The paranoid part of me doesn't believe Microsoft is doing this to fix the update problem at all. Instead, they're allocating 'hidden space' on the drive to capture user sensitive data and store it for later uploads to Microsoft...
You're on the right track but there's no reason it has to be this clever of a reason. Most likely they're just reserving 7GB of free space because they've targeted that as the demographic most likely to be prodded into buying a whole new machine when Windows Update soaks up 100% of the free 6GB on their harddrive for a 7GB update that would brick their computer anyway.
Are you alleging that they're not fingerprinting everyone but they are targeting employees of specific companies for illegal data harvesting? That's a very interesting idea...
... so far everything to it being a Google subsidiary to a CIA honeypot. Anyone have any proof at all, or are we just going to do everything by conjecture now?
There are better choices on the market now though, that didn't exist before the Raspberry Pi or the Arduino. Many of which in fact only exist now because competition validated the demand for such devices.
Mind you, most of them still aren't as moddable as an early Commodore but some of them are actually decent from a performance standpoint now days.
I'm not quite sure that's what he's arguing here. I think he's arguing that centralized electricity generation and storage is not a technical prerequisite for law enforcement or society.
Also, I fear predation in my life today, and not from bears; From abuse of power by law enforcement working in tandem with organized crime. This is also a situation that I believe is fundamentally unrelated to the state of the electricity grid.
If they lose revenue when people can't repair their hardware, then the replacement costs are hurting the global economy and this needs to stop. Period.
He should be outraged in one direction or another. It's an excuse to Tweet, after all. The deafening silence from the WH suggests to me they haven't heard about this yet.
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The paranoid part of me doesn't believe Microsoft is doing this to fix the update problem at all. Instead, they're allocating 'hidden space' on the drive to capture user sensitive data and store it for later uploads to Microsoft...
You're on the right track but there's no reason it has to be this clever of a reason. Most likely they're just reserving 7GB of free space because they've targeted that as the demographic most likely to be prodded into buying a whole new machine when Windows Update soaks up 100% of the free 6GB on their harddrive for a 7GB update that would brick their computer anyway.
Wellp, you're not wrong. I don't get the sense that you'd be working to fix it either, though.
Are you alleging that they're not fingerprinting everyone but they are targeting employees of specific companies for illegal data harvesting? That's a very interesting idea...
... so far everything to it being a Google subsidiary to a CIA honeypot. Anyone have any proof at all, or are we just going to do everything by conjecture now?
A UPS guy stole a package from me just last year.
Someone below mentioned rock64. I'm seconding that one. Actually anything from pine64.org seems to be a good deal.
As long as the company is protecting the identify of his harasser from him, he can't very well sue anyone else, now can he?
There are better choices on the market now though, that didn't exist before the Raspberry Pi or the Arduino. Many of which in fact only exist now because competition validated the demand for such devices.
Mind you, most of them still aren't as moddable as an early Commodore but some of them are actually decent from a performance standpoint now days.
The sad state of affairs is there's nothing working any better, either.
Seconded. Nobody wanted any of these gas-guzzling hickboxes except the delusional hicks working on them.
Those Saturns were the best cars GM ever made though...
Seconded. The only parasite ruining the economy in this story is GM itself.
Try France, asshole.
I'm not quite sure that's what he's arguing here. I think he's arguing that centralized electricity generation and storage is not a technical prerequisite for law enforcement or society.
Also, I fear predation in my life today, and not from bears; From abuse of power by law enforcement working in tandem with organized crime. This is also a situation that I believe is fundamentally unrelated to the state of the electricity grid.
Uh, centralized power generation and storage is a relatively new thing to society, and has not extended back as far as "millenia."
I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have to look further than their own team.
Well, you seem to have gotten to the root of the problem without realizing the relationship to the constant churn of adapter dongles.
Job creators at work here, amirite?
Tim Cook, probably. :-p
+1 insightful
If they lose revenue when people can't repair their hardware, then the replacement costs are hurting the global economy and this needs to stop. Period.
Copy & pasted from your fan fiction? Thanks for sharing, but its completely off-topic.
He should be outraged in one direction or another. It's an excuse to Tweet, after all. The deafening silence from the WH suggests to me they haven't heard about this yet.
He said with "PV" as in solar panels. So you're not buying electricity to charge the battery in that case.
I hate being right.