100% compatible with Firefox 3.5* Please do not ask me about missing updates here, read FAQ at the bottom of this page.
Better Privacy serves to protect against not deletable longterm cookies, a new generation of 'Super-Cookie', which silently conquered the internet. This new cookie generation offers unlimited user tracking to industry and market research. Concerning privacy Flash- and DOM Storage objects are most critical. This addon was made to make users aware of those hidden, never expiring objects and to offer an easy way to get rid of them - since browsers are unable to do that for you.
Flash-cookies (Local Shared Objects, LSO) are pieces of information placed on your computer by a Flash plugin. Those Super-Cookies are placed in central system folders and so protected from deletion. They are frequently used like standard browser cookies. Although their thread potential is much higher as of conventional cookies, only few users began to take notice of them. It is of frequent occurrence that -after a time- hundreds of those Flash-cookies reside in special folders. And they won't be deleted - never.
BetterPrivacy can stop them, . by allowing to silently remove those objects on every browser exit. So this extension becomes sort of "install and forget add-on". Usually automatic deletion is safe (no negative impact on your browsing), especially if the deletion timer is activated. The timer can delay automatic deletion for new or modified Flash-cookies which might be in use. It also allows to delete those objects immediately if desired.
With BetterPrivacy it is possible to review, protect or delete new Flash-cookies individually. Users who wish to to manage all cookies manually can disable the automatic functions. BetterPrivacy also protects against 'DOM Storage' longterm tracking, a browser feature which has been granted by the major browser manufactures.
Some flash LSO-cookie properties in short...
they are never expiring - staying on your computer for an unlimited time.
by default they offer a storage of 100 KB (compare: Usual cookies 4 KB).
browsers are not aware of those cookies, LSO's usually cannot be removed by browsers.
via Flash they can access and store highly specific personal and technical information (system, user name, files,...).
ability to send the stored information to the appropriate server, without user's permission.
flash applications do not need to be visible
there is no easy way to tell which flash-cookie sites are tracking you.
shared folders allow cross-browser tracking, LSO's work in every flash-enabled application
the company doesn't provide a user-friendly way to manage LSO's, in fact it's incredible cumbersome.
many domains and tracking companies make extensive use of flash-cookies.
These cookies are not harmless.
IMPORTANT IF YOU PERMIT DELETION OF LSO's, THEN COOKIE-STORED INFORMATION LIKE GAME SETTINGS OR LOGIN DATA (YAHOO SEAL) MIGHT BE LOST! MAKE SURE THAT YOU EXCLUDED IMPORTANT COOKIES FROM DELETION (SEE FAQ)
Frequently asked questions (FAQ): Please scroll to the bottom of the page.
Oh, I forgot. There's MONEY involved. I guess simple human values are mitigated under those conditions, and you are free to revert to exploitation and predatory impulses.
Milk production at a dairy farm was low so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking help from academia. A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader. Shortly thereafter the farmer received the write-up, and opened it to read on the first line:
No, but, yeah, but, no, but, yeah, but, no, but, yeah but I know because I'm not. They don't scare me! Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got, I'm just Vicky Pollard from round the corner from the block. V to the P to the Icky to the Ollard. Oh, my God! That is so unfair! This is like, well, sexual harassment! If you like, fancy me why don't you just say so? God, this is exactly like the time Miss Rennig, who everyone knows is a total lesbian, made Candice Burton stay behind after PE, started telling her off for gobbing on Sunita Geschwani's hair. But everyone knows she only made her stay late because she wanted to get off with her, cuz when she was telling her off her legs were wide open and Candice reckons she could see her spider. No, but yeah, but no, because if you don't let me in then Blazin' Squad are well, gonna give you beatings because I've actually already met them already anyway, actually, down at the Radio 1 Roadshow at Weston Super-Mare! You remember, it was the time I got fingered by Chris Moyles and Hayley Evers reckons she saw Jo Whiley taking a dump in the sea. But, anyway I have met Blazin' Squad and they said I should definitely come backstage and see 'em and do 'em, and anyway I do know them already because I'm their cousin. And if Rowan Gordon says I'm not then don't listen to him because everyone knows he's mental because he once shoved his knob through Miss Mayal's letterbox. No, but, yeah, but, no, but, yeah, but, no, but, yeah but I know because I'm not wasting police time because you know Micha? Well, she saw the whole thing, right, because she was bunking off school because she was gonna go down the wimbley and get off with Luke Griffiths, only she never because he's been trying to grow a moustache but it just looks like pubes, so she got off with Luke Torbet instead, only don't tell Bethany that because she's fancied Luke Torbet ever since she flashed her fanny at him during Home Ec'.
Info/Disinfo. What pill did you take, this morning?
Google Pulls Sibel Edmonds' Access to Her Blog August 9th, 2009
I don't know what it's going to take to make people understand that Google (and its associated brands, Blogger, YouTube, Google Video, Gmail) are NOT to be trusted for communicating controversial information. The fact that dissidents don't understand this basic information is just more evidence of how screwed we are.
Via: Justacitizen:
My Blog Site http://123realchange.blogspot.com/ is now blocked by Google's Blogger. They will not let me post during this most sensitive period, when I am about to provide deposition on Foreign US government illegal operations in the United States!
# apt-get install iceweasel Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Suggested packages:
iceweasel-gnome-support latex-xft-fonts xprint mozplugger The following NEW packages will be installed:
iceweasel 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 8933kB of archives. After unpacking 27.2MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://your.favorite.mirror/ sid/main iceweasel 2.0+dfsg-1 [8933kB] Fetched 8933kB in 9s (975kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package iceweasel. (Reading database... 68428 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking iceweasel (from.../iceweasel_2.0+dfsg-1_powerpc.deb)... Setting up iceweasel (2.0+dfsg-1)... Please restart any running Iceweasels, or you will experience problems.
Maybe then it can assign probabilities to the various unintended consequences.
Then again, why? You people can't even successfully manage a currency or your banks. How will you deal with super-intelligent machines without ethical guidelines? Or do I repeat myself?:-)
Counselor:Well I now have the results here of the interviews and the aptitude tests that you took last week, and from them we've built up a pretty clear picture of the sort of person that you are. And 1 think I can say, without fear of contradiction, that the ideal job for you is chartered accountancy.
Mr. Anchovy: But I am a chartered accountant.
Counselor:Jolly good. Well back to the office with you then.
University, despite it's commercial perversion in the years since 1980, is not a trade school.
Although a key to gainful, professional employment may be a classic liberal education, it does not therefore stand that the objective of this education is commercial marketability of graduates. Nor is the measure of education's success the commercial placement of these graduates.
The "liberal" in the term "Liberal Education" refers to it's breadth and fullness of development. This is as opposed to the vocational training of a specific skill-set, solely focused towards career placement.
I have not reviewed this plaintiff's transcript, but I would not be suprised to discover that she showed only cursory interest in those aspects of her education, which did not seem destined to provide professional remuneration. She may well have "chuffed this off", as uninteresting and irrelevant. I have witnessed this myself - especially in younger, contemporary University students:
"Why do I have to learn about Charlemagne!? Who cares!"
Well, I needn't bother to refute the type of vapid ignorance and pathetic intellectual narcissism represented by that incurious statement. Persons of such a view do not belong in Graduate education. They are unlikely to be happy with the institution, nor successful in academic outcome.
Me? I was a monster at my A-Level, then declined the universities for the immediate lure of slacking-off in cafes and night clubs. With a lifelong academic for one parent, I'd understood my temperament would not result in satisfaction on either the part of the school or myself.
Counselor:Er, well, Mr. Anchovy... I'm afraid what you've got hold of there is an anteater.
Mr. Anchovy: A what?
Counselor:An anteater. Not a lion. You see a lion is a huge savage beast, about five feet high, ten feet long, weighing about four hundred pounds, running forty miles per hour, with masses of sharp pointed teeth and nasty long razor-sharp claws that can rip your belly open before you can say 'Eric Robinson', and they look like this. http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_01/LionBAR0602_468x393.jpg
It's NOT that they didn't want to contact each other.
eBay couldn't figure out, once they examined the potential fraud angle, how to keep the buyer and seller from colluding to terminate auctions, and conduct the sale privately - without eBay getting the fee.
This was one of the many scenarios they already faced in text communications - and is highly monitored. Voice - especially SkyPe voice - was harder to track, capture and analyze for ToS violations and fraud. This problem remains unsolved.
You mean to say, Aliens haven't contacted us from space, because... they're dyslexic!!!
Boy. I already have a hard time with "Gort, Klaatu barada nikto". Now, if I read you correctly and I think I do, I have it wrong, and it's actually harder to say!
How will we stop the Saucermen's invincible robot cops from busting the planet down to a molten core?
I'm just glad that "Spaa Fonn" and "Squa Tront" have passed from regular usage... Who KNOWS how those are really written and pronounced?
Keep your reactionary crap for the Monsanto press releases, you ignoramus.
How about growing Corn and Soybeans, as they are currently done on industrial scale - where several hundred times the caloric value they render as food is burned of in petroleum and fertilizers for every ton produced.
I believe in the Second Law of Thermodynamics, mind you, and try to obey it at every turn. But this is an unbelievably wasteful use of solar-generated energy, which enriches many on the raw-materials front, while producing a harmful and substandard food product.
So don't talk about sustainability of farming, when you advocate 10-20 % of the operating capacity of world oil wells to "sustain" your program of industrial-scale malnutrition. Or maybe you are volunteering to fight in combat to secure the next Central Asian pipeline?
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Now, that bum ticker in his chest won't stop him from carrying out the Rothschild aganda!
Please, can I have my pretty, shiny leash, please? It offers me so much Freedom!
BETTER PRIVACY PLUGIN.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623
100% compatible with Firefox 3.5*
Please do not ask me about missing updates here, read FAQ at the bottom of this page.
Better Privacy serves to protect against not deletable longterm cookies, a new generation of 'Super-Cookie', which silently conquered the internet. This new cookie generation offers unlimited user tracking to industry and market research. Concerning privacy Flash- and DOM Storage objects are most critical.
This addon was made to make users aware of those hidden, never expiring objects and to offer an easy way to get rid of them - since browsers are unable to do that for you.
Flash-cookies (Local Shared Objects, LSO) are pieces of information placed on your computer by a Flash plugin. Those Super-Cookies are placed in central system folders and so protected from deletion. They are frequently used like standard browser cookies. Although their thread potential is much higher as of conventional cookies, only few users began to take notice of them. It is of frequent occurrence that -after a time- hundreds of those Flash-cookies reside in special folders. And they won't be deleted - never.
BetterPrivacy can stop them, . by allowing to silently remove those objects on every browser exit. So this extension becomes sort of "install and forget add-on". Usually automatic deletion is safe (no negative impact on your browsing), especially if the deletion timer is activated. The timer can delay automatic deletion for new or modified Flash-cookies which might be in use. It also allows to delete those objects immediately if desired.
With BetterPrivacy it is possible to review, protect or delete new Flash-cookies individually. Users who wish to to manage all cookies manually can disable the automatic functions. BetterPrivacy also protects against 'DOM Storage' longterm tracking, a browser feature which has been granted by the major browser manufactures.
Some flash LSO-cookie properties in short...
they are never expiring - staying on your computer for an unlimited time.
by default they offer a storage of 100 KB (compare: Usual cookies 4 KB).
browsers are not aware of those cookies, LSO's usually cannot be removed by browsers.
via Flash they can access and store highly specific personal and technical information (system, user name, files,...).
ability to send the stored information to the appropriate server, without user's permission.
flash applications do not need to be visible
there is no easy way to tell which flash-cookie sites are tracking you.
shared folders allow cross-browser tracking, LSO's work in every flash-enabled application
the company doesn't provide a user-friendly way to manage LSO's, in fact it's incredible cumbersome.
many domains and tracking companies make extensive use of flash-cookies.
These cookies are not harmless.
IMPORTANT
IF YOU PERMIT DELETION OF LSO's,
THEN COOKIE-STORED INFORMATION LIKE
GAME SETTINGS OR LOGIN DATA (YAHOO SEAL)
MIGHT BE LOST! MAKE SURE THAT YOU EXCLUDED
IMPORTANT COOKIES FROM DELETION (SEE FAQ)
Frequently asked questions (FAQ):
Please scroll to the bottom of the page.
Recommended comprehensive Flash cookie article (topic: UC Berkeley research report)
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think-again/
Wikipedia LSO information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Shared_Object
See what Google finds:
http://google.com/search?q=flash-cookie+super-cookie
Privacy test:
http://netticat.ath.cx/extensions.html
Navigate to BetterPrivacy (right column)
Note:
NO
Simple decency.
Oh, I forgot. There's MONEY involved. I guess simple human values are mitigated under those conditions, and you are free to revert to exploitation and predatory impulses.
Why prolong the inevitable?
All good things must one day end. When that happens, a billion years, give or take, what it all worth, then? You can't run away forever!
Why not snuff it today, then?
Oh, and can I have your collection of first editions, when you've gone?
Milk production at a dairy farm was low so the farmer wrote to the local university, asking help from academia. A multidisciplinary team of professors was assembled, headed by a theoretical physicist, and two weeks of intensive on-site investigation took place. The scholars then returned to the university, notebooks crammed with data, where the task of writing the report was left to the team leader. Shortly thereafter the farmer received the write-up, and opened it to read on the first line:
"First we assume a spherical cow, in vacuum..."
With only 10 billion left on the clock, maybe you'll learn to take a little time. Stop and smell the roses, while yet we have noses!
No, but, yeah, but, no, but, yeah, but, no, but, yeah but I know because I'm not. They don't scare me! Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got, I'm just Vicky Pollard from round the corner from the block. V to the P to the Icky to the Ollard. Oh, my God! That is so unfair! This is like, well, sexual harassment! If you like, fancy me why don't you just say so? God, this is exactly like the time Miss Rennig, who everyone knows is a total lesbian, made Candice Burton stay behind after PE, started telling her off for gobbing on Sunita Geschwani's hair. But everyone knows she only made her stay late because she wanted to get off with her, cuz when she was telling her off her legs were wide open and Candice reckons she could see her spider. No, but yeah, but no, because if you don't let me in then Blazin' Squad are well, gonna give you beatings because I've actually already met them already anyway, actually, down at the Radio 1 Roadshow at Weston Super-Mare! You remember, it was the time I got fingered by Chris Moyles and Hayley Evers reckons she saw Jo Whiley taking a dump in the sea. But, anyway I have met Blazin' Squad and they said I should definitely come backstage and see 'em and do 'em, and anyway I do know them already because I'm their cousin. And if Rowan Gordon says I'm not then don't listen to him because everyone knows he's mental because he once shoved his knob through Miss Mayal's letterbox. No, but, yeah, but, no, but, yeah, but, no, but, yeah but I know because I'm not wasting police time because you know Micha? Well, she saw the whole thing, right, because she was bunking off school because she was gonna go down the wimbley and get off with Luke Griffiths, only she never because he's been trying to grow a moustache but it just looks like pubes, so she got off with Luke Torbet instead, only don't tell Bethany that because she's fancied Luke Torbet ever since she flashed her fanny at him during Home Ec'.
Multiple tabs. Error. Pasted from editor into wrong pane. :-)
Info/Disinfo. What pill did you take, this morning?
Google Pulls Sibel Edmonds' Access to Her Blog
August 9th, 2009
I don't know what it's going to take to make people understand that Google (and its associated brands, Blogger, YouTube, Google Video, Gmail) are NOT to be trusted for communicating controversial information. The fact that dissidents don't understand this basic information is just more evidence of how screwed we are.
Via: Justacitizen:
My Blog Site http://123realchange.blogspot.com/ is now blocked by Google's Blogger. They will not let me post during this most sensitive period, when I am about to provide deposition on Foreign US government illegal operations in the United States!
http://www.justacitizen.com/Press_Releases/URGENTGoogle's%20Blogger-Aug6.htm
Name Change to IceCat
ICEWEASEL!
# apt-get update
Get:1 http://your.favorite.mirror/ sid Release.gpg [378B]
Get:2 http://your.favorite.mirror/ sid Release [79.6kB]
Get:3 http://your.favorite.mirror/ sid/main Packages [4514kB]
Get:4 http://your.favorite.mirror/ sid/main Sources [1280kB]
Fetched 5874kB in 11s (523kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
# apt-get install iceweasel ... 68428 files and directories currently installed.) .../iceweasel_2.0+dfsg-1_powerpc.deb) ... ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
iceweasel-gnome-support latex-xft-fonts xprint mozplugger
The following NEW packages will be installed:
iceweasel
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 8933kB of archives.
After unpacking 27.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://your.favorite.mirror/ sid/main iceweasel 2.0+dfsg-1 [8933kB]
Fetched 8933kB in 9s (975kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package iceweasel.
(Reading database
Unpacking iceweasel (from
Setting up iceweasel (2.0+dfsg-1)
Please restart any running Iceweasels, or you will experience problems.
# _
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat
Go ahead.
Maybe then it can assign probabilities to the various unintended consequences.
Then again, why? You people can't even successfully manage a currency or your banks. How will you deal with super-intelligent machines without ethical guidelines? Or do I repeat myself? :-)
Counselor: Well I now have the results here of the interviews and the aptitude tests that you took last week, and from them we've built up a pretty clear picture of the sort of person that you are. And 1 think I can say, without fear of contradiction, that the ideal job for you is chartered accountancy.
Mr. Anchovy: But I am a chartered accountant.
Counselor: Jolly good. Well back to the office with you then.
University, despite it's commercial perversion in the years since 1980, is not a trade school.
Although a key to gainful, professional employment may be a classic liberal education, it does not therefore stand that the objective of this education is commercial marketability of graduates. Nor is the measure of education's success the commercial placement of these graduates.
The "liberal" in the term "Liberal Education" refers to it's breadth and fullness of development. This is as opposed to the vocational training of a specific skill-set, solely focused towards career placement.
I have not reviewed this plaintiff's transcript, but I would not be suprised to discover that she showed only cursory interest in those aspects of her education, which did not seem destined to provide professional remuneration. She may well have "chuffed this off", as uninteresting and irrelevant. I have witnessed this myself - especially in younger, contemporary University students:
"Why do I have to learn about Charlemagne!? Who cares!"
Well, I needn't bother to refute the type of vapid ignorance and pathetic intellectual narcissism represented by that incurious statement. Persons of such a view do not belong in Graduate education. They are unlikely to be happy with the institution, nor successful in academic outcome.
Me? I was a monster at my A-Level, then declined the universities for the immediate lure of slacking-off in cafes and night clubs. With a lifelong academic for one parent, I'd understood my temperament would not result in satisfaction on either the part of the school or myself.
Counselor: Er, well, Mr. Anchovy ... I'm afraid what you've got hold of there is an anteater.
Mr. Anchovy: A what?
Counselor: An anteater. Not a lion. You see a lion is a huge savage beast, about five feet high, ten feet long, weighing about four hundred pounds, running forty miles per hour, with masses of sharp pointed teeth and nasty long razor-sharp claws that can rip your belly open before you can say 'Eric Robinson', and they look like this. http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_01/LionBAR0602_468x393.jpg
I am all about Anjou Pears.
where are the terrorists when you need them?
Representing Plaintiffs and Defendants, of course!
Right. That sure would have been a winning strategy in limiting Columbine, no?
Benefit vs. Risk? I think they forgot about the unforseen. I guess that's why it's called "the unforseen". :-)
How fast did the Borg spread? Can't we use that as a rough estimate?
Well, MS-DOS 1.0 dates to 1982, and Windows 3.0 was released in May 1990. Windows NT 3.5 was in Sept 1994 - 'tho' I had a Beta one year earlier...
At that rate we'd be screwed!
But I see a plateau after Windows XP. It looks like the transition from a numerically incremental taxonomy slowed them down somewhat.
Perhaps we've breathing room, and time to plan our counter offensive?
A vegetarian named Cthulu?
Just kill it and eat it. Meat is food. Factory meat is not food.
Too bad we can't get 'em.
Cavendish suck.
It's NOT that they didn't want to contact each other.
eBay couldn't figure out, once they examined the potential fraud angle, how to keep the buyer and seller from colluding to terminate auctions, and conduct the sale privately - without eBay getting the fee.
This was one of the many scenarios they already faced in text communications - and is highly monitored. Voice - especially SkyPe voice - was harder to track, capture and analyze for ToS violations and fraud. This problem remains unsolved.
Take me to your dealer!
You mean to say, Aliens haven't contacted us from space, because... they're dyslexic!!!
Boy. I already have a hard time with "Gort, Klaatu barada nikto". Now, if I read you correctly and I think I do, I have it wrong, and it's actually harder to say!
How will we stop the Saucermen's invincible robot cops from busting the planet down to a molten core?
I'm just glad that "Spaa Fonn" and "Squa Tront" have passed from regular usage... Who KNOWS how those are really written and pronounced?
Based on my local sample, I'd estimate there to be less than ONE.
Culture? That's for bacteria. Civilization? Maybe in the invisible, Elf-Kingdom in the clouds. :-)
I've yet to witness any signs here on Earth!
Now, excuse me. My Unicorn says it's time for Mr. Ed.
Keep your reactionary crap for the Monsanto press releases, you ignoramus.
How about growing Corn and Soybeans, as they are currently done on industrial scale - where several hundred times the caloric value they render as food is burned of in petroleum and fertilizers for every ton produced.
I believe in the Second Law of Thermodynamics, mind you, and try to obey it at every turn. But this is an unbelievably wasteful use of solar-generated energy, which enriches many on the raw-materials front, while producing a harmful and substandard food product.
So don't talk about sustainability of farming, when you advocate 10-20 % of the operating capacity of world oil wells to "sustain" your program of industrial-scale malnutrition. Or maybe you are volunteering to fight in combat to secure the next Central Asian pipeline?
And you are kind. I hope I was not too testy or abrasive.