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re: Tech Urban Legends you 100% believe..
Posted on 5/8/17 at 10:24 pm to Tyga Woods
Posted on 5/8/17 at 10:24 pm to Tyga Woods
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There is always a live microphone on your computer and cell phone.
Internet ads listen through your mic and set your ads to things they'll hear you say or things it hears from the TV.
Who knows who else is listening.
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Posted on 5/8/17 at 10:25 pm to Napoleon
Verizon slows down your data forcing you to spend more time loading pages, thus using more data.
Edit: I'm stupid.
Edit: I'm stupid.
This post was edited on 5/9/17 at 11:03 am
Posted on 5/8/17 at 10:26 pm to WW
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Yet you post not one.
Went out to eat at Fleming's in BR a while back.
There was a BMW i8 in the parking lot.
We talked about the car for a minute and I told one of the girls with us what kind of car it was.
We go in and sit down and I pull my phone out to do a Facebook check in and what was the first thing I saw on Facebook...
A news article from Car and Driver talking about the BMW i8
Posted on 5/8/17 at 10:27 pm to MaHittaMaHitta
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Verizon slows done your data forcing you to spend more time loading pages, thus using more data.
Umm... the page is the page, loading faster or slower doesn't make the page bigger or smaller.
Now if you keep hitting refresh because you are impatient that is another story.
This post was edited on 5/8/17 at 10:29 pm
Posted on 5/8/17 at 10:44 pm to Napoleon
Root your phone, do a custom ROM, and the updates won't frick it up. But yes, they do roll out updates to screw up older phones
Posted on 5/8/17 at 10:48 pm to Hammertime
I rejected the iPhone update for over a year and a half because I didn't want it to screw up my phone that was working perfectly fine.
Then at some point it just became based on principle that Apple was pissing me off by repeatedly trying to get me to update.
Then at some point it just became based on principle that Apple was pissing me off by repeatedly trying to get me to update.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 10:54 pm to Napoleon
Google knows way more about my family than even I do.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 11:00 pm to BACONisMEATcandy
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The Simsboro walker
Mom was at Tech in the mid 70s and has told me. I believe 100%
Posted on 5/8/17 at 11:00 pm to Napoleon
So I know of a program at my company that is going to track people by their phones while in shopping environments. It will track what products you look at and for how long. Many thanks to apple and google for adding features to your phone you never turn off.
Tracking ones online personality and patterns was always easy. Now we can track your physical personality in a passive manner. You do not opt in or out.
Tracking ones online personality and patterns was always easy. Now we can track your physical personality in a passive manner. You do not opt in or out.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 11:02 pm to DarthRebel
Opt out by turning GPS location services off.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 11:16 pm to jefforize
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Opt out by turning GPS location services off.
Negative ghostrider. GPS is the past and then it moved on to beacons. Tracking is happening at a cellular, wifi and bluetooth level now. It will mutate again soon. What is the point of smart phone if you have to turn all the features off.
The data collected is kept in massive data warehouses with an infinite life span and the machine learning kicks in. Some in Azure and some in AWS hosted depending on system. At this point the data is part of at least 2 of these companies Google, Apple, Microsoft or Amazon.
It is truly a wonderful, yet scary time with technology.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 11:23 pm to DarthRebel
Well, if it results in me getting emails and ads for items im actually interested in buying, i dont think its a bad thing
I work with data science, big data,,and cloud computing and find it fascinating.
Exciting stuff when you can turn data into information
I work with data science, big data,,and cloud computing and find it fascinating.
Exciting stuff when you can turn data into information
Posted on 5/8/17 at 11:29 pm to DarthRebel
This sounds like something you shouldn't be saying on a forum lol
Posted on 5/8/17 at 11:30 pm to Napoleon
texting costs the company nothing, and by charging for it makes up most of their revenue.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 11:30 pm to TheCaterpillar
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iPhone screens could be made crack/shatter resistant fairly easily but they keep them glass because of repair/breakage costs
100%
That's why I'm switching. 4 iPhones in my house and I spend a fortune fixing broken screens. Soon to be 3 when I switch to that new Blackberry. Gorilla Glass with solid frame.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 11:35 pm to STLDawg
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was speaking with my wife about potential vacation spots, and I mentioned Salt Lake City. Without searching for anything, I started seeing ads for SLC tourism in sidebars on several sites.
Dude, I've had several things like this happen but a new one happened today. I rode a bike yesterday and today. Upon coming back from my bike ride, I checked TD on my phone and the first ad to come up was for a cycle fitness program. It must be accessing our GPS and tracking our movements.
This post was edited on 5/8/17 at 11:41 pm
Posted on 5/8/17 at 11:37 pm to tigercross
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The Simsboro walker
Wut dis?
Posted on 5/8/17 at 11:41 pm to supadave3
Could be explained if you use Google maps bike route option.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 11:45 pm to Tyga Woods
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There is always a live microphone on your computer and cell phone.
So far I haven't seen any urban legends.
Yall are just posting lesser known truths. Amazon, Google, Samsung, and Apple are alway listening. Those companies have confirmed that.
Apple Force fricks its users if they don't upgrade. That's a fact.
Withholding tech so you can always have something new is as old as the tech industry itself.
A tech urban legend is, for example, that when the UFO crashed at Roswell it contained microchips and Internet communication framework and a sort of cell phone device. NASA and the government began a massive research project to reverse engineer what they found and that's how all the slave age breakthroughs in the 50s and 60s came about.
Posted on 5/8/17 at 11:49 pm to jefforize
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Well, if it results in me getting emails and ads for items im actually interested in buying, i dont think its a bad thing
I work with data science, big data,,and cloud computing and find it fascinating.
Exciting stuff when you can turn data into information
Yeah, I have been in this stuff since the 90s. It was exciting and fascinating 10 years ago, now it is scary. This stuff we did at the change of the century was cool, did a lot with telecoms tracking phone patterns to design unique plans for customer retention.
That was some focused stuff and the data (calls) were owned by the companies. Now we are talking about data that is owned by you, yet being sold to others without your permission. The fact you stopped and looked at a product on a shelf for 30 seconds is not the property of the company that made the product. That belongs to you.
The path we are going down is a very bad thing.
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