Barry Leiba wrote:
You can trust the wordle site, and wordles, in general, are pretty
cool. The site was devised by Jonathan Feinberg, from IBM Research.
Here's what I said about it last year:
http://staringatemptypages.blogspot.com/2008/07/wordles.html
Barry
Yes, I believe I was aware of the site (came across it before or
something similar that was very dynamic in creating a cloud - more of
a six degree association concept. It would blow you away.
Unfortunately, I don't remember the site).
I apologize to J.D. I did not wish to insinuate lack of trust. I
found the irony in the post because not even minutes earlier, I had
just finished reading legal news briefs with there were two reports of
"how terrible the world is" with massive hacker penetrations into the
user PC world using subtle tricks - like an innocent carrot that
requires installation (download) but its automated these days with
current browsers - hackers are exploiting this terrible trend.
For example, the current (negative) trend with browsers is to not
allow users to turn off javascript, java, etc, i.e., Chrome does not
even have the option in its setup/options. Have you noticed the
growing # of WEB 2.0 websites who will not function at all and will
tell ya you need it on before continuing? I have a custom copy of
Chrome that disable its "Call Home" logic and I use this whenever I
want to see a web 2.0 site.
(http://santronics.blogspot.com/2008/09/removing-chrome-spying-activity.html)
MS IE, as well as Mozilla is following freaking Google who has
strategically change the industry mindset in relaxing the browser
security - by not even offering the option to turn it off.
If you use FF, I recommend using the NoScript plugin to protect yourself.
I'm actually writing a bill proposal for my state senator Bill Nelson
who involved in such matters to address the issue.
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Sincerely
Hector Santos
http://www.santronics.com
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