[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPb8VqFmQZk[/video] Carlyle can't handle a toaster? You could tell he's had an entitled life lol.
someone on another site was bitching about the cost of cable, and how he only had it for his father, and once he died, he'd be cancelling it. then he was talking about how he hoped he could scrape together the bucks to buy DVDs of a certain show. i told him that the entire show had been posted to youtube. his response? i don't like youtube. lol, fine. sucks to be you.
i do too. i think google is evil, and i'm not happy they own youtube now, but it's an awesome resource. i've discoverd mountains of music i knew nothing about, and now love, thanks to youtube. missed that big hit last night that everyone's arguing about it? it's on youtube. i boycott google as a search engine because i really despise what google is doing, and there are perfectly viable alternatives. i know of no alternative to youtube that even comes close. i don't like google, but i won't cut off my nose to spite my face. if i were low on money, and found out the show i love was watchable on youtube, in its entirety, for free, i'd be all over it. to each their own i guess. [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1kf7EGm6CY[/video]
Just think about it, before youtube if you wanted to find a certain cd, you had to go scrambling around record stores looking for it, now its as easy as a search. Then there's the old sports replays, and just yesterday, a friend was telling me they watched this movie on tv with deniro called silver linings playbook, later that night I did a search on youtube and found the entire movie and watched it, nothing like it. As far as google, don't really get involved in the politics, all I know is they have more money than god now, but it serves its purpose as a viable search engine.
google is the big brother orwell wrote about. the government only dreams of knowing as much about as many people as google knows, and they're just getting started. here's the simplest example. google NEVER deletes an email sent to or from gmail. never. ever. if u have a gmail account and tell it to delete an email, all you're actually doing is telling them to never let YOU see it again. not only will they keep a copy of it forever (in reality, several copies, who knows how many), they brag about it. some people say "no worries, you can trust them." i find that to be pretty naive, but even if i believed it, nothing will stop the government, who few will say can be trusted, from getting all the info google has on you if they decide they want it.
Apparently, you can't delete anything, the mayor tried to delete the crack video, they had tech forensics recover it. If the government put their efforts in, they could find out what time you wake up every morning, if you attend mass on sundays and how fast you drive, big brother's here to stay unfortunately.
google is by far the largest aggregator of personal info in the world. i don't think u grasp the extent of it when u say "big brother is here to stay". yes, others likely could find that info if they put enough effort into it, but google renders that moot by doing all the legwork themselves. this makes it easy for any government to do, on a huge scale, what they would otherwise be unable to afford to do. if left to their own devices, the government (any government) would have to be far more selective. google does all the work for them now, which gives them access to info on countless people the government would have never been able to afford to investigate. all they do is pay a token fee to google for administrative costs, and if they wanted to, they could force them to turn the info over for free. public cameras are here to stay, and have been for years. does that mean u want to have everything u do filmed?
that's an entirely different issue, which applies to YOU every bit as much as it does to youtube/google. it is outside the scope of this discussion. if anyone's interested, i'll be happy to discuss this too
You never know, it could be to google's advantage to be helpful to the government, probably tax perks in there somewhere, or benefits that only 20 chartered accountants can understand. Funny, with google maps, I knew someone that owned land overseas, hasn't been there in over 20 years, with google maps he was able to check up on the land, find out if anyone was growing crops, or it was being developed.
which makes them more dangerous, not less. and u could find out the same info with bing maps, and, i'm pretty sure, several other providers too. in any event, in terms of mitigating google's culpability here - lol, this is like saying "ya, but OJ was a great football player" at his murder trial. if the government wanted to know everything that u did online, they could get a warrant (altho i bet my government doesn't need one) and place a "tap" on your internet connection, and record your every activity. thing is, that would only take effect the moment they became suspicious of u and got the thing setup. google, on the other hand, has all that info on u from day 1, so they can provide the govt with far more than it would be able to get itself.
Yeah, its unbelievable, I was looking into going to vegas, and now every site I go on, I see an ad for some hotel deal in vegas, they track the sites you visit, I see where your going with this, and its only going to get worse.
lol - and the advertising angle is one of the most innocent. it just occurred to me, i can explain the crack video thing pretty easily. it's all about how data is written to a hard drive and stored there. when u save a new item to disk. the item is written out somewhere on the disk, and an index entry is made for it, pointing to where the item physically is on the disk. when u decide u want to delete it, the index entry is removed, but where it was physically stored on the disk remains untouched. what made me realize this would be easy to explain was thinking about the message boards at cBS. the popular understanding is that they removed them. they did no such thing. all of those threads are still there, if u know where to look. i can make a new post in the ditch over there today, and to demonstrate this issue, i will. cBS never deleted the message boards - they only deleted, or moved, the board indexes. the posts are all still there. now, if u delete something from your hard drive and REALLY want it gone, there are utilities that u can use to make it go away, but it requires a lot of effort. the part of the drive it was written on needs to be overwritten, and once won't do it. at this point, the matter becomes more technical than i am capable of explaining. suffice it to say that any true removal of data from a drive requires a lot of repetitive lathering, rinsing, and repeating. so anything u "delete" from your PC, or Mac, or whatever, likely can still be retrieved until enough time has passed that the drive gets overwritten in the relevant spot enough times. the more a drive is used, the less this time will be. google makes sure all your data will NEVER be erased/wiped out by saving who knows how many redundant copies of it, in multiple locations.
damn, they may have made a liar out of me by finally removing the threads. i made a post to the ditch in july, but now i can't find it again. i didn't keep any of my bookmarks, as i had been previously been able to find threads with bing. bing doesn't see them now, so apparently, the geniuses there finally removed them for real.
I'm still mad I didn't jump in on the IPO for google. *WALL* I was positioned to. I probably put some bad bets on hockey games though. *THUMBSUP*
my wife does contract work for google every once in a while, so i'm really down Lulz's devil. we associate with KP and RW on the creative side of the company. don't own stock, but we're pretty much in bed with the BIG G.
