Hallelujah!! I can print maps for my expense reports!!! But holy cow, they also provide old satellite images? My colleague here is looking at the exact same maps page, and he is seeing a current map, i see something that I'm not kidding must be 20 years old. (Wow. So that's what it looked like before all the roads were built in this area.)

What passive agressive assholes Google are.....

Oh well at least i can print travel summaries, screw you very much Google. They are gonna get a lot of lies in the user agent data they collect from now on. And they deserve it for the horrible web 2.point.suck.my.balls UX garbage they've been inflicting on us. Way to go Google, punishing us for keeping our browsers up to date with horrible UI designs. I flipped my agent spoofer to something ancient, and the classic Google maps is back!!! Awesome!!!

Google will never again know my real browser agent details. They are dead to me. Now of only Open Street Maps could actually search for addresses with exact character accuracy in the search term...... Then I'd never use Google at all.

And now a little thank you prayer to DuckDuckGo, my private mail server, and my jail broken Android devices. Google account required to log into a computer - please, let me off this evil Google Bus. Life without google is becoming possible, which makes my odds on humanity surviving another century go way up.

Geeze, glad I live in Eurpoe now as an expat (not England - shudder). There is a strong living memory continentally of how horrible society can be if a central authority knows when where and what you purchase and who all your associates and family are. This attitude that only illegal thigs are purchased with cash and that credit cards are so convenient is just propoganda you've been spoon fed since the cradle. Question what you think you know and the motives of the people who try to shape your opinions and actions.

Besides, it's not today's laws you need to worry about. It's future laws handed down retroactively by an "elected" crackpot you should fear as they start tapping into the digital histories of an entire population seeking wrong doers.

It doesn't hurt that cash has no bank fees, and that ATM's virtually everywhere. It's a vital component to a free society in this digital age, and we need to appreciate and enjoy cash as a healthy medium which encourages commerce and jobs to stay within our communities. (As opposed to online shopping which just transfers profits to overseas tax havens and up some yacht owner's nose.)

You are so right. I'm gonna go get some popcorn also to soothe my rage....

If they keep doing this a few more times, we will see a proper fork emerge and perpahs Mozilla would run out of funds just like Gnome did recently.

We don't need our desktops to be made as idiotic as our tablets. Workstations are for time constrained creation, tablets are for casual consumption. UX designers need to keep this straight and optimize them respectively.

Man there are a lot of interesting ideas flying around out there. I know ideas are coming out of the woodwork, but I can't resist contributing. I'm just posting to Spy der Man's initial entry due to this being general in nature.

Having written an essay on the BF forum on how BF was NOT a DDOS attack, (it got copied around a bit) it's probably obvious to those who've seen me lurking the forums that I considered Blue Security to be taking the high road. Therefore I think it's imperative that everyone try to remove war like language from their thoughts when embarking on this new project. As in don't use the term DDoS casually, and Opt-Outs are not a form of attack.

The only way we can succeed is with the highest ethical standards. I didn't always believe this - before Blue Security I engaged in childish revenge on spamvertised servers just like many who read this probably has in the past. But hind sight is something or other...

I'm now a believer that the focus of any BF replacement project should be to ONLY exercise our legal rights to request removal from an advertising service and NO MORE! I've seen eager folks out there hungering for DDoS style retribution against these scum, but I'm quite sure that path will lead to failure. One opt out per e-mail. Simple as pie. Fair and legal.

Now, many other powerfull things occur when you set up a service like Blue Security. I've re-vamped and cleaned out my humble blog and have written further on Black Frog P2P challenges / rewards there.
http://e-zebedee.blogspot.com/
Yeah, it's a poser blog, but it's fast, easy and free. Also prevents my posts in places like this from getting too long. I've copied a few earlier posts into the Blog for reference and removed non-BlueSecurity related topics.

I'll support this effort in any way I can. Though with my hectic life at the moment it may only be a few hours of writing here and there.

Looking forward to more interesting discussions.