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04 February 2009

Scarier than giant snakes . . .

post by: jason's_planet at: 17:05 | 14 comments

Wow. . it showed MY town. . .does it show everyone's town when then click on it?

posted by danf 04 February | 17:09

yeah, i think they can get your general location from your IP address.

posted by jason's_planet 04 February | 17:14

I think a giant snake is scarier than an automated process displaying a map of the city I am currently in, myself.

posted by Meatbomb 04 February | 17:34

Stalkers agree: makes it 45% easier to case your joint!

posted by Specklet 04 February | 17:40

It doesn't show me anything but it wants me to enter my phone number, but then, I have built-in GPS to show me where I am.

posted by Ardiril 04 February | 17:45

Giant snakes can now track all of my movements online. Thanks, Google!

posted by Atom Eyes 04 February | 17:48

"Cannot display content" Still a few bugs.

posted by arse_hat 04 February | 17:52

arse_hat, that just means that you don't exist.

posted by mudpuppie 04 February | 18:01

No wonder I can't think. I'm not.

posted by arse_hat 04 February | 18:08

Oh yeah, that's dreadful. I have friends who insist the phone I have is for their convenience, so they can reach me, and that by not answering I'm not holding up my end of some bargain. This seems to take that one step beyond; maybe the factions that divide our dystopian future will break on privacy lines -- those who go underground to exercise their right to cover their tracks versus those who would keep tabs on everybody -- I guess I know where I stand.

posted by Hugh Janus 04 February | 18:18

I guess I know where I stand.

Unfortunately, so does Google.

posted by Atom Eyes 04 February | 18:35

Haha, good one, Atom Eyes.

I will train and learn to spit a needle straight into the eye in the sky; pthooey! Google will burst like a bubo and I will be victor despite mixing metaphors!

I will in fact do nothing because I like my phone and computer! What I imagine to be rights is old fashioned; move over freedom, make way for convenience.

posted by Hugh Janus 04 February | 18:42

Hugh, I have an ex-SIL who thinks it is rude for people to call when it is inconvenient for her. For example, if she's at the movies, people should know not to call her.

So, there's no way The Law would employ such a tool, eh?

posted by trinity8-director 04 February | 19:36

Totally scarier than the ancient gigantasnake. "Fred wants to hang out with his friends" - yipes.

posted by rainbaby 04 February | 19:42

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