On 7/13/2014 9:30 AM, Share Long [email protected] [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
Wow, Richard, once again I feel compassion for all the peeps
collecting and sifting through a pretty much infinite set of data points!
>
Only a few humans actually work at data centers, just to make sure the
electricity is on. Most of the sorting and filtering is done by internet
bots on the information highway. There are a few humans sitting at the
admin console who make sure the internet is being accessed - I guess you
could call them robots, but we just call them Nerds.
Systems Org Administrative Console
>
I hope Dr. Pete or his equivalent is close by for when the data
inevitable meltdown happens (-:
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Not sure if Dr.Pete is a Nerd or not but it looks like he lost his
broadband connection. Go figure.
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On Sunday, July 13, 2014 9:23 AM, "'Richard J. Williams'
[email protected] [FairfieldLife]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 7/13/2014 8:00 AM, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
I always keep a small piece of black electrical tape over my camera
lens on my laptop, just in case.
>
Well, I guess it depends on where you use your laptop - I don't
usually take mine into the bedroom or the bathroom, so I don't need
any black tape on my laptop camera lens - I just close the lid when
I'm done with Skype. That way, I don't have to get out the Goo Gone
and clean the lens every time I want to join a video conference.
The fact is, we don't really know what's inside our laptop computers,
either built into the hardware or the software. But that pales in
comparison to what's being stored about you in the data center. Have
you run an electronic device sweep through your house lately - it's
probably bugged somewhere.
So, I wouldn't be surprised if your iPhone has a little chip in it
that tells Apple almost everything you say, even when your phone is
turned off. Since you probably take the phone with you everywhere,
they've probably recorded every bedside chat you've had for the past
five years. Go figure.
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---In [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>, <s3raphita@...>
<mailto:s3raphita@...> wrote :
Re "What would you do if you saw a drone at your bedroom window?":
Yes, that sucks. What is worrying me more is this new Google glass
contraption which has just started to become available in the UK. The
thought of people recording the strangers they encounter in public
spaces (and using face-recognition software) is very creepy. Soon the
only place you can expect privacy is in your own home - and I
understand that the capability exists for a snoop to switch on your
laptop camera without your knowledge.
---In [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>, <punditster@...>
<mailto:punditster@...> wrote :
What would you do if you saw a drone at your bedroom window?
"For all the slick technology, there are grave moral and legal questions
going unanswered in the government’s use of armed drones to kill people
considered terrorist threats. "
'Reining In the Drones'
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/07/opinion/reining-in-the-drones.html?_r=0
