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The Start menu takes up nearly half the screen with large icons, yet truncates the text for those large icons because the text has not been allocated enough room. Really, really poor UI design.

It's configurable. You can:

1. * Resize the start menu both horizontally and vertically
2. * Make tiles larger if seeing all the text on an icon is extremely important to you.
3. * Make tiles smaller to get rid of the text altogether -- presumably the software you're running has identifiable icons.
4. * Remove all the tiles if you have a major issue with having apps that can tell you some status info without opening them
5. * Right-click Start instead of left-click to get a very simple menu of commonly-accessed Windows functions

Seems like they're adding new capabilities in this area every build, too. What's there now surely isn't representative of the final product so it's too early to make final judgments.

I lost control of the Windows Update process, there were no options for me to select besides, ~allow Microsoft to brick my computer at any time~.

This is a technical preview and Microsoft has said that they're really keen on testing their automatic update systems. That's fair, right? It's not like there's currently any benefit to you in sticking with older builds. The option to be prompted before downloading updates has indeed gone missing, but that doesn't mean it isn't coming back -- they're still very much in the middle of migrating all the classic Control Panel options into the new Metro apps.

Also, many news sites have reported that Windows 10 has the ability to prompt you for a to install any given update requiring a reboot. It also analyzes the typical idle periods for your computer and will use that as a default time for scheduling a restart but you can pick any time you like for every update. Surely you'll agree that this is an improvement over being barraged with "Restart your computer" windows every 15 minutes like it does in Windows 7.

It's already here

Though, what is done is the building is printed in layers off-site, then the layers are shipped to the location and assembled.

You might consider these cases as possible examples of being a bit hostile...

http://www.cnet.com/news/debun...
http://www.dailytech.com/Googl...
http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/...
http://www.mail-archive.com/cr...

and to the lesser extent where Linus posts stuff like ...

one reason I refuse to bother with the whole security circus is that I think it glorifies - and thus encourages - the wrong behavior. It makes "heroes" out of security people, as if the people who don't just fix normal bugs aren't as important.

or

I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.

if they know that they'll refuse to pay the 10 euro, that's how free markets are supposed to work,

No they won't - What you describe exists now, and we all merrily put up with it.

Hell, package forwarding from the US to Australia counts as its own niche industry designed exclusively to circumvent such BS. But while that may work for physical goods, it doesn't get around the same problem for virtual goods.

During the hayday people bought windows PCs for home because they were familiar with it at work. Now... not many are buying home PCs. With competition from iPad, iPhone and chromebooks crowding in, home PC might become a relic like the VCR or the CD player.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1040...

The claim was specifically that growth in market share was due to being bundled.

Not even close.The claim was that bundling provides an advantage. Not that it completely accounts for it.

And the point about bloatware is not defensible. Chrome abuses system resources by consuming way too much ram, fucks up your battery life (as is proven time and time again), and is a CPU hog .. probably because of all the private information it collects compared to some other browsers.

And what evidence do you have that Google is paying anyone to include Chrome?

Because we're not retarded. You require PROOF that you need to pay a company to bundle your product? Seriously?

Found after 20 seconds of googling.

http://mashable.com/2009/03/05...

http://download.cnet.com/blog/...

"A Google spokesman indicated that other deals might be in the works. "Users' response to Google Chrome has been outstanding, and we're continuing to explore ways to make Chrome accessible to even more people. This could potentially include distribution via a number of channels, such as the distribution we are currently doing with Avast."

"make Chrome accessible" .. wow, if only users had access to Chrome. But they don't !! We HAVE TO bundle it. Oh boy !

Besides, Google has been paying for market share for about 10 years now.

http://www.problogger.net/arch...

Do your own damn research buddy. You might be a fan of Google, but many people are starting to get tired of you people acting all innocent.

Cue the "If they'd chosen Windows, it would be impossible for this bug to occur" jokes...

Those have mostly been unfair since the NT-derived era; but, in the spirit of the joke, there was a bug in win95 and 98 that would cause the system to crash after 49.7 days of uptime. It remained undiscovered for years.

ResearchKit is basically just a data-funnel, yes - but even that is useful to have as a basis for collecting health data, because it can pull anything from HealthKit you give it permission to.

Healthkit in turn, is where any number of devices and specialized monitors (like glucose measurement) can feed data into.

The Watch may not track glucose levels, but since HealthKit can track that data, as long as you have a sensor it can still be fed back to researchers, or into something like a glucose-monitoring Apple Watch App.

Yeah, no kidding. Anybody else remember PlaysForSure (tm) !?

And no, I don't mean that YOU think it was illegal, or some judge said was 'probably' illegal. That a Federal court found it to be illegal. It's been over 2 years so this should be easy. I'll wait.

There's this. And this. And there's also this. Yep that was easy. I hope you didn't have to wait too long.

It simply makes no sense to present most information the same way in browser running on a desktop machine with a panoramic screen the same way it is on a phone screen the user is holding in a portrait orientation.

Especially when the smartphone has a 4K display. Such smartphones could display two or three times as much information as my desktop. So no wonder the new "designed for smartphones" spec. insists on making fonts several times larger to earn the "approved for mobile" rating. Wait, what?

You mean like this? http://www.cnet.com/news/oh-no...

Samsung's response to this testing: "You're bending it wrong."

I'm not even kidding. They told SquareTrade to test it differently, as if that somehow invalidates the bent ones they have laying around the lab.

That's not the case at all on iOS. They are genuinely different versions with different functionality. Here is a link to an article with 20 apps iphone vs. iPad version side by side. You can see this is a different GUI: http://www.cnet.com/pictures/a... [cnet.com]

I don't doubt that some phone and tablet apps are written completely separately. But event he ones that are shown on your link, I would be shocked if 90% - 99% of the code between the 2 apps was the same (even if they are distributed separately.

The business logic will be the same, and even most of the GUI code is probably the same (i.e. same custom widget code, etc). The only part that I would expect to be different is the GUI layouts of those widgets for the different screen sizes.

https://polymer-topeka.appspot.com

This is what I have been playing around in lately. If you get to the demo quiz, you'll notice that the UI changes based on the size of the window it is in. The exact same code is usable on any size screen.

If anyone is still making completely different apps for different devices, they are doing it wrong.

For example an iOS application you generally are going to want to use iCloud integration to automatically tie information between: iPhone, iPads, Macs and (potentially) the watch. On Android you are going to want Google integration and tie it into Google's excellent application framework. Those two systems are nothing like one another in how they handle data.

Storing data to the cloud and restoring the data from the cloud should be abstracted. If you had an OO app, you'd just have concrete classes to implement the google and apple cloud save/load features.

Those two systems are nothing like one another in how they handle data.

I never used apple cloud stuff, but I can;t even imagine something so different that it would not find into a "save data/load data" kind of API.

Or for another example on iOS you are expected to draw icons and controls at specific resolutions while with Android you are expected to use vector graphics.

Why doesn't apple do vector graphics?... Anyway the answer is easy. You just do all the graphics as vector graphics and then generate the raster graphics for specific resolutions when needed (that's actually exactly what happens when rendering vector graphics anyway). I would be tempted to do this even if I was developing an iOS only app, because of how versatile it would be.

Well I want to thank you for being polite. I was being dismissive when this started.

I agree with you strongly on the value of open source prek-college textbooks with lesson plans... I think that's a huge advantage. And I agree there isn't much value in the proprietary stuff no reason the content couldn't be open source. Open source content would obviously want to be something like HTML5, though specific versions like interactive iBook format could also be created as derived works.

Even the apps that have tablet specific version, no doubt share much (if not the vast majority) of the software. They may be separate apps for commercial purposes, or saving space in terms of higher resolution icons, sprites, etc.

That's not the case at all on iOS. They are genuinely different versions with different functionality. Here is a link to an article with 20 apps iphone vs. iPad version side by side. You can see this is a different GUI: http://www.cnet.com/pictures/a...

When done right, the apps written in cross platform environments are not noticeably slower than apps written specifically for one architecture in all but the most resource hungry apps.

It is not just slower it is things like memory usage, and how they tie with other applications. For example an iOS application you generally are going to want to use iCloud integration to automatically tie information between: iPhone, iPads, Macs and (potentially) the watch. On Android you are going to want Google integration and tie it into Google's excellent application framework. Those two systems are nothing like one another in how they handle data.

Or for another example on iOS you are expected to draw icons and controls at specific resolutions while with Android you are expected to use vector graphics.

Push technology was one of the hottest buzzwords going c. 1997-1998.

http://news.cnet.com/Marimba-s...

Remember the Pointcast network?

Push technology was one of the hottest buzzwords going c. 1997-1998.

http://news.cnet.com/Marimba-s...

http://www.reuters.com/article...
http://www.bbc.com/news/259075...
http://www.cnet.com/news/snowd...

If you can't be assed to google for 5 minutes, I cannot be assed to provide proper links.

Here is a recent real world example from Bakersfield Calif. A suspect was beaten by police outside of a local hospital and died an hour later. Two people called 911 and said they were video taping the event. The cops showed up at their door and took their cell phones. When they were returned the videos had been deleted. This happened in May 2013 and there seems to be no further news on the matter. Case closed.

Police accused of erasing cell phone footage of fatal beating.

She says she saw six sheriff's deputies hitting a man with a club and kicking him.

She took out her cell phone and told the deputies what she was doing. It's unclear whether she thought this might get them to stop. If that was the case, this doesn't seem to have happened.

She says the man screamed and cried for help for a total of eight minutes. He finally fell silent, and the police then allegedly tied him up and dropped him twice on the ground.

It was only then, Melendez said, that they enacted CPR. David Sal Silva, 33, died less than an hour later.

Melendez said that she and her daughter's boyfriend both filmed what happened. She also said that police confiscated both their phones without a warrant being served.

The sheriff's department disputes this version, insisting that everything was done legally and the phones have been handed to the Bakersfield Police Department.

Melendez and her daughter's boyfriend both said that police officers paid them a visit at their homes and demanded the phones.

Worse, there are now accusations that some of the cell phone footage has been deleted. A report from the Los Angeles Times says that the FBI has now been called into the investigation.

This move was prompted, said Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood, by the fact that one of the two confiscated cell phones seems to have no footage on it at all.

"Our credibility is at stake here," he told the L.A. Times. More witnesses have come forward to support the essence of Melendez's claims that the police were overly zealous.

"They must have gotten rid of one of the videos," Melendez's daughter, Melissa Quair, told the L.A. Times.

Some might conclude from incidents such as the one in Bakersfield that if you're of a mind to film the police and believe wrong has been done, post it to YouTube as soon as you can.

There was no legal justification for the police to confiscate the phones. They broke the law in doing so. The FBI examined the phones and couldn't find the videos. There have been civil suits, but no charges or administrative actions against any of the officers.

In the current incident the video was turned over to the lawyer for the family. If the police had gotten their hands on it first it would have disappeared. If you deny this happens you are condoning lawless police violence that can and does result in murder.

If you think this is an isolated case, to to Photography is Not a Crime. They have a lot of examples of how police are caught breaking the law and illegally stopping people who video their bad behavior.

'Tonight Brad Smith, general counsel for Microsoft, delivered the “footnote” address at the Open Source Business Conference 2008. I asked Brad to speak because I figured it was the shortest path to getting clarity from Microsoft vis-a-vis open source and the nettlesome legal issues that have plagued Microsoft’s relationship with open source' ref.

"I understand that Microsoft may be using the OSI's license approval process to its own ends, and potentially ends that may be anti-open source. I'm still not sure, however, that it's appropriate to treat an incoming license from Microsoft any differently than one that comes from Linus Torvalds ref"

Feel free to read the NSA IG's letter in this story:

NSA offers details on 'LOVEINT'

You mean like any of these? http://www.cnet.com/products/p...

~~

What I'm hearing, for example from Carol Dweck, is that self-esteem is not a noble goal by itself. Certainly, we shouldn't be trashing people's efforts, as Microsoft discovered after they canceled Courier; at least, I'm guessing that's the client who called Dan Ariely (video) for help. (Text summary.) In general, good work is intrinsically rewarding. I'm sick of this culture of fake cheerfulness.

Using Opera 12.17 64-bit option of "play on demand only" by individual site preferences (globally too, which is how I set it to NOT allow flash on "every site there is that uses it", then setting up sites like YouTube to use it, albeit again, ONLY on demand (that way I can queue up a load of things to watch & play them as I see fit, vs. say, IE 11 playing them automatically)).

That works vs. ads using it, and allows flash to play ONLY when, & where, I see fit!

Funny part about YouTube since I mentioned it is that they *TRIED* telling my browser (Opera) flash was deprecated there & ANOTHER feature fooled that too (Mask as Internet Explorer or FireFox will do this) & flash STILL plays there.

* That's the reason I still use it - it also allows me to flexibly by site disable (or enable) cookies, plugins of all types, frames/iframes, javascript - no other browser has that much flexibility to this very day (not even Chrome, which has you do all kinds of 'commandline' switching - odd, considering it's a GUI application, don't you think?)

It sort of "blows my mind" that Jon Von Technzner (sp?), the inventor of it, dropped it like he did (iirc, it was for 'adhering to web standards' for a more universal browsing experience & also iirc, he's "top dog" @ the standards board for web 2.0 etc. SO it may merely have been a "personal sacrifice" for that pretty noble goal really - not worth it though... not imo & experience @ least. He already had one hell of a piece of work that IF he would've worked just a BIT MORE on the ECMA script (javascript) engine, it would have been JUST AS COMPATIBLE with scripted sites (stupid to run imo, it's the harbinger of doom for exploits online more than ANYTHING ELSE OUT THERE by far as a single source of it) as FireFox is.

Javascript is slow, bloated, & again a security + privacy/tracking risk too - It's a dumb thing to run for the most part "everywhere under the sun" (I only use it where it is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY for DB access driven sites like online shopping, banking, or tests etc. - otherwise? I turn it off everywhere else for the reasons noted above).

IMO what was better & they deviated from it? WinCGI/CGI processing server-side pushing back results in a BETTER safer form... web 2.0 wannabe coders will *not* like that I am sure, seeing as they want to "further their own agendas" & protect their "raise d'etre" but facts, are facts - javascript is a DUMB slow risk, period. Again, the web 2.0 wannabes & advertisers won't like that... but then again, they aren't capable of mastering things like NSAPI/ISAPI or to write it minus leaks in C/C++ server side... hence the dumbing down of things doing something VERY stupid (which MS' history shows is dumb) - puttings scripts into documents (for a document-centric universe that backfired ala Word & Excel Macros). The TRASH seriously came blowing in -> JavaScript opens doors to browser-based attacks http://news.cnet.com/JavaScrip... [cnet.com] (& I can produce dozens more like that proving that point easily from reliable reputable sources).

APK

P.S.=> Another point in favor of Opera (oft called the 'speedking' of browsing & it is, even dusting the new javascript engines in the past with a far older one due to better coding) - I tried Webkit based browsers, even the new offering from Opera in Vivaldi - they're SLOW AS MOLASSES & don't offer as much in features I noted above... they're inflexible as hell by comparison & not as feature-laden as Opera was (not "Chopera") AND if you try that in IE, it will NAG YOU TO DEATH on javascript tags being encountered with NO OPTION to "DON'T TELL ME THIS AGAIN"... obvious why too - they want to force crap like javascript down your throat to advertise - well, I've got THAT covered too, with a little creation of my own that does the job BETTER than say, "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" crippled by default & sold-out for "the holy dollar" to NOT DO ITS JOB, the ONLY jo

Using Opera 12.17 64-bit option of "play on demand only" by individual site preferences (globally too, which is how I set it to NOT allow flash on "every site there is that uses it", then setting up sites like YouTube to use it, albeit again, ONLY on demand (that way I can queue up a load of things to watch & play them as I see fit, vs. say, IE 11 playing them automatically)).

That works vs. ads using it, and allows flash to play ONLY when, & where, I see fit!

Funny part about YouTube since I mentioned it is that they *TRIED* telling my browser (Opera) flash was deprecated there & ANOTHER feature fooled that too (Mask as Internet Explorer or FireFox will do this) & flash STILL plays there.

* That's the reason I still use it - it also allows me to flexibly by site disable (or enable) cookies, plugins of all types, frames/iframes, javascript - no other browser has that much flexibility to this very day (not even Chrome, which has you do all kinds of 'commandline' switching - odd, considering it's a GUI application, don't you think?)

It sort of "blows my mind" that Jon Von Technzner (sp?), the inventor of it, dropped it like he did (iirc, it was for 'adhering to web standards' for a more universal browsing experience & also iirc, he's "top dog" @ the standards board for web 2.0 etc. SO it may merely have been a "personal sacrifice" for that pretty noble goal really - not worth it though... not imo & experience @ least. He already had one hell of a piece of work that IF he would've worked just a BIT MORE on the ECMA script (javascript) engine, it would have been JUST AS COMPATIBLE with scripted sites (stupid to run imo, it's the harbinger of doom for exploits online more than ANYTHING ELSE OUT THERE by far as a single source of it) as FireFox is.

Javascript is slow, bloated, & again a security + privacy/tracking risk too - It's a dumb thing to run for the most part "everywhere under the sun" (I only use it where it is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY for DB access driven sites like online shopping, banking, or tests etc. - otherwise? I turn it off everywhere else for the reasons noted above).

IMO what was better & they deviated from it? WinCGI/CGI processing server-side pushing back results in a BETTER safer form... web 2.0 wannabe coders will *not* like that I am sure, seeing as they want to "further their own agendas" & protect their "raise d'etre" but facts, are facts - javascript is a DUMB slow risk, period. Again, the web 2.0 wannabes & advertisers won't like that... but then again, they aren't capable of mastering things like NSAPI/ISAPI or to write it minus leaks in C/C++ server side... hence the dumbing down of things doing something VERY stupid (which MS' history shows is dumb) - puttings scripts into documents (for a document-centric universe that backfired ala Word & Excel Macros). The TRASH seriously came blowing in -> JavaScript opens doors to browser-based attacks http://news.cnet.com/JavaScrip... (& I can produce dozens more like that proving that point easily from reliable reputable sources).

APK

P.S.=> Another point in favor of Opera (oft called the 'speedking' of browsing & it is, even dusting the new javascript engines in the past with a far older one due to better coding) - I tried Webkit based browsers, even the new offering from Opera in Vivaldi - they're SLOW AS MOLASSES & don't offer as much in features I noted above... they're inflexible as hell by comparison & not as feature-laden as Opera was (not "Chopera") AND if you try that in IE, it will NAG YOU TO DEATH on javascript tags being encountered with NO OPTION to "DON'T TELL ME THIS AGAIN"... obvious why too - they want to force crap like javascript down your throat to advertise - well, I've got THAT covered too, with a little creation of my own that does the job BETTER than say, "Almost ALL Ads Blocked" crippled by default &

JavaScript opens doors to browser-based attacks http://news.cnet.com/JavaScrip...

Fact: Javascript's DOM model is fucked.

So, don't even try to tell us that completely utter bullshit webboy. Your "Web 2.0" is purest bullshit and a privacy nightmare too!

I can literally post another 55++ like articles here easily with more specific javascript driven exploits.

The problem?

You web dumbos are not real programmers. That's right. You have no clue. If you're not aware of javascript's issues, you're clueless. Period.

Dimwits like yourself don't realize a lesson from history. Microsoft's history of all places. The second you introduced scripting into documents (ala Word, or Excel macros in their compound object document model to attempt to be a datacentric, rather than app centric model)? The trash came blowing in.

Is scripting web documents any better? Read the article above, tell us differently.

Attempting to spout b.s. to further your agenda & 'career' now? It's not working vs. fact. It's that, in your utter lies, or you are ignorant of history.

It depends on the company, I suppose. Lenovo sold theirs out for a rather inconsequential amount.

Google probably does.

Unlikely, Google reportedly has designed its own hardware for a long time.

As mentioned elsewhere in here, Thunderbolt is fine as it's an open spec and is intended for different use cases than USB, and it also shares a port design with mini-Displayport (which we can thank Apple for openly releasing that connector standard).

Last I heard, Thunderbolt 3 was going to need a new connector anyway.

Meanwhile, USB-C seems to have ambitions to replace DisplayPort cables as well. If I'm reading it right, it can use some of the physical wires for DisplayPort while leaving the rest for USB3 - c.f. Thunderbolt which either switches the entire connector to legacy DisplayPort mode or requires a TB controller at the receiving end to extract the DisplayPort signal. So we might see USB-C displays with integral USB hubs, webcam, microphones that can also charge your laptop, all over a single cable. OK, Thunderbolt can do most of that, but it can't power the computer and AFAIK after 4 years of Thunderbolt there are a grand total of 2 Thunderbolt displays on the market (Apple's which hasn't been updated since 2011 and doesn't even have USB3, and one LG model that just offers a USB3 hub).

They'll release new models with USB-C along with every other manufacturer as then every user can complain equally for the next couple years that they need all new cables and chargers.

From what I've seen, though, Apple's Lightning is often built into speakers, stereos, alarm clocks, car mounts etc. as a 'dock' (that does happen with microUSB but not so often). Replacing those is rather more annoying than having to buy new cables or chargers.

Isn't Thunderbolt related to mini-Displayport?

they use the same port geometry http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/co...

"Thefts of Apple's smartphone have plummeted in San Francisco, New York and London following the debut of the company's Activation Lock feature in fall 2013". Source: http://www.cnet.com/news/smart...

Sounds a lot like OnLive's 'microconsole', except with some real horsepower.

This is dead in the water unless they quickly find a way to add the glove-free hands tracking that Oculus is presently adding to the Rift. Oculus just bought a company that was about to make an add-on for the Rift that sits on the front of the Rift and tracks your hand/finger movements (very precisely) and mirrors them in the VR world so that you can interact with VR without any controllers or gloves.

This is a "Game Changer" that HTC/Valve are dead in the water without.

This was my post, I didn't have my password at work. The company Oculus bought was Nimble VR. Here are links including a video of the tech in action, it just works and has a larger FOV than the Rift:

Original Kickstarter (With VIDEO): https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
CNET Article about the Aquisition: http://www.cnet.com/news/oculu...
Oculus Blog announcement : https://www.oculus.com/blog/ni...

I wonder how well this could work for tracking "other" protrusions for use in VR Sex?

This is dead in the water unless they quickly find a way to add the glove-free hands tracking that Oculus is presently adding to the Rift. Oculus just bought a company that was about to make an add-on for the Rift that sits on the front of the Rift and tracks your hand/finger movements (very precisely) and mirrors them in the VR world so that you can interact with VR without any controllers or gloves.

This is a "Game Changer" that HTC/Valve are dead in the water without.

This was my post, I didn't have my password at work. The company Oculus bought was Nimble VR. Here are links including a video of the tech in action, it just works and has a larger FOV than the Rift:

Original Kickstarter (With VIDEO): https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
CNET Article about the Aquisition: http://www.cnet.com/news/oculu...
Oculus Blog announcement : https://www.oculus.com/blog/ni...

HTC's phone announced at MWC has an expansion slot. http://www.cnet.com/news/samsu...

Actually, Wikipedia has come along way. It is now on par with other encyclopedias and is only slightly beaten by Encyclopedia Britannica.

You mean something like this?

What about various chrome extensions that have superfish embeded inside them?

A while ago, flash video downloader was one, not sure if it still there... http://download.cnet.com/FVD-D...

Google, do a better job, terminate all accounts to anyone using superfish.

CNET are fuckwits too, stop serving malware, they should be raided by the FBI now.

We're not even over the NSA hard drive hacks and now this?

Next you're gonna tell me Americans shove food up people's ass for freedom. Oh wait they do.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of worldâ(TM)s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

I'm not sure what models you're referring to. My last three or four laptops have been Lenovos, and I never experienced any roadblocks installing Linux on them. I think the BIOS on at least one of these supported a whole-disk encryption but that doesn't even try to prevent you from reformatting and installing an OS.

My vague understanding is that Superfish is Windows software, not part of BIOS or the Windows bootloader, and certainly not grub. You can also apparently uninstall superfish: http://www.cnet.com/how-to/len...

My current model is a T440, which is fine except for the tragicomical touchpad. It's by far the worst touchpad I've ever, well, touched. I keep a wireless mouse with me at all times because that pad is nearly useless. Previous models were good.

"hard drive" isn't even mentioned in the summary. You idiots got misdirected.

The focus should be on the fact that all hard drives from major brands can be fucked with by the NSA and there are no solutions, the focus shouldn't be on some fucking hacking group:

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of worldâ(TM)s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Why don't you stupid American fucks sue the NSA and all the American corporations exposed by Snowden.

You Americans idiots bitch and moan about little adware from others while ignoring the biggest exploits developed by your own people.

Fuck off.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

The NSA bugs all hard drives, there are your END USERS.

Slashdot kept burying the story, while minor Chinese related news gets double exposure.

Obvious NSA American dumb down operation at work.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Come on slashdot, stop deleting the NSA hard drive backdoor news submissions, it's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call this a geek site? Stuff that matters my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Problems.
1. Very few cars have swapable batteries because they are difficult to impiment.
2. The card that do have swapable batteries are not standardized. Tesla
3. It is more difficult to design a car with a swapable battery as the swapping mechanism is more complex and the battery can not be buried in the frame.
4. That is not what the article is talking about.
5. The only company that has tried to go public with this technology had gone bankrupt

Windows - the most insecure OS in the world. There are probably more viruses, malware and ransonware than actual apps.

I doubt it.

Download.com alone hosts over 51,000 Windows apps. Search Results for all Windows, Sourceforge, 16,000, 2,200 certified Fresh.

Amazon.com 22,000 for retail sale. PC Software

You could make a very strong case for Android being the most insecure, incompetently planned and managed OS in the wild.

Google's position is complicated, because it has produced a platform that it has no power to update. There's no Windows Update for Android phones, and Google has no ability to push out updates to the operating system; it has to depend on a range of OEMs and network operators to adopt its source code changes and distribute them to users. Both Apple and Microsoft, in contrast, have a direct channel to update their mobile operating systems.

Google won't fix bug affecting 60 percent of Android users

Microsoft posted that all current owners of Win 7 or Win 8.x it will be free to upgrade for the first year.. See : http://www.cnet.com/news/micro... See : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... What Microsoft is really telling you is that if you upgrade to Win 10 the first's year subscription is free. Microsoft wants to move users away from older versions of support (understandable) and get everyone on the Apple style platform. Because Microsoft does not sell the hardware (see Apple comment) they cannot make back the money on the software by giving it away for free.. Subscriptions are coming and are coming to stay. All hardware makers and software makers wants this. Because in the end I can make sure that most everyone will run the latest versions of software.