If people that lie for a living are upset about their lies being flagged, that suggests that this is a good idea.

The author is confused. See this discussion on HN where a lawyer or two explain what is actually going on.

Basically, nothing is changing concerning the substantive requirements for a warrant. All that is changing is which judges can issue a warrant after the police have satisfied all the requirements of the Constitution and of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Suppose a crime took place in district X, using a computer in district Y. Before, the police would have to go to a judge in district Y. After the change, they will be able to go to a judge in district X if and only if something like TOR or VPN was used that prevents them from determining Y.

So use it for all websites. Chrome is likely better than whatever you're currently using.

You seem to have internalized wingnut propaganda. There's no equivalent between scientists and propaganda from polluters, but the right-wing sociopaths want you to believe that all beliefs are equal, because that would make your stupid beliefs valuable instead of foolish and absurd.

Not data that contradicts his beliefs, I don't think. I think he's referring to crank denier sites.

When people go crazy, they often think their beliefs are data, but really they're just living in a fantasy world.

Right wing sociopaths have put a lot of effort into creating a false narrative, and so many former-conservatives have been turned into frothing-at-the-mouth wingnuts from internalizing far-right-wing propaganda from hate-radio, wingnut blogs, and Fox "News".

I can't tell if you're joking, or if you're as crazy as Bryan Fischer and other wingnut warming deniers.

I hope you're trolling. The only alternative is that you're incredibly stupid.

Clearly doing this is a good idea, rather than just paranoia, but you shouldn't have to do it. It's insane that Valve is so incompetent with Linux that they'd code something like this. I've never seen a system-wiping bug like this in Windows, where it can happen much more easily.

It seems like Valve does not take Linux support seriously. Windows is inherently less secure than Linux, but I expect that they dedicate enough resources to their Windows version that something like this would never happen.

It can't erase backups. Backups are offline. He imagined that an attached hard drive was backup. It is not.

To stock up for what?

Wealthy people tend to want even more money. I get the feeling that the constant Java updates exist only to trick people into installing the Ask toolbar.

>True, from what I've seen, they actually re-design them regularly so that people can't get used to where the options are.

That's how they got me. I was conditioned to look for the adware/malware checkboxes that used to be displayed even when express installing. Now they've hidden the malware checkboxes in the custom install, so I wound up needing to re-install Windows to clean the system. I used to like CNet, but I'm over that.

>99% of the people bashing the windows 8 interface haven't used it for more than an hour. They go crazy when anything changes

That's complete bullshit, and you know it. The terrible changes in Win 8 were done to try to drive traffic to an app store, and to run on tablets. They actually harm the user-experience on the desktop. This is not people freaking out over change, this is people rejecting a broken UI.

I have to assume that there's something seriously wrong with you, causing you to call people crazy for rejecting an inferior OS. Is the rest of your worldview this screwy?

The last time I used it, I made the mistake of doing an express install, and wound up with at least 5 pieces of malware on my PC. CNet is dead to me.