Comment Re:That's cool, but... (Score 1) 260
mod me: "moron", as i can't mod here since i posted
sorry, i'm such a dumbass
mod me: "moron", as i can't mod here since i posted
sorry, i'm such a dumbass
about the only thing that i can get to work is "Try your search on Yahoo, Ask, TheWeb, Live, etc, etc", and that only works for web searches, not news or image.
i'd love to know if all or any of the other goodies are working for you or others. thanks
alright, i tried installing CustomizeGoogle from Mozilla's addon page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/743), and then, under noscript i allowed google.com (can't forbid google's js with noscript or customize google won't work).
the results: on web searching, now i DO get the ability to try my search on other search engines (that's my favorite thing, just one middle click on each search engine!). But when using image searching, it DOES NOT add links to other image search sites. Nor does it give convenient links to other news search sites.
And other things like being able to make image links point directly to the image aren't working....
I am really worried about the fact that Facebook has access to data such as people's real name (that's the point of it, right?)
Um, no it doesn't. It has no real name verification mechanism, so if you are like me and you go by a nickname among your friends, you can register using a nickname. I think at some point they changed it so that you couldn't change the name easily once you register ('didn't used to be that way in its first year), but if you start out with a pseudonym, they don't stop you.
As for other infos, well, use TOR and litter your profile (and friend list) with a lot of false information so that they cannot separate the truth from lie.
Or, as you said, don't use Facebook.
it won't work on my main machine that has FF3.5, and i love that extension, so i still have FF3.0 on my secondary machine, and i don't upgrade that machine to 3.5, just so i can keep using Customize Google.
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Never use ear buds.
Actually, I use ear buds specifically because of that. Most *decent* earbuds will block out external noise, which lets you use a much lower volume. The downside is that it makes you pretty oblivious to your surroundings.
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