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Your Phone Is Listening—Literally Listening—to Your TV
theatlantic.com ^
| NOV 19, 2015
| KAVEH WADDELL
Posted on 11/20/2015 5:09:27 AM PST by Not gonna take it anymore
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To: Not gonna take it anymore
Just assume that any new devices in your home (especially ones with mics) are listening.
I unpack laptop from factory box, and put tape over the built in web cam.
Then disable the mic in the settings.
No TV. No Smartphone, No FB, No Google.
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posted on
11/20/2015 5:56:30 AM PST
by
two23
(Ignore the media. It isn't propaganda if we don't listen.)
To: Not gonna take it anymore
Call Any Vegetable
(excerpt)
Call any vegetable
(Call any vegetable)
Call it by name
(Call any vegetable)
Call one today
(Call any vegetable)
When you get off the train
(Call any vegetable)
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Ooooh! The vegetable
Will respond to you
(Some people don’t go for prunes . . . I dunno . . . I’ve always found that if they . . . )
Call any vegetable
(Call any vegetable)
Pick up your phone
(Call any vegetable)
Think of a vegetable
(Call any vegetable)
Lonely at home
(Call any vegetable)
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
That a vegetable will respond to you-hoooo
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posted on
11/20/2015 5:57:49 AM PST
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: Not gonna take it anymore
I have no idea why the apostrophes in the article look so weird.
Below is an example of both types of apostrophes and quotation marks in a pre-post composition AND the result after posting or previewing both:
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posted on
11/20/2015 6:08:31 AM PST
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: basil
Does this hold true for my dumb phoneâan older flip phone? My understanding is the older phones without internet access don't have this problem.
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posted on
11/20/2015 6:34:25 AM PST
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
To: Not gonna take it anymore
Used foil chip bags are your friend.
To: taterjay; shibumi
Or marathons of That 70s Show, How It’s Made, and Ancient Aliens?
:)
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posted on
11/20/2015 6:44:53 AM PST
by
Salamander
(Trump is the voice of the muzzled majority.)
To: Not gonna take it anymore
I have a dumb phone issued by “Common Cents”. It doesn’t support anything weird.
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posted on
11/20/2015 6:55:14 AM PST
by
GingisK
To: Not gonna take it anymore
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posted on
11/20/2015 6:55:44 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
To: Salamander
I do check on Giorgio for grooming tips.
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posted on
11/20/2015 6:59:22 AM PST
by
shibumi
(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
To: Not gonna take it anymore
To: moovova
Well, I hope they pick up on the fact that EVERY TIME a commercial comes on, I mute the TV and pickup my phone to surf the interwebz. As I recline comfortably on the sofa, both the remote and phone rests on my chest. Often, the cat squeezes in... I DVR any program I might want to watch, so I can skip over the commercials entirely.
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posted on
11/20/2015 7:26:07 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: Not gonna take it anymore
I haven’t watched television since April. Cancelled cable and watch exclusively Netflix now. I don’t miss it at all, and it’s stuff like this that makes me a little extra happy that I stopped watching TV proper.
To: Not gonna take it anymore; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; ...
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posted on
11/20/2015 7:35:13 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are AmeriCANs. We CAN learn, and learn from history, if we choose.)
To: Not gonna take it anymore
I have no idea why the apostrophes in the article look so weird. Because they are curved and FR is straight...
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posted on
11/20/2015 7:36:13 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are AmeriCANs. We CAN learn, and learn from history, if we choose.)
To: Not gonna take it anymore
Well that's a shame. My TV is 99% of the time OFF.
Not sure why I bought a big honkin' 60 incher.
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posted on
11/20/2015 7:38:25 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
( If they try firearm confiscation or gun registration, I go ballistic.)
To: Not gonna take it anymore
Smart things talk to each other. It can be kind of creepy. If I turn on my bluray player it says something to my TV and the TV switches to the right input. More odd if I switch to a different input on my TV the bluray pauses, and unpauses when I switch back. Thanks to bluetooth and wireless networking everything can talk to each other. And the genie ain’t going back in the bottle.
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posted on
11/20/2015 7:41:46 AM PST
by
discostu
(Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start)
To: Salamander
I think I’ll put my phone on the coffee table, tune to Univision and just let the battery run down. Llame Ya? Sorry, Senor, no habla.
To: Buckeye McFrog
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posted on
11/20/2015 7:57:37 AM PST
by
Salamander
(Trump is the voice of the muzzled majority.)
To: Not gonna take it anymore
“In America Television Watches You.”
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posted on
11/20/2015 7:58:17 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Buckeye McFrog
We use Capri Sun pouches.
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posted on
11/20/2015 8:32:11 AM PST
by
T-Bone Texan
(The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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