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[News] [Rival] Microsoft to Intrude Brains for Advertisers

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft to Intrude Brains for Advertisers
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:31:05 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Microsoft's investigation into the subconscious

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| When a Microsoft Corp. patent application for a method of sorting brain waves 
| surfaced late last year, it drew quips that the company now plans to read PC 
| users' minds, in addition to selling them software.  
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/why-microsoft-so-interested-our/story.aspx?guid=%7B5FC1EC89%2DA444%2D4BD9%2DB436%2DFD8BBE879E26%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/2rom8x


Related:

Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems

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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to 
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files, 
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status 
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could 
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status 
| messages?     
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html


http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml


Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel?

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| "The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent 
| application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted 
| advertising as 'part of the OS.'   
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/043200

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