As if geeks don't provide family in-house support for Windows?
Fucking really. I could give you a list of non-family members, but why should I? Your message starts from the false notion that Windows doesn't require support.
How about you have a nice cup of shut-the-fuck-up.
With all the vulnerabilities we've seen with desktop computers, you'd expect there would have been a major virus that would wipe everyone's hard drive. So far, we haven't seen that, though. Why not?
Because there's no money in it and malware writers are no longer the pimply-faced-youth (PFY) looking to just break things.
No, it's organized crime now. Instead of wiping computers, it's about creating armies of botted computers. It's about bot-herding, and renting out botted computers at literally a nickle a piece (for a limited time only!) for various nefarious tasks. Wiping hard disks is just decapitating the sheep instead of shearing them on a regular basis.
And then there are the drive-encryptors/ransomware that for a fee (in bitcoins, naturally) you can get the other half of the RSA key that encrypted your data when you ran "happy99.exe" or browsed a website with the wrong ad network whilst having a flash vulnerability. Police departments have even run afoul of this.
Attacking gas pumps is useless if you just do denial of service or fuck with volumes randomly with no purpose. However, you'd have to be a complete moron to not see that you can extract money from gas pumps if you can compromise them.
Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
I've migrated myself back in 98. I've migrated other people. It's been getting easier to migrate people since Ubuntu Dapper which came out 9 years ago.
I'm going to migrate my wife to it, probably this week. She's fed up with 7, hates 8.x and read about the privacy stuff for 10. As a social activist, she wants no part of the "give everything to the cloud" stupidity.
Speaking of which, after analyzing what passes for a privacy policy for 10, it is completely HIPAA non-compliant. It basically says "we don't guarantee that your data won't leak from our servers, so enjoy your $50K fines and lawsuits." HIPAA covers not only hospitals and doctors, but other health care workers as well, including private contractors that do hospice and elderly care at the huge wage of $15-$17/hr, who simply/cannot afford/ to hire someone to harden their Windows laptops. 10 is a fucking nightmare for HIPAA - unsafe at any speed. Windows is the Corvair of OSes.
Yet still New Hampshire has one of the lowest rates of uninsured drivers at 11%.
I truly believe that this is because of the cost of liability insurance in NH. I moved here from Arlington MA (and previously RI) and insurance rates in RI and MA are quite high. If it's affordable to more people, obviously more will buy it.
It's certainly not because NH drivers are any better than Massholes or "FRIDs" (Friggin' RI Drivers) from what I've seen. Especially around here in Concord. Tailgating seems to be the state contact sport, along with going 40-50 on a residential city street. Keep yer pets indoors. Oh, and the guy with flags and straight pipes on his POS pickup truck: If I ever find you parked on my street, I'm ripping out your valve stems with a Vise-Grip(TM). Jerk.
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Postscript: Pellet stoves and wood-burning stoves are quite popular here in NH for heating. Be sure to tell your insurance company so they can adjust the rate and include it on your fire policy. Because if you're a cheap fuck and don't tell them, and you have a fire, you're SOL. [InsuranceNazi] NO PAYMENT FOR YOU![/InsuranceNazi] (learned this lesson the easy way - home buying seminar).
No he isn't. His line of politics has kept him employed for decades. He's been banging the pan for these issues (universal healthcare, raised minimum wage, education, energy independence, ecology, etc) consistently and it gets traction. Because those are things people want and he's not saying it for show.
He's saying it because it matters.
Unlike Hillary.
>and so far the only candidate I actually want to vote for.
>solar, wind, and other sources of cleaner energy >ending reliance on foreign oil and domestic coal
It's funny how Hillary is repeating things Sanders has been talking about for 40 years. All except for the things that really matter, like bringing back Glass-Steagall.
I vote D most of the time and she can fuck right off.
And no, I won't settle for Hillary because Bernie is "too radical" (all his policies are supported by the majority of people if you ask them) and that if he wins the nomination he might lose to a Republican. No, no he wont. The Republicans have people who appeal to the Idiocracy (seriously listen to Rubio or Cruz, they talk like they know what they're doing, but they're really empty suits) but that only gets them through the Primaries. Against Bernie in a national election, they fail.
Hillary is in such a bind it's hilarious. She's positioned herself as a "centrist" which is far right of what people actually want. She sees what Bernie is saying is getting the crowds to come out and she wants some of that. The funny thing is, she has all this baggage (She's quite the warmonger and Wall Street "woman of the street." which she has to discard in order to do that. It's not going to go away, and the more she tries to appropriate his messages, the more of a hypocrite she looks, and all Bernie has to say is "where were you when I was saying this stuff ten years ago?"
She thinks it's "her turn" and that she should just be anointed, especially if you talk to the Hillary supporters and read between the lines. She thought that in 2008 against Obama, too. She's going to be so disappointed.
Just barely. Your message simply repeats the official line, which in this case is worthless.
This isn't about censorship of violent lyrics
I agree. it's about completely mindless censorship.
Freedom of speech isn't about "speech we like."
There was no incitement to violence. This was the establishment shutting up someone they don't like. Oh sure, they have a "reason" for shutting him up, but then reasons can always be found for anything. Spurious or not, "the man" wants you to know that these reasons are "for your own good" and "for the children."
I have every reason to believe that Romney would have gathered the same group of advisers around him that had encouraged W to go too far and pushed their propagandizing of the Red states to new heights in hopes of dragging a few trillion more dollars out of the American public while turning the odometer over from IRAQ to IRAN, as a popular poster in US military sites so proudly proclaimed
He actually did this. Basically his foreign policy during his campaign was PNAC alumni and FPI members. It wasn't any kind of mistake or coincidence that he titled his foreign policy page "New American Century". This wasn't a dog-whistle. It was a shout with a bullhorn.
Marco Rubio has taken the same slogan. It's not a coincidence either.
Interesting, but nonsense. There is little chance we would have had "boots on the ground" in Tehran
Dan Senor said on Meet The Press that we'd go to war at the behest of Israel if they bothered to ask.
It's one of Bibi's wet dreams. Of course he'd ask.
Did Romney walk it back? No. No he did not. At all. Don't even bother to try to dispute this, it's googleable.
"Perpetual war" driven by business is a load of bull.
Then explain the trillions we pissed away in Iraq and Afghanistan. They went somewhere. Certainly not in the pockets of the Iraquis or you or me. Maj Gen Smedley Butler is laughing at you from beyond the grave.
re: your implication that the rate of equipment replacement is the same in war as it is in peacetime because it will happen "one way or another"
Blatantly, laughably false.
Ok, you're just a loonie. I should have known better than attempt rational discussion with you.
Romney was a tool of W's neocon backers that needed a new stooge.
As a candidate, he even had his web page for foreign policy titled New American Century and hired people like Dan Senor as the foreign policy brain trust.
We would have had boots on the ground in Tehran a month after his inauguration. Because perpetual war is good for (war) business, dontchaknow.
deliberately understate it he may be completely clueless
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Obama has absolutely refused to use the bully pulpit to stand up for principles and what is right.
Because I think he assumes that everyone is dealing in good faith and that somehow giving away the store at the beginning of a debate is good compromising. Or something. I don't know. I don't care anymore.
He's only slightly better than W and not the effin' disaster we would have had with Romney.
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Speaking of which, is there not a single Republican left with any principles at all that aren't straight out of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead and Anton LaVey's COS? Trump seems to have gotten his philosophy from the Three Stooges.
I'm not looking forward to a Hillary presidency but at this rate the Republicans are just going to hand it to her if she doesn't lose to Bernie in the primaries because she took her position for granted.
Why would anybody, in their right mind, get a CS or IT degree if they knew how shitty the environment was?
Microsoft and every other tech company: We want talent, but we don't want to pay for it. Give us more H1-B workers to cut the average salary, please.
Game corps: We slave-drive our workers, because it's better to take young talent and burn them out so they leave before they get too expensive. Which is why we're always re-inventing wheels.
IT: Dealing with really ungrateful idiots every day, all week, all year. The higher-up the chain, the stupider (with tech) they are.
Why would anyone, male or female, bother to get into this?
I would mod you down "stupid" but there isn't a choice for that, so I'll reply.
Saudi Arabia is preparing [telegraph.co.uk] to acquire nuclear weapons
The only reason why this is the case is because Iran was working on nuclear weapons. Because Sunni vs. Shia bullshit is so much fun, innit?
Now Iran has signed a treaty saying they won't. With inspections. Maybe this might cool things down or maybe it won't, but someone has to at least try.
Your attempt to make it look like you know anything about the region has failed. Completely.
1. Linux users - you know, the people who would actually buy a computer with Linux pre-installed - would stay away in droves.
2. There are plenty of other specialty shops that will pre-install Linux that won't install the crapware.
3. EVEN IF some Linux users would buy these machines, the first thing to happen would be a nuke-and-pave (like with Windows machines), or at the very least, degooberification of the machine via a script passed around by a pissed off owner.
4. Knowing this, crapware "publishers" wouldn't pay a company to bundle their shite because it would be a lost-cause.
adblocker extensions, password managers, extensions that prevent video from autoplaying and etc. will not be available
That may as well be "no extensions" for most people, because those are the most useful ones that get installed first with a new browser.
So fuck him, and fuck his browser. And fuck his company. No, really, if he wants to be that user-hostile, he can take his stuff and shove it straight up his own arse.
Slashdot Mirror
Because that's intuitive.
Settings, even "advanced system settings" should be in the control-panel.
It's like Windows is following the Gnome crowd. "Let's hide configurations, because letting the user adjust the workspace to his work is confusing!"
*spit*
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You can also add to that Chromebooks, which have been selling reasonably.
I would agree. Anything that attaches to "the cloud," without indemnification from the cloud vendor when it comes to HIPAA, is a recipe for disaster.
And we all know what Google and Microsoft think about that.
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As if geeks don't provide family in-house support for Windows?
Fucking really. I could give you a list of non-family members, but why should I? Your message starts from the false notion that Windows doesn't require support.
How about you have a nice cup of shut-the-fuck-up.
Asshole.
Foe me, please.
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>Disparaging someone's wife.
Typical NEET douchebag living in his mommy's basement.
Perhaps you should blow me.
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With all the vulnerabilities we've seen with desktop computers, you'd expect there would have been a major virus that would wipe everyone's hard drive. So far, we haven't seen that, though. Why not?
Because there's no money in it and malware writers are no longer the pimply-faced-youth (PFY) looking to just break things.
No, it's organized crime now. Instead of wiping computers, it's about creating armies of botted computers. It's about bot-herding, and renting out botted computers at literally a nickle a piece (for a limited time only!) for various nefarious tasks. Wiping hard disks is just decapitating the sheep instead of shearing them on a regular basis.
And then there are the drive-encryptors/ransomware that for a fee (in bitcoins, naturally) you can get the other half of the RSA key that encrypted your data when you ran "happy99.exe" or browsed a website with the wrong ad network whilst having a flash vulnerability. Police departments have even run afoul of this.
Attacking gas pumps is useless if you just do denial of service or fuck with volumes randomly with no purpose. However, you'd have to be a complete moron to not see that you can extract money from gas pumps if you can compromise them.
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Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
I've migrated myself back in 98. I've migrated other people. It's been getting easier to migrate people since Ubuntu Dapper which came out 9 years ago.
I'm going to migrate my wife to it, probably this week. She's fed up with 7, hates 8.x and read about the privacy stuff for 10. As a social activist, she wants no part of the "give everything to the cloud" stupidity.
Speaking of which, after analyzing what passes for a privacy policy for 10, it is completely HIPAA non-compliant. It basically says "we don't guarantee that your data won't leak from our servers, so enjoy your $50K fines and lawsuits." HIPAA covers not only hospitals and doctors, but other health care workers as well, including private contractors that do hospice and elderly care at the huge wage of $15-$17/hr, who simply /cannot afford/ to hire someone to harden their Windows laptops. 10 is a fucking nightmare for HIPAA - unsafe at any speed. Windows is the Corvair of OSes.
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>rubber band
See Beelzebub's post below yours.
This is exactly the kind of thing the OP was talking about.
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auto-playing dancing monkey
"punch the monkey"
Urgh.
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Yet still New Hampshire has one of the lowest rates of uninsured drivers at 11%.
I truly believe that this is because of the cost of liability insurance in NH. I moved here from Arlington MA (and previously RI) and insurance rates in RI and MA are quite high. If it's affordable to more people, obviously more will buy it.
It's certainly not because NH drivers are any better than Massholes or "FRIDs" (Friggin' RI Drivers) from what I've seen. Especially around here in Concord. Tailgating seems to be the state contact sport, along with going 40-50 on a residential city street. Keep yer pets indoors. Oh, and the guy with flags and straight pipes on his POS pickup truck: If I ever find you parked on my street, I'm ripping out your valve stems with a Vise-Grip(TM). Jerk.
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Postscript: Pellet stoves and wood-burning stoves are quite popular here in NH for heating. Be sure to tell your insurance company so they can adjust the rate and include it on your fire policy. Because if you're a cheap fuck and don't tell them, and you have a fire, you're SOL. [InsuranceNazi] NO PAYMENT FOR YOU![/InsuranceNazi] (learned this lesson the easy way - home buying seminar).
>He's a loonie
No he isn't. His line of politics has kept him employed for decades. He's been banging the pan for these issues (universal healthcare, raised minimum wage, education, energy independence, ecology, etc) consistently and it gets traction. Because those are things people want and he's not saying it for show.
He's saying it because it matters.
Unlike Hillary.
>and so far the only candidate I actually want to vote for.
Then you should vote for him.
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>solar, wind, and other sources of cleaner energy
>ending reliance on foreign oil and domestic coal
It's funny how Hillary is repeating things Sanders has been talking about for 40 years. All except for the things that really matter, like bringing back Glass-Steagall.
I vote D most of the time and she can fuck right off.
And no, I won't settle for Hillary because Bernie is "too radical" (all his policies are supported by the majority of people if you ask them) and that if he wins the nomination he might lose to a Republican. No, no he wont. The Republicans have people who appeal to the Idiocracy (seriously listen to Rubio or Cruz, they talk like they know what they're doing, but they're really empty suits) but that only gets them through the Primaries. Against Bernie in a national election, they fail.
Hillary is in such a bind it's hilarious. She's positioned herself as a "centrist" which is far right of what people actually want. She sees what Bernie is saying is getting the crowds to come out and she wants some of that. The funny thing is, she has all this baggage (She's quite the warmonger and Wall Street "woman of the street." which she has to discard in order to do that. It's not going to go away, and the more she tries to appropriate his messages, the more of a hypocrite she looks, and all Bernie has to say is "where were you when I was saying this stuff ten years ago?"
She thinks it's "her turn" and that she should just be anointed, especially if you talk to the Hillary supporters and read between the lines. She thought that in 2008 against Obama, too. She's going to be so disappointed.
Popcorn. I'm buying a truckload.
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Modded informative
Just barely. Your message simply repeats the official line, which in this case is worthless.
This isn't about censorship of violent lyrics
I agree. it's about completely mindless censorship.
Freedom of speech isn't about "speech we like."
There was no incitement to violence. This was the establishment shutting up someone they don't like. Oh sure, they have a "reason" for shutting him up, but then reasons can always be found for anything. Spurious or not, "the man" wants you to know that these reasons are "for your own good" and "for the children."
Because reasons.
Your cop-sucking is duly noted.
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I have every reason to believe that Romney would have gathered the same group of advisers around him that had encouraged W to go too far and pushed their propagandizing of the Red states to new heights in hopes of dragging a few trillion more dollars out of the American public while turning the odometer over from IRAQ to IRAN, as a popular poster in US military sites so proudly proclaimed
He actually did this. Basically his foreign policy during his campaign was PNAC alumni and FPI members. It wasn't any kind of mistake or coincidence that he titled his foreign policy page "New American Century". This wasn't a dog-whistle. It was a shout with a bullhorn.
Marco Rubio has taken the same slogan. It's not a coincidence either.
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-...
Notice that this isn't MSNBC pointing this out.
What Breitbart doesn't do is fully explain what it means and who it is. They certainly do link to Sourcewatch, but people hardly click through.
American Enterprise Institute -> PNAC ->FPI
They're not going away and their modus is to find a stooge to manipulate. And they've found at least one.
BTW, I just discovered the Library of Congress has archived the PNAC site.
It's never going away or going to be scrubbed. How cool is that?
http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/...
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Interesting, but nonsense. There is little chance we would have had "boots on the ground" in Tehran
Dan Senor said on Meet The Press that we'd go to war at the behest of Israel if they bothered to ask.
It's one of Bibi's wet dreams. Of course he'd ask.
Did Romney walk it back? No. No he did not. At all. Don't even bother to try to dispute this, it's googleable.
"Perpetual war" driven by business is a load of bull.
Then explain the trillions we pissed away in Iraq and Afghanistan. They went somewhere. Certainly not in the pockets of the Iraquis or you or me. Maj Gen Smedley Butler is laughing at you from beyond the grave.
re: your implication that the rate of equipment replacement is the same in war as it is in peacetime because it will happen "one way or another"
Blatantly, laughably false.
Ok, you're just a loonie. I should have known better than attempt rational discussion with you.
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Romney was a tool of W's neocon backers that needed a new stooge.
As a candidate, he even had his web page for foreign policy titled New American Century and hired people like Dan Senor as the foreign policy brain trust.
We would have had boots on the ground in Tehran a month after his inauguration. Because perpetual war is good for (war) business, dontchaknow.
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deliberately understate it
he may be completely clueless
whynotboth.jpg
Obama has absolutely refused to use the bully pulpit to stand up for principles and what is right.
Because I think he assumes that everyone is dealing in good faith and that somehow giving away the store at the beginning of a debate is good compromising. Or something. I don't know. I don't care anymore.
He's only slightly better than W and not the effin' disaster we would have had with Romney.
[rant]
Speaking of which, is there not a single Republican left with any principles at all that aren't straight out of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead and Anton LaVey's COS? Trump seems to have gotten his philosophy from the Three Stooges.
I'm not looking forward to a Hillary presidency but at this rate the Republicans are just going to hand it to her if she doesn't lose to Bernie in the primaries because she took her position for granted.
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Why would anybody, in their right mind, get a CS or IT degree if they knew how shitty the environment was?
Microsoft and every other tech company: We want talent, but we don't want to pay for it. Give us more H1-B workers to cut the average salary, please.
Game corps: We slave-drive our workers, because it's better to take young talent and burn them out so they leave before they get too expensive. Which is why we're always re-inventing wheels.
IT: Dealing with really ungrateful idiots every day, all week, all year. The higher-up the chain, the stupider (with tech) they are.
Why would anyone, male or female, bother to get into this?
Fuck it. Play soccer.
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"C&C"
I always read that as "coffee and cats."
Pawn Storm Group Makes Trend Micro IP Address a Coffee and Cats Server
YMMV.
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It won't work. I don't think you can reasonably claim this will change the actions of the Iranians at all.
Brilliant logic. Then why try to do anything at all that's difficult?
What a dark miserable little world you live in.
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I would mod you down "stupid" but there isn't a choice for that, so I'll reply.
Saudi Arabia is preparing [telegraph.co.uk] to acquire nuclear weapons
The only reason why this is the case is because Iran was working on nuclear weapons. Because Sunni vs. Shia bullshit is so much fun, innit?
Now Iran has signed a treaty saying they won't. With inspections. Maybe this might cool things down or maybe it won't, but someone has to at least try.
Your attempt to make it look like you know anything about the region has failed. Completely.
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>or also on laptops?
Dell will do it, also Acer.
System76 has been doing it for 10 years.
Your local independent dealer will nuke-and-pave a Windows machine to sell a system (well, the good ones anyway).
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Can we please launch Teresa May into the Sun?
David Cameron would be my second choice.
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Because:
1. Linux users - you know, the people who would actually buy a computer with Linux pre-installed - would stay away in droves.
2. There are plenty of other specialty shops that will pre-install Linux that won't install the crapware.
3. EVEN IF some Linux users would buy these machines, the first thing to happen would be a nuke-and-pave (like with Windows machines), or at the very least, degooberification of the machine via a script passed around by a pissed off owner.
4. Knowing this, crapware "publishers" wouldn't pay a company to bundle their shite because it would be a lost-cause.
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Commenting to remove fat-finger-mis-mod.
Hnnnggggg....
He didn't say "no extensions". He said,
That may as well be "no extensions" for most people, because those are the most useful ones that get installed first with a new browser.
So fuck him, and fuck his browser. And fuck his company. No, really, if he wants to be that user-hostile, he can take his stuff and shove it straight up his own arse.
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