Interesting Links for 03-05-2016

[andrewducker]

It's unfair to say Hillsborough police were incompetent - it takes great organisation to tell such shocking lies (tags: football lies death police ) How Windows chooses when startup apps start up (tags: windows computers ) Craig Wright loudly claims “I am Satoshi Nakamoto,” but few believe his “proof” (tags: bitcoin hoax identity ) The 9 Best

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[momentsmusicaux]

> We’ve found that one of the big frustrations people have with Windows is that after signing in, they can’t use the computer because all of the Startup programs are thrashing the computer.

Fuck yes. This. Every time I boot my gaming PC I am reminded of why I don't want to use Windows.

I don't mind that it takes time to start. But it's frustrating as hell to see the desktop there and not be able to use it. Why not stay on the loading screen until everything is ready? (LIKE A MAC DOES.)

[momentsmusicaux]

In other words, a key rule of UX: 'Don't lie to the user'.

[andrewducker]

Because it's remarkably hard to tell what "everything" is and when it's ready?

These are not part of the OS - they're user applications which are being started up, and many of them start and stay resident. There's no flag for "I have now started up, loaded all of my data, and don't plan to do anything intensive for a while." that applications can set.

And, on a fast machine, you can happily get on with other things while they're doing whatever it is they're doing. Certainly on anything with an SSD and multiple processors it's not an issue.

[cartesiandaemon]

I don't know why this isn't technically more plausible, but you'd think there'd be a way of being responsive to the user running a *new* application, while starting auto-start applications without letting them hog the cpu. I'm not at all surprised it's hard to do that, but I don't know *why*.

[alitheapipkin]

The Salvation Army are an evil cult, I've reached the stage where I will no longer give them credit for any of the stuff they do because it comes with entirely too much judgement and I don't want anyone to think they are to be trusted with providing public services.

[danieldwilliam]

When I was a law student, studying civil liberties, there were a number of interesting cases featuring the Salvation Army of the late 19th Century. They used to have their marches banned under public order legislation because a group of robust satirists and anti-temperance campaigners called the Skeleton Army would violently disrupt them causing a riot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_Army

[alitheapipkin]

Hah! I had no idea about that, thanks for sharing.

[lilchiva]

I think the world could do with a new Skeleton Army. Thanks for the link. :)

[bart_calendar]

Man they were dumb to go after the Klingon language.

The suit would otherwise be winable easily.

"We hold the copyright on Star Trek at the moment so don't fucking make a Star Trek movie without our permission" is a compelling legal argument that doesn't need to be complicated by stuff like that.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, entirely. Trying to claim ownership of a language is just ridiculous.

[ext_2864067]

I'm no legal expert, but is it possible they're trying to slip the language thing through in what's otherwise an open-and-shut lawsuit as a dodgy trick in order to try to create a legal precedent, so as to claim legally-backed ownership of the language in future?

[jwaaaa]

[kalimac]

Well, that Hillsborough piece certainly gave me a full daily dose of sarcasm.

Extra points to your election blogger for using the term Poujadist. Haven't read that word in a while, but the phenomenon certainly hasn't gone away.

[andrewducker]

I recommend Dan's journal in general.