The more Microsoft continues work on its store, the more Valve will invest in SteamOS. Unless they want Steam to be history...

Also, never forget the network effects. Right now if steam is not working, nobody would like to use microsoft where only the store works.

Microsoft sells this as important step against bloatware/malware, but this coudn't be further from the truth. Windows 10 desktops come preloaded with bloatware, and often it re-installs itself after you have removed it. The real motivation for microsoft to do this is because the model of making a limited app store and then taxing every app a big amount (30% usually) has been very successful on the mobile market and they want this for windows too.

Kerala is india's hotspot for open source software: https://www.cnet.com/news/indi...

The local media corporations know this and have pressured netflix to ban VPN ip addresses. The stated goal for netflix is to offer their own portfolio globally unified, but maybe they'll drop that lie some time in the future. I mean its easy to say they were forced by the evil evil copyright holders to make VPN bans and DRM requirements, but suprisingly for their own "netflix original" media those same restrictions apply...

Yeah I don't know what hubris the other people has infested. I for one must go, my horse carriage is waiting! The bookkeeping department of the steam engine manufacturing company I work at needs me, because I'm the only one who can use an abacus, and operate the telegraph.

It boils down to a race of money vs money, and the car manufacturers have taken together more money than silicon valley. Yes, silicon valley has boatloads of money, and even more insight into and control over our lives and data, but they can't deploy as much resources as the car industry can.

Silicon valley is a place that (mostly) lives off disrupting other industries and markets, and many of them are very vigilently fighting digitalisation. Just take Uber vs taxi companies. Or airbnb vs hotels. Or whatsapp vs mobile carriers (everyone remember having to pay for single SMS messages?). Or google vs libraries (that was the place you visited to research about a subject in the old days). Sometimes though the industry that's about to be disrupted sees that in the long run, it will lose, and I think the car companies have chosen to innovate themselves.

Silicon valley find other industries to disrupt though, they are very important.

Just note that in this context, "Code of Conduct" has a different meaning that extends beyond the legitimate rule to be civil. Its one of those SJW phrases that they took hold of and completely skewed in meaning (like "enabler" or "diversity" -- for them, everything SJW is "diverse" but everything even slightly critical of SJW is "bigoted", funny how they turn the terms around by 180 degrees). Their goal is to make you believe that an environment that is toxic towards people who think different from the (SJW) mainstream is just "enforcing good behaviour". Remember, github is the company that threatened to ban an open source project for (humorously) using the word "retard" in its advertisement (just google "github retard" to find out what I mean), and whose "VP of social impact" repeatedly made racist statements: http://www.businessinsider.com... ... probably they think that when its anti white its not racist.

There is some difference between "lock someone up for 2 years and let them meet the real gangsters to teach them how to be criminal" and "lock someone up and teach them how to become legal". There is much work to do to improve the current situation on this front. Its not made easier that the legal system punishes black people to an extraordinary extent. Also, there are other forms of punishment than just putting someone into a prison. Like fines for example.

Thats an argument along the lines of "if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns". Of course, the crime that's left is in the blind spots, but it doesn't mean that it wasn't successful.

That being said, I don't suggest that the entire US should be carpet surveilled with cameras like the british islands are. Just apply it to some few select crime hot spots.

but when I do, they become fucking memes!

To be honest, if I'm looking at all the people who use the Chrome browser, who use Windows 10, who use smartphones, and who all have opted into this control and surveillance, I think that putting cameras in places with rampant crime and abuse is a good way to stop it. However, if you only put cameras to the places of the city where crime is most present, it will just simply move. Therefore its a good idea to place cameras into every part of the city. If this is only done in cities where crime is very present, then its a good move!

Also, these cameras can't be turned off by police officials as easily as body cameras can, so I think its more likely to see better proof for police brutality and to pick out the bad apples.

Obviously, you need to watch out that these data don't get into wrong hands and maybe get used for extortion.

"Modern" is for CS people like "Alternative facts" is for politicians.

So you want to ban any kind of sexual advances? I mean, do you want that people first ask before they ask about starting a relationship? I mean, that person didn't touch her, or even intimidated her or something.

The only real problem here was that it was a superior asking a subordinate. THAT is bad behavior, as there is always a direct power relation.

The second problem obviously was that it wasn't his first encounter like that, but one does have to ask whether his other encounters were with his subordinates as well, or whether it was simply with other coworkers (which is okay).

Sorry but I'm no SJW. I don't actually think that such behavior makes Uber a "sexist nightmare" or whatever, like the article says. But I do think that such approaches are not really the best behavior a superior should show.

I think the main problem here is that the superior propositioned the subordinate. This is problematic, as when she refuses, which she did, she was still dependent on him, and it was easy for him to punish her for her refusal. Of course, he still could put care on treating her the same, but obviously this is something very hard to prove, and therefore the best approach would be to ban this behavior.

Generally though, assuming or expecting that every employee lives in a happy relationship and doesn't want any new ones is just not realistic. Employees will seek relationships and generally this doesn't cause any harm to anybody, just when the power relations are so direct like with direct superior and subordinate its a problem.