Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others joined in the fight

This is basically like the fight for internet freedom two years ago in which even the IT giants like Microsoft, Facebook, Google and others joined. However, it is still not exactly as large as the one two years ago. What about Wikipedia for instance? Did they black out for this fight yesterday against the on-going surveillance?

OK, it seemed that the same banner as displayed in my blog was also in Reform Government Surveillance website as well. It is the effort of various IT giants like the ones I just mentioned above. You can see the site there: http://www.reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/. There's also another official blog spot from Microsoft about this as well that was posted yesterday. Basically, we don't trust the technology or company that is involved in the cyber-surveillance thing. If that's the case, you may have to find the technology that is surveillance free but then, its functionality is kind of inferior. You can try out the Debian OS with Firefox for instance as well as other Linux apps available but not all kinds of apps can be commonly found there for use.

Google Glass + Robocop in reality

OK, it seems that NYPD is planning to use Google Glass for video capturing crime scenes for finding evidences so that they can capture the criminals whenever possible. Of course, another challenge is that the technology uses the social network services to identify the victims and suspects and puts them in the organizational charts depending on whichever cases they're solving.
The downside is that it may be costly and what if the bad guys are using this same technology as well? There was already a previous case which I didn't give a shit about about some bad guy using the same technology to record the entire movie in the theaters for future reference or perhaps the sake of pirating. Well, that was completely bullshit that he was arrested for that. Also, we don't know if the Google Glass technology will be used by NYPD for some bad purposes either but I guess that if any officer is caught using that technology to do bad things, there will be consequences for that officer. We may hope that those consequences will be real in case any officer dares to do those bad things with that glass. So, we may expect some good things with NYPD using Google Glass like trying to bring the Robocop thing in reality. It's a cool thing to bring that popular franchise to reality as long as such technology is not being used for bad purposes.

February 11, We Fight Back

In the mid-2000s until now, it has been like the cities in the western regions have been digitally blown with a bunch of digital laser beams from the invading motherships we call the cyber-spying agencies. Sure, those agencies are like the complete privacy invaders until now we don't know if there's an end to this cyber-invasion. Now, it looks like people are fighting back today for freedom which is February 11 in the eastern region with the western region still being a day earlier.
Unfortunately, this preparation doesn't seem to be as big as the one two years ago probably due to the fact that certain companies like Verizon, Google, etc. had already betrayed us but we hope that this set of actions against the on-going surveillance will succeed. Tumblr and Mozilla will be participating as well today and you can put in some codes into your site from https://thedaywefightback.org/?r=eff.

Firefox with Australis UI

Seems that Firefox 29 will have the Firefox Accounts that allow the online synchronization of the settings, themes and other stuffs for the browser. It should be similar to the one in Google Chrome browser that the synchronization takes place in various devices. However, I don't know if all the add-ons/plugins/extensions will be synchronized across multiple devices. Previously, even the Opera web browser is using the Google Chrome GUI along with some changes.
If the GUI is approved, they will decide to put it in Firefox 29 in mid-April this year. There will be two groups so far. One is the Australis project builds section and the other is the Mozilla-Central section which doesn't have the Australis code at all.

Google's violation of CNIL

Well, bravos and well done to evil technical betrayal Google for violating the privacy of the customers around the globe with their features that contain data collection bullshit. It seems like Microsoft will be proud that they will make another Google bashing advertisement of theirs, encouraging users to use Microsoft products. Hell, even the mascots of some Microsoft products will have even harder time fighting bad guys representing malwares and cyber-criminals when they find out certain IT betrayal companies like Google, Verizon, etc. It may appear that the new cyber-criminal corporations may be the spying agencies and the famous hacking groups nowadays that we may have to protect ourselves from them.
And really to Google for ignoring what the punishment the French government had issued by following the orders and policies of the spying agencies? It's like they have the guts to lie to their users while announcing other useless stuffs like the Chromebook and Chromebox as if there's no signs of security for privacy for those products. Even Jolicloud has the anti-privacy kind of bastard like Chromium based Dashboard that you may be better off using other cloud OSes instead of Chrome OS or Jolicloud OS.

Chromebox for business

The system is already available in the US for business at $999 with the product to be available in other countries in the future. It has Intel Core i7 processor with HD webcam perhaps for smoother HD video chat purpose. There may be USB ports for interactivity as well as the microphone and Google Hangout with Google Plus. I don't know what is the worth the reason for the business to use Chromebox but for smoother experience on the network in the meetings, it may be worth the use in case there's a huge amount of lags going on from the computer itself.
Unfortunately, this may seem to look like a strange move to the consumers and small business companies. The Xbox One already has similar features with Kinect and Skype but I don't know if you can communicate with your friends while playing that console. The downside is that you're not able to get video hints in case you get stuck in the middle of the game due to the lack of in-system video capturing feature which is something simpler than buying that freaking video capture device. Also, security-wise, there won't be any better points in using Google Hangout, Plus or perhaps Skype as the security we know of is already defeated. That means whatever you say with your colleague or friend will be interceptted no matter what like you're better off using other products instead of Chromebox.
And to Microsoft, the Chromebox may seem to look like an evil thing to them when it comes to cyber-security issues but the Google Plus is more evil like nobody bothers to use it. So basically, they keep on encouraging users to use their products for that reason but even so, some of Microsoft services are already the victims of the cyber-spying agencies until the year-end and the Chromebooks are pretty much bashed on by Microsoft via their recent ad.

Firefox for Windows 8 Touch Beta

*Sigh* When will there be the final version of Firefox for Windows 8 Metro? Besides, this is more or less a recent article from Mozilla blog! You can do one-touch swipe transitions like I don't know if you can transition to another tab or something in addition to transitioning from one app to another. Of course, it may pose a problem like that. Also, the interface should be kind of similar just like using Firefox on Android.