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Q: Steve,
Could you please explain the necessity of the passive location-tracking tool embedded in my iPhone? It's kind of unnerving knowing that my exact location is being recorded at all times. Maybe you could shed some light on this for me before I switch to a Droid. They don't track me.
A: Oh yes they do. We don't track anyone. The info circulating around is false.
Sent from my iPhone
Although it has been shown that Android also gathers location information, it was also made quite clear that the database is limited to a much smaller list of entries and is regularly wiped by the system. From what researchers discovered, ever since iOS 4, iPhones and 3G iPads have been storing a long list of latitude-longitude coordinates and timestamps, all of which is kept across backups, and even device migrations. To make matters worse, the file with said data is unencrypted and unprotected, and it's on any machine you've synced with your iOS device.
In the email, it appears that Jobs is either poorly informed, or that he is deliberately trying to make Apple look better and make Google look worse. Either way, both companies may end up having to make some changes; at the very least the user should be told what their device is doing.
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A great line! I would have have expanded on it slightly.
, another day someone who was up all night studying philosophy, furiously typing away as the Adderall leaves your system.
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Sic; "while you desperately, and tragically, but ineffectively, try to maintain your gaze on the now increasingly distant, fading spark, of average human intellect".
Then, the inevitable speed crash happens, and the "duh" state begins to re-engulf you. Nay, verily it runs toward you, embracing your return......
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You know what I'm saying to you is truth, Cranky. Religion and Philosophy are conceptual conveniences that allow ego to take a side. Ego bases its very existence upon taking sides. good\bad, right\wrong, famous\infamous, pleasure\pain, loss\gain, you\me, us\them, hot\cold etc.. In reality they are all relative co-emergents and have no apparent existence without each other. You and your lackeys demonstrate this phenomenon nicely.
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You know what I'm saying to you is truth, Cranky. Religion and Philosophy are conceptual conveniences that allow ego to take a side. Ego bases its very existence upon taking sides. good\bad, right\wrong, famous\infamous, pleasure\pain, loss\gain, you\me, us\them, hot\cold etc.. In reality they are all relative co-emergents and have no apparent existence without each other. You and your lackeys demonstrate this phenomenon nicely.Well then, ego is as ego does. How's yours hanging? I suppose we'll have to expand the commonly held belief that everybody is issued an a**h*** and an opinion, and make it a "trifecta" to include our collective ego(s). Listening to you run on gives the impression that you don't think you have an ego, or that you've transcended it.
Oh, then by all means, let's all take a time out and hear the "true truth" from you. Doh....!
Here, I'll show you how ego works, "I know the truth, and you don't"! Does that sound like some internet troll you know? Here's another hint:
You know what I'm saying to you is truth, Cranky.The truth is, you're suffering from post adolescent intellectual pretense. Now, why don't you see if you can access Sartre on your Kindle, play "Angry Birds" on your "smart phone", or curl up with a copy of the "Communist Manifesto". I guarantee that any of those individually or in combination will make you stupid. Accordingly, you will have fulfilled your own prophesy.
And by the way, you can't have a human personality without an ego, "co-emergent" or otherwise. Without a "self" what you have is a vegetable.
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No volition, no internet.
Vegetables demonstrate more innate wisdom than much that goes on here don't you think. Pay attention and you might also notice that they are highly personable and utterly essential for the continuation of a great many corporeal forms including our own. So try not to hurt their feelings too badly.
Yes, personality is required to participate as we are now and thus an ego. However, a personality can consist of many different qualities which will necessarily lead to different subjective experiences (those opposites talked about earlier for example) and, by consequence, a particular view at any particular moment. If we're interested in sustained happiness, then it would be prudent to cultivate qualities that can lead to this result and not greater confusion. Would you not agree? On that note, please try not to take this too personally - I'm not.
...Who are you?
Who were you before reading this post?
Who were you before Cap'n Cranky?
Who were you before Byte magazine?
before a "degree"
before puberty?
before American?
before community?
before immediate family?
before a name?
before white (pinkish really)?
birth?
conception?
cellular life?
planetary formation? ...
Was their really ever a categorical you beyond the impression of this moment?
When in a dream, we believe it's real. The "waking state" is not so different - often more crude but equally insubstantial.
My good friend and distant relative Steve is party to same principles. Brother Cranky and this perhaps not so welcome Guest as well.
Track that. Not a "feature" on any phone at the moment so it will require the old stand-by, that water-based CPU that likes to create others in its own image.
Goodnight or wake-up. The blue pill or the red pill. The choice is yours.... Or is it?
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Do you ever come up for air...? Are you off your meds? Does spouting a bunch of random nonsense (1)* cause you to feel self actualized? Is your innate need for sexual satisfaction quenched in spite of the 6 degrees of penetration between "Steve" and your Glory........
I'll answer your lengthy question with a question. Who were you before you reached full adult troll hood? Bear in mind, just because you didn't wind up running down somebody's leg, there's no justification whatsoever for claiming that as an accomplishment.
Wow, that was, "deep" huh?
(1)*("random nonsense" is a euphemism for "existentialist BS". Descartes come within a hair's breadth of getting it right. Rewritten, his axiom goes like this, "you think you think, therefore you troll"
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Goodnight Cap'n
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