99.99% of Windows 10 Pro users were NEVER going to mess with group policy editor to tweak those settings anyway. So ~why~ go to the trouble of disabling them.
It's not just Pro users. Some of the settings were also available to Home users via the registry (I turned off the lock screen this way, whyTH do I need one on a PC?).
I guess they basically want users to upgrade to enterprise, or be monetized, annoyed and used as guinea pigs. Microsoft wins either way (unless a significant part of the user base quits using W10).
All code should be necessary. Either for the compiler, or for my own understanding, or for the next person trying to make sense of it.
Strictly speaking, things like talking variable names aren't "necessary", the code will compile just find if you rename "error_flag", "sample_index" and "accu64" to "joe", "bob" and "alice".
Russian oligarchs ARE the Russian version of THEM...
Only if they're ex-KGB. If they are, then they will keep their part of the deal (and possibly book touristy space flights just to keep up the conspiracy).
Otherwise, they are merely tolerated by the Russian version THEM and this tolerance can be withdrawn if their behavior is inappropriate.
Hey, this is fun if you don't seriously believe in it...;)
And you want to intimidate Russian oligarchs with your petty version of THEM?
Well, considering that the US must have made some kind of deal with the Soviet Union about playing along with the whole moon landing thing, I'm sure that keeping Russian oligarchs in line can be outsourced to the Russian version of THEM.
Never underestimate the imagination of conspiracy afficionados.
That's comparatively simple. "Here's your few 100 grand back, and a couple million extra. And if you don't pretend to have been in space, THEY will find you and have a little chat with you."
In many cases the clock doesn't start ticking on the statute until someone is aware the crime was committed.
Well, at least in this case it was quite clear that a crime was committed, and when.
At least in criminal law, the statue of limitations is also meant to prevent law enforcement (and hence, taypayer-funded) resources from getting tied up by prosecuting crimes probably won't get solved or that are so far in the past and not serious enough to warrant decades-long prosecution.
There might be lots of universes, but since anything that can exchange energy with our universe is part of our universe, the other universes cannot be detected. They are irrelevant.
If you have a cell phone, why would having VOIP connection stop you from calling?
The premise was that calling is not optimal and email or text chat should be preferred. Sure, with a cell phone you could call tech support, but if the problem can be resolved more quickly by email or text chat, you could use the internet connection of the phone for that purpose.
From my experience, calling tech support with a cell phone is even more of a nightmare than calling from a a landline due to the inferior quality.
> no company wants a large number of customer complaints to external bodies -
Unfortunately, this threat only bears a lot of weight in heavily regulated industries (e.g. medical devices, where the respective regulatory bodies can shut down factories, ban the sale of products, force recalls, etc), but not so much in the typical "my internet stopped working" case.
... or a cut and paste that answers a situation that is similar to yours,
Or, even worse, a cut and paste that answers a completely different situation and it should have been obvious to anyone reading the original question that the cut&paste is not helpful at all.
I don't know how long he got away with it, but eventually he got walked.
Well yes. The calls are being monitored for uhhh quality control purposes.
Now someone will eventually start a service for phone tech support people that will call them, faking a mock conversation that only requires a pattern of "Yes." and "No." answers from the tech support person.
The point of tech support seems to be less about solving the customers problem, but to a) get the customer to stop complaining and b) possibly make some more money.
Of course, the customer can buy a different product in the future, but since its tech support will be just as bad, he'll return eventually.
Try making a phone call when you're on one of those increasingly popular VOIP-connections, then. If my internet were down, I couldn't use my landline, either.
How do you contact tech support?
You use an alternate way of connecting to the internet, of course. Your cellphone, for example. We're not in the 1990s anymore, where "internet connections" are few and far between.
Idiot!
Don't blame your lack of creativity and problem-solving skills on others, please.
So calling sales when you want tech support doesn't totally get you branded as a liar that no one wants to work with?
On a related note - "unbearable" tech support also seems to happen in-corportation, where the financial incentives are compartmentalized (save $x in IT, but lose 5x$x when the companys other departments can't work due to IT issues) and negative when viewed at the company level.
Are you OK with encryption that can be broken by heat death of the Universe + t billion years for a Kardashev Type I, Type II, or Type III civilization?
Since even a Kardashev Type III civilization is subject to the heat death of the universe (and, hence, the second law of thermodynamics), I'm ok with that.
My personal definition of godhood starts at immunity to the second law of thermodynamics, and if any such entity wants to read my email, it can go ahead.
I'm not sure AES-256 will stand up to a sufficiently large Type III civilization with highly advanced quantum computers.
Probably not. A better algorithm will have to be devised.
No one wants unbreakable encryption. We just want encryption to work like copyright - it's completely breakable on a completely impractical timescale (heat death of the universe + 2 billion years should be ok).
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It's not just Pro users. Some of the settings were also available to Home users via the registry (I turned off the lock screen this way, whyTH do I need one on a PC?).
I guess they basically want users to upgrade to enterprise, or be monetized, annoyed and used as guinea pigs. Microsoft wins either way (unless a significant part of the user base quits using W10).
And I want to keep Cortana turned off, too.
Strictly speaking, things like talking variable names aren't "necessary", the code will compile just find if you rename "error_flag", "sample_index" and "accu64" to "joe", "bob" and "alice".
Your coding standard might require that even blocks with single statements are enclosed in braces.
My personal choice: If it's a single statement, it's in one line including braces. If it's more than one statement, braces get their own lines.
Only if they're ex-KGB. If they are, then they will keep their part of the deal (and possibly book touristy space flights just to keep up the conspiracy).
Otherwise, they are merely tolerated by the Russian version THEM and this tolerance can be withdrawn if their behavior is inappropriate.
Hey, this is fun if you don't seriously believe in it ... ;)
Well, considering that the US must have made some kind of deal with the Soviet Union about playing along with the whole moon landing thing, I'm sure that keeping Russian oligarchs in line can be outsourced to the Russian version of THEM.
Never underestimate the imagination of conspiracy afficionados.
That's comparatively simple. "Here's your few 100 grand back, and a couple million extra. And if you don't pretend to have been in space, THEY will find you and have a little chat with you."
Well, at least in this case it was quite clear that a crime was committed, and when.
At least in criminal law, the statue of limitations is also meant to prevent law enforcement (and hence, taypayer-funded) resources from getting tied up by prosecuting crimes probably won't get solved or that are so far in the past and not serious enough to warrant decades-long prosecution.
What's the statute of limitations on the crimes the guy allegedly committed?
There might be lots of universes, but since anything that can exchange energy with our universe is part of our universe, the other universes cannot be detected. They are irrelevant.
Then again, I also work with small targets (couple of ten kB RAM, couple of hundred kB Flash).
Oh, and I switch to Matlab script occasionally, when determining what the small devices should actually do.
The premise was that calling is not optimal and email or text chat should be preferred. Sure, with a cell phone you could call tech support, but if the problem can be resolved more quickly by email or text chat, you could use the internet connection of the phone for that purpose.
From my experience, calling tech support with a cell phone is even more of a nightmare than calling from a a landline due to the inferior quality.
If a machine can help me solve a problem better than a person can, please please let me chat with the machine.
Unfortunately, this threat only bears a lot of weight in heavily regulated industries (e.g. medical devices, where the respective regulatory bodies can shut down factories, ban the sale of products, force recalls, etc), but not so much in the typical "my internet stopped working" case.
Or, even worse, a cut and paste that answers a completely different situation and it should have been obvious to anyone reading the original question that the cut&paste is not helpful at all.
Well yes. The calls are being monitored for uhhh quality control purposes.
Now someone will eventually start a service for phone tech support people that will call them, faking a mock conversation that only requires a pattern of "Yes." and "No." answers from the tech support person.
Of course, the customer can buy a different product in the future, but since its tech support will be just as bad, he'll return eventually.
Try making a phone call when you're on one of those increasingly popular VOIP-connections, then. If my internet were down, I couldn't use my landline, either.
How do you contact tech support?
You use an alternate way of connecting to the internet, of course. Your cellphone, for example. We're not in the 1990s anymore, where "internet connections" are few and far between.
Idiot!
Don't blame your lack of creativity and problem-solving skills on others, please.
On a related note - "unbearable" tech support also seems to happen in-corportation, where the financial incentives are compartmentalized (save $x in IT, but lose 5x$x when the companys other departments can't work due to IT issues) and negative when viewed at the company level.
Yes, since Earth's hydrogen is sitting in a 1g gravity well, while the moon's hydrogen is sitting in a 0.17g gravity well.
Probably because they're recording sounds where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Since even a Kardashev Type III civilization is subject to the heat death of the universe (and, hence, the second law of thermodynamics), I'm ok with that.
My personal definition of godhood starts at immunity to the second law of thermodynamics, and if any such entity wants to read my email, it can go ahead.
I'm not sure AES-256 will stand up to a sufficiently large Type III civilization with highly advanced quantum computers.
Probably not. A better algorithm will have to be devised.
.. 'involuntary backup'.
No one wants unbreakable encryption. We just want encryption to work like copyright - it's completely breakable on a completely impractical timescale (heat death of the universe + 2 billion years should be ok).
You make it sound like those two choices are mutually exclusive.