All the US Government needs to do is bribe foreign governments to chase these companies in their countries and hand over the data.

It's not like governments protect their people anyway...

A foolish investor and his money are soon parted.

Companies do this all the time to finance themselves.

The fact it's Microsoft doesn't warrant a front page story on /.

Next there'll be a front page submission about Nadella taking a dump.

Life becomes a lot simpler once you learn that most things you see/hear/read aren't important and you're able to filter them out.

Windows Insider builds can break stuff, period. I've lost count of the many times I saw this warning while studying the docs and following the procedure to become an Insider.

Yes, I've been burned with a bad video driver once and a bad wireless card driver a couple weeks ago. Shit happens.

If you can't deal with it, then there are a few options:

1. Fall back to the Slow Ring.
2. Do a clean reinstall and stay on Release Preview.
3. Quit the Insider program altogether and do a clean reinstall.

I've used Home Single Language, Pro, and Enterprise, and they all have the option to Defer Updates. All you have to do is follow the news on the Feedback Hub and enable the option when you find something you wouldn't like to install. Bonus points if you're on the Slow Ring, as there are fewer bugs and more time ffor you to receive the update.

Finally, you only have yourself to blame if you entered the Insider program on a production or system-critical PC as opposed to a VR or spare / secondary PC.

1. They spend money as fast as they make it, so they can't afford to quit.

2. They can afford to quit the daily grind to pursue something they actually enjoy doing. I know a guy who became an auto mechanic after retiring from a Fortune 100 at a relatively early age, with a handsome retirement plan and a fat bank account, simply because he enjoys working on cars.

Let the oil and mining industries figure it out.

Seriously.

If they can find oil and gold/diamonds beneath the martian surface and shuttle it back to Earth profitably, we'll colonize Mars sooner than you think.

If it gives me better wireless audio, I'm all for it. Else, it's a gimmick, as I can surely count on one hand the number of times I used Bluetooth (PS3/4 accessories included).

http://lifehacker.com/does-bluetooth-audio-still-suck-1505063323

As long as they bring back just the awesome hardware, I'm fine, and may even buy a new Nokia phone.

But please don't bring back that horrible Symbian OS.

A good malware programmer will make his app invisible to the naive end user, avoiding battery and performance hits on the device, so they'll never know the app is running.

https://gooligan.checkpoint.com/

You're welcome.

If you're still in the dark ages of mobile internet and try to do everything through a web browser, you're toast.

I don't do a lot of shopping at all, but the few times I had to buy something from a smartphone, it was a pretty straightforward process as long as I did it through the app. Some apps allow me to scan the barcode of a product to buy more of it. Others let me buy online then use GPS location to find the nearest store to pick it up if I'm on the go. Try that on a desktop.

Problem solved.

This is a non issue on desktops, really.

And if you lug around a laptop to listen to Spotify, I guess you have more important things to do on it than listen to music anyway.

The only device where I save songs offline is my smartphone, for when I'm out and about without 4G coverage.

Can't wait to see kids running around the slums, whore houses, drug dens, and all kinds of shitholes looking for stupid pokemons.

Kids + geocahing: what could possibly go wrong?

Definitely NOT buying a new tablet...