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Re:Dark Clouds Over the Internet by eveningcoffee on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @10:08PM (#10667478)
Yeah, I am like, hey dude, follow me, I totally want it.

I just came out so that everyone can follow me. No I did not, I just want to buy some milk, all right?

This is just how messed up American mind is about privacy.

(comment to myself, do not comment on hacker news after having few beers and watching LCK)

I gave you a good example - you can not do what ever it is possible to do.

Hey, I have a gun, I can totally shoot you. Boom!

No I can not, every other person gets unhappy (all right, maybe not all of them).

So how hard is it to transfer this knowledge into another situation?

The fact that I am in your range does not mean you can shoot me, right?

The fact that I am visible to you does not mean that you can create a database of all my doings.

There is major difference between, oh, I saw that dude on the street and I have followed that dude 10 years every day, I know every place he have been.

Re:Dark Clouds Over the Internet by crpatino on Friday December 04, 2015 @08:05PM (#10680295)
> The fact that I am in your range does not mean you can shoot me, right?

Wrong. The fact that you are in my range does mean that I could shoot you if I wish. It does not mean that I will do so, but you do not get to decide. What is to stop me, your blind faith in the eventual justice of the cosmic balance?

If you want to make less likely that people shoots you, try to step out of the typical ranges of people you don't trust. It is so sad, because it means you cannot go anymore where all the everymen want to go.