Gradually remove all information and apps from your FB profile, in the end leave only the bare minimum that's required to keep the profile alive. Then leave it that way for a while, at least a year or two. Then delete the account.
I recently spoke to a Facebook developer about this at a Uganda Linux User Group meeting. I asked whether or not they keep revision history for profiles. They don't.
So, currently, there's no need to wait 2 years. Simply filling your profile with bad data prior to deletion would be sufficient.
I'm always amazed at how games like Doom and Half-Life get regarded as all-time greats, but people somehow always gloss over the title that put multiplayer gaming on the map.
Where do you all think concepts like Rocket Arena and Team Fortress came from? What about classic map designs like 2fort5 and McKinley Base?
Don't forget that before there was Fatal1ty and his sponsorships, there was D11-Thresh and John Carmack's Ferrari.
System Shock ruled. It was the first game I ever played that really made me cower in a (virtual) corner out of fear and not want to move.
I remember it used to get nods from PC Gamers lists back when I subscribed, though they would always note how it was completely ignored by the mainstream. Poor marketing, I suppose.
The Nokia N900 meets all of your criteria, though performance on Hulu is still a bit dodgy. This may get fixed with future updates, however I don't really find it any loss as the N900 offers a million other ways to get audio/video content from the Internet.
Want to use it on vacations, eh? I'm posting this from my bed in Kampala, Uganda from a local 3G network. I currently have 9 browser windows open along with my calendar, RSS reader, a few instant messaging conversations, and my e-mail, and can easily flip between them all with two taps of my finger on the screen.
Furthermore, adding a movie, TV show, radio show, BT download or video game to the list of currently running applications is trivial.
In order to win the net neutrality fight, we will need to to educate the general population on the reasons why it matters to them, and national officials making highly publicised speeches like Hillary Clinton's go a long way toward that goal.
Also, Hillary Clinton publicly stating that we'll support anti-censorship tools on a national level is a huge diplomatic middle finger to China in direct response to the Google situation.
I, for one, am extremely proud of both Google and my government's handling of this situation so far.
Broadband access, of course. I'd imagine that narrowly edged out security, stability, access to medical care, and clean drinking water.
Those problems, which you sarcastically imply are more important than Broadband access here in the developing world, are all almost exclusively the result of inadequate education and mass communication.
Microsoft is trying to monetize all multi-player gaming (and eliminate piracy) by creating an extremely large pay-to-access community for multi-player gaming software -- which also acts as a central authentication hub.
They began with a captive console audience and forced them to pay for multi-player gaming on their Xbox consoles, because PC users wouldn't pay. They now wish to expand on this user-base with people on other platforms. The idea is that once their user-base reaches a certain critical mass, game developers will be practically forced/obligated to build LIVE-ONLY multi-player into their products, including the PC versions.
This job offering is simply the beginning of the next stage in that plan.
Exactly.... I want my child to see as much of the world as possible. Look at the starving kids in Africa, look how stupid that guy looks when yelling profanities (and watch how I better handle the situation), look at the "gross" and "objectionable". And read every damn book that has ever been banned.
That's all good, but... goatse?
Censoring content such as Goatse may be a well-intended attempt to shield society at-large from the darker alleyways of humanity, but to accomplish this by means of centralizing restrictions on content and communication is very dangerous, as it replaces lost innocence with lost liberty.
The Pirate Bay provides an index to BitTorrent files, which can be used for trading media such as movies, music and computer games. The site has more than 20 million users globally.
Oh is that all BitTorrent is good for? In that case, I'm with the Judge.
Actually, it's not that hard to be off the grid entirely.
Take your pick of any third-world country. Some are quite nice and the living standards can be rather luxurious.
Uh, unless "breaking the rules" means driving in the oncoming traffic lane on a 2-lane road and then blocking an entire intersection because you tried to come out of the inlet which forces EVERYONE to stop until you and the 6 "me-too" assholes behind you clear out.
Rude drivers only reduce traffic jams when they make utilitarian decisions -- something that only happens about 1% of the time.
I currently pay about $50 a month for a connection that can burst up to 160kbps, averages at about 40kbps, and doesn't work about 30% of the time.
As another resident of Kampala, Uganda, I want to know where the you get your Internet from because that's the kind of connection I PRAY FOR EVERY NIGHT BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP.
Please excuse my rampant cynicism, but...
Where I work, we pay $1062/mo for a 256k/128k link with Datanet that's shared out to four sites (they claim we're on two bandwidth profilers and thus are getting 512/256 split between two links -- but I don't see that) which is up only 30% of the time on average -- though in all fairness the last two months have been OK.
And when I say OK, I'm only referring to the local link between us and our other sites around Kampala being stable, and not the Internet which is what we're actually paying all the money for.
It's not like we have anywhere to go, either. MTN is more expensive, Infocom is more expensive, Broadband Company doesn't yet peer at the IXP as far as I'm aware, UTL is more expensive, Africa Online is equal or more expensive, etc.
All of them do things like using private IP addresses in their public space, leave their VSAT customers modems exposed to the world with default admin/admin passwords, randomly block ports with no warning (like 25, for example), walk into the IXP and start ripping cables out in the middle of work-days with no notice, have zero customer service, charge you $1500 for a radio, try to force you to pre-pay three months before providing you service, don't give a shit when they don't provide service and you demand a refund, etc. (We've told Datanet we're post-paying and that's that, but this is not a normal procedure around here and they bitch about the fact that we do it all the time.) It took Infocom seven attempts to even get us a quote with the right items on it.
At my home I pay 245,000UGX ($120) for a 64k connection with MTN that is limited to 2GB of transfer -- when that runs out I have to "top-up" again. They don't determine my bandwidth usage at the cache, either. They determine it based on what comes in and out of my home radio. How's that fair? I'm PAYING for their VSAT link, not peered communications with other sites around Kampala (working from home, for example?) But I don't have a choice, because for what I need there's nowhere else to go short of paying double what I am now.
Furthermore, I was at the Seacom launch party yesterday at the Serena. Seacom came up and stated that they're selling bandwidth to the resellers at $50 - $150/meg depending on what you're buying (STM-1, STM-64, etc).
Yeah? Great! But then why did Infocom call me up a few days ago and tell me the "early-bird special" was $700/meg for a limited time only?
Meanwhile, when Seacom had the Ugandan ICT minister "cut the ribbon" yesterday, they asked him to "download anything he wished in order to get the fiber experience." After staring at the screen like a deer-in-headlights for a few seconds, he instructed his aide to download something for him.
This is the same guy that randomly announced that Uganda will ban ALL second-hand computers effective 2 months from today. That includes the P4's w/ 512mb ram, KB, monitor, and mouse sold for $70. These will be no more because Mr. I-don't-know-how-to-use-a-computer-ICT-minister wants to decimate half the computer industry here along with all tech related charities and re-raise the barrier to entry for this wonderful "landscape changing, poverty eliminating fiber connection." Why? He claims e-dumping, but that's obviously a bullshit cover for something else.
So while Tanzania and other countries were busy rolling out local fiber to their rural areas -- preparing for this event, we've got an ICT minister who barely knows how to use a computer and thus have nothing.
Oh, and I loved how Infocom (who provided the IT services for the event) dumped an
Even with 50-1 odds in favour and legalised handguns would we stand a fucking chance against a fully trained and specially armed police/army joint force? No. If they had the inclination to do so, they would annihilate us - if they didn't have the inclination, guns wouldn't be needed anyway.
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That's KIMpossible!
Gradually remove all information and apps from your FB profile, in the end leave only the bare minimum that's required to keep the profile alive. Then leave it that way for a while, at least a year or two. Then delete the account.
I recently spoke to a Facebook developer about this at a Uganda Linux User Group meeting. I asked whether or not they keep revision history for profiles. They don't.
So, currently, there's no need to wait 2 years. Simply filling your profile with bad data prior to deletion would be sufficient.
I'm always amazed at how games like Doom and Half-Life get regarded as all-time greats, but people somehow always gloss over the title that put multiplayer gaming on the map.
Where do you all think concepts like Rocket Arena and Team Fortress came from? What about classic map designs like 2fort5 and McKinley Base?
Don't forget that before there was Fatal1ty and his sponsorships, there was D11-Thresh and John Carmack's Ferrari.
System Shock ruled. It was the first game I ever played that really made me cower in a (virtual) corner out of fear and not want to move.
I remember it used to get nods from PC Gamers lists back when I subscribed, though they would always note how it was completely ignored by the mainstream. Poor marketing, I suppose.
Dying for a drink, Graham?
1) s/Slashdot/Digg/g
Right on. Where was the Slashdot post when that came out?
I do think it's unreasonable to leave him alone for 3 or 4 days.
So what's your take on William Munny? He left his ~12 year old son and daughter alone at home for /weeks/ in Unforgiven.
The N900 may jeopardize your marriage.
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Maybe it's just me, or my N900, but I can't figure out how to click links in Firefox without repetitively stabbing at them with the stylus
The Nokia N900 meets all of your criteria, though performance on Hulu is still a bit dodgy. This may get fixed with future updates, however I don't really find it any loss as the N900 offers a million other ways to get audio/video content from the Internet.
Want to use it on vacations, eh? I'm posting this from my bed in Kampala, Uganda from a local 3G network. I currently have 9 browser windows open along with my calendar, RSS reader, a few instant messaging conversations, and my e-mail, and can easily flip between them all with two taps of my finger on the screen.
Furthermore, adding a movie, TV show, radio show, BT download or video game to the list of currently running applications is trivial.
Highly recommended.
In order to win the net neutrality fight, we will need to to educate the general population on the reasons why it matters to them, and national officials making highly publicised speeches like Hillary Clinton's go a long way toward that goal.
Also, Hillary Clinton publicly stating that we'll support anti-censorship tools on a national level is a huge diplomatic middle finger to China in direct response to the Google situation.
I, for one, am extremely proud of both Google and my government's handling of this situation so far.
Tell me the Western company that is making money in China itself.
McDonalds.
Broadband access, of course. I'd imagine that narrowly edged out security, stability, access to medical care, and clean drinking water.
Those problems, which you sarcastically imply are more important than Broadband access here in the developing world, are all almost exclusively the result of inadequate education and mass communication.
Microsoft is trying to monetize all multi-player gaming (and eliminate piracy) by creating an extremely large pay-to-access community for multi-player gaming software -- which also acts as a central authentication hub.
They began with a captive console audience and forced them to pay for multi-player gaming on their Xbox consoles, because PC users wouldn't pay. They now wish to expand on this user-base with people on other platforms. The idea is that once their user-base reaches a certain critical mass, game developers will be practically forced/obligated to build LIVE-ONLY multi-player into their products, including the PC versions.
This job offering is simply the beginning of the next stage in that plan.
Exactly.... I want my child to see as much of the world as possible. Look at the starving kids in Africa, look how stupid that guy looks when yelling profanities (and watch how I better handle the situation), look at the "gross" and "objectionable". And read every damn book that has ever been banned.
That's all good, but... goatse?
Censoring content such as Goatse may be a well-intended attempt to shield society at-large from the darker alleyways of humanity, but to accomplish this by means of centralizing restrictions on content and communication is very dangerous, as it replaces lost innocence with lost liberty.
The Pirate Bay provides an index to BitTorrent files, which can be used for trading media such as movies, music and computer games. The site has more than 20 million users globally.
Oh is that all BitTorrent is good for? In that case, I'm with the Judge.
Actually, it's not that hard to be off the grid entirely. Take your pick of any third-world country. Some are quite nice and the living standards can be rather luxurious.
Uh, unless "breaking the rules" means driving in the oncoming traffic lane on a 2-lane road and then blocking an entire intersection because you tried to come out of the inlet which forces EVERYONE to stop until you and the 6 "me-too" assholes behind you clear out.
Rude drivers only reduce traffic jams when they make utilitarian decisions -- something that only happens about 1% of the time.
Remake Oregon Trail? That'd be Duke Nukem Forever all over again.
HAHA! The only game that sucked more than Sim Earth was Sim Ant.
Holy shit! This is fantastic!
I can now see what the status of my tinfoil wrapped dinner is without unwrapping it for a status check!
Hallelujah!
I'm American and work here professionally.
I currently pay about $50 a month for a connection that can burst up to 160kbps, averages at about 40kbps, and doesn't work about 30% of the time.
As another resident of Kampala, Uganda, I want to know where the you get your Internet from because that's the kind of connection I PRAY FOR EVERY NIGHT BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP.
Please excuse my rampant cynicism, but...
Where I work, we pay $1062/mo for a 256k/128k link with Datanet that's shared out to four sites (they claim we're on two bandwidth profilers and thus are getting 512/256 split between two links -- but I don't see that) which is up only 30% of the time on average -- though in all fairness the last two months have been OK.
And when I say OK, I'm only referring to the local link between us and our other sites around Kampala being stable, and not the Internet which is what we're actually paying all the money for.
It's not like we have anywhere to go, either. MTN is more expensive, Infocom is more expensive, Broadband Company doesn't yet peer at the IXP as far as I'm aware, UTL is more expensive, Africa Online is equal or more expensive, etc.
All of them do things like using private IP addresses in their public space, leave their VSAT customers modems exposed to the world with default admin/admin passwords, randomly block ports with no warning (like 25, for example), walk into the IXP and start ripping cables out in the middle of work-days with no notice, have zero customer service, charge you $1500 for a radio, try to force you to pre-pay three months before providing you service, don't give a shit when they don't provide service and you demand a refund, etc. (We've told Datanet we're post-paying and that's that, but this is not a normal procedure around here and they bitch about the fact that we do it all the time.) It took Infocom seven attempts to even get us a quote with the right items on it.
At my home I pay 245,000UGX ($120) for a 64k connection with MTN that is limited to 2GB of transfer -- when that runs out I have to "top-up" again. They don't determine my bandwidth usage at the cache, either. They determine it based on what comes in and out of my home radio. How's that fair? I'm PAYING for their VSAT link, not peered communications with other sites around Kampala (working from home, for example?) But I don't have a choice, because for what I need there's nowhere else to go short of paying double what I am now.
Furthermore, I was at the Seacom launch party yesterday at the Serena. Seacom came up and stated that they're selling bandwidth to the resellers at $50 - $150/meg depending on what you're buying (STM-1, STM-64, etc).
Yeah? Great! But then why did Infocom call me up a few days ago and tell me the "early-bird special" was $700/meg for a limited time only?
Meanwhile, when Seacom had the Ugandan ICT minister "cut the ribbon" yesterday, they asked him to "download anything he wished in order to get the fiber experience." After staring at the screen like a deer-in-headlights for a few seconds, he instructed his aide to download something for him.
This is the same guy that randomly announced that Uganda will ban ALL second-hand computers effective 2 months from today. That includes the P4's w/ 512mb ram, KB, monitor, and mouse sold for $70. These will be no more because Mr. I-don't-know-how-to-use-a-computer-ICT-minister wants to decimate half the computer industry here along with all tech related charities and re-raise the barrier to entry for this wonderful "landscape changing, poverty eliminating fiber connection." Why? He claims e-dumping, but that's obviously a bullshit cover for something else.
So while Tanzania and other countries were busy rolling out local fiber to their rural areas -- preparing for this event, we've got an ICT minister who barely knows how to use a computer and thus have nothing.
Oh, and I loved how Infocom (who provided the IT services for the event) dumped an
Even with 50-1 odds in favour and legalised handguns would we stand a fucking chance against a fully trained and specially armed police/army joint force? No. If they had the inclination to do so, they would annihilate us - if they didn't have the inclination, guns wouldn't be needed anyway.
Care to explain Iraq and Afghanistan, then?