Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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Jamestown, NC | Also
I have also seen this pop up on various sites this morning and so far I'm finding it hard to believe. |
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MemphisPCGuy
Senior Systems Engineer
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join:2004-05-09
Memphis, TN
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| It must be based on something similar to FLASH being able to monitor the microphone without user intervention... if you have never right clicked a flash movie/banner etc. try it ... you may be surprised!
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shane349
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join:2005-03-21
Delta, OH | more google than ever?
seems that they are very busy lately? |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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|  Google the Good turning into Orwell's 1984
Looks like Google the Good is turning into Google the spy. Can George Orwell's 1984 nightmare world be far off if Google continues to expand their tentacles into the home. LOL, and people worry about the NSA and AT&T. So look at who the real threat may be.
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GadgetsRme
R.I.P. dadkins
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join:2002-01-30
Canon City, CO
| What do I think?
That's what I think!
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cbrain
join:2000-05-21
Silver Spring, MD | reply to TKJunkMail
Re: Google the Good turning into Orwell's 1984
I don't sweat it. I just plug my mic into the feed from one of my neighbors homes and fool them.  |
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26
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| It's in the motto
"Do no evil"
WTF is up with that? I've said it before: would you trust your new next-door if he displayed a sign that read, "Do not shoot your neighbor"
Reminding your company to 'do no evil' didn't exactly tweak my confidence in Google. I'm starting to think they've a Jim Jones thing going on out there.
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WORSE. THAN. CARTER.
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join:2001-12-30
Backyard
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·Verizon Online DSL
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| For What It's Worth
by Stephen Stills, 1966
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
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| From my microphone...
That's one hell of a trick then! Microphone is in the desk drawer... not connected to the laptop. 
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The Folsom
Kindly Shut Your Noise Hole.
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join:2003-01-31
Yucaipa, CA
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| reply to MemphisPCGuy
Re: Also
said by MemphisPCGuy  :It must be based on something similar to FLASH being able to monitor the microphone without user intervention... if you have never right clicked a flash movie/banner etc. try it ... you may be surprised! I took my USB webcam down... just in case. But in all candor, nothing salacious ever happens in my dining room(yet)...
Meanwhile...
"Bau Bau Chikka Chikka Bau Bau..." *Sound effect from an episode of "Friends" wherein the guys "got" free porn on cable TV and they were afraid to turn off the TV for fear of losing it forever...*
Time to turn off the boxen(or the mic...hmmm...) and give it a well-deserved break... Don't want the rest of the internet having some audio from the boudoir at the other end of the house...
Hmmm... Early morning; kids are still asleep; wifey-poo is looking pretty good; Flash has been effectively banished from the mix... If you'll excuse me-there's a dining room table that needs to be broken in...
"Bau Bau Chikka Chikka Bau Bau..."
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Derfel
join:2004-06-06
Winnipeg, MB | reply to dadkins
Re: From my microphone...
Personally, I'd start saying really suspicious things, like airliner, bomb, death to America, etc... and see what happens. |
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Nec3f
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join:2001-04-16
Cudahy, WI
| said by Derfel :Personally, I'd start saying really suspicious things, like airliner, bomb, death to America, etc... and see what happens. The TSA/FBI will be at your door and you can watch what happens on CNN from jail. |
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alalper
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join:2000-08-20
Philadelphia, PA
| reply to dadkins
said by dadkins :That's one hell of a trick then! Microphone is in the desk drawer... not connected to the laptop. Dadkins, you just ain't no fun anymore. |
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Brittany
join:2002-02-27
Silver Spring, MD
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said by Nec3f :said by Derfel :Personally, I'd start saying really suspicious things, like airliner, bomb, death to America, etc... and see what happens. The TSA/FBI will be at your door and you can watch what happens on CNN from jail. This is Google, not NSA. You will start getting ads for fertilizer, fuel oil, detonators, terrorist training, legal services ... |
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Jason Levine
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join:2001-07-13
USA
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Re: Google the Good turning into Orwell's 1984
I wouldn't worry about this just yet. What details there are about this indicate that there is a conversion done on the PC that reduces the sound to a 4KB "fingerprint" and that the fingerprint can't be reverse engineered into the original sound. (Kind of like MD5 hashing the audio data.) The fingerprint is transmitted and the ads are shown based on that. Given Google's past performance, this program would likely be strictly voluntary and easy to get out of once you've opted in.
They might not even have a specific product in mind. This could just be one of those projects that the Google engineers use their "20% time" ( »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#.22···.22_time ) working on. |
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KrazyDawg
join:2001-02-07
Vallejo, CA
clubs: | reply to dadkins
Re: From my microphone...
Microphone is muted off of the headset itself and not through the volume control panel. I should probably disconnect it for security.  |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
1 edit | Google isn't spying.
People are getting all worked up for nothing.
»arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20···081.html
"software on the laptop samples the ambient audio in five-second chunks, then "irreversibly compresses" it into summary statistics (this means that no one is eavesdropping on you; the actual audio never leaves your laptop)."
And if your tv has a headphone jack or you are using a media center pc or tv tuner on your computer, google could just bypass the microphone and record the tv sound directly via the line-in or just selecting the tv audio source. Less chance for errors and no security risk. |
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Jessica 69
@aol.com | I'm confused........again!
How do I determine if there is a microphone built into my pc? And more important, how do I disable it?
And don't tell me to RTFM because I can't find them.
Thanks in advance! |
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DSLTech
join:2000-12-30
San Jose, CA
| more monay!
google, always looking for ways to sell you what they think you want.
someday you'll be "thinking" about sex and before you know it you'll have 30 ads lined up from craigslist's "erotic services" section. i suppose links to porn sites will be an option.
naturally any google instant messenger will automatically have ads based on current discussions.
its not about doing "good", but avoiding doing the "known bads" ... aka cover your a**. |
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BodyBumper
join:2004-06-21
Beverly Hills, CA
| reply to Brittany
Re: From my microphone...
said by Brittany :said by Nec3f :said by Derfel :Personally, I'd start saying really suspicious things, like airliner, bomb, death to America, etc... and see what happens. The TSA/FBI will be at your door and you can watch what happens on CNN from jail. This is Google, not NSA. You will start getting ads for fertilizer, fuel oil, detonators, terrorist training, legal services ... ROFL!!!!!!!
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