Fun with Google

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I'm really getting sick of this inability to stay up beyond 10pm thing I seem to have going on right now; every time I try I promptly fall asleep, find I've typed something incomprehensible at about 4am, then wake up as the light comes through my window. This is not success.

Meanwhile, what the bloody blazes?

"The “pay-load” data collected by

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[comicsan]

I think the fact that you'd have to go through the ISP to tie the mac address and ip combination to a name would be the key here. I don't believe it recorded a physical address (well, maybe latitude/longitude but that's not what I meant.

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Possibly. It depends how wide ranging each car was, and how Google were storing the information - both facets I've got no idea about. If Google were able to pinpoint 'this stuff was recorded around here in X town', then that could potentially be significant - even then I find it hard to believe there isn't stuff in there from unsecured login forms or similar that couldn't point to people.

[tomf_]

Good on you for supporting the indie game community. Minecraft looks awesome.

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I never quite know what to build in this sort of sandbox game, it's the same problem I have with Dwarf Fortress. But the idea of getting it cheap now then running a multiplayer server for the client version when it gets finished was too much to bear.