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I have never even tried to hibernate my PC - I always close/reboot - so this is fantastic to me.

Me neither, always shutdown.

It's all about unfettered access to files and folders.  That's what it all comes down to for me.

Isn't that quiet simply every single device except Apple's? It's certainly nothing new.

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Living Room / Re: Apple and users' privacy
« on: September 08, 2011, 01:37 AM »
Jaysus guys, calm down with the conspiracy theories :huh:

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Seems Ireland is looking into the like button too - Irish data chiefs set to test if Facebook ‘Like’ button is illegal.

A very interesting point is brought up in the article:

The incoming complaint focuses on how the ‘Like’ button allows Facebook to track the online activity of any web user – even those who are not among the social networking site’s 750 million members worldwide.

By logging the IP addresses of internet users when they visit pages containing an embedded ‘Like’ button, the social network is theoretically able to build a profile of that user’s browsing habits, and then use this to its commercial advantage.

This was illegal under EU law, Weichert argued, because Facebook would harvest this data through web servers based in the US – and not within the EU, as the commissioner said was required.

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Living Room / Re: Seriously, Youtube is becoming impossible!
« on: August 26, 2011, 10:48 AM »
Seriously, I just watched a 2 minute video clip and was having to keep clicking those annoying as hell "close" buttons that are so small, you miss half the video trying to aim on them...if you miss, your taken to the spam site, and when you finally hit the damn X, the video has finished.

Were they all youtube ads, or annotations added by the uploader? I've never seen more than 1 pre-video ad and 1 small overlay ad on a video. The uploader however can include as many annotation boxes as they wish, any or all of which can be links to spam sites.

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Kind of discredits whatever point the author had to make - if you have to bring the Nazis up, I can assume you didnt have much to contribute in the first place.

See Reductio ad Hitlerum and Godwin's law.

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