Then open an elevated command prompt (search for cmd in the start menu, right click and Run as Administrator) and uninstall the following telemetry KBs...
In Control Panel > Windows Update > Change Settings, untick "Give me recommended updates the same way as I receive important updates" as some optional updates have been used to send down unwanted GWX/Telemetry updates.
Also in Control Panel > Windows Update, search for updates, then view the optional ones, then hide three of those KBs above (3022345 shouldn't appear as it's superseded) by right-clicking on them and choosing the hide option.
Now reboot the computer, search for CEIP in the start menu, run it, and change the setting to disable telemetry to MS.
If the C:\$WINDOWS.~BT then your computer is downloading Windows 10 in the background. Search for CleanMgr in the start menu and run it to remove the "Windows Update temporary files" category. Although that may unhide those three KBs above and you many need to rehide them.
Unless MS send a recommended update which adds more GWX or Telemetry stuff to Windows 7/8, your extended family's computers will look after themselves from now on.
Firefox's address box autocomplete comes from bookmarks and history and you can disable search box suggestions if you want.
Rather odd that people take for granted that autocomplete should phone home - you're not using a dumb terminal, you're using a fully-fledged computer. Anything on a computer which requires a home to phone to is a just way of a) locking you into an app ecosystem and/or b) monetising personal data.
You're right, code can be self-signed. Self-signed code be run without a complaint if Apple allows it or it can be treated as suspicious as unsigned code if Apple decides to do so, it all depends on how high the walls are on Apple's garden.
On this point I'm inclined to see the glass as half-empty.
They may have actively courted this market but they've just actively dumped it as Java used a lot here, both to run programs and as an interpreter for other languages. They've announced it's depreciated in 10.7 but they haven't announced any ordered handover to a 3rd party.
If Apple had said that Oracle or some other company were picking up and would have a JVM ready by 10.7 then there wouldn't be half the furore. As it is the timing along with the App Store announcement and the lack of Flash on the new MacBook Airs can be seen as suspicious and the first step down the road of locking down the platform.
Has anyone from Apple or Oracle said that Oracle's going to do a Mac JVM?
Half the Java team have walked, could they even do one by Lion's launch date if Larry told them to do it? And secondly, it's rather difficult to integrate it into Cocoa as well as Apple have done, if Apple haven't handed the source code to Oracle then they'd need to take Apple developers on.
If Larry is even aware of what's happened he's probably himself how many yachts he can get out of distributing a free JVM for Mac after taking costs into account, and the answer is probably less than one.
I'm betting on mandatory code signing for applications outside the Mac App Store, making freeware impossible and shareware only available if the App Store censor allows it by 10.9. All for the customers' own good, you understand (viruses, uncertainty of downloading off the internet, and stuff).
At that point the web browser starts to become less important as newspapers can be accessed by (paid-for) apps.
There's no app store because it's a new platform. This will in all probability change when Symbian becomes mid-range and Meego becomes top-range and both use QT for the GUI.
It's unpolished because it's a new platform yet the nerds still wanted to beta test it in their thousands and the platform was later tidied up for mass consumption. I assume we've forgotten Android 1.0?
Europe gets more in the bundle for the same price: Wii Sports + Wii Sports Resort + Wiimote + Nunchuck + Motionplus. The bad part (for Nintendo)? There are people who might never buy anything else for it during the console's lifetime.
But unless alternative PDF readers can verify electronic signatures, they'll be useless.
And more importantly, unless alternative PDF writers can generate electronic signatures, they'll be useless. That's where the money is.
The European Commission is about to announce the compulsory fingerprinting of all visitors to the EU, both visa holders and non-visa holders, along with automated border checks of EU nationals through the analysis of fingerprints and facial scans.
The thing is if you fly to Spain from outside the Schengen zone you have to do a similar thing, although your airline forwards the data on your behalf. And so on for the other Schengen countries (if a Schengen country doesn't currently require it then it'll be rolled out soon).
The main difference between the US and EU might be some aspect of data retention, where usually in the EU the data is deleted after one or two years and there are a few more limitations on who can get to see that data, unlike the US.
So effectively the US and the EU are equally screwed in this respect and each new 'advance' in technology on one side of the pond will end up appearing on the other side, sooner or later.
The first thing you do when you fire up a game is get a warning about using the Wiimote. At that point the most you should have done is point it at the screen and press A, not thrown it at the screen in an attempt to get the game started.
So on the one hand we have weak kids causing accidents using the remote so weakly that the weak strap breaks and on the other we have people who are so strong that they break the new strap when they're waving the remote around.
Then. In any case it's not nice to be forced to upgrade to version 3 and have support immediately cut off for version 2. I'd like to be able to stay with the old version for half a year or so, I like my mail profile and I don't like data loss bugs.
My first reaction would be to say that you are kidding, but then this is yet another example of policy laundering.
In the UK the government said it was because it was being deployed by the US.
Basically it was a working group from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand which pushed it onto the ICAO and then each country was forced to grudgingly and unwillingly implement this standard which they previously pushed for.
If people had the choice - Silverlight or Flash video then 99% of people would have used Flash, simply because they already had it... the people who installed Silverlight to watch these will probably never use it again (until they need to watch something else that is Silverlight only)
It doesn't matter, mission accomplished. It's on more desktops so more developers will be tempted to use it, especially if the developer tools are half-way decent (by all accounts they are).
Once upon a time people would have been happy to use Java and only installed Flash for the odd website that wouldn't work with anything else and would probably never had any intention to use it again, apart from when they came across another Flash website.
Which if you think about it makes it fairly useless. Presumably Google's store has some kind of quality control and they won't be offering viruses and malware for sale.
I wouldn't be surprised to see the kill switch extended to any app no matter what its source if a virus manages to become widespread on the platform.
Nintendo have never been about letting technology driving the games, but letting games drive the technology.
Unlike Sony and Microsoft they can't use other business lines as a crutch. They don't sell bleeding edge technology at a loss and recover costs on the games, rather they develop technology that is good enough for the games they have in development and can be sold at a profit without the need to sell a single game.
Each game can save a block of data of whatever size it wants in internal flash memory (if you look in the memory management screen you can see some use 1 block, some use 4-5-6), but it's up to the game how that is presented to the user.
E.g. Zelda has 3 slots, Mario Kart has 4 driving licenses, Pop can store about 10 players.
I suppose it's convention more than a Nintendo requirement.
The option is there but by default on Mac OS X tab only jumps to the next text field. If you want to make it jump through all controls you need to enable it in system preferences. I've forgot exactly where it is though...
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The three registry keys to disable GWX and the GWX advert in Windows Update are these...
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\GWX]
"DisableGwx"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate]
"DisableOSUpgrade"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade]
"ReservationsAllowed"=dword:00000000
Then open an elevated command prompt (search for cmd in the start menu, right click and Run as Administrator) and uninstall the following telemetry KBs...
wusa /uninstall /kb:3068708 /norestart /uninstall /kb:3022345 /norestart /uninstall /kb:3075249 /norestart /uninstall /kb:3080149 /norestart
wusa
wusa
wusa
In Control Panel > Windows Update > Change Settings, untick "Give me recommended updates the same way as I receive important updates" as some optional updates have been used to send down unwanted GWX/Telemetry updates.
Also in Control Panel > Windows Update, search for updates, then view the optional ones, then hide three of those KBs above (3022345 shouldn't appear as it's superseded) by right-clicking on them and choosing the hide option.
Now reboot the computer, search for CEIP in the start menu, run it, and change the setting to disable telemetry to MS.
If the C:\$WINDOWS.~BT then your computer is downloading Windows 10 in the background. Search for CleanMgr in the start menu and run it to remove the "Windows Update temporary files" category. Although that may unhide those three KBs above and you many need to rehide them.
Telemetry info from http://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/28/microsoft-intensifies-data-collection-on-windows-7-and-8-systems/
Unless MS send a recommended update which adds more GWX or Telemetry stuff to Windows 7/8, your extended family's computers will look after themselves from now on.
Firefox's address box autocomplete comes from bookmarks and history and you can disable search box suggestions if you want.
Rather odd that people take for granted that autocomplete should phone home - you're not using a dumb terminal, you're using a fully-fledged computer. Anything on a computer which requires a home to phone to is a just way of a) locking you into an app ecosystem and/or b) monetising personal data.
The download freeze bug is fixed in Firefox 20.
Try the Self-Destructing Cookies add-on.
You're right, code can be self-signed. Self-signed code be run without a complaint if Apple allows it or it can be treated as suspicious as unsigned code if Apple decides to do so, it all depends on how high the walls are on Apple's garden.
On this point I'm inclined to see the glass as half-empty.
They may have actively courted this market but they've just actively dumped it as Java used a lot here, both to run programs and as an interpreter for other languages. They've announced it's depreciated in 10.7 but they haven't announced any ordered handover to a 3rd party.
If Apple had said that Oracle or some other company were picking up and would have a JVM ready by 10.7 then there wouldn't be half the furore. As it is the timing along with the App Store announcement and the lack of Flash on the new MacBook Airs can be seen as suspicious and the first step down the road of locking down the platform.
Has anyone from Apple or Oracle said that Oracle's going to do a Mac JVM?
Half the Java team have walked, could they even do one by Lion's launch date if Larry told them to do it? And secondly, it's rather difficult to integrate it into Cocoa as well as Apple have done, if Apple haven't handed the source code to Oracle then they'd need to take Apple developers on.
If Larry is even aware of what's happened he's probably himself how many yachts he can get out of distributing a free JVM for Mac after taking costs into account, and the answer is probably less than one.
I'm betting on mandatory code signing for applications outside the Mac App Store, making freeware impossible and shareware only available if the App Store censor allows it by 10.9. All for the customers' own good, you understand (viruses, uncertainty of downloading off the internet, and stuff).
At that point the web browser starts to become less important as newspapers can be accessed by (paid-for) apps.
There's no app store because it's a new platform. This will in all probability change when Symbian becomes mid-range and Meego becomes top-range and both use QT for the GUI.
It's unpolished because it's a new platform yet the nerds still wanted to beta test it in their thousands and the platform was later tidied up for mass consumption. I assume we've forgotten Android 1.0?
And to prove the article's point, the Domesday project is to all intents and purposes now unreadable.
You do remember that River Song had a green sonic screwdriver?
Europe gets more in the bundle for the same price: Wii Sports + Wii Sports Resort + Wiimote + Nunchuck + Motionplus. The bad part (for Nintendo)? There are people who might never buy anything else for it during the console's lifetime.
But unless alternative PDF readers can verify electronic signatures, they'll be useless. And more importantly, unless alternative PDF writers can generate electronic signatures, they'll be useless. That's where the money is.
Nearly.
It's more like Front Porch/NebuAd/PerfTech "Edited and Approved" US Government Advice.
Don't worry, fingerprinting's being worked on...
The European Commission is about to announce the compulsory fingerprinting of all visitors to the EU, both visa holders and non-visa holders, along with automated border checks of EU nationals through the analysis of fingerprints and facial scans.
EU to announce fingerprinting for all visitors
The thing is if you fly to Spain from outside the Schengen zone you have to do a similar thing, although your airline forwards the data on your behalf. And so on for the other Schengen countries (if a Schengen country doesn't currently require it then it'll be rolled out soon).
The main difference between the US and EU might be some aspect of data retention, where usually in the EU the data is deleted after one or two years and there are a few more limitations on who can get to see that data, unlike the US.
So effectively the US and the EU are equally screwed in this respect and each new 'advance' in technology on one side of the pond will end up appearing on the other side, sooner or later.
The first thing you do when you fire up a game is get a warning about using the Wiimote. At that point the most you should have done is point it at the screen and press A, not thrown it at the screen in an attempt to get the game started.
So on the one hand we have weak kids causing accidents using the remote so weakly that the weak strap breaks and on the other we have people who are so strong that they break the new strap when they're waving the remote around.
Ah, lawyers...
Then. In any case it's not nice to be forced to upgrade to version 3 and have support immediately cut off for version 2. I'd like to be able to stay with the old version for half a year or so, I like my mail profile and I don't like data loss bugs.
My first reaction would be to say that you are kidding, but then this is yet another example of policy laundering.
In the UK the government said it was because it was being deployed by the US.
Basically it was a working group from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand which pushed it onto the ICAO and then each country was forced to grudgingly and unwillingly implement this standard which they previously pushed for.
If people had the choice - Silverlight or Flash video then 99% of people would have used Flash, simply because they already had it ... the people who installed Silverlight to watch these will probably never use it again (until they need to watch something else that is Silverlight only)
It doesn't matter, mission accomplished. It's on more desktops so more developers will be tempted to use it, especially if the developer tools are half-way decent (by all accounts they are).
Once upon a time people would have been happy to use Java and only installed Flash for the odd website that wouldn't work with anything else and would probably never had any intention to use it again, apart from when they came across another Flash website.
Which if you think about it makes it fairly useless. Presumably Google's store has some kind of quality control and they won't be offering viruses and malware for sale.
I wouldn't be surprised to see the kill switch extended to any app no matter what its source if a virus manages to become widespread on the platform.
They can't put it out on the iPhone because it would duplicate the functionality of Apple's Safari.
But if it's not on Symbian, it's simply not going to compete against Opera Mobile.
Nintendo have never been about letting technology driving the games, but letting games drive the technology.
Unlike Sony and Microsoft they can't use other business lines as a crutch. They don't sell bleeding edge technology at a loss and recover costs on the games, rather they develop technology that is good enough for the games they have in development and can be sold at a profit without the need to sell a single game.
Each game can save a block of data of whatever size it wants in internal flash memory (if you look in the memory management screen you can see some use 1 block, some use 4-5-6), but it's up to the game how that is presented to the user.
E.g. Zelda has 3 slots, Mario Kart has 4 driving licenses, Pop can store about 10 players.
I suppose it's convention more than a Nintendo requirement.
The option is there but by default on Mac OS X tab only jumps to the next text field. If you want to make it jump through all controls you need to enable it in system preferences. I've forgot exactly where it is though...