Just a Wild Rant in the Dark! Make what you want of it!

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lol I just turned into a paranoid schizophrenic after seeing all the privacy r@ping antics of the biggies in the Internet world and just got plain fedup and quit a few weeks back. Only to find Facebook stores Facial Recognition Data, logs of IPs, etc. meaning my a7$3 is gonna be grass in the very near future. Looks like I'm gonna change into a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist(so called truthseeker). Think warthog and co will love to have me around(if I am that is). Lol But hard to ignore the facts and it's gonna be real freakin' hard given the pathetic situation of the web world and the real world, lol, In fact, can't see much of a difference between the two these days. Fake as Hell.
India and most other countries getting Supercomputers Installing tracking software on all ISPs, Phones, getting cameras with facial recognition tech, etc, etc. WTF do they need them for is seriously a very important question. From the dawn of time, people with power have known to misuse it rather than use it WISELY. Too much power, too much data retention in one place, too much danger in people's data being used against them in case they try to revolt over their corrupt regimes. Strange thing is, the ones who need to be kept under scrutiny are ALWAYS free to roam with benefits. But the common man can be F'd around with anyway because he doesn't have lakh crores to fight his case or goons to protect his butt :tongue:. To me a man with a gun in his hand preaching peace is just plain BS.
Take our own country for instance. You have so many scams gone by, people killed, blasts, people burned on a train, r@ped, some still ruling despite all the nonsense gone by, then the person who allowed things like that to happen will so openly claim and in fact have it published that the PEOPLE will Forgive even Misdeeds if the criminals do Good! WTF?! We're not talking burning mosquitoes here, but then I just can't understand the mindset of people. And who are these freakin' people? Are they really the silent majority or just stopped giving a damn flying F about anything these days. When are they gonna get fed up of the BS and hypocrisy that grows with every single day. Too busy on Fakebook?! Could be. Or just plain kept quiet with booze and briyani for free?!
The beauty of it is now censorship all over! WTF?! Seriously you have a population over 2 billion, just here! Much more all around the world, so called social networks to improve your infidelity and soxual :tongue: skills and you are more worried about a person using the word F#(|< or so called adult/killing scenes on TV when in all probability more than the word actually being used, there'll actually be someone involved in the act at any given time!!! What? You want me to believe kids are seriously studying alone in combined study while you watch your serials, dance shows, reality shows, or go for your night parties trying to remain social, etc?! GTFO your fake world and wake up and smell the co^6om$, oops I mean coffee.
As for me, I find two words VERY APT for Just about Everything. "Rhetorical" and "Redundant." Should I explain scenarios for it. Okay here's one, Media says so and so has done such and such, common man supposedly finds the flaws, hmmm, what are the cops, so called INTELLIGENCE agencies, etc for then. The crime will be committed, brought to light, Investigated at the so called powers that be's own fancy will and time. By that time, something new would have popped up, the person who THOUGHT he is bringing crime to light to get JUSTICE probably might be killed, very easy to track down by even so called illiterate goons! lol News dies down over time. People forget and move on with their lives.
WHO do you hold responsible then for the way things are. The Media for wasting people's time and screwing with their emotions. Eg: Scream no one does anything. Then someone does something, they immediately will call him a tearawrist or indulging in lynchmob mentality. Redundant. The Justice Departments for NOT doing their job rather slam defamation cases and contempt of court charges instead of doing justice. Z-Level Security not being alloted to Whistleblowers instead of being alloted to Criminals?! Redundant.
Why is it that ALWAYS something BAD will happen just when people are getting together for ANY GOOD CAUSE. Think about it, IF you have SOME grey matter in your skull that can Think Rationally and Firstly, a mind that cannot be brainwashed by BS. If you're one of the sheeple I know how your brain works, look upon everything like it is not possible. TRUST ME, nothing is impossible to those who have made up their mind. Rhetorical situation here is, do you become a hero of the masses(highly unlikely) or labelled a Tear-a-wrist?!
So called powers to look over institutions etc. See the internet companies, mobile companies, etc. S#!T just goes on without notice. Who will take action? TRAI?! Seriously?!!! I have been through enough to know B@11$ only anything will be done. UNLIMITED INTERNET goes on with FUPs disruptions, etc. :tongue: LIFETIME Validity goes on with connections dying before you. You receive your Unsolicited Ads SMSs/CALLS forever regardless of N number of complaints.
You just get freakin' fed up and give up. 2G scam caused ALL the policies etc to change to what? I mean you keep black out days! 100 sms a day! For what motherfather? Update your damn systems to handle the load! When else do you think messages will be sent from our so called FREE for Rs. XXX SMS packs on random days!Yeah right, I'm gonna sit on my numb as a board ar$3 and message 800+ plus contacts over 8 days before or after a festival?! or get 8 connections just to be able to message all of them a day before! Get a gun and plain shoot your freakin' selves for collecting so much cash over the years from all your so called customers, hidden fines, hidden under the table penalties to continue, and then doing F*#K all to rectify the situation, only making things worse every single day! Thanks to you I don't wish people any more for festivals. Because some are pi$$ed that they didn't get a wish before another did! Sweet! Rhetorical and Redundant trying to argue that you're not at fault!
I seriously am for once being stumped on how to deal with life here onwards! Don't know where to start or where to end the way things are. Like I said when I try to see the solutions, I find that they end up being just as I said, rhetorical and redundant. The people who keep fighting always end up becoming social outcasts, Family - distant and nonsupporting, Issues - mounting, Health - deteriorating, Finances - close to nil. Appreciation - nonexistent. Hope & Patience - brink of running out. Situation - Real pathetic. Do and do without ever expecting anything, but end up getting Sheep benefitted WITHOUT any effort, while they lose everything they have. :russianroulette:
I do hope some people with consciences do exist and they have feelings to ignore the feeling of worrying about what others think or how they judge them and will continue to work for the greater good! As difficult as it seems, I at least hope that like a candle going bright before it goes out, these people will rise to the occasion when things get out of hand being cornered from all sides like a sheep surrounded by wolves! Time to take off the sheep's clothing and reveal the wolves underneath and rip the a7$3s of the corrupt sheep in wolves' clothing F@#|
 
Some more thoughts that I would like to hear HONEST responses from people about:1. Why don't people care about their rights, country, or privacy anymore?2. Why don't people learn how to use computers properly or safely?3. Why do people have the attitude of buying the elephant, but crying to buy the chain?!4. Why do people tolerate nonsense and stupidity?5. Why are people so obsessed with WAR, RACE, GENDER BIAS, and on trying to find differences between each other to start grouping up for a fight?! Probably one of the reasons I feel and state that Even if people were born color blind, they would have still been racist fcuks, but mostly in different shades of grey!!!Elaborating some of the above:On point 1.Almost every website, program, app, your ISP, etc, are now connected to you whether you like it or not or whether you opted for it or not and collect way too much details that are really questionable, well, at least to me if you don't wanna agree! I have been working with computers and other stuff for quite a while and am one of those patient ones who gets to the bottom of things if I really intend to. And thankfully God has given me an ability to read fast and pick out the important points and spurt them out at the soonest after it's all been processed through the supercomputer in my head. ;)First and foremost, every program has a EULA which let me guess 99.9% of the world's population DOES NOT READ! How many of you actually take time out to read the permissions of the apps you install on your mobile? Do you know that the flashlight app that you installed requests permission to Internet GPS, etc and did it ever occur to you, Why in the F#*K does a flashlight app need so many God damn permissions?! Strange but true!
Or the messaging app that you installed just because it was popular collects all the numbers on your contacts list whether they have installed the app or not! Or that it did not have ANY encryption while you sent all your photos, videos, etc some could be of of skimpily clad people, etc, let your imagination run loose on that one since YOU KNOW what stuff you sometimes send out that anyone with a sniffer app would have got the chance to see or well maybe must be selling out to a site somewhere vague on the map of the world making you an unknown (till discovered) p07N star! I don't know if your are a s3xting fan, but clearly, I'm not! I rather have the naughty stuff in private!Fakeb00k uses the most mundane of algorithms wherein EVERYTHING wants to be interlinked and combined into a database something like exactly Scroogle was doing trying to hump everything out of the world to be indexed for use for well let me see if you can digest this fact so called Marketing and Targeting Ads?! I mean, Are You F#$King Serious?! The methods was just like as a H@c}
 
My second point, don't get a computer and just start installing stuff blindly. Learn what things do and learn how to setup each program to be safe from your truckload of adware, toolbars and the likes. Don't just go around spurting loads of bulls#!T that so many programs are crap when you have to realize when they used the word FREE there is always supposed to be a catch! No real mystery regarding that. You just gotta read all the damn windows during an installation of a program and then check the settings after it is installed.
Just imagine with our already pathetic data limit forced upon us. You have to install a browser and add a ton of add-ons just not to be tracked, what this does in return is you have to keep giving allow, etc (NoScript) and then reload the page wasting our already tiny bandwidth allocation! Let me see just for firefox these are the most common add-ons, NoScript, Adblock Plus, Element hiding, adblock popup add-on, Ghostery, BetterPrivacy, DownThemAll, AntiContainer, FlashGot! Then change the damn home page from google to Duckduckgo or startpage/IxQuick, change seach providers to the same with SSL/HTTPS. Yeah I'm just getting started! And then to those who want to overdo stuff add FoxyProxy or any of the proxy add-ons with an added headache of learning how to use them and keep 'em up to date! Even more add a free VPN not knowing if they really are protecting your data or just another bunch of butt sniffers!
You NEED an Antivirus! Just STFU and get your whole we don't need antivirus or we don't need updates BS out of your head and realize the net is not what it is used to be anymore. I know you'll say there are viruses that can go throug them, but then like I said there are some AV programs that can detect behavioral changes of programs! YES, THERE IS NO PROTECTION FOR ZERO DAY VIRUSES, but then Just a chance that your regular updating and scanning can keep them at bay! Among the free, these are the most common names you're gonna hear other than AVG: Avast, Comodo and Avira. I personally use CIS along with MSE and Malwarebytes/SuperAntiSpyware and that is more than freakin' sufficient! To those of you using Avast on Windows 7 without any screen freezing or white blanking well and good, but if it does, just uninstall it and see the problem disappear, but DON'T ask me WHY that happens!
Comodo Internet Security is Good and the only issue which is a real PITA is that when there is an update to the program itself, you have to do all sorts of mundane S#!T like uninstall with Revo, use a CIS cleaner to remove leftovers and install the latest version and then comes the next headache of getting it to update smoothly for the first time! If it works, it works, or else just read the steps how to manually update(well for the FIRST update that is) and then you're good to go. This brings the major headache of having to wait HELL of a LONG TIME to run the first scan and keep re-adding your questionable files into the exclusions list. And the latest versions are persistent on making you keep doing this often. After the first killer scan the future ones run faster so just bear with it for the first time!
MSE works fine just out of the box as long as its first update goes through and then comes the scan and usual adding of files to excluded items. The only irritation is if you need to deactivate your AV program for installing programs that need the AV off to run smoothly because you will have to hope that ending the process via Task Manager keeps the program off, BUT most of the time, it manages to start up automatically again and have you to repeat the process.
After this, there are almost hellish settings searches for sending data, clearing history on exit, etc. for each of your installed programs. I DO NOT save passwords anywhere. I do NOT keep a document with the words username password in them on my computer. Yes I know you think it is safe, but trust me that's stupid. Another thing is don't make it even more obvious by saving it as Confidential, Private! That's exactly what will be searched for in the event your system is compromised! Another thing is learn how to create complex enough passwords, I say complex enough, because what you think is complex, ain't complex for an automated bot program. Mix it all up. Numbers, lower case, higher case, symbols, special characters, even throw in a space or two in between IF ALLOWED by the password field just to spice up things!
I know a lot of people think well let the password be my name and my wife's name(or pet's name if not yet got a wife/husband) or my DOB or mobile number, etc be password because it is easy to remember, but yes it is easy to find for others who know you too so just LEARN TO REMEMBER stuff and like I said MAKE COMPLEX PASSWORDS! I DO KNOW PEOPLE WHO WRITE THEIR PINS on their freakin ATM card or credit card pouch just to remember them and where do they keep it? In their purse! Sweet! Some beautifully keep the password paper that they receive along with their cards too in their wallets or handbags! Wise decision! (Sarcasm mind you) How do I check if my password is good? There are sites just for that and you can check them. Off my head Howsecureismypassword comes to mind! A site that I showed my uncle how his secure password was supposed to be crackable within 22 minutes according to the site! lol
Here's another thing if you are absolutely paranoid, do not keep your webcam(with mic) attached to the computer always. If there are virtual keyboards on your banking sites etc USE THEM, don't type in your passwords! Do not leave your browsers open on self refreshing websites which have a lot of java and flash content and walk away to do other things leaving your system unattended. Close the damn browsers, turn off your modem, put your computer to sleep, turn off your monitor! And if it is a laptop, shut the God damn thing down. We know it has sleep function, but when you are not sure when you are going to return, just shut it down and let it save some juice for later. Don't argue, you'll thank me later. Also, if you can get a good antikeylogging, anti screen recording program do get one!
Removing history and temp files is another good practice. It is very easy to find your hidden p0rn etc. NO the RECYCLE BIN is not a Safe Place. NO, the Hide folder option is not super safe either, Just as you can hide, you can Unhide, unless you're using a special program to do the same which is encrypted with a strong password, then you are good to go. Even then, there is always a cache lying with your recently visited places. NOW, if you are using Windows 7 when you open My Computer or COMPUTER for the arrogant pricks who want to be too precise, there is a tab with "Recent" on the left. If you click that whatever you recently viewed, documents, p0rn etc are gonna be visible and if you keep looking at your so called confidential stuff often, guess where that's gonna be visible on the even someone happens to driveby your computer or fidget with it. YES! you guessed right. Now Don't Tell Me That You weren't warned. Select All(Ctrl+A) Shift+Delete! (no it won't get deleted, just deleted from the recent places so relax.
Remember the pearls I was talking about. These are some of them, grab and be Happy! or atleast safe from some embarassing moments :P hee hee Okay those with internet connections not getting your proposed speed, here's one of the reasons it could be. The motherfathers at your ISP would not have configured it correctly or made the changes to your port speed to be that speed hence you will be receiving reduced speeds. Yes BSNL is very freakin' famous for it. Ever since the 4mbps plan came out, don't ask me the number of freakin' people I heard complaining about receiving either 1 or 2mbps. Here's the beauty if there's some very technically sound person(that's a 1% chance mind you) then they will KNOW that to get the said speed of 4mbps, you will have to have a freaking overhead set of about 15 to 20%!
For example, for 2mbps you will find that the download settings in your modem page will be showing 25XX kbps. So if you see for 4mbps as exactly 4096 kbps then chances are you WON'T be getting 4mbps speed and only about 80 to 85% of that. If your super intelligent technician at the respective test bench of the ISP tells you otherwise, when you carry your damn modem all the way there, then just tell them to go learn the course from scratch and come back since they are having openings right now and that you're past the bulls#!T that you will only get 80% or that is why they use the word or rather tiny words "up to"! Had I known earlier or had the cash, Guess who would have been right in there jumping to give them a lesson in technical details and more importantly etiquette even with my so called limited knowledge of things?(yeah right!)
Here's another beauty, I was caught off guard when I called up My dear old friend(UNFAIRTEL) for my brother-in-laws connection to ask the settings. When I said that the Beetel modem(450TC1) has settings for MAC filtering, here's what I was told, Sir, those settings and all we do not advice to change as we do not know those things! I was like WTF?! What don't you understand? It says there Allow/Deny so if you enable Mac filtering and you enter the freakin' Mac address/es and give allow only those will be allowed and if you give deny those will not be allowed to connect to your internet! I said now you know and he said thanks! lol See sometimes the safety is there, how many know it? Hmmm Another thing is you can once you have setup your connections to your devices HIDE the SSID and have strong passwords here too. I know from youtube etc that there are software to crack even that but it's better to be safe than sorry. If your modem supports mac spoofing well and good!
For internet connection when they tell you purchase your own modem, don't be a B!TC# and go purchase the cheapest one available and then go cribbing around like one that your net sucks, etc, because then you will be called one! First and foremost, when there is already pathetic connections and crappy quality of lines, you have to realize that your hardware has to be up to the freakin task, so even if you are going budget, go budget, not butt cheap! The bare minimum for a wifi "modem router" doesn't cost too freakin' much like before so given the odds, for a within 2 to 3k budget a D-Link 2750U or a TP-Link W8968 are on even scales only with difference in price and have the same features. Here you can create your Hidden SSID a freakin Guest account etc and be at peace! Another setting I do just to be safe is add the freakin' "_nomap" tag after my SSID, eg: if it's "DICKHEAD," it will "DICKHEAD_nomap" But Disclaimer, Modem's are a hit and miss of luck and shit luck. If it works well, it works, if not, after checking if your other parameters are alright, ask for a replacement and check if the issue is rectified.
Just to clear things up for some folks, there is a freakin' difference between a router and a modem router! Router will be used when you already have a modem(wired/wireless in some cases) and this router will have RJ45 or your normal ethernet port sized sockets. a Modem router will contain both your RJ11(telephone line/DSL line port size sockets to connect the DSL line from the splitter AND your RJ45 ethernet ports. So if you have a cable modem type connection you have to see if your modem has those ports available. Some are dual ports supported which can be configured for WAN/LAN so that too is an added bonus, just make sure you read your damn manual before you run off and go buy a separate router not knowing that your current one has support for that and can be used as a modem/router, repeater or whatever!
Next up placement of your equipment, keeping them clean and cool! Don't place your modem flat down on a table if it does not have sufficient vents and is too far from fans(if you have an A/C I don't think it runs 24 hours given the power situation). I usually keep it on two old computer back metal parts bent up so the modem is off the ground and my tiny fan that runs when the modem is on can blow all around it. If you have too many ethernet cables that weigh down and pull the router, you can alternate with either two wooden blocks of 1 inch on either side to keep the modem firm and off the ground, if not, if you have an old removable back part of a printer that holds the paper lying around use that and that will keep the modem's butt up in the air to blow the breeze nicely onto the vents while not being weighed down or pulled down by the ethernet cables and you can get a better view of the sockets and status lights ;)
When you are buying a computer Don't Stinge on two things! 1. Your UPS and 2. Your SMPS!! Yes. You can't claim my computer has X motherboard Y processor, tons of RAM, Super Awesome graphics card, etc and then say it is not even powering up! Err, that cheap ar73 SMPS you bought with 450 watts, 500 watts etc written, well son that's not the real world valuation of its capacity just another eyewash! If it was cheap it won't last long! PERIOD! Or you are just going to have your components dying prematurely on you because there's either uneven voltage or something shorts when there is a fluctuation in our beautiful super smooth power supply received in our country! Don't get me started! Sarcasm at the peak!
Another thing, when you want to buy a computer, don't ask a person which is the best computer to get?! Same goes for mobiles. I mean the so called BEST will be absolutely far from the capabilities of your wallet! Like, just for fun once, I tried to add up what would be the price of a so called Best computer and trust me you'll laugh your a7$3 off at the total that was like a year or two's salary at that time! lol For some could be the entire salary of their lifetime! But then none of this matters to YOU! Your best computer is one that will get YOUR JOB done! The intended purpose is what you need to look at. Save all that money and get yourself a printer, hell an inverter or good UPS, etc instead of dual/triple graphics cards! etc! Seriously Bro. YOU DON'T ABSOLUTELY NEED ALL THAT POWER!!! I mean do you intend to play games ALL YOUR LIFE! I highly doubt that's possible given the rise in prices of things and the ever so frequently changing hardware and software components!
For Sound, Again you don't need 5.1. 6.1. etc A good 2.1 system itself will be MORE THAN ENOUGH! Unless you want to give yourself and those around you a freakin migraine headache and lose their as well as your hearing! Between a Creative and an Altec Lansing, either choice, you can't go wrong, well within the budget and good quality too. Not equivalent to a BOSE or Whatever Costly a7$3 set, But you can afford to eat and fill up gas in your bike/car at least after purchasing one. :P If anyone knows about overkill when it comes to audio, no one knows it better than me! lol Do you know that a Beats Pro costs 36k and chances of it being fake are as high as that? And that you can get tired by wearing one just for an hour?! Why? Because it is heavier than your headweight! lol
Do you know that there are Seinheissers going from a lakh to into the lakhs?! Seriously, you're not A.R.'s left nut so STFU about your quality of music, quality of which regurgitated $#!T in the name of music are you talking about here?! Just pray you don't have a listening comprehension like me to know that half or more of it are just fake as your copy-pasted posts on your fakebook account! :P ;) For Monitors, again 19-inch is just about perfect when it comes to gaming(given the amount of area your eyes can view at a time/field of immediate vision). For document comparison work get a huge a7se more of a squarish monitor so that you can see more vertically or if the monitor is tilt capable well and good so you can rotate back when you need to watch your movies ;)
External vs internal TV cards have always been a hit and miss given the electrical interference that can sometimes be caused and make lines and specks run across your screen. And just pray you don't have lightning fcuking it up with the cable being connected and your cable wallah's box lying exposed on some godforsaken terrace! Or if DTH still chances are there of some sort of mishap. So Disconnect it when not in use in such weather. Likewise, for Modem's too please switch off during such occasions and disconnect the DSL line from the modem. Just remember to connect it back later before calling up to say your internet or cable is not working! lol
Also, if you do have an old computer lying around, try to see what the cost works up to for repairing it and if it can be used for your basic stuff just fine, USE IT! Don't be afraid what someone may comment or make it a freakin' prestige issue! You can't play Crysis! Maybe! But you can still play Solitaire and Spider Solitaire just fine so chill! :D Or you can use it as a server or hardware level firewall, or again like I said if paranoid, do some experimenting and set it up as a low level Honeypot virtual machine or whatever and just relax ur butt cheeks about worrying about intruders. ;) And just be a little vigilant on WHAT and WHERE you Download Stuff from and especially with your freakin' Email Spam Messages and Attachments! If your system is not updated regularly maybe there can be an excel doc virus, a pdf virus, or flash element or javascript crapware, so just be careful. Not 100% safe, but still it's your a7$3 on the line, take care of it!
Another most important task to get into habit is to Take Backups of Your Data! I know a bit of a hassle in the beginning to learn the process, but once it gets into your blood, it is gonna be a piece of cake! This along with Learning to DeFrag and Encrypt your files can keep it safe and running smooth and also with peace of mind that there is always a backup in the event of a mishap and well you save yourself High BP and a Heartattack! This is as much as I can think of for now. Health ain't helping too much so will see when next I can post up some stuff! Later dudes... TCNBBT! :)
 
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