For me, the final straw was when Firefox started calling Google "untrusted", then refused to let me make an exception and go about my usually-seamless search business. I don't know why the behaviour started. I don't care. They were already on thin ice after switching off my Garmin GPS update and map extensions, disabling my Kaspersky special functions like virtual keyboard, and other stuff I won't bore you with.
I'm almost completely switched over to Pale Moon now. It's faster, and it actually works. Fuck Firefox.
The two paragraph statement written by some drone to justify the selection of the octopus as a logo is priceless. It reads like something a Grade 6 kid would put down when they get their first hundred-word research assignment.
Just because you woke up this morning with a cock in your mouth is no reason to assume everybody did. Sorry about your luck, but even hobos deserve a blow job once in a while.
Shove it sideways, asshole. Criticizing Netanyahu and his hatemongers isn't ant-Semitic. It's simple acknowledgement that Israelis are no more immune to electing creeps than anybody else.
Anonymous threatens free speech? How about massively popular social media platforms like Facebook that censor comments and images while offering very little recourse to the subjects of censorship? Facebook, Twitter and other such media have become so pervasive that the old "if you don't like it, don't use it" defense doesn't really apply anymore.
And how about the chilling effect of forcing people to use their real names if they're going to participate in discussions on-line? What happens to your job if your employer finds out your religion (or lack of it), sexuality, or political opinion differs significantly from theirs?
Let's not forget the police and letter agencies, either. We're now at a point where one's location, travel history, and other metadata, financial records and literally everything said or done, or even looked at on-line is subject to their examination with little or no oversight. Think that might prevent people from speaking freely? (I mean "speak" in the broadest possible sense of the word, by the way).
And how about the thuggish actions of various police forces during legal demonstrations over the last few years? Who can chance raising one's voice in public protest when the consequences might very well be employment-threatening injuries and perhaps a place on the No Fly List?
Claiming Anonymous is a significant threat to free speech in an age when these and other more serious threats exist is like complaining about a pea-shooter during a firefight.
That's pretty much the size of it. And I wouldn't be surprised if, as they get closer to being nearly indistinguishable from the real world, the remaining small discrepancies will trigger nausea in more people.
When did the US media start allowing publication of any kind of news that might reflect unfavourably on Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party? Isn't that grounds for immediate classification as a terrorist and transfer to some dark, ugly hole in the back of a Third World prison?
So now I'm really confused. Is the French government allowing Tor to stay feral because they can tame it whenever they want, and the cops were too stupid to know?
Or did the question come up because Tor reallyis a good way to maintain a fairly decent level of privacy, and the cops were hoping to get rid of it?
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So a few thousand Swedes might lose access to Shark Century, Ice Road Fuckwits and Cannibal Hillbillies of Alaska?
Oh, the humanity!
For me, the final straw was when Firefox started calling Google "untrusted", then refused to let me make an exception and go about my usually-seamless search business. I don't know why the behaviour started. I don't care. They were already on thin ice after switching off my Garmin GPS update and map extensions, disabling my Kaspersky special functions like virtual keyboard, and other stuff I won't bore you with.
I'm almost completely switched over to Pale Moon now. It's faster, and it actually works. Fuck Firefox.
Definitely!
Starting with you, no doubt. ;-)
In other words, about 10% of them.
The two paragraph statement written by some drone to justify the selection of the octopus as a logo is priceless. It reads like something a Grade 6 kid would put down when they get their first hundred-word research assignment.
You raise and excellent point. ;-)
Exactly what I was thinking of. My mother bought me the "Best of Carson" VHS tapes so I could see him at the top of his game. That was part of them.
Thanks for bringing back some good memories.
This has all the earmarks of a Clapper-hacker Cracka Caper.
...once they let him out of whatever Third World hellhole US intelligence is currently using to warehouse inconvenient people.
Why make this about governments? They ceded control to their corporate masters years ago.
It's Corporate America Offshore to whom the sheeple are turning over their lives.
As a family, the weapons and their delivery systems move toward the small, the stealthy, the precise...the hackable.
Don't talk with your mouth full.
Just because you woke up this morning with a cock in your mouth is no reason to assume everybody did. Sorry about your luck, but even hobos deserve a blow job once in a while.
Two words: Pale Moon.
What sucks is that I never seem to have mod points when I really want them. You'd be getting an enthusiastic "Insightful" if I had one to give.
Let's hope they get the problems solved. I would dearly love to spend a couple of hours in some totally immersive alternate reality.
Shove it sideways, asshole. Criticizing Netanyahu and his hatemongers isn't ant-Semitic. It's simple acknowledgement that Israelis are no more immune to electing creeps than anybody else.
Anonymous threatens free speech? How about massively popular social media platforms like Facebook that censor comments and images while offering very little recourse to the subjects of censorship? Facebook, Twitter and other such media have become so pervasive that the old "if you don't like it, don't use it" defense doesn't really apply anymore.
And how about the chilling effect of forcing people to use their real names if they're going to participate in discussions on-line? What happens to your job if your employer finds out your religion (or lack of it), sexuality, or political opinion differs significantly from theirs?
Let's not forget the police and letter agencies, either. We're now at a point where one's location, travel history, and other metadata, financial records and literally everything said or done, or even looked at on-line is subject to their examination with little or no oversight. Think that might prevent people from speaking freely? (I mean "speak" in the broadest possible sense of the word, by the way).
And how about the thuggish actions of various police forces during legal demonstrations over the last few years? Who can chance raising one's voice in public protest when the consequences might very well be employment-threatening injuries and perhaps a place on the No Fly List?
Claiming Anonymous is a significant threat to free speech in an age when these and other more serious threats exist is like complaining about a pea-shooter during a firefight.
That's pretty much the size of it. And I wouldn't be surprised if, as they get closer to being nearly indistinguishable from the real world, the remaining small discrepancies will trigger nausea in more people.
Really amazing, utterly astounding VR will arrive in all its glory when it's powered by nuclear fusion. ;-)
When did the US media start allowing publication of any kind of news that might reflect unfavourably on Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party? Isn't that grounds for immediate classification as a terrorist and transfer to some dark, ugly hole in the back of a Third World prison?
...she didn't say I had to include the scale.
The structure resembled a rat trap-ezoid.
So now I'm really confused. Is the French government allowing Tor to stay feral because they can tame it whenever they want, and the cops were too stupid to know?
Or did the question come up because Tor reallyis a good way to maintain a fairly decent level of privacy, and the cops were hoping to get rid of it?