I've never heard of a raccoon that was afraid of people, or at least not recently.
Around here such raccoons soon become ex-raccoons. They are consequently quite rare (ones that are not afraid of people, that is. Raccoons are quite common, despite Donny and his hounds.)
Now if I could only find a way to permanently switch off Web History...
I am not subjected to that either, presumably because I do not accept cookies from Google.
In my experience, when a company starts down the road of intrusiveness, invasion of privacy, and excessive 'eye candy', they've usually come to the end of their tenure as true innovators.
They have to sell advertising in order to stay in business: they have no other source of revenue. There are evidently many people who like this sort of thing, so Google makes it available. You and I can block it, so what's the problem?
The simple suppression of a gene is a mutation that is sure to happen from time to time in the wild. If it was advantageous all mice would have it by now.
The point of steganography is to not get caught in the first place. If you need plausible deniability, you've already lost.
No. You are not "lost" if the party examining the files is doing a routine search for encrypted files which usually comes up empty and/or has no access to your person anyway.
Try to get your head around the idea that they might have possession of your hard disk but not have possession of you. Or they don't even know who you are. Or they are honest cops, trying to determine if you have violated the rules. They've asked you if there is encrypted data on the laptop, you said no, and they are doing a routine check to verify that. Contrary to popular opinion, "The Man" is not always ready, willing, and able to administer a beating.
Then there is the possibility that your opponent is not "the Man" but some sort of furtive criminal...
Look at the map. When you are a landlocked country you get your connectivity from your neighbors. I suppose they could run cable all the way over to western Afghanistan from Pakistan. Would you want to sole-source all your connectivity from Pakistan? The other choices aren't worth mentioning.
I can't recall when my "user experience" has been limited by anything other than download speed (and the abysmal quality of most Web sites, of course). So why should I care about browser speed?
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The general Bond-watching audience cannot reasonably be said to think at all.
What's wrong with just plain "absolute zero"? What's the point in adding "What's known as"? Why do science writers use this silly phrase?
Wrong. Laser beams are very cold. The photons are highly ordered and there is very little random motion among them.
> Maybe not _technically_ a virus, but still malware.
Yes, of course it is malware. That doesn't make it a virus. A virus is a particular type of malware. This isn't it.
pretty far, actually. Only a minority of the sites I use actually need it.
And so I enable them when necessary.
Good.
I have no need for that. If I want to stay logged in why would I close the browser?
Good.
The Last Question
How much were you prepared to pay for that?
How important is price in your choice of airline?
> I've been using duck duck go...
"This site requires JavaScript"
Around here such raccoons soon become ex-raccoons. They are consequently quite rare (ones that are not afraid of people, that is. Raccoons are quite common, despite Donny and his hounds.)
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I am not subjected to that either, presumably because I do not accept cookies from Google.
They have to sell advertising in order to stay in business: they have no other source of revenue. There are evidently many people who like this sort of thing, so Google makes it available. You and I can block it, so what's the problem?
It isn't on for me at all (not that I'd want it). I assume that's because I block Google cookies and don't allow JS.
> What are these "ads" of which you speak?
Something that many Slashdotters complain about endlessly and bitterly despite the fact that blocking them is trivial.
The simple suppression of a gene is a mutation that is sure to happen from time to time in the wild. If it was advantageous all mice would have it by now.
Not true. You are subject to the jurisdiction of the nation of registry of your craft.
No. You are not "lost" if the party examining the files is doing a routine search for encrypted files which usually comes up empty and/or has no access to your person anyway.
Try to get your head around the idea that they might have possession of your hard disk but not have possession of you. Or they don't even know who you are. Or they are honest cops, trying to determine if you have violated the rules. They've asked you if there is encrypted data on the laptop, you said no, and they are doing a routine check to verify that. Contrary to popular opinion, "The Man" is not always ready, willing, and able to administer a beating.
Then there is the possibility that your opponent is not "the Man" but some sort of furtive criminal...
> Why else would they revert the security patch?
Because they made a mistake. People do that.
...what you know that you don't know?
Look at the map. When you are a landlocked country you get your connectivity from your neighbors. I suppose they could run cable all the way over to western Afghanistan from Pakistan. Would you want to sole-source all your connectivity from Pakistan? The other choices aren't worth mentioning.
> They can call it something like Firebird, or Phoenix...
No they can't. Trademarks.
I can't recall when my "user experience" has been limited by anything other than download speed (and the abysmal quality of most Web sites, of course). So why should I care about browser speed?
I can suggest other places for him to stuff his sensors. ...But then, I might also suggest that he get off my lawn.
> ...the worst website ever...
Hardly. It doesn't even use Flash: not even any cookies. In fact, it seems fairly ordinary to me.