The person making the claim can't be specific. Being specific would not only get him exposed to hacking charges, but XP Embedded Standard is supported by Microsoft until 2019. The guy is an attention whore. OMG say it isn't so - an obscure CyberSecurity company trying to get attention and a TV station falling for it?
The summary is probably wrong (what else is new). How would they have tested without actually hacking into the machines? This is just one security firm claiming it,, without any proof. Also, Windows XP Standard Embedded is supported until 2019. Nothing to see here except an attention whore making speculations.
You already need a bunch of different JVMs - sometimes even on the same machine. The translation to function calls for different OSes can be automated, same as any other cross-compiling.
Living with security holes is something you are going to be doing all the time, whether your system is patched or not. As for those who got their passwords, nude pictures, whatever stolen, c'est la vie - when you do stuff online you don't have control of what goes on at the other end. But you can avoid doing stupid stuff like storing nude pics of yourself online or sharing them with anyone (or just don't take them in the first place), and not spending your time at the less reputable sites.
It's not 100%, but it's less risk than an update that leaves your computer unbootable. Malware authors don't want you to brick your computer. Microsoft doesn't care. It just means more sales, same as when people buy a new computer because their old one slowed down because of bit rot.
No, she planned to make the company look good in the short run to foist it off on someone else and collect an even bigger golden parachute. That is the trend nowadays. Just look at how a company's stock goes up when someone announces a mass lay-off. They know that in the short term, there will be more profits, and if they're lucky, they can unload the stock before it all turns to crap.
This is not the days of Win95, when people were pissing their pants lining up to be the first to buy 10 copies at a time. There was enough warning that if anyone had asked someone with a clue, or don a half-assed search on the internet, they would have turned updates off and still be running an older version (it's safe to turn updates back on now, just make sure you have everything set to manual so you control when and what.
If you decided to be willfully stupid, well, now they've learned your lesson and you'll be more careful next time.
They also had a month in which to revert the upgrade. If something had pulled that stunt with me, I would have taken that as a sign of (bad) things to come and reverted immediately. Those who didn't... again, now they've learned their lesson.
I'm not making any excuses whatsoever for Microsoft pulling such an illegal move (yes, illegal - unauthorized use of a computer system). That's another story, and a good reason to dual-boot or keep bootable media with another OS hanging around. Windows 10 goes out of mainstream support in 4 years. By that time there should be enough people fed up that something will change - and if it's not Microsoft, it will be the users.
What "most countries" see (according to you) does not trump American law. If you disagree then feel free to act through the channels available to you in a functional democracy, but do not flout the law.
Actually, it does trump American law. Governments around the world, including all functional democracies except Israel, have been pissing openly on the embargo
. Try to prevent a citizen of any other country from going to Cuba - that's all but 1 other country that obey the embargo. And of course, since we're all about ignoring the embargo, we won't stop anyone from going there, your law be damned. We do it all the time - there are enough Americans ignoring the embargo that it's a fairly big business for some travel agencies. And with no stamp on the passport, how are you going to catch anyone when they re-enter the US? You're not. It's a law that the rest of the world is quite happy to help Americans ignore.
Where do you think that Cuba gets its hard currency for foreign exchange from? Some of it is from the more than 12,000 Americans who go to Cuba via 3rd countries. That's tens of millions of dollars.
As for other countries, !.5 million people go to Cuba every year. That's a few billion more bucks. We all also trade with Cuba. So much for your POS embargo.
Even Americans don't observe it.
While we're at it, Cuba has 1.5% of the population living below the poverty line, compared to 14.5% of Americans. And it has lower infant mortality than the US as well. And Constitutionally-guaranteed free medical care for everyone, including free dental. All this despite the embargo.
In 1976, Cuba's healthcare program was enshrined in Article 50 of the revised Cuban constitution which states "Everyone has the right to health protection and care. The state guarantees this right by providing free medical and hospital care by means of the installations of the rural medical service network, polyclinics, hospitals, preventative and specialized treatment centers; by providing free dental care; by promoting the health publicity campaigns, health education, regular medical examinations, general vaccinations and other measures to prevent the outbreak of disease. All the population cooperates in these activities and plans through the social and mass organizations."
And
In 2005, Cuba had 627 physicians and 94 dentists per 100,000 population. That year the United States had 225 physicians and 54 dentists per 100,000 population;
More doctors, more dentists, all paid for by the public at large. Image how much better they'd be doing today without an embargo?
While it happens, it's not all that often, and I think it's worth the risk of "maybe" getting hit with malware but your computer still runs as opposed to definitely getting hit with the update and "maybe" being stuck with a non-bootable brick.
The proposal summary notes that Java classes would be compiled to native code prior to launching the virtual machine.
If it's all compiled to native code ahead of starting the JVM, what do you need the JVM for? Their use of "native code" here is not what we usually mean. It's just "ahead-of-time" compiled libraries, same as the Android ART.
Sure you have a choice. The forced updates require a working internet connection. Disable it in Windows 10, and either boot another version of Windows or another OS off either another partition or an external device (DVD or USB). It's not THAT hard to install Linux or BSD for when you need the net.
Put your wireless into airplane mode, or otherwise disable the internet connection. Boot another OS (or an earlier version of Windows) off another partition or external media or USB drive (there are plenty of HOWTOs explaining how to make a portable Windows install if you really must).
So set the internet connection to Airplane mode. For those times you need the net, just boot linux off an external device. Or make it into a dual-boot (which you should be doing anyway, for your own safety). Problem solved. You're going to have to do it in a 2025 anyway (extended support ends) or 2020 (mainstream support ends).
They've already said this will be the last version they sell - so unless you want to rent your operating system...
They're selling it with a bootleg version of Windows. Not too swift.
Operating System: Unactivated Windows 7 without license preinstalled for Test. Or wanna other OS, pls leave us a message.
So add another $100 or so if you want Windows. Or make sure you buy an external CD-rom to install Linux or FreeBSD - they don't install too well from a usb key.
Why not just wait? If you don't surf questionable sites, have an up-to-date av program, and everything's working ok, why not just leave well enough alone and let the suckers take the hit? You don't see businesses rushing to update for a reason - and that reason is the topic of this story - it often breaks sh*t.
Some of us just don't feel like building our own any more. Everyone complains about the dearth of linux computers, here's one. It's tested and warranted, and that has some additional monetary value.
They didn't make any bones about it - their first step was to fire a ton of engineers. The "New Yahoo" was supposed to coat along on existing software, acquisitions, and inertia so that it would be more profitable in the short term, making it look more profitable. To bad all software has bug, the acquisitions sucked, and inertia only takes you so far against resistance.
I hadn't seen the original mini, and I'm looking at this and wow, it is SMALL. Of course, this is a SoC device, and definitely not for even older games. Still, it's only a bit more than a laptop with the same specs, so if you don't need a built-in screen, why not?
5 suicides in 4 months for a population of 38,000 is NOT "outstripping that reserve by a 3:1 ratio" for a reserve with a population of 2,000 (Attawapiskat) with even 1 suicide. For it to be outstripped 3:1, you'd need 57 suicides. (38000/2000*3).
And according to your reasoning, the suicides in Woodstock are created their own problems, it was caused by their own actions and their own choices.
In other words, your reasoning is totally f*cked up, unless you believe that suicide never has causes beyond a person's control, such as depression. People don't "choose" to get so depressed that they want to kill themselves. Depression is a mental disorder, not a choice.
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The person making the claim can't be specific. Being specific would not only get him exposed to hacking charges, but XP Embedded Standard is supported by Microsoft until 2019. The guy is an attention whore. OMG say it isn't so - an obscure CyberSecurity company trying to get attention and a TV station falling for it?
The summary is probably wrong (what else is new). How would they have tested without actually hacking into the machines? This is just one security firm claiming it,, without any proof. Also, Windows XP Standard Embedded is supported until 2019. Nothing to see here except an attention whore making speculations.
Microsoft is supporting it to 2019. People have reported, and Microsoft has confimed ta registry hack that lets regular XP and XP Professional also get support by pretending to be Windows Embedded Stardard 2009.
You already need a bunch of different JVMs - sometimes even on the same machine. The translation to function calls for different OSes can be automated, same as any other cross-compiling.
It's been done.
You can use a pre-processor, with the right macros, to generate assembly language or even binary. Just depends on hacking the pre-processor.
It's not 100%, but it's less risk than an update that leaves your computer unbootable. Malware authors don't want you to brick your computer. Microsoft doesn't care. It just means more sales, same as when people buy a new computer because their old one slowed down because of bit rot.
No, she planned to make the company look good in the short run to foist it off on someone else and collect an even bigger golden parachute. That is the trend nowadays. Just look at how a company's stock goes up when someone announces a mass lay-off. They know that in the short term, there will be more profits, and if they're lucky, they can unload the stock before it all turns to crap.
This is not the days of Win95, when people were pissing their pants lining up to be the first to buy 10 copies at a time. There was enough warning that if anyone had asked someone with a clue, or don a half-assed search on the internet, they would have turned updates off and still be running an older version (it's safe to turn updates back on now, just make sure you have everything set to manual so you control when and what.
If you decided to be willfully stupid, well, now they've learned your lesson and you'll be more careful next time.
They also had a month in which to revert the upgrade. If something had pulled that stunt with me, I would have taken that as a sign of (bad) things to come and reverted immediately. Those who didn't ... again, now they've learned their lesson.
I'm not making any excuses whatsoever for Microsoft pulling such an illegal move (yes, illegal - unauthorized use of a computer system). That's another story, and a good reason to dual-boot or keep bootable media with another OS hanging around. Windows 10 goes out of mainstream support in 4 years. By that time there should be enough people fed up that something will change - and if it's not Microsoft, it will be the users.
Most countries see the embargo as...
What "most countries" see (according to you) does not trump American law. If you disagree then feel free to act through the channels available to you in a functional democracy, but do not flout the law.
Actually, it does trump American law. Governments around the world, including all functional democracies except Israel, have been pissing openly on the embargo
. Try to prevent a citizen of any other country from going to Cuba - that's all but 1 other country that obey the embargo. And of course, since we're all about ignoring the embargo, we won't stop anyone from going there, your law be damned. We do it all the time - there are enough Americans ignoring the embargo that it's a fairly big business for some travel agencies. And with no stamp on the passport, how are you going to catch anyone when they re-enter the US? You're not. It's a law that the rest of the world is quite happy to help Americans ignore.
Where do you think that Cuba gets its hard currency for foreign exchange from? Some of it is from the more than 12,000 Americans who go to Cuba via 3rd countries. That's tens of millions of dollars.
As for other countries, !.5 million people go to Cuba every year. That's a few billion more bucks. We all also trade with Cuba. So much for your POS embargo. Even Americans don't observe it.
While we're at it, Cuba has 1.5% of the population living below the poverty line, compared to 14.5% of Americans. And it has lower infant mortality than the US as well. And Constitutionally-guaranteed free medical care for everyone, including free dental. All this despite the embargo.
In 1976, Cuba's healthcare program was enshrined in Article 50 of the revised Cuban constitution which states "Everyone has the right to health protection and care. The state guarantees this right by providing free medical and hospital care by means of the installations of the rural medical service network, polyclinics, hospitals, preventative and specialized treatment centers; by providing free dental care; by promoting the health publicity campaigns, health education, regular medical examinations, general vaccinations and other measures to prevent the outbreak of disease. All the population cooperates in these activities and plans through the social and mass organizations."
And
In 2005, Cuba had 627 physicians and 94 dentists per 100,000 population. That year the United States had 225 physicians and 54 dentists per 100,000 population;
More doctors, more dentists, all paid for by the public at large. Image how much better they'd be doing today without an embargo?
We're about Linux machines you stupid twat.
Or make sure you buy an external CD-rom to install Linux or FreeBSD
What's the matter - no loving left over for FreeBSD and its variants?
While it happens, it's not all that often, and I think it's worth the risk of "maybe" getting hit with malware but your computer still runs as opposed to definitely getting hit with the update and "maybe" being stuck with a non-bootable brick.
The proposal summary notes that Java classes would be compiled to native code prior to launching the virtual machine.
If it's all compiled to native code ahead of starting the JVM, what do you need the JVM for? Their use of "native code" here is not what we usually mean. It's just "ahead-of-time" compiled libraries, same as the Android ART.
Your work PC really NEEDS to look like a phone and NEEDS a couple dozen useless "apps".
Retired early for health reasons, you insensitive clod! :-)
Sure you have a choice. The forced updates require a working internet connection. Disable it in Windows 10, and either boot another version of Windows or another OS off either another partition or an external device (DVD or USB). It's not THAT hard to install Linux or BSD for when you need the net.
Put your wireless into airplane mode, or otherwise disable the internet connection. Boot another OS (or an earlier version of Windows) off another partition or external media or USB drive (there are plenty of HOWTOs explaining how to make a portable Windows install if you really must).
They've already said this will be the last version they sell - so unless you want to rent your operating system ...
Operating System: Unactivated Windows 7 without license preinstalled for Test. Or wanna other OS, pls leave us a message.
So add another $100 or so if you want Windows. Or make sure you buy an external CD-rom to install Linux or FreeBSD - they don't install too well from a usb key.
The N3150 is not the same. Lower graphics performance (even worse than the n3250), etc. Apples vs. Apples.
Why not just wait? If you don't surf questionable sites, have an up-to-date av program, and everything's working ok, why not just leave well enough alone and let the suckers take the hit? You don't see businesses rushing to update for a reason - and that reason is the topic of this story - it often breaks sh*t.
Some of us just don't feel like building our own any more. Everyone complains about the dearth of linux computers, here's one. It's tested and warranted, and that has some additional monetary value.
They didn't make any bones about it - their first step was to fire a ton of engineers. The "New Yahoo" was supposed to coat along on existing software, acquisitions, and inertia so that it would be more profitable in the short term, making it look more profitable. To bad all software has bug, the acquisitions sucked, and inertia only takes you so far against resistance.
Why so expensive?
Can you find a comparative one cheaper? Link, please.
I hadn't seen the original mini, and I'm looking at this and wow, it is SMALL. Of course, this is a SoC device, and definitely not for even older games. Still, it's only a bit more than a laptop with the same specs, so if you don't need a built-in screen, why not?
5 suicides in 4 months for a population of 38,000 is NOT "outstripping that reserve by a 3:1 ratio" for a reserve with a population of 2,000 (Attawapiskat) with even 1 suicide. For it to be outstripped 3:1, you'd need 57 suicides. (38000/2000*3).
And according to your reasoning, the suicides in Woodstock are created their own problems, it was caused by their own actions and their own choices.
In other words, your reasoning is totally f*cked up, unless you believe that suicide never has causes beyond a person's control, such as depression. People don't "choose" to get so depressed that they want to kill themselves. Depression is a mental disorder, not a choice.