* Posts by Phydeaux4

2 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Aug 2015

Windows 10 marks the end of 'pay once, use forever' software

Phydeaux4
Linux

"Pay once, use forever?" Really?

It sees to me that once I've spent the $$$ for the software, there are other substantial costs to keeping it running...

Despite one's best efforts to diligently run virus scans, defrag utilities, registry cleaners, and the like, entropy takes it's inevitable toll. Then, time to "FLATTEN & RELOAD" the system. I just don't tithe these payments to uSlop, but they're payments all the same.

If the subscription model substantially reduced those costs, it might even be worth it. Pity it won't.

David Cameron: I'm off to the US to get my bro Barack to ban crypto – report

Phydeaux4
Mushroom

Somebody call the NRA!

Sorry, you Tory Pommie baahstid, but this infringes on my SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS!!!

Due to a curious WWI-era quirk, encryption is classified as a 'munition' in the US. 'Munition' means 'arms' as far as I'm concerned. And, as we all know, "The rights of the people to keep & bear arms shall NOT be infringed".

You can have my PGP when you can pry it off my cold, dead, disk drives!!!