You're ranting a lot about a "failure" and "broken" product that none the less makes the entire world go round. You know what doesn't make the world go round? S/MIME. No one cares. The concept of secure email died in the early 2000s. No need to try to shoehorn security into something that has been universally agreed we'll accept as an insecure medium. Why would anyone support it other than to appeal to a handful of Slashdotters with no business acumen and no idea how the wider world works?

And yet they have collaborative features there are unsurpassed by any other software and hence are adopted globally. For something that is the "worst" it very much seems to me that the entire world's economy uses it just fine. It's like politics isn't it. Everything is "the worst" but it does the job.

Professionals don't use Linux. Nerds and coders use Linux. Professionals the world over use Windows, software written for professionals is exclusive to Windows. You are typing this on your Linux machine thanks to professionals who designed your device using Windows.

Stop the fucking presses! Now there's a statement I agree with.

Because the world doesn't care about your opinion, it only cares about it's own aggregate opinion, and Microsoft's own balance sheet shows the world disagrees with you, even if you'll find individuals who do agree (I'm sure one of them will have mod points and mod me down shortly)

But if the pier gets old does it turn into rust?

It makes sense to teach them about AI, what it is good for and what not to use it for. Just like how we learned how to use a calculator in primary school, after we learned manual multiplication and long division. A lesson for AI could be to ask students to write an essay, and teach them how to use AI to do research, let it help to give structure to their text, how to check sources and accuracy, and so on. It would be used as a tool a few times, to teach them about the tool, after they learn how to go about such things without using AI.

So which feature do you think Microsoft is secretly withholding from Windows 12, and OS which based on their past performance they will provide as a free upgrade? Did they not incorporate enough emoticons for you?

What does UX design have to do with a decade of insanely high number of security vulnerabilities generated by poor coding practices at Microsoft? There's a subject here you can criticise, no need to rant about something else.

And coding can be a very good teaching tool for that. That should be the goal of teaching coding in schools, that and trying to spark an interest in the subject in children. Not preparing them for a career in software engineering.

As for AI, it's not going away, and kids will be using it. So teach them the stuff about it they are less likely to pick up on their own. Such as the dangers and pitfalls.

Yeah, but they aren't wrong. As a result of this attack the data is now more distributed than ever before, some of it even outside of the Amazon facility's fence.

The same reason you wished your shift key to hell?

What a strange way you have of writing. All your punctuation seems to be working except for the one function which does have a redundant set of keys on the keyboard.

No, "black ink" is on the web site of the Senate Oversight Committee.

Well Qatar gave Trump $400 million and they still got bombed. So what is the right price to be free from Trump's tyranny?

I know. We have a list of those people which gets shared around hacking forums.

What part of "Benchmarks from the bug report show up to 20x less memory used during very large image loading" isn't a perfectly functional English sentence to you?

While I agree with your assessment of them, users aren't always the best arbiter of what they want in a product. Ask virtually all users, and they'll say stop changing anything. But while I can't speak for mobile, I have no idea why you think you need Brave / UO to stop ads on Slashdot. I'm only using Ublock lite and I've yet to see a Slashdot advert.

You don't need to "buy into the idea". There's whole youtube channels dedicated to people harassing women and running around with hidden cameras in the process to show their followers "How to pick up girls" and shit like that.

It's common enough that there are multiple laws covering this in pretty much all western jurisdictions each targeting specific acts and ways and locations where it is done. Many jurisdictions have laws governing repeat offenders too. Additionally a very large number of actual sexual assault cases are associated with stalking as a start and also include charges of voyeurism.

It's much harder to hide a cell phone compared to someone who doesn't suspect a camera hidden in glasses. And no the glasses aren't immediately obvious to everyone. We on Slashdot may have seen them multiple times with multiple stories, but for the most part people have no idea about them, and those that do know about them will likely have heard stories about how "safe" they are for privacy with recording LEDs etc.

I remind you that this kind of perverted bullshit is so prevalent that Meta had to implement detection systems to identify if the LEDs had been tampered with.

"We, as a society" are full of harassing fucks.

If you're vain enough to want to stand out with exclusive emojis or animated whatevers, then spending money on a Nitro subscription makes rational sense.