> Google is a good services provider, but we're giving them too much power. Why do I
> need to share my privacy to a huge database that someday (and somehow) will end up in
> U.S. Government hands? Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and basically anything you need to
> log on in order to view content are unnecessary tracking sites (well, not Twitter but
> you get the idea).
>
> Not that my privacy is relevant to any huge corporation, mind you. But precisely for
> that reason there's not need for me to share that data to a paranoiac government. If
> I have to uninstall Java, run privacy plug-ins on Firefox till my system collapses
> and run adult sites on virtual machines they will reset every time I shut them down,
> then so be it.
I doubt it. Anonymous is confirmation that things like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling prophecied, are coming to pass. This country is heading curiously down the road as shown in Sterling's DISTRACTION.
If you want even weirder, look up Vernor Vinge's RAINBOW'S END. Not great literature, but very techno-socially keen.
Not that I visit any of those sites, dear god. And I can't stand the interleaved tabs on Chrome, so I don't use that. The little things, eh?
(Hell, I don't even have Adobe anything, or even Java, on my system, and I do everything I need, wherever, just fine.)
Consider it high comedy....sincere tragedy....whatever...don't take it personally.
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