You can always decline the update and the phone will respect your choice, but I seem to be wrong about the ability to disable automatic downloading of the updates.
Some people say that you can go to Settings -> iTunes & App Store, scroll down to 'Automatic Downloads', and turn off the Updates switch, but others say that doesn't apply to iOS updates, just apps.
So, Apple doesn't appear to give users the option to disable update prompts altogether. Which I agree is unacceptable, even though an iOS version update is nowhere near as hazardous as a Windows version update.
It sure as hell did make sense. The slower VGA frame buffer implementations required many more wait states when accessing video memory than the fast ones did.
The Tseng ET4000 chipset was particularly respected back in the day, but God help you if you got stuck with some POS with a Trident or WD Paradise chipset, or if you don't get off my lawn in the next 30 seconds.
iTunes is a dumpster fire of astronomical proportions, but at some point the user has to take some responsibility for not entrusting valuable data to a flaky consumer-grade application. This sounds like a case where the wrong tool was used for the job.
Copyright trolls, who make money by sending invoices to people claiming that their content has been infringed, will not be pleased.
Local rabbits, who have spent the last 60 million years evolving to live in briar patches, are said to be "Inconsolably despondent" at the prospect of being thrown into a briar patch.
Exactly. I have absolutely zero sympathy for rightsholders who whine about piracy while withholding their content from accessible distribution channels like Netflix and Amazon.
If you want my money, the first step is to allow me to give it to you. Don't make it hard for me to do that. If you do, you deserve whatever fate the pirates have in store for you.
When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received this letter, nearly 50 years ago, he quietly informed friends that someone wanted him to kill himself -- and he thought he knew who that someone was. Despite its half-baked prose, self-conscious amateurism and other attempts at misdirection, King was certain the letter had come from the F.B.I. Its infamous director, J. Edgar Hoover, made no secret of his desire to see King discredited. A little more than a decade later, Senator Frank Church's committee on intelligence overreach confirmed King's suspicion.
Agencies like the FBI and NSA are always happy to talk to the press about "trust," "safety," and "security," but they clam up in a hurry when the topic of conversation turns to "accountability."
In short, just because something requiring human creativity has happened in one way (or even several ways) does not demonstrate that the laws of the universe require it to happen at all. We simply cannot know that. If, however, you are right, and certain kinds of progress are inevitable, why then we should all sit back and wait for the laboratory equipment at Intel and AMD to spontaneously generate new CPU architectures. At the same time, we can wait for the computers at Apple and Microsoft to write new software and operating systems. If we feed Linus' computer enough electricity, we'll get Linux kernel version 5, eventually. We can all take a ten or twenty-year compiler break! Wouldn't that be wonderful?
Funny how much of our modern computing infrastructure, both hardware and software, was never patented. Yet somehow it magically came into existence anyway, and a lot of people made a lot of money.
Is it your position that it would be best if everything that could legally be patented was patented?
Yes? Then we're done here.
No? Then you agree that the current criteria used by the USPTO for determining patentability is flawed.
Funny thing, though... when people did need to "think or do dynamic things over a network," they probably didn't rely on the teachings of some obscure IBM patents to do it. They probably just sat down at a computer and started typing, after perhaps consulting some textbooks and papers first.
So what exactly is the benefit to society that we get from granting IBM ownership of these concepts for 20 years?
The part I still don't understand is why anyone would still need the old SHA-1 certificates. Are their systems THAT OLD? If so, I'm sure they have other problems that haven't been addressed.
Most existing Windows drivers were signed with SHA-1 code signing certificates. It's not 100% clear what's going to happen to those drivers, and the hardware they support, in future versions of Windows.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but so far there have been a total of zero successful attacks against AACS (the Blu-Ray encryption system). Everything so far has been built around using known decryption keys extracted from BluRay players and playback software.
Ah, the time-honored refrain from every malware author, spammer, and other online lowlife in the history of computing: "Just delete it/turn it off. What's the problem?"
YouTube Red, or RedTube You, or whatever they call it is... well, actually pretty damn nice. I probably spend 500% more time on YouTube now that I never have to deal with ads.
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You can always decline the update and the phone will respect your choice, but I seem to be wrong about the ability to disable automatic downloading of the updates.
Some people say that you can go to Settings -> iTunes & App Store, scroll down to 'Automatic Downloads', and turn off the Updates switch, but others say that doesn't apply to iOS updates, just apps.
So, Apple doesn't appear to give users the option to disable update prompts altogether. Which I agree is unacceptable, even though an iOS version update is nowhere near as hazardous as a Windows version update.
The iOS control panel allows you to disable automatic downloading and installation of OS updates.
Windows does not.
It's really that simple.
It sure as hell did make sense. The slower VGA frame buffer implementations required many more wait states when accessing video memory than the fast ones did.
The Tseng ET4000 chipset was particularly respected back in the day, but God help you if you got stuck with some POS with a Trident or WD Paradise chipset, or if you don't get off my lawn in the next 30 seconds.
Dude, all it would have taken is a simple "Don't remind me again" check box on the GWX popup.
That's all it would ever have taken to avoid all of the flaming and hatred and resentment and anger and FUD.
That's all they needed to do.
But they didn't do it.
Microsoft is simply reaping what they sowed when they (apparently) outsourced the GWX notifier to a third-rate Russian malware factory.
iTunes is a dumpster fire of astronomical proportions, but at some point the user has to take some responsibility for not entrusting valuable data to a flaky consumer-grade application. This sounds like a case where the wrong tool was used for the job.
Problem: Market abuse by government-subsidized, government-sanctioned, and government-regulated monopoly
Solution: Post incoherent rant about "libertarians" on Slashdot
Ever stop think about just exactly where and when your intellectual life went this far off course?
Copyright trolls, who make money by sending invoices to people claiming that their content has been infringed, will not be pleased.
Local rabbits, who have spent the last 60 million years evolving to live in briar patches, are said to be "Inconsolably despondent" at the prospect of being thrown into a briar patch.
The fact that it lacks a "Don't remind me again" checkbox places it into the category known as "dark patterns."
Put simply, if Windows 10 is really that great, why does Microsoft have to borrow tactics from Ukrainian malware authors to shove it down our throats?
Well, sure it would. It would basically be an IRC client.
Window shades and locks on doors don't keep the police out if they have legitimate reason to enter
And you might have a point if there were a legitimate process for deciding whether the police have a legitimate reason.
Remind me again how many FISA warrant requests were declined?
That's the whole idea behind gun control: to make sure 1984 isn't going to be like 1789.
Let's ask the prime minister of Iceland how all that "power" is working out for him.
Exactly. I have absolutely zero sympathy for rightsholders who whine about piracy while withholding their content from accessible distribution channels like Netflix and Amazon.
If you want my money, the first step is to allow me to give it to you. Don't make it hard for me to do that. If you do, you deserve whatever fate the pirates have in store for you.
I've been wondering what the FBI did back to solve crimes back before they could hack cell phones. Thanks for reminding me.
The FBI has a long and storied history of taking the low road. Just one example of many:
Agencies like the FBI and NSA are always happy to talk to the press about "trust," "safety," and "security," but they clam up in a hurry when the topic of conversation turns to "accountability."
In short, just because something requiring human creativity has happened in one way (or even several ways) does not demonstrate that the laws of the universe require it to happen at all. We simply cannot know that. If, however, you are right, and certain kinds of progress are inevitable, why then we should all sit back and wait for the laboratory equipment at Intel and AMD to spontaneously generate new CPU architectures. At the same time, we can wait for the computers at Apple and Microsoft to write new software and operating systems. If we feed Linus' computer enough electricity, we'll get Linux kernel version 5, eventually. We can all take a ten or twenty-year compiler break! Wouldn't that be wonderful?
Funny how much of our modern computing infrastructure, both hardware and software, was never patented. Yet somehow it magically came into existence anyway, and a lot of people made a lot of money.
Is it your position that it would be best if everything that could legally be patented was patented?
Yes? Then we're done here.
No? Then you agree that the current criteria used by the USPTO for determining patentability is flawed.
It has already happened in multiple times and places.
Let that sink in for a few minutes, think about what it means.
But what's the point? That kind of progress is inevitable.
Anytime there's a foot race to the patent office, the consumer is the loser.
Funny thing, though... when people did need to "think or do dynamic things over a network," they probably didn't rely on the teachings of some obscure IBM patents to do it. They probably just sat down at a computer and started typing, after perhaps consulting some textbooks and papers first.
So what exactly is the benefit to society that we get from granting IBM ownership of these concepts for 20 years?
The part I still don't understand is why anyone would still need the old SHA-1 certificates. Are their systems THAT OLD? If so, I'm sure they have other problems that haven't been addressed.
Most existing Windows drivers were signed with SHA-1 code signing certificates. It's not 100% clear what's going to happen to those drivers, and the hardware they support, in future versions of Windows.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but so far there have been a total of zero successful attacks against AACS (the Blu-Ray encryption system). Everything so far has been built around using known decryption keys extracted from BluRay players and playback software.
That's a successful attack.
Ah, the time-honored refrain from every malware author, spammer, and other online lowlife in the history of computing: "Just delete it/turn it off. What's the problem?"
I never bothered to use an ad-blocker on YouTube, admittedly. How do they get around those unskippable 20-second preroll ads?
Do you think the Windows 10 version that the DoD is getting is anything like the one you'll be force-fed as a consumer or small business?
Youtube also runs the same ads over and over.
YouTube Red, or RedTube You, or whatever they call it is... well, actually pretty damn nice. I probably spend 500% more time on YouTube now that I never have to deal with ads.