Wladimir Palant high? how are google ads not intrusive? google is among the worst privacy violators

I am hardcore anti-privacy-rape ergo I block 99.999% of ads with a reasonable tolerance for false positives.  My privacy is NOT a commodity.  What’s more I champion the privacy of the naive.

https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads

https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/exceptionrules.txt

@@||google.com/uds/*$script,subdocument,document,domain=suche.netzwelt.de
@@||google.com/aclk^$domain=suche.netzwelt.de,subdocument
@@||googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk^$domain=suche.netzwelt.de,subdocument

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Google profits by RAPING the privacy of its users and ALL those with whom its users interact.

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The checkbox is slightly less obscure than the about:config preference extensions.adblockplus.subscriptions_exceptionscheckbox

JD5000 would be aghast! I miss ComputerCops (CastleCops)

Privacy rape enabled by default?  That is soo unacceptable we need a whole new word to escape understatement.

Fortunately AdBlock Plus continues to be useful for content liberation research.  Still no stand alone XUL loopback proxy?

The tide in the android adblocking game is shifting in favor of privacy.

More elaborate local net filtering it is!  Oh the joy.  After epiphany I shall have some time to tinker.

“blocking ads harms free content”

really?  That tired argument.  It is obviously NOT free if the cost is privacy rape.  I HATE the promotion of android applications under the banner of free and the backhanded slap with adware flavor of malware.  Editing the APK is generally as trivial as blocking net connections.  A little more esoteric to deprive apps of reliable network state information.   The Spirit of Mozilla applied to android..

 

Blocking ads does not harm ANY free content or free software.  Blocking ads prevents one from being victimized by the heinously irrational defective business model syndrome.

“Respect my privacy” 

is the second highest concern to the allow unobtrusive ads model.  Google privacy rape?  Ring any bells?  Take a few moments (or hours if you’re a bit slow) to consider how google profits. How does allowing google ads respect privacy?  (hint: it doesn’t)

Now I’ll get to produce a PDF flyer for distribution to “everyone” how to reclaim the privacy AdBlock Plus supposedly provides.  oh goodie!  Or maybe I’ll get to repackage the extension and distribute it.  Yes, license complaints.  How’d that work out for zottmann?

Allowed adp comment with less eloquent objection but interesting malware analogy.  This is exactly what google android market does: allow “acceptable” malware.

selling != not-selling

If it is free there is no cost.

If there is a cost it is not free.

Yes, Johnny, words have particular meaning. Profound umbrige is taken against abuse of “free” as it is libelous against the thousands of f/OSS developers.

Giving away product and whining that no one purchased it?  What is your definition for insanity?

Don’t want your content in the public sphere?  Don’t place your content in the public sphere!  How challenging is this?  (genius not required)

Do Not track FARCE

until the evils of fine grained Geo IP Location are addressed one would be equally well served creating a do not track post-it note and affixing it to one’s monitor in the hopes of compliance. ISPs need offer privacy conscious users the option to have an IP address issued from a pool NOT related to where one resides/works/exists while surfing.

give the gift of education

google & privacy [poster]

 

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PDroid, adds awesome spoofing POWER to android privacy permissions management

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357056

picks up where LBE Privacy Guard leaves off… they play well together.  However PDroid claims no need of background service.. still requires root. It requires root to boot into CWM to apply the patch, but does not require root to run the management app.

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PDroid allows blocking access for any installed application to the following data separately:

• Device ID (IMEI/MEID/ESN)
• Subscriber ID (IMSI)
• SIM serial (ICCID)
• Phone and mailbox number
• Incoming call number
• Outgoing call number
• GPS location
• Network location
• List of accounts (including your google e-mail address)
• Account auth tokens
• Contacts
• Call logs
• Calendar
• SMS
• MMS
• Browser bookmarks and history
• System logs
• SIM info (operator, country)
• Network info (operator, country)

For device ID, phone and mailbox number, SIM serial, subscriber ID and device location it also allows supplying custom or random values.

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easy access to APKs from memorable url: http://tinyurl.com/PrivacyDroid

PDroid 2.3.4 source; patches build, frameworks and libcore

cites interesting article on blockery leakiness.

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yahoo privacy policy: viewing equals consent? adblocking only opt out option?

I see… or rather opt not to see via adblocking [AdAway]

Yahoo! does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.

http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/nz/yahoo/details.html

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coming soon to a blog I own near you soon:

comparison matrix of yahoo privacy policies by int’l domain/region

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English LBE Security Master for android now available (outside market) formerly LBE Privacy Guard

If you had been in contact with LBE developers prior to this release you should have received notification directly from LBE.

English LBE Privacy Guard has received MUCH much more than a face lift.

Download English LBE Security Master [lite]

Version mismatch?  English LBE Security Master lite is version 2.0.x whereas Chinese LBE Security Master is version 2.1.x

Hopefully LBE has the wisdom to sell the full version outside the market, also.  Secure information shared with google [stored on google] is NOT secure.

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There is an rom alternative to LBE Security Master [lite] by WhisperCore:

http://whispersys.com/permissions.html

WhisperCore provides selective persmissions in a way that doesn’t take apps by surprise. Instead of denying access to resources, each permission revoked by a user creates a “private resource” for that application. So if an application requests the phone’s unique identifier, it will still get an identifier, but it will be a privacy-protected identifier generated specifically for that application. A different application with the same revoked permission would get a separate identifier, and an application without the revoked permission would get the real phone identifier.

Unfortunately WhisperSystem’s WhisperCore  does not support ALL android phones like LBE.

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Another alternative to LBE Security Master LITE is pffmod

http://code.google.com/p/pffmod/

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Ultimate permissions management, spoof ID / fake data, is possible with cyanogenmod

http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,5677

Apply a little peer pressure to effect a change in favor of the hardware/data owners!

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new English version of LBE Privacy Guard available Halloween? Renamed to LBE Security Master

English LBE Security Master lite from LBE now available

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I have been using the new LBE Security Master in Chinese.  With the exception of a few features all the functionality can be intuited based on prior app experience.

[insert: LBE PG backgrounder]

New to this version is a name change.  This better than fantastic app has been dubbed LBE Security Master.  The Guard icon is a dial whereas the Master icon is a shield.  Go figure.

While denial of permissions is an option I much prefer playing integrity challenged applications at their own game: data poisoning.

I had been working on a screen shot based tutorial but it seems that will be of little value for the Chinese-only upgrade as the English version of LBE Security Master (version 2.1.x) will be available Halloween or possibly All Souls Day.  Chinese APK.

I am hoping in addition to unique id spoofing [UDID] LBE Privacy Guard data services will also be able to spoof MAC addresses and spoof non-radio IMEI/MEID.

New must-have features include:

• new permissions visualization,
• bandwidth monitoring per app (a starred feature req of DroidWall)
• battery preservation,
• communication filtering [some twits label this sms firewall]
• fractional functionality for non-root users

Missing is finer grained control of permissions.   Some permissions such as send SMS, receive SMS are grouped into one tickbox.  GPS location and network location are deemed one permission.   ‘Get TASKS’, a permission abused by google maps, seems to be MIA as well.

The new Chinese version of LBE Privacy Guard is fully functional under Cyanogenmod 7: good news for users of non-stable releases of CM7 who are unable to use the current English version. While garbage collection frequency has been a blight for some using cm4dx the dev cm4dx-gb has almost entirely addressed the problem; LBE Security Master can increase garbage collection frequency at user request.

Keep an eye on the LBE Security Master change log and LBE dev blog for more speculation fodder.  Though big fans of QQ they are not big on XMPP.

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boxee box users can now DIRECTLY subscribe to Glenn Beck — it is about time

Boxee Box users need no longer pull GBTV episodes from BT or usenet:

http://blog.gbtv.com/2011/10/19/gbtv-now-on-boxee-how-can-you-win-a-free-boxee-box-and-a-year-of-gbtv/

XBMC users still in the cold?

 

will the death of Steve be for apple what the death of Sam was for walmart?

Walmart lost its kind nature when Sam died.  The Walmart of today is anti-second amendment, and brings fascism of spending to bear against electronics manufactures to produce an inferior (less costly) version for walmart stores.

Will the death of Steve retard apple’s move towards openness?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304447804576410753210811910.html

http://stevejobsisdead.com/

http://stevejobsdead.org/

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when will pinger TextFree offer voice? API testing in progress?

soon?

api.ocean.corp.pinger.com

their new client touts PUSH

but will their ads be as nefarious as version 1.4.x?  The ad engine attempts to leverage a local install of google maps to extract physical location when access to the GPS hardware is not an option.  why??  bits to collect GPS location if available otherwise networklocation.  why?

I miss Fiddler2.

should we really entrust communications to a company steered by a socialist?

social “justice” promotion

http://areafifteen.com/

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google flash block detector?

http://flashblockdetector.googlecode.com/hg/fbd.js

or

http://flashblockdetector.googlecode.com/

http://code.google.com/p/flashblockdetector/ or experience a demo

This library does not interfere with, or try to counteract, any Flash blocking extensions. It simply tells you whether a blocker is active on your page. Note: if the user has a Flash blocker but has whitelisted your site, the library will (correctly) say that Flash is not blocked.

Because some Flash blockers are not instantaneous, this library inserts some dummy Flash objects into the page and then waits for up to 5 seconds to see if they get blocked.

yeah, and now it’s blocked with AdBlock Plus.  Spying over.

pages load less slowly with more crap blocked.  google, the champion of text ads, takes notices and deploys flashblock detector?

why?

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found in the wild on yopmail.com

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yahoo mail URL to create filters

having difficulty creating webmail filters?  Thanks to NEO?

you betcha especially if picking “mail options” from the options dropdown results in a blank ‘options’ neo-tab

( /neo/options/s/mailoptions?.inNeo=true )

 

after logging in change the tab path to:

/ym/Filters

or the parent legacy menu

/ym/opitons

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foiling baseless debt collection calls

This article ought be applied only to those situations where one does not-actually owe the claimed debt.  Verizon creative-billing has generated a few irritating collections encounters.

basic rules: http://caveatemptorblog.com/debt-collection-cheatsheet/

Debt collectors MUST

* show true callerid information
* honestly identify themselves when called party inquires
* cease calling you/writing you after you instruct them they may only communicate with your attorney (lawyer).  you must provide contact information
* “provide the nature of their business” when you inquire by phone.
** you are not required to identify yourself to obtain this information from them

Debt collectors may NOT

* impersonate another when contacting either you, or someone they believe might know how to contact you
* use callerid_number that you cannot call to reach them
* use callerid_name that obscures their identity

When calling a debt collector it is PRUDENT to:

* RECORD the conversation

while it might be illegal in your state to record the call without consent, do so anyway.  the conversation might then be “inadmissable” as evidence in court.  “oh noes”.

Notify them at the start of the call that you are recording them (if they object courteously inform them you do not care and these are your terms to communicate with them about the alleged debt, or inform them that requires manager approval)

My voip provider allows me to record outgoing calls by first dialing a code:   code + number.   My provider also has a feature to record all/some incoming calls.

* keep copious written notes

insist on the full name, employee number, and phone number of whomever.  if they refuse inform them these are your terms and terminate the call.  Without accountability you will suffer phone run around.

* provide them as LITTLE information as possible

Remember any customer service call where the agent simply repeated one or more phrases?  You, too, can control the conversation by providing no new information no matter how many ways the question is phrased to you.

they called you.  they likely provided an account number or reference number.  you mission is to collect information about the reference number NOT to provide them information.  provide nothing, request everything.

colxn: “This call is for Miss Smith regarding reference XTR-14m3. please call 800-142-8686″

call them back via SIP free tollfree termination

you: “I received a call from this numbah.  What is the nature of your business, and what is your physical location.”

provide nothing until these two are ascertained.  optionally make allusion to having a reference number for compliance motivation.

you: “I am calling in regards to reference XTR-l4m3.  Explain your claim”

provide nothing other than: the reference number, the time you were called, and a verbatim quote from the message.  repeat your inquiry.  Pretend you are a mouth breather in verizon customer service.  do NOT vary your responses: repeat yourself often.

* retain an attorney (lawyer)

direct debt collector to attorney.  they MAY NOT contact you directly from this point forward.  they MUST only communicate with your attorney.

* contact EVERYONE you have ever listed as an “emergency contact” on any form — especially medical (new doctor/patient)

advise/remind them NOT to volunteer information about you in writing- or over the phone.  this should be super-obvious already, but “social” networking sites seem to sap IQs.

* DISCONTINUE providing “alternate contacts” or “emergency” information on forms.   It is ONLY used for debt collection

If the bunker nazi (front office clerk) at a medical facility “requires” the form be “completed”

** draw a line through the boxes, or
** put your own IDENTICAL information in the boxes, or
** fabricate a person:  Uncle John Smith, 202-167-8080  (fourth digit always “1″ makes the number invalid).  419eater.com rules apply.  do not suck the innocent into the fabrication.

* buy yourself a forwarding number to use on medical forms, new account forms, or anywhere you would enter your home/mobile/office number.

If you start receiving irritating calls buy another forwarding number, cancel the prior number, and only inform those people with whom YOU WANT to communicate the new number… ideally next time YOU interact with those people in person.

 

* withhold your callerid

not possible with mere star-code prefix dialing.  toll free DID have ANI magic.  be wary of their non-tollfree DID, too

I use SIP “free tollfree termination”

www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Toll+Free+Termination+Provider

* if not outright ditching their calls consider routing them through a hellish IVR… IVR tarpitting

both voxeo and plum have excellent, free tools for VISUALLY designing an IVR.  disable DTMF (touch tone) options, requiring ASR (speech recognition).  “accidentally” misspell the keywords for ASR

 

optionally

* out them on a new-blog

especially beneficial for “debts” you do not owe.

* post the phone call recordings

be sure to edit out YOUR personal (financial) information

 

additional bookmarkified resources

http://www.wikihow.com/Stop-Collection-Calls

step 8, step 9, step 10

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rome is to the united states as caesar is to the super committee

remember the general longevity of rome after “upgrading” to caesar installation from the senate?

PBS to launch new propagandizing to interweb with “need to know” — contains only what they want you to know

Uniting broadcast and web in an innovative approach to newsgathering and reporting, “NEED TO KNOW” will advance PBS’s role as America’s most-trusted [BULLSHIT] provider of news and information into a dynamic source of current affairs coverage for today’s media consumers. / “Through persistent, strategic innovation during the past three years, PBS has been transforming itself [into propagandizing all ages ministry], taking public media content beyond the television screen [into fantasy land] and making it available on multiple platforms, including the Internet and mobile devices,” said Paula Kerger, President and CEO of PBS. “NEED TO KNOW” is the latest step in this ongoing propaganda evolution. NEED TO KNOW will take the top stories and put them in revisionist history context, offering a deeper understanding of the truthiness of issues of our times that we want you to know.” / “In-depth reporting, pseudo-intelligent analysis, thoughtful brainwashy commentary and relevant features are the hallmarks of PBS public affairs programming,” said Neal Shapiro, President and CEO of WNET.ORG. “NEED TO KNOW” will carry on this tradition of child re-education, but it will break through the limitations of the broadcast schedule and pesky laws by means of a web-based production model that empowers audiences to ‘tune in’ anytime and anywhere to our flavor of reality. “NEED TO KNOW” is truly news for a new generation of conditioned ignorant peoples.” / “NEED TO KNOW” is one of the key components of a PBS news and public affairs initiative, the first phase of which focuses on improving service to

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interesting xmpp bot

http://code.google.com/p/power-bot-by-egyptian-team-2011-2012/

their xmpp server ssl cert info however is troubling..

 

Draupnir, oblique chaotic good reference?

mischief.. treasure.. cave

outsmart.. save neck

 

wp(oEmbed) + embedly = xss joy

wrapping( wrapping( wrapped ad-containing “content”)) for wordpress to be scraped

oh, the ad servers are giddy. Profit for some.  Privacy?  What’s that?

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disposable phone testing: TracFone good, cheap TracFones bad. (prepaid phones)

I carry more than two mobile phones for a variety of reasons.  Taking any of them to a potentially wet environment is less than desirable.

Disposable phones to the rescue?  Which pre-paid phones suck the least?

First choice to test: TracFone.

It was inexpensive (and very cheap).  No per day cost for the privilege of having the phone activated.  Minutes do not expire, but the phone activation does.  Buy more minutes before activation window expires or the phone self destructs (becomes unusable).   $15 for the phone itself: LG420G.  $20 for a 60 pre-paid minutes code.  Apparently there was a promotion at the time of phone purchase:  All minutes, and future purchase minutes, are doubled.  Searching the interweb I found a five digit promo code for an additional 60 minutes.

$35 bought: a chintzy phone, 180 minutes, five months of activation, and a phone number in the zip code I specified during phone activation.  The phone activation has a few gotchas.  It prompts early for a five digit promo code.   Since I was unaware that such existed I had not interweb searched for one.  No problem, the IVR indicates promo entry can be deferred to the end of the call.  Unfortunately the IVR provides no opportunity to enter the promo code later.  One need call TracFone support, 800.867.7183, and endure half an hour of near musak before being routed to a live body in Singapore.

Now the worse-bad:

•  lag. horrible audio lag for each call party.  Sometimes as poor as long as four seconds of lag
•  audio drops.  With full signal audio drops: 30% or more of the conversation is lost to the ether.  The lower the signal strength the more audio is dropped
•  echo.  horrible echo.   I did not expect fantastic audio fidelity from a $15 obviously refurbished phone.  However, a high quality blue tooth headset offers no improvement.  sound uptake, DAC, DSP, codec, signal transmission..  the latter three are apparently hugely problematic even with BT audio.
• audio fidelity poor.  very very poor… even with high quality BT
•  most SMS falls in a hole never to be seen

The phone would be great for 419 scambating as the phone delightfully  mangles audio and would frustrate scammers.  While I would almost be pleased if this phone were to get wet on a trip and die the audio-suck issues render it useless for using other than a pager.

The less than good:

• SMS sending uses at least 0.5 minutes of air time.  More minute fractions for longer SMS
• TracFone will not accept SIM from another SIM provider
• BT profile has been verizon’d
• BT audio device must be manually accepted each time powered
• TracFone support claims one is charged for outgoing ringing
• charged for incoming ringing WHEN phone rings for more than five minutes

The decent-good:

• no id required to purchase
• no credit card required
• no volunteering of personal information required
• zip code used to assign phone number
• number can be ported out to ITSP for PBX joy
• short SMS can be viewed at no charge with the inbox preview feature
• no charge to *receive* SMS.  only charged to view or send SMS
• not charged for outgoing ringing per se

the extremely-bad

• when voicemail is removed the system, much like verizon, soonventually applies INANE defaults

• inbound calls are routed to a “mobile user unavailable” error and disconnected after 25 seconds
• this error should only apply when the TracFone is not powered
• activation zipcode assigns both phone number AND provider.

• For least pain do not use zip code to shop for an area code

Why remove voicemail?  Prior experience with pre-paid phones is that voicemail is used to extort additional payment.  Also I prefer the PBX features of asterisk to lametard mobile voicemail.  I provide people with my own DID and route to the disposable phone.  My PBX captures voicemail, filters call

the extremely-good

• Customer Service agents at TracFone, very much unlike AT&T/verizon, care about helping users,
• Customer Service agents at TracFone are infinitely patient, polite, and kind, and have better training than most every non-business agent at other carriers,
• Time spent with CS is credited back to the TracFone balance

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IMPORTANT: buy the mobile flavor for the area in which you will be calling/called… CDMA or GSM.  Got SIM? you have GSM.  The 4th and 5th digit of SIM serial indicates carrier: 12 for tmobile, 14 for att.  Use zip code to ensure CDMA, or AT&T.  It’s far too easy to inflict tmobile or cingular on yourself. Zip code prompt during activation is for number selection.

Use zipcodemap.net and tracfone availability to find desirable carrier and engineer tracfone to ship the correct SIM, or force them to display CDMA handsets.  Ship where ever else you like.  Do not rely on TrafFone to select the best mobile flavor for where you live; tracfone will default to the least cost technology where you live.

For least cost: best audio quality & best signal with AT&T use the motorola W376g [pdf]

IF you want a phone to perform other than calling features you really want an internet capable PDA aka “smart” “phone”.  SMS is gay.

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report as spam

how’s that going for you?

too complicated to use your words?

 

why have laws, colbert nation? no one always follows them all the time. why define terms? it’s so contraining!

Many people steal.  Prison is full of thieves.  We shouldn’t, as a society, have laws against theft!

Witnesses lie on the stand every day.  We shouldn’t require honesty.  Sure if you want to take an oath of honesty you should follow it, but most people lie so why try to hold people to a standard?

Moral Anarchy is the solution obviously, Dan Savage!  This way no one can every really be wrong or doing evil.  Excellent.. the world becomes a better place now that we have eliminated the rules that create problems.

Until each person is perfect there should be no law

Teens and their incompletely formed judgment similarly rationalize: you do not perfectly execute the ideals you espouse therefore they are inherently flawed [and should not apply to me].  Dan Savage asserts similarly revealing less than mature judgment and less than astute mastery of concepts (like love).  Colbert hyperbole provided far too solid footing to faggotry Tuesday night.  Wrong-tolerance, as tolerance of evil, is not-surprisingly wrong.

Monogamy is too difficult for people who do not want to control themselves.  Fidelity is too much a burden, like love, for any one person.  Being faithful in the moment is itself sufficient.  As we know the past is not important.  Now matters and nothing else.

Savage love is no kind of love: it sets the bar too high, and setting the bar at all is an irrational constraint.  Simply because marriage by definition can only be between one man and one woman is no reason it cannot also be between one man and another man.  These defined concepts impair using them in ways other than their definition!  It’s unfair and unreasonable.

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vegan brain damage: pay more for less?

http://allisonsgourmet.com/salted-vanilla-caramels.html

[ corn pix ]

Forty dollars per pound for caramels made without corn-syrup?  Raising children on a vegan diet is child abuse as documented by the FDA.  If you as an adult want to deliberately malnourish  yourself.. fine: that’s evolution.

Vegans: pickup some infomercial evil

“This item is free.  Just pay processing and handling”

free after paying money.  That’s much like the “free” of malware: simply pay in privacy and it’s “free”

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world bank: got propaganda? only one thousand brainwashy videos on youtardtube

http://youtube.com/user/WorldBank

It must be nice to wield  unlimited money.  Unlimited?  Yes, fiat money.  Create fiat money to lend, collect actual money as profit.  spread the loss around: more profit.  Only mere citizens lose.

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▼ privacy HYPOCRISY agenda expanded by google: vigorously owning you AND yours with more crosslinked “free” products to self-digitize your soul

https://plus.google.com

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-google-project-real-life.html

Why should google settle to mine your self-digitized soul across “free” google properties?  Would it not be better to stitch products together into a rape frenzy kit for tighter behavioral data mining?

Absolutely.  facebook will be so jealous

Better feed your “friends” and less proximate social relations to the google soul chipper with plus.  If you do not value your own privacy or dignity why would you value that of another?

Now with Google Rape All Plus Enticements (Google RAPE) you can help google form an even more inappropriate intimacy with your life via their shiny “free” offering.

Remember, naysayer, google’s primary function is selling ads, which necessitates their secondary function: data mining.  Does google’s notion of “not evil” seem nearly indistinguishable from evil yet to you?

If company xxx did this to people there would be much hue and cry.  Why is it fanboi rabidly embraced willingly??

See also: http://nerdvittles.com/?p=762

edit: with title “privacy rape agenda..” google removed the backlink from their blog.  “Open” Society sensitive nerve?

“do no evil” — which sounds like witchcraft, itself a spinoff of satanism like wicca

is NOT the same as:

‘do good’

 

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contratheists to spread their “love” with skywriting on independance day. yay?

Can atheists, members of a club with a self refuting ideology, be patriotic?  sure

Are all atheists infected with contratheism?  No.  Most seem to incorporate “live and let live” into the club ideology.

Most atheists seem to desire to join- or build an atheist club.  They long for connection and intimacy as we all do.  But they have a great battle with internal loneliness with which to content in the vast uncaused everything.  Do not despise the atheist.  Do not hate the contratheist.  Hate contratheism.  Be kind to the atheist no matter how brash or vile his words, actions, and inactions.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/atheists-to-fly-july-4-airplane-banners-in-27-states-god-less-america-atheism-is-patriotic/

Religious freedom sought is the foundation of our Constitution, the impetus for the fight for independence from the feckless crown of britain.

Freedom sadly allows for one to constrain God.  This is dignity: God respecting the personhood of the individual and His great love of it.

The atheist’s fear of phenomenology binds them in intellectual dishonesty, self blinded to “a slice” of Truth.  Certain of the denial of certainty, raging against inconformity of reality to one’s life, the atheist might lash out against dissenters.  This habit of wrath might devolved into contratheism.  When contratheists mob whether interweb or real life this gross wrath is more than self destructive.

Pray for those who hate you… for they likely hate themselves.

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NEVER post photos from camera phone to internet: exif — FIRST SANITIZE to PNG

Sure, not a novel concept but certainly worth repeating.. again and again until change is effected

Examing image URLs for exif leakiness:

http://regex.info/exif.cgi

ALWAYS convert camera phone images to PNG to sanitize exif and other metadata sneakiness!  Or leave a delightful trail for others to follow.

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firefox 5 “upgrade” sucking up ram.. great GC asa!  Now we need an extension to iteratively restart firefox to inflict GC.  the “upgrade” on android is even more joy!  Thanks to Tasker ($5) we can be alerted how sucky firefox mobile performance is!

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disable yahoo location history

http://location.yahoo.com/locationmgt/

 

Unfortunately once yahoo captures your current location it can never be removed. Be sure to signup for yahoo services with VPN surf provider.

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actual freeware android games

http://tmtg.net/

ping?

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interesting paypal advice.. instead backup recurring payments with prepaid amex gift card

https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=brc/credit_card_changes_pitfalls&fli=true

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Whereas a prepaid amex gift card “expires” in 2019.  Add the prepaid amex as backup payment for webhosting [vps], domains, voip, etc.  This is a better surety than a credit card.

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android task manager app free with free clouds

replete with entertaining Engrish

https://i.doit.im/about_us

 

new TV series: sea shepherds bitch slapping

Would donate to merc project that harasses sea shepherds  ON TV defending people from vile terrorists: the reality check and what goes around ships

As “international law” is a gross misnomer, as open waters are not governed, as one has the obligation to defend those in one’s charge, as Japan has failed to defend their citizens, as the Japanese whalers seemingly are cowards and terrorism is evil, as crushing evil is a popular media theme this would be entertaining and popular.

I am disappointed in the Japanese.  Where is the Japanese viciousness ?

The whalers are pulling a jimmy carter: kowtowing to terrorism emboldens terrorists

… where can I buy me some tasty whale steaks?

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mozilla rapid release strategy prudent? race to pass microsoft and google in major versions: yay?

Why, Asa, why?

Will firefox 10 be essentially better than ie9?  10 > 9.  Sure, that’s nice.  Crank up the speed perhaps.  Firefox 42, the best browser possible since we have the biggest version number.. microsoft’s ie15, chrome12, and iron11 are so far behind we win forever.

“Himself,” my friends ask, “should we update to firefox 5?”

“nah, wait for the large scale microsoftesque public beta to end then install 5.0.2″

“but it has all that great privacy stuff, Himself”

“fat lot of good that does with ISPs selling you out with fine grained netblocks geo ip mapped and inflicted in dhcp policy*.. until that evil stuff ends there is less privacy.  VPN surfing for now.”

I still hope adblockplus will be available as a stand alone loopback proxy.  Unburdening the fox and opening the field to all the other players without having to maintain multiple versions.

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* VERY easy for ISPs to offer an opt-out on demand. Send them a paper letter asking to opt-out of geo ip location privacy rape.

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Catholic business: white papers

http://www.stthomas.edu/cathstudies/cst/conferences/

PDF collection

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droid x “accessibility” zoom mode Defective by Design

For those with less than ideal vision in need of zoom:

the text is too small to see to see the small text used to enable the large text.

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