Even if we assume that for every active terrorist there is 100 people supporting them (a high estimate, but not outside the realm of possibility at all), we're still talking about only hundreds of people.

Well, official estimates say that some 1,200+ people have left France to join jihadist groups in Iraq and Syria so I'd say your estimates are quite low in how many support the terrorists ideals, 1,200 people have been so enraptured by the same ideals that they have left their homeland to take up arms in a distant country, how many more must there be that support them but haven't been so moved yet as to actually take physical action? I think the problem is much, much larger than your musing imply, and it's something that needs to be talked about and dealt with. Is every muslim in the west a terrorist? No, of course not. Have the majority of terrorist attacks against the west in the last 2 decades been perpetrated by extremist muslims, yes.

no they were too newfag for 4chan so they went over to cripplechan in order to bitch about their lifetime involuntary celibacy and how they should be allowed to rape because otherwise they will never get any.

Gee, that's kind of harsh.

There is NO software vendor that offers longer support than MS for free, not one. There are only a handful of products that even offer a supported lifetime longer than 10 years which is the MS standard, and of those the longest other than IBM's mainframe OS is 12 years. This isn't about extortion, it's about the realities of the software industry and the inability of companies to profitably support the very longest of long tails.

Just like with the AC unit, the vendor isn't telling you you may no longer use the product, they're merely telling you they will no longer offer support for it, if XP continues to work for you, then that's fine keep running it, but it won't be updated by MS just like the manufacturer will no longer offer warranty extensions or out of warranty repair parts (although for at least 3 more years MS will support 2003 if you sign a custom agreement and pay them high 6 to mid 7 figure annual support contracts). I've seen CNC machines running MSDOS in the early 2000's, many many years after MS stopped supporting the OS, so it's not like the software just dies at the EOS date.

Three.

- the CIA

And by the way, your fly's open.

God dammit.

You know, I wonder about that. I'm not sure the CIA has to infiltrate anywhere to monitor peoples' thoughts in an age when everyone has developed a compulsion to share each and every one of their thoughts with the world. I mean, ISIS has twitter accounts for chrissake. Even Adam Baldwin has a twitter account, so at this point, the bigger problem is not collecting those "thoughts" but turning them into information that can be acted upon and ignoring the trolls and shitposters.

[true story: my favorite old keyboard died the other day. I didn't mention it to anyone, didn't tweet or email about it or put it on facebook. Not a word. Didn't search for new keyboards online or visit any stores that sell keyboards. Just plugged in an old cheapie I had laying about the house. It happened about 8:30am. By noon, I was getting targeted ads for these fancy new mechanical keyboards. Coincidence? Maybe. More likely, the NSA/Google industrial complex has set up mobile Stingray targets to monitor my thoughts. The bastards.]

[here, watch this. Hey CIA, I'm thinking of a number between one and ten. What is it?]

All the pedos and two other toxic groups (mostly all the same people) moved over to 8chan when 4chan was no longer willing to tolerate them.

Can you imagine being too despicable for 4chan? And yet, it happened.

Imagine if you would, you have an air conditioner on top of your building. Costs a million or so dollars. Then you get a call from the company you bought it from telling you you need to buy a new air conditioner. You ask why, and they tell you its at "end of life for support"

Happens all the time, if you can't get a new compressor or control board and there are none available on the secondary market you have to scramble to find a correctly sized replacement and get a crane in to do the swap to the newer unit. We had that happen with our 15 year old building here at our HQ, luckily our roof units were installed in redundant pairs so it was without the mad scramble for a replacement unit, but we had to replace a relatively young AC unit because parts were no longer available from the manufacturer.

We're fairly similar, our counts are 100x 2003 boxes (almost all ready to be retired, only about 20% really have to have projects in the next 6 months to move their functions to new boxes), 304x 2008/2008R2, and 31x 2012/2012R2. Almost all of the 2012 boxes are MS stack functions, most third party vendors either don't have it certified or only on the edition released in the last few months. We actually just started our first LOB app install on 2012R2 yesterday =)

Exactly, dont like the political/religious message so flag it false and less people will see it.

Odds are all political/religious messages are false.

And no, your mileage will NOT vary.

...told WND

I wonder if the article was written by the same WND reporter who broke the story about how soybeans make you gay.

And no, I didn't make that up: http://www.wnd.com/2006/12/392...

It took a few less than intuitive steps, but I was able to disable Google Plus today. I've already had to disable Google Now because Lollipop killed my Nexus 7. It gets a little closer to working condition with every google service I remove.

Also, it turned out that "Tegra Zone" (whatever that is) was also a big resource hog. I know most of you probably knew that, but I never had to think about my Nexus 7's performance until Lollipop came along and destroyed everything I liked about Android.

I see what you did there!

Exactly!

1) Clearly bad passwords will be the most popular. Some people will blow off security and will pick a bad password.
2) There are no data in the article regarding how frequently these passwords are used.
3) There is no representation of what these passwords are protecting. Maybe these are passwords to something harmless like accounts in some children's game. In which case, who cares?