This is nothing new by any stretch and applies to many platforms.
I don't disagree with you there. But it's been ignored too long at this point. With the OS taking the primary role in security these days, it's time to address it.
Did they? All they said is that they'd be wary if they were asked for their Google Play password. They did not say that the request was ever legitimate. I imagine that if I was asked for the password, the phone would switch over to the Play store app before popping up the dialog - but I also can't remember ever being asked.
VLC isn't a great music player as far as library management or playlist goes. If you want to use built-in Windows APIs to play, just use a built-in Windows app to do it.
VLC is also cross-platform, which means linking to a different API for every platform and even excluding some platforms if they don't write their own decoder library. While they're at it, why not just link to built-in Windows codecs for every format? Let's just erase VLCs reason for existing.
Unless that plugin downloads at runtime, it's still bloat as far as I'm concerned. Even if it's not sitting in RAM, it's still wasting my hard drive space.
And of course that's not a counterexample. It's easy for anyone to tell from context that it wasn't intended as a serious warning. It's not the word fire itself that's potentially unprotected speech.
But we're specifically talking about cases where it's clear that someone who stands to gain paid for the third-party speech. This is no different than paying an ad agency to run a TV commercial for you. Whatever the ad agency produces and runs counts as your own advertising.
Considering that every install needs instrument samples for a format that relatively few people play - it makes sense for it to at least not be in the default install.
Can you maybe spend 5 minutes to help them reinstall it then? Microsoft just wants the default packages to be consistent across the non-x86 version of Windows. I can't fault them for that, but I still think that Paint 3D is an abomination.
Slashdot of all places should get the summary right. It sounds uneducated when they treat baryons as a distinct type of particle rather than a category that includes many familiar ones.
While that's a form of insurance, I really don't think it qualifies as a form of "health insurance" other than in name. Just because you're healthy now, you can get an expensive chronic lifelong condition at any time - and "catastrophic" really just means one instance, not ongoing care. At that point, you'll want to buy real health insurance to manage costs. And you can, because you are not prevented from buying insurance with a pre-existing condition and you still aren't prevented from racking up huge ER bills and not paying them either. And those are somewhat fair arguments for having you paying into the shared subsidy pot all along. You can become a burden on the system at any moment.
To say nothing of the "reputable" medical journals you linked to, I'll just say that most modern chemical products are "petroleum byproducts" simply petroleum refinement provides convenient building blocks in great abundance.
That quote is true - they did nothing to legally force insurance companies to change their offerings (minor details excluded). That they chose to do so is maybe a financial consequence, but not a legal mandate of the health care bill.
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just a two-bit software developer.
Being a two-bit software developer is actually pretty hard. And it doesn't come with much of an instruction set either.
This is nothing new by any stretch and applies to many platforms.
I don't disagree with you there. But it's been ignored too long at this point. With the OS taking the primary role in security these days, it's time to address it.
Did they? All they said is that they'd be wary if they were asked for their Google Play password. They did not say that the request was ever legitimate. I imagine that if I was asked for the password, the phone would switch over to the Play store app before popping up the dialog - but I also can't remember ever being asked.
If the platform doesn't give you a way to distinguish, then it's still a platform security issue.
VLC isn't a great music player as far as library management or playlist goes. If you want to use built-in Windows APIs to play, just use a built-in Windows app to do it.
VLC is also cross-platform, which means linking to a different API for every platform and even excluding some platforms if they don't write their own decoder library. While they're at it, why not just link to built-in Windows codecs for every format? Let's just erase VLCs reason for existing.
Unless that plugin downloads at runtime, it's still bloat as far as I'm concerned. Even if it's not sitting in RAM, it's still wasting my hard drive space.
You're the one who said "free speech means freedom from consequences." You did not put any disclaimers on that at the time.
The fact is, any damage to property or goodwill is caused by the speech itself, so that means that the speech itself is illegal in that case.
Wait... So if I want to be offended, I don't have that right?
That's still the same point. A lot of bloat for a very small subset of users.
I have no illusions that it will happen. Just that it's what needs to.
And of course that's not a counterexample. It's easy for anyone to tell from context that it wasn't intended as a serious warning. It's not the word fire itself that's potentially unprotected speech.
But we're specifically talking about cases where it's clear that someone who stands to gain paid for the third-party speech. This is no different than paying an ad agency to run a TV commercial for you. Whatever the ad agency produces and runs counts as your own advertising.
Considering that every install needs instrument samples for a format that relatively few people play - it makes sense for it to at least not be in the default install.
WMP has not been removed, it's been made a non-default application
That would be the case in a fresh install, but not when you update to this build.
They already replaced that with a modern UI version. With WMP, they just renamed the replacement.
It's a shell linking audio/video codecs (which still exist) to a simple set of video controls,
Maybe 5 versions ago. Now it's a bloated mess.
Can you maybe spend 5 minutes to help them reinstall it then? Microsoft just wants the default packages to be consistent across the non-x86 version of Windows. I can't fault them for that, but I still think that Paint 3D is an abomination.
It only makes sense for something as large as a galaxy in motion to shed a bit during travel. They produce enough of their own light.
Slashdot of all places should get the summary right. It sounds uneducated when they treat baryons as a distinct type of particle rather than a category that includes many familiar ones.
catastrophic health insurance
While that's a form of insurance, I really don't think it qualifies as a form of "health insurance" other than in name. Just because you're healthy now, you can get an expensive chronic lifelong condition at any time - and "catastrophic" really just means one instance, not ongoing care. At that point, you'll want to buy real health insurance to manage costs. And you can, because you are not prevented from buying insurance with a pre-existing condition and you still aren't prevented from racking up huge ER bills and not paying them either. And those are somewhat fair arguments for having you paying into the shared subsidy pot all along. You can become a burden on the system at any moment.
To say nothing of the "reputable" medical journals you linked to, I'll just say that most modern chemical products are "petroleum byproducts" simply petroleum refinement provides convenient building blocks in great abundance.
It makes a much better hypothetical than the case the opinion was applied to. I'll pay for your movie ticket if you'll go and try it.
If you're one of the people sitting closer, it does. It really depends on your seating arrangement.
That quote is true - they did nothing to legally force insurance companies to change their offerings (minor details excluded). That they chose to do so is maybe a financial consequence, but not a legal mandate of the health care bill.
Do you maybe mean bupkis? Unless you're talking about another sex fantasy fulfilled for Trump over there...