I have created an account with the new forums. I’ve reset the password twice. But every time I try to log in I get “Site Suspended” at some WordPress login. What in the world is this?? How do I log in???
Clayton -
I have the same problem. I don’t know whether Facebook logins work, because I am one of the rare neo-luddite mountain people who doesn’t have a use for Facebook.
Facebook is evil. So is Gmail. Unfortunately, I currently use both. However, this weakness on my part will be ending in the very near future.
Clayton -
I have the same “Site Suspended” problem when I login to my new account.
By the way, your new community is getting spammed:
Make two of us. In any way.
PS: i’ve just seen the amount of spam… holy marmite!
why is facebook evil? sigh
did facebook cause 9/11 ?
I didn’t know we had new forums! Personally I feel like there is too much going on visually, but maybe that’s because I’m not used to it.
The log-in problem might be due to a proliferation of spam blogs (splogs). The main dev guy is contacting the anti-splog solution guys, asking them why it seems so full of holes. I also sent him this thread.
Facebook, Gmail, et. al. are all part of the new “grid”. They are pestering you now for your phone # so they can tie your account activity to your mobile phone (which, by the way, has a GPS in it - as all cellphones without exception do). So, yeah, they’re part of the Establishment, they’re evil. And what kind of creepy business issues its employees hoodies with a star-of-David hidden on the inside? WTF is that??
Clayton -
This doesn’t look like a jewish star to me:
So what if people volunteer their personal information to Facebook? You could buy a phone without GPS, but not having GPS sorta defeats the purpose of any location-based app.
Companies being forced to give up information to the government is a different issue; one which you did not address in you post.
Since 2005, all cellphones have GPS tracking. Tell me that isn’t creepy as hell. The formal government is not the only evil… and please do not mistake me to be saying Facebook is evil just because they’re big and successful. I have no problem with success… more power to Zuckerberg for being successful… but if you think the Establishment is going to take the Internet laying down, you got another thing coming.
Clayton -
@Nielsio: I don’t know if it’s Jewish or not but the star-of-David symbol is definitely present in explicit (rotated 30 degrees) and implicit (connect the arrow points) form. Not saying it’s a conspiracy, just noting that it’s weird.
Clayton -
I see. By GPS I figured you meant, by its common usage, technology akin to what TomTom has which tells you where you are within a yard. Not all phones have that. Any phone can be triangulated, but if you want to consider that GPS, then go ahead.
Okay even with your link I still don’t see what you’re talking about. For one thing, it’s an eHow page. But even going through what it says (and the ftc pdf linked at the bottom) I see nothing that says all phones have GPS tracking…and nothing about a 2005 threshhold. If you’re counting triangulation as “GPS tracking” (which it isn’t) then, fine. Every cell phone has the ability to be triangulated. That kind of goes with the territory of having celluar service.
What you’re saying is the equivalent of something like “all computers since 1980 have electrocution capability.”
Or, all desktop computers have GPS!!!
*shrug… go ahead and underestimate the ambitions of the domestic electronic surveillance apparatus. Negroponte was just joking when he tried to create the Total Information Awareness program (with this creepy logo) at the Pentagon. I may be mistaken that every cellphone has an onboard GPS but this is what I was told by an industry insider.
Clayton -
He was either one (of plenty) “insiders” who don’t have any idea what they’re talking about, or you misunderstood him. But of course being an “insider” doesn’t mean you have any credibility…of honesty or competency. Again, you could position a phone through triangulation, but that’s kind of the nature of a cell phone. Just like electricity is part of how a computer works. It comes with the territory. This is not to say it’s completely impossible for information like that to be obtained and used against you…just like it’s not completely impossible for a computer to electricute you. That doesn’t mean it’s some “hidden feature.” The fact that a cell phone could be positioned is a matter of physics. It’s not some creepy nefarious plot.