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    Dialed Down Tamara Hope Palm Pre Ads Still Unsettling, Creepy

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    Image of dahamsta dahamsta
    08/16/09

    In reply to Dialed Down Tamara Hope Palm Pre Ads Still Unsettling, Creepy
    I sitll don't get the whole creepy thing. Are ye all pigtailed little girls or something?
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    08/16/09

    @dahamsta: I agree, I didn't even particularly notice these ads when I saw them on TV, and I only remember them now because Gizmodo's freaking out about them. What's the big deal? They're vaguely weird ads about a new product. This describes approximately 66% of all ads on TV right now. The other 34% are annoyingly familiar ads for products we already know and don't need advertised to us to begin with.
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    Image of Thrubeingcool Thrubeingcool
    08/16/09

    In reply to Dialed Down Tamara Hope Palm Pre Ads Still Unsettling, Creepy
    I hope you guys at Gizmo and the other blog sites take up a collection to pay for Tamara's therapy. Geez, she's just a struggling young actress!
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    Image of frigg frigg
    08/16/09

    In reply to Dialed Down Tamara Hope Palm Pre Ads Still Unsettling, Creepy
    I’m in the market for a smartphone. I also enjoy sucking the brains out of puppies. Somehow, this ad speaks to me. Would this be the phone for me?
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    Image of Curves Curves
    08/16/09

    In reply to Dialed Down Tamara Hope Palm Pre Ads Still Unsettling, Creepy
    I am still trying to figure out who the target demographic of these ads is supposed to be. In order to do that, I guess I need to see what time slots, networks and shows these are aired on, but whatever it is, its still creepy. I hope its not targeted at women, but I have a bad feeling it is. If so, its not working.
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    Image of met2art met2art
    08/16/09

    In reply to Dialed Down Tamara Hope Palm Pre Ads Still Unsettling, Creepy
    She is the epitome of "White and Nerdy"... honestly, despite (or perhaps because of) her "creepiness," I find her incredibly sexy. I can just imagine living with her and she acts and talks like this every day. It would be a surrealistic heaven for me. "Sometimes, I think about breakfast... and I wonder... where does Bacon come from? It comes in strips... and it sizzle... like my phone. Honey, do you want breakfast?"
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    Image of phunnyballs phunnyballs
    08/16/09

    In reply to Dialed Down Tamara Hope Palm Pre Ads Still Unsettling, Creepy
    Is it just me, or is the Palm Pre Ad that Sprint made like 100000000x better?
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    Image of phunnyballs phunnyballs
    08/16/09

    @phunnyballs: also this one. sure it kinda gloats sprint instead of the phone, but it also gets straight to the point of the features of the phone in a fun and awesome way instead of being creepy and leaving you guessing.
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    tande04 promoted this comment phunnyballs was starred phunnyballs was unstarred
    Image of tande04 tande04
    08/16/09

    @phunnyballs: The second ad is far to close to Blackberry ads. Every time I see it I expect it to end with a BB. Pretty ineffective if I'm thinking about the competition's phone the whole time.
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    Image of Sir Gibler Sir Gibler
    08/16/09

    In reply to Dialed Down Tamara Hope Palm Pre Ads Still Unsettling, Creepy
    creepin aint easy!
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    Image of dcoaster dcoaster
    08/12/09

    In reply to Pre Tracks Your Location and Tells Palm All About It
    Gizmodo, you really need to check your facts before you go off on an atrocious tangent. THIS IS NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY! Even your precious iPhone does it!
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    Image of Modano Modano
    08/12/09

    @dcoaster: Care to back that up? I've never seen that mentioned anywhere before.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    08/12/09

    @Modano: It doesn't. As I noted in my response to Dcoaster down below, he has comprehension problems. He's essentially comparing apples to oranges.
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    Image of dcoaster dcoaster
    08/12/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Comprehension problems is one thing, but when you can't read terms of service, you have a bigger issue to deal with.
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    TheSonOfKrypton promoted this comment dcoaster was starred dcoaster was unstarred
    Image of paperless paperless
    08/12/09

    @dcoaster: Each time an app tries to locate my iPod Touch (yes, it's locatable through wi-fi because of skyhook) it asks me if i want to disclose it.
    Seems much better to me.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    08/12/09

    In reply to Pre Tracks Your Location and Tells Palm All About It
    Palm: Creepy practices to match our
    creepy advertising girl. Is anyone really surprised?
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    Image of newgalactic newgalactic
    08/12/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: I'm surprised that Apple didn't beat them to it.
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    Image of dcoaster dcoaster
    08/12/09

    @newgalactic: Too bad they did. [tinyurl.com]
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    TheSonOfKrypton promoted this comment dcoaster was starred dcoaster was unstarred
    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    08/12/09

    @dcoaster: Comprehension FAIL! We're talking about how creepy their commercials are and how creepy it is that the Pre sends info back about where you are and you're tryna hit us up with a practice whereby Apple (long ago) admitted to a kill switch for malicious iPhone apps (which they still have not ever used). If Palm admitted that, there'd be no problem. They'd simply be added to the list of companies who have a kill switch for their App Store apps (Android, Apple, etc.) This is different. The phone friggin sends back your friggin location periodically without your knowledge. That is fucking untenable.
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    Image of dcoaster dcoaster
    08/12/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE!? Wow. Someone needs to learn to read when they accept terms that they are bound to.
    And you think this is malicious by Palm?! Get a clue!
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    Image of macmanwa macmanwa
    08/12/09

    @dcoaster: From my reading of the Giz article, it isn't saying that it sends anonymous information only when you are using a location-aware application (like Google Maps or the like). It says it periodically sends the data back--meaning not in the context of using an application, but just when it is idle. If that isn't the case and it just does it when in an application that uses GPS then whatever--you agreed to it. But if it is just "whenever", like when the phone is just idle then that is the problem.
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    Image of dcoaster dcoaster
    08/12/09

    @macmanwa: Close but not quite. When you initially TURN ON the phone, you are asked to accept Palm's Terms of Service and set up your Palm Profile. In those terms, you agree to this same thing. They will be gathering usage information from your device. HOWEVER, location-wise, you have to GRANT them access by turning on Location Services and agreeing to those *additional* terms.
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    Image of One Banana, Two Banana One Banana, Two Banana
    08/12/09

    In reply to Pre Tracks Your Location and Tells Palm All About It
    It measures its velocity? What is the terminal velocity of a palm pre?
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    32ndnote promoted this comment One Banana, Two Banana was starred One Banana, Two Banana was unstarred
    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    08/12/09

    @Brian: The Sad Panda: It's actually reasonably high. I think with a drag coefficient somewhere in the range of .11, if you can keep it from tumbling, it would go about 141 m/s or 315 mph sideways.
    It's programmed to send the police to the base of the tall building the coordinates indicate once the velocity crosses the 90 m/s mark.
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    Image of rockmanx9 rockmanx9
    08/12/09

    In reply to Pre Tracks Your Location and Tells Palm All About It
    latitude": 36.594108, "longitude": -82.183260,
    Bristol, TN??
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    08/12/09

    In reply to Pre Tracks Your Location and Tells Palm All About It
    Well, that's not disconcerting or anything. EXCEPT THAT IT FUCKING IS. Jeez, talk about tinfoil hat stuff.
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    Image of Zombie Peach Zombie Peach
    08/12/09

    In reply to Pre Tracks Your Location and Tells Palm All About It
    I for one welcome our new creepy girl overlords
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    Image of DrBob DrBob
    08/07/09

    In reply to Creepy: iRobot's "My Real Baby"

    It's a small step to terminator babies.
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    Image of fleebailey33 fleebailey33
    08/07/09

    In reply to Creepy: iRobot's "My Real Baby"
    so we got a vacuum robot out of this?
    I guess thats why when I come home they cat is beat up and there is piss everywhere
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    Image of Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach
    08/07/09

    @fleebailey33: Ever set a baby on the ground? Thing goes around and picks up EVERYTHING to put in its mouth.
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