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  1. Same thing still happens if you roll back to Win 7 from a "free" upgrade to Win 10.
    Store anything in that "Documents" folder, during your stay?
    Boom--it's gone.

    I mean, they do warn you that files "might" get blown away, but it's still bad
    practice to treat space you've explicitly set aside for the user in the same way
    you do system files.

  2. Re:This might work in China, but never in America on China's Tencent Employs Facial Recognition To Detect Minors in Top-Grossing Mobile Game (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    Only kids would miss your reference, and then mod you down.

    Eat it, Tencent--detected with no cameras!

  3. Better idea: Use machine learning technology to take better heuristic analyses of infected and/or compromised machines through Window's own "Defender". Innovative, I know. And then let users disable automatic updates, as well as schedule them on their own terms. Unless it's mega-urgent.

  4. Some games on don't run well under new OSes. on Hundreds of Thousands of Windows XP and Vista Users Won't Be Able To Use Steam Soon (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Leave behind an unsupported legacy client that doesn't update, but still phones home for your precious "licensing" every time I execute. Problem solved.

  5. Slap on a 10-gallon hat with YOUR AD HERE, and go walkin' jays.