fox: LOLcat makes you disappear (disappear (by Lanning))
fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2004-05-21 09:34 am

memo

dear people on metro escalators:

WALK LEFT. STAND RIGHT. it's not that hard.

thank you.

signed,
fox

[identity profile] wholenother.livejournal.com 2004-05-21 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I don't know when the move stuff to their archives or however they manage their systems, all I know is it's old enough that it required signing up. . . .

Oh, crap, it looks like now they want you to sign up to read the print edition even if it's today's! Ah, the erosion of privacy in this country!

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2004-05-21 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
all you have to give them is Some E-mail Address. it's a registration with no information required. isn't it? (i mean, lie all you want. fuck up their data. [g])

[identity profile] wholenother.livejournal.com 2004-05-21 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Grr . . .

Too much unnecessary sharing of data, I don't care what it is . . . but, as you know, if I think it's important enough for me to gain access, I'll lie. Back when they asked for your date of birth and ZIP code (do they still do that elsewhere?), I did it all the time. But I like the Post. I don't want to lie to them. I also don't want them to ask. Two words: "data mining." This stuff builds on itself.

I guess it comes down to what I said (http://www.livejournal.com/users/wholenother/39087.html) about the [livejournal.com profile] fandom_scruples thing: "We have too much personal information floating around and too much lying already."

Oh, and

[identity profile] wholenother.livejournal.com 2004-05-21 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
4PPM has clearly trained me well! This is largely his fault/paranoia -- and those of the people around me who work on security. ;-)