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[Bumber]

And your antivirus won't protect you from a lot of malware that isn't a virus, although it may warn you once it gets rooted in. Seriously, dude, don't disable operating system updates, that's how you get your shit fucked up real bad. Disable the particular ones you know to be undesirable from things like this. Your argument is akin to insisting on eating raw chicken because the last time you had it fried you got food poisoning.

He said disable automatic updates. It's more like taking the time to make sure your chicken is thoroughly cooked before shoving it in your mouth.

[inteuniso]

People being killed. The idea that our civilization won't change technologically. Tainted love.

[Trapezohedron]

I... uhh... what?

When did circumcision thread go all racist?
Well, I'll just keep my musing to just this short, because I don't want to bring shit from one thread to the other beyond my WTF.

also sad because i was hoping for an intelligent discussion. sigh

[Frumple]

People being killed. The idea that our civilization won't change technologically. Tainted love.

Not much worries on the second, at least. We're experiencing pretty incredibly rapid change on the technological level right now, just about across the board. Pick a field of research and we've probably seen a revolution or the next best thing to one in the last 50-100 years, and things are showing all signs of accelerating in most areas. Tech wise the future's lookin' pretty bright...

... as... as for the third, maybe toxic love would make your day brighter? Just about the best part of fern gully, that was.

[itisnotlogical]

I've been on a number of forums. All of them have had at least one circumcision thread, and those always devolve into shitstorms. They're usually specifically banned, even on otherwise lenient forums and boards.

[Arcvasti]

People being killed. The idea that our civilization won't change technologically. Tainted love.

Not much worries on the second, at least. We're experiencing pretty incredibly rapid change on the technological level right now, just about across the board. Pick a field of research and we've probably seen a revolution or the next best thing to one in the last 50-100 years, and things are showing all signs of accelerating in most areas. Tech wise the future's lookin' pretty bright...

At least until our new more advanced technologies put an even greater strain on the world's resources and the entire top half of our tech tree crumbles into dust.

[Orange Wizard]

People being killed. The idea that our civilization won't change technologically. Tainted love.

Not much worries on the second, at least. We're experiencing pretty incredibly rapid change on the technological level right now, just about across the board. Pick a field of research and we've probably seen a revolution or the next best thing to one in the last 50-100 years, and things are showing all signs of accelerating in most areas. Tech wise the future's lookin' pretty bright...

At least until our new more advanced technologies put an even greater strain on the world's resources and the entire top half of our tech tree crumbles into dust.

We'll be mining the Moon by then, it'll be fine.

[Frumple]

Ehh... we've got a long way to go for that, for most things, and a lot of the shorter term stuff we're already working on phasing out. It is an extreme long term issue, but another couple of centuries should be mostly in the bag, resource wise (really, about the worst is probably water, of all things, and if we manage some energy breakthroughs desalination should become significantly more viable), and hopefully by then we'll have at least cracked fusion and whatnot and started space (or I guess deep mantle or somethin') mining. Biggest threat to stagnation's largely still the nukes, or yellowstone or somethin' going off.

[Spehss _]

Bluh. Really tired at the moment, from college classes.

May just be the exhaustion talking, but...I'm starting to get the feeling I'm just wasting my life. I know that, logically, by taking college classes I'm investing in a potential future which I think is anything but a waste of time and that I should feel like I'm getting things done even when all my time is taken by college classes, because in the grand scheme of things I am technically accomplishing something.

But on the other hand I have little time or energy for any hobbies I'm interested in at the moment, and by not making progress at any of those hobbies I wind up feeling like I'm accomplishing nothing with my time and I'm wasting my life and should kill myself.

Not exactly utterly depressed or suicidal like I was half a year ago, but starting to feel demotivated, I guess. Like I said, it could just be the tiredness making my mood generally negative which is making me vent these brooding melancholy thoughts.

Venting over.

[Putnam]

Apparently Microsoft decided to throw the whole 'We log all you keystrokes and searches' shit into 7&8

Now I'm on a little intrusion update genocide.

They did?
How get rid of?

http://imgur.com/gallery/Dy79J

Checking the updates, they keep going on about it being all about telemetry and improving user experience. I think they're throwing some words in to confuse people and others to make them think 'Oh, well it's helping!'

Thanks for this, I don't need that kinda stuff cluttering up my computer.

hey this is all alarmist bullshit

it's stuff that certain applications can use to see user metrics and what people are doing when stuff crashes so that people don't have to send crash reports

[Rolan7]

I guess that's cool if you trust Microsoft.  They're definitely getting the data, right?  And we don't get to see how they process it?  Even if Microsoft has no plans to use this data to determine sensitive user information, we're also trusting them to keep it secure.

There's a reason legitimate programs *ask* before collecting user metrics.  It's *at least* something the user should be aware of, and really should be opt-in only.  Doing it secretly like this is legit suspicious.

[Bohandas]

I... uhh... what?

When did circumcision thread go all racist?
Well, I'll just keep my musing to just this short, because I don't want to bring shit from one thread to the other beyond my WTF.

also sad because i was hoping for an intelligent discussion. sigh

I'm not racist! It wouldn't matter if a person was whiter than a dozen Jefferson Davises, they'd still be ignorant and superstitious to believe what they believe.

[itisnotlogical]

Guys, stop. We're running short on emotion threads as it is.

[Yoink]

Bluh. Really tired at the moment, from college classes.

Don't worry dude, you'll have plenty of time for hobbies later. Just be proud of yourself for sticking with your studies!
Even if I have no idea what you're studying, it's still good to be applying yourself to something.



Re: Other thread: Huh, that thread got completely deleted?
Always weird when that happens. At least for once I actually got to see what happened, but still, people currently sleeping/offline will have missed out.

[Bohandas]

Guys, stop. We're running short on emotion threads as it is.

That's sad as well! I wish there was some equally lively forum I could go to instead where we could actually discuss things freely!