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What they're doing here has nothing to do with the search engine.

It's the Google account as an online identity tying together your email and a bunch of other services that's the real leverage point here.

I am an android user and don't recall seeing scandals of account suspensions for MS-Live / Hotmail or Apple ecosystem users, for what it's worth. Google exceeds its power by silently nuking users who need to log in to get Apps, email and potentially social media.
For years, the Nymwars killed your Google accounts when a fake name was found (or unfortunate false positives such as real native american designations).
Youtube / Gmail / old-days' Picasa / G+ users need to compartmentalize their data across several different Google accounts to minimize collateral in this kind of situation, though it's a pain. What will be a pain to avoid? they day when Google decides to use their cookie and other datamining to round up all the accounts you use from one location / browser to apply a single punishment across all your accounts.
email redundancy cannot be trusted unless you keep a secondary account at a different service provider, for similar reasons.

What they're doing here has nothing to do with the search engine.

It's the Google account as an online identity tying together your email and a bunch of other services that's the real leverage point here.

I am an android user and don't recall seeing scandals of account suspensions for MS-Live / Hotmail or Apple ecosystem users, for what it's worth. Google exceeds its power by silently nuking users who need to log in to get Apps, email and potentially social media.
For years, the Nymwars killed your Google accounts when a fake name was found (or unfortunate false positives such as real native american designations).
Youtube / Gmail / old-days' Picasa / G+ users need to compartmentalize their data across several different Google accounts to minimize collateral in this kind of situation, though it's a pain. What will be a pain to avoid? they day when Google decides to use their cookie and other datamining to round up all the accounts you use from one location / browser to apply a single punishment across all your accounts.
email redundancy cannot be trusted unless you keep a secondary account at a different service provider, for similar reasons.

I'm not sure that the UK is the best example to choose from.

The cost to Apple doubles, driving up retail $6.

The manufacturing cost of an iPhone 6 is about $5. The parts and materials cost around $220.

Making it cost $10 or $11 to manufacture isn't going to break anyone.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/h...

True. It would also seem to be unlikely to create any "good payin' jawbz" in the US.

The cost to Apple doubles, driving up retail $6.

The manufacturing cost of an iPhone 6 is about $5. The parts and materials cost around $220.

Making it cost $10 or $11 to manufacture isn't going to break anyone.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/h...

According to this article. The $649 iPhone 7 costs around $220 to make meaning that Apple gets roughly around $400 in profit.

That assumes that Apple has $0 development costs, $0 shipping costs, $0 distribution costs, $0 marketing costs, they have $0 related to sales, $0 costs due to keeping an adequate inventory of iPhones on hand to supply distributors and of course there is $0 wastage (theft, etc.). Also, because we all know iPhones never break down, Apple has $0 costs related to returns and warranty repairs. Methinks that the your formula:

retail price - manufacturing costs = Apples profit per iPhone sold

...does not quite hold water

According to this article. The $649 iPhone 7 costs around $220 to make meaning that Apple gets roughly around $400 in profit. Lets imagine that the cost does double, they will still be getting ~$200 per phone. A very healthy profit with a lot of that money staying in the US rather than China or Ireland.

Also, the cost doubling calculation (done by Foxcon!) probably assumes that they would do things exactly the same in the US as they do in China. That is, hiring thousands of people for minimal pay to to a large part of the assembly by hand. However, if moved to the US they would probably automate more of the process and employ much less people. Think of the savings on suicide netting alone.

In Trumpamerica, hybrids and electric cars will be replaced by God-fearing American coal burning cars!

You mean like this?

Or did you mean this?

What about this one?

To simplify. AWS Linux try to be an "stable" rpm distro like CentOS 7, with the latest packages, but more closer to a rolling release model, something that Ubuntu discussed years ago and decided not to go. The problem with this work is that is flawed. Many people in AWS, updates ec2 images for their apps, and deploy their images in prod, and work previously in dev/stage/qa before and from this produce this images. And in Databases, AWS gives you more advantages with RDS, SimpleDB and DynamoDB cloud database services instead of you deploy database in ec2. To me is a way to compete against Canonical because inside AWS-EC2 you are going to find more instances deployed with Ubuntu LTS than with Amazon Linux, you can check this here: http://www.zdnet.com/article/u... http://thecloudmarket.com/stat...

--With a drive that size (8TB) I hope you are at -least- mirroring it; and if you're not using ZFS or btrfs, you should have several backups *and* checksums on your files. The chances of bitrot and unrecoverable reads on a single spinning disk with that much storage are much greater.

REF:
http://arstechnica.com/informa...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/w...

https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Microsoft is supporting it to 2019. People have reported, and Microsoft has confimed ta registry hack that lets regular XP and XP Professional also get support by pretending to be Windows Embedded Stardard 2009.

TFA doesn't claim Nokia said anything about Google Fiber. All it claims is that the number Nokia's talking about is 1 Tb/s, and that "For comparison on the consumer side, Alphabet's Google Fiber embryonic US fiber-to-the-premises service is offering 1Gbps connections.", so the comparison is being done by ZDNet, not Nokia.

They also say "on the consumer side", so it's somewhat like Caterpillar saying some new haul truck can handle 500 tons and the article reporting on it saying "For comparison, on the consumer side, a Ford F-150 can handle 1 1/2 tons" - it's not as if somebody's going to use one of those big trucks to do residential construction, it's just there to give a sense of scale.

It's not currently popular to hold ourselves accountable for our actions and accomplishments, or lack thereof.

We need a device for this or an app for that as a constant reminder of our outwardly conscientious self-righteousness.

" Ohhh look at me participating in the Portland free bike program with my thousand dollar iphone riding as slow as I can, Oh the irony... "

Before the apple phanboi's attack here's the proof:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/h...

Cloud places have their use, but there is always the security question, and there is always the grave concern about data sitting on a remote site where you have zero physical control over it.

There's also the outage question. Microsoft's Azure has had two significant outages in the last 10 days. Companies using Google's Apps For Work suffered a 7+ hour outage of Gmail this week during (US) business hours. When your enterprise is built on one of these services, what do you do when it goes down? You wait. That's all you can do, sit there and wait and hope the services come back up soon. Sure, you'll get a credit against your SLA after the fact, but that doesn't offset the fact that your ability to conduct business was down for hours on end and there was absolutely nothing you could do about it.

At least when you're running services on premise, you have some control over the situation. You can investigate and resolve the problem yourself. Getting your company's service restored is the #1 priority, not priority #1852 among 5,000 other companies all suffering through the cloud outage.

This article suggests that ECC should be used more than it is. Since yes, a single bit error won't matter at all to an MP3 or a moviefile, single bit errors can ruin JPEG files pretty easily, or corrupt a Word document. The point is you don't get to choose where the error will occur, so you have to assume it will happen in the worst possible place. There is a reason ZFS systems should have ECC memory.

For example, the iPhone 7 Plus is 1920x1080; the Samsung S7 Edge is 2560x1440. The Samsung device is pushing 78% more pixels.

Which is more a function of GPU and not the CPU. Apple uses PowerVR for their GPU and Samsung used a Mali (ARM) or Adreno depending on where it is sold. Reports are Samsung devices with Mali are sluggish compared to Adreno variants.

Two things caught my eye in the release notes:

Security improvements:
* Remove systrace.
* Remove Linux emulation support.

Theo has some cool slides about "Pledge" that replaced systrace. Slide 3 has this "gem":

"Loudmouth Linus"
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/...

Note: NSFW

That was a response to Linus saying "the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys."
http://www.zdnet.com/article/l...

Ouch.

Wow, not even the alternative OS's are free from drama -- sad to see Linus (Linux) and Theo (OpenBSD) having to resort to name calling over "best practices" about security.

Theo might be getting the last laugh though:

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/...
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/...

Adopted some designs from others. We are know for PUSHING mitigations into mainstream use:

- stack protector
- W^X
- ASLR
- malloc with seatbelts
- priv- separation & priv-drop

I guess if name calling helps make the OS's better so be it. :-)

Also, pressuring the poorest workers in China to deliver products even cheaper.

Apple doesn't have factories in China. Apple does subcontract manufacturing to Pegatron, the same company that make the Microsoft Surface. The same Pegatron that Microsoft is extorting the Android tax from. 'China Labor Watch' most probably a front for the Microsoft organization. ref ref ref

"thats pretty extreme on wallet."

Not really. Though you will probably pay more for a motherboard that supports it.

Worth it. Look up the stats on memory errors. With the volume of data commonly being handled (say 10s TB per week, if backing up a 2TB working set every day) the chance of a memory error becomes realistic.

> It's not ironic at all if you understand the concept that "MS" is not a person

Legally, they are.

I would highly recommend watching the excellent documentary The Corporation

Balmer in his typical MS FUD fashion shoots his mouth out without thinking when he refers to Linux instead of meaning the GPL. He also makes makes several ignorant / false statements. The full quote is (emphasis added):

Q: Do you view Linux and the open-source movement as a threat to Microsoft?

A: Yeah. It's good competition. It will force us to be innovative. It will force us to justify the prices and value that we deliver. And that's only healthy. The only thing we have a problem with is when the government funds open-source work. Government funding should be for work that is available to everybody. Open source is not available to commercial companies. The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.

There are several lies here:

1. Open source is not available to commercial companies.
a) Someone should notify their HotMail team! http://betanews.com/2001/06/18...
b) Tell that to Red Hat or Free/Open BSD whose ENTIRE business is based on open source.

2. If you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source
a) Had the man has never heard of Free BSD?
b) This is false; it gives the impression that you can't write close source software while using open source programs. You can.
c) Let's fix this statement so it is actually correct:
If you extend any open-source software, you have to make the rest of that software open source.

3. Linux is not in the public domain. /Oblg. "You keep using this word public, it doesn't mean what you think it means."
The public's rights is what is being preserved with the GPL. So while the GPL is not 100% free with no-strings-attached, like BSD, that is to prevent someone from hoarding their changes. GPL focuses on the public's freedom, BSD focuses on the developer's freedom.

Ironically, MS was complaining about the GPL while using BSD licensed code. Go figure.

This is the same company that obfuscated Windows 7 licensing so much that ZDnet wrote an article about it:
* http://www.zdnet.com/article/w...

I have been studying the topic of Windows licensing for many years. As I have discovered, Microsoft does not have all of this information organized in one convenient location. Much of it, in fact, is buried in long, dry license agreements and on sites that are available only to partners. I couldn't find this information in one convenient place, so I decided to do the job myself. I gathered details from many public and private sources and summarized the various types of Windows 7 license agreements available to consumers and business customers. Note that this table and the accompanying descriptions deliberately exclude a small number of license types: for example, I have omitted academic and government licenses, as well as those provided as part of MSDN and TechNet subscriptions and those included with Action Pack subscriptions for Microsoft partners. With those exceptions, I believe this list includes

It's 'mostly unlimited'. It's fast-as-you-can-go up to 26GB. After that, they won't actually throttle you, but they'll deprioritize you - not "2G speed", just "other people get to cut the line, so if you're on a busy tower, you're the first to get slowed down, but if you're on a tower with plenty of unused bandwidth, you won't notice a difference". Also, I'm wagering their 14GB tethering limit is still in place.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/t...

Dutch police close Ennetcom encrypted communications network (April 25, 2016)

I don't know about the ESX version, but in my opinion, VMWare Workstation is a heap of steaming crap. We see VMs that slow down, even though the slow VM is the single VM that is busy on the host. Frequent re-starts appear to be the only solution to this.

We tried a shared filesystem (shared between the host and other guests) and performance was terrible.

Combined with VMWare firing the desktop developers, I cannot understand why anyone would pay for this.

Well try running a whole enterprise with clustering, eSAN storage, virtual switching, failovers, cloud integration for backups, expiring VM's, auditing for infosec, ability to move the VM's anywhere, and command line tools to automate tens of thousands of virtual servers all on virtualbox and let me see how far you get?

FYI Vmware workstation is their obsolete product they made in 1998 which is a type 2 hypervisor. ESX is a type 1 which means no special messy drivers to translate things back and forth. The guests can talk to the hardware directly in a type 1 which means no slow down unless hardware is overloaded. ESX is a totally different product!

The only thing that may even kind of come close is Hyper-V on Windows which is a type-1. If you have the pro version of 8 - 10 you can enable it and play with it and see how much better it is compared to VirtualBox and Vmware workstation? But last I saw checkpoints were not production ready??? What?! Seriously? I use them at home but with checkpoints and until MS can guarantee I can do a checkpoint what choice do I have at work but to use ESX to manage virtually everything that is not tied down to solo host servers.

We tried a shared filesystem (shared between the host and other guests) and performance was terrible.

Combined with VMWare firing the desktop developers, I cannot understand why anyone would pay for this.

M$ doesn't sell or support XP anymore, release the source code and let the market create it's own security patches.

Maybe everyone can buy patches for windows 2000 server from the Russian mob or a github account

> A few shills a.k.a. reviewers will manage to find 4 or 5 irrelevant points to discuss for 2 pages, touting them as upgrades.

The poor wretch has to make a living. Batting his eyelids and wiggling his big fat butt at Microsoft puts food on his table. http://www.extremetech.com/com... http://www.zdnet.com/article/i...

Uber is doing it

Uber's head of economic research, Keith Chen, told NPR's Shankar Vedantam during an episode of The Hidden Brain podcast that users of the service are willing to accept surge pricing increases of as much as 9.9 times if their smartphone's battery is close to flat.

The logic is that if your battery is almost dead, then you feel at risk of being stranded, and that means that rides are much more valuable to you than they would be if your battery had sufficient charge.

Oh, but don't worry, Chen promises that the company doesn't use this information to set fares.

Wow, Uber is such a classy business.

Uber is doing it

But as for tracking, why not just report battery level by 10% increment, or some other increment where you can hide in a gaussian distribution? Really they only need to know Full, low, and not full or low.

Here you go:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-sets-end-of-sales-date-for-windows-7-pcs/

Last date is October 31, 2016. Plus, you'll be able to get copies off of eBay for quite some time afterwards, I'm sure.

Your vendor is probably trying to just push everyone on to Windows 10 for their own sake, not unlike Microsoft. All the more reason to go for Linux and ignore the prior poster, especially since they are probably basing their experiences off of an encounter with a broken Linux system in 1994.

Microsoft continues to amaze and excel as they go to new lengths to make the Windows experience even more excruciatingly intolerable to any user that has the slightest clue what they're doing with a computer.

I have been trying to figure out what the HELL they are thinking.

99.99% of Windows 10 Pro users were NEVER going to mess with group policy editor to tweak those settings anyway. So ~why~ go to the trouble of disabling them.

And as for the one in a thousand that is going to go into group policy and change this stuff... why spend resources getting in his way... there's no money in that. And its just going to piss them off, and they WILL find another way.

So... no I don't think this really has anything to do with preventing consumers from doing what they want.

I think this has everything to with ensuring enterprises have to use the enterprise version, and pay the VLA subscription prices etc. That's where the money is, and that's where it might actually be worth it for microsoft.

i think us power users are just being caught in the cross fire.

The interesting question for me, unless I wish to abandon windows entirely* is how painful moving to the enterprise version would be. I've always paid extra for windows pro, because i wanted to run IIS, and RDP, and not be stuck with the idiot permissions model, etc. So I've long since accepted paying a bit extra to get what I want from windows.

Now, maybe instead of pro, I just want the enterprise version. So what will that cost... because it seems it does everything I want. It lets me turn off telemetry, it lets me turn off cortana, etc, etc. If I had the enterprise version, I wouldn't be stuck fighting with windows, it would just work for me.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/m...

So Microsoft... $84/user (so i can have enterprise on all my computers and laptops, and always up to date?) And I don't have to put up with any of your consumer-freemium-telemetry-cortana-shit? I'm potentially ok making that deal.

* re abandoning windows option; I work with windows so I need it. I own a macbook pro as my primary laptop; and I have linux running in my office as well... so I'm fairly well positioned to leave windows if I really wanted to. But I don't really want to... I use it for games, and I use Windows for work (visual studio and other proprietary stuff), and for accounting, etc, etc.

I like linux, and love it as a server, but find it needs too much tinkering for a gaming PC or HTPC. And OSX ... i like my laptop, but I'm not going to shoehorn myself into apple's extremely limited lineup of overpriced desktop options.

Leave it to the French to aim at easy targets.

It is NOT a "given" that they've done this.

It's a FACT.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/c...

They've basically turned over their master encryption key to law enforcement.

And they not only did not tell investors or device owners about it, they used legal shenanigans to try and stop the fact that they'd done this from leaking!

Right now I'd put more trust in dropping the soap in the presence of an unrepentant serial prison rapist than in Blackberry security right now.

Fuck, I'd trust HILLARY CLINTON before I'd trust Blackberry!

Perhaps then you can explain why opening Notepad will result in Windows 10 contacting 107 different domains, including watson.live.com and m.adnxs.com?

Perhaps you can provide a credible source on this? Sounds like that CheesusCrust post on Voat that was debunked earlier this year: http://www.zdnet.com/article/w...

No one forces you to install updates or service packs. You just won't be able to get future updates if you're more than 2 service updates behind.

Clearly you've never actually used Windows 10, because it definitely does force you to update

Since the link in the summary goes to an unrelated article, you might want this instead: http://www.zdnet.com/article/a...

Just a reminder, that the US seems on track to surrender its control of the Internet to an "International Body" — despite some lawmakers trying to prevent the Administration from doing it.

Countries like this — and even worse ones, where citizens' access is already tightly controlled or where "hate speech" is illegal — will now have more say over how the Network is run.

(If you were going to reply pointing out, FBI's attempt to unlock a dead terrorist's iPhone is "just as bad" — don't...)

Allow me to point out that this order is not issued from the Executive branch. It is from the Judiciary branch. Nothing to do with little tyrants elsewhere. Brazil is one of the most democratic countries in the world.

Just a reminder, that the US seems on track to surrender its control of the Internet to an "International Body" — despite some lawmakers trying to prevent the Administration from doing it.

Countries like this — and even worse ones, where citizens' access is already tightly controlled or where "hate speech" is illegal — will now have more say over how the Network is run.

(If you were going to reply pointing out, FBI's attempt to unlock a dead terrorist's iPhone is "just as bad" — don't...)

Oh, and I'll switch from Linux VMs to Ubuntu on Windows when Win10 Redstone comes out in a couple of weeks. Really seems like it might be the best of both worlds.

It's way more than bash on Windows - it runs almost any command line program that doesn't need Dbus now, and there are even (currently hackish) workarounds for that and X already.

Or for a slightly more mainstream citation, A primer

We already have excellent replacements, people just don't want to use them.

ZDnet says Linux Mint 18 is the best desktop, period.

Been done, stories in 2004 about an event in 1982:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/u...

and then, years later, we have the results of counter-information campaigns:

http://jeffreycarr.blogspot.co...

hard to know what's truth and what's fiction, and how much has been done but not leaked.

July 29

http://www.zdnet.com/article/w...

I stopped using AVG years ago due to this... not to mention the new policy of selling your data to third parties[1]. Avast wants you to 'register' once a year which involves trying to sell you the payed service, though it shuts up after a few clicks.

The main issue I have with Avast is that the latest versions (within the past six months) occasionally freak out and absolutely peg the CPU; when that happens nothing can shut it down except a hard reboot.[2]

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/a...
[2]pic related https://imgur.com/sE2FbNN

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Did Microsoft management fail the "no means no" sex education classes?

Microsoft intentional deafness on this matter has completely and irretrievably soured my opinion on them.

When Microsoft finally makes Windows 10 a subscription service, I will have been long gone to the World of Linux.

The only place you're seeing any adoption of Linux on the desktop is a few European companies, and that's due to anti-American sentiment more than any technical superiority.

Sure, we all know you are trolling. But why not throw in some fun (actual) facts?

There is a company who uses Linux on their desktops. They are slightly technical, and you may have heard of them - Google.
And although it was about 4 years ago, there was a nice article about Goobuntu (their modified version of Ubuntu) on ZDNET. Another interesting fact from the article is that they were paying customers for it, and not the largest. Things may have changed since then, I don't know. But I do know that they haven't switched over to Windows.

What I really don't understand is what you get out of your copy/paste trolling. Or do you really believe what you posted? Either way, you're obviously wrong. But then again, you're posting as an AC, so what else could be expected.

I remember back in the good old days when trolls at least had a little bit of skill.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/g...

It's called the REACT team.

Of course, the article says they choose to lease because from the very beginning they planned to replace it. So the plan all along was that they would replace it, but now they decided they'd rather not.

No, you have misread the article (and mixed up choose and chose). I presume that you were referring to this paragraph:

Chiron, an MS-DOS-based system first developed in the 1980s and rolled out in many SA Health rural hospitals in the early 90s, was to have been replaced by the Enterprise Patient Administration System (EPAS) from Allscripts that was originally planned as a state-wide EMR and PAS solution.

The part about when the software was introduced was a subclause of the sentence, and it did not mean that it was already planned to be superseded even as it was introduced. In fact, the software was implemented over 2 years from 1991, while EPAS was only planned in 2009 and put out to tender in 2010. This was many years after they had refused to upgrade to the Windows replacement of Chiron, which itself happened 12 years after SA Health first started using it. The roll-out of EPAS was supposed to have been completed by 2017, 26 years after they first signed up to Chiron. This was not a short term solution as you have stated elsewhere.

Compac sold the Alpha IP to Intel in June 2001. HP announced the acquisition of Compaq in September of 2001.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/a...

The 1% of you can thank me later: