[quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=SK in CV]I checked the manual. And then opened up some news site on the intertubes this morning, and up pops an ad. For Honeywell HVAC controls. What-the-F’ity EF EF? How do it know?[/quote]

SK: You need to turn this to your advantage, my friend. Patiently explain to your wife that all those Swedish porn popups are a result of your purchasing that Scandinavian artisanal reindeer’s milk cheese at Whole Foods.[/quote]
Facebook and Google do take liberties, but I suppose this borders the benign so they get away with it. Personal experiences with this whole Internet privacy is one thing, but it doesn’t stop there. I recently spoke with a lender in France, who wouldn’t talk to me. When I said I was calling from France, not the US, he said “Oh that’s OK then”. WTF! I was once approached in the terminal of a European international airport, over very loosely tied connections between the origin of my name, stamps in my passport and my location. I was so bewildered I didn’t have the wherewithal to enquire who wanted to know. This was not a customs official, and the assumptions so naive, I sincerely hope my tax dollars aren’t paying that ‘official’ a $200k salary. I laughed the incident off, by explaining I was a Colombian drug lord, just going about my business of laundering money. It was received with an embarrassed smile. Customs and immigration are on the front line of this battle. And terrorism isn’t the only thing they’re after.