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So then iFauxn will allow the user to track how they use it, for how long, and all sorts of other data. I suppose it might already be something the do for to you, but if not, those who use the new features are giving them a new depth of view into how and when they spend your time.
Also, put limits on usage (presumably on children, marking them as such).
Do you think it will have any marketing value?
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Don't you love the deviousness of it. Market the feature as "monitor yourself" but underneath the hood, the real point is for them to monitor YOU. Big Brother is starting to look pretty tame in comparison to the BS going on nowadays.
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Getting on past the devious nature, I'm already hearing the clamorous disbelief of the masses that their private information has been stored, bought, and sold.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I'm already hearing the clamorous disbelief of the masses that their private information has been stored, bought, and sold.
Yup. Deviousness works best when applied to unlimited ignorance and gullibility.
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And I thought I was about to get Rick-rolled by clicking that
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Exactly...it just goes to show that they have it in place and can use to monitor you.
This has to be switched off.
I hope this is not a Carrier IQ[^] repeat.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Why does anyone care? What do you do on your phone that you wouldn't want other people to know about?
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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011111100010 wrote: Why does anyone care?
Well, I'm sure, then, that you wouldn't mind if you found your mail opened and read - would you?011111100010 wrote: What do you do on your phone receive in the mail that you wouldn't want other people to know about?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: that you wouldn't mind if you found your mail opened and read - would you?
Most of it, no I wouldn't care. But you're comparing apples to oranges. It doesn't work.
So, are you able to answer the question?
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011111100010 wrote: Most of it, no
You've answered your own question for yourself. Give it a good think. You'll see it eventually.
As for a direct answer to your question: it would be pretty damn stupid to post the stuff I would not want known, wouldn't it? I mean you did you the phrase "wouldn't want other people to know about, didn't you?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: You've answered your own question for yourself.
Not at all. I can get my email on my phone but of course I don't want that shared. But that is not anything that IS being shared.
So, it's a real simple question, what specific piece of data that is being shared bothers you and why? Seems like that should be real simple to answer if there were anything.
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The Lounge[^]
Just read the first line after the block quote.
Over and over again, if necessary.
Over and over again, if necessary.
Over and over again, if necessary.
Over and over again, if necessary.
Over and over again, if necessary.
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You've responded 3 times and instead of just answering the question you keep shouting, "it's so obvious. Why can't you just be like me." That tells me you are just arguing from a purely emotional standpoint and not a logical one which means there is no point continuing.
Have a good day.
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If the current crop of new developers-in-training don't step up their game, I'm going to have to postpone my eventual death so that software gets developed...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
-- Charles De Gaulle
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Console yourself with higher consulting fees.
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I see you've already updated your car[^] to account for that. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Do you really think John would tolerate an unarmed vehicle with a max speed of 40 mph?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Unless JSOP has seceded from the Union and is now a sovereign power, he may find it a bit difficult to buy the really heavy stuff. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: JSOP has seceded from the Union
He's a citizen of Texas, so he's more than halfway there already .
Software Zen: delete this;
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He could get a working machine gun for less than he spent on his car. At worst it might have a hand crank trigger instead of a conventional one with a happy switch.
I know one person with the former attached to a Browning M1919, it limits him to 400 RPM instead of 600; but since sustained full auto will quickly burn out barrels anyway it's not that big an impediment to *bang*bang*bang*bang*bang*bang*bang* fun.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I was referring to tanks, cannon, etc. While you may be able to get WWII-vintage heavy weaponry in non-working order, I have my doubts of the legality of bringing them back to full working order.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Maybe you should have a hackathon in all its sense.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I'm going to have to postpone my eventual death
Or go out a lot earlier so you won't be around when it all goes to hell
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