I've recently been trying to shut down Microsoft's gathering of telemetry from my Windows 7 PC. I am seeing the performance-draining results of this telemetry gathering process.
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When I start up my PC in the morning, the hard drive just grinds away for about 5 or 10 minutes, and the CPU is sluggish. At first I thought it was an A/V scan, so I removed my A/V. No effect.
Then I stumbled upon the InfoWorld article, and removed the Windows Updates that were mentioned in the article. The scanning stopped. Until I did a Windows Update earlier this week. And I had to remove once again the offending updates.
eBooks are a different way to engage with a book than a paper-based book. It is no surprise that eBook sales are leveling off now that the novelty of an eBook is behind us.
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It should also be no surprise that paper-based books are still in demand. Some people, like myself, prefer to read a paper-based book instead of an eBook.
Aside from the privacy concerns about eBooks (e.g., I don't want the publisher "looking over my shoulder" and taking notes of what pages I read more than once or what pages I skip) I just don't like the "feel"of eBooks as I read them. Not one eBook has duplicated the experience of reading a paper-based book for me. Reading an eBook is an entirely different experience, and that is why I think both will co-exist.
...LibreOffice does not provide the same level of features and finesse Microsoft's suite may boast,...
I've been using LibreOffice for a few years. Yes, LibreOffice does not have all the super-neat features that MS Office has, but LibreOffice does have all the features I need and then some.
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I see no need to pay Microsoft for a bloated office suite when LibreOffice works so well for me.
It appears that Microsoft has done not one thing that improves the quality of the patches dumped upon Windows users.
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Microsoft seems to be super concerned about making things easier for itself, and does not seem to be even slightly concerned about making things easier for its customers.
...Biased search results increased the number of undecided voters choosing the favored candidate by 48% compared with a control group that saw an equal mix of both candidates throughout the list....
The article seems to paint the search engines as some sort of evil, brain-washing entity. Beware, the search engines can make you vote the way they want you to vote!
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Yet the article offers no evidence that the search engines are intentionally skewing their results. Indeed, the article actually does say, "Presumably Google isn’t intentionally tweaking its algorithms to favor certain presidential candidates, but Epstein says it would extremely difficult to tell if it were."
So it looks like yet another researcher in search (no pun intended) of headlines.
...the common flaws and big disasters of this time were those created by so-called 'security professionals'...
Watching the OpenSSL fiasco unfold, what it looked like to me was that the OpenSSL project was all but taken over by some "security professionals" who were determined to continue sucking at the teat of FIPS consulting work.
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They had no incentive to make OpenSSL secure, the only incentive they did have was to make OpenSSL complicated enough so that FIPS consultants were needed in order to gain FIPS certification.
Does North Korea really think that anyone cares about their timezone changes? If so, why then does North Korea keep its network isolated from the rest of the world?
I'm getting REALLY tired of "designers" making pointless, needless and often-as-not counterproductive changes to user interfaces.
I really, really dislike the current "designers" trend of placing very light grey letters on a white background. I'm sure that style wins design awards for looking hip and cool, but it is less than readable. Much less than readable.
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I wonder if the design awards ever take into account functionality, or is it all prettiness and form for them?
Your point of view travels further when you allow it to be judged upon its own merits and you do not say every other point of view is not "the truth".
I usually stop reading whenever I see someone saying that they are the 'voice of truth'. Good thing you waited until the end of your message before you said it, otherwise I would not have read your message.
"Blocking porn websites" is usually the rationale given to justify the first step in building an infrastructure to provide wider censorship of the internet.
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Slowly the criteria used to block websites are expanded, and more websites are blocked. Then websites are blocked because they reflect political ideas not sanctioned by the government.
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When I start up my PC in the morning, the hard drive just grinds away for about 5 or 10 minutes, and the CPU is sluggish. At first I thought it was an A/V scan, so I removed my A/V. No effect.
Then I stumbled upon the InfoWorld article, and removed the Windows Updates that were mentioned in the article. The scanning stopped. Until I did a Windows Update earlier this week. And I had to remove once again the offending updates.
What in the world is going on in Redmond?
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It should also be no surprise that paper-based books are still in demand. Some people, like myself, prefer to read a paper-based book instead of an eBook.
Aside from the privacy concerns about eBooks (e.g., I don't want the publisher "looking over my shoulder" and taking notes of what pages I read more than once or what pages I skip) I just don't like the "feel"of eBooks as I read them. Not one eBook has duplicated the experience of reading a paper-based book for me. Reading an eBook is an entirely different experience, and that is why I think both will co-exist.
...LibreOffice does not provide the same level of features and finesse Microsoft's suite may boast,...
I've been using LibreOffice for a few years. Yes, LibreOffice does not have all the super-neat features that MS Office has, but LibreOffice does have all the features I need and then some.
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I see no need to pay Microsoft for a bloated office suite when LibreOffice works so well for me.
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Microsoft seems to be super concerned about making things easier for itself, and does not seem to be even slightly concerned about making things easier for its customers.
Would the CSO be happier if, instead of reporting the vulns, the customers published exploits for the vulns they found
How much of the data passing through a Windows 10 IoT device gets vacuumed up and sent to Microsoft?
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The acceleration is gonna tear those photons apart.
Google hasn't left enough users hanging due to project terminations, so they are now using creative ways to shutdown even more projects.
Maybe if google made people use just one google ID across all google services, these problems would go away. Possibly something like a google+ ID ....
It might look like that to you, but as someone who does science research I can tell you, it is the reporter trying to sex things up.
I sit corrected. thx.
...Biased search results increased the number of undecided voters choosing the favored candidate by 48% compared with a control group that saw an equal mix of both candidates throughout the list....
The article seems to paint the search engines as some sort of evil, brain-washing entity. Beware, the search engines can make you vote the way they want you to vote!
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Yet the article offers no evidence that the search engines are intentionally skewing their results. Indeed, the article actually does say, "Presumably Google isn’t intentionally tweaking its algorithms to favor certain presidential candidates, but Epstein says it would extremely difficult to tell if it were."
So it looks like yet another researcher in search (no pun intended) of headlines.
...the common flaws and big disasters of this time were those created by so-called 'security professionals'...
Watching the OpenSSL fiasco unfold, what it looked like to me was that the OpenSSL project was all but taken over by some "security professionals" who were determined to continue sucking at the teat of FIPS consulting work.
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They had no incentive to make OpenSSL secure, the only incentive they did have was to make OpenSSL complicated enough so that FIPS consultants were needed in order to gain FIPS certification.
...FIPS main goal is to mitigate people from making preventable mistakes from home-cooking crypto primitives. ...
The main goal of FIPS should be secure systems in today's dynamic security environment. Note the word "dynamic". Can FIPS move quickly enough?
Does North Korea really think that anyone cares about their timezone changes? If so, why then does North Korea keep its network isolated from the rest of the world?
FIPS is the easy way for governments to instill and enforce false security. That's why governments love^H^H^H^Hrequire it.
I'm getting REALLY tired of "designers" making pointless, needless and often-as-not counterproductive changes to user interfaces.
I really, really dislike the current "designers" trend of placing very light grey letters on a white background. I'm sure that style wins design awards for looking hip and cool, but it is less than readable. Much less than readable.
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I wonder if the design awards ever take into account functionality, or is it all prettiness and form for them?
... but still sucks on any one of them.
Once the infrastructure is in place for censorship, that infrastructure will be used.
the voices of truth
Your point of view travels further when you allow it to be judged upon its own merits and you do not say every other point of view is not "the truth".
I usually stop reading whenever I see someone saying that they are the 'voice of truth'. Good thing you waited until the end of your message before you said it, otherwise I would not have read your message.
I thought this article was about Ada the programming language.
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Slowly the criteria used to block websites are expanded, and more websites are blocked. Then websites are blocked because they reflect political ideas not sanctioned by the government.
It's a slippery slope.
you think it's unethical for one division of a corporation to share data with another?
I said public sharing of my data among google divisions. Find someone else for your strawman.
The EFF Coalition has just proposed a new Do Not Track standard.
The fox does not care if the sheep pass a law in favor of vegetarianism.