 Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium
join:2002-03-03
USA
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Re: Do you really need it?!? said by SLD:Who really needs these stupid smart phones anyway? Need? No. Want? Yes.
They often can replace carrying laptops for road warriors that just want to stay in touch thru emails; look up travel info; and read small documents.
They also combine portable music; phone; camera; messaging device; PDA; Web browser; all in to one handy device.
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 SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA
3 edits | And they also combine all of your personal information into a nice tidy package that large multi-national corporations and the gov't can use against you. Weee!
I had a client who wanted to buy me an iPad so I could have access to his servers *anywhere* if there was a redundant failure. I told him no thanks - I'm not going to be leashed to some device or a job. I'll check e-mail when I sit down at my desk. Once I'm out of the office, my time is my time.
I don't understand this urge to be reachable 24/7 that so many have. |
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| said by SLD:And they also combine all of your personal information into a nice tidy package that large multi-national corporations and the gov't can use against you. Weee! I had a client who wanted to buy me an iPad so I could have access to his servers *anywhere* if there was a redundant failure. I told him no thanks - I'm not going to be leashed to some device or a job. I'll check e-mail when I sit down at my desk. Once I'm out of the office, my time is my time. I don't understand this urge to be reachable 24/7 that so many have. You do realize just because you have a device doesn't mean you actually have to take a call or read an email? Just because you are reachable doesn't mean you have to be. |
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SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA | My point is the feeling of necessity to have the device at all, considering all of the negative issues that come with it. |
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 tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
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| said by SLD:My point is the feeling of necessity to have the device at all, considering all of the negative issues that come with it. You only see the negatives of being tethered to work. I'm looking mostly at the positives. In fact, the negatives of being always reachable are quite manageable. For example, I choose to ignore most incoming calls and check voicemails. Hell, my ringer is off 90% of the time. I occasionally check my emails. I actually spend much more time listening to podcasts, streaming music, chatting on gtalk, watching youtube, using the built-in GPS for navigation and for finding businesses, pricing, reviews, etc.. around me.
To me, there are far more positives to a smartphone than negatives - especially since the negatives can be mitigated.
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SLDPremium
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San Francisco, CA | You'll never mitigate the *real* negatives of selling your privacy for a bit of convenience. |
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tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
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| said by SLD:You'll never mitigate the *real* negatives of selling your privacy for a bit of convenience. What privacy?
My Gmail privacy?
My Google Maps searches?
My Google Checkout purchases?
Picasa to share my photos?
I used every one of those services before my G1. Nothing's changed there.
The ONLY difference between my existing desktop privacy "loss" and my mobile privacy is that I opted-in for "anonymous" location tracking.
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"What makes us omniscient? Have we a record of omniscience? ...If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning."
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SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA | Oh, well, if you've been selling yourself out since the beginning, why stop now? |
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join:2003-05-26
Climax, MI
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said by SLD:You'll never mitigate the *real* negatives of selling your privacy for a bit of convenience. This is 2010. This is going to happen. Get over it.
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tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
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Saint Louis, MO
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said by SLD:Oh, well, if you've been selling yourself out since the beginning, why stop now? I've just acknowledged that there are certain things I care about, and other things that I don't. When I care about privacy, I'll use proxies and anonymizers. The rest of the time, I just don't care. And there's nothing on my phone that I feel is "private".
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SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA
3 edits | reply to Alcohol
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, 1759
I don't care what year it is. Franklin had it right 250 years ago.
Your lot is being herded into a whole world of shit, and you'll have no one to blame for it but yourselves. Unfortunately, your complacency is costing the rest of us who know better as well. |
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 The Dv8orJust call me Dong Suck Oh, M.D.Premium
join:2001-08-09
Denver, CO | reply to SLD
Re: Do you really need it?!? Youre the one who's a Comcast customer. You think they're not selling every little bit of info about you that they can find?
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Re: Do you really need it?!? My full feature phone does the same thing for a lot less... |
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Not to mention, being active in a public public forum isn't a threat to your privacy?
Only way to get away from "the man" is to hide under a rock these days. How I see it, I'm not doing anything wrong. What do I have to hide? If I get accused of doing something wrong, I have an alibi to prove that I wasn't doing something wrong. |
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