I agree. Does anyone know if there is a way to completely turn off location data gathering?
I know we're all excited about the interesting applications of the availability of this data, but what about the privacy implications? (Or is it generally assumed that the fact that Apple is gathering this data is a bad thing from a privacy perspective?) By no means am I opposed to them offering this feature. It seems like it could be very useful. It's just a matter of opt-in vs opt-out.
From the article:
"The most immediate problem is that this data is stored in an easily-readable form on your machine. Any other program you run or user with access to your machine can look through it. The more fundamental problem is that Apple are collecting this information at all. ..."
I'm not an iPhone user myself, though I'm likely to get one soon. Not sure if this affects my purchase decision, which I suppose speaks volumes about the current smartphone landscape.
I thought the same thing as you at first, but perhaps Gaga might have taken issue with the short sound clip from Madonna's "Express Yourself" (at 1:58 in Weird Al's version). I think Gaga has been accused of copying "Express Yourself" and Weird Al is poking fun at that issue.
If this article makes it close to frontpage, I wonder if he's going to write a post about the impact of a post about the impact of his posts being "hackernews-ed" on his baseline traffic on his baseline traffic...
I think it's turtles all the way down on this one.
Very neat. But I think the site could definitely be more pleasing to the eye. In terms of user interface, the onmouseover probably isn't the best method of axis variable selection. It can be a bit awkward.
Also, when using color-based visualizations, keep in mind colorblind users (~5% of males, I believe). I think the red-blue spectrum does a pretty good job of this, but I'm not experienced with it myself. Maybe vary the shade to help contrast between data points.
But solid execution. (Man, Dwight Howard just cannot shoot threes.)
I know we're all excited about the interesting applications of the availability of this data, but what about the privacy implications? (Or is it generally assumed that the fact that Apple is gathering this data is a bad thing from a privacy perspective?) By no means am I opposed to them offering this feature. It seems like it could be very useful. It's just a matter of opt-in vs opt-out.
From the article: "The most immediate problem is that this data is stored in an easily-readable form on your machine. Any other program you run or user with access to your machine can look through it. The more fundamental problem is that Apple are collecting this information at all. ..."
I'm not an iPhone user myself, though I'm likely to get one soon. Not sure if this affects my purchase decision, which I suppose speaks volumes about the current smartphone landscape.