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  1. The entire debt-based economy has problems on How Can We Fix The Broken Economics of Open Source? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I dislike the entire debt-based economy and has for a while. One of the problems with it is that it is based on extracting more dollars from "consumers". You can also see this in DRM for music and video for example. In my Google DoubleClick essay I mentioned Novell and Sun as examples.

  2. I wonder if Eric Schmidt left because of:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

  3. Re: Just moved everything off and deleted my accou on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It was related to Minecraft modding being demonstrated and how it was not officially supported (at the time it was written in Java).

  4. Re: Just moved everything off and deleted my accou on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I remember the BUILD 2015 debacle.

  5. My essay has gotten little attention: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/...
    Even things like this (not covered in the essay) has been hard to find more info about: https://twitter.com/berendjanw...

  6. Re:Separate texting while stopped on Woman Looking At Apple Watch Found Guilty of Distracted Driving (nationalpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean separating not completely removing these offenses and assigning them different penalties.

  7. Separate texting while stopped on Woman Looking At Apple Watch Found Guilty of Distracted Driving (nationalpost.com) · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of the need to separate texting while stopped and texting while moving offences.

  8. Re:Any version of 10 is a dead end for enterprise on Windows 10 Pro Is a Dead End For the Enterprise, Gartner Says (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    "Open License" only requires five.

  9. Good thing audio DRM is dead on Sony In $2.3 Billion Deal For EMI, Becomes World's Biggest Music Publisher · · Score: 1

    I remember when Sony bought CBS Records. On DRM, I mentioned before that "Thinking about it, part of the reasons music labels got big is for economy of scale when mass producing CDs for example. Of course, such economy of scale was not needed anymore with the move to digital distribution. This didn't work well with the current debt-based economy where shareholders depends on stocks always going up for things like retirements and companies treat people as "consumers" to be extracted from. I assume that Hollywood has similar problems, right?"

  10. Have an entire paragraph about this in the essay: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2...

  11. I have an essay about one problem: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2...

  12. Disk First Aid on Apple's iMac Turns 20 Years Old (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The iMac led to the release of Disk First Aid 8.2 in mid-1998, which can finally repair the startup disk directly without having to boot from a DIsk First Aid floppy.

  13. Looks like this is an opt-out bill, but one thing I don't like about it is how it literally requires the link to be called "Do Not Sell My Personal Information".

  14. Re:more than just advertsing on Ubuntu Disputes 'Ads In MOTD' Claims (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea, the problem with the Ubuntu search term debacle is that they were sending things like local filenames and making money off it. This is not the case here.

  15. I wonder how many use the terminal on Ubuntu Disputes 'Ads In MOTD' Claims (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many use the terminal in the first place for such an ad to be actually profitable anyway.

  16. A new kind of crash dump in Win8 on France Drops Windows 10 Privacy Case After Microsoft Changes Telemetry Settings (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.c...

    It basically scrubs all values that don't meet certain criteria with 0xAAAAAAAA. Also in patent 8,645,763.

  17. On the GPL, VMware, Linux Foundation, and SFLC.... on Linus Explains What Surprises Him After 25 Years Of Linux (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    Do anyone know who is responsible for pulling funding to the SFLC at Linux Foundation/VMware after the Germany VMware GPL enforcement lawsuit? Was Paul Maritz involved for example?

  18. 32-bit Windows 10 S and PAE on Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS? (backblaze.com) · · Score: 1

    This mentions a minimum of 32GB storage for 32-bit and 64GB storage for 64-bit for "Windows 10 Cloud":
    https://betanews.com/2017/04/2...
    64-bit Windows takes more disk space because of the syswow64 directory etc.
    Notice it also mentions 4GB of RAM, which makes me wonder about PAE.

  19. Re:SSE is still patented on Intel: Steer Clear Of Our Patents (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The patents are probably almost expiring by now though. Remember the priority dates of Pentium 4 SSE2 patents released in Nov 2000 are probably around 1999 at the latest for example. SSE1 itself is just a subset of SSE2 with only single precision floating point instructions BTW. That itself was released with Pentium III in Jan 1999, meaning the priority date can't be later than 1998.

  20. If you are able to compile programs with Visual C++, there are a lot of bugs that you can BSoD a terminal server with that will never get fixed.

  21. Re:Stuck using unsupported versions of Chrome on Former Mozilla CTO: 'Chrome Won' (andreasgal.com) · · Score: 1

    They are moving XP and Vista to ESR right now. They eventually will do similar nagging later.

  22. PDB symbols on 'Don't Tell People To Turn Off Windows Update, Just Don't' (troyhunt.com) · · Score: 1

    As a side note, the delay to release PDB symbols on MS's symbol server after a Patch Tuesday has been at least days and sometimes more than a week for the last two months (at least for the Win10 symbols I tried). I use them a lot with WinDbg.

  23. Re:Custom Support and MS quarterly earnings on Microsoft Blasts Spy Agencies For Leaked Exploits Used By WanaDecrypt0r (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The original quote from https://view.officeapps.live.c... : "As expected, Enterprise Services revenue declined 1 percent and was flat in constant currency, due to a lower volume of Windows Server 2003 custom support agreements."

    I was guessing that this decline is because the revenue declined by tens of millions, which implies that they are likely making much more than that total in these contracts especially given that Server 2003 is still widely used. I checked "Productivity and Business Processes", "Intelligent Cloud" and "More Personal Computing" for this quarter and all of these individually total about $7-9 billion.

  24. Custom Support and MS quarterly earnings on Microsoft Blasts Spy Agencies For Leaked Exploits Used By WanaDecrypt0r (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I have quite a good discussion about Custom Support and MS quarterly earnings here: https://www.reddit.com/r/micro...