On or before June 8, 2013, Google implemented the cache.google network to improve Internet surfing from most Android phones registered to Android phone users via gmail.
This may also apply to computers that use the Googleplus portal.
I discovered this when using the os.monitor app, the google mapper in it spat out a map of the Whitehorse, Yukon location for the IP address two zero nine dot fifty two dot one eighty nine dot eighty eight & its address written as words substituting for digits 0-9 to reduce IP address traffic from crackerjack botnets.
Great job, Google! My Zte Grand X View is totally protected by your proxy server, thanks to my provider's alliance with your global network - a joint Telus-Google venture, no doubt.
Even your YouTube app is awaiting your command to stream content suggested by my viewing habits.
NB: no evil done. The paranoid sysadmin was just overly paranoid of the ubiquity of the global cache-google server farm. Its purpose is to speed up the network using local mirros of everything they cache.
If you want to tap into it, and have a knowledge of how to do so, add the Google OpenDNS enabled DNS server at 8.8.8.8. However I am not responsibility for any loss of connectivity.
YMMV
Reference:
Shaw BC DNS redirect for Google mystifies home lan sysadmin: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28361850-BC-Shaw-DNS-redirect-for-google
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20080113
Could My HighFog Index Be the Cause of Misunderstanding?
From what I remember when i found the original script for calculating fog indexes in BASIC years ago, fog index calculators determine the grade level the author writes at.
According to my research, the fog index for school teachers is Grade 5. Yes, teachers are taught on how to effectively write so as to be understood by a 10-year-old. So I checked shaw dot ca's webpages, and they all rate Grade 11.
If you need to confirm of a website is beyond your reading comprehension - uses big words and phrases - then try out www dot readability dot info !
I am not going to post a link because it's too valuable a link to let the spambots get ahold of to try to get into the server.
I will post the readability results of Gandhara dot blogspot dot com:
Here's a list of Fog Indexes for various websites:
www dot bell dot ca:
www dot shaw dot ca:
gettingtothegate dot com
(The feminist women's lobby group trying to get more women into government):
Note: My guess is this website was written by a teacher.
andreareimer dot typepad dot com
(Andrea Reimer is the VSB school teacher who parlayed her network of university friends into stepping up in the Green Party of BC hierarchy, to the point where she's applying Green politicking to Vancouver city council):
Hmmm, she write one grade level about me! I bet people misunderstand her more than they do me!
Now a look at our fine post-second educational institutions starting with UBC:
www dot ubc dot ca:
Obviously written by a teacher.
www dot sfu ca matches Andrea's Grade 8 score:
Comment: My guess is, she gradated from SFU since the scores are so similar.
www dot kwantlen dot ca is not surprise, considering how terse the website is:
So I decided to check another webpage in the kwantlen dot ca domain.
This is the score for the testimonials offered by faculty at Kwantlen (www dot kwantlen dot ca slash-fw testimonials slash-fw faculty dot html):
Being mostly masters grads, they naturally use a lot of big words and score above Grade 11, even better than the shaw dot ca webmaster, who might have graduated at an Albertan university.
Student testimonies (www dot kwantlen dot ca slash-fw testimonials slash-fw students dot html) scored the following:
Comment: Not as high as the teachers, but this leads me to suspect that the webmaster chose, in both cases, the most complex sentences to quote from both groups.
Just to make sure that it's the webmaster's editing that is making these testimonials so complex, I checked out the alumni's page to see if any quotes from teachers lowered the scores like it did the students'.
www dot kwantlen dot ca slash-fw testimonials slash-fw alumni dot html:
It looks like the alumnis, no longer hard-pressed to impress everyone like their former teachers and fellow students, scored more than 25 points lower on the Lix grade, which is still higher than Grade 11 but is dropping back to normal.
University of Calgary's webpage (www dot ucalgary dot ca) scores at around Grade 11:
Comment: But Edmonton (www dot ualberta dot ca) scored higher, which means that the Shaw webmaster is a University of Alberta university grad surrounded by call centre staff who graduated from University of Calgary:
Comment: University of Alberta has the highest ratings so far, and that's the first time I've seen the Flesch Index go negative! And using by the grades, I've calculated that the Shaw webmaster may have networked with at least six of the call centre staff.
Now on to the government of bc:
www dot uvic dot ca scores:
The government of Canada (www dot gc dot ca slash-fw home dot html) scores in the same range
Checking www dot psac dot ca reveals similarities with student activists:
The student left's website of choice for some (www dot resist dot ca) show:
The activist newsfeed mostlywater dot org has pretty much the same level:
Comment: This leads me to suspect that the webmasters of both sites have the same background, or have the same newsource.
Anarchist dot com however gives low grades, which leads me to suspect the webmaster has learned to keep it simple.
Since the scores for the psac website showed a strong tie with the student activist movement, I thought I'd find a site that caters to white collars. So I checked out the Canadian Venture Capitalist Association:
Comment: This may indicate the webmaster is a university grad.
So I checked www dot garage dot com:
Finally, I peeked at www dot whitehouse dot gov and got this:
According to my research, the fog index for school teachers is Grade 5. Yes, teachers are taught on how to effectively write so as to be understood by a 10-year-old. So I checked shaw dot ca's webpages, and they all rate Grade 11.
If you need to confirm of a website is beyond your reading comprehension - uses big words and phrases - then try out www dot readability dot info !
I am not going to post a link because it's too valuable a link to let the spambots get ahold of to try to get into the server.
I will post the readability results of Gandhara dot blogspot dot com:
Readability report for http://gandhara.blogspot.com readability grades: Kincaid: 9.2 ARI: 10.0 Coleman-Liau: 11.2 Flesch Index: 64.1 Fog Index: 12.5 Lix: 42.9 = school year 7 SMOG-Grading: 11.3 sentence info: 19581 characters 4278 words, average length 4.58 characters = 1.45 syllables 217 sentences, average length 19.7 words 48% (106) short sentences (at most 15 words) 16% (35) long sentences (at least 30 words) 16 paragraphs, average length 13.6 sentences 2% (6) questions 48% (106) passive sentences longest sent 156 wds at sent 215; shortest sent 1 wds at sent 39 word usage: verb types: to be (145) auxiliary (51) types as % of total: conjunctions 6(242) pronouns 7(288) prepositions 11(490) nominalizations 1(47) sentence beginnings: pronoun (29) interrogative pronoun (6) article (16) subordinating conjunction (20) conjunction (4) preposition (14)
Here's a list of Fog Indexes for various websites:
www dot bell dot ca:
readability grades: Kincaid: 6.4 ARI: 8.4 Coleman-Liau: 13.7 Flesch Index: 71.4 Fog Index: 9.3 Lix: 33.4 = below school year 5 SMOG-Grading: 9.3
www dot shaw dot ca:
readability grades: Kincaid: 10.9 ARI: 16.2 Coleman-Liau: 19.2 Flesch Index: 51.3 Fog Index: 15.2 Lix: 64.5 = higher than school year 11 SMOG-Grading: 13.4
gettingtothegate dot com
(The feminist women's lobby group trying to get more women into government):
readability grades: Kincaid: 8.2 ARI: 9.9 Coleman-Liau: 11.7 Flesch Index: 69.8 Fog Index: 11.3 Lix: 36.4 = school year 5 SMOG-Grading: 10.3
Note: My guess is this website was written by a teacher.
andreareimer dot typepad dot com
(Andrea Reimer is the VSB school teacher who parlayed her network of university friends into stepping up in the Green Party of BC hierarchy, to the point where she's applying Green politicking to Vancouver city council):
Readability grades: Kincaid: 10.5 ARI: 12.1 Coleman-Liau: 10.1 Flesch Index: 65.1 Fog Index: 13.7 Lix: 45.4 = school year 8 SMOG-Grading: 11.2
Hmmm, she write one grade level about me! I bet people misunderstand her more than they do me!
Now a look at our fine post-second educational institutions starting with UBC:
www dot ubc dot ca:
readability grades: Kincaid: 7.6 ARI: 9.0 Coleman-Liau: 13.0 Flesch Index: 67.1 Fog Index: 10.9 Lix: 40.7 = school year 6 SMOG-Grading: 10.4
Obviously written by a teacher.
www dot sfu ca matches Andrea's Grade 8 score:
readability grades: Kincaid: 8.2 ARI: 9.0 Coleman-Liau: 10.2 Flesch Index: 70.5 Fog Index: 11.4 Lix: 44.6 = school year 8 SMOG-Grading: 10.3
Comment: My guess is, she gradated from SFU since the scores are so similar.
www dot kwantlen dot ca is not surprise, considering how terse the website is:
Readability grades: Kincaid: 1.5 ARI: 2.1 Coleman-Liau: 9.6 Flesch Index: 96.1 Fog Index: 5.7 Lix: 29.6 = below school year 5 SMOG-Grading: 6.9
So I decided to check another webpage in the kwantlen dot ca domain.
This is the score for the testimonials offered by faculty at Kwantlen (www dot kwantlen dot ca slash-fw testimonials slash-fw faculty dot html):
readability grades: Kincaid: 22.1 ARI: 28.0 Coleman-Liau: 15.8 Flesch Index: 22.6 Fog Index: 24.4 Lix: 84.5 = higher than school year 11 SMOG-Grading: 16.5
Being mostly masters grads, they naturally use a lot of big words and score above Grade 11, even better than the shaw dot ca webmaster, who might have graduated at an Albertan university.
Student testimonies (www dot kwantlen dot ca slash-fw testimonials slash-fw students dot html) scored the following:
readability grades: Kincaid: 22.0 ARI: 27.8 Coleman-Liau: 14.4 Flesch Index: 26.9 Fog Index: 24.6 Lix: 81.5 = higher than school year 11 SMOG-Grading: 16.1
Comment: Not as high as the teachers, but this leads me to suspect that the webmaster chose, in both cases, the most complex sentences to quote from both groups.
Just to make sure that it's the webmaster's editing that is making these testimonials so complex, I checked out the alumni's page to see if any quotes from teachers lowered the scores like it did the students'.
www dot kwantlen dot ca slash-fw testimonials slash-fw alumni dot html:
readability grades: Kincaid: 13.5 ARI: 17.1 Coleman-Liau: 12.9 Flesch Index: 53.8 Fog Index: 16.0 Lix: 57.1 = higher than school year 11 SMOG-Grading: 12.1
It looks like the alumnis, no longer hard-pressed to impress everyone like their former teachers and fellow students, scored more than 25 points lower on the Lix grade, which is still higher than Grade 11 but is dropping back to normal.
University of Calgary's webpage (www dot ucalgary dot ca) scores at around Grade 11:
readability grades: Kincaid: 12.1 ARI: 14.4 Coleman-Liau: 14.8 Flesch Index: 48.7 Fog Index: 15.3 Lix: 55.1 = school year 11 SMOG-Grading: 13.2
Comment: But Edmonton (www dot ualberta dot ca) scored higher, which means that the Shaw webmaster is a University of Alberta university grad surrounded by call centre staff who graduated from University of Calgary:
readability grades: Kincaid: 34.4 ARI: 43.9 Coleman-Liau: 18.4 Flesch Index: -16.1 Fog Index: 38.3 Lix: 123.4 = higher than school year 11 SMOG-Grading: 24.2
Comment: University of Alberta has the highest ratings so far, and that's the first time I've seen the Flesch Index go negative! And using by the grades, I've calculated that the Shaw webmaster may have networked with at least six of the call centre staff.
Now on to the government of bc:
readability grades: Kincaid: 17.4 ARI: 22.2 Coleman-Liau: 16.4 Flesch Index: 34.0 Fog Index: 20.6 Lix: 74.5 = higher than school year 11 SMOG-Grading: 16.0
www dot uvic dot ca scores:
readability grades: Kincaid: 12.4 ARI: 15.5 Coleman-Liau: 15.6 Flesch Index: 48.2 Fog Index: 16.0 Lix: 58.4 = higher than school year 11 SMOG-Grading: 13.8
The government of Canada (www dot gc dot ca slash-fw home dot html) scores in the same range
readability grades: Kincaid: 12.6 ARI: 17.1 Coleman-Liau: 16.2 Flesch Index: 50.4 Fog Index: 16.4 Lix: 57.4 = higher than school year 11 SMOG-Grading: 13.8
Checking www dot psac dot ca reveals similarities with student activists:
readability grades: Kincaid: 8.2 ARI: 11.9 Coleman-Liau: 16.3 Flesch Index: 63.9 Fog Index: 10.8 Lix: 48.9 = school year 9 SMOG-Grading: 10.3
The student left's website of choice for some (www dot resist dot ca) show:
readability grades: Kincaid: 11.2 ARI: 12.6 Coleman-Liau: 12.4 Flesch Index: 55.8 Fog Index: 14.6 Lix: 49.2 = school year 9 SMOG-Grading: 12.7
The activist newsfeed mostlywater dot org has pretty much the same level:
readability grades: Kincaid: 11.8 ARI: 13.9 Coleman-Liau: 12.4 Flesch Index: 56.3 Fog Index: 15.1 Lix: 50.7 = school year 9 SMOG-Grading: 12.7
Comment: This leads me to suspect that the webmasters of both sites have the same background, or have the same newsource.
Anarchist dot com however gives low grades, which leads me to suspect the webmaster has learned to keep it simple.
readability grades: Kincaid: 6.4 ARI: 6.6 Coleman-Liau: 9.9 Flesch Index: 76.4 Fog Index: 9.5 Lix: 33.8 = below school year 5 SMOG-Grading: 9.3
Since the scores for the psac website showed a strong tie with the student activist movement, I thought I'd find a site that caters to white collars. So I checked out the Canadian Venture Capitalist Association:
readability grades: Kincaid: 13.9 ARI: 16.7 Coleman-Liau: 16.9 Flesch Index: 38.1 Fog Index: 17.8 Lix: 62.0 = higher than school year 11 SMOG-Grading: 15.2
Comment: This may indicate the webmaster is a university grad.
So I checked www dot garage dot com:
readability grades: Kincaid: 8.5 ARI: 10.8 Coleman-Liau: 16.8 Flesch Index: 55.7 Fog Index: 11.7 Lix: 48.3 = school year 9 SMOG-Grading: 10.9
Finally, I peeked at www dot whitehouse dot gov and got this:
readability grades: Kincaid: 12.4 ARI: 14.9 Coleman-Liau: 13.7 Flesch Index: 51.2 Fog Index: 15.9 Lix: 52.7 = school year 10 SMOG-Grading: 13.5
20071206
A Charter of Information Rights
"...Along with citizen activism, we need legal guarantees and protections for a new set of human rights, which are essential in an IT-dominated society. Only when citizens have obtained these rights will they be able to regain control over public information resources." — D. Gutstein
The Five Information Rights
- Right to privacy
As individuals we reserve the right to privacy, to retain the right to keep private our personal information so that such rights may not be abused by the State or by corporate interests.
- Right of access to information
We reserve the right of access to information, both private (of a personal nature) and public. This being a democratic freedom, such access to public information should not be limited by protective software in such a way as to infringe on right of access to information. As for private information, this right does not include infringing on the privacy of other people but refers to the right for each individual to access his or her personal information. Furthermore, if a source of information does not specifically violate the rights of children as provided by the UN declarations, then each individual reserves the right to strike that source from the ban list, and the right to be allowed to control the editing of any such list.
- Right of access to information services and advice
We reserve the right of access to information services and advice in such a way as to not be impeded by restrictions related to business-to-end-user transactions. Private transactions between information providers and individuals should not result in any restrictions on right of access to information services and advice through filtering of information.
- Right to benefit from intellectual and artistic works
We reserve the right to benefit from intellectual and artistic works. This implies that any means of database collection services implemented by commercial interests should not restrict this right in any manner, and royalties collected by owners of such databases should be shared with original authors of intellectual and artistic works who legally own rights to those works. Furthermore an author's legal rights should always predominate over corporate legal rights. This right should void corporate copyrights over their database, and encourage negotations between authors and commercial interests for fair market value of intellectual and artistic works authored by individuals.
- Right to communicate
The right to communicate should not be infringed upon by any law, both common and criminal. This means that corporations cannot ban individuals from criticizing business practices through establishment of mailing lists and web sites used expressly for this purpose. As well, neither corporate nor public information providers may use protective software to infringe upon this right. If a source of information does not specifically violate the rights of children as provided by UN declarations, then each individual reserves the right to strike that source from the ban list, and the right to be allowed to control the editing of any such list.
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Source: D. Gutstein, e.con: How the Internet Undermines Democracy;
Chapter 9: Reclaiming Public Information, pp. 283-290
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