I switch between English and Japanese keyboards every day. I don't find it a problem, I got used to it fairly quickly. The Japanese keyboard has a lot of differences to the UK one, like all the shift characters on the number row and most of the ones next to the enter key.

A friend of mine uses Caps Lock instead of shift, but he also types insanely fast. He sees it as inserting commands into the input stream, and claims it is faster for him.

To be fair though, putting power and sleep buttons on the keyboard was a monumentally stupid idea. It's far too easy to accidentally hit them.

Some keyboards do have small caps lock keys. Japanese layouts for example, but even in the west... I seem to recall some 80s computers had caps lock keys of "normal" size, i.e. the same as letter keys.

Software developed for governments perhaps? I seem to recall some countries mandated that software written for government departments had to be open source. They paid an external developer to write and maintain the software, but the source code was available.

The references on the GamerGate wiki are compete crap. Let's take one of the most important ones. The wiki claims:

"Grayson first wrote a favourable article about game developer Zoe Quinn on 5 September 2012, which highlights her games and includes a link to her products.[31]"

The reference goes to an article titled "Green For Greenlight: Valve Now Charging $100 Fee" and which includes a bit about Quinn but also other affected developers. A journalist speaking to their established contacts, what a scandal.

Face it, the GG wiki is a steaming pile of shit designed solely to slander GG's opponents and give it a veneer of legitimacy, as a cover for harassment.

Even if it were proven that the drone was being operated by a perv looking to oogle his daughters, firing into the air in a residential area because of a drone is inexcusable. Let's see where the shot that missed the drone would have/did land.

No no, the N version is the one you want! Who actually uses Windows Media Player? No more being annoyed because the default file association opened WMP and now it's asking you if you want to use the default settings. Just install your media player of choice (I prefer Media Player Classic Home Cinema) and enjoy.

If the KN version is available in English it might be even better.

I heard it won't let you set the brightness below 3000%. When you shut it down you feel like you have just wasted 137 hours of your life.

Sure you have a right to privacy, but that doesn't make shooting at the drone a good idea. It's a dumb idea... Apart from the bits of drone raining down on you, the shot that misses the drone is going to come down somewhere too. Somewhere in a residential area. With luck it will hit someone's house.

The article is about things did before they were 18. Also, your argument is flawed anyway because it's possible people shouldn't be allowed to join the army or vote at 18.

What do you want me to link to? A 404 error on Kotaku where the non-existent review is?

And by the way, having a relationship with someone after they wrote about something you do (and 49 other things you didn't do) isn't unethical. What is ethical is that the journalist in question didn't write about Quinn after their relationship began.

You need to provide proof if you dispute their account. So far GamerGate has provided nothing. Well, the jilted boyfriend was unable to find any evidence to submit to the court and avoid getting a restraining order. Well done for failing to help him out with your 100% proven facts.

You are not alone. Look at the game modding community, for example. Those guys do a lot of scripting with simply syntax or high level editor tools to reprogram parts of the game, but I doubt they could actually write the game themselves. It's the knowledge of things like the Open GL API, or how 3D scenes are built up and rendered that holds them back.

A lot of people write software in Excel too. Mostly formula and simple logic based, perhaps with some simple BASIC code behind it. Where many of us would just write a little app in C or Perl in ten minutes, they will use Excel and some copy/paste to avoid learning how to load and parse text files.

You have rather high expectations of the average consumer. They see, say, an IoT light bulb. The box says they can control it with their smartphone, and that it's "secure". Just like their car claims to be safe, that the milk they drink says its safe, like the anti-tamper seals on bottles are supposed to be secure.

People can't be experts on everything. They probably had to have their ISP set up their router or them, and have no idea that they even have a home network. It's not their fault, it's our fault. We need to make products that are secure by default and that are easy to understand and use. None of this "just configure your firewall" or "enable WPA2 with a cryptographically strong password".

Honeywell should not be making insecure devices like this. They should stop, recall them all and wait until they have a secure by default product to sell. Strong regulation and massive fines for enforcement. Mandatory recalls of insecure products.