Cloudsplitter. You are one funny BS spitter. First at all, the battery pulled out of the cell phone does not prevent tracking for several days because of electrical circuits serving as charge capacity retention function. Second if you were of any interest to be worthy of surveillance once you speak every voice is digitally fingerprinted and NSA has more than enough computer power to find whomever they want as soon as start talking on the phone instantly. Third, every person walks differently, literally and once your particular rear end shifting in motion pattern is established then it is useless to change any phones. Save your money, bug the tree, recycle an old phone, buy the replacement, stimulate by consuming corporate profitability. -:)Most importantly, if people behave evasively then there are even more intrusive methods to exercise individuals scrutiny.
Whom are you fighting? Your own government? Nobody gives a damn about you or me. There are more pressing issues to attend than entertaining the shopkeepers with your cave dwelling lifestyle, obsessing about non existent privacy illusion while crapping in the glass booth. Welcome to America in 2013 reality.
In response to Joy comment N49. Infinity means an unlimited abundance of some hypothetical asset or resource for utilization(think about the United States Federal Reserve ability to create as much money as it deems necessary based on macroeconomic domestic and global factors reality while zero implies in pragmatic terms that something is so totally scarce that it is unavailable for consumption in any conceivable form. However, in mathematical terms zero multiplication can mean that if a numerical asset is multiplied by zero than it becomes well- zero while also simultaneously being rendered into vast infinity. Totally bordering on being driven into psychotic perception of reality type of construct indeed with which to proceed, must I admit...-:) It may be somewhat similar to quantum physics construct where some particles which scientists have striven to measure and evaluate change as soon as an attempt to do so takes place and therefore, that strange object of interest is both existent in abundance and also nonexistent in the way we perceive it because once observed it is altered instantaneously. Think about it on another terms. You as an individual are totally unique and distinguishable from the rest of 7 billion people on this planet while in the infinite universe logically, there is an infinite number of you repeating the same life under totally identical circumstances who also have been given such opportunity. We are all scarce and unique on this planet in our "reality" while in the context of an infinite universe we are all similar to germs living under the rim of the toilet marveling about our greatness while being no different from roaches on the grand scale of things. I think theologically Hindu kind of get it intuitively and maybe that is why some of the greatest mathematicians hail from that country.
Try to post some similarly witty comment no matter how sarcastic and funny it is indicating that you would cause harm to the citizens or interests of some advanced country and see how receptive their governments would be upon your attempted entrance into their society. These types of data mining algorithms that the border agencies utilize for visitors threat assessment do not take the existence of human capacity for jokes and humor into consideration yet and score even benign comments "accordingly". Naturally, the border agents have the discretion to overwrite the automated decision suggestibility in terms of an individual's suitability for temporary admittance. However, why use the ability to think when it is so much easier to ban yet another harmless British tourist from spending his money in the United States whose entire life history suggests radical islamism and being drunk on religious sobriety?-:) The moral of the story: people! do not post dumb stuff prior to visiting the United States even if you come from the most friendly country on earth toward the US besides Canada, Australia and the NZ. Otherwise, you're throwing away your airfare money.
The internet has never been global due to the linguistic and cultural differences. Furthermore, Chinese in spite of being one of the largest internet user base have been living behind the wall of technological censorship with the assistance of western corporations which gladly sell various technological innovations to implement such limited information access availability. Therefore, nothing in a sense changes other than another large corporation publicly complying with local laws of places where it chooses to do business.
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Response to: Cloudsplitter on Jul 24th, 2013 @ 1:51pm
Cloudsplitter. You are one funny BS spitter. First at all, the battery pulled out of the cell phone does not prevent tracking for several days because of electrical circuits serving as charge capacity retention function. Second if you were of any interest to be worthy of surveillance once you speak every voice is digitally fingerprinted and NSA has more than enough computer power to find whomever they want as soon as start talking on the phone instantly. Third, every person walks differently, literally and once your particular rear end shifting in motion pattern is established then it is useless to change any phones. Save your money, bug the tree, recycle an old phone, buy the replacement, stimulate by consuming corporate profitability. -:)Most importantly, if people behave evasively then there are even more intrusive methods to exercise individuals scrutiny.
Whom are you fighting? Your own government? Nobody gives a damn about you or me. There are more pressing issues to attend than entertaining the shopkeepers with your cave dwelling lifestyle, obsessing about non existent privacy illusion while crapping in the glass booth. Welcome to America in 2013 reality.
In response to Joy comment N49. Infinity means an unlimited abundance of some hypothetical asset or resource for utilization(think about the United States Federal Reserve ability to create as much money as it deems necessary based on macroeconomic domestic and global factors reality while zero implies in pragmatic terms that something is so totally scarce that it is unavailable for consumption in any conceivable form. However, in mathematical terms zero multiplication can mean that if a numerical asset is multiplied by zero than it becomes well- zero while also simultaneously being rendered into vast infinity. Totally bordering on being driven into psychotic perception of reality type of construct indeed with which to proceed, must I admit...-:) It may be somewhat similar to quantum physics construct where some particles which scientists have striven to measure and evaluate change as soon as an attempt to do so takes place and therefore, that strange object of interest is both existent in abundance and also nonexistent in the way we perceive it because once observed it is altered instantaneously. Think about it on another terms. You as an individual are totally unique and distinguishable from the rest of 7 billion people on this planet while in the infinite universe logically, there is an infinite number of you repeating the same life under totally identical circumstances who also have been given such opportunity. We are all scarce and unique on this planet in our "reality" while in the context of an infinite universe we are all similar to germs living under the rim of the toilet marveling about our greatness while being no different from roaches on the grand scale of things. I think theologically Hindu kind of get it intuitively and maybe that is why some of the greatest mathematicians hail from that country.
And I thought "only" British and Israelis are bereft of humour
Try to post some similarly witty comment no matter how sarcastic and funny it is indicating that you would cause harm to the citizens or interests of some advanced country and see how receptive their governments would be upon your attempted entrance into their society. These types of data mining algorithms that the border agencies utilize for visitors threat assessment do not take the existence of human capacity for jokes and humor into consideration yet and score even benign comments "accordingly". Naturally, the border agents have the discretion to overwrite the automated decision suggestibility in terms of an individual's suitability for temporary admittance. However, why use the ability to think when it is so much easier to ban yet another harmless British tourist from spending his money in the United States whose entire life history suggests radical islamism and being drunk on religious sobriety?-:) The moral of the story: people! do not post dumb stuff prior to visiting the United States even if you come from the most friendly country on earth toward the US besides Canada, Australia and the NZ. Otherwise, you're throwing away your airfare money.
The end of the global internet? More like business as usual
The internet has never been global due to the linguistic and cultural differences. Furthermore, Chinese in spite of being one of the largest internet user base have been living behind the wall of technological censorship with the assistance of western corporations which gladly sell various technological innovations to implement such limited information access availability. Therefore, nothing in a sense changes other than another large corporation publicly complying with local laws of places where it chooses to do business.