Under communism there is no private sector, thereby solving the problem of government officials moonlighting for private-sector companies. ;-)

It can't do event driven launches and yes it does impact desktop users. Example, your on your corporate network on a laptop and you close the lid and take a plane to somewhere else and the laptop wakes up. How can Init handle something like this and know to configure it to a new network?

This is why Sun, Apple, and Ubuntu developed their own event driven systems. System D is not good. But event driven systems can respond to events like a hack attack, excess load, and other things for servers.

Init was made for stationary mini computers with only 20 text based commands and apps. It's not designed for the hacks we use to get it to work today on modern systems

An additional advantage to those signs is that in a dystopian future, the terrorists are usually the good guys. The info will help direct those good guys to where they can find materials helpful in the fight against evil governments.

I hope it does along with the form factor...

You mean no virtual desktops, a rumored tabs in explorer, kernel level sandboxing that all browsers can use, much improved power consumption, directx 12 with low cpu overhead, and USB 3 support are not reasons to upgrade?

There seems to be a consensus that all change is for the sake of change and eye candy and XP is GOD.

This is a must for a gamer or laptop users.

In addition, I've wasted too much time on crippled versions of apps, like graphics editing programs that don't let you save to disk in the "lite" version. Should be called the "does nothing useful" version.

I'm not sure if it's the same as the "terrorist watch list", but there's some kind of intermediate "can fly, but only after extra hassle" list also. I was on one for a while, apparently because of some British person with the same name as mine (I'm American, but have a very common English name). I couldn't use web check-in and had to always go to the airport to check-in with a person, who would first assume I was just dumb and didn't know how to use the machine, then after they verified I could indeed not check in on the machine, they'd poke around at the desk a bit, then call someone, check my ID, then give me a boarding pass, I guess after verifying I was not the other guy. Could've been worse, but was pretty annoying, especially because nobody would actually explain what was going on.

I've held my arm over my head just for fun when trying to sleep and at the moment you doze off, your arm falls on you.

Android could perfectly well let you give an app local permissions without giving it call-out-to-the-network permissions. Snapsave shouldn't need to ever call out to external servers in the first place, if it does only what it advertises.

Android doesn't do this because of their broken ad-based ecosystem, though: they don't want to draw your attention to apps that unnecessarily call out to the network, because the most common reason for doing so is to show ads.

Google analytics and ads are everywhere so even if you don't directly use their services like Search and GMail, you are still being tracked by them.
Also, your browser sends referrer headers which tells whatever site you're visiting where you came from. Your browser + browser plugin profile can be used to narrow down who you are even behind Tor. Browser plugins like Adobe Flash save their own set of cookies separate from regular browser cookies.
If you use the Internet, you're being tracked. You may be able to help yourself be tracked _less_ by taking some precautions, but that's about it, I think, for the average person.
I used FB for years before finally closing my account down. No doubt that data will stay in their system forever. Like a drug, better to not start at all than to have to quit.
Basically it boils down to: law enforcement are going to do what they're going to do. I know I'm being tracked, I try and keep my nose clean, and whatever happens happens. I'm not going to live my life all paranoid.

Many businesses who are suffering with a MUST HAVE IE 6 app which is so tied to their business process that it would go under without it (like firing people and replacing them with software that uses IE 6) use Windows Server in a VM session with Citrix or a thin client.

Pretty pathetic and crazy but some will just not upgrade their apps as that would cost money. Sometimes it is cheaper to keep using IE 6 through server 2003 in a client.

It's true that without controlling the endpoints, Snapchat can't stop one particular attack vector: the people who control those devices saving images themselves. The usual "DRM" problem.

But what seems to have happened here is that users installed an app which, unbeknownst to them, sent copies of the images to a third-party server. That threat model is possible to guard against, although it's arguably more an issue with Android than Snapchat that something like that easily happens without users noticing, because Android's app-permission model leaks like a sieve.

In an office environment it adds up fast when you have 100 computers. Also you need a more expensive power supply by going with AMD systems. True the first i7 sucked 200 watts of power but the 4770k is really efficient.

Disagree.

I just upgraded from a phenomII 2.6 ghz to an intel i7 4700k and couldn't believe the performance increase! Tomshardware.com and others do not lie when they show a 50% drop in performance. Some levels in Star Wars the Old Republic MMO which gave 20 fps now show 45 fps on the same video card.

Per core AMD is 50% slower than Intel. The Phenom II still has higher IPC than the newer AMD processes per clock tick. Sad.

Time to get with the times hairy and keep that AMD for office work. Real pc users intel i5s for most uses and they use a lot less electricity. The current FX should just be renamed PIV 2.0. It pains me to type this as I friended as a pc guy like myself who was a fan of AMD and ATI for years. But for non secretaries I just can not see a reason to use an AMD product these days. AMD screwed up selling their foundries to raise the share price. Intel does have an unfair advantage as a result and can make their chips smaller and more energy efficient.

Since when?

ATI has been much better as of late and that says a lot. Windows support would be nice too sometime