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02/10/2012 11:29 #56041

So this is how it happened
Category: the odes
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I wouldn't put it past him.

02/05/2012 07:16 #56027

Counting Crows
Category: the odes
Unlike the band, the million-strong murder of crows that suddenly decided to alight on the tree outside my window are producing a racket that can only grace the soundtrack to the remake of the ghoulies.

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02/03/2012 14:44 #56017

The power of internet.
Category: i-tech
The Susan G. Komen foundation just reversed its miscalculated decision to withdraw funding to Planned Parenthood. Whose victory and war was this? I say, it is Twitter's and the internet's victory over powerlessness and voicelessness as a whole.

I think the power of internet in democracy and public opinion has FINALLY arrived and not a minute too late. The mother (freakazoid) teresa approach that Komen seemed to have adopted was made public on Tuesday. It took just THREE days for the voices across the net and social media to speak up and rise to a crescendo against this ridiculously medieval move by Komen.

I sometimes wish that toxic hag teresa's evil, ignorant, petty and insular mind* that wrecked lives for Irish women and made it hell for many women in India were blown to smithereens by public opinion as strong as this.

The reversal of Komen's recent asinine policy in response to social media and public outcry makes me hopeful that not all causes are lost yet. Given the right power and voice women all over the world can better their lot and fight against barriers that sometimes stifling society and always misguided religions place over them.
tinypliny - 02/05/12 10:05
yes, planned parenthood is not just about contraception, it's also about primary health care to those who cannot afford primary care physicians. Primary care includes not just cancer screening, it include pre-natal and post-natal checkups as well. So "pro-life" people don't have a clue about what they are whining about in general. In short, they are idiots. Period.
metalpeter - 02/05/12 09:45
To Be honest I didn't really know much about this and didn't really read anything about this but even just from seeing the headlines I learned some stuff I didn't know... Like that they give money to planned Parent hood? Um why? why would they do any thing with breast screenings? If you think about it ... Yes it is part of sexual health I guess.... But just to try and make sure kids plan to have kids isn't that what the entire charity is about....

Now part two to this is that from what I understand they wanted to go in a different direction...

Now if you want to get into the abortion debate.... I'm sure planned parenthood prevents (cause getting knocked up doesn't happen) way more abortions then they have gotten girls to get....

But that being said I can see why some people wouldn't donate if some of that money was going to the abortion people...... But I'm also sure that some people love that Korman helps Planned Parent hood.....

So Yes the internet won.....

02/03/2012 08:59 #56014

People are not as dumb as the government.
Category: i-tech
I am somewhat amused at all these regulatory bodies that have suddenly decided to take affront at the simplified transparent Google privacy policy.

The new privacy policy is clearly written, brief, well-worded, has no legalese and states clearly that all Google products are from... surprise, one company, Google. Every time you log in to use one of their several products, Google will track your online usage to make the Google experience, as a whole, more personalized and better at finding what you are searching for. You can opt out of sharing your data by simple going to your dashboard and turning all data collection off. It makes you aware of the fact that if you don't want your data to be collected ever, use anonymous geographically-remote proxy servers, anonymous names, stay logged out of ALL services (i.e don't ever accept any cookies in your browser) and use incognito mode all the time. All of these are doable but people just don't care that much. But they do have an option. It's not as if Google is taking this freedom away. It's just shaking you up and telling you about it in simple words.

If you are paranoid and believe that ignorance is bliss, you can always use Micro$hit's Bing or Hotmail and ignore their ginormously long, terribly dry, completely dense, loopholes-ridden legal privacy policy and stop using Google. What is the point here? The minute you are online people will collect data about you, like it or not. It is how the internet operates; on collected data, and personalization. (e:Paul) is collecting data about your browser, about your OS and recording your IP as you are reading this. So are ALL the sites you go to. With the IP everyone can pretty much localize where you live if they want to. In addition, your information can also tell (e:paul) and everyone else how long you have been on any particular site, where you came from, which links you are clicking on and what you are doing at this very moment. Are you freaked out about that? If you are on Freakfacebook, it has access to ALL that you and your extended circle of family and friends said, did and/or posted. It's privacy policy is about a zillion pages of no-one-can-understand-this legalese.

Some bring transparency to the process by making it simple for you to understand what data is being collected, some hope you won't read those zillion page legalese tomes and some don't tell you at all.

The reaction of various thick-in-their-heads government agencies to Google's new policy is funny. Because they suddenly seem to have woken up to the basic nature of the internet. And pointing fingers at the one company that is actually taking some pains to make it transparent while conveniently ignoring the really intrusive privacy policies (search for the Apple privacy policy that (e:Paul) posted sometime back*) that are tougher to understand but are probably more invasive than Google will ever resort to. It is clearly another classic example of how all governments are made of morons who probably can't do anything else and have lied their way into slimy politics, and who take the shooting-the-messenger always a bit too far, because they are probably are too dumb to recognize the messenger even.

Well, the people are not as dumb as you, dear government. We have options and we will utilize them, if we want to. Why don't you go and do something more productive that does not involve bringing crap censorship to the internet and fear mongering about online services? I suspect you cannot. Because you don't really know how to help the people you manipulated and coerced into voting for you in the first place.


tinypliny - 02/04/12 16:40
Simple solution. You could set up multiple accounts with multiple anonymous names and IDs and use separate services on each.
metalpeter - 02/04/12 14:41
I don't know about the government people getting upset.... I think the part that gets them upset isn't Google (1 with a thousand 0's with a small g showed up red lined that is wrong it is a number argh) making the privacy the same for all the sites.... It is that they also have them integrated.. That being said What I think they are really upset about is their law being shut down..... Imagine if they could go to Google and say yeah this blog has copyrighted music and then Google could shut down ever place on the web it was and every website..... I think that is what really has them upset?
paul - 02/04/12 12:26
In the end, whatever they collect is nothing compared with the treasure trove of data and overall picture that the ISPs and the government maintain. Its all kind of meaningless. There is no simple way to be anonymous and still have the convenience of anytime, anywhere internet.

01/27/2012 19:25 #55991

Blazingly fast and image-free.
Category: i-tech
I am having a terrible time with netspeeds today. So I have temporarily switched off all images and switched to a very barebones browser called Midori.

I can't tell you how awesome the web feels sans intrusive loud high-resolutions images, slow loading videos, ginormous bandwidth-hogging media and other crappy whatnots.

I am back to the text-only ages but it's awesomely fast. I think I am sticking to Midori and this image-free mode for a while just because it makes me feel like I am on some crazy-awesome broadband. Gmail loads as if it were local. Gdocs throws some nasty error on Midori that causes it to load over and over again. :/ Oh well. You can only win sometimes.

If you have a mediocre net connection like I do (and are not on Gdocs 105% of the time), take a break and go the image-free route. You will see what you have been missing!

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PS: I notice that the edit button and the comment button on estrip have no alternative text behind them. All the other buttons on the top and in the editor have alternate text. I edited this post using the mobile mode.

tinypliny - 01/29/12 10:31
There are placeholders for flash objects - which is the format youtube videos are in. Even though images are turned off, placeholder flash still images are visible so you can choose to stream the video if you want by clicking on the placeholder flash images.
metalpeter - 01/29/12 10:09
How would one watch like Youtube videos? Images are I think what really make the internet.... But I'm sure there are plenty of pages where when images and ad images aren't needed it would really speed things up....
tinypliny - 01/28/12 19:23
Yeah, I came right back after the net un-choked itself (if there is such a thing).
paul - 01/28/12 18:48
If you turn off images and flash in firefox with the webdeveloper toolkit its similar. I could live without flash but not without images...