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It's similar where I am - a bank and a realtor might say a home is worth .5M but the tax man still assesses it at around 115K. I bought my home over 20 years ago and it is worth mu…

That one feature may be fast but anyone who ever used Outlook with multiple shared mailboxes, mailboxes over a few years old, archiving to PST files, etc. will know that Outlook Cl…

Why unsurprisingly?

I know funny isn't really the goal for comments around here but man that made me laugh. So subtle and obvious at the same time and quite an appropriate response to the posed questi…

I don't own stock in any of the companies mentioned in the article, although I do own tech stocks. And I'm not suggesting I have a relationship with any of them, parasocial or othe…

I absolutely agree and made the cardinal sin of conflating data privacy with the subject of the article, which is about anti-competitive behavior. But they are both huge issues for…

I don't know, it's not as if they have done nothing that benefits society, that we all use daily, forgetting how much of it would not be possible without the contributions and inno…

What's Twitter lol? I found it to be a cesspool before the name change and it's only gotten worse. I suppose I'm conflating "enjoyable" or "tolerable" with your description of "rea…

I, similar to the parent, have very few issues on either my computers or phones. I run Firefox on several different OS's and I just don't have the issues you mention. Do you have s…

I too like it when people link to things to back up a statement. But the way he described the phenomenon made it seem pretty common, and indeed, a quick search for "patel cfo scam …

That whole "you're not paying"'thing is really a straw man at this point too. When Google was young and eager to be a good netizen I'd have agreed with that and said it was all par…

I agree with the decision and in principle absolutely agree with what you are saying about our laws. But you're oversimplifying the case here. They weren't complaining that the law…

But the gpp wasn't talking about Windows help. He said documentation and Visual Studio; I presume he's talking about the MSDN CDROM that came with a VS installation. You could opti…

It's hilarious. That's an odd take, I honestly don't find anything about this article, or the broader topic of privacy and overreach by companies and law enforcement, amusing in an…

Yes, that's correct, it's only about searching the right directories to find and execute the program you asked for. But autocomplete after sudo doesn't work for me on a stock Debia…

There's a "secure path" option in sudoers that you can use to add additional directories to the path that is searched when sudo is invoked. Most examples will include the standard …

but recent IT strategies are highly questionable in this regard. I think it of as a result of high profile hacks. Either a company is hacked once and they go way overboard trying t…

Did you know people often use Jack as a shorthand for John? JFK was often, famously, referred to as Jack Kennedy when he was alive...

They allow the creation of accounts without verifying the email, then refuse to admit it's their problem and do something about it. This is my biggest issue with what you're talkin…

All of the above but on the other hand be careful and stingy with what you post on social media about these experiences.

I have refuted them. Incorrectly though, the article was not wrong, your interpretation is.

But the author did mention that, albeit not with the level of detail you do... (X resources can sort of be used to provide different options for different invocations of the same p…

I guess in their case they had so much already written code to work with BIOS calls it was worth adding the shim layer. But if you were to start tomorrow with no legacy code then i…

I seem to remember Windows 95 and the quest for "plug 'n play" being what pushed the PCI standard into wide spread use. Basically the first standard that didn't require all the ted…

Anyone know what impact these two items from the article would have on western companies? allowing Russian airlines to register jets leased from Western firms as their own property…