Trouble loading Flash appications

Lately, sometimes while I am traveling around the Internet I'm told (reload some kind of Flash Application because something needs to be updated. Normally, my son who was a computer tech in his 20 before he got his bachelor of Science degree. But now he is out of state so it is more difficult to find this kind of information from him unless we are skypeing. Since we have been talking about other things more lately I haven't tried to get help with this. Whenever I have tried to download a new flash application it hasn't worked. (I have done this several times now). So, I pretty much have given up for now doing this.

Up until around 2000 I knew as much about all this kind of stuff as my son. However, I haven't kept up as much on all the details in the last 13 years mostly because I moved over from PC (Windows) to Mac (Apple Products) because I just got tired of PC systems crashing all the time and getting viruses. I have been fairly happy since my wife and daughter and I started converting over to Apple products starting in 2006. But, this also changed how I related to learning about computer applications. The simple form that Apple products exist in greatly limit what you can actually do in some ways compared to PC products. However, if you are going to do things on a PC this is also being limited also by software developers so they have more control than users do of everything. This reminds me a lot of how car manufacturers have made it more and more impossible for most owners of cars and trucks to be able to actually work on their vehicles anymore. Though this makes a lot more money for manufacturers and car dealers it also dumbs down the driving and mechanic public. A similar thing is going on with computers in trying to dumb down users worldwide to better control them and to dominate them and to some degree abuse them in various ways. To not understand this is going on is to be very very ignorant.

So, for now I have given up loading Flash and have disabled it using the following instructions from a previous article I quoted:

Disabling Java Applets during Cyber attack on U.S.

So, though I was a computer programmer and programmed in Cobol, Fortran and Basic, things are done more and more differently these days than then. I miss the capacity to easily modify the way software worked in MS DOS for example. As the user has been further and further removed form the process everyone becomes more of a victim of those who know how to program at every level around the world. All users have become victims in one way or another of hackers both employed by companies and illegal ones around the world and this isn't good for anyone and gets worse by the day.

Another thing I miss is when you go up to the line of words at the very top of your laptop or desktop screen is says something like "File" then "Edit" then "View" etc. Well, I miss when I clicked on "View" a further command called "Source" that came up. Because this was how I taught myself "HTML" hypertext markup Language that the internet runs on above whatever operating system you are working with in your computer, Ipad, smartphone etc. When this command existed I first just went into Yahoo and made a copy of the HTML for the opening page and made a copy of that page and tried seeing (just on my own computer to experiment with color and how printing was done). But this has been removed from most operating systems now in computers etc.

Also, in most smartphone because of E911 by Congress you cannot turn off your Geotagging and this is getting people killed and raped by criminals when people post pictures that register where they are taken within 3 feet through Lattitude and Longitude because of Geotagging. Though governments use these co-ordinates to find terrorists and criminals, Criminals and Gangs around the world use these co-ordinates to attack, steal from and kill law abiding citizens around the world. This is the most problematic in smartphones but more and more digital cameras(separate from smartphones) have default Geotagging in them too. So, be careful of that.

Also, it is important to know if you have a cell phone of any kind that it gives your GPS location all the time even when it is turned off. In fact, in many if not most Cell phones it might even stay on (GPS location signal)  for awhile even if the battery was removed through a capacitor or microsmall rechargable battery in the small motherboard or peripheral of the cell phone.

You might rightly ask "Why is this?" Well, first of all in order to even make a cell phone or to receive a cell phone the cell towers have to locate both cell phones and though they do it through your phone numbers, they also do it through GPS location worldwide. So, whenever you make or receive a call, the phone says to (whoever is listening or recording your conversation) (usually a computer server somewhere) "Here I am, I am making a call and will for this long at this location and to this location" (as long as the other phone is a cell phone). So, without the ability of GPS location Cell phone calls just couldn't happen at all worldwide.

And then Big computer programs like "Carnivore" sift through every word and intonation said worldwide searching for criminals and terrorists who they make 'Voice copies' of for the purpose of identifying them whenever they speak on any phone (cell or landline) worldwide.