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Comment Re:Our substitute for meaningful privacy legislati (Score 1) 54

Anyway, I am getting sick of those FA about legislation against big tech, the majority coming from EU. I know I am a little selfish because big tech schemes don't really impact me. I must be dreaming out loud but I think money should be invested in education instead. Educated Internet users would quickly turn down all the big tech schemes and make them useless. I mean, if no data about yourself is there, what data would there be to buy? Educate users instead and make the data about users who don't care available to everybody so there is nothing to buy! But maybe governments think educating users would diminish their power so they rather keep themselves busy making legislation, who knows?

Comment Re:If you don't get caught... (Score 1) 34

Spending $3.5 million of somebody else's money to 'acquire' a million of your own seems to me a perfectly acceptable ROI!

I take the $3.5 million figure with a grain of salt. I suspect it's a little like the amounts they state on drug charges. It probably costed less than $1 million in electricity charges, maybe even less than $500,000. The rest is only what they could have potentially charged at the maximum possible rate to their customers for using their gears.

Comment Re:Dry your eyes (Score 1) 60

Dry your eyes. Windows NT, which is the technology running all the current versions of Windows, is the next-generation, 64-bit VAX/VMS and was heavily influenced, if not created by the same creators of VAX/VMS.

Indeed, and nobody will ever need more than 64 bits!

Comment Re:Likely not even using real floppy anymore (Score 1) 113

Yeah replace that 1998 computer with a newer one that supports hard drives since hard drives weren't available in 1998. What a bunch of non-sense, I bought my first hard drive in ~1985.
From TFS:

The agency noted that its system was installed in 1998, when floppies were still in common use and, er, "computers didn't have hard drives."

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