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Comment There's no energy crisis (Score 1) 517

"There is no energy crisis because I can generate my own"

Right-wing, radical freedom and independence, states rights, end-of-the-world survavalists should be embracing generation of their own energy, if they are serious about independence from corporations, monopolies, etc. It's nearly impossible to create your own gas, but electricity is comparatively easy to generate.

The military is quite right-wing, but they are just practical when it comes to generating power.

https://www.google.com.br/search?q=solar+wind+power+site%3A.mil

Comment Yes, facts are manipulated. (Score 1) 517

Yes, facts and opinion can be manipulated. Nothing new. For example, auto, coal, and oil companies can create disinformation campaigns about traffic, pollution, accidents, and global warming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil#Funding_of_global_warming_disinformation_and_denial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_the_Koch_brothers#Fossil_fuel_and_chemical_industry_lobbying

Comment Zombie response (Score 1) 381

Yes sir. We are currently analyzing intelligence to narrow down possible locations for "the middle of Nebraska". First waves of attack with fake dummy zombies to consume ammunition. Please do not hit your head too much as we plan to "analyze" it to extract passwords, one bite at a time, starting at the toes.

Sir, your password recovery procedure is running according to plan and on schedule, sir, any other instructions?

Comment Resetting passwords not that easy. (Score 1) 381

I bought a used manageable switch with no password. I had to find the documentation, specs, build its proprietary serial cable, access the console, only then did I find the funky odd way to reset its passwords.

Quite a few passwords are not for windows, and require a lot of additional work to reset. All those simple routers on the market are very widely used. They don't reset the router access password, they reset the entire router. The SSID, WPA/wifi password, dhcp, all configurations, messing up the network.

The time required to reset all the passwords is precious time lost and creates additional problems. By now you are being called messy and irresponsible all over the place. The responsible thing is to find a good and secure way to store, document, and transmit the passwords when needed. Then reset them and re-document them. Which is a pain.

Comment Re:"frozen" configurations (Score 1) 408

That's what I have. Pretty much every cybercafe has deep freeze. It works perfectly, uses basically no ram, there is no slowdown. Turned off all autoupdates, removed the antivirus. Box never changes anything, boots the same every time. Occasionally I disable it and update all the stuff, but it generally runs somewhat outdated versions. There will be crap infecting sometimes, but only until you reboot.

Comment "frozen" configurations (Score 5, Informative) 408

Freeze all system changes except saving into the the documents folder. There are a number of programs to do it, seems the most popular is Deep Freeze. It allows all system changes, but after reboot it is all gone. Some tweaking will allow making a few things persistent, such as the documents.

http://alternativeto.net/software/deep-freeze/

Comment It's their own fault. (Score 1) 453

It's their own fault if Dell, HP, and friends created a business plan that depends on the entire population tossing out their computer within 24 months, and that no longer happens. They should have made better products rather than relying on Microsoft to make their previous models become slow in a short time.

Enough of this nonsense about planned obsolescence and waste being needed to "create jobs" or "help the economy". That's code for making people waste their money and resources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

Comment It is OK. They can print more money. (Score 1, Insightful) 425

The government can just print more money. Then those dollars go sit in some foreign bank account, so it doesn't affect inflation immediately. Then some electronic currencies appear, make national currencies worthless, and the whole financial world explodes. Then we go back to creating local neighborhood markets, planting food in the backyard, and trading based on barter because no money of any kind is trusted by anyone.

Comment Re:Stop stimulus for producing waste (Score 1) 273

Agreed, it's better if people try to be independent and do things rather than complain about the government, corporations, and whatever else there is to complain of. Everyone can form a group of people to generate their own power, setup their own internet local subnet, produce some of their own things, run their own small shared transportation, etc.

Comment Stop stimulus for producing waste (Score 1) 273

has anyone found another possible _deposit_ location for all the rubbish and toxic waste we're producing?.

A huge amount of products and processes are just waste.

Economics, politics, etc try to stimulate, encourage, reward the production of more. More of whatever. Generally, more waste. In my view, we need to address this waste-stimulation.

As it is, generating waste is directly linked to generating product, profit, jobs, and taxes. That link needs to stop.

Comment Give technology a chance to grow (Score 1) 345

Nuclear will work. There are several options though. But technology will be created to meet whatever challenge is imposed. If all coal and oil disappeared, there would be technologies to replace it all in a heartbeat. It would require rebuilding huge amounts of infrastructure, generating tons of jobs. There are already lots of options, even if someone wanted to generate all their own energy, it is actually possible for lots of folks.

The only reason we use so much oil and coal is because their lobby/marketing/PR gets their way. Every option that comes forward gets attacked in lots of ways.

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