fairly sure that if it was that easy to create a search site to rival Google, it would have been done by now.
Yes, which is why Google is testing the concept on slashdot...
Slashdot's readership is primarily well-off, privacy-obsessed geeks. I'm not sure it tells Google a lot about the general population of internet users.
Is it just me, or is this a particularly strange thread?
The guy is willing to pay $20/month to not have any information collected...
But a VPN costs half that. And Tor is free.
What am I missing here?
Submitter is only slightly paranoid, unlike most slashdotters who always go full paranoid.
Seriously? When you buy an app from an app developer, they need your contact information for payment processing. That's how it's always worked, and it's hardly been a secret.
But everyone on slashdot pays by bitcoins, anonymously, don't they?
We don't want the government/google/alien lizards to know we paid for Angry Birds Anime Edition do we?
It's not like you're going to be downloading child porn or instructions on how to build a dirty bomb, is it?
Is that better or worse then lose them all and remain married?
It depends whether you think of people as competitors and life as a sports game you have to win.
Nothing we do today will change the fact that in five billion years this planet will be a burnt cinder hurtling through cold space...
So what? Do you suggest just curling up in a ball and crying? The fact that you're going to die is not a good reason to avoid life.
it also makes me a bit sad that once my dad is gone, so will the stories be.
No, because you and your other relatives pass them on to their children, and so on. After a few generations, not much is left, but that's because most stories aren't that interesting.
However, if you want to, then the process of videoing your dad/whoever reminiscing for a while is easily enough done. It's the idea that you need a live 24/7 feed that I find weird.
Yes, it is a bit narcissistic to select yourself and to think that your immediate friends and family want to sit through 24 hours of your boring life. Not necessarily true, however, if you consider it from a downstreamer's point of view. Ideally you would record your life and disallow access to it until you're dead.
That's an entirely different question. To be honest, with the number of TV shows, YouTube videos and Facebook postings around, I don't think that future generations are going to have a lack of information about our times.
That notwithstanding, there are many things we do because we know no-one is watching. And that are not necessarily illegal things. Or would they really want to take the camera in the bedroom and on the toilet as well?
I agree absolutely about the toilet. Who the HELL is ever going to be interested in watching your Greatest Shits?
Unfortunately, I'm fairly sure I was just another teenage wanker.
An interesting scenario is one where you could ask a psychologist "do you think it is about something that happened in my childhood?". Then you hand the full tapes and an expert could do an accurate review of what actually happened.
Yes, because obviously you're going to have recorded your father raping you, or whatever the "something" is.
Which says it all, really.
I suppose if you can afford to buy a 1TB hard drive every year, you could maybe swing it.
A 1TB drive costs less than 100 GBP, probably nearer 50 GBP. It's hardly a wallet-stretching amount.
You would not be asking what the point was if a worst-case scenario involving your child went down, and video of the event was nearly instantly uploaded to remote servers. You could stick with GPS only, but don't you think you'd have a better shot at the most favorable possible outcome if you had video, too? Or even if you couldn't change the outcome of events in any way, the video of your child's life could very easy go from trivial to one of your most treasured possessions, heaven forbid.
I think if my kid was kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered, I'd rather not have a video of their last hours, thank you very much.
Hell, even the times I was bullied would have been nice to have. They'd make some damn-fine blackmail now. I have proof that a number of people attacked me, and from it happening at a rich private school, I'd imagine all of them are milionaires, and probably a few billionaires in there too.
Yes, because obviously the kids bullying you wouldn't object to being filmed.
You need to think that through a bit.
I recently did a stint working for the police as a temp at the property and evidence warehouse. As one can understand, it is in no one's interest (besides the perpetrator, of course) for evidence to go missing. Therefore there are rigorous methods of accounting. But as a last step the ENTIRE WAREHOUSE (save the restrooms) are under video surveillance.
That is hardly an indictment of an Orwellian Britain, unless you find it evil that there are CCTV cameras in police stations and outside jewellery stores too.
Here's a free clue: you don't have a right to do what you like in those places. If you want to dress up as a rabbit and wank off to child porn, do it at home.
I guess it depends on your definition of light, though. For me, light is anything that I can throw into a backpack easily.
It sounds like the Apple marketing department's definition of light/thin, i.e. something fractionally lighter/thinner than the competition whose lightness/thinness will totally transform your life from dull, plodding computer user into a breathtakingly attractive artist/musician/poet.
I have never been exposed to such spreadsheets.
That doesn't mean that they don't exist, nor that only idiots use them.
This is hardly surprising, with Android smartphones, tablets and chromebooks as well as Google web apps if you've invested in that Google platform - and so many people have - then you probably don't *need* Windows.
I have "invested" in Android (phone and tablet) but I most certainly need a proper OS to do real work on, whether it's Windows, Linux or OSX.
Security theatre isn't the problem, it's a symptom of the military-industrial-complex (now branching out into pervasive monitoring and other totalitarian activities). The problem is the idea that we're constantly at war (with other countries, illegal aliens, drugs, sexuality). I'm not a pure libertarian, but this is the most fundamental agreement I have with libertarians: that sacrificing freedom for the appearance of security is a sure sign you're going to lose all your freedoms... one by one.
Yes, but the fundamental error that libertarians make is to equate the military-industrial complex with the government, and say that if you neuter the latter you do the same to the former, and somehow end up with a near-perfect collection of small, competing businesses. Whereas in fact, you would simply hand the large corporations complete, unaccountable power.
What you should be doing is walking right through without getting scanned or patted down. Ignore the TSA completely.
Genius! Why not just have a big "please give me a full cavity search" tattoo on your forehead too to save them the bother of asking?
I don't know what sort of people enjoy giving enhanced patdowns to other people
This may sound crazy, but maybe they're just people wanting to do the best job they can to provide security at the airport?
But, I know, this is slashdot, obviously they're all frustrated rapists.