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- A Sony Reader user
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It isn't anyone's business anymore than knowing what color socks or underwear I buy.
If I purchase several books on growing weed are they going to kick my door in and look for grow equipment?
What if I'm reserching methods terrorists use to create havoc and disrupt transportation systems for a paper...FEDS gonna come knocking? Flock that.
Sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but I've been forced to relinquish enough of my personal privacy rights for the sake of "terrorism" and WOMD, and not by choice I might add, I was one of few outspoken and outraged by the Patriot Act and the wholesale slaughter of rights of individuals from government snooping. It has nothing to do with being truly Patriotic. Most take it laying down or in stride for the false sense of security that we continue to pay for today.
I'm not a tin-foil, paranoid kinda person. Interesting that anyone who objects to this invasion of privacy is labeled a kook or maladjusted in some way, or in some way not an American.
I'm a firm believer that what the govt. gets to know about me is my choice and provided by me, nothing more. Fucking data is collected on every fucking thing we do, I'd like to keep a tiny shred of choice as to who gets it and when/why if I may.
You can have your Kindles, Nooks & Google Books.
I'll stick to buying books and the ability to read them where and when I want, without someone snooping over my shoulder or holding the threat of reporting it to law enforcement or some other fucking agency of intrusion.
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I'm not trying to pick on you, but people light their hair on fire over little invasions of privacy while ignoring large ones. How many people use free email from Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/etc? How many people have cellphones? Credit cards? Because, really, in practical terms, the notion that Amazon knows what page of Liar's Poker I'm on is trivial to the point of dismissal considering that my cell provider can locate me at just about any given time.
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Grow up!
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That was very mature of you.
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And if you come back at me again it'll show just how immature you are by needing to get the last word.
Anyways dude it was just a joke. If you have a family member or a friend that suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and I offended you then I am sorry.
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Seriously. Ebooks. Why would anyone be worried about people potentially seeing what they read and whatnot? We don't live in China. No one on U.S. soil is going to be arrested for buying books on human rights.
This is taking the privacy thing in a wrong direction. Seriously, books. Come on. Yes, personal privacy is important, but seriously. Books.
ZOMG HE READ THE GUNSLINGER AND IS NOW OBVIOUSLY INFLUENCED AND IS GOING TO GO BUY A SIX-SHOOTER AND BECOME A VIOLENT CRIMINAL!!!!!11!
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Stop it! Stop it! I know you're watching me! What do you want from me! The silence... its too much, I just can't... I just can't take it anymore!
SAY SOMETHING DAMN YOU SAY SOMETHING!!!! Say something before the men in white coats put the backwards jacket on me!
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So basically it all boils down to amazon having an advanced knowledge of what I read or search for. That doesn't frighten me, if it means I get advertised at in a more contextual manner then GOOD, I'm sick of spam about penis pumps --the schlong is long enough thanks.
If, however, you are frightened by all this I suggest closing your web browser, disconnecting you computer and burning it because one way or another you give your details out to big corporations all the time. Shame Xmas has been and gone, you could have asked Santa for some tin foil hats.
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Sickening. Go donate some coin to people in poverty or something. Anyone who buys this is officially leader of the asshats.
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This isn't really about gaming. It's about the slow evolution of the smartphone into a primary computing device. A full time replacement for your desktop that is carried with you at all times.
The PSP and DS are not evolving at anywhere near the speed with which smartphones are. Nor do they have the same versatility. Once ultra-capacitance batteries finish being tested by Underwriters Laboratories, the final step needed to commercialization, battery lives are going to become a lot longer, and recharge times far shorter. As printed electronics becomes the primary manufacturing paradigm over the next few years, we're going to see lightweight OLED glasses being made which can allow us to interface in real time with our smartphones, both for VR applications, and Augmented Reality. Enhancements to smartphones such as the ability to run high end game modeling systems is much more about the smart phone evolving into a primary networking device than it is about competing with handheld game systems.
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