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And I thought that the current patent system already reached its low level... I should have been more optimistic than that...
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What is worrying is not that they try it, what is worrying is that they do achieve it.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Didn't the NSA claim say that monitoring metadata was harmless? </sarcasm>
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Well they can't keep me from reminding things, nor my girlfriend. I know the average prices of the stuff I buy in the 10 or so stores I usually do my groceries in.
And for the tech stuff I make thorough researches long before even approaching a store - I got burned more times than what I would like to admit so now I'm careful.
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* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Can they now invent something to stop people using their phones in the cinema?
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The usual method would be a cell phone jammer, but it is illegal (at least in US) and then there becomes the liability issue if something should happen.
Option number 2 would be to mimic a cell phone tower, with something like a femtocell. Or the notorious Stinger used by covert law enforcement agencies.
I prefer Option 3, the baseball bat
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MadMyche wrote: I prefer Option 3, the baseball bat
Isn't the use of baseball bats on humans also illegal in the U.S.?
(I'm told that in certain parts of the country, "the varmint had it coming" is a valid defense.  )
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Isn't the use of baseball bats on humans also illegal in the U.S.?
Not on humans per se, just to bat the cell out of their hand
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It's a shame we actually need a solution to this problem and people can't just choose to be decent human beings.
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Then maybe we should use Option 2 (femtocells) and take a lesson from Amazon playbook; we'll connect their cells to the soundtrack of the movie, and if they text we can reply with subtitles.
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I see a couple or three of options:
- Be an educated consumer (i.e, not an impulse buyer)
- Shop elsewhere
- Shop at Amazon because their prices are SO LOW
The stores send their advertisements along with newspapers and such. All you need to do is sit back and look at them.
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You mean you don't walk round the supermarket comparing prices with the competition using the free WiFi? It's just me? 
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I have a flip-phone . . . when I walk around the supermarket it's in my pocket.
Instead, I while away the time looking where I'm going and buying what I came for.
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I'm really not surprised at this to be honest.
A few years ago Walmart was installing the fancy Bosch cameras and software packages for facial recognition via social media matching, and using this to create customer profiles etc. The revelation of this never really went anywhere, just made some people look like paranoia freaks and dismissed as it's a public place and you don't have privacy in public.
As a developer, I see opportunities for price comparison apps... But they probably will just block those via their technology. Maybe I should just use the VPN to my house.
People (particularly my fellow Americans) are so programmed for instant satisfaction that they don't plan ahead, which leads to impulse buying and if they do hesitate they believe the first thing when they browse the net. Control the net and you control those people.
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I think I'm beginning to understand the reason for distrust of full-face Islamic headdress.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Easy solution.. don't use the Amazon-provided WiFi in their store. In the US at least, they can't jam the cellphone networks, so they can't force you to use them as an internet provider. If you don't use their net feed, then they can't snoop on you and attempt to control what you view & think.
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OriginalGriff wrote: My local supermarket has a simpler solution: the WiFI broke a couple of months back and they haven't fixed it...
Seems like it would be more worrisome about all those people wandering from store to store and using a wifi service just because it pops up with the store name.
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Fun to watch, but also makes you wonder what the best tactics are.
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 Won't be getting to bed early need to watch. From what I know about Robo Sumo the tatics are in the design of the bot (such as sweeping wings) as they are autononoums (no remote control) or atleast the Robo Sumo I competed in was...
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I think we should implement a National Dial-Up-Modem Day in honor of the way we use to Internet! ISPs and DSN look-up engines could throttle back their speeds to the days of 56K modems. What say you? Who's on board?
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I'm pretty sure you can limit your router's internet speed and have your own private holiday (but please leave me out of this)
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Only if we also turn off all the phone masts for the day, and make everybody search for a working public phone box (that preferably didn't stink of urine)
You still up for it?
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OriginalGriff wrote: make everybody search for a working public phone box
Why? No one makes calls using their phones. They are pocket pcs anyway. Not sure why we still call them phones.
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: No one makes calls using their phones
They do, but only while they are driving!
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It seems my ISP is already on board
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