Thought you would like to pass on to your readers this interesting article which shows how to "delete" yourself from the internet.

Some links have been covered here before but there is some good information on how to remove your information from some websites.

Enjoy, Jay

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Indiana is a particularly easy state in which to be a homeschooling family.

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... I like this statute from Alaska:

Alaska Stat. § 14.30.010(b)(12).
If the child “is being educated in the child’s home by a parent or legal guardian,” the child is exempt from compulsory attendance. Under this option, there are no requirements to notify, seek approval, test, file forms, or have any teacher qualifications. The burden is on the state to prove that parents are not teaching their children.

I'm interested because I recall Mr. Luna's advice about putting as much misleading information on the Internet as possible (plus if someone is using MyLife to see what I'm up to, it'd be handy to know).

So--would anyone think using a VPN, something like JonDo, or that Abine mentioned recently might be advisable?

My IP address is shown as being in a region other than mine, and I have an alternate e-mail; perhaps those might be a start to "mis-directing?"

Sorry if this is confusing--and thanks!

T.

Registering our vehicles (currently registered in AZ with NM LLCs with our Alaska ghost address).

Getting driver's licenses

Is Florida still a friendly place for full-time RVers? I was hoping I could just get a 'box' with a mail fowarding place and use that address for the above.

We've been successful implimenting HTBI in Arizona, and would like to do things right in Florida. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

... Unlike Arizona, Florida insists that each LLC have a street address in Florida.

Not everyone with Florida license plates has a Florida driver's license.

One concern is where to register kids for homeschool. Anyone have experience in being registeered in one state, but being in another? I know one could always say they are just traveling with the intentions on returning to the registered state. That's the main reason I have decided to keep the current property. Any foreseeable problems or suggestions?

... That seems a bit confusing. You may wish to keep the DL from another state but register your vehicle in the state where you live. If you use an LLC with your old address, and there is no mail box there, how will you receive the title?

As for home schooling, state laws vary widely. Perhaps some family that uses home schooling can help.

I believe you have answered your own questions.

Like JJ says in Skip College, unless you want to teach or work at an institution that requires a Phd, why would you waste your time and your money? (And you already have your Masters, so you could in fact teach at a small college.)

I have a few advanced degrees and I could have gone on for a Phd, but I'm so glad I didn't! My only regret is that I didn't read How to Be Invisible and Skip College and start my own business sooner!

The time to start your own business is right now or a few years ago!

If you really want 'Dr.' in front of your name, just put it there. I think you'll find that it's not too hard to be smarter and make more money AND be happier than many people that do have Phds. :)

I have a Master's degree in a certain subject and I can honestly say, I have never benefited from it in any financial manner. Perhaps it's the subject I choose.

In fact, I'm over qualified for a lot of things, so it is very tough. I don't regret it, however; I'm proud of my academic accomplishments. I'm considering attending a Ph.D degree and have been accepted but I'm having major doubts on attending.

I really don't like intellectuals all that much or their characters; I really don't like giving up my privacy at all.

I would like to earn the degree--not out of financial reasons--but as a personal accomplishment and a vain desire to have a legitimate "Dr." in front of my name.

On the other hand, the amount of debt I will incur (I'm guessing $20,000 or so), the amount of garbage I will have to put up with, the fact that everything I learn in this subject is a repeat from my undergraduate and graduate days (I have learned more from my personal studies than I have from school), and the amount of work I will have to do, in addition to making a living, the amount of procedures (Ph.d degrees have the worst, most absolute, procedures with the slightest infraction results in termination of the program--bye bye money and time) I will have to follow, and all for what? a degree that is nice but crippling economically, socially, and morally.

JJ, I know your position and in many ways, I commend you. What do you guys think of all this? Am I crazy? Is there anyone else who has experienced this?

Part of me says I'm tired of school, tired of college professors, tired of this subject, and tired of wasting money (and more money) for something that I have to learn over and over again and again. Initially, I wanted to be a college professor with the Ph.D, but having seen what colleges are, and the personalities of professors, I ran from it as far as I could.

I would love to live a quite, private, financially successful (own my own business and be my own boss) life independent of the b.s. status quo.

As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets.

American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents, Joe Reiss, a vice president of marketing at the company told me in an interview. While the biggest buyer of AS&E’s machines over the last seven years has been the Department of Defense operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, Reiss says law enforcement agencies have also deployed the vans to search for vehicle-based bombs in the U.S.

“This product is now the largest selling cargo and vehicle inspection system ever,” says Reiss.

The Z Backscatter Vans, or ZBVs, as the company calls them, bounce a narrow stream of x-rays off and through nearby objects, and read which ones come back. Absorbed rays indicate dense material such as steel. Scattered rays indicate less-dense objects that can include explosives, drugs, or human bodies. That capability makes them powerful tools for security, law enforcement, and border control.

It would also seem to make the vans mobile versions of the same scanning technique that’s riled privacy advocates as it’s been deployed in airports around the country. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is currently suing the DHS to stop airport deployments of the backscatter scanners, which can reveal detailed images of human bodies. (Just how much detail became clear last May, when TSA employee Rolando Negrin was charged with assaulting a coworker who made jokes about the size of Negrin’s genitalia after Negrin received a full-body scan.)

“It’s no surprise that goverments and vendors are very enthusiastic about [the vans],” says Marc Rotenberg, executive director of EPIC. “But from a privacy perspective, it’s one of the most intrusive technologies conceivable.”

AS&E’s Reiss counters privacy critics by pointing out that the ZBV scans don’t capture nearly as much detail of human bodies as their airport counterparts. The company’s marketing materials say that its “primary purpose is to image vehicles and their contents,” and that “the system cannot be used to identify an individual, or the race, sex or age of the person.”

Though Reiss admits that the systems “to a large degree will penetrate clothing,” he points to the lack of features in images of humans like the one shown at right, far less detail than is obtained from the airport scans. “From a privacy standpoint, I’m hard-pressed to see what the concern or objection could be,” he says.

But EPIC’s Rotenberg says that the scans, like those in the airport, potentially violate the fourth amendment. “Without a warrant, the government doesn’t have a right to peer beneath your clothes without probable cause,” he says. Even airport scans are typically used only as a secondary security measure, he points out. “If the scans can only be used in exceptional cases in airports, the idea that they can be used routinely on city streets is a very hard argument to make.”

The TSA’s official policy dictates that full-body scans must be viewed in a separate room from any guards dealing directly with subjects of the scans, and that the scanners won’t save any images. Just what sort of safeguards might be in place for AS&E’s scanning vans isn’t clear, given that the company won’t reveal just which law enforcement agencies, organizations within the DHS, or foreign governments have purchased the equipment. Reiss says AS&E has customers on “all continents except Antarctica.”

Reiss adds that the vans do have the capability of storing images. “Sometimes customers need to save images for evidentiary reasons,” he says. “We do what our customers need.”

I have (3) different businesses (with 3 different Vumber numbers) that I use for getting business from Craigslist. I started using them, as I refused to publish my cell phone number on a public website. Vumber allows me to have as many different numbers as I pay for, and they can all terminate into my private cell phone number.

Additionally, I can "throw away" one of the numbers at any time, and get a new one. This has proven helpful at times when I had a competitor flagging my ads and causing me grief on Craigslist.

There is also Google Voice, HOWEVER, you can only terminate one "live" phone number to your cell phone at a time with their service. Additional Google Voice numbers just end up being voice mail service only.

The Vumber service also has various call blocking features as well.

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