Journal #7217

This is great in practically every look, but privacy... They will hold every document a person ever made, every photo, every address...

Well i know i wont buy it.

1) Take laptop
2) Neuter it
3) Sell as Google innovation

Pass.

lol strider, my thoughts exactly.

You choose to save your files to a webserver, if you're so unsecure about it, don't save them to the internet to begin with. It's really not that difficult to do.

If you're so goddamned insecure about that stuff, then how can you merely stand to have a email? Don't you realize, every single file, text, everything sent to you is being sent through the internet, and your email provider can read ALL OF IT?

Crollo, stop acting like an objective robot. I'm sure you clearly know what's all about.

With a chromebook, you don't risk just a few parts of your private informations. You risk it all. +It becomes available for Google to do with it whatever they want to.

And maybe you could stop being a paranoid freak, just because it uses a nonstandard OS [Web browsing ONLY] doesn't mean EVERYTHING you do is sent to google. It's just a laptop without the ability to do anything other then web browsing.

If you don't believe google will pass up a offer to spy on every conceivable person on the planet, just disconnect yourself from the internet.

Well he is right Crollo, not all info about us is shared, only a tiny part of it. And disconecting from net permanently just because of that is dumb.

But there is a limit. I dont even let my own parents all the info about me, not some company.

But in what possible way could google be 'spying' on you? Do you really think they're going to put tracking cookies and viruses and malware into this laptop, so they can spy on some 60 year old guy who just wants to watch funny youtube videos on his vacation?

The only thing that could logically actually get your information to google [Without viruses, implanted tracking software] is if you intentionally allow your own personal data to be held onto google servers, meaning YOU PUT IT THERE TO BEGIN WITH.

It probably wouldn't be a great idea to browse your bank on it [Nature of the internet, you're bound to visit a website or have a ad download a tracking cookie onto your computer], but this is just for casuals, not for you hardcores or business. At absolutely no point was it meant to be a whitehouse secured net browser.

Like I said, if your really think google is going to intently implement malware, viruses, and tracking software into it, then just disconnect yourself from the internet entirely. The internet is better off without you.

No, you idiot. They're not using this to deliver malware to you, they're "offering" to hold EVERY SINGLE FILE of yours in THEIR OWN servers.

Just like banks do with your money - THEY have it, not YOU. But YOU give it to them, and THEY give it back - IF they want. And while you're not watching, they can do anything with it - spend it, pocket it, whatever. You will never know if your money is being used by someone else, or what it is being used for. The bank can very well give away all that money, or keep it to themselves. Why do you think everyone is so invested in helping banks not go bankrupt? If they go down, you go down too.

Same with digital files. They aren't just giving away free infinite storage space, they are holding everyone's information. Whether it is junk or banking data, they don't care - every single byte has the potential to be worth millions in some form or another. And since they hold it all, they have complete access to it all, and they can use it however they see fit - use it to serve ads, steal your banking information, steal your revolutionary ideas, or just plain sell it to the highest bidder.

What can you store in a computer? EVERYTHING. It can be a 5-year-old's junk paint drawings, BUT it can also be compromising photos of someone, top-secret floor plans of an ultra-secure facility, and so on. Every byte has the potential to be the latter, nobody in power would pass on the chance to own something that can turn the world around - in other words, nobody with power would pass on the opportunity to attain MORE POWER.

No thank you.

Thanks DiscoStu for explaining to mr. philospher Crollo what I was trying to say.

"They're not using this to deliver malware to you"

I stopped reading after you implied I was saying they wanted to 'deliver' malware to the end user.

I'm going to test out the ChromeOS on VirtualBox, see what its like. Definitely not thinking of a permanent use for this, I mean, are any of us? Were all gamers. We can't map or play on this thing!

"But in what possible way could google be 'spying' on you? Do you really think they're going to put tracking cookies and viruses and malware into this laptop, so they can spy on some 60 year old guy who just wants to watch funny youtube videos on his vacation?"
Well, they are already reading GMail users' emails, using tracking cookies to deliver ads more interesting to their viewers, and keeping track of what Youtube videos you've watched.

Today Google, tomorrow Liandri!

Uhh, now thats something to think about.

Also Disco, the money the banks own isnt real.

No, but it's still yours.

One of the comments on that speed test is to pause it at :47 and to look at the address bar. They are loading a saved page from their hd, not loading it from online. Check it out again The_(c)Striker 720p full screen.

Well, yeah, it even says so in the description.

"About four hours into the Potato Gun shoot we decided to use a locally loaded version of the web page to enable more precise synchronization with the potato gun. We finally got the shot we were hoping for after 51 takes."

So it does. Still not cool.