Log in to your router and blacklist all Microsoft sites. There you go - no more Windows 10 updates. If you should happen to want an update or two, then remove Microsoft sites from the blacklist until you are done.
I assumed that we'd have a nudie button on our TVs by now, where one could press the nudie button and see all the TV personalities in their birthday suits. Well that is what I thought back in the 70's. I'm sort of glad it didn't come to pass yet.
Thanks for pointing out my mistake. (I did read the article before posting.) Now that two big companies have been mentioned, I wonder if any employees of either company must follow a code of conduct.
This sort of problem has arisen before and solved by requiring people knowing about big deals (i.e. accountants and lawyers) having to abide by codes of conduct within their professional associations. Even the appearance of a conflict of interest should be avoided to stay onside. I wonder if Google employees in general have such codes of conduct written into their employment contracts.
I wonder how many coins were generated back in 2010 by students on university servers (with the universities getting no cut). Of course back then the coins were considered next to worthless so maybe it was not a great loss to the universities - just some extra power expenses.
The base of an igloo, which is essentially a circle, follows the formula Circumference = pi * Diameter. After building several hundred igloos, I am sure an Inuit builder would have empirical knowledge that it takes roughly three times as many steps to go around a circle than it takes to walk the diameter. In this way, the Inuit builder would have a very practical understanding of pi without possibly ever defining pi.
Children may use 3-4-5 triangles in wood shop before ever learning about Pythagoras's Theorem. Some woodworkers have a very practical understanding of specific right triangles without really thinking the maths through.
I would put the Stonehenge builders in the same lot. Lots of empirical knowledge, but maybe less so on the modern-day mathematical definitions.
How surprised are you that FB has been caught abusing your data? A: Hasn't FB always been doing this? B: Shit! My data is logged and is possibly available to... (my boss, my spouse, the fuzz,...) C: Is Facebook going down? I mean I need my FB apps!! D: Cowboy Neal read me the fine print, and I'm sure everything is on the up and up.
Computers are great for predicting where the tight races will be. Send extra eyes and ears to the tight race locations to help ensure valid procedures are taking place. Some valid procedures (think gerrymandering) are inherently unfair, but that is not to be dealt with here. Under no circumstances should a hackable computer (really any computer) be used to register a vote.
I PGP'd all my passwords ten years ago. They were all super long and difficult to remember. So long as I remembered my PGP password, I'd be in good shape. Unfortunately, I made my PGP pass phrase super long and difficult to remember. Well: I lost all of my passwords.
My latest build was on a ASUS B250 MB, which contains a jumper setting to shut down ME. Note that the default setting is to allow ME. Always read your manual! Now a good follow up question: Does the jumper setting really work or does it just make me believe I turned ME off?
I had eclipse goggles at hand, but should I have trusted Amazon's procurement procedures? Instead, I placed my binoculars over my head - fat end toward the sun - small end toward the ground - and aimed the lunar/solar image onto my shadow that was cast on my patio. It turns out that I could have trusted the eclipse goggles because four other people with me used said goggles with no blinding results. However, next eclipse, I'll still use my binoculars.
The Aussie PM claim that Australian laws are stronger than commendable mathematics make perfect sense if he's got a way to crack encryption. Math has not shown that solving discrete logarithms need be difficult. Simply nobody has come public with a solution yet. But then why would they?
The blurb up top states "... chiropractic as a whole hasn't evolved like other areas of medicine..." The proper term for the practice should be chiropracty. I don't know how "chiropractic" came about, but it is commonly used.
The CTRL-p menu (after much of the booting had taken place) brought me to a AMT/ME screen where I could turn AMT off after entering a password. The default password is "admin" which worked with my refurbished HP Xeon box. I have since changed the password.
If you need your Windows 10 computer to not update for a period of time, you may have to log in to your router and blacklist all Microsoft sites. When you are done work, you can log in again and allow your network to reach them again.
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Log in to your router and blacklist all Microsoft sites.
There you go - no more Windows 10 updates.
If you should happen to want an update or two, then remove Microsoft sites from the blacklist until you are done.
I assumed that we'd have a nudie button on our TVs by now, where one could press the nudie button and see all the TV personalities in their birthday suits. Well that is what I thought back in the 70's. I'm sort of glad it didn't come to pass yet.
Thanks for pointing out my mistake.
(I did read the article before posting.)
Now that two big companies have been mentioned, I wonder if any employees of either company must follow a code of conduct.
This sort of problem has arisen before and solved by requiring people knowing about big deals (i.e. accountants and lawyers) having to abide by codes of conduct within their professional associations. Even the appearance of a conflict of interest should be avoided to stay onside.
I wonder if Google employees in general have such codes of conduct written into their employment contracts.
Are wobbly windows prankish enough?
Or the cube?
I added Slashdot's RSS feed to Thunderbird because of your post.
I wonder how many coins were generated back in 2010 by students on university servers (with the universities getting no cut). Of course back then the coins were considered next to worthless so maybe it was not a great loss to the universities - just some extra power expenses.
The base of an igloo, which is essentially a circle, follows the formula Circumference = pi * Diameter.
After building several hundred igloos, I am sure an Inuit builder would have empirical knowledge that it takes roughly three times as many steps to go around a circle than it takes to walk the diameter. In this way, the Inuit builder would have a very practical understanding of pi without possibly ever defining pi.
Children may use 3-4-5 triangles in wood shop before ever learning about Pythagoras's Theorem.
Some woodworkers have a very practical understanding of specific right triangles without really thinking the maths through.
I would put the Stonehenge builders in the same lot. Lots of empirical knowledge, but maybe less so on the modern-day mathematical definitions.
His hard drives contain sensitive info that may preclude him from ever getting them back.
Hopefully his other family members get their computers back.
How surprised are you that FB has been caught abusing your data? ... (my boss, my spouse, the fuzz, ...)
A: Hasn't FB always been doing this?
B: Shit! My data is logged and is possibly available to
C: Is Facebook going down? I mean I need my FB apps!!
D: Cowboy Neal read me the fine print, and I'm sure everything is on the up and up.
I was about to post the same idea
Computers are great for predicting where the tight races will be.
Send extra eyes and ears to the tight race locations to help ensure valid procedures are taking place.
Some valid procedures (think gerrymandering) are inherently unfair, but that is not to be dealt with here.
Under no circumstances should a hackable computer (really any computer) be used to register a vote.
I PGP'd all my passwords ten years ago.
They were all super long and difficult to remember.
So long as I remembered my PGP password, I'd be in good shape.
Unfortunately, I made my PGP pass phrase super long and difficult to remember.
Well: I lost all of my passwords.
My latest build was on a ASUS B250 MB, which contains a jumper setting to shut down ME. Note that the default setting is to allow ME. Always read your manual!
Now a good follow up question: Does the jumper setting really work or does it just make me believe I turned ME off?
I imagine the IRS wants his name and a good chunk of any cash it feels entitled to.
I had eclipse goggles at hand, but should I have trusted Amazon's procurement procedures?
Instead, I placed my binoculars over my head - fat end toward the sun - small end toward the ground - and aimed the lunar/solar image onto my shadow that was cast on my patio.
It turns out that I could have trusted the eclipse goggles because four other people with me used said goggles with no blinding results.
However, next eclipse, I'll still use my binoculars.
The Aussie PM claim that Australian laws are stronger than commendable mathematics make perfect sense if he's got a way to crack encryption.
Math has not shown that solving discrete logarithms need be difficult. Simply nobody has come public with a solution yet. But then why would they?
Groucho Marx had a problem with "Quack" doctors:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
The blurb up top states "... chiropractic as a whole hasn't evolved like other areas of medicine ..."
The proper term for the practice should be chiropracty. I don't know how "chiropractic" came about, but it is commonly used.
You know a town with money is a little like the mule with a spinning wheel.
No one knows how he got it and danged if he knows how to use it.
- Introductory remarks before the Simpson's Monorail Song
I didn't see anything about DD-WRT flashed routers in the manual.
So maybe I'm good.
The CTRL-p menu (after much of the booting had taken place) brought me to a AMT/ME screen where I could turn AMT off after entering a password.
The default password is "admin" which worked with my refurbished HP Xeon box. I have since changed the password.
More money, better computers, whatever it takes - get a subset of the users on board to test the new code before it's final.
Nous, on pense that "on" can mean "each of us."
If you need your Windows 10 computer to not update for a period of time, you may have to log in to your router and blacklist all Microsoft sites. When you are done work, you can log in again and allow your network to reach them again.