The Google Tabloid

[NeoMatrix]

Oh for pete's sake -
The historical records show that Skynet will first show it's presence in the United States. As you are effectively on the opposite side of Earth from here, if that actually happens you should have enough time to say "Yikes, sucks to be them!" and then "Guess we should just drain the fuel from these machines and wreck them as they ineffectively flail about."
On the other hand, if that happens in a very different way, I guess you might go "Mad Max". As long as it has nothing to do with Thunderdome - the music sucked.

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I luv how the threads on CTN digress....
Given a worst case scenerio like "Mad-Max" I don't believe we will be relying on dinosaur-p!ss ( oil ) or dinosaur-poop(coal) to keep us going. There is plenty of alternative energy systems out there.
During WWII we have hydrogen pipe throughout our city that feed the city for years. The same pipes feed natural gas now.

The hydrgen was cracked from water with a hot flame charcoal process. The hydrogen plant run by itself, as it had hydrogen motors to run the pumps for pressurizing the city supply.

[skynet]

Have you ever clicked "images only" in the google search engine and typed in your own name as a search?

Now that google is allowed to use your name and pictures without your consent.

I would place the google search results up there with bad tabloid press and images. I'm amazed at how many pictures of rubbish have my full name on them..... I'm even on facebook an I don't have a facebook account... Not one image showed a true picture of me.

Try your family names as well...

Fun to see the results....

I wonder how many employers do this type of search for employee profiles before hiring ?.... wheeew....

I don't see what the problem is. If David Brown from Shitterton , Dorset, England posts a picture to Facebook or whatever of himself, he is placing that information there of his own free will. If a search engine finds him is it the search engines fault or his?

Or am I missing the point?

[Debs1964]

I don't see what the problem is. If David Brown from Shitterton , Dorset, England posts a picture to Facebook or whatever of himself, he is placing that information there of his own free will. If a search engine finds him is it the search engines fault or his?

Or am I missing the point?

I agree with you, I googled myself, most of the results weren't of me, but I have posted loads of pics to Facebook, and I am tagged in them, I anyone wants to google my pictures then they are free to do so, but I do wonder about their sanity if that's how they want to spend their time

[NeoMatrix]

There is good and bad points in everything.
I have never placed an image of myself on the "idi-net", not ever. When I did a google image search I discovered plenty of images,some I found a tad inappropriate,with my full name on them. My full name is not that popular when used in a search engine.

Am I to believe that someones grand daughter is dealing in child pornography because her name is on a photo placed there by google?
Am I to believe that someones grand son is dealing in drugs because their full name is on a google image ?
Am I to beleive that a google image showing a person kissing and cuddling a goat is someones idea of entertainment?

I cannot speak for the people who have images on the net already, but I feel we should all make a protest at how some of those images are being portrayed at present.

If there is an image of myself on the "idi-net" it certainly wasn't placed there with my consent, thats all I can say.

I believe I myself should have a choice as to how my own name an copyright image is being portrayed or taken/blown out of context and thereby creating a false personal profile on public display....

Lets face it, people in general just love reading/viewing tabloid crap and feel complete when some ones elses is being put down.

[blackcat4866]

I attribute my internet anonymity to the fact that there is a very famous astronomer that has the exact same name as mine. Of the hundreds of thousands of Google entries all go to:
1) the famous astronomer
2) the famous orthopedic surgeon in Chicago

There are others numbering less than 5 entries each, and none seem to find me, even out to page 25.

Now, blackcat4866 seems to be more well known, as it ought to be. I was astonished to find my moniker attached to web pages in Arabic, Portuguese, Chinese, and Russian. My guess is that these websites scavenge information from Copytechnet and indiscriminately re-post it. The giveaway is the little bit of ASCII art I affix at the end of each post. =^..^=

[JR2ALTA]

No problem if your name is Michael Smith or Juan Garcia

[slimslob]

No problem if your name is Michael Smith or Juan Garcia

It can be a big problem if one of them has an arrest record and the police come knocking on your door at 2AM with a warrant for your arrest.

[Lagonda]

I tried but there is no trace of me out there in Electron Land and I'm happy with that. However i did come across a namesake in Mugshots USA, I find that site unbelievable!! It just looks like legalised extortion to me.

[NeoMatrix]

It can be a big problem if one of them has an arrest record and the police come knocking on your door at 2AM with a warrant for your arrest.

I know of two people who been issuesd with false traffic fines from their alter-ego from who lived in a totally different state.
Luckly they could prove they where not in those locations when the traffic fine was issued.

[Lagonda]

I know of two people who been issued with false traffic fines from their alter-ego from who lived in a totally different state.
Luckly they could prove they where not in those locations when the traffic fine was issued.

And then there was the bright spark who paid a lot of money to get the registration plate "NONE" for his car. He thought it was a great joke until the parking fines started appearing from all over Australia. The problem was every time the council parking officers came across a abandoned car without plates they wrote "none" in the space on their form for the rego number. It wasn't until the police turned up to arrest him for non payment of fines he realised what a twat he really was!