On 08/21/2014 11:23 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > I'm sorry Mr. Jim Perrin, I'll disregard your request and I will stay on > this side topic just for one more message. Thank you. > > Those [conspiracy] theories are reality not just theories, at least some > (Mr Snowden, e.g.) put their life on line to tell us about it. If we do > not care to listen, then we deserve to have what we have. I don't disagree. This was why I added "(right or wrong)" to the message. The internet culture as a whole is one of constant surveillance. It's a common business model for online content distributors/marketers etc. There are numerous postings about this all over the internet. > > I was quite displeased since quite some time ago that almost all web > browsers, whenever I feed URL into location bar, do not go to that URL, > but instead do the search with the search line that is that URL first. Not > only when URL doesn't exist (for which case I too prefer not darn search > but just an error message "URL doesn't exist"). Why would be that? What > purpose does the search serve. You do your math. I still use often > browsers with this "nasty" feature. I will mention one browser that > doesn't to that unnecessary [unnecessary for me, of course] thing: midori. > If someone has any other suggestions, please, let me know (you can e-mail > me off the list if you prefer to respect Mr Jim Perrin's request). I also > will mention one search engine that seems to be "clean" of nastiness to > the best of my knowledge" DuckDuckGo: My point, and I said this off-list as well to those who responded to me directly, is simply this: I would rather keep the list technical and apolitical. I know we can't keep politics out of tech, but I would prefer to at least attempt to limit it on the mailing lists. A discussion about alternatives and their technical merits would be fine and I have no problem with that. Derailing a 'how do I fix this' thread with a political discussion is something I'd like to avoid as a general rule. -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77