Hulu Summer Clues for July 14-18 for 2008! REVEALED

Paul3 Replies

Well I’ve checked what they are doing and I’ve got to say, it’s kinda funny!!!  So what are the clues.  I’ll break it down for you here’s the 5 clues that you can understand much easier!!

  1. Monday:       Casino Royale (1976) [Tiny URL]

  2. Tuesday:      The Fall Guy Season 1 [Tiny URL]

  3. Wednesday:  Fiddler On the Roof [Tiny URL]

  4. Thursday:    The Dick van Dyke Show Seasons 1-3 [Tiny URL]

  5. Friday:        The Rundown (2003) [Tiny URL]

These are just guesses but I am almost certain that this “tiny clue” comment refers to the tiny URL webpage.  I am quite sure this is the linup for next weeks.   Tiny URL’s are used to make easy ways to tell people how to get to a post!!  I thought it was really easy but I wanted to let people know what I thought.  If you like this post, I’ll be trying to figure out next weeks clues, so keep watching!!

Get over it, You’ve got no Privacy on the net!!

Paul

I’ve been talking to my friends at work and in other places, they’ve all asked the same question from time to time.  “Is privacy on the internet a possibility?”  and in short my answer is “No, you’ve got no privacy on the Internet!”  This is what I like to refer to as people wanting privacy to be on the internet.  Let’s face it folks, there is no privacy on the internet.  People are worried about Youtube debacle and I understand! In today’s society and time there is no privacy.  If let’s say you’ve come to my site.  What would I find out you?

  1. Your IP

  2. What you searched for in Google, Yahoo, AOL, to get to my site!

  3. Type of Operating System (Windows, Linux, or Macintosh)

  4. Where you just came from, unless you’ve chosen to come to my site directly

  5. You screen resolution

  6. You browser your using!

I don’t tell you this to make you not want to visit my site.  This type of stuff is always going to be recorded by almost 95% websites you visit.  It’s always going to be an unspoken understanding.  I have to keep up to date on what happens on my site.  It’s just normal to get the information and be able to see where everyone is coming from.

Why do sites have statsictics?  It’s to find out how well there site is doing.  It can also be used to keep up-to-date on what happens with search engines and what is popular.  So these sites can become a better site.  Yes it is true that most sites decide well in advance what looks like a popular topic. I understand this and now you can too.  They want people to come to there site.  I hope you understand that to, most bloggers, and I include myself in this, want a discussion about topic at hand.  I love to find out what people think of my site?  Here’s a little secret, a hot topic brings out the comments because the ones who are passionate about a topic will comment about it.  It comes in waves though so there will be days that nothing happens and there will be days you get a ton of people coming to my site.

It’s the nature of the beast, or I should say the internet.   “Do we need to worry about what we do on the Internet?”  and I say whole heartedly “Yes!!“ But if you take my advice and understand this, everyone wins.  Bloggers figured this out in the early days of blogging.  They’ve know about stats before we even had the internet before blogging was an option.   This is something that has to be present to make these website a better place for people of all nations.

In the near future, I’ll be discussing how you can prevent people from finding out some of this information by clearing your cookies and your cache.  That doesn’t mean, by doing this you’ll be anonymous it just means that no one, will know certain things about you.  For example, have you been to this or other sites before? I’ll be explaining this in detail soon, so be watching for it!

Although I’ve been collecting this data about my visitor I do no have access to other sites so in that respect I only know so much about the people who visit my site.  Now I must point out I do not nor shall I ever keep a log of what people do on my site.  The statistics that I have been gathering, I’ll on occasion just delete them and start a new. My statstics are rolling, so I only gather so much data before the new data kills the old data.  So in essence, you are somewhat protected from people looking over you shoulder, but the truth is.  Someone somewhere sometime is going to be watching everything you do at some point.  So lets sit back and relax and imagine we are sitting on a desserted island and you can call me Skipper and I’ll call you Gilligan.

While looking around the internet, I found this one article that looks somewhat truthful about the Youtube and Viacom lawsuit debacle.  I thought I’d share it with you and let you decide for yourself!!

FYI Zonealarm has a Fix for KB951748

Paul

If your like me and have Zonealarm installed there is a fix!!  Zone Alarm has found a way to fix the problem so you don’t have to worry about that the little shield constantly being shown on the right hand corner of the desktop.

The Fix from Zonealarm:

http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/pressReleases/2008/LossOfInternetAccessIssue.html

I haven’t tried it yet because I just found out, This is for the people who are looking for the fix!

I will apply the fix to my wifes computer today and if there’s a problem I’ll report back!!

Windows updates has an EULA attached!

Paul

As I was install Vista ukpdates, this popup with a licensed agreement for the Malicious Software Removal Tool — July 2008.  It was

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MICROSOFT SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS
MICROSOFT WINDOWS MALICIOUS SOFTWARE REMOVAL TOOL
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for this software, unless other terms accompany those items.  If so, those terms apply.
By using the software, you accept these terms.  If you do not accept them, do not use the software.
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Consent for Internet-Based Services.  The software feature described below connects to Microsoft or service provider computer systems over the Internet.  In some cases, you will not receive a separate notice when they connect.  You may switch off this feature or not use it.  For more information about this feature, see www.support.microsoft.com/?kbid=890830.  By using this feature, you consent to the transmission of this information.  Microsoft does not use the information to identify or contact you.
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* Malicious Software Removal.  Before execution of the software, the software will check for and remove certain malicious software (“Malware”) from your device, which is listed and periodically updated by family at www.support.microsoft.com/?kbid=890830.  When the software checks your device for Malware, a report will be sent to Microsoft about any Malware detected, specific information relating to the detection, errors that occurred while the software was checking for Malware, and other information about your device that will help us improve this and other Microsoft products and services.  No information included in these reports will be used to identify or contact you.  You may disable the software’s reporting functionality by following the instructions found at www.support.microsoft.com/?kbid=890830.  For more information, read the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool privacy statement at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=113995.

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* anything related to the software, services, content (including code) on third party Internet sites, or third party programs; and
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It also applies even if Microsoft knew or should have known about the possibility of the damages.  The above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you because your country may not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental, consequential or other damages.

Is Microsoft worried about the the Malacious Software updates that they think it could be a problem and not admitting?  Why would they want add this.  I’ve either got to accept or decline this agreement.  If I decline the agreement, the update isn’t applied?  So they are basically forcing me to agree or not install a product that I’ve not seen any use off?  Who are they trying to kid, either it’s doing a fantastic job and I don’t know about it, or it doesn’t do crap and still I don’t know about it.  Kind of makes a mute point, I’ll just decline it and not worry about it.  I
have my own anti-virus (AVG Anti-Virus 8). So If I get bit in the next month I’ll know.  I’ll update you as I it comes out!!

A quick note to all that Have installed KB951748

Paul

My wife installed the WIndows XP updates without asking me or telling me.  The next thing I found out is she couldn’t access the internet.  If you install KB951748 and have Zonealarm, you will have to unistall KB951748 to get internet Access.

I have to thank TANJENTSDOTCOM. Thanks for the help. If you worry about that update you can always uninstall Zonealarm but I like the program and feel it has some great protection. I don’t know what Microsoft is doing but I think they did not test this thoroughly!! Hope this helps!!