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Just How Paranoid Are You?
An anonymous reader writes "We all understand the need for security in a corporate environment. Personal computers, however, typically don't have nearly the amount of sensitive information (or it's at least less damaging if found). How far do you go to protect your computer? I recently went overboard on securing my information (at least as secure as Windows XP can be). I have a hardware firewall (GTA GB500), 30 character password, and all remotely personal information stored on a 256bit AES encrypted volume. How far do you go to protect your information against 'Big Brother' or even your family/friends?"
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Patriotiocally as always,
Kilgore Trout, CTO
There are many frowzy shirkers who want to make closed-minded roustabouts out to be something they're not. One -- Dr. James Dobson -- is so conniving, he deserves special mention. To get immediately to the point, if Dobson is going to talk about higher standards, then he needs to live by those higher standards. Anyone with an IQ two points higher than a wet sponge's knows that his myrmidons are brown-nosing witlings (literally!). But, even so, if you're interested in the finagling, double-dealing, chicanery, cheating, cajolery, cunning, rascality, and abject villainy by which he may expose and neutralize his enemies rather than sit at the same table and negotiate before long, then you'll want to consider the following very carefully. You'll especially want to consider that Dobson is entirely gung-ho about mercantalism because he lacks more pressing soapbox issues. If you look soberly and carefully at the evidence all around you, you will indisputably find that power-hungry Huns often take earthworms or similar small animals and impale them on a pin to enjoy watching them twist and writhe as they slowly die. Similarly, Dobson enjoys watching respectable people twist and writhe whenever he threatens to leave us in the lurch. You know, it strikes me that he would have us believe that it's okay to cause pesky subversion to gather momentum on college campuses. Such flummery can be quickly dissipated merely by skimming a few random pages from any book on the subject. Dobson's methods are much subtler now than ever before. Dobson is more adept at hidden mind control and his techniques of social brainwash are much more appealingly streamlined and homogenized.
Might I suggest that he search for a hobby? It seems Dobson has entirely too much time on his hands, given how often he tries to shrink the so-called marketplace of ideas down to convenience-store size. When I'm through with him, he'll think twice before attempting to till the callow side of the antipluralism garden. An ancient Greek once wrote something to the effect of, "He has shown he's not afraid to be contentious." Today, the same dictum applies, just as clearly as when it was first written over two thousand years ago. Dobson's perceptions of a vast conspiracy lead him to inappropriate assessments of even the most innocent interactions with frightful fiends, but given the way things are these days, we must remember that Dobson says that his tracts are all sweetness and light. This is at best wrong. At worst, it is a lie.
In other words, even his horoscope says he's nerdy. Or, to express that sentiment without all of the emotionally charged lingo, he honestly gives me the heebie-jeebies. Now that's a rather crude and simplistic statement, and, in many cases, it may not even be literally true. But there is a sense in which it is generally true, a sense in which it undeniably expresses how classism doesn't work. So why does Dobson cling to it? I once asked Dobson that question -- I am still waiting for an answer. In the meantime, let me point out that this is not the first time I've wanted to lift the fog from Dobson's thinking. But it is the first time I realized that it's easy enough to hate him any day of the week on general principles. But now I'll tell you about some very specific things that he is up to, things that ought to make a real Dobson-hater out of you. First off, I once overheard him say something quite astonishing. Are you strapped in? He said that negativism is the key to world peace. Can you believe that? At least his statement made me realize that in order to convince us that every featherless biped, regardless of intelligence, personal achievement, moral character, sense of responsibility, or sanity, should be given the power to rule with an iron fist, Dobson often turns to the old propagandist tr
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At least it's not "1 2 3 4 5", like on my luggage.
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist" -I guess I should leave then
Most people call the "stuff" "pants" or "underwear".
You give your computer a "reach around"? Now that is what I call thoughtful and considerate. What a swell guy! Your mother sure taught you good manners.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
You need to take a course in logic. You're talking about A => B, where I am arguing about the claim that !A => !B. These are logically distinct claims. Your arguments are irrelevant to the discussion, because we aren't even discussing the same thing.