To tie up a few loose points that don’t really require a reply, for one, I wasn’t aware that Windows could be or needed to be hacked. I guess it’s not a priority for me.

Secondly, I think the reason WordPress didn’t give me any feedback when a comment went to moderation is because of this: anonymouse.org would submit the comment, and then the page would be refreshed. With the new request, WordPress didn’t know it was the same person who had submitted the comment, so it didn’t give me information about the comment.

Anyway, I don’t have a need to surf anonymously much, but it could come in handy for anti-ego purposes, not that I have a prestigious URL.

Interestingly, Wavatar remembers you each time but WordPress moderation doesn’t. So, even though it lets you comment, it still filters you, in a way.

I’ve started interpreting fair use law very liberally, since it opens things up to interpretation, everything I do is non-profit and educational, and nothing is really settled except through lawsuit. I use cracked versions of lots of stuff, so I don’t have to worry about activating and deactivating, and for other reasons. I guess I’d use a cracked version of Microsoft XP, and very soon, Windows 7, although I don’t know if it’s any more complicated than using the same serial number multiple times. But wait, I’m using a cracked version of Office, because I got tired of messing with OpenOffice.

But the OS is sort of a non-issue for me since the OS comes with a new computer, and I only use two computers. Plus, it doesn’t seem like a good idea to circumvent something that every other application is depending on.

From the times I used Linux, the windows interface was never bug free. I would like to be working on a Linux OS for all the development tools, and because the science community releases lots of applications that are native to Linux, but I decided I should only use one OS, and the applications I use tie me into Windows. And, the fact that I’ve experimented with Linux to know that it’s not perfect makes it hard for me to get all riled up about Microsoft for the $100 that they charge for a very good operating system. They’ve just become another software company to me.

There is http://virtualbox.org, which would allow me to install a Linux distribution. But then using two different OS’s still would keep me from operating as seamlessly. That’s why I’m going to get a Mathematica torrent when my new month starts for Internet service. The idea is to use one frontend that has a comprehensive set of math functions, then use that to call some additional libraries like Pari/GP, http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/. I always seek simplicity as much as possible.

There’s up sides and downsides. Linux didn’t show up until 10, 15, or whatever years after Microsoft. Until then, like I said, Unix was high priced commercial software.

I don’t favor not using Microsoft products. That would be vain and irrelevant, like using a Mac. I favor not glorifying Microsoft and being willing to hack Microsoft products even while using them to best advantage as designed.

It’s the same with any technology. I might risk social isolation, financial loss, or breaking my toys, but I simply don’t accept any moral imperative with regard to my treatment of something in my possession.

On the other hand, if I then turn around and try to sell a botched version of someone else’s product without their permission, that should lead to financial or legal consequences. Life is risky.

Gee, I wish I had free Internet access from a prestigious university.

I guess it went to your moderation, but you may want to delete and edit some of these, or whatever you prefer.

I’m free to insult bloggers at will. I can act insanely crazy without them being able to figure out who I am through my Internet service provider.

I am Anonymous Superspy. I can make visits to lowly bloggers of low status without their ego being stroked because they see that my IP address has the domain of a prestigious University.

I don’t really have a problem with Microsoft Windows, as long as I don’t think Microsoft is the big bad guy, and Google has replaced Microsoft as the villain for me.

In the old days, professional quality, multi-tasking, multi-user operating systems, such as AT&T’s Unix, cost a $1000 a copy.

As far as privacy, we are putting a lot of trust in Microsoft, but we’re trusting banks also. I assume Microsoft does frequent checks on whether any of their products isn’t pirated. But probably any expensive, commercial application is also “checking back home” if the application is pirated.

I’m assuming that Microsoft isn’t scanning my hard disk for personal information. Those kind of things tend to become known. They are able to associate a certain user with the hardware ID of a computer, wherever that ID is, I don’t know, probably in the CPU, but my IP provider knows more of what I do than Microsoft.

I’d be all for breaking free of Microsoft, other than that I tried it a long time ago, and gave up on doing that. I want to be productive with my software, not forever being playing around trying new things.

There’s nothing wrong with selling a book, except when the person has put themselves on a pedestal, having trumpeted their devotion to freedom of information, and freedom to take information they want. You don’t have to invite me over to dinner, but if you do, I’ll not like it if you’re not home when I arrive.

The copyright stuff was only a imperfect attempt at cleverness to make claim that I want creative credit, not that I really do, though I might; how could I not want credit for everything that I deserve? More stuff that a whole lot of thought shouldn’t be put into.

I kind of doubt you meant “copyright”, since you can’t copyright a word. I also doubt that you have registered it with the USPTO, so I’ll assume that you’ve acquired this trademark through usage. Therefore, I’ve placed the “TM” next to it now. Since I am using it in the same way you use it, I don’t think I am diluting its value.

Sorry, but he had a good quote there. Well, I’m not going to promote his new book for him, since he failed to contract for free distribution and then failed to make it available for the Kindle even in a not-free version.