In the past, changes to the Windows UX have been evolutionary, and possible to revert in a substantial way using provided user accessible tools. With Windows 8, a major part was just gone, and there was not even a registry setting to bring it back. That is why people got really mad, beyond simple luddite complaints.
What is the point of your post though? Linux desktop isn't popular for some other reason too?
Yeah, and Unity was annoying too, and they were both annoying in the same way as Windows 8. Even that would have been fine, but support for Gnome 2 was immediately dropped, and there really was no viable alternative for quite some time.
If there were 10 cases of polio in my kid's school, I'd vaccinate my kids in a heartbeat.
While the US has been polio free since 1979, it is highly persistent in the environment, highly contagious, and anything but eradicated worldwide. The industrialized world is only free from polio due to high acceptance of childhood immunizations against it.
Proposing to wait until 10 kids at school get sick shows a thorough misunderstanding of how vaccines even work. They take weeks to provide full immunity, and only really offer any value by creating a population where the disease already can not spread.
To reiterate, everyone who gets the vaccine is protecting the liberty, fear, and laziness minded assholes, such as yourself. Unless you would skip your shots while living in say, India... please kindly stfu.
Also, if 50% of HPV infections cause cervical cancer in women,
This figure is not even close to correct. The CDC attributes approximately 30,000 cancers/year (including many not on the cervix) to HPV, while the yearly new infection rate is estimated at 14,000,000. Something less than 1% is probably a lot closer to reality.
... and make sure that your partners have had regular STD tests
This kind of assumes that the kids are old enough to have transportation to a physicians office, are old enough to consent to medical treatment, and have the money and/or insurance documentation to do so.
Or it could just be the default response for any document from the medical examiner, and their computer system lacks the distinction between human and animal medical exams.
A small media circus is still probably the only way to get the documents, so here we go?
Running all of that stuff is fun when you have the time, but frankly is a huge pain in the ass in the long run. Eventually you will shave that neckbeard right off and start using Gmail again, probably without any Slashdot article...
Right, Google was not happy with Symantec about that happening, and the summary is strongly trying to imply that Google is punishing Symantec by interrupting the value of their certificates... from TFA we can read that Symantec does not anticipate that any of their SSL customers will be affected.
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The people digging coal out of the ground don't burn it, don't they have a right to stay in West Virginia or whatever?
Except the fact that desktop apps are one of the largest attack surfaces on desktop machines, and one of the most significant malware vectors.
Think... acrobat reader, java plugin, flash, IE, chrome, firefox, malicious office documents, can you think of more?
"Don't tell me to run Linux," very well. I suspect you don't anyway,
Let's see... well supported desktop environment or a pile of shitty desktop apps...
The real argument for the Linux desktop is... it runs chrome and gterm?
If I had a dollar for every Windows 10 scandal that I did not give a shit about...
At least they give great end user support on pirated firmware updates...
Do they really give out the hashes with no intention of letting you download the files?
BitTorrent.
Download remote code from a stranger to patch a remote code execution vulnerability...
You can not buy it online.
You can not but it from Cisco, you have to go through a reseller.
I dumped our ASA in the trash for the same reason. We use a Linux VM for all routing/firewalling, and have never looked back.
Eliminating something that should have never ever been there is not really enough to earn my trust again.
Bundled installers are known to be a major malware vector, so just saying, "hay ho, no more ad revenue", really misses the point.
In the past, changes to the Windows UX have been evolutionary, and possible to revert in a substantial way using provided user accessible tools. With Windows 8, a major part was just gone, and there was not even a registry setting to bring it back. That is why people got really mad, beyond simple luddite complaints.
What is the point of your post though? Linux desktop isn't popular for some other reason too?
You are right, Gnome 3 was/is horseshit.
Yeah, and Unity was annoying too, and they were both annoying in the same way as Windows 8. Even that would have been fine, but support for Gnome 2 was immediately dropped, and there really was no viable alternative for quite some time.
During the Windows 8 disaster, the Linux community was making the same mistake of forcing their users into a new UI paradigm that they didn't want....
Yeah, talk about the easiest $600/hour they have ever made.
Not in international waters.
If there were 10 cases of polio in my kid's school, I'd vaccinate my kids in a heartbeat.
While the US has been polio free since 1979, it is highly persistent in the environment, highly contagious, and anything but eradicated worldwide. The industrialized world is only free from polio due to high acceptance of childhood immunizations against it.
Proposing to wait until 10 kids at school get sick shows a thorough misunderstanding of how vaccines even work. They take weeks to provide full immunity, and only really offer any value by creating a population where the disease already can not spread.
To reiterate, everyone who gets the vaccine is protecting the liberty, fear, and laziness minded assholes, such as yourself. Unless you would skip your shots while living in say, India... please kindly stfu.
I came here to write exactly this.
Liberty and freedom are more important than you not getting sick.
Says the person living in a small pox free world, who thinks that measels and mumps are something antique from the hit video game, Oregon Trail.
If you are fishing for new converts to Libertarianism, you are doing so with a pretty off-key argument.
Also, if 50% of HPV infections cause cervical cancer in women,
This figure is not even close to correct. The CDC attributes approximately 30,000 cancers/year (including many not on the cervix) to HPV, while the yearly new infection rate is estimated at 14,000,000. Something less than 1% is probably a lot closer to reality.
... and make sure that your partners have had regular STD tests
This kind of assumes that the kids are old enough to have transportation to a physicians office, are old enough to consent to medical treatment, and have the money and/or insurance documentation to do so.
Or it could just be the default response for any document from the medical examiner, and their computer system lacks the distinction between human and animal medical exams.
A small media circus is still probably the only way to get the documents, so here we go?
How does the Jedi force reconcile notions on the conservation of energy? Is a Jedi knight a perpetual motion machine?
Running all of that stuff is fun when you have the time, but frankly is a huge pain in the ass in the long run. Eventually you will shave that neckbeard right off and start using Gmail again, probably without any Slashdot article...
Another, "fake hype/nobody cares", bennett story.
Right, Google was not happy with Symantec about that happening, and the summary is strongly trying to imply that Google is punishing Symantec by interrupting the value of their certificates... from TFA we can read that Symantec does not anticipate that any of their SSL customers will be affected.
The summary tried as hard as possible to imply that this was some acrimonious thing, but it is not.
Symantec asked Google to distrust a specific CA root, end of story. Nobody affected in any way, except maybe people who do not install updates.