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Submission + - MH370: Found Airplane Debris is believed to be from missing Malaysian 777

Submitted by McGruber
McGruber writes: Air crash investigators have 'a high degree of confidence' that a piece of wreckage found on the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion is from a Boeing 777 — the same model as the doomed MH370 which disappeared in March 2014. Investigators will need to examine closely the wreckage to link it to MH370, but MH370 was the only Boeing 777 over lost over water.

NOTE: The Daily Mail article I'm submitting has the best pictures of the debris that I've been able to find.

Submission + - Youtube And Google Plus Have Come Unglued (youtube.com)

Submitted by The Chaos
The Chaos writes: Hands down, it was stupid of Google to try to force its social network, Google Plus down Youtubers' throats. But now it seems the company has finally come to its senses and decided to remove the mandatory integration. In a statement issued by Google VP Bradley Horowitz over on google Plus, the company is uncoupling the two services, allowing users to comment on videos without having to sign into Google Plus.

"We want to formally retire the notion that a Google+ membership is required for anything at Google ... other than using Google+ itself,"

Find out more by watching the video at the link.

Submission + - Windows 10: A Potential Privacy Mess, and Worse (vortex.com)

Submitted by Lauren Weinstein
Lauren Weinstein writes: I had originally been considering accepting Microsoft's offer of a free upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. After all, reports have suggested that it's a much more usable system than Windows 8/8.1 — but of course in keeping with the "every other MS release of Windows is a dog" history, that's a pretty low bar.

However, it appears that MS has significantly botched their deployment of Windows 10. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised, even though hope springs eternal.

Since there are so many issues involved, and MS is very aggressively pushing this upgrade, I'm going to run through key points here quickly, and reference other sites' pages that can give you more information right now.

But here's my executive summary: You may want to think twice, or three times, or many more times, about whether or not you wish to accept the Windows 10 free upgrade on your existing Windows 7 or 8/8.1 system.

Comment Re:Windows, IE and Lifecycles (Score 1) 255

by 0123456 (#50209297) Attached to: Microsoft Edge On Windows 10: the Browser That Will Finally Kill IE

Less than 3 1/2 years later, no more iOS updates were available on it (5.1.1 was the last version) and over time apps stopped supporting this version of the OS.

That's about the same time as there was between buying our XP netbook and Microsoft dropping support for XP.

(Not that it mattered, as I stuck an SSD in there and installed Linux soon after buying it)

Comment Re:So far so good.... (Score 1) 317

by 0123456 (#50206603) Attached to: Windows 10 Launches

I think you should just be honest with people who ask you to help them with their PC and admit you know nothing about Windows.

This is the great thing about the way Microsoft keep changing the Windows UI. Now, when people ask me to help them, I can quite honestly say I don't have a clue about Windows.

Comment Re:Closed Ecosystem (Score 1) 92

by 0123456 (#50206549) Attached to: Maliciously Crafted MKV Video Files Can Be Used To Crash Android Phones

I think Google were just rushing to get a competitor out before Apple took over the mobile market and they lost all their ad revenue there.

Now, they look set to lose the market to Windows--which is something I never thought I'd say--if they don't find a way to push security fixes to phones without having to go through the manufacturer and carrier.

Comment Re:Windows 10 Sucks (Score 0) 317

by 0123456 (#50205813) Attached to: Windows 10 Launches

Unless systemd is implemented in a really retardo way (which it may very well be), I don't see the big deal, other than "Change Bad!"

Uh, systemd comes from the same guy who gave us Pulseaudio. How many years did that take to become usable?

And, unlike pulseaudio, you can't just uninstall systemd and run your operating system without it.

Comment Re:Buggy because MS laid off most Windows QA staff (Score 1) 317

by 0123456 (#50205769) Attached to: Windows 10 Launches

If Win 10 doesn't work better than Win 7 on my theater/gaming PC, I'll just reinstall Win 7, Chrome, Plex, and Steam, and I'm done.

You do realize that this is a one-way transition, and Microsoft apparently invalidate your Windows 7 key after you 'upgrade', right? Otherwise I'd have considered pulling the OS drive from my gaming PC and at least trying out Windows 10 on a new drive so I could easily go back.

Comment Re:Will DirectX 12 be coming for Windows 7 ... ? (Score 1) 317

by 0123456 (#50205737) Attached to: Windows 10 Launches

... or more forced obsolescence ?

Obviously not. Since anyone running Windows 7 can have a free 'upgrade' to Windows 10, there's no chance of Microsoft releasing DX12.

The real question is whether enough gamers will fall for the 'free upgrade' that no-one will release DX12-only games until 2025, or whether most will stick to Windows 7 until they buy a new PC.

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