I have never had any luck whatsoever with Ubuntu. It gives me nothing but problems and headaches.
My standard distro choice is plain Debian, since it's rock solid and never gave me any serious problems on any machine I've used it on. I have used and enjoyed Mint as well, and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.
If Comcast were an honest company, they'd simply acknowledge that this is a $30/mo price hike. If they were a slightly kinder company, they're offer alternative, capped plans that were $30/mo cheaper.
Instead, they're going for a standard marketing pricing lie: reduce service, then charge a premium to get the reduction removed. That way they can avoid announcing the price hike.
"Questions like "Which of the following addresses have you ever resided at?" and "Have you ever held an account at one of the following banks?" are quite common."
I encountered those trying to get my credit report. Unfortunately, I was unable to correctly answer the "which address did you live at" question. I've live at a lot of addresses in my life, and I have long forgotten most of them.
Outdated PII, in this case, was not only useless, it actively prevented me from getting my credit report. I still haven't been able to get around that.
"But don't call out a company whose 100% straight forward with its customers who do know the difference between data and speed."
Ok, I won't. As someone who is very, very aware of the difference, I'll still call out the company for being incredibly misleading in their marketing materials.
"You can only win the War on Terror by defeating your opponents, military style"
You can't win the "war on terror". It's logically impossible. The only winnable wars are ones against a well-defined enemy, with well-defined victory conditions. "Terrorists" are not a well-defined enemy, and the "war on terror" has no victory conditions defined at all.
How is that material support, though? "Material" rather implies, I dunno, material support -- that is, giving them stuff. Explaining how to do legal activities A, B, and C, doesn't seem like material support to me (particularly considering that all the information is widely and freely available anyway).
Saying "I think you should do terrible thing Y" sounds like protected speech to me.
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Huh? Whether or not Nintendo wants alcoholic beverages associated with their characters has literally nothing to do with whether or not the use is copyright infringement.
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Or people firewalling off the Microsoft mothership. This is what I do. any machine connecting to my lan cannot talk to Microsoft servers.
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Re: Mint versus 'buntu
My standard distro choice is plain Debian, since it's rock solid and never gave me any serious problems on any machine I've used it on. I have used and enjoyed Mint as well, and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.
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What do you do if you lose your password? Does the Apple ID substitute for a password, does Apple hold the password, or does Apple have a back door?
If the answer to any of those three questions is "yes", that's a very good reason not to buy Apple computers.
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The discussion is about whole disk encryption. Firmware encryption is an entirely different topic, and is very rare (for very good reason).
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Actually, it assumes the thief or the fence has the time and resources to do this. Which they almost certainly do.
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If Comcast were an honest company
Instead, they're going for a standard marketing pricing lie: reduce service, then charge a premium to get the reduction removed. That way they can avoid announcing the price hike.
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I encountered those trying to get my credit report. Unfortunately, I was unable to correctly answer the "which address did you live at" question. I've live at a lot of addresses in my life, and I have long forgotten most of them.
Outdated PII, in this case, was not only useless, it actively prevented me from getting my credit report. I still haven't been able to get around that.
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Ok, I won't. As someone who is very, very aware of the difference, I'll still call out the company for being incredibly misleading in their marketing materials.
Because they are.
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I don't see how that follows, since reformatting the disk renders the device usable again.
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Re: "Preventing crime"
For a lot of people, the data inside the laptop is far more valuable than the laptop itself.
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Yes it is.
Yes, it is.
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Re: Don't get it.
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You can't win the "war on terror". It's logically impossible. The only winnable wars are ones against a well-defined enemy, with well-defined victory conditions. "Terrorists" are not a well-defined enemy, and the "war on terror" has no victory conditions defined at all.
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Saying "I think you should do terrible thing Y" sounds like protected speech to me.
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The purpose is to prevent accidental disclosure. It goes without saying that if someone wanted to intentionally disclose, they could.
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Nobody who was security-minded would have been affected by the Sony rootkit because they would have disabled autorun years earlier.
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