They might not need to be able to set up a VPN, but average people should know what one is and how to use it, and they should have at least a bit of knowledge about the end of net neutrality and how it will affect them.
You don't have to be a mechanic to drive a car, but you should know how to put gas in it and fill up the windshield washer reservoir.
"Another problem with this proposal is that only 0.01% of the population can understand what ZeroTier does..."
Forgive me if I seem judgmental, but isn't it time average Americans grew up and accepted that they are living in a highly technological society, and that being too lazy or too stupid to learn even a little about how it works has consequences?
I swear, sometimes when I hear some idiot proclaim, "I don't know anything about computers" as though it's something to be proud of, I feel like turning their name and address over to a bunch of script kiddies with a great big "Low Hanging Fruit" advisory.
You must be really smart to predict how Tesla's truck is going to fail. No doubt this explains why you're so rich, while Elon Musk is begging for quarters.
I guess you didn't know education is governed by the provinces, not the federal government.
Please do everybody a favour, and keep your mouth shut if you're too lazy and/or too stupid to inform yourself about something so basic concerning how my country is governed.
If Ajit Pai died from a particularly painful and drawn out form of incurable cancer. At least it would provide a tiny bit of evidence that karma really is a thing.
If you're going to make the password required anyway, why bother with this nonsense...so you can gaze longingly at Siri, and have her ask you for your password?
I agree with just about everything you said, except for one word: foreign. If the US government would get off its corrupt, lazy ass and apply serious sanctions to ANY company doing business in the US that used shoddy security, the world would be a better place.
For example, I wonder how many people right on this site have been screwed by Equifax. Does anybody believe that massive leak would have happened if the consequences of that kind of negligence were multi-year prison terms for the entire board of directors and payouts to all the victims?
Firefox is one of my browsers, though not the one I use most often. Updates are turned off, and will stay that way until I have a very clear picture of what I will gain/lose by going to 47. The only reason I still have it is some of the add-ons. If they're disabled...hasta la vista.
I can't argue that my science teachers in public school were anything special, but the ones I had for math and sciences in high school were pretty good.
Is this something that normally happens here...a person willfully misinterprets another's argument, then advances points that have little or nothing to do with what was actually being discussed?
rsilvergun pointed out quite accurately that it is possible to track the chances of US military aggression by watching US "mainstream media". More and more stories intended to gin up anger, hatred and fear in the US population with respect to a prospective target means greater and greater chances that the US will attack.
The record of US news media in such situations is clear and easy to track. For example, in the run-up to the second invasion of Iraq, news and public affairs shows like "Meet the Press", "Face the Nation" and such featured nearly 300 interviews with "experts" who favoured some kind of military action in Iraq. Only three interviews were conducted with people who were unabashedly against any kind of intervention.
I'd be inclined to just drop an appropriately-loaded flash drive or two around sites I was interested in and wait for it to be used where it might do me some good.
For example, there's a 512 GB drive called the "Patriot Supersonic Mega". What ultra-loyal, flag-waving military person could resist a name like that? Presented in a manner screaming "Unopened Original Packaging", I bet sooner or later it would wind up somewhere useful. If not, oh well. I just wasted a hundred bucks on a failed espionage attempt...hardly a huge investment, given the potential up-side.
It would even make sense to have a crate or two of them fall off a truck somewhere to be "discovered" and sold by a lucky serviceman to his buddies.
If by "make peace with Russia" you mean surrender your nation's presidency to Vladimir Putin, then the United States can cross that one off as Mission Accomplished.
God forbid those incompetent, donut-gobbling jack-offs actually have to do some real police work.
Hey, FBI: If you care about the dead people, prosecute the Air Force personnel who apparently didn't think this scumbag's record of abuse warranted a call to the people who might have made it more difficult for him to get a gun. But you don't really care about the dead people, so quit whining about stripping away what little privacy law-abiding citizens have left because you're too lazy and too stupid to do your job without having everything handed to you on a plate.
I don't think you actually remember that at all. Just about all the papers published then predicted warming, with only a few outliers saying we were headed for an ice aga.
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They might not need to be able to set up a VPN, but average people should know what one is and how to use it, and they should have at least a bit of knowledge about the end of net neutrality and how it will affect them.
You don't have to be a mechanic to drive a car, but you should know how to put gas in it and fill up the windshield washer reservoir.
"Another problem with this proposal is that only 0.01% of the population can understand what ZeroTier does..."
Forgive me if I seem judgmental, but isn't it time average Americans grew up and accepted that they are living in a highly technological society, and that being too lazy or too stupid to learn even a little about how it works has consequences?
I swear, sometimes when I hear some idiot proclaim, "I don't know anything about computers" as though it's something to be proud of, I feel like turning their name and address over to a bunch of script kiddies with a great big "Low Hanging Fruit" advisory.
You must be really smart to predict how Tesla's truck is going to fail. No doubt this explains why you're so rich, while Elon Musk is begging for quarters.
Because it actually does. And telecommunications (including the interwebs) actually is a federal responsibility.
Is it true they're planning a biopic of Ajit Pai with the working title, "Scumdog Millionaire"?
I guess you didn't know education is governed by the provinces, not the federal government.
Please do everybody a favour, and keep your mouth shut if you're too lazy and/or too stupid to inform yourself about something so basic concerning how my country is governed.
If Ajit Pai died from a particularly painful and drawn out form of incurable cancer. At least it would provide a tiny bit of evidence that karma really is a thing.
If you're going to make the password required anyway, why bother with this nonsense...so you can gaze longingly at Siri, and have her ask you for your password?
Are you my Daddy?
I agree with just about everything you said, except for one word: foreign. If the US government would get off its corrupt, lazy ass and apply serious sanctions to ANY company doing business in the US that used shoddy security, the world would be a better place.
For example, I wonder how many people right on this site have been screwed by Equifax. Does anybody believe that massive leak would have happened if the consequences of that kind of negligence were multi-year prison terms for the entire board of directors and payouts to all the victims?
You shouldn't be logical around right wing people. They tend to get aggressive and rude.
How could you even suggest such a thing!
http://omgwhut.com/the-amazing-people-of-walmart/25/
Firefox is one of my browsers, though not the one I use most often. Updates are turned off, and will stay that way until I have a very clear picture of what I will gain/lose by going to 47. The only reason I still have it is some of the add-ons. If they're disabled...hasta la vista.
XXXXXL and ass-less chaps.
The horror! The horror!
I believe some do, though they don't necessarily use it to put images on a monitor.
I wish I could disagree with you.
I can't argue that my science teachers in public school were anything special, but the ones I had for math and sciences in high school were pretty good.
Maybe I was just lucky.
Is this something that normally happens here...a person willfully misinterprets another's argument, then advances points that have little or nothing to do with what was actually being discussed?
rsilvergun pointed out quite accurately that it is possible to track the chances of US military aggression by watching US "mainstream media". More and more stories intended to gin up anger, hatred and fear in the US population with respect to a prospective target means greater and greater chances that the US will attack.
The record of US news media in such situations is clear and easy to track. For example, in the run-up to the second invasion of Iraq, news and public affairs shows like "Meet the Press", "Face the Nation" and such featured nearly 300 interviews with "experts" who favoured some kind of military action in Iraq. Only three interviews were conducted with people who were unabashedly against any kind of intervention.
Did you really not know this?
I'd be inclined to just drop an appropriately-loaded flash drive or two around sites I was interested in and wait for it to be used where it might do me some good.
For example, there's a 512 GB drive called the "Patriot Supersonic Mega". What ultra-loyal, flag-waving military person could resist a name like that? Presented in a manner screaming "Unopened Original Packaging", I bet sooner or later it would wind up somewhere useful. If not, oh well. I just wasted a hundred bucks on a failed espionage attempt...hardly a huge investment, given the potential up-side.
It would even make sense to have a crate or two of them fall off a truck somewhere to be "discovered" and sold by a lucky serviceman to his buddies.
If by "make peace with Russia" you mean surrender your nation's presidency to Vladimir Putin, then the United States can cross that one off as Mission Accomplished.
God forbid those incompetent, donut-gobbling jack-offs actually have to do some real police work.
Hey, FBI: If you care about the dead people, prosecute the Air Force personnel who apparently didn't think this scumbag's record of abuse warranted a call to the people who might have made it more difficult for him to get a gun. But you don't really care about the dead people, so quit whining about stripping away what little privacy law-abiding citizens have left because you're too lazy and too stupid to do your job without having everything handed to you on a plate.
I don't think you actually remember that at all. Just about all the papers published then predicted warming, with only a few outliers saying we were headed for an ice aga.