>or also on laptops?

Dell will do it, also Acer.

System76 has been doing it for 10 years.

Your local independent dealer will nuke-and-pave a Windows machine to sell a system (well, the good ones anyway).

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Can we please launch Teresa May into the Sun?

David Cameron would be my second choice.

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Because:

1. Linux users - you know, the people who would actually buy a computer with Linux pre-installed - would stay away in droves.

2. There are plenty of other specialty shops that will pre-install Linux that won't install the crapware.

3. EVEN IF some Linux users would buy these machines, the first thing to happen would be a nuke-and-pave (like with Windows machines), or at the very least, degooberification of the machine via a script passed around by a pissed off owner.

4. Knowing this, crapware "publishers" wouldn't pay a company to bundle their shite because it would be a lost-cause.

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Commenting to remove fat-finger-mis-mod.

Hnnnggggg....

He didn't say "no extensions". He said,

adblocker extensions, password managers, extensions that prevent video from autoplaying and etc. will not be available

That may as well be "no extensions" for most people, because those are the most useful ones that get installed first with a new browser.

So fuck him, and fuck his browser. And fuck his company. No, really, if he wants to be that user-hostile, he can take his stuff and shove it straight up his own arse.

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Hint: you can't, because it doesn't. More likely the contrary (as in: seeing a naked body every now & then lets kids grow up to be healthy adults). As has been shown at least a few times in serious studies

The best way for anyone to see how this is true is to see what goes on at a Nudist park, village, beach, etc. and my direct study (this summer) of the situation confirms your answer. Nudity != sex in spades. Also, people talk about body acceptance. If a nudist camp experience can't give you that with bodies all over the spectrum, then you really do need help.

I joined Cedar Waters Village http://nhnude.com/ this year, after a lifetime of avoiding places like that (except for that one visit to Moonstone Beach (PPTJLC)), and I can only say that I regret not doing something like this sooner in my life. The ability to just walk out of your cabin after waking up - bypassing your clothes hanging in the closet completely - and traipse off to the beach not giving a single flying fuck is refreshing.

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People who wore the Confederate Battle Flag as a symbol of "redneck pride" before the events of the past week were morons at best and are doubly so now.

Deal with it.

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The removal of Confederate Battle Flag items from the market and such is a bad idea.

Walmart, K-Mart, Sears, etc., should all continue to sell "Redneck Pride" crap - promote it, even. Because such things are great visual cues as to who is a moron/dolt/idiot without having to actually talk to them.

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Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group.

This fucking clown? This guy who sided for years and years with SCO? This guy who gets things more wrong than even Dvorak, and at the same time is sincerely not trying to troll (unlike Dvorak) thereby exhibiting his utter incompetency?

Since when does his fucking opinion fucking matter? How the fuck does one get a gig doing what he does and get even NPR to pay cash money for idiotic punditry?

>group

OF ONE FUCKING PERSON. Self-importance, bloviation, and inaccuracy all rolled up into one neat douchebag.

WHY DOES SLASHDOT, OF ALL PLACES, LEND THIS GUY ANY SORT OF CREDIBILITY BY BLOGGING HIS CRAP HERE?

Oh, I know, Dice.

Hnnnnggggghhh...

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>Software with a 25+ lifespan
>proprietary version of C++
>proprietary IDE

Just... no. Depending on proprietary anything is a no-no. Anyone who has experienced the "oh we don't do that anymore" phenomenon with other Microsoft products (the EOLing of MSVB 6.0, fer example), and other software vendors, know that depending on a company that needs to introduce $SOMETHING_DIFFERENT every year to differentiate (and call it innovation!) themselves from $OTHER_VENDOR is a road that leads to Lovecraftian madness.

There is COBOL and FORTRAN code out there that is likely older than me and a most other Slashdotters, and the only reason why it's still around and maintained is because it conforms to standards, is documented to hell and back, and can be edited in a plain text editor, or even pencil-and-paper, and doesn't depend on any particular vendor.

Proprietary languages and IDEs are a quagmire, and companies like Microsoft know this - once you've written enough code that requires their support, they have you by the short hairs.

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All the "negative checkoff" (click NOT to install) and all the (CNET downloads.com e.g.) sites where banner ads mislead to click on them rather than the download file button you are looking for should be treated as malware, starting a long time ago.

So much this. All of the major "download sites" for Windows freeware/shareware do this. Even some official sites hide the actual download button and have big adware/spyware/shitware "download" buttons.

For example, I used to recommend imgburn for Windows users years ago, back when XP was new, until I saw what they were doing with their official page. They still haven't cleaned it up. It's still shit.

Feast your eyes upon this abomination:
http://www.imgburn.com/

Be in a hurry and spot the actual download link. Go ahead. Even if you know what you're looking for, you can miss it.

Also- "Versions 2.5.1.0 on included optional Ask.com adware in the installer,[4] which was replaced in version 2.5.8.0 with OpenCandy adware.[5][6]"

Go to wikipedia and look at the list of software that OpenCandy infects, too.

Then there is stuff like MindSpark that even comes *preinstalled* on consumer-level machines from Dell and HP.

It's when I see shit like that I thank my lucky stars I moved away from Windows full-time 18 years ago.

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Men aren't supposed to be repelled.

It's the workaholic ethic many men grow up with.

You might think sexism is only discrimination against women. Men are the victims of sexism just as much, on the basis that they're supposed to be strong, macho, invincible in the face of adversity.

"Long hours? You don't like long hours? What kind of a pussy are you? You're not a team player. Your last paycheck will be Friday."

or...

(I heard this from one of my supervisors. It's something straight out of Dilbert:) "Taking unpaid personal time is stealing from the company."

These attitudes are rampant not only in game publishers but in manufacturing and everything else.

And we're supposed to just put up with it. Because we're not pussies.

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Why is higher education only useful for helping you making money? THat is not what it is for!

Tell that to my parents, and millions like them, who drummed it into my head that I would be digging ditches if I didn't go to university. This had been repeated to every generation since WWII. So excuse all of us for believing it.

They didn't tell me about laborer's unions and what licensed heavy equipment operators get, you know, the people who really dig ditches.

Which I would have enjoyed. Who the hell wants to be stuck inside all day?

Doing manual work was seriously looked down upon. But the plumber in our neighborhood had a huge boat with *two* inboard engines in it and a nice house.

And you can't outsource plumbing.

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But you don't have to use Facebook... ...to be tracked.

You know all those "share via social media" buttons you see everywhere? Do you think they just exist to make it easy for users to repost content? No, they're for tracking anyone and everyone who goes to those sites (i.e., all) who don't have the trackers filtered through the likes of PrivacyBadger and ad-blockers.

And the ratio of users that use those is minuscule enough that the users of the blockers themselves (like me) can be tracked via browser fingerprinting ridiculously easily anyway.

The general population is powerless against the corporations unless they simply give up entirely and go dark. What a nifty fucking choice, eh?

Get down off your high-horse, Lord Farquaad.

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