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I hope that Intel doesn't go and try to screw this up by suing like they threatened to.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/09/intel_sends_arm_a_shot_across_bow/

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3011638/qualcomm-responds-to-intels-rant-about-x86-emulation-on-arm

in reports that the US intelligence community have been publishing for decades, but you are too stupid to read? https://www.bloomberg.com/news... https://www.zdnet.com/article/... https://www.zdnet.com/article/... https://www.theinquirer.net/in... So, do some reading then find similar articles in any reputable (read, not RT) reporting agency about American companies installing backdoors, and get back to me.

Memes! Yes folks, the true danger to people isn't driving too fast, it is people using a picture of E.T. with a silly caption. Enough of a threat to humanity that the EU needs to eliminate it.

https://www.theinquirer.net/in...

An example of why America needs more regulation. This doesn't happen in other western nations.

Sweden - https://www.bbc.com/news/techn...
Germany - https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
France - https://techcrunch.com/2018/12...
Spain - https://www.theinquirer.net/in...

why do you find it so hard to accept that the surface line is actually very successful?

Probably because of things like this. And this. And this. And this.

Guess it's time to move to FreeBSD.

Mark Twain would certainly agree, yes.

But I remember seeing virtualization-related commit-messages in FreeBSD, that indicated being sponsored by Microsoft. There are even official FreeBSD images for the cloud.

I think, the company would like to have alternatives to Linux work well on Azure. If only to keep Linux from becoming a monopoly — a monopoly, Microsoft will be unable to control...

And you overlooked the idiotic comment blaming the iPad explosion on leaving it plugged in.

While you may be lucky enough to not have your Apple products explode yet, others are not so lucky. Excuse me, but it doesn't take much googling to get the picture that Apple ships more explosive products than Samsung. Samsung took the issue seriously and fixed it. Not this endless denial and whataboutism that we have learned to expect from Apple.

there will be no exodus from PCs to other platforms. PCs have their roles in the market. the gaming industry and corporate clients still need very beefy desktops/workstations. just because YOU don't need a PC does not mean that nobody needs one. you are either a troll or have a limited mindset.

You are truly nothing more than a fucktard that knows nothing. A mass exodus a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2016/04/15/pc-sales-in-q1-drop-more-than-10-are-you-surprised-do-you-care/#511d115273bb"> is already happening. There is nothing a PC can do that a tablet cannot. The reverse will not be true as there will be things a tablet can do that a PC cannot. Within five years there will be no need for a PC other than for stupid old fucks like you. The microchip division Intel is hemorrhaging money and soon AMD will face the same fate as Microsoft and Sony get away from X86 for their gaming systems and they will go with ARM or some other microprocessor architecture as they go portable much like Nintendo. Face it, you old fucks love old even if it means staying with insecure relics from another era. I have facts while you have nothing.

http://fortune.com/2017/10/10/...

If by 'big public sector client' you mean the NHS then thank heavens they're not still using Windows XP

https://www.theinquirer.net/in...

90 PER CENT of the NHS continues to run Windows XP machines, two and a half years after Microsoft ditched support for the ageing OS.

It's Citrix who is ringing the alarm bells, having learnt that 90 per cent of NHS Trusts are still running Windows XP PCs. The firm sent Freedom of Information (FoI) requests to 63 NHS Trusts, 42 of which responded.

The data also revealed that 24 Trusts are still not sure when they'll migrate from Windows XP to a newer version of Microsoft's OS. 14 per cent said they would be transitioning to a new operating system by the end of this year, while 29 per cent pledged to make the move sometime next year.

That article was from 08 December 2016. WannaCry hit May 2017 and caused chaos on unpatched systems. XP hadn't been updated since 2014

https://www.nao.org.uk/report/...

The Department was warned about the risks of cyber attacks on the NHS a year before WannaCry and although it had work underway it did not formally respond with a written report until July 2017. The Department and Cabinet Office wrote to trusts in 2014, saying it was essential they had "robust plans" to migrate away from old software, such as Windows XP by April 2015. In March and April 2017, NHS Digital had issued critical alerts warning organisations to patch their systems to prevent WannaCry. However, before 12 May 2017, the Department had no formal mechanism for assessing whether local NHS organisations had complied with their advice and guidance and whether they were prepared for a cyber attack.

Any idiot can publish a paper, but I have yet to see one of these on the road: https://www.theinquirer.net/w-...

how about fixing the Poor UI when you change the password system as well.

https://www.theinquirer.net/in...

First google hit says AMD is also affected:

https://www.theinquirer.net/in...

It turns out Apple's face recognition can't tell Chinese people apart

https://www.theinquirer.net/in...

Intel's ICC compiler doing a better job of optimizing for Intel CPUs

Um, yeah, optimizing , that's what we'll call it. Optimizing , I like the sound of that.

Yah, too many have forgotten about those little shenanigans from Chipzilla

Intel's ICC compiler doing a better job of optimizing for Intel CPUs

Um, yeah, optimizing , that's what we'll call it. Optimizing , I like the sound of that.

Rumor has it Raja Koduri is defecting to Intel. https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3020626/amds-radeon-boss-has-allegedly-defected-to-intel

Intel and AMD don't realize, apparently, that allowing backdoor spyware means the eventual end of their companies.

No, they realise very well, and that there's no other competitor besides them, especially if you go down the Windows route.

Consumers have no other choice, and especially coupled with the fact very few people appear to truly care about their privacy... you only have to look at the countless Android and Google users to realise how little people (even geeks) seem to care!

* I didn't mention Apple, because they are the only major company who appear to care for the privacy of their users and fighting against Gov surveillance.

any tinfoil hat wearer like yourself shouldn't be using the OS to start with.

Neither should a computer illiterate, like yourself. Unless you're being paid off by Microsoft, in which case, you're still probably a computer illiterate.

Additionally:

Corporations get to block any of that so have no vlaid excuse not to update.

You so sure about that?

If you actually have the balls to back your words - and you don't - then install a keylogger like Microsoft's and publicly dump what it finds to pastebin. But since you don't, just do yourself a favor and get off of mommy's computer before she catches you racking up $500 of in-game purchases on some game.

Sex robots do not exist, and likely will not exist for quite some time.

Except they do

https://www.thesun.co.uk/livin...

https://www.theinquirer.net/in...

You might be thinking of true artificial intelligence, which we don't have yet and probably won't for quite some time. Robot != artificial intelligence, as demonstrated by the ample use of robots in factories to assemble electronics, cars and practically every other consumer good on the market.

Your assertion is completely baseless and reeks of FUD - the same thing GNU/Linux apologists like yourself have slammed Microsoft for for decades.

Why exactly are they not battle worthy for using some flavor of NT on some of their ships systems? Do have some inside knowledge of the design to share with everyone that would back up your assertion?

I don;t know much about the British, but I know for a fact that Microsoft products are used extensively in battlefield situations by the U.S. military. I've worked with a Sergeant in the U.S. Army who did two tours in Iraq and worked with Windows based systems. Windows was the least of his problems on the battlefield.

If you would like an example of Linux-based system being battle-tested, here you go:

https://www.theinquirer.net/in...

Just another step towards locking out any OS but Windows 10, including locking out older versions of Windows. Either that, or badly cripple the few OS's that do still run on it, likely requiring approval by MS in order to get their boot loader signed for UEFI Secure Boot.

And right while people are finding out that even Enterprise edition Windows 10 refuses to stop talking to external servers (including ad servers), even though companies pay through the nose for this specific version of Windows so that they can prevent just that sort of thing.

Make no mistake about it. Microsoft wants to own your computer, and intends on leaving you no choice in the matter, except perhaps not to own a computer at all. We're going to be seeing a lot worse coming down the pike very shortly at this rate.

You will probably claim that every source posted is unreliable but whatever.
Microsoft pressured Dell to drop Linux
Antitrust: How Microsoft Schemed to Derail Dell GNU/Linux

Oh it exisits, it's called Windows 7, which market share increased this month. Even Windows XP is still at 8% market share three years after end of support. This all shows the failure of Microsoft.

They'd be better off completely rebranding themselves so no one knows they're RIM/Blackberry. If I knew a car I was about to buy had Blackberry software in it, I wouldnt buy it, because I know it'd be unsupported very soon.

I'm sure that however it's branded, it will have the enthusiastic support of LEO's everywhere. Yes, governments would just love it if the software in self-driving vehicles came from a company with a proven track record of literally 'handing over the keys' to authorities.

I, for one, know that when I think "security" and "timely updates" and "product lifecycles long enough for things I'm going to embed in my building"; I think "Android".

And, when it comes to support and ecosystem consistency for IoT, I think "Google"; because they've earned my trust!

Seriously guys? I realize that 'IoT' is a garbage fire in a hazmat facility at this point; but adding Android? What are you thinking?

From the story:

From a report on The Inquirer:

Like WIRED, the INQUIRER admits that its engineers are incompetent at falling back to alternative advertising providers that do not track users. From its technical support page:

I've heard that using private browsing mode in Firefox can cause problems with viewability of sites?

Firefox has a private browsing mode which includes ‘Tracking Protection'. This works in pretty much the same way as an ad blocker, so you are likely to be prevented from reading the INQUIRER.

To continue reading content, you will need to click on the shield icon in the top left corner of your Firefox browser and click ‘disable protection for this session'. This will only turn off this setting for www.theinquirer.net and you can continue to browse the rest of the internet with it on.

So here's an excerpt from an e-mail that I just sent to its support department:

If I were to add the INQUIRER to the whitelist of Firefox Tracking Protection, this would allow the INQUIRER and the INQUIRER's advertising providers to be complicit in tracking my activity across multiple sites and building a dossier on my viewing habits that some government or plaintiff could subpoena in a fishing expedition. So if serving ads from advertising providers that track users fails, please serve me ads from alternate advertising providers that do not track users.

I want to look at ads that don't track me. You aren't serving any.

who's making their batteries... sony?

But, at least, that hateful homophobic bigot is no longer running Mozilla. If that's not a win, what can possibly be?

Yes, the common root of these failures is the same - it is mechanical stress.

Although Nvidia's (customers) problem was somewhat different - NV decided to save few pennies on BGAs by telling their foundry not to bother putting stress relieving layers on their wafers. Great writeup is here

BGAs in general are fine. Overtime, mechanical stress will kill anything not properly designed for it.

I guess "Windows isn't done unless Lotus won't run" by your logic is completely reasonable behavior, it WAS their OS...right?

Or maybe if you'd stop waving your little Intel flag as hard as your squeeing fangirl ass can you'd know they didn't "not optimize" for other chips, they purposely designed their compiler to put out broken code on other chips so badly in fact that you could take a Via CPU (the only CPU that allows you to change the CPUID in software) and by simply changing the CPUID from "Centaur Hauls" to "Genuine Intel" you magically got a 30% performance boost...wow, the power of of CPUID huh?

Of course what it really was was a classic case of "Windows isn't done unless Lotus won't run" and this kind of behavior is typical of Intel, hence why they had to shell out 1.4 billion for market rigging and anti competitive behavior in the EU just 2 years ago. Would you like a quote from the judgement?

"The Commission demonstrated to the requisite legal standard that Intel attempted to conceal the anti-competitive nature of its practices and implemented a long term comprehensive strategy to foreclose AMD from the strategically most important sales channels. ... The General Court considers that none of the arguments raised by Intel supports the conclusion that the fine imposed is disproportionate. On the contrary, it must be considered that that fine is appropriate in the light of the facts of the case.

In other words the exact same shit MSFT got busted for and frankly they should get no less than what MSFT did, 10 years of being monitored by the courts to keep them from pulling shit like this again.

The articles don't seem to say, or I missed it. But I assume for this to work you would need to have side loading enabled.

And thanks to Amazon, this is enabled on many Android devices. http://www.theinquirer.net/inq...

Well said; Apple appears to be the only major company interested in privacy of their users, and dare I say, even fighting for their users' privacy. Each iteration of iOS hardens their system further from gov surveillance. Case in point.

Although iOS and iPhones are fairly well protected against gov surveillance, I'm not sure what Apple is doing against commercial spying apps and advertisers, particularly the most evil of all: Google.

See also: Microsoft mandating TPM 2.0 for Windows 10 anniversary.

Hello idiots. You were warning. Microsoft is now mandating a dongle to use Windows... and a hardware rootkit.

You'd better make for that Linux bolthole before the door close completely and you're trapped.

Once they'd locked the door, there will be no more unlicensed software and you will only be able to install from the Windows store. TPM 2.0 is the wet dream Microsoft has been waiting for since it kick started the initiative in the late 90s.

Now it's finally here.

BB CEO was disturbed by Apple just a few days back.

John Chen said he was disturbed that Apple valued its customers' privacy and its own reputation above government demands for backdoors. I think I can safely say that BB's reputation is now 'disturbed'.

BlackBerry CEO John Chen said he is "disturbed" by Apple's tough approach to encryption and user privacy, warning that the firm's attitude is harmful to society. Earlier this year, Chen said in response to Apple resisting the government's demands to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters: "We are indeed in a dark place when companies put their reputations above the greater good." During BlackBerry's Security Summit in New York this week, Chen made several more comments about Apple's stance on encryption. "One of our competitors, we call it 'the other fruit company,' has an attitude that it doesn't matter how much it might hurt society, they're not going to help," he said. "I found that disturbing as a citizen. I think BlackBerry, like any company, should have a basic civil responsibility. If the world is in danger, we should be able to help out." He did say there was a lot of "nonsense" being reported about BlackBerry and its approach to how it handles user information. "Of course, there need to be clear guidelines. The guidelines we've adopted require legal assets. A subpoena for certain data. But if you have the data, you should give it to them," he said. "There's some complete nonsense about what we can and can't do. People are mad at us that we let the government have the data. It's absolute garbage. We can't do that." Chen also warned that mandatory back doors aren't a good idea either, hinting at the impending Investigatory Powers Bill. "There's proposed legislation in the U.S., and I'm sure it will come to the EU, that every vendor needs to provide some form of a back door. That is not going to fly at all. It just isn't," he said.

From a security standpoint you shouldn't be using antivirus software for real-time scanning. These issues have been known for years and keep occurring ( https://www.blackhat.com/prese...
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
http://www.theinquirer.net/inq...
https://community.sophos.com/k...
). Antivirus vendors have been screwing up too often - false positives (blacklisting OS files etc), being exploitable (like this), being unstable, using too much resources.

Real time AV scanning should only be used by people who are incompetent enough to screw up their own systems (or let malware do it) more often than a AV company would. If you know what you are doing you wouldn't be using real-time AV scanning. You'd only scan certain stuff using sacrificial machines and more as a precaution and additional layer of defence.

Mostly thanks to This Guy

iMessage will never be coming to Android

Isn't that what they say everytime before they do the thing?

* MP3 players are junk and just get left in drawers... http://www.bit-tech.net/news/h...
* Macs will never run on Intel http://www.theinquirer.net/inq...
* Ipods will never do video. http://www.macobserver.com/tmo...

* We are not working on a phone. http://www.macobserver.com/tmo...
* People want keyboards, tablets are going to fail http://www.wired.com/2010/02/s...
* Information about a tablet is incorrect http://www.googl8.com/85998192...

...There are many questions here, one of which is why is Microsoft ignoring Google's guidelines and using the notification tray to display ads?...

Probably for the same reason that Microsoft is ignoring their own guidelines and making the "X" dismissal of a dialog box mean "OK, do it".

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Microsoft is starting to look desperate for ongoing customers, and they have realized they cannot compete when they stay within the guidelines that everyone else respects..

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Updategate: Microsoft reinstalls piss-U-off-qwik Windows 10 virus, again

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Microsoft missed the 'no means no' portion of sex-ed class...

And the bit about using lube.

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Microsoft missed the 'no means no' portion of sex-ed class...

...Microsoft recommends people upgrade their operating system to the newest one....

The recommending is not the problem. The how many times do I have to tell Microsoft "NO!" is the problem.

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Updategate: Microsoft reinstalls piss-U-off-qwik Windows 10 virus, again

Microsoft missed the 'no means no' portion of sex-ed class...

The piece on this at The Inquirer made reference to the Twitter account @50NerdsofGrey , which had some damn-funny 140-or-less tech porn.

Anybody remember that 'We own all your code' picture?

For those who don't, you can see it here.

Put Linux on all laptops out of the factory and they will use Linux.

That has been tried and it failed miserably

Apple usually drops support for hardware after a few years (currently 6 years). If you look at the current OSX system requirements it says it only supports 2009 macs and above https://support.apple.com/en-u...

On the flip side Windows 10 will install on much older machines, and in some cases will run faster on a Mac then OSX http://www.theinquirer.net/inq...

Windows "free" edition will write home about pretty much everything you do. The default settings send Microsoft ya unique device ID with everything you type, everything you say, every link you click, and every file name. The settings you can't change send less to Microsoft but still way too much. I'm not comfortable with this level of reporting. More importantly I'm not comfortable with Microsoft having the option (updates you can't disable) to ratchet that up. I'm not a frog for Microsoft's pot.

That alone is reason for me to either pay for the non-shit version or only run it on a separate computer for testing and learning the OS. It looks like a fine OS, but it's not a free OS.

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Read their privacy policy here, it's a litany of ass covering that boils down to, "we'll collect all the data we can and use it any way we please but hey, we won't send you ads that creep you out".

I was thinking he was the poor sucker with a first generation iMac where the USB wasn't even 2.0. (and where the firmware is set so that it CANNOT boot from an external USB DVD-ROM drive)

Put some Firewire in that Altivec Unit and let's Retina our way to joyland!

Excuse me, but when the first gen iMac debuted in 1998 (nevermind when it was designed, likely in 1997) there simply wasn't a USB 2.0. It wasn't even released as a spec until TWO YEARS LATER.

BTW, the first versions of Windows to support USB 2.0 are Windows 2000 (in SP4) (June, 2003), and Windows XP. The earliest of those would be Windows XP (very limited support until SP1 was released in September, 2002). There is no official USB 2.0 Support in ANY "Win9x" variant.

As for Macs, the first desktop Mac to support USB 2.0 was the iMac G4 1.0GHz (Sunflower design), introduced on September 8, 2003; and the first Mac Laptop to incorporate USB 2.0 appears to be the PowerBook G4 1.0 12 inch DVI model, Released essentially at the same time, on September 16, 2003. This means that USB 2.0 Support was added to OS X 10.3 (Panther), Released on October 24, 2003.

As for Linux, LIMITED"Experimental" USB 2.0 support for SOME USB hardware was available in the 2.4.16 Kernel (don't know the exact release date); but full USB 2.0 support was added to the 2.6.0 Kernel, released on December 17, 2003.

So, from what I can see, USB 2.0 support came at virtually the same time for OS X, Windows and Linux-based PCs.

Got it? As for the rest of your nonsensical post: Grow up.

James Webb and Hubble wouldn't have happened without some pretty heavy lift.

If you can be a Space Cowboy, you can do a lot of other things, if you're focused on shoestring science, that's all you're going to get.

We need both, scrapping the Cowboys because you can get 10x as many shoestrings for the same price is missing the point. Politically, you won't get 10 shoestrings in exchange for shutting down a Cowboy project, you'll be lucky to get 2.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inq...

Except for the newly-introduced Firefox DRM from Adobe that is.

Don't you love the new double-speak.

Can you explain how this causes users to be "locked into one proprietary ecosystem or brand"?

users can enjoy a custom and connected Web experience and take their favorite content (apps, videos, photos, websites) across devices without being locked into one proprietary ecosystem or brand.

Except for the newly-introduced Firefox DRM from Adobe that is.

Don't you love the new double-speak.