So do they have an index of known child porn images, how did they know this image was here?

Did they get a tip off? Does someone just randomly peruse attachments from time to time? Was the filename "child_porn.jpg"? What's the deal here? What happens when your wife is on holiday and emails you a picture of.... well who knows what? Yes I know they CAN see it, my question is, what flags people to look / investigate?

This is a very very bad precedent, save the children or not.

Ten years ago when I was younger and a lot more naive, I would've totally agreed with you. Heck, if Apple did this 10, 15 and 20 years ago, maybe things would be different now - but as it stands, Windows has a lot more to offer than just games.

Fact is, because there's so many installs of Windows out there, there's a HEAP of help on the internet for problems you stumble across, it supports virtually all the hardware out there conceivably able to be plugged into a machine and more importantly, for me - is the little programs, thousands upon thousands of convenient, half decently designed tools which MacOS and Linux simply don't have.

I'm talking data de-duplication searching tools, multi-monitor window managers, downloading / p2p tools, media players, media encoders etc. There's just heaps and heaps of little things you probably wouldn't realise if you switched to Mac or Linux for the first week but suddenly in the second week, you'd be googling for 2 days trying to find that one little tool to do that one little thing which simply doesn't exist, or the only tool close to it is awkward and ghastly.

This isn't to Windows credit, Windows didn't get this stuff due to it being designed better or something, it's simply because there's more Windows installs. If linux or MacOS ever did take over, great, those tools would come - but for the time being, depending on how you use your computers, there's few reasons for a Windows guy to move to Linux or MacOS.
(oh and FWIW Windows has become a pretty stable OS nowadays, I see applications crash, sure -but the whole desktop crashing is exceedingly rare)

TLDR: Games alone ain't gonna cut it to lure people away. Heck I barely play them anymore myself.

You fucker, I nearly spilt my coffee.

Friends / family / coworkers / friends of friends etc - they definitely need LESS PC's than they used to, sadly. Tablets, phones, laptops have eaten Desktop marketshare for sure, no doubt about it.

I don't know how many here did the same but I'd often sell 6 to 9 month old hardware to someone and upgrade for example. My personal upgrades have been less frequent due to the downturn in PC demand. (yes they knew it was used)

I'm building one tomorrow actually - second one for the year, but I will say I've come close 2 or 3 times in the past 5 years to just ditching it all for a high end laptop, but I keep coming back, can't help myself.
If they ever did that thunderbolt / lightpeak thing properly, so you could have an external video card / high end hardware in a separate box which connects to your laptop via lightpeak, I'd be interested for sure.

1STABILITY
2PERFORMANCE
3FEATURES
4USER INTERFACE FUCKING FIDDLING

Christ lord almighty, this program has gone to the shitter and it's killing me, PLEASE focus in that damned order.

First I thought it was me or my machine, because I'm an extremely heavy tab user, but I'm seeing it on my other machines too. Yes, I run a heck of a lot of tabs in some sessions (probably over 100 right now) however Firefox has run over 100 tabs for me for the best part of 8+ years.
When I'm researching I have 8 tabs open, it's what I do. I middle click the link to open in the background (tab mix plus â(TM)¥) and then I read the current tab, switch instantly to the next one, no back buttons and clicking the next link, I've already clicked it, it's waiting for me.

I just want the damn thing to be stable, I want them to STOP fiddling with the UI, I want them to STOP adding features. I've got 8gb of RAM use it (properly!) if you need it - but maintain stability and performance.
I'm almost using Chrome at the moment and I can't stand Chromes, Apple style "our way or the highway" on stupid changes.
FF with Tabs Menu, Xmarks, Tab Mix Plus, Lastpass is a joy to use when it's being reliable but god help me this is killing me.

Works for most people, do some reading and get back to me.

Bullshit, I've been doing it for 2 years now and healthy food is fine, it tastes like food, not random chemicals and slop.

It's actually not that difficult to cook something healthy and quickly in a short amount of time once you actually put the effort in for a couple of months, a quick and simple food routine is great.

It's called eating well, exercising and losing a significant amount of weight.
I know, I came very very close to having it. Break the sugar addiction, quadruple your vegetable intake, vastly reduce your sugar / heavy foods intake and do a little, tiny bit of basic light exercise.

In a couple of years, guess what,...?

Couldn't agree more on the kids thing, I've been following that way of thought for many years.

This quote from The Matrix is unfortunately sadly on point.
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.

Right, right? No way would they need anyone from overseas for any upcoming jobs, no sirree. Won't see any work of any kind going to other countries, nope!

This man for president, seriously.
Fuck those designers, fuck ALL of them. The internet in /general/ is getting worse for design, ever since tablets got popular, it's fucking gross and I'm sick of it.

In a single (ok 2) words

Fuck them
Fuck them in their stupid assess. I don't give a shit about the "baytrail tablets and laptops" If you are purchasing 32bit only hardware in the last 4 years, fucking shame on you and if intel don't or didn't have a 64bit alternative, you shouldn't have bought intel.

32bit OS's should've been dead 5 years ago, this bullshit needs to stop.

Subject says it really. Win7 shouldn't have shipped with a 32bit version, Windows 8 definitely should not have shipped with a 32bit version and for goodness sakes, Windows 9 most god damned definitely should not be shipping with a 32bit version.

Can we finally get a single unified build here? It's time to let it go.

I've actually managed to find a picture of it being used as intended.
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Portable_Hole_8289.jpg

I already can't see the pixels even up ultra close on an iphone 5, I have difficulty on my Samsung Galaxy S3 and both of those displays are only "fairly good" by the new mid 2014 phone standard which is up to over 500ppi

You want to impress me, get OLED happening everywhere, I've done the reading, I understand the tech, the colour range, refresh rate and incredibly black blacks are awesome.

Also, 2d / 3d graphics processors are going to melt pushing this many pixels sooner or later :/