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Comment Has any home user ever experienced how the real M$ (Score 1) 263

(not some gullible fake caller "urgently needing" admin access to "help fix something right now" on your machine... ;-/)
  • provides customers with a comfortable customer service layer between themselves and the engineers and programmers at those companies
  • There is [a] single point-of-contact for all things [Windows]-related
  • most people already know how to use Windows

Must be a parallel universe where proprietary vendors' customers are better off (for putting their money down) in any, let alone all, of the above respects.

Comment Care and feeding of an IBM Model M keyboard (Score 1) 220

Interesting read at http://www.tavi.co.uk/ps2pages... with further references. Windows keys never missed without Windows. ;-}

Its sounds are the silver (machine gun rounds of) bullets to never have to share an (open-plan) office again.

Comment written on the highest-serial-number IBM Model M known to exist in my country's layout actually (if Wikipedia's got this correct)...

Comment Just when you thought M$ weren't Borg after all (Score 1) 259

...turns out they are ;-} (reminiscent of the Gates icon /. used to have): 'The company has built a "biological computation" unit that says its ultimate aim is to make cells into living computers. As such, they could be programmed and reprogrammed to treat any diseases'

Comment Re:Export current cookie permissions before upgrad (Score 1) 471

For the record, enabled sites have a type=cookie, permission=1 (Allow) or 8 (Allow for Session), in the moz_hosts and (more recently, clumsily introduced and inconveniently distinguished by leading protocol IDs that hence needed to be set twice, for http and https) moz_perms tables of the respective /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/permissions.sqlite (readable e.g. by SQLite Database Browser).

Backup while you can.

Comment They will transition lobbyists into the new policy (Score 1) 220

...as in any regime change, making it barely distinguishable from the previous government's, and on similar sources of "support".

If contradictions to the campaign that got them into office become all too flagrant (e.g. recently enacted or even forthcoming anti-citizen, anti-consumer provisions, in particular via international conventions), they may conveniently be excused by "having to keep bearing the burden of their predecessors' unfortunate legacy".

If votes could change a nation, there'd be a law against them.

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