Posts by roknich

No need to change the default settings! Erase all of WIN 10

The first thing I did with my ASUS laptop - factory loaded with WIN 10 - was to format, wipe, and repartition the hard drive. Debian 9.1 works just fine - I send no data to anyone unless I explicitly decide to, and there is no fee or registration requirement.

Anyone who bows to the illegal monopoly is a fool, and makes the world less safe for us all.

David Roknich

"The future of radio belongs to us"

Indyradio.info

The Old Order Changeth

I wish them luck trying to push this through the courts between now and January 20. This will be an interesting test of the "Double Government" theory. We'll see what types of bureaucratic efforts manage to continue after an election.

Having seen this pattern enough, I really have to wonder if it's just another knowingly futile gesture, of a Democratic administration doing just enough to prove it's Democratic, and not really enough to make a difference.

Obama is the master of duplicity, he has been a wolf in sheep,s clothing from the start, and has done it in style without actually lying (about most things).

Dropbox has a Long history of pwnage

Worse than Dropbox hacking your computer is their open (back)door policy that has resulted in regular embarrassments like this one:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/31/dropbox-hack-passwords-68m-data-breach

By 2012, the regular leakage of user passwords was already an old story. But their business continues to grow, so this time the leak exceeds 68 million users. It's the PT Barnum style of business - if you fail your existing clients, just find new ones. I once had to recover a Mac that had been sadly taken down - watching the boot process, the first thing that came up was Dropbox. This was ca. 2012 - Dropbox owned the MBR and controlled the boot process - on that machine, at least.

Forget Dropbox. Pick an alternative at random from those available - you can't do worse.

The Register should write about what it knows, this article is a FAIL.

This ornate hit piece cites no references, while Klein provides extensive bibliographies from credible peer-reviewed researchers in each of her books.

The logic of the argument that the oil companies are not responsible for the carbon footprint of motorists is severly flawed. They lobby heavily against ever effort for the public to travel w/out the use of individual gasoline powered cars.

One good example of why people are stuck with gas-powered cars is the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F

... and with this I shoot down the only argument in the entire 2 pages that might attract support. yes, they are responsible. We could have and should have been using renewable sources of energy while the cost of a barrel of oil was low compared to the cost (in barrels of oil energy) of extraction.

The only reason for the #Climatecrisis is the greed of the fossil fuel industry, and that is why this book is a must-read.

I would suggest The Register stay with it's strong suit hereafter, and avoid topics where it lacks depth and substance.

David Roknich

INDYRADIO

https://indyradio.info