> Ownership of copyright means you should be able to stop publishing new html

Just because you own the copyright doesn't mean you get to demand that everyone in the world burn the books you sold them.

> enforcing Firefox with Adblock and Noscript

Yup, this. My 65 year old mom was able to put up with the annoyances of Noscript. She told me all the websites she regularly uses and I went through her bookmarks and history and configured Noscript to allow the minimums necessary on the sites that didn't quite work without partial permissions.

I even went so far as to install a local copy of VMware and put a browser in it without noscript (but with adblock), and told her to use it if she was ever "browsing dark corners and stuff she doesn't normally browse, wanted to click on a link in e-mail, or wanted to install something".

The computer within a computer confused her a little bit, don't think she ever did really understood that, but she got used to it and knew how to use it.

I think I was lucky that she'd not been on the internet long nor signed up for anything ever -- she got zero spam. That might be your second biggest viral vector. To counter that, I'd say tell her she's not to look at attachments or click on links in e-mail, even and especially if the e-mail came from friends or family, without forwarding the e-mail to you first.

Yeah, but when they're communicating via e-mail and filing bug reports and writing documentation, they're SKIMPING heavily.

The difference in quality and quantity of written content between people who can touch type and people who can't, is pretty big.

impo touch typing should be a mandatory class in high school these days.

Oh look, another company to whom I've entered into a commercial agreement with that now has a right to my entire browsing history and "public metadata". Super.

> proscribed by neighborhood watch guides.

Yeah and my Mom tells me not to stay out past midnight.

Is it illegal for you to walk around your neighbourhood and talk to people?

Dude, I'm the second Canuck you've run into tonight, and I'm left leaning - and you're the one coming off to me as "off your rocker".

..way back in the 90's for a while it was "a thing" to attach fake "false positive" sentences and words to online posts and e-mails to "gum up" the data collected by echelon. How come American's haven't immediately started that up again? I haven't even heard the idea mentioned. You'd think Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert would think of and be on board with something like that.

They could call it "talk like a terrorist" month.

> Actually, and you are gonna laugh your ass off as it'll probably sound like a sales pitch but

Yes. You've replied to almost every single person saying the exact same thing. Sales pitch. Obviously. Amd is paying you to push the E350. Got it.

> and finally the electric bill will just drop like a stone

I live in a place where 8 months of the year you have to heat your home, and the building I'm in uses electricity, not natural gas or fuel oil. So I'm going to save NOTHING. But it would result in a whole shit ton of electronic waste going to the "recyclers" (India and China where they melt stuff down in open air vats and poison themselves and their towns) and a whole second batch being created in factories (nasty nasty processes and chemicals are involved).

So. Um. NO. Not going to replace equipment just because an AMD salesperson keeps going on and on about how much I'll "save" in power bills.

When you spec the power needed by your E350, what is the power comparison look like when you add the hard drive, LCD, and other common peripherals? Sure cpu to cpu you're going from 80W to 18W, but full system it's going from what, 250W to 200W? 150W to 100W? Who cares. And none of this applies to people running modern 100W GPUs, unless they're NOT playing modern games:

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+HD+6310

All of that being said -- it is entirely valid to point out to people that they do not need to buy bleeding edge CPUs, and that for most business staff an E-350 cpu would be an excellent affordable option.

Disclaimer - I own a C-50 Acer AspireONE netbook and a Phenom 8750 triple core with a GTX 260, and I have NO PLANS to upgrade anything unless my motherboard goes "pop".

And I don't work for AMD. :)

You know that.
I know that.

90% of people who "code" or deal with software -- should not be allowed anywhere near anything that has aspects of security aspects of systems and software.

Good luck trying to find a manager that a) understands that, b) can identify the 10% vs the masses, c) is willing to pay that 10% what they're worth.

Shit, the 50% of managers and "architects" and developers who create unscalable crap are long gone off to their next task before whatever they last created gets to the point of implosion.

> You can create backups of TC containers

If you use a file based container, BEWARE any backup software that first looks at the timestamp of the file to determine if the file should be backed up or refreshed.

Truecrypt does not modify the timestamp of file containers.

Thank God I noticed that before I someday needed to use one of my backups. I would have opened up a "recent backup" to discover that it was in fact very very old.

> Only users who had entity administrator rights

A huge fraction of "users" in that system is an "administrator". You "administer" your company's information. There is afaik no other reason to have a "user account" on the system. An individual user *may* have administrator rights to multiple "corporate entity IDs".

Also this system contains an account for EVERY tiny little company that has ever had at least one contract with a federal agency, or ever dreamed of selling something into a government environment.

> This is very different from a hacker being able to access the information

It is DEAD EASY to create an "entity" and a related "user account" to administer the entity. It would probably take them a week to figure out that something's funny with a new entity, and even then, you'd still have your "administrative level" user account, which they'd leave enabled/on so you can "fix your entity's registration details".

Maybe there should be an independent "emergency neutral / cut fuel" button under a switch flip cover, and that should lead to completely independent systems (that hopefully can be simple enough to be designed to never accidentally fail-on, and even if they do, it's neutral and/or no-fuel, those shouldn't be very dangerous, hell they happen all the time as is..).

> solved an issue within the specified period of time

Are those actually the "resolve the issue" times? Or the "we will acknowledge your ticket and provide a 'first response'", MAYBE have someone show up onsite to begin troubleshooting...

If you look hard, that's probably what it means -- and the "resolve" is left to "reasonable best commercial effort" where they may or may not work on the issue 24/7 (depending).

Might not be relevant to me. :(

There's a huge fraction of Tinnitus sufferers whose Tinnitus is *not* caused by loud music. They can tell because the hearing loss is in the mid-range, whereas loud music loss is at the high and the low ends. In our cases it develops in your 30's to 50's -- with no known cause. They figure it may have more to do with the brain!

My ability to hear things is not actually impaired when they test it. When they test it they can't see a difference between the two ears. But in one ear sounds SOUND different. They sound muffled and/or distorted (despite testing saying that my raw sensitivity is not affected) . If I lie in bed with right side of my head down, the ambient noise "sounds dulled", when I turn my head and put the other side down I can hear all the crisp little bits of the ambient noise. Putting a freshly poured pepsi up to each ear, sounds drastically different between the two. No known cause. The ringing is likely as much a symptom as the dulled sharpness.

The docs say it's clearly related to something to do with modern society, as the incidence rates are rising.

> finding a masterpiece is difficult when we are distracted by a sea of merely pleasant art pieces

I don't think that's quite it either.

In a big city with online dating, everyone is aware that we have unlimitless pool of choices. So of course we look for the "perfect match" and get way more picky (especially women, imho).

But in a small town you KNOW there are only 5 or 10 others who are a) single and b) even remotely near your age and/or interesting to you. So you are much more willing to choose from the limited selection available, because you KNOW that if you don't, you're going to be alone.

Frictionless -- spend forever looking for the perfect match, according to what you think is perfect.

opposite -- you have 10 choices, and a limited amount of time to choose. Fail to choose quick enough and you end up loosing the game of musical chairs.

> Can such a device offer any proof that the resulting image (and in particular screen grabs) have not been tampered with?

I think all evidence submitted into court relies on the testimony of the individual who collected or produced the evidence. Whether or not something can theoretically be faked is less important than how trustworthy the person or persons who produced the evidence is, and the supporting coroberating evidence that backs up the claims of where and how they collected the evidence.

ie: Does he have a vested interest? Or is he a disinterested third party? Latter? Then he likely did not tamper with his video. Did he give the memory chip directly to the police at the scene? Very unlikely he tampered with it. Soon after the incident when he had a chance to burn it to a DVDR? Not likely, not unless someone can testify that he's a photoshop freak and likes lying to police and screwing with people. And again, straight back to the question of "conflict of interest or disinterested third party" and "citizen with a clean record".