Comments on: Why, yes, this IS why we have a Patriot Act.

By: cellular phones

cellular phones — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 21:10:40 +0000

I’m Ch&ra, really nice blog, lots of great info, Thanks a lot!

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:36:16 +0000

Bush is a liar and hypocrite. He has this made-up war going on, which has actually HELPED the terrorists more than hurt them while Osama is still at large, that has the blood of countless thousands of innocents on his hands. He has broken the law with the illegal wire-tapping. Made government bigger and more intrusive rather than smaller. He and his “administration” (read: anyone who is too scared to disagree with little king bush) have lied about so many things it’s a wonder anyone can believe a word they say any more.

But hell, Clinton had sex with some chick in the oval office, so he’s far worse.

By: Toastrider

Toastrider — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:04:07 +0000

That’s okay, Evangolis. I didn’t trust Bill Clinton either

–TR

By: Turlow

Turlow — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:43:17 +0000

“You guys do realize that turning SafeSearch \’e2\’80\’9coff\’e2\’80\’9d (which is not the default, it\’e2\’80\’99s something you have to do yourself) is the equivalent of telling Google \’e2\’80\’9cYes, I\’e2\’80\’99d like porn results from almost everything I type in please\’e2\’80\’9d, right? “

Don’t we have truth in advertising laws? Shouldn’t SafeSearch really be labeled “PornSearch”?

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:15:34 +0000

You guys do realize that turning SafeSearch “off” (which is not the default, it’s something you have to do yourself) is the equivalent of telling Google “Yes, I’d like porn results from almost everything I type in please”, right?

By: Brask Mumei

Brask Mumei — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:37:17 +0000

Thanks for the advice, imaweasel. I was obviously confused by the original posters command to: “go type a female name into Google with safesearch *on*” (emphasis mine)

The internet is once again the pit of cess that I’ve grown to love.

By: imweasel

imweasel — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:17:55 +0000

Brask Mumei – Make sure your safe search option in google is off.

I had no problem pulling up nude photos within the first page or two of results using the simple names of Jenny and Tina.

By: Azaroth

Azaroth — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:06:51 +0000

Hah. Well put, Evangolis.

By: Evangolis

Evangolis — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 21:20:48 +0000

Toastrider – One point I think is largely overlooked in the whole warrentless wiretap mess is that, by the nature of the agencies involved, we really have to take Bush’s word that he is only listening in on terrorists. I see little reason to trust that sort of declaration from a government in general (even as a self-described big government liberal), and most particularly from this government in particular, whose duplicitousness is to extensive to bother wasting Lum’s bandwidth on. The same comcern abviously follows here.

I have no illusions about dubya’s impeachment, I simply maintain that he is lying through his teeth and can’t be trusted to tell you whether it is raining or he is just taking a leak.

In fairness to the other search engines, they did negotiate this for an extended period, as did Google. Not that said negotiations make me feel any better about trusting them with my data. But I didn’t trust them to begin with, so I am more pleasantly surprised by Google than I am disappointed in the others, who merely lived down to my expectations.

By: Amp

Amp — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:05:34 +0000

*chuckle*