I've been using WSUS Offline Update to build update ISOs and never touching the Windows Update site directly for years now. Just recently a Windows Update (or some other mechanism) made my Windows screen display 'This copy of Windows is not genuine'. Since it happened in the last several months, it's time to reinstall and use the Windows 7 update ISO that I created a few months ago. I'm glad I date and keep the ISO images.
I don't know which recent update from Microsoft tagged my copy of Windows 7 as 'non-genuine' but if I stop doing updates and freeze things at a recent point where they snuck in whatever WGA crap they've done, I am probably okay.
Does anybody know when they crept in the new WGA malware update? It was apparently something in the last three or four months.
You can opt out of using gmail. I certainly have. I actively sought out an email service that would charge me a few dollars a month for snoop-free email.
Karl Mark was an intellectual who spent a good part of his life writing in the British Library in London. He was also an armchair radical, but mostly he was a dull stuffy political economist.
Also much of what he wrote is very very obsolete now in the 21st century. Tons of his theories have been given one hell of a chance and failed in execution.
There is no such thing as a 'popular vote.' The votes in every state in our Federal Republic all count only within the self-contained boundaries of each state.
The only thing a 'popular vote' represents is journalists running around gathering up numbers from all the states. Numbers which have no meaning outside of state boundaries.
People are being interrogated for hours entering the country because of their nation origin. You can call it 'religion' if you like, but that's just your racism emerging.
Two hundred years from now, people will look back and say 'what was all the bullshit about?' We can hope, anyhow. But there will always be legacy grievance seekers. Always.
I built a gate this afternoon, along the back fence of the dogyard. Because we're getting a new puppy on Thursday. Yesterday I bought some 1 x 6 treated boards and sawed them to length. This afternoon I went out and dug around in the junkbox parts and found enough screws and hardware to fabricate all that wood into a gate.
So don't tell me I "can't build anything."
I can also whip out the soldering iron and build a whole small computer for a needed purpose. For instance, to build a data acquisition node, for one of the many projects I have in mind. I licenses for all the software to create the code block to push into said small computer.
Now, in a constructed world, which admittedly a lot of people on Slashdot seem to exist in, where everything is computer software, you might have a point. You might. I'll concede the possibility.
Declare any and all IP claims Apple could make null and void in New Zealand.
The contents of the Apple App Store could probably fit on a 4 terabyte hard drive that could be installed in every Public Library in New Zealand. I bet Tim Dotcom could help them set it up.
The VAT is collected from Apple's customers, though, not Apple themselves. And in fact, if the 'government services' that said collected taxes are applied toward the interests of the taxpayers it could lead to a very different situation for Apple than exists in many countries.
Why should Apple customers pay tax to their government and then have their government act in Apple's interest against them?
Perhaps New Zealand could set up a national firewall that intercepts and bypasses Apple's App store. App Store requests could instead be send to an alternative mirror of Apple's App Store, with the government or the people of New Zealand getting all the benefits. A free App Store, for interest, with all of Apple's App Store contents 'pirated' over for the use of New Zealands' VAT taxpayers. Apple would have to physically block their IP from entering New Zealand, and that isn't particularly practicable against a Nation State.
If Apple Corporation isn't a taxpayer in New Zealand they certainly should not be afforded the benefits of government protection. The VAT payers have little interest in seeing their money used by the New Zealand Government to enforce Apple's copyright, etc,
Bruce Schneier is a 'cryptography journalist.' He has no credentials beyond writing a controversial book over a decade ago about Cryptography and leveraging it into a career as a 'cryptography expert.' He is not a cryptographer, and thus not a 'peer' in the peer review process.
Well, maybe he's an 'expert' in journalistic/writer terms. Just like a blogger about Geology is a blogger about Geology.
These are Geek Squad employees. That's a special subset of the Best Buy operation. Anybody can work at Best Buy, and shilling overpriced 'upgrades' and extended warranties is one thing.
It takes a special sort of employee to drive around in a PT Cruiser with 'Geek Squad' printed on the side. There aren't that many people capable of doing this as a career choice, so unless you approach the Geek Squad countertop at a Best Buy Store (similar in many ways to the 'Genius Bar' at an Apple store) you are safe entering a Best Buy. It's no better or worse than a WalMart or Frys.
Reward the sort of Geek Squad technician who would work as 'an informant for the FBI' with $500 worth of Cheetos. That would attract a better class of Geek Squad informant. The police cadet wannabe types presently being attracted are obsessed with keeping the greasy orange crumbs off their hands, and as junior martinets can only provide tainted evidence.
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I've been using WSUS Offline Update to build update ISOs and never touching the Windows Update site directly for years now. Just recently a Windows Update (or some other mechanism) made my Windows screen display 'This copy of Windows is not genuine'. Since it happened in the last several months, it's time to reinstall and use the Windows 7 update ISO that I created a few months ago. I'm glad I date and keep the ISO images.
I don't know which recent update from Microsoft tagged my copy of Windows 7 as 'non-genuine' but if I stop doing updates and freeze things at a recent point where they snuck in whatever WGA crap they've done, I am probably okay.
Does anybody know when they crept in the new WGA malware update? It was apparently something in the last three or four months.
Reality sucks sometimes.
You can opt out of using gmail. I certainly have. I actively sought out an email service that would charge me a few dollars a month for snoop-free email.
Near as I can tell, the only people running an election campaign regarding Trump are the Democrats. They still haven't figured it out.
"Elections have consequences." to quote a political hack from the recent past.
Karl Mark was an intellectual who spent a good part of his life writing in the British Library in London. He was also an armchair radical, but mostly he was a dull stuffy political economist.
Also much of what he wrote is very very obsolete now in the 21st century. Tons of his theories have been given one hell of a chance and failed in execution.
There is no such thing as a 'popular vote.' The votes in every state in our Federal Republic all count only within the self-contained boundaries of each state.
The only thing a 'popular vote' represents is journalists running around gathering up numbers from all the states. Numbers which have no meaning outside of state boundaries.
Deal with it.
People are being interrogated for hours entering the country because of their nation origin. You can call it 'religion' if you like, but that's just your racism emerging.
The concept of 'races' fucks us all over.
Two hundred years from now, people will look back and say 'what was all the bullshit about?' We can hope, anyhow. But there will always be legacy grievance seekers. Always.
You'll need to demonstrate anything similar to your claim.
NetBSD, actually. Those 80386-only hackers are just lazy sots.
I doubt if the people homebrewing their drone will completely homebrew the RF component. The servo and the RF components come as pre-licensed modules.
It sounds to me like you'll be the one fucking yourself.
Forget that. I'm going to make driving decisions that benefit me, because I am the only one on the road who has to get somewhere,
Not hardly. I am the only one on the road who I care about how long it takes to complete my trip. Don't like that? Fuck off, take a bus or something.
Penguin fucking power engage!
Why would you want to fuck a penguin?
Most would be willing to pay even more and that's the consumer surplus.
Don't say stuff like that. It makes the guys at Apple Marketing wee all over the floor.
I built a gate this afternoon, along the back fence of the dogyard. Because we're getting a new puppy on Thursday. Yesterday I bought some 1 x 6 treated boards and sawed them to length. This afternoon I went out and dug around in the junkbox parts and found enough screws and hardware to fabricate all that wood into a gate.
So don't tell me I "can't build anything."
I can also whip out the soldering iron and build a whole small computer for a needed purpose. For instance, to build a data acquisition node, for one of the many projects I have in mind. I licenses for all the software to create the code block to push into said small computer.
Now, in a constructed world, which admittedly a lot of people on Slashdot seem to exist in, where everything is computer software, you might have a point. You might. I'll concede the possibility.
Me, I like the low prices.
If you want to spend your extra dollar, maybe give it to a charity?
They product fabulous products at prices customers are very willing to pay.
Bullshit. They sell a hyped high-margin product line. They probably could give DeBeers a few lessons on how to overcharge their customers.
Declare any and all IP claims Apple could make null and void in New Zealand.
The contents of the Apple App Store could probably fit on a 4 terabyte hard drive that could be installed in every Public Library in New Zealand. I bet Tim Dotcom could help them set it up.
The VAT is collected from Apple's customers, though, not Apple themselves. And in fact, if the 'government services' that said collected taxes are applied toward the interests of the taxpayers it could lead to a very different situation for Apple than exists in many countries.
Why should Apple customers pay tax to their government and then have their government act in Apple's interest against them?
Perhaps New Zealand could set up a national firewall that intercepts and bypasses Apple's App store. App Store requests could instead be send to an alternative mirror of Apple's App Store, with the government or the people of New Zealand getting all the benefits. A free App Store, for interest, with all of Apple's App Store contents 'pirated' over for the use of New Zealands' VAT taxpayers. Apple would have to physically block their IP from entering New Zealand, and that isn't particularly practicable against a Nation State.
If Apple Corporation isn't a taxpayer in New Zealand they certainly should not be afforded the benefits of government protection. The VAT payers have little interest in seeing their money used by the New Zealand Government to enforce Apple's copyright, etc,
God's patents all ran out eons ago.
Bruce Schneier is a 'cryptography journalist.' He has no credentials beyond writing a controversial book over a decade ago about Cryptography and leveraging it into a career as a 'cryptography expert.' He is not a cryptographer, and thus not a 'peer' in the peer review process.
Well, maybe he's an 'expert' in journalistic/writer terms. Just like a blogger about Geology is a blogger about Geology.
The 'attorney fees' part is the big money maker.
Have you ever looked into who makes up the bulk of the legislature?
Lawyers.
Go figure.
These are Geek Squad employees. That's a special subset of the Best Buy operation. Anybody can work at Best Buy, and shilling overpriced 'upgrades' and extended warranties is one thing.
It takes a special sort of employee to drive around in a PT Cruiser with 'Geek Squad' printed on the side. There aren't that many people capable of doing this as a career choice, so unless you approach the Geek Squad countertop at a Best Buy Store (similar in many ways to the 'Genius Bar' at an Apple store) you are safe entering a Best Buy. It's no better or worse than a WalMart or Frys.
Reward the sort of Geek Squad technician who would work as 'an informant for the FBI' with $500 worth of Cheetos. That would attract a better class of Geek Squad informant. The police cadet wannabe types presently being attracted are obsessed with keeping the greasy orange crumbs off their hands, and as junior martinets can only provide tainted evidence.