Posts by K T

Yes.

"What if someone has the sense not to have a Facebook account? Do these Like buttons still send their IP and OS version to Facebook?"

See title.

I lost my (e-)homeland

The internet used to be my homeland (ah, good old days!). Then the "facebook login" brigade (the 'tards that type "facebook" into Google to get to facebook.com; "youtube" for youtube.com etc) took over.

I feel displaced, separated from what used to be my territory and I have a small hope that some other geeks feel the same; so we may make our own e-homeland once again.

Oh, the humanity!

Coward indeed

If you're going to make unbased and silly accusations, you could try not to hide your username next time...

I'm one of those "Free Software hippies". All of our ("our", as, despite being a dirty code-hugging hippie, I have a girlfriend!) computers run GNU/Linux. They run really, really well.

My main computer is a 1.6GHz, 512MB RAM machine celebrating its fifth build birthday next month. It's been running Debian GNU/Linux perfectly through hardware changes, country changes whilst all this time only taking up 1.94GB for a fully installed system (system + all apps I want) and, after booting, taking up a disgusting 85MB of RAM.

By God, how dare those Free Software hippies think their stupid little distros are so great. Windows Vista only takes up 30GB with most apps installed and would crap itself on anything less than 1GB of RAM.

Forgive us for letting our computers have technical superiority (and actually being able to use most of a 200GB drive, instead of spending a fifth on it on the OS/apps only).

We may not pay for licenses, but we do pay taxes - so, if by chance we're in the same country, I'm paying for your kids. You're welcome.

Alternatives

I don't mean to steal AC's right to reply here, but seeing as I've got nothing better to do... Two privacy-respecting search engines I use (apart from Scroogle) are yauba.com and ixquick.com . Very handy as Scroogle doesn't have an image search, and I for one don't want Google logging my image searches (those searches for "1/16 scale model tank porn" are sure to be used against me someday).

@Icelandic Vengeance!!

"Eyjafjallajoekull" /is/ Icelandic for "Bob".

Exactly

The only sensible answer to any security question is to mash the keyboard like a drunk, coked-up monkey. Nothing companies think you can easily remember is unable to be found out easily.

On the SMS front, my bank has recently started to send SMS messages with a code to confirm online transactions (only with online payment systems who support the extra security, though). I've done two so far and the SMS arrived within a minute. However, I'd like to know how that will work when the mobile network is busy.

I shop online for the convenience. If a payment session times out (as they are bound to do), I might as well go queue up with the other proles.