soooo you claim these apps are mission critical yet they are written pre XP days and you haven't bothered to test or build new versions of them and it is MICROSOFT's fault for not supporting your 15+ year old shit.
no it isn't a high end offering at all, it is the lower cost offering meant as a home or student machine. the high end offerings are the pro's and the surface books which do come with pro version.
because it is meant to be a locked down device AKA apple style for the more clueless users. Their is actually a rather large section of users who would actually benefit far more from having far less choice and more restrictions, yes it isn't something most on this site or other technical users would ever want, but it certainly has a potential market.
heavy engineering tools? crowbars or bolt cutters are pretty much stock tools for thieves, my house was burgled 2 years ago, they used bolt cutters on the back door security screen and lockon pliers to grip and break the backdoor deadlock. police said this is pretty well standard entry in the area, it is fast, easy and relatively quiet and everyone from kids to professional thieves use this method.
bolt cutters trump your hardened steel cable. secondly I doubt the rest of your machine is so well hardened that the mount for that steel cable that if I picked it up a gave it a good pull with my body weight that it wouldn't give way, sure it damages the machine but what does a thief care, still get sellable parts and potentially your data if you don't use encryption.
A few hundred MB's is generally more than enough for the average work laptop. It is only home users with photos etc that have requirements for large backups. My work machine can easily be backed up in 200MB, this will include all my current documents I am working on and my bookmarks etc. Everything else is completely disposable, source code is in repository, mailbox is duplicated on a server.
so your saying no one has ever written working products yet? if that is your definition of working then there will never be any working products, security can never be absolute.
Ten looking to blame anyone but their own incompetence for their failure. Management need to look no further than a mirror, massively overpriced content deals with US suppliers, poor local content combined with excessive spending on that poor content. piracy could be non existent and Ten would still have gone bankrupt.
Fuel prices aint going to ever rebound to those previous highs. for the last few years a ceiling has been installed on the prices by the fact a heap of high cost producers are sitting and ready to jump in the market the second the price gets to a moderate level that makes them marginally profitable, this has taken away a lot of the power of OPEC to inflate prices, they only have the ability to sink prices to keep them out of the market.
many of the bugs classified as Y2K bugs have NOT come and gone, they are still pending with various fixes that simply moved the milestone forward or known date limitations that will hit in the coming years. I don't know about any of the US systems but I am familiar with many of the systems in our country and personally know of several Y2K bugs that won't hit till the early 2020's
for me the amount of data I have that is actually critical on my NAS should any of those things happen fits easily on a small thumbdrive of which I have several I keep with me and one offsite as well as an occasional encrypted copy I put in a cloud drive.
because efficiency is more expensive. Why make something more efficient when it is more profitable to be able to undercut the competition with less efficient systems. Many people that buy and install those systems are also only caring about their profit margin as they don't intend to be the long term user of the system.
simple legacy apps and legacy hardware. shit ton of both still around. Using apple as an example is braindead, apple don't have a vast enterprise footprint with billions of lines of code in legacy apps.
please provide examples, everything in science that is not proven is not labelled as fact or expected to be taken on faith. They are labelled theories and are expected to be challenged. If you have examples where this is not occurring then they should be called out.
I love Terry's work (RIP). but he is no philosopher and I see nothing there that changes my view. I don't "believe" in justice, mercy, duty etc, they are just concepts created to create order in society. You don't need to believe in those things to be a decent human being, self preservation, the expectation that how you treat others is a good indicator of how you yourself will be treated and the emotional need for companionship are the realities.
I am not an AC, I fucking hope I don't pass for Christian. I consider myself educated, sane and not in need of mythical beings to hover over me to act human.
there are many people that are in desperate need of help, the problem is identifying the legitimate ones. I would actually trust refugees more than most of the local homeless but even then after seeing what happened to friends I would not want to try the lottery even on refugees. friends helped out a family living in a car by providing them rent at a way way below market rates so they could have a roof over their heads. 6 weeks later the house looked like a garbage dump inside and out and it took another 3 months to finally evict them, all up they estimate their good will cost them in excess of $50k, they won't make that mistake again.
If you want full control then setup a wsus server, you can have full control over the update and call home abilities if you really need it. The reality is most users are better off with no control as control is what created the huge fucking mess of unpatched machines with previous versions where so-called friends advised friends to turn off updates or they read it somewhere that updates were dangerous or they made the mistake of reading Slashdot where every conspiracy theory known to man is posted as fact.
well considering it was well and truly patched months before a successful exploit could be developed I would say their argument there is still pretty good.
If you are in a position where you can even see the enclosures let alone the Router LED's I have more fucking problems than this attack vector. seriously is their any real Datacentre that would have any exposure to this ANYWHERE?
wow so a feature every other OS has had in both mobile and desktop version for years. The sad part is one news site had this and their new copy cat home speaker thingie as ground breaking in innovations, shows what a blinkered and sad world some journalists live in.
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soooo you claim these apps are mission critical yet they are written pre XP days and you haven't bothered to test or build new versions of them and it is MICROSOFT's fault for not supporting your 15+ year old shit.
no it isn't a high end offering at all, it is the lower cost offering meant as a home or student machine. the high end offerings are the pro's and the surface books which do come with pro version.
because it is meant to be a locked down device AKA apple style for the more clueless users. Their is actually a rather large section of users who would actually benefit far more from having far less choice and more restrictions, yes it isn't something most on this site or other technical users would ever want, but it certainly has a potential market.
heavy engineering tools? crowbars or bolt cutters are pretty much stock tools for thieves, my house was burgled 2 years ago, they used bolt cutters on the back door security screen and lockon pliers to grip and break the backdoor deadlock. police said this is pretty well standard entry in the area, it is fast, easy and relatively quiet and everyone from kids to professional thieves use this method.
bolt cutters trump your hardened steel cable. secondly I doubt the rest of your machine is so well hardened that the mount for that steel cable that if I picked it up a gave it a good pull with my body weight that it wouldn't give way, sure it damages the machine but what does a thief care, still get sellable parts and potentially your data if you don't use encryption.
A few hundred MB's is generally more than enough for the average work laptop. It is only home users with photos etc that have requirements for large backups. My work machine can easily be backed up in 200MB, this will include all my current documents I am working on and my bookmarks etc. Everything else is completely disposable, source code is in repository, mailbox is duplicated on a server.
If it's not secure, it's not working.
so your saying no one has ever written working products yet? if that is your definition of working then there will never be any working products, security can never be absolute.
Ten looking to blame anyone but their own incompetence for their failure. Management need to look no further than a mirror, massively overpriced content deals with US suppliers, poor local content combined with excessive spending on that poor content. piracy could be non existent and Ten would still have gone bankrupt.
Fuel prices aint going to ever rebound to those previous highs. for the last few years a ceiling has been installed on the prices by the fact a heap of high cost producers are sitting and ready to jump in the market the second the price gets to a moderate level that makes them marginally profitable, this has taken away a lot of the power of OPEC to inflate prices, they only have the ability to sink prices to keep them out of the market.
many of the bugs classified as Y2K bugs have NOT come and gone, they are still pending with various fixes that simply moved the milestone forward or known date limitations that will hit in the coming years. I don't know about any of the US systems but I am familiar with many of the systems in our country and personally know of several Y2K bugs that won't hit till the early 2020's
for me the amount of data I have that is actually critical on my NAS should any of those things happen fits easily on a small thumbdrive of which I have several I keep with me and one offsite as well as an occasional encrypted copy I put in a cloud drive.
she drove the company at high speed into the ground, I hardly call that irrelevant.
because efficiency is more expensive. Why make something more efficient when it is more profitable to be able to undercut the competition with less efficient systems. Many people that buy and install those systems are also only caring about their profit margin as they don't intend to be the long term user of the system.
much cheaper? it is about $10 cheaper. I would say it is pretty much a equal pricing.
simple legacy apps and legacy hardware. shit ton of both still around. Using apple as an example is braindead, apple don't have a vast enterprise footprint with billions of lines of code in legacy apps.
please provide examples, everything in science that is not proven is not labelled as fact or expected to be taken on faith. They are labelled theories and are expected to be challenged. If you have examples where this is not occurring then they should be called out.
I love Terry's work (RIP). but he is no philosopher and I see nothing there that changes my view. I don't "believe" in justice, mercy, duty etc, they are just concepts created to create order in society. You don't need to believe in those things to be a decent human being, self preservation, the expectation that how you treat others is a good indicator of how you yourself will be treated and the emotional need for companionship are the realities.
perhaps . Or perhaps you are just reaching to justify your mythology.
No unlike you I don't believe/have faith in anything that can't be proven/disproven by science. Faith is a crutch for the weak minded.
I am not an AC, I fucking hope I don't pass for Christian. I consider myself educated, sane and not in need of mythical beings to hover over me to act human.
there are many people that are in desperate need of help, the problem is identifying the legitimate ones. I would actually trust refugees more than most of the local homeless but even then after seeing what happened to friends I would not want to try the lottery even on refugees. friends helped out a family living in a car by providing them rent at a way way below market rates so they could have a roof over their heads. 6 weeks later the house looked like a garbage dump inside and out and it took another 3 months to finally evict them, all up they estimate their good will cost them in excess of $50k, they won't make that mistake again.
If you want full control then setup a wsus server, you can have full control over the update and call home abilities if you really need it. The reality is most users are better off with no control as control is what created the huge fucking mess of unpatched machines with previous versions where so-called friends advised friends to turn off updates or they read it somewhere that updates were dangerous or they made the mistake of reading Slashdot where every conspiracy theory known to man is posted as fact.
well considering it was well and truly patched months before a successful exploit could be developed I would say their argument there is still pretty good.
If you are in a position where you can even see the enclosures let alone the Router LED's I have more fucking problems than this attack vector. seriously is their any real Datacentre that would have any exposure to this ANYWHERE?
wow so a feature every other OS has had in both mobile and desktop version for years. The sad part is one news site had this and their new copy cat home speaker thingie as ground breaking in innovations, shows what a blinkered and sad world some journalists live in.