"The risk of being involved in a car accident is probably even much higher than getting robbed the way this person was"
Citation needed including a valid comparison of those activities. In none of the activities you use for comparison is the victim making a specific effort to CHOOSE extreme vulnerability by OFFERING themselves up for potential exploitation.
You IMO are displaying a need to trust people to not exploit particularly tempting opportunities. Look to why you preferred your response.
IME you are quite right. Bubba and LaQueefa run their machines until they stop working, which can be a very long time. They can't afford professional repair rates, so it's either have a local geek reload warez (because they lost the recovery media) or buy a new PC.
There are plenty of legal copies. That has zilch to do with them getting rooted. Most PC users know nothing about security. Not "very little", but "nothing". That will never change.
Most people can't afford to upgrade or don't know how, and are running PCs so old buying a new OS isn't worth it and buying more RAM adds to the expense.
Light Linux distros (can) work fine on older hardware but only geeks can learn more than one OS without their heads exploding. Ya gotta wanna.
Puppy Linux is popular with curious noobs (I use the term in the most friendly way!), but what is most needed is a simple distro designed to play Flash games, surf da intarweb, and watch Youtube. I could load that on my friends "kid PCs" and save having to Ghost them so often.
"I know it was not skilled labor for a fair wage, or every chunk of shit I have bought in the last few years would not have killed itself in embarrassment."
One has nothing to do with the other. You chose to buy expendable consumer goods for good prices and you got what you got.
Those "brown people" have never lived better in Chinese history.
Westerners see anything less than their (current, RECENT) luxury as slavery. China was a smoking ruin within living memory. Warlordism, the Japanese invasion, massive famines, etc aren't ancient history.
We DO make billions of dollars of hard goods. We DON'T need vast amounts of unskilled laborers to do that.
The idea that most of any population should have good jobs is historically absurd. Americans have been so conditioned by the Bubble Economy they forget bubbles burst and take years to be replaced with different bubbles.
I spent the good times preparing for the inevitable bad times. This isn't the last Recession or Depression, so don't dare take security for granted even after things improve.
The rich own the courts and the cops. Unless you are willing to use violence against your enemies, you are screwed.
These conditions are what gave birth to the Mafia in the US. When the masters own the judges and the cops, the only way to redress is through a gang of your own.
The IRA had a fine old custom for dealing with problems. It's called "kneecapping". It's frightful, it's not murder, and the victim will never forget it.
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Cars burn in crashed. I'll bet manufacturers ignore toxic combustion products as will many first responders.
Composites, if we aren't careful, could become the next "asbestos". Asbestos was wonderful stuff, superbly handy, except for the health risks...
Fun fact: Modern aircraft crash recovery often involves spraying fixative (floor wax is one!) on damaged or burnt sections then plastic-wrapping the area to contain friable nasties.
"You can't hack what you're not connected to." Roger that. It wouldn't be difficult to convert to something different. Tell people to shut up and color. It's called "giving orders" and works a treat!
BTW I served through the transition from "no computers in most units-send your documents to the keypunch folks" to "Unix terminals in many units" to "shitload of Windows boxes everywhere". (1981-2007)
Many of us missed the simplicity and speed of entering maintenance data in a terminal. Precise, faster than dropdown menus, and "green text on a black background" was easy to read.
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Ubuntu in recent incarnations is slow on machines without a lot of memory.
Best post in the thread. People who have never been landlords often have no clue.
Because this isn't a technology news site and the idea of "voluntary jeopardy" is delectable.
We can rightly regard the victim as a fool and feel superior.
"The risk of being involved in a car accident is probably even much higher than getting robbed the way this person was"
Citation needed including a valid comparison of those activities. In none of the activities you use for comparison is the victim making a specific effort to CHOOSE extreme vulnerability by OFFERING themselves up for potential exploitation.
You IMO are displaying a need to trust people to not exploit particularly tempting opportunities. Look to why you preferred your response.
"I use lynx. Does this make me a God?"
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your religion.
(Browsing from Lynx, now.)
"might lose your software licenses keeps many people (including myself) from installing Windows 7."
Keyfinders are your friend.
So are VMs. I have XP and 7 running in Virtualbox, and if anything malfunctions I can revert to a Snapshot.
PCs are vital nowadays, and most of the world can't casually shell out 400 bucks.
I can, but I know MANY folks who can't, including people with large families who need multiple PCs for their kids.
IME you are quite right. Bubba and LaQueefa run their machines until they stop working, which can be a very long time. They can't afford professional repair rates, so it's either have a local geek reload warez (because they lost the recovery media) or buy a new PC.
There are plenty of legal copies. That has zilch to do with them getting rooted. Most PC users know nothing about security. Not "very little", but "nothing". That will never change.
Most people can't afford to upgrade or don't know how, and are running PCs so old buying a new OS isn't worth it and buying more RAM adds to the expense.
Light Linux distros (can) work fine on older hardware but only geeks can learn more than one OS without their heads exploding. Ya gotta wanna.
Puppy Linux is popular with curious noobs (I use the term in the most friendly way!), but what is most needed is a simple distro designed to play Flash games, surf da intarweb, and watch Youtube. I could load that on my friends "kid PCs" and save having to Ghost them so often.
Why isn't the whole idea of apartment-sharing an met with instant and total scorn?
Stupidity has consequences.
"I know it was not skilled labor for a fair wage, or every chunk of shit I have bought in the last few years would not have killed itself in embarrassment."
One has nothing to do with the other. You chose to buy expendable consumer goods for good prices and you got what you got.
Those "brown people" have never lived better in Chinese history.
Westerners see anything less than their (current, RECENT) luxury as slavery. China was a smoking ruin within living memory. Warlordism, the Japanese invasion, massive famines, etc aren't ancient history.
The kind and quantity of "radical elements" are not "just like everywhere else". If you object to your "radicals", kill them before they kill you.
"Destroy capitalism"
Capitalist urges are primal and natural, which is why Capitalism or something like it asserts itself even in anarchic conditions.
Users need to be able to back up their own data. If they fail to do so, tough shit.
Those communities can pay for it and have valid uses for it such as telecommuting.
There is little return in providing broadband for the ghetto or trailer park. They already have television.
We DO make billions of dollars of hard goods. We DON'T need vast amounts of unskilled laborers to do that.
The idea that most of any population should have good jobs is historically absurd. Americans have been so conditioned by the Bubble Economy they forget bubbles burst and take years to be replaced with different bubbles.
I spent the good times preparing for the inevitable bad times. This isn't the last Recession or Depression, so don't dare take security for granted even after things improve.
"Of course I realize that's fairly racist and geo-centric,"
It's not racist. Only idiots would perceive it that way.
It IS geocentric, but who gives a fuck? I don't owe ANYONE permission to send me unsolicited email. It's all about me and fuck you, end of story.
You can already flag webmails as Spam. I'd like a "blacklist IP block" option so I never see most of them in the first place.
The rich own the courts and the cops. Unless you are willing to use violence against your enemies, you are screwed.
These conditions are what gave birth to the Mafia in the US. When the masters own the judges and the cops, the only way to redress is through a gang of your own.
The IRA had a fine old custom for dealing with problems. It's called "kneecapping". It's frightful, it's not murder, and the victim will never forget it.
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Sites have always had the option of using one of our server-side APIs, which do not set cookies or use any other means of identification. As of July 2011, sites may also choose to use only traditional cookie-based KISSmetrics tracking, which means that user information would be cleared whenever the consumer cleared their browser cookies.
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That is interesting.
This mess has probably not changed much. It was ongoing in 2007:
http://gcn.com/Articles/1995/09/18/Troubled-AF-systems-are-kept-alive-by-generous-lawmakers.aspx
I hope they make good use of it.
As Pakistan turns into Talibanistan it will become a massive threat to the region.
Cars burn in crashed. I'll bet manufacturers ignore toxic combustion products as will many first responders.
Composites, if we aren't careful, could become the next "asbestos". Asbestos was wonderful stuff, superbly handy, except for the health risks...
Fun fact:
Modern aircraft crash recovery often involves spraying fixative (floor wax is one!) on damaged or burnt sections then plastic-wrapping the area to contain friable nasties.
"You can't hack what you're not connected to."
Roger that. It wouldn't be difficult to convert to something different. Tell people to shut up and color. It's called "giving orders" and works a treat!
BTW I served through the transition from "no computers in most units-send your documents to the keypunch folks" to "Unix terminals in many units" to "shitload of Windows boxes everywhere". (1981-2007)
Many of us missed the simplicity and speed of entering maintenance data in a terminal. Precise, faster than dropdown menus, and "green text on a black background" was easy to read.