Go to task scheduler, identify the various jobs that deal with user data telemetry, and set them to "disabled". The OS will continue to collect data, but it will never be sent.
Re-assess the status of those jobs after updates, or write your own script to check and re-set the jobs every 5 minutes.
One thing I've never explored, though - where does the OS store that data pending its journey to Microsoft? You could have another scheduled job clearing (or better, poisoning) that data every few minutes.
I'm happy to keep Australian speed limits where they are, thank you.
Commuted in Brisbane from suburbs to city for 20 years, in car and on motorcycle, then commuted from hills to beach for another 9 years in car and on motorcycle - the shit I've seen and personally experienced makes me glad for speed limits. Maybe the govt should focus more on police presence on the roads instead of "safety cameras" and we'd see better results. Nothing makes motorists behave better than a highly-visible police car. Driver training has been improving lately, but I wouldn't be sorry to see some of the German systems implemented here.
MAYBE, just maybe on some dual-carriage highway stretches the limit could go up a bit, but the state of the roads would have to be inmproved first.
That's scary. Are they replacing doorknobs and handles with copper-plated versions? Placing vinegar-based hand and foot wash stations around the place?
I wonder if it's possible to have a reporting and billing system like this:
1. Answer a call, it's spam/scam 2. While the call is in progress, key in #, the last four digits of your number, # (or some sequence that confirms the recipient's number, and a sequence to identify the type of call, e.g. 55 for spam, 66 for scam) 3. That sequence immediately bills the caller $1 and/or blacklists the calling number.
This depends on being able to trace and identify the caller while the call is still in progress.
I have a lot fun with the scammers. I've had one screaming at me after I insisted I didn't own a windows computer, I suspect one girl came close to tears after I asked her "how would your mother feel about you doing this?", and I've learned a few nasty phrases in Hindi.
"unless 4K projectors have overtaken 2K installations recently."
Not in my neck of the woods. Our 2K projector was installed in 2013, but we're starting to see 4K DCPs turn up. It's handy that the projector can just discard 3/4 of the data in a 4K film and show a decent 2K image.
I think folk who've never studied film chemistry don't understand just how it works. Halide crystals are much smaller than any digital element. Smaller than a micrometre.
How they're used, of course, makes all the difference.
And *that* brings us back to Alien. IT'S NOT ABOUT THE DETAIL IN THE IMAGE! It's a film with a lot of dark - making it mysterious and terrifying. Upping the visible detail in those shadows is not going to improve the "terror" factor. It'll make it worse. Ridley Scott may have made some stinkers, plot-wise, but his attention to the visual is his strong point. Alien has a "look" and that look is mostly dark, with harsh contrast and de-saturated colours (except for the blood in the chest-burster scene). Fine detail isn't part of the experience. You can be thoroughly entertained by a standard-definition widescreen DVD of Alien on a 40 or 50 inch screen. It *does* look better at 2K, but it's not going to look much better at 4K. If you really want that experience, hire a cinema and pay for a private screening of a 2K DCP version.
That's something that I hate: "Updates failed; error 0x00062007" message.
Googling that error number provides mostly generic answers like "this error can be produced when the moon is in the seventh house, try the update troubleshooter"
Or the totally useless "experts" on answers.microsoft.com who tell you to reboot and then run the update troubleshooter.
Remember, when you resort to personal attacks and name-calling, you weaken your own argument, not the other person's.
See, I thought your original post had some flaws, but I didn't resort to calling you names, I addressed your arguments. Perhaps you're not so secure in your own position, when you have to lash out at those who disagree.
1. food allergy, etc. The teacher is the one responsible for classroom safety and calling for help. Five or six calls to emergency services isn't going to improve the outcome. Teacher should also be aware of who in his or her class has these issues. It's a big section on enrolment forms - allergies and other medical conditions that might require intervention or assistance. Teachers have to undergo first aid training to deal with those situations, e.g. epipens, etc
2. glucose monitor. That would be a legitimate medical exception, and arrangements are already in place for those circumstances. May also apply to #1. It's still not a reason to lift the ban on those who *don't* need it for medical reasons.
3. Does not apply in Australia, but a legitimate concern in the USA. What training is supplied to students for "active shooter" situations? I'd be telling students to get down, under cover, shut up, and act dead - not pulling out the phone and going "beep beep beep" then screaming "HELP! SHOOTER AT JEFFERSON HIGH!" Which of those two courses of action is likely to draw a shooter's attention?
I closed my account when I saw that I was getting endorsements for skills or experience:
1. that I didn't have 2. from people who couldn't possibly know one way or the other
So, either linkedin was auto-generating those endorsements, or linkedin was phishing people on my contact list* with "hey, click this button to endorse dwywit with skills in SQLServer?", or people I barely knew were playing games.
* only the list of contacts within linkedin itself. I *never* gave it access to my outlook contacts, despite repeated pleas. That in itself started the warning bells.
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Thanks! I'll go exploring -rubs hands with glee-
Go to task scheduler, identify the various jobs that deal with user data telemetry, and set them to "disabled". The OS will continue to collect data, but it will never be sent.
Re-assess the status of those jobs after updates, or write your own script to check and re-set the jobs every 5 minutes.
One thing I've never explored, though - where does the OS store that data pending its journey to Microsoft? You could have another scheduled job clearing (or better, poisoning) that data every few minutes.
A RaspberryPi with two jobs is not a ton of complexity.
Ping host.
Success?
yes? got to 10
no? SMS to admin
It's not "unimportant" if a company is paying $BIGNUM to have their message displayed on a significant landmark.
And from the message that was displayed - IT HAD ALREADY REBOOTED - unsuccessfully.
A heartbeat service from another computer would have sufficed to send a message to someone.
"After this operation, 275 kB of additional disk space will be used."
Talk about software bloat.........
IBM open-sources OS400/IBM i
I'm happy to keep Australian speed limits where they are, thank you.
Commuted in Brisbane from suburbs to city for 20 years, in car and on motorcycle, then commuted from hills to beach for another 9 years in car and on motorcycle - the shit I've seen and personally experienced makes me glad for speed limits. Maybe the govt should focus more on police presence on the roads instead of "safety cameras" and we'd see better results. Nothing makes motorists behave better than a highly-visible police car. Driver training has been improving lately, but I wouldn't be sorry to see some of the German systems implemented here.
MAYBE, just maybe on some dual-carriage highway stretches the limit could go up a bit, but the state of the roads would have to be inmproved first.
And, you know - you never used to have to plug your headphones into a mobile phone to get music. Weird how things work out, hey?
Still prefer a 3.5mm jack for sound.
That's scary. Are they replacing doorknobs and handles with copper-plated versions? Placing vinegar-based hand and foot wash stations around the place?
And yes, I'm serious.
I wonder if it's possible to have a reporting and billing system like this:
1. Answer a call, it's spam/scam
2. While the call is in progress, key in #, the last four digits of your number, # (or some sequence that confirms the recipient's number, and a sequence to identify the type of call, e.g. 55 for spam, 66 for scam)
3. That sequence immediately bills the caller $1 and/or blacklists the calling number.
This depends on being able to trace and identify the caller while the call is still in progress.
I have a lot fun with the scammers. I've had one screaming at me after I insisted I didn't own a windows computer, I suspect one girl came close to tears after I asked her "how would your mother feel about you doing this?", and I've learned a few nasty phrases in Hindi.
No mercy, they're trying to steal from me.
I notice your calm response has gathered a -2 Troll rating.
I don't have points at the moment, but I'd mod you up if I could.
And that cost is - or should be - passed on to the customer - just like card transaction fees.
If consumers don't like "no-cash" businesses, then they'll choose to spend their money elsewhere.
"unless 4K projectors have overtaken 2K installations recently."
Not in my neck of the woods. Our 2K projector was installed in 2013, but we're starting to see 4K DCPs turn up. It's handy that the projector can just discard 3/4 of the data in a 4K film and show a decent 2K image.
I think folk who've never studied film chemistry don't understand just how it works. Halide crystals are much smaller than any digital element. Smaller than a micrometre.
How they're used, of course, makes all the difference.
And *that* brings us back to Alien. IT'S NOT ABOUT THE DETAIL IN THE IMAGE! It's a film with a lot of dark - making it mysterious and terrifying. Upping the visible detail in those shadows is not going to improve the "terror" factor. It'll make it worse. Ridley Scott may have made some stinkers, plot-wise, but his attention to the visual is his strong point. Alien has a "look" and that look is mostly dark, with harsh contrast and de-saturated colours (except for the blood in the chest-burster scene). Fine detail isn't part of the experience. You can be thoroughly entertained by a standard-definition widescreen DVD of Alien on a 40 or 50 inch screen. It *does* look better at 2K, but it's not going to look much better at 4K. If you really want that experience, hire a cinema and pay for a private screening of a 2K DCP version.
That's something that I hate: "Updates failed; error 0x00062007" message.
Googling that error number provides mostly generic answers like "this error can be produced when the moon is in the seventh house, try the update troubleshooter"
Or the totally useless "experts" on answers.microsoft.com who tell you to reboot and then run the update troubleshooter.
" Gotta think along the lines of what's going to look good."
I think a planet-scale fusion pulse motor would look pretty good, but it just wouldn't work on anything less than a 55,000" screen.
-1 Try again.
Hint: stick to one point per sentence, and avoid hyperbole.
Are you a teacher?
Remember, when you resort to personal attacks and name-calling, you weaken your own argument, not the other person's.
See, I thought your original post had some flaws, but I didn't resort to calling you names, I addressed your arguments. Perhaps you're not so secure in your own position, when you have to lash out at those who disagree.
1. food allergy, etc. The teacher is the one responsible for classroom safety and calling for help. Five or six calls to emergency services isn't going to improve the outcome. Teacher should also be aware of who in his or her class has these issues. It's a big section on enrolment forms - allergies and other medical conditions that might require intervention or assistance. Teachers have to undergo first aid training to deal with those situations, e.g. epipens, etc
2. glucose monitor. That would be a legitimate medical exception, and arrangements are already in place for those circumstances. May also apply to #1. It's still not a reason to lift the ban on those who *don't* need it for medical reasons.
3. Does not apply in Australia, but a legitimate concern in the USA. What training is supplied to students for "active shooter" situations? I'd be telling students to get down, under cover, shut up, and act dead - not pulling out the phone and going "beep beep beep" then screaming "HELP! SHOOTER AT JEFFERSON HIGH!" Which of those two courses of action is likely to draw a shooter's attention?
Or you could just disable the aggregator job in the task scheduler.
Not difficult, unlike trying to re-configure the audio in Debian.
"So it's not 'digital' that evil but 'mp3'."
Hear, hear!
"Today even cheap digital systems can often outperform the best equipment in an old time studio"
Err, no. You're quite wrong, there.
I closed my account when I saw that I was getting endorsements for skills or experience:
1. that I didn't have
2. from people who couldn't possibly know one way or the other
So, either linkedin was auto-generating those endorsements, or linkedin was phishing people on my contact list* with "hey, click this button to endorse dwywit with skills in SQLServer?", or people I barely knew were playing games.
* only the list of contacts within linkedin itself. I *never* gave it access to my outlook contacts, despite repeated pleas. That in itself started the warning bells.