I'm not in favour of Political Correctness (hey, why do we capitalize this?), and never have been. I despise it with the deepest of my being.

That's not what SWJs are. Besides, if you are insisting on political correctness, and restriction of free speech you'll never find a common ground with me. So, yes, fuck them!

You have a way with words, Barb ;-)

Fuck offended people!

preventing accidental speeding, just as long as it leaves me alone when I'm speeding deliberately.

I run XP Pro in a Xen DomU, which I can access over RDP using a VPN or a SSH tunnel. It is, by far, the most stable XP installation I ever had and I only use it when necessary. Test a website for work from XP? No problem! The oddball software I can't get for Linux? Same thing.

The best part: It is "Gold" as in , I have a perfect installation. Something goes wrong, and I got back to the LVM snapshot where it was pristine. This never happened, but sometimes, instead of uninstalling stuff I need to test, I just rollback any way. It runs wonderfully on one E3-1260L core and 512MB RAM.

This is exactly how Windows XP should be used these days, and it works perfectly fine. XP for Win32 functionality, the rest on Linux.

I pretty much use gandi for all my needs. They do .cn domains. Gandi is probably not the cheapest, but you get quite a lot for your money.

I'll try to make it my last words too.... However, this time, they were not :-D

Yeah, hmmm... Still, I'd rather have it differently. Perhaps, when I'm an old man and in a retirement home, I'll start drinking again... that and slapping the butts of the nurses. Ha!
(Offtopic, fixed the title)

Infringing a patent is not a crime. Sure, the patent holder could bring litigation against you for simply making a patented part, but about all that would accomplish is a court order barring you from making another one, and of course cost them lots of money. So in practice, as far as patents are concerned, yes you can make anything you want for yourself. If you start making money by selling such items, then you may have a problem.

Ah, yes, and "Preview"... Teach them to "Preview" posts too...

The right way is to talk to your kids about these things. Give examples of scams, tell them there is porn, there is violence, and always, always if they feel unsure about something they should talk to you (Mostly for scams, I'm pretty sure they'll handle porn. Hell, even weird porn isn't as bad as seeing ISIS chop someones head off). Software protection is just a crutch, the real protection is education and vigilance.The right way is to talk to your kids about these things. Give examples of scams, tell them there is porn, there is violence, and always, always if they feel unsure about something they should talk to you (Mostly for scams, I'm pretty sure they'll handle porn. Hell, even weird porn isn't as bad as seeing ISIS chop someones head off). Software protection is just a crutch, the real protection is education and vigilance.

If you're talking about the Unix epoch, shouldn't it ve 1970? While I know the 0 of the Unix Epoch, I have no idea what weekday it was.