Some Windows 10 users have serious problems with Microsoft spying. You can find instructions on how to at least apparently diminish it on the web. On the other hand, when you gotta use Windows you gotta use Windows.
I carry one constantly wherever I'm going somewhere and I don't care if US three-letter agencies know I'm going there. I put information on there that I don't care if the same agencies get.
Get on Putin's bad side and you could find yourself being thrown in jail for (no pun intended) trumped up charges, your company nationalized, and all of your assets seized by the government.
Except that Putin doesn't do that to US citizens in the US. Since I'm a US citizen and resident, I'm not personally worried about what Putin will do to his enemies. (I deplore it, of course, but I don't see that I can do much about it.). Similarly, ISIS is far more evil than typical US criminals, but I'm still more worried about getting mugged by a US citizen with no particular ideology than I am about getting personally harmed by ISIS.
Historically, Stalin was an ally. We needed Nazi Germany taken down, and we needed the Red Army to do it without nukes. Nazi Germany was considerably worse than the Soviet Union, which is why the Nazis had to go while we could live with the Communists.
One significant breakdown was the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Stalin called for the Poles to try to take Warsaw from within while his armies joined up, to keep a faltering offensive moving. When the Germans stopped his forces well short of Warsaw, he apparently preferred people to believe that he deliberately provoked Germany to kill Poles than that the German army could stop him.
News flash: the leaked DNC emails have been old news for almost a year now. Nobody cares, except for Trump lovers who haven't realized that he won the election, or the ones who'd much rather point to other people rather than try to justify what their hero said or did.
There is a potential danger with using the same password for everything: some sites have idiotic administrators. Beware the ones who offer to mail you your password if you forget it, because those bungling idiots are storing it in at least a decrypable form, rather than salting and hashing. If one of those sites has a data leak, the bad guys now know your password for sites that are competently run.
Let's come up with something more verifiable, shall we? Anyone remember the Sony rootkit? The one that messed your computer up if you bought Sony CDs and stuff? How many AV products detected it? I suggest that you trust no AV vendor whose software failed to detect and report it.
What you are saying is that the US government and many US businesses shouldn't use Kaspersky, and I fully agree with that. What I'm saying is that I'm not an agent of the US government and I don't have secret business information on my laptop, so your arguments don't apply to my personal use.
Then your reading comprehension sucks. GP said Russia wasn't his adversary. He didn't say that Russia isn't an adversary of the US, and he didn't say that Russia wouldn't be his adversary if he moved to Russia.
If he moved to Russia, then the Russian government would be taking his tax money to do what he considers evil things. Since he lives in the US, the US government is taking his tax money to do what he considers evil things. Therefore, Russia is not his personal adversary as long as he lives in the US.
This isn't an endorsement of what Russia does to Russian citizens and residents, which is considerably worse than what the US does to US citizens and residents. Similarly, if I say I'm in more danger from muggers than from ISIS, it isn't because I think ISIS is harmless; it's because ISIS is distant and there are muggers in my city.
Only trust AV software companies whose software detected and reported the Sony rootkit. That's my advice. All the others have shown the willingness to betray their customers that actually pay them money for protection.
I take it that you trust the Russians and the FSB/KGB much more than you trust anyone in the USA?
Trust is a many-faceted thing. What we're asking, really, is if we evaluate the risk that Russia and the FSB are spying on us as greater than the risk of US agencies spying on us. For a lot of people, the answer is obvious: don't use Kaspersky.
For others, it's a more complicated situation. I happen to hold opinions strongly opposed to the current US administration, and that administration doesn't seem to care about privacy and seems to be vindictive. Putin and the FSB, on the other hand, have no obvious reason to hassle me. I could be wrong about this, but using Kaspersky seems safer to me than using US-based antivirus software.
In any case, uninstalling Kaspersky is probably useless. It's got hooks deep into your system. If it's designed as spyware, uninstalling it is not going to eliminate the spyware. The only safe way is to get a new computer and not install Kaspersky.
Hey, you're the one who compared Myers-Briggs to sun signs. I'm pointing out that a full 25% of the Myers-Briggs score is normally considered useful, and telling you I'm a definite I on the first letter tells you more about me than an astrologer could tell you accurately given my time, date, and place of birth. And, yes, most people can tell on their own whether they're extroverted or introverted, but it's still a significant piece of knowledge about someone's personality.
IQ tests aren't designed arbitrarily. They're designed to measure the best approximation to intelligence they can. We find that high IQ people tend to be unusually intelligent, and low IQ people tend to be not very intelligent. There's lots of things they don't measure, but what they do measure is significant.
What strikes me is people talking about Bitcoins being useful to send money to people in other countries.
Suppose I want to send a thousand dollars in euros to someone in Germany. I can have my bank send it to the German's bank. Alternatively, I can buy $1K worth of Bitcoin, transfer it to the German, and the German then converts the Bitcoin into euros. Considering that the first is just sending some information around, and the second requires three transactions deliberately designed to take serious computation and two currency conversions instead of one, it would seem that banks can transfer money internationally easier than Bitcoin users.
There are even lawsuits from Monsanto [cbsnews.com] extracting money from farmers that have patented GMO crops surreptitiously growing on their land. The farmer never paid for GMO seeds, didn't want GMO crops, but the genes found their way into their field anyway, so now these farmers are "infringing" upon Monsanto's GMO patents.
I'm always ready to believe something bad about Monsanto, but I couldn't find cases like this when I looked. There were a few cases where the farmers were definitely trying to cultivate the seeds without a blessing from Monsanto, but that's what patents are about.
We see IQ as it's ultimate and final metric for whatever, ignoring dozen other things that are equally important but we have no way of measuring them
Who's "We"? I don't know anyone who thinks IQ is the ultimate measurement. It's the best we've got.
There's also differences between believing something that is false, believing something that cannot be proven false, and believing something based on subjective evidence. Don't be too sure that people who believe in God are necessarily wrong and deluded. Save that for people who don't believe in evolution or think the Universe is about 6K years old.
IQ tests measure IQ fairly repeatably, meaning that IQ tests measure something real. It correlates with what most people would call intelligence, although "intelligence" is pretty ill-defined. Clearly, what determines IQ doesn't completely determine intelligence, but it does have the advantage of being objectively measurable. If you can't get grant money for flashlights you have to look for results under the street lights.
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Some Windows 10 users have serious problems with Microsoft spying. You can find instructions on how to at least apparently diminish it on the web. On the other hand, when you gotta use Windows you gotta use Windows.
I carry one constantly wherever I'm going somewhere and I don't care if US three-letter agencies know I'm going there. I put information on there that I don't care if the same agencies get.
Except that Putin doesn't do that to US citizens in the US. Since I'm a US citizen and resident, I'm not personally worried about what Putin will do to his enemies. (I deplore it, of course, but I don't see that I can do much about it.). Similarly, ISIS is far more evil than typical US criminals, but I'm still more worried about getting mugged by a US citizen with no particular ideology than I am about getting personally harmed by ISIS.
Historically, Stalin was an ally. We needed Nazi Germany taken down, and we needed the Red Army to do it without nukes. Nazi Germany was considerably worse than the Soviet Union, which is why the Nazis had to go while we could live with the Communists.
One significant breakdown was the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Stalin called for the Poles to try to take Warsaw from within while his armies joined up, to keep a faltering offensive moving. When the Germans stopped his forces well short of Warsaw, he apparently preferred people to believe that he deliberately provoked Germany to kill Poles than that the German army could stop him.
News flash: the leaked DNC emails have been old news for almost a year now. Nobody cares, except for Trump lovers who haven't realized that he won the election, or the ones who'd much rather point to other people rather than try to justify what their hero said or did.
There is a potential danger with using the same password for everything: some sites have idiotic administrators. Beware the ones who offer to mail you your password if you forget it, because those bungling idiots are storing it in at least a decrypable form, rather than salting and hashing. If one of those sites has a data leak, the bad guys now know your password for sites that are competently run.
Let's come up with something more verifiable, shall we? Anyone remember the Sony rootkit? The one that messed your computer up if you bought Sony CDs and stuff? How many AV products detected it? I suggest that you trust no AV vendor whose software failed to detect and report it.
What you are saying is that the US government and many US businesses shouldn't use Kaspersky, and I fully agree with that. What I'm saying is that I'm not an agent of the US government and I don't have secret business information on my laptop, so your arguments don't apply to my personal use.
Then your reading comprehension sucks. GP said Russia wasn't his adversary. He didn't say that Russia isn't an adversary of the US, and he didn't say that Russia wouldn't be his adversary if he moved to Russia.
If he moved to Russia, then the Russian government would be taking his tax money to do what he considers evil things. Since he lives in the US, the US government is taking his tax money to do what he considers evil things. Therefore, Russia is not his personal adversary as long as he lives in the US.
This isn't an endorsement of what Russia does to Russian citizens and residents, which is considerably worse than what the US does to US citizens and residents. Similarly, if I say I'm in more danger from muggers than from ISIS, it isn't because I think ISIS is harmless; it's because ISIS is distant and there are muggers in my city.
Only trust AV software companies whose software detected and reported the Sony rootkit. That's my advice. All the others have shown the willingness to betray their customers that actually pay them money for protection.
Trust is a many-faceted thing. What we're asking, really, is if we evaluate the risk that Russia and the FSB are spying on us as greater than the risk of US agencies spying on us. For a lot of people, the answer is obvious: don't use Kaspersky.
For others, it's a more complicated situation. I happen to hold opinions strongly opposed to the current US administration, and that administration doesn't seem to care about privacy and seems to be vindictive. Putin and the FSB, on the other hand, have no obvious reason to hassle me. I could be wrong about this, but using Kaspersky seems safer to me than using US-based antivirus software.
In any case, uninstalling Kaspersky is probably useless. It's got hooks deep into your system. If it's designed as spyware, uninstalling it is not going to eliminate the spyware. The only safe way is to get a new computer and not install Kaspersky.
Hey, you're the one who compared Myers-Briggs to sun signs. I'm pointing out that a full 25% of the Myers-Briggs score is normally considered useful, and telling you I'm a definite I on the first letter tells you more about me than an astrologer could tell you accurately given my time, date, and place of birth. And, yes, most people can tell on their own whether they're extroverted or introverted, but it's still a significant piece of knowledge about someone's personality.
IQ tests aren't designed arbitrarily. They're designed to measure the best approximation to intelligence they can. We find that high IQ people tend to be unusually intelligent, and low IQ people tend to be not very intelligent. There's lots of things they don't measure, but what they do measure is significant.
Here's a simple suggestion: look up when Obama was inaugurated before blaming anything in 2008 on him.
What strikes me is people talking about Bitcoins being useful to send money to people in other countries.
Suppose I want to send a thousand dollars in euros to someone in Germany. I can have my bank send it to the German's bank. Alternatively, I can buy $1K worth of Bitcoin, transfer it to the German, and the German then converts the Bitcoin into euros. Considering that the first is just sending some information around, and the second requires three transactions deliberately designed to take serious computation and two currency conversions instead of one, it would seem that banks can transfer money internationally easier than Bitcoin users.
I'm always ready to believe something bad about Monsanto, but I couldn't find cases like this when I looked. There were a few cases where the farmers were definitely trying to cultivate the seeds without a blessing from Monsanto, but that's what patents are about.
Who's "We"? I don't know anyone who thinks IQ is the ultimate measurement. It's the best we've got.
There's also differences between believing something that is false, believing something that cannot be proven false, and believing something based on subjective evidence. Don't be too sure that people who believe in God are necessarily wrong and deluded. Save that for people who don't believe in evolution or think the Universe is about 6K years old.
Learning at the Tibetan meditation and yoga center near my house made me more perceptive, not less.
To be honest, your year with cancer sounds more pleasant than my experience with depression, of only in that it ended a lot sooner.
IQ tests measure IQ fairly repeatably, meaning that IQ tests measure something real. It correlates with what most people would call intelligence, although "intelligence" is pretty ill-defined. Clearly, what determines IQ doesn't completely determine intelligence, but it does have the advantage of being objectively measurable. If you can't get grant money for flashlights you have to look for results under the street lights.
Perhaps intelligence is genetically delicate, and evolution hasn't gotten it quite right yet?
You have accurately described the first two MENSA members I met.
They're not deficient in intelligence. They're deficient in wisdom. That's the stat right below INT, and is rolled separately.
Psychologists have told me I have depression and ASD, and I think they're right, so do they then tell me I don't have these?