smhenderson

I bought my home over 20 years ago and it is worth much more than I paid on the market. Yet the value of the property for tax purposes is only 3K more than what I paid for it in 2002.

Although I don't love it and avoided it for many years I've noticed a lot of these issues went away with the new Outlook. I can load and unload shared mailboxes on demand and I stopped worrying about cache mode settings about five minutes after I switched to it.

It's not great, it's not terrible, like most software I use. But I would have always said the same about Outlook Classic.

Bottom line for me is that MS has Classic on maintenance mode and it's only a matter of time before it's gone.

Complex indeed...

And I'm not suggesting I have a relationship with any of them, parasocial or otherwise.

I wasn't trying to suggest we treat them like people or put them above us or give them a pass... I simply meant that getting rid of them completely could possibly eliminate the problem being discussed, but would also throw out a lot of value that they created and I didn't think that was the best solution.

But they are both huge issues for the companies we're discussing and I absolutely agree with your thoughts on rewarding them for what they do well but not assuming that everything they do must be just as great and giving them a pass for when they get it wrong or actively hostile to their customers.

I am absolutely not surprised by the whining and am in no way giving these companies a pass. Something absolutely must be done to better protect user data and privacy.

But babies and bath water come to mind when I read comments like yours.

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 "real" but everything I've glanced at from a distance lately defies your description of Twitter as real.

Do you have some examples of websites that really behave that differently depending on the browser you're using?

Having lived through the "best viewed with..." days I'd hoped we were past all that by now!

But the way he described the phenomenon made it seem pretty common, and indeed, a quick search for "patel cfo scam hotels" turns up a number of relevant results... Seems like it's a pretty well known, frequently occurring event in the hotel industry.

But they've been entrenched for years now, completely dominate so many aspects of the web and get plenty of value out of even their free users.

Given their size and stranglehold on just about everything, pulling an "oops, sorry, I guess you get what you pay for" is just ludicrous at this point.

And sorry if it seems like I'm arguing directly with you, that's not my intention. But I see this a lot and have gone from saying it myself to vehemently disagreeing with it over the last decade or so.

But you're oversimplifying the case here. They weren't complaining that the law was being published, they were complaining that their standards were published. The court agreed with PR that once those standards were incorporated into law, they were subject to fair use publication under the auspices of making available and explaining our laws to the public.

The courts agreed and here we are. But as another user wrote, this wasn't about copyrighting the law, it was about the inclusion of copyrighted material in the law and whether or not it fell under a different category with regards to fair use.

I'm sure I'm oversimplifying or missing something too, but I, who am generally opposed to how copyright is currently handled in the US, can see that there is more nuance to this case than your post admits to.

And it was quite good. You could learn just about everything you needed to work from it, offline and from one source.

There are many things I did not like about Microsoft back then but their developer ecosystem was not one of them. Tools were expensive and closed but quite complete and well put together.

Until I learned about open source and free software I considered MSDN to be the pinnacle of how software development should be.

These days it just feels like MS can't decide between free or prosperity and so can't seem to get either one right.

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 any way.

But autocomplete after sudo doesn't work for me on a stock Debian install anyway, not sure what one needs to do to get around that. I don't really rely on it. If I'm doing enough work that needs root I start the session with "sudo su -" anyway so not having autocomplete after sudo is not a big deal for me.

Most examples will include the standard user path plus /sbin and /usr/sbin but you can add any directories you want to the option.

I think it of as a result of high profile hacks. Either a company is hacked once and they go way overboard trying to ensure it doesn't happen again. Or, some high profile company gets hacked, some C*O's see it, overreact and decide they're not going to be next.

This is my biggest issue with what you're talking about. I get annoyed at the clueless users who happen to share my initials and last name but I can forgive them for their ignorance.

But, IMHO, any company, in 2022, that uses email for authentication, or for any type of business/financial exchange of information, that doesn't bother to do a simple validation of "do you really own this email?" should not be allowed to continue to operate!

I sadly learned long ago that expressing this opinion to their support or security contacts is useless.

(X resources can sort of be used to provide different options for different invocations of the same program, but how to do it isn't necessarily obvious, it requires additional command line options to the program, and even programs that use X resources don't always support it.)

IIRC it was considered fashionable back in the day to install a card, wait for it not to work and then make a joke about "plug 'n pray" before finding an older, ISA card and getting it to work by setting the jumpers correctly.

allowing Russian airlines to register jets leased from Western firms as their own property

In response, a government commission on Wednesday approved the first step towards nationalising assets of foreign firms that leave the country.

It seems to me the companies involved probably knew this was possible/probable when they pulled out but I don't know enough about all of this to understand how much value they lose when their capital in a country is simply taken from them outright...

So I think the plague reference was meant as another way to exaggerate the severity of the situation for humorous effect. That was my take anyway.

If it's passed by value it will never change inside the function and whatever is supposed to happen when it changes will never get executed. The integers should be passed by reference so when they change the function receiving them is aware of the update.

I'm having a hard time understanding this one... Are you literally saying that belts that hold people's pants up are mandatory?