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  • Former Apple sapphire supplier GT Advanced emerges from bankruptcy

    duervoduervo
    levi said:
    I hope under new management. 
    Not that I would know any of this on any other day (I was curious so I just checked) ... David Keck Is the new CEO. Tom Gutierrez was fired ... Err, I mean "retired" ... Last year. His LinkedIn profile makes no mention at all of his experience with GT Advanced, which is not surprising.

    The "bait and switch" bit referred to in the article isn't surprising either. Cognitive Dissonance theory does a good job of explaining why the company made those statements. "Mistakes were made, but not by us!"
    lolliver

  • Samsung to reportedly shut down Milk Music, mulls Tidal deal [u]

    duervoduervo
    ... And Kanye West's wish of a Samsung-sized Sugar Daddy are squashed just like that.

    Poor Kanye ;_;
    cornchiplostkiwi

  • Google, Facebook, Microsoft & Twitter expected to file motions backing Apple in unlock debate

    duervoduervo
    christophb said:
    Where the hell is this guy ( http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/24/news/apple-government-employees-maricopa-county/ ) gonna get phones for his county now?  us.gov gonna buy Palm tech from HP?


    -C
    BlackBerry will rise from the ashes (assuming things actually get that far.)
    frac

  • Users of Microsoft's 'free' Windows 10 find unexpected ads on lock screen

    duervoduervo
    foggyhill said:
    phil8192 said:
    My friend's Windows 7 computer gets incessant pop-ups from the taskbar to encourage "upgrading" to Windows 10.  She doesn't want to "upgrade" yet, but I fear she'll eventually click the "OK" button by accident instead of the "X" button to close the pop-up.  That's another form of forced, unwanted advertising.  I consider myself fortunate, because with my Linux system, nobody is pushing anything at me.
    I think there is a registry patch you can do to remove this.
    It's just a Windows Update (KB3035583) that needs to be uninstalled. Once it's been uninstalled, "Hide" the update in Windows Update to prevent it from automatically installing again the next time the PC checks for new updates (or set Windows Updates to be installed manually.)

    There are an incredible amount of "how to" blog "articles" online that step you through the whole process, with screenshots.

    Back to this thread topic ... The reaction is really way out of proportion to the "issue". The issue is just a continuance of things that are (or should be), at this point, common knowledge. As has been already pointed out, MS warned users about these privacy settings when Wndows 10 was still in beta, with another plethora of blog and news "articles" peppering the Internet about it since then. If this has caught anybody by surprise, and they are all up in arms about it, I would suggest that they climb out from underneath whatever rock they have been living. Then again, there is an element of entertainment to all the melodrama.
    singularity