tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post2384344079513636205..comments2023-10-31T14:36:59.054+00:00Comments on anticant's burrow: BLOGGERYanticanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post-3171636210067687842007-01-27T23:25:00.000+00:002007-01-27T23:25:00.000+00:00Another interesting - and dismaying - thread:
htt...Another interesting - and dismaying - thread:<br /><br />http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070124&articleId=4569anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post-12204588625824611492007-01-27T20:23:00.000+00:002007-01-27T20:23:00.000+00:00I can't imagine why either, Anticant :)I can't imagine why either, Anticant :)Richard W. Symondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783091361323437959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post-89804248644046989302007-01-27T19:45:00.000+00:002007-01-27T19:45:00.000+00:00Rusbridger was a very short post yesterday about D...Rusbridger was a very short post yesterday about Davos 07 and Internet privacy. You should find it if you click 'older posts' [bottom left] and go down the list for this week.<br /><br />I fear there are more than enough computer viruses floating around without needing to assume that it's the 'spooks' when you crash. Probably just a malicious programmer nerd wanting to cause general mayhem for all and sundry. If you don't have a good up-to-date virus protection programme, and firewall, you are bound to be in trouble every now and then. And - most important of all - have a good back-up system. I do a full weekly back-up onto a portable hard disk, and daily incremental ones. We have a local computer 'wizard' who spends hours here keeping things in trim for us. Even then, they do go wrong quite often, alas.<br /><br />I can't imagine why anyone would want to shut you up, Richard!anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post-50742808371793245542007-01-27T19:32:00.000+00:002007-01-27T19:32:00.000+00:00I still can't find the Rusbridger bit ?I still can't find the Rusbridger bit ?Richard W. Symondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783091361323437959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post-46643492879284624382007-01-27T19:27:00.000+00:002007-01-27T19:27:00.000+00:00I couldn't agree with you more, Anticant.
But the...I couldn't agree with you more, Anticant.<br /><br />But the downside is that 'they', if they choose to, can plant a virus in your system, which essentially destroys it.<br /><br />Of course there's no way to prove it, but there have been specific occasions when my computer 'died', and I instinctively felt that someone somewhere wanted to 'silence' me.<br /><br />And, of course, people can accuse me of egoism, persecution complexes, and delusions of grandeur etc by thinking like this.<br /><br />To those "people", I don't care what you accuse me of - just stop messing around with my computer !Richard W. Symondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783091361323437959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post-64322345248439998452007-01-27T19:15:00.000+00:002007-01-27T19:15:00.000+00:00"Hello, Betty" indeed! That's exactly how I feel, ..."Hello, Betty" indeed! That's exactly how I feel, and have done since the 1960s when I am quite certain I was regarded as a 'security risk' because I was campaigning for gay law reform. I have treated the post, the telephone, and computers as 'public address systems' ever since. I object on principle, of course - but whoever is daft enough to think my trite utterances are of any importance whatsoever should have better things to do with their overpaid time!<br /><br />I cannot understand the reluctance of the people who attacked me for opening the arena to have a Google account. Do they really think it would strip them bare? Every time they order anything online or pay a bill, they reveal their identities.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post-34953750182996810312007-01-27T19:04:00.000+00:002007-01-27T19:04:00.000+00:00I have a 'soft spot' for AC Grayling :
1. Because...I have a 'soft spot' for AC Grayling :<br /><br />1. Because he wrote the Introduction to THAT book "The Art of Always Being Right" by Arthur Schopenhauer, and<br /><br />2. He lectures at Birkbeck College, where one of my 'mentors', Cyril Joad, was a 'Professor'(Reader, actually) of Philosophy and Psychology for 23 years.<br /><br />Thanks for the CiF link :<br /><br />http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ac_grayling/2007/01/blogging_and_posting.htmlRichard W. Symondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783091361323437959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post-33771258111375725972007-01-27T18:54:00.000+00:002007-01-27T18:54:00.000+00:00I have now assumed that we all get 'snooped on' re...I have now assumed that we all get 'snooped on' regularly by the likes of GCHQ et al.<br /><br />For me, it's not paranoia - just a statement of fact.<br /><br />I have an amused contempt about it - just imagine some poor soul now 'tracking' this blog in an office in Cheltenham.<br /><br />Hello, Betty !Richard W. Symondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783091361323437959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post-64438429419239465942007-01-27T18:01:00.000+00:002007-01-27T18:01:00.000+00:00The Grayling post is called "Commenter reveal thys...The Grayling post is called "Commenter reveal thyself", and is currently no. 2 on the "most active" list at the right hand side of the CiF home page.<br /><br />One comment which bears upon the worries of those who object to having a Google account says:<br /><br />"People tend to underestimate how easy they are to track on the internet already. I used to post at a much smaller forum, and now and again someone would come along who was obviously putting on an act. Being slightly obsessive, I'd now and again go on a detective expedition across the internet trying to find out if they were putting us on. E.g. "outing" someone complaining about "black racists" as a neo-nazi from Portugal, or someone pretending to be an Asian lesbian with a rags-to-riches story as a white male bail-bonds employee. It isn't necessary to be a super-hacker to engage in this: Google and Whois and other tools are all that's needed in many cases. It's a weird feeling to start with someone's post history and end up a couple of hours later looking down at their home or workplace via a satellite photo on Google Maps.<br /><br />Enough to make one rather careful and even paranoid... A few personal details mentioned here and there on different sites can be triangulated with scary ease."<br /><br />So I do think that those who are frightened of Google are rather straining at gnats......<br />[anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post-51881470246528483152007-01-27T17:31:00.000+00:002007-01-27T17:31:00.000+00:00Sounds interesting...searched, bt can't find it. C...Sounds interesting...searched, bt can't find it. Could you tell us more, svp ?Richard W. Symondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783091361323437959noreply@blogger.com