Originally posted by xXxinfidelxXx
It actually makes me laugh that some people on this site actually still use Google for "research.

I don't understand that part. People use google to research the same way they use roads to buy groceries.

aka, they both lead to places to attain said things, not get things in and of itself..it is simply a facilitator..

I heard that argument before...that if you use google to research stuff, its bad info..like somehow the search engine has transformed into a wiki (could be..I might be missing an option).

Or the more open ended "internet" in general..commercials (insurance companies) are now putting out the meme that if its said on the internet, its basically a lie..nevermind where on the internet, which websites...just, if its on the internet, its probably false.

I think there is a misinfo meme being subtly pushed lately by big Co. to get people in a mindset that the entire internet is a source of cute kitten videos and trash so that you revert back to classic msm sources (easily controlled resources).

Sorry, didn't mean to go into a mini-rant..just seen that last sentence and triggered my annoyance at something a bit more general.

I suppose many people think simply in terms of 'what they know about me' as the core issue of the Google data vacuum.

I wouldn't care much either, except that I can't clear my memory of the countless times data breaches have occurred, how "big data" will end up with the equivalent of robust psychological profiles about everyone who uses the internet... and of course the fact that nearly any government has access to all of it, at their whim and for their pleasure.

After seeing how marketing and psychology have become inseparable bedfellows, manufacturing consent, bending our collective ignorance to the benefit of commercial enterprises, who in turn become the 'sponsors' of the politicians making the rules... and knowing that the people have neither ownership of their own information, nor redress to challenge the 'use' of it... well... I guess I'm old-fashioned.

Liberty does not exist without privacy.

Wake up little Suzie...

Originally posted by 12m8keall2c

Originally posted by Klassified
... and leave sync alone.

agreed.

I'm just not that comfortable with the whole 'cloud computing' dealio [yet]. too many bugs. too much exploitable security issues and the like

I would add to this...there's not much benefit to "the cloud" for most people. I have my desktop at home, my desktop at work, amd a laptop. I have a 32gb thumb drive for backup storage and transference. I have no use of having my personal, or business, data or applications to reside on "the cloud", which is just a marketing term for "sommeone else's hard drive, which you access via the internet." (put simply)

And for those paying for "secure online storage" for family photos, etc...how about a fire-proof box with a backup drive in it? More secure, and less expensive in the long term.

I don't use any google products after hearing too many stories of how intrusive they are and how much data mining they do. I don't care what their privacy policy says today, that could all change tomorrow. I don't think anything is private online anyway.

Think about it. I have a yahoo account for signing up to sites that I know will spam me to death. I keep in totally "anonymous" unlike Facebook. But I am sure there is an algorithm out there that connects IP addresses with site visit/logins and aggregates all of your data under your name.

Originally posted by Maxmars
I suppose many people think simply in terms of 'what they know about me' as the core issue of the Google data vacuum.

I wouldn't care much either, except that I can't clear my memory of the countless times data breaches have occurred, how "big data" will end up with the equivalent of robust psychological profiles about everyone who uses the internet... and of course the fact that nearly any government has access to all of it, at their whim and for their pleasure.

After seeing how marketing and psychology have become inseparable bedfellows, manufacturing consent, bending our collective ignorance to the benefit of commercial enterprises, who in turn become the 'sponsors' of the politicians making the rules... and knowing that the people have neither ownership of their own information, nor redress to challenge the 'use' of it... well... I guess I'm old-fashioned.

Liberty does not exist without privacy.

edit on 12-12-2012 by Maxmars because: (no reason given)

Amen!

As for those people who are Firefox diehards - I can't understand why you use it. It's bloated and takes forever to load.

I saw this problem worse than most of you Monday, but guess where I contract now?

I have to use Chrome to do my job, and on Ubuntu to top it off! We see errors constantly with the fact it caches EVERYTHING. Even after you tell it to stop there's tons of workarounds that tend to only do what rebooting your system after a cleared cache does, not much. At home I refuse to use Google products other than GEarth because I like the globe reference. But the map data synching is what scares me, it tries to share so much between products it's bound to cause a huge issue eventually, right?

For now it's a job but man this company makes some crappy stuff! Oh and they feed us too much dry chicken!!

CIA is deeply associated with Google. Tops of Google are CIA employees. Now the CIA is working on the development of electronic weapons for psychological wars. Deprivation of information is one of information war methods, it may even draw a man to the noose. In Moscow there were several cases when people deprived of Internet hung themselves to death! So I think that Google products are compromised. The Google company is a branch of CIA.