Considering the duckduckgo "first page" is endless, how much did you scroll to get that answer? I don't see any microsoft answers in the first couple of hundred results?
If you spell "kinect" wrong, then its no surprise that Google stands out by being the only one getting a relevant hit in the first page. Lately google has been considering almost everything a typo and does what he likes with your string ("corrects" it before the actual query). This micght work 99% of the time, but for me that is actually an annoyance, because that often gives me totally wrong results. I have been forced to put every word in quotation marks several times to get anything relevant out of google. I do not have any examples at hand, but i will try to write it down next time.
Why would a computer handle things worse than a human? It has far better reaction time, more information to make a decision from (sensors, infrared, etc), more control. I drive a Subaru and i see its current - rather modest - computer straighten up the car on ice before i could even start to make corrective actions. I would like to see a human break one spinning wheel out of four in in kess than a second for less than a second. While powering the orher three.
I live in a country with 4 months of ice and snow. I will choose my metal-studded winter tires + ABS over a "friction created by a small pile of snow" in a heartbeat.
I tried to use several types of PDAs etc for a decade in business environment. It was always more trouble than it was worth. Until iphone came along in 2007.
That is the 20 year head start thing again. To do so, helps Google gain market share NOW. Come back with this talk in 20 years. My prediction is, that by 2020 we hate Google more than we hate msft now.
Maybe its worth mentioning that Pi is not x86. It is ARM
Who says that SMTP connection between servers is unencrypted? All servers i have configured support SSL (well, TLS actually, but its basically same thing) and if the other server supports it as well, it will be negotiated. I see outgoing and incoming TLS SMTP sessions all the time in the logs so i'm not the only one. SSL encryption costs so little that i consider it a good policy. So e-mail traffic might be encrypted end-to-end. But of course you can't rely on it.
Strange - i have not yet run into a mac user that doesn't clickclick it first. And lets not forget that Mail shows it inline if its single page. Also - for windows users - if you need it to just see bills etc, Chrome handles PDF viewing internally.
ISO conformity is no excuse for the amount of vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat software. Unless the vulnerability is specified in the ISO.
Dont forget its a zero day vulnerability that is fixed in the next quarterly update.
I often find ads being served from the same hosts that serve other content i want. Hosts file can't block that.
It is nice that you have discovered a "hidden" feature in your OS, but hosts file is not the answer to all life's problems.
I use cellular connection a lot. I don't want unnecessary traffic at the wrong time. Dont worry, i update manually and i have never had a worm. My dog had several once, but i don't think that automatic updates from google would have prevented that.
Been there, done that. Used chrome for a year or so as a primary browser. Got fed up with it for different things. For example the habit to eat up a mile long url you have already typed when you realize that you made a typo in the middle and want to fix that. And greasemonkey (or rather - lack thereof). Now back on Firefox for 2 months and happy as a clam.
As far as privacy goes - google software has NEVER asked me if i really want to check for updates and despite my repeated attempts to let them know that i dont by disabling the appropriate daemons they sneak back in when you update manually or install some other unrelated piece of code from google.
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