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Skybird
10-31-08, 11:35 AM
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,druck-587546,00.html

Yep. That is exactly the reason why I avoid using Goggle search anymore, and bash their browser, Chrome. Information is not only money, it also is power. And Google's power is without counterbalance and counter-controlled. Not to mention legitimation of the kind we demand for legal and governmental power.
SteamWake
10-31-08, 01:03 PM
More paranoia. :doh:
FIREWALL
10-31-08, 01:10 PM
WHAT KINDA DRUGS ARE YOU ON ? :p :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Didn't your Mother teach you to share ? :yep:
Wolfehunter
10-31-08, 02:10 PM
I've mention to my wife to stop using google and yahoo but she doesn't care.

I believe most people don't care untill something wrong hits them but its too late.
August
10-31-08, 04:08 PM
There is nothing wrong with the street views in google earth. That article is a piece of major paranoia.
Digital_Trucker
10-31-08, 04:21 PM
Just a bit of a stretch to say that banks could use the info they're gathering to adjust interest rates on mortgages based on property conditions since this isn't going to be real-time data. Besides which, the bank could get a picture of your property any time they wanted to, anyway.

And I thought I was paranoid:D
August
10-31-08, 04:34 PM
Just a bit of a stretch to say that banks could use the info they're gathering to adjust interest rates on mortgages based on property conditions since this isn't going to be real-time data. Besides which, the bank could get a picture of your property any time they wanted to, anyway.

And I thought I was paranoid:D

Exactly. You go to the City of Providence tax assessors office and you can view a picture that they have taken of every building in their jurisdiction.
FIREWALL
10-31-08, 04:57 PM
http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/3065/000822tinshackrr9.jpg
Skybird
10-31-08, 05:24 PM
Is carelessness an American virtue? It happens so often with you guys. Environment. Finances, private debts, and mortgages... and now data sensibility. Now, political class is corrupt, environment is messed up, the privbate debts are ruining hundreds of thousnads of families and the credit market has just molten down.

Maybe now wanting to try some more care, for a change? At least it does not hurt - that's the worst that can happen. Why always waiting for the desaster to have happened before taking action, but then too late?
Digital_Trucker
10-31-08, 05:37 PM
Firewall, where did you get that picture of my house?:rotfl:
SteamWake
10-31-08, 05:57 PM
http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/3065/000822tinshackrr9.jpg

Thats pretty nice... HO scale I suppose. Still nice work.
Blacklight
10-31-08, 05:58 PM
Firewall, where did you get that picture of my house?:rotfl:

You know.. that's amazing ! I live in that house too, on the top floor ! I must be your upstairs neighbor !!! :rotfl:
Digital_Trucker
10-31-08, 07:25 PM
Firewall, where did you get that picture of my house?:rotfl:
You know.. that's amazing ! I live in that house too, on the top floor ! I must be your upstairs neighbor !!! :rotfl:

Now I know who to yell at to keep the noise down:yep::rotfl:
SUBMAN1
10-31-08, 09:07 PM
I am convinced Skybird was born in the wrong time. He would probably be better off in the 1400's or so. Of course, they were more religious back then - Heresy was a big deal. Maybe you just don't belong here?

-S