Not at all. I'm completely open to security flaws in products. But only if the company supports the products fixes the flaws and provides continuous updates for older gear.

I am for instance very tolerant of Windows or Linux based security flaws, I am tolerant for flaws in iOS too. But I expect my Android devices and my home router to be flawless considering the manufactures provide bugger all support after their sale.

So why not release the kernel sources then? I hate carrier specific crap as much as the next person but at least if the kernel for the device is available then someone can hobble together firmware from another country. I regularly ran British or eastern European ROMs on my Australian handset. Currently running ROM from some German carrier on my device.

I shudder to think what his sentence would have been if he was actually charged with any of those alleged offences. Not that I don't believe that he did them but the punishment needs to fit the crime and the crime he was charged with were narcotics related offences. So next time you determine who has earned what, limit your thoughts to the exact thing that he has been found guilty of.

Now if he was a church goer, helped the poor, donated money to charity, and was an all around nice guy, would his life sentence for dealing narcotics still be "well-earned"?

Cost effective for who? The idea of something being cost effective has to take into account all sorts of externalities. It is cost effective for me to run my entire life on a surface tablet. It would not be cost effective for the drafters in the office to do the same thing.

The same applies to a power company. If you have a giant turbine that runs all the time and you get paid for running that turbine and there are significant costs to starting and shutting down that turbine then it is not cost effective at all to store energy. If you're a solar power plant operating PV cells in a market that will pay you heavily with high electricity prices then it is also not cost effective.

If you're trying to get off the grid, live in a scenario where there's no net metering, or if you're a power company that can't benefit from large revenues on energy created then you're likely already looking into such a system, except at power company scales they typically opt for a slightly different technology.

Do we need to? The point of modern reactor designs and nuclear reprocessing is to not only minimise the waste but the resulting waste does not need to be secured for 100000 years, several orders of magnitude less.

The costs haven't been under-estimated. The required scope was. To which I again ask, do we need to? Providing the site is not required for reclaiming why not just build a cement dome over it and let it sit. Decommissioning costs are very small if you're not under the delusion (in my opinion) that you will be using that land for anything other than a place to store a radioactive shit-ton of cement.

Now decommissioning a damaged reactor, that is a different and very expensive story, as is demolishing and removing reactors.

Ahhh good another article from The Onion. Wait.... Seriously?

Really? Because going from Windows 7 to Windows 10 you get a new Client Hyper-V, Virtual Desktops, Reworked file-copy routines, reduced memory consumption, integration with tablets and pen devices (I've used pens since Windows XP and it's a godsend), reworked Bluetooth stack, Address Space Randomisation for improved security, a dynamic kernel timer for lower power consumption, as well as the things you like such as booting significantly faster, improved search indexing, and even things you're taken along for the ride like DirectX 12, better system level anti-virus, far better treatment of multimonitors....

Basically if all you're grumbling about is the UI then you have no reason NOT to upgrade to Windows 10, best of all you don't even need Classic Shell installed.

They didn't listen. They were ground into submission by an angry mob who were wreaking the very project they were defending. I mean this in a good way. It was a high-impact revolt that was sure to get noticed and forced the hand of the site owners by making it very clear that a) the existing customers cared little for their shit, and b) that new potential customers ended up at a news aggregating site where all comments are filled with hate for the very site they were on.

It's not kudos for listening. Just be thankful they didn't drive the entire site into the ground with their ignorance. Heck the Beta thing went back for many many months with certain accounts and visitors, the complains from the site were the same complaints as their mobile site had long before (and still has to this day). The rollout was incredibly poorly managed and they backtracked under extreme pressure.

Sorry you lost me there. Why weren't you vetting and controlling the updates and every part of your system in an "enterprise environment".

Interestingly the only computer I've ever used that never notified my about anything ever has been windows machines used in enterprise environments. Oh except those not managed properly.

An icon telling you an update is available is forcing you? Oh you poor oppressed victim.

While most of what you said is right, how naive are you to think that what you have is the best? People get used to a certain way of doing things regardless if it's arcane or not. The "best" in many regards is not maintaining the status quo. All that does is affect future users in the same negative and expensive way.

My classic example of very recent times is the complaints about Android 5 that the "airplane mode" button was removed from the powerdown menu and moved to the notifications area which controls the rest of the various radios on the device. Some people scream bloody murder, I scratch my head and wonder what the heck airplane mode was doing in the power menu to begin with.

As usual the correct answer is somewhere in the middle of the extremes.

So you'll be a fan of Windows 10 then. Oh what you weren't paying attention to the development cycle? The bit where the desktop mode will now be default, the metro menu is gone, the few metro apps that ship with the OS will work within a desktop window?

What is it you're complaining about again? Why not reinstall your "nag icon" and give it a go before you complain that no one understands you.

Actually it looks like they are just trying to converge and end this whole "consumption" / "production" device nonsense.

Wow it's amazing but I lost interest reading TFS at the very first word.

It's amazing how quickly Slashdot is able to convey meaning in a summary. Only one word in and I know everything I ever need to know about the post.

The problem is often it does work. The successful companies can figure out why it worked and build on it. The unsuccessful ones will be the ones who push harder and can't figure out what's wrong and why it works for "those other guys".

Seriously people talk about management 101, but the key people fail to realise is that management 102 is exactly the opposite. Based on my business degree I can conclude that the perfect workplace gives staff complete autonomy while being micromanaged, put them in cubes in the middle of their own private offices, treat them like a resource while empathising with them, and make the entire business follow a strict linear method while breaking down everything into small sections and working on them in parallel. Oh and the ideal company will have 15 levels of management, no I mean 2 levels of management, no I mean 15 levels of management, no I mean... I really don't know what I mean. Apparently it's all good and all bad at the same time.