Hi. My name is one of the most used medications in the world. Aspirin. I am not a vaccine. Hi. I'm one of the most used medications in the world. Ibuprofen. I'm also not a vaccine. Hi. I'm an entire group of medications that saved countless lives. I'm known as antibiotics. I'm not a vaccine. Hi. I'm any medication in the world that doesn't fall under definition of vaccines. I'm not a vaccine.
Seriously, what is wrong with you to grasp on an obviously incorrect factual idea and defend it like your life depends on it, refusing to understand any reason whatsoever?
No offense, but you started off as suggesting that democracy is "reduction of sovereign control over people" and that South Korea is a functioning democracy rather than a standard "Americanized anti-communist East Asian state built on Japanese model and largely ran by local conglomerates with some surface democracy" - something that most South Koreans would agree with. This would suggest that your experience is perhaps not something one should trust on the issue.
That said, I don't per se suggest that not being able to push your grievances to politicians is a good thing. It's not. I'm suggesting that direct access to politicians and effective near total control exerted by certain corporations with massive amounts of power, effectively slowly transforming Western democracies into a mix of corporatist and fascist state as democratic control declines and corporatist control strenghens. A good example here would be the recent banking crisis and absolutely no meaningful changes taken by politicians in spite of massive political pressure by the people to do so. It's a good example of just how far corporatist control over state has advanced and how far democratic control has declined. This is not an issue unique to any single country - this problem was suffered equally on both sides of the Atlantic which were both hit hard by the crisis in question.
It's also worth noting that I'm not here to polish various talking points on US politics which are designed to distract from the main issue, such as issues with the system of having only two parties. These are irrelevant to topic at hand.
That's nice. Now let's talk about that vast majority of PCs that aren't "mission critical" and that still need to be ran to do whatever it is they do, from low end secretaries and their schedule organization software to office peons messing around with word and excel.
What about them? Do they really need protection that tiny amount of "mission critical" PCs need?
If you answered "yes", you have no clue about IT security.
Vast majority of organisations do not have money in amounts significant enough to impact democratic control over the state. Entities which do are quite rare. As a result, reduction of control doesn't need to be absolute - it merely needs to control the most flagrant abusers.
Yes, it has to drive it at higher resolution, which is the entire damn point. You're burning batteries to do so, and yet get less out of it than what an owned of a 1080p laptop would.
I do understand your knee jerk reaction though. When you're that invested in idea and a brand, anything that points out how you're obviously being suckered is hostile.
I don't think anyone is talking about elimination of power of money. We are talking about reducing it to sustainable and tolerable levels, which it hasn't been on for decades, causing severe crises all over the world.
I'm going to give you a bigger one. Having dirt on members of congress allows for significant degree of political control. It would be downright foolish for NSA not to use its current spying capabilities not to keep politicians currently in power in check.
Is it possible that they are not spying? Sure. Is it likely? Hell no. They'd be utterly stupid not to spy on the leaders, have as much as dirt as possible to have a lot of political power when they need it. That and they also legitimately need to spy on them to ensure that they are not betraying their own country, as these are the people in position of significant power to be able to actually damage national interests if they sell out to another country or hostile interest.
I'd like to remind you that "free" trade is one of the main enemies of democracy. The idea behind free trade is removal of sovereign control, which in democracy means control by the people, and putting it in the hands of large multinationals (i.e. those with large amounts of money).
Severe decline of democratic rule in most Western countries, including US can be traced directly to globalization advancing far enough for this particular negative impact to start hitting Western democracies significantly enough to be felt. It had been demolishing weaker democracies elsewhere for far longer, as those were simply weaker and less resistant to power of money which (often half-forced or bought through corruption) free trade unleashed on them.
If you want to be really "creative" you could ask Linda to talk dirty to you while she switches the filters off, so you can start early. She is working in service industry after all!
Perhaps your SP2 installation broke something? I had a machine that had a broken WAU after attempting to install SP1. Service packs installers have a weird tendency to break strangest things at times.
That's okay. There's a plethora of properly secured XP machines that will continue working just fine after microsoft stops updating. There are ones that run now without any updates even. Unless microsoft breaks these machines in some way with the last update of course.
Nope. Pretty much any XP machine, even with full updates will be rooted within seconds of going onto public ip open to the internet. I've seen it happen. It's silly.
But you can secure a vanilla XP, or any XP machine regardless of its update status with some fairly rudimentary actions to the point where OS updates won't matter in a significant way for machine's security.
Honestly, it's arguable which one is better. Main advantages of 7 are DX11 and properly functional 64-bit OS.
XP on the other hand is significantly faster and comes with much lower hardware requirements both for OS itself and software that it runs. It also comes with functional tree-style start menu, without having to hack it in with classic shell.
7 has a much better indexing service/search though. XP's indexing it pretty dated and it shows.
In real world? If they didn't have their home network in order, they would be the worst intelligence agency in the world by far. So far, nothing shows that CIA is anywhere near that stupid or bad at what it does.
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Hi. My name is one of the most used medications in the world. Aspirin. I am not a vaccine.
Hi. I'm one of the most used medications in the world. Ibuprofen. I'm also not a vaccine.
Hi. I'm an entire group of medications that saved countless lives. I'm known as antibiotics. I'm not a vaccine.
Hi. I'm any medication in the world that doesn't fall under definition of vaccines. I'm not a vaccine.
Seriously, what is wrong with you to grasp on an obviously incorrect factual idea and defend it like your life depends on it, refusing to understand any reason whatsoever?
Considering that is the same thing you'll find in any decent book at your local university library, no.
But I guess those are written by "hobbyists" too.
No offense, but you started off as suggesting that democracy is "reduction of sovereign control over people" and that South Korea is a functioning democracy rather than a standard "Americanized anti-communist East Asian state built on Japanese model and largely ran by local conglomerates with some surface democracy" - something that most South Koreans would agree with. This would suggest that your experience is perhaps not something one should trust on the issue.
That said, I don't per se suggest that not being able to push your grievances to politicians is a good thing. It's not. I'm suggesting that direct access to politicians and effective near total control exerted by certain corporations with massive amounts of power, effectively slowly transforming Western democracies into a mix of corporatist and fascist state as democratic control declines and corporatist control strenghens. A good example here would be the recent banking crisis and absolutely no meaningful changes taken by politicians in spite of massive political pressure by the people to do so. It's a good example of just how far corporatist control over state has advanced and how far democratic control has declined. This is not an issue unique to any single country - this problem was suffered equally on both sides of the Atlantic which were both hit hard by the crisis in question.
It's also worth noting that I'm not here to polish various talking points on US politics which are designed to distract from the main issue, such as issues with the system of having only two parties. These are irrelevant to topic at hand.
Then you do not understand the issue at hand beyond PR bullshit printed by the software companies wanting to sell support/upgrades.
Believe it or not, tape works for kindle too.
They don't call it jesus tape for nothing.
That's nice. Now let's talk about that vast majority of PCs that aren't "mission critical" and that still need to be ran to do whatever it is they do, from low end secretaries and their schedule organization software to office peons messing around with word and excel.
What about them? Do they really need protection that tiny amount of "mission critical" PCs need?
If you answered "yes", you have no clue about IT security.
Vast majority of organisations do not have money in amounts significant enough to impact democratic control over the state. Entities which do are quite rare. As a result, reduction of control doesn't need to be absolute - it merely needs to control the most flagrant abusers.
Yes, it has to drive it at higher resolution, which is the entire damn point. You're burning batteries to do so, and yet get less out of it than what an owned of a 1080p laptop would.
I do understand your knee jerk reaction though. When you're that invested in idea and a brand, anything that points out how you're obviously being suckered is hostile.
I have a better one for you. Masses voted for what their centralized, deregulated and privately owned media told them to vote for.
Re-institute media laws that require properly decentralized media and see the situation slowly change back to far more reasonable voting behavior.
I don't think anyone is talking about elimination of power of money. We are talking about reducing it to sustainable and tolerable levels, which it hasn't been on for decades, causing severe crises all over the world.
Sure. That's why libraries have librarians and various tools for fixing books, such as tape.
Reduction of influence of power of the people on affairs of the state.
I'm going to give you a bigger one. Having dirt on members of congress allows for significant degree of political control. It would be downright foolish for NSA not to use its current spying capabilities not to keep politicians currently in power in check.
Is it possible that they are not spying? Sure. Is it likely? Hell no. They'd be utterly stupid not to spy on the leaders, have as much as dirt as possible to have a lot of political power when they need it. That and they also legitimately need to spy on them to ensure that they are not betraying their own country, as these are the people in position of significant power to be able to actually damage national interests if they sell out to another country or hostile interest.
I'd like to remind you that "free" trade is one of the main enemies of democracy. The idea behind free trade is removal of sovereign control, which in democracy means control by the people, and putting it in the hands of large multinationals (i.e. those with large amounts of money).
Severe decline of democratic rule in most Western countries, including US can be traced directly to globalization advancing far enough for this particular negative impact to start hitting Western democracies significantly enough to be felt. It had been demolishing weaker democracies elsewhere for far longer, as those were simply weaker and less resistant to power of money which (often half-forced or bought through corruption) free trade unleashed on them.
This is UK. You're boned no matter what you say. Pedohunters will rape you regardless of your choice.
If you want to be really "creative" you could ask Linda to talk dirty to you while she switches the filters off, so you can start early. She is working in service industry after all!
And a joystick instead of steering wheel, "because it works well for planes and we plan on making functional hybrid flying cars soon!"
Set your router to bridge rather than route. You're done.
Incidentally, it solves a lot of possible issue with needing open ports and such.
You can run most decent routers as a bridge instead of router if you wish.
Perhaps your SP2 installation broke something? I had a machine that had a broken WAU after attempting to install SP1. Service packs installers have a weird tendency to break strangest things at times.
That's okay. There's a plethora of properly secured XP machines that will continue working just fine after microsoft stops updating. There are ones that run now without any updates even. Unless microsoft breaks these machines in some way with the last update of course.
Nope. Pretty much any XP machine, even with full updates will be rooted within seconds of going onto public ip open to the internet. I've seen it happen. It's silly.
But you can secure a vanilla XP, or any XP machine regardless of its update status with some fairly rudimentary actions to the point where OS updates won't matter in a significant way for machine's security.
Honestly, it's arguable which one is better. Main advantages of 7 are DX11 and properly functional 64-bit OS.
XP on the other hand is significantly faster and comes with much lower hardware requirements both for OS itself and software that it runs. It also comes with functional tree-style start menu, without having to hack it in with classic shell.
7 has a much better indexing service/search though. XP's indexing it pretty dated and it shows.
Sadly classic shell doesn't fix all the problems.
And 8.1 is indeed a faux fix, just designed to give apologists some more talking points. Actual fixes are nonexistent.
Officially and according to laws? Sure.
In real world? If they didn't have their home network in order, they would be the worst intelligence agency in the world by far. So far, nothing shows that CIA is anywhere near that stupid or bad at what it does.