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Windows 10 Still Phones Home With Data In Spite of Privacy Settings
Penguinisto writes: According to Ars Technica, Windows 10 will still send telemetry and other data to Microsoft-owned domains — no matter how tightly you crank down the privacy settings. Even with everything buttoned down, Cortana, OneDrive, and Web Search from the Start Menu disabled, the OS still phones home, using a random system ID that persists across reboots. It apparently also tries to bypass proxies to do it. "Some of the traffic looks harmless but feels like it shouldn't be happening. For example, even with no Live tiles pinned to Start (and hence no obvious need to poll for new tile data), Windows 10 seems to download new tile info from MSN's network from time to time, using unencrypted HTTP to do so. ... Other traffic looks a little more troublesome. Windows 10 will periodically send data to a Microsoft server named ssw.live.com. ... The exact nature of the information being sent isn't clear—it appears to be referencing telemetry settings—and again, it's not clear why any data is being sent at all. We disabled telemetry on our test machine using group policies."
Yeah, but if you're a hedge fund manager, they both can make you rich!
So.. considering the others on the Republican side will likely do that more so, you're a supporter of Lessig or Sanders?
Seriously, we need someone like Hillary in office. She is the only person running that is vicious enough to get something done after the soft but firm Obama.
I'd want a snake on my side over a hedgehog.
So.. considering the others on the Republican side will likely do that more so, you're a supporter of Lessig or Sanders?
For me: Sanders on the left, Carson or Walker on the right. Like em or hate em, they're honest about their positions, and seem the most likely of the crowd to do what they say (little track record for Carson, but then again he's not already a known-corrupt politician, and he's been public about his political leanings for years).
Take back the primaries! Don't let "more of the same system" useless establishment wankers in: it doesn't have to be "lesser of two evils". And for fuck's sake, it doesn't have to be anyone named Bush or Clinton! The years of "it doesn't matter who you vote for" can be stopped in the primaries.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Nothing honest about Scott Walker at all.
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Pretty much every bit of Walker's trumpeting about his "success" in Wisconsin is a lie. I'd scratch him off post-haste if I were you.
My blog. Good stuff (when I remember to update it). Read it.
Seriously, we need someone like Hillary in office. She is the only person running that is vicious enough to get something done after the soft but firm Obama
How are those rose-colored glasses doing?
When it's all said and done, Hillary is going to make RMN look like a saint.
Well, I think the OP is right that (a) Hillary has the capacity to be vicious, and (b) she does get things done. Whether they're the things we want done is another topic.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
> And for fuck's sake, it doesn't have to be anyone named Bush or Clinton!
Hear hear. As my own views don't fit well with either party, I've been known to re-register as dem or pub depending on who has what I consider to be the most important primary. But this year... do I register dem and vote against Clinton, or register pub and vote against Bush?
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
but with the Republican party lost to religious extremists, I'll take anyone but them.
You've forgotten Trump, who seems to have completely surprised the rest of the Republican party with his popularity. I wouldn't be surprised to see him get the nomination, despite his party and the MSM doing everything they can to derail him.