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Comment Re:Use a VPN people (Score 3, Informative) 89

Take away my VPN [paid commercial] and I'm done with the internet.
Another bad ruling got me to set it up.
The one that said ISPs can push click baits into my html stream of web page views in order to push advertising.
Ok the real problem was Clinton [I'm a D] and he was wrong to hand over control of the internet to the cooperate money grubers [ca. 1995].
This is just as bad as YouTube, after being bought up by Alphabet, to start garbling the voice to get you to subscribe for $65us/month.

Comment Re:Billing system was running in the control room? (Score 1) 112

Sounds like you have never been in a refinery or other pipe line.

They use what are called "pigs" to separate different products.
Once the have pumped so many barrels of product A, the pig gets
inserted, they pump product B.

My dad worked in a refinery for 35 years and retired.

A good friend in the linux club came in right after dad left, they each
had different jobs, and he was the pump engineer and retired just a
few years ago.

Comment we got bamboozled years ago (Score 2) 83

Don't want you name in the phone directory, call them and tell them not to list you.
then their looked at it and said "why are you giving away information".
You can sell them a "no list" for $4 per month.

Now the nightmare was sent upon us.

look up "cole directory"

for $1200 a year you get everything.
Address
Names
Age Group
Politic affiliation
Household income
Race and Religion
EVERYTHING ! !

Time to stop this train wreck of grabbing "personal information".

Comment Re:great starting point (Score 1) 16

Sorry I had not reached Caffeine Saturation level 3 yet.

I was working from folder in 2017 which seems to be when That Guy sold out.

What ever it is that the link redirects to fits my view of US
We are not far from only 3 people owning everything
Moe, Larry & Curly and everything is upside down and backwards [for the youngsters that's the 3 Stooges]

I still support PIA and usually connected to US Texas in Dallas as I am about 330 miles south of there and
it is usually the best one "for me".
At times when trying to get to Sillycon California I have to switch to US West
A little degrade but it get me the site I want which is handy with 35K of servers to get around failures in internet.

Anyway time to take a pain killer & shut down as Prime Time start in minutes, have a great weekend

Comment great starting point (Score 1) 16

I found this chart several years in my search the "the best" [for my needs]

Disclaimer: I am retired and do not receive any compensation from any one, this is my experience and opinion only.

Here is a link to LifeHacker article:
This Massive VPN Comparison Spreadsheet Helps You Choose the Best for You
It is massive both service and width, goes out to column BC.
Price, "5 Eyes" and "3 eyes" - 3 if I remember is USA, England, Canada.

I chose Private Internet Access [privateinternetaccess.com]. good price, and features and 2 maybe 3 updates a month and never seen "crap we f*ed up" Runs on Win10 [latest] and Linux under my Debian choice of distro to install with no issues [sudo sh filelocation/filename]. Good Luck and this day and age you all the protection you can [I was in computers and radio before Gates & Jobs]

Comment Good topic (Score 1) 42

Started with StartPage to drop all things Google.
How brain second graders are they? ONLY 10 or results. [keep wearing out mouse]

Switched to DDG when they came out.
It not that great in the mountain of results and that sucky attitude is in all search.
I'm Prime member.
search "collagen powder"
Get all stats of matter existence powder, liquid, etc. along with baby powder, butt powder, pussy powder
All I wanted was exactly in the quotes, and accept total failure because I have a mild dyslexia where once
I twist 2 letters I will continue to see it as correct.
And give me 2 wild cards * and ? they can be changed to the needed database characters at the server.

And you want my email and PI first, your tab is instantly killed. try to get a round NoScript or AdGuard you will be wiped off and for 68 and got in computes before Gates & Jobs, I will remember you antics. And my phone is a Phone and occasionally a hotspot when my customers do not internet at the time I am there. Actually I have had dumb people want me to tell the how fix their problem over text. Ugh, NO, do I need to define that for you. Text is for quick stuff like, running late "see you later" - Bye

Comment dim the sun? (Score 1) 70

That is already in progress.

The is already enough dead and abandoned junk that space travel is increasingly risk.

And we are throwing more "internet satellites" up there that when we are able to head to another planet from trashing this one.

My spiritual deity just sent a mental text picture of their face-palm.

And hollywood again is projecting the future with the movie Idiocracy.

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