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This appears to be the same person behind the "Collection #1" releases circa Jan 18th. it was just a collection of a bunch of older dumps i.e. data aggregated from other breaches. I didn't see any reason to think this person was behind all of the hacks, I got the sense he might also brag he could hack into any porn site on the Internet by putting in his mom's credit card number.

Isn't this a win for consumers, or did I misremember the old Qualcomm antenna woes? Or old news?

https://www.pcmag.com/news/364...

https://www.cnet.com/videos/th...

Part of the cnet conversation:

"Now a recent report from Bloomberg claimed Apple might be throttling Verizon's LTE performance with a Qualcomm modem in order to make it perform similarly to the Intel chip that's in other phones. The Qualcomm hardware is theoretically capable of a maximum 600 megabits per second for download speeds. Compared to the Intel modem that's topped out at 450 megabytes per second."

USAA

Are services provided by USAA worth joining the military?

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I didn't say you can't get a small Android phone. The point was small flagship caliber phones are no longer made. You can get something small if you want a terrible CPU and camera (which reviews state is the case with that phone).

Quote the parent comment: Microsoft's "... insane unpredictable chaos..."

The Microsoft chaos existed 10 years ago, but yes, the chaos is worse now. See this Scientific American article: Microsoft Vista voted tech world's top "Fiasco" (Feb. 26, 2009)
It's amazing that a company can be so badly managed that there is an article about it in Scientific American magazine.

A year before that article: Vista's 11 Pillars of Failure. (April 21, 2008)
Some of John C. Dvorak's complaints:
6) Bogus Vista-capable stickers.
7) Missing drivers.
8) Conflicting advice.
11) Performance. You're not supposed to deliver a new operating system that's been in development for more than four years yet performs worse than the previous OS.

A Slashdot comment I wrote 10 1/2 years ago: Microsoft: "The whole world is our beta tester." That comment was way too positive, I realize now. Part of that comment seems correct to me:
"Another problem at Microsoft is apparently that the good people have left, and the people who remain are not knowledgeable enough to do the work."

It's time to stop joking about the many, many problems at Microsoft. (Regarding the parent comment: Cocaine will not fix the problems.)

Microsoft needs a new CEO and a re-organization of management.

See my comment posted yesterday: Microsoft is poorly managed? Plenty of evidence.

Have you not read the paper? Apple has like a paltry 1% share. They are barely hanging on.

Apple has a 43% market share in the USA and if you only talk about "high end" phones or "contract phones" then it's likely
considerably higher. Android has a larger market share only because it also sells a bunch of low end devices and between
the two of them (google and apple), they control virtually 100% of the smartphone market.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017...
https://www.pcmag.com/news/358...

That's funny how those advanced Europeans who are so superior to those ignorant 'Muricans in every way seem to be stuck using stupid, non-metric, 'Murican dollars to buy those robotic lawnmowers.

I mean: https://www.pcmag.com/roundup/...

Clearly those advanced products are not available to third-world non-elite 'Muricans, so why are all the prices listed in sub-standard non-Euro currency?

So what AMD card would you recommend for VR? PCMag seems to only recommend nvidia chipsets.

Is this post cleverly disguised as a troll to get yet more comments going about a anddroid/iphone religious war?

LOL.. Yea, I miss the Emacs / vi debate too. Nothing lasts forever, but many things just have the names changed when they get recycled....

Ya, but at least vi died a well deserved death of obscurity.

You know what I really miss on Slashdot? John C. Dvorak articles. Here's one: The Traditional Laptop is Dead

So you use Emacs? Good luck sir... Personally, I use VI because it's usually ported to Unix distributions right away, with emacs a close second. Now get off my lawn!

Is this post cleverly disguised as a troll to get yet more comments going about a anddroid/iphone religious war?

LOL.. Yea, I miss the Emacs / vi debate too. Nothing lasts forever, but many things just have the names changed when they get recycled....

Ya, but at least vi died a well deserved death of obscurity.

You know what I really miss on Slashdot? John C. Dvorak articles. Here's one: The Traditional Laptop is Dead

Even among the non-Apple devices there are still issues. The USB-Micro standard is fragile, uni-directional and has skinny-ass wires that can't cary much current for fast charging. The USB-C standard is anything but standard with a mixed bag of features and compatibility from device to device.

Apple's Lightening charger is nice that it works for all of Apple's recent handhelds and is reversible, but is incompatible for all the new laptops (USB-C). The Listening cable is also only good for ~2A of current meaning that fast charging is right out. But what good is a charging cable that only works one line of devices?

USB-C *could* be great and last us for the next 10 years if only the industry could standardize the standard. It would also be great if you could count on USB-C cables actually being 100% compliant and not worry that your E-Bay special was going to toast your new phone, or burn down your house. Judging by the plethora of shitty cables out there, I would guess that the standard is simply too expensive or too difficult to comply with.

I would definitely welcome a standard that could do something about the giant box of standard, half-standard, and proprietary cables that I've accumulated. We can do it with headphones and lights and HDMI cables (sort of), why can't we do it with phone and laptop chargers?

I knew it would be a giant failure solely based on the fact that it was a console space sim.

No Man's Sky isn't a space sim. You spend most of your time on planetary surfaces, not in your ship cockpit. Not only that, but ship combat isn't common.

Space sim has evolved beyond the capacity of stagnant console controllers, and the whole fanbase is housed on the PC. Flight Stick + Keyboard is the way to go.

They have? I'm not so sure of that, considering that THIS is a PSone controller:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The PS2 has these:
https://s.hswstatic.com/gif/ps...

Which you can plug this Hori Flight Stick 2 into:

http://www.ign.com/articles/20...

You might be thinking that it looks like a Saitek x45...that's because it IS a rebadged Saitek x45.

The PS3 has these USB ports:

https://assets.pcmag.com/media...

Which you can plug this into:

http://www.thrustmaster.com/en...

or this for that matter:

http://www.saitek.com/uk/prod-...

And play this (disc only):

https://store.playstation.com/...

or this:

https://store.playstation.com/...

You might be thinking that the latter reminds you of War Thunder...that's because it IS basically the test for War Thunder, and releasing it paid for War Thunder's development. So console owners were basically the Alpha Testers for War Thunder.

PS4's have these:

ps://media.psu.com/media/articles/image/ps4_usb_hard_drive.png

Which you can plug this into:

http://www.thrustmaster.com/en...

And play:

Elite Dangerous
https://store.playstation.com/...

or this:

Eve Valkyrie Warzone
https://store.playstation.com/...

or this:

War Thunder
https://store.playstation.com/...

with the latter you could also plug in this:

http://www.thrustmaster.com/en...

or this:

http://www.saitek.com/uk/prod-...

or any other HOTAS. Yes, there are PS4 owners playing War Thunder with Warthogs and Rhino's.

To be fair, Apple's relatively new APFS file system is designed to speed up file file copies using a technology Apple calls Instant Cloning. But a win is a win.

Some research turns up that:

the technology used in the new cloning feature makes it easier to store multiple versions of a file in a minimum of space

In other words, the files weren't copied. A hard link (similar to a shortcut for you Windows users) was created. The whole story is an error by non-techie journalists who noticed something wildly odd in their test results, and rather than spend 30 seconds researching it online like I did, decided "it must be because it's Apple!" and published it. The reality distortion field is alive and well.

Apple has been using Sandisk NAND lately as a bid to try to reduce dependence on Samsung. Both Sandisk and Toshiba SSDs (also used frequently by Apple) regularly benchmark slower than Samsung SSDs.

Active Shooter's removal was not because of content, it seems. The developer's business partner had already been kicked out for copyright infringement, review manipulation, and customer abuse. Here.

The impact on CDMA is already underway, and has nothing to do with this or any other proposed merger

While I understand a merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, cannot see why T-Mobile and Sprint want to join. T-Mobile use GSM networks, while Sprint uses CDMA. Is not like the two networks can magically get together into a bigger one, or fill missing spots. And the customer list, well they got in Sprint for one reason and probably was they were not happy with the other carriers. https://www.pcmag.com/article2...

Long before 2012, Raytheon was building intelligence software to mine the social media sites. As mentioned in this article they built a large-scale system for the government in 2010. A review of their research contracts in the years leading up to that shows that personality classification and psychological disorder diagnosis using social media are both big business for them. This patent likely steps all over the black projects at Raytheon which came much sooner in the timeline.

Go full Maingear Prysma https://www.pcmag.com/article2...

Cell phone requirements
(Slashdot doesn't allow easily readable formatting.)

> No abuse by suppliers of the OS or the hardware. There are areas in which Google (Now Alphabet, Inc.) is badly managed, in my opinion. No license provisions that give away important rights.
> No unwanted programs
> $1,000 or more is too much to pay. So, this list is focused on Android, not Apple phones.
> Support both the modern GSM and the original CDMA system, all bands. You never know which provider you will need to use; some may have poor coverage where you happen to be. (In the U.S., only AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM.) That issue is complicated, as mentioned in the link provided.
Which phones can I use on both software technologies, CDMA and GSM?
> Dual SIM. When you travel, you may want to buy a pre-paid SIM card, so that you can give a local phone number to people you meet. That is especially useful when traveling internationally.
> Replaceable battery. If the battery isn't replaceable, the manufacturer has arranged eventual failure.
> Good battery life, infrequent charging
> Good antenna
> Latest version of Android, always upgradeable (Now, Apr 2, 2018, version 8.0.)
> MicroSD slot: Have more storage without having to pay huge prices.
> Headphone jack: Sometimes you want it. For example, sometimes 2 people want to listen to the same music.
> Full resolution display, 1920 x 1080.
> OLED display?
> 5 GHz WiFi -- All WiFi bands
> Waterproof
> Fast charging
> Camera:
1) Optical stabilization
2) Mechanical stabilization
3) Works well in dim light, strong LED flash.
> Qualcomm Snapdragon or other latest processor
> Screen protector: Gorilla glass screen?
> Good sound quality:
1) Good sound quality through the speaker
2) Good call sound quality
> USB type C ?
> Able to transfer apps to the SD card.
> Stays cool when running several programs.
> User interface? (Huawei uses EMUI.)
> Included case: Don't pay ridiculously high prices for small bits of plastic.
> Near-field communication (NFC)
> Voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE)
> Easily Transfer phone numbers to and from the phone.
> Android Auto?

Asus actually made devices exactly like the OP requested:
The Asus Transformer Book Trio
I wanted to buy one of those as a best of both worlds mobile device. I still think it makes sense, albeit to a niche of consumers.

I can't find the source, but I remember that both Google and Microsoft were said to have pushed Asus to stop producing such devices. Something about changing the licensing to disallow devices being sold with a second OS.

A camera like this? https://www.pcmag.com/article2...

It depends on the vpn. I suspect in this case the answer is no, not really any better than https. If you want 'secure' vpn look for ones that log nothing. And use HTTPS and don't use their DNS. https://www.pcmag.com/article2...

I'll save readers a quick Google check and say ExpressVPN, PIA, and Nord are all VPN services that keep ZERO logs.

It depends on the vpn. I suspect in this case the answer is no, not really any better than https. If you want 'secure' vpn look for ones that log nothing. And use HTTPS and don't use their DNS. https://www.pcmag.com/article2...

Looking at this

https://www.pcmag.com/article2...

The copyright holder or some organisation they fund presumably connects to the tracker and gets a list of peers. Then they notify the ISP and the ISP converts IPs to a customer name and sends out a letter. At which point most people presumably stop pirating, or use a VPN. If you persist the copyright holder could theoretically subpoena your details. It's not clear how common this is.

I suppose at that point you could try claiming all that GameOfThonesS07* was actually Linux ISOs which had been renamed for piracy reasons. Still they'd have the file hash you downloaded and could prove you were lying. Or, as the article points out the DMCA requires them to terminate your account

If I'm still ignoring them, will they shut down my account?

The group said this alert system "does not, in any circumstance, require the ISP to terminate an Internet subscriber's account." They point out, however, that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act already requires ISPs to have a termination policy in effect if they want to take advantage of the law's "safe harbor" clauses. That way, if a copyright holder sues you for illegal downloading, the ISP can say it took measures to stop the activity and cannot be held liable for your activity.

If the ISP were doing QOS they could throttle bittorrent data to reserve some bandwidth for people doing other things without seeing if it were illegal, especially if they had fancy deep packet inspection gear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Applications such as peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic present increasing problems for broadband service providers. Typically, P2P traffic is used by applications that do file sharing. These may be any kind of files (i.e. documents, music, videos, or applications). Due to the frequently large size of media files being transferred, P2P drives increasing traffic loads, requiring additional network capacity. Service providers say a minority of users generate large quantities of P2P traffic and degrade performance for the majority of broadband subscribers using applications such as e-mail or Web browsing which use less bandwidth. Poor network performance increases customer dissatisfaction and leads to a decline in service revenues.

DPI allows the operators to oversell their available bandwidth while ensuring equitable bandwidth distribution to all users by preventing network congestion. Additionally, a higher priority can be allocated to a VoIP or video conferencing call which requires low latency versus web browsing which does not. This is the approach that service providers use to dynamically allocate bandwidth according to traffic that is passing through their networks.

Google who wrote their own AI to do the same thing without sending any data back to Google

That's only true for 17,300 songs - basically the popular ones.. For anything else, it's taking a trip to the internet. Also just because it CAN recognize the song from the local database, does not at all mean it's not going to tell Google you asked and what it found.

If for no other reason than Shazam's really good and very through recognition database and machine learning expertise in processing audio, it's probably well worth a mere 400 million.

People talk about decentralized, P2P networks but don't understand that current versions (FreeNet, I2P, IPFS, ZeroNet, etc.) are not true P2P. Peers connect to the Internet via ISP, which are part of a collection of star networks. Peers act as hosts or "service" providers when they make connections to several hundred peers and host a copy of their websites on a local HD. Many ISP's ToS forbid such activity. Some ISP's block P2P connections, considering them to be torrents used for illegal activity.

A true P2P would be computers connecting directly to each other via bridging wifi connections, for example, without the need of an ISP. Such networks are called wireless mesh networks. Most are built using special wifi's that extend an Internet connection to an entire house or property.
https://www.pcmag.com/roundup/...

IBM basically went to talk with Microsoft because Gates' mother, who used to be a bank manager, did benefit work on weekends with people connected with IBM's management

Jack Sams tells it differently

"We're told the Bill Gates got a lucky break when his mother had contacts with IBM. "

Which really isn't the case. Rather, IBM went to Gary Kildall and Digital Research, which had the CP/M operating system, to see if they'd rewrite it for the forthcoming IBM PC. Kildall wasn't around when IBM showed up, so IBM went to Microsoft, who they were already dealing with for languages like BASIC.

That's the short. Here's a more complete story.

AptX is inferior ro headphones solutions that support AAC directly.

The AirPods of course already support this but if you prefer a different style it's not like there are not a lot of choices.

Do you even think, creimer?

Can you educate yourself or do you need a box of crayons?

On a physical, financial exchange level, generally when you're talking about high-frequency trading you're talking about high-end servers such as HPG8s sitting in a rack, collocated at exchanges with a physical cross connect from the exchange into your rack. With that physical cross connect you can "order from a menu," Lauer says. "If you want a gigabit Ethernet, it costs you X. If you want 10-gigabit Ethernet, it costs you Y. A lot of these venues now offer 10-gigabit Ethernet; it'll go directly into your 10-gigabit Arista Switch ($13,000), which is just a cut-through switch that can route that packet in nanoseconds into your server, which has a kernel bypass mechanism right into memory, and you're looking at it within a handful of microseconds."

http://uk.pcmag.com/internet-products/12815/feature/inside-wall-streets-high-frequency-trading-technology-arms-r

But if you think that apple is special you go ahead and think that.

Don't you remember when the Google subsidiary Nest purchased a company selling a product to do just this? They paid a cool half a billion for it: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/... Of course, they've done basically nothing with the platform/product since, so there may still be an untapped market.

It is more an issue of dead pixels than of potential scratches or such in the future. I doubt that I would use the device as a portable much anyways, I was mainly looking to play the new Zelda game and would very likely use it most of the time hooked to my big screen. I do very little portable gaming even on my laptop. But I do enjoy a good session of FPS shooter, and I love old school RPG's, almost as much as I like table top pen and paper role playing. The GF's kid and I have a blast teaming up in Battlefield as pilot and gunner, he's a really good pilot and it is not unheard of us to go an entire game in one vehicle. I will probably still get one but more toward the end of the year for a Christmas present or for a birthday gift for him in November.

http://www.pcmag.com/news/3522...

Another article
http://www.pcmag.com/news/3528...

A wing glider will get you in the air cheaper than car. In the air is not the problem, supersonic speeds are the problem, read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and be entertained by the problems that have not gone away, just because people already know about them. Just a reminder when supersonic jets failhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_wuykzfFzE they do so rather spectacularly.

Want to travel to London for a meeting, do it faster http://www.pcmag.com/article2/... do it at the speed of light and don't forget to encrypt your transmissions.

This is why you should route all of your internet traffic through an encrypted VPN. There are many reputable services available, most offering exit servers all over the world. PC Mag runs a yearly article with evaluations and editors picks of the available services. Choose one that has foreign servers and doesn't keep logs. You're crazy not to encrypt all of your internet communications in the UK, what with the GCHQ and all.

They have low self esteem and are most likely losers in real life outside their keyboard

I dub thee (Score:+1, Insightful)

Internet trolls and video game griefers are just as broken in real life as you've always suspected, according to a new psychology paper by Canadian researchers. It turns out that the same folks who love to disrupt online conversations for the"lulz" are likely to also exhibit some pretty nasty personality traits in general.

Nope. See: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/...

Ever wonder why you can't find a HDMI-to-DisplayPort adapter? Because the petulant HDMI consortium won't allow it, and actively sues to block it. There is no way to plug a DisplayPort monitor into an HDMI port, for no technical reason. It's purely petty legal nonsense.

Your HDMI to DVI-D cable is using a DVI-D signal. It definitely won't do a non-RGB color space, which HDMI will.

DisplayPort offers all the features of HDMI, without any of the encumbrances. It is an open spec, controlled by VESA - the Mini-DisplayPort connector that practically everybody uses now was originally Apple's, and they gave it to VESA royalty free. DisplayPort supports chaining of displays, HDMI doesn't. DisplayPort 1.3 supported up to two 4k displays @ 60fps in 2014, and also includes the HDMI 2.0 spec.

There is so much more going on than just "cable cost."

I actually heard that they designed the iPad FIRST. (Sorry for the obnoxious link).

That's pretty certain: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/05/05/10/226205/apple-patents-tablet-mac-with-photos - even if people at the time still thought it would be a Mac. Note that in 2005 it was publicly known how the iPad would look, yet people later claimed the design was stolen from Samsung's 2006 picture frame.

The FCC gave Verizon a smackdown in 2012 ( http://www.pcmag.com/article2/... ) when they were trying to charge people $20 to add hotspot/tethering to their plan even though they already paid for data and could use free tethering apps. The FCC stated that they are not allowed to restrict access to the service(data) by either blocking the apps from working(which I have personally experienced during this time on a verizon Xperia Play) or by charging for access to use hotspot(which verizon had conveniently supplied their own app for). How is restricting the speed of tethered devices any different of a violation? It's your data that you pay for your high speed access to. How you use that data is up to you NOT your service provider. Of course T-Mobile has become the pioneer in dancing on the legal line with the FCC for Net Neutrality but no one seems to care about that either.

I've seen the patent for this prior to this release. I was pretty confident it was disinformation so competitors wouldn't know what they were actually doing. I still believe that's case, and what this protype is.

It may have been George Lucas style revisionism, but it's been said the iPhone was a stepping stone to get to Jobs' goal of the iPad. The click wheel wouldn't fly. And I doubt AT&T would have redesigned their network and voicemail system for this either.

I actually heard that they designed the iPad FIRST. (Sorry for the obnoxious link).

See subject & these links proof of sad truth on routers (hosts = better. See 'p.s.' below & links there too for proof):

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/11/26/1541216/900-embedded-devices-share-hard-coded-certs-ssh-host-keys/
http://it.slashdot.org/story/08/01/14/1319256/Most-Home-Routers-Vulnerable-to-Flash-UPnP-Attack/
http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/07/16/122259/Millions-of-Home-Routers-Are-Hackable/
http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/04/26/1411229/backdoor-found-in-arcadyan-based-wi-fi-routers/
http://blog.emaze.net/2013/08/huawei-b153-3gumts-router-wps-weakness.html/
http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2015/12/critical-vulnerabilities-in-3g4g-modems.html/
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2008/06/new_malware_silently_changes_r.php/
http://ea.github.io/blog/2013/10/18/tenda-backdoor/
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/01/14/2049241/remote-linksys-0-day-root-exploit-uncovered/
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/01/29/2256236/d-link-routers-vulnerable-to-dns-hijacking/
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/08/20/1319253/bruce-schneier-on-cisco-rommon-firmware-exploit-this-is-serious/
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/04/17/2228258/researchers-hack-over-a-dozen-home-routers/
http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/10/14/0120221/d-link-router-backdoor-vulnerability-allows-full-access-to-settings/
http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/03/19/1619222/security-industry-incapable-of-finding-firmware-attackers/
http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/08/12/1917257/study-firmware-plagued-by-poor-encryption-and-backdoors/
http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/10/23/1345230/cisco-fixes-three-year-old-telnet-flaw-in-security-appliances/
http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/01/09/1349229/asus-wireless-routers-can-be-exploited-by-anyone-inside-the-network/
http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/01/09/1936214/lizard-stresser-ddos-for-hire-service-built-on-hacked-home-routers/
http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/02/19/1445251/duplicate-ss

> https://tunesgo.wondershare.co...

Part 1 applies only to Samsung tablet owners. With both Galaxy Note 7 phones and more recently the company's washing machines exploding, I imagine that a lot of people have crossed that company off their short list.

As for part 2, most appear to be launchers, one requires root, one is just a file manager with its own quasi-MDI controls, and the most promising (Multi Screen) unfortunately lacks any sort of APK or Play Store link.

> http://www.howtogeek.com/18934...

That's about Xposed, which requires root. Now that Nexus products have been discontinued, which is the go-to rootable 9 to 10 inch Android tablet?

> http://www.pcmag.com/news/3436...

Available exclusively for Nexus 9 and Nexus 10. All Nexus products have since been discontinued. Or is the feature worth tracking down a used tablet?

> since some years ago I haven't care anymore about local storage. The main reason being I carry my important contents in usb drives

And guess what tablets can't always mount. I had a Nexus 7 (2012) tablet and an OTG cable, and it failed to do anything when I plugged in a flash drive.

> It's already possible to do a lot of tasks with Android.

Is lightweight hobby software development among them?

Affects iPhone 6 models as well. It's why there are instructions on fixing both models.

If you actually read into the real intent behind what Microsoft calls: "MS Signature PC", it's far more flattering to MS than this thread makes it sound like.

Check this article, it may change your point of view. Again, look at it from a consumer standpoint, not a techy with intentions to customize the H/W:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/...

MS has long looked bad because of poor packaging of it's OS with H/W. This is their way of solving that.

First you need to ask yourself some questions:
1. what are you trying to protect against? Hard Drive Failure?, Multiple hard drive failures? Fire? Theft? Disk/file corruption? Destruction of your whole home/work? Everything?
2. what's your budget?
3. how many copies of data do you want and where?
4. If you're looking at a cloud backup service then what's your bandwidth? How much of your internet usage are you happy to allocate to backups? how much is your data change rate? (i.e no sense using a cloud backup provider if you change your data faster than you can upload it)

Some options:
1. Cloud Backup service (e.g. Backblaze, many here)
2. Cloud Storage provider (e.g. Dropbox, Amazon Glacier)
3. Your own solution (e.g. FreeNAS, external usb drive, eSATA (external SATA) drive, home server, unison, xcopy etc...).

If you do use your own server solution then I'd recommending having a look at ZFS filesystem (e.g. zfsonlinux)

I absolutely love iDrive. I have used it for years.

I TB $52/year. Everything backed up. Unlimited computers/devices. I have 9 computers and 3 phones all backed up automatically.

Even though I use source control, I occasionally mess something up. iDrive keeps 10 versions of my source files. Saved my ass several times over the years.
I'm wondering what happens when we do pass 1 TB as the the site shows only a 10TB plan for $374/year. I would like a 2TB plan(You might be able to call sales and negotiate)

Honestly though, if my only option was the 10TB plan, I would do it. It would be worth it with all of the features.

I love it.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/...

It doesn't get much better than that.

hmmm.....
Weird - no software patents, skalp CP/M and ...

http://forwardthinking.pcmag.c...
After a couple of years then...

In his 43-page conclusions of law, Judge Jackson's final judgment on the evidence, the judge wrote that ''the court concludes that Microsoft maintained its monopoly power by anticompetitive means and attempted to monopolize the Web browser market,'' as well as ''unlawfully tying its Web browser to its operating system'' -- all in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

(http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/04/business/us-vs-microsoft-overview-us-judge-says-microsoft-violated-antitrust-laws-with.html?pagewanted=all)

You need to watch His court depositions, what a hero!

Having control over OS and application software to control and monopolize a market may have been wrong i. e. unlawful, but in the United States, where nothing is impossible, it just wen through after the proven principle "it cannot be what may not be".

These new features are a joke. I write my own documents. I don't need Clippy 2.0 telling me how I'm writing and where to source my thoughts from.

Office had all the function you needed back in Office 2000. All the later versions have added nothing of value. These new "features" are Microsoft grasping at straws, trying to get the majority who ignored its subscription Kool Aid to take a cup.

Dvorak on why Adobe's subscription models works, and Microsoft's doesn't: Adobe adds features people wants. Microsoft piles on useless crap no one cares about. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/...

Here's what I wrote in Avast Acquiring AVG thread. It's even more relevant in here.

First off, all virus come from the internet nowadays. Yeah there's USB stick, but, in most case, you plug them between stuff at your house.

Add a good browser paired with ad-block kinda remove all threat from your usual website. Now even Chrome block you from entering website with reported attack. Even sending virus through email seems like a challenge with build-in antivirus check scanning the crap out of every byte in your attached file.

And, as a final layer of security, there's the new Microsoft antivirus (Defender, ex. Microsoft Security defender) that seem to give a decent security. And it's got the most importing feature that all others antivirus seem to lack, it's not a virus itself.

How many time I have checked a slow laptop only to uninstall Norton and see it running fine again? And what about the other free antivirus? When they don't put adware and trick you into giving them money, they just simply sell your data : http://www.pcmag.com/article2/...

So, back to my initial question, are antiviruses still relevant today?