"Forcing idiot Windows to install updates automatically is the right way to go. It shouldn't be possible for people to disable them, including and especially in corporate environments."
If only Microsoft limited itself to actually updating what it's supposed to, instead of rooting around your system and deleting shit it has no fucking business deleting.
So I've got great reason to disable Windows 10 updates - they find programs you have installed, remove them, replace them with their competing product, and at the same time wipe out older user folders in your Windows.old directory that remained after your 'upgrade.'
Getting all that data back was a bitch even with backups, and I still lost some important research and prototype designs as they were just recently created, in Windows 10, using a program I had installed in Windows 7, which got wiped in the 'update' along with all files associated with it in my User folder.
60 hours to back up my 4TB drive at that speed. I could overnight the drive itself and have it there and fully replicated multiple times over in under 24 hours.
"I wonder when they started doing that in the US? Maybe it is only at some hospitals?"
Forever. It's a souvenir from the hospital and not an official record. My father and grandfather both had prints on their hospital-issued 'certificate' as well as did I.
I've been thoroughly vetted by Voire Dire. You can fuck right off with your pathetic hatred of me because my life has consistently been better than yours.
You're too much of a coward to even come to me and talk your shit. My info's public record, coward. Bring your bitch ass on.
"I have no problem with the LGBTQ community's existence, but suggesting the right-wing conservative Republicans' belief that marriage rights shouldn't extend to couples of the same gender is equivalent to or justifies murder? That's absolute nonsense.'
Typical Liberal blindness to history. WE got murdered or violently assaulted when we tried to get our rights that the Republifucks were keeping from us.
We're fucking justified in killing every Republican until they turn the fuck around and actually act like the "Christians" that they pretend to be.
Fact: Most American terrorists are Republican Christians.
Burn every fucking last one of the hypocritical fucks.
"I don't know of any people going out trying to kill a mass of people in the name of Christ...please, enumerate them."
Have you had your head up your ass the last 30+ years? You might want to look at all the Christian hate groups that reside in America (and btw, 'Christian' Americans are responsible for most terror attacks in the United States since I was born in 1982.)
"Please quote the passage which suggests that Jesus revoked Leviticus 20:13."
The New Testament is supposed to be A. the story of Jesus and B. the creation of a new covenant between man and God, thus negating pretty much all of the Old Testament minus the Commandments..
Not when you're playing the fast ponzi scheme scam game that created the bitcoin market. You don't want stability, you want serious upwards volatility that you can take advantage of before a huge crash.
"I have an iPhone 4s with a completely cracked screen."
No, you have a 4S with a completely cracked cover glass (without the digitizer built-into the glass. I used to repair those.)
"How the fuck do you upload images if you can't see anything? Or do you mean that you can't see some of the screen?"
I know my phone icon and function locations and apps blindfolded. My screen is totally fucked - http://i.imgur.com/Gf7Ffp8.png yet somehow the digitizer has no problems and functions.
"The Tianmen Mountain walkway in China is made of glass, and it supports hundreds of peoples' weight."
Lapidary/Glass worker here - I could wipe that bridge out with a spark plug.
"Glass can be made strong these days"
The second it gets scratched all strength is essentially gone at smartphone levels of thinness.
Amazingly enough, BLU seems to make a phone that still works despite the screen being essentially destroyed. The entire touch capability still works 100%. I can't read shit on he screen but I can still take pictures, upload images to imgur, make calls, check voicemail, and even the tiny ass on-screen keyboard functions the same as when I had the phone brand new.
"Back around 2000, I moved across the country for about $3k, with a whole (small) house's worth of stuff, plus the cost of gas for driving my car."
Motel? Food? Drink? Other externalities like maps/guides, did you happen to hire someone to pack up the house for you? Guarantee that alone for a true cross-country trip (which I almost did, TN to CA) would've eaten up another $2K.
I tried everything I could to save, and still got charged out the ass because of heavily exceeding dimensional weight limits (goddamned magnetic ballasts.)
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I guess you've never heard of "Overnight Shipping" which has been a thing for like 30 years or so.
"Forcing idiot Windows to install updates automatically is the right way to go. It shouldn't be possible for people to disable them, including and especially in corporate environments."
If only Microsoft limited itself to actually updating what it's supposed to, instead of rooting around your system and deleting shit it has no fucking business deleting.
So I've got great reason to disable Windows 10 updates - they find programs you have installed, remove them, replace them with their competing product, and at the same time wipe out older user folders in your Windows.old directory that remained after your 'upgrade.'
Getting all that data back was a bitch even with backups, and I still lost some important research and prototype designs as they were just recently created, in Windows 10, using a program I had installed in Windows 7, which got wiped in the 'update' along with all files associated with it in my User folder.
"I have 150Mbps up"
60 hours to back up my 4TB drive at that speed. I could overnight the drive itself and have it there and fully replicated multiple times over in under 24 hours.
"I wonder when they started doing that in the US? Maybe it is only at some hospitals?"
Forever. It's a souvenir from the hospital and not an official record. My father and grandfather both had prints on their hospital-issued 'certificate' as well as did I.
I've been thoroughly vetted by Voire Dire. You can fuck right off with your pathetic hatred of me because my life has consistently been better than yours.
You're too much of a coward to even come to me and talk your shit. My info's public record, coward. Bring your bitch ass on.
"I have no problem with the LGBTQ community's existence, but suggesting the right-wing conservative Republicans' belief that marriage rights shouldn't extend to couples of the same gender is equivalent to or justifies murder? That's absolute nonsense.'
Typical Liberal blindness to history. WE got murdered or violently assaulted when we tried to get our rights that the Republifucks were keeping from us.
We're fucking justified in killing every Republican until they turn the fuck around and actually act like the "Christians" that they pretend to be.
Fact: Most American terrorists are Republican Christians.
Burn every fucking last one of the hypocritical fucks.
"I don't know of any people going out trying to kill a mass of people in the name of Christ...please, enumerate them."
Have you had your head up your ass the last 30+ years? You might want to look at all the Christian hate groups that reside in America (and btw, 'Christian' Americans are responsible for most terror attacks in the United States since I was born in 1982.)
That's still a great deal more than most other patent-holding companies do.
"Many states, including California, ship inmates to out of state prisons, where it hard for their families to visit"
A bunch of inmates from either Michigan or Wisconsin sued for that exact practice and won claiming unlawful estrangement.
I bet such a thing could be tried against the prison phone companies.
I've been on the jury for two cases involving ponzi schemes.
A rose by any other name...
"Please quote the passage which suggests that Jesus revoked Leviticus 20:13."
The New Testament is supposed to be A. the story of Jesus and B. the creation of a new covenant between man and God, thus negating pretty much all of the Old Testament minus the Commandments..
Source: I'm an ordained minister.
"In this particular case, it's a couple of guys trolling for licensing."
Patent date 2003-2004.
With actual devices available using said tech from said company.
No, they're not just trolling.
Try looking at the companies (including parent company) behind the patent and look at their product portfolio.
Shit's in use, captain.
Not when you're playing the fast ponzi scheme scam game that created the bitcoin market. You don't want stability, you want serious upwards volatility that you can take advantage of before a huge crash.
How I would love to see Logitech slapped with a nice fat patent lawsuit.
Inductive field + metal object. I can feel my hand sweating already.
Ditch your insecure shit or face HIPPA fines and fees.
"I have an iPhone 4s with a completely cracked screen."
No, you have a 4S with a completely cracked cover glass (without the digitizer built-into the glass. I used to repair those.)
"How the fuck do you upload images if you can't see anything? Or do you mean that you can't see some of the screen?"
I know my phone icon and function locations and apps blindfolded. My screen is totally fucked - http://i.imgur.com/Gf7Ffp8.png yet somehow the digitizer has no problems and functions.
The VPN forwards anything that is data and you can do SMS over just about any protocol now days.
"how do you avoid getting disconnected by your ISP for running an unauthorized server on a home connection?"
VPNs are generally encrypted. Unless the ISP is breaking the law by cracking your shit, how will they ever know you're running a server?
"The Tianmen Mountain walkway in China is made of glass, and it supports hundreds of peoples' weight."
Lapidary/Glass worker here - I could wipe that bridge out with a spark plug.
"Glass can be made strong these days"
The second it gets scratched all strength is essentially gone at smartphone levels of thinness.
Amazingly enough, BLU seems to make a phone that still works despite the screen being essentially destroyed. The entire touch capability still works 100%. I can't read shit on he screen but I can still take pictures, upload images to imgur, make calls, check voicemail, and even the tiny ass on-screen keyboard functions the same as when I had the phone brand new.
No Apple phone is going to work like that.
Spoken like someone who has never held a job in logistics! Well done, sir!
That you've never read any of them (LOL you think there's just one) just demonstrates your ignorance.
Well, here, let's throw a few fucking citations out for ya.
https://www.mymovingreviews.co...
Now, bear in mind that moving cost is only for a mere 1225 miles. If we're talking cross-country, it goes up much higher. The $4K is an average.
https://www.google.com/search?...
$5,600. Again, prices might vary, this is yet another average.
I'll trust these independently-operating people who can report reliable and fairly consistent numbers over you.
"Back around 2000, I moved across the country for about $3k, with a whole (small) house's worth of stuff, plus the cost of gas for driving my car."
Motel? Food? Drink? Other externalities like maps/guides, did you happen to hire someone to pack up the house for you? Guarantee that alone for a true cross-country trip (which I almost did, TN to CA) would've eaten up another $2K.
I tried everything I could to save, and still got charged out the ass because of heavily exceeding dimensional weight limits (goddamned magnetic ballasts.)
You have no understanding of how badly you get overcharged when you exceed actual dimensional weight limits.
And the 26' one is a two-axle vehicle.