I am VERY happy about the first flight of China's first strategic passenger aircraft, the Comac C919 [COMPACTIDEA]

Let the dogs bark. Let the Westerners claim that the Chinese copied their stuff [on the inside, they're quite nervous]. Let the critics complain that China is "late". Let the Whites point out that a lot of what's inside the C919 is Western made. Let them spew bullshit and try to spread FUD about this plane's quality/reliability/safety. They're nervous because their cozy and lucrative duopoly has seen the first serious threat in decades. I, for one, am happy about this first flight. It marks the arrival of China on the stage. The duopoly must be crushed. Airbus and Boeing are both instruments of the barbaric regimes of Europe and US. These must be crushed. Whether this is done by China or by Russia or by both working together, doesn't matter.

Windows 10 does not have respect for its users - it is designed to help and enrich Microsoft, even if this is at the cost of its users [COMPACTIDEA]

• Upgraded to Windows 10 Mobile on my Lumia 640 XL [from 8.1]. It said during update that "you'll find your data exactly where you left it". After update, lost all SMSes. What the hell is this? I had several very important SMSes [some of those related to business deals]. Microsoft folks should stuff Windows 10 Mobile disks into their asses.
• Even though I've properly configured my Windows 10 Mobile to not automatically restart if/when there are updates, today morning [3-May-17], when I woke up and swiped the screen open, there was a window with several sliders already in the "I agree" position. I felt surprised. What's this? One of the sliders was about sending Microsoft "diagnostic" information. Others were about sending to Microsoft what I type, what I speak, what URLs I visit, data on my usage of apps, where I travel, etc. Basically everything I do. All these sliders were pre-checked into the "I agree" position, and at the bottom was a single button "Accept". They know that most people will just push this button and rejoice! Telemetry begins to flow!
• But the key point here is that they restarted my phone without asking/telling me, closing all the open apps in the process. Again, little respect for the user, and concern only for MSFT's enrichment. I keep apps open as reminders sometimes. I don't remember now what was open. Data lost basically.
• I carefully placed the sliders into positions I deemed appropriate [balancing functionality and privacy], but as is well known, telemetry couldn't be turned off fully. Fuck you Microsoft.

Is Google's Android so much more popular than Apple's iOS? [COMPACTIDEA]

Looking at only the difference between the number of ratings/reviews of this app shows a clear difference - Android is at least 186 times more popular than iOS [forget everything else]. This is a staggering difference and it isn't good at all. Google having a near-monopoly on mobile operating systems is not and cannot be good for anyone except Google and CIA/NSA.

Examples of violations of net neutrality in India and abroad [COMPACTIDEA]

Airtel won't charge users any data for uploading content to its backup service.

Update [11-Sep-18]: It might seem/sound ludicrous at first, but if you think carefully about it, the way content delivery networks [CDNs] are used currently constitutes a violation of net neutrality. Not because they enable faster delivery of content, but because they enable faster delivery of only those services/websites which have the ability to pay to get on these faster lanes. Smaller outlets can't afford these high-speed lanes and have to provide a relatively inferior experience to their users. If these CDNs were speeding-up all content irrespective of its origin/source, then we could say that CDNs don't cause any violation of net neutrality.

There are idiots who go crazy over the closing of the financial year, 31st March [COMPACTIDEA]

Happens every year. I've seen it every time. These idiots go mad, as if resetting ledger balances to zero is a must at the end of a financial year [it isn't]. They'll call you repeatedly as if a mountain will break if we don't give/take cheques to reset the ledger balances. They'll send a small NEFT of INR ~5K-6K and then call you 10 times to confirm if you received it. Losers. Total losers. With no sense of accounting and more importantly no grand vision. Tied up in petty, meaningless issues. Will stay tied up in such nonsense shit throughout their worthless lives, devoid of any creation, innovation or deep thought.

Credit card is like a time machine - it shifts future incoming cash flows to the present [COMPACTIDEA]

Your money is coming on the 15th. Today is 2nd. You need it today. Solution? A credit card. It shifts future cash flows to the present. Like a time machine. As a bonus, it gives you discounts and/or redeemable reward points, plus an interest-free credit period. What's not to like here [if you stay disciplined]?

Explaining in four words, the US/UK ban on carrying electronics in aircraft originating from certain countries [COMPACTIDEA]

Emirates. Qatar. Etihad. Turkish.

Those four words explain it all. For this clearly protectionist move, national security is the convenient and unchallengeable excuse, as usual. Evidence, if any, is classified, as usual.

Manufacturers are adding colors, designs, graphics, patterns, textures, etc., in all products [COMPACTIDEA]

From refrigerators to washing machines to credit/debit cards to cars, it's raining colors everywhere.

Steps Mozilla must take to turbocharge Firefox's performance and take back share from Chrome [COMPACTIDEA]

• Use the best available compiler, and compile using optimum settings so as to produce an optimized build.
• Program and compile Firefox in a way that it starts fully utilizing all those dual and quad cores that are commonplace in desktop CPUs from Intel and AMD.
• Optimize the number of processes Firefox uses [Chrome goes to the extreme with separate process for each tab].
• Programming code overhaul is needed in the Firefox/Gecko code to improve rendering speed, reduce latency, consume less memory, scroll more smoothly, and so on.
• Ditch XUL and switch to pure native code.
• Utilize all those fancy instructions that AMD/Intel are rolling out in the newest processors. Why artificially handicap Firefox by not using all that's available in modern processors and operating systems?
• Utilize the GPU efficiently and fully [GPGPU]. This will provide the horsepower that will make Firefox fly.
• Defragment Firefox installation folder post install so that its launch isn't artificially slowed down.
• Of course, all of these optimized binaries need supporting software and hardware to run on. So there has to be a stub installer, which assesses the available hardware and software environment upon being launched [including 32-bit versus 64-bit], and pulls down those binaries from Mozilla's servers that are best-suited for each system. This of course means that Mozilla will now have to maintain multiple binaries. It'll be worth it though.
• Where Internet connections are fast, the binaries served should be optimized for performance, and not for size.

Update [2-Feb-17]: It seems it's possible to collapse/group the above points based on common themes. For example, one theme could be called Utilize All of the Available System Hardware and Software Resources Fully and Efficiently. This would include things like multi-core CPUs, utilizing special instructions in microprocessors, GPGPU, etc.

Hillary Clinton was begging for women's votes by pointing to similar female body organs - the sickest possible form of campaigning!

• First female president my ass. First female president for the sake of having a female as the president is no argument at all. This was nonsense from the start. She's corrupt, she's a prolific liar, she's a cheat, she's a criminal who deletes the evidence [both Clintons are criminals actually], and she's a born crook and she's just rotten. Just because female body organs are attached to her body doesn't mean that the post should be handed over to her. Nonsense.
• Obviously, radical feminists are now going to cry. They wanted her to get the post just because she too has their organs. They felt "entitled". Not gonna happen. Sorry. Deserve tears. Keep crying.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqYJRc0TJkQ
• Bringing female celebrities - one after the other - was a shoot-yourself step. Like they were gonna make her win just like that. Made Hillary look even more elite and a solid part of the establishment. The look on her and their faces was as if she had already won. Like it was some sort of celebration going on. Like the "women" card was all that was needed. Now they say she cried a lot. Obviously that was gonna happen.
• She thought she could unleash a bunch of ugly feminists on the stage every now and then and she would win this election just like that based on women's votes without alienating anyone else? Only in her parallel universe. Where are these fat ladies hiding now?

• Watching the first debate right now [13-Nov-16]. How in the world could NYT/WaPo claim that she won this debate? She was continuously looking down at her notes. She was carefully vomiting out the lists that she clearly had memorized - she was never speaking candidly. She didn't know or talk about VAT or Mexico. Her sentences look like those spoken by a school student at a debate competition. He never looked down at notes. He spoke candidly, fast, from his heart, without inhibitions. And they say she won? The important question is how much were they bribed to make such a claim. How could she question his not releasing his tax returns when she herself cleverly deleted emails detailing her criminal acts? She didn't have any answer for those 33,000 deleted emails. How would she? She's not looking presidential at all. More like a retired waitress, especially with that red. Or maybe a ghoul. He does look statesmanly. He knows so much - he's giving out names, numbers, statistics, and so on, but she's using, for the most part, hollow and emotional words. Proper script. As the debate is proceeding, I'm amazed to see how intelligent, logical and knowledgeable Mr. Trump is! Totally amazing! God knows why she's continuing to give that wicked smile. Doesn't she know any other expression? Does she think that laughing/smiling equals confidence? In fact, it shows her inner insecurity and nervousness. Just noticed that what she's saying is more of giving out broad/generalized "knowledge" [devoid of supporting facts] and she isn't laying out any concrete plan/steps at all! Noticed that Mr. Trump is mostly serious and doesn't foolishly smile all the time - he's serious about doing and saying, while she's clearly carefully speaking every word, as if worried about not spilling something unintended [the dirt inside that brain]. Just felt that thank goodness this bitch didn't win. On NATO, she's giving a wicked smile meaning "dude you've no idea what you're saying". Now we know her overconfidence about her foreign experience in part led to her fall. Final word - the host of this debate was very good. Fair, balanced, calm, unbiased. No complaints from him. And one more thing, I think most of her so-called "punch lines" were no lines at all. Like the "I prepared to be president" was largely fake. It wasn't from the heart. It was script. And it showed. He shattered all her preparation and psycho-tricks [like repeatedly calling him "Donald"] because the man was honest, candid, uninhibited, fearless and unscripted. More generally, it seems that most of what Hillary Clinton does or says is fake.
• Pundits and analysts who are now laying out reasons for Clinton's loss, and are pointing out that she shouldn't have devoted resources/time/money to states like Arizona fail to think about one basic point - just because you're "investing" more and more "resources" doesn't mean that you'll eventually be able to turn voters your way. Hillary Clinton is such a nasty woman that no matter what she did, she was going to lose. Instead of blaming her strategies or Obama or Comey or Huma, the blame is actually on her own self. She wasn't competent enough. She was corrupt to the core and voters knew it. You can't "manage" such facts no matter how hard you try. These self-appointed analysts/gurus/pundits are simply saving their asses now.
• NYT is blaming "data" for its wrong "prediction". Bullshit. What about the unbelievable amount of anti-Trump bias in NYT's coverage? They won't even mention it!
• Those bloody forecasts by NYT and others. Now they can shove those forecasts inside their behinds. These forecasts, clearly, were not intended to accurately reflect the public opinion, but were in fact intended to affect/alter/shift/move/pull the public's vote. Why not? For Hillary the public is stupid, little folks. She's the great one who's destined and even entitled for the billions.
• Watching second debate. Moderators are biased - both the guy and the ghoul. Hillary doesn't look presidential. She looks like a granny. Her words are boring. She's saying nothing impactful. The ghoul woman is visibly anti-Trump. Seems like she has taken bribes. Lol, how she's hiding behind Lincoln to hide her double face. The ghoul is getting personal now. Just realized Hillary is repeating the same boring points over and over and offering nothing concrete about the economy, jobs, industrialization, etc. Just noticed that her voice is irritating while his is statesmanly. Looking at Hillary's face while Mr. Trump makes his forceful arguments reveals that internally she's full of fear at his much superior thoughts and performance. She knows he's far more superior to her. Her tired/resigned/fake look says it all. Trump is shattering her now. Blowing her to pieces and the best thing is that she knows this. Just noticed, whenever Trump says something that exposes Hillary, she quickly goes for the microphone and holds it in her hands as if she has a strong response in her mind which she's eager to say. But not one single time has that holding of mic gotten converted into a forceful response from Hillary. It's just a psychological reaction of her, signaling to others and to herself that I have a response when in fact she doesn't. The most shocking thing is that Hillary repeatedly asks people to go to hillaryclinton.com to "learn more" when she herself is standing right there! Trump praising Hillary's "never quit" trait is so honest of him! Sometimes from Hillary's look it seems that inside of her she might have admiration and respect for the fact that Trump's intellect, logic, and thinking are far superior to her's, and she knows this. Final word, his kids are a tremendous assets for his campaign. Their presence creates a very good psychological impact on people.
• It's now beginning to appear that pathologically resorting to cheating and lying is probably the way of life for Hillary Clinton. So much that she herself doesn't realize that what she does is wrong and also illegal. In a sense it seems that, ironically, Hillary herself is "irredeemable". She can't be corrected. Perhaps she's mentally sick and a psychopath. She'll keep having remorse and sorrow and she'll keep thinking that she has been wronged, because she [and her supporters] just can't see anything criminal/illegal in whatever she says and does. They all think that she's right and that there's nothing wrong with changing positions on issues, or in taking bribes from "special interests", or in playing trickery to oust Bernie, or in lying prolifically, etc.
• The repeated claim that Hillary won the popular vote and so she, perhaps, is wanted by "more Americans" is bullshit. Both campaigns were optimized to maximize electoral votes. That's where Trump won. Had popular vote been the key factor, the campaigns would've been run that way. So Hillary is getting something incidentally, because even her own campaign was optimized to maximize electoral votes. It's illogical to claim, therefore, that Hillary is preferred by more number of Americans [one could respond saying that more American states want Trump].
• Watching the third debate. As soon as WikiLeaks was mentioned, Hillary quickly and immediately started deflecting the discussion to Russia, hacking, espionage, etc. Such a nasty woman she is. She's continuously looking down in this debate as well. She laughs so much, so frequently and so wickedly. Why? Is it overconfidence? Or is it inner nervousness? It seems like that there are certain terms and phrases that she deliberately and repeatedly throws around in each debate, so as to give an impression that she's "connected" to those folks. But it all seems fake and scripted. Not real, not passionate, and not from the heart. The moderator seems unbiased. Hillary is more aggressive in this debate than the last two. Hillary's teeth look ugly. Hillary is speaking a lot more in this debate than in the last two. Her performance is improved.

Update [2-Jan-17]: Just like religion, caste, language, etc., have been forbidden from being used or pitched in order to win votes, the "women" card too must be outlawed. Far too many female politicians have been abusing this diviside card for far too long and it's time to close the door on this.