Countries have taken a range of approaches, depending on their willingness to damage their economy and the acceptance of preventable deaths.

Australia recently hit a total of 100 fatalities but the economy is hurting. That is in a population of over 25 million where more then 80% of the population live in densely populated cities. The restrictions were not as harsh as soon countries that acted too late and these restrictions are gradually being lifted.

The high death tolls being discussed here would have been political suicide for our federal government because the people would blame then for failing to act.

There has been a huge shift in advertising dollars to the Internet, away from TV and newspapers, with no sign that this will change anytime soon. The 10 network mentioned in the article has probably lost 90% of their advertising revenue to this fundamental shift. Viewers lost to Netflix, and other more convenient and legal streaming services, is likely to be far greater than the loses to piracy.

It doesn't help that the crap shown of the 10 network, like stupid "reality TV", is just not bringing those that still watch TV over from the other TV networks. From my perspective this is illustrated by the two movies discussed in the summary which they would have to pay me a lot to watch. Their network has made some very bad programming and management decisions for several years and that is now catching up with them.

I'm in my 40's and watch a hell of a lot more Netflix and Youtube than I do the TV networks. Being in control of what I watch and when I watch it is important. It also helps that I can watch those services anywhere that my phone has a signal...

Terrorists have used cars and truck to carry bombs, or just run over people. Cars and trucks have been used by terrorists many times in their attacks. If it is logical for drones to have a kill switch, why shouldn't cars and trucks?

Drones are used by a minority, made up of hobbyists and professionals, which makes it an easier group to target, even though any sane person could see that drones account for a minuscule proportion of terrorist attacks. Pressure cookers have been used in attacks more often than drones...

The full version of windows 10 is not limited to store apps. That is a huge limitation when their store has had little success with developers and users. This BS is not full windows 10 and that should be clear to everyone. The motivation is obviously to try to save their failing store by leaving users no alternative.

WTF has happened to slashdot??? It looks like another go at the beta site fail that the previous owners tried and that didn't work out too well for them.

I liked being able to skim the summaries quickly to decide what I wanted to read. Clicking on titles to get summaries did not take long to piss me off.

Windows 7 will be my last version of Windows on any computer that I own.

MS tactics is forcing upgrades to win 10 would have been enough to put me off. However, bundling spyware and adware right in with the OS guaranteed that I would never have win 10. Right now, my employer has win 7 on our work computers but they will probably have little choice but to move to 10. My personal use on windows is pretty much just gaming and a few specialised applications which I can live without.

Linux has long been my main OS at home and I wouldn't even boot into windows monthly now. Most of my games run perfectly on Linux. While I like a couple of the MS Office applications, open source alternatives that run on Linux do just about everything that I could ever want.

I lot of friends and relatives are moving to Linux or dumping their desktop OS and moving to Android tablets because that have used Win 10 on their laptops and absolutely hated it. People are often horrified to learn that Windows 10 is spying on them. Windows is not going to die but it is losing market share.

I've been using Firefox since the early versions and it is only in the last couple of years that it has given me any problems. The most frustrating is strange crashes on mainstream websites, on multiple platforms. By far the worst Firefox version is on Android which really pisses me off. I like checking in on several websites on my Android tablet of a morning and Firefox crashes more than once a day and I am really sick of that stupid sorry message...

I also use Firefox on Linux and Windows - both have problems - and the only reason I keep using it is the support for plugins and extensions that I want and that Chrome does not support on Android. If Mozilla screws with those, there is no reason to just move to Chrome and forget about Firefox. While I do not think that Mozilla will care about the loss on one user, I suspect there are more people in a similar position which is why Firefox has been losing market share for a while. Maybe someone will fork Firefox and Mozilla will just fade away.

Chrome is the only browser I use on my work PC and is used at home for Netflix on Linux. It isn't terrible, just lacking some of the extension I have on Firefox that make it inconvenient to use.

MS is just likely to piss off OEMs with these demands. Windows has been a failure on mobile devices and OEMs cannot afford to build devices that will not turn a profit. Windows is only hanging on the the desktop/laptop market because everyone just sees it as the default OS, even when they hate it. If MS can convince OEMs that there is a market, by backing up the targets with tangible market research, there is a chance that they will get their way. Bullying OEMs that are already selling products with alternative operating systems is unlikely to work.

HP, ASUS, Dell, Acer and other MS OEMs have released chromebooks that are much lower priced than Windows laptops but still capable of meeting the needs of many consumers. Business customers are less likely to give up Windows and turn to a chromebooks but it does show OEMs are keeping their options open. I would not expect these OEMs to entirely abandon Windows but would expect them to only release windows with product lines that they know has a profitable market. A miscalculation in MS demands could easily result in fewer devices shipping with Windows.

I've seen Windows 10 updates make a computer unusable for hours, particularly for any application where a bit of processing power it needed. Forcing actions that interfere with the owner's use of a computer is another malware trait to add to the adware and spyware that MS bundled with Win 10. It is hard to believe that MS is actually getting away with this sort of behaviour. There are real consequences for Windows users, particularly those in small business that rely on MS products to operate their business but are too small to have the extra control that MS might allow large companies.

Problems with Windows are only going to get worse. Many businesses are unwilling to give up Win 7 and put up with the shit that MS is trying to force on them with Win 10. The same customers mostly avoided Win 8 so are using a OS that MS will abandon, without supplying a functional replacement. MS seems to be completely lost and confused, with an attitude of refusing to give customers what they want but still expecting them to buy their crap.

If Linux companies are smart about this, there could be a huge jump in Linux adoption that convinces more software companies to port their products to Linux. Time will tell. I know from personal experience that it has been very easy to get Win 10 users ready to try Linux.

Windows is losing relevancy as the shift to mobile devices continues and many people no longer need a desktop OS. A sign of just how significant this has become is MS releasing several products onto Android. There are an increasing number of large developers that have little interest in Windows, preferring to focus on other platforms. If MS loses their near monopoly of the desktop OS market, their whole world could come crashing down very quickly.

Educating the public to privacy and security issues is a worthwhile exercise. Maybe it isn't a backdoor but people seem to be increasingly concerned when it is suggested that their messages can be intercepted and read by third parties. This can only be a good thing. Our privacy has been eroded by several large corporations and a weird fascination with social media. Several companies want access to all of our data but the number of high profile breaches illustrate a significant risk in trusting others with anything particularly sensitive.

If people want their messaging to be secure and private, they need to understand that end to end encryption is required and the standard for this method must be that it is not exploitable, through poor security implementation or backdoors. Sending commercially sensitive business information through an insecure communications method is just stupid and might not be legal in some circumstances. We also have our own sensitive financial or personal information that could be misused in the wrong hands. Getting people to Consider security and privacy issues a little more is a positive.