Posts by Private_Person

Latest boffinry: Feeding TNT to sheep

"its" not "it’s".

That should be "its availability" not "it’s availability".

It's also interesting that sheep are being used, as goats are hardier and have a higher tolerance of toxins in their diet than sheep: they can eat almost anything and survive!

Their urine is still explosive! (and it's got nothing to do with TNT)

Urine, or to be more exact the soil from stables where animals had been overwintered, where the urine residue was concentrated, was an important source of saltpetre in the early modern period. Saltpetre was one of the necessary constituents of gunpowder. It was so important that one English king created a law to ensure it’s availability to the crown.

Spain cuts off 3m pre-pay mobiles

State registered tracking devices

This has absolutely nothing to do with terrorism as even the most stupid terrorist will be able to circumvent the law. What it means is that ordinary citizens now carry state registered tracking devices.

I have a few Spanish SIMS, some for different tariffs and some for privacy, and had no trouble finding people to register them for a small fee. Remember never to have more than one SIM registered by the same person.

PS: IMEI numbers on some older models of phone can be altered by software and older SIMS can also be cloned quite easily.

Pirate Bay bitchslaps Swedish law with SSL

@ amanfromMars

“Oops...... spot the deliberate error ....”

Spotting a deliberate error in one of your posts is akin to spotting a deliberate in Finnegan's Wake!

YouTube rolls out Scientology double standard

Church/Cult of Scientology not The Church of Christ, Scientist

@ Solomon Grundy

I think you are confusing the “Church/Cult of Scientology” with a completely different bunch of nutjobs: “The Church of Christ, Scientist” (AKA Christian Scientists) founded by Mary Baker Eddy. They are the ones with the Reading Rooms. I used to confuse them also, but whereas Scientology is just a scam to make money, The Christian Scientists seem to actually really believe their crap and consequently, like most idealists, to have achieved even greater damage and death than the conmen.

For more info see: http://www.rotten.com/library/religion/church-of-christ-scientist/

Google plays cat and mouse with regulators

Look after your own privacy.

Don't depend on regulators. Look after your own privacy.

Use:

Scroogle

http://www.scroogle.org/

to access Google search without leaving a trail.

For frequent use, it can be added to the search bar in IE:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-uk/default.mspx?dcsref=http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx

and Firefox:

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=scroogle&sherlock=yes&submitform=Search

If Google's practices irritate you, add 127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com to the hosts file and never see another Google add. For more information see:

Removing Google Ads Using the Windows Hosts File

http://www.techsupportalert.com/adsense_windows_hosts_file.htm

Finally, if you want to surf anonymously, use the free Tor network. Preconfigured browsers for this network include Torpark (based on Firefox) available at:

http://www.torrify.com/

and OperaTor (based on Opera) available at:

http://letwist.net/operator

I hope that this is useful for the paranoid.