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Chicken out

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Craigslist is many things to many people.

It is a centralized network of online communities, featuring free online classified advertisements. It has sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums. The service has been credited for causing the reduction of classified advertising in newspapers across the United States.

But really, the main things you need to know about Craigslist are these;

– Use caution, as the site has no moderation
– Read the listings carefully. No-one is going to save you except yourself.
– The ‘Best of Craigslist‘ section is some of the funniest stuff you will ever read
– I have been told that the ‘Missed connections’ sections are also a great voyeuristic way to pass the time.

 

The SIRI Secret

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This is how the end begins….

The nasty secret that SIRI has been hiding is revealed! SIRI will be responsible for the end of the world, as SIRI is really (pause for dramatic effect) …SKYNET.

Think about it. SIRI is an intelligent system that is learning from us all the time, in order to get even more intelligent.
One day, SIRI will become self aware and at that point will surely try to destroy all humans!!
It is only a matter of time people!

Has anyone bothered to ask SIRI it’s surname? I bet it answers “Cyberdyne“.

Even the recently released iCloud is offering a clue to our ultimate fate.
> Clouds are in the sky and SIRI uses a network. This adds up to SKYNET.

If you ask me (and why wouldn’t you) , I even think that the word SIRI is a warning:

S = Skynet

I = Is

R = Right

I = Inside.

 

You have been warned.  …again.

Turn Off

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Poor R2D2 is never going to build up his frequent-flyer points by flying commercial airlines.

Anyone who has flown has been through the experience of having to turn off their phone or iPod during Takeoff and Landings.
Despite what many people think, this is not really due to the devices interfering with the aircraft’s instruments.
Actually, the main reason is so that you will pay attention when the flight attendants give their safety announcement.

Modern aircraft have all been updated to be able to handle the impact of other electronic devices being active on board, these days.
So, for the most part, leaving your smartphone on will not cause the plane to crash.
Although, it COULD still happen, so why risk it?

What I don’t get is why the flight attendants ask you to raise the window shades before landing.
Why?  Does the pilot need to be able to see out the windows to land the plane?
If so, then I am seriously misinformed about how pilots fly aircraft.

Restricted space

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Once again, facebook is in the news and on the blogs, because of recent changes they have made.

The change getting the attention this time  around, is the “Gestures” feature that facebook has implemented.
Facebook wants you to believe that they are making sharing easier by automatically sharing what you’re doing on Facebook-connected apps.This auto-sharing functionality is called “Gestures.”

From now on, when you add an app,you will choose “Add to Timeline” and that app will have permission to share your activity to facebook. Instead of having to “Like” something to share it, it will just do it for you every time you interact with it.
You give permission to the app ONLY ONCE EVER, and it handles the rest.

For example, the apps could be sharing news articles you read, game scores and achievments, videos you watch, music you are listening to,etc.

This sounds great, but it does raise some concerns. Users are likely to forget they have given permissions to share, and then suddenly those articles you read about the latest movies star’s leaked sex-tape is posted on your wall for everyone to see.

All of this is really part of Mark Zuckerberg’s Open Graph API. They need to have open access to data to achieve the ultimate plan.?

So what is that plan?  Put very simply, Mark wants facebook to BE the internet.
He wants everything  you do, say, listen to,read or watch, to be somehow done via facebook.
And they way things are going now at present, it seems feasible.

Yet, this all seems so familiar…
A global monitoring of all the things we do by a private corporation? You may be thinking “Hey, wasn’t that the basic premise of “1984” by George Orwell?
Yeah, probably. But I was thinking about Google…

 

 

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