Millpucky

Happy B-Day to y'all Canadians!

Congrats and Welcome!

So annoyed that I switched to firefox on my desktop machine. F'ing bastards have no courtesy towards anyone anymore.

This isn't a hoax. I just read it on MSN this morning.
 
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-eavesdropping-tool-installed-on-computers-without-permission/ar-AAc1CpO
 
 
Privacy campaigners and open source developers are up in arms over the secret installing of Google software which is capable of listening in on conversations held in front of a computer.
 
First spotted by open source developers, the Chromium browser – the open source basis for Google’s Chrome – began remotely installing audio-snooping code that was capable of listening to users.
 
It was designed to support Chrome’s new “OK, Google” hotword detection – which makes the computer respond when you talk to it – but was installed, and, some users have claimed, it is activated on computers without their permission.
 
“Without consent, Google’s code had downloaded a black box of code that – according to itself – had turned on the microphone and was actively listening to your room,” said Rick Falkvinge, the Pirate party founder, in a blog post. “Which means that your computer had been stealth configured to send what was being said in your room to somebody else, to a private company in another country, without your consent or knowledge, an audio transmission triggered by … an unknown and unverifiable set of conditions.”
 
The feature is installed by default as part of Google’s Chrome browser. But open source advocates are up in arms about it also being installed with the open source variant Chromium, because the listening code is considered to be “black box”, not part of the open source audit process.
“We don’t know and can’t know what this black box does,” said Falkvinge.
Opt-in or opt-outGoogle responded to complaints via its developer boards. It said: “While we do download the hotword module on startup, we do not activate it unless you opt in to hotwording.”
 
However, reports from developers indicate otherwise.
 
After having identified Chromium as the culprit, developer Ofer Zelig said in a blog post: “While I was working I thought ‘I’m noticing that an LED goes on and off, on the corner of my eyesight [webcam]’. And after a few times when it just seemed weird, I sat to watch for it and saw it happening. Every few seconds or so.”
 
Google also blamed the Linux distribution Debian for downloading the non-open source component with Chromium automatically, rather than Google Chrome.
 
“The key here is that Chromium is not a Google product. We do not directly distribute it, or make any guarantees with respect to compliance with various open source policies,” Google developer mgiuca said.
 
Falkvinge countered Google’s explanations saying: “The default install will still wiretap your room without your consent, unless you opt out, and more importantly, know that you need to opt out, which is nowhere a reasonable requirement.” He says a hardware switch to disable the microphone and camera built into most computers is needed.
 
Voice search functions have become an accepted feature of modern smartphones, but their movement into the home through the smart TV, and now browser, have caused concerns over the possibility of being listened to within the home.
 
While most services require a user to opt in, privacy advocates have questioned whether their use, which requires sending voice recordings over the internet to company servers for processing, risks unintentionally exposing private conversations held within the home.
 
 

It looks like Rosie couldn't stand the fact that somebody else was getting all of the attention, so she took the plunge.
 
 

 
I agree completely....There is something wrong with society when it focuses more on sensationalism rather than the problems of that society.
 
Well said Lead

Thats me steering at the back.  

 
 

Hey....sometimes you feel like a nut and sometimes you don't.

Hey....sometimes you feel like a nut and sometimes you don't.

So i went to work at 5am i decide to leave at 12 then 10 mins later i get a call saying a truck smash through the store. if i would have stayed at work i would have been dead he back wall gave way where i work. man something watching out for me... here are pics https://www.facebook.com/NilesNation

Just wondering what an idiot thinks about the transformation of Bruce Jenner.
 
For me I just cant see him as  woman . . nope. . just cant.
 
and if a chromosome test was done wouldn't he still be a man?
 
All the media coverage of this story is proof the media doesn't know what is important to the American People. The people would best be served by a media that revealed the problems of our government and focus on who is doing something to try and fix it and not a Olympic medal winner that decides he would rather dress like a woman.
 
 
I'm not anti gay or lesbian or whatever I just think what you do in private should stay private.
 
True its probably none of our business but when the news plasters it all over the place it becomes everyone's business . . . . .or maybe not?
 
So what do you think? . . . . . . .
 

Don't worry Rugger,a few of Panthers cookies and you'll bring yourself down to their level and you know what,you'll have a blast and won't even care.Plus these are Gluten Free Peanut Butter Marihuana Cookies. LOL

I've got hook ups for the clubs in vegas... Ladies will be free of course Rugger I hope you bring your dress and heels

Hello and welcome

Believe it or not, this is a Chinese restaurant in Amsterdam. I was driving by in the hotel van and just happened to look out the window as we passed "The Sunken Dragon". I couldn't believe it. So once I was dropped off I walked back about a half mile just to get a pic.
 

Nope, I don't like Chinese : ). I did take this pic from my sniper position LOL!

Hi XI Crew!
 
 
I was your TS channel for the first time today and was seduced by someones Cornish overtones so I have taken the plunge  and joined this webby message board thingy majingy..
 
Anyway, just a few words about me, I got my first PC in 1983 so I am old, I am Irish and live in Limerick and I  love gaming and the Craic ,so hopefully I have come to the right place, they serve Guinness here right?
 
Hope to get to know a few of you all soon and see ya on the Battlefield.
 
Beannacht agus Dea-luck
 
 
 

Happy B-Day!

Sent this to my gf... required a lot of explanation...
 

 
Well now we know who will end up in jail

Fuck me what a load of piffle, i knew as soon as that posh tart started talking we weren't going to get any real swear words.....Bloody-Bollocks-Blimey-Pissed and Sod...swear words? give me a break, they have never been swear words in my part of the world, even a Nun wouldn't raise an eyebrow at that lot.

Timelapse that shit! That is so cool, but I don't have time you watch the whole thing.