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Alan Cresswell

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Some custom avatars are not stored on the Ships server. If that location goes down for a while the avatars may disappear (depending on what your system caches).

Yes. Tubbs is using a private server. Do we need to contact the FBI?

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Pigwidgeon

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quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:

Yes. Tubbs is using a private server. Do we need to contact the FBI?

I'm sure WikiLeaks has already alerted them.
[Paranoid]

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BroJames
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Thanks all! [Smile]
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Nick Tamen

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Picking up on the subject of custom avatars, I put in for a custom avatar and custom title 9 days ago, but neither has shown up yet. I got a receipt, so the payment seems to have gone through. Just wondering when they might be processed.

Thanks.

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quote:
Originally posted by Nick Tamen:
Picking up on the subject of custom avatars, I put in for a custom avatar and custom title 9 days ago, but neither has shown up yet. I got a receipt, so the payment seems to have gone through. Just wondering when they might be processed.

The official submission form for custom avatars and titles is handled by Captain Simon directly, which tends to be somewhat slow to manifest. We assume that he hands off the request to his personal artisanal software specialist who renders a high-resolution brush-and-ink hand scripting of the title, as well as an arial shot of the avatar image reproduced using 40x40 coloured blocks of marble each the size of a house.

I'll poke him to see how it's going.

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Nick Tamen

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Many thanks, and obviously it's not a huge deal. (Well, not to me, at least; I'm sure it's a big deal to whoever has to manage the blocks of marble.) Just wondering, and trying to think about something—anything—other than the events of the last few days.

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Pigwidgeon

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quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
We assume that he hands off the request to his personal artisanal software specialist who renders a high-resolution brush-and-ink hand scripting of the title, as well as an arial shot of the avatar image reproduced using 40x40 coloured blocks of marble each the size of a house.

Can't they use Legos?

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quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Can't they use Legos?

Well, aside from the copyright issues, it denies them their excuse to use their vintage cold war surplus military aerial surveillance plane.
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Tubbs

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quote:
Originally posted by Nick Tamen:
Many thanks, and obviously it's not a huge deal. (Well, not to me, at least; I'm sure it's a big deal to whoever has to manage the blocks of marble.) Just wondering, and trying to think about something—anything—other than the events of the last few days.

Your new looks appears to have arrived. Spiffy. I like.

Tubbs

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Nick Tamen

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Thanks!

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Pangolin Guerre
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Probably a straightforward question.

In my previous incarnation, I was able to pull up my recent posts. I seem not to be able to do it now. I thought that I used to do it through my profile. I've poked around, and find myself chasing my tail.

Thoughts (and not about tail chasing)?

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lilBuddha
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quote:
Originally posted by Pangolin Guerre:
Probably a straightforward question.

In my previous incarnation, I was able to pull up my recent posts. I seem not to be able to do it now. I thought that I used to do it through my profile. I've poked around, and find myself chasing my tail.

Thoughts (and not about tail chasing)?

I clicked on your board name, the clicked on View Recent Posts just above the blue bar and voila!

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Alan Cresswell

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Another way is to just click on the number of posts under any of your own posts.

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Pangolin Guerre
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Ah, thanks much!
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I was on the "Three Word Story" Circus thread just now, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but an ad for "Hot Russian Women"! It's nice that the Ship cares to keep track of the Russian meme in the news [Biased] , but...

Anyway, mousing over showed that it's from CharmDate dot com. The very long link within the ad is:
[Link removed]

Thought you should know.

[ 10. June 2017, 17:52: Message edited by: Spike ]

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Spike

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We have no control over what appears in the ads in the sidebar. They are generated by Google based on keywords in your posts.

I've removed the link from your post as other people clicking it may well find the same ads appearing too.

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Amanda B. Reckondwythe

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quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
We have no control over what appears in the ads in the sidebar. They are generated by Google based on keywords in your posts.

Am I alone in thinking that Google has stuck its nose just a little bit too far into my personal habits?

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lilBuddha
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Almost every search engine and browser will track your meanderings across the internet. If you are not paying for something, you are the commodity

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no prophet's flag is set so...

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Several things.

Google does catalogue all your words, including Gmail. Consider not using its services. It plans on identifying your pictures shortly. Turn off location identification, ie GPS.

Startpage.com proxies for Google such that it cannot track your searches. Use email from another provider, gmx.com is an example. You can create and delete email identities at will for different tasks. Select 'delete all cookies' when you close your browser. Self destructing cookies is a Firefox option which deletes all cookies immediately on closing a tab. and don't be completely honest about personal details anywhere. Don't give retailers email addresses you use on the ship, or otherwise post codes, addresses, phone number. Google can identify you on the ship or anywhere else re ads via these. And "like" no brands or businesses anywhere on the web.

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So what do you see ads for in the sidebar, no prophet?

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Curiosity killed ...

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Shh - you don't ask the paranoid and private that as the Ship needs the revenue from the adverts. (My bar only shows an advert for Reform and the Ship's mugs, plus a broken link symbol.)

I only turn on the location setting on my phone when I need to use the mapping app, and I turn it off again afterwards (partly because that setting eats the battery charge.)

You don't have to sign up or in to Google or give location information to websites or allow the location settings on Microsoft, which can make for entertaining adverts targeted at where you're looking at rather than where you are located.

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Amanda B. Reckondwythe

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quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
the Ship needs the revenue from the adverts

Perhaps. However, ads may generate revenue for the entity displaying the ad, but they generate revenue for the advertiser only if someone purchases the product advertised. Personally, I ignore all ads displayed on websites. They're just part of "humanity's mad inhuman noise" (as Henry Higgins said in My Fair Lady) that we have to put up with all the time.

I do, however, resent the intrusion upon privacy -- the assumption that just because I've browsed to a certain site, or have included certain words and phrases in my searches or posts, I may be interested in buying the following products.

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Ian Climacus

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quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
I was on the "Three Word Story" Circus thread just now, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but an ad for "Hot Russian Women"!

I'm getting Thai women... My mind boggles at my searching and browsing history that caused that to come up... I'm not planning a holiday to SE Asia and, honestly, I find men more attractive.

Oh - I've got Russian women on this page. Oh well, GK and I obviously frequent the same pages.

Thanks for the privacy tips, no prophet... That is what I actually came here to write.

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Golden Key
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Belated thanks re the ad. Somehow, I thought that Google allowed site owners to filter out certain kinds of ads.

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lilBuddha
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Google indeed allows a site to filter ads. I am not an expert, but I think there is a wrinkle or two.
Skimming their instructions, it allows blocking by URL, ad description and verbiage. Given that advertisers can see those instructions, it is reasonable to assume they can figure ways around them.
Insuring ads perfectly acceptable to everyone might not be possible, but would surely require constant monitoring.
Given the likely limited time available to whoever here is responsible for tightening the bolts and lashing the sails (pease?), just be thankful it isn't porn. Or worse, given the topics we discuss at times.
I rarely even notice the ads anymore. Not since the Orange Arrow Panic of a few years back.

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Alan Cresswell

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quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:

Given the likely limited time available to whoever here is responsible for tightening the bolts and lashing the sails (pease?), just be thankful it isn't porn. Or worse, given the topics we discuss at times.

The algorithm used by Google doesn't just monitor what we read on the Ship. At least, I assume not. For example, working in Fukushima I made some Ukrainian and Russian friends, who are now Facebook friends. I starting seeing ads here for "hot Ukrainian/Russian women" almost immediately after making them FB friends, which can't be a coincidence (also, totally not getting it right for the sort of thing I might be interested in).

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lilBuddha
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quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
The algorithm used by Google doesn't just monitor what we read on the Ship. At least, I assume not.

I think it a safe assumption, and not overly paranoid, to consider they monitor everything they can.

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Pigwidgeon

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quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
The algorithm used by Google doesn't just monitor what we read on the Ship. At least, I assume not.

I think it a safe assumption, and not overly paranoid, to consider they monitor everything they can.
They even spy on my through my microwave.
[Biased]

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Amanda B. Reckondwythe

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It's certainly sobering to realize that they've got the earth's entire surface under surveillance. Don't think so? Have you accessed Google Maps lately?

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Pigwidgeon

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quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
It's certainly sobering to realize that they've got the earth's entire surface under surveillance. Don't think so? Have you accessed Google Maps lately?

I just did a few minutes ago. I'm out of town, but Google immediately opened to where I am, practically pinpointing my hotel (probably because there's a microwave oven in my hotel room).

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The microwave's actually there to read your thoughts, then make any changes deemed necessary.

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Pigwidgeon

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quote:
Originally posted by Gee D:
The microwave's actually there to read your thoughts, then make any changes deemed necessary.

[Eek!]

If anyone sees me post anything positive about Trump, please come shoot me!

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lilBuddha
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quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by Gee D:
The microwave's actually there to read your thoughts, then make any changes deemed necessary.

[Eek!]

If anyone sees me post anything positive about Trump, please come shoot me!

People posting positive things about Trump do not have thoughts to read.

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Golden Key
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Pigwidgeon--

quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by Gee D:
The microwave's actually there to read your thoughts, then make any changes deemed necessary.

[Eek!]

If anyone sees me post anything positive about Trump, please come shoot me!

...or maybe just unplug the microwave? [Biased]

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Amanda B. Reckondwythe

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quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by Gee D:
The microwave's actually there to read your thoughts, then make any changes deemed necessary.

[Eek!]

If anyone sees me post anything positive about Trump, please come shoot me!

People posting positive things about Trump do not have thoughts to read.
Pity Trump doesn't use a microwave. He certainly has enough thoughts that need adjusting.

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We're getting somewhat off the topic here. Seldom a good look for The Styx.

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I have, oh let me see. A work computer. A home computer. An Ipad. And now, God bless it, a smart phone. I am able to access and log into SoF on the first three. Mysteriously, on the Android, even though I am using the very user name I use here, and my proper password, it doesn't recognize me. Is it something about Androids that is accursed?

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lilBuddha
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I've an android tablet that I never had trouble logging in on. It is older, so not running whatever version of the OS is current, though.

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Amanda B. Reckondwythe

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I can't log into the Ship on my Android either. It tells me the password is incorrect but I'm certain I'm typing it correctly. I don't care, though, as I never use the Android to surf the web except as a last resort.

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My droid has difficulty connecting with the Ship. But then it does tend to blather on about how it can speak Bocce (I now know better than to ask), and that sort of backhanded self-aggrandizement doesn't play well on the boards.
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Alan Cresswell

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I don't have an android, not even one that speaks Bocce. But, I have noticed on touch screen devices that letting the keyboard auto-complete login details sometimes inserts a space at the end, which is then invalid. Which may have nothing to do with the problems on (newer) Android devices.

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lilBuddha
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Typing this painfully slow response on my ancient android tablet. Had to log in, though it did autofill my name and password

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I'm trying to purchase a custom title "President of the Universe I am so Great there has never been so fantastic and great a President as me and I've been saying that for a long time" but after going past the credit card option screen it tells me to fop off and gives me a 404 file not found error. I tried it a few days ago using the Aussie dollars option, and just now using the default GBP option.

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You have hit the recently installed Trump Filter....

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quote:
Originally posted by simontoad:
I'm trying to purchase a custom title "President of the Universe I am so Great there has never been so fantastic and great a President as me and I've been saying that for a long time" but after going past the credit card option screen it tells me to fop off and gives me a 404 file not found error. I tried it a few days ago using the Aussie dollars option, and just now using the default GBP option.

Apologies. All the financial features are handled personally by the Captain and his pet SysAdmin. Also, I do not have write access to the image database if you were also interested in a custom avatar. However, if you PM me a somewhat more brief Custom Title, I can make that happen for you. As long as you don't mind me intentionally spelling it wrong or accidentally changing your avatar to something similar to a Georgia O'Keeffe.
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Golden Key
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simontoad--

Please do not use an avatar of the guy that your proposed title implies.

If you do, one of three things will happen:

1) We will ship him down to Oz to live with *you*, and put him on security lists so he can't come back here;

2) We will whisk you away to live in that pale building with him, for as long as he's in that job, and he might even put you to work;

3) We will give him your contact info, for all those times when he's lonely and just needs to talk.

[Biased] [Two face] [Cool]

But a serious request. [Angel]

Thanks!

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simontoad
Ship's Amphibian
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lol at all three responses [Smile] I shall send PM with non-Trump related title.

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simontoad
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umm, in making up the funny Trump one I kind of forgot the title I really wanted. I'll send Rook a PM when I remember it.

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apostate630
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Here's an entirely pedestrian but heartfelt post. Thanks to RuthW for helping me log back in after an absence of half a decade, and to Nicolemr, the realspace friend who made it possible.
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Nicolemr
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