The vast majority of people out there probably rank "letting a company mine my browsing history" somewhere around "filling out a survey".
I've actually stated the bit about the survey elsewhere in the thread. Okay, I'm part of the vast majority who doesn't value privacy the way Slashdotters typically do.
So please educate me, I want to know: They're being up-front about what they want to do with it and they're compensating the volunteers for it. They can use another browser if they don't want Google to see something. So why is this worse than filling out a survey?
No, I'm not setting up an argument, no I'm not defending them, I really just don't understand the problem here. If Google had, for example, turned this on by default, or if the tracking method wasn't limited to using the Chrome browser, or if there were details they weren't being up front about, I'd get it. I'm not defensive, just baffled.
The money isn't much as a pure trade for privacy, but I suspect that many people would like to have their preferences be among those that shape how Google â" and other companies, too â" actually organize their interfaces. (Note that the tracking can be selectively turned off by the user.)
They're being told up front what is being offered in exchange for what. It's a browser extension so they could just flip to Opera or FireFox if they don't want Google to see. Some people might be enticed by Google improving their products with that information, and they get paid for it.
What's the drama? What does this even have to do with privacy? Are we going to complain about being paid to take a survey, too?
Our problem isn't that the people are stupidly voting crooks in. Our problem is that we never fire them. Imagine what would have happened last summer during all that budget nonsense if several of the people in that room had to deal with the threat of being recalled.
It's a shame that it's scoffed at as just being about bug eyed monsters and little green men..
I just looked through a list of the top 50 movies since the 90's and 20 percent of them were scifi. And this is after counting Back to the Future, Star Trek, Ghostbusters, Close Encounters, 2001, etc. Pretty broad variety, actually.
Selling a digital item provides no guarantee that you have "given" the original item, or that you don't have a million copies of it, or that you had an original item in the first place.
Yeah, you can't steal a music CD, make a million copies of it, and sell those. That can only happen in the real world.
"...the person expressing that sentiment is just being cheap...
I used to write and sell software and, sorry, I don't agree with you. Basically what you're describing is a bad customer, and piracy didn't invent that. All piracy did was show you that he exists.
Software is still beholden to Supply and Demand and piracy has not actually proven to change that.
Could I trouble you to talk a little more about your experiences with Clear both good and bad? I'm seriously seriously considering it but have never used WiMax... or a device of that nature and I was curious what real-world experience (good or bad) with it was like.
I don't. On that last day, usually in the morning, the phone would die and my charger would be at home. Once I started using phones with much less battery life, this actually stopped happening to me.
...and you wouldn't have to hang around the single power socket in the airport departure lounge with all the other smartphone junkies waiting to charge your phone.
Charge your phone before you leave. This applies whether you measure your stand-by time in days or weeks.
How are people Hypocritically calling Apple Hypocrites?
Well if you're really truly genuinely curious about the answer to that question, you could try reading the rest of the sentence instead of clicking 'reply' halfway through.
Or is this a really clever satire illustrating my point?
Judging from the number of people who are (hypocritically) calling Apple hypocrites for not doing any searches for the trademark in question... yes, the summary is definitely not doing its job of educating anybody around here.
Then again, a lousy summary is only half the problem...
Why would they yell across the room? Are they going to hold the home button down until it chirps, walk away to the opposite end of the room, and shout "CALL MOM"?
Slashdot Mirror
Apple just filed a patent for methods of creating a "Reality Distortion Field". They are calling it iLie.
Samsung carbon copies it and Slashdot gets mad at Apple all over again!
The vast majority of people out there probably rank "letting a company mine my browsing history" somewhere around "filling out a survey".
I've actually stated the bit about the survey elsewhere in the thread. Okay, I'm part of the vast majority who doesn't value privacy the way Slashdotters typically do.
So please educate me, I want to know: They're being up-front about what they want to do with it and they're compensating the volunteers for it. They can use another browser if they don't want Google to see something. So why is this worse than filling out a survey?
No, I'm not setting up an argument, no I'm not defending them, I really just don't understand the problem here. If Google had, for example, turned this on by default, or if the tracking method wasn't limited to using the Chrome browser, or if there were details they weren't being up front about, I'd get it. I'm not defensive, just baffled.
I choose not to and.. .ack... ack... I'm being forced to do it against my will! Quick! Hit the moderate button!!
The money isn't much as a pure trade for privacy, but I suspect that many people would like to have their preferences be among those that shape how Google â" and other companies, too â" actually organize their interfaces. (Note that the tracking can be selectively turned off by the user.)
They're being told up front what is being offered in exchange for what. It's a browser extension so they could just flip to Opera or FireFox if they don't want Google to see. Some people might be enticed by Google improving their products with that information, and they get paid for it.
What's the drama? What does this even have to do with privacy? Are we going to complain about being paid to take a survey, too?
Our problem isn't that the people are stupidly voting crooks in. Our problem is that we never fire them. Imagine what would have happened last summer during all that budget nonsense if several of the people in that room had to deal with the threat of being recalled.
So your complaint about Frankenstein is that it isn't an instruction manual on how to create life/revive the dead.
I doubt he was complaining about that. It wouldn't be science fiction then!
What I was thinking and what I was trying to say were two very different things.
I apologize.
It's a shame that it's scoffed at as just being about bug eyed monsters and little green men..
I just looked through a list of the top 50 movies since the 90's and 20 percent of them were scifi. And this is after counting Back to the Future, Star Trek, Ghostbusters, Close Encounters, 2001, etc. Pretty broad variety, actually.
Ask Microsoft or Autodesk about that.
That's rac... er... specist!
Selling a digital item provides no guarantee that you have "given" the original item, or that you don't have a million copies of it, or that you had an original item in the first place.
Yeah, you can't steal a music CD, make a million copies of it, and sell those. That can only happen in the real world.
What is the mass of an MP3?
How do you differentiate between a file with random bits in it and an MP3 file?
"...the person expressing that sentiment is just being cheap...
I used to write and sell software and, sorry, I don't agree with you. Basically what you're describing is a bad customer, and piracy didn't invent that. All piracy did was show you that he exists.
Software is still beholden to Supply and Demand and piracy has not actually proven to change that.
What I'm replying to is how one cannot hear about Android without someone mentioning it, every damn time, like fucking clockwork.
Oh, you mean like how the phrase 'walled garden' always comes up?
Could I trouble you to talk a little more about your experiences with Clear both good and bad? I'm seriously seriously considering it but have never used WiMax... or a device of that nature and I was curious what real-world experience (good or bad) with it was like.
Where your phone would last a week on stand-by...
I don't. On that last day, usually in the morning, the phone would die and my charger would be at home. Once I started using phones with much less battery life, this actually stopped happening to me.
...and you wouldn't have to hang around the single power socket in the airport departure lounge with all the other smartphone junkies waiting to charge your phone.
Charge your phone before you leave. This applies whether you measure your stand-by time in days or weeks.
Newest Generation of Consumer Electronics Item Uses More Energy Than Previous Generation Did
The worst part is we don't need the extra speed, we need better coverage and better data plans.
Ah, cool, I getcha now.
Have a nice night.
What does this have to do with my post?
Oh, see, I didn't see any hypocritical about people bashing apple for getting sued over something so ridiculous...
Amazing... That's the second reply to something I didn't say, yet if taken as satire it eloquently supports my point!
Do you write for the Onion?
How are people Hypocritically calling Apple Hypocrites?
Well if you're really truly genuinely curious about the answer to that question, you could try reading the rest of the sentence instead of clicking 'reply' halfway through.
Or is this a really clever satire illustrating my point?
Isn't the summary missing something?
Judging from the number of people who are (hypocritically) calling Apple hypocrites for not doing any searches for the trademark in question... yes, the summary is definitely not doing its job of educating anybody around here.
Then again, a lousy summary is only half the problem...
Why would they yell across the room? Are they going to hold the home button down until it chirps, walk away to the opposite end of the room, and shout "CALL MOM"?
That is true when you're trying to make your friend count go up. Try doing it right, instead.
I doubt she was referring to making friends.