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Comment Re:Maybe stick to the speed limit? (Score 1) 184

No signage at all? How many 6-year-olds near schools would that kill? No "deaf child" warnings?

Privilege, alas, has several definitions. The approximate meaning common to most definitions is "permission granted only to a select few," and applying that to driving is wrong.

Driving is a right deriving from the right of liberty generally, however it is a conditional right, limited to competent sober adults and subject to being revoked if abused.

Comment Re:Not a 486 thing, but... (Score 1) 92

Actually, many consumer gigabit Ethernet switches lack 10Mbps support these days. They are 100/1000baseT only.

Business and enterprise switches though I've found (including Cisco ones, which you can find dirt cheap used) still are 10/100/1000Mbps. Even newer business and enterprise class switches retain support.

Of course, once you step into 10Gbps Ethernet, you have to be careful because many only are 10Gbps only, while some do support 1/10Gbps. 2.5Gbps support is iffy unless it's specified which is annoying since many things have 2.5Gbps ports.

As for 486, there are still new CPUs using it. The Vortex86 has a CPU that executes 486 instructions though newer ones do support Pentium minus the FPU. These are modern chips, with IDE emulation of SD cards, Ethernet and USB support, as well as running at speeds of 800-1GHz.

And you've seen them used - any fast food restaurant with the ticket screens is powered by a mini PC using these SoCs. They do run Windows and MS-DOS, and early restaurant e-ticket systems used MS-DOS. But later ones nowadays use some form of Linux.

Comment Re:"Force-updating" (Score 1) 59

I didn't say anything about which user you are or how much permissions you have. The fact that these OSes allow even *root* to make changes to the OS, is insecure in itself. By contrast, Android and iOS strictly limit what installers can do.

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA

Even if you do have "god" permissions, an Android or iOS installer can't update the OS itself.

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