OK fair point -- I would need physical access to the machine -- but my point remains valid (i.e. passwords are worthless if someone has physical access, unless your sensitive data is encrypted.)
This gets modded +5 -- and yet we wonder why young people have "no respect for their elders"...
This is just the sort of condescension that encourages teenagers to act like idiots.
One of the main reasons I use Linux is that I actually believe in the idea of Free (as in speech) software. Telling people "don't copy that floppy!" really is ridiculous as far as I'm concerned. I want nothing to do with that philosophy.
There is nothing special about Linux itself for me; if Herd or any other GPL OS was practical, I might very well choose it instead. Obviously, a completely Free system is not an option for most of us, but I will take Ubuntu with a few proprietary pieces over Windows any day.
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You need opiates for that.
OK fair point -- I would need physical access to the machine -- but my point remains valid (i.e. passwords are worthless if someone has physical access, unless your sensitive data is encrypted.)
Give me an Ubuntu CD and I'll show you just how useless any password is without encryption...
This gets modded +5 -- and yet we wonder why young people have "no respect for their elders"... This is just the sort of condescension that encourages teenagers to act like idiots.
My 28-yo girlfriend plays it, and so do many of her 20-30-something friends... there are plenty of adults on Neopets...
I can have .xom !
One of the main reasons I use Linux is that I actually believe in the idea of Free (as in speech) software. Telling people "don't copy that floppy!" really is ridiculous as far as I'm concerned. I want nothing to do with that philosophy. There is nothing special about Linux itself for me; if Herd or any other GPL OS was practical, I might very well choose it instead. Obviously, a completely Free system is not an option for most of us, but I will take Ubuntu with a few proprietary pieces over Windows any day.
and "ID" fails at that
Watch them try to argue with that statement...