ExFAT FS has been on Linux for how long now? And why is Microsoft pushing their crappy FS? I am looking forward to doing a new installation, eventually, using ZFS as the root partition. Something ultra-mega-cool. Can you even picture exFAT for your root partition? Not sure what the big whoop is, unless this is some more of Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish tactics. Windows should embrace ZFS instead. Seriously.

And I can tell you we had some grandiose plans for the new chipsets -- which never saw the light of day. We had what was code-named: The AAA Chipset, with a blitter per bitplane, 24 bitplanes for "true-color" graphics, a DSP for sound, and so on.

Upper management killed this and made up come out with something reduced; the AA chipset that you are aware of with the Amiga 600 and the like.

Who knows where we'd be today? Of course, Nvidia's awesome RTX 2070 / 2080 is nothing to be sneezed at (and I have the 2070). I think Commodore could be where Nvidia is now, and maybe a bit sooner, had it played its cards right.

Technology was never a problem for us. Marketing, on the other hand, was. Real marketing was simply nonexistent for Commodore, which is the largest cause of its downfall.

If it does not like the topic of conversation, will it shut itself down for 30 days just to "teach you a lesson?"

Google -- and any other online site -- cannot possibly know the upload contains "illegal" content until the upload is completed. So much babbling here about "Upload Filters" is even more perplexing, as though filter software will need to be installed on your computer before uploads are even allowed!!!!

The EU politicians are idiots, of course, and YouTube has long since had copyright detection where your video will be blocked from viewing if YT's algorithms think your video has protected content.

As far as news stories, Google is doing the news sites a favour, driving traffic to them. Talk about biting your gift horse.

I am not saying that Google is a shining company, as the recent fiasco with James Damore demonstrates. But come on. Google provides so many free services to everyone, why bitch? Maps is a fine example, and I use that app daily to navigate through the rush hours in Berlin. I would actually pay for that service. And yes, yes, I know they are storing my movements -- for me, they have my movements stored all the way back to 2009. I actually find it useful to see precisely when and where I've travelled around the world. It's a privacy issue for sure, but then you don't have to use Google, or you can simply create a burner account if it matters that much to you.

The EU seems hell-bent on destroying the Internet. At least for Europe. All Google and others have to do is simply block Europe (and I'll have my VPN at the ready!!!). How would Europe get along without Google? Bing? Yahoo? Sure. It would be funny as hell if the big Internet companies boycotted the EU. Funny as hell.

"Google+: Google+ was once supposed to be the one-stop shop for social and support among Google users, but it never really caught on. And then it was revealed that some 50 million users may have had their name, email address, occupation, and age exposed to third-party developers, which accelerated its demise. Now it's going away for good, but we can't imagine that anyone will actually notice."

I guess I am not "anyone" then. I was using a G+ group to support AI research, which I now have migrated to MeWe.

And so, this "nobody" will continue. There were many of us using G+, but just because our numbers never made it to the insane levels of FaceBook -- who basically treats all their members like 5-year-olds -- does not mean we were nobodies. I was a member of many high-quality groups, like Blender and many others, that are all going to go "poof". And the 200GB archive I downloaded from G+ is another sign of just how active I've been there for many, many years.

So PCWorld can shove it where the sun never shines. Besides, they are one of the worst computer magazines ever. Never ever liked them.

on your laptop. One for your Powerpoints or other business apps you want to use, and the other for your private / personal affairs. It does not have to be even separate OS account. I have many Chrome accounts, and I always create a company one for wherever I am working at. A separation of concerns. :)

Well, it's a puerile response from me, and just what the hell is "harmful content", anyway? Smells like leftist claptrap to me. Oh boy, let's make it criminal to hurt your precious little darling feelings. And thus, Free Speech is dead.

...and our choosy mothers here would never choose "Jif" becase we pronounce our "J" like you pronounce your "Y", and it just sounds wrong somehow. Besides, we don't like the wimpy ways you pronounce your "G", anyway. :) Viel Glück!!!

The US. Whittling away your freedoms and liberty and dignity -- one device at a time.

Cool. Thanks.

By "interefering", do they mean crackers breaking into online voter servers? Or just posting opinions and the like in social media?

If the latter, that hardly "interfering". Just voicing opinions. Double-plus good oh my brother!

Since when does Mozilla, who has been indirectly supporting the violent Antifa, get off on pushing "ethics" to others??? How about they clean up their own house first?????

And to allow everyone a chance to say something, we had a "token" that was passed around the table to allow everyone a chance to speak. And considering we had 6-10 people to show up, this worked out surprisingly well.

The level of condescension involved here is hard to underscore. I had to deal with exactly this situation at a major network corporation 20 years ago. I really don't get it. Slavery has been a blight on the human race for centuries, up till fairly recently. "Blacks" were not the only ones enslaved. Hardly. Many groups were -- and they've all gotten over it. What makes the "blacks" so special??? Stop it already. Use the terms "master" and "slave" if it makes sense to do so. I will be sure to increase my use of those terms in my own opensource projects, and if someone doesn't like it, too bad.