I'm from PA. Makes sense -- part of being "green" is not buying new stuff every year. When I went off to college, you could order the laptop from Apple, then

I'm from PA. Makes sense -- part of being "green" is not buying new stuff every year. When I went off to college, you could order the laptop from Apple, then order the RAM from Newegg, pop out the battery, and upgrade the ram yourself (the slots were behind where the battery went in.) This was before Bitcoin, but I remember how some folks were pissed I told all the moms you don't need a GPU to do computer security since you'll be able to SSH into big iron if you actually need that kind of thing. Anyways, you'd go onto Craiglist and sell the ram for cash, to avoid the chance some asshole will do a Paypal dispute after you sent them the ram you no longer have a use for so they can get it for free. And then when the laptop started getting older, you could at least just buy a new battery for about two hundred. I think, during that period, I may have gotten hit with some malware from a keygen? It's been an arms race since I was 12 between "that's a CFAA violation" and "you shouldn't have been on that website" versus "a lot of the rhetoric around CFAA violations assumes I can't walk out of my apartment and pour a bottle of water onto your computer then claim stand your ground." (Rest in power John McAfee. At least you made people laugh, even if you did murder a fellow Greg.) - Greg