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  1. Windows 10 has so much drift to support the touch interface. You have two different places to configure the system, and different rules, between Settings and Control Panel. It has two independent web browsers. Code to support a ridiculous number of options on how to display file icons in the Explorer view.

    These are just a few examples of the unnecessary bloat. If the unused garbage were thrown out, Windows 10 could be lean and mean. ReactOS is architecturally similar, based on Vista, but it's lighter and almost functionally equivalent.

    It can be done smaller, and that was the original point. Windows 95 was tiny, and accomplished basically the same tasks. Fixing its problems can be done without the bloat, proven by ReactOS. Microsoft just isn't willing to commit to a pure UI refresh cycle to reactor everything to use a consistent look, throwing away duplicate functionality so everything similar runs through the same pipeline.

    Of course if they did it would all be touch and keyboards might well be archaic tech at that point.

  2. I would expect a simple update guide with breaking changes and simple resolutions.

    If that isn't available, I'd say no php development allowed anywhere. Software has to be developed knowing that it is insecure, and will need updates. A language/framework developer doubly so.

    And expecting people to spend time reworking their code because you fucked up is ignorant at best. If your code is so insecure that you need a breaking change, make it an easy upgrade. Or else just deprecate it and suck it up.

  3. Re:Easy to figure out, now include AI on New Alexa Skill Plays Fake Stupid Arguments To Scare Off Burglars (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it's a publicity stunt.

    Real criminals would know about this and study the dialog so it is immediately recognized as Alexa, because they have stolen Alexas already. They will hand out CDs at their thief TED talks with the skits. Recognizing the voice actors is already in Thieving 101.

    It's not effective because it isn't trying to be.

  4. Wine. ReactOS and Wine can share code, and until recently did so. Because the user space APIs and structures are all the same.

    Wine intercepts the kernel calls and redirects to a Linux call, translating and keeping track of things. ReactOS just implements the kernel directly.

    There are proprietary builds of Wine that do a good job running Windows only software on Linux, if wine isn't good enough. If you have Windows you can take a ReactOS build of those wine dlls and debug them on Windows to compare with real windows if you want to fix Wine.

    Tl;Dr Windows is everywhere and people want to run Windows only software on something else. Without telemetry gathering and tablet ui and other recent garbage. It isn't prod ready, but that doesn't mean it won't be.

  5. Re:dumbed down & inaccurate search results on Firefox and the 4-Year Battle To Have Google To Treat It as a First-Class Citizen (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure a preceding minus still means NOT so you can do true Boolean.

    One or Two -not "and"

  6. Not really, but they have understood the benefits of sharing. Free advertising mostly. Keep the name in the news for positive reasons.

    Having a large developer base is another goal, keeping the ecosystem relatively popular and inexpensive.

    It's all still for selfish reasons, and the main face of Microsoft, aka Windows 10, is pure selfish.

  7. So we go from shit I can reformat and read, to shit I can't read? That's a hard no.

    It's not about the attack surface. It's about knowing what runs.

    I'll allow jQuery with a known hash, for example. But that means fewer websites work for me. I have money to spend, but I don't even click on certain websites that give me a blank page.

    I'm guessing there are a lots of nerds who remember ActiveX and aren't willing to make that mistake. And also have excess cash inflow. But the decision makers don't remember a time when JavaScript was maybe not even an option. Graceful fallback. Yes some people still do that.

  8. Re:Makes no sense on Humans Can Now Correct Robots With Brainwaves (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    You're sucking my dick wrong. Change that.

  9. Re:Or they did 3 years of control studies on Honeybees Seem To Understand the Notion of Zero, Study Finds (sci-news.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    they did 3 years of control studies to eliminate any other possibilities.. Its right there in the article you incurious pseudointellectual.

  10. Re:Sure seems like it. on US Sanctions Russians Over Military, Intelligence Hacking (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    He is waiting to interview Trump. He doesn't want to finish without that.

    He's dragging on Manafort because he wants a flip.

    For the record Trump didn't want to win so he didn't collude. But he did obstruct. And Mueller will get him on that. Trump's flunkies wanted to open the door for business deals and tried to collude. Whether they did or not is the question

    How long will it take? Till he can get Trump on record.

  11. Re:Kendall you are a moron on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    I would want to have someone who could clarify terms like "get rid of" and who could interpret their offer to "cease production". Even if they aren't at the table, you need to know if they are even offering anything.

    They closed down a test facility that was probably ruined by earthquake and dangerous. That's not giving up anything. You can't have a deal where one side doesn't know what they agreed to.

    Yes even in very broad terms.

  12. Re:This is Sessions/Trump payback on Justice Department Seizes Reporter's Phone, Email Records In Leak Probe (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Bezos owns the Washington post. Also how do you get back at law enforcement by going after a reporter?

  13. Re:Without a fuck-ton of false positives..... on YouTube Can Be Liable For Copyright Infringing Videos, Court Rules (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    You're not paying attention. If YouTube promotes illegal content, it fails to be neutral. If the next video is chosen randomly, user engagement goes down aka viewers decide to stop and go elsewhere.

    This is not about detecting copyright infringement, but the way YouTube chooses content you might want to watch. YouTube can put Gangnam Style up next in your playlist because it is wildly popular, but it may not be the official Psy account getting the views. There is no recommendation on avoiding that problem.

    This decision says YouTube needs to choose between solving that problem and finding another way to choose videos in order to remain a neutral carrier.

  14. Re: My give a damn can't be upmixed on Dolby Looking To Monopolize Consumer Audio By Restricting Its Codec (audioholics.com) · · Score: 0

    I have two 60 year old piezoelectric speakers and they are awesome.

    Needless to say, your comment does nothing to help. People with ear buds or beats headphones seem typical these days. This ain't hurting them.

  15. My give a damn can't be upmixed on Dolby Looking To Monopolize Consumer Audio By Restricting Its Codec (audioholics.com) · · Score: 2

    Why is this a big deal? Are people really affected by this or us it just on principle?

  16. Re:VR... would it be a bad idea? on 'Descent' Creators Reunite For a New Game Called 'Overload' (steampowered.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have a gravity free intro to understand you are weightless, like an astronaut training, you could decide if you really can't play the vr version.

    Otherwise, arm your barf bags.

  17. Re:Start with the best language... Perl6 on A Middle-Aged Writer's Quest To Start Learning To Code For the First Time (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 2

    You don't cut and paste from stack overflow. You copy and paste. I doubt all of your assertions now.

  18. Re:Meh, take some college courses on A Middle-Aged Writer's Quest To Start Learning To Code For the First Time (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    "Call the sort() function, usually"

    Unless it's a sort() method. That's completely different.

  19. First time ever, my phone keeps disconnecting from the Wi-Fi this evening. So I yanked the plug to the router and modem, it went back to normal.

    Can't say its related but I never saw these symptoms before.

  20. Re:Did you really just sat THAT? Works for her bos on Trump Ignores 'Inconvenient' Security Rules To Keep Tweeting On His iPhone, Says Report (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    You picked the one thing that Congress controls to rebut this. Not a good choice. Congress would have sent this to anyone.

  21. I can only hear Trump whining on Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Wants Justice Department To Scrutinize Big Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    News like this just makes me assume someone in the Administration is afraid of too many news stories and wants to be able to censor them.

    Before Trump I at least looked for some explanation or rational reason. But it is all ruined. Every person in a position of power is corrupt and afraid of truth.

    And while fake news is a problem, is rather have that and truth than lose both. While monopolies can guide or promote an agenda I'd rather be able to read reporting on that influence than have neither. Such a shame to have ruined giving the government at least a chance to explain itself. Now I just don't trust the explanation, before I even hear it.

  22. You're wrong. People want to watch the current YouTube video while they find the next video to watch. This is the same functionality as PiP on tv's originally. Watch the very basic video, hear the audio, do something else.

    The argument that no one wants it is bullshit. The argument should be put that in an app. If you want YouTube PiP get the app. Skip the web browser.

  23. We have to live through the timeline without time travel until it is invented.

    Then it is invented, they go to the party and the memorial and shit gets weird. But it hasn't been invented in the future so it doesn't exist as a possibility now.

  24. It's not humor. It reads as sarcasm and we can quibble about the exact word to use, but it is a barb about preserving your rights vs having them taken, both on abortion and free speech.

    Entirely consistent with his philosophy.

  25. Wrong. His project based on his philosophy means or judgement of what is professional is irrelevant. You decided to impose a word on this project which does not arise directly from its existence.