Posts by KansasCity 3 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Nov 2009
Is this a quote from another posting or from the article or from the PDF? I tried to find it but didn't have any luck.
The PDF covers the credit card information as explicitly as allowed, I suppose. That's part of the problem that all the companies are legitimately complaining about, isn't it?
"MS is arguably much less evil than Google, as they only want your money, while google wants your intelligence."
Oh boy!
My wife has worked as a clinician in the field of mental health for many years, and she has told me numerous hilarious stories about the clients who confide in her that they know that those men in trenchcoats carrying briefcases in grocery stores are monitoring shoppers’ thoughts, and/or publishing their thoughts for profit. (Without compensation, of course. They even turn some of their ideas into hit songs and popular TV shows!)
Now they're joined by the "Google is evil, you would burn your computer (google is evil) and live in a cave (google is evil) if you found out what Google (google is evil) knows about you!" crowd (Don't forget, Google is evil!)
Just take a pill. And stop posting on the Internet, please!
Oh, by the way, Bill Gates wants to meet you and give you $10,000 for helping Microsoft in their latest astrofurfing campaign. It MUST be true ;-)
"These people are even more evil than MS and Apple"
Sorry, it would take a few decades of lying, cheating, bribery, theft, fraud, astroturfing, and subversion (just for starters), as a basic principle of corporate practice, to match Microsoft. MS was founded on deception, can't survive without it, and has no reason to change. Although they'd give anything to convince the world that Google is evil.
Actually, Microsoft's tactical motivation to convince us all that Google is evil is sufficient to make me automatically suspicious of any posting accompanied by the "Google is evil" spin phrase. If we're going to try to have an objective analysis of the real issues of anonymity in the growing world of data mining and retention, first let's kill all the spin doctors. (Shakespeare 2009)
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