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hypothetical theft
RayB:
The media, blowing things out of proportion?? NO WAYYYY!
The issue is cautionary. More of a "it could happen", so why not be safer type of thing. For example, you could never lock your doors, and chances are you'll be fine. Post publicly that you don't lock your doors, and chances are you still won't be hit, but depending on circumstances you're kind of inviting trouble, no?
I think the bigger privacy issue isnt really talking about what you have, but announcing when you're not at home.
Benevolance:
--- Quote ---I think the bigger privacy issue is...announcing when you're not at home.
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There was a website that someone developed to point out the privacy issues of that last bit. It was called Please Rob Me. It was basically just a twitter search page, but thanks to a few different applications like Fourscore that pushed data to twitter, the website was generally able to pull info about when a person was not at home. The authors took it offline, because they'd made their point.
SavannahLion:
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--- Quote from: SavannahLion on May 29, 2010, 10:52:35 pm ---Why doesn't FF buffer what I type and hold it?
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Opera does that ;D I often page back in the middle of a post, then page forward to go back to my half completed post.
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Slightly OT. I used to use Opera almost religiously back in the '98 days. But I ran into a curious problem. Opera had/has a slow memory leak. The longer I left the PC running and the more time I let Opera used during that time, it would eventually mangle the video buffer in some manner. The problem exhibited itself regardless of video card, whether Opera was running (it was cumulative), and didn't seem to affect the operation any other programs except the video portion. Given a configuration with a color depth of say 32bit, Opera would eventually cause the video card to run in 24bit (if supported), then down to 16, 8, 4(?) and eventually straight 2 bit color depth. IIRC It would be about 12 hours worth of Opera time before the problems became noticeable. Anywhere from 24 to 36 before it was all black and white. I chased this problem for months before I figured out it was Opera. Spoke with some coworkers at work who confirmed and verified my findings, all on completely different hardware. Some on some high end gaming rigs, some on off the shelf junk.
I went through the trouble of opening a trouble ticket with the Opera Devs with a complete report of my findings. They wouldn't even give me the time of day. I believe it's because of the amount of time involved to replicate the problem. At the time I thought it was a memory management issue. Now, I'm not so sure. I discovered later that using the zoom feature seemed to exasperate the problem. I was able to reproduce the problem within a couple of hours, instead of days. I discovered that after I opened the trouble ticket.
In any case, I decided I didn't want anything to do with a project that can't get their memory management issues under control. So I jumped ship, floated around a bit until I dropped 98 entirely and went to Linux and started using Konqueror then FF on XP.
Back on topic.
--- Quote from: hypernova on May 30, 2010, 02:16:38 pm ---I'm sure it's happened on occasion somewhere in this country, but just like regular theft, it's hard enough to find the culprits, and even if you do, is everyone going to make the connections necessary to figure out it was the posting of information that led to it?
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Yeah. I think that's interesting. There is so much talk about preventing crime and all these studies that try to place the blame on outside influences. Things like economic status, social structure, etc. But I've never seen any study on what exactly led a person to choose victim X over non-victim Y. Oh wait... I have seen some studies. Things like having a dog in a house makes a person less likely to be a target. Thieves generally hit houses without dogs. What I mean are studies regarding the sequence of events that lead up to the actual robbery.
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on May 31, 2010, 10:19:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on May 30, 2010, 03:56:41 am ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on May 29, 2010, 10:52:35 pm ---Why doesn't FF buffer what I type and hold it?
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Opera does that ;D I often page back in the middle of a post, then page forward to go back to my half completed post.
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Slightly OT.
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Could be that used to be a problem since I used to never leave it open for more then a few hours, but lately I actually have been leaving it open for a few days and have never had an issue. Besides, I have it set up to open with any pages that were open when it closed, so even if it was still an issue (which I'm pretty sure it isn't since I've never seen anything remotely like that), it's not like it's difficult to quickly close and reopen it.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on June 01, 2010, 01:53:59 am ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on May 31, 2010, 10:19:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on May 30, 2010, 03:56:41 am ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on May 29, 2010, 10:52:35 pm ---Why doesn't FF buffer what I type and hold it?
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Opera does that ;D I often page back in the middle of a post, then page forward to go back to my half completed post.
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Slightly OT.
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Could be that used to be a problem since I used to never leave it open for more then a few hours, but lately I actually have been leaving it open for a few days and have never had an issue. Besides, I have it set up to open with any pages that were open when it closed, so even if it was still an issue (which I'm pretty sure it isn't since I've never seen anything remotely like that), it's not like it's difficult to quickly close and reopen it.
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Back then, the problem was cumulative. So even if you closed and opened Opera, it merely delayed the inevitable. I also suspect usage had a lot to do with it. Simply just leaving Opera running wouldn't trigger the problem (I think) it was actual usage. Actually browsing pages.
Opera has probably gone through a total rewrite at least once since then so the problem might not exist anymore. Still doesn't make me want to go back to Opera.
My browsing back then was probably excessive anyways. Moderating a forum with one tab, using several tabs for code references, and just doing endless hours of writing code and porn browsing.
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