There's a growing problem with baby boomers who just want to kill somebody and they're old so they decide what the hell I'm going to shoot a random person on my property and see if I get away with it and if I don't who cares if I die in prison I'm only going to be alive for a few more years.
ROFLMAO...got any more shit you like to make up? No wonder you posted as Anonymous Coward.
2) Upgrade your MS-Windows OS, (if that is even possible on such old hardware)
I've got Windows 10 running on my wife's 2006 Thinkpad T60 with a Core 2 Duo CPU. Upgraded the RAM to 16GB and put in a 2.5" SSD. It boots to a usable desktop in 30 seconds tops. Other than video playback on Youtube being a bit shit above 720p due to using Intel onboard graphics it does everything just fine for typical web browsing, listening to Spotify, editing documents and she even runs an old version of Photoshop and Coreldraw on it too for making signs as she's a signwriter.
Only blue-haired wokescolds use Bluesky, so no, there are no Mississippi users.
IBM poured a ton of money into Linux as did Red Hat and various others. We're happy to let foreigners lead and thrive.
They also poured money into Lennart Poettering which cancels out Linus on the scoreboard.
Where do politicians get the idea that they can order companies to put in back doors on encryption?
The fact that they make the laws in the country that they govern. They absolutely have the power to bring in legislation to order companies to put backdoors in their encryption in that nation if that company wants to continue to do business there. The company is then left with two choices, comply or stop doing business there. And in the 6th richest nation in the world where Apple has ~50% market share with revenues of almost $2Bn Apple chose to comply rather than stop doing business there.
So they can still access UK citizens data?
Is the question about how the DNI isn't protecting UK rights when she should? I don't see how Gabbard could demand anything of the UK government beyond her job description of protecting national intelligence. She could ask nicely but it would not likely carry any more weight than most any other citizen of the USA. She could perhaps give her counterparts in the UK a history lesson on what happens when governments go too far on demanding access to "persons, houses, papers, and effects" of their citizens, but that is also likely beyond her job description.
As a Brit I don't expect a foreign government to do anything to protect my rights beyond, as you say, making a suggestion. That's up to us to do ourselves. And believe me the way things currently are on the political front in the UK we've more than already started. The current government is doing a good job of ensuring Labour will spend another decade or more out in the wilderness come the next election.
I have a little security camera with night vision and motion detection sensors but according to marketing speak it has advanced "a.i.".
The Act was passed in October 2023, but let's not allow facts to get in the way of knee jerk rants.
Labour in 2023 said it didn't go far enough. Labour also had 12 months in power to repeal the act. They repealed the Rwanda act within days of getting into power so it's not like they couldn't have done it by now. Remember that it was a Labour Home Secretary, David Blunkett, who 26 years ago tried to pass the Snoopers Charter to give the government access to all your emails and everything you did online.
It's even worse here in the UK than the US. At least your Government and President campaigned on the platform they are governing on. Nobody there can truthfully claim they didn't know what to expect when they voted Trump in. Labour campaigned on a platform of progressive change, promising to govern for the people. The second they got in power they started clamping down on free speech and banning peaceful protest. It's a coup.
Those of us who are old enough to have experienced previous Labour governments already knew this would happen. We warned you, you chose to ignore and insult us.
Just shut down Wikipedia for the UK. You only need a few big sites to do the same to get the UK government to reconsider this dystopian law.
You assume too much. You assume that the government will care that a website has blocked UK users, they didn't care when Apple stomped it's feet threatening to exit the UK market last year over ADP because ultimately they know that as a G7 economy the UK is too valuable a market to cut out.
The bad PR that will come when gazillions of exposed Windows 10 machines are not getting patched will be bad for Microsoft, and it may lead to lawsuits or investigations by regulatory bodies.
It never has with any previous version of Windows including NT4, 2000, XP and Windows 7.
You're already carrying the sphere!
