I would say it has a strong correlation (and that does not imply causation, of course), but being on good terms with one of the writers for Forbes has given me two bits of insight A) Millenials don't read Forbes as much as their elder siblings or parents (and Milennials are a large target market) B) outright blocking people who use adblockers without even offering them an alternative method of viewing by paying for the content with no ads at all (say, 5-10 cents per article depending on how recent the article is) is not doing them any favors, either. Like many others that I know, most people see the message that they can't access the content because of the anti-adblocker policy, they just go, "oh well", and find an alternative source of information, many people never returning.
I can imagine this would be more damaging to Wired than Forbes as a whole, since so much of the stuff offered by them can be sourced elsewhere, such as Scientific American, Engadget, etc. whom are all a very short search away and don't block people using adblockers from accessing their content.
It's the Realtek chipset + drivers. My wife has this same issue, as do other people I know. Even with it being supposedly disabled in UEFI/BIOS, something is still going on, and I can't tell if it's a manufacturing defect (or they cheaped out and the parts aren't properly pathed, soldered, and shielded) and there is some sort of current leakage causing this or it is Windows deciding to ignore what UEFI/BIOS is telling it regarding the chipset and still polling it when it is disabled (causing an audio response that is the buzzing on the audiopath because of signal interference with other devices assigned to the same internal IRQ, usually USB hubs and Bluetooth). This bug has been around for awhile (I had it on a previous machine running Windows 7 64-bit that had Realtek audio, and on one of those old P4 XP machines that were a dime a dozen from Dell).
PEBKAC that I have ever witnessed inside my entire 30 year existence in the computing world. On top of it, they are backhandedly trying to imply that everyone should waste money on those shit-tier consoles shoveled out by Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo that are years out of date when you pick them up from the shelf. Just no.
From what I've read elsewhere about the new laws, this isn't about protecting customers at all, but is protectionist to their own fledgling companies, but more importantly, it gives their government direct access to everything passing through those servers, and everything that direct access by the Turkish government implies. Oh, you live outside of Turkey and buy something from someone in Turkey? The entire unencrypted version of the data of that transaction is soon to be in the hands of Edrogan's government.
Without removing the eMMC and using Toshiba's vendor codes to reset it to factory, I don't think even Samsung can unlock the bootloader once the command was given to blow those fuses, at least by any means that is convenient for the consumer. They probably could, but it would involve sending the phone back to Samsung and involve a few weeks of them taking the phone apart, paperwork, etc.
This hasn't proven to be the case online at all - several major sites have tried setting higher standards of behavior by enforcing real name policies or Facebook logins along with stricter Terms of Service. All it has done is A) lower the number of comments overall B) make the trolls (and I admit to dipping my finger into that pond now and then) more creative and vicious, leading to an increase in the results of point A).
Even here on Slashdot where meta-moderation works reasonably well, we end up with obvious troll/Poe comments highly upvoted because obviously someone thinks it is amusing (for various reasons).
Not in all cases. That bit only seems to apply to the under-18 crowd, and again, much like Microsoft, they seem to have different EULAs, etc for each product and each step up in service as well as blanket EULAs and disclaimers.
Two islands with a much, much lower population and not anywhere near the amount of actual firearms manufacturers located on the same soil. Gather them up, don't let any more in on the boats (or planes). Won't work so well here.
This is the guy the DOJ had extradited because he had/has possession of full dumps of the 30,000+ emails that Clinton had wiped from her servers before turning them over to the FBI. I wouldn't poo-poo him for a bit of attention seeking, because there is obviously some fire to be found where his smoke is coming from.
Get it while the getting is good, because Oct 31, 2016 is the final cutoff date for Win7 Pro (retail versions of Enterprise, Home, Basic, and Ultimate are already cutoff) sales. From what I've gathered, they won't even activate keys after that date if they haven't been previously activated.
Subscribers to SA of course get downgrade rights, hah.
This part was true and all, but you missed the part where they mentioned "shareholders". Being self-incorporated, you aren't trading on the NASDAQ and therefore aren't legally beholden to providing ever increasing profits at the expense of everything else.
Microsoft tends to not only charge a license for the OS, but in the case of workstations (and servers), per physical CPU (and in certain cases, per CPU core), per virtual machine, and per seat fees on top of all of that. If your workstation meets a certain set of criteria, you may only license this version, but not that, etc, etc, etc.
This makes sense, because if those dev renders for some of the upcoming Apple Macbooks are accurate, we're going to be facing a slew of laptops, etc that have no keyboards at all and rely on voice commands and a touch pad for everything. I bet anything Microsoft has been thinking along those same lines, and I know Google certainly has. This would explain the focus on centralizing Cortana.
Well....Firefox has been a sinking ship for awhile methinks. Many of the people that used to work on it from the beginning up until about the 3.0 era are long gone, and that technical know-how and just plain knowledge of the software and engineering behind it left with them, and it shows - everywhere from worse and worse performance, greater and greater memory leaks, stupid UI design decisions, increasing numbers of submitted bugs being tagged as can't/won't fix, etc.
So, what you're really saying, is that nobody in the world considers Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese computers to be safe, as that is where they are all predominantly manufactured for the entire world.
The situation is entirely political, in the USA at least. One of the above posters mentioned that it seemed to them it was some sort of conspiracy amongst the teacher unions to set in place barriers to entry, when in fact, that has been the purview of the various Federal and State Departments of Education, most of which are staffed by people who have never spent a single minute teaching in a classroom.
If you've seen what qualifies as actual patents these days, then you'd know that most of the time they haven't even bothered with scribbling on a napkin before it gets shoveled through and approved.
They are taxi services trying to skirt around the rules, costs, and regulations of being an actual taxi service - most notably the rules, costs, and regulations associated with employees and their vehicles.
I once worked in a place that had zero, and I mean zero discrimination/harassment or tolerance for it (government rules for contracts, and all of that, monitored and enforced). We had four female employees. Four. Out of sixty at that particular location. They tried for three years to bring in more female coders and mainframe operators but it just wasn't happening. All of their potential recruits kept going into jobs involving child care, HR, PR, health care, teaching, etc. When they actually took a survey of some of these potential recruits, the most common answers as to why they didn't want to get into coding or operations involved even after having completed the precursory requirements at university/college, "The math is too hard.", "The work environment is too demanding and sterile." "Not enough personal interaction."
Mind you, their observations were true: the math used was/is difficult, and the work environment was sterile, relatively speaking, and demanded that you do your job extremely well, and on time, for ten hours per day, sometimes sitting by yourself at the other end of the building in order to feed a specific batch of tapes into a lone AS/400 parked into the back corner and run the batch scripts it needed to do the job (even programmers and site supervisors got stuck doing this bit of it, nobody got out of it, when it needed to be done, it got done).
We didn't have any sort of issue recruiting and retaining male employees from everywhere - Lithuania, Vietnam, Ukraine, USA, etc. even including older males who had retired from the traditional workforce but still wanted to work/contribute instead of wasting away in some Florida retirement community.
What this says or doesn't say about the state of a good chunk of the professional computing world and the applicants it gets or doesn't get, I am not going to speculate on, this was just my observation (and this anecdote from my perspective was true across several jobs/jobsites in the tech sector since the early/mid 1990's until today).
The screenshot function is built in to many Android phones as a button press combo using (depending on the manufacturer) a short press of one of the volume keys + power. I imagine this functionality can be intercepted or rerouted with Android not even throwing up a warning about it.
Because unlike AMD or Intel, nvidia actually does use a majority of third-party licensed patents that they are not the owners of in both their hardware and software stacks, thus preventing your dream from being reality. They can't just up and say "Here, go use this stuff we don't own nor have permission to redistribute openly!", you silly goose, yet that is exactly what you're expecting them to do.
You do realize the telemetry data collected and sent back to the mothership in Windows 10 contains everything and the kitchen sink from your system, so to speak. This includes all memory dumps, a copy of your current registry, and a complete list of all files on the system (and any attached storage). I also suspect that there is a mechanism that waits for you to decrypt a filesystem if you're using Truecrypt or similar and capturing the file names from those data shares as well.
I don't know if you've actually interacted with Win10 at all, but the data collection is extremely high, even on the "don't collect as much" settings.
BTW, full settings on is, according to the message I got using the Feedback Tool, able to allow Microsoft Engineers to diagnose and analyze issues with Windows 10 in real time. You can't even do that with the majority of the Unix stack.
I actually enjoyed many Accolade titles.....I can't say the same about many Atari or Infogrames titles. There were a few of course, but the vast majority were crap.
My bet is that they used trained messenger birds coupled with runners, and did what most armies did until relatively modern times - they took rations, but the bulk of what the men ate came from what animals they could hunt/fish and what plants they could "harvest" along the way.
What I am finding surprising about this entire thing is that troops this far afield from their home territories seemingly weren't challenged by anyone not keen on having them pass through their turf on the way to this battle.
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I would say it has a strong correlation (and that does not imply causation, of course), but being on good terms with one of the writers for Forbes has given me two bits of insight A) Millenials don't read Forbes as much as their elder siblings or parents (and Milennials are a large target market) B) outright blocking people who use adblockers without even offering them an alternative method of viewing by paying for the content with no ads at all (say, 5-10 cents per article depending on how recent the article is) is not doing them any favors, either. Like many others that I know, most people see the message that they can't access the content because of the anti-adblocker policy, they just go, "oh well", and find an alternative source of information, many people never returning.
I can imagine this would be more damaging to Wired than Forbes as a whole, since so much of the stuff offered by them can be sourced elsewhere, such as Scientific American, Engadget, etc. whom are all a very short search away and don't block people using adblockers from accessing their content.
Except what will inevitably happen, is that you'll end up paying for the service and they'll still sell all of your info.
It's the Realtek chipset + drivers. My wife has this same issue, as do other people I know. Even with it being supposedly disabled in UEFI/BIOS, something is still going on, and I can't tell if it's a manufacturing defect (or they cheaped out and the parts aren't properly pathed, soldered, and shielded) and there is some sort of current leakage causing this or it is Windows deciding to ignore what UEFI/BIOS is telling it regarding the chipset and still polling it when it is disabled (causing an audio response that is the buzzing on the audiopath because of signal interference with other devices assigned to the same internal IRQ, usually USB hubs and Bluetooth). This bug has been around for awhile (I had it on a previous machine running Windows 7 64-bit that had Realtek audio, and on one of those old P4 XP machines that were a dime a dozen from Dell).
PEBKAC that I have ever witnessed inside my entire 30 year existence in the computing world. On top of it, they are backhandedly trying to imply that everyone should waste money on those shit-tier consoles shoveled out by Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo that are years out of date when you pick them up from the shelf. Just no.
From what I've read elsewhere about the new laws, this isn't about protecting customers at all, but is protectionist to their own fledgling companies, but more importantly, it gives their government direct access to everything passing through those servers, and everything that direct access by the Turkish government implies. Oh, you live outside of Turkey and buy something from someone in Turkey? The entire unencrypted version of the data of that transaction is soon to be in the hands of Edrogan's government.
Without removing the eMMC and using Toshiba's vendor codes to reset it to factory, I don't think even Samsung can unlock the bootloader once the command was given to blow those fuses, at least by any means that is convenient for the consumer. They probably could, but it would involve sending the phone back to Samsung and involve a few weeks of them taking the phone apart, paperwork, etc.
This hasn't proven to be the case online at all - several major sites have tried setting higher standards of behavior by enforcing real name policies or Facebook logins along with stricter Terms of Service. All it has done is A) lower the number of comments overall B) make the trolls (and I admit to dipping my finger into that pond now and then) more creative and vicious, leading to an increase in the results of point A).
Even here on Slashdot where meta-moderation works reasonably well, we end up with obvious troll/Poe comments highly upvoted because obviously someone thinks it is amusing (for various reasons).
Not in all cases. That bit only seems to apply to the under-18 crowd, and again, much like Microsoft, they seem to have different EULAs, etc for each product and each step up in service as well as blanket EULAs and disclaimers.
Two islands with a much, much lower population and not anywhere near the amount of actual firearms manufacturers located on the same soil. Gather them up, don't let any more in on the boats (or planes). Won't work so well here.
This is the guy the DOJ had extradited because he had/has possession of full dumps of the 30,000+ emails that Clinton had wiped from her servers before turning them over to the FBI. I wouldn't poo-poo him for a bit of attention seeking, because there is obviously some fire to be found where his smoke is coming from.
Get it while the getting is good, because Oct 31, 2016 is the final cutoff date for Win7 Pro (retail versions of Enterprise, Home, Basic, and Ultimate are already cutoff) sales. From what I've gathered, they won't even activate keys after that date if they haven't been previously activated.
Subscribers to SA of course get downgrade rights, hah.
This part was true and all, but you missed the part where they mentioned "shareholders". Being self-incorporated, you aren't trading on the NASDAQ and therefore aren't legally beholden to providing ever increasing profits at the expense of everything else.
Microsoft tends to not only charge a license for the OS, but in the case of workstations (and servers), per physical CPU (and in certain cases, per CPU core), per virtual machine, and per seat fees on top of all of that. If your workstation meets a certain set of criteria, you may only license this version, but not that, etc, etc, etc.
This makes sense, because if those dev renders for some of the upcoming Apple Macbooks are accurate, we're going to be facing a slew of laptops, etc that have no keyboards at all and rely on voice commands and a touch pad for everything. I bet anything Microsoft has been thinking along those same lines, and I know Google certainly has. This would explain the focus on centralizing Cortana.
Well....Firefox has been a sinking ship for awhile methinks. Many of the people that used to work on it from the beginning up until about the 3.0 era are long gone, and that technical know-how and just plain knowledge of the software and engineering behind it left with them, and it shows - everywhere from worse and worse performance, greater and greater memory leaks, stupid UI design decisions, increasing numbers of submitted bugs being tagged as can't/won't fix, etc.
So, what you're really saying, is that nobody in the world considers Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese computers to be safe, as that is where they are all predominantly manufactured for the entire world.
The situation is entirely political, in the USA at least. One of the above posters mentioned that it seemed to them it was some sort of conspiracy amongst the teacher unions to set in place barriers to entry, when in fact, that has been the purview of the various Federal and State Departments of Education, most of which are staffed by people who have never spent a single minute teaching in a classroom.
If you've seen what qualifies as actual patents these days, then you'd know that most of the time they haven't even bothered with scribbling on a napkin before it gets shoveled through and approved.
They are taxi services trying to skirt around the rules, costs, and regulations of being an actual taxi service - most notably the rules, costs, and regulations associated with employees and their vehicles.
I once worked in a place that had zero, and I mean zero discrimination/harassment or tolerance for it (government rules for contracts, and all of that, monitored and enforced). We had four female employees. Four. Out of sixty at that particular location. They tried for three years to bring in more female coders and mainframe operators but it just wasn't happening. All of their potential recruits kept going into jobs involving child care, HR, PR, health care, teaching, etc. When they actually took a survey of some of these potential recruits, the most common answers as to why they didn't want to get into coding or operations involved even after having completed the precursory requirements at university/college, "The math is too hard.", "The work environment is too demanding and sterile." "Not enough personal interaction."
Mind you, their observations were true: the math used was/is difficult, and the work environment was sterile, relatively speaking, and demanded that you do your job extremely well, and on time, for ten hours per day, sometimes sitting by yourself at the other end of the building in order to feed a specific batch of tapes into a lone AS/400 parked into the back corner and run the batch scripts it needed to do the job (even programmers and site supervisors got stuck doing this bit of it, nobody got out of it, when it needed to be done, it got done).
We didn't have any sort of issue recruiting and retaining male employees from everywhere - Lithuania, Vietnam, Ukraine, USA, etc. even including older males who had retired from the traditional workforce but still wanted to work/contribute instead of wasting away in some Florida retirement community.
What this says or doesn't say about the state of a good chunk of the professional computing world and the applicants it gets or doesn't get, I am not going to speculate on, this was just my observation (and this anecdote from my perspective was true across several jobs/jobsites in the tech sector since the early/mid 1990's until today).
The screenshot function is built in to many Android phones as a button press combo using (depending on the manufacturer) a short press of one of the volume keys + power. I imagine this functionality can be intercepted or rerouted with Android not even throwing up a warning about it.
Because unlike AMD or Intel, nvidia actually does use a majority of third-party licensed patents that they are not the owners of in both their hardware and software stacks, thus preventing your dream from being reality. They can't just up and say "Here, go use this stuff we don't own nor have permission to redistribute openly!", you silly goose, yet that is exactly what you're expecting them to do.
You do realize the telemetry data collected and sent back to the mothership in Windows 10 contains everything and the kitchen sink from your system, so to speak. This includes all memory dumps, a copy of your current registry, and a complete list of all files on the system (and any attached storage). I also suspect that there is a mechanism that waits for you to decrypt a filesystem if you're using Truecrypt or similar and capturing the file names from those data shares as well.
I don't know if you've actually interacted with Win10 at all, but the data collection is extremely high, even on the "don't collect as much" settings.
BTW, full settings on is, according to the message I got using the Feedback Tool, able to allow Microsoft Engineers to diagnose and analyze issues with Windows 10 in real time. You can't even do that with the majority of the Unix stack.
I actually enjoyed many Accolade titles.....I can't say the same about many Atari or Infogrames titles. There were a few of course, but the vast majority were crap.
My bet is that they used trained messenger birds coupled with runners, and did what most armies did until relatively modern times - they took rations, but the bulk of what the men ate came from what animals they could hunt/fish and what plants they could "harvest" along the way.
What I am finding surprising about this entire thing is that troops this far afield from their home territories seemingly weren't challenged by anyone not keen on having them pass through their turf on the way to this battle.