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Read that strange article last week. I was expecting a discussion on PCs, not laptops, but when I realized where it was going, I was still disappointed; small format tablets were oversold from the start. Then there is the tag "might not recognize it."; Only if you're a complete idiot.
Not the first ZDNet article to fail last week.
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headline headline.
Click bait article talks about click bait articles, not know they were click bait articles.
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Ed Bott said: the PC is very much alive, although a time traveler from 2010 might not recognize it
Can we have a "Dumbest Tech Reporter's Statement of the Week" competition? (the ambiguity given by the word order is intentional.)
I'd vote for this one, this week.
I've tried searching for modern PCs (and laptops, just for completeness' sake), but I can't find a single one that I wouldn't have recognised as a PC (or laptop) in 2010.
You expect this kind of ridiculous statement in click-bait headlines, but that's not where this was -- and it's not just an inflated or exaggerated statement; it's the words of a fruggin' loony.
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Lego becomes more and more enjoyable as your collection grows, until the point when your morass of plastic bricks becomes so overwhelming that it’s impossible to find the piece you’re looking for. I'm pretty sure I can identify most of them when stepping on them in the dark
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Going by the number of different pieces of the named great-rip-off building kit, I would imagine that an eminently suitable tool for listing them would be a spreadsheet.
However, identifying a piece will not prevent it being "impossible to find". That problem is one of storage, not identification -- a physical stock-keeping system would be required for that.
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After losing the Pentagon’s JEDI cloud contract things have rapidly progressed from bad to worse, as the US Federal Trade Commission confirms they have launched an Amazon AWS antitrust investigation in Amazon’s Web Service cloud business. It's their turn already?
I'm sure it has nothing at all to do with the Washington Post
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modified 9-Dec-19 15:08pm.
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"Anti-competitive practices" != "a monopoly"; "anti-competitive practices" = "illegal".
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modified 9-Dec-19 15:08pm.
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Your misrepresentation of "anti-competitive practices" as "a monopoly" is just as deceitful, either way.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: A monopoly is now 48% of a market?
I think the article is badly worded, but it is actually saying the opposite. Looking at the comments you're not the only person who seems to have come to the same conclusion. What the article seems to be saying is that what they are doing would be illegal if they had a monopoly share, but as they don't it isn't.
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In a coffee-shop scenario, attackers can hijack “secure” VPN sessions of those working remotely, injecting data into their TCP streams. Coffee shops considered dangerous
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Coffee shops considered dangerous
You've been to the Netherlands, then?
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TTFN - Kent
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What will video games be like when they can truly harness the power of AI? If the machine learning-powered text adventure AI Dungeon 2 is anything to go by, they’ll be open-ended, ludicrously silly, and bags of fun to play. And then they came for the DMs, and I did nothing because I couldn't find my dice bag
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Space is designed to combine DevOps, communication, team and project management into a single solution. And now you have 15 tools to work with
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One big advantage of having all your company's everything in a single "solution" is that it takes hackers much less effort to get it all.
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missing obligatory link. 
I'd rather be phishing!
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Microsoft says that Windows 10 1909 feature updates will start automatically installing on Windows 10 1809 devices beginning today to smooth out the update process to a more recent Windows 10 version. Doesn't everyone enjoy a nice forced upgrade now and again?
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The FBI also recommends changing factory-set (default) passwords and not allowing an IoT device's accompanying mobile app to gain access to too many smartphone permissions. Maybe even store them off-site. And don't power them.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Maybe even store them off-site.
As in, leave them in the shop?
Makes sense to me.
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That was where I was going (but not brave enough to spell out completely), yes.
TTFN - Kent
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Quote: "Your fridge and your laptop should not be on the same a network,"
FTFY
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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'The software engineer will want to build. They want to get straight to writing code. And they're seeing the designers as slowing them down, because they want to talk to two or three users.' Battleship-grey everything again!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Battleship-grey everything again!
And "dark mode" everywhere, because that is something that some developers -- and Only some developers -- are in love with.
And leave us not forget the filematrix[^]
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