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There are two laws missing that allow such privacy violations to occur. First is strong and enforceable law that makes it unlawful to violate one's privacy. The second is to prosec…

It has to be back to the exams of old days like I had to do. Just a couple of hours in a supervised exam room with only one's own brain for answers. Surely this is obvious.

Unfortunately, Photoshop is easier to use than GIMP, it's ergonomically more functional. This is lost on GIMP's developers (see my other post).

There's good reason why people are annoyed with GIMP/GIMP developers. For example, I used to use GIMP and became quite expert at it and would often swap between it and Photoshop. T…

"Case in point, ReactOS is far behind what Windows 11 is capable of, …" More importantly, as I've mentioned, ReactOS is not stable nor reliable enough to even use as an offline O/S…

"…the interior not yet" Right, there is a long tradition in it taking centuries to build great cathedrals, Chartres, Notre Dame, etc. I've little issue with that, however taking so…

"Or perhaps a specialized variant of ReactOS with that focus in mind." Trouble is there's never been enough interest in ReactOS to get it to the point where it's stable let alone w…

What is left when all other options are exhausted? The American War of Independence, French Revolution and English Civil War were acts of terrorism. Were those acts justified? Not …

I've not scanned them, I'd have to find them first and that's not easy at moment because they're among tens of thousands of docs that need sorting (I rarely chuck out docs like tha…

I still have well over a dozen of those IBM modules together with their paperwork and circuit diagrams (somewhere in my miles of files). They've been getting in the way and I've be…

For the cognoscenti it is—like Linux, but for the vast majority it's not. If you've ever run an IT department in a large operation (which I have) then you'd never say that. People …

Microsoft is effectively a monopoly, to say it's anything else and that other browsers are available is a nonsense for reasons that everyone knows. Appealing to reason is a waste o…

Increasing taxes on exploitive mining multinationals that get minerals, coal and gas for a fraction of its worth and make a financial killing at the expense of the Australian publi…

I can play Bach to some extent with practice. I'd qualify that though by saying a multi-part fugue from say The Musical Offering would be a tall order. I've never had any pretense …

I'm left-handed too and frankly a left-handed mouse is a nuisance and awkward to use (I never use one), same with other peripherals. Still I prefer to use scissors with the left ha…

Very true, see my comment playing piano as a left-hander.

See my comment, I'm much better at playing with my less dominant hand (even after many years).

It's interesting that the piano is essentially a right handed instrument in that melody/the main theme is mostly played by the right hand. As a left-hander, it's very obvious to me…

Seems to me we're going to have to let the anti-encryption mob have their way until things go wrong—bigtime. No amount of expert advice will convince them until they witness firsth…

A truly great communicator, we need more like him.

Fascinating development. That means much, much greater control over ink deposition. No doubt a potential worry for currency producers. Inkjets that have control over the physical b…

Stats—the number killed per annum through failure—will determine the true effectiveness of this change. In the meantime, I'll continue to rely on the physical movement of full atom…

I'd agree with this assessment. Moreover, if developers were to stick with the eminently satisfactory CUA (IBM's Common User Access) interface standard and further regularize that …

Try 'teaching calculus to a dog', it's easier to visualize.

"…I never was someone who could stop asking “why?”" When a kid of about four I found a pair of WWII headphones and took them to my father who pulled out the iron diaphragm and show…