[GRLUG] NOT LINUX

[Roger Roelofs]

Or we can be cynical and assume that everyone is collecting and
potentially selling our data.  Knowing how cheap storage is I have to
guess that data is rarely thrown away on purpose.  I confess that I'm
more circumspect online than I am in the real world.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Richard Nienhuis
<richardnienhuis at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure Comcast will sell whatever they think they can make a profit
> on.  I'm a more willing to believe that google will have a decent system to
> anonymize the data they collect.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/10/2012 02:07 PM, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
>> > On Mon Sep 10 2012 01:40:59 PM EDT, Topher <topher at codeventure.net>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 09/10/2012 01:39 PM, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
>> >>> On Mon Sep 10 2012 11:43:47 AM EDT, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> [snip]
>> >>>> September 13. For $70 per month, residents can get Gigabit Internet,
>> >>>> and for $120 per month, they can get Gigabit Internet service plus
>> >>>> TV. There's even a "free" Internet tier with 5Mbps down and 1Mbps
>> >>>> up. The free tier requires a one-time construction fee of $300 or 12
>> >>>> monthly payments of $25, but Google guarantees the free service for
>> >>>> seven years. **
>> >>>>
>> >>>> About the same price the rest of
>> >>>> us pay for about 3% of that bandwidth.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I wonder where Google with go with
>> >>>> this next?     i.e., if that $70 represents
>> >>>> a true service price, I'd think the door
>> >>>> would be open to many other cities,
>> >>>> on the way to creating Google Net.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Even that "free" service works out to
>> >>>> about $45 a year, or less if Google
>> >>>> extends it.
>> >>> Google's primary business is selling ads.   To sell ads more
>> >>> effectively they try to know as much about you as possible.   Would
>> >>> you
>> >>> really want them being able to see *all* of you data traffic?   This
>> >>> is
>> >>> a real conflict of interest (if you believe in the principles of
>> >>> net-neutrality).
>> >> Isn't this what Comcast and everyone else do already?   is it worse?
>> > Comcast's primary business is not selling advertising.  Therein lies a
>> > huge difference.
>>
>> How sure are you of that?
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Roger

Roger Roelofs
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