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Lux, they shrink from the intrusive blue light and need no further explanation.

> intrusive DNS systems that redirect me to their crappy web sites, etc. Never noticed and if I did its trivial to change DNS. Cell phones on the other hand do all these things.

I can't wait to clean that shit out of my elderly relatives computers when they complain of sluggishness, crashes, and intrusive ads, like the good old days." The users choose to install these things."

If I know every single phone call you made, I'm able to determine every single person you talked to; I can get a pattern about your life that is very, very intrusive. ---\n\nMind blown.

But the public finds these tools too intrusive. I'm sure it would be useful for the police to be able to secretly break into any house they wanted, rifle through people's papers, and find people who had jihadist leanings that way.

The fact that people are installing such software should be taken as an indication that today's ads are too intrusive and too disrespectful.

The problem with Java is mainly that people think they have to use all the horribly complex, intrusive, badly written, underperforming frameworks that exist in the Java sphere. And then, of course, you will inevitably be screwed.

AdBlock also recently rolled out a by-default "non-intrusive ads are OK" setting for all Firefox users. This led to quite a bit of controversy, which I think mostly illustrates just how sick of advertising a lot of people are.

Schilling is a self-described conservative with a disdain for big government, which he considers intrusive and overbearing. He is a big believer in people helping themselves and solving their own problems.

There is no way I could suggest my friends and family sign up to such an intrusive service, so I quickly deleted my own account. It's an absolutely stunning achievement to create a web-site that's even more offensively intrusive than Facebook.

It's not something I personally find particularly intrusive and for a restaurant menu it seems suitable enough.

So - while it feels extraordinarily intrusive to deal with this guy, if it gets a conversation going around what's being captured, and recorded, without your knowledge - then I think some good can come of it.

Surprised no one has pointed out the worst of Brooks' warped logic: > If federal security agencies cant do vast data sweeps, they will inevitably > revert to the older, more intrusive eavesdropping methods. and > He betrayed the cause of open government.

De-duplication does not make users any more vulnerable to intrusive government actions. Today, a government agency could ask any online service to provide the names of all users who have a particular file, whether or not the service employs de-duplication.

Before you consider intrusive lists, in fact, before you consider almost any other data structure, try a vector. People grossly overestimate the cost of vector relocation while underestimating the benefits of cache coherency.

Part of the situation is that "traditional" social networking is becoming passe, in part because it's become too Byzantine, and too intrusive. Social networks -- real social networks, not the online instantiations of them -- work best when the groups are relatively small, Dunbar's number is respected, and there's a level of insularity around any given group.

Since real money is involved and salaries and careers are riding on this number going up, they'll employ all kinds of perverse and intrusive tricks in order to inflate that number every quarter for as long as it is a measure of success.

When I can get on a commercial flight without having to take off my shoes, have my toiletries inspected and having an intrusive full body xray taken, then I'll know we have finally defeated Osama bin Laden and his compatriots.

There is absolutely no question about these tracking practices being perceived as ethically unacceptable in many countries, so why provoke both negative publicity and legislation that is likely to handicap less intrusive solutions as well?

I have always felt like I was paying far too much for inferior service, contemptible customer support, and endless efforts to further "monetize" me through harassing phone calls trying to sell me more stuff, intrusive DNS systems that redirect me to their crappy web sites, etc. There is not a single other industry I can say that about, certainly not one that comes to mind so quickly.