What they claim is true, but is it the entire truth, probably not. I had one of their Engineers read my telemetry data and hop into and rectify an issue on my system when after upgrading from OEM Win10 Home to Retail Win10 Pro the system refused to activate. Turns out something the activation process needed to succeed wasn't running, wasn't starting when it was called by the system, and had the wrong owner and permissions set. So, this data collection was helpful in my particular case.
Microsoft has collected all sorts of data even going back to the Win 2k/XP days, and I always had the working assumption that they'll collect data about anything and everything that installs or executes on their operating systems, with the data being "anonymized" to a point before being placed into some sort of general data pool that is accessible outside of their Engineering groups.
I've always kept financials, etc encrypted and only access those in a non-network connected VM, so, if they are so keen on having access the names of what games I own in my Steam Library, that I name file folders after characters from Tolkien's novels and sort them alphabetically, or what VM software provider I use, more power to them.
Enterprise and Educational are the only two versions of Win10 that officially allow you to use the Group Policy Editor to entirely disable telemetry and automatic updating. Pro used to have access to some of the Group Policies, and some of them are still listed, but changing them has no effect at all anymore, and Home never had access.
Popups, boxes that follow you around the page as you scroll, sound that over-rides or ignores any browser mute functionality, allowing the close, ok, and cancel buttons to be remapped to anything else than the stated functionality (usually these get remapped to load malware or redirect to another site that loads more unwanted scripts/tabs), forced reload timers, right-click disabling, cascading tab loads, tab locks, automated non-default application launch, automated and silent extension/plugin installation.
The list could go on, but these are the prevalent ones that I've come across.I have no idea if any of these behaviors have a legitimate use at all, but I've yet to come across a legitimate use of any of them.
If Microsoft so chose, they could implement a CPU check and provide an alternate scheduler scheme for systems running a Ryzen CPU. They already do this sort of thing with other AMD vs Intel CPU instruction sets, in fact.
And that is because for years now, the Xeons and Core i CPUs have had virtually no difference in them whatsoever other than their bin level and brand name (you can even find this info inside Intel's tech sheets for the Xeons and i series), to the point that I actually prefer the Xeons because they've been running more stable without attaching some monster watercooling system, for a consistently longer period of time. Some subsets of the Core i5 series are in their entirety down-binned Xeons, instead of what people normally assume, that they are down-binned or feature restricted i7s.
Japan's regulatory agencies have based quite a few of their policies on EPA regulations in similar areas, so it isn't as far-fetched as you might think.
You would think so, but you'd be surprised to find how much of it actually isn't, as it gets locked away behind one of the myriad non-public journal paywalls or in some corporate database while they patent the results.
I have a feeling they will at least temporarily solve this issue by standardizing on a a few shipping box sizes, no matter the item size. Be prepared to find your items with tons of packaging materials in a large box. I think the larger problem they face is how do you get the robots to properly determine which items can't be shipped together, and which ones are restricted to ground shipping, and how you separate them all for shipping because of hazmat issues.
My wife and I were in this predicament of needing ESPN, etc, until we decided since we really only like college football, and the only team we particularly care about is the Mountaineers (her alma mater). We ditched cable sports entirely, get season tickets every year and just drive to Morgantown for the home games. Sure, we rent a hotel room and pay for gas and food, but it's been worth it no matter if they win or lose. Homecoming game alone makes it all worth the costs and travel time involved just for the social experience.
That's until they get the bright idea that the DRM module being kept on the user's end at all is no longer acceptable, and now you're stuck waiting for whatever proprietary DRM nonsense they've cooked up to load and process inside of your browser. To add insult to injury, I can just imagine some fuckups will implement a UI that will sit there and grind your machine until you enter in your credentials and payment info, with a nice fat chance of it crashing with some random error.
Internet-based stores have been sued successfully under the same ADA. Just because they are not a state or local government entity might not make them as exempt as they think.
Sure you can, but usually your empathy only extends to your closest business partners (read: golf course buddies) and direct bootlickers, and then, it has limits.
Also, the fact that the second "idiot" in your parlance, completely ignores the fact of her cozy little Russian uranium deal (and the major speaking fees old Willy pulled in right after that deal complete, from his Moscow visit), or her major financial ties to supposed allies in the ME who aren't exactly pleased with how we in the West run things, either. Her meddling in Syria is going to cost us all dearly.
It doesn't matter if Signal and the rest still use encryption. What the CIA malware is doing, is capturing and exfiltrating the data before it is encrypted and sent in the apps and after data is received and decrypted (my guess, is that it is tapped directly into whatever controls device input and output at a hardware and OS level). This is what I've gathered from reading specifically into those sections of Vault 7.
Unfortunately for AMD, it's a fight Intel is less and less interested in engaging in with them. Their focus has majority-shifted to keeping ahead of ARM-based CPUs, and they've already publicly stated that their only competitor is ARM (while at the same time offering small manufacturers the chance to have ARM-designed chips produced at their fabs, for a fee, of course).
This all being said, Intel is already working on smaller fab processes and a new architecture that builds on what they achieved with all of the current "Lake" models. AMD's problem hasn't just been in attempting to come close to Intel in performance, but in fabrication processes and yields. They are always two steps behind, it seems.
It's amazing how fast a browser actually can run once you ban certain script elements from loading, certain calls and manipulations of the DOM (I don't think it's the business of most websites to check if I have a microphone or webcam installed and enabled nor what type and brand of hard disk I am using, nor do I think they have the right to disable any of my input devices or functions thereof for any reason), and all advertising. Even the "slow" browsers run amazingly well compared to what we had to choose between even 5-10 years ago once you take care of that sort of thing (if you can, some browsers are much more lenient than others in this regard).
Well, if you happen to sign in to Chrome (which I do) to use their sync service (because I and my household are all bought into the Android ecosystem), Google flat out admits that unless you encrypt your data with a passphrase so that they can't read it, they will parse any data you keep stored on their servers to sync to your other devices.
The downside to using a passphrase, is that if you accidentally forget what you used (which in my older age, has happened once now), then your only option is to clear the passphrase, which also blanks out the data and erases it from their servers.
If you define a Steambox as a console (which technically, you should, because it is), then yes, it's on a console. Not an extraordinarily popular console, but still, a console.
Linus was being a total blowhard when he said that. He is perfectly aware of the fact that they can't do what he wishes because NVIDIA does not own the rights to every necessary bit that would need to be open sourced for the damned thing to even work.
That would be like asking someone to intentionally break the clauses in many FOSS software licenses that require sharing the source, or not using the software for commercial purposes without permission of the author(s). In this case, not only could NVIDIA lose their licenses to use the technology (and basically killing their ability to manufacture and sell entirely), they could be sued for large amounts of money.
That was probably the story about Samsung's specialized ARM-based server chip experiments. They badly want Intel completely out of their products and at the same time found that during testing for 5G that current market standard ARM, Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD chip designs quite frankly aren't up to snuff to process the signals in a cost efficient nor reliable manner (which is why it is laughable when T-Mobile and Verizon claim they are going to start rolling out 5G "soon").
Those CPUs would have 256 cores each, run at much lower TDP than the current Xeon and other offerings, support larger amounts of ECC and regular DDR RAM than the other chips designers offer (and have official support for more specialized memory architectures, such as that found in the PS4 and Xbox One). There were some other details about them that were interesting, but since this is still all in R&D we'll see how much of it shows up in actual products, even if those are only ever sold to enterprise and industry.
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What they claim is true, but is it the entire truth, probably not. I had one of their Engineers read my telemetry data and hop into and rectify an issue on my system when after upgrading from OEM Win10 Home to Retail Win10 Pro the system refused to activate. Turns out something the activation process needed to succeed wasn't running, wasn't starting when it was called by the system, and had the wrong owner and permissions set. So, this data collection was helpful in my particular case.
Microsoft has collected all sorts of data even going back to the Win 2k/XP days, and I always had the working assumption that they'll collect data about anything and everything that installs or executes on their operating systems, with the data being "anonymized" to a point before being placed into some sort of general data pool that is accessible outside of their Engineering groups.
I've always kept financials, etc encrypted and only access those in a non-network connected VM, so, if they are so keen on having access the names of what games I own in my Steam Library, that I name file folders after characters from Tolkien's novels and sort them alphabetically, or what VM software provider I use, more power to them.
Enterprise and Educational are the only two versions of Win10 that officially allow you to use the Group Policy Editor to entirely disable telemetry and automatic updating. Pro used to have access to some of the Group Policies, and some of them are still listed, but changing them has no effect at all anymore, and Home never had access.
Popups, boxes that follow you around the page as you scroll, sound that over-rides or ignores any browser mute functionality, allowing the close, ok, and cancel buttons to be remapped to anything else than the stated functionality (usually these get remapped to load malware or redirect to another site that loads more unwanted scripts/tabs), forced reload timers, right-click disabling, cascading tab loads, tab locks, automated non-default application launch, automated and silent extension/plugin installation.
The list could go on, but these are the prevalent ones that I've come across.I have no idea if any of these behaviors have a legitimate use at all, but I've yet to come across a legitimate use of any of them.
If Microsoft so chose, they could implement a CPU check and provide an alternate scheduler scheme for systems running a Ryzen CPU. They already do this sort of thing with other AMD vs Intel CPU instruction sets, in fact.
And that is because for years now, the Xeons and Core i CPUs have had virtually no difference in them whatsoever other than their bin level and brand name (you can even find this info inside Intel's tech sheets for the Xeons and i series), to the point that I actually prefer the Xeons because they've been running more stable without attaching some monster watercooling system, for a consistently longer period of time. Some subsets of the Core i5 series are in their entirety down-binned Xeons, instead of what people normally assume, that they are down-binned or feature restricted i7s.
Japan's regulatory agencies have based quite a few of their policies on EPA regulations in similar areas, so it isn't as far-fetched as you might think.
You would think so, but you'd be surprised to find how much of it actually isn't, as it gets locked away behind one of the myriad non-public journal paywalls or in some corporate database while they patent the results.
I have a feeling they will at least temporarily solve this issue by standardizing on a a few shipping box sizes, no matter the item size. Be prepared to find your items with tons of packaging materials in a large box. I think the larger problem they face is how do you get the robots to properly determine which items can't be shipped together, and which ones are restricted to ground shipping, and how you separate them all for shipping because of hazmat issues.
In a way they are government mandated, considering their losses in court that those fees go towards paying off ;)
My wife and I were in this predicament of needing ESPN, etc, until we decided since we really only like college football, and the only team we particularly care about is the Mountaineers (her alma mater). We ditched cable sports entirely, get season tickets every year and just drive to Morgantown for the home games. Sure, we rent a hotel room and pay for gas and food, but it's been worth it no matter if they win or lose. Homecoming game alone makes it all worth the costs and travel time involved just for the social experience.
You can manage your Sling through the Sling app for Roku, you might want to consider giving that a shot if you haven't.
It is because the more subscribers they can show, the better prices they are able to negotiate from channel providers.
That's until they get the bright idea that the DRM module being kept on the user's end at all is no longer acceptable, and now you're stuck waiting for whatever proprietary DRM nonsense they've cooked up to load and process inside of your browser. To add insult to injury, I can just imagine some fuckups will implement a UI that will sit there and grind your machine until you enter in your credentials and payment info, with a nice fat chance of it crashing with some random error.
There were no students who filed a suit. It was two employees of another university from on the other side of the nation.
Internet-based stores have been sued successfully under the same ADA. Just because they are not a state or local government entity might not make them as exempt as they think.
Sure you can, but usually your empathy only extends to your closest business partners (read: golf course buddies) and direct bootlickers, and then, it has limits.
Also, the fact that the second "idiot" in your parlance, completely ignores the fact of her cozy little Russian uranium deal (and the major speaking fees old Willy pulled in right after that deal complete, from his Moscow visit), or her major financial ties to supposed allies in the ME who aren't exactly pleased with how we in the West run things, either. Her meddling in Syria is going to cost us all dearly.
It doesn't matter if Signal and the rest still use encryption. What the CIA malware is doing, is capturing and exfiltrating the data before it is encrypted and sent in the apps and after data is received and decrypted (my guess, is that it is tapped directly into whatever controls device input and output at a hardware and OS level). This is what I've gathered from reading specifically into those sections of Vault 7.
I'd be interested in reading up on this once you relocate the info. Drop me a message when you do.
Unfortunately for AMD, it's a fight Intel is less and less interested in engaging in with them. Their focus has majority-shifted to keeping ahead of ARM-based CPUs, and they've already publicly stated that their only competitor is ARM (while at the same time offering small manufacturers the chance to have ARM-designed chips produced at their fabs, for a fee, of course).
This all being said, Intel is already working on smaller fab processes and a new architecture that builds on what they achieved with all of the current "Lake" models. AMD's problem hasn't just been in attempting to come close to Intel in performance, but in fabrication processes and yields. They are always two steps behind, it seems.
It's amazing how fast a browser actually can run once you ban certain script elements from loading, certain calls and manipulations of the DOM (I don't think it's the business of most websites to check if I have a microphone or webcam installed and enabled nor what type and brand of hard disk I am using, nor do I think they have the right to disable any of my input devices or functions thereof for any reason), and all advertising. Even the "slow" browsers run amazingly well compared to what we had to choose between even 5-10 years ago once you take care of that sort of thing (if you can, some browsers are much more lenient than others in this regard).
Well, if you happen to sign in to Chrome (which I do) to use their sync service (because I and my household are all bought into the Android ecosystem), Google flat out admits that unless you encrypt your data with a passphrase so that they can't read it, they will parse any data you keep stored on their servers to sync to your other devices.
The downside to using a passphrase, is that if you accidentally forget what you used (which in my older age, has happened once now), then your only option is to clear the passphrase, which also blanks out the data and erases it from their servers.
If you define a Steambox as a console (which technically, you should, because it is), then yes, it's on a console. Not an extraordinarily popular console, but still, a console.
Linus was being a total blowhard when he said that. He is perfectly aware of the fact that they can't do what he wishes because NVIDIA does not own the rights to every necessary bit that would need to be open sourced for the damned thing to even work.
That would be like asking someone to intentionally break the clauses in many FOSS software licenses that require sharing the source, or not using the software for commercial purposes without permission of the author(s). In this case, not only could NVIDIA lose their licenses to use the technology (and basically killing their ability to manufacture and sell entirely), they could be sued for large amounts of money.
That was probably the story about Samsung's specialized ARM-based server chip experiments. They badly want Intel completely out of their products and at the same time found that during testing for 5G that current market standard ARM, Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD chip designs quite frankly aren't up to snuff to process the signals in a cost efficient nor reliable manner (which is why it is laughable when T-Mobile and Verizon claim they are going to start rolling out 5G "soon").
Those CPUs would have 256 cores each, run at much lower TDP than the current Xeon and other offerings, support larger amounts of ECC and regular DDR RAM than the other chips designers offer (and have official support for more specialized memory architectures, such as that found in the PS4 and Xbox One). There were some other details about them that were interesting, but since this is still all in R&D we'll see how much of it shows up in actual products, even if those are only ever sold to enterprise and industry.