Yeah, look at global warming or legal system to take a bit simpler stuff. or even simpler - nucular arms race, the doomsday clock. We only act when something that matters has happened, until then we just look at it approaching. And seems another one is incoming with AGI - when it gets done, we are done too. So far all the "prepare for doomsday" looks just like any other marketing with a few legal entities at interest.

This looks like shifting the goal posts after realizing that they can't reach the quantum computer. Any 5 years now. Just like fusion, just like AGI, just like selfdriving and colonizing Mars any day now. Show me a practically working one. Show me it's build method scalability. Show me that your machine can do anything more than a few very narrow usecase problemsolving. Haven't seen any proof yet. Until you do the homework, not gonna believe one nonquantum bit of your claims, regardless of your size. It ceases to be magic when you look at the details.

Year 2082, quiet cemetery, birds chirping. And a mob with pitchforks shouting something about some Bill, some bad Windows 3094. While I was far from a fan of his business methods, I can agree they worked. But todays Microsoft bad or g.. bad has nothing to do with Bill. Leave him alone, maybe? And for your concern, you can calm down, USA laws already have ensured fully that they can what you fear. And they do.

I have no trust in such vague statements and from anyone at MS. Show me the works, not just talks. Is he the one making the decisions? No. Can he speak what he wants? No. Can he be pressed to say something he does not like? Yes. Maybe he is crying in pillow, maybe he is laughing about believers, I don't know. So this is basically as saying - Someone said, there is hope. Well, cool for you, cool for you. So why is this anything newsworthy?

GNU is free, a bunch of security protocols are free. How am I the product there? Maybe you need to add at least "from a commercial company", but even then it would catch some false positives.

It is perplexing how PDF appears to be innocent, always working and universal but in reality has so large dark side. Nobody, including Adobe itself produces spec clean files. Faulty data? Lets just show something and leave it silent, so our competition to the web looks pristine. Lets also expand our features to include ridiculous amount of unnecessary junk so nobody will try to recreate that completely in their implementations and our competition to the web looks nonexistent.

I think somebody mistyped hope. That circlejerk is already exhausting the techbros and they are starting to swet. Parents are called for help, they know too well they can't stop themselves. Time to be grownups and go to stripy friends and squary sun.

Weird. My experience is completely opposite. On Linux you tinker once for every thing you need. Including over reinstalls, upgrades etc. I just keep my old configs and everything just stays as I had it on previous hardware, previous distro etc. Try to do that on Windows. There you have to fiddle all the time just to keep forever defaulted or removed config possibilities. And finding weird little softwares somewhere just to have missing OS functionality. Like having date format as I want or copypasting or screenshotting or mousegesturing, or not having my writing language changing like mad. Workarounding all the time for such on Windows. Must be your pain has inverted Y axis or something wrong with it's location.

Linux is way more compatible to old Windows software than Windows itself. Unless you mean there are tons of Windows 95 chugging along with some old application.

The big ones just ignore it hoping that the abused user has the burden of proof. And if they once in a blue moon get a fine, that fine is nothing, like 0.000000001% of their monthly income. If I got so low fines for speeding, I would just include that in my monthly expenses and pay the half cent and drive by speeding cameras with a big smile.

+1

4000 and the World peace is inevitable! Whole USA economy is now insider trading and corruption on the open. And nobody bats an eye. Found one mega offender, LOL!

Maybe start measuring head sizes at arrival. Was tried before, but something got in the way.

Maybe it's time to start thinking of size of the downloadable items? Like we did in 1998, Maybe it is more efficient to do good old package management and have dependencies sorted out instead of brushing under the carpet and packaging all in one huge image just because a hundred kilobytes were changed. Just because we have huge pipes and engines, does not mean we have to run them at full load, something's gonna give.

How is this the fault of law? You made a company on the idea that required more than you could pull off. And now everyone else has to pay - workers, country? There is no economic value in just spinning wheels. No result, you out with a nonworking idea. Think before you do.