Done yesterday (20111130 We)

[mdlbear]

Sheesh! A long group meeting that starts at 11:30 does bad things to a day. No walk. Feels like it was a long month last week; I'm doing better, now, but it will take a long time for me to fully recover.

It seems that that most, if not all, Android phones come with a secret logging app called Carrier IQ. Didn't they learn anything from Sony?

Meanwhile, here's a good article on E-books vs. "Real" Books, which makes a deliciously ironic pairing with the announcement that Fahrenheit 451 Finally Released in E-Book Format.

1130 We
  * up 6; W=194.4; drugs, nose, teeth, cleanup, laundry, exercise, dishes
  * E-books vs. Real Books | Rachelle Gardner @inkyelbows
  @ BUSTED! Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps 
  @ Carrier IQ: The Sony rootkit all over again | Cringely - InfoWorld 
  : back on C's flist
    ! still sad, but validated and starting to heal.  Pity.  Compassion
  @ Blair Mountain and labor's living history (ysabetwordsmith - The History You Don't Hear in School 
  * humira
  * no walk:  long meeting, as usual
  * Avoiding group.
  : Colleen's new scooter batteries arrived.
  @ Fahrenheit 451 Finally Released in E-Book Format @mashable
    something deliciously ironic about that...
  ~ clone /users/steve/Config onto cygnus (was there, just not linked)
  * music:  some noodling

Comments

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

I posted the following comment to the author of your e-books article:

I am SO relieved to hear someone else say this. I love books, and I read almost exclusively on my e-readers over the last year (I actually own both a Kindle and a Nook, just because there are some books that only come out for one or the other). I have a chronic pain disorder, and if I have to lift a paperback the size of the ones I often like to read, I can’t get lost in the book because I get distracted by the pain. A few ounces less worth of e-reader and I’m fine.

In ancient Rome, they published books in buckets, each of which carried a scroll which contained a chapter or so’s worth of text. Do we have “lesser” books than they did, because we changed from reading scrolls to reading bound paperbacks and hardcovers? If not, why do people think we have “lesser” books because we’ve changed from reading them in paperback and hardcover to reading them on a machine? It’s the content that matters — always has been, always will be, which is why I’ve got Caesar’s Gallic Wars on my Nook. I think Caesar would’ve been forward-thinking enough to approve.

[asavitzk.livejournal.com]

Frankly I'm amazed that my phone, a Droid 2 from Motorola on Verizon, doesn't have Carrier IQ on it. I figured between these two corporate giants they'd have it chuck full of everything like that they could.

Also, the Kindle Fire has tested negative for the eSTD as I'm starting to refer to it.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

"eSTD" made me laugh.

[willowisp.livejournal.com]

The Android thing has me in a minor crisis. I switched to a bleeding-heart liberal cell phone company which doesn't do iPhones, and the alternative I selected happens to be the make (though not the model) of phone I opted for.

[mdlbear]

Me, too.

[mdlbear]

I like this!

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." :)

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

"the alternative I selected happens to be the make (though not the model) of phone I opted for"

Uh... Howzatagain? That's close to being a tautology. Did you mean something like "I'm afraid that my new phone has this Carrier IQ spyware"?