Darryl Collins
darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au
Thu Mar 8 18:54:31 CST 2012
What amazes me about this whole thing is 1: folks have no concept of history. Just because we live in times where peace and harmony is generally the norm for many of us - Historically the world has not like this at all and a return to madness and chaos of the past is not out of the question. Imagine if 60 years ago you were a gay Jew living in Germany and proudly put this out on your facebook page. You and your friends may have regretted such a move... Even today, folks shout out their opinions, confident that it cannot hurt them. I hope they are right, but they could also regret that. So long as the electricity stays on, the internet is largely 'forever'. Like a drunken youthful tattoo - there are likely to be regrets and consequences. 2: Facebook etc are businesses - they let you sign up for free so they can grab your data for nothing - and they have no obligation to be nice with your personal information. Indeed there are already many examples of companies selling data they own about you for profit - hell that is FB's business model. An excellent example was a GPS business that sold gobs of data about traffic flows (all the GPS data is captured) to another company that runs and maintains the speed cameras of behalf of the Police / Government. They then used this to determine the spots where most motorists are known to exceed the limit to get a maximum return on the speed camera (regardless of the accident history of the road). 3: If the CIA or FBI or whatever demanded the population did this, there would be an outcry, but for some reason people will spill the beans for nothing if not forced. Amazing.... These shadowy agencies must love FB - find one weak link and you can see all the connections. Perhaps I am paranoid (hehehe, reaches for tin foil hat to prevent this transmission for being intercepted...), perhaps I am just boring, but honestly. FB is sooo much gossip and twaddle (which is harmless I guess) but they can also find out much about you and your friends without you even understand the consquences (which is scarey). Don't have a FB profile, I do fear the day may come where you will need one to do basic stuff online though.... I do predict that sometime in the future due to facial recognition technology a fashion amongst the youth of wearing masks (a bit like pantomime party style) when out socially / publicly etc will develop, to hinder the auto id function of the security cameras. It will start in the underground and grow from there. Ok.. waffle mode off. Have a great day Cheers Darryl. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Friday, 9 March 2012 5:56 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Linked in groups >I won't link to anyone that I haven't actually worked with, so my list is rather small in comparison to some who treat it more like Face book. I deleted my Facebook account a few weeks ago. I read an article just this week where employers are demanding, as a requirement for being hired, to look at your facebook page. College coaches doing the same thing to get on a team. I had actually done the lockdown procedure, but what is the point if the thugs can just demand access or we won't talk to you? Mine was never very interesting but when these kinds of demands begin, it is time to get out of the environment entirely. You cannot demand what doesn't exist. Alternatively, "ohhh, let me make one and you and I will be the only friends!" Having done that, there are a ton of pages which expect you to have a facebook account in order to do things that you would never expect to require facebook (opinions and the like). Oh well, I don't have one. I also deleted my Google history everywhere in advance of their new privacy policy. Again, to my knowledge it was never very interesting but in general, none of your business! The sad part is that some of the "uses" they talk about sound like greate use of technology, but in the end I don't trust that anyone can prevent hacking and so preventing the storage of my data minimizes the theft of my data. John W. Colby Colby Consulting Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 3/8/2012 10:06 AM, Jim Dettman wrote: > > Not much mail volume, but I tread carefully. I won't link to > anyone that I haven't actually worked with, so my list is rather small > in comparison to some who treat it more like Face book. > > As far as being useful, not so far. Probably would be if I put > some more effort into it, but I'm not one to put my life history out on the net. > > Jim. > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 09:55 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: [AccessD] Linked in groups > > I keep getting these join requests for Access kind of "groups" on linked in. > I see several names > from this group and I'm wondering if you find the linked in groups useful? > Much email volume? > Added value? -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com