To put it simply: In my opinion, if someone needs to be taught how to use a good, modern Linux distro they will also have to be taught how to use Windows 10. Just my two cents.
Also don't tell me anyone can learn linux. We know anyone can but its how long will it take them and how much will it cost them.
Personally, I don't think the differences in the learning curves for a modern day Linux distro vs. the learning curve when upgrading a Windows version are all that far apart. Windows changes locations of everything between versions anyways. Linux has come quite a ways since you had to type everything at a terminal prompt. It's all GUI now. I rarely have to open a terminal anymore on my Debian box.
All the additional programs available in the repositories are an additional plus when dealing with inexperienced users. Would you rather Grandma went to one place and got that recipe organizer that installs and works without drama or would you rather Grandma searched the web and downloaded a virus-ridden installer from download.com?
"nitwits" "go fuck yourself" "the idiocy you posted" "knucklehead" "shit-for-brains" "people who are stupid enough to reply to trolls" "you dumbass" "You really should go fuck yourself"
Do you know what else the report button is for? Abusive behavior. Just sayin'
I guess you think you're breaking my heart or making me angry or something....
Nope. Don't really care, to be honest. I was just pointing out that your opinions are exactly that - YOUR opinion and not necessarily the views held by others here.
So what you're doing to me is every bit as pointless as replying to the King of Idiots in the first place.
Once again, that's strictly your opinion and it's not one I subscribe to. I don't believe it's pointless to showcase Blue's incorrect statements to other readers.
To be honest, I think your constant bitching about people replying to Blue is actually the pointless endeavor. If it bugs you that much, don't read them or write a Greasemonkey script to hide all replies to hidden comments or whatever.
First, as always, you wait for third generation big bright cherry before you pick out just one and proclaim proves you're right in every case that copyright / DRM aren't needed.
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Although he's right that giving the trolls here attention just makes them come back for more.
Yeah, that is probably true. On the other hand, the constant reporting of Blue hasn't deterred him one iota either.
I do firmly believe that incorrect speech should be countered with more speech and I, like Roger, don't do it for the benefit of the original troll, but for the benefit of those who come along and read these comments at a later date.
I've even responded to Blue on articles that were two or three years old, because he was going back to comment on them in an attempt to get in the last word.
Yeah, I was thinking in terms of an airplane, helicopter or drone viewing into a house through a window from an angle that normally wouldn't be available to a normal person standing on the sidewalk or street.
I know that there's not much expectation of privacy in your own backyard, although United States v. Vargas has pushed back this a little bit by declaring the warrantless video surveillance of a man's front door with camera mounted outside his property to be unconstitutional.
You mean: "a woman who played" SOMEONE ELSE'S "music to her horses"
She had a radio tuned to a classical music station in her stable, idiot. You know, over-the-air FREE music that radio stations give away 24 hours a day.
The cops don't need a warrant to fly over your property in a plane or a helicopter, and the cameras they can attach to those aircraft are every bit as hi-tech and intrusive as what you can put on drone.
Has this ever been tested in court?
In Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001) the majority opinion argued that a person has an expectation of privacy in his or her home and therefore, the government cannot conduct unreasonable searches, even with technology that does not enter the home.
It seems that using hi-tech cameras from airplanes is something that is "not commonly available to the public", which was a deciding factor in Kyllo.
In the Linux space, there are TONS of guis that make firewall configuration into a point-and-click deal.
Yeah, I've looked at few of them. Most seemed to be overkill for what I want to do and most had a pretty large learning curves to overcome in order to use them correctly.
My firewall sits between the internet and the rest of my network, so it protects everything attached to my LAN, regardless of what OS they're running.
Ah, ok. I'm not sure that would work real well for me. I also have 3 other adults who live in my house who connect through the router with various devices and I'm not really looking to be a nanny for them and their devices.
I was thinking more in terms of a personal firewall at the device level. I'll have to check out Comodo, that the AC above recommended.
Many linux distros provide ip tables functionality for this purpose.
I think they all do and I know I can go that route if I really want to, but like I said above, I'm a bit lazy and not really wanting to be editing text files or what not all the time. What I was hoping for is a GUI program that monitored the connections where you could simply select a connection and set it "block" or "allow" or "allow once" kind of thing. I've checked out a couple of the Linux offerings on this, but most seemed to be pretty complicated and overkill for what I'm looking to do. I might have to dust off Anjunta and try to write my own, I guess.
And since I rarely use Windows outside of work, I was wondering if something similar was out there for Windows too.
Typically, one firewall is used for an entire network rather than residing on each machine.
Yes, my broadband router at home does have firewall features on it, but that won't stop outbound connections from my computer at all. Nor will help if I connect my laptop at other places, like work. I'm talking about a personal firewall to keep an eye on what software is making connections from my computer that I would rather not allow.
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What's that got to do with anything? I'm sure Grandma didn't install Windows herself either.
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What makes you say that? I find the Gnome desktop to be more intuitive than Windows myself.
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Personally, I don't think the differences in the learning curves for a modern day Linux distro vs. the learning curve when upgrading a Windows version are all that far apart. Windows changes locations of everything between versions anyways. Linux has come quite a ways since you had to type everything at a terminal prompt. It's all GUI now. I rarely have to open a terminal anymore on my Debian box.
All the additional programs available in the repositories are an additional plus when dealing with inexperienced users. Would you rather Grandma went to one place and got that recipe organizer that installs and works without drama or would you rather Grandma searched the web and downloaded a virus-ridden installer from download.com?
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"nitwits"
"go fuck yourself"
"the idiocy you posted"
"knucklehead"
"shit-for-brains"
"people who are stupid enough to reply to trolls"
"you dumbass"
"You really should go fuck yourself"
Do you know what else the report button is for? Abusive behavior. Just sayin'
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Nope. Don't really care, to be honest. I was just pointing out that your opinions are exactly that - YOUR opinion and not necessarily the views held by others here.
So what you're doing to me is every bit as pointless as replying to the King of Idiots in the first place.
Once again, that's strictly your opinion and it's not one I subscribe to. I don't believe it's pointless to showcase Blue's incorrect statements to other readers.
To be honest, I think your constant bitching about people replying to Blue is actually the pointless endeavor. If it bugs you that much, don't read them or write a Greasemonkey script to hide all replies to hidden comments or whatever.
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Not true. For example, here's Techdirt talking about Minecraft and the creator's stance on piracy. My guess is that Minecraft is probably one of the most profitable games ever.
On an aside:
Take Notch's comments (linked above) and add in the sale of Minecraft to Microsoft and then for fun throw in Microsoft's newly minted "right" to disable first-party (aka Microsoft) titles should they be found to be pirated.
Does this mean Microsoft will disable all the "pirated" copies of Minecraft out there that didn't concern Notch one little bit?
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Yeah, that is probably true. On the other hand, the constant reporting of Blue hasn't deterred him one iota either.
I do firmly believe that incorrect speech should be countered with more speech and I, like Roger, don't do it for the benefit of the original troll, but for the benefit of those who come along and read these comments at a later date.
I've even responded to Blue on articles that were two or three years old, because he was going back to comment on them in an attempt to get in the last word.
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That's cool.
I'm going to exercise my own free will and use my report clicks for those who continually bitch about who other people choose to respond to.
Have a nice day.
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Ah. Ok. I've been meaning to actually read that book ever since I bullshitted may way through a book report on that 35 years ago.
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I don't get it.
Maybe I'm just a bit slow on the uptake, but I didn't get your reference to "Parsons" the first time you used it either.
Could you elaborate a little bit, please?
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Yeah, I was thinking in terms of an airplane, helicopter or drone viewing into a house through a window from an angle that normally wouldn't be available to a normal person standing on the sidewalk or street.
I know that there's not much expectation of privacy in your own backyard, although United States v. Vargas has pushed back this a little bit by declaring the warrantless video surveillance of a man's front door with camera mounted outside his property to be unconstitutional.
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She had a radio tuned to a classical music station in her stable, idiot. You know, over-the-air FREE music that radio stations give away 24 hours a day.
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Has this ever been tested in court?
In Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001) the majority opinion argued that a person has an expectation of privacy in his or her home and therefore, the government cannot conduct unreasonable searches, even with technology that does not enter the home.
It seems that using hi-tech cameras from airplanes is something that is "not commonly available to the public", which was a deciding factor in Kyllo.
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Yeah, I've looked at few of them. Most seemed to be overkill for what I want to do and most had a pretty large learning curves to overcome in order to use them correctly.
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Ah, ok. I'm not sure that would work real well for me. I also have 3 other adults who live in my house who connect through the router with various devices and I'm not really looking to be a nanny for them and their devices.
I was thinking more in terms of a personal firewall at the device level. I'll have to check out Comodo, that the AC above recommended.
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I think they all do and I know I can go that route if I really want to, but like I said above, I'm a bit lazy and not really wanting to be editing text files or what not all the time. What I was hoping for is a GUI program that monitored the connections where you could simply select a connection and set it "block" or "allow" or "allow once" kind of thing. I've checked out a couple of the Linux offerings on this, but most seemed to be pretty complicated and overkill for what I'm looking to do. I might have to dust off Anjunta and try to write my own, I guess.
And since I rarely use Windows outside of work, I was wondering if something similar was out there for Windows too.
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Almost spit Pepsi on my keyboard laughing at that one. Props.
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Yes, my broadband router at home does have firewall features on it, but that won't stop outbound connections from my computer at all. Nor will help if I connect my laptop at other places, like work. I'm talking about a personal firewall to keep an eye on what software is making connections from my computer that I would rather not allow.
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