Weren't Minesweeper and Solitaire mouse training programs for the early days of PCs? Or is that apocryphal?
Posts by sz54c8
10 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Mar 2017
Microsoft's Windows 10 Workstation adds killer feature: No Candy Crush
Murdoch's Fox empire is set to become a literal Mickey Mouse outfit
Osama Bin Laden had copy of Resident Evil, smut, in compound
Thursday 2nd November 2017 10:54 GMT
Re: Probably gone down
I remember reading the Seals were ordered to cut his body up and throw it out over the Hindukush. But when they returned the Obama regime had decided to go public rather than keep the op a secret for political purposes. So they had to come up with a cover story - the "burial at sea". Just something I read, YMMV.
US Congress mulls first 'hack back' revenge law. And yup, you can guess what it'll let people do
2019: The year that Microsoft quits Surface hardware
America throws down gauntlet: Accept extra security checks or don't carry laptops on flights
Thursday 29th June 2017 13:14 GMT
Re: How about if we stop making more terrorists in the first place?
Not entirely sure that the ISIS terrorism problem is really all about US interventionism - this is from their own propaganda "Even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam"
But totally agree that laptop ban is just a power exercise - it's not making anyone safer, IMHO
Windows 10 Creators Update preview: Lovin' for Edge and pen users, nowt much else
Enterprise patching... is patchy, survey finds
Avast blocks the entire internet – again
Kodi-pocalypse Now? Actually, it's not quite here yet
Wednesday 8th March 2017 17:57 GMT
Maybe just drop your prices and kill illegal streaming? Not likely though
You know, if TV services were available at a reasonable rate - say £20 a month for a decent wadge of premium sports and the very latest movies - I dare say streaming of illegal content would drop right down. But £100+ for a full Sky package is a chunk of change that puts a big dent in many a budget. When CDs were ridiculously expensive, music piracy was rife. Now that you can buy tracks for a much more reasonable rate, I'm of the opinion that it seems to have dropped off. Greed drives streaming of illegal content through Kodi, people who can't justify the exorbitant costs of TV packages see it as a reasonable option. Unfortunately the big media companies wouldn't dare to drop prices simply in the name of attracting a higher volume of subscribers - they'd sooner lobby to get anyone streaming illegally through Kodi sent to jail, probably.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
