Esau

Color me surprised.

I've been watching this for years and, frequently, Apple stock value goes down after the company announces it has met or exceeded expectations. I have no idea why this happens.

Any anyone else use plain tex these days?

This is clearly a trend

More like a virus.

Considering that most people cannot tell the difference between a high bitrate MP3 and source, it would seem to me that this will be wasted on most people (myself included). That said, it is nice to have the option.

I can't speak for OP but for me, I disable it because UEFI is an over-engineered mess that solves no problems for me.

You know, if Amazon made an Echo that hung on the wall and had Hal's red "eye", I think I would have to get one despite myself.

I don't need ECC

We all need ECC. It should be a standard feature by now.

It's not just Windows that is bloated; so is macOS, Android, and iOS. The wastefulness annoys me and I don't want to hear its okay because we have tons of disk space and RAM - it is still wasteful.

I understand why they kitchen-sink operating systems - its mainly so they can crow about new features when releasing new versions of the OS. But I wish they would offer alternate installs for those of us who are proficient.

Aside from ZFS, there is nothing on that list I personally want. And I've never liked mandatory access control - standard UNIX permissions please.

OS/2, Nextstep, and BeOS were all better than Windows (IMO) and none of them succeeded. Some of it was missteps by the OS vendor but not to be forgotten was Microsoft's deals with PC makers that locked out competition.

So they still haven't turned it on after all this time? I was under the impression that they were going to roll it out.

I know this is about Microsoft but Apple and Google have been performing this tomfoolery as well - basically trying to trick/force people into creating an online account.

Google should be particularly called out for this dickish behavior - for forcing people to have a Google Account just to create a local ChromeOS account. (Hopefully, this has changed.)

Isn't this like saying you didn't steal a CD because you never listened to it?

My understanding is that Andrew Lewis first said it.

http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#325604...

Maybe this change is more about making sure that ISPs continue to have their own incentive to keep user browsing histories - which in turn can be used as an intelligence data source.

The one thing that stood out to me is the name of former Be employee Travis Geiselbrecht. If you are unaware, he created NewOS, which was forked years ago and became the kernel for Haiku.

I didn't realize that he was working for Google.

Even though it is listed on Sony's website, none of the vendors on Sony's website has any in stock, and CDW lists it as discontinued as of January 2017.

(I checked B&H, Amazon, and CDW.)

This is a little off topic but I want to take a moment and say thank you to Warren Toomey. He is responsible for TUHS and it is a wonder resource for people who enjoy UNIX.

Thank you sir!!

Did they never release an iOS 10 security paper before now? I'm asking because iOS 10 has been out for a while and iOS 11 is just around the corner.

Personally, I don't consider using a phone number as reasonable. Usernames should be allowed for those who don't have or don't want phones.

My understanding is that they did, which is why they had such an old version for such a long time.

"no one should be compelled to witness against oneself"

More specifically, no one should be compelled to assist the government in one's own prosecution.

When it comes to the BSDs, here is my impressions of them:

  NetBSD wants to run everywhere.
  OpenBSD wants to be secure.
  DragonFly BSD wants to advanced.
  FreeBSD wants to be Linux.
  TrueOS wants to be Ubuntu.

I don't think it is proper to consider Darwin a BSD fork. My understanding is that it is a Mack kernel with elements borrowed from BSD.

With Windows 10, you have no option to avoid updates. With older versions, you might not be able to get them, even if there is nothing CPU or hardware specific about the issue.

Microsoft: turning software updates into a weapon.

From Wikipedia:

Starting with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Microsoft removed the Elephant Diffuser from the BitLocker scheme for no declared reason.[47] Dan Rosendorf's research shows that removing the Elephant Diffuser had an "undeniably negative impact" on the security of BitLocker encryption against a targeted attack.[48] Microsoft later cited performance concerns, and noncompliance with the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), to justify the diffuser's removal.[49] Starting with Windows 10 version 1511, however, Microsoft added a new FIPS-compliant XTS-AES encryption algorithm to BitLocker.[6]

So, basically, Gopher with user style-sheets?

"how does the government intend to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the Geek Squad employees themselves didn't put the alleged porn pictures on the device?"

Well, that's the rub, isn't it? We're talking about non-law enforcement personnel who are going to be rewarded if they find something. And at that salary level, where people are frequently living month to month, it is indeed conceivable that somebody would place evidence just for the money.

That fact that you would need to turn off advertising, inside of the operating system itself, is disgusting.