Sooooo... they want us to trust US companies and their lackeys, accept their bribes, and feel safe when we get fucked over by the CLOUD act or some other US law which tell US companies to hand over data whenever the US government feels like it?

No thanks.

However, there should be proper oversight and verification of what is flagged by the machine. If the machine makes a mistake, and an innocent suffers because of that mistake, they should be compensated in proportion to the amount of damage they suffered.

Over here (in the Netherlands) we've got something called... errr... I know this might sound strange... errr... are you ready? Sure? A government which basically granted every government contract to Microsoft without so much as a single thought. Every. Single. Government department uses Microsoft per the blanket government contract. Oh, the fun of it? There's supposed to be procurement rules. Conveniently, they ignored those, otherwise Microsoft might have been facing stiff competition from other contractors.

The argument for ignoring those procurement rules (established by the EU)? There's no other market participant who can deliver on such a scale. Never mind they did zero actual investigation and just went with Microsoft. To me this smells of corruption.

And now there's this. Who would have thought?

Thinking their laws apply all over the world.

Reminder: the authority of USA laws ends at its borders. Yes, there's treaties. That still doesn't make USA laws binding in other jurisdictions.

Of course the Americans will show up to downvote this post into oblivion.

The EU seems already busy with moving in the direction of open source software.

By the way: there is a difference between the EU and Europe. That being said, neither is a country.

I'm glad I don't live in the USA, which scores 94th on the world crime index and 58th in the safety index... Seems to me the USA isn't such a safe country.

A child cannot be expected to act responsibly or to have an idea of the consequences of its actions. The law and society should bend over backwards in order to protect any child, no matter what it has done.

Then again, the USA hasn't ratified the rights of the child treaty. It's the only country which hasn't done so yet. Disgusting.

Humans exist thanks to coffee. If it were not for coffee, we would be extinct right now.

You've been heard... and ignored.

Remember that root-canal treatment you needed five years ago? Yeah, now you can! Including all the extreme pain because the dentist could not anesthetize because it was infected.

Or how about perfectly remembering getting raped?

Yeah, that'll help create some phobias.

Microsoft didn't learn, they just hide their mess-ups through "rebranding" (the exact same thing with a different name).

I guess those paying lots of €€€ for a SLA will be able to get Microsoft to say anything in their licensing terms and get Windows altered accordingly.

It's the people that get their Microsoft stuff off the shelf who are getting messed with.

calculator 1GB of RAM, 4 CPU cores in full usage.
Text editor 4GB of RAM, 8 CPU cores, because your machine doesn't have more cores and you notice it while typing.
Web browser 64GB of RAM, to load all your porn tabs.
Compiler... don't get me started on this one.

Well, NASA apparently hates their astronauts so much they don't want them to return back to Earth alive.

They were probably given WIndows and Outlook because of cost cuts. This still baffles me, because Microsoft isn't exactly known for providing stable software and there's software readily available which is waaaay more stable than Windows and Outlook which also happens to be absolutely FREE and they could easily audit the source code.

So that's why they're basically rewriting it; getting rid of all the binary blobs and obfuscated stuff.