Privacy Issues

[O Really]

http://news.msn.com/us/hacker-targets-b ... -olds-room

Hacker takes over baby monitor...

[O Really]

Reminder to turn off geotags if you're going to post pics online... http://news.msn.com/rumors/rumor-smartp ... ivacy-risk

[O Really]

So Bloomberg want to fingerprint everybody who lives or applies to live in public housing. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national ... ing/68435/
Short version: 5% of the city residents live there; 20% of the crime occurs there. The theory is that better identification of those living in public housing will help reduce the number of criminals to the best interest of the individual neighborhoods and the city as a whole.

What think you?

[O Really]

Here's help - fight tech with tech. Wear electronic camo...
http://msnvideo.msn.com/?channelindex=8 ... 8352792aea

[O Really]

So, the tin foil hat crowd was right all along?

Apparently so.

[Mr.B]

"So, the tin foil hat crowd was right all along?"

"...it will make you stick out like a sore thumb in a crowd"...... a tin foil hat won't?

[Boatrocker]

And "business" is the keyword, here.
NRA member = ignorant tool.

[Mr.B]

"Just look around the next time you go shopping , etc. and see how many people are so absorbed in their phones they can't carry on a conversation, watch where they're going, eat, enjoy a movie, drive...the list is endless. I've even seen people texting at funeral home visitations, funerals, and church services. Teens walk around in a stupor with their finger furiously pounding the screens of their cell phones.......The "scourge" is in the idiotic things (smartphones) completely dominating some people's lives."

Now, there's the conceit of "selfies" K---B







Hot date!


Lifeline!

[neoplacebo]

I have never had a cell phone and do not plan to get one.

[bannination]

I have never had a cell phone and do not plan to get one.

It amazes me that people spend over two thousand dollars a year on them. Crazyness! I can understand for business purposes, but these aren't, and they aren't rich people either. Yet they always complain about not having any money..... I wonder why?!??!..... Then they proceed to make fun of my flip phone that doesn't have texting or internet that I spend less than $200 a year on.

Let me qualify my statement though, I don't care that these people are spending money on it, just don't complain to me about NOT having any money.

[JTA]

I have never had a cell phone and do not plan to get one.

It amazes me that people spend over two thousand dollars a year on them. Crazyness! I can understand for business purposes, but these aren't, and they aren't rich people either. Yet they always complain about not having any money..... I wonder why?!??!..... Then they proceed to make fun of my flip phone that doesn't have texting or internet that I spend less than $200 a year on.

Let me qualify my statement though, I don't care that these people are spending money on it, just don't complain to me about NOT having any money.

I had the same cell phone for about seven years. Dropped it in the toilet once when I had a little too much bud light. I think the toilet had been flushed of wizzle before I dropped it into it, I can't recollect the finer details of that night though. But the moral of the story is that cell phone had been dropped on concrete a bunch of times, immersed in water, and quite possibly pissed on and it still survived. I'd like to see a smart phone do that.

[bannination]

I have never had a cell phone and do not plan to get one.

It amazes me that people spend over two thousand dollars a year on them. Crazyness! I can understand for business purposes, but these aren't, and they aren't rich people either. Yet they always complain about not having any money..... I wonder why?!??!..... Then they proceed to make fun of my flip phone that doesn't have texting or internet that I spend less than $200 a year on.

Let me qualify my statement though, I don't care that these people are spending money on it, just don't complain to me about NOT having any money.

I had the same cell phone for about seven years. Dropped it in the toilet once when I had a little too much bud light. I think the toilet had been flushed of wizzle before I dropped it into it, I can't recollect the finer details of that night though. But the moral of the story is that cell phone had been dropped on concrete a bunch of times, immersed in water, and quite possibly pissed on and it still survived. I'd like to see a smart phone do that.

Oh, and I so laugh when they can't even make it a day on one charge. Oh yeah, they also ask me how I function in the world with such a disadvantage of not having a smart phone......????? Rly??

[JTA]

I have never had a cell phone and do not plan to get one.

It amazes me that people spend over two thousand dollars a year on them. Crazyness! I can understand for business purposes, but these aren't, and they aren't rich people either. Yet they always complain about not having any money..... I wonder why?!??!..... Then they proceed to make fun of my flip phone that doesn't have texting or internet that I spend less than $200 a year on.

Let me qualify my statement though, I don't care that these people are spending money on it, just don't complain to me about NOT having any money.

I had the same cell phone for about seven years. Dropped it in the toilet once when I had a little too much bud light. I think the toilet had been flushed of wizzle before I dropped it into it, I can't recollect the finer details of that night though. But the moral of the story is that cell phone had been dropped on concrete a bunch of times, immersed in water, and quite possibly pissed on and it still survived. I'd like to see a smart phone do that.

Oh, and I so laugh when they can't even make it a day on one charge.

Haha yeah, I think the charge on my little brick phone lasted well over a week at first. Never once changed the battery. By the time I replaced it I could still go two days or so on a single charge depending on usage. I've got a samsung smart phone right now. The battery can go about 2 days on a single charge. The thing I really like about it is it's pretty easy to get to the battery in case you want to swap it out for a new one, or add a higher capacity battery.

[O Really]

I live on my mobile. And of all the things I use it for, phone calls are among the least. I don't even really consider it a "phone." It's a portable multi-purpose information device.

[rstrong]

With my cell phone being fully reliable for years, I got rid of my now-unused land line.

Yes, cell phone service costs twice as much. But it lets me browse the web and check my mail while I'm on the bus to and from work, and I can answer my "home" phone while I'm at work and elsewhere. Add texting, the built-in answering service, portable file storage, the ability to access my music from anywhere, the ability to keep in contact with the kids and transfer money to them from anywhere, and its well worth it.

Having internet at home and on my phone, I also don't pay for cable service. Or go out to movies. So the costs end up much the same.

If something were to happen to my smartphone, my old one (Blackberry Torch) is standing by. It worked very well, still holds a charge all day, and has some advantages over my current one.

[O Really]

What he said. Except for the Torch part.

[bannination]

With my cell phone being fully reliable for years, I got rid of my now-unused land line.

Yes, cell phone service costs twice as much. But it lets me browse the web and check my mail while I'm on the bus to and from work, and I can answer my "home" phone while I'm at work and elsewhere. Add texting, the built-in answering service, portable file storage, the ability to access my music from anywhere, the ability to keep in contact with the kids and transfer money to them from anywhere, and its well worth it.

Having internet at home and on my phone, I also don't pay for cable service. Or go out to movies. So the costs end up much the same.

If something were to happen to my smartphone, my old one (Blackberry Torch) is standing by. It worked very well, still holds a charge all day, and has some advantages over my current one.

I pretty much have internet where ever I go, so a laptop pretty much takes care of all of that, and most of the time I'm carrying it around for work anyway. I can text for free via google SMS.

Different strokes for different folks. Like I said though, I wouldn't knock anyone for having them.... just those that complain about money in the next sentence.

[rstrong]

Oh, and I so laugh when they can't even make it a day on one charge.

Haha yeah, I think the charge on my little brick phone lasted well over a week at first. Never once changed the battery. By the time I replaced it I could still go two days or so on a single charge depending on usage. I've got a samsung smart phone right now. The battery can go about 2 days on a single charge. The thing I really like about it is it's pretty easy to get to the battery in case you want to swap it out for a new one, or add a higher capacity battery.

My current phone (Blackberry Z10) was running out of power by late evening. But it has a nifty built-in utility to show you just what's using all the processing power and radio bandwidth. It turns out that it was email/calendar/ToDo/contacts app - which was synchronizing every 15 minutes with both my work and personal email/calendar/etc. accounts. I told it to synchronize less often, and the problem went away.

Any smartphone will give you the battery life of a non-smartphone, if you use it as a non-smartphone.

I just wish that the smartphone makers would focus less on making them thin. If you made a Blackberry or iPhone even half the width of an old flip-phone - even the tiny ones - you could put in a battery that would last a week.

[rstrong]

I pretty much have internet where ever I go, so a laptop pretty much takes care of all of that, and most of the time I'm carrying it around for work anyway.

The nice thing about a smartphone is that I can shove it in my pocket and forget about it. With a laptop, I have to keep carrying it around, and if I ever put it down, I have to keep an eye on it at all times.

[rstrong]

What he said. Except for the Torch part.

It has a WebKit-based browser like the iPhone. But with an excellent slide-out keyboard. And a mouse pointer, for non-mobile sites including those with hover buttons and menus.

It doesn't have all the smartphone apps of an iPhone, but it's a far better communications device.