The way I handle such issues is to look at the big picture. I don't know exactly what is happening with Microsoft and Windows, but there are many, many reports that indicate crazy things are happening.
Another example: I don't know what happened on 9/11/2001 at the World Trade Center, but it is interesting that Marvin P. Bush, the president's younger brother, was a principal in a company called Securacom that provided security for the World Trade Center.
The domination we are seeing is destructive toward the lives of those who do it, in the kind of way that alcoholism is not a solution to problems, but degrades the lives of alcoholics.
Is Pale Moon fixed? I don't see any mention of that.
We switched to Pale Moon and are now not having problems with the instability of Firefox when there are many windows and tabs open. Since Pale Moon is based on Firefox, most of the Firefox add-ons work.
Now, I understand, Mozilla Foundation gets most of its money from Microsoft. Microsoft pays Yahoo. Yahoo pays Mozilla Foundation to make "Yahoo search" (actually mostly Microsoft Bing search) the default search engine in Firefox.
The Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Composer GUIs have been damaged, apparently deliberately. File saves in the newer versions of both ask for a new file name, and don't suggest the last one chosen. The damage was reported several months ago, but has not been fixed.
Is that another example of Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? People who feel forced away from Thunderbird may choose Microsoft software to replace it. Is that something Microsoft is trying to accomplish?
In my opinion, dishonest people should not be employed in management. In my opinion, the managers and members of the board of directors of both Microsoft and Mozilla Foundation who approved the dishonesty of sneakily re-configuring Mozilla Foundation products should be immediately fired, and not allowed to have management positions in the future.
Mozilla Foundation may be desperate now that it has lost the incredible amount of money paid by Google.
A few of the many, many articles about abuse by Microsoft:
LibreOffice is wonderful, but the user interface is amazingly poor. Want italic? Click on a bold italic lower case letter a. Why not an italic letter I?
Yesterday I spent several hours writing an article using LibreOffice v 5.0.4.2. Many very seriously weird and time-consuming things happened.
It would be sensible, in my opinion, for governments to get together and support LibreOffice, so that Microsoft Office could be abandoned.
2) Microsoft wants to make money in the Facebook and Google way. Microsoft plans to mine all user data on all computers connected to the internet and sell the information.
3) The reason there will be no more versions of Windows is that Microsoft will do what Adobe Systems has done: Force users to move to a subscription model.
4) Windows users will isolate Windows from the internet, and use Linux on a different network with a cheap 2nd computer to connect to the internet. (But how to allow information interchange between the 2 networks?)
5) In response to users isolating Windows from the internet, Microsoft will make Windows stop working after a few days of no internet connection. Adobe Systems does that, in my experience, with CS6. (CS6 is the last version before the forced move to a subscription model.)
6) Satya Nadella, the new Microsoft CEO, was chosen because he was the least annoying candidate. He is apparently not the real controlling manager, but only someone to advertise.
7) Microsoft has a contract with secret U.S. government agencies to make Windows into what users consider to be malware.
8) Because Microsoft often releases buggy software, possibly because it is paid to do so by secret U.S. government agencies, Windows 10, with its many ways to connect to the internet, is now FAR less secure than before.
Not a guess, because verified by others: Microsoft is shockingly badly managed. The cover of the January 16, 2013 issue of BusinessWeek magazine has a large photo of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer with the headline calling him "Monkey Boy". See the BusinessWeek cover in this article: Steve Ballmer Is No Longer A Monkey Boy, Says Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The BusinessWeek cover says "No More" and "Mr.", but that doesn't take much away from the fact that the magazine called Ballmer Monkey Boy -- on its cover.
Slashdot commenters called Ballmer "Monkey Boy" for years before BusinessWeek called him that on the cover of its magazine.
Worst CEO in the United States: Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today." Another quote: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs." (May 12, 2012)
Pale Moon is a version of the Firefox code without a lot of the managerial mistakes made by Mozilla Foundation. Pale Moon has a 64-bit edition that in my experience is far more stable than Firefox. Firefox has memory hogging and subsequent instability that causes it to crash when there are many windows and tabs open.
Usually Firefox add-ons work perfectly with Pale Moon.
Nice add-on for both Firefox and Pale Moon: The Open Link in... add-on provides an "Open Link in Background Tab" option that is good for deciding which Slashdot stories you want to read later.
"There's no doubt that the Slashdot community is one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, and prolific communities on the web."
I agree with that. Unfortunately, there are people who use Slashdot comments as a way of acting out their anger and wasting everyone's time. I have some ideas about how to help improve that situation.
I'd like to help Slashdot, as a volunteer.
Slashdot has a higher percentage of stories interesting to me than any other site I've been able to find. To choose stories interesting to technically-knowledgeable people, it is necessary to understand their sub-culture. Dice Holdings didn't seem to have anyone who even began to understand that culture.
I've seen ads on Slashdot from IBM, for example. The person who wrote those ads obviously didn't understand how to get technically-knowledgeable people interested. One opportunity for Slashdot managers is to help technology companies improve the quality of their advertising. Too often ads are designed and written by departments that have no one interested in the product. Better ads would draw more customers and would make Slashdot more popular with advertisers.
I was an advertising copywriter for technology ad agencies in Los Angeles. This is an ad I wrote to get business: Professional writing is more than just writing. (That sentence is a Service Mark.)
Let me know if there is some way to have a discussion about how I might be able to help.
CS6 is not subscription-based. However, it stops working if it is not allowed to connect to the internet.
We paid Adobe $954.95 to upgrade from CS3 to CS6. That was just an upgrade. We didn't get the latest version of the programs in CS6, and a support representative at Adobe felt that was justified!
I agree. Microsoft seems to be moving toward a subscription model. That means that all computers using Windows will have to connect to the internet frequently, otherwise Windows won't work. Adobe Systems does that with Adobe CS6.
Most people don't defend themselves against slowly increasing abuse.
The cover of the January 16, 2013 issue of BusinessWeek
magazine has a
large photo of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (now replaced by Satya
Nadella) with the headline calling
him "Monkey Boy". See the BusinessWeek cover in this article:
Steve Ballmer Is No Longer A Monkey Boy, Says Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The
BusinessWeek cover says "No More" and "Mr.", but that doesn't take
much away from the fact that the magazine called Ballmer Monkey Boy -- on its
cover.
Worst CEO in the United States: Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a
doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company
today." Another quote: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft
when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs." (May 12, 2012)
It's important to recognize that, according to the ArsTechnica article, "Rosewill" is just a name Newegg uses to hide the name of the actual manufacturer.
I've had some good products from Newegg's "Rosewill" also. Most Rosewill-branded products that I've seen have had some design or manufacturing defects, often amazingly foolish defects.
Read the complaints on Newegg. Newegg should get more knowledgeable people to evaluate the products sold under the Rosewill name. At present "Rosewill" is damaging Newegg's reputation.
Slashdot Mirror
The way I handle such issues is to look at the big picture. I don't know exactly what is happening with Microsoft and Windows, but there are many, many reports that indicate crazy things are happening.
Another example: I don't know what happened on 9/11/2001 at the World Trade Center, but it is interesting that Marvin P. Bush, the president's younger brother, was a principal in a company called Securacom that provided security for the World Trade Center.
The domination we are seeing is destructive toward the lives of those who do it, in the kind of way that alcoholism is not a solution to problems, but degrades the lives of alcoholics.
The owner of the ranch is John Poindexter. He was a National Security Advisor. He was convicted in April 1990 of multiple felonies as a result of his actions in the Iran-Contra affair, but his convictions were reversed on appeal in 1991.
How did he become so rich?
Another report about Justice Scalia: Cibolo Creek Ranch owner recalls Scaliaâ(TM)s last hours in Texas.
Is Pale Moon fixed? I don't see any mention of that.
We switched to Pale Moon and are now not having problems with the instability of Firefox when there are many windows and tabs open. Since Pale Moon is based on Firefox, most of the Firefox add-ons work.
In the past, Google paid Mozilla Foundation $300 million each year to make Google search the default search engine in Firefox. Google apparently didn't cause problems, even though it paid a shocking amount.
Now, I understand, Mozilla Foundation gets most of its money from Microsoft. Microsoft pays Yahoo. Yahoo pays Mozilla Foundation to make "Yahoo search" (actually mostly Microsoft Bing search) the default search engine in Firefox.
The Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Composer GUIs have been damaged, apparently deliberately. File saves in the newer versions of both ask for a new file name, and don't suggest the last one chosen. The damage was reported several months ago, but has not been fixed.
Is that another example of Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? People who feel forced away from Thunderbird may choose Microsoft software to replace it. Is that something Microsoft is trying to accomplish?
In my opinion, dishonest people should not be employed in management. In my opinion, the managers and members of the board of directors of both Microsoft and Mozilla Foundation who approved the dishonesty of sneakily re-configuring Mozilla Foundation products should be immediately fired, and not allowed to have management positions in the future.
Mozilla Foundation may be desperate now that it has lost the incredible amount of money paid by Google.
A few of the many, many articles about abuse by Microsoft:
Microsoft has no plans to tell us what's in Windows patches. Each update is a black box, and it's going to stay that way.
Leaks show that Microsoft writes release notes, so why can't it publish them? The lack of documentation of Windows' updates is a baffling move on Microsoft's part.
Microsoft's Software is Malware. Malware means software designed to function in ways that mistreat or harm the user.
How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again?
NSA Backdoor Exploit in Windows 8 Uncovered
Microsoft Gave the NSA Direct Backdoor Access to Outlook, Skype
Microsoft [lack of] Privacy Statement
Here's how to Block Windows 10 "Spying"
LibreOffice is wonderful, but the user interface is amazingly poor. Want italic? Click on a bold italic lower case letter a . Why not an italic letter I ?
Yesterday I spent several hours writing an article using LibreOffice v 5.0.4.2. Many very seriously weird and time-consuming things happened.
It would be sensible, in my opinion, for governments to get together and support LibreOffice, so that Microsoft Office could be abandoned.
"By my count, Windows is a 4 time zombie even under the nicest interpretation."
To a lot of people, it seems different this time. Yes, it would take a long time to adjust, but companies don't want buggy Windows 10 tracking them.
A few of the many stories about backdoors in U.S. hardware:
D-Link: Reverse Engineering a D-Link Backdoor (Oct. 12, 2013)
Arris: 600,000 Arris cable modems have 'backdoors in backdoors', researcher claims (Nov. 20, 2015)
Juniper Networks: Juniper drops NSA-developed code following new backdoor revelations (Jan. 10, 2016)
Cisco: Snowden: The NSA planted backdoors in Cisco products (May 15, 2014)
Netgear: Netgear Patch Said to Leave Backdoor Problem in Router (April 23, 2014)
Windows 8: NSA Backdoor Exploit in Windows 8 Uncovered (Aug. 22, 2013)
Windows: NSA "backdoor" mandates lead to a computer-security FREAK show Quote: "Microsoft Windows OS vulnerable to hackers, thanks to National Security Agency requirements." (March 6, 2015)
Windows: NSA Built Back Door In All Windows Software by 1999 (June 7, 2013)
Hard drives: Breaking: Kaspersky Exposes NSA's Worldwide, Backdoor Hacking of Virtually All Hard-Drive Firmware (Feb. 17, 2015)
Is every backdoor the work of the NSA? There is no way of knowing.
My guesses:
1) Basically, Windows is dead. Countries will have to move away from using Microsoft products, since Microsoft has shown it cannot be trusted in ANY way. For example: Windows 10 phones home (A LOT) even with all reporting and telemetry disabled.
2) Microsoft wants to make money in the Facebook and Google way. Microsoft plans to mine all user data on all computers connected to the internet and sell the information.
3) The reason there will be no more versions of Windows is that Microsoft will do what Adobe Systems has done: Force users to move to a subscription model.
4) Windows users will isolate Windows from the internet, and use Linux on a different network with a cheap 2nd computer to connect to the internet. (But how to allow information interchange between the 2 networks?)
5) In response to users isolating Windows from the internet, Microsoft will make Windows stop working after a few days of no internet connection. Adobe Systems does that, in my experience, with CS6. (CS6 is the last version before the forced move to a subscription model.)
6) Satya Nadella, the new Microsoft CEO, was chosen because he was the least annoying candidate. He is apparently not the real controlling manager, but only someone to advertise.
7) Microsoft has a contract with secret U.S. government agencies to make Windows into what users consider to be malware.
8) Because Microsoft often releases buggy software, possibly because it is paid to do so by secret U.S. government agencies, Windows 10, with its many ways to connect to the internet, is now FAR less secure than before.
Not a guess, because verified by others: Microsoft is shockingly badly managed. The cover of the January 16, 2013 issue of BusinessWeek magazine has a large photo of former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer with the headline calling him "Monkey Boy". See the BusinessWeek cover in this article: Steve Ballmer Is No Longer A Monkey Boy, Says Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The BusinessWeek cover says "No More" and "Mr.", but that doesn't take much away from the fact that the magazine called Ballmer Monkey Boy -- on its cover.
Slashdot commenters called Ballmer "Monkey Boy" for years before BusinessWeek called him that on the cover of its magazine.
Worst CEO in the United States: Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today." Another quote: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs." (May 12, 2012)
Wow! From the Wired story: "For $1 a week, you will get complete access to our content, with no display advertising or ad tracking."
From $0 to $52 per year, in one jump? Maybe Wired needs new management.
"Wait for AdBlock subscriptions to be updated with rules that bypass Wired's ad-blocking blocking."
Exactly. Ad-blockers can pretend to download the ads, but not show the ads. Not detectable by a web site.
I just saw a Wired ad. To me, it was deeply offensive. To sustain a woman's interest, a man should give her things that cost a lot of money?
Pale Moon is a version of the Firefox code without a lot of the managerial mistakes made by Mozilla Foundation. Pale Moon has a 64-bit edition that in my experience is far more stable than Firefox. Firefox has memory hogging and subsequent instability that causes it to crash when there are many windows and tabs open.
Usually Firefox add-ons work perfectly with Pale Moon.
Pale Moon has tools for migration from Firefox and for backup. Adblock Latitude blocks ads. There are other Pale Moon add-ons.
Nice add-on for both Firefox and Pale Moon: The Open Link in... add-on provides an "Open Link in Background Tab" option that is good for deciding which Slashdot stories you want to read later.
If the U.S. government was healthier, something would be done about robocallers.
6 Things Comcast Customers Can Try To Get Some Actual Customer Service
Consumerist stories about Comcast.
One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America.
Another idea: The sidebar should be the same whether the reader is logged in or not.
Another thought: Stop Auto-Refresh. If I have to do something else, I want to come back to a Slashdot page the way I left it.
"There's no doubt that the Slashdot community is one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, and prolific communities on the web."
I agree with that. Unfortunately, there are people who use Slashdot comments as a way of acting out their anger and wasting everyone's time. I have some ideas about how to help improve that situation.
I'd like to help Slashdot, as a volunteer.
Slashdot has a higher percentage of stories interesting to me than any other site I've been able to find. To choose stories interesting to technically-knowledgeable people, it is necessary to understand their sub-culture. Dice Holdings didn't seem to have anyone who even began to understand that culture.
I've seen ads on Slashdot from IBM, for example. The person who wrote those ads obviously didn't understand how to get technically-knowledgeable people interested. One opportunity for Slashdot managers is to help technology companies improve the quality of their advertising. Too often ads are designed and written by departments that have no one interested in the product. Better ads would draw more customers and would make Slashdot more popular with advertisers.
I was an advertising copywriter for technology ad agencies in Los Angeles. This is an ad I wrote to get business: Professional writing is more than just writing. (That sentence is a Service Mark.)
Let me know if there is some way to have a discussion about how I might be able to help.
CS6 is not subscription-based. However, it stops working if it is not allowed to connect to the internet.
We paid Adobe $954.95 to upgrade from CS3 to CS6. That was just an upgrade. We didn't get the latest version of the programs in CS6, and a support representative at Adobe felt that was justified!
I agree. Microsoft seems to be moving toward a subscription model. That means that all computers using Windows will have to connect to the internet frequently, otherwise Windows won't work. Adobe Systems does that with Adobe CS6.
Most people don't defend themselves against slowly increasing abuse.
"Forbes shill"?
BusinessWeek called Ballmer "Monkey Boy". (See the link.) In comparison, Forbes saying Ballmer was the "worst" is somewhat mild.
The cover of the January 16, 2013 issue of BusinessWeek magazine has a large photo of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (now replaced by Satya Nadella) with the headline calling him "Monkey Boy". See the BusinessWeek cover in this article: Steve Ballmer Is No Longer A Monkey Boy, Says Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The BusinessWeek cover says "No More" and "Mr.", but that doesn't take much away from the fact that the magazine called Ballmer Monkey Boy -- on its cover.
Worst CEO in the United States: Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today." Another quote: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs." (May 12, 2012)
Due to Digital Turnip Twaddling, it's required socially to have the latest iPhone.
It's important to recognize that, according to the ArsTechnica article, "Rosewill" is just a name Newegg uses to hide the name of the actual manufacturer.
I've had some good products from Newegg's "Rosewill" also. Most Rosewill-branded products that I've seen have had some design or manufacturing defects, often amazingly foolish defects.
Read the complaints on Newegg. Newegg should get more knowledgeable people to evaluate the products sold under the Rosewill name. At present "Rosewill" is damaging Newegg's reputation.
Price Watch seems good also.
I recommend PC Part Picker.
"... Newegg house brand Rosewill..."
In my experience, Rosewill products are of often poor. It is interesting to learn that Newegg management is responsible.