this is a pretty good image of what post trauma aphasia feels like.
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update test Rebecca MacKinnon talks about freedom and control in cyberspace. clean and sober 24 years. a personal best. a day at a time. The latest lunacy from the web wing nuts is the discovery of the I Phone data collection and home phoning tracking users across the world. Discovering that your phone is spying on you should not come as a surprise especially since connectivity is being provided by the telecom industry who made a fortune charging you by the second and recording the number called and time talking. The introduction of GPS tech in phones let all those cute apps like where am i ,and where do i get condoms RIGHT NOW work. The fact that most smart phone users use their phones for letting the world know they took a successful dump rather than actually calling and speaking to anyone doesn’t make a very convincing case for connecting the dots between ‘smart phones ‘and any increase in intelligence in the gene pool. Quite the reverse if the popularity of Farmville and stupid bird games sucking up more minutes than folks talking is any indication. Apple’s failure and by extension the Windows and Google phones which all do the same thing is not that they are collecting this information,or got caught doing so,but not immediately performing a PR Magic Trick. But I will get to that in a moment. Behind the cute little screens of every mobile phone are ones and zeros which make up the digital universe. The one true thing in the electronic universe is: If you make it with ones and zeros somebody will come along and break it. From passwords to viruses,if it is binary it is breakable. Think about every data breach you have heard of since the first two web pages went live. Hell,they even have a word for it. Jailbreaking does not mean digging a tunnel out of the big house,but stands for hacking phone operating systems to do more and different things. Like making useful and free apps that do things that folks actually want,rather than being bombarded with commercial messages offering shit you don’t want,need,or could care less about. The PR Magic Trick or the Massive PR FailureThis was a watershed moment for PR/Social Media companies to continue to justify their existence and they fell down. The solution to the black eye and the creepy factor could have been dialed way down using the time honored gag of misdirection. BLAME IT ON THE PHONE COMPANY!!!! Holy Shit! If every there was an opportunity to toss somebody under the bus,this was a golden moment. Everybody hates the phone companies and this could have been a PR Coup sticking it to the telecoms and pleading that the phone company made them do it. Especially in the case of the iPhone being nose to ass with AT&T for years. Think NSA Black Rooms. Some of the data collected are the different cell towers used to make connections between you and whatever the fuck you are doing with your phone. This translates into location data which can give a pretty good indication of where you are when you are using your phone. And what you are doing with it. The Anonymous data collection excuse is so much bullshit for a number of reasons. The phone company and Apple will never let go of user data for billing and selling apps on your phone. This means that the unique identifiers like your MAC address and phone number nails you to the data crucifix harder than superglue on your fingertips. Three Card Monte BLAME IT ON THE PHONE COMPANY!!!! Apple could have said the phone company made them do it. The phone company could have said that they were collecting this data to determine where and how the network needed upgrading,(not that they will spend any money on doing this,preferring data caps,usage plans,extra numbers you don’t need) or better yet,to keep the tinfoil hat crowd happy,blame it on the government! Yeah! AT&T and the NSA Black Rooms at the switching stations. Apple’s response is so tepid as too be meaningless. Apple Admits it Botched iPad,iPhone “Location”Code,Says Fix is Coming But Wait!! There’s More!!! Jesus,you just can’t make this shit up. Hooray! Now that the owners and players can’t figure out how to cut the cheese on their way beyond sane profits,in whose stadiums were built by taxpayers in boondoggles not seen since the Oil Depletion Allowance, it looks like the NFL will dissolve. Oh happy days! The revulsion I have for all pro sports cannot be measured but may be reduced by the extinction of pro football. Just think,Universities can get back to education,High Schools can stop carrying such large liability policies,and that money can go toward teacher salaries,and better infrastructure. The argument that ‘team’sports build strong character is so much bullshit. Imagine how much home improvement can be done when a 60 minute event consumes over 4 hours on TV is no longer part of one’s day. Or three with Saturday,Sunday and Monday Night events. I could go on ,but you probably get the idea. Don’t worry about those empty stadiums. We can seal the doors,fill them up with water and stock them with fish. WordPress is a great tool for creating blogs,especially for housebloggers who have a desire for show and tell like me. There is a vibrant community that supports WordPress and there are also assholes. Free is not necessarily without cost. A great but technical article on the hidden dangers of using “free”WordPress themes. Probably the best post describing what the web is and does. | |||||
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