 gwionwild colonial boyPremium,ExMod 2001-08
join:2000-12-28
Pittsburgh, PA
kudos:1 | Oh, no! They're inside the computer, Mabel... Hurry ... where's the tinfoil hats? X10 dot com's as old as the public internet. It's been in operation as a mailorder since long before the internet. X10 is "ancient" technology. It actually has nothing to do with cameras, but that's what they're pushing, right now... x10 is a home control technology invented in 1968 that relies on "spikes" at the zero crossing point of the ~60Hz sine wave of your electrical system to turn lights and appliances on and off.
Carnivore doesn't need this kind of cloak and dagger "hit generation." It works at the ISP, not at a remote monitoring station, like echelon. They aren't sniffing you, they're logging you, if you're surveilled that way. Even if that reference was meant as a satirical shot, it's silly... why would they rely on infantile script kiddie tricks?
Popunders are damn annoying, though. Also bandwidth wasters. They're not just screwing the user, they're junking up the internet with worthless crapola... if they want to keeop it under your eye, a banner would work better... and, just to momentarily return to carnivore, web bugging would be far more subtle, and easier to slide through to a properly configured (java/X secure) browser...
And what's Steve talking about? Proxomitron or web washer, to name just two, will kill the popup... just as effectively as a properly configured "internet zone" will in IE... my nickel's worth ... (;) inflation)...
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 justinAustralian
join:1999-05-28
New York, NY
kudos:7 | Are you doubting the credibility of the news stories that are labeled under the 'fun' category? |
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 ztmikeMark for moderationPremium
join:2001-08-02
Michigan City, IN | reply to gwion
Re: Huh? im confused wuts this mean ..i know that i get alot of pop up ads espically for that camera 1 like on every website it does get kinda gay havin ads pop up that i dont have any interest in their product as soon as i see the ad i usally just hit the x, cuz i tried the webwasher ad free program a while back and it took longer for my webpages to come up and it sat in my taskbar and sucked up rescources i coulda of been using on sumtin else so i deleted it good choice i made there i think those webwasher ad free programs are garbage ..im on @home but it still slowed down my websurfing so i deleted it and im still geting pop up ads but hey that x button at top right works GREAT! ..also if their gona have ads that pop up at least like try to have ads that would like tell us sumtin that we like instead of sum gay camera or a girls magazine or a subscription fee or something gay lol i bet those ad people are losing so much money or the isps to me: i think their stupid and gay, dumb-ass ad bitches GO AWAY! |
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 MikePremium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA | Woah... someone who actually speaks 133t. |
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Remember... Speed Kills. |
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Anon | reply to Mike
What is 133t? |
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toezar
join:2000-03-30
Broomall, PA | 1337 or LEET, is a modified version of the word elite. It is used to address something as cool, (often sarcastically as in - I'm sooo leet. or i'm a 1337 H@>0R , (I'm a leet haxor)) |
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gwionwild colonial boyPremium,ExMod 2001-08
join:2000-12-28
Pittsburgh, PA
kudos:1
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Re: Oh, no! They're inside the computer, Mabel... Never! Why, I have... an enquiring mind, doncha know???
At any rate, while I'm quite sure it's not "really" a carnivore deep cover front, I do have some sneaking suspicions that they may cause brain damage, if viewed in excess  ... after all, look at what just one viewing did to the minds of otherwise stable, intelligent webmasters who want our repeat traffic... why, it's softened their brains so thoroughly, on a mere single viewing, that they've been subtly brainwashed into attaching it to their own websites, for a few pennys a hit... now... THAT's sinister!!!
PS- Sorry if I was a little obtuse on the carnivore barb... just seems that I've heard about a hundred conflicting tall tales (and that's just from the government, themselves as to how it works and what it does... I just couldn't help picturing someone out there actually spending six hours analyzing a packet capture, looking for the "secret messages..." Hehe... never fails... probably the same fellow who went out and bought up Charmin's last year's production run when johnny Carson announced the infamous "toilet paper shortage of '74..."
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"Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar." - Sir Winston Churchill
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