Cookies in other venues: You sign up for one of those customer loyalty discount cards at, say, the local grocery emporium. After a few weeks, the store, to which you willingly gave your name AND address, and probably phone number and email address, has in its database , in addition to your taste for jalapeno-stuffed olives, the store knows your income range (except for a couple jars of the aforementioned olives, you mostly buy generic brands) and work hours (you tend to buy stuff at the same time every night when you get off the 2nd shift), and you've got three kids (you usually buy a bottle of milk and some generic Coco-Puffs.
I've had folks say the Easi-Pass, with with they pay their turnpike tolls, is harmless. But you have to give your credit card, and everytime you pass through a toll gate, your car and the toll booth have a conversation about who you are, when you were where, how quickly you made it to your destination. The state knows quite a bit else about you. They've checked your credit rating, and know you drive late model Lexus. Of course, it knows you also own a 30-year-old VW bug. Which do you drive most? Pennsylvania, unlike Florida, has a way to find out. In Florida, you may take your SunPass with you when you switch cars. In Pa., you are required to buy a pass for each vehicle you intend to drive. And both the grocery store and the state DOT are making millions selling what they've collected to anyone with money. If one were to buy information from several dependable sources and digitally collate it -- /voila/ -- everything you didn't want your wife to know about her next birthday present is in a computer database you didn't know existed. Now comes the part that most upsets me -- Post-911, several collectors of such information have been very willing to share it with federal and state governments -- all in the interests of catching terrorists and perverts, of course, but the computers collecting all the data don't know anything about that. After all, how can it learn to identify a terrorist if a few innocents haven't been caught and deleted so it knows what bytes to ignore. Anyone who thinks exactly the same sort of goings-on aren't happening in the cookie pantry needs to follow Jason's suggestion and see what's collected there. Don Ferguson wrote: > I use and very much like the Palm horizontal belt case. It functions > well, protects the Treo and the clip is so tight (even after a couple of > years) it has never come off my belt. It's nice to be able to remove it > without having to unbuckle my belt (could be misconstrued in a public > place!!). The most recent one has a handy magnetic closure and a small > interior pocket for emergency money. The 755p (which I think is about > the same size as the 680) is smaller than the devices this thing was > built for, so I'd imagine the "hunchback" version of the 680 would fit > just fine. > > http://store.palm.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2199170 > > This one also looks interesting, and perhaps a bit sportier. No > experience with it, though: > > http://store.palm.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2746908 > > Cheers, > Don > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Tom Allebrandi > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 9:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Treo] Need holster/case recommendation > > I have a Cingular branded 680 that came with their stock "black leather > pouch". > > > I have two problems with the case: > > 1) The spring clip really isn't long/strong enough. I keep knocking > it > off of my belt. > > 2) The case isn't stiff enough. I carry my laptop in a shoulder bag > and > the bag keeps bouncing into the case/phone pushing buttons. > > So, I need something that will address these problems. I think a belt > loop > case might be better for me. > > Also, one other wrinkle - I've just ordered the 2400mah battery from > Seidio > so my 680 will be a little thinker than normal. > > Does anyone have a good recommendation that will fit my needs? > > Thanks! > > --- tom > tom allebrandi > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > -- /“Thirty-five million deaths leave an empty place at only one family table.” / (News commentator Eric Severied in a radio essay on the 25th anniversary of the start of World War Two. 8/31/64) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/treo/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/treo/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
