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i spelled it wrong for a reason – i don’t want the spiders to find it here or anywhere.

scr00gle allows you to search without being tracked and recorded by scraping g00gle’s search results.

use:  https://ssl.scroogle.org/

from their site:

When the Scroogle results come back from an SSL search, and you click on any of the links shown on that secure page, there is another advantage. SSL does not allow the browser to record the address where that secure page came from, and attach it to any outgoing links on that page. Normally all browsers do this, and it’s called the “referrer” address. But SSL blanks out the referrer, so that any site you click on from a Scroogle SSL page won’t even know that you arrived at their site from Scroogle. The referrer will be blank, and your log entry will look like any of the hundreds of bots that crawl the web all day and night with similar blank referrers.

i say it is 1/7th of the answer because there are several elements of privacy you can attempt to control while on the web:

1.  search history (use scr00gle)

2.  email  (only answer there is PGP, SLL enabled mail, and absolutely NO free email accounts)

3. instant messaging (gets harder when people won’t use encryption)

4.  browsing (use tor)

5.  bookmarks and stored history (keep your bookmarks local)

6.  social websites (not so good)

7.  disparate usernames

Scott McNealy of SUN Microsystems: “You have zero privacy now. Get over it!”  Or get around it.  if you want personalization, you are giving up privacy.  read nick carr’s book:  the big switch.  you will be appalled at what can be determined from the bread crumbs you leave on the web.

the last time any philly team won anything - i was 13. that’s a long time ago.

its about time.

now, they can have their parade.

1. tabbed browsing from within the application

2. one handed navigation on the keyboard

3. all podcasts are auto-downloaded, for that matter, all SOUND is downed

4. off line sync - to catch up when there is not internet connection

5. three finger posting to this blog via ecto (WHY, why, why would google NOT allow this?)

6. iphone action is good - i miss the scroll -by marked as read.

7. anonymity - i am tired of google knowing everything about my reading habits. now, all netnewswire will have is a fake name - userxxxx

this is really a slick application. i am sad the windows version is not a full featured as the mac one - just another reason to stay on the mbp for everything…

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Generally regarded as such; supposed. See synonyms at supposed.

putative

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• fable 2 launch day. not too long now. #
• Scott McNealy of SUN Microsystems: “You have zero privacy now. Get over it!” #
• cq contest - bands are jammed here in snj #
• does anyone have any ideas of cw trainer programs for leopard? morsemania is the only one i found and it sounds crappy. #

the damnedest thing happened a few months ago when i updated the old wrt54g v1.1 router to a more respectable firmware - tomato v 1.26.

i asked on this thread:

http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=59024

I have searched for this issue elsewhere to no avail. All I did find was the same reference with a few similar responses on the team xbox forums.

Hopefully someone here has seen this and has some ideas on how to resolve.

My setup is:

WRT54g v.1.1 flashed successfully to latest Tomato firmware. Wired PC, wireless MBP, wired Xbox360. All worked without issue before flashing. All work now except:

The 360 cannot connect to Xbox Live unless I force a “Test Connection to Xbox Live”. It goes through a process of verifying IP address, DNS, NAT, etc. Once this is done, the 360 is able to get onto the Internet and everything works fine (ports are forwarded and the 360 detects it as ‘Open’ NAT, aka none).

The 360 is set static and wired. The correct ports are forwarded. (Same as they were with the Linksys software.) I have the 360’s IP in the DMZ (and have tried it with out it in the DMZ).

nothing worked - and i, of course, tried everything that logically made sense until this poster jvro applied the proverbial brick-to-the-side-of-the-head trick:

To me it seems that if you enable DHCP and makes your Xbox get an IP that way (you can always pre-decide which IP it gets delt in Tomato anyway) you don’t have have that issue anymore.

The above combined with activation uPnP fixed the problem for me (not sure if the uPnP is nessesary though but was for me because of my provider and me being able to get “open” access to live).

I was experiencing the exact same problem as described in this thread and the above fixed (as well as for a friend of mine)

Seems to me that this could be related to the xbox firmware and that when it’s set to DHCP it does “more” than when it’s configured with a static ip.

and, as you would suspect, it works like a charm.  the key was to assign the MAC addy of the 360 to a statically selected IP in the router.  that way the usual port forwarding and DMZ settings would always be applied, the console would remain open, and would log in to LIVE automatically…without the network test.

sometime the solution you know shouldn’t work, works.

now, on to some gaming…

other people, smarter than me, have come up with much better ways to keep secure while online.

so my wisdom may be old hat, or ridiculously simple.

but i have found the simple thing can be the most effective thing.

idea - websites that ask for your email address as a user name.  don’t use a known email address. if your regular email address is joeblow@gmail.slob - create another account with a user name no one knows, that you don’t email from, and that you won’t give out - say  user1001@mail.com.

why is this effective?

if you are to be hacked by someone, and they are not aware of the account you use, they will have to guess the user name and domain.  don’t have that domain forward any emails you recieve from the online accounts to your master email address - if that one gets hacked, the duck blind you set up is gone.

by the way - throw away email accounts at google or hotmail are bad.  stop using them.  buy your email access from a provider that doesn’t sell to you through ads.  your privacy is just about gone on the web as it is…why give the rest of it away?

YMMV.

adj.

1. Green with vegetation; covered with green growth.

2. Green.

3. Lacking experience or sophistication; naive.

verdant

adj.

1. Constant in application or attention; diligent: an assiduous worker who strove for perfection. See synonyms at busy.

2. Unceasing; persistent: assiduous research.

assiduous

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you can’t talk that smack, and not get knocked back, baby!

here we go again…

it does. its missing everything. wow, talk about screwing the pooch!

We’ve received a couple reports this evening that some copies of the Fable II Limited Collector’s Edition package do not contain the cards required for the in-game DLC content. A GameStop source tells us a company wide email notes that cases bearing an orange “48 hours of LIVE”‘ sticker include the cards, but copies without the sticker do not.

Although we’ve only heard about this being a GameStop issue, we can’t confirm that the same situation isn’t occurring at other retailers. We’ve contacted both Microsoft and GameStop for comment.

Allegedly customers are being told by GameStop to contact 1-800-4MYXBOX if they receive a copy of the CE without the card inside. We contacted the number and were informed that it was the correct place to call if we didn’t receive the DLC card in the box. Midnight launches start in about 15 minutes on the East Coast, so we’ll probably hear more about this issue soon.

[From Fable 2 Collector's Edition may have missing DLC card]

doing the midnight launch of fable 2. (i must be crazy.)

let’s hope the title lives up to the hype - and its not all just grace and grit.

the reviews are in, by the way, and most sites, after complaining about the lack of a mini-map (can’t please everyone), bemoaning the limits to freedom of roam (what the heck more do these people want?), and deriding PM for making the game accessible to the casual gamer (economy of scale, look it up, tough guy!)

i enjoyed the line from the seattle pi-blogger, published under the digital joystick section of their newspaper:

The world of Fable 2 comes off incredibly European but better than a trip to the renaissance faire while it manages to be medieval but not a not wholly Tolkien rip-off.

color me happy. i am just looking forward to see how lionhead pulls all this emotional connection to a game thing off.

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MacDailyNews Take: “How about spending $300 million to create an OS that isn’t a derivative, counterintuitive, bloated, spaghetti-coded mess?

have you seen these new ads?

not for anything, but i am using vista on a few machines still - and, maybe it is just me, being technical and all, but i am not having the stark, raving mad issues that these adverts from apple purport people as having. this one is just down right vile:

i am a huge mac/apple fan, and i am using my mbp to write this post, but man - apple is becoming more like m$ every damn day. these kind of vitriolic ads make it difficult to be happy with apple. where are your corporate ethics, steveo?