Bill Gates Knows What You Did Last Summer 303
theodp writes "Give Bill Gates your 'pictures, videos, documents, e-mail, instant messages, addresses, calendar dates/scheduling information (e.g., birthdays, anniversaries, appointments), voice mail, phone logs, RSS feeds, subscriptions, bookmarks, mail lists, project management features, computing device data, tasks and location data,' and he'll improve your 'quality of life.' That's the promise behind a patent issued Thursday to Bill Gates and his 20 co-inventors for 'Personal Data Mining', which Microsoft notes 'can include a monetization component' that 'could initiate an auction to sell information to the highest bidder.'"
Re:Privacy (Score:4, Funny)
Not for everyone.
The way to combat this is to kill the monetization component. The way to do that is to beat Bill to the punch and give all your data to everyone before he does, so they have to motivation to buy it.
Hmm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Privacy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And you were worried about Google? (Score:5, Funny)
It looks like you're getting married, would you like to...
() Perform background check on your fiance
() Take out a loan to pay for the reception
() Invite Clippy... Please? I'm so lonely...
He wants to recreate you virtually!! (Score:5, Funny)
'pictures, videos, documents, e-mail, instant messages, addresses, calendar dates/scheduling information (e.g., birthdays, anniversaries, appointments), voice mail, phone logs, RSS feeds, subscriptions, bookmarks, mail lists, project management features, computing device data, tasks and location data,
... and then he will use your virtual avatar and put it into a military robot... we know where that goes!
Re:Privacy (Score:3, Funny)
Essential? What kind of blackjack do you play? I want in on that action.
An obvious case for prior art (Score:4, Funny)
see this link
http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html [google.com]
Re:Hmm (Score:3, Funny)
You must be thinking of the current Microsoft CEO. Bill Gates only jumps over chairs [youtube.com].
We know something about Bill Gates too (Score:5, Funny)
He started watching Caprica.
Re: Bill Gates Knows What You Did Last Summer (Score:2, Funny)
Ummm...used Linux? :P
The reprogramming task force is on the way to you.
What did I do last summer? (Score:5, Funny)
I was camping in a middle of a fucking forest with a herd of hippies, that's what I did.
So, how can you improve the quality of my life, mr. Gates? Can you give me a bigger forest? More hippies? Less villagers with pitchforks?
Google should be pissed (Score:3, Funny)
...for Gates patenting their complete business model. Is it more evil that Google didn't patent it, or is it worse that they kept it on the down-low?
Re:Privacy (Score:4, Funny)
#1 - Store loyalty cards? GET RID OF THEM.
A few friends and I used to rotate our Kroger cards randomly about once a week. We were all from different walks of life, so I can imagine what Kroger thought after a while. "One week: 5 packs of Ramen and a 24-banger of Bud. Next week: Filet, salmon, fresh vegetables, and a couple $30 bottle of wine. Next week: Weight Watchers Meals and 'Vitamin Water'. WTF?"
Re:Privacy (Score:4, Funny)
Have you been searching Google Images for "megan fox nipslip?".
Sincerely,
Bill Gates.