KB3146449 injects banner ads for Windows 10 into IE11. KB3146449 does NOT have code to download or install Windows 10 itself. It merely throws ads in your face if you use IE11.
MS hasn't pushed Win 10 to domain-joined machines. Your 30+ machines are either on a domain, using WSUS instead of Windows Update, or you're lying.
You seem to be vehemently defending MS and denying that any pushing is going on. Further, you never see Windows 10 as an update in Windows Update. Various updates, in various categories (optional, recommended, important), at various times have installed various versions of the Get Windows 10 "app" since this shit started.
If you're claiming that this never happened to you on 30+ machines, then you haven't used Windows Update on those 30+ machines in the past 6 months or you're a fucking liar.
My own machine downloaded Windows 10, again, over the weekend for no fucking reason.
I've set all manner of registry keys that MS recommends for blocking the update. I've hidden the updates that give you Windows 10. I've removed all the updates that give you the Get Windows 10 "app". I've run GWX Configuration tool. I've told Windows to NOT give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates. I've told Windows to download updates but not install them.
If I had the default, Windows 10 would have installed itself.
There is a serious incident on Monday, one of a number that have been raising concern. The metro decides to shut down the system to do a major safety inspection. That is somehow bad?
It's a WaPo opinion "article". Some "journalist" got his jimmies rustled and had to whaa whaa whaa about it. WaPo editors, having nothing of worth to publish and having no standards, ran with it.
There are a good number of sites i'm no longer visiting because either they redirect me to porn sites every time or reject ad blockers, which i use to avoid this situation in the first place.
I believe I've seen them on Amazon. Various versions of the Surfboards will support the VoIP-specific shit. I've read reviews saying shit like "model xyz is the same as xyw but xyw supports Comcast's VoIP". Can't tell you if it's true or not, as I don't use a landline (pots or voip or otherwise) and I don't have Comcast (I know they can be picky with modems though).
What industry? What is OpenStack? What is a "hybrid cloud"? What is an "on-demand cloud"? What is a "cloud"?
If I have to ask what three or more things are, or if I have to ask what any one thing is more than once, then you're a fucking troll selling "aaS" shit and you should be run out of town by an angry mob.
Can we wake up from this nightmare now and go back to owning and controlling our hardware, software, and data?
Depends on how smart your memory controller is. Unused RAM doesn't need to be strobed. If everything in use lives on one chip, why bother sending electrons to the other chips until you need them?
Permission from the owner of the phone would not give them the authority to search the user's personal files when there's an expectation of privacy, just like permission from a telco doesn't grant the government the authority to eavesdrop on all calls or permission from the post master doesn't let them open your mail. And the use of encryption is about as explicit a declaration of privacy as you can get. Further, they can't legally force the user to unlock the phone because of the 5th amendment. (Yes, judges order this and the 5th has been shat on, this just means the judges are tyrants).
The dude being dead makes no real difference.
Trying to force Apple to do anything about it is 2 or 3 wrong turns past the point of sanity.
While MS should go after piracy on this scale, they should be denied their request, because:
product keys "known to have been stolen" from Microsoft's supply chain were used to activate Windows 8, Windows 7, Office 2010, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2008.
If they were known to be stolen, then MS has a duty to limit losses. They can blacklist the keys and prevent further activation. If they were "known to have been stolen" then MS should have limited their losses as soon as they found out.
The product keys, Microsoft said, were used "more times than is authorized by the applicable software license,"
Again, MS has the ability to enforce this. Activation is their job, and if they allow a key to be activated thousands of times that's their fault. I commend them for being lenient - I've certainly relied on being able to activate a single key several times when building / upgrading PCs. But allowing thousands of fraudulent activations is a joke. More than a few a year should trigger alarm bells at Redmond.
used by "someone other than the authorized licensee," or were "activated outside the region for which they were intended."
MS can't prove either of these. Even if they know the authorized licensee, they don't know who is using the keys thousands of times. They can't know who it isn't without knowing who it is. If they knew who it is, they wouldn't need to subpoena for info. The same thing goes for the region.
It's also not the court's job to enforce the minutia of the license terms such as region, number of activations, transference, etc., especially when MS is so lackadaisical as to allow the keys to be stolen and for unauthorized activations to go on for so long.
"You can argue this on constitutional grounds. Does the government have the right to do this? Frankly, I think the government does have a right to do it."
Frankly, this clown is wrong.
"You can do balancing privacy and security dead men don't have a right to privacy."
Wrong again.
"My lens is the security lens, and frankly, it's a close but clear call that Apple's right on just raw security grounds."
Frankly, it's not a close call at all. (And this guy uses "frankly" way too often.)
Mozilla Boss: How can we fuck up Firefox for the next release? Mozilla Dev: We've had great success fucking up or removing features people use. Mozilla Intern: And make sure we make it more like Chrome, people hate that.
MB: Sounds good, what should we target next? MI: I can run some numbers and see what features a moderate percentage of our users use. That way we continue the nice slow spiral down the drain. MD: As long as I don't have to add anything new, I'm all for it.
MB: All right, so we pick some remaining features that distinguish us from Chrome, and we take one away that users depend on. Not too few users, not too many. MI: I'll run a report against a target 20-40%.
MD: Once we pick a feature, I'll get on bugzilla and start adding bullshit about how it's a security risk for unspecified reasons, how it's unmaintained despite it not needing any maintenance, etc. MI: I'll use my sock puppet accounts to create a few dupe accounts to reply in agreement with our actions. MB: I'm fine with this as long as we make it absolutely clear we don't give a fucking shit what users want. Make sure to mark all their issues as "will not fix" and lock the comments whenever they post evidence of use or arguments against our "unmaintained" line.
MD: Don't worry, I'll post that we're redirecting all "conversation" to the mailing list. MI: And as the moderator of the mailing list, I'll simply reject any postings that argue against us. MB: Excellent. At this rate, we'll have a complete Chrome clone by the end of the year!
Everybody else, I'm willing to retrain you, but you're going to be doing mobile, or you're going to be doing business intelligence, or you're going to be helping our organizations do gap analysis
Let me translate that to English:
Everyone else, you're redundant. If you don't have pointless buzzwords on your resume you won't get one of the 3 do-nothing, fluff positions we're keeping open.
On the other hand, the physical book will outlast the kindle and digital account and digital "license" to the content, probably be a century or so, maybe for millennia. How many trees are killed and shit pumped into the environment to produce 1 Kindle? How many physical books can you get for that cost?
Weigh those books and their lifetime against the books a typical Kindle device and the "licenses" you get.
And performance, and scalability, and encryption, and replication, and backup / restoration, and reporting / analysis, and tuning / optimization, and...
MS wears some big ol' clown shoes (see my recent submission about the botched Win 10 update), but SQL Server, with all its various components, is an industry-leading product for good reason. The only other solution I've seen serious people use is Oracle, and they only admit to it sheepishly, like a shamed victim.
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KB3146449 injects banner ads for Windows 10 into IE11.
KB3146449 does NOT have code to download or install Windows 10 itself. It merely throws ads in your face if you use IE11.
MS hasn't pushed Win 10 to domain-joined machines.
Your 30+ machines are either on a domain, using WSUS instead of Windows Update, or you're lying.
You seem to be vehemently defending MS and denying that any pushing is going on.
Further, you never see Windows 10 as an update in Windows Update. Various updates, in various categories (optional, recommended, important), at various times have installed various versions of the Get Windows 10 "app" since this shit started.
If you're claiming that this never happened to you on 30+ machines, then you haven't used Windows Update on those 30+ machines in the past 6 months or you're a fucking liar.
Not bullshit.
My own machine downloaded Windows 10, again, over the weekend for no fucking reason.
I've set all manner of registry keys that MS recommends for blocking the update.
I've hidden the updates that give you Windows 10.
I've removed all the updates that give you the Get Windows 10 "app".
I've run GWX Configuration tool.
I've told Windows to NOT give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates.
I've told Windows to download updates but not install them.
If I had the default, Windows 10 would have installed itself.
There is a serious incident on Monday, one of a number that have been raising concern. The metro decides to shut down the system to do a major safety inspection. That is somehow bad?
It's a WaPo opinion "article". Some "journalist" got his jimmies rustled and had to whaa whaa whaa about it. WaPo editors, having nothing of worth to publish and having no standards, ran with it.
"I was sure you'd be on foot, because you always say public transportation is for losers." - Marge (Episode 3F24)
There are a good number of sites i'm no longer visiting because either they redirect me to porn sites every time or reject ad blockers, which i use to avoid this situation in the first place.
Same. I just go to the porn sites directly now.
Get your shit together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I believe I've seen them on Amazon.
Various versions of the Surfboards will support the VoIP-specific shit. I've read reviews saying shit like "model xyz is the same as xyw but xyw supports Comcast's VoIP". Can't tell you if it's true or not, as I don't use a landline (pots or voip or otherwise) and I don't have Comcast (I know they can be picky with modems though).
What industry?
What is OpenStack?
What is a "hybrid cloud"? What is an "on-demand cloud"? What is a "cloud"?
If I have to ask what three or more things are, or if I have to ask what any one thing is more than once, then you're a fucking troll selling "aaS" shit and you should be run out of town by an angry mob.
Can we wake up from this nightmare now and go back to owning and controlling our hardware, software, and data?
Depends on how smart your memory controller is. Unused RAM doesn't need to be strobed. If everything in use lives on one chip, why bother sending electrons to the other chips until you need them?
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By "Surfboard" I mean the Motorola/Arris modem line. If you want to buy an actual surfboard, go for it.
If you're using an ISP-provided modem, congratulations, U FAIL IT.
1: Buy a Surfboard.
2: Toss the ISP shit into the toilet, then call the ISP and tell them to come pick it up.
Permission from the owner of the phone would not give them the authority to search the user's personal files when there's an expectation of privacy, just like permission from a telco doesn't grant the government the authority to eavesdrop on all calls or permission from the post master doesn't let them open your mail. And the use of encryption is about as explicit a declaration of privacy as you can get.
Further, they can't legally force the user to unlock the phone because of the 5th amendment. (Yes, judges order this and the 5th has been shat on, this just means the judges are tyrants).
The dude being dead makes no real difference.
Trying to force Apple to do anything about it is 2 or 3 wrong turns past the point of sanity.
I won't touch "UWP" infected games even with a ten foot pole.
What about a Windows 10 foot pole?
As long as they never take our waifus.
people are not gonna suddenly decide to buy nails on Amazon.com and then go to Home Depot for the lumber whenever the package arrives.
I have done exactly this.
While MS should go after piracy on this scale, they should be denied their request, because:
product keys "known to have been stolen" from Microsoft's supply chain were used to activate Windows 8, Windows 7, Office 2010, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2008.
If they were known to be stolen, then MS has a duty to limit losses. They can blacklist the keys and prevent further activation. If they were "known to have been stolen" then MS should have limited their losses as soon as they found out.
The product keys, Microsoft said, were used "more times than is authorized by the applicable software license,"
Again, MS has the ability to enforce this. Activation is their job, and if they allow a key to be activated thousands of times that's their fault. I commend them for being lenient - I've certainly relied on being able to activate a single key several times when building / upgrading PCs. But allowing thousands of fraudulent activations is a joke. More than a few a year should trigger alarm bells at Redmond.
used by "someone other than the authorized licensee," or were "activated outside the region for which they were intended."
MS can't prove either of these. Even if they know the authorized licensee, they don't know who is using the keys thousands of times. They can't know who it isn't without knowing who it is. If they knew who it is, they wouldn't need to subpoena for info. The same thing goes for the region.
It's also not the court's job to enforce the minutia of the license terms such as region, number of activations, transference, etc., especially when MS is so lackadaisical as to allow the keys to be stolen and for unauthorized activations to go on for so long.
We all shill for ice cream?
I make you read every article in that magazine, including Norman Mailer's latest claptrap about his waning libido.
Alphabet's AlphaGo.
No, because he's an idiot:
"You can argue this on constitutional grounds. Does the government have the right to do this? Frankly, I think the government does have a right to do it."
Frankly, this clown is wrong.
"You can do balancing privacy and security dead men don't have a right to privacy."
Wrong again.
"My lens is the security lens, and frankly, it's a close but clear call that Apple's right on just raw security grounds."
Frankly, it's not a close call at all. (And this guy uses "frankly" way too often.)
Mozilla Boss: How can we fuck up Firefox for the next release?
Mozilla Dev: We've had great success fucking up or removing features people use.
Mozilla Intern: And make sure we make it more like Chrome, people hate that.
MB: Sounds good, what should we target next?
MI: I can run some numbers and see what features a moderate percentage of our users use. That way we continue the nice slow spiral down the drain.
MD: As long as I don't have to add anything new, I'm all for it.
MB: All right, so we pick some remaining features that distinguish us from Chrome, and we take one away that users depend on. Not too few users, not too many.
MI: I'll run a report against a target 20-40%.
MD: Once we pick a feature, I'll get on bugzilla and start adding bullshit about how it's a security risk for unspecified reasons, how it's unmaintained despite it not needing any maintenance, etc.
MI: I'll use my sock puppet accounts to create a few dupe accounts to reply in agreement with our actions.
MB: I'm fine with this as long as we make it absolutely clear we don't give a fucking shit what users want. Make sure to mark all their issues as "will not fix" and lock the comments whenever they post evidence of use or arguments against our "unmaintained" line.
MD: Don't worry, I'll post that we're redirecting all "conversation" to the mailing list.
MI: And as the moderator of the mailing list, I'll simply reject any postings that argue against us.
MB: Excellent. At this rate, we'll have a complete Chrome clone by the end of the year!
Everybody else, I'm willing to retrain you, but you're going to be doing mobile, or you're going to be doing business intelligence, or you're going to be helping our organizations do gap analysis
Let me translate that to English:
Everyone else, you're redundant. If you don't have pointless buzzwords on your resume you won't get one of the 3 do-nothing, fluff positions we're keeping open.
On the other hand, the physical book will outlast the kindle and digital account and digital "license" to the content, probably be a century or so, maybe for millennia.
How many trees are killed and shit pumped into the environment to produce 1 Kindle? How many physical books can you get for that cost?
Weigh those books and their lifetime against the books a typical Kindle device and the "licenses" you get.
And performance, and scalability, and encryption, and replication, and backup / restoration, and reporting / analysis, and tuning / optimization, and...
MS wears some big ol' clown shoes (see my recent submission about the botched Win 10 update), but SQL Server, with all its various components, is an industry-leading product for good reason. The only other solution I've seen serious people use is Oracle, and they only admit to it sheepishly, like a shamed victim.
If the new Slashdot overlords are seeing this:
Can we please get through April 1st (and the days around it) without any stupid fake / "joke" shit making it to the front page?