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Isn't it Amazon that's working on software that knows what we want to buy before we do ? Next they'll start hovering drones outside our windows dangling their actual merchandise in front of us hoping we'll bite. Like fish in a pond.

When you like a company on facebook all you are doing is giving them permission to send you advertising.

One of a number of regrets I have is that I didn't get on the internet sooner. Like a damned fool I listened to all of the nay-sayers that were filling all of the magazine articles with all manner of silly wild tales about how dangerous the web was and and how most of the information was just wrong stuff anyway. I finally got online I think about 1993 or so. I was like a kid in a candy store with a pocket full of money.
When I did get on I did a lot of things that I had read about to protect myself like always using an alias so no one would know who I really was etc. Then one day I woke up and said why am I doing this crap? I had spent the last 20 years in my very public store spending thousands and thousands of dollars on radio, TV and print ads telling anybody that would listen just who I was and what I was doing. Why did I need to keep my name a secret. My "farmer" handle is a leftover from those days.
In over 20 years on-line I have never had a virus. I did have a benign one years ago before I was on-line that I got from a floppy disk that I picked up at a computer show. I have had a bit of mal-ware that cleaned up OK and I've not had any such problems since I started running Linux some years ago. Not saying that it can't happen but it just hasn't so far.
Now I just have at it and damn the torpedoes...


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beatnik wrote:Isn't it Amazon that's working on software that knows what we want to buy before we do ? Next they'll start hovering drones outside our windows dangling their actual merchandise in front of us hoping we'll bite. Like fish in a pond.

Now that would be cool! I'm sure that we could devise some sort of clever fishing-line snipper to separate any desirable merchandise from its drone. Just like that friggin' little bluegill kept doing with my worms, the last time I was attempting to teach my son some basic fishing skills.

And after a really bad day at work, those drones would make for some mighty satisifying skeet shooting!

What's to keep a very small drone from flying into your house when you leave the door open for a few minutes while you unload the car or something, fly around looking for something nice to snatch, grab it and fly right back out the door all before you even know what happened. That nice Rolex watch would be nice. how about your Iphone, or that wedding ring. Then there will be drone on drone attacks, one drone trying to take something from another drone that is delivering your Amazon package. Where will it end. Or grab your car keys off the counter top. How about landing somewhere in your house, shutting down until you leave for the day so they can search for some goodies while you are gone, shut down again until you arrive back home only to take off again and depart out the open door with the loot.

fredsheldon wrote:What's to keep a very small drone from flying into your house when you leave the door open for a few minutes while you unload the car or something, fly around looking for something nice to snatch, grab it and fly right back out the door all before you even know what happened. That nice Rolex watch would be nice. how about your Iphone, or that wedding ring. Then there will be drone on drone attacks, one drone trying to take something from another drone that is delivering your Amazon package. Where will it end. Or grab your car keys off the counter top. How about landing somewhere in your house, shutting down until you leave for the day so they can search for some goodies while you are gone, shut down again until you arrive back home only to take off again and depart out the open door with the loot.

Good analogy of a 'spybot'. Well except for the dog fights!

This forum is slowly but surely going to the dogs; even in the Community Forum.

Which reminds me, I need to build a dog house. I don't recall anybody posting a dog house project here. Anybody ever build one?

fredsheldon wrote:Which reminds me, I need to build a dog house. I don't recall anybody posting a dog house project here. Anybody ever build one?

I have built many dog houses but only dog would want to sleep in them. In fact one dog thought the house was so bad he took off first chance.

Woof Woof Ruf:D