Ping Pong!!! I LOVE PING PONG
P * P
Tom McGrath III
Lazy River Software
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iTunes Library Suite - libITS
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On Jul 2, 2009, at 1:26 AM, Shari wrote:
I listed myself on
On 1 Jul 2009, at 21:28, François Chaplais wrote:
Every time somebody writes something on this list, it's indexed by
google. It may be a good thing, provided you protect what's
valuable to you. Sometimes I think of internet as a huge orgy of
information, with little protection.
You
You can read s much into that last sentence. Classic. That's a keeper!
Cheers,
Luis.
I think therein lies the key. Protecting what's valuable. Because I
have an online business, several actually, my email is widespread. I
don't use different emails for different things because that
Ping Pong!!! I LOVE PING PONG
P * P
I've got a fan! Woo hoo! And a face to go with the name :-) Now
how did he find me? Dunno. I musta shown up on his potential buddy
list since many of you are on mine. If anybody's looking you'll find
me under Coxford. Now I dare you to find a
Actually, I went through all of your different businesses and searched
on them until I found your full name on one and searched that in FB.
Nice trail through shareware, t-shirts, other t-shirts, still other t-
shirts etc. until the Pong fan page.
[OT] I also sell t-shirts online and write
I still think it ironic that we are intolerant of governments
and corporations when they engage in behaviors we excuse in
our selves.
I wouldn't lump these two together. But if your point is that corporations
are just providing a service that we want, I can see your point.
The problem I see
This is a problem that revolves around 2 highly abstract concepts:
'Rights' and 'Property'; both of which have no reality in the physical
sense at all.
'Rights' are even more nebulous than 'Property' so I'll TRY to show what is
'odd' about the concept of property first.
For the sake of
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Sent: 7/2/2009 10:14 AM
Subject: RE: Creepy 2020
I still think it ironic that we are intolerant of governments
and corporations when they engage in behaviors we excuse in
our selves.
I wouldn't lump these two together. But if your point
Randall Reetz wrote:
You have a choice. Dont sign up for special sales gimmicks.
Or go ahead and sign up for the Normal Price cards (which the stores
mislabel Customer Rewards cards), but just don't use any real info.
If you apply at the counter they'll hand you the card on the spot; no
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Sent: 7/2/2009 10:14 AM
Subject: RE: Creepy 2020
I still think it ironic that we are intolerant of governments
and corporations when they engage in behaviors we excuse in
our selves.
I wouldn't lump these two together. But if your point
Randall Reetz wrote:
You have a choice. Dont sign up for special sales gimmicks.
But sometimes the choice isn't explicit, or really a choice at all. The
story I like to tell in my class is of how, when we were trying to have
our children, we needed to use fertility services. As we needed
Yeah, I'm out there :-) Got three websites just for the tshirts, but
the designs are all the same. It's the fulfillment companies that
are different. Got two websites for the software. Got other
websites that just are. You with the evil CP? Or Z-Pod? Or other?
Actually, I went through
as it is that we simply couldnt take it if someone else got that
discount and we didnt.
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From: Judy Perry jper...@ecs.fullerton.edu
To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Sent: 7/2/2009 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: Creepy 2020
Randall Reetz wrote:
You have
On Jul 2, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
While you're at it, it's helpful for privacy advocacy to fill out
the application with a completely different demographic profile than
yours, so the more people who do this the less useful the database
becomes.
I heard from a guy in
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Shari sh...@gypsyware.com wrote:
I always try to remember that whatever I post is actually public info.
Whether it be here, Facebook, mySpace, my web pages, Google groups,
wherever.
That is an extremely sensible attitude to take. What you may not appreciate
On Jul 2, 2009, at 11:46 PM, Randall Reetz wrote:
If the majority of consumers demanded fairness over gimmicks
I want you all to lean out your window and yell 'I'm as mad as H*LL
and I'm not going to take it any more!
Couldn't resist, I was watching the movie 'Network' tonight. ;-)
Jim-
Thursday, July 2, 2009, 7:54:39 PM, you wrote:
I want you all to lean out your window and yell 'I'm as mad as H*LL
and I'm not going to take it any more!
I did that, but a couple of squirrels thought I was a nut...
--
-Mark Wieder
mwie...@ahsoftware.net
Wow, I can't believe the life of the thread I started! Fascinating!
And I wuz worried about posting something slightly OT... LOL!
Shari
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Dogs and bears, sports and cars, and patriots t-shirts
http://www.gityasome.com
WlND0WS and MAClNT0SH shareware
http://www.gypsyware.com
That will be the day!
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From: Jim Sims s...@ezpzapps.com
To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Sent: 7/2/2009 7:54 PM
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On Jul 2, 2009, at 11:46 PM, Randall Reetz wrote:
If the majority of consumers demanded fairness over
i said about our purchasing decisions mattering palestine in
comparison to how powerful are our labor decisions. Productivity.
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From: Shari sh...@gypsyware.com
To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Sent: 7/2/2009 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: Creepy 2020
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Sent: 7/2/2009 10:13 PM
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I would hope that the economic and ecological and resource and energy
catastrophe we are facing (living within) would give us all reason to pause and
think deeply about which kind of humanity we want to be. We have seen what
I've been playing hookie for awhile, Richard Gaskin, yes I did answer
you, did you receive?
Here's what's creepy. I'm attempting to create a Facebook account
(yes, this is revelant to the forum...) because someone turned me
onto a really cool marketing thing you can do with it.
I'm not set
On Jul 1, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Shari wrote:
David Bovill, for example. David Bovill pops up as a potential
friend, someone I might know.
How does it know that?
Click on the name link, and you'll see a page of info, which will
include a list of mutual friends. I think the system sees
On Jul 1, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
Click on the name link, and you'll see a page of info, which will
include a list of mutual friends. I think the system sees that you
both have the same friends, and so maybe you know each other.
You can also search for any name. Like now, I
On Jul 1, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Jim Sims wrote:
Hmmm... I typed in Colin Holgate and I see two guys - one is
wearing white/pink bunny ears. Colin, we gotta talk about this
behavior of yours :-P
There are four matches, I'm the top one, not the Liverpool fan or the
bunny ears guy. Or the
. Yet it has this
list of folks that I really do know or have communicated with in the
past.
Seriously creepy. Yet apparently socially acceptable. Big Brother
must be loving this! (Slinks into my bunker peering out unto the
world with a periscope...)
I mean it's really cool in one way
Who's Colin?
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Sent: Jul 1, 2009 11:02 AM
On Jul 1, 2009, at 10:54 AM, Shari wrote:
David Bovill, for example. David
Shari-
I believe Facebook by default uses your computer's address book.
Anyone in your address book who already has a FB account comes up as a
match and is a potential friend, anyone who doesn't already have an
account is a target for an invitation. It's clever technology and
invasive and
Hi Shari,
I've been playing hookie for awhile, ...
thanks to: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hookie
I learned a new and obviously VERY amercian word today :-)
Best
Klaus
--
Klaus Major
http://www.major-k.de
kl...@major.on-rev.com
Isnt it just a little ironic that you want to use facebook to spam people you
know, but you find something creepy about facebook doing the same thing to you?
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From: Shari sh...@gypsyware.com
To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Sent: 7/1/2009 7:54 AM
Subject: Creepy
Sheri,
it is using your address book. when i had to get into facebook for
some clients work i registered under a nome de plume of buckaroo
banzai (not sposta do that but i have never been caught by the
facebook cops). unfortunately i screwed up one time in there fiddling
with things and
Shari wrote:
I've been playing hookie for awhile, Richard Gaskin, yes I did answer
you, did you receive?
Yes I did, thank you. So nice to see you back here.
Here's what's creepy. I'm attempting to create a Facebook account
(yes, this is revelant to the forum...) because someone turned me
On Jul 1, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote:
I have still found facebook of very little use.
You haven't found the Scrabble app then?
Seriously though, for professional contacts and the like there are
other choices out there, such as LinkedIn.
creepy, I am now, officially worried.
:-/
Mark Wieder wrote:
I believe Facebook by default uses your computer's address book.
How does FaceBook obtain this information through the browser?
Sounds like a very serious security exposure in browsers. After all, if
FaceBook can do it, any
Andre Garzia wrote:
Hello Folks,
After a quick query on how facebook does its magic/voodoo, I come to
the following blurbs:
It looks like what is happening is that you’ve chosen the “opt-in”
suggestion feature on Facebook. You might have blown past the checkbox
or maybe not have noticed it
Jim Sims wrote:
Hmmm... I typed in Colin Holgate and I see two guys - one is wearing
white/pink bunny ears. Colin, we gotta talk about this behavior of
yours :-P
That's just how he looks...
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software |
Comforting to know it's not a browser exploit digging into
our hard drives, but it raises a question of the security
decision-making at Yahoo, gMail, etc.:
How can a web site like FaceBook dig into your address book
at those other sites without requiring your passwords for those sites?
Le 1 juil. 09 à 22:06, Lynn Fredricks a écrit :
snip
I believe at some point, you are asked if you want to find your
friends on
various e-services. I recall something about this, also other
platforms
using something similar, like NING.
They've all set up sharing APIs that require
friends yet. I've not gotten that far. I've not
entered any info, schools, groups, anything. Yet it has this
list of folks that I really do know or have communicated with in the
past.
Seriously creepy. Yet apparently socially acceptable. Big Brother
must be loving this! (Slinks into my
Couldn't this be accounted for by the idea that your email address is
in OTHER people's address books that have willingly shared them using
the Friend Finder tool in Facebook?
We seem to be assuming that Facebook is automagically digging into
your address book, when it could just be
\o/
We Got A Winner :D
That Brian is a very good insight and makes everything even creepier!
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Brian Yenniebri...@qldlearning.com wrote:
Couldn't this be accounted for by the idea that your email address is in
OTHER people's address books that have willingly
probably has...
This creepy privacy invasion thread makes me think of the various ways
Google snaps up information - by car and of course by satelite. Maybe in a
few years we will see robot wars between the Google Car, Yahoo Refuse Digger
and Facebook Roto Rooter - all fighting each other to get
customers?
FaceBook et al are just providing to that same demand. Yes it is creepy... how
humans act towards their friends. Everyone wants the networking
advantages afforded by a company that mines personal data. Nobody likes to
know how that data is aquired when it comes to their own
. How
many people go to church or get their kids in a soccer league or enroll them
in a private school specifically to gain access to the right group of
potential customers? FaceBook et al are just providing to that same demand.
Yes it is creepy... how humans act towards their friends
to the right group of
potential customers? FaceBook et al are just providing to that same demand.
Yes it is creepy... how humans act towards their friends. Everyone
wants the networking advantages afforded by a company that mines personal
data. Nobody likes to know how that data is aquired when
working.
That's one answer. I should start a quantum social network where you tweet
but are limited to one bit! 0
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And what's your Facebook username?
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San Francisco
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2009/7/1 Randall Reetz rand...@randallreetz.com
I still think it ironic
account.
Again, it's amazing how few people were aware that at least some people saw
this as inappropriate and kicked up enough stink to have the changes
revoked, ie they were completely unaware that their ToCs had changed twice
in the span of a couple of months.
This isn't creepy, it's more
Not finding this option. Not seeing anywhere to
opt in or out. Pretty sure I would have seen a
checkbox and not checked it, though, or unchecked
it or whatever.
Under Friends, there are several options to help
you find your friends. One tells you to give
your Email/Password (which I know
Oh, the marketing tool that started it all was a virtual thing. I
design tshirts and apparently people do these virtual gift giving
things. Sort of like sending eCards and virtual flowers, now they
are sending virtual gifts of all sorts. You can allow your tshirts
and things to be given as
I listed myself on Reunion.com eons ago, hoping to see all my old
schoomates doing the same. They were starting to. Then the site
changed not only their name, but the whole class listing thing, and
became user unfriendly. Facebook seems to be doing the thing they
used to do, where you can
% of my classmates are on facebook. I
spent time at multiple universities, and searching for people I
recognized there was too tiresome to continue.
But fundamentally, I wouldn't say the thing was creepy. It seems most
people I know are avoiding facebook, or if they are on there they've
suitablly
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