There is a certain amount of fun that can be had, you know. Every once in a while, I shop for gaudy jewelry, high end real estate, or French provincial furniture, or browse through Ebay looking for vintage Uncle Scrooge comic books or size 4 1/2 narrow cowboy boots just to keep the little rascals confused. I love thinking of combinations that might tip the data miners over the edge once and for all.
Polly, it seems that final blurb was intended to convey video contact, you know, so you can’t do the BS browsing that wastes their marketing spam, and more importantly to support their other nefarious plans.
You say that little spy device doesn’t have visual capability? Maybe, although we don’t really know do we, or what advanced version they might have sent to a pair of international insurgents.
And even if not, as I said above plenty of your other i’s have eyes…your ‘puter of course, your phone, your wireless home security/remote operational system, your Ring doorbell…etc. We can’t hide…well we can, but it ain’t easy and that’s the plan.
Precisement, mon ami, which is why the “gift” of an Alexa remains tucked into its box. Fortunately at my age, I can plausibly claim to keep “forgetting” to install it and no one doubts me. One thing that decades of being a Kremlinologist taught me was that if there’s a way to undermine your personal autonomy, someone will try to use it against you.
February 17, 2018 at 7:07 pm
MasterDiver
I keep a sticky-note over my laptop camera. Phone and tablet stay zipped up in their cases. I do NOT believe their lyin’ eyes!
Zar Belk!
February 17, 2018 at 10:36 pm
Merle
That takes care of the camera, but what about the mic?
February 17, 2018 at 4:06 am
Pamela
Hmm, that dress comes in blue. How often do you and Bill get together Jeff?
Oligarchs like Bezos think they can buy anybody with enough trinkets. And that they can suborn what they can’t buy.
They don’t believe that KYFHO should ever apply to them. Let alone FOAD.
After all, are they not gods?
They certainly have the Olympian act down pat. Petulant, petty, narcissistic, vindictive, prone to hold grudges, and like to throw thunderbolts just because they feel like it. And oh yes, believing that no woman (or man) can resist their charms.
They should remember that in the real world, no ruler with those attributes has ever lasted very long. And half the time, it was their own underlings and lackeys who removed them from the equation.
They have made massive fortunes which proves their superiority to the herd, and therefore their opinions and ideas must always be correct.
Yeah, right. But don’t bother trying to tell them.
Mike Bloomberg is another from the same mold.
Once the conversation with Alexa/Bozo is finished, I have the perfect end use for that little snoop device………..as a 100 yard down range target. FIRE FOR EFFECT!!
I realize everything Alexa hears goes to the NSA, that’s why I love my Echo. When I’m in the kitchen (where I keep it) I have prepared dialogues with my Maine coon and German shepherd. I’ll spare you the sleepless nights by keeping the subject matter secret, but if anyone at the NSA listens to my conversations with Heinrich and Mr. Mostly Mittens, I’d have blackhawks landing in my backyard by lunchtime.
I’m not sure that Alexa is a direct port to NSA. I’m pretty sure that the Google/Amazon collective exists in competition with NSA. Including their data-centers-on-a-barge, they have more processing power and data storage than NSA does.
Can’t post it here but there was an excellent meme going around Facebook a couple of weeks ago.
The top half was an old, B&W photo of a woman talking into a rotary phone saying, “I better not say any more. This phone may be tapped.” The bottom half was a modern, color photo of a woman saying aloud in her kitchen, “Siri/Alexa… Get me a recipe for beef stroganoff…” or some such.
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Yes it’s true…the i’s have eyes too.
Excellent subject matter and the dialog was hilarious.
Cute interchange.
There is a certain amount of fun that can be had, you know. Every once in a while, I shop for gaudy jewelry, high end real estate, or French provincial furniture, or browse through Ebay looking for vintage Uncle Scrooge comic books or size 4 1/2 narrow cowboy boots just to keep the little rascals confused. I love thinking of combinations that might tip the data miners over the edge once and for all.
Polly, it seems that final blurb was intended to convey video contact, you know, so you can’t do the BS browsing that wastes their marketing spam, and more importantly to support their other nefarious plans.
You say that little spy device doesn’t have visual capability? Maybe, although we don’t really know do we, or what advanced version they might have sent to a pair of international insurgents.
And even if not, as I said above plenty of your other i’s have eyes…your ‘puter of course, your phone, your wireless home security/remote operational system, your Ring doorbell…etc. We can’t hide…well we can, but it ain’t easy and that’s the plan.
Precisement, mon ami, which is why the “gift” of an Alexa remains tucked into its box. Fortunately at my age, I can plausibly claim to keep “forgetting” to install it and no one doubts me. One thing that decades of being a Kremlinologist taught me was that if there’s a way to undermine your personal autonomy, someone will try to use it against you.
I keep a sticky-note over my laptop camera. Phone and tablet stay zipped up in their cases. I do NOT believe their lyin’ eyes!
Zar Belk!
That takes care of the camera, but what about the mic?
Hmm, that dress comes in blue. How often do you and Bill get together Jeff?
Comes in blue?….oh, never mind….
That would be, comes on blue.
Tangled up in Blue…
She’d be a Rhapsody in Blue! ;-0
Zar Belk!
“She Wore Blue Velvet”
“But wait, there’s MORE!!…”
Oligarchs like Bezos think they can buy anybody with enough trinkets. And that they can suborn what they can’t buy.
They don’t believe that KYFHO should ever apply to them. Let alone FOAD.
After all, are they not gods?
They certainly have the Olympian act down pat. Petulant, petty, narcissistic, vindictive, prone to hold grudges, and like to throw thunderbolts just because they feel like it. And oh yes, believing that no woman (or man) can resist their charms.
They should remember that in the real world, no ruler with those attributes has ever lasted very long. And half the time, it was their own underlings and lackeys who removed them from the equation.
clear ether
eon
They have made massive fortunes which proves their superiority to the herd, and therefore their opinions and ideas must always be correct.
Yeah, right. But don’t bother trying to tell them.
Mike Bloomberg is another from the same mold.
Once the conversation with Alexa/Bozo is finished, I have the perfect end use for that little snoop device………..as a 100 yard down range target. FIRE FOR EFFECT!!
PULL!!!!!
Make you sure you say something just before firing. Like, “Hey, Alexa, find me some snowflakes.” *Then* fire.
Would be good for a trebuchet toss, too!
Punkin Chuckin
Plus it has a handy cavity for Tannerite.
Just set the Tannerite on top of it. Flatten it right out.
Or put the tannerite bottle in an open cardboard box, just big enough, with Alexa on top.
Megalithic brats! Going where Bill Gates longed to go before!
I realize everything Alexa hears goes to the NSA, that’s why I love my Echo. When I’m in the kitchen (where I keep it) I have prepared dialogues with my Maine coon and German shepherd. I’ll spare you the sleepless nights by keeping the subject matter secret, but if anyone at the NSA listens to my conversations with Heinrich and Mr. Mostly Mittens, I’d have blackhawks landing in my backyard by lunchtime.
My hero is Mel Brooks. That’s all I have to say.
I’m not sure that Alexa is a direct port to NSA. I’m pretty sure that the Google/Amazon collective exists in competition with NSA. Including their data-centers-on-a-barge, they have more processing power and data storage than NSA does.
Can’t post it here but there was an excellent meme going around Facebook a couple of weeks ago.
The top half was an old, B&W photo of a woman talking into a rotary phone saying, “I better not say any more. This phone may be tapped.” The bottom half was a modern, color photo of a woman saying aloud in her kitchen, “Siri/Alexa… Get me a recipe for beef stroganoff…” or some such.
The point was clearly made.
You mean like this…
https://steemit-production-imageproxy-upload.s3.amazonaws.com/DQmQJuvh8octLxBNNLkgutpwNKLbwd6UonmPojSGpaTPoBN
That’s the one. Shows the difference in attitude and sheepleness between the eras.
Like the one I linked when this storyline started? 🙂
(No permalinks to comments, so it’s on the back-door-2 comic)
Or Wayne’s. 🙂