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I'm less worried about them seeing the porn I watch, and more bothered by the fact that now when I click on a stupid youtube video on sites like this, it affects things like my amazon account.
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Indolent Bastard posted:I don't doubt it, but I'm one of millions and millions of people and "them" knowing what kind of porn I watch and what board games I buy online it's too worrisome. You're only a nobody as long as nobody looks at you.
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The real worry is once they start using predictive analysis of peoples habits to look for people who "may" become criminals. It's basically moving into thought crime territory really fast. Right now it's limited to the NSA and large government agencies but how many years until your local police force has a computer running predictions on their community to look for "issues"?
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syscall girl posted:Yeah but the question is what they do with it. As someone who was stationed at an NSA facility, I can honestly say they don't care at all that you made the right choice ordering Hawaiian style pizza.
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Apocadall posted:The real worry is once they start using predictive analysis of peoples habits to look for people who "may" become criminals. It's basically moving into thought crime territory really fast. Right now it's limited to the NSA and large government agencies but how many years until your local police force has a computer running predictions on their community to look for "issues"? Most local police departments barely have the staff/funding to keep up with the work they already have. They're not going to hire a bunch of geeks to make more "work" for them because Jim Bob bought hacksaw blades and rubber gloves in the same Amazon purchase.
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I use incognito mode. Check mate, NSA. 
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syscall girl posted:Yeah but the question is what they do with it. Oh no, it's just all put into huge databases waiting until they need to convict you of something. Jastiger posted:I use incognito mode. I use PureVPN, seems to work OK. vvv Actually I don't pirate, but as a black man who watches a lot of Investigation Discovery I'm more worried about my location and web search history being tracked. vvv Gynocentric Regime has a new favorite as of 01:41 on Nov 3, 2015 |
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Mulva posted:Oh no, it's just all put into huge databases waiting until they need to convict you of something. The future war on piracy will bring down the full power of the RIAA on millennials.
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I do web rating/QA as a side gig. Because I didn't fully think things through while setting up, the extension I use for that is tied to the same Gmail address I use for everything else, which is just myname@ gmail.com. The nature of the work means that my web history is, while mostly pretty mundane, completely schizophrenic and batshit crazy. My Google Now cards, Youtube recommendations, and any ads I get already make me look really odd, as I apparently have a vested interest in everything from weird porn to mobile home prices to Bollywood movies to the stats of a lovely minor league baseball team in Idaho. I seriously pity anyone who has to dig through that.
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El Jebus posted:As someone who was stationed at an NSA facility, I can honestly say they don't care at all that you made the right choice ordering Hawaiian style pizza. Sickies
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syscall girl posted:Sickies You're crazier than Apocadull.
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KoRMaK posted:The future war on piracy will bring down the full power of the RIAA on millennials.
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Grey Fox posted:The real schadenfreude will be when the millennials can't afford to pay and the lawyers just eat each other with unhinged jaws. Hahahah When I'm down in the penal salt mines I'll think of this post and chuckle lightly
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:There's not a lot of market for penile salt I can't even give mine away
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buttcoinbrony posted:It seems like he handled the situation pretty well though? Sure he got sucker punched, but he ended up handling it. There is a reason cabs have a security partition and washable interior. At least the cabs I've been in. Also radio, a direct 2 way communication with dispatcher. Those guys are also drive all day every day and aren't phased by minor confrontations and lovely clients. Most Uber drivers are part time, who got recruited via online app. They come equipped with a run of the mill family sedan and a smartphone. They don't have a handler, just an app that tells them where the next pickup is. It's an extremely vulnerable position to be in. The whole shebang only works when your customers are behaving. Good luck getting vomit out of your seats, especially with nothing but Uber's $45 "clean up compensation" handout. More permanent damage to interior? Have fun explaining to your insurance company that you're actually a (part time) commercial driver. Oh wait, it's explicitly against your personal auto policy, so you're not covered. And if god forbid you got robbed, raped and/or murdered, nobody would know for hours. Most people who sign up for Uber, don't stay long. And the company is constantly looking for new ways to gently caress its drivers. Uber belongs in this thread, permanently.
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Nitrox posted:He is quitting Uber, and may or may not have ptsd. I doubt he's "handling it" like a cab driver would. I still end up using Uber just because of the nature of where I live. I don't have a valid license (due to immigration fuckups) nor my own car, and I live in a state that was designed from the ground up for independent drivers with very limited pedestrian or mass transit infrastructure. I'm almost totally dependent on hitching rides to get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time without sweating my rear end off in the near-permanent summer heat and humidity of Florida. Uber lets me just tap a few buttons on my phone and get a ride wherever I need to go for a pretty low price without even needing cash on hand (though you should really tip your Uber drivers because they don't get paid enough to not deserve it). The crux of it is to use it if you need it, and just be really nice to your driver so you don't end up being a lovely part of their day.
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chitoryu12 posted:I still end up using Uber just because of the nature of where I live. I don't have a valid license (due to immigration fuckups) nor my own car, and I live in a state that was designed from the ground up for independent drivers with very limited pedestrian or mass transit infrastructure. I'm almost totally dependent on hitching rides to get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time without sweating my rear end off in the near-permanent summer heat and humidity of Florida. Uber lets me just tap a few buttons on my phone and get a ride wherever I need to go for a pretty low price without even needing cash on hand (though you should really tip your Uber drivers because they don't get paid enough to not deserve it). You don't need to post in this thread every single time you're waiting for your Uber! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9xeU-21WQM
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chitoryu12 posted:I still end up using Uber just because of the nature of where I live. I don't have a valid license (due to immigration fuckups) nor my own car, and I live in a state that was designed from the ground up for independent drivers with very limited pedestrian or mass transit infrastructure. I'm almost totally dependent on hitching rides to get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time without sweating my rear end off in the near-permanent summer heat and humidity of Florida. Uber lets me just tap a few buttons on my phone and get a ride wherever I need to go for a pretty low price without even needing cash on hand (though you should really tip your Uber drivers because they don't get paid enough to not deserve it). In actual schadenfreude, watch them actually start enforcing the rules again. it was glorious last time around. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3747657
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chitoryu12 posted:Rafael's on top of poo poo. Rafael's the Schadenfreude though. He's got to act like he can help any of these people at all but the problems are foundational to the company he works for. edit: also his life is reading long diatribes about how the company he puts 8+ hours of his day into is terrible and by extension so is everyone who works there.
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Today was the Melbourne Cup, the "race that stops the nation" in Australia where some people riding horses do a thing I dunno BUT the relevant part to this thread is that a whole bunch of people get hosed up drunk in public. Here's some classic from previous years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0xn2zelzbQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnKifxUZZJU Here's today's winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bivpyVwpxnQ Sport of Kings! 
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Ah yes, the day Melbournians pretend to be all posh by dressing up, betting half their monthly wage, "having a little flutter" and then throwing up and passing out in a gutter. Sheer class.
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 God this country is amazing. I love that the state of Victoria has a public holiday so everyone can watch a horse race.
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we had one for a football game a month or two ago, why not a horse race too?
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While we're talking Australia, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzbGDJyKQSw&index=4&list=PLlFN1tsXeNsybagPeT6QCWKbKzfGlUsxp make sure you pause it at 3:10 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Today was the Melbourne Cup, the "race that stops the nation" in Australia where some people riding horses do a thing I dunno BUT the relevant part to this thread is that a whole bunch of people get hosed up drunk in public. wayfinder posted:... if you're a climate changer denier It's bad that it happened for extremely obvious reasons, but at the same time it's good that it was discovered. SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 16:06 on Nov 3, 2015 |
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Slugnoid posted:While we're talking Australia, It's pretty amazing how each nation's dashcams have their own "flavors". I dunno if this compilation was cherry-picked specifically for these types, but there was a ton of: merging without loooking/side-swiping, stopping in the middle of the road after missing a turn, and fishtailing out after merging too far or taking a turn too fast on wet pavement. So very different from the Russian and US Dashcams. And that one Canadian one that once got posted.
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You guys realize all this paranoia about google isn't actually a reason to use comcast, right? I mean, I once ran Xterm sessions over a 14.4k modem, and I would describe that experience as "not precisely the apogee of human achievement." Why comcast would seek to emulate that, while inventing overages, in TYOOL 2015 is beyond me.
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Slugnoid posted:While we're talking Australia, What gets me about these is that you can hear that there's audio recording (you hear the crash or the tire squeal or the radio playing), but there's no reaction from the driver when someone does some seriously crazy poo poo. Maybe I'm just a loud driver, because I'm usually like "no no no no no no" when I see someone swerving into my lane.
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