This is where domain blacklisting, referring removal/mangling and by-default JavaScript blocking start to sound real good. Very difficult to track us "paranoid" folk around unless you have access to all the random WWW logs out there.
Responding indirectly to the AC that also posted... I'm on his side regarding.Net and Azure being quite alright.... but I'm stuck in a mindset where I cannot see them as anything but a desktop operating system company, and in this regard they definitely, unequivocally suck.
Their web-based stuff available for office365 and what-not is (in my opinion) not particularly terrible. I somehow doubt they could sanely cram the full feature set into a browser without making a mess.
This is unfortunate but informative (would mod+ if i wasn't the OP snark-ass); keeping it in-house might have done them some good by tightening feedback loops. I also wonder how much gets lost in communication with people whose native language is not English (I imagine it's nowhere near as bad as the snarksters would make it out to be, but it can't be 0%).
At the office where I work, we have about 20 of them now. Many of them have been factory-reset or reinstalled, and no two of them exhibit the same sorts of quirks, and even machines from the same vendors (which were initially consistent) exhibit random, often broken configurations. Broken start menus all over the place, randomly forgotten settings. I will say though, I haven't actually observed it crashing for anything other than a hardware failure. So I'll accept "stable" if it can mean "sitting at a not-responding instance of explorer for minutes at a time". Boots up quick? I had 8.1 ready to log in (on a C2D ~2GHz laptop, spinning rust disk) in about 5 seconds after POST (which was ~3 seconds). Haven't managed to get 10 there yet (best I think I've done on spinning rust is ~15-20 seconds including POST). It's just WAAAY too busy whacking the disk back and forth, doing god-knows-what. It could've been a very good OS if they'd, ya know, had a few more hands to help polish it.
RTFA, looks like integrated TPM device and memory encryption (including extensions for VM hypervisors). Nothing that would remove/alter features that existed in the other line, and nothing that would nominally affect the operation of software that did not explicitly attempt to use it. Conceivable that the stuff was already in the silicon but skipped out on for one reason or another (e.g. binning).
Keeping only bear arms is generally considered an unpleasant and anti-social hobby. One needs a well-rounded collection of appendages to keep up with the Joneses in 21th sentury murica.
Spurring public discussion is generally my goal, but coming up with a good way of convincing people that it's not a lost cause is a difficult matter. I'm not claiming to have good answers to these problems, but rather trying to keep conversations on the topic from being disregarded as conspiratorial nonsense. Your concerns are well-founded.
Having your own private surveillance schemes in place is definitely not a bad thing; I personally only run a dashcam as a result of absolutely horrid driving behaviors endemic to my area. You touch on a very, very important point regarding video editing... it makes me curious (in a sort of morbid way) what schemes are currently mature enough to supplant classic video surveillance as a useful source of evidence.
Finding the right way in which to raise points is critical to raising overall awareness... It's difficult not to come across as trying to steer a conversation into conspiracy-nutter territory. Also disturbingly difficult to get through to people that:
We're not trying to say that all surveillance is inherently bad.
Despite best intentions, mankind's history ensures that anything that is abusable will be abused (sooner, not later, and as much as possible).
If people don't regularly raise a stink about enchroachment upon liberties, they irrevocably vanish.
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Shall we, perhaps, present them this trophy? https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
I've re-read this 3 times and only just now got it. Doesn't make it not a dated, tired joke.
referrer, even.
This is where domain blacklisting, referring removal/mangling and by-default JavaScript blocking start to sound real good. Very difficult to track us "paranoid" folk around unless you have access to all the random WWW logs out there.
Responding indirectly to the AC that also posted... I'm on his side regarding .Net and Azure being quite alright.... but I'm stuck in a mindset where I cannot see them as anything but a desktop operating system company, and in this regard they definitely, unequivocally suck.
Their web-based stuff available for office365 and what-not is (in my opinion) not particularly terrible. I somehow doubt they could sanely cram the full feature set into a browser without making a mess.
Just double the s instead of the p!
Ass!
I about lost it, thanks xD
This is unfortunate but informative (would mod+ if i wasn't the OP snark-ass); keeping it in-house might have done them some good by tightening feedback loops. I also wonder how much gets lost in communication with people whose native language is not English (I imagine it's nowhere near as bad as the snarksters would make it out to be, but it can't be 0%).
My apologies, understand that my snark exists here to keep eyes on the problem in hopes they'll do something positive about it.
At the office where I work, we have about 20 of them now. Many of them have been factory-reset or reinstalled, and no two of them exhibit the same sorts of quirks, and even machines from the same vendors (which were initially consistent) exhibit random, often broken configurations. Broken start menus all over the place, randomly forgotten settings. I will say though, I haven't actually observed it crashing for anything other than a hardware failure. So I'll accept "stable" if it can mean "sitting at a not-responding instance of explorer for minutes at a time". Boots up quick? I had 8.1 ready to log in (on a C2D ~2GHz laptop, spinning rust disk) in about 5 seconds after POST (which was ~3 seconds). Haven't managed to get 10 there yet (best I think I've done on spinning rust is ~15-20 seconds including POST). It's just WAAAY too busy whacking the disk back and forth, doing god-knows-what. It could've been a very good OS if they'd, ya know, had a few more hands to help polish it.
Guessing they're sacking the rest of their QA staff, since Windows 10 is clearly coming along so nicely. /snark
Yay! At some point we crossed 5 million commentards, and they just keep getting better!
I'm going to suggest that the enablement of memory encryption does fit the bill.
RTFA, looks like integrated TPM device and memory encryption (including extensions for VM hypervisors). Nothing that would remove/alter features that existed in the other line, and nothing that would nominally affect the operation of software that did not explicitly attempt to use it. Conceivable that the stuff was already in the silicon but skipped out on for one reason or another (e.g. binning).
Why say "what?!" or "what's the big deal?" when you can say "O'RLY?!"
One could argue that 'queue' can be interpreted sanely here, but homophones can be a bit tricky when trying to fire off some quick /. snark.
Need to hunt down Emily who likes to drop her headset before babbling about cruises!
That's borderline, but I like your thinking.
Sometimes shovel handles break. Sometimes ASICs don't exist for a given coin yet.
Keeping only bear arms is generally considered an unpleasant and anti-social hobby. One needs a well-rounded collection of appendages to keep up with the Joneses in 21th sentury murica.
Spurring public discussion is generally my goal, but coming up with a good way of convincing people that it's not a lost cause is a difficult matter. I'm not claiming to have good answers to these problems, but rather trying to keep conversations on the topic from being disregarded as conspiratorial nonsense. Your concerns are well-founded.
Having your own private surveillance schemes in place is definitely not a bad thing; I personally only run a dashcam as a result of absolutely horrid driving behaviors endemic to my area. You touch on a very, very important point regarding video editing... it makes me curious (in a sort of morbid way) what schemes are currently mature enough to supplant classic video surveillance as a useful source of evidence.
Finding the right way in which to raise points is critical to raising overall awareness... It's difficult not to come across as trying to steer a conversation into conspiracy-nutter territory. Also disturbingly difficult to get through to people that:
We're not trying to say that all surveillance is inherently bad.
Despite best intentions, mankind's history ensures that anything that is abusable will be abused (sooner, not later, and as much as possible).
If people don't regularly raise a stink about enchroachment upon liberties, they irrevocably vanish.
Would mod up if I wasn't OP xD
Too late for them; resist this sort of stuff before it consumes you entirely. Don't see the changes from day to day? It's called "creep" for a reason.