They were popular but they were famously bug-ridden and unstable. Nobody misses Windows 95 or XP, btw.

Hell, NT was the first moderately stable OS they had, and that was just because someone had the bright idea to halt new feature development for a period of time and focus on fixing what they already made.

It only works with PornHub and related sites because they have a physical, legal, and financial presence in the United States.

Weirdly, none of the .EU porn sites I like are following these laws. Nor are any of the public and private porn BitTorrent trackers. Nor is USENET.

I have zero sympathy for PornHub and its ilk but these laws won't actually keep any kids away from porn. If you're posting on /. I think you're smart enough to know that. Unless Mommy and Daddy are willing to take away the always online smartphone and/or actually involve themselves in their kid's lives, porn will remain as accessible as ever, because, weirdly, the Internet doesn't stop at State/National borders nor does it give a damn about someone's sense of morality.

Side note, I'm happily kid free myself, but if I did have them, I'd opt for taking away the fucking smart phone and would prohibit them from being on any form of social media. Instagram has done more damage to teenage mental health than PornHub.

I remember the 80's and 90's.

That's nonsense if you know anything about how porn works today. Porn, like a lot of things, has been ruined by "platforms", e.g., PornHub and friends. They do not create original content. They host content created by others. Frequently this content is posted without the consent of those involved (i.e., revenge porn) or without the appropriate permission from copyright holders (what you're referencing with DMCA takedown notices). They have not done nearly enough to crack down on either of these problems, as anyone who has been the victim of revenge porn will attest to, or, for that matter, actual sex workers who are not paid for their work because PornHub is essentially piracy done at scale for n00bs too lazy to figure out how BitTorrent and USENET work.

I am pretty far from being an anti-porn crusader, I grew up on online porn before the Internet was a mainstream thing (we got it from BBSes), but Pornhub and ilk broke porn as rapidly as Facebook broke the non-xxx Internet. Look up the story of GirlsDoPorn, it's pretty damned gross, and while PornHub didn't COMMIT the crime, they sure didn't mind profiting from it. You can still find GDP content on PornHub to this day, the DCMA process in this context is an absolute joke, as the victims will attest to.

The only "legitimate" porn sites these days are the ones operated by studios themselves, direct to consumer, and "legitimate" in this context very much depends on a lot of assumptions, as GirlsDoPorn would have presented as a legitimate studio/site until the full story came out.

Except they can't, because Apple won't approve any browser app for iOS/iPadOS that does not use WebKit. Apple's public rationale is security but that's a thin argument if you understand how apps are sandboxed in iOS/iPadOS. The only apps that aren't sandboxed are Apple's own apps and it's not for nothing that most (all?) of the zero day exploits that target these platforms exploit problems with the native/included apps and libraries.

Oh, lots of people are, just not in this particular thread.

I tell them to go spend a few hours in the local VA ER waiting room and come back to me about how awesome public health care would be.

We're talking about the China market, so yeah, it's gonna be price. The Samsung model has whatever price it has, and there'll be a Songsom (or maybe Sumsang) phone for 30% less, and a Huawei one for less than that (because it's subsidized), and various trash brands no one has ever heard of selling for *much* less (because they have no QA at all and cut every corner it is possible to cut).

Unfortunately, our society (and, particularly, the lack of meaningful regulations regarding how complex the process of canceling a subscription is allowed to be) has trained a lot of people to believe that it's going to be extremely difficult to ever get a company to voluntarily stop billing you every month. Netflix may not be guilty of this, but enough other companies are, that it's what people *expect* based on their past experiences.

I came to the comment section on this story, expecting people to be talking about tactics like opening an account with a different bank and closing the old account entirely. It didn't even *occur* to me that the answer might be "click a red cancel button on your account page".

And, I mean, it's moot for me, personally. I have zero interest in Netflix, and also I don't use credit cards, at all. (I'm... atypical in some ways.) But Netflix actually making it easy to cancel, is not what I expected to read in the comments.

If it won't run on the 8008, I don't understand why anyone is even interested.

Ahem.

Microsoft software now is light years ahead of where it used to be. Is it perfect? No. But it's stable and works now, which it certainly didn't do for a few decades.

That's just not really enough to be that influential.

Eh, it was a bit cringe.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

"What exactly is he influencing? Certainly not product design. Everything Microsoft produces today is shit. "

Wait you think that if he was influencing them they would be better? What in the 40+ year history of Microsoft makes you think that?

> Better than the USSR is a pretty low bar.

Eh, it depends what your standard of comparison is. The Soviets were (mostly) actually trying to govern their country, and sure they made a bunch of mistakes, and did a lot of harm in order to secure their own power, but they also did some important things right. They consistently promoted education, for example, particularly in the STEM fields. They built meaningful infrastructure that benefitted the country: roads, railroads, ports, etc. They pursued trade relations with other countries and genuinely attempted to build their nation's economy.

I'm not saying they didn't also do lots of stuff wrong, because they did, both accidentally and on purpose. But if you want a really *low* bar you look at stuff like the Khmer Rouge, or the Kim regime. They make the Soviets look magnificent by comparison.

Well, ignoring cost and the CO2 released by the concrete production (and all the other problems) - wanna wait years for construction to finish?