Or maybe it was just a woman doing something that she thought was in private but when it turned out she had an audience, would have been embarrassing. And yes, adjusting and checking out your cleavage in front adolescent boys with their mom glaring at you would be pretty embarrassing.

And then it cuts to the girl at…

This isn’t a US initiative it is the EU and they’ve done it before. That is what lead to the great consolidation around mini and micro USB. Before that you had HTC and Blackberry and Panasonic and Motorola cables that were all different.

I am not in favor of legislation to get standards. But if you recall what charging connectors were like before the EU did this the first time around, you might be more on board. Those were dark times when every freaking device took a different proprietary cable to charge. Every camera, every tablet, most phones. It…

Lightning cables are ridiculously fragile. USB-C does put the more fragile part on the phone port itself, but oddly enough it is more robust and seems to have similar or lower failure rates of the phone ports themselves as well.

I was kinda hoping that they’d show Kylo redeemed and Rey fall to the Dark Side.

It would be nice to finally see a transition to the dark side that didn’t involve a whiny and unsympathetic loser. Rey would have made a bad-ass sith.

My goodness this seems stupid.

Especially the part about sending Rose off on yet another pointless journey seeking something that isn’t actually needed to progress the plot.

I mean haven’t we established that the resistance can actually communicate without some sort of new “beacon” being sought out?

Sounds painfully…

So I looked up the hospital and it is both a Level 1 Trauma Hospital and a “Learning Hospital” and it is in a city with a high murder rate (comparable to Chicago)

These are the ABSOLUTE worst kind of hospital to go to unless you have been stabbed or shot. The triage nurses have a whole different understanding of what…

I am trying to wrack my brain to remember ANYTHING that Windows 8 did better than Windows 10, and the ONLY thing I can think of is the ability to use biometrics with the RDP client when connecting to other systems via RDP. And lets face it, 99.999% of the population didn’t even know you could do that, let alone use…

The Switch isn’t even on the list? Really?

But that is the whole point. As of next week, known vulnerabilities won’t get patched.

Of course the OS is already vulnerable in countless ways, the key being that people haven’t yet discovered all of those vulnerabilities. But we are pretty confident they exist, because not a single month has gone by in the past 10…

Those Embedded XP devices are still under support if you pay for that support. All those ATMs still running XP are being patched if the company owning the ATM is responsible enough to pay for the patches.

But keeping vulnerabilities patched in an Embedded OS that is running a single specialized app in Kiosk mode is a…

I don’t know that I would call a company only committing to 10 freaking years of patches to be planned obsolescence. You can only keep patching a legacy product for so long. A 10 year commitment is pretty damn generous in tech if you ask me. 

Well whatever you read was wrong. There are vulnerabilities discovered every month and many get exploited in the wild before they are patched.

There will continue to be more vulnerabilities being discovered every month, the difference is that patches won’t be being deployed to the bulk of Windows 7 machines, so those…

But there will be new exploits discovered within a month. There always are.

To pretend that somehow Win7 will be the exception is wildly naive.

But it does affect me. All these idiots that keep running Windows 7 will be assisting in creating yet another botnet of inevitably compromised machines that will then be used to attack everyone else.

I used to use polite language like “Please upgrade to a supported OS that gets security patches, as it will make everythi…

As opposed to running the alternative PC OSes of Linux or OSX that both run on a modified Unix Kernel dating back to 1969?

There is no reason to Run Windows 8 or 8.1 Windows 10 is better in every way, and so almost nobody runs Windows 8. Windows 8 should have auto-updated to Win10 for Everyone who hasn’t gone to great lengths to try and keep 8 for some bizarre reason.

Windows XP only gets updates if you pay for the updates. The general population should not be running XP.

Just like the general population should not be running Windows 7 anymore.

Sure if you have some enterprise app that only runs on 7, and you have an Enterprise agreement that entitles you to Windows 7 updates beyond…

Better advice, don’t be a moron, and just stop using Windows 7.

If you hate Windows 10, then switch to Mac or Linux. But don’t be a dumbass and pretend that you can keep Windows 7 secure. There will be vulnerabilities that the only way to prevent will be to completely disconnect it from the network.

There were…

I was just having this conversation last week with my Sister In-law who is lookign for houses and was stating how crucial it was that the house be Open with an exposed kitchen. I was like “That is just an Emperors New Clothes thing. Wouldn’t it be nice for your houseguests to not have the ability to see the mess of…