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Cybersecurity
Microsoft could become competitive with Linux on this, by doing what I've been recommending, all year, that they be required to do...simply blocking all third party input from computers for one hour after the last keystroke, which in addition to all its other benefits would give the corporations that say they don't send out malware time to search and destroy any malware that anyone else is sending out.
(My chances of actually getting Linux are slim since I've bought my computer for this lifetime and new ones come from grateful clients. Grateful clients usually went with Microsoft. But let's just say that I will not pay for anything Microsoft-related, or even Microsoft-infested, unless and until that company changes its policies, specifically including policies that prevent "updates" or spyware or any other third party malarkey from interfering with what computer owners are doing with the computers they own. And that require all electronics to be repairable for 100 years from the date of manufacture. And that require anything that connects to the Internet to be designed for easy and complete disconnection, and, if it processes anything more sophisticated than on-off switching, to come with a keyboard and a printer--which defaults to printing on both sides of the page. I'd also like a policy that requires anyone who wants to buy a brand-new electronic device to sit through a three-hour documentary about what "recycling" all those plastics and rare minerals does to landscapes and people, and then, if they don't choose a reconditioned old one, to come back and watch the same documentary again the next day.)
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Signed by--hey, Lens, how d'you spell that name? Isn't Lens handy when people's signatures are more distinctive than legible?--Gary Varvel. Ganked from Joe Jackson.
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