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Google bans Windows Chrome extensions found outside the Chrome Web Store

Being written in 2004, that was another extraordinary piece of clarividence .

I'd be more impressed if the video showed the chimp using a computer keyboard and mouse . For some reason this piece of information reminds me of that joke about the hunter and the bear : "You're not in this for the profit, are you?"

Man it was so long ago that I can't remember ads . . . ................ . .

One is reminded of those kids time ago that ended up searching for Fegelein.

That's slave talk in my book. I'll better switch off my comps for good than ever submit to such nazism. No wonder they call it "jailbreaking" when they manage to escape from that Konzentrationslager. Ironically his reaction there mirrors those from the adults a year and a half ago seen in the official Destroying Windows Blog when the murder of Aero was announced, and at many other times over the past two years. So to Dot MetroTard I say ... Homeric!!!

Apologies if already mentioned: As businesses flee the coming 'XPocalypse,' they're turning to Windows 7, not 8 Medieval Doomsday FUD aside, behold The Tiles Wonder overwhelming success in business: So much for the "Tabletizing Universe" cosmological model. Again apologies if mentioned, this made me chuckle : Windows 8 And Einstein's Definition Of Insanity

I already asked MSFT and they don't want to provide a way to disable it. I can't believe this, MS listening to customer feedback! : Windows 8.1 'SecureBoot isn't configured correctly' watermark finally removed via hotfix KB2902864

There is this much quoted prophecy: http://www.statista.com/statistics/272595/global-shipments-forecast-for-tablets-laptops-and-desktop-pcs/ Hardly an "extinction event for the PC", even assuming the augur nailed it. But the seer (who may have been a little predisposed to the toys for whatever the reasons, who knows ) might have not nailed it: IDC Lowers 2013 Tablet Forecast As one commenter puts it, we may well be at the dawn of "The Post Tablet era" .

Could someone please notify the PC, in no uncertain terms, about its official defunction? For it remains largely unaware of its own passing away, boy what a stubborn resistance to change: http://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=61 Anyway its fate is sealed and doom is impending: Notice how it has lost A WHOLE ONE PER CENT since last year, ha. At this abrupt rate of descent it will be completely extinct in no time, by 2101 AD give or take. [/sARCASM]

Wonder if the above has something to do with the tone down in vociferous shilling I've noticed around the web in the last days ... Who gives a fig? Gentlemen, may I ask your opinion about this Firefox add-on: HTTPS Everywhere . Worth installing, or more harm than good?

All this hogwash is mighty surreal and just too funny . Who'd have thought just five years ago that in 2013 AD we'd have to hear brayings as assinine as "the personal computer is dead"? MS is a gazillion miles from remotely having the capacity to "murder" the PC. They can just kill themselves .

Couldn't tell, never been there . It's just the Finnish way .

I feel creative today .

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No kidding.

Wow, I salute your selfless dedication to teratology Formiller . Oh yeah, that's gonna end well ... Commenter at Tom's : How about SkyFall ?

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update => Set AU options to 2 0 : Auto updates are enabled and the downloaded updates will be installed immediately. 1 : Automatic updates feature will be disabled. Windows will not check if there are any new updates for installation. However, users can manually initiate update. 2 : Check for updates, do not download them until user says so. 3 : Download the updates but do not install.

Can someone test this? Unbelievable! As you all know, I am not exactly fond of NuMicrosoft, but that they will go this far with 8.1 is not something I have imagined. From the dragon's lair: "SkyDrive screen during setup If this is your first time setting up a PC with Windows 8.1, you'll see the new SkyDrive options. If you click Next on this screen, your PC will use these default SkyDrive settings: Photos you take with this PC are saved to your camera roll folder on this PC, and a smaller copy of each photo is automatically backed up to your SkyDrive. When you create a new document, the default save location is SkyDrive. But you can always choose to save individual documents locally or on another drive. Windows will save a backup copy of your PC settings to SkyDrive. If something ever happens to your PC and you need to replace it, your settings are saved in the cloud and you can transfer them to a new PC instantly. You can change any of these settings later in PC settings. If you'd prefer to turn off all of these settings now, click Turn off these SkyDrive settings (not recommended)." http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/upgrade-from-windows-vista-xp-tutorial#install

(Apologies if already mentioned): Microsoft's PR Boss Slams NYT Gadget Guru David Pogue After He Gave Windows 8.1 A Horrible Review

Another pleasure in the Tiles 81 experience: . . . Apparently people is getting this watermark whenever "secure" boot is not enabled in BIOS. This is a brave new joy, didn't happen in Tiles 80. It's interesting how users are being conditioned, like Pavlovian dogs, to: - Only get their food from the store. - Enable "secure" boot, or be perennially punished with a "something is broken" watermark (all for "your security", of course). I practise a zero tolerance approach to that ribbon joke, even transplant Win XP's wordpad.exe into Se7en . "Controller" ? That's a real thing F1 steering wheel B) : . . .

The inmensely satisfying experience with the much improved Tiles 81 :

I overcame my stubborn resistance to change and gave it a try booting from USB. Liking it much more than Ubuntu (which I tried last year right after the shock of first testing The-Horror-Whose-Name-Must-Not-Be-Pronounced). It's alien environment for a Windows old-timer, but you quickly feel that they've tried to make your life as easy as possible (as opposed to massively kicking you in the balls and making your existence as miserable as possible :angrym: ). I'm going to install it in a secondary guinea-pig comp for more in-depth familiarization. Searching for some Linux fan-controlling solution à là Speedfan now. @ Charlotte: I humbly float this as potential inspiration for your art .

In Time, by Andrew Niccol (GATTACA, Lord of War). Intelligent sci-fi, gives a new dimension to the term "biological clock" . I like the invariably gorgeous ladies and "future retro" cars in Niccol's films. Worth a watch (pun intended).