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In that case it's clear fraud and will be dealt with, I assume. Given the comments here about a liberal market, I assumed labeling requirements are less strict over there.

In Germany and many places if not all of west and central Europe products get detailed labeling of ingredients. For instance if you buy what's supposedly a brand name syrup of plums and therefore should be 100% the result of cooking plums and nothing else except maybe conservatives, what you actually get according to the label is 99% various forms of industrialized sugar and then a little bit of plum flavor. This is great because I've also found such syrup which was what you'd expect and pretty much the same thing you get when you do at home, but it wasn't from the most famous brand in Germany, which is disturbing given the price you have to pay for the brand. Same with stuff that's supposed to be honey or all those fancy teas which have no trace of what the label says if you look into the ingredients list. Most people do not bother to read it, and I don't blame them, but if you do, you start to put many products on a personal blacklist of fakes.

That said, do US products not carry detailed ingredient lists or is this product discussed in the article part of a group of products that are exempt?

As long as Microsoft isn't addressing the real blocker for people to skip Windows 8 and 10, they won't convince that user base. Those users might eventually move to 10, but will stick with 7 as long as they possibly can and the Windows apps they rely on support.

I must say I don't understand the reasoning behind Microsoft not providing a Pro or Enterprise Windows version that doesn't use the existing users as tester for UI experiments or how much sensitive information they're willing to share on a desktop machine intended for very likely private work (authoring text, media, code, etc.).

They're making the same mistake as GNOME and KDE are, with trying to shoehorn Tablet feature onto the desktop, while pretending the keyboard and mouse are less relevant now.

I admit that there are those who are not power users and run Windows, but those that aren't are most likely better served with a lower maintenance solution like a Tablet with a bluetooth keyboard for writing sessions, and there the privacy invasion is already accepted by using a mobile OS.

PC Gamers and creators are the power users who use Windows for various applications, and Microsoft is making life very hard for them by bundling the improvements in the subsystems with the mobile OS experience on top without offering the new kernel features and such with the old user experience and trustworthy environment.

If you think about it, using a desktop environment that leaks like that for sensitive works doesn't make sense. Someone writing a book or movie script or working on an unpublished program doesn't want even only metadata about it to leak into cacheandclipboard.mscloud.azure.com.

This is all very weird and self-destructive and provides fodder for those who would like to believe Microsoft, Google, Apple are adding these features on request by monitor+control agencies.

I've been thinking about this and wondering how they could prevent people moving to a WeChat like app and doing all financial transactions within that. If you enable anonymity in that there's no need to identify your meat life persona with your WeChat profile, how would the control be retained? Short of illegalizing mobile devices that allow installing a banned app like WeChatAnonEdition and having traffic police carry inspection devices that would allow them to detect illegally open Android devices in a driver's pocket, I don't see how it can be prevented. If you sell and buy inside WeChatAnonEdition and also get your salary inside WeChatAnonEdition, there is no monitoring and control anymore.

Just to be clear, I'm not agains taxes, because not paying taxes is like swatting an apartment, and generally taxes make sense to be paid, although most places also have several unfair tax codes, so I understand the common perception of taxes as "highway robbery".

When I visited Istanbul, I passed through a district with an endless number of exchange shops, and it seemed like a place where you could easily wash money without any bank account involved. I believe Turkey isn't alone in having such a culture of buying/selling US dollars by tracking the USD rate.

Do the IRS and say Turkey's tax office tracks these as well? Assuming that you don't try to deposit the exchanged for bills in a bank.

Couldn't someone offer Bitcoin exchange in existing currency shops or the same service via Bitcoin ATMs? How would the IRS and its equivalents track that without requiring identification and registration before use? I suppose a small amount would be allowed for the tourist aspect but then you could use a group of friends or employees to wash small amounts. If you require ID for that, including tourists, then you can track it.

I think I figured it out. Somehow Skia was enabled in Firefox and resetting that seems to have fixed the rendering bug. Given that 51 will turn Skia on by default I hope this will be fixed before the switch.

Centered double quotes?

If you consider that many gui apps are written with HTML right now, I wouldn't worry about the looks of the toolkit as much, as long as it integrates and behaves as expected in X and Wayland and Windows and macOS and iOS and Android. That's more important than a skin, although I know many users prefer their platform's "native look", but what's native anyway, with mobile apps and web apps styling in many different ways. Even native Windows and macOS apps, which has a native look and feel, these days prefer to use a custom style, with most of the time following the design of vast empty white spaces and large controls, assuming everybody uses a 4k display.

What I'm trying to say is, if this comes out of the box and works reliably, then it'll attract more developers given the other ease of deployment aspects of Go.

I love serifs and haven't found a good monospaced serif font yet. This one looks good but has some minor bugs like spacing and * not being centered vertically for the times you write OCaml or C comments. I'm trying it out anyway because I've been missing serifs in my terminal and editor for too long.

Was there a font thread you're referring to?

Do you write OCaml or C (comments) by any chance? I've often found it hard to discover a typeface that has

    (* this is a comment *)

vertically centered. My usual choice is Fira Mono because it looks great and centers * vertically, though I would love a serif monospace font. Maybe Go Mono will be revised but I doubt it will be updated anytime soon.

When you say "6 point" do you mean it's bigger than usual?

Is there a place to obtain SF Mono without an Apple Developer account if you don't happen to have a macOS installation handy?

Sorry I can't because it's something that happens and doesn't stay. If you run Firefox 50 on Arch Linux, you will see what I mean.

This looks like an improved version of Luxi. I couldn't use Luxi Mono because O and 0 look the same, but this fixes that. I had been looking for a serif monospace font for a long time and this looks great.

Did anyone else try to use it in xterm or rxvt-unicode?

In xterm and Emacs the vertical spacing seems to be too small, making it look pressed together.

In rxvt-unicode the only problem is that the renderer displays it stretched horizontally like a short but wide block.

I've actually been trying to find a PCF or TTF variant of that Sun font. If anyone can point me to it, I'd be grateful. Maybe in some folder of opensolaris or illumos?

Built 50.0 with cairo-gtk2 backend using it right now but something different with the font rendering in 50.0. For instance there's a weird washed-out effect of the text in this very same text control I'm writing the comment in which comes and goes with the amount of text changing/wrapping etc.