Source: Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear
Just wanted to save a link to this.
Month: October 2015
Ultimate Outsider: Using GWX Control Panel (formerly GWX Stopper) to Permanently Remove the ‘Get Windows 10’ Icon
Microsoft is literally trying to annoy me into upgrading to a new operating system that I’m just not ready for. The Get Windows 10 app is evil software, and I don’t like the precedent that it sets, particularly given how successful it’s apparently been at accomplishing Microsoft’s objectives.
Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows 7 | ZDNet
Yep, this whole article ends in an irony: Microsoft is pushing me to upgrade my Windows 7 machine, but because the upgrade nag is breaking, I’m not going to upgrade. And I’m not upgrading my Mac because… wait for it… Microsoft software can’t handle the upgrade.
Source: Dear Microsoft: Please stop breaking my perfectly good Windows 7 | ZDNet
Modern software is completely out of control. It’s gotten far too complicated to ever be correct, let alone secure. smh
The Perfected Self – The Atlantic
B. F. Skinner’s notorious theory of behavior modification was denounced by critics 50 years ago as a fascist, manipulative vehicle for government control. But Skinner’s ideas are making an unlikely comeback today, powered by smartphone apps that are transforming us into thinner, richer, all-around-better versions of ourselves. The only thing we have to give up? Free will.
Wanted: A Theology of Atheism – The New York Times
Atheism, like any ideological position, has political and moral consequences. As nonbelievers become a more self-conscious subculture, as they seek to elect their own to high office and refute the fear that a post-Christian America will slide into moral anarchy, they will need every idea their tradition offers them.