You can get the 60" display, just don't connect it to the internet. Get the dumb-tv variant, which is always a better idea than paying a premium for an inferior media service.
Disconnect the internet? Why does a TV need internet anyway as long as you're not dumb enough to jump on the smart tv bandwagon. Get an external media player and hook that to the internet instead. If those go bust, then the easy solution is to just stop watching tv. It's not mandatory.
Will factory resets revert this? Sort of hard to make checkpoint backups of televisions...
That's why I went with a dumb TV. The cost of Roku is offset by not paying the smart tv premium. Smart TVs become obsolete very quickly, whereas if the Roku becomes obsolete you can get a new one. Personally I'd avoid the TVs with Roku built in for that reason. Samsung won't easily be able to shove in ads on a Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, or other media player, and if they manage it somehow you just use a different player.
Take $100 of the price then I'll watch the ads. Advertisements are supposed to make the product cheaper, as in free television content, coupons, etc. But full price with ads, no thank you. If i'm really worth as much money when I watch ads as advertisers claim then they should be giving me some kickbacks. As much money as advertisers claim to generate you could replace welfare programs by having people watch TV all day.
Ads coming in my snail mail cost money. So there's a weekly flier (and at election time a zillion uninformative pieces of cardboard). But it's very manageable. The cost eliminates spam. So I wish advertisers would pay when they send their ads for free through my ISP, and I wish they'd pay when they broadcast the ads my tv (over the air or via internet). Make the advertisers pay and the spam will go down, you'll get fewer irrelevant ads, and you'll prevent people like Samsung from thinking that it's cheaper to serve up ads than to improve their profit margins via manufacturing or engineering.
If you block the telemetry by using your hosts file, it won't always work because some of this software ignores the hosts file and uses hardcoded addresses. You need an external firewall to block them, and remain vigilant to changing addresses. This is not something easy for the normal user.
Enemies that throw chairs at you are easy to deal with; dodge the chair, speak in slow quiet tones when he's nearby. Enemies that seek to undermine you are more difficult, you need to be on constant vigilance.
Microsoft policy #1292: If the media starts reporting on Microsoft being a dick, apologize and claim that we're improving the user experience. Microsoft policy #1293: Blame the user.
Why not? Americans spend a lot of time talking about political leaders and candidates in other countries. Kim Jong Un gets laughed at by Americans, Marie LePen gets criticized, some news outlets love to tear down Angela Merkel.
Reform Party. Tea Party. Occupy Wherever. Trump supporters. There's a lot in common there. A lot of disaffected voters with no solid political stances who get easily worked up by anyone who comes along and says the're different from everyone in Washington. Ask them why they support their party/candidate and they'll start talking a long time and get red in the face and angry at certain points, but not with any nuance. Mostly they'll say their guy is not like other guys, or it's about time we did something about the mess, or that their guy tells it like it is, etc.
Business wise he's not the greatest. Good, but not great. He inherited a a sizeable real estate portfolio and you'd have to be a moron to fail to make massive amounts of money from where he started. Having money does not mean you're a financial or business genius. He has made plenty of huge mistakes. Bankruptcies, which he says weren't personal bankruptcies which is a strange rebuttal which shows he is more concerned about his personal wealth than the failure of his business and those who invested in his businesses.
He has a habit of putting his name on projects of which he is only a small investor, because he claims his name is big enough that it will make money (more ego), and then those projects fail. Trump Steaks? Seriously does anyone believe he knows steak and is managing the ranches and butchers and shipping and marketing? He knows as much about steak as Paul Newman knows about salad dressing, he just added his name to a product and then tried to sell it in the weirdest places you'd ever want to buy a steak (Sharper Image, QVC).
But sure, he's rich. So what? What presidential qualifications are there in being rich? We've had lots of rich presidents of all types, FDR, JFK, Clinton, Bush, etc. Being rich definitely means you have more connections but it doesn't really say much about how you're going to run things if you get in power.
Maybe leftists don't understand this, but the support for President Trump is well beyond what they expect it to be./quote? Rightists don't understand this. Anyone with a coherent thought out set of policy stances doesn't understand this. Trump does not have any particular political stance, he just blurts out whatever pops into his mind when asked a question. Trump is NOT on the right or the left, he is not a friend of republicans or democrats, conservatives or liberals. He's a wild card.
You're trying to frame this as Trump vs lefties, but that is very naive because it's Trump vs lefties vs righties vs everyone else.
Remember, Trump first ran as a presidential candidate for the Reform Party in 2000, and included universal healthcare as part of his proposals.
Computer science isn't much about science anymore, and only a passing recognition of computers. It's all about programming and IT now. So you have major universities treating their computer science departments as mere trade schools. In the past I saw lots more women in computer science, my first after-college job was half men half women.
It's not aobut promoting the best and brightest though. Because every where I've worked there are men who are utter morons who get promoted quickly. In my view you won't have equality until dumb women get hired at the same rate as dumb men, whereas those preferring the status quo naively claim we have a merit system.
One snag I see is that most jobs are acquired through networking. Someone knows someone else and refers them. So men tend to refer men more often. I have also seen when one person leaves a job and goes elsewhere that an entire group of friends also leaves and follows. Some jobs you see large chunks of workers who all knew each other at a previous company. Lots and lots of networking, so trying to get a foot in the door by submitting a blind resume isn't so effective.
That's part of the problem. People actually interested in the history wanted the device. If they had shown up and offered $1000 for it the seller would know something was up; price would be raised, lots of people would take notice, and then there's a good chance it would end up in the home of a collector or some cheezy museum.
I'm not saying industrial IoT is totally secure, but it is being worked on and the customers are starting to demand it. I'll agree that industry used to be nervous about security, angst that if they turn on all the security switches that they'll lose contact with the devices and waste money sending out trucks, but that attitude seems to be changing.
And there's no "plug and play". There are no widely accepted standards here, even with radio, and following a standard won't mean you can talk to a competitors device.
Oh ya, one more note, the new notification is not the same as the older ones that said "upgrade now" versus "start download and upgrade later" versus "X".
Look at the screenshot. There is a third choice. Windows 7 users may hot recognize it because it's in the new "Metro" UI style. See: http://images.techhive.com/ima... That word "here" in blue is a clickable link. Click on it and you can get somewhere to cancel the upgrade (not sure what it looks like there though).
Of course the Microsoft lawyers will interpret passive action as passive consent to the upgrade.
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You can get the 60" display, just don't connect it to the internet. Get the dumb-tv variant, which is always a better idea than paying a premium for an inferior media service.
Disconnect the internet? Why does a TV need internet anyway as long as you're not dumb enough to jump on the smart tv bandwagon. Get an external media player and hook that to the internet instead. If those go bust, then the easy solution is to just stop watching tv. It's not mandatory.
Will factory resets revert this? Sort of hard to make checkpoint backups of televisions...
That's why I went with a dumb TV. The cost of Roku is offset by not paying the smart tv premium. Smart TVs become obsolete very quickly, whereas if the Roku becomes obsolete you can get a new one. Personally I'd avoid the TVs with Roku built in for that reason. Samsung won't easily be able to shove in ads on a Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, or other media player, and if they manage it somehow you just use a different player.
If you haven't seen it yet, see the "15 Million Merits" episode of "Black Mirror". (ad-free from Netflix, if you're not on a Samsung TV)
Take $100 of the price then I'll watch the ads. Advertisements are supposed to make the product cheaper, as in free television content, coupons, etc. But full price with ads, no thank you. If i'm really worth as much money when I watch ads as advertisers claim then they should be giving me some kickbacks. As much money as advertisers claim to generate you could replace welfare programs by having people watch TV all day.
Ads coming in my snail mail cost money. So there's a weekly flier (and at election time a zillion uninformative pieces of cardboard). But it's very manageable. The cost eliminates spam. So I wish advertisers would pay when they send their ads for free through my ISP, and I wish they'd pay when they broadcast the ads my tv (over the air or via internet). Make the advertisers pay and the spam will go down, you'll get fewer irrelevant ads, and you'll prevent people like Samsung from thinking that it's cheaper to serve up ads than to improve their profit margins via manufacturing or engineering.
Because corporations never say "yup, we're guilty, we're embarrassed that you called us on it, we are currently undergoing ethics training."
If you block the telemetry by using your hosts file, it won't always work because some of this software ignores the hosts file and uses hardcoded addresses. You need an external firewall to block them, and remain vigilant to changing addresses. This is not something easy for the normal user.
Enemies that throw chairs at you are easy to deal with; dodge the chair, speak in slow quiet tones when he's nearby. Enemies that seek to undermine you are more difficult, you need to be on constant vigilance.
Of course he's condescending. He's from Microsoft and following police #1290.
Microsoft policy #1292: If the media starts reporting on Microsoft being a dick, apologize and claim that we're improving the user experience.
Microsoft policy #1293: Blame the user.
Why not? Americans spend a lot of time talking about political leaders and candidates in other countries. Kim Jong Un gets laughed at by Americans, Marie LePen gets criticized, some news outlets love to tear down Angela Merkel.
Reform Party. Tea Party. Occupy Wherever. Trump supporters. There's a lot in common there. A lot of disaffected voters with no solid political stances who get easily worked up by anyone who comes along and says the're different from everyone in Washington. Ask them why they support their party/candidate and they'll start talking a long time and get red in the face and angry at certain points, but not with any nuance. Mostly they'll say their guy is not like other guys, or it's about time we did something about the mess, or that their guy tells it like it is, etc.
Business wise he's not the greatest. Good, but not great. He inherited a a sizeable real estate portfolio and you'd have to be a moron to fail to make massive amounts of money from where he started. Having money does not mean you're a financial or business genius. He has made plenty of huge mistakes. Bankruptcies, which he says weren't personal bankruptcies which is a strange rebuttal which shows he is more concerned about his personal wealth than the failure of his business and those who invested in his businesses.
He has a habit of putting his name on projects of which he is only a small investor, because he claims his name is big enough that it will make money (more ego), and then those projects fail. Trump Steaks? Seriously does anyone believe he knows steak and is managing the ranches and butchers and shipping and marketing? He knows as much about steak as Paul Newman knows about salad dressing, he just added his name to a product and then tried to sell it in the weirdest places you'd ever want to buy a steak (Sharper Image, QVC).
But sure, he's rich. So what? What presidential qualifications are there in being rich? We've had lots of rich presidents of all types, FDR, JFK, Clinton, Bush, etc. Being rich definitely means you have more connections but it doesn't really say much about how you're going to run things if you get in power.
Maybe leftists don't understand this, but the support for President Trump is well beyond what they expect it to be./quote?
Rightists don't understand this. Anyone with a coherent thought out set of policy stances doesn't understand this. Trump does not have any particular political stance, he just blurts out whatever pops into his mind when asked a question. Trump is NOT on the right or the left, he is not a friend of republicans or democrats, conservatives or liberals. He's a wild card.
You're trying to frame this as Trump vs lefties, but that is very naive because it's Trump vs lefties vs righties vs everyone else.
Remember, Trump first ran as a presidential candidate for the Reform Party in 2000, and included universal healthcare as part of his proposals.
Having a brain makes him ineligible for entering politics or becoming a political pundit.
Sure, but GWX Control Panel should probably be updated periodically as well.
Computer science isn't much about science anymore, and only a passing recognition of computers. It's all about programming and IT now. So you have major universities treating their computer science departments as mere trade schools. In the past I saw lots more women in computer science, my first after-college job was half men half women.
It's not aobut promoting the best and brightest though. Because every where I've worked there are men who are utter morons who get promoted quickly. In my view you won't have equality until dumb women get hired at the same rate as dumb men, whereas those preferring the status quo naively claim we have a merit system.
One snag I see is that most jobs are acquired through networking. Someone knows someone else and refers them. So men tend to refer men more often. I have also seen when one person leaves a job and goes elsewhere that an entire group of friends also leaves and follows. Some jobs you see large chunks of workers who all knew each other at a previous company. Lots and lots of networking, so trying to get a foot in the door by submitting a blind resume isn't so effective.
It's not location either, it's time. America had a lot more women in computer science, math, and engineering discliplines 30 years ago.
That's part of the problem. People actually interested in the history wanted the device. If they had shown up and offered $1000 for it the seller would know something was up; price would be raised, lots of people would take notice, and then there's a good chance it would end up in the home of a collector or some cheezy museum.
They're too trusting. Only stuff you read about on Twitter is actually real.
Wow. What exactly do you have to do to get rejected by Reddit?
My cynical Asperger's prevents me from laughing.
I'm not saying industrial IoT is totally secure, but it is being worked on and the customers are starting to demand it. I'll agree that industry used to be nervous about security, angst that if they turn on all the security switches that they'll lose contact with the devices and waste money sending out trucks, but that attitude seems to be changing.
And there's no "plug and play". There are no widely accepted standards here, even with radio, and following a standard won't mean you can talk to a competitors device.
Oh ya, one more note, the new notification is not the same as the older ones that said "upgrade now" versus "start download and upgrade later" versus "X".
Look at the screenshot. There is a third choice. Windows 7 users may hot recognize it because it's in the new "Metro" UI style.
See: http://images.techhive.com/ima...
That word "here" in blue is a clickable link. Click on it and you can get somewhere to cancel the upgrade (not sure what it looks like there though).
Of course the Microsoft lawyers will interpret passive action as passive consent to the upgrade.