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  1. Re:HIPAA on Windows Telemetry Rolls Out · · Score: 1

    Hope nobody here is a system administrator at a hospital or doing contract work for a medical specialist.

    As someone who does Windows system administration, I was able to very quickly figure out which GPOs effect these KBs. As someone whom has ran active diectory systems, I controlled when Windows updates were deployed and which.

    If you're a system administrator and making these comments, your knowledge is poor, get the proper training. Look at course 50255C (or a more up to date one) from a Microosft learning partner.

  2. Re:Class Action Suit! on Windows Telemetry Rolls Out · · Score: 3, Informative

    Please someone sue, we'll be sharpen our axes and lighting torches.

    Microsoft delivered exactly what people wanted. They wanted Windows 10's data collection to match previous versions of Windows, so Microsoft accommodated them.

  3. Re:overrides hostfile, meh on Windows Telemetry Rolls Out · · Score: 1

    Stuff like Avast's DNS protection will override that.

  4. Re:The Real Thieves, Though... on Four Men Arrested Over Million-Dollar MacBook Heist · · Score: 2

    Let me preface this by stating that I think most programs to use computers in school are trash, and less effective than traditional teaching methods.

    My personal opinion is that schools shouldn't be doing this to begin with if they don't understand technology. They will only set false expectations and poor knowledge forward in students with it.

  5. Re:another rich asshole on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    How about give the fucking money to someone like ME who has lived in poverty pretty much my whole life!? I'd buy my way out of this shitty country (USA) and into Europe.

    As someone that could be considered a nomad and has moved countries, you don't need much money to move. You can even move regularly if you wanted. You have to be willing to travel and move light though. It's also going to be out of your comfort zone, because you would need to go ahead with a plan that has limited visibility in the details behind it.

    Then I'd invest some of the money in a permanent residence (probably in Germany)

    Get a job in Germany, get a credit card, pay off your monthly expenses on the credit card, pay off the credit card every month (build up your credit rating for four years), save up for a deposit (for four years), get a mortgage for your house. These are things you can do.

    'd go to college (its free there)

    Wrong, it's public universities and enrolment, administrative fees are not free. That said, it would likely cost for food, rent etc. about 10,000 Euro a year. You cannot make use of the welfare system while studying. Above undergraduate qualifications, you have to meet even more conditions to avoid necessity to pay a variety of fees.

  6. Re:Work on other goals on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 1

    I honestly enjoy my work, but I have shown myself that I can be even happier not working just fine for a pretty long stretch. If I could have 3 months off a year I could stop bumping into burnout so often. My real fear is that by time I can retire, or at least slow down the hamster wheel I am stuck on, I will not be able to physically do the things I really enjoy anymore.

    As I prepare to take my weekly flight out for work, this is a fear that I think about every week.

  7. Re: Very sad - but let's get legislation in place on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1

    People like Bruce will fill the position with minimum wage and little power to exercise. Bruce would be the fall guy.

  8. Re: So.... on CNN and CBC Sued For Pirating YouTube Video · · Score: 1

    But muh constitutions!

  9. Re:Great on Windows Memory Manager To Introduce Compression · · Score: 1

    1. There are these things called firmware and APIs, to allow access to the functions that hardware can provide, even functions not originally envisaged by the manufacturers. An SSHD manufacturer could provide firmware with an API to allow it to be used as reserved memory cache.

    That's a nice 'what if', but Google tells me that this hasn't happened and your original comment seem to convey this is something that is practical today, it is not.

    2. 24GB of RAM on a workstation, and it still wants to swap? That's either lazy work practices, sloppy application software

    Honestly, I think my application software is fine and I view the ability to deploy software into my test virtual machines that have very specific unusual and common setups running on my system with integration with the host's visual studio is a God send where both reproducing issues and testing is concerned. This is also while running all my productivity software (I usually have three or four apps from adobe creative suite open), chat software (ie: Skype) and a browser with numerous tabs open.

    or you need to consider a minicomputer for your work. I used to run a minicomputer with 48 MB of main memory - yes, megabytes - supporting ~200 green screen terminals and a similar number of PCs - and they had sub-second response times with interactive application software. If a 24GB workstation still wants to swap memory pages, you're asking too much of it.

    If a 24GiB workstation still wants to swap, it's because I am using that memory. My next system will likely feature 128GiB of RAM though.

    As for mini computers, I guess the modern equivalent these days is a Chromebook - It would just be moving my work from a workstation to somewhere else, not really helpful.

    3. What I do on my PC earns me money, is that not worthwhile?

    Sure, it's good to earn money. But my understanding of the term 'worthwhile' is to do with importance or significance. I don't consider working in say, a fish 'n chip shop be 'worthwhile'.

    The particular project that I 'braved' with no windows pagefile was an edit of footage of interviews with ageing WWII veterans, to preserve their stories. Would you consider that worthwhile?

    I will admit I was in the wrong here. There is certainly some significance in such work and I may have assumed too harshly.

    However, I do not agree with how you went about doing it because your work is less relevant than it could have been in today's world to be honest. Why? Because media consumption habits have changed and it is apparent based off your description that you're just doing editing of footage instead of making searchable interactive content (and if you you were not in a position to make those choices and wanted to make them, that sucks).

    Judgemental much?

    Don't be offended, I find being direct and challenging is a much better approach to livening up discussions and getting a understanding of people's positions quickly.

    What part of the spectrum are you on?

    2 meters usually.

  10. Re:So.... on CNN and CBC Sued For Pirating YouTube Video · · Score: 1

    It's telling that most creators are the ones that get the least benefit from copyright laws. They're hindered more than helped by it.

    I believe that I personally benefit more with copyright law over content I have created than if copyright did not exist.

  11. Re:So.... on CNN and CBC Sued For Pirating YouTube Video · · Score: 1

    So all America has to do is withdraw from some treaties and then can get rid of copyright.

    The constitution does not say that America may withdraw from some treaties.

  12. Re: One game, one save on The Tech Problems Inside Nintendo's Amiibo Toys · · Score: 1

    How do you get to "the cloud" at a tournament with no Internet access, again?

    Pre-cache contestants in advanced.

  13. Re:Great on Windows Memory Manager To Introduce Compression · · Score: 1

    Or why not try it with hybrid disk? Use the disc's solid-state portion as a kind of reserved swap space.

    There is no magic switch that I could see on my Seagate SSHDs to just write to the SSD portion gfor such things. Also, I/O performance compared to a regular SSD was still significantly lower, but significantly better than a HDD.

    Or, just put 8+GB of RAM in your machine and do away with pagefiles altogether.

    I have 24GiB of RAM and I am still finding there are times I need to do a lot of swapping.

    Seriously, I didn't notice any performance impact with Premiere Pro when I turned off the Windows pagefile.

    You probably aren't doing much I consider worthwhile on your PC.

  14. Re:Open Sores is for 2-bit COWS on Bitcoin Fork Divides Community · · Score: 1

    I am not advocate of Paypal (in fact I find it ridiculous and prohibitively expensive). Paypal over in the UK accepts Bitcoin from a 3rd party provider for funding payments sent through Paypal and you could order off a fair few fast food places with Paypal here.

  15. Re: how to get Facebook to change its unfair polic on Facebook Allows Turkish Government To Set the Censorship Rules · · Score: 1

    Having a single login for 30 websites is somehow better?

    Most logins are e-mails these days and many people use the same password across numerous sites. I'd say it happens regardless for many.

  16. Re: how to get Facebook to change its unfair polic on Facebook Allows Turkish Government To Set the Censorship Rules · · Score: 1

    Why do so many sites require facebook for login? Why can't they setup their own login system?

    It reduces risk from compromise. If their site is compromised, user credentials can't be stolen.

  17. Re:Ads on Hackers Exploit Adobe Flash Vulnerability In Yahoo Ads · · Score: 1

    Now tell me again why I shouldn't block non-flash ads...

    Fixed it for you.

  18. Re:Why not just use English, and only English? on New Unicode Bug Discovered For Common Japanese Character "No" · · Score: 1

    According to http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/...

    Chinese are apparently first when it comes to native speakers. What data distinguishes whether someone can speak it as a second language and what level of language knowledge does the person have to know to be counted to speak that language?

  19. Re: Why not just use English, and only English? on New Unicode Bug Discovered For Common Japanese Character "No" · · Score: 1

    Done, don't see the issue with Chinese writing and it's consonants. You have failed to identify the issue.

  20. Re: Why not just use English, and only English? on New Unicode Bug Discovered For Common Japanese Character "No" · · Score: 1

    Chinese uses a sensible alphabet? What are you smoking?

    Tell me more, educate me.

  21. Re:Why not just use English, and only English? on New Unicode Bug Discovered For Common Japanese Character "No" · · Score: 1

    I honestly don't really care for the argument. I just think it's a stupid argument to make because you can apply it to other languages.

  22. Re:Why not just use English, and only English? on New Unicode Bug Discovered For Common Japanese Character "No" · · Score: 1

    In practice, English is the only language we need.

    I think Chinese is the only language we need, it's already the most spoken language in the world.

    It uses a sensible alphabet that's easy to represent digitally.

    Chinese is too.

    It's a democratic language that will draw from other languages where necessary and useful.

    Chinese does too.

    It's a language that has proven it can adapt to changing circumstances.

    Chinese does too.

  23. Re: No, it is the character pronounced as "no" on New Unicode Bug Discovered For Common Japanese Character "No" · · Score: 1

    Actually it does, it's just disabled in slashcode after the brief spam event when it was enabled.

  24. Re:Legislation on Hacking Team Breach Leaks Zero-Days, Renews Fight To Regulate Cyberweapons · · Score: 1

    .bit works really well.

    I haven't ever used a website using .bit, anecdotally, it doesn't seem to be working that well.

  25. Re:Democracy on Software Devs Leaving Greece For Good, Finance Minister Resigns · · Score: 1

    Europe was torn by wars all over its history and it will happen again without the European Union.

    I think the EU will be the cause of the next European war, because it's politicians are so disconnected and are not accountable. If the EU were a bank, it would have been shut down 15 years ago when the creditors first started to refuse to sign off on the accounts. The corruption and dysfunction in the EU is terrifying.

    I don't want VAT (economists have shown that this is stagnating our economy), I don't want a single currency union (see current Greece situation), I don't want the common fisheries policy (environmental hell, over fishing), I don't want the free movement of people's (so racist, treating other countries, even our own colonies different over other people), I don't want European standards (some of which are so ridiculous it out prices us through regulation from being competitive with anyone else and does not take into account all the geographical differences and circumstances involved).

    Oh sure, we have free trade, but we can have free trade without the EU. After all, if Iceland can do it, there is no reason why we can't.