Traitorware is something that you pay for thinking that it has a specified purpose (e.g. printing) - but it betrays you.

Spyware is something that you didn't have any knowledge of (e.g. 3rd-party cookies on websites)

I agree that the end outcome isn't so different, but maybe how you get there is important sometimes?

Yeah. Remember this? Part of my recovery from the crash (now just over ten years ago) was learning to deal with having a damaged eye. Part of the damage that drunk f-head did to me was to jam my head through the windshield of my car. (This is what happens when huge SUVs hit tiny cars!) While the eye surgeon could save my left eye, they had to remove the lens to do so. So the eye still receives light, but it's all a blur -- literally. My peripheral vision and depth perception have been greatly reduced, though I've regained some depth perception over the past decade simply by living with it. (My life has been very good in the past five or six years, BTW. Not completely ruined by that calamitous night ten years ago.)

I'd like to see "Clash of the Titans," perhaps at the cheap seats, if only so that I can compare it to the 1981 "Clash" and complain about how much better movies were when I was a kid. ;-)

Add together poor color vision, and near sightedness. Plus, being crossed eyed, but that was corrected as a very young age. Today, it's astygmatism and slowly developing cataracts.

I got used to the idea that I can't see things just like other people see them ages ago. The 3-D glasses do nothing for me, and the movies just seem so much nonsense.

Ehhh. If anything, it's good to hear that I'm not all alone.

Now, maybe if they would start working on holographic movies, they could sell more to people like me.

Then again, maybe not. I mean, most of the movies are ass hat stupid to start with, they wouldn't be improved just because I can see them better. Watch that next action thriller with a critical eye. The good guy never takes cover, standing in plain sight of everyone with a weapon, and no one can hit him. The bad guys actually make good use of cover, but the bad guy picks them off by the dozen, using two machine guns ambidextrously. Ass hat stupid, I say.

I don't bother with content filters. Too many false positives, and too easy to get around. I figure the kids (12yo and 17yo) can handle seeing goatse.cx by accident, and if they actually go looking it's its own punishment. I do have their browsers set up to go through a squid proxy, and I periodically review the logs. I have it set up so that they have to ask me to allow them access; a cron job shuts it down again at bedtime.

That's it, really. The threat of their mom finding porno sites in the logs is pretty effective.

Yeah, they could trivially get around the proxy just by changing their settings. I'm really kind of disappointed that neither one has figured it out yet. I'd actually like them to try; they'd at least be learning something about computers.

Google's motto isn't "do no evil", it's "don't BE evil." Big difference, especially since they have, in fact, done evil.

When President Calderon started the "war against drugs", it was not becuase he wanted to stop drug cartels, but because he tought that it would be an easy way to legalize his goverment... today there still there is a lot of people that think his party stole the elections.. So he started without any particular plan ... Now, drug cartels know they are better armed that the mexican army (the probably have four or five more fire power in small and medium size arms), and know the power of money and terror. The truth is that the only way to stop them, is somthing the goverment would not dare to do... supervise the financial system, where the money is cleaned... That money... goes very high in the goverment... and the poilitical parties.. so nobody want it to stop...

You are forgeting something... the important drug market, is not Mexico, but the US.. The local market is just a tiny fraction of the money that come from the US. If you make drugs legal.... the export to the US would still be ilegal... And drug dealers would preffer to stay criminal, before expose their biggest earning to the goverment eyes...

Debian also runs nicely on them - perhaps not ideal for you but an option.

How is it possible to satirize this - did he have his fingers crossed whilst he spoke? We should be told!

$500 to avoid windows is cheap at twice the price.