I almost never log in to/. anymore to post as I have found the quality of the site to have dropped off significantly in the past many years. For this though I make an exception.
For all the hand ringing and complaining about updating windows 10 on a site of technically competent people, for the love of God just go into services and disable windows update. This will stop the evil corporation from pushing crap onto your machine. After all the bitching is done about 'whatever the current crisis' is, turn on the service and apply updates. Is is a bit of the pain in the ass? Yes. Does it give me control over my machine? To certain degree.
Hell, on my home machine I have yet to install the creators update or whatever it is called. My guess is that the software fix for this Intel thing will mature and for this I would rather wait than be a forced early adopter.
On the converse, our company will be dropping Symantec AV in less than a month (which means we will have zero Symantec on our network). No more SEPM server, I really don't like using it. It is a huge PITA.
You say that like it is an insult. The real joke is on you though. Slashdot is a mere shell of what it once was. Given the choice between the two, Reddit is going to win.
For a person who's job depends on the use of Office applications, what good would learning ping or nmap be? Just because the millions of people that use office applications on a daily basis to complete their jobs do so on a computer doesn't mean they have any use of the mastery of ping or nmap. Your snarky little comment about something being better than nothing is really uncalled for. Just because these may not be the tools you use (or prefer) in your line of work don't make them less important.
Why would you ever 'jump on' wifi in a store? Even if my wifi is turned on, I have to manually connect to any new networks. My experience this dates back to Best Buy and their in-store price lookup kiosks. Not sure if they still have them, but a few years back I had looked up the price of something at home saw it was in stock at the local Best Buy. Went there to purchase but the price was something like 100 dollars more. I asked the associate what was up, told him I just verified the price on the their website was less. He takes me to one of the pricing kiosks, looks up the part and shows me it matches the in-store price. Since this was before I had a smart phone (like I said it was years ago), I ran home looked up the price again, printed it out, went back to the store and got the item for that price. Turns out the in-store kiosks either pointed to an intranet mirror of the public site or had different pricing. Bottom line is don't trust the wolf when he says he isn't going to eat you.
Plot twist, the assailants are blind.... Wait, this is not Reddit. I loved your comment though and if I were moderating you would get a +1 funny from me.
I agree with most of the MS bashing comments here, but you DO have control over updates. Turn the 'windows update' service to disabled. Now you have total control over when you get updates. So really quit bitching about this, it is really a non-issue for anyone that has the slightest bit of knowledge about Windows.
I loved the Note 7, it was such an awesome upgrade from my Note 3. Got the first 7, traded it back on the first recall for a temporary S7 edge which I didn't like. Traded the edge S7 back for a 'safe' Note 7. Got the second recall notice and waited until the V20 came out and traded for that. At this point my attitude toward Samsung is 'fuck Samsung'. Sure I got a $25 credit on my bill, but I also got to spend a total of about 4+ hours dicking around in the ATT store transferring and activating phones. The V20 is a very nice phone. If you are looking for a Note 7 replacement take a look at the V20.
You give people too much credit. We have slightly less than 50 active users on our Exchange server. On any given email that goes out to the 'allemployees' DL there are between 1 to 4 people that reply all. It happens every single time, even if I am just sending an email out to everyone stating Server 'X' will be offline for a reboot. That will get at least one. The announcement for this years Christmas party got 4 or 5.
You can turn it off by setting the Windows Update service to manual and turning it off. If I had to put only on thing on my hate list for Win10 it would be the automatic updates and worse yet the automatic reboot. I constantly run with 10-15 open apps at any given time most as source references to my main app. Nothing worse then coming in in the morning, or even walking down to the kitchen to get water and finding you computer has rebooted.
what is the difference if it is google.com or google.google. No on is saying there won't be a '.' dot except you. It will be a TLD. Although in Googles case I am sure it will be search.google, apps.google, maps.google, etc...
They have it for reading the mag stripe that is on your drivers license. Since that is encoded differently from a gift card, that is why they couldn't make any sense of the info when they scanned the card. legal or illegal gift card would have netted the same nonsensical info on their readers. And to be technical it is not their readers that are the problem, it is their software.
I work at a company that encodes membership/loyalty (mag stripe) cards. The software we have for this is very flexible and can read/encode almost anything on a mag stripe. It is probably a similar setup to what they were using to alter the gift cards in the first place.
The cards, although illegal are not the problem. The were in an OPAQUE bag. I saw nowhere in 18 USC 1029, where the possession of an OPAQUE bag is illegal or even cause for a search or even reasonable suspicion. However; once the LEO got the information back on the passenger that he had an outstanding warrant, then and only dependent on the nature of the warrant could they have reasonable suspicion. eg... failure to pay child support = no reasonable suspicion of an opaque bag. Selling drugs = reasonable suspicion of an opaque bag.
I agree with everything you say about the gift cards, but that is not the problem. The article stated it was an opaque bag that was spotted, not 143 gift cards. Unless the warrant of passenger had something to do with an illegal activity the could involve hiding stuff inside small opaque bags the how could there be reasonable suspicion? From my experiences with the courts, the only reason they defendants didn't win getting the search thrown out is that they did have enough money for a good attorney.
How in the fcuk did this comment get modded as insightful? Out of the three you got 1 right.
Don't blame the States - Wrong, blame the States, it is the States (as through it's elected officials) that is taking the bribes (meaning the 'legal' lobbying). Blame the big corporation - Correct. Blame us- Wrong. The corruption of politics is so complete that if you believe your vote counts for anything then you are delusional.
If England were smart they would lure Apple move from Ireland to set up shop there and move out of Ireland. Nothing against the Irish, they are not the ones that are giving Apple the screws. With an independent England they could grant the tax breaks and not have the commitment broken by a third party after the fact. That would help England with the perceived problems of Brexit and give Apple a graceful way to say FU to the EU.
For those not familiar, way back in the early 2000's Slim Devices put together a hardware/software package for whole house streaming audio that is STILL ahead of today's current technology. Logitech bought them in 2006, actually made a few improvements until maybe 2009-10, but I am guessing that is while the most of the unit was still staffed with Slim engineers. In 2012 they discontinued the line, followed up with the EU Radio (stupid fucking name) which was in the same housing as the last version of the Squeeze radio. The only bright part about the EU radio is that you could flash the bios to make it work as a Squeeze radio. They then discontinued the EU radio. Trying to find replacment squeeze radios gets harder and harder (and more expensive by the month). I have 8 devices at home and that should last me..... Fingers crossed.
FU logitech, stick to making mice and keyboards. You never let me down there, but did you really fuck up the Squeeze line.
How in the hell did this make it to the front page of Slashdot? Wait it is an attempt bash MS, so lets push it through. Oh my God, I can't believe the Xbox360 won't run Linux or do exactly what I want it to do. Get over it, it was not designed to be a general purpose device. MS made it to compete in the console arena not against the media center PC.
Wahhh I won a new car and it won't run the latest version of Debian... STFU and either sell your Xbox and buy something you can make work to your desire, give it away as a gift (which would make you the worlds coolest uncle) or buy some of the better Xbox games and enjoy it for what it is.
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You do know that you can just disable the Windows Update service right? That was a 'feature' that you were able to implement from day one.
I almost never log in to /. anymore to post as I have found the quality of the site to have dropped off significantly in the past many years. For this though I make an exception.
For all the hand ringing and complaining about updating windows 10 on a site of technically competent people, for the love of God just go into services and disable windows update. This will stop the evil corporation from pushing crap onto your machine. After all the bitching is done about 'whatever the current crisis' is, turn on the service and apply updates. Is is a bit of the pain in the ass? Yes. Does it give me control over my machine? To certain degree.
Hell, on my home machine I have yet to install the creators update or whatever it is called. My guess is that the software fix for this Intel thing will mature and for this I would rather wait than be a forced early adopter.
DK
On the converse, our company will be dropping Symantec AV in less than a month (which means we will have zero Symantec on our network). No more SEPM server, I really don't like using it. It is a huge PITA.
You say that like it is an insult. The real joke is on you though. Slashdot is a mere shell of what it once was. Given the choice between the two, Reddit is going to win.
DK
For a person who's job depends on the use of Office applications, what good would learning ping or nmap be? Just because the millions of people that use office applications on a daily basis to complete their jobs do so on a computer doesn't mean they have any use of the mastery of ping or nmap. Your snarky little comment about something being better than nothing is really uncalled for. Just because these may not be the tools you use (or prefer) in your line of work don't make them less important.
Why would you ever 'jump on' wifi in a store? Even if my wifi is turned on, I have to manually connect to any new networks. My experience this dates back to Best Buy and their in-store price lookup kiosks. Not sure if they still have them, but a few years back I had looked up the price of something at home saw it was in stock at the local Best Buy. Went there to purchase but the price was something like 100 dollars more. I asked the associate what was up, told him I just verified the price on the their website was less. He takes me to one of the pricing kiosks, looks up the part and shows me it matches the in-store price. Since this was before I had a smart phone (like I said it was years ago), I ran home looked up the price again, printed it out, went back to the store and got the item for that price. Turns out the in-store kiosks either pointed to an intranet mirror of the public site or had different pricing. Bottom line is don't trust the wolf when he says he isn't going to eat you.
"What person felt the need to downgrade the horrible crime of wire fraud into merely 'tricking'?"
Apparently just about any /. editor
Plot twist, the assailants are blind.... Wait, this is not Reddit. I loved your comment though and if I were moderating you would get a +1 funny from me.
I agree with most of the MS bashing comments here, but you DO have control over updates. Turn the 'windows update' service to disabled. Now you have total control over when you get updates. So really quit bitching about this, it is really a non-issue for anyone that has the slightest bit of knowledge about Windows.
Plot twist; this isn't Reddit.
I loved the Note 7, it was such an awesome upgrade from my Note 3. Got the first 7, traded it back on the first recall for a temporary S7 edge which I didn't like. Traded the edge S7 back for a 'safe' Note 7. Got the second recall notice and waited until the V20 came out and traded for that. At this point my attitude toward Samsung is 'fuck Samsung'. Sure I got a $25 credit on my bill, but I also got to spend a total of about 4+ hours dicking around in the ATT store transferring and activating phones. The V20 is a very nice phone. If you are looking for a Note 7 replacement take a look at the V20.
...and the second time I was buying some "prescription drugs" in Tijuana.
There fixed that for you.
You give people too much credit. We have slightly less than 50 active users on our Exchange server. On any given email that goes out to the 'allemployees' DL there are between 1 to 4 people that reply all. It happens every single time, even if I am just sending an email out to everyone stating Server 'X' will be offline for a reboot. That will get at least one. The announcement for this years Christmas party got 4 or 5.
You can turn it off by setting the Windows Update service to manual and turning it off. If I had to put only on thing on my hate list for Win10 it would be the automatic updates and worse yet the automatic reboot. I constantly run with 10-15 open apps at any given time most as source references to my main app. Nothing worse then coming in in the morning, or even walking down to the kitchen to get water and finding you computer has rebooted.
FYBG
what is the difference if it is google.com or google.google. No on is saying there won't be a '.' dot except you. It will be a TLD. Although in Googles case I am sure it will be search.google, apps.google, maps.google, etc...
They have it for reading the mag stripe that is on your drivers license. Since that is encoded differently from a gift card, that is why they couldn't make any sense of the info when they scanned the card. legal or illegal gift card would have netted the same nonsensical info on their readers. And to be technical it is not their readers that are the problem, it is their software.
I work at a company that encodes membership/loyalty (mag stripe) cards. The software we have for this is very flexible and can read/encode almost anything on a mag stripe. It is probably a similar setup to what they were using to alter the gift cards in the first place.
The cards, although illegal are not the problem. The were in an OPAQUE bag. I saw nowhere in 18 USC 1029, where the possession of an OPAQUE bag is illegal or even cause for a search or even reasonable suspicion. However; once the LEO got the information back on the passenger that he had an outstanding warrant, then and only dependent on the nature of the warrant could they have reasonable suspicion. eg... failure to pay child support = no reasonable suspicion of an opaque bag. Selling drugs = reasonable suspicion of an opaque bag.
I agree with everything you say about the gift cards, but that is not the problem. The article stated it was an opaque bag that was spotted, not 143 gift cards. Unless the warrant of passenger had something to do with an illegal activity the could involve hiding stuff inside small opaque bags the how could there be reasonable suspicion? From my experiences with the courts, the only reason they defendants didn't win getting the search thrown out is that they did have enough money for a good attorney.
I agreed with you up until a point, actually a point you didn't make: Taco Bell should be illegal.
How in the fcuk did this comment get modded as insightful? Out of the three you got 1 right.
Don't blame the States - Wrong, blame the States, it is the States (as through it's elected officials) that is taking the bribes (meaning the 'legal' lobbying).
Blame the big corporation - Correct.
Blame us- Wrong. The corruption of politics is so complete that if you believe your vote counts for anything then you are delusional.
If England were smart they would lure Apple move from Ireland to set up shop there and move out of Ireland. Nothing against the Irish, they are not the ones that are giving Apple the screws. With an independent England they could grant the tax breaks and not have the commitment broken by a third party after the fact. That would help England with the perceived problems of Brexit and give Apple a graceful way to say FU to the EU.
Slim Devices (RIP)
For those not familiar, way back in the early 2000's Slim Devices put together a hardware/software package for whole house streaming audio that is STILL ahead of today's current technology. Logitech bought them in 2006, actually made a few improvements until maybe 2009-10, but I am guessing that is while the most of the unit was still staffed with Slim engineers. In 2012 they discontinued the line, followed up with the EU Radio (stupid fucking name) which was in the same housing as the last version of the Squeeze radio. The only bright part about the EU radio is that you could flash the bios to make it work as a Squeeze radio. They then discontinued the EU radio. Trying to find replacment squeeze radios gets harder and harder (and more expensive by the month). I have 8 devices at home and that should last me..... Fingers crossed.
FU logitech, stick to making mice and keyboards. You never let me down there, but did you really fuck up the Squeeze line.
In a way it kind of reminds me of the artificial scarcity created by the .com TLD.
Are you seriously comparing not being able to view your facebook page with killing your family by driving over a cliff?
How in the hell did this make it to the front page of Slashdot? Wait it is an attempt bash MS, so lets push it through. Oh my God, I can't believe the Xbox360 won't run Linux or do exactly what I want it to do. Get over it, it was not designed to be a general purpose device. MS made it to compete in the console arena not against the media center PC.
Wahhh I won a new car and it won't run the latest version of Debian... STFU and either sell your Xbox and buy something you can make work to your desire, give it away as a gift (which would make you the worlds coolest uncle) or buy some of the better Xbox games and enjoy it for what it is.