I want to be in charge of my own security, I want to know what's being installed, I want to control when it's installed, and I damn sure want to control when my machine is going to reboot. However, I'm an IT professional. My mother, on the other hand, is doing well to turn the computer on, and I want her updates to be automatic without any intervention. Those two scenarios are not at complete odds with each other-if Microsoft would just set the default to automatic updates and give us the option to only run updates when the user checks for updates. In manual update mode, I'd even be just fine with Windows checking for updates automatically and notifying me if there are some, but don't install them until I say so and definitely do not reboot until I say so. Just the option of 'Notify but don't install until the user intentionally tells the updates to install' would make practically everyone here happy, and a default mode of 'Check for them, download them, and install them when they're available without having to bother the user' would keep the non techies happy.
Overload what switch? About 15 years ago I did some tech work for a small robocall company. Small as in two employees and about thirty computers making the calls. About twenty of those computers would dial around ten or fifteen numbers per minute. Numbers that answered were sent to one of the other ten or so computers that played a recorded message.
And they were actually very careful about staying legal-the phone number database they used sorted the numbers into time zones, and the computers would not call the numbers outside of a certain time frame (I believe it was between 7am and 9pm that was fine to call, before or after that was illegal).
Considering I smoke cigarettes, use an ecig sometimes, eat bacon, drink caffeinated drinks, etc etc etc, I'm pretty sure I have a 9424% higher risk of strokes, 6243% higher risk of heart attacks, 3128% higher risk of heart disease, a 15326% higher risk of lung cancer, and according to various sayings like a cigarette takes five minutes off your life, I died some 240 years ago. Useless scare tactic statistics, in other words.
Sure, I get that some people may use Cortana. Sometimes. Maybe even on purpose. But for the love of all that is holy, at least let me actually disable it.
Before you go start learning which sites I want audio to play on, and which sites I want the autoplay videos starting up, and which sites are games I play, let me make this really easy for you: From now on, as in forever, don't play a video or sound or a game until I specifically tell you to.
The important thing here is THIS IS HOW SCIENCE IS SUPPOSED TO WORK. "Hey, we think we found this thing. We're pretty sure, but we're not going to say anything definite until it's independently confirmed by other people. Here's the data we used, here's how we got it, and here's how we used it, now please someone else check this out and see if we're right."
Just have like everyone in China jump up and down at the same time for a while. If the wobble gets worse, have everyone in North America jump up and down for a longer period of time.
Normally I'd be totally dead set against prison time for copyright violations (I still am), but it seriously sounds like this guy is so dumb he deserves the jail time. Not for copyright violations, but for being an idiot in general, flagrantly disregarding the law, being stupid enough to upload the whole movie to Facebook, not knowing at all how technology works, and again just for being an idiot. From the full article:
In one such post he wrote: "I got the ultimate way out of this, yall might be surprised on how I won't go to jail but just become more famous." In another he wrote, "I'm just sitting back smoking out my bong laughing at these mfs who think they know what they talking I haven't sold shit to anyone, or made copies." Franklin went on to create a Facebook group called “Bootleg Movies,” posted “EVERYBODY JOIN,” and told people he’d be posting more movies on the page.
It's hard to take any article about a 'computer system' seriously when it doesn't repeatedly stress how it was AI, quantum computing, or blockchains that actually made it work./s
This story is actually awesome in several ways: First, the hack itself. Pretty impressive that a security hole that deep was discovered. The second awesome bit is that the security hole was disabled in a day. The third awesome thing about this story, the really incredible part, was that the hacker didn't go to jail or even get charged with multiple crimes!
THIS! This is what the ISP should say:. Send all the notices you want, we'll investigate each and every one of them, but you're getting the bill for every bit of it, no matter the outcome of our investigation. If the notice is valid, we'll let you know all of the offender's details so you can take them to court. We'll also bill the offender for the time (cause we're an ISP and double billing makes us giddy), and if they don't pay, no more service for them. If the industry sending the notices doesn't pay our bill for our services rendered, then we stop worrying about your notices. Music industry, movie industry, whatever-you send us a notice, we'll check it out and bill you for it. Since we're getting paid, we'll actually do a real investigation, and it won't hurt our feelings to send letters and even terminate the occasional repeat offender's account. Plus the music and movie industries could actually back up their claims of losing multiple billions of dollars a year due to piracy, because they'll have the invoices from the ISPs to prove it.
ISPs get a new practically unlimited revenue source, music and movie industries actually get their piracy claims investigated, and individuals no longer blame the music/movie industry for stupid lawsuits, they'd be mad at the ISP.
That's easy-it was in California. EVERYTHING in California causes cancer. EVERYTHING. Therefore, if someone says RoundUp gave them cancer, then in California it's an automatic win, because EVERYTHING in California causes cancer.
Wilcox outlines that Microsoft's guiding principles to its monthly Windows service updates are built around being "simple and predictable", "agile", and "transparent."
It's some sort of plot by Google to get people to quit using their services, I think.
Google Finance - used to be really good, loads of information, very useful. Now, it's a whole lot of white space with not a lot else. No need to visit that page any more.
Google News - used to be really good, loads of information, very useful. Now, it's a whole lot of white space with not a lot else. No need to visit that page any more.
Google home page - well okay, that one should be a lot of white space and a search box, I'll give them that one.
Kiss my ass with all your heat advisory alerts, amber alerts, silver alerts, flash flood alerts, dry weather alerts, wet weather alerts, what the hell ever. You figure out a way to show me alerts that are local to me, that may affect me, or close enough that I may affect it, then maybe I'll pay attention to them. You start showing me alerts for some kid or grandma halfway across the country, and you bet your ass I'm going to ignore all the alerts.
Same thing happened with a friend of mine on Facebook who insisted on filling her newsfeed with every missing kid notice she could find, no matter what. Didn't matter if the missing kid was from 2000 miles away. Didn't matter if the missing kid is on an entirely different continent even, it's amazing how many missing kid notices she can find from England. Doesn't matter if the missing kid actually went missing MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AGO, she still posts it.
Yeah, she's trying to be 'helpful', but what happened is after a few days of that, she's blocked and now I see none of them. The same thing will happen if I start getting alert after alert after alert on my phone. I will find a way and I will block them, totally defeating the purpose of your alert system, and all because of the flaws in your system.
Depends entirely on the circumstances. I've had entire racks full of servers and switches that hadn't been power cycled in years and years. Not patching them was not important at all since they were on their own little network running production gear, air gapped from the rest of the world. You want to walk into the middle of our plant and plug into a switch (if you can find them) to try to cause trouble, knock yourself out.
There's some other switches and routers that could, theoretically, be accessed from outside, but by the time someone got that deep into our network that equipment not being patched would be the least of our worries.
Point being, yes Cisco costs an arm and a leg. But the equipment is top notch, the support is top notch, and the warranties are amazing compared to the rest of the computer industry.
Seriously, does anyone actually watch any SINGLE channel for hours a day? And of those, how many are watching hours a day of a single channel on a PHONE? Why in the world would anyone think that they're somehow able to make that the slightest bit enjoyable in any way? Has Stankey actually been a human being in America for very long, because any human being in America would quickly realize that nobody wants to stare at a cell phone for hours a day to watch a single channel. Nobody. And then to top it off, he goes right into collecting customer data to monetize it in the form of advertising and subscriptions-seriously, is the guy from another planet? How could that possibly be a good idea for any customer?
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I want to be in charge of my own security, I want to know what's being installed, I want to control when it's installed, and I damn sure want to control when my machine is going to reboot. However, I'm an IT professional. My mother, on the other hand, is doing well to turn the computer on, and I want her updates to be automatic without any intervention. Those two scenarios are not at complete odds with each other-if Microsoft would just set the default to automatic updates and give us the option to only run updates when the user checks for updates. In manual update mode, I'd even be just fine with Windows checking for updates automatically and notifying me if there are some, but don't install them until I say so and definitely do not reboot until I say so. Just the option of 'Notify but don't install until the user intentionally tells the updates to install' would make practically everyone here happy, and a default mode of 'Check for them, download them, and install them when they're available without having to bother the user' would keep the non techies happy.
Pretty much anything could be considered an 'app'.
Overload what switch? About 15 years ago I did some tech work for a small robocall company. Small as in two employees and about thirty computers making the calls. About twenty of those computers would dial around ten or fifteen numbers per minute. Numbers that answered were sent to one of the other ten or so computers that played a recorded message.
And they were actually very careful about staying legal-the phone number database they used sorted the numbers into time zones, and the computers would not call the numbers outside of a certain time frame (I believe it was between 7am and 9pm that was fine to call, before or after that was illegal).
Considering I smoke cigarettes, use an ecig sometimes, eat bacon, drink caffeinated drinks, etc etc etc, I'm pretty sure I have a 9424% higher risk of strokes, 6243% higher risk of heart attacks, 3128% higher risk of heart disease, a 15326% higher risk of lung cancer, and according to various sayings like a cigarette takes five minutes off your life, I died some 240 years ago. Useless scare tactic statistics, in other words.
Just what we needed. Now all of Earth's problems are solved.
So if they're worried about cybersecurity, does that mean they'll actually pay more for cybersecurity? Somehow I don't see that happening.
Sure, I get that some people may use Cortana. Sometimes. Maybe even on purpose. But for the love of all that is holy, at least let me actually disable it.
Before you go start learning which sites I want audio to play on, and which sites I want the autoplay videos starting up, and which sites are games I play, let me make this really easy for you: From now on, as in forever, don't play a video or sound or a game until I specifically tell you to.
The important thing here is THIS IS HOW SCIENCE IS SUPPOSED TO WORK. "Hey, we think we found this thing. We're pretty sure, but we're not going to say anything definite until it's independently confirmed by other people. Here's the data we used, here's how we got it, and here's how we used it, now please someone else check this out and see if we're right."
Just have like everyone in China jump up and down at the same time for a while. If the wobble gets worse, have everyone in North America jump up and down for a longer period of time.
Normally I'd be totally dead set against prison time for copyright violations (I still am), but it seriously sounds like this guy is so dumb he deserves the jail time. Not for copyright violations, but for being an idiot in general, flagrantly disregarding the law, being stupid enough to upload the whole movie to Facebook, not knowing at all how technology works, and again just for being an idiot. From the full article:
In one such post he wrote: "I got the ultimate way out of this, yall might be surprised on how I won't go to jail but just become more famous." In another he wrote, "I'm just sitting back smoking out my bong laughing at these mfs who think they know what they talking I haven't sold shit to anyone, or made copies." Franklin went on to create a Facebook group called “Bootleg Movies,” posted “EVERYBODY JOIN,” and told people he’d be posting more movies on the page.
Not stuff that's blindingly obvious and has been from the start.
It's hard to take any article about a 'computer system' seriously when it doesn't repeatedly stress how it was AI, quantum computing, or blockchains that actually made it work. /s
This story is actually awesome in several ways: First, the hack itself. Pretty impressive that a security hole that deep was discovered. The second awesome bit is that the security hole was disabled in a day. The third awesome thing about this story, the really incredible part, was that the hacker didn't go to jail or even get charged with multiple crimes!
THIS! This is what the ISP should say:. Send all the notices you want, we'll investigate each and every one of them, but you're getting the bill for every bit of it, no matter the outcome of our investigation. If the notice is valid, we'll let you know all of the offender's details so you can take them to court. We'll also bill the offender for the time (cause we're an ISP and double billing makes us giddy), and if they don't pay, no more service for them. If the industry sending the notices doesn't pay our bill for our services rendered, then we stop worrying about your notices. Music industry, movie industry, whatever-you send us a notice, we'll check it out and bill you for it. Since we're getting paid, we'll actually do a real investigation, and it won't hurt our feelings to send letters and even terminate the occasional repeat offender's account. Plus the music and movie industries could actually back up their claims of losing multiple billions of dollars a year due to piracy, because they'll have the invoices from the ISPs to prove it.
ISPs get a new practically unlimited revenue source, music and movie industries actually get their piracy claims investigated, and individuals no longer blame the music/movie industry for stupid lawsuits, they'd be mad at the ISP.
How is this not already happening?
ublock origin and FB purity for the win...
That's easy-it was in California. EVERYTHING in California causes cancer. EVERYTHING. Therefore, if someone says RoundUp gave them cancer, then in California it's an automatic win, because EVERYTHING in California causes cancer.
Wilcox outlines that Microsoft's guiding principles to its monthly Windows service updates are built around being "simple and predictable", "agile", and "transparent."
Did he somehow miss Microsoft's July patches?
Crap, where's mod points when I need'em? +5 Funny
"Oracle still calling Amazon four to six times a day to sell services"
"Amazon has blocked 38,000 individual phone numbers in attempt to avoid Oracle sales calls"
"1 in 4 Amazon employees job description includes 'Telling Oracle to piss off' to help deal with never ending sales calls"
"Oracle buys AT&T in order to get cheaper rates when calling Amazon"
"Oracle ordered by federal judge to stop stalking Amazon"
and so on...
It's some sort of plot by Google to get people to quit using their services, I think.
Google Finance - used to be really good, loads of information, very useful. Now, it's a whole lot of white space with not a lot else. No need to visit that page any more.
Google News - used to be really good, loads of information, very useful. Now, it's a whole lot of white space with not a lot else. No need to visit that page any more.
Google home page - well okay, that one should be a lot of white space and a search box, I'll give them that one.
Kiss my ass with all your heat advisory alerts, amber alerts, silver alerts, flash flood alerts, dry weather alerts, wet weather alerts, what the hell ever. You figure out a way to show me alerts that are local to me, that may affect me, or close enough that I may affect it, then maybe I'll pay attention to them. You start showing me alerts for some kid or grandma halfway across the country, and you bet your ass I'm going to ignore all the alerts.
Same thing happened with a friend of mine on Facebook who insisted on filling her newsfeed with every missing kid notice she could find, no matter what. Didn't matter if the missing kid was from 2000 miles away. Didn't matter if the missing kid is on an entirely different continent even, it's amazing how many missing kid notices she can find from England. Doesn't matter if the missing kid actually went missing MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS AGO, she still posts it.
Yeah, she's trying to be 'helpful', but what happened is after a few days of that, she's blocked and now I see none of them. The same thing will happen if I start getting alert after alert after alert on my phone. I will find a way and I will block them, totally defeating the purpose of your alert system, and all because of the flaws in your system.
Depends entirely on the circumstances. I've had entire racks full of servers and switches that hadn't been power cycled in years and years. Not patching them was not important at all since they were on their own little network running production gear, air gapped from the rest of the world. You want to walk into the middle of our plant and plug into a switch (if you can find them) to try to cause trouble, knock yourself out. There's some other switches and routers that could, theoretically, be accessed from outside, but by the time someone got that deep into our network that equipment not being patched would be the least of our worries. Point being, yes Cisco costs an arm and a leg. But the equipment is top notch, the support is top notch, and the warranties are amazing compared to the rest of the computer industry.
Seriously, does anyone actually watch any SINGLE channel for hours a day? And of those, how many are watching hours a day of a single channel on a PHONE? Why in the world would anyone think that they're somehow able to make that the slightest bit enjoyable in any way? Has Stankey actually been a human being in America for very long, because any human being in America would quickly realize that nobody wants to stare at a cell phone for hours a day to watch a single channel. Nobody. And then to top it off, he goes right into collecting customer data to monetize it in the form of advertising and subscriptions-seriously, is the guy from another planet? How could that possibly be a good idea for any customer?
I'm confused, some user goes to a website, that website is insecure, and that's somehow Facebook's fault?