If I searched my posting history, I'm sure I could find a /. post saying exactly the same thing... except mine would have been from around 2005, and would have mentioned native games instead of Lutris/Steam, and specified Debian Linux and KDE. And GIMP. I was really into photography back then and used the hell out of GIMP. I still use it regularly, though not as much because my camera doesn't get so much use.

My point? I don't really have one, except that these sorts of predictions have a long history of proving to be wrong. Hence the forever meme "Next year is the year of desktop Linux!".

That said, I dumped Windows in early 2002 and I've never looked back and never regretted it, so Linux is and has been a completely viable platform for a long time.

Also, WRF? When I play a game I do not want reality to intrude!

The thing seems to be that the less people know how cryptography works, the more faith they have in it. One of the indications that most people have non-functional minds and understand essentially nothing.

Google pays the foreigners the same as it pays Americans. Maybe a little bit more, if you count the free immigration attorney work.

If just anyone could be trained up, that might make sense, but there's a big element of native talent and intelligence needed, and the US only has about 4% of the world's population. It makes a lot of business sense to look into the other 96% to see what you can find there. And its the moral thing to do, too. Kids in the US are already massively advantaged by their lucky break of being born here. Why not give others a chance?

Google actually does that except they start a little bit later, with college freshmen and sophomores.

Google pays its H1-B workers the same as US citizens, or green card holders, etc. There's no cost savings to be had there.

Hahahaha, no. You have forgotten where you are.

But just because you really are clueless, you just asked for a core design element of UNIX to be removed. It does not get much more incompetent than that. Amatateur with delusions is my guess.

There really is nothing I need to add here. You _are_ stupid and have no clue how things work in the real world.

Indeed, they have. Why exactly are they getting away with that?

Cannot work? Lose data? Get hacked? All part of the service with Microsoft.

With these numbers? Yes. MS is arrogant, stupid, incompetent and worse, but they are not suicidal.

Indeed. There are enough people around that can do these jobs. Find them, make them actually _good_ offers and this problem will go away. This is sheer leadership failure, nothing else.

People stupid enough that they cannot see how incapable AI really is?

Soo, "the fact that the data was stolen more than twice ... [is] a testament to their successful security model" ???

WTF?

As to "Lastpass data is encrypted on the client. There is no way anyone can use the stolen Lastpass data without the encryption key, barring some breakthrough like quantum computing."

WTF? Have you ever heard about password cracking tools? Obviously not.

Clearly you are incompetent and unaware of it.

You should have a look at this: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/def...
If you maintain your statement after that, then you are simply an idiot.

Nobody else is even _remotly_ as insecure and as overall crappy as Microsoft and Azure. They still do not even know how they got attacked, because they do not keep logs for critical security functions for that long. The one path they think (!) the attackers may have gotten in requires them to have screwed up _everything_.