I Won't Buy An I-Phone....

Discussion in 'Random Thoughts' started by Bilby, Sep 29, 2014.

  1. IamnotaMan

    IamnotaMan I am Thor. On sabba-tickle. Still available via us

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    I'm not overly bothered which one, IF I'm using Tor browser and shit.
    If I am bothered, I'd use the Darkweb related ones.

    Google is shit because it basically has a "kill switch" for news/info it doesn't want u to see.
    Whether u are in China, Britain or wherever. If I wanted the world according to Bathhouse Barry Obama, I'd just buy a copy of USA Today, or some such shite.
    Plus I don't like the way they are sneaky about data theft and spying.

    And the Anarchists Cookbook used to be considered pretty harmless browsing til the Islamaloons got on the internet.
     
  2. IamnotaMan

    IamnotaMan I am Thor. On sabba-tickle. Still available via us

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    I think its always a cat and mouse game.

    Wastebook and clowns like that have their demands for a mobile phone number to circumvent privacy attempts. Now in some countries u have to show your social insurance number to get a sim card. But in England, you can get one anywhere, no questions asked.

    Most of the time, I don't give a fuck what the NSA are up to. But data theft is like any other theft and should result in jail sentences or punitive damages awards.

    But the worst part IMO is the way its becoming a tool against people, not FOR people. For instance, the way newspaper comments sections/web forums have govt activists/paid pr people making public opinion "look" a particular way.

    ANd also the Google "kill switch" for information they don't want found. This reminds me of a case of a football player supposedly wrongly convicted of rape by a serial bullshitter.
    THe courts have a gagging order on her identity in England. But in other countries you can talk about it on the web all day. Likewise with the news articles about "Prince" Charles being a bummer.
     
  3. AceK

    AceK Scientia Potentia Est

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    fyi, reading about chemical warfar and such things are not illegal. actually manufacturing them is another thing, but just because someone reads about something does not automatically make them a terrorist.
     
  4. IamnotaMan

    IamnotaMan I am Thor. On sabba-tickle. Still available via us

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    I think you're in America tho|? And I'm in England.
    It never used to be in England/ But recently there have been people convicted for holding bomb recipes on their computer.

    http://www.sundaypost.com/news-views/news-review/the-anarchist-cookbook-still-on-sale-in-the-uk-1.89624

    " His son Nicky Davison (below), 19, of County Durham, was sentenced to two years in a young offenders’ institution after being convicted of charges relating to downloading copies of the Anarchist’s Cookbook".

    Personally, I thought the conviction didn't make a lot of sense legally, atleast in the way its reported. But in other areas of the law, for instance paedo scum, its been an offence for a long time to download material.
     
  5. Carlfloydfan

    Carlfloydfan Travel lover

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    Doesn't iphone predate cloud sharing? I thought that only came on the scene a few years ago..
     
  6. lode

    lode Banned

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    From a technical point of view that's incorrect.

    http://www.cnet.com/news/moores-law-the-rule-that-really-matters-in-tech/

    Moore's Law generally means that every 18 months or so CPU power doubles. That's been slowing with traditional CPU's, but ARM architecture is beating that curve.

    It also won't matter. The future of the internet isn't stronger CPU's, it's in distributed networks, the internet of things, which is a horrible tech buzzword, but it's an accurate summation of what's coming. A future where your carton of egg's has a microprocessor which informs your fridge when it goes bad.

    The security implications are also stunning.
     
  7. lode

    lode Banned

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    No. Cloud sharing is simply distributed file sharing, which has been on the scene since the 70's. It became more economical in the late 90's, and got the trendy name in the mid 2000's.
     
  8. lode

    lode Banned

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    If you're concerned with privacy, I recommend

    https://www.startpage.com

    They will not place tracking cookies upon you, nor log your IP, and do not require JavaScript.

    They use Google to enhance their searches, meaning they use bots and try to build a reasonable facilely without the inherent spyware agreement you make with Google. Bing uses Googles search results too. They just don't make the same promise.
     
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  9. lode

    lode Banned

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    Does the cool things your phone do... are some of them free?

    They aren't through. Your information is harvested at all levels. By your Apple device to build a marketing profile to sell. By the application makers to sell their own marketing profiles, Who you talk to online is valuable information. If I were interested in advertising to you, I could gleam things about your life from it. And advertise very specific products that appeal to you. Higher up the food chain your information is harvested by many other organizations for their own information purposes.

    This isn't paranoia in the slightest. I'm a web designer and we put tracking cookies on our websites. They exist on hip forums as well. From this page alone I have one DOM element stored from hipforums, two from Google, and three from Facebook. Tracking you is how the web "2.0" is financed, and that is a fact.
     
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  10. NoxiousGas

    NoxiousGas Old Fart

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    Yup! data mining is this centuries gold rush.
    How the hell do you think Fuckerburg made billions of $$$, selling the marketing data Facebook mines.

    I get e-mails every week from the supermarket with coupons of things I normally buy and related items I don't.
    all that info is gathered every time I use my "club card" and I wouldn't be bit surprised if that info was also being sold to other marketing firms.
    As lode pointed out, data mining is always taking place online, but 99% of it is innocuous marketing crap and not some global plot to read your text messages or create a dossier' of everyone's activity online.

    it all comes down to $$$ and not espionage.
     
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  11. thedope

    thedope glad attention Lifetime Supporter

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    Vibrate setting?
     
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  12. NoxiousGas

    NoxiousGas Old Fart

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  13. Irminsul

    Irminsul Valkyrie

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    don't add it as a url, just copy and paste into box.. seems to work that way.
     
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  14. secret_thinker

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  15. AceK

    AceK Scientia Potentia Est

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  16. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    I was listening to a recent interview with Jesse (The Body) Ventura (former Governor, Navy Seal, Wrestler, TV Host of Conspiracy Theory) and he stated "He'll never buy a cell phone" and would like the words "I never owned a cell phone in my life" etched on his tombstone



    Hotwater
     
  17. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    the thing with me and phones, is they just cost more then i use them. i just don't have people to keep in contact with, and maybe once in a blue moon i need one, like to line up a place to live or work or something. the rest of time all they're good to me for is to play tetris and check what time it is when i'm waiting for a bus.
     
  18. Dude111

    Dude111 An Awesome Dude

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    I wont either......... I value my privacy!!
     
  19. sunfighter

    sunfighter Hip Forums Supporter HipForums Supporter

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    If you are concerned about privacy, you should buy an iPhone 6 because Apple Pay provides a way to pay with your credit or debit card without giving the merchant (think Target, Home Depot) your card number or any of your personal information. This kind of thing is the solution to protecting yourself from merchant databases being hacked.
     
  20. Comfortablynumb11

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    I want nothing to do with i-phones, i-pads, I-pods or I-anything else like that. .
     
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