Agreed! I refuse to use anything past Win7. I also have a Linux machine, plus a laptop that boots into a live-CD Linux distro. Local storage, cloud storage(s), and anything important backed up into hard drives I then unplug. Judicious choice of what to use depending on purpose, security bolstered by involving smartphones...and an old dumbphone as well. Can I be hacked? Probably, but the effort and complexity involved makes it non-worthwhile.

Incidentally, it's not KAMHLOS (camel), it's KAMILLOS (thick rope, e.g. for docking a ship). They sound similar, a plausible mistake in transcription when someone reads aloud and scribes write what they hear. Somehow a simple hyperbole turned into surrealism involving the perplexed animal, and got perpetuated through the ages. [Ah, Slashdot doesn't accept Greek letters, I rewrote the two words in Greeklish]

After his recent tweets there will surely be an uptick in sales of "Love me tender" and "Tender is the night".

Didn't Isaac Asimov say somewhere he could grok the differential calculus but integrals?... nope!

...in enhancing Russia's isolation and fast-approaching economic hardship, this one taken by Russia itself. But ex-KGB mob bosses have their pride, you know.

One reason FB has lost me: they degraded the web / browser interface until it became like their simplistic mobile app. I used to login a couple of times a week; now it's like, once every three months. Too bad, Mark. Signed, dissatisfied customer.

...do I bleed?

Even old ones can serve for backup or archiving. I have some that are 30+ years old. Technologically obsolete, sure -- but so what?

Usual text-processing is not sufficient. Suppose someone has Epstein-Barr, and his name is Barr. Globally blanking out his name results in "Epstein-BLANK" ... pretty much revealing his name! Just one of many difficulties.

...is that Sheldon started dating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

khstan. - - - -thx Sacha

Not just Amazon; I wouldn't risk content on any platform: If I post something that I value and would mind losing, I always keep a local copy. If it disappears, I can revive it elsewhere. E.g. Pinterest arbitrarily took down boards of mine; I no longer use Pinterest. Google+ is gone, tumblr I refuse to use...but I've lost nothing, I've moved my content to other sites. (And I still keep the local copies!)

One of my computers had no serial port at all. Checked the motherboard, found 8 pins marked "serial", plugged in a breakout box, fiddled around using "The RS-232 connection" and eventually got the modem to work. Beeping sounds from heaven! Olden days indeed.

I imagine they've already factored in the hit they are about to get and decided they can absorb it.

...or maybe they are just clueless!