Firefox: Forge Referrer

8 Sep 2008 In: Privacy

Surfing with disabled referrer enhances your privacy by not telling every website where you came from. Nevertheless, some websites require a referrer to function properly. It is quite annoying to manually enable the referrer and then disable it again after you visited that website.

A compromise is to set the referrer automatically to the website’s root. That means every website can see where you came from, but the referrer is forged to say you just came from the website itself. In forging your referrer you can both protect your privacy and surf without hassle.

Example:
If you come from http://christian-siegert.com/ and then surf to http://example.com/ the website Example.com will just see that you came from http://example.com/ itself. It cannot see that you actually visited http://christian-siegert.com/ before.

For Firefox I recommed the add-on RefControl.

After installing RefControl go to “Tools”→”RefControl Options…” and edit “Default for sites not listed”, choosing “Forge”.

Group Behavior In An Elevator

3 Sep 2008 In: Psychology

A very interesting experiment shows an effect a group can have on an individual. Each subject — standing in an elevator — is joined by a small group of people. The group behaves synchronized. The subjects seem to feel a lot of pressure, eventually synchronizing with the group.

[Our staff] will face the rear. And you will see how this man in the trench coat tries to maintain his individuality, but little by little [...] he is making an excuse to just turning a little bit more to the wall.

I wonder how I would behave. I definitely would feel uncomfortable — either looking towards the wall synchronized with the group or looking in a direction different to the group’s.

Stem Cells and Morality — Sam Harris

28 Aug 2008 In: General

“From Here to Andromeda” by David Sereda

28 Aug 2008 In: UFOs

The trailer is very vague and not very appealing, the film is very lengthy and sometimes boring and too philosophical. Nevertheless, I recommend to watch the film if you are interested in UFO phenomena.

Trailer of “From Here to Andromeda” by David Sereda:

This film is devided into four series. You can watch the first series below.

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“Evidence: The Case For NASA UFOs”

28 Aug 2008 In: UFOs

This film is devided into Part I (95 min) and Part II (93 min). Unfortunately, I could not find Part I as a whole.

Part I.1/11:

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“UFO — The Greatest Story Ever Denied”

28 Aug 2008 In: UFOs

David Sereda presents his theory about UFOs. I picked out some points he talks about (Watch the video to understand it fully):

UFOs can become massless. If they had mass at certain high speed maneuvers like instant 90° turns g-forces would destroy them.

UFOs do not use anti-gravity. If they did, they still would have mass, thus underlie g-forces. See above.

UFOs can become invisible. That is, to the human eye — which is limited to wavelengths between 400 nm and 700 nm. Ultraviolet capable cameras recorded UFOs in seemingly empty space.

That also means that UFOs do not come from other dimensions when they suddenly appear or go to other dimensions when they disappear — they just go into a state where they do not emit light in wavelenghts visible to the human eye.

UFOs can fly lightspeed and faster. In this presentation David Sereda explains how that can be possible. He explains it more detailed in that video.

Wormholes are no plausible approach for travelling vast distances in space because creating a wormhole the size of a quarter takes an amount of energy equivalent to the output of 100 million suns over a year.

Footage used in this presentation includes among others:

  • Official NASA recordings showing UFOs gathering, flying in formations and appearing or disappearing directly in front of the cameras
  • Interview with Gordon Cooper, former American austranaut, talking about his encounters with UFOs

Note: The video screen is black the first 30 seconds. In the Question & Answer part the video just shows a slide for several minutes instead of David Sereda standing at his lectern.