I'm a pretty IT-savvy guy, but WHAT IS that bloody character?
I understood pretty much everything from the summary. Everything BUT the character:) - Fail. As far as the summary is concerned.
I pledged to pay, and I WILL pay if the service continues to provide me the same synchronization quality.
I tried Firefox Sync, it simply doesn't cut it, limits me to a single browser and is slow, so slow that one hour after I added a set of bookmarks, they still were not synced across machines. XMarks however does that right after a new Bookmark is added.
On the other hand, if they "just started charging" I would have dumped the service based on a probably wrong assumption, and that would have been that they are trying to unnecessarily make money off my back.
I think what they did was the best course of action.
About those people... what, in your opinion, is easier to change: habits, or tools? If you say 'habits'... good luck to you again.
Um, isn't that YOU are trying to do? Change the habit of using Windows? Don't say it's not a habit. Yes, sir, it is.
Clicking on a link out of misinformation or not having common sense is something that can be changed through education. Altering a tool so it becomes 100% foolproof is impossible. Now I don't want to get into the whole "Windows vs Linux" retarded discussion, I've had enough of it:) - but let me point out that there are people who use "susceptible" tools and are fine, and people who use "better" (in your view) tools and manage to mess them up pretty good. Or if not, cry like babies and ask for help whenever they need to, um, I don't know... find a document? If you are willing to go to that length and babysit users all day, well then what can I say:)
Oh and one more thing, I don't think your above post is "troll". It contains an idea (to which I don't agree, hence the conversation) but definitely NOT troll.
Well I was just ironic. I tried to somehow point out that a Mac has its own incontestable advantages whereas on the same note it has big disadvantages. Just like any other product really. If there would be an "omniproduct", Slashdot wouldn't even exist:)
Do I have the impression you propose that people use one OS for their daily work and another OS for Facebook and the like?
Now I might be considered a troll, but why oh why does the average Linux person (see, I can generalize as well!) always try to fix the tool but NOT the user?
Irony apart, the issue with getting "infected" doesn't get solved by switching the Operating System. It might get partially solved or it might help somehow, but it's not a solution. There's no permanent solution, there's just common sense and its lack thereof.
I am a Windows user. I don't get infected with malware. Last time there was a virus on my machine, it came via a "brand new" external hard drive which apparently was used by the company that sold it to me. The antivirus yelled when I opened the folder containing the infected files (my intention was to delete everything in there). Last time my machine was infected by anything else... well, there isn't one.
It's all about being informed and having some common sense. People who don't have the former will still be okay, but they need extra care in checking what they're about to click on. People who don't have the latter... they will likely get infected. Those who don't have either... why on Earth would you assume they would know how to use Linux? Come on:)
Saying Windows is dangerous is like saying a gun is dangerous. A gun ain't dangerous, not unless some moron holds it. Only then things begin to become interesting. Is Windows prone to being infected? Certainly! Is this mainly generated by dumb people who click stupid links? Oh yeah!
Repeat after me: NOT the tool, but the person. NOT the tool, but the person. NOT the tool...
Let me point out the difference:
By gaming, you passively train your brain to do "the same". You get some skill-ups by having fun. Others, who don't play games, can actively train their brains to do the same stuff, but they don't have that much fun in the process.
My girlfriend doesn't play PC Games. At all. She is bright but can't make sense of stuff I immediately understand. E.g. she hated the new phone I bought her; she had and still has problems configuring this and that; she manages to do so but takes her a lot more time than it takes me to do that. It may be a result of me playing puzzle games. Also, orientation in unknown environments (such as finding the route back to a hotel in a foreign city) is more difficult for her than is for me. It may be a result of me playing quite a few dumb FPS games with complex levels. You'd say probably my girlfriend is dumb. But I know she isn't. She lacks certain skills. And maybe if she played games, those skills would have been better.
The comparison is laughable. I have a triple-monitor configuration at work, the number of monitors (virtual or not) is NOT the issue. The issue is not having an equivalent for Task Manager which is always present on the current screen.
Want the equivalent of virtual desktops? Win+Tab in Windows 7.
Popularity has nothing to do with quality. For instance, McDonalds, Taylor Swift, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Um, I have no idea who Taylor Swift is, and I heard of Jay leno. Never watched his shows.
You seem to make a confusion between what's popular in the US and what's globally popular. But I got your idea. However, again you seem to misunderstand the difference between quality that makes you think and quality that makes life easy.
Either you are in the business to make tools for smart, tech-savvy people (see Linux) or you are in the business for the general population (See Microsoft). Depends how do you want to measure success, I guess.
Compare W7 to something like this, Enlightenment wins hands down.
That thing is ugly as hell.
1. Fonts are ugly.
2. Windows title bar text is almost unreadable.
3. Top-left window: has 2 panes instead of tabs.
4. Middle Window: why on Earth would you care what the HDDs full names are? Why would you put the Temp folder as Favorite?
5. All windows: the menu button and the close/maximize/minimze buttons are reversed, compared to Windows. This is a major issue for a Windows user who is interested in switching.
6. The gizmo on the lower right side looks like a patch of some sort and the text on it is barely readable.
7. I don't care about desktops depictions/thumbnails on the left, I only care where my open programs are. A list of open programs (similar to Windows Taskbar) is a lot more helpful then going through 6 desktops in my quest for the "You-Name-It" program that I remember to have had open somewhere.
All of these in just one screenshot. And I looked at it for like 2 minutes.
Tell you what. Get a few screenshots of default desktops that appear right after an OS finishes installing. Say, for Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Ubuntu, RHEL, Slackware, Debian, MacOS X, Solaris, etc., etc
Sure, if you compare mostly server distros to desktop windows you'll see the trend you expect. Throw in stuff like Mint, or Ubuntu Studio, and you'll see different results.
You pick anything you'd like, man, I just threw some random examples.:)
If it looks like Windows but can't run Windows apps, it's just a crappy crippled version of Windows. If it looks different from Windows, then people start getting interested. Showing off the advanced theming and other window manager functions (virtual desktops) is a great way of getting people interested in trying something different.
I bloody hate Virtual Desktops. Why do they even exist? I'm serious... I don't get it. What's their advantage?
Roughly 2% of computer users might agree with you. The others don't.
OK, I just threw in some numbers, but the reality remains: a much larger percentage of people prefer Windows-like Desktop Manager looks over the (wide area of) available Linux Desktop manager(s).
Question is: Why?
If you simply go ahead and say "Because they don't know any better" - then you already lost the war with Windows. For years and years, the Linux community members have assumed that Average Joes are simply mis- and uninformed about the alternative. Not once did they take into consideration that maybe, and I say maybe Windows Desktop manager simply looks better. More polish, better paint, nicer fonts (oh yes, that again!), ease of use, perhaps a mix of all the above, can't really say. But it works. It's something that people got accustomed to, and if you want them to switch, then you need to offer them similar appearance, at least.
Out of all this pile of computer users, a very low percentage are technical enough or interested enough to care about the Linux Window Manager's superiority. Roughly, they don't give a rat's ass on that. They don't want more efficient guts, they want the pretty. And Linux window managers rarely provide "the pretty" - they provide the "not unbearably ugly" interface instead.
Tell you what. Get a few screenshots of default desktops that appear right after an OS finishes installing. Say, for Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Ubuntu, RHEL, Slackware, Debian, MacOS X, Solaris, etc., etc. and make a webpage where people can sort them in order (drag and drop would rule!) from most attractive to least attractive. Ithink we all expect no surprises in what would be on top of the preferences.
Now getting back to your comment, you mentioned usability, speed and features. They are important. To you and a very small community (weighted in size against the mass of regular users). They don't matter AT ALL to anyone else. What matters to them is design. That's exactly why Apple products sell like... well, Apple products:)
I'd say a Windows 7-like interface will only bring advantages to Linux. Maybe convince some undecided people to switch? Maybe convince me to use my now retired secondary desktop for basic tasks (browsing, music, movies) and give my gaming rig a rest every now and then?
Congrats, you have just described how EVE Online works.
I can buy a PLEX (30-day Pilot License EXtension) for real-life money and then selling in-game for in-game currency.
So let's see...
You are a player who doesn't really have enough money or is unwilling to spend them on a monthly subscription, but at the same time you have a lot of spare time. So you make lots of in-game currency (called ISK). I am a guy who can afford to pay the monthly fee but because of my job/real-life lack of free time, I can't afford making lots of ISK; however, I could use the ISK to buy in-game ships, modules and the like, for a better gaming experience. Therefore, I buy the PLEX for real-life money, sell the PLEX to you for ISK.
In the end:
- CCP (the game maker) gets its money;
- You get to play for free (no real-life money spent)
- I get my ships and modules (which I can lose in the blink of an eye if I'm a bad player...)
There are many good things about this whole approach to transactions:
a. PLEX value is not fixed, it varies in-game because it's a market commodity, based on the in-game demand/offer.
b. The stuff you buy for those ISK amounts is all destructible. All of it. (okay, except stations, but if you are crazy enough to buy one with PLEX-ISK, you can still lose it.) It's not like in WoW, where if you die, you still get to keep your gear. Here, it's gone for good.
c. It reduced the ISK farmers to 0. A year ago, when I joined, most of the trading hubs chats were pestered by spamming trial characters flooding you with commercials such as "500M ISK for just 20 USD!" - now they are all gone. It's been months since I saw the last one.
d. It doesn't affect skills, skillpoints or how well you perform. Also, it doesn't affect which ships you can fly. You still need to train for those:)
So IMO, CCP really nicked the goal with this PLEX approach.
This is a stupid idea.
1. PLEX transports are awesomely rare; PLEX transports of THAT size are unique.
2. CCP employees have better things to do than track realtime PLEX transports all over EVE Online. 1 PLEX is less than they make for 1h of work, probably, simply not worth the effort.
But yeah, what would Slashdot do without yet another I-just-have-figured-out-yet-another-plot guy out there?:)
...or d) living in a different country. Romania, in my case. You know, "/." is not limited to US, UK and Australia, fact that is very easy to overlook given the vast majority of news are coming from these three countries:)
One thing I don't understand. TFA says "Meanwhile, filling out surveys for YouGov generates a maximum income of £3 an hour, and you could end up waiting more than a year for your cheque to arrive, because the site only pays out when you reach £50."
50/3 is roughly 17 hours of work. If you're not lazy, you can achieve that in 2 days. Funny thing is: I work in IT, for a very large and known corporation, and I make just under 3 pounds/h.
Unless something is very broken in TFA, then I might be able to earn slightly more from YouGov than my oh-so-mighty corporation.
...And you say Eastern Europe is bad!
Internet: 15 USD a month (yeah, they upped the price, used to be 10 USD a month). 100 Mbit metropolitan speed. 20 Mbit external speed. 41 WebTV channels for free. Also free phone landline (and free unlimited calls within the same network). Granted, there's no extras in it, but I don't watch TV, I don't need any of those dumb TV channels.
Furthermore, I need no extra hardware, just plug the LAN cable in to my router and that's it.
Now regarding moving to other planets, show them to me:)
Life insurance exists so that you can leave something to someone.
I would care what happens to my family after I die, but I would care before I died, and if I do have skeletons in my closet, my family should have known about those firsthand.
Oh and btw, gossiping and making fun or being disgusted by something you find out about a deceased person is disgusting by itself. Leave the dead alone, don't look in the shit. The dude is dead, gone and buried. So should his embarrassing perks be.
Mod parent VERY insightful.
If I die, i don't give a shit how people are going to perceive me if they find my not-that-secret porn collection or whatever they would loathe. Because I'm dead!
What makes the poster ask such a question?
Is it fear that his family will think differently of you post-mortem? Well, my friend, if you have such deep and ugly secrets towards your family, then sorry to say, doesn't sound like a family to me.
Is it fear that society would make you a pariah post-mortem? Whet do you care? Death is forever, the last thing you'll do in your life:)
I dunno, it seems to me that people think too much about how they are be perceived by others. So much that they cease to be themselves and become... masks? Puppets?
The only thing that would make you try and hide some data is if that data is proof of something extremely illegal. So ugly that it'd cast a big and dark shadow over the ones you love. But that, my friend, is a good sign that you should either stop it or better yet, come clean with it and confess.
In the end, we're stuck with a morality problem here.
If you are an 250 pounds man who loves wearing pink stockings, then no need to make sure this stays hidden after you die.
If you raped and killed 12 cheerleaders over the last 10 years, then it'd be best to confess that to the first police officer you encounter.
Either way... they're not going to take you out of the grave and laugh at you / arrest you for anything they might uncover.
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I'm a pretty IT-savvy guy, but WHAT IS that bloody character? :) - Fail. As far as the summary is concerned.
I understood pretty much everything from the summary. Everything BUT the character
I pledged to pay, and I WILL pay if the service continues to provide me the same synchronization quality.
I tried Firefox Sync, it simply doesn't cut it, limits me to a single browser and is slow, so slow that one hour after I added a set of bookmarks, they still were not synced across machines. XMarks however does that right after a new Bookmark is added.
On the other hand, if they "just started charging" I would have dumped the service based on a probably wrong assumption, and that would have been that they are trying to unnecessarily make money off my back.
I think what they did was the best course of action.
Does Awesome Terror count? In this case, I would assume it's both :)
About those people... what, in your opinion, is easier to change: habits, or tools? If you say 'habits'... good luck to you again.
Um, isn't that YOU are trying to do? Change the habit of using Windows? Don't say it's not a habit. Yes, sir, it is. :) - but let me point out that there are people who use "susceptible" tools and are fine, and people who use "better" (in your view) tools and manage to mess them up pretty good. Or if not, cry like babies and ask for help whenever they need to, um, I don't know... find a document? If you are willing to go to that length and babysit users all day, well then what can I say :)
Clicking on a link out of misinformation or not having common sense is something that can be changed through education. Altering a tool so it becomes 100% foolproof is impossible. Now I don't want to get into the whole "Windows vs Linux" retarded discussion, I've had enough of it
Oh and one more thing, I don't think your above post is "troll". It contains an idea (to which I don't agree, hence the conversation) but definitely NOT troll.
Well I was just ironic. I tried to somehow point out that a Mac has its own incontestable advantages whereas on the same note it has big disadvantages. Just like any other product really. If there would be an "omniproduct", Slashdot wouldn't even exist :)
Do I have the impression you propose that people use one OS for their daily work and another OS for Facebook and the like? :)
Now I might be considered a troll, but why oh why does the average Linux person (see, I can generalize as well!) always try to fix the tool but NOT the user?
Irony apart, the issue with getting "infected" doesn't get solved by switching the Operating System. It might get partially solved or it might help somehow, but it's not a solution. There's no permanent solution, there's just common sense and its lack thereof.
I am a Windows user. I don't get infected with malware. Last time there was a virus on my machine, it came via a "brand new" external hard drive which apparently was used by the company that sold it to me. The antivirus yelled when I opened the folder containing the infected files (my intention was to delete everything in there). Last time my machine was infected by anything else... well, there isn't one.
It's all about being informed and having some common sense. People who don't have the former will still be okay, but they need extra care in checking what they're about to click on. People who don't have the latter... they will likely get infected. Those who don't have either... why on Earth would you assume they would know how to use Linux? Come on
Saying Windows is dangerous is like saying a gun is dangerous. A gun ain't dangerous, not unless some moron holds it. Only then things begin to become interesting. Is Windows prone to being infected? Certainly! Is this mainly generated by dumb people who click stupid links? Oh yeah!
Repeat after me: NOT the tool, but the person. NOT the tool, but the person. NOT the tool...
Because neither of those 7 websites that would properly get rendered on your Mac are infected with Malware.
Let me point out the difference:
By gaming, you passively train your brain to do "the same". You get some skill-ups by having fun. Others, who don't play games, can actively train their brains to do the same stuff, but they don't have that much fun in the process.
My girlfriend doesn't play PC Games. At all. She is bright but can't make sense of stuff I immediately understand. E.g. she hated the new phone I bought her; she had and still has problems configuring this and that; she manages to do so but takes her a lot more time than it takes me to do that. It may be a result of me playing puzzle games. Also, orientation in unknown environments (such as finding the route back to a hotel in a foreign city) is more difficult for her than is for me. It may be a result of me playing quite a few dumb FPS games with complex levels. You'd say probably my girlfriend is dumb. But I know she isn't. She lacks certain skills. And maybe if she played games, those skills would have been better.
It might not mean much right now, but it did mean a LOT back when Windows had a (bad) GUI and Linux had no GUI.
Nowadays I suppose we call that 'architecture' or 'engineering'? But it used to be called 'design'.
Nowadays we call them "iPad". They used to be called "Science Fiction".
Times change. You don't keep up, you fall behind.
The comparison is laughable. I have a triple-monitor configuration at work, the number of monitors (virtual or not) is NOT the issue. The issue is not having an equivalent for Task Manager which is always present on the current screen.
Want the equivalent of virtual desktops? Win+Tab in Windows 7.
Popularity has nothing to do with quality. For instance, McDonalds, Taylor Swift, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Um, I have no idea who Taylor Swift is, and I heard of Jay leno. Never watched his shows.
You seem to make a confusion between what's popular in the US and what's globally popular. But I got your idea. However, again you seem to misunderstand the difference between quality that makes you think and quality that makes life easy.
Either you are in the business to make tools for smart, tech-savvy people (see Linux) or you are in the business for the general population (See Microsoft). Depends how do you want to measure success, I guess.
Compare W7 to something like this, Enlightenment wins hands down.
That thing is ugly as hell.
1. Fonts are ugly.
2. Windows title bar text is almost unreadable.
3. Top-left window: has 2 panes instead of tabs.
4. Middle Window: why on Earth would you care what the HDDs full names are? Why would you put the Temp folder as Favorite?
5. All windows: the menu button and the close/maximize/minimze buttons are reversed, compared to Windows. This is a major issue for a Windows user who is interested in switching.
6. The gizmo on the lower right side looks like a patch of some sort and the text on it is barely readable.
7. I don't care about desktops depictions/thumbnails on the left, I only care where my open programs are. A list of open programs (similar to Windows Taskbar) is a lot more helpful then going through 6 desktops in my quest for the "You-Name-It" program that I remember to have had open somewhere.
All of these in just one screenshot. And I looked at it for like 2 minutes.
Tell you what. Get a few screenshots of default desktops that appear right after an OS finishes installing. Say, for Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Ubuntu, RHEL, Slackware, Debian, MacOS X, Solaris, etc., etc
Sure, if you compare mostly server distros to desktop windows you'll see the trend you expect. Throw in stuff like Mint, or Ubuntu Studio, and you'll see different results.
You pick anything you'd like, man, I just threw some random examples. :)
If it looks like Windows but can't run Windows apps, it's just a crappy crippled version of Windows. If it looks different from Windows, then people start getting interested. Showing off the advanced theming and other window manager functions (virtual desktops) is a great way of getting people interested in trying something different.
I bloody hate Virtual Desktops. Why do they even exist? I'm serious... I don't get it. What's their advantage?
Parent ghost-modded "Insightful" by me. :) - the least I can do!
Roughly 2% of computer users might agree with you. The others don't. :)
OK, I just threw in some numbers, but the reality remains: a much larger percentage of people prefer Windows-like Desktop Manager looks over the (wide area of) available Linux Desktop manager(s).
Question is: Why?
If you simply go ahead and say "Because they don't know any better" - then you already lost the war with Windows. For years and years, the Linux community members have assumed that Average Joes are simply mis- and uninformed about the alternative. Not once did they take into consideration that maybe, and I say maybe Windows Desktop manager simply looks better. More polish, better paint, nicer fonts (oh yes, that again!), ease of use, perhaps a mix of all the above, can't really say. But it works. It's something that people got accustomed to, and if you want them to switch, then you need to offer them similar appearance , at least.
Out of all this pile of computer users, a very low percentage are technical enough or interested enough to care about the Linux Window Manager's superiority. Roughly, they don't give a rat's ass on that. They don't want more efficient guts, they want the pretty. And Linux window managers rarely provide "the pretty" - they provide the "not unbearably ugly" interface instead.
Tell you what. Get a few screenshots of default desktops that appear right after an OS finishes installing. Say, for Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Ubuntu, RHEL, Slackware, Debian, MacOS X, Solaris, etc., etc. and make a webpage where people can sort them in order (drag and drop would rule!) from most attractive to least attractive. Ithink we all expect no surprises in what would be on top of the preferences.
Now getting back to your comment, you mentioned usability, speed and features. They are important. To you and a very small community (weighted in size against the mass of regular users). They don't matter AT ALL to anyone else. What matters to them is design. That's exactly why Apple products sell like... well, Apple products
I'd say a Windows 7-like interface will only bring advantages to Linux. Maybe convince some undecided people to switch? Maybe convince me to use my now retired secondary desktop for basic tasks (browsing, music, movies) and give my gaming rig a rest every now and then?
This one isn't! http://nmap.org/favicon/?q=slashdot.org
Congrats, you have just described how EVE Online works.
:)
I can buy a PLEX (30-day Pilot License EXtension) for real-life money and then selling in-game for in-game currency.
So let's see...
You are a player who doesn't really have enough money or is unwilling to spend them on a monthly subscription, but at the same time you have a lot of spare time. So you make lots of in-game currency (called ISK). I am a guy who can afford to pay the monthly fee but because of my job/real-life lack of free time, I can't afford making lots of ISK; however, I could use the ISK to buy in-game ships, modules and the like, for a better gaming experience. Therefore, I buy the PLEX for real-life money, sell the PLEX to you for ISK.
In the end:
- CCP (the game maker) gets its money;
- You get to play for free (no real-life money spent)
- I get my ships and modules (which I can lose in the blink of an eye if I'm a bad player...)
There are many good things about this whole approach to transactions:
a. PLEX value is not fixed, it varies in-game because it's a market commodity, based on the in-game demand/offer. b. The stuff you buy for those ISK amounts is all destructible. All of it. (okay, except stations, but if you are crazy enough to buy one with PLEX-ISK, you can still lose it.) It's not like in WoW, where if you die, you still get to keep your gear. Here, it's gone for good.
c. It reduced the ISK farmers to 0. A year ago, when I joined, most of the trading hubs chats were pestered by spamming trial characters flooding you with commercials such as "500M ISK for just 20 USD!" - now they are all gone. It's been months since I saw the last one.
d. It doesn't affect skills, skillpoints or how well you perform. Also, it doesn't affect which ships you can fly. You still need to train for those
So IMO, CCP really nicked the goal with this PLEX approach.
This is a stupid idea.
:)
1. PLEX transports are awesomely rare; PLEX transports of THAT size are unique.
2. CCP employees have better things to do than track realtime PLEX transports all over EVE Online. 1 PLEX is less than they make for 1h of work, probably, simply not worth the effort.
But yeah, what would Slashdot do without yet another I-just-have-figured-out-yet-another-plot guy out there?
hey, just make sure you weigh in the disadvantages as well :)
...or d) living in a different country. Romania, in my case. You know, "/." is not limited to US, UK and Australia, fact that is very easy to overlook given the vast majority of news are coming from these three countries :)
I read it, but didn't quite get it. I was under the impression they put you in a queue waiting for approvals to start your work.
One thing I don't understand. TFA says "Meanwhile, filling out surveys for YouGov generates a maximum income of £3 an hour, and you could end up waiting more than a year for your cheque to arrive, because the site only pays out when you reach £50."
50/3 is roughly 17 hours of work. If you're not lazy, you can achieve that in 2 days. Funny thing is: I work in IT, for a very large and known corporation, and I make just under 3 pounds/h.
Unless something is very broken in TFA, then I might be able to earn slightly more from YouGov than my oh-so-mighty corporation.
...And you say Eastern Europe is bad! :)
Internet: 15 USD a month (yeah, they upped the price, used to be 10 USD a month). 100 Mbit metropolitan speed. 20 Mbit external speed. 41 WebTV channels for free. Also free phone landline (and free unlimited calls within the same network). Granted, there's no extras in it, but I don't watch TV, I don't need any of those dumb TV channels.
Furthermore, I need no extra hardware, just plug the LAN cable in to my router and that's it.
Now regarding moving to other planets, show them to me
Life insurance exists so that you can leave something to someone.
I would care what happens to my family after I die, but I would care before I died, and if I do have skeletons in my closet, my family should have known about those firsthand.
Oh and btw, gossiping and making fun or being disgusted by something you find out about a deceased person is disgusting by itself. Leave the dead alone, don't look in the shit. The dude is dead, gone and buried. So should his embarrassing perks be.
Mod parent VERY insightful. :)
If I die, i don't give a shit how people are going to perceive me if they find my not-that-secret porn collection or whatever they would loathe. Because I'm dead!
What makes the poster ask such a question?
Is it fear that his family will think differently of you post-mortem? Well, my friend, if you have such deep and ugly secrets towards your family, then sorry to say, doesn't sound like a family to me.
Is it fear that society would make you a pariah post-mortem? Whet do you care? Death is forever, the last thing you'll do in your life
I dunno, it seems to me that people think too much about how they are be perceived by others. So much that they cease to be themselves and become... masks? Puppets?
The only thing that would make you try and hide some data is if that data is proof of something extremely illegal. So ugly that it'd cast a big and dark shadow over the ones you love. But that, my friend, is a good sign that you should either stop it or better yet, come clean with it and confess.
In the end, we're stuck with a morality problem here.
If you are an 250 pounds man who loves wearing pink stockings, then no need to make sure this stays hidden after you die.
If you raped and killed 12 cheerleaders over the last 10 years, then it'd be best to confess that to the first police officer you encounter.
Either way... they're not going to take you out of the grave and laugh at you / arrest you for anything they might uncover.
Well I'm ready to cut off my lifestyle if such situation arises. Are you?