@scottalanmiller This is why you start em young. I tell my kid not to touch the pot because it is hot. He knows what hot is. If he touches the pot anyway, lesson reinforced. He's only 4, but I explain to him why I don't want him to do something... If it won't kill him or seroiusly injure him, I let him do it anyway. Then he learns to check and see if what he wants to do will hurt him or not before diving in head first, so to speak.

Haha saw this one on FB

@DoughnutDestroy

Yeah I was wondering how he was going to handle that ALL manufacturers today are pretty much guaranteed to be doing some sort of tracking. Granted that tracking is so they can make the product better.

The author also didn't mention if they did a fresh install of Windows when they received the machine - to me that was his first downfall, but the fact that Lenovo has already shot itself in the foot, this doesn't help.

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@MattSpeller said:

@Dashrender said:

Then then I'd say the same about Tap and Pay - if you aren't entering a PIN, how are you any safer then just chip?

It's limited $ and easy to contest. Also speeds up the line at Timmie's like you would not believe. I bet the ones in Ontario* will take debit soon with tap enabled.

*Tim Hortons refused to accept debit for a long time as it caused EPIC lineups. Best of my knowledge they still do not in Ontario (cash only)

WOW - were the terminals so slow that entering a PIN for debt caused a problem?

I remember the commercials from a few years ago... when they were trying to get you to use CC... and someone used Cash and the whole line grinded to a halt.. funny how things are turned around now.

Not turning around, just moving continuously in the same direction. Paying in cash still takes a long time. A lot of places fall apart trying to figure out money and change.

It's probably the best thing I like about Sonic restaurant. Employees who work there have actual real life basic math skills. They can usually figure out change in a second. Three at the max.

I can honestly say I used to be able to do this... until I went to college then my math skills went to hell.

@Carnival-Boy said:

I'm sure Apps will keep on improving, whilst I suspect Office has peaked.

I don't know, MS took a major step back with 2013 to prepare for some awesome stuff. I think that they have good things coming. Their move to make collaborative editing like Google Apps had was a major win.

@Dashrender said:

Seems to provide an out for the company regarding the company's whole primary goal is to make money.

Yes, it allows you to specific the environment, customers or employees or any combination of those, along with profits, as your primary goals as stated in your mission.

@Dashrender said:

It's odd to think the developers of Angry Birds 2 would use an unofficial version of Xcode.

Seriously!

@JaredBusch all true

FWIW I started taking stuff apart (lawnmowers in particular) much younger. This is how it begins, the quest for knowledge! I'm stoked for that kid, he's going to get an enormous helping hand in life now. All at the cost of a day's inconvenience and making new friends at a new school (to whom he'll be a minor celebrity)

Looks like a good place for me to start.. I've been searching for commands to perform tasks, and sadly search again for them since I don't remember them.

That does look much better. The old one is not good at all.

Yeah, that took 'em a while 😉

Fixed

Only so shocking, Microsoft was making UNIX systems before they got into Windows. Xenix was the original Microsoft UNIX.

@DustinB3403 said:

Maybe I miss-read it, but searching Kylin Ubuntu appears to be made by the Ubuntu Org (with specific feature request and additions by the Chinese Government/Programmers)

Did you look on Wikipedia? It's been made by the Chinese government (through a university) since 2001 before Ubuntu was around. They moved to Ubuntu as a base but I've seen nothing being done by Ubuntu themselves listed. Maybe I've missed some details but as far as I have seen it's all inside of China.

@JaredBusch said:

What the hell is up with the author of that article basically down playing the entire thing because it does not prevent SQL injection?
Seriously WTF?

I agree, that is a bunch of BS. This is about on-disk data at rest security and is a decently big deal.