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> I've still never heard a classical record that sounds as good as sitting in a hall in front of a world class orchestra.

Never heard a SACD but a CD doesn't have the dynamic range of a live symphonic orchestra. And there is the recording equipment charateristics which matters.


Live bands can also have crappy sound systems or play in crappy rooms.

Windows NT had a design ? It all looks like a bunch of staff thrown at a wall in the hope that it will stick.

The core NT team came from DEC and was considered as the "adults" in the whole organization. It's definitely much more organized than DOS/Win 3.X back then.

I'm very curious about what you consider a real "design" then?!

The Windows NT kernel had a better design than most contemporary and succeeding operating systems (including the various Unixes, Linux, BSD, plan9 etc.).

Modern kernel designs like Google's Fuchsia have more in common with NT than POSIX/Unix/Linux.

In particular, the NT object manager approach subsumes the Unix "everything is a file, well, not quite, oh... uhh.. let us slowly fix that by adding stuff like signalfd, memfd, pidfd etc. ahh hmm, these still do not exactly fit into a FS mold... ah crap, still missing a proper ptrace FS analogue" design approach that eg. Linux has taken in the last two decades.

It also had powerful primitives like eg. APCs that could be used to build higher-level kernel features elegantly.


> Which is, actually, what the BBC author of TFA is doing, by writing an article as a user, to inform other users so they too can act to protect their privacy.

No. The author only singles out TikTok. Looks like a paid piece.

A real journalist would have made some research.


I bet you never heard of Google or Meta.

> Most Americans don’t pay for news and don’t think they need to

Well, actual news are 1% of the "news". The rest is opinion pieces, propaganda and paid articles. Those who benefit from opinion pieces, propaganda and paid articles shall pay for it.


The age verification is pushed (lobbied) by the same companies which collect data: Palantir, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple and others.

How do you think EU and UK came to this idea ? Google was pushing it from some time but they needed a "legal framework".

In the future they will not need your phone anymore for border or house searches.


> Firstly, how is the world's most powerful military afraid of "cartel drones"?

They sent an aircraft carrier to fight "cartels". /s


Is there any party baloon made in the USA ?

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