Is there ever going to be an OS 11? OS XI?

No? Why not?

Windows 8.x is pretty good only as long as you have a touchscreen.

What is really atrociously stupid is Microsoft's idea of putting the Metro interface onto Windows 2012 Server. It is just breathtakingly stupid to put an animated, graphical user interface onto a system that is almost always accessed via Remote Desktop Connection.

Awesome. I can't wait to start to reconsider considering HP laptops for consideration.

Why didn't they just buy ViaSat, their space and ground segments, and their Exede brand? Charlie Ergen isn't going to sell HughesNet anytime soon.

It must be nice for your stock to be so excessively overvalued to have so much money to throw around on all these ancillary projects.

I just took an SD Card to try to manipulate some images. Without an internet connection, Chrome OS was completely unable to do anything with these pictures--it could not even preview nor display them.

I like the ChromeBook, and I own a few of them, but without an internet connection available, ChromeBooks are a pathetic joke.

For real productivity they make great Remote Desktop clients. I only wish Amazon WorkSpaces would release a proper client for ChromeBooks.

After having to replace laptops with stuck pixels far too many times, I like the idea of Sager/Clevo laptops. They guarantee no stuck pixels on delivery and for a few extra dollars they will guarantee no stuck pixels for a period of time. That's pretty important when you're spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on something you have to look at for most of the day, every day.

I recently shopped for laptops for home and for the office and I specifically excluded HP because of that ridiculous Beats Audio logo.

Not only is the logo tacky and unprofessional, it demonstrates that part of my purchase price was taken for something of no value whatsoever.

I'm waiting for Bruce Schneier's final take on this.

Right now he is throwing up his hands and saying "WTF?"

https://www.schneier.com/blog/...

And now I try to imagine all the brainpower wasted on getting a handle on how git sees things rather than using the best tool for the job at hand.

Or you could start using Mozilla NSS (mod_nss). Not only independently written, it also aggressively protects private keys unlike any version of OpenSSL/SSLeay does.

All this episode does is to remind us that security is hard. Encryption is even harder.

About three thousand like-minded individuals are wondering why this article was conceived and assigned to someone to write for ANY reason and why whatever that publication happened to be, why did they feel the need to publish this drivel?

ACARS may have been turned off, but the radio interface used by the ACARS system was still pinging.