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Comment Re:testing on humans is easy; getting a patent is (Score 0) 53

I largely agree with that.

Dr Burzynski doesn't claim to cure all cancers, but he has a remarkable success rate.

Most cancer success rate these days isn't primarily due to drugs or chemo, but rather huge advancements in technology to be able find and surgically remove tumours with precision.

Comment Re:testing on humans is easy; getting a patent is (Score -1, Troll) 53

Not about bicarbonate of soda / sodium bicarb, but it's well known for those with eyes and ears open, that the medical establishment doesn't want cancer cures...
It's the most profitable business model they need to keep milking.

For some reason, science can only be valid if it comes out of bigpharma, anything from other countries or institutes is usually shutdown as "quackery".
Remember covid-19? Any non-behaving scientists and lab was shutdown pretty quickly and de-funded if they even questioned the pseudo-science coming out from bigpharma to approve the mRNA jabs.

Watch the first couple of minutes of this, re Dr Burzynski's cancer cure...
https://rumble.com/v41vs09-bur...

Comment Re:So if current LibreOffice version works...NP (Score 1) 106

I don't think that's entirely accurate.
Win10 LTSB/LTSC still has telemetry same as normal editions, with the option to choose between "basic" and "full".

Like normal editions, LTSC (enterprise Win10) requires quite a bit of tweaking to minimise data collection, either through policy edits / regedit / task scheduler / etc.
Even then, to further minimise data being harvested by Microsoft, one needs PiHole or other firewall; but I've heard that Microsoft gets around that by transmitting directly to IP addresses.

Then there's the issue of settings being reset after updates.

Comment Re:Thanks Microsoft (Score 1) 62

The "coming together" you mentioned, can only happen to the extent you want to see if developers are being paid and being told what to do. When that happens, the work is a job rather than a passion; then salaries have to be paid, HR departments funded, etc, etc. Then what was Open Source becomes closed and proprietary. At that point you have just another Microsoft, or Apple, or Google.

Not necessarily closed/proprietary.

See: mozilla / The Document Foundation / Chromium / Apache / Eclipse Foundation / etc

Great, unified products keep coming out of those orgs.

Central organisations foster collaboration, clear vision, provide direction, and disagreements lead to productive debates and coming together of ideas, not bickering and then each person going off and creating a fork.

Comment Re:Thanks Microsoft (Score 2, Interesting) 62

I find it interesting, despite the pain of Win10 and Win11, and privacy invasion, and spyware, still people are willing to put up with that than to convert to Linux.

Linux isn't bad just because of apps, but because it's a chaotic experience for the average user.
Every app reinventing the wheel and fragmented, and every distro and developer fighting against the other rather than all coming together to cooperate and build something amazing and unified.

Anytime a user is told, RTFM, there's something fundamentally wrong with the usability and perhaps the entire OS.
A user should never have to RTFM to get things done.

This is why the iPhone and iOS were so darn successful, and later Android, and attracted everyone from children to adults.

Comment Re: How it's made (Score -1, Troll) 215

Whether the music is by AI or a 5 year old child or the next Taylor Swift, does it matter?

Surely all that matters is the end audience and whether they like it?

Before someone mentions "artistic creativity", I'm sure many would say that most of the stuff written by the top 10 out there is just trash anyway. e.g. Lady Gaga, Bieber, Kanye West, etc.

Comment Translation (Score 1) 71

We need to cut our workforce and save money, so we're letting a whole bunch of guys go (eventually).

"and I am very interested in how people are using their laptops these days and what they're getting done,"

This allows us to spy on the same user from different devices (and their family), especially if they're stupid enough to own our multiple channel surveillance tech.

Comment Re:oh for fuck's sake (Score 1) 81

While I partially agree and it was a generalisation on my part, the tech you mentioned (Flash, Java, ActiveX) all came at a time to fill a gaping hole and they solved many problems of their respective time, yes, even ActiveX.

- Flash came at a time when the web was primitive, there was no other way of doing funky animations or creating web-based games.
- Java - not sure why this was mentioned, as it's (arguably) still a success - came at a time to be able to write code to run on multiple different platforms with minimal effort. And it's arguably still a success on countless back-ends to the web.
- ActiveX came at a time where again, the web was primitive, JavaScript was still in its infancy (to some degree), and it allowed not only desktop apps to talk to the web, but solved web front-end and back-end communication at a time when there was no ajax.

The problem with Microsoft trying to reinvent the wheel in Windows and re-writing foundations with .net only makes the OS ever more bloated. We have gone from an OS using only a few hundred mb of memory to over 4gb while sitting on the desktop, for doing absolutely nothing of benefit to the end user, majority of whom spend their time either gaming, or using a web browser, or standard Office applications.

To me, they've solved no real problems... unless perhaps Microsoft secretly hopes to enlarge the number of .net based apps, so they an eventually launch another phone/tablet product? Or perhaps they envisioned the collapse of x86 before Win10 came on the scene, and hope to be able to switch to any ARM implementation with as little friction as possible?

But to me, removing WordPad and then re-adding those features back into notepad serves no purpose. Each app has it's own use case and worked well, and seems another example of increasing bloatware into a lightweight app.

Comment Re:oh for fuck's sake (Score 3, Insightful) 81

I really don't know how the Windows team got so many retards on it.

Quite simple.
Many of the older (intelligent) devs retired or were made redundant and replaced with cheap H1B's.

The problem with H1B-types and the younger gen is they only care about making everything using JavaScript or bloated .net. For them, everything is coded wrong and needs to be rewritten from scratch. They have no wisdom or care or appreciation for the countless hours gone into fixing intricate bugs and adding various business logic which they will never comprehend. For them, it's all about the latest toy, and the latest and greatest, no matter how inefficient.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com...

Comment Re:Microsoft lost another long time customer (Score 0, Troll) 133

Yea, I don't think that happened.

All you had to do was simply reactivate it, and it would have worked.
Same has happened with my Win7 and Win8.1 licenses.

Instead I switched from Windows 10 to Mint Linux

Because of an Office licensing issue, you switched an entire OS from something superior to a hodgepodge of a UI put together by developers who act like teens with constant in-fighting? The biggest problem with Linux ever since creation is that despite a lot of talent, there's constant in-fighting over trivial stuff, until each dev breaks away to develop yet-another "perfect"/"ideal" fork.

Yea, don't think so.

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