Are you kidding? Millions of people are still bitter about Google Reader.

on whether or not you want your daughter to be allowed to attend school. Sure it might be optional now, but once a majority of uninformed parents get on board, they'll surely make it mandatory.

My parents have one. The story is, on March 1st, every single one of these things broke, worldwide. They threw some kind of error about not being able to "download a dashboard" and wouldn't do anything but show that error. Apparently, three weeks later, now there's a complicated fix.

I wonder if they will accept it for purchases at Dairy Queen.

This is a false dichotomy. We can teach computer skills as well as math and science and reading and all the rest. I agree that all students don't need to become master hackers, but I think a bit more computer literacy, taught young, isn't a bad idea. And I'm sure they can find time to squeeze that in without disrupting the other subjects.

This is exactly why development tools shouldn't be paywalled. Your fault, Apple!

A Conservative minority just means another election in a few weeks. Trudeau and Mulcair aren't going to work with Harper.

...so I might as well say something. I'm not a scientist, far from it in fact. And I'm not convinced that humans are responsible for everything going on in the world, climatologically. Something is definitely going on, but I'm not convinced that humans are the sole cause. I've read interesting things from both sides of the argument, often very interesting things, but none of them have convinced me one way or the other...I still feel there is a reasonable doubt. All this handwaving from one side, saying it's completely impossible, and all this handwaving from the other side, saying it's a foregone conclusion that I am too stupid to comprehend, has not affected me at all, except to make me more skeptical about both sides. The effects that we have seen are undeniable, but the cause is. Am I a racketeering corrupt organization now?

My question is, so what? So what if the NSA is listening to everything? Let's assume the worst...that when I buy a Skylake PC, it can and does record everything that is said in my home and sends it to the NSA for storage and analysis. So what? For one thing, it'll be boring as shit, hours of me snoring, that sort of thing. Continuing the worst case, let's assume they can mine all this voice data perfectly, and can detect any time I talk about committing a crime or otherwise anti-government act. I'm a normal, boring, law abiding person. They won't find anything. I strongly suspect that 99% of the world is like me in this respect, too boring for the NSA to give a shit about.

I don't understand it.

How is Dropbox doing lately? This is what worries me about "the cloud"...how to pick the winner to adopt before the end of the contest.

No, I actually meant this Live Tiles, and replacing the Start with Classic Shell. That's what a lot of people did (hell, that's what I did!), but it's not what a review should do.

Why does everyone assume "usable" is a synonym for "works exactly like the WIndows I am familiar with". The Windows 10 UI is perfectly usable, but not if you disable it before giving it a chance. This guy shut it all off on page one! Why review a new OS when all you're going to do is remove all the new features?

It's like Phoronix trying to review Ubuntu by immediately uninstalling Unity and replacing it with KDE. That might be a fantastic idea for a user, but it's gonna make for a shit review of Ubuntu.

Why do all these reviews disable the UI? This isn't a review of Windows 10, it's a review of Windows 7.

No, nobody remembers that time. I remember when Windows couldn't run more than a few days without crashing. I remember when getting a program to work required arcane knowledge and steps bordering on voodoo. I remember when getting a wireless card working on Linux was the realm of super hackers. I remember Sasser.