Long before the internet radically transformed the way we organize ourselves, theorists were predicting we'd use computers to achieve ambitious goals without traditional hierarchies -- but it was a rare pundit who predicted that the first really successful example of this would be an operating system (GNU/Linux), and then an encyclopedia (Wikipedia).
Wikipedia is a very poor example of a non-traditional hierarchy. It has a very traditional and very solid hierarchy upon which it maintains its desired pro-Western establishment bias.
Want an example ? Take a look at the cited sources for en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War and try to find a Syrian source among them.
This isn't an accident. They want this bias and enforce this bias through their administrative hierarchy by making sure that any source that doesn't conform to the Reuters, BBC, NYT, WSJ etc point of view should be tough to include.
As for Linux, I think it became relevant when IBM and Canonical streamlined it for businesses and the general public but I may be entirely wrong here.
So what does that mean for Brian Barrett and the Wired ?
Impunity in the mainstream is the main cause for Fake News. Wired should have apologized for publishing nonsense.
Which in my case reports: "No activity. Some activity may not appear yet."
I've been actively using Google services while being registered for several years.
They are not clear. Nowhere does Google and the rest give you a full list of what they're tracking you on. Even on their privacy terms, they only provide "examples".
If I don't want them to know about something, I use an incognito window or a different computer.
An incognito window means nothing since they can easily create a unique fingerprint for both normal and incognito windows.
A different computer with a different IP address, different preferences etc would work but they can still demand that you give them a phone number to create an account. And phone numbers are legally attached to your person. And they can still monitor browsing habits, keystroke timings, types of documents etc to create fingerprints.
At some point you need to learn to just say no to Google.
An excellent advice considering Joseph's preference for such versions of Windows. Xubuntu looks very nice, it's fast and the vast majority of support materials you find on the web for Ubuntu will apply on Xubuntu as well.
I'm not going to reply to most of your statements because they are too stupid to deserve a response (eg. all Greeks own flats and boats) but I'd like to comment on these three bits that prove you are not to be taken seriously:
4) If you fly to Channia on Crete, your plane lands like 20km outside of the city. Just in time there is a bus that brings you into the city, a normal landline bus. If you enter the bus they don't sell you a ticket. Trying to convince you that the bus is 'special' and you need to take a taxi/cab. Usually there is a luggage compartment below the bus, with your luggage. While you are arguing with the ticket seller, someone will throw out your luggage onto the road. No chance. When you get out to collect it, the bus departs and you have to take a cab. Second time I knew the drill. Took my luggage inside, was anyway only a small and a big rucksack. The ticket seller tried to throw me out by force! 'Unfortunately' a greek living in my hometown who was in the same plane told him, he knew me. So suddenly the ticket seller sold me a ticket for like 20cents our day money. On the other hand, it had not looked good if a 25 year old tourist punches a 60 year old ticket seller into the face.
That reminds me a story when I was traveling from Amsterdam to Hamburg (another example of rich Greeks who travel, right?) and the ticket inspector would refuse to accept my ticket which I had bought at a travel agent instead of the train station. Of course my ticket was valid and when the inspector called the offices (muttering some German words about Greeks) he then realized he was wrong and yet he didn't apologize. Perhaps our inability to communicate in English was the reason.
But in your case, the problem is that the ticket seller actually gave you a ticket, instead of calling the authorities. Why ? Because you were not allowed to to carry a big rucksack in a "normal landline" bus.You are only allowed to bring luggage that you can carry by hand. This is an important regulation to allow passengers to safely travel by bus.
But I guess the threat of a 25 year old tourist punching a 60 year old person is too much to handle.
After or during my basket ball tournament my team, like 12 people plus trainer plus some relatives of our greek team mate where for a long long long night dinner. We ate like maniacs for 4 or 5 hours and drank wine for minimum 2 more hours. Needless to say: the dishes where excellent, we could not really stop. Usually we just ordered like '3 of those and 4 of that and 5 this' and simply shared it and took something different the next order. Trust me, the end bill was less than $20, perhaps only $15 for each of us. We drank ca. 6 hours the most expensive wine of the house. (Makes no difference for a 'fucking rich german' if a liter of wine costs 75cents or 110cents... how much wine are you actually going to drink?) [...] Point is: we had a bill of perhaps $300, in our days money. The amount they tried to cheat us over was less than $5. Whats the point?
The point is that you are clearly confused. The most expensive wine in the house, even in the lowliest Greek tavern should cost $100 a bottle at least. If you stayed 6 hours, drank wine for 2 hours and had "excellent dishes" and you've paid $20 each, then
1) You've robbed the tavern
or
2) You didn't realize that you had actually ordered the cheapest wine. Even so, you've still robbed the tavern.
two years ago we where sailing around the Cyclades. A german boat and two chartered greek boats. The german captain attempted a joke. "We have a problem!" - "What is it? Do you need assistance?" - "No, it can't be helped!" - "What is it?"... "The beer is empty!!". Bad bad bad joke. Note: that was a normal 'fun call' on channel 16, no distress/mayday/SOS. 2 hours later a greek coast guard patrol came along. Insisting they had heard a 'we have a problem' call. After talking a bit they or
I have used my voice reader many times with Pale Moon and works perfectly. I have studied Firefox's accessibility features list and I haven't found anything that isn't supported by Pale Moon or the OS. I am using Pale Moon with font override for months since I don't want to give web authors another means to connect to Google for custom fonts.
I didn't care for the optimizations either, though people in the forums claim the gains are tangible. I started using Pale Moon after Firefox v4 because I didn't like re-editing my userchrome.css file every time Mozilla decided that Firefox needed a face lift.
"But without the leaks, how would we find out about those crimes against children?" -- these are not relevant. Unless you believe that someone would record child abuse on classified official documents.
That's an interesting answer. But I was always under the impression that it was Netscape who didn't play fair at the IETF while Microsoft did. Of course behaving at a standards body and actually adhering to the standards are two different things...
You are probably not aware that ERT (Elleneki Radiophonia Teleorassi) was the only allowed TV/Radio station in Greece for many years. In fact when CNN announced its plan to broadcast in Greece by satellite in the 80s, a minister of the Socialist government threatened to "shoot" it down.
ERT is the most iconic symbol of an old, despotic, union-owned state that is finally breaking down.
Windows 2000 is already owned [...] computer criminals will discover a defect that can be used to compromise a computer remotely, Microsoft won't issue a patch
So, is there such an exploited defect for Windows 2000 ?
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Well, you have demanded the name of someone else but you still aren't providing yours.
I had to check this out to believe it and I did scratch my head a few times to conceive it.
Wikipedia is a very poor example of a non-traditional hierarchy. It has a very traditional and very solid hierarchy upon which it maintains its desired pro-Western establishment bias. Want an example ? Take a look at the cited sources for en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War and try to find a Syrian source among them. This isn't an accident. They want this bias and enforce this bias through their administrative hierarchy by making sure that any source that doesn't conform to the Reuters, BBC, NYT, WSJ etc point of view should be tough to include.
As for Linux, I think it became relevant when IBM and Canonical streamlined it for businesses and the general public but I may be entirely wrong here.
So what does that mean for Brian Barrett and the Wired ? Impunity in the mainstream is the main cause for Fake News. Wired should have apologized for publishing nonsense.
Which in my case reports: "No activity. Some activity may not appear yet." I've been actively using Google services while being registered for several years.
They are not clear. Nowhere does Google and the rest give you a full list of what they're tracking you on. Even on their privacy terms, they only provide "examples".
An incognito window means nothing since they can easily create a unique fingerprint for both normal and incognito windows. A different computer with a different IP address, different preferences etc would work but they can still demand that you give them a phone number to create an account. And phone numbers are legally attached to your person. And they can still monitor browsing habits, keystroke timings, types of documents etc to create fingerprints. At some point you need to learn to just say no to Google.
An excellent advice considering Joseph's preference for such versions of Windows. Xubuntu looks very nice, it's fast and the vast majority of support materials you find on the web for Ubuntu will apply on Xubuntu as well.
4) If you fly to Channia on Crete, your plane lands like 20km outside of the city. Just in time there is a bus that brings you into the city, a normal landline bus. If you enter the bus they don't sell you a ticket. Trying to convince you that the bus is 'special' and you need to take a taxi/cab. Usually there is a luggage compartment below the bus, with your luggage. While you are arguing with the ticket seller, someone will throw out your luggage onto the road. No chance. When you get out to collect it, the bus departs and you have to take a cab. Second time I knew the drill. Took my luggage inside, was anyway only a small and a big rucksack. The ticket seller tried to throw me out by force! 'Unfortunately' a greek living in my hometown who was in the same plane told him, he knew me. So suddenly the ticket seller sold me a ticket for like 20cents our day money. On the other hand, it had not looked good if a 25 year old tourist punches a 60 year old ticket seller into the face.
That reminds me a story when I was traveling from Amsterdam to Hamburg (another example of rich Greeks who travel, right?) and the ticket inspector would refuse to accept my ticket which I had bought at a travel agent instead of the train station. Of course my ticket was valid and when the inspector called the offices (muttering some German words about Greeks) he then realized he was wrong and yet he didn't apologize. Perhaps our inability to communicate in English was the reason. But in your case, the problem is that the ticket seller actually gave you a ticket, instead of calling the authorities. Why ? Because you were not allowed to to carry a big rucksack in a "normal landline" bus.You are only allowed to bring luggage that you can carry by hand. This is an important regulation to allow passengers to safely travel by bus. But I guess the threat of a 25 year old tourist punching a 60 year old person is too much to handle.
After or during my basket ball tournament my team, like 12 people plus trainer plus some relatives of our greek team mate where for a long long long night dinner. We ate like maniacs for 4 or 5 hours and drank wine for minimum 2 more hours. Needless to say: the dishes where excellent, we could not really stop. Usually we just ordered like '3 of those and 4 of that and 5 this' and simply shared it and took something different the next order. Trust me, the end bill was less than $20, perhaps only $15 for each of us. We drank ca. 6 hours the most expensive wine of the house. (Makes no difference for a 'fucking rich german' if a liter of wine costs 75cents or 110cents ... how much wine are you actually going to drink?) [...] Point is: we had a bill of perhaps $300, in our days money. The amount they tried to cheat us over was less than $5. Whats the point?
The point is that you are clearly confused. The most expensive wine in the house, even in the lowliest Greek tavern should cost $100 a bottle at least. If you stayed 6 hours, drank wine for 2 hours and had "excellent dishes" and you've paid $20 each, then 1) You've robbed the tavern or 2) You didn't realize that you had actually ordered the cheapest wine. Even so, you've still robbed the tavern.
two years ago we where sailing around the Cyclades. A german boat and two chartered greek boats. The german captain attempted a joke. "We have a problem!" - "What is it? Do you need assistance?" - "No, it can't be helped!" - "What is it?" ... "The beer is empty!!". Bad bad bad joke. Note: that was a normal 'fun call' on channel 16, no distress/mayday/SOS. 2 hours later a greek coast guard patrol came along. Insisting they had heard a 'we have a problem' call. After talking a bit they or
I have used my voice reader many times with Pale Moon and works perfectly. I have studied Firefox's accessibility features list and I haven't found anything that isn't supported by Pale Moon or the OS. I am using Pale Moon with font override for months since I don't want to give web authors another means to connect to Google for custom fonts.
I didn't care for the optimizations either, though people in the forums claim the gains are tangible. I started using Pale Moon after Firefox v4 because I didn't like re-editing my userchrome.css file every time Mozilla decided that Firefox needed a face lift.
Obligatory xkcd
Oblige me.
Try Pale Moon or PM4Linux.
...from looting Microsoft.
Of course most low IQ people are believers. Most religions protect them from being aborted in the first place.
They have, so far. I'm using them for 2 years and none of my customizations have been broken, neither has any functionality I am used to been removed.
Pale Moon is what you need then.
Why s ?
"But without the leaks, how would we find out about those crimes against children?" -- these are not relevant. Unless you believe that someone would record child abuse on classified official documents.
This is about Google eliminating non-Google adult ads on Blogger sites.
Please stop lying. Google wishes to "prohibit the monetization of adult content on Blogger". This isn't about non-Google ads.
beautiful
That's an interesting answer. But I was always under the impression that it was Netscape who didn't play fair at the IETF while Microsoft did. Of course behaving at a standards body and actually adhering to the standards are two different things...
I never understood why Microsoft forced Internet Explorer inside Windows. Did they fear Netscape's "API" would really threaten them ?
You are probably not aware that ERT (Elleneki Radiophonia Teleorassi) was the only allowed TV/Radio station in Greece for many years. In fact when CNN announced its plan to broadcast in Greece by satellite in the 80s, a minister of the Socialist government threatened to "shoot" it down.
ERT is the most iconic symbol of an old, despotic, union-owned state that is finally breaking down.
Windows 2000 is already owned [...] computer criminals will discover a defect that can be used to compromise a computer remotely, Microsoft won't issue a patch
So, is there such an exploited defect for Windows 2000 ?
Yes, both Netscape and IE4.
But it didn't know Unicode and it was talking the W3C specs too seriously.