I pay $108.99/month for cable TV. That's a lot, I know, way too much for most of y'all. But here's why I do it:
- The wife and I enjoy watching sports. There currently is no way to get all of the available sports channels from a single streaming provider that I currently get with my cable provider. PlayStation Vue comes close at $50/month, but it is missing a bunch still. DirecTV now charges you MORE for the package that includes all of the ESPN channels than what I pay for cable!
- Most streaming plans limit your stream count. YouTube TV limits you to 3. DirecTV Now limits you to 2, but you can pay an extra $5 for 3. PlayStation Vue is the best at 5. I have 3 TVs in regular use in my house, sometimes up to 6 when college games are on. These streaming plans won't let me do that.
- Using HDHomeRuns with CableCARDs, I control my content. I can record and watch non copy protected shows however I want, so long as I have software that'll do it. I can run MCE Buddy and automatically cut commercials out. I can fill up as many hard drives as I want. I can stream recorded and live content remotely using whatever app I want. You can't do that with streaming services.
- Everything is dependent on your Internet working. You can't record anything. At least if/when my Internet/cable TV goes out I can still watch my locally recorded content. Yeah, unlimited DVR is nice, but it sure sucks when you can't get to it.
- Streaming plans uses your bandwidth. I don't have a bandwidth cap, but I sure feel for those who do. Watching cable TV doesn't touch my Internet bandwidth unless I'm streaming my content elsewhere, and that's the way I like it.
I fully understand the status quo won't last forever, and one day my setup will become obsolete. For now, though, I get more bang for my buck than I would get trying to pay various streaming providers to get what I already have.
Doesn't work if they're encrypted channels. Currently WMC is the only easy turnkey solution for watching and recording encrypted channels requiring a CableCARD. The new HDHomeRun software "kinda" works, but it's not exactly living room friendly to use. I have two PCs running Windows 8.1 w/media pack for this sole purpose that'll never get upgraded unless a) it's added back to Windows 10, b) something better finally comes along, or c) it finally breaks for good. I'm fixing to firewall them from everything but what access I need to update the program guide and disable updates just to prevent any shenanigans like this from happening.
Right click PowerShell, click "Run as Administrator". PS C:\Windows\System32> Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.windowscommunicationapps | Remove-AppxPackage
Mail and Calendar both gone. Enjoy.
If you're stupid enough to make your iLO connection directly publicly accessible and not secured behind a VPN or bastion server then you deserve to get pwned by whatever exploit comes your way. I will never understand why anyone would put an interface that is historically the weakest link out there where anyone can basically have console access to your hardware.
Haven't read anything about a family option. I've been loving the $15/month family plan for Google Play Music All Access - the wife, kiddo, and I all have our own playlists and access to ad-free YouTube. I will not be a happy camper if I have to give that up.
Also, if the plates have an LCD screen, there should be an option to press a button in the car to send messages to tailgaters...
I've considered many, many times installing a marquee LED display in my rear window solely for this purpose. Pretty sure there's probably some law in Texas making it illegal, but I wouldn't be telling a police officer to get off my ass!
I do not see a need for this whatsoever. Leave my screen nice and rectangular, thank you very much. Should we start putting notches on laptop screens where the webcam is next?
If he wanted advice on how to raise his kids, he'd have posted on a parenting forum. This is a technical site, with a technical question. Maybe focus on that?
The way I see it, it's not a question of what information you do or do not give Google. If you choose to use their service, then you're agreeing to their terms, and part of those terms is the information they collect. Don't like it? Find another email provider who doesn't collect any infomation. If you're really serious about security, open your wallet and get your own email through a private provider, or stand up your own server that you can secure however you want and thus can be assured your data is safe. The discussion of whether or not to use 2FA is completely separate from that.
I've used Google Authenticator to secure my Google account for a long time. When Google rolled out the advanced security option, I signed up as soon as I had FIDO keys in my possession. Why? Because your email is the gateway to everything else. Someone who gets access to your email can then get access to other accounts tied to that email address simply by going to the website and hitting "reset my password". Your concern should be making sure that someone can NOT accomplish that by having the ability to hack your shit remotely, and that's where 2FA can really help you.
This kind of measurement tool is an awesome creation and we need more. I'd love to use an Android version of it to test my apps and see what AT&T does to shape my traffic. Unless there's some sort of hidden issue, there is absolutely no reason why Apple should withhold this from the store, considering all of the other useless crap that's out there.
You are absolutely correct. Much easier exploits to chase after, and to lose sight of those would also spell disaster for any enterprise. But, any decent enterprise should be on top of the known biggies these days, so naturally their focus should be on Meltdown and Spectre.
By the way, sorry for the snarkiness, reading it again I realize I went a bit over the top.
Once a vulnerability is known, if the vulnerability is somehow exploited, and a party is successfully hacked, then the victim becomes liable for whatever resulted from the attack. So yes, now that this is public and those individuals whose moral compasses are pointing south are most likely working to exploit it before patches become widespread, I would feel a sense of urgency about patching my shit. I wouldn't want my company being the first headline of a successful hack and then deal with the aftermath of lawsuits. Whatever probability of likelihood that exists concerning whether a hack will 1) ever happen and 2) what scope of penetration it will allow doesn't matter when it's your ass on the line.
That being said, you waving your "I said so!" flag doesn't exactly help anything, either. Has this been overhyped? Probably. Is it still a serious issue? Most definitely. You make it seem like a bug in an update affecting specific systems (and a very small percentage of the market share of desktop PCs, I would add) is a travesty, whereas it's a mistake. Microsoft (like everyone else) makes mistakes. They have a long history of it. They will figure it out and fix it. I would recommend you chill out, have a beer, and let the professionals do their jobs.
How do they intend to enforce this? Get your IP address from the driver, match it up against known blocks assigned to hosting companies? It's not like they can say "Oh, this is a Dell R740, the driver won't install" because that thing could be sitting (loudly) on a table in my house, not necessarily racked in a data center. It's one thing to say "We want you to buy our Quadro/Tesla gear for your giant virtualized environment" but another to say I can't pop a 1080 Ti in the one server that needs GPU horsepower for some task. It's asinine.
Damn! No, I didn't even think to do a before/after to see what the exact impact was. >:( I'll do that on my other machines before updating though, I have both an Intel and an AMD desktop to test.
The date of TFA was January 3rd. The verbage in the article saying "today" was referring to January 3rd. The patches for Windows 10 rolled out already. I installed mine last night.
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I pay $108.99/month for cable TV. That's a lot, I know, way too much for most of y'all. But here's why I do it:
- The wife and I enjoy watching sports. There currently is no way to get all of the available sports channels from a single streaming provider that I currently get with my cable provider. PlayStation Vue comes close at $50/month, but it is missing a bunch still. DirecTV now charges you MORE for the package that includes all of the ESPN channels than what I pay for cable!
- Most streaming plans limit your stream count. YouTube TV limits you to 3. DirecTV Now limits you to 2, but you can pay an extra $5 for 3. PlayStation Vue is the best at 5. I have 3 TVs in regular use in my house, sometimes up to 6 when college games are on. These streaming plans won't let me do that.
- Using HDHomeRuns with CableCARDs, I control my content. I can record and watch non copy protected shows however I want, so long as I have software that'll do it. I can run MCE Buddy and automatically cut commercials out. I can fill up as many hard drives as I want. I can stream recorded and live content remotely using whatever app I want. You can't do that with streaming services.
- Everything is dependent on your Internet working. You can't record anything. At least if/when my Internet/cable TV goes out I can still watch my locally recorded content. Yeah, unlimited DVR is nice, but it sure sucks when you can't get to it.
- Streaming plans uses your bandwidth. I don't have a bandwidth cap, but I sure feel for those who do. Watching cable TV doesn't touch my Internet bandwidth unless I'm streaming my content elsewhere, and that's the way I like it.
I fully understand the status quo won't last forever, and one day my setup will become obsolete. For now, though, I get more bang for my buck than I would get trying to pay various streaming providers to get what I already have.
I'm in agreement sir. I won't be purchasing any new Vizios anytime soon if this is where they're going with it.
Doesn't work if they're encrypted channels. Currently WMC is the only easy turnkey solution for watching and recording encrypted channels requiring a CableCARD. The new HDHomeRun software "kinda" works, but it's not exactly living room friendly to use. I have two PCs running Windows 8.1 w/media pack for this sole purpose that'll never get upgraded unless a) it's added back to Windows 10, b) something better finally comes along, or c) it finally breaks for good. I'm fixing to firewall them from everything but what access I need to update the program guide and disable updates just to prevent any shenanigans like this from happening.
Right click PowerShell, click "Run as Administrator".
PS C:\Windows\System32> Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.windowscommunicationapps | Remove-AppxPackage
Mail and Calendar both gone. Enjoy.
Let me Google that for you. I didn't research his whole life's story for you, but there's a simple reason he's a millionaire now: he wrote a book and is banking on the royalties.
Maybe an oversupply will bring the prices down a bit from being gawdawfully high.
A true classic that taught me everything I needed to know.
If you're stupid enough to make your iLO connection directly publicly accessible and not secured behind a VPN or bastion server then you deserve to get pwned by whatever exploit comes your way. I will never understand why anyone would put an interface that is historically the weakest link out there where anyone can basically have console access to your hardware.
Haven't read anything about a family option. I've been loving the $15/month family plan for Google Play Music All Access - the wife, kiddo, and I all have our own playlists and access to ad-free YouTube. I will not be a happy camper if I have to give that up.
It would be, if I was able to go faster than the guy in front of me. Or if I'm already going 10 over in a lane and the guy can pass me to the left.
Also, if the plates have an LCD screen, there should be an option to press a button in the car to send messages to tailgaters...
I've considered many, many times installing a marquee LED display in my rear window solely for this purpose. Pretty sure there's probably some law in Texas making it illegal, but I wouldn't be telling a police officer to get off my ass!
I do not see a need for this whatsoever. Leave my screen nice and rectangular, thank you very much. Should we start putting notches on laptop screens where the webcam is next?
Where is it mandatory? The message I got said "we can do this now, right now it's turned off, if you want to participate then go here to turn it on."
It would be good to know precisely where the Hub is so I know how to align my razor.
If he wanted advice on how to raise his kids, he'd have posted on a parenting forum. This is a technical site, with a technical question. Maybe focus on that?
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The way I see it, it's not a question of what information you do or do not give Google. If you choose to use their service, then you're agreeing to their terms, and part of those terms is the information they collect. Don't like it? Find another email provider who doesn't collect any infomation. If you're really serious about security, open your wallet and get your own email through a private provider, or stand up your own server that you can secure however you want and thus can be assured your data is safe. The discussion of whether or not to use 2FA is completely separate from that.
I've used Google Authenticator to secure my Google account for a long time. When Google rolled out the advanced security option, I signed up as soon as I had FIDO keys in my possession. Why? Because your email is the gateway to everything else. Someone who gets access to your email can then get access to other accounts tied to that email address simply by going to the website and hitting "reset my password". Your concern should be making sure that someone can NOT accomplish that by having the ability to hack your shit remotely, and that's where 2FA can really help you.
This kind of measurement tool is an awesome creation and we need more. I'd love to use an Android version of it to test my apps and see what AT&T does to shape my traffic. Unless there's some sort of hidden issue, there is absolutely no reason why Apple should withhold this from the store, considering all of the other useless crap that's out there.
You are absolutely correct. Much easier exploits to chase after, and to lose sight of those would also spell disaster for any enterprise. But, any decent enterprise should be on top of the known biggies these days, so naturally their focus should be on Meltdown and Spectre. By the way, sorry for the snarkiness, reading it again I realize I went a bit over the top.
Once a vulnerability is known, if the vulnerability is somehow exploited, and a party is successfully hacked, then the victim becomes liable for whatever resulted from the attack. So yes, now that this is public and those individuals whose moral compasses are pointing south are most likely working to exploit it before patches become widespread, I would feel a sense of urgency about patching my shit. I wouldn't want my company being the first headline of a successful hack and then deal with the aftermath of lawsuits. Whatever probability of likelihood that exists concerning whether a hack will 1) ever happen and 2) what scope of penetration it will allow doesn't matter when it's your ass on the line. That being said, you waving your "I said so!" flag doesn't exactly help anything, either. Has this been overhyped? Probably. Is it still a serious issue? Most definitely. You make it seem like a bug in an update affecting specific systems (and a very small percentage of the market share of desktop PCs, I would add) is a travesty, whereas it's a mistake. Microsoft (like everyone else) makes mistakes. They have a long history of it. They will figure it out and fix it. I would recommend you chill out, have a beer, and let the professionals do their jobs.
How do they intend to enforce this? Get your IP address from the driver, match it up against known blocks assigned to hosting companies? It's not like they can say "Oh, this is a Dell R740, the driver won't install" because that thing could be sitting (loudly) on a table in my house, not necessarily racked in a data center. It's one thing to say "We want you to buy our Quadro/Tesla gear for your giant virtualized environment" but another to say I can't pop a 1080 Ti in the one server that needs GPU horsepower for some task. It's asinine.
Damn! No, I didn't even think to do a before/after to see what the exact impact was. >:( I'll do that on my other machines before updating though, I have both an Intel and an AMD desktop to test.
Ah, wait, summary says (Wednesday) in parentheses. Confusing AF.
The date of TFA was January 3rd. The verbage in the article saying "today" was referring to January 3rd. The patches for Windows 10 rolled out already. I installed mine last night.
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