{"id":671,"date":"2007-04-12T10:11:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T15:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/671"},"modified":"2007-04-12T10:11:43","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T15:11:43","slug":"resistance-is-futile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/671","title":{"rendered":"Resistance Is Futile&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/yro\/07\/04\/11\/239243.shtml\">Via Slashdot<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Xerox has filed a patent covering a technique to recover demographic information like your age, sex and perhaps even your income by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientisttech.com\/article\/dn11570-invention-allknowing-browser.html\">analysing the pattern of web pages you browse<\/a>. They want to license the technique to online advertisers and shops. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ypv45z\">full patent here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn.&nbsp; Damn.&nbsp; I <em>will<\/em> need that trailer in the middle of the desert to retire to.&nbsp;&nbsp; Except by then there probably won&#8217;t be any escape even in the middle of the fucking desert.&nbsp; None at all.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be getting junk mail targeted precisely to grouchy old hermits living in trailers in the middle of the desert.&nbsp; No&#8230;&nbsp; To grouchy old <em>Gay Long-Haired<\/em> hermits living in <em>my specific make<\/em> of trailer in the middle of the desert.&nbsp; They&#8217;ll know exactly what&#8217;s in my refrigerator and my medicine cabinet and I&#8217;ll be getting helpful reminders like,&nbsp; <em>Dear Valued Customer&#8230;according to our records you are running out of cranky pills&#8230;did you know that your local middle-of-the-desert WalMart Superstore is having a sale on your favorite brand of cranky pills&#8230;and did you know that most of our customers who buy cranky pills also bought these other fine products&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Slashdot&#8230; Xerox has filed a patent covering a technique to recover demographic information like your age, sex and perhaps even your income by analysing the pattern of web pages you browse. They want to license the technique to online advertisers and shops. Read the full patent here. Damn.&nbsp; Damn.&nbsp; I will need that trailer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}