bapu
I've been programming since 1978 (professionally coded in Fortran, Cobol and HP Basic within the first four years).
 
I've built at least 100 PC/Servers in that time.
 
They still seem like a fad to me.

I just KNOW my buggy whip stocks are going to skyrocket again any day now.
 
ANY... DAY... NOW!
 

bapu
I've been programming since 1978 (professionally coded in Fortran, Cobol and HP Basic within the first four years).

But not C. You must be one of those weekend coders.

I have often wondered about MS trying to get everything in one account under one security key/password. Makes it easy for them to link all kinds of things to your account, but it sort of flies in the face of the best security advice for the past half century: never use the same password in two different accounts. Hack one, you hack them all.

slartabartfast
I have often wondered about MS trying to get everything in one account under one security key/password. Makes it easy for them to link all kinds of things to your account, but it sort of flies in the face of the best security advice for the past half century: never use the same password in two different accounts. Hack one, you hack them all.

MS Live... all the flaws of an Apple account without any of the benefits! What's not to love?

Yup, every time they mess with it they seem to make it worse. I have three accounts which used to be linked to one sign on, now I have to sign in to all three seperately "for my own security" and if I don't do it every so oftem they get wiped. There is nothing of value to anyone in either of them, so I don't really care if being hacked lets people in to all three. Can I not make that decision myself like I used to ? NO. The waste of screen space is another bug bear - why take a quarter of the available screen space with the the "To" section - used to be one simple line ! Why do I need an image of myself next to sender? I don't even need to see my name FFS ! I know who I am and what I look like ! The biggest though is the changes to the blocking rules. I regularly get crap promising supermarket vouchers if I reply that all come from a variation of the same basic address. I used to be able to block all addresses that contained the similar bits in one instruction, now I have to block them individually each time. Grrr!
As much as it sucks, talking to friends who use other providers it seems that the fixing what isn't broken is a habit of them all, so I stick with it - better the devil you know and all that. Gmail not an option to me, don't like google for many reasons, don't even use the search engine any more. It even feels like you tube is watching your every move since they got hold of it.
 
Remember, just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not watching you ! ;)

Indeed that is the one major drawback to Google stuff. It all works pretty well and has lots of useful features but they are ALL up in your business.
 
Are you using Duck Duck Go as a search engine? It's "supposed" to not track and log searches and they list the search results by relevance instead of who paid them the most. I've tried it a few times and it's pretty good as a search engine. The one thing I don't like though is you have to allow a script from their domain to make it work. I can do simple searches with google without allowing anything. Anything beyond that (like image searches or their friggen' script drenched map thingie) and you have to allow a bunch of crap.
 
They kind of screwed up youtube too by linking the comments to G+ or whatever they did. Before if you just allowed youtube.com and ytimg.com (which you have to anyone for the vids to play) all the comments would display. Now there's like an extra two or three scripts needed and it's their weird apps stuff that I'm pretty sure is how they do most of their tracking.

BTW with Gmail I always use the stripped down version "For Older Browsers" that doesn't require any extra scripts. I do the same with Facebook (Mobile Version). Makes it load faster and I think it screws up some of their prying eyes bullpizzle.