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Cidu Bill on Jan 7th 2012

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Filed in Bill Bickel, Charles Addams, Google | 23 responses so far

Google and Facebook Squabble Over Who Owns the Rights to Your Personal Information

Cidu Bill on Nov 9th 2010

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Here’s a novel thought: maybe neither of them?
I remember maybe 20 years ago we were at the mall and there was a booth there for a bank or something, and essentially if you signed up to receive some information — giving them your address and telephone number — they’d give you a cheap pen and pencil set. People were lined up to take advantage of the deal. I said to my wife “Either they don’t see anything wrong with giving out their personal information, or they must really, really need that pen and pencil.

Today the same thing is going on, but nobody’s asking first and we’re not even getting the freakin’ pen and pencil set.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Facebook, Google, data mining | 30 responses so far

Your Move

Cidu Bill on Sep 3rd 2009

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Filed in 2001, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Google, Hal 9000, Jeff Stahler, chess, comic strips, comics, computers, humor | 24 responses so far

Tell me again why Google isn’t evil?

Cidu Bill on Jul 10th 2009

Their newest scam: You can’t open up a Gmail account without giving them your cell phone number. It has to be an actual number, because they’re going to use it to send you a confirmation code. And after they do that? They keep your number on file “to make sure it is used to create a limited number of accounts.”

The reason for this new requirement? The customer’s safety and security. Yeah, you betcha.

I suspect I will never be desperate enough for a new e-mail address that I will turn over my cell phone number to Google.  They can make all the promises they want about how they’ll never use the information for improper purposes: you’d have to be a fool to believe somebody who lies to obtain that information in the first place.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Don't Be Evil, Gmail, Google | 56 responses so far

RSS: The Controversy That Never Should Have Been

Cidu Bill on Jun 8th 2009

I’m sorry; I tried my best, but I just can’t deal with having to click through just to see each comic.

Okay, once and for all and in a single place: Continue Reading »

Filed in Bill Bickel, Google, Google Reader, RSS, aggregators, comic strips, comics, humor | 79 responses so far

Winter Wallaby Laughs Out Loud and Scratches Her Head

Cidu Bill on Jan 6th 2009

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Now that this afternoon’s discussion has made it clear that “LOL,” or “Comics That Made Us Laugh Out Loud” entries are not comics that need explaining, here are two that do: Winter Wallaby writes, “The Shortpacked made me LOL, but I wonder if it’s anything other than just absurdity? The xkcd made me LOL several times, so I had to send it in, but the “raptors on hoverboards” entry is a CIDU to me.”

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Google, Something Positive, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol, xkcd | 21 responses so far

IMPORTANT: E-MAIL ADDRESS CHANGE

Cidu Bill on Aug 5th 2008

Spam has pretty much made the e-mail address I’ve used for the past four years useless, so all submissions to the CIDU Page should now be sent to comicsidontunderstand………………at……………………gmail.com.

A couple of other notes that I’ll be adding to the FAQ along with the e-mail change:

If you send a comment that uses the word “suck” in any context, it will be sent to my moderation queue rather than immediately appearing on the page. This filter was necessary because of the vast amount of sexually-based spam that includes the word.

Yes, once again spam is inconveniencing everybody. It sucks, I know.

I’ve been getting a lot of requests lately to “exchange links.” For the record, I’ve never done that. If anybody wants to link to the CIDU Page (and many people do), thank you. If there’s a site I think I should recommend to you guys, I’ll link to it. But I don’t play quid pro quo.

This won’t be going on the FAQ, but… You might notice that the Google Adsense ads are gone. Good old Google, screwed me again (”suck” is filtered; “screw” isn’t. Go figure). Some years back, Continue Reading »

Filed in Bill Bickel, CIDU, Google, spam | 15 responses so far