Siberia is a geographical region, not a state.

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?

The USSR had 15 members. From memory: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan.

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.

Yep, pretty much this.

When you have a physical datacentre, you take backup off site in case the site fails, when you're in the cloud you're really just in one physical location unless you're paying through the nose for co-location.

"Cloud" has pretty much taken the LCC (Low Cost Carrier, A.K.A. Budget Airlines) model to compute and Amazon is the Ryanair of that world. Sure, they advertise a £19 flight to Magaluf but want a seat that isn't shit, pony up, want to take luggage, gonna cost you, don't want to take the red eye flight from "London" Isle of Skye airport... you get the idea and before you know it that £19 flight is a £190 flight. Amazons price structure is the same, cheap headline price, what you actually pay is much, much higher.

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.

** Hunter enters the chat **

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.