Adblock wont stop Google Analytics. Get the Ghostery extension for Firefox and set it to automatically block all those spiders and creepy crawlies of the advertisement web.
Ironically, that site uses Google Analytics. Go figure.
Also, you could use a Greasemonkey script that I can't find right now that removes those crappy ad-click links from Google that are very common now. For example, search Ghostery in Google, and copy the link location. Paste it. Look at that mess...
The ENTIRE country has now been turned into a corporate town. The corporations control the laws, the law creators, and the law enforcers.
You're missing the point.
Right now, if you disagree with the laws of America, you can move to another country. According to the ACTA agreement, they're attempting to impose the same draconian laws on apparently democratic countries. Where do you move to then? Antarctica? (It has no high-speed internet :
At least in democratic countries, if you're ever vigilant, you have the chance to stamp out a treaty before it passes through the Senate. But you have to be quick, these bastards have a habit of rushing things through they know the people won't agree with. Bastards.
Right, well, I actually attend one of the schools who have a deployment of these laptops.
There's a label on the bottom that threatens you that if you steal it the police will find you. There's tamper-proof screws, so normal phillipshead's wont do the job. The BIOS is obviously passworded, and I managed to break the bootloader of Windows 7 by pressing ESC twice. No OS found apparently.
For "secure" laptops, you can right click pretty much anything and run it as an admin. We ran cmd.exe as an admin to create a proper Admin account. Completely bypasses AppLocker. Apparently, according to the laptop admins, the government wont allow printer drivers that aren't already part of Windows 7, so no printing for you.
The laptop maintainers don't even have administrator access. They have to box the laptops up and ship them to a centre to be "fixed", even if it's as simple as reinstalling a driver. Pathetic.
It's only early days, and the nuking of the bios can be done easily, through Wubi or other means, but USB boot is disabled so you'll have to find alternative means. And I know it's likely moot to post so late after the rush, but I had to say it.
Btw, it's CS4 Elements, it's not the true suite. And it includes Dia, the open-source diagram editor, which I found odd. Open source deployments always amuse me.
To finish, Firefox is not included by default and has many issues when installing, as you don't have access to Program Files, so it confuses the installer to no end unless you change where you're installing it to.
These laptops require ethernet access to activate and are mapped to a single username, so good luck using it if you don't have a Department of Education account. The all have filtering software so no porn for you kids, even when at home. Myspace and Facebook are blocked even from home connections. It's a rather horrible crippled setup that I'd wish upon no-one.
Welcome to the future of computing. Homeschool your kids.
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Adblock wont stop Google Analytics. Get the Ghostery extension for Firefox and set it to automatically block all those spiders and creepy crawlies of the advertisement web.
Ironically, that site uses Google Analytics. Go figure.
Also, you could use a Greasemonkey script that I can't find right now that removes those crappy ad-click links from Google that are very common now. For example, search Ghostery in Google, and copy the link location. Paste it. Look at that mess...
Throwbacks to Baldur's Gate? This is epic article.
I better question is: how does the Internet, a network, sexually abuse a child?
The ENTIRE country has now been turned into a corporate town. The corporations control the laws, the law creators, and the law enforcers.
You're missing the point.
Right now, if you disagree with the laws of America, you can move to another country. According to the ACTA agreement, they're attempting to impose the same draconian laws on apparently democratic countries. Where do you move to then? Antarctica? (It has no high-speed internet :
At least in democratic countries, if you're ever vigilant, you have the chance to stamp out a treaty before it passes through the Senate. But you have to be quick, these bastards have a habit of rushing things through they know the people won't agree with. Bastards.
Install Adblock Plus. Anonymity plus more ads focused to you: none!
Also, sorry to reply to myself, but incase the site goes down, irc://irc.piratpartiet.se/#PPAu That's our IRC.
The website link is here. :)
Right, well, I actually attend one of the schools who have a deployment of these laptops.
There's a label on the bottom that threatens you that if you steal it the police will find you. There's tamper-proof screws, so normal phillipshead's wont do the job. The BIOS is obviously passworded, and I managed to break the bootloader of Windows 7 by pressing ESC twice. No OS found apparently.
For "secure" laptops, you can right click pretty much anything and run it as an admin. We ran cmd.exe as an admin to create a proper Admin account. Completely bypasses AppLocker. Apparently, according to the laptop admins, the government wont allow printer drivers that aren't already part of Windows 7, so no printing for you.
The laptop maintainers don't even have administrator access. They have to box the laptops up and ship them to a centre to be "fixed", even if it's as simple as reinstalling a driver. Pathetic.
It's only early days, and the nuking of the bios can be done easily, through Wubi or other means, but USB boot is disabled so you'll have to find alternative means. And I know it's likely moot to post so late after the rush, but I had to say it.
Btw, it's CS4 Elements, it's not the true suite. And it includes Dia, the open-source diagram editor, which I found odd. Open source deployments always amuse me.
To finish, Firefox is not included by default and has many issues when installing, as you don't have access to Program Files, so it confuses the installer to no end unless you change where you're installing it to.
These laptops require ethernet access to activate and are mapped to a single username, so good luck using it if you don't have a Department of Education account. The all have filtering software so no porn for you kids, even when at home. Myspace and Facebook are blocked even from home connections. It's a rather horrible crippled setup that I'd wish upon no-one.
Welcome to the future of computing. Homeschool your kids.