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#26 2003-07-17 10:38 am
- mojonixon
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Re: Windows Homeland Insecurity - Alert Level BLACK
Why don't we all strap bombs to our chests and ride our bikes to the next G7 picnic...seems easier with every breath take.
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#27 2003-07-17 10:50 am
- Wonkothesane2k
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- From: Stalinist America, NYC
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Re: Windows Homeland Insecurity - Alert Level BLACK
But feel free to give me a better term, and I'll use that instead from now on.
I've heard someone use "Hitlerific" once.
How about "dehumanizing"? Privacy is recognized by the UN to be a basic human right, but these monsters want to deprive us of it .
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#28 2003-07-17 6:29 pm
- AlteredState
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Re: Windows Homeland Insecurity - Alert Level BLACK
But feel free to give me a better term, and I'll use that instead from now on.
I've heard someone use "Hitlerific" once.
How about "dehumanizing"? Privacy is recognized by the UN to be a basic human right, but these monsters want to deprive us of it .
Alright, so either of those sound good, and sadly, accurate. Appropriate, and a good description of things. Still, I don't feel that 'Orwellian' is a BAD description. Looks like I'll have to expand my list of adjectives to describe such things..
And, by the way, since when has the United States cared about what the UN thinks and says? The US Government stopped caring about what the rest of the world thinks a long time ago. Of course, they can still spend billions of dollars of our tax money to fund going-ons in other countries.
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#29 2003-08-01 6:33 pm
Re: Windows Homeland Insecurity - Alert Level BLACK
As you are probably aware, there is a heightened security alert/sphincter pucker factor this weekend for WInTEl users as security experts predict mass attacks on Windows boxes. Who wants to bet that the Department of Homeland Security backs out of their deal with Microsoft? I figure if there's one thing that will make a Republican Administration go after a huge corporation its a faulty product putting the nation at risk for attack. The time to sell your shares in Microsoft is now. What do you think?
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#30 2003-08-01 8:01 pm
- ifdef
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Re: Windows Homeland Insecurity - Alert Level BLACK
You are assuming the OHS actually cares about security instead of pork barrel. Boy are you in for a suprise.
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#31 2003-08-01 9:43 pm
- SuperJosh
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- From: Not.........here?
- Registered: 2002-12-16
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Re: Windows Homeland Insecurity - Alert Level BLACK
So far I agree with the sentiment here against our government's actions with homeland security and the such. However, what I haven't seen is a solution to the problem (short of strapping bombs to our chests and riding to the G-7 conference, curtesy of mojonixon.)
Come on, we know that both sides are out to get us. The Democrats think that we aren't smart enough to take care of our own lives and think that bigger and bigger government is the answer to all our problems (and not the cause of a lot of them). And the Republicans look to make us a new colonial power of some sort, while declaring an unannounced war against their own citizens. We're smart. What are our alternatives, folks?
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#32 2003-08-01 10:19 pm
- ifdef
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Re: Windows Homeland Insecurity - Alert Level BLACK
A truely representative Parlimentary government instead of the one corporate party system we have now. Of course this would require a new constitution...
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#33 2003-08-01 11:28 pm
- brian_reilly
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Re: Windows Homeland Insecurity - Alert Level BLACK
Yo let 'em use PCs. I just don't want people writing more Mac virii to hack into government computers. Let them write PC crap. God knows I can't download a single file on a PC without getting a virus. Haven't gotten a virus on my Mac in eight years (lest you count that harmless worm that came with a certain issue of Macaddict)
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#34 2003-08-02 12:55 am
- dodgywanker
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Re: Windows Homeland Insecurity - Alert Level BLACK
Homeland insecurity indeed. 
It makes me feel glad to be using a Mac but sad for everyone else. And there's an omission somewhere in the NYTimes? by Bill Gates that 5% of Windows computers crash at least twice a day. I'm assuming that's just the people that actually report the crashes.
Politics and literature aside, i was curious about computer security. Is Mac OS X truly more secure or are there just less people looking for weaknesses? Could viruses be deadlier on a Mac because of AppleScript? (i don't know exactly how it works) and easy networking? I think i read somewhere that OS 9 is even more secure than X? Would running an internet connection thru an OS 9 box be a great firewall?
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#35 2003-08-05 12:45 am
Re: Windows Homeland Insecurity - Alert Level BLACK
Not sure about security. There are viruses targeted for the Classic OS. I'm sure some jerk (descendent of the guy who thought it would 'fun' to stick razor blades into apples on Halloween) is writing virii for OS X. Imagine that Linux/Unix virii might affect it - depending. It is somewhat dependent on the type of unix kernel. Of course, me telling you anything about computer security is tantamount to the blind leading the blind: I'm no expert.
"The Fates lead he who will; he who won't, they drag." - Seneca
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