Probably not too far from the truth, here's excerpts from the changelog:
<5.07.0019> 2015-11-11 release - [Important] Implement some security enhancement <5.07.0013> 2015-09-29 release - [Important] Implement some security enhancement for standard user account. <5.07.0008> 2015-09-10 release - [Important] Implement some security enhancement to secure the access to directory and exectuable files. New in 2015-06-24 release - Fixed some issues. New in 2015-03-27 release - Fixed some security issues [...]
Looks like they're trying to give Oracle/Adobe a run for their money...
there are 169 coins in total for the completionists out there!
Actually there are closer to 300, but some are really hard to find, e.g. under the lava or in random patches of sky, you'd have to exhaustively sweep every pixel of the playing area to get them all.
I found the eDellRoot certificate on my machine (Which I promptly disabled)
And then Dell's software re-enables it, or reinstalls it if you delete it. And if you remove the software that does the reinstall and ever factory-reset your PC, it in turn gets reinstalled. It's like malware, except that it's from a commercial vendor.
I don't think the almighty dollar is at fault here. the problem is a government that doesn't let the winner win, but chooses who it wants to win.
Although legislating market winners is a major problem in government, another one that may be occurring here is that when you have multiple competing systems and the "winner" fails spectacularly, the people behind the runners-up will always say that if their system had been chosen, things would have been OK. There's no way to tell whether ThinThread wouldn't have become the billion-dollar boondoggle instead of Trailblazer.
Heck, this is big government IT, it's quite likely that anything would have cratered. When was the last time you saw a headline that said "Large government IT project comes in on time, under budget, and with full functionality"?
I understand you've been having problems with continuously-dropping market share, going from a high of 50-odd-percent to under ten percent, and heading steadily for zero. I understand that you plan to remove some things to try and reverse this ongoing decline. Could I suggest removing all of:
Australis.
Copying everything Chrome does.
Memory leaks.
Pocket.
Asa Dotzler.
Thanks, The rapidly-diminishing community of Firefox users.
Oh, and could the tradesman who posted earlier about using his iPhone for business please get in touch? I need to find a good carpenter, the last guy promised he'd come and fix my wall and instead he's gadding off to Jerusalem with his wife on a donkey.
The headline should really be "terrorists use communications media less likely to be intercepted/monitored". Here's the Terrorist Communications Guide handbook, in pseudocode:
array[] = communications media indexed by likelihood of government monitoring; qsort( array ); media_to_use = array[ 0 ];
This week it might be a PS4, next week it'll be a TI Speak'n'Spell, whatever works.
Note that Disable Telemetry, at least on the non-business editions, doesn't actually disable telemetry, just some of it. To actually get rid of it all, open Task Scheduler, go to Microsoft > Windows > Application Experience and delete the AITAgent, Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser (that's for Win7/Win8), and ProgramDataUpdater tasks, and then in Customer Experience Improvement Program, delete all entries. That seems to take care of things at the moment but then keep an eye out for further spyware that'll be added in future critical Windows updates.
There's also a list of several dozen phone-home domains you can block at your router floating around, but that only helps if you're sitting behind your own router that you've set up for blocking.
I never thought this day would come but now I'm, I swear to God, actually RECOMMENDING Windows 8, because at least with 8 you can kill the telemetry and with Classic Shell you can make it into Win 7...THAT is what you've done MSFT, you have made an OS soooo damned shitty it makes Win 8 a recommendation.....ARGH!
Scary but true. I use Window Blinds and Start8 rather than Classic Shell, but same thing, they've actually made an OS so godawful that it makes Win8 (with mods) seem good in comparison.
Thanks for that link, I'd been manually scraping the Win10 crapware dropper out of various systems using a cheat sheet of notes, but it's much easier just using an app to do it all for you.
Same thing with checksums on various mag stripe cards, which I wrote software for in the 1980s. There was the Luhn algorithm, and then the other Luhn algorithm, and then the other other Luhn algorithm, and the alternate Luhn algorithm, and the not-quite-right Luhn algorithm, and the Luhn variant, and the other Luhn variant, and holy fsck how many ways can you screw up one checksum?
I've been watching PaleMoon for awhile, my only concern with switching is how well-supported it'll be in the long run, since it's being run as a parallel project to Fire^H^H^HChromefox which has a lot more developers. For example how well do security fixes and whatnot from Mozilla get added into PaleMoon?
And where did this "Great or Dead" come from? I thought it was Great and Dead, i.e. Firefox was Great some years ago and has been rapidly moving towards Dead ever since the 3.x releases.
(Firefox user since Phoenix 0.3, and the sole reason I'm still using it is the plugins. Fortunately Mozilla have announced that they'll be removing this reason soon).
We have been informed that Catalina's Comet is the home of a major warez site. We recommend that you get over to it immediately to sort it out. We'll keep a slot open for you on the comet's return.
Why is it that Google (a company that no doubt employs some very smart people) cant fix google.com (one of the most popular sites on the entire internet) so it gets an A grade from this SSL test?
The test is somewhat subjective. For example when I checked at one point if you used triple DES, a strong, unbroken cipher, you got marked down, but if you bought your cert from a CA that's been caught issuing fake certs, was pwned by (allegedly) Iranian hackers, or is run by the Chinese military, you were regarded as OK. The site provides a good service overall, but some of the criteria it applies are pretty subjective.
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Some USB to serial adapters are better than others. I've found that the real FDT-based ones tend to be the best.
And Prolific, specifically the infinite variations of the PL2303 and its even more buggy clones, are the worst.
Forget Android. I switched to Windows Phone to escape all the malware.
That's only because you've also escaped all the apps. No worthwhile targets = no malware.
Probably not too far from the truth, here's excerpts from the changelog:
Looks like they're trying to give Oracle/Adobe a run for their money...
there are 169 coins in total for the completionists out there!
Actually there are closer to 300, but some are really hard to find, e.g. under the lava or in random patches of sky, you'd have to exhaustively sweep every pixel of the playing area to get them all.
I found the eDellRoot certificate on my machine (Which I promptly disabled)
And then Dell's software re-enables it, or reinstalls it if you delete it. And if you remove the software that does the reinstall and ever factory-reset your PC, it in turn gets reinstalled. It's like malware, except that it's from a commercial vendor.
I don't think the almighty dollar is at fault here. the problem is a government that doesn't let the winner win, but chooses who it wants to win.
Although legislating market winners is a major problem in government, another one that may be occurring here is that when you have multiple competing systems and the "winner" fails spectacularly, the people behind the runners-up will always say that if their system had been chosen, things would have been OK. There's no way to tell whether ThinThread wouldn't have become the billion-dollar boondoggle instead of Trailblazer.
Heck, this is big government IT, it's quite likely that anything would have cratered. When was the last time you saw a headline that said "Large government IT project comes in on time, under budget, and with full functionality"?
Dear Mozilla,
I understand you've been having problems with continuously-dropping market share, going from a high of 50-odd-percent to under ten percent, and heading steadily for zero. I understand that you plan to remove some things to try and reverse this ongoing decline. Could I suggest removing all of:
Thanks,
The rapidly-diminishing community of Firefox users.
Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot... Which is where people get confused and think you meant FT instead of F.
Aisle, Bdellium, Czar, Djinn, Eunuch, Fnord... Which is whre people get confused, period.
The fact it's ancient Hebrew kinda sucks,
Aramaic is my native tongue you insensitive clod!
Oh, and could the tradesman who posted earlier about using his iPhone for business please get in touch? I need to find a good carpenter, the last guy promised he'd come and fix my wall and instead he's gadding off to Jerusalem with his wife on a donkey.
When I first read the term, I was confused
Just think of them as crybullies, then it makes more sense. WTF is "microagression" anyway?
The headline should really be "terrorists use communications media less likely to be intercepted/monitored". Here's the Terrorist Communications Guide handbook, in pseudocode:
This week it might be a PS4, next week it'll be a TI Speak'n'Spell, whatever works.
If he was talking out of his ass then the post would have read "Tthhpppttt ffrrtt phphphpbbbbtttt frrrrbbbbttt".
It's Microsoft servicing their users in the sense of "the farmer got a bull in to service his cows".
Note that Disable Telemetry, at least on the non-business editions, doesn't actually disable telemetry, just some of it. To actually get rid of it all, open Task Scheduler, go to Microsoft > Windows > Application Experience and delete the AITAgent, Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser (that's for Win7/Win8), and ProgramDataUpdater tasks, and then in Customer Experience Improvement Program, delete all entries. That seems to take care of things at the moment but then keep an eye out for further spyware that'll be added in future critical Windows updates.
There's also a list of several dozen phone-home domains you can block at your router floating around, but that only helps if you're sitting behind your own router that you've set up for blocking.
I never thought this day would come but now I'm, I swear to God, actually RECOMMENDING Windows 8, because at least with 8 you can kill the telemetry and with Classic Shell you can make it into Win 7...THAT is what you've done MSFT, you have made an OS soooo damned shitty it makes Win 8 a recommendation.....ARGH!
Scary but true. I use Window Blinds and Start8 rather than Classic Shell, but same thing, they've actually made an OS so godawful that it makes Win8 (with mods) seem good in comparison.
Thanks for that link, I'd been manually scraping the Win10 crapware dropper out of various systems using a cheat sheet of notes, but it's much easier just using an app to do it all for you.
Yeah, sorry about that, it was the chili. I'll have to remember to make it less hot next time.
Cool, thanks for the info. I'll be trying PaleMoon out in a minute.
Same thing with checksums on various mag stripe cards, which I wrote software for in the 1980s. There was the Luhn algorithm, and then the other Luhn algorithm, and then the other other Luhn algorithm, and the alternate Luhn algorithm, and the not-quite-right Luhn algorithm, and the Luhn variant, and the other Luhn variant, and holy fsck how many ways can you screw up one checksum?
Oh come on now, you're exaggerating things just a bit there.
There can't be more than three people using HURD. Four, tops.
I've been watching PaleMoon for awhile, my only concern with switching is how well-supported it'll be in the long run, since it's being run as a parallel project to Fire^H^H^HChromefox which has a lot more developers. For example how well do security fixes and whatnot from Mozilla get added into PaleMoon?
And where did this "Great or Dead" come from? I thought it was Great and Dead, i.e. Firefox was Great some years ago and has been rapidly moving towards Dead ever since the 3.x releases.
(Firefox user since Phoenix 0.3, and the sole reason I'm still using it is the plugins. Fortunately Mozilla have announced that they'll be removing this reason soon).
We have been informed that Catalina's Comet is the home of a major warez site. We recommend that you get over to it immediately to sort it out. We'll keep a slot open for you on the comet's return.
Why is it that Google (a company that no doubt employs some very smart people) cant fix google.com (one of the most popular sites on the entire internet) so it gets an A grade from this SSL test?
The test is somewhat subjective. For example when I checked at one point if you used triple DES, a strong, unbroken cipher, you got marked down, but if you bought your cert from a CA that's been caught issuing fake certs, was pwned by (allegedly) Iranian hackers, or is run by the Chinese military, you were regarded as OK. The site provides a good service overall, but some of the criteria it applies are pretty subjective.
A kiwi is a creature that eats roots and leaves.