Autoplay this!

Yup, self-explanatory, right?

Nevertheless, the whole Facebook experience, which has been, so far, enough of an adventure, escalated to a whole new level of stupidity, with the "video autoplay" feature. 

Technically speaking, the "autoplay" feature, freshly implemented in Facebook, chips your bandwidth to the point that, sooner or later (rather sooner), your Facebook page will be as dead as a doornail. In layman's terms, the "autoplay" thingie is like a lap dance: you will enjoy it until your pockets are empty.

Without further ado: 

In Firefox: Click on the arrow that points downward (near the padlock icon). From the menu, select Settings. On the left hand side of the screen, select Videos and switch the autoplay option to Off. That's it.

In Chrome: probably the same procedure, except this time you'll have to fiddle with the extensions and plugins, too.

In Internet Explorer: Don't know, don't care, hehe.

God's Not Dead

Because is summer time and, as we all know, during summer time you get pretty bored, I went to see the above mentioned movie. The premise is very straight forward: Kevin Sorbo (aka professor of philosophy Radisson in this movie) is a declared atheist (because "of the way his mother died, he couldn't do much about it and, furthermore, God didn't do anything about it."). Shane Harper (aka Josh Wheaton in the movie) is a student with exactly opposite beliefs. Josh is a hardcore Christian and he is given the chance to prove that God exists, in professor Radisson's class.
You have the whole plot unveiled right in front of your eyes: Radisson (the atheist) is the prosecutor, Wheaton (the believer) is the defender and the rest of the class is the jury. Somehow this movie has landed on the plot of the "Inherit the Wind", but, so far, it's ok. I presumed it was just a lack of inspiration. It happens very often, lately.
Then, all the plot went awry. Both Paul Kwo (aka Martin Yip in the script) and Hadeel Sittu (Ayisha), even though they are dedicated to their respective religions at the beginning, decide that the Holy Bible is the real thing and they should follow Jesus. Which is, from my standpoint, kind of an underlined opinion about what people should believe in. Cameo appearances by David A.R. White (reverend Dave), Benjamin Ochieng (reverend Jude) and Dean Cain (Mark), the latter one being a complete conundrum for me, since lately he's specialized in B-movies, with apocalyptic themes.
At some point, I tried to fantasize about Kevin Sorbo breaking out of the script when somebody in the auditorium yells "Hercules!" It would have given a little momentum to these 113 minutes that I wasted, on my dime. Just picture Kevin Sorbo ripping his Armani suit, invoking Zeus (Anthony Quinn) and mopping the floor with Josh. Man, that would've been a game changer... And when the students in the class tried to revolt, there would've been Xena, entering stage left.
This movie is a No-No, definitely. And, paraphrasing the Principal in "Billy Madison": "Mr. Wheaton, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
Finally, I suspect that this is a GOP campaign.

The Zuckerberg Theory - The Dumb Fuck Conundrum

"They trust me - dumb fucks" said Zuckerberg, in an interview first published by former Valleywag Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider and confirmed by Zuckerberg himself in Jose Antonio Vargas's New Yorker piece. The fact that we stand the numerous, pointless, idiotic changes in Facebook makes us, really, "dumb fucks".

A two step strategy to get back your Facebook wall: 1. Install the Timeline Remover add-on (Firefox); 2. Install the oldnewsfeed add-on (also on Firefox); 3. Go to bed thinking that by following the first two steps you managed to wipe Zuckerberg's smirk off of his face. 4. Think positive thoughts, tomorrow they may come up with some other crap...

About Youtube video shares on Facebook and the dystopian theory

Nope. Two negatives do not equal a positive and you have witnessed that with the nerve-crushing experience of playing a video clip on your Facebook Timeline. First of all, it seems to be a battle of giants going on right now, between YouTube and Facebook, either one denying the other part's respond on their respective server. On the other hand, Windows, as the main operating system in the world, has gone from "hmmm" to "yuk", from XP, through Vista and 7, to Windows 8. Bottom line being that, two years from now, Windows OS will be just like a dust-buster that you would find in the closet at some point and you will have no idea what to make out of it.

As far as concerns the lag on your youtube shared videos on facebook, there's a simple resolve: refresh the page, or press F5 in the browser.

Mark Zuckerberg, you did it again!

<To be fair, the “Who can look up your Timeline by name?” feature was likely misunderstood by lots of people. At first glance, you might assume it means that strangers can’t find your profile. But that’s incorrect. There have been lots of ways to navigate to your profile, like clicking your name on a photo you’re tagged in, finding your name in a friend’s friend list, or combing through Likes on a mutual friend’s News Feed post.> (http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/10/facebook-search-privacy/). 

Well, duh!

Still, for the first time in its whole entire existence, Facebook took a firm step towards the privacy of its clients. It is a subtle maneuver that required a lot of coding and a lot of brilliant minds. Brace yourselves: the "Friends Requests", "Messages" and "Notifications" icons were moved, in a revolutionary procedure, from the the top left of the screen to the top right of the screen. And you do realize that the fact that Facebook bleached your profile would lead your stalker into a dilemma, right? And they'll never, ever be able to navigate to your profile using photo tags or the propagate search code that I was trying to explain in a previous post?

If you do want to maintain your privacy and your friends' privacy, stop tagging the photos, good people. I do know that is very, very hard for some folks to recognize themselves in pictures, but give them a chance, it's a matter of time. And, once again, I urge you to change the default language from English (US) to English (whatever). If the brilliant people at Facebook realized that the only measure to counter-act invasion of privacy was to switch the buttons from left to right, it means that we might have some IQ tests to perform on them, or they don't care, for that matter. And they don't.

After Earth [2013]

After Eszopiclone, Ramelteon, Triazolam, Zaleplon and Zolpidem, it was M. Night Shyamalan’s turn to come up with a revolutionary prescription-free drug that will make you fall asleep in a matter of seconds. It's called "After Earth", it has no secondary effects, it does not contradict with the prolonged use of alcohol, recreational drugs or porn. It's available at a cinema nearby and, trust me, the desired effect kicks in 5 minutes after the commercials.

Get your favorite blankets at hand (come on, you do have one) and listen to my soothing voice: "One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind’s new home. General Cypher Raige (Will Smith) returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai (played by Jaden Smith). When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai’s craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance."

...what? What happened? I've must have fallen asleep...

Let alone the fact that naming a character "Cypher Raige" is more than transparent to the plot, the "After Earth" pill is effective by its pure, untainted boring essence. There is a plot here, but it's so overplayed that once you understand what's going on you could go to sleep with no remorse. You could remap the scenario, on your own, tomorrow, when you'll wake up or you'll sober. The whole 100 minutes of this movie amount to a pinnacle of boredom, with copycat CGI's and idiotic replies. Neither father or son (Will Smith and Jaden Smith) shows no emotion albeit the main fiber in the plot is the son that needs to prove himself up to his father's expectations.

Somehow I suspect that along the lines of "After Earth", Will Smith was trying to push forward his son's career as an actor. Never gonna happen. Not with this plot, not with this screenp... Good night, kids!

Privacy probing - Facebook's Graph Search

During the Crunchie Awards in San Francisco, at the beginning of year 2010, our little favorite net dictator, Mark Zuckerberg, stated that "privacy was no longer a ‘social norm’ and had just evolved over time".

A Facebook project, initially tossed as garbage code, has resurfaced recently as "Graph Search", a so called "search engine" which is based on a "propagate search code". You don't understand a word I'm saying, right? Ok, let's suppose you have a Facebook account, your privacy is set ironclad and you feel comfy talking to your friends, sharing ideas, photos and stuff. Suddenly, you discover that somebody named I.C.U. (hehe, nice touch, right?) has access to your albums, your photos, everything. How the hell could that have happened? you might ask. Well, it's pretty simple...

I.C.U. has their own list of friends. Those friends have their own friends, so on, and so forth. In the aftermath of this spiral somebody, somewhere knows you, hence giving I.C.U. access - through a very intricate structure of intermediaries - access to your information. And that, my friends, is Graphic Search, the foremost tool to invade somebody's privacy.

Despite all the paranoid instructions that might float around your Facebook timeline ("hover over my name, click settings, uncheck Events..., blabla") there is a simpler way to disable, at least temporarily, Graph Search. Gather around, kids!

By default, when you create a Facebook account, the language is set to English (US). In your Facebook account, go to "Settings" (the gear thingie top right) > Account Settings (from the drop-down menu) and, at the right of the Language line, click Edit. From the drop-down list, next to the Primary Language, choose English (UK) instead of English (US). Click Save and hell, you're "Graph Search" free!

The explanation is that Graph Search was implemented for the English (US) dictionary only and it would take me aeons to explain Zuckerberg that there is almost no difference between the US and the UK dictionary, it's just the pronunciation and a few slang terms that make the difference. Still, I can't argue with a genius, hehe.

For other people, who are partial to their native language, don't be coy! Change the Primary Language accordingly and be assured that by the time Zuckerberg's linguistic team finds a way to implement your language into Graph Search, your grandchildren would have found a better way to override this crap.

Cheers! (English UK) hehe....

Trance (2013)

"Your memory is not destroyed. It is locked in a cage. And with enough force, enough violence, the lock can be broken"

The plot revolves around Simon (James McAvoy), a fine art auctioneer which becomes involved in the theft of Francisco de Goya's painting "The dance of the witches", from his own auction house. A former hardcore gambler, Simon is in cahoots with Franck (Vincent Cassel), to which he owes a great deal of money, so the theft is his only way out.
The theft would go wrong after Simon made an unexpected move towards Franck, trying to zap him. Franck recovers from the shock and hits him with his gun across the head. Simon loses his memory, temporarily and they have to appeal to a hypnotherapist, Elisabeth Lamb (Rosario Dawson) to bring out the location of the stolen painting.

The whole movie is about the chase for the painting. Does Elisabeth Lamb screw both Simon and Franck in order to control them? Cannot confirm or deny. Is it violence implied in this movie? No, it isn't, it's just make-believe.

However, this movie is something to be watched. It should probably give you an insight of the power that your shrink has upon you.

Olympus Has Fallen [2013]

This movie falls into the "tragicomedy" category, meaning that once the movie is finished and the credits are on you'll weep for your money (the tragedy part) and, in the mean time, you'll laugh at the poor saps that bought tickets for the next show (the comic part). It is so idiotic in all its aspects that it makes "After Earth" an Oscar winner... (We'll deal with the latter in a few days).

The plot unveils like this: ex Special Forces operative and former presidential bodyguard Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) gets to fight to take back the White House from terrorists who have kidnapped the Commander In Chief (Aaron Eckhart). Aaron Eckhart is not the smart choice for a presidential character, but I'm not in the casting team, so what the hell, let's go with him! In the aftermath of a tragic accident involving the President and the First Lady (Ashley Judd, which has about 2 minutes of exposure in this movie) Mike Banning is handed with his walking papers. Fast forward, the terrorists take over the White House, it's a North Korean faction of "United Front of Whoever Gives A F**k" (as they say in the movie). Dylan McDermott, agent Forbes in the plot and co-conspirator, dies by the hand of Mike Banning, not before he gets to spew platitudes, obviously.

With the President taken hostage and the Secretary of Defense, Ruth McMillan (Melissa Leo) beaten to the pulp, but still chanting the pledge of allegiance while dragged across the floor, here comes Speaker Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman), who becomes the actual president. Have I mentioned that the characters portrayed by Dylan McDermott and Ashley Judd died already? And here it comes Mike Banning, taking charge, fighting remote machine-guns with a pistol, it was not a Colt .45, I checked it...

Turns out that the terrorists were after the Cerberus codes. You have no idea what Cerberus means? It's the program that launches an all-out nuclear attack. Except this time, when it is contained within the borders of the US. In other words, if you have a nuclear silo within your state limits, Kang (Ricky Yume) plans to make it go boom. 

Still, as Jon Stewart said, "once you have Morgan Freeman playing in a movie, you know that everything's gonna be alright". Airplane bomber with anti-heatseeker tehnology? Fuck it, we'll send two Raptors to be shot down into the ground... Then, as an immediate response, we'll send another Raptor, all by itself, just to be sure. Dylan McDermott's character dies, and even as he dies he's not credible. We get rid of Ashley Judd at the beginning of the movie. Why the hell did Morgan Freeman accept this gig?

This movie is chock full of cliches, from the beginning till the very end. Secret Service Director Lynn Jacobs (Angela Basset) is either cursing or stating the obvious. After 9/11 you would expect some degree of protection over the White House, but not in this movie. The "Hydra Six" thingies at the top of the White House are just anti-aircraft-remote-controlled guns, which, in this case, are not working properly. What the hell was Morgan Freeman thinking when he accepted playing a part in this movie? Despite all the heavy machinery, Mike Banning survives. Dylan McDermott, much like Kerry Washington in "Scandal" has a face that prone him to burst into tears any minute now (Remember "The practice"?)

But, in the end, there is Gerard Butler, who inadvertently saves the day. Probably he has some experience from "300". This was a really bad movie, with a crappy plot. In the year 2100 people would probably study this film as an "peculiar response to human behavior". DO NOT PAY FOR THE TICKET! Buy your children an ice cream...

Facebook Timeline Remover - The Hobbit Within Version

First of all, if you are horrified by Zuckerberg's timeline and you've tried to get rid of it, here's a hint: go to www.timelineremove.com, select the browser of your choice, and you'd be ok.(first time user).

For the rest of you (somehow experienced users), there is a simpler solution to the "uninstall/reinstall" routine that I've been trying to explain here in some posts. 

For Firefox users, go to the main menu, select Tools > Add-ons, go to Extensions icon on the left and type "Add-on Update Checker" in the search box (upper right). Install it. Now, provided that you have the TimelineRemove plugin installed, it will keep you updated and it will notify you as soon as new versions are available.

For Google Chrome users, there's a plugin similar to the one described above for Firefox, is called "Secbrowsing". It alerts user by showing a red icon on Chrome’s Omnibox when Chrome plug-ins are out-of-date. 

For Internet Explorer users: really, are you still browsing with Internet Explorer?

Facebook Timeline Remover - The post apocalypse version

A no brainer. If  your Facebook page still shows the timeline, logout. Go to add-ons (Firefox), remove the timeline remove plugin (yes, is a button for that). Restart Firefox. Go to www.timelineremove.com, click on the browser of your choice. You're ok!
Now, if you installed the plugin properly, once you've entered you account in Facebook you should see an option (via the drop-down list near to the Home option).Good luck!

Ted (2012)

This story is about a Christmas wish that comes true.

It all began at Christmas, 1985, in a small town outside of Boston. John Bennet (Mark Wahlberg) was a lonely 8 yr. old little boy with no friends, he had no siblings and no matter how hard he tried he just couldn’t fit-in with other kids, not even the neighborhood sissy. But then came Christmas morning and John opened the BEST gift ever: a great big fluffy stuffed bear! His eyes lit up as he hugged the bear and it spoke to him, “I LOVE YOU!”, he was overwhelmed with joy and named the bear, Teddy. Suddenly, John had his very own friend and he spent the rest of the day playing and sharing secrets with Teddy. Later that night, right before falling to sleep, John made a very special Christmas wish to his new friend.

“Ya know, I wish you could REALLY talk to me! Because then, we could be best friends for ever and ever!”

The next morning John woke alone in his bed and began searching for the lost bear. All of the sudden, standing on his own two feet with both arms stretched out, “HUG ME!... You’re my best friend John!” It was Teddy and he just shocked the shyt out of little John! “Did you – Did you just talk?” John asked. In a cute little kid voice, Teddy replied “Don’t look so surprised, you’re the one who wished for it, aren’t you?” There he was having his first real conversation with a stuffed Teddy-Bear… Well as you can imagine, this made John the happiest little kid in the whole world and he couldn’t wait to spread the news. He ran down to tell his mom and dad and they both totally freaked out, but Teddy quickly won them over; soon everyone knew about Teddy the talking bear. He was in the newspapers and all over the TV and even had a sit-down with Ed McMahon on the Jonny Carson Show. Yup, Teddy was an instant sensation but above all else, he was John’s Best Friend!

That was 27 years ago… And although John is all grown up now with a job and a live-in girlfriend, Lori Collins (Mila Kunis), he still prefers to spend most of his time hanging out with Ted, but then again, who wouldn’t? I mean, he’s a party animal, what could be more fun than kicking back getting drunk or hitting the bong with your childhood Teddy Bear? HA! None the less, John and Lori have been together for 4 years, and although it’s been great, she thinks it could be a whole lot better if Ted moves out. Well, considering their situation and the fact that even after 4 years, John still isn’t ready for marriage; it seems like a fair compromise to keep her happy. So John helps Ted get a job and his own apartment, from there Ted finds his own girlfriend, Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth), she’s really into that fluffy bear thing. (hehe) At any rate, although he and John continued to hang tight every day, everything else seemed to be going much better. Until, that is, the guys decided to get the girls together for a nice dinner. Lori, in a pinch, explained that “… Ted’s very handsome, so I’m always interested in meeting the lady that can snatch him up.” Oh man, Tami took offense and being the beautiful dumb blonde that she is, immediately replied “Did you just call me a whore?... You just worry about your own snatch! How bout that, honey!...” Now as you can imagine, that didn’t go over very well and Lori’s fed-up because she needs a real man! So while Ted quickly escorted Tami away, John was left promising to get his shyt together; “You’re right… I been bumming around with Ted too much, I know that… You give me one more chance, I promise I can fix it.” Well, he got his chance, and while at a big corporate party at Lori’s boss’s house, John blew it by ditching her there to join a party over at Ted’s house. John lost track of time while partying with Ted and their childhood hero, Flash Gordon (Sam J Jones). Big mistake! Now Lori’s done and gone and ready to move on.

But in the end, this forever friendship withstands the test of time as Ted promises to back off and leave John alone; he convinces Lori to give John one more last chance. And then as fate would have it, Ted found himself in a whole lot of trouble with a spoiled rotten brat that had sights set on having his own talking Teddy-Bear and a crazy father that promised to give him the only one around.

In Time (2011)

Could you imagine living in a future era where TIME is the global currency?

Well, Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) lives in such an era and all he ever really wants is to wake up each morning with more Time on his hand, than Hours in a day. You see, everyone is genetically engineered to stop aging on the Hour, Minute and Second of the day that they turn 25 years old. At that very moment, their internal clock begins to tick away, and they have only one more year to live unless they can get more time. Time is the currency everyone lives by, they earn it and spend it and when it’s all gone they die; the rich can live forever while the poor live by the minute, literally.

Will and his mother Rachel (Olivia Wilde) live together in Dayton, which is considered to be a ghetto zone. Today is her 50^th birthday and as her birthday gift (TIME) he gave her 3 days. She needed every minute of it too because she owes more than half of it for bills (rent, electric, food, etc.) Most people here work very hard to earn more time, some people borrow from time-lenders (banks) or minute-men (loan sharks), while others fight (arm-wrestle) which is the riskiest way to gain time because the winner takes all. Will works in a factory with his best friend Borel (Johnny Galecki); they earn time by making capsules which are portable devices used to store and save unused time, much like a piggy-bank. He’s no super hero but he does go out of his way lending a hand to those in need!

Chaos breaks out when a wealthy aristocrat goes slumming in Dayton with a death wish and suddenly all the time in the world means nothing when every minute counts and Will is just one second too late. In despair, he takes us on a thrilling adventure into a higher class zone as he seeks vengeance for the pain and sufferings of the poverty sectors. While in the new zone, Will meets a rich businessman named Philippe Weis (Vincent Kartheiser) and his daughter Sylvia (Amanda Seyfried) during a high-stakes poker game. Sylvia invites Will to a party at her home where he ends up being accused of murder right before being stripped of all but 2 hours of his time. Without a minute to spare, he grabs Silvia and makes a fruitless attempt to regain some gifted time so he can afford to keep running from the timekeeper and minutemen who are trying to stop him from bringing down this corrupt system by spreading the wealth.

Total Recall 2012

By the end of the 21^st century, the use of global chemical warfare has left most of planet Earth’s vast land masses uninhabitable. Mankind has been reduced to only two territories, the first of which is now called The United Federation of Britain (UFB) and it predominately consists of the United Kingdom, Ireland and the northern coastal regions of France. The second of which is now called The Colony, otherwise known as Australia. Workers from The Colony travel through the planet each day on the only transport possible, an underground shuttle known as “The Fall”.

Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston) presides over both territories along with his military police force and enormous brigade of robot sentinels. Cohaagen is in a continuous battle against Matthias (Billy Nighy), terrorist leader of the resistance movement that is fighting for equality of The Colony. Douglas Quaid (Colin Ferrell) and his wife Lori (Kate Beckinsale) live in The Colony and both commute to the UFB where Lori is an emergency medical technician and Douglas works in a factory with his close friend Harry (Bokeem Woodbine); they build the defense robots for the UFB’s synthetic police force.

Recently, Douglas has been plagued by reoccurring nightmares of being chased by UFB sentries while attempting to escape from some strange building with a mysterious woman. Although Lori knows about these dreams, he doesn’t seem to feel completely comfortable discussing details with her, or anyone else, for that matter. Unable to shake the dreams, he’s decided to pay a visit to Rekall to explore the options of creating a new memory, and his fantasy: well of course, is to be a secret agent. Ahhhh, but something went wrong during the implant process and what started off as a friendly sales pitch has now ended in a confused confrontation with a gun pointed in his face followed by Federal Police bursting into the Rekall parlor and killing everyone except Quaid. But the confusion doesn’t stop there. See, the police intended to apprehend him before he could become implanted and although it seems they may have been at least partially successful, something inside him has been triggered. And while they attempted to take him into custody, he snapped and turned tails on them by grabbing a gun and shooting every officer in sight (the room was full). He managed to escape the parlor and return home where Lori was inside watching the news on TV while waiting for him. In a panic, he began to explain his version of what just happened; she quickly calmed him down and claimed that Rekall had screwed up his mind by giving him some kind of paranoid delusion. Suddenly her warm and gentle embrace becomes a crushing death grip around his neck, OMG she’s trying to kill him too! He escapes her grip and during their struggle she’s explained that she’s actually UFB Intel, and that everything he’s experienced over the past 6 weeks has been the product of a memory replacement, “What can I say, I give good wife…”

Lori’s explanation has only created more questions and without killing her, he’s escaped once again; now he’s on a mission to find out who he really is. Turns out, the girl from his nightmare, Melina (Jessica Biel) is far more than just a mysterious woman. And in the end, he’ll have to decide whether to return to the boring life of a law abiding, happily married factory worker: Douglas Quaid, or remain as Hauser and continue the fight with Melina to free The Colony from Cohaagen’s corruptive evil plans to use his synthetic army to completely enslave all the people of both territories.

Super 8 (2011)

It’s the summer of 1979 in Lillian, Ohio. A group of middle school friends have been working together on a project to enter into a local Film Festival contest. Joseph Lamb (Joel Courtney) and his father Deputy Jackson Lamb (Kyle Chandler) are still recovering from the tragic death of Joe’s mother in the town’s steel mill four months ago. Jackson has decided to send Joe away to a Baseball Camp for the summer but Joe insists he needs to stay and help his best friend Charles Kanyk (Riley Griffiths) complete his project. Charles is trying to produce an unbeatable zombie movie but he’s been having troubles coming up with a storyline and his biggest concern is having to compete against older kids with more experience and better resources. Never the less, Charles has added a new character, Alice Dainard (Elle Fanning) will be playing their hero’s wife. Now they have a zombie, a hero and with a new wife they’ll have the makings for an incredible storyline too. Alice has agreed to drive the crew over to the train station for a midnight sneak-out filming of some new scenes, and while the camera was rolling they all witnessed a horrifying train derailment purposely caused by a crazed truck driver. Panic sunk in when they realized the truck driver was one of their school teachers and that he had miraculously survived the crash, but he pointed a gun and scared them away by saying that they and their parents would be killed if anyone knew they were there. Suddenly, the US Air Force approached the scene, they ran to the car and Alice sped them all back to town where they made a pact to never repeat what they’d seen. But this was to be just the very beginning in a slew of strange events in their town’s near destruction and a summer that no one would ever believe or forget.

Facebook - The Titanic Version

Ok. To cut a long story short, Zuckerberg, the "mastermind" behind the economics of Facebook, decided it was time to ban any share on either your wall or timeline, since it wasn't paid for. You'd be ruled out either because your "favicon", aka the icon that appears on your adress bar when you access your own site or blog, or the content of your site, which is no way subject to copyright infringement, unless you are so idiot as to post on your own site full copies of some movies. Yep, Zuckerberg is the one on the left.

Then again, you can wipe out the grin on his face by reinstalling "facebook timeline remover". Just go to "www.timelineremove.com" and reinstall the add-on. 

Otherwise, I'm gonna post it on Facebook, see if it works.

P.S. Much to my surprise, they DID let me share this particular post on Facebook, hehe...

Brake (2012)

Could you imagine having such a powerful secret that it could save the life of someone you love? But, by telling that secret, you would be causing the death of many other innocent people and possibly even destroy the whole world around you. Well, that's what this story is about.

A man wakes up and realizes he’s trapped in some kind of plastic box with only the bright red glow of a digital clock to cut the darkness. Right away he calms down as he begins to suspect that this is just an attempt to collect on an overdue gambling debt; see, this man, Jeremy Reins (Stephen Dorff) has a bad habit and apparently he owes a lot of money to a loan shark named Morgan. While trying to find a weak spot in this tightfitting coffin, he begins to hear the panicked voice of another man, Henry Shaw (JR Bourne); who’s also trapped in the same kind of box, close by. But Jeremy’s comfort quickly fades away because Henry doesn’t know Morgan and he isn’t just another gambler with a huge debt.

Their boxes begin to move and they realize they’re actually trapped in the trunks of 2 separate cars; the cars stop and someone slips a note into Jeremy’s box. It’s a postcard of The White House and on the back is a message that reads: GIVE US THE LOCATION OF ROULETTE.

Suddenly everything changes and the situation becomes dire! Turns out they’ve been kidnapped by terrorist who plan to attack the United States of America. Henry is a Foreign Service officer working for the state department and Jeremy is a special agent with the Secret Service. Although both men have been sworn under oath to serve and protect; Jeremy is the only one that actually knows the exact location of the president’s underground bunker. Now Jeremy knows that he can’t talk about anything that involves the government and there are not a lot of people that he can trust. But they already have Henry, his wife and their children, and soon they’ll also have Jeremy’s wife Molly (Chyler Leigh) along with several other government officials, and no one is safe; the terrorists are threatening to kill everyone if he doesn’t give up that information. Still, despite risking the lives of strangers, friends and loved ones, Jeremy clings to his oath by refusing to divulge the top-secret location. He gets his hands on a cell phone and finally manages to reach a trusted friend, Ben Reynolds (Tom Berenger). But as time runs out and no matter how well he’s able to keep his secret; Jeremy is about to learn that, nothing, is what it seems to be!

Prometheus 2012

The year is 2089 and doctors: Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) are heading an archaeology expedition when Elizabeth discovers a 35,000 year old cave painting in Scotland’s Isle of Skye. Four years later, it’s December, 2093 and now they’re in charge of a scientific team aboard the deep space exploratory vessel: Prometheus. Commander Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) and the rest of the crew have just been awakened from a 2 year cryogenic sleep monitored by an android named David (Michael Fassbender). Given a short recuperation period, the crew is gathered for a prerecorded holographic introduction to a feeble old man referring to himself as their “employer”, Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce). He informs them that, “… If you’re watching this, you have reached you’re destination, and I am long dead, may I rest in peace…” He introduces David as, “The closest thing to a son, I will ever have.” And then he explains that he’s spent his entire lifetime contemplating the questions, “Where do we come from; what is our purpose; what happens when we die?” Then he fades away after surrendering the assembly to doctors: Shaw and Holloway. Charlie explains that archaeologists have, through the course of centuries, unearthed numerous pictograms from ancient human civilizations that date back over thousands of years and depict men worshiping giant beings, pointing towards map like images of the universe far beyond the stars. Elizabeth concludes that they are there to seek out what she calls “engineers” that will lead them to “Our creators”.

Yup, Elizabeth and Charlie believe that humans were created by aliens, and Peter Weyland has funded an outer space mission designed to help them find and return evidence to support their theory. He was also secretly hoping they may even discover some sort of fountain of youth or Garden of Eden: as it were; he dreams of immortality. Go figure!

As they approach the new planet, Charlie sees a strange rock formation right in the middle of what looks like a well excavated runway, he directs Captain Janek (Idris Elba) to land their vessel in front of it. Charlie’s excited and immediately requests the survey team to suit-up; Janek suggests that, “There’s only 6 hours left of daylight. Why don’t you leave it till the morning?” But Charlie calmly declares “It’s Christmas Captain, and I want to open my presents.” He, Elizabeth and David suit-up and meet with 3 other scientists to begin exploring the hollow rock formation. While inside, one scientist releases several tiny balls that fly through every tunnel and digitally trace a 3-dementinal map that begins to appear back on Prometheus for Janek and Vickers to oversee. They don’t know it yet, but, they’ve just discovered a ghost ship whose crew bear an uncanny relationship to human beings. However, evidence found throughout the ship will indicate that these distant relatives were not planning a warm family reunion, after all; in fact, they were actually in the process of developing weapons of mass destruction. And Oh My, let me tell ya, we’ve all seen these weapons before!... Now the survivors of Prometheus will have to find a way to protect mankind by delivering these weapons to their rightful destination.

Facebook Timeline Remover, the "up right in your timeline" version

As mentioned in the previous post, the "Timeline remover" add-on, version 1.0.2, was the safe way to go. Since then, the 1.0.4 version has surfaced, which means that you can upgrade your add-on (Firefox) and still tell Zuckerberg to kiss your wall.

 I still have no answers for the Chrome users - probably because I'm way too lazy or, at one point in time I did switch to Google Chrome and it seemed to be so slow that I gave up.

However, update your "timeline remover" add-on. It's well worth it.

Of mice, keyboards and Facebook's Timeline Remover tweaks

"Over time, we expect governments will become more responsive to issues and concerns raised directly by all their people rather than through intermediaries controlled by a select few. Through this process, we believe that leaders will emerge across all countries who are pro-internet and fight for the rights of their people, including the right to share what they want and the right to access all information that people want to share with them." [via ME, the major shareholder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg]

Now, that you've basked in Zuckerberg's infinite wisdom, let's get to the point.

If you installed the Facebook Timeline Remover plug-in on either Firefox or Chrome, you might have noticed that it works pending the next restart of your computer. To save you the trouble, as soon as you install the plugin, access it via Tools - Add-ons - TimeLineRemove.Com - More (Firefox) and click the "off" check box when asked how your updates should be handled. I bet that is a similar strategy for Chrome users, I'll check it later and let you know.

The explanation is simple: you download the plugin from www.timelineremove.com, install the stable version (1.0.2) and, unless you tweak it as described above, the plug-in updates itself within seconds to version 1.0.3, forcing you to uninstall/reinstall the plug-in every time your computer restarts, in order for Facebook to acknowledge it. Furthermore, you can check it yourself on your Facebook account, via the drop-down list next to the Home option. Should it be effective, you'll see a Timeline Remover option at the bottom of the list. Version 1.0.3 is a beta version, which tries to keep up with the constant and chaotic changes that Zuckerberg's kill-joy squad are trying to perform on Facebook's code.

Obviously, there are plenty of morons out there trying to prevent you from installing this add-on. You are the master of your computer, you decide. Nobody tries to impose anything on you. As for the negative comments, there is a significant reply in the movie Paul (2011): "You can't win with these people!".