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Comment Re:What? (Score 2) 289

Who gives a shit about that. I wanted them to be sued for felony - hacking my laptop to prevent windows security updates. Potential RICO charges as well.

Technically it was still their laptop when the software was installed...How was it yours when it was still at the factory having the image slapped onto the hard drive?

Comment Re:At the cost of the tax payer (Score 1) 226

I think we need to move towards a German economic model - stop the corporatism in the US.

The problem is that rich people in this country think we need to move to an Indian model. That's why whenever the US Government wants to hold up a nation as an example of an economic powerhouse, it's not Germany but India that is held up as an example.

I'd think they're moving to the Chinese model where government and business is totally interrelated and intertwined (fascistic).

Comment Re:I'm a big support of IPv6 but... (Score 1) 595

Comcast and CenturyLink are the only two viable players in my area

Yeah, it's your area, not mine. I totally bitch about Comcast on the tv side, but the internet side is pretty kicking:

% ping6 google.com
PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2601:982:zzzz:xxxx::yyy --> 2607:f8b0:4004:80d::200e
16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4004:80d::200e, icmp_seq=0 hlim=53 time=295.256 ms
16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4004:80d::200e, icmp_seq=1 hlim=53 time=32.454 ms
16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4004:80d::200e, icmp_seq=2 hlim=53 time=35.679 ms
16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4004:80d::200e, icmp_seq=3 hlim=53 time=28.495 ms
16 bytes from 2607:f8b0:4004:80d::200e, icmp_seq=4 hlim=53 time=30.069 ms
^C
--- google.com ping6 statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 28.495/84.391/295.256/105.461 ms

Comment Re:Way back when... (Score 1) 167

In 1999, Mandrake was the first distro I ever got installed and running 100%. I've long since abandoned it, but it's a happy memory.

Same here. (Well, x86 linux because I had MkLinux running on a Mac, but that was almost idiot proof.) Getting the sound card going was quite a bitch, iirc. Not quite the "having to fiddle with interrupts and memory ranges" days, but it was close.

Comment Re:Given the high censorship of existing posts... (Score 1) 51

Given that they (Facebook) currently censor many posts, given that they continually force us to view "most popular" (by their arbitrary ranking) ... why should we trust their "news" ?

I wish those that use it ... would find another medium.

Sounds like you should follow your own advice based on the "we."

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