So you can mark which files you want to keep locally.
Wonderful.
Is there anybody so naive they doubt for one second that the moment you turn your back, Win10 will revert to a default setting where Microsoft will decide which files should be on your computer, and which files should be on theirs?
When the time comes that Win 7 becomes utterly untenable, I will grit my teeth and move to Linux. I will not have this operating system in my home or my business, patiently waiting to become a gatekeeper standing between me and my own data. I know that sooner or later my attention would wander, and I'd wind up in exactly the place where Microsoft wants me...metaphorically living as a tenant on my own land.
Since the Marshall Islands obviously don't like being under the thumb of corporate-owned America, perhaps they should consider another option. No doubt China would love to see the yuan adopted by the Marshall Islands as its primary form of legal tender.
Being attached so closely to the Chinese would have its own downside, of course, but given the current course of the United States, the choice isn't nearly as clear as it once was.
I would like to suggest a system for Apple to implement. It would consist of a series of standardized steps to ensure police forces get all the help they deserve as they try to turn enterprises built and paid for by others to their own ends.
Completion of each stage of the process would initiate the start of the next, ensuring a seamless, orderly progression which would service the police most efficiently. These steps in the system I'm proposing, in order, would start with "B egin ", when the basic contact information from the requesting police officer is accepted, recorded and verified. Next would be "L earn ", which would include an extremely lengthy, comprehensive questionnaire allowing the officer to define the force's needs and expectations. When this questionnaire has been successfully completed, reviewed and verified, the next step, "O ffer " would be initiated. This is when the company would tell the police force what it was able to do to accommodate its needs. Then would come "W ork ", when the actual process of informing customers that the police needed some of their private information would commence, and the company would assemble all the data the thankful citizens provided.
After a pause to ensure all relevant information had been provided, the next phase, "M anage " would commence. This would consist of another lengthy questionnaire to be filled out by the police, when they would let the company know whether their needs had been met. If not, at this point an actual live interaction between a company official and a police representative might have to occur. Police expectations could be managed and redefined to ensure that they are reasonable and achievable within a democratic context. Finally there would be "E xit ", when the police force representative would fill out another questionnaire that would allow the company to judge its effectiveness at meeting the needs of the government's information-gathering initiatives.
For efficiency, and to let various security agencies know what they should expect, the first initial of each step of my process would form the acronym introducing the portal.
So just like always, some powerful agent seeking to invade the privacy of individuals more comprehensively uses "security" as an excuse. Meanwhile, methods that could make the existing system far more secure (while preserving anonymity for those who need it) are ignored.
If I remember correctly, Google just got caught investigating ways to help China's Big Brother regime weaponize its search engine by turning it into a government-friendly propaganda tool. Google needs to be told in no uncertain terms to shove this so far up its corporate arse the whole board gets a sore throat.
Given the responses, I had to look it up. It would appear that there are Cocks all over England. You win for best name, though. The one in Hertfordshire is apparently called The Cock Inn.
I was just going to write almost exactly that, with the corollary that states with a strong record for supporting science and education get preference.
You aren't going to get "buy in" from those morons anyway, so there's nothing to lose. Besides sometimes it's actually beneficial to call an asshole an asshole, and not apologize for it.
Consider your head patted and a lollypop duly handed out, along with an invitation to have a nice day. Run along, now. This is an adult conversation.
You nailed it, my friend. When I want to see deniers get all ragey and weird, I just point out that the US military and the insurance industry (quintessential, nut-cutting corporate hardasses) have completely accepted the fact of human-caused Global Warming and incorporated it into their strategic plans.
I wouldn't be surprised if 50 years from now, people are looking up some of the high profile deniers and hanging their offspring from the nearest (dead) tree.
In all honesty, I love my job now. However, several years ago, I had a really, really bad one. Great money, but my direct boss was a dummy with connections, and the guy a step above him on the food chain was a full-on criminal psychopath.
Here's how I learned the whole company was rotten, not just the part I worked in: the psycho sexually assaulted a co-worker, and the company chose to solve the problem by buying her silence and handing him a golden parachute. No charges were ever filed.
I was already looking hard for another job, and one came along a few weeks after that. I left with zero regrets, and I made damned sure my boss couldn't scrub my fingerprints off all the work I had done and claim it as his own. That had been his particular failing. Like I said, the money was great so I wasn't too troubled about somebody stealing my work. I wouldn't do that now, of course.
So yes, I was using hyperbole. I do wonder, though, why so many people here here seem unaware that humans have used every mood-altering substance ever discovered to decompress, and they've been doing that since the dawn of recorded history, and no doubt for longer.
Gotta admit, I never considered you might actually have fantasies about getting hooped by a horny rhino. No wonder you have aggression issues you have to address by dancing around and posing, and pretending you can hurt people with the devastating power of your loud shouts and awkward postures.
Do you also break thin boards while loudly insisting you don't have aggression issues?
"Alcohol, says their report published in the Lancet medical journal, led to 2.8 million deaths in 2016."
These idiots clearly failed to grasp the other half of the equation. Alcohol probably prevented just as many deaths. Let's face it, if you couldn't decompress with a couple of beers after work, sooner or later you'd wind up skinning your boss with a letter opener and skull-fucking the company president and his snotty secretary to death with the rolled up hide.
'Huawei stated that the Australian government told the company that both it and ZTE are banned from supplying 5G technology to the country, despite Huawei's assurances that it does not pose a threat to national securityat the moment."
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So you can mark which files you want to keep locally.
Wonderful.
Is there anybody so naive they doubt for one second that the moment you turn your back, Win10 will revert to a default setting where Microsoft will decide which files should be on your computer, and which files should be on theirs?
When the time comes that Win 7 becomes utterly untenable, I will grit my teeth and move to Linux. I will not have this operating system in my home or my business, patiently waiting to become a gatekeeper standing between me and my own data. I know that sooner or later my attention would wander, and I'd wind up in exactly the place where Microsoft wants me...metaphorically living as a tenant on my own land.
Since the Marshall Islands obviously don't like being under the thumb of corporate-owned America, perhaps they should consider another option. No doubt China would love to see the yuan adopted by the Marshall Islands as its primary form of legal tender.
Being attached so closely to the Chinese would have its own downside, of course, but given the current course of the United States, the choice isn't nearly as clear as it once was.
They quietly removed "Don't be evil" from their code of conduct some time around May of this year.
So yes, now they're just another bunch of corporate scumbags who desperately need to be regulated.
I would like to suggest a system for Apple to implement. It would consist of a series of standardized steps to ensure police forces get all the help they deserve as they try to turn enterprises built and paid for by others to their own ends.
Completion of each stage of the process would initiate the start of the next, ensuring a seamless, orderly progression which would service the police most efficiently. These steps in the system I'm proposing, in order, would start with " B egin ", when the basic contact information from the requesting police officer is accepted, recorded and verified. Next would be " L earn ", which would include an extremely lengthy, comprehensive questionnaire allowing the officer to define the force's needs and expectations. When this questionnaire has been successfully completed, reviewed and verified, the next step, " O ffer " would be initiated. This is when the company would tell the police force what it was able to do to accommodate its needs. Then would come " W ork ", when the actual process of informing customers that the police needed some of their private information would commence, and the company would assemble all the data the thankful citizens provided.
After a pause to ensure all relevant information had been provided, the next phase, " M anage " would commence. This would consist of another lengthy questionnaire to be filled out by the police, when they would let the company know whether their needs had been met. If not, at this point an actual live interaction between a company official and a police representative might have to occur. Police expectations could be managed and redefined to ensure that they are reasonable and achievable within a democratic context. Finally there would be " E xit ", when the police force representative would fill out another questionnaire that would allow the company to judge its effectiveness at meeting the needs of the government's information-gathering initiatives.
For efficiency, and to let various security agencies know what they should expect, the first initial of each step of my process would form the acronym introducing the portal.
If your search fails to disclose whole areas of your country's history, it's also a propaganda tool. Both are correct.
So just like always, some powerful agent seeking to invade the privacy of individuals more comprehensively uses "security" as an excuse. Meanwhile, methods that could make the existing system far more secure (while preserving anonymity for those who need it) are ignored.
If I remember correctly, Google just got caught investigating ways to help China's Big Brother regime weaponize its search engine by turning it into a government-friendly propaganda tool. Google needs to be told in no uncertain terms to shove this so far up its corporate arse the whole board gets a sore throat.
"What did he say?"
"He said the sheriff is nearer."
"Do people complain about projects not supporting RHEL 5, which ended regular support in early 2017?"
I'm not sure. How much do they pay per month for it, and what promises were made when the subscription was sold to them?
It just HAS to be true. The world would be a sadder place if it were not.
Given the responses, I had to look it up. It would appear that there are Cocks all over England. You win for best name, though. The one in Hertfordshire is apparently called The Cock Inn.
I was one of those other people.
The day will not come when I allow my work and my clients' confidential information to be kept beyond my direct physical control.
My parents let me stay up past my bedtime to experience the establishment of Tranquility Base and Armstrong's "one small step".
As someone who isn't American, I regard that moment as the greatest in your country's history. It changed everything for everybody on Earth.
I was just going to write almost exactly that, with the corollary that states with a strong record for supporting science and education get preference.
You aren't going to get "buy in" from those morons anyway, so there's nothing to lose. Besides sometimes it's actually beneficial to call an asshole an asshole, and not apologize for it.
Consider your head patted and a lollypop duly handed out, along with an invitation to have a nice day. Run along, now. This is an adult conversation.
You nailed it, my friend. When I want to see deniers get all ragey and weird, I just point out that the US military and the insurance industry (quintessential, nut-cutting corporate hardasses) have completely accepted the fact of human-caused Global Warming and incorporated it into their strategic plans.
I wouldn't be surprised if 50 years from now, people are looking up some of the high profile deniers and hanging their offspring from the nearest (dead) tree.
Sadly, my favourite pub in all of southern England, The Cock, does not sell t-shirts or mugs.
A splendid marketing opportunity...wasted.
Excellent point.
ROFL!
In all honesty, I love my job now. However, several years ago, I had a really, really bad one. Great money, but my direct boss was a dummy with connections, and the guy a step above him on the food chain was a full-on criminal psychopath.
Here's how I learned the whole company was rotten, not just the part I worked in: the psycho sexually assaulted a co-worker, and the company chose to solve the problem by buying her silence and handing him a golden parachute. No charges were ever filed.
I was already looking hard for another job, and one came along a few weeks after that. I left with zero regrets, and I made damned sure my boss couldn't scrub my fingerprints off all the work I had done and claim it as his own. That had been his particular failing. Like I said, the money was great so I wasn't too troubled about somebody stealing my work. I wouldn't do that now, of course.
So yes, I was using hyperbole. I do wonder, though, why so many people here here seem unaware that humans have used every mood-altering substance ever discovered to decompress, and they've been doing that since the dawn of recorded history, and no doubt for longer.
Gotta admit, I never considered you might actually have fantasies about getting hooped by a horny rhino. No wonder you have aggression issues you have to address by dancing around and posing, and pretending you can hurt people with the devastating power of your loud shouts and awkward postures.
Do you also break thin boards while loudly insisting you don't have aggression issues?
(snicker)
Aren't you the little dick who's advocating engaging in fake violence to channel your aggressions?
Face it, you've been so thoroughly pwned by so many people here your poor bum must be feeling like you got on the wrong end of a horny rhinoceros.
Thanks for playing.
The AC's dealt with you effectively enough. I don't need to further amplify what a snotty little prick you are.
The word before "trash" has one too many m's in it.
Well played, my anonymous friend. Well played indeed!
"Alcohol, says their report published in the Lancet medical journal, led to 2.8 million deaths in 2016."
These idiots clearly failed to grasp the other half of the equation. Alcohol probably prevented just as many deaths. Let's face it, if you couldn't decompress with a couple of beers after work, sooner or later you'd wind up skinning your boss with a letter opener and skull-fucking the company president and his snotty secretary to death with the rolled up hide.
'Huawei stated that the Australian government told the company that both it and ZTE are banned from supplying 5G technology to the country, despite Huawei's assurances that it does not pose a threat to national security at the moment ."
Fixed that for ya, Huawei!
You're welcome