What is the most common Screen Size and Color Depth (forpanopticlick)

Warren Oates wrote, on Tue, 27 Jan 2015 08:51:34 -0500:

Probably not with Cinelerra. I think it wants it's own fonts for its
display.

I deleted it.
Problem solved.

On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:05:26 +1300, Your Name wrote:

In article om,
Warren Oates wrote:
In article , Sage wrote:

What do you mean they can't fingerprint you "individually"?
That's the whole point of fingerprinting.

Who is this they?

Whichever group of beings this particular looney conspiracy-theory
nutter believes is bothering to spy on him ... hackers, government,
police, aliens from planet Blango. :-\

Blango's not really that bad. Not sure why they always get singled out.

--

Char Jackson

In article , Ken Blake
wrote:

Typewriters started disappearing way before e-mail or text became
prevalent. As soon as PCs became common, many people switched from
typewriters to PCs with word processors.

email existed long before pcs became common.\

Existed? Yes. I didn't say it didn't. I used the word "prevalent,"
not "existed." Few people had an e-mail account before the 1990s, and
it wasn't until the turn of the century before it could be said that
it was common.

email was very common well before that.

We differ greatly.

then you're wrong.

In article , Sage wrote:

Warren Oates wrote, on Tue, 27 Jan 2015 08:51:34 -0500:

Probably not with Cinelerra. I think it wants it's own fonts for its
display.

I deleted it.
Problem solved.

Why'd you install it in the first place if you weren't going to use it?
It's a pretty obscure and one-task piece of software.

I have a great idea: get rid of your computer(s) altogether!!!1! Then no
one will be able to find you or ... oh, wait, you have some fillings in
your teeth, right?
--
Where's the Vangelis music?
Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing room scene.
-- notes for Blade Runner

In article ,
Char Jackson wrote:

On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:05:26 +1300, Your Name wrote:

In article om,
Warren Oates wrote:
In article , Sage wrote:

What do you mean they can't fingerprint you "individually"?
That's the whole point of fingerprinting.

Who is this they?

Whichever group of beings this particular looney conspiracy-theory
nutter believes is bothering to spy on him ... hackers, government,
police, aliens from planet Blango. :-\

Blango's not really that bad. Not sure why they always get singled out.

They did some pretty bad stuff during their occupation of Zenu.
--
Where's the Vangelis music?
Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing room scene.
-- notes for Blade Runner

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:55:29 -0500, Warren Oates
wrote:

In article ,
Char Jackson wrote:

On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:05:26 +1300, Your Name wrote:

In article om,
Warren Oates wrote:
In article , Sage wrote:

What do you mean they can't fingerprint you "individually"?
That's the whole point of fingerprinting.

Who is this they?

Whichever group of beings this particular looney conspiracy-theory
nutter believes is bothering to spy on him ... hackers, government,
police, aliens from planet Blango. :-\

Blango's not really that bad. Not sure why they always get singled out.

They did some pretty bad stuff during their occupation of Zenu.

That was a long time ago. They're better now, relatively speaking.

--

Char Jackson

In article , Char Jackson
wrote:

On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:05:26 +1300, Your Name wrote:

In article om,
Warren Oates wrote:
In article , Sage wrote:

What do you mean they can't fingerprint you "individually"?
That's the whole point of fingerprinting.

Who is this they?

Whichever group of beings this particular looney conspiracy-theory
nutter believes is bothering to spy on him ... hackers, government,
police, aliens from planet Blango. :-\

Blango's not really that bad. Not sure why they always get singled out.

Mostly because the aliens from planet Whisnog posted a "fact" on
Wikipedia that the Blangoians were always spying on everyone else. ;-)

In article , Char Jackson
wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:55:29 -0500, Warren Oates
wrote:
In article ,
Char Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:05:26 +1300, Your Name wrote:
In article om,
Warren Oates wrote:
In article , Sage wrote:

What do you mean they can't fingerprint you "individually"?
That's the whole point of fingerprinting.

Who is this they?

Whichever group of beings this particular looney conspiracy-theory
nutter believes is bothering to spy on him ... hackers, government,
police, aliens from planet Blango. :-\

Blango's not really that bad. Not sure why they always get singled out.

They did some pretty bad stuff during their occupation of Zenu.

That was a long time ago. They're better now, relatively speaking.

Yep, but those other aliens all have long memories thanks to long
lifespans. ;-)

In article om,
Warren Oates wrote:
In article , Sage wrote:
Warren Oates wrote, on Tue, 27 Jan 2015 08:51:34 -0500:

Probably not with Cinelerra. I think it wants it's own fonts for its
display.

I deleted it.
Problem solved.

Why'd you install it in the first place if you weren't going to use it?
It's a pretty obscure and one-task piece of software.

I have a great idea: get rid of your computer(s) altogether!!!1! Then no
one will be able to find you or ... oh, wait, you have some fillings in
your teeth, right?

Those aren't fillings ... they're tracking devices implanted by aliens
posing as dentists. Luckily he has been abducted for experimentation
yet because the monsters under his bed keep scaring the aliens away at
night.

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 08:05:13 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:52:40 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:51:49 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:06:44 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:11:44 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

not only that but typewriters had fonts, you just had to replace the
appropriate parts (and on some typewriters that was easy).

Only some more modern typewriters, like the IBM selectric, had fonts
on "golf balls." But historically all typewriters worked with striker
keys, and changing the font on them not only wasn't easy, it wasn't
possible.

And please don't forget Daisy Wheels :-)

Right, thanks. I couldn't remember that term.

But my point remains. They are only on relatively modern typewriters,
not on most.

Still, I should get credit for reminding you of Daisy Wheel typewriters.

I'll settle for two gold stars.

What, my "thanks" wasn't enough? OK, you can have two gold stars. Have
a third, if you're still hungry.

Thanks. OK if I hold off the third one for a day? Gotta watch those
calories...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:06:44 -0800, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:11:44 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

not only that but typewriters had fonts, you just had to replace the
appropriate parts (and on some typewriters that was easy).

Only some more modern typewriters, like the IBM selectric, had fonts
on "golf balls." But historically all typewriters worked with striker
keys, and changing the font on them not only wasn't easy, it wasn't
possible.

And please don't forget Daisy Wheels :-)

I'd say that changing fonts on striker key machines is possible, but
it's not a task to be undertaken lightly.

Of course, I probably should have said "possible, for some values of
'possible'" :-)

Here are a couple of links that a

1. Vaguely relevant to changing fonts on a typewriter

2. All that I could find in a reasonable time

3. Supportive of my remark "it's not a task to be undertaken lightly"

A. If I understand it correctly (not assured), this is a patent for
actually changing a key:

http://www.google.com/patents/US3349889

There are numerous typos in the article, but it becomes clear that it
doesn't snap over a key, but instead is clipped onto the type guide
before the ribbon, so any key can be used to strike it. Obviously you'd
need one of these for every added character.

I wouldn't want to use this scheme to type a document with more than a
trivial number of special characters in it.

B. This is a way to get a typewriter with your desired keys:

http://tinyurl.com/n8prsrs

I don't know what choices were available. Clearly no other fonts were
available, because all they did was to provide 6 extra keys of your
choice.

I used TinyURL because the link was about two furlongs long.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 13:49:05 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 08:57:05 +1300, Your Name
wrote:


Which explains why Americans leave the letter u out of words like
"colour" ... they're still 1000 years behind everyone else. ;-)

The history of such spelling differences is very different from what
you apparently believe. You might want to read about it he
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...ng_differences

Perhaps he was joking...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

In article ,
Lewis wrote:

There are so many things in fingerprinting that concentrating on Fonts is
stupid. Fingerprinting *IS* a problem though, and will probably become
more and more of a problem. I would consider running an addon that let
me strip out most of the information viewable by a remote website as to
what sort of browser I had and what it is capable of.

It's elementary Watson, we must track down and question everyone using
Firefox on Mac in the Central time zone; start with Mexico City.
--
Where's the Vangelis music?
Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing room scene.
-- notes for Blade Runner

Lewis wrote, on Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:34:21 +0000:

There are so many things in fingerprinting that concentrating on Fonts is
stupid. Fingerprinting *IS* a problem though, and will probably become
more and more of a problem. I would consider running an addon that let
me strip out most of the information viewable by a remote website as to
what sort of browser I had and what it is capable of.

Here's my summary of what I have discovered for reducing entropy in the
specific items that are reported by panopticlick.eff.org (with your help).
================================================== ==========================
We can now reduce entropy for all the items reported by Panopticlick
1. User Agent
2. HTTP_ACCEPT Headers
3. Browser Plugin Details
4. Time Zone
5. Screen Size and Color Depth
6. System Fonts
7. Are Cookies Enabled?
8. Limited supercookie test
================================================== ==========================
1. Panopticlick User Agent entropy:
SecretAgent extension https://www.dephormation.org.uk
UserAgentSwitcher extension http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher
================================================== ==========================
2. Panopticlick HTTP_ACCEPT Headers entropy:
RandomAgentSpoofer extension https://github.com/dillbyrne/random-agent-spoofer
================================================== ==========================
3. Panopticlick Browser Plugin Details entropy:
Extensions are OK but do NOT add Plug-ins (which will affect entropy)
================================================== ==========================
4. Panopticlick TimeZone entropy:
This pops up Panopticlick.eff.org with a different time zone:
$ TZ=CET-1 firefox -url panopticlick.eff.org &
$ TZ=UTC+08:00 firefox -url panopticlick.eff.org &
$ TZ=UTC+5 firefox -url panopticlick.eff.org &
================================================== ==========================
5. Panopticlick Screen Size & Color Depth entropy:
Too bad xrandr can only increase the size of the display (not decrease it):
$ xrandr --output DISPLAY --fb 1366x768
================================================== ==========================
6. Panopticlick System Fonts entropy:
NoScript extension extension https://noscript.net

$ locate fonts.dir
(remove any oddball directory that is not generally found)
================================================== ==========================
7. Panopticlick Are Cookies Enabled? entropy:
Self-Destructing Cookies https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ucting-cookies
================================================== ==========================
8. Panoptoclick Limited supercookie test entropy:
Foundstone HTML5 Local Storage Explorer http://www.foundstone.com
================================================== ==========================
Encrypt web pages that are not encrypted:
HTTPS Everywhere https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
================================================== ==========================
That last item is new to me, but, it seems useful if I can figure out how
to get it to encrypt non-encrypted sites, such as www.google.com.

Warren Oates wrote, on Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:25:21 -0500:

It's elementary Watson, we must track down and question everyone using
Firefox on Mac in the Central time zone; start with Mexico City.

It's actually far easier than that.
If your browser signature is unique, then you can be tracked anywhere.
No matter what IP or ISP or country you are logging in from.