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  1. Re:Can't we just get PCs with Windows 7? on Microsoft Gives Windows Device Makers Their 2017 Marching Orders (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Do they even allow you do have two editing windows open at the same time? Or three windows? I hate that gawdawful MDI interface that every single IDE thinks they have to use.

  2. Re:Can't we just get PCs with Windows 7? on Microsoft Gives Windows Device Makers Their 2017 Marching Orders (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm, not being able to run them may be a good thing. Office 2016 for instance is just plain awful, and Visual Studio was created as an example of how not to do an IDE.

  3. Re:Can't we just get PCs with Windows 7? on Microsoft Gives Windows Device Makers Their 2017 Marching Orders (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I recall that Microsoft changed its mind after an outcry and decided it was a bad idea. I don't know if they removed this feature or just turned it off by default, but they did do a change to this feature without ever quite admitting that it was fundamentally a stupid idea.

  4. Well, last I looked it was pretty lacking. Maybe they've improved it over time?

  5. Doesn't matter if it's a part of him. A lawful warrant can get a tissue swab for DNA, or a snip of hair, etc.

  6. Re:I think it's safe to say that wouldn't hold up on Police Use Pacemaker Data To Charge Homeowner With Arson, Insurance Fraud (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    That's a huge stretch of the constitution. Which has, "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself". He was not compelled to witness against himself. He does have to respond to lawful warrants for search though, but is not required to speak or provide any information. Ie, they can take fingerprints and this has never been considered to be self incrimination. Likewise they can get a warrant for the pacemaker logs, or phone records, or a lock of hair, a breath sample, etc.

  7. Re: The point on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    This is why I think such supplemental taxes should be earmarked for a particular purpose only. Ie, vice taxes pay for prevention services or health costs, gasoline taxes pay for roads, and so forth. Sticking this money into a general fund is what causes problems.

  8. Re:The point on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    As opposed to the second camp of politicians addicted to lobbying dollars that ask them to oppose any and all taxes. I have yet to see a significant third camp of politicians that aren't addicted to money, which means is is difficult to form a hypothesis about how they would behave.

  9. A false positive is not a bad thing. The complaint in the article is not that the antivirus is not effective, but that it "interferes" with some applications. Which does not sound like a problem to me, just a bit more work for the developers.

  10. Re:Disable ad-blocker for a paragraph of twitter c on Google Chrome Engineer Says Windows Defender 'the Only Well Behaved Antivirus', Cites 'Tons of Empirical Data' (onmsft.com) · · Score: 1

    You can do the wild cards with a router based DNS server. Though this is not as easy and turnkey as an adblocker.

  11. Except that I do see the 10% happening. Sure the smart viruses will get past it, but there are countless old viruses still making he round and my relatives keep finding them. You may as well say that locking the front door is 90% placebo, but you'd be pretty dumb to leave it unlocked all the time because there are attacks of opportunity.

  12. My mother keeps getting viruses. She'll click on anything and everything as she has difficulty being paranoid online. Her antivirus DOES detect viruses.

    If it interferes with the operation of the browser then that's perfectly fine with me.

  13. It's nice to have the firewall though. Windows does not have a reasonable alternative. Some other features that AV packages have can be handy when setting up systems for relatives who are clueless about computers, like warning when a site is potential spam, your credit card number is going out in the clear, and so forth. Most malware these days is coming over the web browser so first line of defense should be there, and the AV is just to help catch what gets through.

  14. Re:Don't use rm! on GitLab.com Melts Down After Wrong Directory Deleted, Backups Fail (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Boring job, doesn't pay as much as others. Everyone wants to be the rockstar since that's who the recruiters look for, nobody wants to be the janitor that cleans up after the concert. Turn that into a startup and seriously, no one at a startup wants to be the grunt, and (almost) no one at a startup has an ounce of experience with real world issues.

    This is why sysadmins were created, because the people actually using the computers didn't want to manage them.

  15. Re:unrealistic expectations on Touch Bar MacBook Pros Are Being Banned From Bar Exams Over Predictive Text (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Better than Word at least.

  16. And this has nothing to do with the touchbar at all. Predictive text is not a feature of the touchbar, it can be done on any computer. As for scrolling some text on the touchbar, well you can have an application do that on the screen as well.

  17. My point wasn't whether or not they paid less, but that other businesses start to vanish when Walmart shows up. Not all of those workers end up at Walmart as replacement jobs either.

  18. Reagan would never get elected these days anyway, he's too liberal, too many ties to Hollywood elite, lives in California, is known to compromise on deals with the enemy (democrats), and raised taxes.

  19. But HOW is he going to do that. Sure it could work if it's done thoughtfully and thinking through all the hard stuff, but that's not Trump's method. Trump's method is to ask Bannon how to do everything.

  20. Problem is that Walmart and McDonald's ARE the job market in many places. Walmart comes into town and other local stores fold in a few years, often towns are stupid enough to give a tax break to Walmart (and if they don't then the Walmart opens just outside the city limits). Then you can end up with Walmart being a primary employer in town, with fast food places taking high spots too if you lump them together.

    In my home town, Walmart is the 4th largest employer.

  21. Re:At this point... on All-Corn Diet Turns Hamsters Into Cannibals · · Score: 1

    Y0u mean grain. Hunter-gatherers gathered grain too. Don't fall into this paleo crap invented by people who don't know what paleo even means.

  22. Re:Trump seems to think Executive Orders... on Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 1

    The president runs the various departments. Congress has rough guidelines and controls the budgets. But the president has always had the authority to run the departments. Much is delegated to the secretaries in the cabinet but the president can send in an order to align things to politics, have a hiring freeze, change the color of the money, etc. The executive branch has been given the authority over immigration, it does not need permission from congress to manage that as long as it follows all the existing laws.

    The executive has always had latitude about where to put law enforcement emphasis. Every police department in the world has this ability, they do not enforce every statute with equal fervour.

  23. Re:Trump seems to think Executive Orders... on Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 1

    Never mind that executive orders really don't have the power that many people think they do. Very often they are mundane things, not even worth counting.

  24. Re:Trump seems to think Executive Orders... on Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 1

    Is this what the majority wants? What percentage of Trump voters had this on their top agenda? Did you not notice the large numbers who voted for Trump who did so because he wasn't Hillary and not because they actually like Trump? Or what about noticing that Trump didn't actually get a majority of votes? Sure, popular vote doesn't mean anything in the election, but it is a nice thing to trot out when the president gets too uppity and insists that he has a mandate from the people.

  25. Re:Trump seems to think Executive Orders... on Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 1

    Congress it seems is bowing to him. The Republican leadership were all opposed to Trump when he was just one of the candidates in the primaries. When he won the nomination they all came up to kiss his ring. And Trump's ego made sure that everyone knew who was kissing his ring. We've got a lot of "leaders" who are one issue candidates (anti-abortion for instance, they'll sway any of their opinions on any other topic except that ), and we also have a lot of elected followers who only do whatever the leadership tells them to do (their loyalty is to the party, not to America). Sure, the same problems exist on the Democratic side.