yes and no, we already knew they could do this, it's just a pain in the ass. What they wanted was a court order to force Apple to provide access to, or build, back doors into the phone bypassing encryption and lockscreen.
That's what they wanted, to force apple into a new, vulnerable, firmware
Also known as the Apple model of hardware development. Ship it now, offer a fix in 4 months for the shoddy work, then discontinue support for your 7 month old phone and release a new one.
I do not think chrome is syncing my fucking windows SID, but you know what? I never actually checked.
so, for any app to sync my bookmarks, it needs my login to said app, then my bookmarks.
so WTF is it doing sending:hard drive serial number, MAC address, Windows hostname, and Windows user security identifier.?
My hard drive serial number? That helps "sync my bookmarks?"
Come the fuck on man
See this is the exact scenario I've talked about before, typically when learning a new coding language. Dependancies and libraries are BAD.
1: because they remove the need to understand what's actually going on (premade functions for example)
2: because some asshat could yank them away and leave your project broken, then YOU have to figure out how to replace the dependencies.
I get not reinventing the wheel. But you really need to pay attention to what your code is dependent on and remove that dependency if possible
It's sad that we actually need them to provide this, but users are idiots. Users click buttons. Users click "agree". Users click "run macro" users ignore "this could be dangerous".
Lets go a step further and just straight up remove macros completely. There is no need for macro support, no one actually uses these features other than malware. Get rid of it.
Actually the commercial contract SLA would split both ways my friend. Customer is required to pay a good faith payment if they decide to opt out once comcast has begun working, comcast HAS to being working by a set date or customer can walk away without a fee, comcast must complete work to an agreed level of service on a specific date or face penalty.
This is how SLAs work.
Running fiber isn't cheap, and if comcast wasn't careful, they could lose a ridiculous amount of money and man hours getting half way into a fiber deployment only to have the company walk away.
It's comcast, so we already know they are the devil, but without some fine details regarding the actual agreement, and what work was actually done so far, I'm not willing to say comcast is in the wrong here.
Then you can keep your dirty mouth shut when people are complaining about the shitty opensource video drivers and game support for linux.
But yeah, I'm not interested in it either, Nvidia lost me as a customer awhile back. I might get bored and spin up a test box, if this every actually comes out. But.... the only proof is an unsourced fucking screenshot.
Would anyone be interested in "you're an idiot" distro? Just let me photoshop up a screenshot.
The slide started long before the acquisition. But you know what's worse? No, not the apps apper apps mooo moo douche. No. What's worse is people moaning and whining about the good old days.
This is the logical extension of trying to host essentially a forum for discussion, and make money from it. This is what it becomes. Be thankful people still actually mod this at all.
If anyone needs a warning for that scenario they should stop whatever purchase they are about to make, and instead send me the money and I'll buy beer and rolling papers, because clearly they are a brainless twat that shouldn't be allowed to own technology to begin with.
Clarification. I'm not saying the practice by the companies is ok, I'm saying that anyone who doesn't fully expect that outcome is a moron
No, they will download the upgrade files, they still have to decide to actually install them. What's actually happening is people aren't paying attention and end up clicking ok on the nag popups. Every. God. Damn.Time.
I second that emotion, and have already offered my time and services to scour their event logs to show them when THEY CLICKED INSTALL. but no one is taking me up on it.
Pro tip, half of the people here and elsewhere claiming this happened don't even run windows.
It's downloading the files to provide you that almost instant upgrade. Having the files downloaded does not install win10 onto your machine, but it does mean that if you do click install, it will start installing right there, no waiting for 16 gigs of bullshit.
Actually I'm still assuming user error. So lets talk about what just happened to me today. Literally 4 hours ago. I'm currently tasked with spinning up a test environment for a Thycotic server. As such, I spun up a fresh VM using our Server 2012 R2 master in VMware. It was updated last month so after install it was finding roughly 24 optional updates. Again, this is a fresh, un-configured image.
After the updates completed and the box rebooted I began prepping it for a dcpromo. Now, I'm not sure if it was related to opening IE, or something else, but I was prompted with one of those server 2012 blue bars telling me to click here to upgrade to win10.
On server 2012 R2, enterprise license. Now, if I was average joe crazy clicker, I would have accidentally installed win10 onto my fucking DC. But I'm not, I pay close careful attention to what I'm doing.
So, sure, your wife's system might have upgraded to win7 over the weekend. After someone in your family crazy clicked that popup. It wouldn't be a blue bar on win7, but it would popup and offer you an free upgrade right now just click here.
I have yet to see a single documentation case of this actually happening without user intervention. And before you flip out, go ahead and grab the entire systems event logs, export it to a readable format, remove any identifying information, and I'll show you exactly when someone decided to install this.
posts a questionably looking link in a thread about malware. Too funny.
I wonder if that site is done by the douche that usually floods every article with "apps app the apps moo mooo hostfile" bullshit.
If so, just die.
So slashdot is responsible if I post a fake link to an article in a comment that installs malware? Slashdot CONFIGURED their site to allow arbitrary content from third parties (me) and indeed says they are not responsible for said content.
Funny how that doesn't hold up for torrent trackers, but I digress. I think you are mistaken.
While morally the site is responsible, legally no one is. Not even the ad company. That's the kick in the dick part of all of this.
Slashdot Mirror
or you could not discuss illegal stuff on the fucking internet. That's always an option.
It's April 1st and this is slashdot. Fool me once, blah blah blah. i'm just removing the bookmark for this site for the next 24 hours.
Was this even in doubt? I mean seriously, who the fuck gave anyone control over what plugins I install on MY computer?
yes and no, we already knew they could do this, it's just a pain in the ass. What they wanted was a court order to force Apple to provide access to, or build, back doors into the phone bypassing encryption and lockscreen. That's what they wanted, to force apple into a new, vulnerable, firmware
Also known as the Apple model of hardware development. Ship it now, offer a fix in 4 months for the shoddy work, then discontinue support for your 7 month old phone and release a new one.
I do not think chrome is syncing my fucking windows SID, but you know what? I never actually checked. so, for any app to sync my bookmarks, it needs my login to said app, then my bookmarks. so WTF is it doing sending :hard drive serial number, MAC address, Windows hostname, and Windows user security identifier.?
My hard drive serial number? That helps "sync my bookmarks?"
Come the fuck on man
Couldn't mod this up as I don't have any points, but you totally stole my comment and opinion on this one.
See this is the exact scenario I've talked about before, typically when learning a new coding language. Dependancies and libraries are BAD. 1: because they remove the need to understand what's actually going on (premade functions for example) 2: because some asshat could yank them away and leave your project broken, then YOU have to figure out how to replace the dependencies. I get not reinventing the wheel. But you really need to pay attention to what your code is dependent on and remove that dependency if possible
It's sad that we actually need them to provide this, but users are idiots. Users click buttons. Users click "agree". Users click "run macro" users ignore "this could be dangerous". Lets go a step further and just straight up remove macros completely. There is no need for macro support, no one actually uses these features other than malware. Get rid of it.
Well phones and ipads aren't gaming pcs, gaming pcs run windows. PC gaming industry is doing fine.
I love that they are taking this stand but..... Apple Computers IS the establishment. They became what they once fought against a long time ago.
You forgot #61. Lists with more than 3 items. Jesus
30 days to run new fiber? Yeah, if the rep said that comcast is kind of fucked.
Actually the commercial contract SLA would split both ways my friend. Customer is required to pay a good faith payment if they decide to opt out once comcast has begun working, comcast HAS to being working by a set date or customer can walk away without a fee, comcast must complete work to an agreed level of service on a specific date or face penalty. This is how SLAs work. Running fiber isn't cheap, and if comcast wasn't careful, they could lose a ridiculous amount of money and man hours getting half way into a fiber deployment only to have the company walk away. It's comcast, so we already know they are the devil, but without some fine details regarding the actual agreement, and what work was actually done so far, I'm not willing to say comcast is in the wrong here.
Then you can keep your dirty mouth shut when people are complaining about the shitty opensource video drivers and game support for linux. But yeah, I'm not interested in it either, Nvidia lost me as a customer awhile back. I might get bored and spin up a test box, if this every actually comes out. But.... the only proof is an unsourced fucking screenshot. Would anyone be interested in "you're an idiot" distro? Just let me photoshop up a screenshot.
The slide started long before the acquisition. But you know what's worse? No, not the apps apper apps mooo moo douche. No. What's worse is people moaning and whining about the good old days. This is the logical extension of trying to host essentially a forum for discussion, and make money from it. This is what it becomes. Be thankful people still actually mod this at all.
If anyone needs a warning for that scenario they should stop whatever purchase they are about to make, and instead send me the money and I'll buy beer and rolling papers, because clearly they are a brainless twat that shouldn't be allowed to own technology to begin with. Clarification. I'm not saying the practice by the companies is ok, I'm saying that anyone who doesn't fully expect that outcome is a moron
I was just talking about you today on another thread, you asshat. Get a fucking job
Well if these idiots would read what they click, and never ever enable install recommended, and the problem disappears
No, they will download the upgrade files, they still have to decide to actually install them. What's actually happening is people aren't paying attention and end up clicking ok on the nag popups. Every. God. Damn.Time.
I second that emotion, and have already offered my time and services to scour their event logs to show them when THEY CLICKED INSTALL. but no one is taking me up on it. Pro tip, half of the people here and elsewhere claiming this happened don't even run windows.
It's downloading the files to provide you that almost instant upgrade. Having the files downloaded does not install win10 onto your machine, but it does mean that if you do click install, it will start installing right there, no waiting for 16 gigs of bullshit.
Actually I'm still assuming user error. So lets talk about what just happened to me today. Literally 4 hours ago. I'm currently tasked with spinning up a test environment for a Thycotic server. As such, I spun up a fresh VM using our Server 2012 R2 master in VMware. It was updated last month so after install it was finding roughly 24 optional updates. Again, this is a fresh, un-configured image. After the updates completed and the box rebooted I began prepping it for a dcpromo. Now, I'm not sure if it was related to opening IE, or something else, but I was prompted with one of those server 2012 blue bars telling me to click here to upgrade to win10. On server 2012 R2, enterprise license. Now, if I was average joe crazy clicker, I would have accidentally installed win10 onto my fucking DC. But I'm not, I pay close careful attention to what I'm doing. So, sure, your wife's system might have upgraded to win7 over the weekend. After someone in your family crazy clicked that popup. It wouldn't be a blue bar on win7, but it would popup and offer you an free upgrade right now just click here. I have yet to see a single documentation case of this actually happening without user intervention. And before you flip out, go ahead and grab the entire systems event logs, export it to a readable format, remove any identifying information, and I'll show you exactly when someone decided to install this.
posts a questionably looking link in a thread about malware. Too funny. I wonder if that site is done by the douche that usually floods every article with "apps app the apps moo mooo hostfile" bullshit. If so, just die.
So slashdot is responsible if I post a fake link to an article in a comment that installs malware? Slashdot CONFIGURED their site to allow arbitrary content from third parties (me) and indeed says they are not responsible for said content. Funny how that doesn't hold up for torrent trackers, but I digress. I think you are mistaken. While morally the site is responsible, legally no one is. Not even the ad company. That's the kick in the dick part of all of this.