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    Image of JennaW JennaW
    10/11/09

    In reply to Desperate Fiends Paying For The Chance To Have Google "Big Brother" Their Lives
    Remember when Google claimed 'Don't be Evil' as their motto? Does anyone else feel like we're at the end of "Animal Farm," and we've wandered back to read the wall only to find that the pigs have scratched out the word "Don't?"

    Or is that just me?
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    10/10/09

    In reply to Desperate Fiends Paying For The Chance To Have Google "Big Brother" Their Lives
    Will this technology allow us to collaborate on tweets? For that is next leap forward.
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    Image of Anthony De Rosa Anthony De Rosa
    10/10/09

    In reply to Desperate Fiends Paying For The Chance To Have Google "Big Brother" Their Lives
    I have Google Wave and it's pretty underwhelming. You can accomplish most of what it does with Google Docs. It's online document collaboration with the ability to rewind and step through the changes. Not really very revolutionary or particularly useful from what I can tell so far.
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    Image of bowel_and_the_obstructors bowel_and_the_obstructors
    10/10/09

    @Soup: Version control is actually a pretty serious feature.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    10/10/09

    @Soup: And you haven't sent me an invite? H8U.
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    Image of Anthony De Rosa Anthony De Rosa
    10/10/09

    @Foster Kamer: They have not given me invites to send!
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    Image of Anthony De Rosa Anthony De Rosa
    10/10/09

    @bowel_and_the_obstructors: Yes, but that isn't revolutionary. This feature already exists, and in already existing Google products, no less.
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    Image of shortskid shortskid
    10/10/09

    @Foster Kamer:

    I'm still waiting for my Google Voice invite.
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    Image of Colander Colander
    10/10/09

    @shortskid: Your avatar makes your comment more poignant.
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    Image of Ryan Tate Ryan Tate
    07/14/09

    In reply to Is Twitter Handing Over Private Data to the Feds?
    Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote in to deny any monitoring as described above; I updated the story hours ago, but unbeknownst to me the changes were only visible when I was logged in.



    Stone's statement:



    "There is absolutely no element of truth to this allegation whatsoever."



    The post should eventually be updated to reflect the edited version in our system.
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    Image of WenonaDeianeira WenonaDeianeira
    07/14/09

    In reply to Is Twitter Handing Over Private Data to the Feds?
    Twitter already HAS a Firehose feed available to some developers. For them to add in the NSA/FBI/CIA/Men in Black wouldn't be an operational hurdle. Adding in a feed for direct messages wouldn't be a big deal either likely, although that isn't as built in as a developer feature.

    I kinda already assumed that The Man probably has had some level of access to this for a while, but now just formally does.

    Weren't people assuming that Iran even had the capability of finding people through Twitter (even though every other person in their country has the same first name?)
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    Image of Richard Blakeley Richard Blakeley
    07/14/09

    In reply to Is Twitter Handing Over Private Data to the Feds?

    http://18.media.tumblr.com/jhrnRxFguptevnkaOknpncMIo1_500.jpg
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    Image of MaelstromInTheMiddle MaelstromInTheMiddle
    07/14/09

    In reply to Is Twitter Handing Over Private Data to the Feds?
    Isn't Twitter and private data an oxymoron really?
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    Image of Ryan Tate Ryan Tate
    07/14/09

    @MaelstromInTheMiddle: No more than being a commenter and having private data -- if you have an anonymous Twitterer's real email address and IP address you are close to figuring out who they are, especially if you're the federal government and have other databases to cross reference.



    Likewise, direct messages are assumed to be private, even between named Twitterers.
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    Image of MaelstromInTheMiddle MaelstromInTheMiddle
    07/15/09

    @Ryan Tate: Well, there is that, but my Maelstrom I.T. Middle AmEx is over the limit anyway, which is a cheap way of protecting my credit if my personal data is stolen. It's a little trick I learned last time all my private messages were made public on my Gawker commenter account.
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    Image of ModernDemagogue2 ModernDemagogue2
    07/14/09

    In reply to Is Twitter Handing Over Private Data to the Feds?
    Well, if they're mining the data for immediate rising trends such as, a lot of people twittering about an explosion somewhere, or a riot in Iran, or protests in China, that would make sense. It could be a value information gathering apparatus for them.



    If they're doing it to see what one American is saying to another American as a form of wire-tapping, I'd say that's a different boat...
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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    04/07/09

    In reply to Your MySpace Rant Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record
    Next thing you know, you will have to watch what you say in Gawker comment threads lest they be used against you!
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    Image of shag_carpet_bomb shag_carpet_bomb
    04/07/09

    In reply to Your MySpace Rant Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record
    Don't newspapers usually require verification of letters to the editor? If not, I've got some ghost writing to do!
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    Image of FracturedAcetabulum FracturedAcetabulum
    04/07/09

    In reply to Your MySpace Rant Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record
    Yes, but what about page views? Shouldn't she get paid for page views?
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    04/07/09

    In reply to Your MySpace Rant Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record
    "Coalinga" makes me giggle. So does "Air Lingus." I am: puerile.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/07/09

    @BadUncle:


    It's not just you.


    And the latter makes you pay for drinks.

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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    04/07/09

    In reply to Your MySpace Rant Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record
    My brother Reloj ran two shots from a video we did while back home in the great city of Bonham one year. He showed the storefronts on North Side which looked standard issue Texian and then we drove around to the alley and it was Berlin 1945. One of the buildings was exactly like a B-western storefront. The commentary on his web site was something short of your usual Chamber of Commerce boosterism.


    A local found it with search and showed it to the mayor, and he protested in e-mail to Reloj, hey, lookahere, we ain't like it at all. We all upstanding citizens in a forward-thinking community here! And Reloj replied, well, your backside is showing.


    A discussion at the city council followed, and the result was, that blighted alley was spruced up some. So my brother Reloj became the foremost civic improvement force in our city history.


    A happy ending.

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    Image of EdgesRazor EdgesRazor
    04/07/09

    In reply to Your MySpace Rant Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record
    Wait a second... her rant didn't go viral until in went into print???


    Now I've heard everything...

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    Image of pufflehuff pufflehuff
    04/07/09

    @EdgesRazor: Delightful!
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    04/07/09

    In reply to Your MySpace Rant Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record
    Coalinga does suck. Place stinks like the feedlot situated down the road a bit and the gas is overpriced. You're better off fueling up at Rotten Robbie's in Santa Nella.


    Shoot at my house all you want, local weirdos. It'll always be "Coalingus" to me.

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    Image of tunamelt tunamelt
    04/07/09

    @shostakobitch: Is this the stop with the Red Robin or is that Los Banos? Fuck.
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    Image of Pinekatz Pinekatz
    04/07/09

    @sample032: Not true at all. Shostakobitch has the right idea. On I-5 between Sacramento or SF and LA, stop at Santa Nella. The gas there is cheaper than anywhere you'll find in the Bay Area and its an easy off/on back to the interstate.


    Anything to avoid the hells of the Central Valley, such as is Coalinga. I shudder just thinking of that place.

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