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by whackberry 14y ago
Awesome! Wish I could upvote this twice.
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by whackberry 14y ago
That's not a problem with organ donation IMO, that is a problem with insurance companies.
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by whackberry 14y ago
> Living kidney donor here. The "living" part is redundant.
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by whackberry 14y ago
Oh that sounds ok. Thanks for clarifying.
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by whackberry 14y ago
Interesting fact, TIL.
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by whackberry 14y ago
That't be nice, yes, thank you. Just one question about this: > If you installed the briarpatch extension, all of your bookmarks are now in sync. If I had been using Chrome, all my bookmarks would have been uploaded automatically? Do
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by whackberry 14y ago
> if you were driving around taking pictures of peoples homes some might call that creepy---but that's exactly what Google did to create Street View. I do find street view creepy.
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by whackberry 14y ago
> We're sorry but the beta version of the briarpatch extension is only available for Google Chrome. Looks like I won't be using it after all.
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by whackberry 14y ago
> It's one of the rare pieces of information that indicates altruism, along with charitable giving. Depending on your region, being a registered organ donor in fact says a lot about your previous medical history. HIV status, etc...
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by whackberry 14y ago
Google and Facebook are the kings of plausible deniability. Everything they do is meant to collect personal data, but they always have the perfect excuse for doing it.
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by whackberry 14y ago
> When did you stop beating your wife? How do we know for a fact? I never was accused of that. Silly response. Google has been accused of several privacy violations.
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by whackberry 14y ago
Fair point, I stand corrected.
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by whackberry 14y ago
> Making it illegal isn't going to protect you. Well if making things illegal doesn't protect us any more then we're in serious trouble here.
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by whackberry 14y ago
I am aware of the context. To mark hotspots you don't need packet sniffing or data capture of any kind. Why is Google capturing packet payload during "wardriving"? Nobody does that. All you do is store the GPS location, plus basic AP identi
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by whackberry 14y ago
> It's more like hearing a loud mouthed neighbor say to his wife "It's a secret! don't tell any one.. its very private too... we have won the jackpot" Yeah, if it was only near your home. But if you went around driving and listening to
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by whackberry 14y ago
Sure, but what is the parallel here? The paparazzi make a living from those photos, so there is a reason for them to be out there doing that(not saying I agree, just saying there's a reason for it). What is Google doing driving around colle
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by whackberry 14y ago
Exactly. We don't go into people's homes not because they have a fence and a shotgun but because we were not invited, that is the whole point. Most of the arguments here circle around "ah you were a fool to let your data out, so Google was
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by whackberry 14y ago
> no law was broken. We don't know that yet, do we?
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by whackberry 14y ago
> Personal information becomes public when it's not properly secured Really? Do you have any idea how wrong that statement is? So if a song is played in public, it becomes public?
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by whackberry 14y ago
> I don't, actually. There was no "hacking" or exploitation of any kind - any idiot with a wifi card can do the same thing. What the hell? So if Pizza Hut were to start capturing radio waves you'd find that normal? Why is it normal for
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by whackberry 14y ago
So by your logic simply owning a Wi-Fi access-point at home and not adding strong cryptography is reason enough for a corporation to drive their car to your house and capture your data? So to keep Google away from logging my network data I
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by whackberry 14y ago
> That's because the software Google used didn't actively browse the networks to look for documents Do we know that for a fact? Sorry if well known, genuine question.
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by whackberry 14y ago
> But then again I'm sorry, I have never seen what the big deal was about this. You don't see what the deal is with a major corporation doing wardriving and packet capturing? > If you broadcast your crap around you can't blame peopl
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by whackberry 14y ago
> What is the point in publicly naming an the engineer in this case? How does this benefit the public good? The public has the right to know. Otherwise, who decides what should be public or not, the ministry of big brother?
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by whackberry 14y ago
That's the Linus way. You never know when he's being sarcastic, but mostly he's being serious with a few sarcastic turns.
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by whackberry 14y ago
This is one of my heroes, he never has let me down in his opinions. No BS, straight talk, one of the very few relevant people still not sold out in this business. Turning the desktop into a retarded terminal for some company's javascript ap
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by whackberry 14y ago
Are you being sarcastic?
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by whackberry 14y ago
> Why are we happy? We are not. Terminal emulation needs to die Yes, but the proposed replacement for UNIX consoles is a Google web browser that requires you log into Google in order to use it?? I don't think so....
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Google Knew Street View Collected Private Data, FCC Says(pcmag.com)
1 points by whackberry 14y ago|0 comments
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by whackberry 14y ago
> Dropbox had the same issue in 2011. Their TOS was very similar to Google Drive's, Yes but Dropbox doesn't have the reach and amount of data gathering power Google has. Google is actively monitoring hundreds to thousands of personal da

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