Write-ins are always an option, but that isn't very effective if the person is relatively obscure to the public and not heavily involved in local or national politics.
And I hope you are one of many who understand that even though the representative that you voted for didn't win, it still means that democracy went into effect, and a majority of the local population voted for a different candidate that did win, thus negating the thought process resulting in the system "being rigged." Now if the representative that won is a complete and total moron, that means you live in a village of idiots.
The government must prove that the defendant: (1) knowingly and willfully made or concealed a (2) materially (3) false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation within (4) the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the federal government.
So they need to prove that she knowingly lied, which can be a difficult challenge. If she testified with what she believes was the truth, even though it was later to be found untrue, they have to determine that she knew it was untrue to get her with perjury. If there is no proof that she was lying on purpose, no perjury charge can be applied.
He's pro free trade. He's made comments that he likes the idea of the TPP, but also stated that he feels the current form of the TPP is likely filled with crony capitalism.
“I have a sense that [the TPP] is laden with crony capitalism,” the former Governor of New Mexico explained. He further went on to clarify why his position might not have been as clearly relayed previously: “I have heard from people that I respect that it actually advances the ball, so I would keep an open mind, but the devil is in the details.”
Based on this clarification, it would seem that Johnson himself doesn’t have much love for the TPP, but isn’t completely ruling it out until he reads it for himself. Which is as reasonable a position as a libertarian politician can possibly take when discussing a document that, while shady, hasn’t been available to read for oneself yet.
Johnson further clarified on how he would approach the TPP if he were get is hands on it: “I would be a skeptic looking at that to begin with, because I think those who have money are buying favoritism, and [the TPP] is for sale.”
Back then when I was 15 I was learning networking, but I probably wouldn't have had the full skillset to set up a business network. I knew maybe one or two people I graduated with that would, maybe, but not certainly. As of recent, I haven't met any teenagers remotely close to being knowledgeable enough to set one up.
I'd admit that there are probably a few around, but your average 15 yr old now-a-days knows jack shit about setting up reliable business networks, properly at that.
Point I'm making is it's not as hard or as expensive as you make it out to be, and there's no excuse for a business that relies on it's computers to prevent severe financial impact not to have some way around it.
It's more sophisticated than a home network, which is what most people are familiar with.
Plus I'm still trying to figure out how these critical systems ended up on the interwebs. Maybe if you can't handle a simple thing like a windows upgrade the computer should have it's network cable unplugged and a condom wrapped around it.
Again, small businesses are not the same as big or medium-sized businesses in how their computers are managed.
A woman runs a travel agency. She probably has one, maybe two computers if it's just her and one other person that works there. They need internet access on those systems to operate their business. A small business doesn't always have the luxury of having dedicated offline-only databases. It's not always practical for one reason or another.
There isn't a windows 10 version of RT, though. All they did was put in an update that inserted a half-assed windows 10 look-a-like menu into RT 8.1.
They abandoned Windows RT after the Surface 2 came out, and before Windows 10 was released.
Also the Xbox One does in fact have a true version of Windows 10, as well as the phone. The 10 OS was designed to be multi-platform, or what they call "Continuum," in that they can have the same OS and the same experience across console, phone and PC, all with the same code and UI.
So it's not really just a rebranding, but it's a true OS conversion.
Sure, I might feel some empathy for some little 2-person small business that's just using the tools that are available for their industry, but I don't feel any sympathy for any big company that's having problems with Windows. They should have known better.
That's who I've been talking about. Small businesses who don't have and can't afford the resources get hosed by shit like this.
I work for a medium-sized business now and thankfully we've got our shit together. I agree, if a medium-sized business or a large business gets taken down by something like this, they should absolutely fire their entire IT dept and learn a hard lesson.
But if enough customers and businesses that were impacted made formal complaints to a government body like the FTC, they would have the power to go after MS and hit them in the bank.
After seeing what happened in the infamous anti-trust trial, I seriously doubt it. Maybe in other countries though, but then MS will just do things on a region-specific basis, acting nicer towards EU customers and screwing the American ones.
If enough people stopped being lazy assholes and actually filed formal complaints against microsoft to the FTC and the AG, that could potentially sway them to re-analyze microsoft's anti-trust lawsuits, and re-open them/file new ones. Now that's a fucking pipe dream, but it's a dream, damnit.
You underestimate the level of stupidity that the human race can achieve. I am quite certain that a lot of the comments are in jest, but there are ALWAYS going to be a group of individuals who are undoubtedly gullible and will attempt this, especially since he trolled them by plugging a speaker jack in and played music from his phone.
but I'm talking about businesses like mom n pop business shops e.g. small medical practices.
So? You're saying mom n pop stores should put the weight of their entire family fortune on a PC? Even they should learn some basic risk.
As for dedicated IT reps, what the heck are you talking about. You don't need a team of IT critical person to help you keep your mom n pop store running. You also don't need a team of dedicated IT gurus to get people to not put critical machinery on the internet. You don't need a team of IT people to ensure that you have a backup working machine offline. You practically don't need any management once a small network is setup in ways that most 15 year olds are perfectly capable of doing.
What I'm saying is that they don't have daily in-house IT support like larger businesses do. They don't have someone to consistently consult to, to address their computer infrastructure on a daily basis. They simply can't afford it.
Sure, some small businesses would have a vendor that comes out once in a while to make sure they have backups working, or other infrastructure essentials, maybe like once a quarter, but they don't have that person there every day helping them make these decisions.
And I'm pretty damn sure "many 15 year olds" are NOT perfectly capable of setting up a small business. You're smoking crack for giving them that much credit. It's not super sophisticated, but it's not just a simple setup, either.
Windows 10 today. A spam relay that gets your IP address blacklisted from sending all emails tomorrow. A ransomware attack next week. The entire customer database and all their work public on the internet next month.
Who cares what happens? The actual attack is irrelevant. The point is that running a business is not easy. There's things you need to learn, tax forms you need to fill in, payroll and a warehouse to manage. You either have that expertise in-house or you pay a small sum to outsource it. Thinking computers are just a few toys in your business, treating them as such, and yet revolving critical operations around them is just another lesson that mom n pop either learn the easy way or the hard way.
Especially now when the almighty cloud makes everything super easy for everyone a computer shouldn't be interrupting your operations at all.
Well no shit Sherlock Holmes, of course running a business isn't easy. But they don't treat their PC's like toys, they get used on a daily basis for data entry, usually in proprietary software application(that likely only work on a specific OS), not browsing reddit or whatever all day. If they go down, they may have a backup to recall to, but they have to close up shop for a day or two(or longer depending on how the infrastructure is) while working on the restoration process. That day or two of being down costs them money and prevents them from making income. Yes, they should have a better system in place, but say for example they are barely getting by, where are they going to get the money to modernize their infrastructure? Nowhere!
As david_thornley put it, the Windows 10 upgrade was deceitful, and has attributes similar to malware. If the only option you have to click on is "upgrade" and you cannot delay it outright, it is acting in a malicious manner. Especially if it cripples your system.
Microsoft firmly acknowledges this by reverting their upgrade practice back to allowing one to stop the upgrade completely, like they did when they first started it.
Simply put - You may understand the intricacies of what MS's dirty past has been, but not everyone is as knowledgeable as you are about their history. Considering, again, that MS has a 90% market share on PC OS's to this day, everyone's first thought is get a Windows computer and Windows compatible software.
Trust me, I agree with you and it would be refreshing to see more businesses see MS for what they are and do their damnedest to get away from them, but a majority of small businesses either don't care enough, or don't have the resources to make that decision.
This upgrade wasn't forced on anyone either. They allowed it to be done, and didn't opt out. Oh, the opt-out mechanism didn't work right? Or the rollback mechanism didn't work right? That must be user error... or maybe a small bug, sorry! If that's not a good enough explanation for you, too bad, good luck getting a court judgment. Suing a behemoth like MS isn't a simple or inexpensive task (unless you take it to small-claims court as at least one person has done, but if you're a big business trying to claim serious losses, that's not the right venue).
The upgrade, for a time, was forced. There was a brief period of about 1-2 months where MS adjusted the GWX app to remove the options to sidestep the upgrade. Literally the only option you had was "Upgrade", then they made a slight change to have "Upgrade" or "schedule upgrade later", which if you chose the latter, when the day came that you chose to upgrade, it makes the upgrade happen with no option provided to delay it again or stop it completely.
And their response to that? "Oh, just roll back if you don't like it"
If you recall, the internet had an uproar about this, it hit the news, and microsoft acknowledged this and backed off on the aggressive upgrades by altering the GWX app to have a cancel option, but it wasn't until after it was all over the news because they couldn't hide it anymore.
They knew what they had done and fessed up and changed it back.
Also, the failures that occurred were NOT user-error. I know exactly how the upgrade process works, and the only thing the end user does is click "upgrade" to start it. From there, the system literally handles it itself. All you do is sit there and wait for it to end, and there were many cases where the upgrade failed, and due to corruption or damaged/missing files, it was unable to roll back as it's intended to do.
The fact that Microsoft put this out with a foolproof attitude, that every system out there would upgrade seamlessly, is incredibly naive of them.
Suing MS likely would prove fruitless, for obvious reasons. But if enough customers and businesses that were impacted made formal complaints to a government body like the FTC, they would have the power to go after MS and hit them in the bank.
Look, you may be able to restore your system in 10 minutes, but I'm talking about businesses like mom n pop business shops e.g. small medical practices. They don't have the financial wherewithal to hire a dedicated IT rep to manage their tiny infrastructure on a day-to-day basis. They may hire an IT vendor to set up the basic infrastructure or the do it themselves, but if they chose to go with Windows 7 Pro, for example, they will receive the windows 10 upgrade prompts.
Desk clerks and Doctors aren't IT gurus and don't know how to manage Windows updates like some of us do. If they aren't keenly aware of the specific update that installs the GWX application, then they will be susceptible to the problem of being forced to upgrade to Windows 10. And then once that happens, now they have to spend the unnecessary time it takes to roll back.
Time is money, Garbz, and they're losing money while wasting time because Microsoft decided that they wouldn't take no for an answer.
Actually, I don't think your suggestion or even my suggestion of ripping the drive out would do you any good unless you put the cloned drive back in the same system because of the built-in TPM on those things. That key won't work unless it's in the same system with the matching TPM data. It just dawned on me that we'd only have half the key, essentially.
The problem is that you need to unlock the drive with the recovery key, but if you boot to a cloning device you never get the prompt for entering the key to unlock the drive.
If the cloning software has a functioning command prompt feature available, then you can unlock the drive using some command lines to enter the recovery key.
Have you seen how Surfaces are built? Good luck taking it apart and putting it back together without cracking the screen or keeping anti-tamper tape in one piece. Ifixit gave it a 1 out of 10, I believe. I think they went through 3 or 4 surface pro's before they got one taken apart successfully without cracking the screen, and it was a tedious process.
If someone is willing to throw away a $1000-$2500 tablet for some data, sure, they can rip the HDD out and use the recovery key, but then you're SOL because your warranty is void due to tamper.
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Write-ins are always an option, but that isn't very effective if the person is relatively obscure to the public and not heavily involved in local or national politics.
And I hope you are one of many who understand that even though the representative that you voted for didn't win, it still means that democracy went into effect, and a majority of the local population voted for a different candidate that did win, thus negating the thought process resulting in the system "being rigged." Now if the representative that won is a complete and total moron, that means you live in a village of idiots.
To play devil's advocate here...
The government must prove that the defendant: (1) knowingly and willfully made or concealed a (2) materially (3) false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation within (4) the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the federal government.
So they need to prove that she knowingly lied, which can be a difficult challenge. If she testified with what she believes was the truth, even though it was later to be found untrue, they have to determine that she knew it was untrue to get her with perjury. If there is no proof that she was lying on purpose, no perjury charge can be applied.
This article helps explain why she won't be charged with perjury:
http://lawnewz.com/high-profil...
anything from the last data dump that's worth our time?
He's pro free trade. He's made comments that he likes the idea of the TPP, but also stated that he feels the current form of the TPP is likely filled with crony capitalism.
“I have a sense that [the TPP] is laden with crony capitalism,” the former Governor of New Mexico explained. He further went on to clarify why his position might not have been as clearly relayed previously: “I have heard from people that I respect that it actually advances the ball, so I would keep an open mind, but the devil is in the details.”
Based on this clarification, it would seem that Johnson himself doesn’t have much love for the TPP, but isn’t completely ruling it out until he reads it for himself. Which is as reasonable a position as a libertarian politician can possibly take when discussing a document that, while shady, hasn’t been available to read for oneself yet.
Johnson further clarified on how he would approach the TPP if he were get is hands on it: “I would be a skeptic looking at that to begin with, because I think those who have money are buying favoritism, and [the TPP] is for sale.”
source:
https://beinglibertarian.com/g...
Back then when I was 15 I was learning networking, but I probably wouldn't have had the full skillset to set up a business network. I knew maybe one or two people I graduated with that would, maybe, but not certainly. As of recent, I haven't met any teenagers remotely close to being knowledgeable enough to set one up.
I'd admit that there are probably a few around, but your average 15 yr old now-a-days knows jack shit about setting up reliable business networks, properly at that.
Point I'm making is it's not as hard or as expensive as you make it out to be, and there's no excuse for a business that relies on it's computers to prevent severe financial impact not to have some way around it.
It's more sophisticated than a home network, which is what most people are familiar with.
Plus I'm still trying to figure out how these critical systems ended up on the interwebs. Maybe if you can't handle a simple thing like a windows upgrade the computer should have it's network cable unplugged and a condom wrapped around it.
Again, small businesses are not the same as big or medium-sized businesses in how their computers are managed.
Example: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
A woman runs a travel agency. She probably has one, maybe two computers if it's just her and one other person that works there. They need internet access on those systems to operate their business. A small business doesn't always have the luxury of having dedicated offline-only databases. It's not always practical for one reason or another.
Surface RT version of "Windows 10"
There isn't a windows 10 version of RT, though. All they did was put in an update that inserted a half-assed windows 10 look-a-like menu into RT 8.1.
They abandoned Windows RT after the Surface 2 came out, and before Windows 10 was released.
Also the Xbox One does in fact have a true version of Windows 10, as well as the phone. The 10 OS was designed to be multi-platform, or what they call "Continuum," in that they can have the same OS and the same experience across console, phone and PC, all with the same code and UI.
So it's not really just a rebranding, but it's a true OS conversion.
Not ALL of them were forced, but there was a span of a month or two where the upgrade to Windows 10 made it difficult to prevent it.
Also, if you had Windows 7 ultimate(such as myself), you were ignored by the Windows 10 upgrade completely.
More curious would be the number of systems that rolled back after the brute-force upgrade
I was being nice, ya turd sandwich.
Sure, I might feel some empathy for some little 2-person small business that's just using the tools that are available for their industry, but I don't feel any sympathy for any big company that's having problems with Windows. They should have known better.
That's who I've been talking about. Small businesses who don't have and can't afford the resources get hosed by shit like this.
I work for a medium-sized business now and thankfully we've got our shit together. I agree, if a medium-sized business or a large business gets taken down by something like this, they should absolutely fire their entire IT dept and learn a hard lesson.
But if enough customers and businesses that were impacted made formal complaints to a government body like the FTC, they would have the power to go after MS and hit them in the bank.
After seeing what happened in the infamous anti-trust trial, I seriously doubt it. Maybe in other countries though, but then MS will just do things on a region-specific basis, acting nicer towards EU customers and screwing the American ones.
If enough people stopped being lazy assholes and actually filed formal complaints against microsoft to the FTC and the AG, that could potentially sway them to re-analyze microsoft's anti-trust lawsuits, and re-open them/file new ones. Now that's a fucking pipe dream, but it's a dream, damnit.
It happens to the best of us. The Three T's are a tricky bunch.
https://www.askideas.com/media...
"There's a sucker born every minute"
-Adolf Hitler
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You underestimate the level of stupidity that the human race can achieve. I am quite certain that a lot of the comments are in jest, but there are ALWAYS going to be a group of individuals who are undoubtedly gullible and will attempt this, especially since he trolled them by plugging a speaker jack in and played music from his phone.
BUH BYE!
Common sense sure is hard to come by these days
IS THIS REAL LIFE?!
Take your racist bullshit somewhere else
but I'm talking about businesses like mom n pop business shops e.g. small medical practices.
So? You're saying mom n pop stores should put the weight of their entire family fortune on a PC? Even they should learn some basic risk.
As for dedicated IT reps, what the heck are you talking about. You don't need a team of IT critical person to help you keep your mom n pop store running. You also don't need a team of dedicated IT gurus to get people to not put critical machinery on the internet. You don't need a team of IT people to ensure that you have a backup working machine offline. You practically don't need any management once a small network is setup in ways that most 15 year olds are perfectly capable of doing.
What I'm saying is that they don't have daily in-house IT support like larger businesses do. They don't have someone to consistently consult to, to address their computer infrastructure on a daily basis. They simply can't afford it.
Sure, some small businesses would have a vendor that comes out once in a while to make sure they have backups working, or other infrastructure essentials, maybe like once a quarter, but they don't have that person there every day helping them make these decisions.
And I'm pretty damn sure "many 15 year olds" are NOT perfectly capable of setting up a small business. You're smoking crack for giving them that much credit. It's not super sophisticated, but it's not just a simple setup, either.
Windows 10 today.
A spam relay that gets your IP address blacklisted from sending all emails tomorrow.
A ransomware attack next week.
The entire customer database and all their work public on the internet next month.
Who cares what happens? The actual attack is irrelevant. The point is that running a business is not easy. There's things you need to learn, tax forms you need to fill in, payroll and a warehouse to manage. You either have that expertise in-house or you pay a small sum to outsource it. Thinking computers are just a few toys in your business, treating them as such, and yet revolving critical operations around them is just another lesson that mom n pop either learn the easy way or the hard way.
Especially now when the almighty cloud makes everything super easy for everyone a computer shouldn't be interrupting your operations at all.
Well no shit Sherlock Holmes, of course running a business isn't easy. But they don't treat their PC's like toys, they get used on a daily basis for data entry, usually in proprietary software application(that likely only work on a specific OS), not browsing reddit or whatever all day. If they go down, they may have a backup to recall to, but they have to close up shop for a day or two(or longer depending on how the infrastructure is) while working on the restoration process. That day or two of being down costs them money and prevents them from making income.
Yes, they should have a better system in place, but say for example they are barely getting by, where are they going to get the money to modernize their infrastructure? Nowhere!
As david_thornley put it, the Windows 10 upgrade was deceitful, and has attributes similar to malware. If the only option you have to click on is "upgrade" and you cannot delay it outright, it is acting in a malicious manner. Especially if it cripples your system.
Microsoft firmly acknowledges this by reverting their upgrade practice back to allowing one to stop the upgrade completely, like they did when they first started it.
Simply put - You may understand the intricacies of what MS's dirty past has been, but not everyone is as knowledgeable as you are about their history. Considering, again, that MS has a 90% market share on PC OS's to this day, everyone's first thought is get a Windows computer and Windows compatible software.
Trust me, I agree with you and it would be refreshing to see more businesses see MS for what they are and do their damnedest to get away from them, but a majority of small businesses either don't care enough, or don't have the resources to make that decision.
This upgrade wasn't forced on anyone either. They allowed it to be done, and didn't opt out. Oh, the opt-out mechanism didn't work right? Or the rollback mechanism didn't work right? That must be user error... or maybe a small bug, sorry! If that's not a good enough explanation for you, too bad, good luck getting a court judgment. Suing a behemoth like MS isn't a simple or inexpensive task (unless you take it to small-claims court as at least one person has done, but if you're a big business trying to claim serious losses, that's not the right venue).
The upgrade, for a time, was forced. There was a brief period of about 1-2 months where MS adjusted the GWX app to remove the options to sidestep the upgrade. Literally the only option you had was "Upgrade", then they made a slight change to have "Upgrade" or "schedule upgrade later", which if you chose the latter, when the day came that you chose to upgrade, it makes the upgrade happen with no option provided to delay it again or stop it completely.
And their response to that? "Oh, just roll back if you don't like it"
If you recall, the internet had an uproar about this, it hit the news, and microsoft acknowledged this and backed off on the aggressive upgrades by altering the GWX app to have a cancel option, but it wasn't until after it was all over the news because they couldn't hide it anymore.
They knew what they had done and fessed up and changed it back.
Also, the failures that occurred were NOT user-error. I know exactly how the upgrade process works, and the only thing the end user does is click "upgrade" to start it. From there, the system literally handles it itself. All you do is sit there and wait for it to end, and there were many cases where the upgrade failed, and due to corruption or damaged/missing files, it was unable to roll back as it's intended to do.
The fact that Microsoft put this out with a foolproof attitude, that every system out there would upgrade seamlessly, is incredibly naive of them.
Suing MS likely would prove fruitless, for obvious reasons. But if enough customers and businesses that were impacted made formal complaints to a government body like the FTC, they would have the power to go after MS and hit them in the bank.
Look, you may be able to restore your system in 10 minutes, but I'm talking about businesses like mom n pop business shops e.g. small medical practices. They don't have the financial wherewithal to hire a dedicated IT rep to manage their tiny infrastructure on a day-to-day basis. They may hire an IT vendor to set up the basic infrastructure or the do it themselves, but if they chose to go with Windows 7 Pro, for example, they will receive the windows 10 upgrade prompts.
Desk clerks and Doctors aren't IT gurus and don't know how to manage Windows updates like some of us do. If they aren't keenly aware of the specific update that installs the GWX application, then they will be susceptible to the problem of being forced to upgrade to Windows 10. And then once that happens, now they have to spend the unnecessary time it takes to roll back.
Time is money, Garbz, and they're losing money while wasting time because Microsoft decided that they wouldn't take no for an answer.
Actually, I don't think your suggestion or even my suggestion of ripping the drive out would do you any good unless you put the cloned drive back in the same system because of the built-in TPM on those things. That key won't work unless it's in the same system with the matching TPM data. It just dawned on me that we'd only have half the key, essentially.
The problem is that you need to unlock the drive with the recovery key, but if you boot to a cloning device you never get the prompt for entering the key to unlock the drive.
If the cloning software has a functioning command prompt feature available, then you can unlock the drive using some command lines to enter the recovery key.
Have you seen how Surfaces are built? Good luck taking it apart and putting it back together without cracking the screen or keeping anti-tamper tape in one piece. Ifixit gave it a 1 out of 10, I believe. I think they went through 3 or 4 surface pro's before they got one taken apart successfully without cracking the screen, and it was a tedious process.
If someone is willing to throw away a $1000-$2500 tablet for some data, sure, they can rip the HDD out and use the recovery key, but then you're SOL because your warranty is void due to tamper.