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Some of the first data on user behavior exceeds advertisers' worst fears. Seems people don't like companies tracking them. Whodathunkit?
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Surprises me they thought nearly 40% would opt in!
As with anything though, I’d be curious what would happen if they swapped the buttons over, as I'm sure 90% of uses just select the first option.
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Wastedtalent wrote: as I'm sure 90% of uses just select the first option.
Most users actually don't do a sh*t. If the button was an opt-out instead an opt-in... the % would look totally different.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Fortunately - to Apple - it is about application tracking... At the OS level nothing changed...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Pyston, a faster implementation of Python, releases version 2.2 - and it's now open-sourced. Who debugs their Python code anyway?
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Off topic, but...
Quote: Dropbox wrote its backend services and its desktop client almost entirely in Python and it even hired Python creator Guido van Rossum in 2013 to help wrangle its four million lines of code written in Python
Can someone explain to me how Dropbox could possible be 4M lines of code?
I've written apps that designed communication satellites, drawing the frequency plan and the entire switch network in Visio, calculating equipment requirements, mass, solar and battery requirements, generating the wiring diagrams, of course everything is DB persisted, etc., and that didn't even come close 1% of the Dropbox code.
Why? Why? Why?[^]
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Research from James Cook University shows increasingly complex website password restrictions often leave users frustrated and lead to poor password security. So maybe I can drop the '1' at the end now?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Research from James Cook University shows increasingly complex website password restrictions often leave users frustrated and lead to poor password security.
Hear, hear! I tried to use an easy-to-use password for everything that satisfies the simple 'string-together' rule, but was denied because it didn't have a number or special symbol in it. Like I said, it is a simple but secure password which I may as well share, since I couldn't use it anywhere: "everyoneElseIsAnIdiot".
Just kidding! It made me laugh, though...
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Quote: the tougher the constraints of creating the passwords the safer users feel with their information
The deception seems to work for some people.
In my experience, enormous constraints mean just the opposite thing: unsafe passwords, and - I am pretty sure - low quality of safeguards on their side.
Why are ÄäÖöÜü߀§ (available on German keyboard but not US keyboard) so often not acceptable? Because they store passwords using the absoulety safe method of "ASCII encryption"?
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Computer science researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a sarcasm detector. Well done, boffins
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public bool IsSarcasm(object postContent)
{
return true;
}
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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We have made substantial runtime performance improvements in the x86/x64 C++ compiler for Visual Studio’s default debug configuration. Great news for those that forget to switch to Release builds before shipping
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Hahahahahahaha!
As I've said a few times now, I just couldn't see why Microsoft were so eager to repeat the whole Windows RT, Windows 10 S, and Windows Phone debacles.
Quote: it appears Microsoft is now focused on improving the core of Windows instead of delivering a new variant.
Good for them. This is surely the sensible way forward.
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Quote: Microsoft reportedly shelves Windows 10X
What will all the 10X Devs[^] do? 
technopedia: What Does 10x Developer Mean? A 10x developer is an individual who is thought to be as productive as 10 others in his or her field. The 10x developer would produce 10 times the outcomes of other colleagues, in a production, engineering or software design environment. A 10x developer is also known as a 10x programmer or 10x engineer.
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Usually when you try to be super productive, you end up with 10 times the number of bugs.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Reminds me of Agile. Deploy more bugs faster!
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As an enterprise/educational market only product I can see some potential value for organizations that currently have a mix of full Windows and Chromebooks in that they could consolidate their admin work to a single management interface.
As an end user product Windows 10 Times Worse would've been a repeat of Windows 10 Strangled at best; if they followed through on the rumor of not allowing it to be converted into a standard install it would've been far worse.
OTOH things like "better tablet support" that presumably will be coming into normal W10 now that the focus is pulling features from 10x for improving it never should've been locked to the variant product in the first place.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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