This is probably redundant by now on this huge page, but https connections to FB are good for ONE PAGE; you have to manually type in every URL on FB.
Of course the biggest FB annoyance you lose when using https is ADS! LOL! Yes, if you don't want freakin ads on FB, you don't have to use ABP or another blocker, just use HTTPS.
Of course, THAT'S probably why FB won't 'fix' its security.
[from what I can tell] ALL the U.S. media outlets skim over or completely ignore world issues (esp like what happened in Tunisia last week). This weekend, Wikileaks tweeted about the NYTimes being a shill for the US government (because NYT didn't ask pressing questions about Quantico treatment of prisoners), and my initial reaction was an eyeroll (there's a difference between incompetence and "shilling"), but I imagine that's how most of the world sees US press.
Problem w/ that is, Americans [voters] are being left somewhat unawares of how we're being represented and handling diplomatic issues (or even what the issues are!). We're being fed [alarmist] stories about the economy and politicians, celebrities, and other crap that the media outlets believe drive up ad revenues, but if we don't have some kind of real world news, so we can hold our reps accountable, the idea of representative democracy fails.
I have a higher opinion of Americans than the news outlets, and wish the mass media would toss in some mid-east stories throughout their "2012 will it be the end" reports. Not every viewer would be interested, sure, and I guess freedom of the press means the press doesn't have to report anything of real value, but the press OUGHT to feel it's somewhat their job to keep Americans informed of worldwide issues.
At least in Terminator, the machines wanted to kill humans dead and were clearly the bad guys; and time travel explained the prophecies and was somewhat understandable.
In Matrix, humans used machines as slaves, tried to kill them, EPIC FAILED. Machines used us for energy, but gave us a happy reality. They were not one-dimensional bad guys (—and they got screwed in the end). And I still don't understand who/what the Oracle is, why Neo was The One, and why he was a sunset in the end.
First, the actors have all aged considerably. That magic bullet time effect would have to account for some beer guts now, which I'm afraid means that not only do the actors have to contort themselves away from the bullet in slo mo, but the bullet will have to change trajectory to hop over the flab. (Maybe the flab can contort into a pancake shape, but that's NOT something I want to see). I can't imagine a way that would be pretty.
Two, Neo's dead. I didn't get most of what happened in the last movie, who the oracles were, or actually what happened at all, but I got that Neo's ass died and he became a sunset or something.
Mostly though, Three: the damned machines were right all along! I didn't know that until animatrix (canon) showed that the machines had some reason to be pissed (they were human's slaves; we tried to kill them); they didn't kill humans but used their energy and gave them a happy. That bit of backstory sorta ruined the franchise for me.
And 4. Whatever tech the Wach Bros do in the 3D movies will be used in every single movie, even chick flicks, for the next ten years. They should pat themselves on the back for bullet time and retire.
Maybe, but imho the kids who can't differentiate between "ur" and "your" in a class assignment wouldn't have been the best student 20 years ago, either (ie, before prolific txting). My kids use the abbreviations in txts and FB, but when writing anything for school, they use the correct spellings (because they give a shit about getting a decent grade).
(Note also some kids might write "This was a gr8 example of irony..." in an otherwise decent essay just to drive the teacher insane, LOL!)
If it's not the "copy this to your status if you believe [X]", there are links to likes (they apparently spend time browsing other people's likes on (I guess) "like sites", then hit "Like".
(Okay, to be fair, I've seen this from adults as much as kids.)
That being said, some of my kids' friends actually use the "Notes" section of FB as a blog of sorts, primarily to rant about something in school, but that does count as 'writing'. I think it's more likely they'd use FB than make their own site or sign up for blogger. And I've noticed their grammar/spelling improves a lot when using the "Notes" section of FB.
Exactly my thought; I don't want rogue corporate types or the government trying to figure out who's do the attacking and retaliating. They need to beef up their own security and use the current legal system to subvert "cyber attacks".
Plus, given how the US govt and probably US corporations wants to treat wikileaks as a terrorist org, I can imagine big corp/govt "retaliation" being a literal Trojan Horse [SWAT team!] instead of code.
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I'm the one who got the HTC Droid a few days ago, apparently right when FB 'flow of info' started. I was going to use my phone as a demonstration @ meeting on Thursday re: why FB isn't 'safe' and shouldn't be required for our committee members.
So I got the mobile phones and addys of my FB contacts, and made the appropriate calls to warn people to take their private info off FB since "friends" apps' have access to anything you put on FB.
I just checked my Droid fb app(s) to see if I was grandfathered (still had the info); apparently, *not* for home addys, but phone numbers were still there with a little "F" (fb) symbol (signifying, I guess, that those contacts' phone numbers came from FB), and of course birthdays and other stuff seems to still be pulled from FB into phone contact list.
Some I *know* are mobile numbers, but I suppose they weren't entered in the right category (ie, fb user put mobile phone as home phone)???
Well, I'm going ahead with my presentation and droid demonstration anyway. FB *opted* to stop allowing addys/phones from FB info, but AFAIC they could decide to release it again. I don't think FB [as its current 'privacy' stands] is trustworthy.
Thanks for the info; I took your advice! I feel better about google right now, but I'm going to read through their policies real carefully from now on. (Funny they linked me to blogs and youtube accts that weren't mine, but I see your point about them trying to be helpful, and I can say it's not mine, so that's cool.)
And I admit I liked that my insanely complicated google calendar was automatically on my phone; that was sweet (would love that widget for desktop). A few other apps weren't bad, either... just mainly the FB thing just blew my mind.
The HTC phone came loaded down with bloatware — I had 3 FB apps pre-installed and several twitter apps and widgets, plus tons of stuff I'd never use. I grabbed an app to help me get rid of a lot of that bloatware and kill tasks that won't go away (like "City ID"?), and will root the thing this weekend. (Srsly, don't know if it's Verizon or HTC, but I've got some startup apps that are trials and keep bugging me to buy them. Rooting is going to be a *must*. Who knew bloatware would be worse on phone than on laptop!)
I'm joining some android forums and getting informed, that's for sure:)
Well to be completely fair, a few of them were sort of forced to open a Facebook account against their wishes due to the organization we serve; the head honcho decided it was easier to distribute information via Facebook than email, and the 'yeas' won the day.
I found out one [the most paranoid] used false information anyway, heh heh. But others didn't, and some even thought they had to fill in ALL the optional info (so as not to piss off the committee) and trusted Facebook's privacy policy (MAJOR FAIL) to keep their info safe.
These people are generally older than me by 20yrs and not-technically-inclined (to say the least). I was one of the "nays" for requiring FB accounts, and I hope now they see why. We have a meeting coming up this week, and I'm using this article in an impress (powerpoint), and my physical phone as a demonstration, to try to garner the votes to strike the amendment.
Yeah; junk it up, don't delete. Make up new emails, wait a day, new names, addys, like you've moved and changed nationality. Ph number = random telemarketer. Pictures from google images. MESS IT UP. (Cause they WILL keep your info in case you change your mind. So change the info.)
I don't know... I just posted my HORROR story w/ android+fb app, but my DH said he imagined a lot of people would APPRECIATE this invasion of privacy. IOW, people might LIKE the bullshit and hell, ask for MORE! Mark Fuckerburg is giving the peepul what they want.
Ya'll blame FB, but I think I'm tossing Google in the "bad guys" column for now because it was the GOOGLE phone book which, um, "raped" my FB friends' accounts without asking. (Wait for it:)
New android phone yesterday (HTC Incred., Froya build, not rooted yet), I sign in with Google which is okay (or *was*). That shit knew one of my facebooks! Asked me to log in; I didn't. I went online with laptop to Google Accounts, and it's got some "suggestions" of FB and other accounts that MAY be mine. (I'm still considering major deletion of Google incl. Gmail, plus FB; not sure what to do).
Today I use the HTC Facebook app and log in, thinking it was separate from the Android, but I guess FB can "talk to" Google apps? — and my PHONE CONTACTS list was suddenly, um, ENHANCED. Noted, some phone contacts I had addresses and other info (not birthdays, etc), but now my phone contacts are all LINKED to their facebook accounts, and I've got phone contacts I didn't have before.
Noted, I haven't had much time to investigate this, because I feel like I've RAPED my FB friends. (I'm ACTIVELY working on this w/ my most paranoid friends first.)
I never put my private stuff on FB accts, EVER, even the 'real' emergency FB acct one with only a few family members as friends — they KNOW how to contact me. And my phone number hasn't [yet?] been added to FB. But now, my Android phone book contacts include FB frends that weren't on my phone originally, and my phone contacts have more information (their FB stuff, I guess) that I didn't enter on my own.
Now maybe it is the FB app (which came with the Android phone) that allowed for this; or user error (I'm new to Android); but I'm messaging the affected FB friends that either they remove what they don't want public, or adjust the privacy settings. My BEST advice is what I read above: delete FB. I'm contacting Verizon tomorrow with some complaints about privacy; even if FB puts it out, their android phones with pre-installed apps like FB shouldn't grab it (esp not without my express approval).
between now and then a lot will change, but NOW... if your kid(s) have an ipod touch (not phone just touch)
(and believe me w/ iPhone coming out on other carriers, my kids are looking to pawn off their Touches for like a buck!)
iPod Touches can already sms text like that with free applets (text free, textnow, etc), all they need is wifi and the Touch. (And again, I strongly believe that as kids dump their iPod Touches PLUS cell phone for just an iPhone, the iPod Touches will decrease in value rapidly. jmho.)
This is so funny; I'm an American, and have only had German cars. Ever!
But I have rented Hertzes, and we find ourselves looking all over to find where stuff is; would almost rather use public transportation.
Good analogy.
Status bars go on the BOTTOM. I don't care either way about the progress meter, but I'm sure as hell going to know what's loading on a site by looking down at the status bar.
I did the add-on thing to make my browser look more basic, and I swear it took up more memory than just leaving all the crap (menus, tabs, whatnot) as is. I think with those add-ons, firefox still draws everything, we just don't see it, plus it draws the compact menu, using up more mem even though it looks like less.
So I just uninstalled most of the add-ons and hit F11 to have more screen (though it makes me IRATE that F11 kills the status bar but auto-hides the title bar and tabs).
ABP and greasemonkey
Better Privacy (kills LSOs) and Flashblock are nice too
I used memoryfox (afom?) for a while but now it's offline now. I hadn't updated it for a while; heard it actually caused problems? But the older versions tended to keep mem usage
Lazurus (recovers text forms) is nice (but latest update has caused a few fails on page loads; nothing terrible, I just stop the script).
I love the snark;) "Peter (not so) Bright" != worst I've seen, and after RTFA I could see why an AC would use that moniker.
If Google submits webm to ISO, this feels like a non-issue.
I'm working on it:)..got to, because otherwise any network traffic (reg. file sharing/syncing) counts towards the 10gig cap, which is ridiculous. I've got several routers laying around just begging to be used; just need the time and some peace & quiet::)
That's what we thought -- 3 laptops, 2 desktops, 2 ipod touches...
Forgot about a few things (wii, 2 of those gameboys that use internet... a lot of crap. Had to set up new passphrase so they couldn't all auto connect)
Otherwise, works great. (We kill the hell out of the 10G/month limit though)
Doubt Ballmer's talking about Kinect in anywhere near its current form. I'm thinking "fancy webcam" interface (not that that would be bad, except my general issue with Kinect is having MS in my living room at all.) And when he says "TV, movies, music", heh, I'm thinking DRMs. Maybe retinal scans to make sure you have the license to hear what you're listening to. So I'm not all that psyched yet, LOL!
right,...I was thinking the grav. energy of these super-giant black holes (*if* they're indeed common) could account for [at least some of] the enormous missing mass.
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I really like the smaller one better. I always browse at -1 to get the good comments anyway, but the slider didn't operate well on some OSes/browsers.
Cleaner design is nice; I'm tempted to agree with the 'whitespace' arguments, but then again, I prefer whitespace to busy UIs.
Good job!
This is probably redundant by now on this huge page, but https connections to FB are good for ONE PAGE; you have to manually type in every URL on FB.
Of course the biggest FB annoyance you lose when using https is ADS! LOL! Yes, if you don't want freakin ads on FB, you don't have to use ABP or another blocker, just use HTTPS.
Of course, THAT'S probably why FB won't 'fix' its security.
I use https and FB just doesn't work well with it: not only do you lose chat, you lose push notifications and profile editing.
[from what I can tell] ALL the U.S. media outlets skim over or completely ignore world issues (esp like what happened in Tunisia last week). This weekend, Wikileaks tweeted about the NYTimes being a shill for the US government (because NYT didn't ask pressing questions about Quantico treatment of prisoners), and my initial reaction was an eyeroll (there's a difference between incompetence and "shilling"), but I imagine that's how most of the world sees US press.
Problem w/ that is, Americans [voters] are being left somewhat unawares of how we're being represented and handling diplomatic issues (or even what the issues are!). We're being fed [alarmist] stories about the economy and politicians, celebrities, and other crap that the media outlets believe drive up ad revenues, but if we don't have some kind of real world news, so we can hold our reps accountable, the idea of representative democracy fails.
I have a higher opinion of Americans than the news outlets, and wish the mass media would toss in some mid-east stories throughout their "2012 will it be the end" reports. Not every viewer would be interested, sure, and I guess freedom of the press means the press doesn't have to report anything of real value, but the press OUGHT to feel it's somewhat their job to keep Americans informed of worldwide issues.
At least in Terminator, the machines wanted to kill humans dead and were clearly the bad guys; and time travel explained the prophecies and was somewhat understandable.
In Matrix, humans used machines as slaves, tried to kill them, EPIC FAILED. Machines used us for energy, but gave us a happy reality. They were not one-dimensional bad guys (—and they got screwed in the end). And I still don't understand who/what the Oracle is, why Neo was The One, and why he was a sunset in the end.
First, the actors have all aged considerably. That magic bullet time effect would have to account for some beer guts now, which I'm afraid means that not only do the actors have to contort themselves away from the bullet in slo mo, but the bullet will have to change trajectory to hop over the flab. (Maybe the flab can contort into a pancake shape, but that's NOT something I want to see). I can't imagine a way that would be pretty.
Two, Neo's dead. I didn't get most of what happened in the last movie, who the oracles were, or actually what happened at all, but I got that Neo's ass died and he became a sunset or something.
Mostly though, Three: the damned machines were right all along! I didn't know that until animatrix (canon) showed that the machines had some reason to be pissed (they were human's slaves; we tried to kill them); they didn't kill humans but used their energy and gave them a happy. That bit of backstory sorta ruined the franchise for me.
And 4. Whatever tech the Wach Bros do in the 3D movies will be used in every single movie, even chick flicks, for the next ten years. They should pat themselves on the back for bullet time and retire.
Maybe, but imho the kids who can't differentiate between "ur" and "your" in a class assignment wouldn't have been the best student 20 years ago, either (ie, before prolific txting). My kids use the abbreviations in txts and FB, but when writing anything for school, they use the correct spellings (because they give a shit about getting a decent grade).
(Note also some kids might write "This was a gr8 example of irony..." in an otherwise decent essay just to drive the teacher insane, LOL!)
If it's not the "copy this to your status if you believe [X]", there are links to likes (they apparently spend time browsing other people's likes on (I guess) "like sites", then hit "Like".
(Okay, to be fair, I've seen this from adults as much as kids.)
That being said, some of my kids' friends actually use the "Notes" section of FB as a blog of sorts, primarily to rant about something in school, but that does count as 'writing'. I think it's more likely they'd use FB than make their own site or sign up for blogger. And I've noticed their grammar/spelling improves a lot when using the "Notes" section of FB.
Exactly my thought; I don't want rogue corporate types or the government trying to figure out who's do the attacking and retaliating. They need to beef up their own security and use the current legal system to subvert "cyber attacks".
Plus, given how the US govt and probably US corporations wants to treat wikileaks as a terrorist org, I can imagine big corp/govt "retaliation" being a literal Trojan Horse [SWAT team!] instead of code.
my autocorrect saves and eventually gives better suggestions; I've actually found it useful. It's getting better imo :)
I'm the one who got the HTC Droid a few days ago, apparently right when FB 'flow of info' started. I was going to use my phone as a demonstration @ meeting on Thursday re: why FB isn't 'safe' and shouldn't be required for our committee members.
So I got the mobile phones and addys of my FB contacts, and made the appropriate calls to warn people to take their private info off FB since "friends" apps' have access to anything you put on FB.
I just checked my Droid fb app(s) to see if I was grandfathered (still had the info); apparently, *not* for home addys, but phone numbers were still there with a little "F" (fb) symbol (signifying, I guess, that those contacts' phone numbers came from FB), and of course birthdays and other stuff seems to still be pulled from FB into phone contact list.
Some I *know* are mobile numbers, but I suppose they weren't entered in the right category (ie, fb user put mobile phone as home phone)???
Well, I'm going ahead with my presentation and droid demonstration anyway. FB *opted* to stop allowing addys/phones from FB info, but AFAIC they could decide to release it again. I don't think FB [as its current 'privacy' stands] is trustworthy.
Thanks for the info; I took your advice! I feel better about google right now, but I'm going to read through their policies real carefully from now on. (Funny they linked me to blogs and youtube accts that weren't mine, but I see your point about them trying to be helpful, and I can say it's not mine, so that's cool.)
And I admit I liked that my insanely complicated google calendar was automatically on my phone; that was sweet (would love that widget for desktop). A few other apps weren't bad, either... just mainly the FB thing just blew my mind.
The HTC phone came loaded down with bloatware — I had 3 FB apps pre-installed and several twitter apps and widgets, plus tons of stuff I'd never use. I grabbed an app to help me get rid of a lot of that bloatware and kill tasks that won't go away (like "City ID"?), and will root the thing this weekend. (Srsly, don't know if it's Verizon or HTC, but I've got some startup apps that are trials and keep bugging me to buy them. Rooting is going to be a *must*. Who knew bloatware would be worse on phone than on laptop!)
I'm joining some android forums and getting informed, that's for sure :)
Well to be completely fair, a few of them were sort of forced to open a Facebook account against their wishes due to the organization we serve; the head honcho decided it was easier to distribute information via Facebook than email, and the 'yeas' won the day.
I found out one [the most paranoid] used false information anyway, heh heh. But others didn't, and some even thought they had to fill in ALL the optional info (so as not to piss off the committee) and trusted Facebook's privacy policy (MAJOR FAIL) to keep their info safe.
These people are generally older than me by 20yrs and not-technically-inclined (to say the least). I was one of the "nays" for requiring FB accounts, and I hope now they see why. We have a meeting coming up this week, and I'm using this article in an impress (powerpoint), and my physical phone as a demonstration, to try to garner the votes to strike the amendment.
Yeah; junk it up, don't delete. Make up new emails, wait a day, new names, addys, like you've moved and changed nationality. Ph number = random telemarketer. Pictures from google images. MESS IT UP. (Cause they WILL keep your info in case you change your mind. So change the info.)
Operation Muck Up Mark
I don't know... I just posted my HORROR story w/ android+fb app, but my DH said he imagined a lot of people would APPRECIATE this invasion of privacy. IOW, people might LIKE the bullshit and hell, ask for MORE! Mark Fuckerburg is giving the peepul what they want.
/end rant
Ya'll blame FB, but I think I'm tossing Google in the "bad guys" column for now because it was the GOOGLE phone book which, um, "raped" my FB friends' accounts without asking. (Wait for it:)
New android phone yesterday (HTC Incred., Froya build, not rooted yet), I sign in with Google which is okay (or *was*). That shit knew one of my facebooks! Asked me to log in; I didn't. I went online with laptop to Google Accounts, and it's got some "suggestions" of FB and other accounts that MAY be mine. (I'm still considering major deletion of Google incl. Gmail, plus FB; not sure what to do).
Today I use the HTC Facebook app and log in, thinking it was separate from the Android, but I guess FB can "talk to" Google apps? — and my PHONE CONTACTS list was suddenly, um, ENHANCED. Noted, some phone contacts I had addresses and other info (not birthdays, etc), but now my phone contacts are all LINKED to their facebook accounts, and I've got phone contacts I didn't have before.
Noted, I haven't had much time to investigate this, because I feel like I've RAPED my FB friends. (I'm ACTIVELY working on this w/ my most paranoid friends first.)
I never put my private stuff on FB accts, EVER, even the 'real' emergency FB acct one with only a few family members as friends — they KNOW how to contact me. And my phone number hasn't [yet?] been added to FB. But now, my Android phone book contacts include FB frends that weren't on my phone originally, and my phone contacts have more information (their FB stuff, I guess) that I didn't enter on my own.
Now maybe it is the FB app (which came with the Android phone) that allowed for this; or user error (I'm new to Android); but I'm messaging the affected FB friends that either they remove what they don't want public, or adjust the privacy settings. My BEST advice is what I read above: delete FB. I'm contacting Verizon tomorrow with some complaints about privacy; even if FB puts it out, their android phones with pre-installed apps like FB shouldn't grab it (esp not without my express approval).
between now and then a lot will change, but NOW... if your kid(s) have an ipod touch (not phone just touch)
iPod Touches can already sms text like that with free applets (text free, textnow, etc), all they need is wifi and the Touch. (And again, I strongly believe that as kids dump their iPod Touches PLUS cell phone for just an iPhone, the iPod Touches will decrease in value rapidly. jmho.)
This is so funny; I'm an American, and have only had German cars. Ever!
But I have rented Hertzes, and we find ourselves looking all over to find where stuff is; would almost rather use public transportation.
Good analogy.
Status bars go on the BOTTOM. I don't care either way about the progress meter, but I'm sure as hell going to know what's loading on a site by looking down at the status bar.
I did the add-on thing to make my browser look more basic, and I swear it took up more memory than just leaving all the crap (menus, tabs, whatnot) as is. I think with those add-ons, firefox still draws everything, we just don't see it, plus it draws the compact menu, using up more mem even though it looks like less.
So I just uninstalled most of the add-ons and hit F11 to have more screen (though it makes me IRATE that F11 kills the status bar but auto-hides the title bar and tabs).
ABP and greasemonkey Better Privacy (kills LSOs) and Flashblock are nice too I used memoryfox (afom?) for a while but now it's offline now. I hadn't updated it for a while; heard it actually caused problems? But the older versions tended to keep mem usage Lazurus (recovers text forms) is nice (but latest update has caused a few fails on page loads; nothing terrible, I just stop the script).
I love the snark ;) "Peter (not so) Bright" != worst I've seen, and after RTFA I could see why an AC would use that moniker.
If Google submits webm to ISO, this feels like a non-issue.
I'm working on it :) ..got to, because otherwise any network traffic (reg. file sharing/syncing) counts towards the 10gig cap, which is ridiculous. I've got several routers laying around just begging to be used; just need the time and some peace & quiet ::)
That's what we thought -- 3 laptops, 2 desktops, 2 ipod touches...
Forgot about a few things (wii, 2 of those gameboys that use internet... a lot of crap. Had to set up new passphrase so they couldn't all auto connect)
Otherwise, works great. (We kill the hell out of the 10G/month limit though)
Doubt Ballmer's talking about Kinect in anywhere near its current form. I'm thinking "fancy webcam" interface (not that that would be bad, except my general issue with Kinect is having MS in my living room at all.) And when he says "TV, movies, music", heh, I'm thinking DRMs. Maybe retinal scans to make sure you have the license to hear what you're listening to. So I'm not all that psyched yet, LOL!
right, ...I was thinking the grav. energy of these super-giant black holes (*if* they're indeed common) could account for [at least some of] the enormous missing mass.