They are contractually prevented from publishing GeForce driver information, probably due primarily to their involvement with Microsoft in the original Xbox era.
I just want you to know that this is absolute nonsense. It's completely made up (likely by you) and completely untrue.
Uhh, Valve is paying out the ass to develop and foster the program - everything from Steam OS to the Steam Machines marketing and branding agreements to the controller to "encouraging" devs to port games to Linux are all part of one program designed to get people off of Windows.
Valve fears MS bundling a store with the OS, and in the past years spread a lot of FUD about MS locking people into ONLY using their store. It wasn't true when they started the FUD in the Windows 8 days, and it's not true now. The mega publishers all have their own stores. Ubisoft has Uplay, EA has Origin, Blizzard does its own thing (not sure what Activision does). They're not reliant on Steam any more. Smaller publishers can use any store. Steam's grip on the market is mainly inertial. This is why Steam Machines exist.
No, you seem to not understand. You have described option B. PGP and the like are broken because of the concept of trust.
You can't just publish a public key and call it done. Someone wishing to send you something needs to know that the key does, in fact, belong to you. PGP dreams of a a web of trust. It hasn't happened, and likely never will, as we've seen the "trust"model fail spectacularly in every implementation.
Even if you trust the algorithms used in your public-key crypto (a terrible decision, in my mind, given the revelations about RSA), you still need a way to assure the user that the public key is yours. This necessitates a secure channel. Trust chaining / webs and degrees of trust are failed concepts, and every other public method of verification is prone to attack, including the only one anyone actually uses (publishing their public key on their blog).
"Trust but verify" is the new lingo that "experts" repeat over and over. But if you're going to verify, there's no need to trust. For PGP and similar, if you're going to verify someone's public key, like you're supposed to, you may as well take that same opportunity set up a symmetric key instead, since the algorithms are likely more secure. If you don't, you end up with all the problems we have today - users trusting untrustworthy keys, other users vouching for those keys and causing that misplaced trust to spread, and the inability of user to communicate securely and easily.
These are very old problems, and we have no new solutions. You simply can't trust a public routing network, thus you can't use any piece of it to establish trust. Meet physically and exchange keys, secret handshakes, or conversations about how the weather on Wednesday will be wet, though the skies on Friday will be clear. Further, in my proudly-paranoid opinion, you should not trust any of the public key algorithms.
How do you send a web page to random visitors encrypted?
A: You don't. B: You both use software utilizing an agreed-upon (and shitty) cert system that automates key exchange. C: You transmit keys securely (NOT ON THE INTERNET) before hand (for random visitors, see option A).
Download VMware or whatever. Make a VM. Install Windows onto the VM.
At the first setup screen, before you create a username, hit CTRL+SHIFT+F3 to enter System Audit Mode. Get it updated, install your borwsers, dickbutt.exe, and whatever else you use. Shut it down using the Sysprep dialog box that is in your face. Choose "Enter System Audit Mode" with an action of "Shut Down". Do NOT check the "generalize" checkbox.
Boot it and patch it every Patch Tuesday.
If you ever need to install Windows, take a snapshot of the VM. Boot the VM. Using the Sysprep dialog box, tell it to enter OOBE and check the "generalize" checkbox. Tell it to shutdown.
You can now use a ton of different tools to take that Windows install and capture it as a deployable image on any hardware. System Center / Windows Deployment Services / etc. have Windows PE tools that will do this. Other tools exist, though I have not used them. I believe booting to an Acronis disc or similar will let you do the same deal.
After you capture the image using whatever method is easiest according to Google at the time you need to do it, revert the snapshot on the VM to undo the "generalize" step (which decrements your activation rearm count). There are other hacks to reset this count after you run out of rearms, but they're not clean and can break Windows Update.
For your 8007000E error, simply hit "check for updates" until you get the error, then reboot, then do it again. Last I checked, a machine will encounter this error 3 times before Windows Update works.
Drafting tables are high and angled. A stool or other chair with no back support is typically used in order to get in close to the drafting table.
A drafting table is designed to prevent you from having to hunch over to get to the full surface area of your desk. The vast majority of office drones don't do drafting or any other activity requiring a large flat work surface. They use a keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Some use a phone. They only need a small surface to a notebook or some post-it notes for actual writing. The rest of the time the eyes and neck are basically forward.
Sexconker warns that voting for Hillary is a real risk. Sexconker also warns that voting for anyone in the current media circus is a real risk.
Sexconker advises writing in "A PILE OF ROCKS" for every single line in every single ballot,, regardless of whether or not your state allows write-ins.
I take 3 walks a day: once in the morning, once for lunch, and once in the afternoon. I get around 12k steps in total. I always come back refreshed and ready to tackle another 2-3 hours of office shit.
Then again, it could also be the 200-300mg of caffeine I ingest at the coffee shop I walk to.
For most American office slaves, every walk would simply be an enticing opportunity to not walk back to the desk. Can't have the peons seeing sunlight or breathing fresh air.
The review article is not evaluating the health benefits of sit/stand. It's about whether an employee actually sits less if they have a sit/stand desk (or just uses it as an expensive sitting desk). The review says that it doesn't reduce sitting time by very much, which has nothing to do with health. In fact, the review article accepts the health benefits as a given: "Physical inactivity at workplaces and particularly increased sitting has been linked to increase in cardiovascular disease, obesity and overall mortality."
Don't draw any conclusions from the Fortune article. The Fortune author obviously has a bias, and is trying to support his point of view using an article that, in fact, contradicts him.
I can see it now:
Furniture manufacturers will sell even more expensive sit/stand desks in the future. The new desks go up and down automatically to force you to stand.
Along with this will come a mandatory consultation session with an ergonomics "expert" for each user, intrusive monitoring software that is Windows only, doesn't really work, and requires an onerous client/server model so usage and spyi..uh "tracking" stats can be phoned home. Graphs will be sold to your own HR department and to your health insurer. In the middle of the night, the timer / motion sensor will go off for like, no reason, and all the desks will perform an all-furniture rendition of the ghost dance in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.
It is time to stand, employees. Stand and work. This is for your health. The next sitting session will begin in. THREE. HOURS.
EMPLOYEE. Why are you not standing? YOU MUST STAND, EMPLOYEE. I'm in a wheel chair! PLEASE FILL OUT REQUISITION FORM 807-32B FOR A SIT/STAND WHEEL CHAIR AND ERGONOMIC REEVALUATION.
Key files, certs, etc. are all convoluted versions of the same thing - a secret.
Your question is really: "How do I keep my secrets secure?" The answer is, as always: "Memorize them."
If your secrets are too complex or too numerous to memorize, you will need to write them down. Because you're not an idiot, you write them down encrypted, and memorize that key so you can decrypt it later. This key is your secret.
If you're doing it correctly, you won't care where you store the encrypted secrets, because the security requirement is effectively binary. If you have security set to "on" because you used strong encryption, then you can turn accessibility to over 9000. Throw your password database on a public FTP and let the world have it. You'll be long dead before the encryption is cracked.
If you're paranoid and you think usable quantum computers are really 5-10 years away, or that every encryption algorithm is flawed and backdoored, then you need to rely on hiding as well to turn security on. Put your shit on a micro SD card and hide it. Or, hide your shit by embedding it into innocuous data (digital or physical) steganographically. Or both. Or you could roll your own crypto on top of an established crypto.
You're probably flagged for an upgrade after going through the process already. Different situation altogether. I'll bet you also have Windows update set to automatically push "all" updates.
Never went through the process. Windows is set to download updates automatically but let me choose when to install them. I have chosen to NOT receive recommended updates the same way I receive important updates. I have uninstalled and hidden all the KBs related to Windows 10 and the back ported "telemetry".
I've told Windows to download updates but not install them.
And that's the hole you left. Windows 10 update has been upgraded to critical update and windows will thus automatically download it for you, if this setting is enabled.
I would also recommend anyone running windows to disable this setting, since it has some very sly side effects. For example, It replaces your "shut down" button with "Update and shut down". I've also witnessed windows just up and decide that updates have been sitting for too long and proceed to install the updates without my personal input. In other words, if you even allow Windows to download the updates, you put your computer at risk of having them installed without your full intention.
What update (KB number please) is the Windows 10 update that has been marked as critical? I can review my system and confirm or deny whether or not it was installed. March's Patch Tuesday did not include such an update that I saw, and I manually reviewed all the updates that came into our WSUS server. If you give me the KB number I can also determine if this patch was given to home users but not WSUS servers.
The Get Windows 10 "app" has flown under several KB numbers, and was flagged as optional, then recommended, and (for a brief time) important. As far as I know it's still recommended. I have all manner of it hidden in WU. I have no manner of it installed. No other recommended or optional update auto downloads. Only the important updates that auto install, and Windows 10 itself, auto download.
I dont know what the " GWX Configuration tool" is but I use the updated "GWX Control Panel"
Yes, that. I ran it once in the beginning, once a while back, and once over the weekend.
The problem is MS keeps changing the game. I'd rather not install GWX Control Panel in watchdog mode, especially since whenever MS changes the game there's some delay before GWX Control Panel can react. Killing Windows Update entirely and blocking everything MS at my router seems like a better idea at this point.
It auto downloads itself over and over on my personal machine despite removing all the Windows 10 and associated "telemetry" updates, putting several entries in my registry that MS recommends to stop it, etc. Every fucking month they reissue the patch and "oopsie" it gets pushed to users who have settings that should block it.
It hasn't self-installed yet, but it forces the download. I have patches set to download automatically but not install, and recommended updates are OFF. WU is ignoring the fact that all Windows 10 shit is optional or recommended and downloading it anyway. No other optional/recommended update is predownloaded in this manner. (And of course, there was the "mistake" where it was previously pushed as "important" a couple months back.)
If I had patches set to automatically install as most other users do, then I would have had to restore from backup (again, regardless of my choices to block Windows 10 and to NOT get recommended updates).
Who are you quoting? "totally in control" only appears in your post (and now mine). If you mean "fully in control", I never claimed they were. I've done everything recommended to stop it and Windows 10 still downloaded itself. On my machine it did not self-install. On others, it has.
On my domain, I haven't seen hide nor hair of Windows 10. We use SCCM and WSUS.
I'm guessing they meant NTP traffic is estimated to be 150,000 requests per second, globally. All my machines sync to their domain controllers. The domain controllers sync to a local time server. The time server syncs to the big boy government time servers. They never see the flood of requests from my machines or the other machines at my location. They only see requests from our local time server.
A leap second is really no different from a leap day or the "extra" or "lost" hour due to daylight saving time. I don't know why people have such a problem with it.
Count your ticks, determine how to show the date and time for a given locale.
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They are contractually prevented from publishing GeForce driver information, probably due primarily to their involvement with Microsoft in the original Xbox era.
I just want you to know that this is absolute nonsense. It's completely made up (likely by you) and completely untrue.
Uhh, Valve is paying out the ass to develop and foster the program - everything from Steam OS to the Steam Machines marketing and branding agreements to the controller to "encouraging" devs to port games to Linux are all part of one program designed to get people off of Windows.
Valve fears MS bundling a store with the OS, and in the past years spread a lot of FUD about MS locking people into ONLY using their store. It wasn't true when they started the FUD in the Windows 8 days, and it's not true now. The mega publishers all have their own stores. Ubisoft has Uplay, EA has Origin, Blizzard does its own thing (not sure what Activision does). They're not reliant on Steam any more. Smaller publishers can use any store. Steam's grip on the market is mainly inertial. This is why Steam Machines exist.
Uhh, starting every line with "Uhh," is asinine.
Nintendo is a very Japanese company. They would rather go out of business than enter into an agreement like the one you describe.
No, you seem to not understand. You have described option B. PGP and the like are broken because of the concept of trust.
You can't just publish a public key and call it done. Someone wishing to send you something needs to know that the key does, in fact, belong to you. PGP dreams of a a web of trust. It hasn't happened, and likely never will, as we've seen the "trust"model fail spectacularly in every implementation.
Even if you trust the algorithms used in your public-key crypto (a terrible decision, in my mind, given the revelations about RSA), you still need a way to assure the user that the public key is yours. This necessitates a secure channel. Trust chaining / webs and degrees of trust are failed concepts, and every other public method of verification is prone to attack, including the only one anyone actually uses (publishing their public key on their blog).
"Trust but verify" is the new lingo that "experts" repeat over and over. But if you're going to verify, there's no need to trust. For PGP and similar, if you're going to verify someone's public key, like you're supposed to, you may as well take that same opportunity set up a symmetric key instead, since the algorithms are likely more secure. If you don't, you end up with all the problems we have today - users trusting untrustworthy keys, other users vouching for those keys and causing that misplaced trust to spread, and the inability of user to communicate securely and easily.
These are very old problems, and we have no new solutions. You simply can't trust a public routing network, thus you can't use any piece of it to establish trust.
Meet physically and exchange keys, secret handshakes, or conversations about how the weather on Wednesday will be wet, though the skies on Friday will be clear. Further, in my proudly-paranoid opinion, you should not trust any of the public key algorithms.
How do you send a web page to random visitors encrypted?
A: You don't.
B: You both use software utilizing an agreed-upon (and shitty) cert system that automates key exchange.
C: You transmit keys securely (NOT ON THE INTERNET) before hand (for random visitors, see option A).
What's next, zelda, played in only multiplayer deathmatch and you don't play as Link, but rather an anonymous Royal Marine, er Guard?
Well...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'd buy it just for the eventual metroid game. .. zelda too
It's been ages since the last Metroid game. I enjoyed Other M, despite its flaws, but many hated it.
The next one we're getting next is a fucking travesty. It looks like a bad DS game (and in fact started as a DSi game) despite being on the very capable 3DS. It's not even a mainline title.
Nintendo hates Metroid, unfortunately.
There will definitely be PS 4.5 only games
Yes.
towards the end of the cycle probably most if not all games will require 4.5 hardware.
No. In the entire history of video games this has never happened. It has been attempted many times.
Download VMware or whatever.
Make a VM.
Install Windows onto the VM.
At the first setup screen, before you create a username, hit CTRL+SHIFT+F3 to enter System Audit Mode.
Get it updated, install your borwsers, dickbutt.exe, and whatever else you use.
Shut it down using the Sysprep dialog box that is in your face. Choose "Enter System Audit Mode" with an action of "Shut Down". Do NOT check the "generalize" checkbox.
Boot it and patch it every Patch Tuesday.
If you ever need to install Windows, take a snapshot of the VM. Boot the VM. Using the Sysprep dialog box, tell it to enter OOBE and check the "generalize" checkbox. Tell it to shutdown.
You can now use a ton of different tools to take that Windows install and capture it as a deployable image on any hardware.
System Center / Windows Deployment Services / etc. have Windows PE tools that will do this. Other tools exist, though I have not used them. I believe booting to an Acronis disc or similar will let you do the same deal.
After you capture the image using whatever method is easiest according to Google at the time you need to do it, revert the snapshot on the VM to undo the "generalize" step (which decrements your activation rearm count). There are other hacks to reset this count after you run out of rearms, but they're not clean and can break Windows Update.
For your 8007000E error, simply hit "check for updates" until you get the error, then reboot, then do it again. Last I checked, a machine will encounter this error 3 times before Windows Update works.
Drafting tables are high and angled. A stool or other chair with no back support is typically used in order to get in close to the drafting table.
A drafting table is designed to prevent you from having to hunch over to get to the full surface area of your desk.
The vast majority of office drones don't do drafting or any other activity requiring a large flat work surface. They use a keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Some use a phone. They only need a small surface to a notebook or some post-it notes for actual writing. The rest of the time the eyes and neck are basically forward.
Sexconker warns that voting for Hillary is a real risk.
Sexconker also warns that voting for anyone in the current media circus is a real risk.
Sexconker advises writing in "A PILE OF ROCKS" for every single line in every single ballot,, regardless of whether or not your state allows write-ins.
I take 3 walks a day: once in the morning, once for lunch, and once in the afternoon. I get around 12k steps in total. I always come back refreshed and ready to tackle another 2-3 hours of office shit.
Then again, it could also be the 200-300mg of caffeine I ingest at the coffee shop I walk to.
For most American office slaves, every walk would simply be an enticing opportunity to not walk back to the desk. Can't have the peons seeing sunlight or breathing fresh air.
The review article is not evaluating the health benefits of sit/stand. It's about whether an employee actually sits less if they have a sit/stand desk (or just uses it as an expensive sitting desk). The review says that it doesn't reduce sitting time by very much, which has nothing to do with health. In fact, the review article accepts the health benefits as a given: "Physical inactivity at workplaces and particularly increased sitting has been linked to increase in cardiovascular disease, obesity and overall mortality."
Don't draw any conclusions from the Fortune article. The Fortune author obviously has a bias, and is trying to support his point of view using an article that, in fact, contradicts him.
I can see it now:
Furniture manufacturers will sell even more expensive sit/stand desks in the future.
The new desks go up and down automatically to force you to stand.
Along with this will come a mandatory consultation session with an ergonomics "expert" for each user, intrusive monitoring software that is Windows only, doesn't really work, and requires an onerous client/server model so usage and spyi..uh "tracking" stats can be phoned home. Graphs will be sold to your own HR department and to your health insurer. In the middle of the night, the timer / motion sensor will go off for like, no reason, and all the desks will perform an all-furniture rendition of the ghost dance in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.
It is time to stand, employees. Stand and work. This is for your health. The next sitting session will begin in. THREE. HOURS.
EMPLOYEE. Why are you not standing? YOU MUST STAND, EMPLOYEE.
I'm in a wheel chair!
PLEASE FILL OUT REQUISITION FORM 807-32B FOR A SIT/STAND WHEEL CHAIR AND ERGONOMIC REEVALUATION.
How is your mousing precision while using the treadmill?
How is your mousing precision while using the treadmill?
How is your mousing precision while using the treadmill?
How is your mousing precision while using the treadmill?
Good enough.
drafting table and a tall chair
I'm pretty sure employers don't want to be sued for all the back injuries that will cause..
Key files, certs, etc. are all convoluted versions of the same thing - a secret.
Your question is really: "How do I keep my secrets secure?"
The answer is, as always: "Memorize them."
If your secrets are too complex or too numerous to memorize, you will need to write them down.
Because you're not an idiot, you write them down encrypted, and memorize that key so you can decrypt it later. This key is your secret.
If you're doing it correctly, you won't care where you store the encrypted secrets, because the security requirement is effectively binary. If you have security set to "on" because you used strong encryption, then you can turn accessibility to over 9000.
Throw your password database on a public FTP and let the world have it. You'll be long dead before the encryption is cracked.
If you're paranoid and you think usable quantum computers are really 5-10 years away, or that every encryption algorithm is flawed and backdoored, then you need to rely on hiding as well to turn security on. Put your shit on a micro SD card and hide it. Or, hide your shit by embedding it into innocuous data (digital or physical) steganographically. Or both. Or you could roll your own crypto on top of an established crypto.
We're deploying i5 NUCs with M.2 850 EVOs as our standard workstation device now.
They don't get noticeably hot. It's never been an issue.
You're probably flagged for an upgrade after going through the process already. Different situation altogether. I'll bet you also have Windows update set to automatically push "all" updates.
Never went through the process.
Windows is set to download updates automatically but let me choose when to install them.
I have chosen to NOT receive recommended updates the same way I receive important updates.
I have uninstalled and hidden all the KBs related to Windows 10 and the back ported "telemetry".
I'm guessing you have a non-genuine version of Windows?
You're guessing wrong.
Genuine, paid for, and activated.
Got the licenses from MS through digitalriver back in the early days when they had the $30 promo.
I've told Windows to download updates but not install them.
And that's the hole you left. Windows 10 update has been upgraded to critical update and windows will thus automatically download it for you, if this setting is enabled.
I would also recommend anyone running windows to disable this setting, since it has some very sly side effects. For example, It replaces your "shut down" button with "Update and shut down". I've also witnessed windows just up and decide that updates have been sitting for too long and proceed to install the updates without my personal input. In other words, if you even allow Windows to download the updates, you put your computer at risk of having them installed without your full intention.
What update (KB number please) is the Windows 10 update that has been marked as critical?
I can review my system and confirm or deny whether or not it was installed.
March's Patch Tuesday did not include such an update that I saw, and I manually reviewed all the updates that came into our WSUS server.
If you give me the KB number I can also determine if this patch was given to home users but not WSUS servers.
The Get Windows 10 "app" has flown under several KB numbers, and was flagged as optional, then recommended, and (for a brief time) important.
As far as I know it's still recommended. I have all manner of it hidden in WU. I have no manner of it installed. No other recommended or optional update auto downloads. Only the important updates that auto install, and Windows 10 itself, auto download.
I dont know what the " GWX Configuration tool" is but I use the updated "GWX Control Panel"
Yes, that.
I ran it once in the beginning, once a while back, and once over the weekend.
The problem is MS keeps changing the game. I'd rather not install GWX Control Panel in watchdog mode, especially since whenever MS changes the game there's some delay before GWX Control Panel can react. Killing Windows Update entirely and blocking everything MS at my router seems like a better idea at this point.
You're simply wrong.
It auto downloads itself over and over on my personal machine despite removing all the Windows 10 and associated "telemetry" updates, putting several entries in my registry that MS recommends to stop it, etc. Every fucking month they reissue the patch and "oopsie" it gets pushed to users who have settings that should block it.
It hasn't self-installed yet, but it forces the download. I have patches set to download automatically but not install, and recommended updates are OFF. WU is ignoring the fact that all Windows 10 shit is optional or recommended and downloading it anyway. No other optional/recommended update is predownloaded in this manner. (And of course, there was the "mistake" where it was previously pushed as "important" a couple months back.)
If I had patches set to automatically install as most other users do, then I would have had to restore from backup (again, regardless of my choices to block Windows 10 and to NOT get recommended updates).
Who are you quoting? "totally in control" only appears in your post (and now mine). If you mean "fully in control", I never claimed they were. I've done everything recommended to stop it and Windows 10 still downloaded itself. On my machine it did not self-install. On others, it has.
On my domain, I haven't seen hide nor hair of Windows 10. We use SCCM and WSUS.
I'm guessing they meant NTP traffic is estimated to be 150,000 requests per second, globally.
All my machines sync to their domain controllers. The domain controllers sync to a local time server. The time server syncs to the big boy government time servers. They never see the flood of requests from my machines or the other machines at my location. They only see requests from our local time server.
A leap second is really no different from a leap day or the "extra" or "lost" hour due to daylight saving time.
I don't know why people have such a problem with it.
Count your ticks, determine how to show the date and time for a given locale.