From TFA: "Since 2006, there have been more than 87 million sensitive or private records exposed by breaches of federal networks, ..... By comparison, retail businesses lost 255 million records during that time, financial and insurance services lost 212 million and educational institutions lost 13 million."

My bank is constantly sending out new credit cards because businesses (hey there Home Depot!) won't implement basic security measures to prevent data theft. Data security is a serious issue that needs to be addressed, but "Blame the incompetent gubmint!!!" isn't where we should start.

I used to work at a beach-front hotel on Maui, a storm wiped out our entire beach in a couple days and started eating away at the grounds of the hotel, until they brought in truckloads of boulders to protect it. It was pretty amazing. I'm told most of the sand at Waikiki was shipped from another island, don't know if that's true.

Be aware of them, and work within them or around them. You might need to upgrade your GPS receiver. My first android phone had GPS, but it was crappy to the point of being worthless.

ahem

...then where does it go?

... almost every doc I open is opened in a locked state, Windows tosses up a message asking if I want to unlock it to make changes, or even to print it, I believe. That's a great way to train your users to click "OK" to every message they see.

I'm sorry, but something about that just sets my teeth on edge. Reminds me of old Soviet propaganda newsreels. I refuse to believe all 46,000 employees at the shipyard are smiling all the time...and if they are, something's seriously wrong. Unless he was there at 4:20

I also have a hard time believing someone named their son Alastair Philip Wiper, but the world is a strange place.

Back in the days of print, sure, get a dozen mags in your pocket and you can pass your crap off as gold, for a while anyway. But now? There's a billion gamer websites and blogs, and anybody posting a fluffy review will get eaten alive by their readers, pull that a couple times and you're credibility is toast.

I'm not asking rhetorically, I honestly don't know, I don't follow the gaming press much. I don't see how they can have enough influence to be worth paying off.

They've been selling Retina displays for a couple years, slapping it on the iMac isn't rocket science. I do think it's an unnecessary feature that will jack the price, but the iMac went from being the cheap mac to the not insanely expensive Mac some time ago, so meh.

So by your logic, we should be paying 50 times as much per person for internet service. Yes, the US is bigger than Sweden, but there's no reason infrastructure, including internet, can't scale, or that in doing so the cost per user should increase. Sure you need more resources to do it, but being bigger, we have more resources.

I rebuilt my XP boxes every year or so. I've had Win7 on the same box for 3.5 years, no problems. It could be that today's hardware is so over-powered, not even MS can generate enough bloat to slow it down.

That said, it would be nice if Win10 forced apps to behave better and kept the registry clean. Not holding my breath.

That would be a dream!


Or maybe not.

We can only hope.

... for all hardware across a single platform family.", from TFA.

Sounds like a great idea, if implemented properly. My confidence in MS' ability to implement properly is not high.

Hey, be grateful those weren't cubic square yards