"Diabetics really don’t want others to know they have diabetes," said Valdes, adding that individuals with the condition check their blood-sugar levels approximately 50 times a day.
Bitcoin by definition is a scam. You can't have a scam of a scam.
You've obviously never seen the movie "The Sting."
How many people actually upgrade their copy of Windows that originally came with the machine?
Of those, how many did a legit upgrade?
For most people, the OS that comes with your device is the OS that will be on your device until it goes to the computer equivalent of the Elephant's Graveyard.
More likely those black and white "I Love Lucy" shows with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez. You know, "that Cuban guy"
They required many spies listening in on telephone lines (even though not everyone had a telephone or could use the line exclusively)
That's why it was called a "party line." In Soviet Russia, party line spies on YOU - even after you've hung up.
Well, a couple of decades ago, he was relatively respected. If you said anything against him then, you got flamed - a lot. Today, he's openly mocked, and the mockers are not immediately deluged with attacks - because many who used to support him see he's either obsolete or a kook, or both.
People don't put all that much stock into what he says any more. He's an anachronism, beating a broken drum in an obscure band.
And let's be honest - even Apple has put more open-source software into more people's hands than Stallman ever did. (Oh, that's right - Stallman hates the term "open source.")
Users up/downmodding comments is not censorship. The posts are still there for everyone to read, which is not censorship. The rating gives an idea of what readers think about the comment, which is also free speech - but apparently you would like to censor / regulate that.
"If your opinion of the guy is correct, then his methods will cause fewer people to listen to him and he will thereby undermine his own efforts. This means such a situation would be self-correcting."
And that, to a large extent, is what is happening. There was the reaction against his sexist jokes at conferences, and his totally tactless words about Steve Jobs death, the videos of him eating his foot cheese while giving a talk, and a litany of other behavior that has made him irrelevant in today's world.
A list is only as strong as its weakest link. -- Don Knuth