Yeah, I have certain bills that clearly state that they do not accept cash as well. I always have to go and get a money order to pay that bill... stupid.
Yeah and ISA Plug-n-Pray cards from competing vendors that *would not* work together in the same system... jumper pins, dip switches and manual IRQ settings... oh those were the days...
FYI, in a corporate environment, if you are running Windows 10 Enterprise, you have more control (via GP) to disable telemetry.
In anything other than Enterprise, setting the telemetry to "0 - don't send telemetry" is equivalent to setting it to "1 - Send limited telemetry".
But even still, in a corporate environment, there are other ways to block this kind of thing. I am thinking ACL's on the firewall or layer 7 (application) rules in the firewall. But you could also maintain internal DNS that loops back certain MS domains.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone came up with a DNS service at some point that does this.
You are making an assumption that this is a tit-for-tat arrangement.
Smart business moves are rarely this.
To say that if they give up money here, they HAVE to make it up there is not necessarily true.
We don't know exactly what MS's end game is, but this could just be a strategic move in a much larger game.
The fact is, MS's major money makers right now are Azure (which is giving AWS a huge run for its money) and Office 365. They may be willing to take a loss in what was once a major money maker so that they can push other services (like O365).
MS is not a one trick pony, they don't need to sell your information to advertisers to make a buck so it seems unlikely that is what they are doing. I think it is more likely that what they are doing is leveraging their cloud platform to improve the overall experience of Windows.
Believe it or not, cloud computing is here to stay, it only makes sense that a Microsoft, a company that operates the #2 cloud platform, will take advantage of that platform and, gasp, make a lot of network connections to do it.
You are completely within your right to not use this operating system. There are a lot more players in this arena than there used to be, however, if you look at any of them, they are all doing basically the same thing (leveraging cloud computing to enhance the customer experience).
One of the "value added" (to Microsoft or Google or Amazon or Apple) of sending information to the cloud is they also get invaluable information on how their products are being used. Like it or not, this is the way we are headed.
This kind of thing definitely is scary but it is not going away... as a matter of fact, I think that a lot of people find that the more their company of choice knows about them the more they like it because it becomes a more personalized experience.
Yeah, and when I read about this test for the first time this was my criticism exactly.
If you have a machine that is phoning home, you are only going to generate more connections as the software re-queues and retries the failed connections.
If you want to do a real analysis, you would allow all the connections and count/trace those.
To block everything and then count/trace, you are being inaccurate at best and disingenuous at worst.
Add to that the tendency for developers to adopt the attitude of "oh, it breaks when you do that? well then just don't do that!" because they only see the good things in their software and know, first hand, how hard it was to get that thing to work.
I am sure that the details will be hashed out over the years. You don't know what you don't know and you can't hold back the ocean so basically do your best and write laws that seem to make sense and then let the courts deal with hashing out the details when we have real-world issues.
Yes, and what a fanfare it was... this day will live on in memory as one of the most trumpeted announcements of all time... everyone will be able to tell you where they were when they heard the news such was the exuberance!
The only problem I see is that most users at least a familiar with Windows and how it generally works.
There are a lot of malicious things that can attack a Linux surface as well and if users are ignorant they may be much more easily tricked into exploiting a Linux box than a Windows box.
I just know from experience that people who throw up a Linux box without really understanding how to use Linux tend to get their box owned pretty quickly if it is exposed to the Internet and they don't keep up on patches.
I don't remember the last time I had a Windows box owned without user interaction (remotely exploited).
“The situation is very bad here,” the scientist said. “Eighty percent of our climate capability will be gone; it is clear that climate modeling will be cut completely.”
So.. by laying people off, you are going to break your climate?
Perhaps that has been the problem all along... we need to make more jobs to increase our climate capability!
As impressive as 7GHz is, it's not the highest frequency we've ever seen. Over at HWBOT, we can see that the overall world record belongs to The Stilt, who pushed an AMD FX-8370 to a ridiculous 8,722.78MHz
It sounds like you are really making the point that "stupid people gonna be stupid" no matter what paint (or not paint) is on the road.
I personally like the idea of experimentation.. although it is a fine line when you are experimenting with public safety. Still, how else are you going to test these theories..
I remember once... gosh, maybe 20 years ago now when MNDOT turned off all the exit ramp metered lights which are meant to space out merging traffic. They called it an experiment. I think that they had been getting a lot of feedback about how useless they were as most people ignored them anyway.
Well, they turned them all off for about a week and the result was pretty predicable, rush hour logjams were crazy and the public outcry to turn them back on could be heard from across the city.
This already happened to us and we are a small company (around 100 employees). An attacker grabbed information from our web site (company directory of C levels), waited until the xmas holiday to initiate an e-mail harvest attack which netted them valid addresses from auto-replies (complete with authentic sigs).
Then an e-mail was crafted which appeared to be a thread in progress by two of the higher-ups. The thread was all forged, of course, but the signature was spot on and the whole the whole thing looked pretty legit.
It was only because we do regular phishing audits that it failed. The message was submitted to our internal junk check address (which goes to me) for analysis.
The accounting person intimated later that they were about to go through with the money transfer... kinda scary stuff.
Yeah, I had an OCZ Vertex II that I sent back at least 3 times for replacement. It gave me such a bad impression of SSDs that I didn't get another one for a long time.
My current Samsung SSDs, however, have been running flawlessly for 3 years now.
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Yeah, I have certain bills that clearly state that they do not accept cash as well. I always have to go and get a money order to pay that bill... stupid.
Luckily, my landlord allows cash payments.
Robots also do not feel mercy, and they never question orders - no matter how deranged.
You know that we have a name for this in humans. We call them psychopaths.
And also, I noticed that TrendMicro is a sponsor... is that their method of making sure that their product is never a focus of the hacker attention?
Yeah and ISA Plug-n-Pray cards from competing vendors that *would not* work together in the same system... jumper pins, dip switches and manual IRQ settings... oh those were the days...
FYI, in a corporate environment, if you are running Windows 10 Enterprise, you have more control (via GP) to disable telemetry.
In anything other than Enterprise, setting the telemetry to "0 - don't send telemetry" is equivalent to setting it to "1 - Send limited telemetry".
But even still, in a corporate environment, there are other ways to block this kind of thing. I am thinking ACL's on the firewall or layer 7 (application) rules in the firewall. But you could also maintain internal DNS that loops back certain MS domains.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone came up with a DNS service at some point that does this.
You are making an assumption that this is a tit-for-tat arrangement.
Smart business moves are rarely this.
To say that if they give up money here, they HAVE to make it up there is not necessarily true.
We don't know exactly what MS's end game is, but this could just be a strategic move in a much larger game.
The fact is, MS's major money makers right now are Azure (which is giving AWS a huge run for its money) and Office 365. They may be willing to take a loss in what was once a major money maker so that they can push other services (like O365).
MS is not a one trick pony, they don't need to sell your information to advertisers to make a buck so it seems unlikely that is what they are doing. I think it is more likely that what they are doing is leveraging their cloud platform to improve the overall experience of Windows.
Believe it or not, cloud computing is here to stay, it only makes sense that a Microsoft, a company that operates the #2 cloud platform, will take advantage of that platform and, gasp, make a lot of network connections to do it.
You are completely within your right to not use this operating system. There are a lot more players in this arena than there used to be, however, if you look at any of them, they are all doing basically the same thing (leveraging cloud computing to enhance the customer experience).
One of the "value added" (to Microsoft or Google or Amazon or Apple) of sending information to the cloud is they also get invaluable information on how their products are being used. Like it or not, this is the way we are headed.
This kind of thing definitely is scary but it is not going away... as a matter of fact, I think that a lot of people find that the more their company of choice knows about them the more they like it because it becomes a more personalized experience.
Yeah, and when I read about this test for the first time this was my criticism exactly.
If you have a machine that is phoning home, you are only going to generate more connections as the software re-queues and retries the failed connections.
If you want to do a real analysis, you would allow all the connections and count/trace those.
To block everything and then count/trace, you are being inaccurate at best and disingenuous at worst.
Add to that the tendency for developers to adopt the attitude of "oh, it breaks when you do that? well then just don't do that!" because they only see the good things in their software and know, first hand, how hard it was to get that thing to work.
What I don't understand is how law enforcement ever solved any crimes at all before the digital world?
If you have done something wrong, there are all the old, tried and true, ways still available to nail the perpetrator.
I am sure that the details will be hashed out over the years. You don't know what you don't know and you can't hold back the ocean so basically do your best and write laws that seem to make sense and then let the courts deal with hashing out the details when we have real-world issues.
Yes, and what a fanfare it was... this day will live on in memory as one of the most trumpeted announcements of all time... everyone will be able to tell you where they were when they heard the news such was the exuberance!
The only problem I see is that most users at least a familiar with Windows and how it generally works.
There are a lot of malicious things that can attack a Linux surface as well and if users are ignorant they may be much more easily tricked into exploiting a Linux box than a Windows box.
I just know from experience that people who throw up a Linux box without really understanding how to use Linux tend to get their box owned pretty quickly if it is exposed to the Internet and they don't keep up on patches.
I don't remember the last time I had a Windows box owned without user interaction (remotely exploited).
StaLinux?
Our new triple A rated three dimensional action game powered by Lumberyard under the hood.
It just makes me think of saw dust or Mendards/Home Depot
I also don't understand this:
“The situation is very bad here,” the scientist said. “Eighty percent of our climate capability will be gone; it is clear that climate modeling will be cut completely.”
So.. by laying people off, you are going to break your climate?
Perhaps that has been the problem all along... we need to make more jobs to increase our climate capability!
Just to load the androidheadlines.com page... even on a full computer it takes forever to load.
Anyway, Google is free to ban, pull, push, whatever any app they want... it's their store...
As impressive as 7GHz is, it's not the highest frequency we've ever seen. Over at HWBOT, we can see that the overall world record belongs to The Stilt, who pushed an AMD FX-8370 to a ridiculous 8,722.78MHz
Sounds good to me.
This is the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that we need in our schools!
What if you just put up some flashing lights at strategic points? People always slow down for flashing lights...
Yeah that's right, let's not spend any money on research or experimentation. Let's not get any data to try to improve things. Don't rock the boat!
What if the experiment turns out information that is non-intuitive and helps improve things?
The cost to remove some paint from the road is really insignificant if it ends up improving safety by providing useful data.
It sounds like you are really making the point that "stupid people gonna be stupid" no matter what paint (or not paint) is on the road.
I personally like the idea of experimentation.. although it is a fine line when you are experimenting with public safety. Still, how else are you going to test these theories..
I remember once... gosh, maybe 20 years ago now when MNDOT turned off all the exit ramp metered lights which are meant to space out merging traffic. They called it an experiment. I think that they had been getting a lot of feedback about how useless they were as most people ignored them anyway.
Well, they turned them all off for about a week and the result was pretty predicable, rush hour logjams were crazy and the public outcry to turn them back on could be heard from across the city.
My takeaway at the time: People love to complain.
yes... but encryption... they can't catch people anymore now that they can't crack their iPhones...
they could crack his encryption.... I guess they'll never catch him now...
Not to mention fodder for spear phishing attacks.
This already happened to us and we are a small company (around 100 employees). An attacker grabbed information from our web site (company directory of C levels), waited until the xmas holiday to initiate an e-mail harvest attack which netted them valid addresses from auto-replies (complete with authentic sigs).
Then an e-mail was crafted which appeared to be a thread in progress by two of the higher-ups. The thread was all forged, of course, but the signature was spot on and the whole the whole thing looked pretty legit.
It was only because we do regular phishing audits that it failed. The message was submitted to our internal junk check address (which goes to me) for analysis.
The accounting person intimated later that they were about to go through with the money transfer... kinda scary stuff.
Yeah, I had an OCZ Vertex II that I sent back at least 3 times for replacement. It gave me such a bad impression of SSDs that I didn't get another one for a long time.
My current Samsung SSDs, however, have been running flawlessly for 3 years now.