Technology and regular people

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Originally Posted by BTraven

Many thanks for informing me about the searching engine and Tor. I always wanted to install latter mentioned software but I have not done it for reasons I cannot no explain. It’s much safer with Tor. The searching engine seems to be very interesting, too, however, I miss the news button, perhaps the only reason why Google is so attractive. I do not think there is a great difference concerning the performance of the searching of sites which are more static between the engines.

Ixquick is good. Sometimes the image search turns up less than google images, but I can deal with it. Never used the news button in google. I read mostly socialist news sources and of course Der Spiegel articles.

I have never installed Tor in Windows, but if you use windows, I think it is the same, you need firefox browser and the tor button addon. Then you install the bundle. Vidalia is the graphical application that controls Tor outside of the firefox. Vidalia seems to require being turned on and running to make Tor work. Probably in windows Vidalia is just a small icon in the system tray along with volume control.

https://www.torproject.org/easy-download.html.en

Of course since it is relaying through a proxy, your connection is slow. I use in only for certain websites. Its a good practice to use it to post on forums and to send certain emails, or posting to Wikileaks if you are a spy! I think it can also encrypt instant messaging. Though I never send dangerous instant messages. The idea is also to run your own small relay or bridge, and to turn off TOR not through Vidalia but through the tor button in firefox:

https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/

I like the idea of running a relay, because people have complained that I have an internet connection and in some parts of the world people don't have the internet. Of course that is just some crap people will say to try to incriminate me as an American, knowing that the internet is just as available in Uzbekistan. Nevertheless, I like to share my internet connection, even though it is only a meager DSL line, just to say "well, I am sharing the connection.

Anyone, even in China, could feasibly use my DSL as a portal." Though I dont necessarily care about Freedom of Tibet. I consider Tibet freedom as being non of my business. After all, they are religious conservatives in Tibet. I am not one known to support religious conservatism. Nevertheless, I believe in freedom of information, so if a Chinese person wants to see the "Free Tibet" website, they are welcome to use my connection. My only business or concern is with what the United States does, as they currently represent me as an American citizen, and I dont like being lied to or blamed for their illicit military engagements.

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I enjoy that someone made this Turkish flag persona for firefox. I am still not sure the exact logic behind firefoxes new "personas" idea, but at least they have Turkish flag. The quick change, maybe it is more consumerist, though it is free. Yes, thats what it is, the many fast changes you can make to the theme of firefox is in someway indicative of the throw away society, even though nobody is really capitalizing. I figured this out with wordpress blogs too, that it makes no difference what theme you use, and its better to keep one unchanging over time. It adds a stronger effect. Turkish flag is pretty droll.

http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/96906

Esperanto flag would be good too. Its green the color of Esperanza. Spanish language is great. I wish I was born in a Spanish language culture. There is one but it is not the flag:

http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/28824

These personas dont theme the buttons or anything more than basic 2 dimensions. For minimalism its a minty fresh idea. For people who want more elaborate themes though it may seem flat. I use them in conjunction with Vimperator, which by default has no toolbars or address bar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimperator

You can see normally it has only tabs showing and these too can be turned off. But i like the delicious bookmark toolbar addon and the esperanto dictionary one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vimp2_help_open.png

There are also a lot of interesting status bar addons, like the weather one and the tor onion icon.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...p=&adv anced=

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This strange video shows a group of people calling themselves "Zionists" attending a seminar on how to edit wikipedia articles, so that they favor zionism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtqJmOlORcs

There is a coming alternative to wikipedia, but I am not sure it will not be biased either. It is called Citizendium.

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Citizendium

I personally know how to read between the lines when it comes to covering up information or if the writer is providing propaganda or bias, so even their changes would be obvious and even comical. Like their trying to make the Gaza flotilla incident look better.

Damn, they will take over the internet. I read it here:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/se...wire-s28.shtml

Obama wants total power. This guy who is also a Zionist: Joseph Lieberman really wants that super power. These right wing religious groups like Zionist and Evangelical are really selfish. They want to impose onto everyone their domination. Luckily an anti-Zionist Jew named Zamenhof created another language, Esperanto. Most of these right wing people are mostly interested in monitoring English words like Palestine. In Esperanto the word is Palestino or Palestinujo. That would be harder for them to catch. More and more I might end up switching completely to Esperanto on the internet. I only like Anti-zionist Jews.

You can see Zamenhof is in the list of anti-Zionist Jews:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...h_anti-Zionism

That may be why Esperanto never made it as international language! The zionists held it back. More reasons to learn to use TOR as well.

Zionists can complain about the Holocaust, but it is a fact, Zionism predates the Holocaust. Zionism came about as a result of the Dreyfus affair in Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_Affair

I am an American, but I do not have an ancestral homeland like Israel I can go to. Many Americans like me are not really treated well in the USA either. But I am not trying to recolonize some other land that I imagine my antecedents came from. I do not see myself as being in a position any different from Jews. As far as I can tell, many Jews are doing quite good living in the USA. They have positions of power and authority. There is not much open discrimination against them. It seems to me the should just live in the United States and forget about this Israel kick they are on.

I realize that Germans are retarded, and that part of the Jewish bit about living in Israel is because they picked up on the retarded German idea that one has to live where one is from, or where one's antecedents are from. One just has to remember that Northern Europeans, even Irish, are not cool. They believe in provincialism. Ireland is sectioned off into surname provinces. Everyone over there thinks one has to live in a particular place and Jews thought they had to go to Israel. But this is just a primitive mentality from Europe. Basically by living in Israel, they are doing what Europeans want. I would fight the European design and forget Israel. Europeans are morons who want to control everyone. The British are the one's who set up Israel anyway, Lord Balfour.

Otherwise you are just falling for the old plan of Europeans supporting one group against another. They did the same thing with Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda. The USA does this too, supporting right wing groups against leftist groups. We still have to rebel against Europe in the USA too. Protestants control a large segment of the government. As far as I am concerned, Washington DC is a city in Northern Ireland. I wouldn't be surprised if Washington funded protestant extremist groups in Ulster.

For some reason the USA loves murderous right wing regimes. I dont know why, but they even supported the Nazis. Something about the US government is homicidal. It will support any right wing regime, and the more people the regime kills, the greater the USA will love and send money to that regime. Strangely enough, most American citizens cannot begin to comprehend this. Somehow they have this confused with "Democracy". I know of no time the US government has funded a peaceful democratic movement overseas. Its always a junta or a putsch. For me I have even started to think, If I see an attempted junta in Ecuador or anywhere, I truly believe the US is behind it, even if the president condemns it. Later historians find out the truth even if it is hidden now. History has a way of exposing the truth, only too late. To my way of thinking, every element of the American government is deeply stern and maliciously homicidal.

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One of the neater things I learned to do during long winters in front of a Debian Box is crack WEP keys on neighbors wifi access points. I dont actually heist their connections, which frankly are not very good anyway, but just the power of doing it is great. It takes a few hours and involves a complicated process, where I have four command line windows tiled in a grid, one of them has the list of bash aliases I made to run "aircrack" via command line (time savers, less typing). Its rather interesting, I have it down to a system of commands I aliased:

wi, widown, winame, mon, chan, inject, auth, arp, airo, cap

actually these are aliased commands to longer commands like:

alias chan='sudo iwconfig wlan0 channel'

It saves typing. I just type chan plus a number like:

"chan 6"

wi shows wifi extensions, widown turns off wifi, winame gives the ESSID wifi AP name to my wifi network (generally a neighbers ESSID), mon puts the my wifi stick in monitor mode (you cant inject packets unless in this mode), chan can change the my channel to match a neighbors wifi channel, inject runs an packet injection test on neighbor, auth tries to fake a MAC address authorization with mine to the neighbors, arp requests ARP (address resolution protocol: A TCP/IP protocol) IVs from neigbor's signal, airo runs a program that captures the IVs (Initialization Vector), then after generally about 1600 IV's are collected, run cap, which sorts through the IV's in a ".cap file" like matrix until the WEP key is found. I think it can do WPA keys too.

I impressed a friend recently who brought a laptop over and saw all my neighbors WIFI APs but had no key to freeload on them. It took a few hours, but I eventually cracked network and gave my friend the key! I myself pay for DSL. You feel really excited when it displays: "Key Found!".

http://www.aircrack-ng.org/screenshots.html

It works basically like this:

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/conten...eaknesses.html

It actually uses the IVs themselves, which it collects from repeated ARP packet requests to the targeted network. This method doesnt quite work on WPA keys. They are different. Only WEPs, I have not cracked a WPA key yet. I recommend WPA keys for regular people.

[Phyph]

I would recommend this Linux distribution:
http://fedoraproject.org/

It's very friendly :)

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Originally Posted by wsteffie

I like ixquick more than google. My favorite seachengine used to be Killerinfo, it was just amazing in terms of results. Unfortunately it's now defunkt.

Right now Google dominate majority of the market share in search engine, as we know FaceBook is now coming up with its own version of search. Very curious to see how this will turn out as FaceBook is currently dominating social network with over 1 billion users world wide and expanding and I think is just the matter of time for Facebook to come up with new innovation within social network to expand search without sacrificing user's experience. I believed Google is very afraid of FaceBook what do you think?