Mozilla foundation just released a tool called collusion.. It makes a map of the sites that report and track information about your internet whereabouts..! I have made a small map of the sites that I frequently use and the interconnections are astonishing.! The major “spy entities” on the graph are Google and Facebook , something [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Thoughts’
Internet Privacy and website tracking
Posted: 29th February 2012 by Ammar Qammaz in PostTags: News, Thoughts
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The MacOS Marketing team is running out of cool animals!
Posted: 30th January 2012 by Ammar Qammaz in PostTags: Humor, Thoughts
After using up Cheetah , Puma , Jaguar , Panther, Tiger ,Leopard , Snow Leopard and Lion and having reached the king of the jungle ( the lion ) the MacOS marketing team has recently run out of cool animals for their Operating System. Since an Operating System without a big number and a cool [...]
After the Greek pirate party , another great piece of news is the formation of the church of Kopimism! Kopimism is a religion that is based on the premise that sharing ( copying ) information and knowledge is a sacred task that every human must do. It does not speak of a God , which [...]
Key people and special interest groups
Posted: 25th November 2011 by Ammar Qammaz in PostTags: Thoughts
Seeing the news about Greece and neighboring European countries ( such as Italy ) I can`t help but notice the fact that a few thousand men and their thoughts and actions determine the fates of millions more. While most people think that what people with power do is ultimately done for the general good , [...]
Well , things aren`t going very well in Greece.. Stocks are falling , strikes and riots everyday and a general anxiety and disappointment about where this country is heading. Although I can`t say I belong to a social class directly pressured (yet) by the economic meltdown happening all around ( and if I did I [...]