And last but not least, they're good at identifying you so that other adverts (on other sites) note the cookie and are able to link your presence on Site A to the one on Site B then data-mine
Seems the ad companies are the ones most interested in gathering and storing all data possible, to predict what to advertise and sell. Marketing can use all kinds of information on a user, their purchasing habits, address, income level, tv programs, car model, times of access, times of tv viewing, programs viewed, favorite colors, religion, beliefs, voting habits, favorite joks, everything can be converted to a sale and profit with the proper marketing. Of course all this data on the whole population can use used for vastly more nefarious purposes than merely indebting them and their children for their entire lifespan. For example, manipulating their desires, and making them nuts when they start to realize their desires are to buy everything for no reason they understand. But that's just marketing...
This leaves me no option but running my browsing session in an undoable-mode VM, where after a reboot, all comes back to the previous state. Will this be the only way to maintain my privacy going forward?
It would help, but ideally you would be able to run each browser tab in a different virtual machine partition.
If you have to go to great lengths to work around customers doing things like deleting cookies then you are doing something wrong or evil.
Yes. And therefore someone will pay you more for it. The choice is up to each one. But let's not be naive, lots of people are doing it, for a long time now, and getting away with it just fine.
who doesn't know what a cookie is probably won't be affected by this in any way (i.e. they're already being tracked through regular cookies).
There's all kinds of databases on people available. Search and you shall find.
All data circulates easily and is simply very hard to stop. It is indeed like speech, it just happens, anyone can do it. Copyrighted data, personal data, credit data, secret data, whatever. Bottom line, gathering and selling various gray-black-market data is illegal immoral etc, and very doable and very interesting for companies and organizations of all types. Not unlike downloading movies is for many - illegal but easy and interesting data. It's the interests that are different.
Perhaps on paper there are privacy rights, but to a large extent only on paper. Some privacy (and security) exists for those who can pay for it, or know how to implement it. - Hard question - if actual privacy is only for a few, who largely use it as cover to secretly abuse the rights of the other 99%, are we defending privacy rights just for them? Put simply, transparency in government and management, accountability, public participation, are not very compatible with secrecy.
To be fair several javascript-intensive, "web 2.0" like sites are cpu hogs also. Gmail is one of them. Not nearly as terrible as flash but it does become rather heavy on older computers, which typically schools, libraries, NGO's and much of the not-so-wealthy world have. Any website was supposed to render fine on any terminal, I don't know what happened to that idea.
Their articles need posting to a few hundred websites more... that way they can become partners with the **AA gang in the mass-mail lawsuits business. It's all part of a plan for a DOS attack on the justice system.
You know what they say about censorship: the internet just routes around it.
Nice to say but not really fact. Around here it is becoming harder to comment on blogs, some are just shutting off comments altogether, because of lawsuits.
We can add some functionalities to Web Of Trust to allow more ratings for websites, by more groups, and allow users to configure their ratings-sources and weights for them. WikiLeaks can be categorized by the mpaa however they wish. And the mpaa can get rated by people as whatever they wish too - for example an unreasonable and unpopular censoship body.
Flash is useful, but the implementation is not very good. There is no need to use 100% of CPU to animate a couple of little squares on a screen. Yes, maybe the flash content author sucks. But he is using Adobe stuff.
USA asked for censorship information 4,287 times and that enabled them to catch pedophiles/terrorists/enslavers 4,214 times, we're all doing pretty well by that outcome.
Washington DC is just bursting with joyful smiling good guys in shining armor on a white horse galloping to save you and your family from the bad guys.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/09/21/google.transparency/
Its's only going to get worse. Fully free speech is not really supported anywhere. Society is full of injustice, and those forces are coming to bear on the InterWebs as it starts to affect them in real terms. In Brazil the government is starting to issue digital certificates for all companies and persons, so far compulsory only for certain companies. With widespread biometrics and certificates, things can certainly become very controlled and difficult to even hack, which in any case isn't really openness and democracy. Using of anonymity to do not-too-smart and decent things doesn't help very much. The countries which do constitutionally allow anonymity help a lot.
Not always. Look at Manhattan... nominally laid out in a grid, yet down in Greenwich Village, there's at least one street that actually crosses itself, I don't remember which one anymore. I think city designers might do a lot of drugs. Or simply delight in confusing people.
Heard somewhere that Greenwich Village was land belonging to a farmer who refused to draw his streets according to the city plan, and got his way. Most people also say nowadays that it's because it's a nightmare for cars that the neighborhood has a little less traffic and fast-moving car noise, has more pedestrians, street-level shops, sidewalk tables, which bring more pedestrians, reinforcing the circle.
It's possible to have neighborhoods instead of shopping malls.
That's mainly because parts of London were laid out prior to the horse & cart, and the vast majority pre-automobile.
Lay out a 'modern' city in grid-form, and you get... Ugh... Milton Keynes.
We should start in government and business. All government and business should have their accounting books openly verifiable, online, live, for immediate inspections of transactions with indicted groups with involvement in money laundering, terrorism, tax evasion, drug and people trafficking, and child porn. "Business trade and accounting secrets and privacy" cannot remain an excuse for covering up endangering all of society. If only the police could track the money, they can track down all crime. What, you object? Do you have something to hide?
If the MPAA hired net sabotage, breaking with the law and civil behaviour, it would be best to get the lawyers and press, make them look like thugs, and exploit it politically. Get picture and documentation. We do live in a society based on violence and exploitation, and are often encouraged and temped to adopt its methods - but not forced. Implied in the rules and laws is "or else - punishment". It's a common mode of thinking. Just opening wide, participative, *actual* free debate on pretty much any sector, and soon the debate degenerates to agression. Pretty much any profound social change involves shifts in power, influence, labor and profits. Someone gains market, someone loses. We're still a long way from a society where the law manages to establish debate and justice as the rule. All the law currently accomplishes is, generally, keeping the monopoly of force to be useed by the state only, not every single group, and keep the police and army directed by the decisions of judges and lawyers. There is more justice if you can manage more debate and negotiotiation, and there is less justice once you start using agression, then the court, then the police, private security forces, fences, walls, weapons, saboteurs, etc. Once civil debate ends, the most violent party wins. Sometimes in the courts the strongest prevails too, but at least in ends in the court, not at gunpoint.
Another type of ddos would be to report the entire world for piracy. All planenary citizens should be reported for piracy. They viewed movies and kept them in their memory
I'm happy to see organized people working together against Big Money. Although I'm not sure i know the answer for how to best reply to a ddos from them, I tend lo think "call the hitmen, I mean, the lawyers." I guess I'll go chat a bit with 'em. Any IRC directions?
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And last but not least, they're good at identifying you so that other adverts (on other sites) note the cookie and are able to link your presence on Site A to the one on Site B then data-mine
Seems the ad companies are the ones most interested in gathering and storing all data possible, to predict what to advertise and sell. Marketing can use all kinds of information on a user, their purchasing habits, address, income level, tv programs, car model, times of access, times of tv viewing, programs viewed, favorite colors, religion, beliefs, voting habits, favorite joks, everything can be converted to a sale and profit with the proper marketing. Of course all this data on the whole population can use used for vastly more nefarious purposes than merely indebting them and their children for their entire lifespan. For example, manipulating their desires, and making them nuts when they start to realize their desires are to buy everything for no reason they understand. But that's just marketing...
This leaves me no option but running my browsing session in an undoable-mode VM, where after a reboot, all comes back to the previous state. Will this be the only way to maintain my privacy going forward?
It would help, but ideally you would be able to run each browser tab in a different virtual machine partition.
If you have to go to great lengths to work around customers doing things like deleting cookies then you are doing something wrong or evil.
Yes. And therefore someone will pay you more for it. The choice is up to each one. But let's not be naive, lots of people are doing it, for a long time now, and getting away with it just fine.
who doesn't know what a cookie is probably won't be affected by this in any way (i.e. they're already being tracked through regular cookies).
There's all kinds of databases on people available. Search and you shall find.
All data circulates easily and is simply very hard to stop. It is indeed like speech, it just happens, anyone can do it. Copyrighted data, personal data, credit data, secret data, whatever. Bottom line, gathering and selling various gray-black-market data is illegal immoral etc, and very doable and very interesting for companies and organizations of all types. Not unlike downloading movies is for many - illegal but easy and interesting data. It's the interests that are different.
The massive data black market has a little more information on you available. Its more expensive and harder to buy, but very available.
Yes but a great many people have had all their web browsing habits for sale for a long time. The tracking works.
Perhaps on paper there are privacy rights, but to a large extent only on paper. Some privacy (and security) exists for those who can pay for it, or know how to implement it.
- Hard question - if actual privacy is only for a few, who largely use it as cover to secretly abuse the rights of the other 99%, are we defending privacy rights just for them? Put simply, transparency in government and management, accountability, public participation, are not very compatible with secrecy.
To be fair several javascript-intensive, "web 2.0" like sites are cpu hogs also. Gmail is one of them. Not nearly as terrible as flash but it does become rather heavy on older computers, which typically schools, libraries, NGO's and much of the not-so-wealthy world have. Any website was supposed to render fine on any terminal, I don't know what happened to that idea.
How is that going to be any different in HTML5?
Indeed I haven't seen any comparison of flash-like functionality with Flash and html5 versions placed side by side.
Their articles need posting to a few hundred websites more... that way they can become partners with the **AA gang in the mass-mail lawsuits business. It's all part of a plan for a DOS attack on the justice system.
You know what they say about censorship: the internet just routes around it.
Nice to say but not really fact. Around here it is becoming harder to comment on blogs, some are just shutting off comments altogether, because of lawsuits.
We can add some functionalities to Web Of Trust to allow more ratings for websites, by more groups, and allow users to configure their ratings-sources and weights for them. WikiLeaks can be categorized by the mpaa however they wish. And the mpaa can get rated by people as whatever they wish too - for example an unreasonable and unpopular censoship body.
Flash is useful, but the implementation is not very good. There is no need to use 100% of CPU to animate a couple of little squares on a screen. Yes, maybe the flash content author sucks. But he is using Adobe stuff.
USA asked for censorship information 4,287 times and that enabled them to catch pedophiles/terrorists/enslavers 4,214 times, we're all doing pretty well by that outcome.
Washington DC is just bursting with joyful smiling good guys in shining armor on a white horse galloping to save you and your family from the bad guys.
Not all of them ............. 10
Canada
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/09/21/google.transparency/ Its's only going to get worse. Fully free speech is not really supported anywhere. Society is full of injustice, and those forces are coming to bear on the InterWebs as it starts to affect them in real terms. In Brazil the government is starting to issue digital certificates for all companies and persons, so far compulsory only for certain companies. With widespread biometrics and certificates, things can certainly become very controlled and difficult to even hack, which in any case isn't really openness and democracy. Using of anonymity to do not-too-smart and decent things doesn't help very much. The countries which do constitutionally allow anonymity help a lot.
http://www.livablestreets.com/streetswiki/vauban-freiburg-germany Vauban has only bicycles and a tram. Anyone having cars leaves them at the edge of the community.
Not always. Look at Manhattan... nominally laid out in a grid, yet down in Greenwich Village, there's at least one street that actually crosses itself, I don't remember which one anymore. I think city designers might do a lot of drugs. Or simply delight in confusing people.
Heard somewhere that Greenwich Village was land belonging to a farmer who refused to draw his streets according to the city plan, and got his way. Most people also say nowadays that it's because it's a nightmare for cars that the neighborhood has a little less traffic and fast-moving car noise, has more pedestrians, street-level shops, sidewalk tables, which bring more pedestrians, reinforcing the circle.
It's possible to have neighborhoods instead of shopping malls.
That's mainly because parts of London were laid out prior to the horse & cart, and the vast majority pre-automobile. Lay out a 'modern' city in grid-form, and you get... Ugh... Milton Keynes.
A subway.
The government isnt going to shut down sites backed by the almighty $$$
But your movie blog is gone the first time you give a bad review.
Your political forum is shut down the first time some kid quotes 1984.
Etc, etc..
Yup, it's the United Secret Services for the Super Rich - USSSR
We should start in government and business. All government and business should have their accounting books openly verifiable, online, live, for immediate inspections of transactions with indicted groups with involvement in money laundering, terrorism, tax evasion, drug and people trafficking, and child porn. "Business trade and accounting secrets and privacy" cannot remain an excuse for covering up endangering all of society. If only the police could track the money, they can track down all crime. What, you object? Do you have something to hide?
If the MPAA hired net sabotage, breaking with the law and civil behaviour, it would be best to get the lawyers and press, make them look like thugs, and exploit it politically. Get picture and documentation. We do live in a society based on violence and exploitation, and are often encouraged and temped to adopt its methods - but not forced. Implied in the rules and laws is "or else - punishment". It's a common mode of thinking. Just opening wide, participative, *actual* free debate on pretty much any sector, and soon the debate degenerates to agression. Pretty much any profound social change involves shifts in power, influence, labor and profits. Someone gains market, someone loses. We're still a long way from a society where the law manages to establish debate and justice as the rule. All the law currently accomplishes is, generally, keeping the monopoly of force to be useed by the state only, not every single group, and keep the police and army directed by the decisions of judges and lawyers. There is more justice if you can manage more debate and negotiotiation, and there is less justice once you start using agression, then the court, then the police, private security forces, fences, walls, weapons, saboteurs, etc. Once civil debate ends, the most violent party wins. Sometimes in the courts the strongest prevails too, but at least in ends in the court, not at gunpoint.
Another type of ddos would be to report the entire world for piracy. All planenary citizens should be reported for piracy. They viewed movies and kept them in their memory
I acessed them from sao paulo brazil. Seemed slow but quite OK.
I'm happy to see organized people working together against Big Money. Although I'm not sure i know the answer for how to best reply to a ddos from them, I tend lo think "call the hitmen, I mean, the lawyers." I guess I'll go chat a bit with 'em. Any IRC directions?