Will you continue that stance if you're invaded? Remember war is tribalism at a fundamental level. It's easy to think you're above it when you're not affected by it.

I don't think he's getting money. I think he's laundering money.

Not really. What is unprecedented is a call for support for an OS that is not in any way in a long term support contract for over 10 years. You don't get this anywhere else. Heck for the most popular desktop Linux you get 9 months of support. MONTHS! Not even a year. And consumers do not usually seek out LTS releases.

The fact that a future version finally mandates hardware level security (the last consumer OS to do so, and I remind you it's no the 90s, we're in the world of OS acting as passkeys for external services) isn't artificial obsolescence, it's trying to force the one thing Slashdotters have been calling for for years: improved security.

It will not do so in the slightest. Governments are wholly unaffected by this, they are already running Windows 11, or they have LTS agreements in place. And they really don't care much what consumers do with their hardware.

This is the problem with your logic. We're here many years later. What was an antitrust issue in 1995 is now an expected minimum feature. Consumers expect that on a freshly installed PC the vendor provides an internet browser. Also no it's not more difficult to install a browser. Unless you mean clicking a single button (you can't auto default a browser, but you can automatically bring up the window for the user to click on your browser) is "difficult". I don't know anyone who uses Edge, and I know a lot of computer users who metaphorically couldn't tie their own digital shoelaces.

Your post is another typical case of Slashdot being out of touch with reality.

Slashdot logic: Microsoft doesn't take security seriously!
Microsoft: we'll re-design our security infrastructure from the ground up including hardware hardening and yeah we may be the last consumer OS to do so but we're finally improving security.
Slashdot logic:

Honestly everyone here is a whiney bitch.

You can't fail a demo due to a bug in the product if the product is working perfectly. He should accept the failure with more grace ala BSOD on Windows 95 when Bill Gates plugged a plug and pray printer in, rather than gaslighting everyone.

I've heard of those famed supernovae that were visible with the naked eye in the middle ages, and I've always wished I could see one too in my lifetime.

I might just be lucky before I go nova myself.

*Looks awkwardly at the title of this story*

Everything we've ever created is "such a hack". It's the application of physics in ways to solve a problem. EAMR is no more a hack than changing the magnetic head orientation is. Or changing the size of the write head, or the material of the platter, or making heads aerodynamic. It's just engineering.

Based on the number of incredibly stupid posts we see online I don't see how you could give your fellow countrymen that benefit of doubt. No there's waaaay too many people who actually believe the shit they say. You don't need to fake an election when you have a dumb populace.

And by dumb I mean people who shout "Lock her up" in 2016 and yet vote for Trump in 2024. I mean people who are still looking for Hunter Biden's laptop. I mean people like at the top of this page, someone who claims that the Democrats banned several books, none of which were banned and all of which are still available.

The alternate reality is weird, and half the population seem to live in it.

Precisely none of those books were ever banned.

Be a better and more intelligent person.

I'm genuinely curious, while you make a good underlying point for which there is plenty of data to back it, why on why would you pick an example profession that has such an insanely low sample size, and a profession known for its mortality too. Seriously dude, we have huge aggregated datasets showing how average across the population there are improvements. WTF would you use an example subset of 45 people to make your case.

Cars aren't using machine learning. Learning is done elsewhere and a model is applied to the car. That model is equal across all cars where it's applied, no different from any other algorithm. Fix a problem in that model and you fix it equally in all cars.

It's still a correctable behaviour. Human behaviour is not correctable. The biggest improvements we have made in road safety is through systems that take away the requirement for human skill.

Skilled working visa schemes like H1-B are not about attracting world-class experts in anything. They are about attracting skills in specific areas where there may be shortages. The idea of raising the wage limit is a good one, but the reality is H1-B can be any speciality requiring a minimum of a masters degree. Heck there's even a cave out for fashion models to get H1-B visas.

This one will serve only to drive talent off shore. Imaging training people and then exporting that knowledge to another country by disincentivising working locally.

Yes, but to be fair that's how things work in cutting edge world. AI LLMs in generic form are a bag of dicks, but on the flip side when we have alpha tested other products they've brought a world of benefits. The idea of testing cutting edge on employees isn't inherently bad, it just failed miserably with copilot.