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    Pre Tracks Your Location and Tells Palm All About It

    Open Source Embroidery: Technology Embraces Its Craft Side

    Conan O'Brien Reacts to His Super Mario Bros-Themed Backdrop

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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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    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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    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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    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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    08/12/09

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

    @newgalactic: Too bad they did. [tinyurl.com]
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    06/13/09

    In reply to Open Source Embroidery: Technology Embraces Its Craft Side
    excuse me, but wtf is going on with that kids face?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    06/13/09

    @switchblade saints: It's obvious. She is wearing the ceremonial face paint markings required by her bizarre religion. Can't you see her hands are clasped in prayer as she worships at her embroidered altar..
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    Image of frigg frigg
    06/13/09

    In reply to Open Source Embroidery: Technology Embraces Its Craft Side
    Holy fucking shit!


    As an Amish person (Mennonite, actually), this is the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life.


    If anything could possibly bridge the gap between the English and the Elders, this is it!


    We need this in Lancaster County and we need it NOW!!!

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    06/13/09

    @frigg: Ok the fact that you are using modern technology aside, I thought you guys we're not supposed to use profanity?
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    06/13/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Yeah, I know. I sort of did that on purpose. (I otherwise pretty much rarely curse). I guess you could say I'm on an extended rumspringa with a penchant for irony. :)


    @an skyline: We all have our little indulgences. Some people take the extra piece of pie at dinner. Others eschew generations of tradition to sneak in a little internet every now and then.

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    06/14/09

    @frigg: Ah, rumspringa or 'college' as we non-Mennonites call it..
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    06/06/09

    In reply to Conan O'Brien Reacts to His Super Mario Bros-Themed Backdrop
    i feel like the LA audiences are not as bright as Conan's NY audiences. maybe that's why i could never watch Leno because he 'dumbed' down his show to meet their needs.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/06/09

    @rambo3060: c'mon now. hasn't there been enough violence and blood shed with this east coast / west coast rivalry? think of the children.
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    Image of YOXIM YOXIM
    06/06/09

    In reply to Conan O'Brien Reacts to His Super Mario Bros-Themed Backdrop
    So I'm guessing Jay's old band is out of the picture now?
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    06/06/09

    @YOXIM: Perhaps he's taking them to his new 10pm show -- I believe he took his announcer John Melendez.
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    06/06/09

    @ZLevee: did John Melendez ever do anything but smile and wave at the camera when jay introduced him?
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    06/07/09

    @rt100: No but it allows Jay to continue to piss off Howard Stern who Jay stole John from.
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    06/06/09

    In reply to Conan O'Brien Reacts to His Super Mario Bros-Themed Backdrop
    Mario is awesome, thereby making Conan awesome.
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    Image of P3nnst8r P3nnst8r
    06/06/09

    In reply to Conan O'Brien Reacts to His Super Mario Bros-Themed Backdrop
    La Bamba DOES look like Mario.


    Now Max Weinberg just needs to grow a rockin' 'stache and he can play Luigi.

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    06/06/09

    In reply to Conan O'Brien Reacts to His Super Mario Bros-Themed Backdrop
    Is Andy Richter a permanent feature or was he just dropping by?
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/06/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Speaking of permanent fixtures named Andy.


    I'm at 499. Don't you think at 500 I should just drop this user name and try to start all over again?

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    06/06/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Can we have a contest and vote on your new handle?
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/06/09

    @takemetoyourtoaster: Oooooh. Interesting. You haven't given me sufficient time to figure out what to do. Unheart me! Unheart me!


    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Nah. It would have to be anonymous. Otherwise I wouldn't really be starting all over again.

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    06/06/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: well, if you aren't gonna need that star can i have it?
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    06/06/09

    @Nick: I'm pretty sure you're on track to getting you're own.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/06/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: *your* own.


    Stupid double-urs. Confusing my mind.

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    06/06/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: yeah, me two
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    06/06/09

    In reply to Conan O'Brien Reacts to His Super Mario Bros-Themed Backdrop
    Have I been saying mario wrong all these years?
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    06/06/09

    @~/Desktop: He says it the New York way. Thats how we all say it here, but according to Kotaku we are all saying it wrong, not everyone else.
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    06/06/09

    @Jim Topoleski: eets a me. mAAareeoh.
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    Image of Heliophage Heliophage
    06/06/09

    @~/Desktop:


    Whenever I hear "Mario" pronounced like "marry yo," I think of those moms who call every handheld gaming device "a Nintendo."

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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/06/09

    In reply to Conan O'Brien Reacts to His Super Mario Bros-Themed Backdrop
    i think a skit would have been funny. something with their set designers just sitting around and doing nothing but playing super mario. you know. typical union labor day.
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    06/06/09

    @Nick: "typical union labor day" new holiday?
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    06/06/09

    @ぶっちぎり IN THE FACE!: hmmm, how 'bout:


    typical day with union labor.

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