Space Forum / Astronomy / August 2006

> Dirk Van de moortel wrote:
> > <tdp1001@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1136697173.232850.248480@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > > Is there an Internet browser that
> > > maintains a list of URLs that require registering,
> > > such as the New York Times,
> > > and ignores calls to those URLs?
> > >
> > > I, for one, avoid "registering"
> > > with sites that provide commonly available information
> > > of nominal value such as news, widely available data
> > > like dictionaries, common tables, etc.
> > >
> > > I suggest that Google will be replaced by a search service
> > > that does not collect information on the user,
> > > and that the sites that collect personal information
> > > will have to provide information of exceptional value
> > > in order to justify their prying and wasting of time.
> > >
> > > Google, like all governments and all services,
> > > claim that they use the data to help people,
> > > but, I suggest that it is dangerous to mankind
> > > for the heads and employees of governments and companies
> > > to have all kinds of information on all of the other folks.
> > >
> > > I am trying to encourage Chinese search companies
> > > to offer a Google alternate that targets the query,
> > > rather than personal history of the user,
> > > in order to generate an ad.
> > >
> > > I would appreciate a discussion of this,
> > > as I feel it is of general and significance interest to mankind.
> >
> > Google's optional (!) gathering of personal searching history is
> > probably very dangerous for those who use it to look for child
> > porn, but I somehow suspect you are not really interested in
> > discussing that aspect of your personality.
> >
> > Dirk Vdm
>
> "Dirk Van de moortel" reveals more about himself
> with his Freudian slip.
>
> As can be seen from my posting history,
> I am concerned about people in government
> using information to concetrate power,
> and advertisers using information to waste people's time,
>
> and as can be seen from his posting history and web page,
> "Dirk Van de moortel" is interested in child pornography,
> a.ses, and pigs.
>
> --
> Tom Potter
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