So are they .

You stop throwing the 'T' word around at companies/people for doing things like encrypting our handheld devices.

Ahh, but how do we get the Insanely sharp threads to deflect incident energy weapon discharges though?

I'm told I gave permission for things that I in no way gave permission for (consciously) far to often to buy that one.

They'll just add permissions to the shrink wrap license on your smart ignition key (or your XM radio, live maps, emergency service, or some other needed/desirable function). Pesky 'privacy' problem solved!

No, it would be free drones for hackers :-p

Hmmm...

EuCrypt

I have Windows and Mint also. (Primarily windows, though that's a practicality thing for me, not a preference.) - Windows doesn't stay running months on end unless you don't patch. That's not an indictment of Windows, it is just the reality of maintaining a system well in that environment. - Why do people assume that if they don't experience a problem that the person that does is simply wrong/crazy/imagining/stupid. - If you don't run Windows routinely and keep it updated (which sounds like the case in the GP), then when you do boot it, EVERYTHING wants to update* and your experience is horrible until it all completes. Also not an indictment of Windows, just reality. * (unless you convince yourself that you can do it better and smarter than various manufacturers and lock down all automatic updates, which I posit is a bad idea generally for non corporate systems...and particularly those where someone boots into the OS out of protest once in a blue moon...)

I'm from the US and I absolutely bitch about us abandoning the conversion they started to move us to the metric system when I was a kid. Do I think metric, no, but i sure would if we had followed through on that.

How many pints when in one's cups?

So Denzacar, would you say it has a plethora of Barley Grains?

I got the MS Notification on the activity at work.

There were 200 different items of malware being served across 22,037 separate malicious domains. If there are 4 million customers, and 1:1 customers to domains, that is about 180 innocent domains for every one malicious one.

I'm all in favor of shutting down botnets and i can see the results (for a while) in spam volumes hitting us when actions like this are taken, but this much collateral damage seems likely to hinder future efforts.

What do these two truisms have to do with each other?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/... Granted, in retrospect, this looks like it turned into a good marketing move, but going into it, the history of such things would have indicated this was going to be little more than a money pit.

Ours might not survive it...but a new one might come in with a 'bang' ...until the next evolution of monkeys figures out how to do the same thing...