But in all seriousness, it sounds like they've discovered that...it's cooler in the shade than it is in direct sunlight. I live in the south, and during the summer the prime parking spots aren't near the door, they're under a tree or anything that might provide some shade.

Maybe I'm missing something?

Maybe practice some forest management? Learn that it's not a crime against humanity (or nature) to cut a tree down? Controlled burns?

Metadata is "the biggest little problem". The biggest big problems are that the music industry rips off artists, and the music itself.

I want to be in charge of my own security, I want to know what's being installed, I want to control when it's installed, and I damn sure want to control when my machine is going to reboot. However, I'm an IT professional. My mother, on the other hand, is doing well to turn the computer on, and I want her updates to be automatic without any intervention. Those two scenarios are not at complete odds with each other-if Microsoft would just set the default to automatic updates and give us the option to only run updates when the user checks for updates. In manual update mode, I'd even be just fine with Windows checking for updates automatically and notifying me if there are some, but don't install them until I say so and definitely do not reboot until I say so. Just the option of 'Notify but don't install until the user intentionally tells the updates to install' would make practically everyone here happy, and a default mode of 'Check for them, download them, and install them when they're available without having to bother the user' would keep the non techies happy.

Pretty much anything could be considered an 'app'.

Overload what switch? About 15 years ago I did some tech work for a small robocall company. Small as in two employees and about thirty computers making the calls. About twenty of those computers would dial around ten or fifteen numbers per minute. Numbers that answered were sent to one of the other ten or so computers that played a recorded message.

And they were actually very careful about staying legal-the phone number database they used sorted the numbers into time zones, and the computers would not call the numbers outside of a certain time frame (I believe it was between 7am and 9pm that was fine to call, before or after that was illegal).

Considering I smoke cigarettes, use an ecig sometimes, eat bacon, drink caffeinated drinks, etc etc etc, I'm pretty sure I have a 9424% higher risk of strokes, 6243% higher risk of heart attacks, 3128% higher risk of heart disease, a 15326% higher risk of lung cancer, and according to various sayings like a cigarette takes five minutes off your life, I died some 240 years ago. Useless scare tactic statistics, in other words.

Just what we needed. Now all of Earth's problems are solved.

So if they're worried about cybersecurity, does that mean they'll actually pay more for cybersecurity? Somehow I don't see that happening.

Sure, I get that some people may use Cortana. Sometimes. Maybe even on purpose. But for the love of all that is holy, at least let me actually disable it.

Before you go start learning which sites I want audio to play on, and which sites I want the autoplay videos starting up, and which sites are games I play, let me make this really easy for you: From now on, as in forever, don't play a video or sound or a game until I specifically tell you to.

The important thing here is THIS IS HOW SCIENCE IS SUPPOSED TO WORK. "Hey, we think we found this thing. We're pretty sure, but we're not going to say anything definite until it's independently confirmed by other people. Here's the data we used, here's how we got it, and here's how we used it, now please someone else check this out and see if we're right."

Just have like everyone in China jump up and down at the same time for a while. If the wobble gets worse, have everyone in North America jump up and down for a longer period of time.

Normally I'd be totally dead set against prison time for copyright violations (I still am), but it seriously sounds like this guy is so dumb he deserves the jail time. Not for copyright violations, but for being an idiot in general, flagrantly disregarding the law, being stupid enough to upload the whole movie to Facebook, not knowing at all how technology works, and again just for being an idiot. From the full article:

In one such post he wrote: "I got the ultimate way out of this, yall might be surprised on how I won't go to jail but just become more famous." In another he wrote, "I'm just sitting back smoking out my bong laughing at these mfs who think they know what they talking I haven't sold shit to anyone, or made copies." Franklin went on to create a Facebook group called “Bootleg Movies,” posted “EVERYBODY JOIN,” and told people he’d be posting more movies on the page.

Not stuff that's blindingly obvious and has been from the start.