"L'humour noir est la politesse du désespoir"
(something like "Black humour is the courtesy of despair")
My feeling is that those "environmental collapse" bad news are something that you can either deny or giggle at - kind of flight or fight response.
This raw socket access thing has been an ongoing battle for years, with MS initially laughing the idea away and then changing their mind about it http://www.grc.com/dos/intro.htm, but this was done in XP SP2 if I understand well.
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"L'humour noir est la politesse du désespoir" (something like "Black humour is the courtesy of despair") My feeling is that those "environmental collapse" bad news are something that you can either deny or giggle at - kind of flight or fight response.
This raw socket access thing has been an ongoing battle for years, with MS initially laughing the idea away and then changing their mind about it http://www.grc.com/dos/intro.htm, but this was done in XP SP2 if I understand well.