We can also make Google slightly less evil https://encrypted.google.com/search?op=out&nfpr=1&pws=0&complete=0
Bing however, lacks most url parameters, we must feed it cookies. Cookie: _FP=EM=2;_FS=NU=1;_SS=SID=7EE6E87CC0D54A94B00A781D9BBF8197;MUID=30548A3F32BF61880EE9890E33B861D6;SRCHD=MS=2229782;SRCHUID=V=2&GUID=4C8D14618CBF44278D9CEB1BEEF6D4F7;_HOP=;_UR=OMW=0;SRCHHPGUSR=ADLT=OFF&SRCHLANG=&AS=0 My quick research so far... I use BrowserMasquerade addon to force-feed MY cookies on Bing. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/browsermasquerade
My suggestion is cheapest: Spend the money on improving technology. Until it's cheap enough to visit Mars. What are we loosing by waiting a few years, or even a decade? I doubt they've even finished analyzing the data collected so far.
I *am* using another browser. But Mozilla seems hell bent on destroying Firefox 3.6. Now what am i supposed to do?!
Firefox4+ brakes too many addons. Makes it useless. Iron is fine, but i miss several addons. Opera isn't flexible enough. Still missing some features that addons brings.
And all three are bloated compared to 3.6. If i where a programmer, i'd fork Firefox 3.6.
Everyone *knows* they wont fire on each other. That would be suicide, regardless of any "defenses". So it's all for show, to get leverage aginst the other. Something to bargin with, to take off the table in negotiations regarding existing things that costs money.
*That* is why Russia and China is sobbing uncontrollably. They lose a bit of influence. Dictatorships are keen on the whole 'control' thing.
'A "brain dead" patient is a money pinata, waiting to be whacked'
Money? How can a organ *donation* have anything to do with money?
If that's the case then my last will would be: I donate nothing from my body. However, you're free to buy anything you wish. Money goes to my family, or sharities. Though anyone who clearly can't afford, are free to pick what they want first. Non-profit science picks next. And then the selling begins. Any remains after that, you can feed the lions at the zoo, or whatever people can think of. I prefer something natural. No cremation, it seems kinda pointless. I'm not that fat, i wont warm up any houses.
This moves a burden of privacy-protection over on the individual. I think privacy-by-default is good. And anyone who wishes to be tracked should have the right to freely make that informed choice.
These days, the important details are hidden deep in obfuscated Agreements. But most often without Agreements, for example, visiting a site and instantly being silently tracked.
These days we're NOT informed about where and when and how we're tracked. We're all screwed-by-default.
Get the classic normal Google back, the secret magic is giving UserAgent Opera/8 to Google. (may brake if any Google-employee reads this, so enjoy while you can) BrowserMasquerade addon
Only way to get Google to understand that you're unhappy with them is to use more Search Engines, all search engines on one page.
So you're saying privacy has no middle ground. It's On or Off. I strongly disagree.
There's also the problem for people that DONT understands what they're signing up for. Very few reads and understands the legalese they're agreeing to.
Or whatever it's called it in Animatrix. Who knew both problems could have been easily avoided with a simple working Stop command. Matrix and Terminator and movies could have been so much shorter,
Humans "Stop!" Toyota Kill-All-The-Humans Robot "Stop completed."
That's easy, Google from some years ago. Back then Google didnt have as many other services that created detailed maps of people's lives.
I like privacy, but i'm willing to trade a minor part of it for an ok web-search. What i never accept is to give up anything more then that.
Nowadays Google isnt even asking our permission before silently mapping our existance in great detail. And Google wants more. Seems they want to know Everything about Everyone. I think no one should have that kind of information. For any reason.
There's plenty of popups in Windows, people are annoyed and dont bother reading anything, they click just to get rid of it. They assume they're safe bacause they have AntiVirus and Firewall.
In fairness, last week i accidently infected my test-machine by running a setup.exe. Avira scan didnt find anything. But a second after i ran the exe it found virus and promptly deleted the setup.exe. But obviously i was already infected. And moments later it Disabled Avira. I later scanned another copy of the same setup.exe on virustotal.com and none(!) of the scanners found anything.
(This will be a fond memory to look back on. After i've switched to Linux)
To avoid Windows from waking up hard-drive from standby over and over i have all EventLogs on A: (i love the retro sound of floppy still doing useful work) Yes, these logs will eventually be lost. I wrote a small bat file that formats and then tests for bad blocks by filling half the disk with files. And then fill it completly, removing the first files to finally test the other half. My server running NAT DNS-server File-server DC++ Folding uptime is a year soon, no floppy-problems.
FloppyFormat+Test.bat:0 echo n| format a:/f:1.44/a:2048/V:A @dir a:\>nul fsutil file createnew a:\0 1396736 >nul chkdsk a:/f/r @del a:\0 >nul @dir a:\>nul fsutil file createnew a:\z 1396736 >nul for/L %%j in (1,1,32) do fsutil file createnew a:\%%j 2048 >nul del a:\z chkdsk a:/f/r @del/q a:\* @echo. @echo PRESS ANY KEY TO RUN FORMAT+CHKDSK AGAIN. Press Ctrl-c to Exit. @pause>nul goto 0
I'm no CPU expert, but here goes. We dont need any more CPU Cores. Aint GPU and OpenCL here to solve most of this problem? I mean, for most of us, all we ever need is use a nice fast, efficient DualCore, and a massive GPU.
The problems is those pesky irl humans. They want irl things by default.
Technically there's no need for 90% of all paper usage. But making the change costs alot of training and trail and error. (Same problem that prevent the world from swittching up to Linux)
However, for those that begin the change now, will get the rewards earlier. And once the switch to paper-less (and/or all Linux) has been made, there's no need to ever going back.
Try small scale, work out the bugs. Write down the costs and savings, people love it when change is converted to a measurement they understand, money.
Try bigger scale only when the small scale has been properly mapped. Once a tiny snowball begins rolling, it's hard for the backward people to stop it.
Slashdot Mirror
Indeed. Another nifty way to explain the Right/Left, from
politicalcompass.org/analysis2
Note the image
http://politicalcompass.org/images/axeswithnames.gif
For comparison to some current political choices
http://politicalcompass.org/charts/us2012.php
Rolling on floor laughing before i heard the joke.
hmmmm DuckDuckGo
https://duckduckgo.com/
We can also make Google slightly less evil ://encrypted.google.com/search?op=out&nfpr=1&pws=0&complete=0
https
Bing however, lacks most url parameters, we must feed it cookies.
Cookie: _FP=EM=2;_FS=NU=1;_SS=SID=7EE6E87CC0D54A94B00A781D9BBF8197;MUID=30548A3F32BF61880EE9890E33B861D6;SRCHD=MS=2229782;SRCHUID=V=2&GUID=4C8D14618CBF44278D9CEB1BEEF6D4F7;_HOP=;_UR=OMW=0;SRCHHPGUSR=ADLT=OFF&SRCHLANG=&AS=0
My quick research so far...
I use BrowserMasquerade addon to force-feed MY cookies on Bing.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/browsermasquerade
lol, true.
But it's mostly done already. All mobile phones are portable little black boxes that sends information about you.
My suggestion is cheapest: Spend the money on improving technology. Until it's cheap enough to
visit Mars. What are we loosing by waiting a few years, or even a decade?
I doubt they've even finished analyzing the data collected so far.
More choices.
4) When possible, download and install Linux.
5) If possible, download and install ReactOS. May eventually be safer than XP.
6) When possible, pay and install MacOS ?
I'm thinking, paying for something from the Vista family, Windows7/8/9. Is the very last resort.
I *am* using another browser. But Mozilla seems hell bent on destroying Firefox 3.6. Now what am i supposed to do?!
Firefox4+ brakes too many addons. Makes it useless.
Iron is fine, but i miss several addons.
Opera isn't flexible enough. Still missing some features that addons brings.
And all three are bloated compared to 3.6.
If i where a programmer, i'd fork Firefox 3.6.
It's all about the money.
Everyone *knows* they wont fire on each other. That would be suicide, regardless of any "defenses".
So it's all for show, to get leverage aginst the other. Something to bargin with, to take off the table in negotiations
regarding existing things that costs money.
*That* is why Russia and China is sobbing uncontrollably. They lose a bit of influence. Dictatorships are keen
on the whole 'control' thing.
'A "brain dead" patient is a money pinata, waiting to be whacked'
Money? How can a organ *donation* have anything to do with money?
If that's the case then my last will would be:
I donate nothing from my body. However, you're free to buy anything you wish. Money
goes to my family, or sharities.
Though anyone who clearly can't afford, are free to pick what they want first.
Non-profit science picks next.
And then the selling begins.
Any remains after that, you can feed the lions at the zoo, or whatever people can think of.
I prefer something natural. No cremation, it seems kinda pointless. I'm not that fat, i wont
warm up any houses.
"It all boils down to what you do"
This moves a burden of privacy-protection over on the individual. I think privacy-by-default
is good. And anyone who wishes to be tracked should have the right to freely
make that informed choice.
These days, the important details are hidden deep in obfuscated Agreements. But most often
without Agreements, for example, visiting a site and instantly being silently tracked.
These days we're NOT informed about where and when and how we're tracked.
We're all screwed-by-default.
Get the classic normal Google back, the secret magic is giving UserAgent Opera/8 to Google.
(may brake if any Google-employee reads this, so enjoy while you can)
BrowserMasquerade addon
Only way to get Google to understand that you're unhappy with them is
to use more Search Engines, all search engines on one page.
AdressBar search,
about:config
keyword.URL
https://duckduckgo.com?kf=-1&ku=1&ky=-1&kx=g&kg=p&q=
Transfer the heat to nearby houses. ffs
He's innocent before proven guilty.
But instead he's been treated worse than a criminal from day one.
We already know this, The purpose of life is,
Evolution of biology.
And evolution of passed-on information.
(at times, they even blend a bit)
Keep in mind that All newborns have NO religion. We're born atheists (scientists/explorers).
So you're saying privacy has no middle ground. It's On or Off. I strongly disagree.
There's also the problem for people that DONT understands what they're signing up for.
Very few reads and understands the legalese they're agreeing to.
Wont be long now before Toyota renames to Skynet.
Or whatever it's called it in Animatrix. Who knew both problems could have
been easily avoided with a simple working Stop command.
Matrix and Terminator and movies could have been so much shorter,
Humans "Stop!"
Toyota Kill-All-The-Humans Robot "Stop completed."
"gives just as good of results as google"
That's easy, Google from some years ago. Back then Google didnt
have as many other services that created detailed maps of people's lives.
I like privacy, but i'm willing to trade a minor part of it for an ok web-search.
What i never accept is to give up anything more then that.
Nowadays Google isnt even asking our permission before silently mapping
our existance in great detail.
And Google wants more. Seems they want to know Everything about
Everyone.
I think no one should have that kind of information. For any reason.
"Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time"
Great news everyone. The killer application that Linux was missing all along, to take over
the Desktop, is Dancing Pigs.
There's no NoScript, that i'm aware of.
But there is Adblock for Iron (Iron=Chrome without Google-spyware)
http://fanboy.co.nz/adblock/iron/adblock.ini
Here's a few entries that i add, /ads .experts-exchange.
google.com/favicon.ico
video.google.com/img/logo
images.google.com/intl/
images.google.com/images/isr_g.p
images.google.com/images/nav_logo
www.google.com/logos/
www.google.com/images/isr_g.p
www.google.com/images/nav_logo
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Wiki.p
banner
intellitxt
doubleclick
s.ytimg.com/yt/img/master-vfl
s.ytimg.com/yt/img/no_videos_140-vfl
rapidshare.com/img2/dl_
rapidshare.com/img2/rslogo
rapidshare.com/img2/download_file
if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('msie')!=-1){window.location.replace("http://browserchoice.eu");}
The internet is best viewed without Microsoft Internet Explorer.
There's plenty of popups in Windows, people are annoyed and dont
bother reading anything, they click just to get rid of it.
They assume they're safe bacause they have AntiVirus and Firewall.
In fairness, last week i accidently infected my test-machine
by running a setup.exe. Avira scan didnt find anything. But a second
after i ran the exe it found virus and promptly deleted the setup.exe.
But obviously i was already infected. And moments later it Disabled
Avira.
I later scanned another copy of the same setup.exe on virustotal.com
and none(!) of the scanners found anything.
(This will be a fond memory to look back on. After i've switched to Linux)
To avoid Windows from waking up hard-drive from standby over and over i
have all EventLogs on A:
(i love the retro sound of floppy still doing useful work)
Yes, these logs will eventually be lost.
I wrote a small bat file that formats and then tests for bad blocks by
filling half the disk with files. And then fill it completly, removing the
first files to finally test the other half.
My server running NAT DNS-server File-server DC++ Folding uptime is a
year soon, no floppy-problems.
FloppyFormat+Test.bat :0 /f:1.44 /a:2048 /V:A /f /r /L %%j in (1,1,32) do fsutil file createnew a:\%%j 2048 >nul /f /r
echo n| format a:
@dir a:\>nul
fsutil file createnew a:\0 1396736 >nul
chkdsk a:
@del a:\0 >nul
@dir a:\>nul
fsutil file createnew a:\z 1396736 >nul
for
del a:\z
chkdsk a:
@del/q a:\*
@echo.
@echo PRESS ANY KEY TO RUN FORMAT+CHKDSK AGAIN. Press Ctrl-c to Exit.
@pause>nul
goto 0
I'm no CPU expert, but here goes.
We dont need any more CPU Cores. Aint GPU and OpenCL here
to solve most of this problem?
I mean, for most of us, all we ever need is use a nice fast,
efficient DualCore, and a massive GPU.
Enlighten me.
The problems is those pesky irl humans. They want irl things by default.
Technically there's no need for 90% of all paper usage. But making
the change costs alot of training and trail and error. (Same problem that
prevent the world from swittching up to Linux)
However, for those that begin the change now, will get the rewards earlier.
And once the switch to paper-less (and/or all Linux) has been made, there's
no need to ever going back.
Try small scale, work out the bugs. Write down the costs and savings, people
love it when change is converted to a measurement they understand, money.
Try bigger scale only when the small scale has been properly mapped. Once
a tiny snowball begins rolling, it's hard for the backward people to stop it.