rdssassin

If there's a need for cash, it will exist in some form.

If the governments of the world get rid of cash, meaning all of our transactions are identifiable and traceable by gov'ts and corporations an immediate black-market cash system of some kind will spring up. Of course, they'll make it illegal, and if caught then you'll go to jail just for buying something legal but embarrassing. Then various methods will be invented to help ensure people aren't caught as easily.

Such is the way of things.

IMHO UEFI is one of the dumbest things in a long history of dumb "innovations" in computer history. It adds complexity to a process which should be very simple and stripped down to the most basic needs: Booting a OS.

Instead UEFI is a whole OS of its own.

Perhaps if the fees were higher, they would want them.

Submitting application.

hmm the commitment of watching the lectures live at a certain time is a bit of a negative for me

Read that as oink.de legendary torrent site

When privacy advocates are as honest as Moglen, they recognize that the biggest problem facing them is not governments or Facebook but those damn, stupid people who keep letting their privacy be invaded. Sure, people will say they want privacy, when you ask them using that loaded word, but time and again when faced with the choice between revealing information and getting some small thing of value, they reveal the information. But underneath the Moglen viewpoint is a huge disconnect: If privacy is about individuals exercising power over one's own information, and the vast majority of people consistently decline to exercise that power, then what the hell are privacy advocates advocating for?