And rightly so. I find Windows 11 inferior in every way: it is slower, it uses more battery, it uses more RAM, it has more issues with old hardware, it has more ads, it needs more click to get basic things done, the start menu is an abomination, and yet Microsoft continues with this aggressive timeline that users clearly do not want.

I think they are just after the extra fees for corporate customers to support Windows 10 for another year or three.

Or maybe it has to do with the political takeover of the Washington Post? It used to be the standard of journalism, and it cannot no longer claim that.

I agree that it is a vicious cycle, but the WP willingly participated in the race the bottom.

Because it has both huge maintenance costs and huge opportunity costs.

In the UK, some signal boxes still use mechanical interlocks. Any extension is crazy expensive, because you basically need artisans to manufacture these.

Digital technology is much cheaper, much more powerful, safer, requires fewer staff, and has been readily available since the 1980s.

Since the 1990s, we have communication systems for constant communication with the cab. Those can increase efficiency and safety very significantly.

Not upgrading is a massive mistake and a massive systematic failure, and it costs money.

Might just as well.

And why does everybody think the solution to replace the PCs?

The real question is why the IT infrastructure was allowed to rot for decades. Clearly that is a systematic issue, and it is not fixed by getting new PCs.

Feeling old of having started driving on a 4 speed manual...

Google sells data, too. But they make damn sure that nobody gets the data without paying.

They deserve some time in prison, and I am surprised that they actually got it. This should be a reminder to managers that poisoning the environment is not a victimless crime, and you are not getting away with it.

Exactly. NVidia has a long history of cheating. Everybody knows they cannot be trusted.

None of that matters as long as they dominate the GPGPU market. Gaming is a side hustle now.

Most security breaches are on the server side.

Microsoft, Cisco, Apple, they all had account details compromised, including passwords.

Most terms and conditions contain some illegal stuff. They are just written to discourage users from seeking justice.

This is a company going down the drain, just because some newb MBAs have decided they can increase prices to infinity, and as long as one customer remains, they come out ahead.

How can they claim that a) the support contract has expired, but b) Broadcom still has a right to audit the customer? They seem to want it both ways, and judges do not usually agree with that.

As it should. Corporations limit civil liability, but they do not protect criminal behaviour.

And require the PIN to be 24 characters long?

You know what would be even more secure?

Make the PIN 1000 characters long.

> Passwords became unwieldy because we tried to improve security by mandating complexity, but suddenly 'limiting tries' is all it takes for four-digit numbers to become 'secure' again?

Basically, yes. Password complexity only matters if we assume that the hash has been compromised. I am not sure why we are ok with that assumption - if the hash is compromised, maybe we should assume that the whole system is compromised?

The PIN is stored on the TPM (hashed or not really does not matter), so we assume it cannot be extracted.

> "Nevertheless, this work challenges alarmist ideas about so-called ‘digital dementia’ and instead suggests that using digital technology can be good for brain health."

That is a very clear claim of causality. Right after the professor stated that they have not demonstrated causality.

I call bad science, or at least bad science communication.