Posted on 12/07/2020 5:18:42 AM PST by Kaslin
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." —Vladimir Lenin
This has been such a week or several weeks. Everything seems to be happening. Most of it not so good. And it ain't over.
At such times, it is easy to become despondent. Americans are watching cherished institutions crumble in the face of leftist ideology: the FBI, the courts, election officials, the Justice Department, ballots in trucks, ballots in suitcases. No need to review that here.
Well, there is something else going on, and maybe it's time to dig into it a bit.
Stand back from the political maelstrom, take a deep breath, and let's talk technology. No, let's go deeper and talk software.
Marc Andreesen, a leading venture guy, wrote an important piece years ago: "Why Software Is Eating the World."
His thesis is that software runs about everything, so software, the computer instruction set, will run the world. OK, let's leave it there.
America just lived through the first wave of what might be called a one-sided software war. Software, as in Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other "Big Techs," worked together to impact an election cycle. Nobody disputes that, not even the techs. Actually, they are pretty proud of it.
Americans, particularly the ones daily censored on Twitter and Facebook, look at these monoliths and see eternal weaponry arrayed against them. Their senators and reps will never break them up. Most take money from Google, and the rest live in fear of crossing them.
One man's monolith is another man's dinosaur. Don't fear these guys; they just got there first.
Looking at the technology behind all these firms, one finds they are using conventional software stacks, the kind pretty much everyone uses today.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I know there is no way to be invisible, but effing up their data collection methods is a fun thing to do. Try it in your own way. It's a good thing to eff with their data collection. The ads they send me on that tablet are proof that it works.
Try it, you might not be so determined to give in to them, nor so willing to think they are God-like to the point of us giving up.
They aren't God-like. They're a bunch of beenie propellor nerds, losers, total losers.
I'm assuming you mean the link to google analytics.
The same site I have blocked globally via NoScript.
Tell me again how I am using that site?
FreeRepublic uses Google analytics. The cookies used track you and everything you’re doing and send it back to Google.
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I might be wrong but I believe Amazon had a jump on this sort of thing, although I am not sure they invented Alexa and I think Amazon bought them out, most people think of Alexa as a table top device with a friendly female voice like Siri, but it started out in the early 2000’s as site traffic index, page ranking, and content archiving site/service.
Don’t get me wrong, Google was already working ad-words and a lot of their other revenue generating services at the same time, but I don’t think Google analytics came out until later
Trumps executive order signed before the 2020 election in short describing those foreign and domestic interfering with the election
Alexa the search engine traffic index (https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo) has nothing to do with Alexa, the digital assistant.
d’oh! I always thought Amazon bought them out.
I need to try harder to sound smart today. lol
They need more splittin’!
Ppl need to avoid gmail as well!
UNacceptable!
For a test, some friends took the world’s largest billing system. You are probably one of its customers. It is for cell phone stuff.
Well, right now, it costs a billion dollars a year to run. It took 20 years to build. It takes 25 days to process 50 million bills in a data center so large you need a golf cart to traverse it. It consumes the energy equivalent of 100,000 homes.>>>>>
Interesting example. I worked for Auxco in the early 80’s and our team wrote the initial software for customer, reseller and billing systems for then AT&T mobile phone business that was being tested in Cincinnati. We had one guy working on it for about 2 years. Had to use all new 9700 Xerox overlays on regular paper not perforated stuff. He quit and then someone else picked it up. I worked on other parts of the system. eventually they got it working after i left the company. We delivered the software the very week AT&T was broken up and then had to deliver it to Bell Atlantic. We literally testing every if statement in the code. Written using IMS and good old CICS. The screens all had to support a simple transaction string along with the old green screens.
Thank you.
How would I know that by looking at the page of code?
If you want to search for truth, don’t use Google!
Okay. I did that.
Question: What is an ‘urchin’?
Question 2: What is an ‘urchin tracker’?
Question 3: Why is google analytics necessary in the source?
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js"></script>
Thank you. Sorry to be such a pain.
I play a similar game. Somehow leftist groups got my phone number mixed up with my 30 yo daughter’s. I completely toyed with the election callers from the DNC.
Btw, my daughter is to the hard right too.
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