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Here is information to request the post be taken down.

The problem is finding out who posted your information. That will take a subpoena to get the information.

I would suggest that you get a post office box for your mail, get an unlisted phone number, delete any Facebook or MySpace account.

Remove yourself from the internet. Also do not use your name as part of your email address.

Comment: sugar (Score 2) 1117

by JustNiz (#40169383) Attached to: Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple

I'm a Brit who emigrated to the US about 10 years ago.
One thing I found very hard to get used to was that the taste of nearly all food in the US is sickeningly sweet. It makes it all taste the same as you can hardly even taste the natural flavor of the food itself.
There's sugar (presumably actually corn syrup) in large quantities in EVERYTHING, even stuff thats meant to be natural or savory like vegetables, nuts or cheese. Most US bread tastes like cake to me, instead of wheaty or nutty like it does back home.
You don't (re)notice until you leave and come back, but trust me the first couple of days of eating any food in the US tastes horrible.
Then your get acclimatized as your taste buds and waistline get assimilated into the Corn Lobby collective's master plan.

Comment: I'd suggest (Score 4, Interesting) 453

by JustNiz (#40156645) Attached to: Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights.

Just by not buying Windows, Microsoft won't see they lost a sale.

Everyone go out and buy a copy of Windows 8, open the box so it can't be resold, then return it for a full refund with the reason that the EULA you can't see until you try to install it was an unacceptable attack on basic civil rights.

This is about the only way Microsoft would get a clear message and see how much its costing them.

Comment: Re:You really are clueless (Score 1) 606

by JustNiz (#40125457) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Not Linux For Security?

>> regular users CAN NOT turn off UAC.

Again, yes they absolutely can. how?: Install windows or even buy a new laptop with windows. First reboot after setup it comes straight up into a desktop, turn UAC off. simple.

Your concept of a distinction between regular user and admin user is understood, but not what people get outside of a corporate environment where an IT dept sets up users accounts, unless they know enough to manually do it themselves.

My usage of the phrase "regular user" means the default account everyone gets on their Windows PC when they buy one.

The notion of windows security is ridiculous as long as Microsoft keep making the default account of a PC have admin rights, as most home users don't know or even care enough to limit their own rights preemptively. They just buy the laptop and for the life of it use whatever desktop comes up when they power it up, and from there, they absolutely can and will turn off UAC.

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