The main thing for me is the default taskbar layout. Why does it use unnecessarily huge icons by default (even before Win8 and it's touchscreen stuff)? Why does it group all the windows of one application into one button, making it take longer to switch to specific windows? Why doesn't it display names of the open windows by default even if there's plenty of space on the taskbar?
Microsoft seems to have a fetish for hiding as many words and buttons as possible from the user. That seems to be their definition of "user friendly".
Well, it doesn't really matter whether it's a script or a compiled executable. You run the file, and it executes. If you really need to know, you use file, but the truth is you can simply treat it as a black box executable file in all but a couple corner cases.
To the contrary, I love bloatware because it means other people are subsidizing my PC that I'm going to be installing a fresh OS upon receiving anyway.
That's not a very good argument because it's directly affecting someone else. You wouldn't let someone drive drunk, because they might possibly injure or kill other people. Pregnant drinking is exactly the same. Or worse, because it's not like a baby can get Fetal Alcohol Syndrome insurance.
Can't tell if this is sarcastic or not.
It's generally faster to hit a modifier key than it is to move your fingers all the way over to the pgup/down/etc area. I'd much rather hit Ctrl-A/E for Home/End, Ctrl-U/D for pgup/down, etc. I'd take shell-like or vim-like keys any day.
puffery is a promotional statement or claim that expresses subjective rather than objective views
The company selling this cable does make objective assertions about this cable which are blatantly false. Just because most of it is subjective doesn't mean there aren't some objective lies mixed in.
It's fine for parents to not get their child vaccinated. However, that child should not be allowed in public schools or other functions.
The real loser in all of this is the child, however. It's not fair for the child that their redneck anti-vax parents should be able to put their health at risk. I find it hilarious that conservatives tend to be "pro-life" yet support someone's right to not get vaccinated, as if a fetus is somehow more important than an actual child.
Because "Sign in without a Microsoft account" sounds nothing like "Create a local account". I mean, you're not even signing into anything, you're creating an account.
Every time I see a cop doing something useless like sitting at the side of the road I want to see their budget cut. They do that crap instead of helping with real crimes. And don't say "but the traffic cops are the same cops that would be investigating crimes" because it's all under one budget.
Last time I installed it (about a month ago), there was a button at the bottom to use a local account without having to jump through any hoops. Of course, being MS, it wasn't labeled "Use a local account" or even anything seemingly related.
I wouldn't be so sure. Any application with forced SSL is going to look exactly the same from a data standpoint. It's going to start with the SSL handshake, and then everything after that will be indistinguishable. Yes, they could look at how much data there is or data over time, but DPI doesn't get you very far when all SSL traffic looks exactly the same. And even then, you could just pick some port that would normally have a solid amount of data and persistent connections, like IMAPS.
Ever tried receiving packages when you live in a smaller apartment building with no reception area or anything like that? USPS generally has access to the actual mailboxes, but USPS and friends will force you to either be there. Your options are: sit out front of the building for hours (I love it when my package is "out for delivery" at 6 AM and gets delivered at 8 PM), go pick it up at a depot (which is not the same as a UPS store, no idea why they can't do that), or just sign the note they leave. That last option isn't available if the sender requests an in-person signature.
So I order something from Amazon, and they required an in-person sig, which I didn't even know until they left the note. After calling UPS to try to just get them to dump the thing out front, they directed me to their website. Of course, their website didn't work because it thought my address was invalid, and their phone support couldn't help me with that. I also called Amazon and asked them why the hell they required an in-person signature to begin with, and their support was equally unhelpful.
The end result? I had to drive for a total of an hour to pick up my $7 cable 2 days later than I should have had it. I'm pretty sure it would have been a better use of time to just go to a store to buy it. Why Amazon required in-person signing for a $7 package to begin with is beyond me.
And then someone tests positive. So what? Just because someone does drugs does't mean it affects their ability to work. If drugs are clearly affecting someone's performance, then it should be pretty obvious without a drug test. A drug test is just a feel-good measure.
That's not just a trend with automation, it's a trend with computing in general. More and more often, the computer thinks it knows what the user wants more than the user. This might be true for an average user, but for a power user it just gets in the way.
The problem I have is that it will probably end up far more bloated than it should be. The less bloated stuff there is, the less of a need for updates there is. Why would an IoT device be vulnerable to shellshock when it should have had a lightweight shell like ash instead of bash to begin with? Why would it have systemd instead of an embedded-centric init system like procd? Automatic updates are actually terrible from a usability standpoint because something can quite literally break overnight.
Drive space is cheap, and so are current backup services. I can't imagine that this service would be significantly cheaper than the existing services, so what's the point? There's unlimited (yeah yeah, "Unlimited") backup services for $5/month, so it's not like there's even much money to be saved.
It's no different than doing the exact same thing over Firewire, but it's a lot easier to hide an exploit in plain sight. When you exploit over something like Firewire or Thunderbolt, it could be a simple "Hey, can I charge my iPhone?". I remember an old exploit that you could do using one of the ancient Firewire iPods. That's a lot different than "Hey, can I plug this random card into your computer?" when you want to do it over CardBus or ExpressCard.
On a desktop, I don't think it would be a problem. If you had a rather standard encryption scheme where you enter your passphrase on boot, it wouldn't be exploitable because someone would have to shut down the machine, stick a PCIe card in, and then boot again, thus losing the encryption key until it is entered again. It's just that laptops tend to have to have more exploitable interfaces that support hotplugging (like ExpressCard and Thunderbolt) whereas a desktop at most might have Firewire.
I'm surprised nobody has engineered a DMA exploit over SATA, considering it's hotpluggable and rather ubiquitous.
I don't know if the newer ones are any better, but my W510 definitely has overheating issues. They basically took the exact same cooling system used in the T510 and tried to use it to cool a quadcore and workstation video chip. The CPU could hit the point where it would start to throttle. Even after putting on better thermal paste, it still gets hot enough to cause the GPU to throttle. Basically any high performance laptop that doesn't either have a huge cooling system or a separate system for the CPU and GPU can run into these issues.
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The main thing for me is the default taskbar layout. Why does it use unnecessarily huge icons by default (even before Win8 and it's touchscreen stuff)? Why does it group all the windows of one application into one button, making it take longer to switch to specific windows? Why doesn't it display names of the open windows by default even if there's plenty of space on the taskbar?
Microsoft seems to have a fetish for hiding as many words and buttons as possible from the user. That seems to be their definition of "user friendly".
Well, it doesn't really matter whether it's a script or a compiled executable. You run the file, and it executes. If you really need to know, you use file, but the truth is you can simply treat it as a black box executable file in all but a couple corner cases.
To the contrary, I love bloatware because it means other people are subsidizing my PC that I'm going to be installing a fresh OS upon receiving anyway.
I'm just wondering where the let sidebar is. When you have a fluid-width site, you generally want to have a sidebar on the left for readability.
That's not a very good argument because it's directly affecting someone else. You wouldn't let someone drive drunk, because they might possibly injure or kill other people. Pregnant drinking is exactly the same. Or worse, because it's not like a baby can get Fetal Alcohol Syndrome insurance.
I think they only installed it on their consumer line anyway, not any corporate models.
Still waiting for the reverse three strikes, where an IP holder gets punished if they send 3 false notices.
Can't tell if this is sarcastic or not.
It's generally faster to hit a modifier key than it is to move your fingers all the way over to the pgup/down/etc area. I'd much rather hit Ctrl-A/E for Home/End, Ctrl-U/D for pgup/down, etc. I'd take shell-like or vim-like keys any day.
puffery is a promotional statement or claim that expresses subjective rather than objective views
The company selling this cable does make objective assertions about this cable which are blatantly false. Just because most of it is subjective doesn't mean there aren't some objective lies mixed in.
I could have sworn there was a story about this a couple days ago. Get your shit together Dice.
It's fine for parents to not get their child vaccinated. However, that child should not be allowed in public schools or other functions.
The real loser in all of this is the child, however. It's not fair for the child that their redneck anti-vax parents should be able to put their health at risk. I find it hilarious that conservatives tend to be "pro-life" yet support someone's right to not get vaccinated, as if a fetus is somehow more important than an actual child.
What next, systemd incorporates a mysql server?
Great idea!
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Because "Sign in without a Microsoft account" sounds nothing like "Create a local account". I mean, you're not even signing into anything, you're creating an account.
Every time I see a cop doing something useless like sitting at the side of the road I want to see their budget cut. They do that crap instead of helping with real crimes. And don't say "but the traffic cops are the same cops that would be investigating crimes" because it's all under one budget.
Last time I installed it (about a month ago), there was a button at the bottom to use a local account without having to jump through any hoops. Of course, being MS, it wasn't labeled "Use a local account" or even anything seemingly related.
I wouldn't be so sure. Any application with forced SSL is going to look exactly the same from a data standpoint. It's going to start with the SSL handshake, and then everything after that will be indistinguishable. Yes, they could look at how much data there is or data over time, but DPI doesn't get you very far when all SSL traffic looks exactly the same. And even then, you could just pick some port that would normally have a solid amount of data and persistent connections, like IMAPS.
Ever tried receiving packages when you live in a smaller apartment building with no reception area or anything like that? USPS generally has access to the actual mailboxes, but USPS and friends will force you to either be there. Your options are: sit out front of the building for hours (I love it when my package is "out for delivery" at 6 AM and gets delivered at 8 PM), go pick it up at a depot (which is not the same as a UPS store, no idea why they can't do that), or just sign the note they leave. That last option isn't available if the sender requests an in-person signature.
So I order something from Amazon, and they required an in-person sig, which I didn't even know until they left the note. After calling UPS to try to just get them to dump the thing out front, they directed me to their website. Of course, their website didn't work because it thought my address was invalid, and their phone support couldn't help me with that. I also called Amazon and asked them why the hell they required an in-person signature to begin with, and their support was equally unhelpful.
The end result? I had to drive for a total of an hour to pick up my $7 cable 2 days later than I should have had it. I'm pretty sure it would have been a better use of time to just go to a store to buy it. Why Amazon required in-person signing for a $7 package to begin with is beyond me.
And then someone tests positive. So what? Just because someone does drugs does't mean it affects their ability to work. If drugs are clearly affecting someone's performance, then it should be pretty obvious without a drug test. A drug test is just a feel-good measure.
That's not just a trend with automation, it's a trend with computing in general. More and more often, the computer thinks it knows what the user wants more than the user. This might be true for an average user, but for a power user it just gets in the way.
The problem I have is that it will probably end up far more bloated than it should be. The less bloated stuff there is, the less of a need for updates there is. Why would an IoT device be vulnerable to shellshock when it should have had a lightweight shell like ash instead of bash to begin with? Why would it have systemd instead of an embedded-centric init system like procd? Automatic updates are actually terrible from a usability standpoint because something can quite literally break overnight.
Drive space is cheap, and so are current backup services. I can't imagine that this service would be significantly cheaper than the existing services, so what's the point? There's unlimited (yeah yeah, "Unlimited") backup services for $5/month, so it's not like there's even much money to be saved.
It's no different than doing the exact same thing over Firewire, but it's a lot easier to hide an exploit in plain sight. When you exploit over something like Firewire or Thunderbolt, it could be a simple "Hey, can I charge my iPhone?". I remember an old exploit that you could do using one of the ancient Firewire iPods. That's a lot different than "Hey, can I plug this random card into your computer?" when you want to do it over CardBus or ExpressCard.
On a desktop, I don't think it would be a problem. If you had a rather standard encryption scheme where you enter your passphrase on boot, it wouldn't be exploitable because someone would have to shut down the machine, stick a PCIe card in, and then boot again, thus losing the encryption key until it is entered again. It's just that laptops tend to have to have more exploitable interfaces that support hotplugging (like ExpressCard and Thunderbolt) whereas a desktop at most might have Firewire.
I'm surprised nobody has engineered a DMA exploit over SATA, considering it's hotpluggable and rather ubiquitous.
I don't know if the newer ones are any better, but my W510 definitely has overheating issues. They basically took the exact same cooling system used in the T510 and tried to use it to cool a quadcore and workstation video chip. The CPU could hit the point where it would start to throttle. Even after putting on better thermal paste, it still gets hot enough to cause the GPU to throttle. Basically any high performance laptop that doesn't either have a huge cooling system or a separate system for the CPU and GPU can run into these issues.