You don't. You can download the update from a location of your choosing and install it via USB. You can also call a freephone number and Sony will post you the update on disc so you don't need the internet at all.
The lack of Blu-Ray playback out of the box is to reduce the cost of the unit by only paying licensing costs for users who actually use it rather than having to pay for blanket licensing.
Well sure, if you're dumb enough to pay tax on the money your company is paying you in salary as well as paying income tax on it then you probably are paying a 75% effective tax rate.
Their solution thus far has been to sell a £25 Lightning->MicroUSB adaptor to people, which for some bizarre reason the EU thinks is fine even though the entire purpose of the MicroUSB charging standard requirements was to reduce waste (because previously everyone would have to bin their old charging cables when getting a new phone).
Interesting, because I also have a contextless anecdote in which I've noticed that power consumption of my computers is significantly higher when running Linux - and the laptops have seriously reduced battery life, even while doing nothing.
According to the best stats I can find, the "Creative Industries" are responsible for ~8% of a £1.5Tn GDP, so about £120Bn.
So basically, the Creative Industries in the UK are apparently losing ~45% of their output to piracy and within the next two years that could be 120%.
There we have it, by 2015 no creative industry in the UK will be making a profit or be otherwise contributing to our economy, so enjoy them while they're still there.
It's getting increasingly difficult to label people tinfoil hatters given the way the NSA leaks are making even the most ardent paranoid conspiracy theorists look like they've vastly underestimated the problem.
Well when the general attitude seems to be "Well this guy may be a racist, homophobic, womanising, lazy, incompetent asshole, but at least he's not a Democrat/Republican (Delete as applicable) so I'll vote for him", what do you expect?
No, expecting not to be detained is how it should be.
When did it become so normal for everyone to just dismiss these things is "well what did they expect would happen if they did something completely legal that someone doesn't like"?
As far as she's concerned, there has not been any misuse (even though they're admitting they know nothing about the specifics of this case), therefore any perception of such would be unwarranted and must be avoided.
If your "critical infrastructure" isn't hooked up to a WSUS (Free) or SCCM (Not) server for updates then you're asking for trouble; you're saying to Microsoft "I don't want to manage my own update deployment, please do it for me".
That said, I've never had a machine set not to use Automatic Updates reboot itself for an update without my intervention.
Is this really a surprise? Most sections of the media have spent the last month or so trying to portray Snowden as a traitor, who's weakened the national security of several countries, endangered inter-governmental cooperation (because now they know they were all spying on each other rather than just assuming they were), is possibly a bit weird and is now "palling around" with Russian and various South American states who are "enemies of teh freedoms".
In that context, of course peoples' opinions are going to start to shift.
2 years ago when I was contracting in the NHS, they were paying about £800 for a new desktop (hardware + licenses) of which ~£400 was the licenses because the current government had decided that negotiating pricing with Microsoft et al nationally for the NHS was a bad idea when they could have each trust pay 3 times as much instead.
Factor in 12 support staff at ~£20k/year for 2,500, machines and that's maybe another £100 on top, so call it about grand for the first year once you factor in cabling and mouse mats, after which it's maybe a couple of hundred quid per year to maintain them.
Even if you're really misleading and start factoring in a proportion of sever & networking costs into the supposed cost of maintaining desktops, you're going to struggle to reach £6k/year per machine.
Also, what exactly does he think these 10 iPads are going to do? Magically maintain themselves while also writing a compatibility layer to allow all the shitty in-house windows-only (sometimes DOS-only) applications to run on them?
All the US media cares about is ratings because of your stupid setup that has news programs included in channel ratings and because that's how you sell papers. As a result, news organisations only care about covering stories that they think people will want to read about.
Nobody wants to read insightful, factual stories about actual things, especially if they involve other countries somehow, they want to have their views reinforced about how the government is trying to turn the country into a communist superstate, that mexican islamist jihadis are queuing at your southern boarder waiting to blow you all up, that some people are christian and this somehow oppresses those who aren't while those who aren't are similarly oppressing the christians and that 'murica is the greatest country on God's green earth (when it's not being turned into a communist superstate or being flooded with mexican muslims).
This isn't who to trust, this is who is the least worst when it comes to handing over your information to the government or various corporate interests using the government as their proxy (RIAA, etc.).
Nothing in this report accounts for how the companies themselves treat your private data, just how they respond to requests from law enforcement.
NatWest, in the UK, had a website that refused to work with anything but ancient versions of IE or Netscape - yes, it actually said Netscape even in the era of Firefox - and they refused to fix it "for security reasons", so I moved on. Presumably they've fixed it now, but I don't really care because the damage was done by not being able to log into it at my convenience
They haven't. You still have to fake UA strings to use most browsers with their online banking site.
I'm pretty sure that if you or I came to an agreement with a court based on a crime we'd committed and then "accidentally overlooked" adhering to that agreement, we'd be nailed for it, so I don't see why Microsoft should get off just because they're a corporation rather than a person (which is still the case outside the US as far as I'm aware).
The fine is not for the crime, it's for breaching the agreement.
I'm not sure why you're incapable of or unwilling to grasp this, but the fine in question has nothing to do (at least directly) with Microsoft breaking any laws; it is specifically due to them signing an agreement with the EU to include the Browser Choice software will all new installs of Windows sold in Europe and then *not doing it* while claiming that they were.
This is essentially a fine for breach of contract and nothing to do with whatever irrational government-hating fantasy you've concocted in your mind.
PowerShell has kind of rendered the CLI argument obsolete; sure, you can argue it's just a clone of Bash et al, but it's a damn good clone and I really struggle to manage without it these days.
They are in Europe and have been since 2007. Not that it stops them acting like dicks, of course, they are just (in principle) well-regulated dicks over here.
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You don't. You can download the update from a location of your choosing and install it via USB. You can also call a freephone number and Sony will post you the update on disc so you don't need the internet at all.
The lack of Blu-Ray playback out of the box is to reduce the cost of the unit by only paying licensing costs for users who actually use it rather than having to pay for blanket licensing.
Read this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19592372 - the figures you're quoting are pretty misleading.
It's mostly due to differences in how reported rapes are recorded and a system that encourages rape victims to go to the police.
Well sure, if you're dumb enough to pay tax on the money your company is paying you in salary as well as paying income tax on it then you probably are paying a 75% effective tax rate.
Their solution thus far has been to sell a £25 Lightning->MicroUSB adaptor to people, which for some bizarre reason the EU thinks is fine even though the entire purpose of the MicroUSB charging standard requirements was to reduce waste (because previously everyone would have to bin their old charging cables when getting a new phone).
Interesting, because I also have a contextless anecdote in which I've noticed that power consumption of my computers is significantly higher when running Linux - and the laptops have seriously reduced battery life, even while doing nothing.
So you stole cable TV all your life but the people working for the government are the parasites? Interesting interpretation.
According to the best stats I can find, the "Creative Industries" are responsible for ~8% of a £1.5Tn GDP, so about £120Bn.
So basically, the Creative Industries in the UK are apparently losing ~45% of their output to piracy and within the next two years that could be 120%.
There we have it, by 2015 no creative industry in the UK will be making a profit or be otherwise contributing to our economy, so enjoy them while they're still there.
It's getting increasingly difficult to label people tinfoil hatters given the way the NSA leaks are making even the most ardent paranoid conspiracy theorists look like they've vastly underestimated the problem.
Well when the general attitude seems to be "Well this guy may be a racist, homophobic, womanising, lazy, incompetent asshole, but at least he's not a Democrat/Republican (Delete as applicable) so I'll vote for him", what do you expect?
No, expecting not to be detained is how it should be.
When did it become so normal for everyone to just dismiss these things is "well what did they expect would happen if they did something completely legal that someone doesn't like"?
You've misread her statement.
As far as she's concerned, there has not been any misuse (even though they're admitting they know nothing about the specifics of this case), therefore any perception of such would be unwarranted and must be avoided.
If your "critical infrastructure" isn't hooked up to a WSUS (Free) or SCCM (Not) server for updates then you're asking for trouble; you're saying to Microsoft "I don't want to manage my own update deployment, please do it for me".
That said, I've never had a machine set not to use Automatic Updates reboot itself for an update without my intervention.
Is this really a surprise? Most sections of the media have spent the last month or so trying to portray Snowden as a traitor, who's weakened the national security of several countries, endangered inter-governmental cooperation (because now they know they were all spying on each other rather than just assuming they were), is possibly a bit weird and is now "palling around" with Russian and various South American states who are "enemies of teh freedoms".
In that context, of course peoples' opinions are going to start to shift.
2 years ago when I was contracting in the NHS, they were paying about £800 for a new desktop (hardware + licenses) of which ~£400 was the licenses because the current government had decided that negotiating pricing with Microsoft et al nationally for the NHS was a bad idea when they could have each trust pay 3 times as much instead.
Factor in 12 support staff at ~£20k/year for 2,500, machines and that's maybe another £100 on top, so call it about grand for the first year once you factor in cabling and mouse mats, after which it's maybe a couple of hundred quid per year to maintain them.
Even if you're really misleading and start factoring in a proportion of sever & networking costs into the supposed cost of maintaining desktops, you're going to struggle to reach £6k/year per machine.
Also, what exactly does he think these 10 iPads are going to do? Magically maintain themselves while also writing a compatibility layer to allow all the shitty in-house windows-only (sometimes DOS-only) applications to run on them?
Totally off topic, but:
All the US media cares about is ratings because of your stupid setup that has news programs included in channel ratings and because that's how you sell papers. As a result, news organisations only care about covering stories that they think people will want to read about.
Nobody wants to read insightful, factual stories about actual things, especially if they involve other countries somehow, they want to have their views reinforced about how the government is trying to turn the country into a communist superstate, that mexican islamist jihadis are queuing at your southern boarder waiting to blow you all up, that some people are christian and this somehow oppresses those who aren't while those who aren't are similarly oppressing the christians and that 'murica is the greatest country on God's green earth (when it's not being turned into a communist superstate or being flooded with mexican muslims).
This isn't who to trust, this is who is the least worst when it comes to handing over your information to the government or various corporate interests using the government as their proxy (RIAA, etc.).
Nothing in this report accounts for how the companies themselves treat your private data, just how they respond to requests from law enforcement.
Then let us all be glad they didn't read that first and cook up a batch of dioxygen difluoride to use.
NatWest, in the UK, had a website that refused to work with anything but ancient versions of IE or Netscape - yes, it actually said Netscape even in the era of Firefox - and they refused to fix it "for security reasons", so I moved on. Presumably they've fixed it now, but I don't really care because the damage was done by not being able to log into it at my convenience
They haven't. You still have to fake UA strings to use most browsers with their online banking site.
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I'm pretty sure that if you or I came to an agreement with a court based on a crime we'd committed and then "accidentally overlooked" adhering to that agreement, we'd be nailed for it, so I don't see why Microsoft should get off just because they're a corporation rather than a person (which is still the case outside the US as far as I'm aware).
The fine is not for the crime, it's for breaching the agreement.
I'm not sure why you're incapable of or unwilling to grasp this, but the fine in question has nothing to do (at least directly) with Microsoft breaking any laws; it is specifically due to them signing an agreement with the EU to include the Browser Choice software will all new installs of Windows sold in Europe and then *not doing it* while claiming that they were.
This is essentially a fine for breach of contract and nothing to do with whatever irrational government-hating fantasy you've concocted in your mind.
Except then the carriers just wouldn't bother with the drivers so any updates from Google would break the phone.
What do you mean? I love having a full-screen blocking pop-up on my 2012 servers every time there's a windows update to install.
It's like living in the future.
PowerShell has kind of rendered the CLI argument obsolete; sure, you can argue it's just a clone of Bash et al, but it's a damn good clone and I really struggle to manage without it these days.
They are in Europe and have been since 2007. Not that it stops them acting like dicks, of course, they are just (in principle) well-regulated dicks over here.