Only actually harassing and forcing people (including via manipulating then, which is more likely with children) is the problem! I can do that with food too!
Oh sure. "Meet me at the park for sex or I'll send all of your friends and family the video of you eating a sandwich".
For a test launch with a minimal payload they had plenty of capacity to spare. That rocket was capable of launching 37,000 pounds out past Mars. Granted that's in the fully expendable mode; I'm not sure what the capacity is when recovering all 3 stages but extrapolating from the figures they provided for LEO and GTO it should still easily exceed 4,000 lbs when launching towards Mars. Meanwhile the roadster clocks in at 2,800 with the batteries in; much less after they removed those.
But yeah, it's definitely complicated. I don't know how exactly they store and dispense the ignition fluid so it's kinda useless to speculate about the practicality of including a lot more of it.
You would think with something like ignition fluid they would just go 100% more right off the bat, and see how much they actually use. It has to be a teeny tiny fraction of the total rocket's weight. Yeah, it would mean having to build larger storage tanks for it, too, but if it saves your multimillion dollar rocket from performing the worlds largest cannonball....
Any site with the "facebook plugin" social media thing could be tracking you. The facebook logo image is loaded from facebook's domain.
Thanks, Einstein. The point is that the Facebook plugin is almost always loaded with JavaScript, which is why you don't see their logo when JavaScript is disabled. The whole plugin goes away.
But hey, just get angry when someone disagrees with you and start name calling like a child. That works too.
Not angry, just frustrated that I seem to be speaking to children who keep missing the point.
A small followup on this; I didn't have JavaScript disabled as a browser setting, rather I was using the NoScript browser extension, set to block all scripts by default.
It turns out that this makes a difference. The "noscript" tag on Slashdot, and the other sites which you linked to, don't actually get processed unless scripting is disabled in the browser settings. So the LinkedIn and Facebook tracking events really were being blocked for me since neither the scripts nor the noscript element were being processed.
If you have script enabled than they go that way, if you do not they use the spypixel as a fallback.
Yeah, obviously; I meant that the noscript section was intentionally put there to get around script blocking.
Do yourself a favour, and take a look at a FF plugin like RequestPolicy. It will block any-and-all third-party resource requests by default, but can very easily (a few mouse clicks) be configured to whitelist certain requests (globally, or just for the current domain. Even just for the current session).
I actually checked after my reply to you and found that uBlock Origin was blocking the LinkedIn tracking for me anyway. But thank you, I will definitely check out RequestPolicy; it seems like a very useful tool.
I suggest you look again. Although I've found a number of sites where FB stuff is crammed into an IFrame, I have also encountered as many which only sport the facebook "icon" - most always retrieved from their domain, and as such causing the same effect as the invisible pixel: just visiting the page will let FB know you where there.
I checked out your example from "questionable content", and you're absolutely right. Even worse, while uBlock is stopping the tracking attempt from "facebook.net" - which wouldn't have loaded anyway due to scripting being disabled - it's letting the non-script connection to facebook.com sail right through. Ouch!
I did, however say they "primarily" use javascript based methods, and I still think that's true. For every one website you show me which has a tracker embedded directly in the HTML I think I can show you a dozen where, with javascript disabled, Facebook loses all ability to track you. But you're obviously correct in pointing out that they do use other methods at times, and that if I want to completely block them on all the sites I visit it's not enough to just disable javascript. So, I stand corrected.
Even if you do not accept cookies, the HTTP protocol has got enough crap on board to replace it - like a special, website-supplied(!) "timestamp", which your browser provides the next time you request the same resource.
Yeah, that's not much different than etag tracking, you still have to get the browser to load your resource. Anyway, I was aware that all of this was possible, I just hadn't seen any example of any sites actually loading Facebook trackers without using javascript. Thank you for providing those, as well as for your suggestion about RequestPolicy. Your comment has been far more informative than most.
Facebook uses ETag and browser fingerprinting (they probably have additional). They are an advertising company so they have entire divisions dedicated to this.
Any useful browser fingerprinting definitely requires JavaScript, so using this as an example of how Facebook can track you WITHOUT JavaScript leads me to believe that you really have no clue what you're talking about.
Etag tracking is really neat, but it's not much different than the old "embed an image and use it to set up a cookie" method. The only difference that it doesn't require cookies. So, again, since all of the Facebook tracking methods I've seen use JavaScript to load their elements, just throwing the word "etag" out there doesn't change anything.
Anyway, the other dude who responded gave a much better example, and he had a point; some sites do code such tracking methods directly into their HTML rather than calling JavaScript. He provided an example of Slashdot doing it with LinkedIn trackers; while I've still yet to see an example of anyone doing it for Facebook, I can certainly admit that it's possible. So, to cut to the chase, my point would be that:
1. Disabling JavaScript and only white listing selected sites will cut down on the vast majority of trackers out there, and
2. If you want to block even more of them you can always install adblock or uBlock Origin. I checked after responding to him, and my uBlock was succefully stopping the LinkedIn tracking image which was embedded in Slashdot.
Depending on your level of paranoia you can do a lot more than that, but even just one of the above two steps is enough to throw a wrench in their attempt to track you everywhere you go.
No. It's true that only Russia is doing it at this moment; it's not true that Russia is the only country which is able to do it. Those are two very different statements. The US (via SpaceX) has the ability to do it; they've just elected not to use it at this time. It's a question of priorities and policies rather than ability.
The case of Gottfrid Svartholm makes bad liars out of all the concern trolls working on behalf of American Hegemony.
Cool story, bro. But no. Gottfrid was charged and jailed in Sweden for copyright infringement, and was investigated for hacking and fraud. He was then deported to Denmark where he was prosecuted and convicted for hacking.
None of those things have anything to do with the Assange situation. Sweden's extradition treaty specifically forbids extradition for "political crimes", and the only thing which the US has accused him of is expressly political. Ergo there's no good reason to believe that Sweden would extradite him.
Either way, you're basically suggesting that both Sweden and the USA need to change their laws in order to accommodate poor little Julian, which is pretty damn funny.
You know where that comes from ? Yep, this websites main page.:-D
That's funny. It's actually in the "noscript" section of the site meaning the jackasses intentionally put it there to track people with scripts disabled. Thanks, now I have a good reason to go and block the entire LinkedIn domain.
Anyway, LinkedIn isn't Facebook:)
And I must say I'm a bit miffeled about your "without using JavaScript" addition. Almost as if you have zero idea about how an IMG tag works...
If you look around you'll see that Facebook primarily tracks people through their stupid social media plugins for websites, which rely on JavaScript. They also do some tracking via ads which, again, depend on JavaScript.
Is it possible to track people without JavaScript? Yes, absolutely. I just haven't seen any examples of Facebook doing so. And since the previous dingus was claiming they don't use JavaScript, I asked him for an example of them using something else. Still waiting on that.
Also, the only country that is able to take people there is Russia.
This isn't really true. The Dragon capsule is quite capable of taking people there; it just hasn't been certifies yet because the FAA / NASA is still investigating the explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket from last year.
That's a good thing, of course; there hasn't been much need to rush development, so erring in favour of safety makes sense. But if the US really wanted to get a crew to the ISS next week and Russia refused to cooperate, SpaceX has the capability to get them there.
The first manned Dragon flight is scheduled for May, at which point it should recieve full certification and start doing regular runs to the ISS.
Lineage has run on every device I have wanted it on, including 5 different phones and 3 different tablets. It's true that it's not available for every device but that has no been an issue for me.
XPosed should run on every device out there, so if Lineage isn't available for your phone then give XPosed a shot. You still have to be able to root your device, though, which may be a show stopper for many people.
If you care about privacy my suggestion would be to select your device based on it's ability to implement one or both of these solutions. If you're just basing your purchase decision on what's cheap or what looks pretty, you get what you get.
You don't need it, but that's how they do it. If they decide to use other methods you can adapt to block those too, but right now it's unnecessary. Wow.
There's generally no way to prevent any app from accessing your location on Android
Of course there is. Install LineageOS, which comes with privacy guard. Or, if you want to keep your current ROM, install the XPosed framework. XPosed with XPrivacy is especially great because you can feed apps fake location data. Back when i still had Facebook they thought I was in the middle of the pacific ocean one day, and in the Arctic the next.
That's adorable coming from the dipshit who thinks that cops are quite happy to be shot by white criminals, and that police shootings somehow magically make blacks more likely to be killers.
Ah, but of course. He dindu nuffin. He was a good boy. Da po po made him rob the store and shoot the clerk. If only they wasn't to ray-cist he might have been a rocket surgeon!
Wow, that's crazy. Who would have thought that a demographic which is insanely more likely to murder others is also way more likely to be killed by police.
It's almost like there's something connecting those two statistics...
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Only actually harassing and forcing people (including via manipulating then, which is more likely with children) is the problem!
I can do that with food too!
Oh sure. "Meet me at the park for sex or I'll send all of your friends and family the video of you eating a sandwich".
Totally; food works so well for blackmail.
For a test launch with a minimal payload they had plenty of capacity to spare. That rocket was capable of launching 37,000 pounds out past Mars. Granted that's in the fully expendable mode; I'm not sure what the capacity is when recovering all 3 stages but extrapolating from the figures they provided for LEO and GTO it should still easily exceed 4,000 lbs when launching towards Mars. Meanwhile the roadster clocks in at 2,800 with the batteries in; much less after they removed those.
But yeah, it's definitely complicated. I don't know how exactly they store and dispense the ignition fluid so it's kinda useless to speculate about the practicality of including a lot more of it.
You would think with something like ignition fluid they would just go 100% more right off the bat, and see how much they actually use. It has to be a teeny tiny fraction of the total rocket's weight. Yeah, it would mean having to build larger storage tanks for it, too, but if it saves your multimillion dollar rocket from performing the worlds largest cannonball ....
Didn't he say the same thing about "natural medicine"?
The Dragon v2 capsule (the crewed variant) is not yet ready and has not yet flown (target is before end of the year).
That's not technically true either; while it hasn't flown into space it certainly has flown ;)
First flight into space should be this April.
Any site with the "facebook plugin" social media thing could be tracking you. The facebook logo image is loaded from facebook's domain.
Thanks, Einstein. The point is that the Facebook plugin is almost always loaded with JavaScript, which is why you don't see their logo when JavaScript is disabled. The whole plugin goes away.
But hey, just get angry when someone disagrees with you and start name calling like a child. That works too.
Not angry, just frustrated that I seem to be speaking to children who keep missing the point.
A small followup on this; I didn't have JavaScript disabled as a browser setting, rather I was using the NoScript browser extension, set to block all scripts by default.
It turns out that this makes a difference. The "noscript" tag on Slashdot, and the other sites which you linked to, don't actually get processed unless scripting is disabled in the browser settings. So the LinkedIn and Facebook tracking events really were being blocked for me since neither the scripts nor the noscript element were being processed.
No. Those jackasses want to track you, period.
If you have script enabled than they go that way, if you do not they use the spypixel as a fallback.
Yeah, obviously; I meant that the noscript section was intentionally put there to get around script blocking.
Do yourself a favour, and take a look at a FF plugin like RequestPolicy. It will block any-and-all third-party resource requests by default, but can very easily (a few mouse clicks) be configured to whitelist certain requests (globally, or just for the current domain. Even just for the current session).
I actually checked after my reply to you and found that uBlock Origin was blocking the LinkedIn tracking for me anyway. But thank you, I will definitely check out RequestPolicy; it seems like a very useful tool.
I suggest you look again. Although I've found a number of sites where FB stuff is crammed into an IFrame, I have also encountered as many which only sport the facebook "icon" - most always retrieved from their domain, and as such causing the same effect as the invisible pixel: just visiting the page will let FB know you where there.
I checked out your example from "questionable content", and you're absolutely right. Even worse, while uBlock is stopping the tracking attempt from "facebook.net" - which wouldn't have loaded anyway due to scripting being disabled - it's letting the non-script connection to facebook.com sail right through. Ouch!
I did, however say they "primarily" use javascript based methods, and I still think that's true. For every one website you show me which has a tracker embedded directly in the HTML I think I can show you a dozen where, with javascript disabled, Facebook loses all ability to track you. But you're obviously correct in pointing out that they do use other methods at times, and that if I want to completely block them on all the sites I visit it's not enough to just disable javascript. So, I stand corrected.
Even if you do not accept cookies, the HTTP protocol has got enough crap on board to replace it - like a special, website-supplied(!) "timestamp", which your browser provides the next time you request the same resource.
Yeah, that's not much different than etag tracking, you still have to get the browser to load your resource. Anyway, I was aware that all of this was possible, I just hadn't seen any example of any sites actually loading Facebook trackers without using javascript. Thank you for providing those, as well as for your suggestion about RequestPolicy. Your comment has been far more informative than most.
Facebook uses ETag and browser fingerprinting (they probably have additional). They are an advertising company so they have entire divisions dedicated to this.
Any useful browser fingerprinting definitely requires JavaScript, so using this as an example of how Facebook can track you WITHOUT JavaScript leads me to believe that you really have no clue what you're talking about.
Etag tracking is really neat, but it's not much different than the old "embed an image and use it to set up a cookie" method. The only difference that it doesn't require cookies. So, again, since all of the Facebook tracking methods I've seen use JavaScript to load their elements, just throwing the word "etag" out there doesn't change anything.
Anyway, the other dude who responded gave a much better example, and he had a point; some sites do code such tracking methods directly into their HTML rather than calling JavaScript. He provided an example of Slashdot doing it with LinkedIn trackers; while I've still yet to see an example of anyone doing it for Facebook, I can certainly admit that it's possible. So, to cut to the chase, my point would be that:
1. Disabling JavaScript and only white listing selected sites will cut down on the vast majority of trackers out there, and
2. If you want to block even more of them you can always install adblock or uBlock Origin. I checked after responding to him, and my uBlock was succefully stopping the LinkedIn tracking image which was embedded in Slashdot.
Depending on your level of paranoia you can do a lot more than that, but even just one of the above two steps is enough to throw a wrench in their attempt to track you everywhere you go.
No. It's true that only Russia is doing it at this moment; it's not true that Russia is the only country which is able to do it. Those are two very different statements. The US (via SpaceX) has the ability to do it; they've just elected not to use it at this time. It's a question of priorities and policies rather than ability.
The case of Gottfrid Svartholm makes bad liars out of all the concern trolls working on behalf of American Hegemony.
Cool story, bro. But no. Gottfrid was charged and jailed in Sweden for copyright infringement, and was investigated for hacking and fraud. He was then deported to Denmark where he was prosecuted and convicted for hacking.
None of those things have anything to do with the Assange situation. Sweden's extradition treaty specifically forbids extradition for "political crimes", and the only thing which the US has accused him of is expressly political. Ergo there's no good reason to believe that Sweden would extradite him.
Either way, you're basically suggesting that both Sweden and the USA need to change their laws in order to accommodate poor little Julian, which is pretty damn funny.
You know where that comes from ? Yep, this websites main page. :-D
That's funny. It's actually in the "noscript" section of the site meaning the jackasses intentionally put it there to track people with scripts disabled. Thanks, now I have a good reason to go and block the entire LinkedIn domain.
Anyway, LinkedIn isn't Facebook :)
And I must say I'm a bit miffeled about your "without using JavaScript" addition. Almost as if you have zero idea about how an IMG tag works ...
If you look around you'll see that Facebook primarily tracks people through their stupid social media plugins for websites, which rely on JavaScript. They also do some tracking via ads which, again, depend on JavaScript.
Is it possible to track people without JavaScript? Yes, absolutely. I just haven't seen any examples of Facebook doing so. And since the previous dingus was claiming they don't use JavaScript, I asked him for an example of them using something else. Still waiting on that.
Also, the only country that is able to take people there is Russia.
This isn't really true. The Dragon capsule is quite capable of taking people there; it just hasn't been certifies yet because the FAA / NASA is still investigating the explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket from last year.
That's a good thing, of course; there hasn't been much need to rush development, so erring in favour of safety makes sense. But if the US really wanted to get a crew to the ISS next week and Russia refused to cooperate, SpaceX has the capability to get them there.
The first manned Dragon flight is scheduled for May, at which point it should recieve full certification and start doing regular runs to the ISS.
No shit. Show me an example of any site doing that for Facebook, without using JavaScript.
Lineage has run on every device I have wanted it on, including 5 different phones and 3 different tablets. It's true that it's not available for every device but that has no been an issue for me.
XPosed should run on every device out there, so if Lineage isn't available for your phone then give XPosed a shot. You still have to be able to root your device, though, which may be a show stopper for many people.
If you care about privacy my suggestion would be to select your device based on it's ability to implement one or both of these solutions. If you're just basing your purchase decision on what's cheap or what looks pretty, you get what you get.
Please, do tell.
You don't need it, but that's how they do it. If they decide to use other methods you can adapt to block those too, but right now it's unnecessary. Wow.
There's generally no way to prevent any app from accessing your location on Android
Of course there is. Install LineageOS, which comes with privacy guard. Or, if you want to keep your current ROM, install the XPosed framework. XPosed with XPrivacy is especially great because you can feed apps fake location data. Back when i still had Facebook they thought I was in the middle of the pacific ocean one day, and in the Arctic the next.
Yeah, that ought to work real well with JavaScript disabled.
Gosh, you're an idiot.
That's adorable coming from the dipshit who thinks that cops are quite happy to be shot by white criminals, and that police shootings somehow magically make blacks more likely to be killers.
Yes, but not in the direction you think.
Ah, but of course. He dindu nuffin. He was a good boy. Da po po made him rob the store and shoot the clerk. If only they wasn't to ray-cist he might have been a rocket surgeon!
I'm not going to bother refuting any of your `arguments'. I couldn't make a convincing case the last thousand times, and I can't do it now.
FTFY
Modern reactor designs can produce 50 to 60 GWh per ton of enriched fuel, so EROEI is hardly a concern.
You're an order or magnitude or two off on those numbers. It's 50 gigawatt DAYS per tonne, not hours. So multiply by 24.
But then only about one third of that output is electricity, the rest is heat. So if we care about the electricity it's more like
50*24*0.33
= 396 GWh of electricity per tonne
Plus 804 GWh of thermal energy.
Wow, that's crazy. Who would have thought that a demographic which is insanely more likely to murder others is also way more likely to be killed by police.
It's almost like there's something connecting those two statistics ...
It does plasma measurements and has a small camera for taking pictures.