i, for one, like the idea of this feature. i just wish it would listen for a "f*ck you google" keyphrase and then immediately delete all google services related cookies from my browser. the "f*ck you google" subroutine should work completely locally but i'm ok with it increasing some kind of counter on google's servers. they should be able to see how many million people said "f*ck you google" this month.

it's a rhetorical device called hyperbole/amplification.

regarding the official child snatching, only Norway is known for having a more trigger happy social services. (no hyperbole here)

don't forget CCTV. mustn't forget the omnipresent CCTV (roads, streets and buildings). also, you aren't allowed to withhold your passwords from police, there's even less police/secret services transparency than in the US of A; your kids will probably be taken away if you discipline them in public or if you go to a doctor with any kind of genital problem (UK children are not allowed to have genital problems).

oh and the sweaty armpits on tube (mmmm yummy), yobs who'll knife you if you complain about their loud music at night (wo'd ya say to mee?) and among the highest rent and property prices in the world. however, it's a good place to live if you're a member of any oppressed minority (race, sexuality, religion) as with so many minorities present nobody gives a shit about that anymore.

and if you happen to speak the most common language of london - polish, your life will be much cheaper (plumbers, carpenters, builders, car servicing, etc). the first thing you should do when you move to london is get a polish friend. i kid you not, they're 100x more useful than your local "citizen's advice bureau".

how many separate instances of businesses trying to please governments have you encountered so far in your mega.co.nz project? e.g. paypal/visa/mastercard refusing to process payments for the service.
and have you come across any that went the opposite way? i.e. going out of their way to help you

my previous employer (in the UK) wanted to be able to store credit card details of customers for automatic payment processing. unfortunately for us, a law came out that essentially meant that to get certified, we'd have to switch to MS Windows servers. that was the only platform for which there were guidelines and which could be audited. in the end we gave up and had a 3rd party process payments for us. the law pretty much caused the monopoly of sagepay in the UK.

hmm... that will not get you very far. You don't seem to deal with LSO cookies at all, adblock is now as closed source as it gets (unlike adblock plus) and you are not addressing fingerprinting either (extensions like rubberglove, privoxy/proxomitron and disabling font enumeration in firefox).

soon enough there will be a university degree in safe/private browsing.

this is what i came here to say. how dare you steal my 30 seconds of glory!!!

it's like saying "i was almost entirely faithful to you darling"

Find me a girls' magazine that isn't about sparkling up your fingernails, braiding your hair, one direction (band) or some other useless shit. Then look in the boys' section and you'll see what I mean.

Same goes for adult women except they can skip straight to grannies' knitting magazines if they choose to.

I have a daughter that I'm trying to shield from this and it's really hard. I don't even know what to say when she asks why there are only pictures of boys in her favourite arduino magazine. Same for lego technics. Unless you buy lego with princesses or animals, pictures on the box will be of only boys having fun. The game is rigged.

When we stop belittling of half of earth's population down to the level of a bedroom/stove/pushchair accessory from their early teens; when we start equally participating in said things and give them a generation or two without ramming our perverse ideas of women down their throats as soon as they reach 12, only then can we start making comparisons. Before then, a big F**K YOU to everybody who even tries. This is as unfair a fight as it gets.

i really agree with the 1st point. i'm not a fan of the 2nd but it's true.

my wife's father was a composer, conductor and a music professor who married very late in his life. last 10 years of his life were pretty much so his wife and daughter can be supported by royalties from his work after his death. while the yearly cheques don't bring any breathtaking sum (it's mostly classical and jazz music), it was enough to make sure his wife could stay at home to bring up his daughter and enough to put his daughter through university and good quality private schools.

had there been no post mortem royalties, he would probably not have composed half of his best works and taught instead.

i still think the best way to protect your data is not to have your data on the computer. i simply mount a remote volume with a command that doesn't get saved in my .bash_history. you can have all the fun you want with my computers, it won't get you anywhere.

i'm secretly hoping they'll discover it was a kid learning how to mass-provision desktops in virtualbox. ooooh the embarrassment.

well, on my computer it shortened startup time by about 10% (not much), the shutdown time however is another matter. if i forget to unmount nfs, it pauses for 2 minutes showing countdown and then continues shutdown. i've had many wtf moments with systemd.

oooh, could this be the right time for gnu/linux people to start posting their uptime?