Posts by Tinstaafl

M$ was listening - but only to those that agree with them.

Who cares about larger monitors, if the resolution is downgraded

I use my laptop for writing documents, not staring at widescreen movies. I want the extra vertical resolution that's lost thanks to the curse of consumer idiot led 1080p glossy screens and not see every light behind me("Oooh. Shiny!"). When that laptop & its 1600x1200 matte screen finally died I had to buy a used machine (a Lenovo W500 1920x1200 matte in excellent condition) but would have preferred to buy a brand new laptop with the same type of screen.

Transformation?

Hope to hell they transform it back to Office 97 with added Open Document support. Bloody loathe the ribbon in Office 10 that I'm forced to use at work. It interferes with getting my document writing done. A lot of the time I bring my laptop and use LibreOffice or Office 97, then copy the result to my work PC. Bring back customisable toolbars & menus! Much more efficient use of space.

And while I'm on the subject: What is it with these HD format glossy screens that have taken over the world? Is it 'Idiot Consumer Syndrome'? "Oooh....Shiny! And my movie fits the screen exactly". Never mind space to show the player's controls too. I really had to hunt to find a WUXGA matte screen when I replaced my laptop this year. As it was, I had to buy a 2nd hand Lenovo to do it. Damned if I wanted to move to a *reduced* vertical resolution on a replacement laptop - especially since I work on documents. Last time I checked, most documents aren't formatted in landscape orientation. Keep it up and we'll be holding our laptops sideways** to use them to develop any substantive document.

** I think a light bulb just went on. Now I know why M$ have rammed that bloody Metro UI down our throats - it's orientation agnostic!

I would have happily bought a brand new Lenovo laptop this year - except they no longer have anything with a 1920x1200 resolution and matte. Instead I bought a 2nd hand Lenovo W500. They shot themselves in the foot by moving to consumer style screen formats in their business laptops.

feels, looks, acts and performs completely different

Does that mean it will be like Linux? Oh, at last!

Bloody idiots...

...Have they never heard of Tor, ssh, PGP, one time ciphers et al?

With Tor they might well track the first link to an intermediate node - which could be to a node outside their jurisdiction anyway - but after that it's an encrypted, randomised series of hops until exiting the Tor network for the final link to the destination. Makes their whole 'tracking connections' philosophy utterly ineffective.

Email can be encrypted in transit and in storage, using a service/servers outside the country so not within their jurisdiction. Keep the key with someone outside the country/control so you can't be done for failing to supply a decryption key. Use a disposable cypher and even if they get the key it can only be used on a single item. Presuming you kept it in the first place.

If there aren't turnkey services already established for circumventing these sorts of unwarranted & draconian intrusions then I'd be surprised if they don't appear after Orwell's 1984 dystopia has been implemented.