I think Robert Dziekaski, homeless people and the 2010 Olympics have shown the our (Canadian) police aren't the most upstanding citizens. I generally try to avoid the police. Not to say we don't have a bunch of good police as well. Unfortunately, there is a police stand up for each other mentality, that seems to extend to even criminal police officers.

Dziekaski of course being murdered at Vancouver Airport with multiple shocks from a taser gun. The officer using the gun claimed he only did one shock, he also was not licensed to use a taser at that time. One of the main officers in that response got fired after he got in a car accident off duty killing a second person. The other police officer were fired for lying in court. Not going to jail, but being fired. It was warned that this could happen again if a list of changes was not made to procedure. To date, none of those changes have been made.

Three police officers were fired after internal investigation found that on duty they would pick up homeless men, take them to the park and beat them.

During the Vancouver Olympics, 17 police officers were charged with rape. I know 6 of the cases were dropped, it was expected only 7 of them would make it to court. Police were brought in from across Canada to help out, and 3 of the 7 expected to go to court were from the province of Quebec.

Ummm, you actually picked one of the few APIs that Microsoft has messed up multiple times over the years. Playing wav files changed quite a bit between Windows 3.1 and Windows 9x. Windows 9x would usually work for 16-bit applications from Windows 3.1, but if you tried using the same code in a 32-bit applications you had to make some small tweaks. Then there were some fundamental differences between playing wav files in 9x and NT. You could get something to work the same on both, but it was a bit more work. If you used the simple way of playing wav files in Windows 9x on NT, it would play the sound twice. I don't recall why this was, except for that the sound system designs were quite different.

I used to work on an English as a second language program. I much appreciated that Windows 9x would automatically down sample a 16-bit wav files to 8-bit. In Windows 3.1, you had to detect if the sound card supported 16-bit, and if not have a fall back 8-bit version. Trying to play a 16-bit sound file on an 8-bit card didn't error out, it just didn't play anything.

One of their lightning deals was for a Samsung Galaxy S10. There was 1 review saying they got some off brand phone in the box and cheap headphones.
I got what looked like a genuine box, and most other things in the box seemed the real deal... except for the phone.
I knew something was wrong right away as the phone was loose in the case. I turned it over to find 1 camera and a finger print reader. It did say Samsung on the back and it matched the pictures of an S9. I turned it on and ot identified as a Samsung Galaxy S9.
The price was good for a S10, it was way too much for a S9. Fortunately Amazon accepted the return request.

The law making this illegal is Federal. Too bad they don't have some sort of Bureau. You know one that Investigates these things?
Oh wait, there is the FBI. Part of their mandate is to investigate local police departments not upholding the law and charge them for criminal behavior.
Who would you charge? The police chiefs are responsible for what happens in their precinct. If they knew, or it was reasonable that in their position they should have known about the illegal activity, they are guilty of aiding and abetting.

In this case the police cheifs perpetuated the criminal activity. They sould be in jail right now, but we already know that the rule of law doesn't matter in the US, just who has the ruler.

It didn't take Mozilla 20 years to add OpenPGP, it took independent developers years after Mozilla left Thunderbird out to dry to add it. Mozilla only made things harder by constantly changing the interfaces and features Gecko has.

There is no question this was done on purpose! This is also extreme stupidity! I guess I'm saying this was malicious stupidity.

I can't find the original article where they tested the iPhone 7 vs other phones. It is buried somewhere in the massive search results from Google when you try searching the problem. Google favors newer articles, and there are just way too many search results on any combination of the problem to find the actual article. Which really goes to show how big of a problem it is/was.
The iPhone 8 and X problems are more documented by the various articles talking about it such as:
https://piunikaweb.com/2018/02...
or having a full article on how to try to fix it:
http://osxdaily.com/2019/04/30...

I haven't heard any reports about the MAX and later models, that is why I kept to the 7, 8 and X. Just don't hold the iPhone 6 wrong and you'll be fine. ;)

Give Apple a break. They make their cell phones in China. They need to protect the jobs of the children and slaves... sorry, I mean young workers and university job experience workers for them to feed their families.
For those already complaining that they do not pay the job experience workers, they are gaining valuable on job training for gainful later employment.

Now please go back to kneeling and praising the omnipotent Lord and savior Apple. It is not your place to question, but to blindly follow like you always have.

Well, considering the iPhone 7, 8 and X are rated as having some of the worst speakers and call quality, maybe they just need to fake call disruption.

Wasn't Firefox supposed to be the slimmed down browser that was faster to start?

I haven't checked since Quantum, but SeaMonkey, the "bloated browser," from the start was a smaller download, started way faster and took way less memory.

Up until the removal of plug-ins, they even used the exact same version of Gecko. Though SeaMonkey would usually have the experimental HTML/CSS/Javascript features turned on by default. SeaMonkey is trying to upgrade to newer Gecko, but they are having problems.

It just seems to me that Firefox has a lot of bloat they can shed across the board still.

McAfee constantly still rates as one of the worst anti-virus software. It just sits there chewing up CPU cycles and thrashes the drives.

I've lost count of the number of software installs I've needed to fix due to McAfee. Sometimes it is as simple as disabling McAfee, then using the program uninstall. Other times I have to manually remove the program piece by piece. What I really hate is when the OS gets damaged, or so messed up that a clean install is faster and more reliable.

I think there is a name for what McAfee does... Its called a virus.

Add on that he could be a murder and seems insane, and that makes him interesting to people.

Lets just start out with the smaller focused search engines. This idea is as stupid now, as it was in the '90s when there were a whole bunch of companies pursuing this. If you ask basically anyone, they want one place to go search for everything. On top of that, they would like to be able to filter by categories. Especially if they don't have to click a whole bunch of extra stuff to get results by that category.

Wait, that is exactly what Google does! Imagine that.

As for Google making their index public. I'm sure they would be fine with that. The actual index is just data that anyone else can gather. Trust me, it isn't that hard. I've worked on a project with a small team that made one of these targeted search engines. The index is extremely easy to build, if you have the storage space. Even storage space isn't as much of an issues as it was back in the '90s.

Where Google shines is its interpretation of this index. What it displays, how it ranks everything, how it interprets what you are actually looking for. That is the secret sauce that makes Google Search work so well. Not the web site data they collect, but how they process it. If you want to use their secret sauce, then it is going to track you, because guess what? It is the tracking information that makes it work how it works. It get to know you, it gets to know people in your city, in your state/province, in your country. I tries to tailor the information to you.

Scary? Maybe, but Epstein fails to understand that the two pieces are not separate, and the index by its self is not very useful. The secret sauce works so well because it tracks you.

The original version of the subscription agreement talked about the license you are paying for only being guaranteed for the latest release of the product. It may no longer apply to the version you have installed. You will be required at times to update. For support you must be using the newest version.

It is perfectly legal what they are doing because you are no longer buying a product, you are buying a subscription license for their current version of the product.

So let me get this straight, you want to turn regulation of technology over to people who have proven to have zero clue about technology? Not only do they have no clue, but they are swayed by corporate money and giving up things they stand for to get other thing they want passed?

I would say this was stupid if it weren't completely, and utterly insane!

Look at how screwed up the DMCA is! I can only describe it as a work of pure evil!

In Europe you now have the insanity of Chapters 15 and 17.

Combined with all of Tim Cook's other mistakes, this should be a flashing neon sign to the board that Tim wasn't ready to become a CEO and probably never will be.

To be clear, most of these have not shipped yet. This is the batch to go with the Quest and Rift S kits.
If you currently have touch controllers, the insides of them do not have these sayings.

The exception is the dev kits for these have shipped and they have the sayings, "Big Brother is Watching" and "Hi iFixit! We See You!"

The consumer touch controllers that are about to ship say, "This Space For Rent" & "The Masons Were Here."
Facebook does not plan to recall any of these. You have to unscrew your controller and open it up to see these messages.