In other words, it's working?

I'm sorry, but you picked a shockingly bad example to support your argument. Gamergate IS a problem. If you think women getting flooded with "You should be raped until you die!" messages is acceptable, then you have no business being part of civilized society.

Obviously it hasn't occurred to you that there would be a lot more 'good posts' if there weren't so many trolls around.

The only thing I use twitter for is as an RSS feed for certain companies I want to pay attention to. I sure as hell have no interest in posting random thoughts on there and waiting to become a target.

Does this mean Microsoft has developed cancer?

Seriously, while recent moves in this regard have been good, only a fool would ignore history. Microsoft, for as long as it has existed, has done countless morally dubious things in order to maintain control. The history is all right there for the googling. Just because they do a couple Good(tm) things doesn't magically mean they have suddenly realized the errors of their ways and are doing a 180. You can't erase ~40 years of assholry.

Based on the moves Microsoft has done lately, I will move my needle from "completely distrust" to "MAYBE it's not a trap" but still nowhere near the realm of "trustworthy"

Is it the science, or the science reporting?

It is normal to for scientific results to waffle back and forth, especially when we don't have a complete picture of what's going on.

The real problem is that newspapers report on every single damn study, so you end up with this whole "Eggs are bad! No wait they're good! No wait they're bad again!" thing going.

It's impossible to know what's what when you are bombarded with information, and that information is presented piecemeal and conflicts with previous information.

That's bizarre... How in the world does something like that happen?

Of course, as a general rule I don't apply an Apple ID to the initial user of the machine, because I save that to serve as an emergency admin user, so that's probably why I haven't noticed.

You wouldn't happen to know the specific version of yosemite your machine came with? (Guessing 10.10.1?)

Thanks for sharing.

Ooooooooooh..... That's evil. :)

Reminds me of my university days...

When someone walked away for an extended period without locking their terminal, one of us would sneak over and do a quick 'xhost +' and then wait for them to come back.

Once they sit down and start working again, we would run 2 dozen copies of neko on their terminal, resulting in a mass of little animated kittens chasing their mouse cursor.

Ah, the lost days of innocent fun.

Maybe now they can afford to toss a few more dollars towards their QA departments?

Apparently the idiots have mod points today. :P

Be glad that you didn't let your kids walk a couple blocks by themselves. You'd have child services threatening to take them away from you.

Cue all the idiots who think, "You screwed up this one forecast, and you expect us to believe in climate change?"

I almost commented on TFA's website, but then I realized it's Fox, and decided it wasn't worth the effort.

1. "What the hell is with these new commands? Great, now I have to learn a whole new way of administration cause people had to change something that was never broken."
2. "Where's all the init files? How am I supposed to configure anything? I don't have time for this..."
3. "Everything is done with service descriptors? Okay..."
4. "So wait, I no longer have to write massive shell scripts that manage the entire process lifecycle, or scour google in the hope that someone else has already written said script so I don't have to?"
5. "Wow, I never realized how much I hated dealing with init scripts until I didn't have to anymore. This is SO much cleaner!"
6. "Whoa, I can monitor and control entire *heirarchies* of dependant services from one command? That's pretty damn slick..."

I still don't completely understand systemd, but now that I'm getting a handle on it, I find it conceptually and functionally cleaner, and more rigorous than the old init system. The downsides are that it's new and therefore has a learning curve, and that it blackboxes the actual service controller which is going to piss off anyone with an ounce of control-freakery in them.

Case in point... Apple still supports their iPhone 4s, which was released over 3 years ago.

Compared to pretty much every other phone company out there, that's nothing short of phenomenal. The support policy for most android manufacturers is 'buy our next model'.

I find it hilarious that it's so fashionable to slag Apple despite them being leaps and bounds better than everyone else for support.

I completely agree with what you say, and these kludges are indeed a problem, they at least had some level of logic to them. You could understand why they did it, even if you disagree that it was necessary to do so.

Add to that that sometimes you HAVE to bypass the API, because the API is either incomplete, or intentionally hamstrung to put competitors at a disadvantage (Microsoft being a perfect example). The hacking situation is not black and white.

But what I'm talking about is the kind of stuff you can find on The Daily WTF (http://thedailywtf.com/). These sorts of things are a depressingly common occurrence.

Because despite what one would reasonably expect, most developers are actually shockingly incompetent.