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  1. Re:Extension "don't work" with FF3 on Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve · · Score: 1

    Most (All I have tried, anyway) FF2 extentions work just fine with FF3, they just "won't" install them because there is a small file inside the plugin archive called install.rdf which "informs" which browser version the extentions are "designed" for. Those I needed when I was using the FF3 beta versions all worked just fine after I unpacked the extention, changed the "em:maxVersion" (under "em:targetApplication") in the plugins install.rdf and packed it again. I am not saying that all super-advanced extentions work if you make them claim they work with FF3, I am just saying that all the ones I use installed and worked just fine thanks to this wierd little trick.

  2. 16.7% of FF users change their string, 83 don't? on Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve · · Score: 1

    My general.useragent.override setting at about:config varies. It is currently "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071115 Firefox/2.0.0.10". I'll probably be "using" some Safari or IE version when I visit sites using FF in the next few weeks. Yeah, I change it regularly. I am sure I am not alone. And I am, quite frankly, amazed that 83.3% actually admit to be running the latest Firefox. But then again.. those numbers may be 20% of people who are using some completely different browser and want to blend in with the FF crowd for all we know.

  3. Re: The Tor Network, in bullet summary on Google Keeps What Ask.com Erases · · Score: 1

    In bullet summary, Tor is only for traffic in the categories:

    - 1. Who cares if they log this anyway?
    - 2. Encrypted traffic

    And this is all explained in the documentation - which you should read in order to benefit from using it. Yes, you really should assume that all Tor exit nodes are run by a bad guy. But the exit node does not see the rest of the path. This means that someone who is looking at a Tor exit node (I run a few, and I can do this - and you should assume I do) really can see that SOMEONE just fetched this page. Who cares if some bad guy sees someone fetching Slashdot?


    If the traffic is encrypted (https, OTR-encrypted IM, and so on) then it's alright that some bad guy is looking at your traffic: The adversary does not know WHO is transmitting data and also does not know what is transmitted.

    It IS important to know that Tor is absolutely NOT for plaintext http POST requets. Sladshdot does not offer https, which means that you really should login (unless you think it is alright that someone steals your username and password) using Tor. This is - again - explained in the documentation.

    Yes, it is true that someone running a Tor exit node can harvest data. Your data. But it is NOT connected to YOU. It is not possible for someone running a Tor exit node to see how many times YOU visited slashdot, but they can (and assume they do) collect data on how many people visit slashdot (and so on).

    And Tor does not make you rely on A third party. There are about a thousand Tor-servers and each circut goes through 3 randomly picked nodes. This means that one party would have to operate (or be in bed with) a very huge amount of Tor-nodes in order to see the whole path.

    Read this again, Windwraith, and then go read the actual documentation. And if have a look at the sourcecode if you know enough C to understand it. You really should not use Tor or even consider using it until or unless you do.

  4. We all need to Maximize profits NOW on Google Keeps What Ask.com Erases · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ask needs to make a profit, just like everybody else. If it were not for advertisements there would be no Askeraser, and Ask will naturally choose the partner they think will give them the most money. I use Google Adsense on many of my websites too, for exactly the same reason. I know that Google spies on my visitors, and I really would like to avoid them doing so, but at the end of the day I want dinnar and no advertisement revenue, no dinner. That being said.. I personally use (polipo+)privoxy for all my normal browsing and Tor+privoxy for the majority of my browsing. And this is kind of how I make lame excuses for myself and my Adsense usage: It's really up to each one of us to educate ourselves on how to avoid internet tracking & surveillance. It really is up to each and every one of us. If people choose to use Windows and Internet Explorer and have lots of spyware installed and not filter unwanted parts of webpages and not use Tor then so be it and if I can make a profit off it then atleast I get to eat. And I don't cry or think twice about people using things like Tor+Privoxy to visit my sites, since it's only a small percentage who are smart enough to do so. But they should. And they should not trust that I, or AskEraser, or anyone else for that matter (scroogle, and such services) do not track people - because that is not needed. See, if you trust Askeraser to erase you records then you have already decided to trust a third party. Maby they really do erase. Perhaps they just say they do. BUT if you choose to ensure that they don't track you by running software which makes sure they CAN'T track you - such as Tor - then you don't NEED to trust Askeraser (or anyone else). That is the only real solution imho, putting your faith in a third party is stupid, regardless of them being trustworthy or not for the time being.

  5. Re:Time to burn karma on Transcript of Talk with Richard Stallman · · Score: 1

    If it weren't for him, free and open source software wouldn't exist the way it does today.

    This is very important to remember. If you are using Linux then you're using his The GNU Operating System - http://www.gnu.org/

    Remember, the "Linux" part of GNU/Linux only refers to the kernel, which is made by Linus Torvals... that's just one piece. The rest was pieced together by mr. Stallman.

  6. My HERO on Transcript of Talk with Richard Stallman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Richard Stallman is, in my humble opinion, A HERO and even a true american patriot.

    He has been protesting evil surveillance technology such as RFID for years. And there are few other people who have contributed more to free software and humanity in general as he has.

    Take a look at his past speches: http://www.fsf.org/events/past-rms-speeches.html?b _start:int=0

    And remember his protest at the UN Summit: http://www.secureidnews.com/weblog/2005/11/21/rich ard-stallman-protests-at-un-world-summit/

    (as you may or may not be aware, the UN are evil. They openly admit they want the UN to be a one-world government and that they want to destroy the sovereignty of any existing nation. Richard Stallman is a hero for protesting against UN evil)

  7. Another misleading poll... on Teens Don't Think CD Copying is a Crime · · Score: 3, Informative

    It must be noted that NOT ALL CD OR DVD MEDIA SOLD IS COPYRIGHTED.

    Many artists - and DVD video creators - encurage you to copy and spread their work/information.

    Thus; just asking "is it legal to copy a CD" is misleading.

    For example, the documenaties you can download from http://torrentchannel.com/ are completely legal to copy and share with your friends.

    It is legal to copy a CD you made with a song you wrote yourself where you yourself are singing.

    It is not legal to copy a CD where the copyright belongs to some member of the very evil MPAA.

    Thus; it is a bit stupid to just ask "Is it legal to copy a CD", the obvious answer to that question is "YES, it IS LEGAL - unless the Copyright holder of the work on that CD objects to it"...

  8. Re:nVidia vs ATI on ATI's Radeon X1900GT On Test · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My desktop now has 2xNvidia cards who work perfectly. I bought a ATI card back in the days and found that it was impossible to use the TV-out. That's "half the card" and a very important feature missing and I didn't even need to be a developer to figure out it meant that I had to forget about TV-out or buy another card. I'm never buying ATI again, part of the reason is that there are STILL no drivers, now 3 years later, supporting TV-out on the ATI card I bought.

  9. Re:Extremely well documented on NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting we should believe everything we read on the Internet? And are you saying it with a straight face, no less?

    Definitively not. However, I do suggest that you READ what is on the Internet BEFORE you decide if you should believe it or not. The laws of physics and your own common sense can help you judge what is true and what is false information. BUT DO READ THE INFORMATION BEFORE YOU JUDGE IT. Dismissal of information without research, without an attempt to verify if it is true or false and most importantly, without even bothering to read it is probably the main cause of ignorance today.

  10. Re:Doesn't make sense on NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed · · Score: 1

    3) They are suppressing free energy? Why? Free energy would launch an incredible boom for economy, help greatly in pollution reduction, provide an excellent way of getting rid of oil dependency, provide instant cheap space exploration (and thus access to the vast resources on the moon and in the asteroid belt, for example), erase any poverty and/or hunger etc. So WHY should anyone suppress that? Can anyone tell me why?

    One word for you: CONTROL.

  11. Re:Can't get to story. on NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed · · Score: 4, Funny

    AND...if there really was flying saucers from Krypton out there, who's keeping the Europeans, Chinese, Russians, etc... from publishing those photos...

    The Bildeberg Group. You will hear of them soon enough. The media has time and time again told you the official government conspiracy story which claims that a guy in a cave somewhere was behind 9/11. As you will find by clicking the link in my sig, the evidence clearly shows it was an inside job. Millions of people worldwide have realized this and if you Google you'll find more websites about this issue than you could possible read in your lifetime.

    But now, reciently, Alex Jones and Sharlie Cheen were allowed to inform that 9/11 was an inside job on CNN (who originally came with the "government story" and are complicit).

    You WILL be infomed about the Bilderberg Group soon. And perhaps the truth about UFO's. You see, "The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, the Trilateral Commission - founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller - and the Bilderberg Group have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens." (Dr. Johannes Koeppl, former official of the German Ministry for Defense and adviser to NATO, 2001)

  12. Re:Honestly... on NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If we had alien technology, had reverse engineered it, and knew how to make it work, we would be using it right now.

    And what makes you think YOU'RE NOT, eh?

    Consider this: WHY would you show off your MOST ADVANCED technology if your LESS ADVANCED technology already IS SUPERIOUR to the adversarys? It must also be mentioned that if you show me your latest technology in battle and it fails or you for some reason allow that technology to fall in the hands of your enemy then they will reverse your (alien or not) technology.

    Phil Schneider http://torrentchannel.com/Phil_Schneider_-_Undergr ound_Bases_and_The_New_World_Order , who told his friends and family that if he ever "committed suicide" they could be sure he was murdered and died by "suicide" in a way which is IMPOSSIBLE to kill yourself, repeatedly stated that military technology is at least 100 years ahead of what the public is allowed to have.

  13. Re:I've heard of this guy on NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed · · Score: 1

    That's a good question.

    Now, regardless of him knowing anything - and his story being true or made up, it really must be mentioned that I could have given the same interview. What I mean by that is that if you search the net, read some of those strange UFO/alien/conspiracy/etc websites then you will find "information about anti-gravity, UFO technology, free energy and how UFOs are regularly airbrushed out from high-resolution satellite images.".

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=no&q=nasa+airbrush +ufo - 17.000 pages found.

    My point is that the information put out in that interview is publicly available on the Internet. Like.. BREAKING NEWS; SOMEONE'S MAKING CROP CICLES! I HACKED INTO NSA AND FOUND OUT! Honestly! 4,4 million pages on the Internet http://www.google.com/search?hl=no&q=crop%2Bcircle s about that topic don't mean I'm not a haxor!!!

  14. Extremely well documented on NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Search Google, do research and your own thinking and you'll find that there is A LOT of "information about anti-gravity, UFO technology, free energy and how UFOs are regularly airbrushed out from high-resolution satellite images." on the Internet and even though these things may sound odd, they are all extremely well documentet. However, The "New World Order" gang http://torrentchannel.com/the_new_world_order does not want you to have access to this information, specially not about UFO's, and they also do not want you to have the fancy technology the've got, specially not anti-gravity and free energy. So you'll probably not find super-computers, free energy generators or anti-gravity devices in your local store any time soon (By super-computers I mean those NSA and NASA use; remember, 30 years ago computers who could monitor millions of telephone conversations and filter out words like "bomb", "communism" etc already existed)

  15. The MICROCHIP on Social Consequences and Effects of RFID Implants? · · Score: 1

    Call it RFID implants or whatever. But you're basically talking about THE MICROCHIP. I've been warning people about this for YEARS: http://en.xiando.org/index.php?title=2006-05-02:_T he_freemasons_really_do_want_you_microchipped

    So has other activist on the Internet like Alex Jones: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2004/040 704bajabeachclub.htm

    The ruling elite (who are the real terrorist behing 9/11) want the entire population to have a microchip. Chip'em all. TOTAL CONTROL.

    I'm not taking it. NO WAY. I seriously do expect all my assets to vanish when the (RFID) microchip replaces credit-cards and becomes a requirement to buy and sell anything.

    The Freeman: http://torrentchannel.com/The_Freeman_Perspective_ -_Freemans_Dark_Side agrees with me on the NO MICROCHP FOR ME issue. Like he said it: "I'm not taking it. So I've jumped the train already.".

    Remember this post, folks. Don't let them Sneak It In slowly. View their evil goal: Microchipped population. And remember how fast we went from a no cellphones society to everybody-has-one. SAY NO TO THE CHIP!

  16. Just count visits.. why count ip's? on Unique Visitors = 1/10th of Unique IPs? · · Score: 1

    If you use http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ then it counts number of visits, the same IP is still the same visit if the user of that IP (re)loads a page within 30 minutes. After that it's a new visit... And it should be safe to assume one visit is one user. Saying that 1:10 is the ratio for IP/users is simply saying that every user will visit the site ten times - which seems like a worthless number without limiting it to a time-period and also, the number seems to be taken out of no-where.

  17. Re:Vague? Only at NYT on Streaming Patent Buoys RealNetworks · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Abstract

    An audio-on-demand communication system provides real-time playback of audio data transferred via telephone lines or other communication links. One or more audio servers include memory banks which store compressed audio data. At the request of a user at a subscriber PC, an audio server transmits the compressed audio data over the communication link to the subscriber PC. The subscriber PC receives and decompresses the transmitted audio data in less than real-time using only the processing power of the CPU within the subscriber PC. According to one aspect of the present invention, high quality audio data compressed according to lossless compression techniques is transmitted together with normal quality audio data. According to another aspect of the present invention, metadata, or extra data, such as text, captions, still images, etc., is transmitted with audio data and is simultaneously displayed with corresponding audio data. The audio-on-demand system also provides a table of contents indicating significant divisions in the audio clip to be played and allows the user immediate access to audio data at the listed divisions. According to a further aspect of the present invention, servers and subscriber PCs are dynamically allocated based upon geographic location to provide the highest possible quality in the communication link." http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P TO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch- bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=6985932&O S=6985932&RS=6985932 The term 'intelligent' is no where to be found in the text of the actual patent, that's just the term RealNetworks used to explain how the program which apparently does little but show the fancy text message "Buffering" works.

  18. Re:late on Last-Minute Delays Looming for HD-DVD Launch? · · Score: 0

    Please don't say that DVD's are ok because the DRM has been bypassed because despite that, the DRM is still there, just in an earlier form of what these new players and disks will have.

    The Descized Rented Media (DRM) system is exactly why I never bought a DVD. First of all, the person who made it possible to enjoy DVD movies on my own entertainment systems was sued over it. Alright, he won, but still - I'm not about to support anyone who tries to sell me a product and claims it is illegal for me to use that product in my preferred entertainment system (GNU/Linux). Secondly, if it were not for a third party, I would not even be able to play them in my own player.

    Will HD-DVD be different? Well, consider this: With DVD discs being basically as good as the eye and mind can comprehend, why would they need another format? Could it be, that the reason behind it is INFORMATION CONTROL and new even-more-evil DRM?

  19. ast-Minute Delays = Years for geeks like me on Last-Minute Delays Looming for HD-DVD Launch? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I use Linux. I use it to enjoy all the video I watch. I don't own a TV - nor do I want one.

    It took ages before a geek named Jon made it possible for me to enjoy DVD discs on my entertainment system (not that it really matters since I playd DVD's on it like five times ever - I get most media from the Internet).

    So. HD-DVD is delayed a week or month. So what? I'd be amazed if I'm able to play those on my GNU Linux before 2008 - if ever - regardless of a short delay..

    (it should also be noted that I don't notice any difference between divx and DVD anyway, and prefer divx - so I don't really see the point of HD-DVD.. except. Oh way! DRM! The MS & MPAA sponsored "NO PLAYING DVDS FOR YOU LINUX GEEKS"-technology!)

  20. NASA = disinformation on NASA Launches Educational Website · · Score: -1, Troll

    When NASA reciently released a information brochure on chemtrials http://en.xiando.org/Chemtrails , Ellyn at http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/ described it as "This proposed teaching lesson to the children of the world from NASA, found on Acrobat Reader, is NASA's attempt to promote the BIG LIE that chemtrails are nothing more than contrails, resulting from increasing air traffic.".

    I strongly encourage everyone to view the excellent documentary Chemtrails - Clouds of Death downloadable from http://torrentchannel.com/The_Freeman_Perspective_ -_Chemtrails and also, please do your own reserach and thinking. Search http://www.google.fr/search?hl=en&q=chemtrails and read about this important subject and then compare what you find with the NASA disinformation http://en.xiando.org/Chemtrails#NASA

    You will, if you do your own research and thinking, find that NASA deliberately makes and spreads disinformation and lies to cover up and keep information of great importance from the public. I'm not saying they do not tell some of the truth some of the time, but please be aware that you can trust them about as far as you are able to throw a car.

  21. That's NOTHING compared to Norway on Iran Cracks Down on Bloggers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Norwegian government started a terror and torture-operation on me after I made 911 documentaries available on http://torrentchannel.com/ and pointed out that the government not only know the truth, but are also deliberately lying and using this mass-murder as a pretext for implementing martial law "homeland-security" style locally. I got my mail stolen, I am attacked using microwave weapons, psycotronic weapons and other advanced weapons and after 3 months of "Secret" police torture the army joined in and I am now also attacked regularly by directed energy weapons on aircraft.

    Being tortured in your own home on a daily basis is worse than getting arrested. Yes, it is bad that they limit freedom of speech in Iran. But make no mistake: The "free" western world is no better, behind the facade it's worse. Norway now covertly tortures citizens for exercising free speech.

    So don't get fooled by those look-over-there, they-are-bad articles. Torture for sharing your opinion is quite common in NATO-countries - the only difference between western brutal torture and countries like Iran and China is that you never read about it in the major "news outlets".

  22. Re:I Wouldn't Call Her a Luddite on Professor Bans Laptops from the Classroom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    However, the professor in question wants people to switch from laptops to paper, basically making them less efficient at note-taking, giving them even less time to pay attention to what she's saying. I don't think she understands that side-effect.

    Let me put it to you like this: You can think about what is being said and store it in your brain connected to information that allows your brain to use the information - which requires you to understand the information in the first place - OR you can write down exactly what his being said on a computer, without listening actively to it so you understand it - and then go on without having learned anything and without having gained any knowledge - safely knowing that all that really happened in the classrom was data litterally being copied from the teacher to your laptop - without being copied to your brain. That's my take on this one, anyways..

  23. Re:I Wouldn't Call Her a Luddite on Professor Bans Laptops from the Classroom · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Someone on the "western world" made a single, original, verifiable actual thought. Sadly, that's actually breaking news in a world where most people are so dumbed down by television that they can not even begin to contemplate this information. I don't own a television, so I see this very clearly. Yes, in my humble opinion, almost all who own one are dumber than the actors on television.

    "Try talking to a room full of people busily browsing the web sometime."

    You just have to find out what their name on myspace or whatever "online community" they are wasting their time on they are using and join there and remind them there's a actual world outside Cyberspace.

  24. Re:Use an alias. Do not post your last name on... on Beware Your Online Presence · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know several girls who not only search the web for the name of someone they are considering as a "candidate for marriage" (which is anyone they consider dating) and not only do they do that, they also check the income for previous years which is publicly made available here in the tyrannical covert-government-torturing Norwegian regime. This is not fun to think or write about, but it is a present truth: Girls do (secretly) check your online record AND INCOME. And don't expect them to tell you anything except perhaps "I met someone else". Also, a friend of mine told me that he noticed a printout of his last years taxes lying on the desk in a (rich) girls fathers office and got dumped shortly after.

  25. Re:Erm.. on Beware Your Online Presence · · Score: 1

    In theory, you may argue about a lot of things like "it's not legal" or whatever. In the real world, the overall best-looking person gets the job. If you view any kind of information about someone you likely get an impression, like it or not. And you won't be told "we reviewed your posts on forum X so you won't get the job", you get "We hired someone else" and it's up to you to guess which of the skeletons you posted on the Internet years ago made them hired someone with less real skills and better looks.