Posts by MonsoonX

As Trump signs away Americans' digital privacy, it's time to bring out the BS detector

Of course this stinks. But it stunk when it was "just" social media raping us for our personal data, and barely a fuss was raised as the law makers gave free reign to social media while handcuffing the companies that make the internet work.

The republicans did so because they are for big business. The democrats did so because Google and Facebook are heavy contributors for the democrats.

So now the door has been flung wide open, and Facebook and Google are about to get some stiff competition for advertiser dollars.

I'll be interested to see if they respond with some tricks designed to put a separation in between their market share and the ISP's.

Who cares what it "was designed to do"?

Intent means nothing, it's what the law accomplishes that matters.

And in this case it gave a free pass to Facebook and Google.

Reg now behind invisible HTML5 Bitcoin paywall

Good One!

I finally can forgive you for making my old RSS reader stop working with El Reg.

Even made it so I couldn't mouse over to see what the link really was.

:bowdown:

Windows 10: What is it good for? Microsoft pitches to devs ahead of Creators Update

Reality check

Windows may still be far and away the dominant OS on the planet, but there's a reason that so many still choose to cling to Windows 7.

Microsoft wanted something to the effect of the Apple dock, but probably didn't want to look like they were copying the Mac again, so they said 'Hey, we'll just use these gigantic tiles!'

And when that failed, Microsoft being Microsoft, they couldn't just go back to square one, they had to incorporate it, but not incorporate it, and now we have UWP and no phone business.

Brilliant!

But wait, there's more! Now you have to do a mini google research to figure out how many phone home attempts you need to block.

Double brilliant!

Caption this: WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

Caption contest

Microsoft engineer focusing on why Windows phone hasn't been a success.

Entry for the caption contest

Microsoft engineers decide to try mind control to force Windows 10 onto the masses.

Holes found in Pocket Firefox add-on

Re: Phocket

Unfortunately, the about:config edit does not work. It's even discussed at Mozilla. They're saying to wait until they fix it, lol.

yeah, i'll wait for some future date to be able to stop firefox from changing the view of my search pages.

NOT!

"Pocket" is truly the last straw for me, in a seemingly endless string of bad changes that firefox has made in the past year or so.

So i've uninstalled Firefox from my computer for the first time in more than 10 years, and I won't be going back.

I'm not the biggest fan of Opera, but at least they're moving forward, instead of constantly mucking things up like firefox has been.