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WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. It's encryption is a joke when the right people are asked nicely, hence the "using techniques that 'cannot be disclosed for security reasons.' What they mean is they can't tell you how they did it because it would look REALLY bad if people realized how stupid it is to put your faith in a company that specializes in profiling and biometric data collection; https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/g.... If you're using WhatsApp on Google anything (Android, Chrome, etc.), you're in even worse shape because it's Google for Christ's sake. Remember Dirty COW? Google waited until after the election to fix it while every other Linux-based OS did months ahead of them.

But anyway, Facebook also invests huge amounts of money into cloud computing and AI. That combination one day will make all encryption and anonymity useless because we will all be digitally fingerprinted whether you have an account or not, especially if quantum computing advances, and you can assume your government will get a copy, just like they get copies of your DNA when you fall for the "fun and easy" TV advertised "ancestry" services. This "profile" is going to replace social security numbers. If you want real encryption (at least for now), use Signal (similar to Telegram but better) or a Tox client (similar to OpenVPN but for messaging). More importantly, use your brain. Both are free and open source and support text, talk, video, and file sharing. I would never use anything that important that I couldn't look at the code for. If you could look at WhatsApp's source code, I think security researchers would be horrified. And, Facebook gets caught spying on their mobile app all the time, so I don't see how WhatsApp would be any different. And just because a lot of people use it, doesn't make it the best. Matter of fact, that would make more of a target.

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news...
• https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
• https://www.thememo.com/2017/0...
• https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...
• https://www.pcworld.com/articl...

Some of the above links are kind of old, but note the ISP one. Legally, your internet service provider in the U.S. can sell your browsing information. Because of this, intelligence agencies can just purchase your data for cheap rather than getting a warrant and paying a government employee to waste their time. I'm mentioning ISP because Facebook has been trying for over a year now to bring the Internet to all kinds of places. They would become an "Internet Service Provider." In any case, if the app has an advertisement, you can be tracked.

The real note to take away from this is to realize data can be created and never destroyed and don't put anything on the internet you don't want found. I wish people would realize privacy settings are a joke; they only protect you from the average person. Anytime you see "convenient" or "secure" for a service, just assume it's complete BS because your government doesn't have the time or resources to actually physically search and seize everyone so they have software for it, contrary to "Martial Law" conspiracies; cloud computing makes it easier.

And since this news regarding terrorism, do you know why it was so hard to find Osama? It's because so far as we know, the most technologically advanced thing he ever personally used was a kidney dialysis machine or the Cold War weapons the U.S. gave him. The wor

I had never heard of the website liked, but you could be pretty sure it would be one of those left leaning Fake News sites - the "Trump's XXXXXX" title gave that away.

So I went and found a balanced article (the link that should have been provided by the rabid Trump-Hater to begin with).

From the article:

Supporters of Pai's plan discount concerns that prices will rise, saying there's already significant competition in the BDS market. Critics who see a lack of competition "subdivide this market and make all these distinctions" to reach their own conclusions,..In 2016, the FCC found that competing networks within a half mile of a location served by a single provider "had a competitive effect" on pricing, Banks noted.

One again Trump Haters ignore reality and will end up wondering why things didn't turn out like they thought. If only reality ACTUALLY had a liberal bias as claimed!

I've never quite understood why Microsoft wants to go to a monthly subscription service for non-enterprise (Volume Licensing) end users. The worst part, is that they are going to start a marketing campaign that says it's the consumer's fault for not upgrading.

I'd like to see the DoJ get involved here, as this represents negligence on the part of Microsoft. Failure to update operating systems that are in use by some XX% of the computers on the internet provides the basis for botnet ecosystems. Manufactures of other consumer products (ex. automobiles) are required to recall products and repair them when they are a safety issue. Unpatchedable zero-day exploits are consumer safety issues.

Intel wants to sell McAfee so why should they put their name on it?
http://www.pcworld.com/article...

That is the same problem again when the new sucker buys it.

Published in three volumes!

#1 I am Not a Troll
l #2 I am a Troll
#3 My Life as a Liar

Not quite. One essay will be about my software testing internship in 1997 at Fujitsu's WorldsAway virtual world. Several essays on being a video game tester and lead video game tester at Acclode/Infogrames/Atari (same, different owner, multiple personality disorders). A longer essay on testing the Sony Reader in 2005. Of course, an essay on the Great Recession when I was out of work for two years (2009-10), unemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filing for Chapter Seven bankruptcy. And, for shakes and giggles, an essay on how I love to troll the trolls on Slashdot. ;)

I have 8 desktop computers and two portables.

4 desktops are Windows XP PRO with registry hack to make them appear to be embedded, like an ATM or something, so they continue to get security updates.

They are in service on the local WiFi only for closed security camera duty.

One desktop is Windows 7 and because it has a touch screen, can't be upgraded to Windows 10. Another is Windows 8, updated to Windows 10, the other is Windows 8.1, updated to 10, and my primary is Windows 10 Home Edition.

I got hit with faux ransomeware years ago. It was simply a wallpaper that fired up on startup. I went into Safe Mode and told it to stop the shit.

Other than that, I've been OK.

I don't run anti-virus. Those are so yesterday and usually come in through email attachments. As a retired systems analyst and network administrator, computers are not my first jigsaw puzzle.

I have put out a request for more surplus desktops from family and friends but people just don't have desktops anymore.

Right. Where are all the successful lawsuits, then? Nowhere? Got it.

Yeah, you sure as hell got "it". Do they pay you per bullshit post, or a lump sum monthly?

Anyway, here's one case, how many more do you want? Well, for good meassire, here's one more. I could go on, but you will pretend you didn't lose another argument. So why bother.

Oh, what the heck, here's one they settled after years of refusing to pay royalties Suck on it, SamsungCon.

Hacker News flags political posts

Thankyou! I was about to say, if this is an April Fools joke, a lot of people are in on it:
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
https://insidecybersecurity.co...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the...

Virtually everyone I've suggested or installed Linux Mint (including my young students and Mom) were very happy with with Linux Mint (or haven't called to complain so I assume that is a thumb's up, hence the word "virtual"). It's updates are easy/peasy. If you need to install anything not already in the Linux Mint repository, any Ubuntu compatible package should work in Linux Mint including Steam (A gaming purchase/DRM platform I avoid on principle of being anti-DRM). With lots of games (especially though (I hate to say) Steam), office apps, and Netflix being compatible on modern Chrome/Firefox browsers. There is no reason I can imagine you will ever need to go back to M$ (dirty) Windows. You may want to do a little checking into adding new repositories you trust if there are any apps you need and want regular updates for that are not part of the Linux Mint repository.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...
http://www.pcworld.com/article...


Hope I've been helpful.

And it's been hacked, multiple times, actually.

How EXACTLY is this a troll? If you are running a point of sale or other embedded Windows XP setup (or don't mind tweaking a single line in the registry) you can get updates for XP until Apr 2019, that is nearly 20 years worth of security patches.

I'm sorry but no Linux system comes even slightly close to the amount of support you get from Windows, Windows Vista is only now having its free support end, Windows 7 will continue to get updates until 2020 and Windows 8.1 gets patches until 2023...can anybody show me even a single Linux distro that gets free security patches without forcing the user on the upgrade treadmill for this long?

1% of 3,000,000 = 30,000 really pissed off customers.

If it was far less than 1%, they would have told us it was "less than .01%" or something like that.

Source for sold numbers:

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

Of course Intel paid attention to the low power market, which is where the Atom came from. And where is the Atom now????

Intel cuts Atom chips

luckily AMD recently pulled their ARM server Zen line turned back to X86. guess they wanted to shore up that 1%.

because that's totally not fair when microsoft pushes Edge ads to you if you have chrome installed? http://www.pcworld.com/article...

(I use LastPass myself)

That's a mighty smug sense of security you got there. I'd hate to see something bad happen to it.

We are already there:
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...

As the IBM article states they are working with Samsung and Global Foundries while the other article is about Intel that is 3 of the major chip fab companies stating they are moving to silicon-germanium hybrid crystal over pure silicon for exactly this reason. Also the fabs on a new process node take time to setup and they need to be ready before circuit design comes in to fab prototype batches so they are usually a couple of years ahead of what is commercially available on the market.

Not relevant to the HTTP/S issue, but not too long ago, the UK was spoofing slashdot to attack their targets, so it could happen.

exactly for a decade apple was at or near the top with annual updates and feature changes.

since 2012 and the broadwell/skylake fiasco apple basically stopped trying to keep up with laptops and desktops.

I want a new macbook (currently a 2009 macbook)but i want a modern cpu and a sd card slot. things i can't get in current line up. So many macbook owners have been waiting 5-6 years screaming for new tech and apple is failing to deliver.

I won't own a windows 10 machine and linux might be possible if all the hardware worked.

Seriously? You are passing up on an upgrade of an 8 year old MacBook because the new ones do not have a built in SD card slot? I do a lot of Photoshop work and I build Raspberry PI based cameras which involves a lot of programming and SD card use and I would not dream of passing up on a computer upgrade because of a missing built in SD card slot on my 2016 MacBook. I solved that problem in about 5 minutes: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=n.... As for your second concern. Even the new MacBook with its 2-core mobile processor handily beats an early 2009 model while the latest i5/16gb model literally buries a 2009 MacBook in the benchmarks. A used 2-core 2015 model MacBook pro, which still had an SD card slot, would also bury a 2009 MacBook in terms of performance. You can also get a MacBook pro with a more modern Core i7 CPU (since you seem to care about Intel's meaningless marketing garble), you just can't get one with 32 MB of RAM as well until later this year. One can find a PC in the same price bracket that can beat the snot out of the latest MacBook Pro by virtue of the PC having a 4-core CPU like like this guy did. However, since you (just like myself) are unwilling to leave the Apple ecosystem you can still get a very capable new MacBook Pro to replace your 2009 model, you'll just have to wait a while for 32 Gb.

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

This is not a "silent upgrade". You can claim the pop up verbiage was changed in a shady way such that some uneducated users might not realize they had to click the X to avoid signalling to Microsoft that they wanted to install later and I would agree with that statement. That's not a "silent upgrade". "silent upgrade" means installed in the background with no warning whatsoever without the user's consent. The user in that article gave consent unknowingly. That's a completely different issue. My comment that "silent upgrade" is hyperbole still stands. This also explains why I never had a problem because I'm aware of these tactics and read carefully. If you've been reading this site long enough you already know not to blindly trust Microsoft.

You have to make the correct claim, otherwise you're accusing another party of something it really didn't do. It doesn't mean what they did wasn't wrong, but you have to accuse them of what they actually did.

The FCC opened up the 57-64 GHz range for unlicensed use. These frequencies are right around the resonance frequency of O2 so suffer severe attenuation. Range is expected to be about 30 feet.

So in a house like mine, I'll need to run wires after 30 feet true line of site? Hell, 5 GHz is only semi useable in the living room, a whole 30 feet and two rooms away. But from one side of the house to the other is around 100 feet.

Opening up frequencies that high is more a declaration of desperation than anything else - the last gasps of the bandwidth is infinite crowd.

The FCC opened up the 57-64 GHz range for unlicensed use. These frequencies are right around the resonance frequency of O2 so suffer severe attenuation. Range is expected to be about 30 feet. Devices supporting this frequency are expected to roll out later this year. In addition to the high attenuation, the higher bandwidth (about 600 Mbps to 1.2 Gbps of real transfer speed) means devices won't be transmitting on it as long as they do at 2.4 or even 5 GHz, resulting in much less interference. Mhe beam pattern of those little whip antennas on most routers is omnidirectional in the horizontal axis - their vertical range is limited. And most of the technology uses beam-forming as well, meaning even less interference (highest signal strength is only in one direction).

They're also opening up the 64-71 GHz band for unlicensed use in the future. So there's going to be plenty of short-range bandwidth for devices to use. The bigger question is going to be should these devices be interconnected. I think it's stupid to add WiFi to a refrigerator, toilet, garage door opener (makes some sense for a washer, dryer, and window blinds). But congestion isn't going to be a problem unless you insist on using 2.4 GHz.

Where? Here, you whiny little bitch. No extra charge.

"Where is the evidence for your claim? My experience with my Windows 7 -> Windows 10 upgrade was such that there was a nagware screen from the system tray that afforded me the option to upgrade or not upgrade."

Really, you didn't see all the stories about complaints from users whose Windows 7 devices can't run Windows 10 adequately and got upgraded without ever actively opting in, or in some cases without any notification except being greeted with a Windows 10 login screen, or worse.

Here is an example article of how that dialog you saw changed when Microsoft wasn't satisfied with the slow adoption of Windows 10:

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

That was the first links from googling obvious search terms ...

Taking the Lumia off the market is a very intentional maneuver on Microsoft's part. They are hoping that by the time they launch the Surface Phone in Q4 next year with full support for X86 Win32 apps on ARM that we will have largely forgetten about how much the previous Windows Phone underwhelmed us. Also making a short but clean break gives them an excuse not to upgrade all the phones on the market right now to the new OS that supports X86 Win32 apps.

Here's how to turn off the Windows 10 keylogger that doesn't exist according to you:
http://www.pcworld.com/article...

I don't think you can turn off the telemetry that fires every time you open an application (ex: notepad), which is plenty of envelope information leaking all the time. Windows 10 is compromised by design. This is documented, and the fact that it DID cause a shit-storm and you ignored it should be a serious wake up call.

Well, maybe they can review why Podesta appears to have reset his Gmail password via a fake bit.ly reset link in a fake spear phishing email that claimed he was being hacked from the Ukraine? Note both the staff's reaction ("This is a legitimate email") and the fact that the Podesta dump ends soon after this email.

It's doubly odd, because Google does warn people who are actually subject to state-sponsored attacks, but we see no such notice here.

When was the last time you heard of an Nvidia crash? Never.

Err, not that long ago actually.

Yep AMD is so crappy you cannot even remove the drivers under add or remove programs?!

I'm 99% certain that is how I've done it every time I've needed to.

you cannot even upgrade their drivers. It will bsod.

I've also had absolutely no issues with this when upgrading my AMD drivers.

Anecdote is not evidence etc. etc. but it sounds more like an issue with your system specifically rather than AMD in general.

AMD staying afloat in the face of Intel's market share is a pretty amazing feat. It hasn't been easy being the distant second while keeping up the pressure on the #1 player but AMD has kept going for decades. I expect AMD to continue to be the distant second competitor, but being second doesn't mean you are a failure...

Intel in the previous century needed AMD for Intel's own survival for several reasons:

In the 80s and 90s when Intel was considered a small player in computation, many contracts called for a second supplier of CPUs in case Intel failed or failed to deliver. AMD was that company, which is why it was a near-perfect clone of Intel chips until the 386. AMD kept its license to make x86-compatible, independently-developed chips for a couple of reasons, which evolved over time.

Later, when Intel's dominance in the home computer market made it a natural monopoly, Intel used AMD's existence to argue against US-Justice Department litigation.

Even later, AMD's better technical decisions, IMO, gave it a performance lead at the same time Intel made a serious tech blunder with the Pentium-4. AMD became a better processor than an Intel. So Intel mobilized their hugeness and designed chips which outperformed AMD both in performance and efficiency, in the Core series.

AMD became a player in the graphics chip side through acquisition. Intel tried to develop GPUs but proved to be inept at it. Now, Intel is contemplating using AMD GPUs integrated into their desktop offerings. http://www.pcworld.com/article...
https://www.extremetech.com/co...
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/...

Intel's relationship with AMD is existential.

users aren't streaming YouTube music for hours in a row

Actually, some users are. (eg)

And their response to customer backlash has been to remove/revert things that displeased customers. XBox One always-online, Windows Start Menu, Office 2013 licensing, etc ..

Which is why Microsoft didn't respond to complaints about force-upgrading by reconfiguring the unwanted Windows 10 installation program to trick the users.

Oh, wait...

Well I'm sure that Microsoft would let the uninstall program have a long, expansive period of time where you can consider your options and revert back if you don't like Windows 10.

Oh, wait...

I'd go on, but I don't think it would convince you. That said, suffice it to say that Microsoft has a significant, vested interest in making sure that they cram Windows 10 on to every computer they possibly can, regardless of the cost to their PR, especially since they wish to destroy just about any alternative that they can, at least for desktop software. This is way beyond anything they've done before, and they are willing to risk Windows itself on it. This is pretty fundamentally different from prior efforts by Microsoft, and it bodes ill for the customer even if it feeds Microsoft's lust for profits and control over your computing (which in turn will eventually yield more profits, if they have anything to say about it).

That was last year under DICE. New owners put an end to it. http://www.pcworld.com/article...

Interesting, because as we can see from the comments, the smell still lingers. That fart was not silent but it sure was deadly.

That was last year under DICE. New owners put an end to it. http://www.pcworld.com/article...

The implication is that an actor with ill-intent (like the NSA) obtains the CA's private key and uses it to generate certificates of their own for MITM attacks. Any browser that trusts the CA will automatically trust the new certificates, and the user will be none-the-wiser.

This has already happened several times, resulting in browser vendors pushing out updates that removes compromised CAs from their trusted lists.

I expect that they will introduce a subscription model next (they wanted to do this fore Windows 7, IIRC, but was axed because they Ballmer didn't have to cojones to pull it off), or an a la carte Windows licensing model, where you only pay for the features you want (which sounds great in theory, but only means that you'll end up paying 3x more for the feature you already have now).

Uh, no, Microsoft just realized that:

a) PCs are a declining market
b) PCs remain viable far longer than they used to
c) Very few Windows users upgrade their OS - they "upgrade" when they buy a new computer
d) The world is going mobile, multi-platform, and cloud-based

All this means that it's better for MS to just sell (it's no longer free, in case you forgot) one perpetually-updating version of Windows to reduce long-term support commitments, and to encourage as many people as possible to get on board. Windows is now just another platform for their subscription services. But the subscription service is NOT Windows. Instead, you have Office 365, Azure cloud services, Xbox Gold, MSDN, Solitaire Games (seriously?), and so on, and of course, they make money with Windows Store purchases.

The big danger with this, as people rightly point out, that Windows users stop being Microsoft's customers and are instead a captive marketing audience at best, and a product at worst. Thus, decisions like these.

Right, the locked out a function from the users but not from the hackers: They were able to reverse engineer some of the software that we use for our telematics," said Dave Buchko , a BMW spokesman. "With that they were able to mimic the BMW server.â

BMW didn't even think to use https to access their cars lock and unlock during design. A quick search shows lots of issues with the BMW connected drive security.

I told you this was coming but nobody listened.

the lack of a CDM specification was an intentional action by the companies currently drafting the EME for the express purpose of creating hardware dependance. While the EME does not preclude a system agnostic CDM specification, the companies drafting the EME have a vested financial interest in preventing it. If it's too late in the process to add a CDM specification, then the EME should be withheld from the approval process until an accompanying system agnostic CDM specification is approved.

This has already had real consequences.

Due to the lack of a proper CDM specification, Microsoft was able to make deals with major content providers to require Microsoft Playready 3.0 which uses a CDM that only works on a few browsers, only on Windows platforms and only if you have the latest Intel or AMD CPU. This is also the reason why Linux computers cannot view 4K videos on Netflix website. The only Linux computers that can view 4K content are SmartTVs made by companies that paid Microsoft.

Use UltraFlix (ultraflix.com) instead for 4K on Windows PCs.
They stream in 4k without requiring Kaby Lake:
http://www.pcworld.com/article...

Political speech mostly, and the expression of ideas are the most protected.

That's a very vague answer...

The sad reality is, once you accept even a seemingly innocuous infringement — such as, for example, that famous example of yelling "fire" (or "gun!") in a crowd, you start down a very steep and slippery slope. For example, Trump is — according to millions of Americans — a very dangerous man to this country, his election promising to be a disaster far more dangerous than a handful of deaths in a panicked crowd of any theater. He is also a racist, is not he? Ergo, Trump's speech, however political, should be curtailed, his followers suppressed. (Wait for AC follow-ups here expressing agreement with this sentence.)

If you think, this is an unlikely and asinine scenario, you haven't been paying attention. There are articles and educated opinions out there already proposing a ban on "hate speech" in general (such as on this, supposedly "Liberal" web-site) and on pro-Trump speech in particular... Other perfectly respectable countries ban "hate speech" already — even that of politicians.

One should be extremely careful accepting new arguments for infringing more speech — and always seek to get rid of existing ones.

you can't say your snake oil contains unicorn tears, cures cancer

A Republic (and a Democracy) can survive such bogus claims being legal. They are a nuisance, but not a threat.

"Linux is worse than cancer"

        -- Steve Ballmer

If my business was selling snakeoil, I'd be calling medicine cancer, too.

Ideas like surface and other moves into hardware don't come instantly. A big company like Microsoft has to start hiring people years before they actually launch products and then they have to sustain the program for years before the rest of the company swings in behind. It's worth looking at an online review of Microsoft hardware history to see how long exactly MS must have been planning for this day.

Think if Dell and HP had done the sensible thing and swung in behind Linux the minute they saw Microsoft producing a mouse and keyboards. Even Now Dell is getting big sales on developer only specialist Linux Machines. There is no way that Microsoft would have survived to take Dell's business from them now without the PC manufacturers letting them. Ballmer's job was to see his company survive and he's done that at the expense companies like Gateway, Digital and Compaq. A very big part of that success was in tricking them into being afraid of Linux. You can fault this on morality but it's difficult to fault on practicality.

If you think that the PC manufacturers were a stupid exception, just look around and even today you will find plenty of companies willing to partner with Microsoft even when it seems obvious it will be their death in the long term.

time to implement ECC everywhere, period !
it's not like ram is expensive anymore

They're already putting ECC memory into some high-end laptops. See

  http://www.pcworld.com/article/2960799/laptop-computers/the-first-skylake-laptops-are-lenovos-thinkpad-p50-and-p70-graphics-workstations.html

I dunno. This story just makes me feel better about not buying Apple products. I can buy any cable I like and not have to worry about this bullshit.

O'rly?

ISIS payments became Softcard at the end of 2014, which was then purchased by Google and pretty much became Android Pay. It originally started as a partnership between mobile carriers.

yeah, but unless you also control/audit the compiler and so on, all the way down to the chip fab, you're never gonna be 100% sure it's clean.

eg - what if Intel/Qualcomm/etc have their own backdoors built in, per order of the US government? Google/etc certainly have their own features built in. http://www.pcworld.com/article... or https://www.wired.com/2013/05/...

Or, what if there is some malicious Easter egg built into the chip? etc, etc...

Microsoft fucked up Solitare. Let's watch them do it to Paint. let's see:

1. Now shows Ads. http://www.pcworld.com/article...
2. Now only basic features unless you pay Microsoft for premium version http://www.newsweek.com/solita....
3. DLC!
4. "Telemetry" (sounds so much nicer than "spyware") sends whatever fils you open and whatever you paint to Microsoft "so we can improve our product."
5. Includes Windows 10 TOS: "We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary." https://www.schneier.com/blog/... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...

"The headset currently requires Oculus's software suite to operate, which headset wearers must use to load games and find more software in the online Oculus Store. The software requires an Internet-connected process called OVRServer_x64, which sends and receives data even when you're not in a game, and the privacy policy spells out at least some of what's included in those transmissions."

"Oculus Rift’s privacy policy allows the company to gather information on users’ locations, physical movements, and interactions with games and services. The policy notes that Oculus may use that information for marketing and promotional purposes."

http://uploadvr.com/facebook-o...
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

Nah, that was Barbie

Intel’s Optane, or 3D XPoint
Intel's crazy-fast 3D XPoint Optane memory heads for DDR slots (but with a catch)
http://www.pcworld.com/article... (Aug 21, 2015)

Its rapidly becoming the case that the enterprise edition is the 'new' pro edition.

Whereas with XP through 8, I just wanted to have pro to be able to run my own IIS, accept incoming RDP, not have to deal with the idiot simplified user permissions etc, with win8 pro came hyperV... etc In each case, Home edition was awful, while Pro was a good OS.

With 7/8 Enterprise has some extra bitlocker stuff I think? And the VLA license management features that only an enterprise would need.

But with 10, "pro" is garbage too, and all the features I actually want are now in Enterprise edition. (Turn off telemetry, more control over windows update, Edge in a Virtual Machine...)

So im coming to the conclusion that us 'power users' that until now always wanted pro should now be looking for the enterprise edition.

Of course enterprise is currently a lot more expensive than pro, with recurring subscription fees.

But this is looking to be the carrot and stick approach; (and mostly for businesses -- us power users are just caught in the middle of it.) Home users are being corralled into Windows 10 Home (and Pro at this point is really just Home+) where their updates are managed and theyre expected to be all appy and cloudy and monitored with telemetry.

While businesses (and people) who need to get shit done, and don't want their windows computers scheduling an update before an important meeting, and don't want to send telemetry to redmond,etc, etc... (i.e. people like me) -- should be using enterprise.

Us power users should be looking to use enterprise. (Assuming as always that we wish to use windows at all, which in my case at least, while I love my linux -- I am not interested in the huge compromises necessary to make it my primary desktop.

Ah but Windows 10 Enterprise is nasty for individuals to get a hold of what with Microsoft VLAs and the byzantine and downright hostile Software Assuarance licensing crapola.

So when I read about something like this...

Windows 10 Enterprise E3 / 7$ seat / month. And it sounds like its being aimed to be run like office 365... suddenly things start to come into focus...

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

" It's worth highlighting, though, that a business of one employee can take advantage of it, however. "

Interesting right!? (I mean yeah, this is /. so the pitchforks are out in force... and I should switch to linux everything... but think about it rationally...)

There is going to be the non-recurring windows 10 home edition and the home+ (aka pro), the spyware adware versions. And there is going to be Windows 10 enterprise, the only one businesses and power users will want but at $7/seat/month.

So If one seat of Enterprise really is per user? and I can put it on my desktop, laptop, and a couple hyperv virtual desktops like i can Microsoft office... all for 84/year... and I can turn off automatic updates and do them when i want, and I can turn off telemetry...

On the one hand... ugh... rent seeking subscription -- the business model for companies who really can't compellingly improve there product but still want the same revenue they were getting when each release was a must-have. And yeah.. Windows has reached that point I guess. "XP does all I need" people are still all over the place.

On the other hand... $7/month for an actual good windows user experience with the kind of control I want over it, with continual support in the form of antivirus and security updates...ok... I'm listening.

A few older gaming laptops had an HDMI input port that was hooked to the LCD, such as this one:
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
And this one:
http://www.computershopper.com...

I don't know of any that would feed the keyboard out though.
You could build something like this without the Pi:
http://www.instructables.com/i...