The common Unix-y utility “wget” used as evidence of guilt in the Manning trail.

This sort of thing follows from my post below. I’ve used wget probably 500 times in my life. It’s not a hacking tool. I can’t even see how it could be used as a hacking tool.

Criminalizing general purpose computing has long been a wish of the entertainment industry and others.

Amazing how the simplest tools that I use every day are seen as remarkable and inexplicable wizardry by the moron contingent.

In the abstract, I support the egalitarian ideal of allowing everyone access to technology and making that tech easier for them to use.

In the concrete when it makes my life worse, I wish we’d not ever let stupid people use computers – because it really harms me. All of this push to take away browser features, to make some atrocity like Windows 8, to even have a browser like Google Chrome –- all of this can be blamed on attempting to make things simple enough that complete morons can use them.

Which removes most of the features that I actually use and depend on, both for work and for leisure.

Using a “stupid people” OS or browser slows me down so incredibly much it makes me even slower than them, as I have to try to come up  with ridiculous workarounds to get even basic work done.