From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 15:25:46 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717011065685 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 15:25:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B418FC08 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 15:25:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDSK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id m84FPhIV071764; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:25:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "jef moskot" , Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:26:46 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1933 In-Reply-To: <20080904042813.P89707@phantom.math.miami.edu> Importance: Normal X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:25:45 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Subject: RE: Google Chrome X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:25:46 -0000 I must have missed something, how would running the Chrome browser collect our valuable data? Obviously, keying in data into a search engine to find things is giving the search engine data on what people are searching for. Is there any requirement to do this if your running Chrome? And, how else would you find something? I think I'm missing something here in this argument. Ted > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of jef moskot > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:32 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: Google Chrome > > > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Seriously, what Google is doing is exactly like what AT&T did when they > > sent out source of the early UNIX to all those colleges and > > universities, so many years ago. > > This isn't about creating software, it's about collecting our data. I > don't understand why people and institutions are willingly handing over > all their most valuable information to a private corporation, but maybe > I'm just old and cranky and not ready for the New World Order. > > Jeffrey Moskot > System Administrator > jef@math.miami.edu > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >