Anyone volunteer to FedEx Scott here a tin foil hat?? If not, I'll be happy to provide one... *cue xfiles theme....* Sent from my Blackberry. Please execute spelling errors. ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> To: nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Thu Dec 03 22:14:57 2009 Subject: Re: news from Google jof@thejof.com : 6.6.6.6 belongs to the US Army look at AS 666. At least they know their position in the universe. --------------------------------------------------- andrey.gordon@gmail.com : IMHO that's where we are heading with google taking over every service imaginable Only if you let them. DBS (don't be sheep) --------------------------------------------------- At the most basic minimum manage your cookies. Just a quick search (not with google) gives: google.com/support/urchin45/bin/answer.py?answer=28710 (you'll see a LOT of _utm<x> type cookies as soon as you start watching them) There are many other companies out there that know more about you than you think possible. Small example: Do you allow third party cookies unfettered access to what you do? scott
I agree, one could find this though paranoid, but even if we don't use google out of fear that they will take over everything they still seem to be growing. What I'm trying to say is that you/we/they can take all the placards you/we/they want and go and try to convince (or at least educate) the public that google is becoming an evil empire, but there are enough sheep out there to make google succeed. Google makes it's services very attractive to use (free, convenient, great functionality, integration, etc) so we do for the most part. There is a chance that soon google will be collecting "statistics" on all aspects of your digital life and that government has to do is to pass a law or even more than that, nationalize google. That's just one paranoid theory I've got. Send your tin foil hats and emails to PO Box 666, Antarctica, The World. Remember? They started as a search engine? Not sure how, but they are becoming (became) the new Micro$oft, IMHO. ----- Andrey Gordon [andrey.gordon@gmail.com] On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Warren Bailey <wbailey@gci.com> wrote:
Anyone volunteer to FedEx Scott here a tin foil hat?? If not, I'll be happy to provide one... *cue xfiles theme....*
Sent from my Blackberry. Please execute spelling errors.
----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com> To: nanog@merit.edu <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Thu Dec 03 22:14:57 2009 Subject: Re: news from Google
jof@thejof.com
: 6.6.6.6 belongs to the US Army
look at AS 666. At least they know their position in the universe. ---------------------------------------------------
andrey.gordon@gmail.com
: IMHO that's where we are heading with google taking over every service imaginable
Only if you let them. DBS (don't be sheep) ---------------------------------------------------
At the most basic minimum manage your cookies. Just a quick search (not with google) gives: google.com/support/urchin45/bin/answer.py?answer=28710 (you'll see a LOT of _utm<x> type cookies as soon as you start watching them)
There are many other companies out there that know more about you than you think possible. Small example: Do you allow third party cookies unfettered access to what you do?
scott
Remember? They started as a search engine? Not sure how, but they are becoming (became) the new Micro$oft, IMHO.
Hmnm, I don't agree with your opinion, Micro$oft keeps making money out of you just repackaging and reselling the same crappy software over and over and making people pay for a large number of features they will never use, imposing their OS through hardware distributors and crushing anyone who they may feel becomes a threat to their biz model. Remember? The started as a software company, and still don't get it, IMHO. Regards Jorge
I didn't say that google is now a software company, i meant they are present in more and more aspects of your life, but yeah, i guess not the best example. Cheers ----- Andrey Gordon [andrey.gordon@gmail.com] On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com> wrote:
Remember? They started as a search engine? Not sure how, but they are becoming (became) the new Micro$oft, IMHO.
Hmnm, I don't agree with your opinion, Micro$oft keeps making money out of you just repackaging and reselling the same crappy software over and over and making people pay for a large number of features they will never use, imposing their OS through hardware distributors and crushing anyone who they may feel becomes a threat to their biz model.
Remember? The started as a software company, and still don't get it, IMHO.
Regards Jorge
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