I can't blame him, how would you defend the obvious fact that FB collected way too much information and does not tightly control who uses it and for what purpose? Leaking your data all over is their core business model.
You do realize that 1) Microsoft listened to consumers and made the telemetry data very easy to disable in Windows 10
Only in Enterprise version. Consumer versions resist disabling this feature to the point that OS disregards registry settings and bypasses its own internal firewall.
2) that very same telemetry data collection and reporting was already back-ported and pushed as an "update" to Windows 7?
Yes, but you can block specific patches and there exist a known list of them.
Also 3) it is similar telemetry data that is collected by other OSes like Android and iOS, plus applications like Firefox and Chrome (where do you think they get the stats for X% of users do Y with our product in their reports?)
Yes, every commercial OS went to shit insofar as privacy. Even some Linux distros spy on you. This doesn't mean you have to accept this.
It's a good thing you're posting this via snail mail from a compound in the desert then.
No, but I tightly control what is disclosed in my/. posts. No such luck with Win10.
I'm betting that if we ever get a full look at the scope of all the online spying that goes on with people's every day internet use, Windows 10's telemetry won't even be in the top 100 of data harvesting schemes to worry about.
There are 100s of murders a day nationwide. So we shouldn't worry about someone burglarizing your place until all of these other crimes are solved, right?
The Internet simply isn't as searchable as it once was.
Sadly, this is very true. Even Google today is not nearly as useful as it was only couple years back. If Google can track you, and they almost always can, they think they know better what you are searching for. So you get relevant results to your past searches. This is great if you are searching for cat videos or *ist screeds, but for anything technical it is highly counter-productive.
On one hand this technology is very exciting for any PC gamer. On other hand, MS locked new DirectX to Windows 10. As such, if you want this or that new feature enabled you could only do that on Win10. No thanks. I wills tick to gaming on Windows 7, that doesn't spy on me.
Oh, that makes it all better. For a moment I thought that actual human was killed. Turns out it was just a bicyclist. I hit so many on may way to work that I have a windshield washer additive to help me clean the guts off the windshield.
I think AI is racist. If it was another AI crossing the road, it would have slowed down for it. This wasn't accident but an expression of AI-supremacists views by the driving AI.
Worse, think how auto manufacturers will abuse potential legal precedents to lock-in consumers. For example, "Oh, you purchased your tires from COSTCO? No insurance coverage for you! Should have purchased the same tires from us, at 300% markup!".
While incident is unfortunate, this will likely settle a number of legal questions:
a. Is non-driver human behind the wheel held responsible for the accident?
b. What is the liability model would be used in such cases.
These, and not technical limitations, would likely determine the direction of self-driving cars would take. Considering precedent, self-driving is likely dead. All cars would require hands-on-the-wheel, relegating self-driving to assistive technologies.
Breach of this kind could only happen as a result of negligence. There were no separate access control mechanism for the data, there was no protection of data at rest, and there was a known vulnerability in the system that they failed to patch for 6+ months. It just doesn't get any more textbook negligence than that.
In reality, how many times has Facebook, or anything you saw on Facebook, changed YOUR mind? It's a place where people do not go to change minds, theirs or anyone else's.
The key issue is radicalization. You might have started thinking that democrats are well-meaning but ultimately untrustworthy to govern people. Then you joined a Facebook group that keeps you busy with all kinds of alternative facts and you end up believing in Pizzagate, Agenda 21, and other out-there stuff.
Sure, you still have not changed how you voted. However, your GOP candidate now is full Trumpster and you are willing to overlook recent white robes and a mistress, because other side in your mind is the devil. A decade ago it was small government fiscal conservative family values you voted for, now you RINO such guys.
Racism is really just racism, it's a pretty well-defined notion.
Not in a today's SJW-infested world. For example, opposition to illegal immigration often portrayed as racism. So definition is anything but clear, and I can guarantee that my definition is quite different from AmiMoJo's.
Care to inform me how I would be the winner if flaws in hardware become published with ZERO chance for their makers to deliver any kind of patch before malware creators get a chance to exploit them?
Listing your assumptions: You assume that nobody knew about these flaws before this press release. You assume that release contained sufficient information allowing some quickly reproduce these and move into exploitation. You assume that these could be remotely exploited so your are automatically vulnerable with any kind of system. You assume that these could be successfuly patched resulting in a stable and secure system.
Some of these assumptions might turn out to be false.
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I can't blame him, how would you defend the obvious fact that FB collected way too much information and does not tightly control who uses it and for what purpose? Leaking your data all over is their core business model.
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You do realize that 1) Microsoft listened to consumers and made the telemetry data very easy to disable in Windows 10
Only in Enterprise version. Consumer versions resist disabling this feature to the point that OS disregards registry settings and bypasses its own internal firewall.
2) that very same telemetry data collection and reporting was already back-ported and pushed as an "update" to Windows 7?
Yes, but you can block specific patches and there exist a known list of them.
Also 3) it is similar telemetry data that is collected by other OSes like Android and iOS, plus applications like Firefox and Chrome (where do you think they get the stats for X% of users do Y with our product in their reports?)
Yes, every commercial OS went to shit insofar as privacy. Even some Linux distros spy on you. This doesn't mean you have to accept this.
You are acting as if Windows 7 is somehow is insecure. Microsoft still maintains it and will do so until 2020. You can still control patching process.
Those furry fetish sites you love to visit probably spy on you a lot more than MS does.
They do, but I am not forced to run them 24/7 at Ring 0 privilege.
> that doesn't spy on me.
It's a good thing you're posting this via snail mail from a compound in the desert then.
No, but I tightly control what is disclosed in my /. posts. No such luck with Win10.
I'm betting that if we ever get a full look at the scope of all the online spying that goes on with people's every day internet use, Windows 10's telemetry won't even be in the top 100 of data harvesting schemes to worry about.
There are 100s of murders a day nationwide. So we shouldn't worry about someone burglarizing your place until all of these other crimes are solved, right?
The Internet simply isn't as searchable as it once was.
Sadly, this is very true. Even Google today is not nearly as useful as it was only couple years back. If Google can track you, and they almost always can, they think they know better what you are searching for. So you get relevant results to your past searches. This is great if you are searching for cat videos or *ist screeds, but for anything technical it is highly counter-productive.
On one hand this technology is very exciting for any PC gamer. On other hand, MS locked new DirectX to Windows 10. As such, if you want this or that new feature enabled you could only do that on Win10. No thanks. I wills tick to gaming on Windows 7, that doesn't spy on me.
Yes, but only insofar as warranty on the car. Precedents say nothing about retaining manufacturer's self-driving insurance coverage.
Not as low as my opinion of your reading comprehension & statistics skills.
All problems of this kind would be solved here as soon as self-shitposting AI comes online.
Oh, that makes it all better. For a moment I thought that actual human was killed. Turns out it was just a bicyclist. I hit so many on may way to work that I have a windshield washer additive to help me clean the guts off the windshield.
Let's all jump to conclusions.
I think AI is racist. If it was another AI crossing the road, it would have slowed down for it. This wasn't accident but an expression of AI-supremacists views by the driving AI.
Worse, think how auto manufacturers will abuse potential legal precedents to lock-in consumers. For example, "Oh, you purchased your tires from COSTCO? No insurance coverage for you! Should have purchased the same tires from us, at 300% markup!".
While incident is unfortunate, this will likely settle a number of legal questions:
a. Is non-driver human behind the wheel held responsible for the accident?
b. What is the liability model would be used in such cases.
These, and not technical limitations, would likely determine the direction of self-driving cars would take. Considering precedent, self-driving is likely dead. All cars would require hands-on-the-wheel, relegating self-driving to assistive technologies.
Breach of this kind could only happen as a result of negligence. There were no separate access control mechanism for the data, there was no protection of data at rest, and there was a known vulnerability in the system that they failed to patch for 6+ months. It just doesn't get any more textbook negligence than that.
Agenda 21, as a conspiracy theory, is UN people in black helicopters coming in and taking away your farm.
Insider trading on his own incompetence and negligence is criminal, but incompetence and negligence itself is not punished in any way.
In reality, how many times has Facebook, or anything you saw on Facebook, changed YOUR mind? It's a place where people do not go to change minds, theirs or anyone else's.
The key issue is radicalization. You might have started thinking that democrats are well-meaning but ultimately untrustworthy to govern people. Then you joined a Facebook group that keeps you busy with all kinds of alternative facts and you end up believing in Pizzagate, Agenda 21, and other out-there stuff.
Sure, you still have not changed how you voted. However, your GOP candidate now is full Trumpster and you are willing to overlook recent white robes and a mistress, because other side in your mind is the devil. A decade ago it was small government fiscal conservative family values you voted for, now you RINO such guys.
There is a world of difference between "Dem candidate is a shithead" and pizzagate.
If the market is so good for developers, why do very good programmers in their 60s, who have current skills, have such a hard time finding work?
Because they are all universally white, male, and tend to be conservative.
Racism is really just racism, it's a pretty well-defined notion.
Not in a today's SJW-infested world. For example, opposition to illegal immigration often portrayed as racism. So definition is anything but clear, and I can guarantee that my definition is quite different from AmiMoJo's.
0xA0000 to 0xBFFFF reserved exclusively for redheads?
Fortunately for them, my brain can be contained in just 640k of memory.
Most of that is taken up by your pr0n collection index?
I just checked my system and discovered I have a BIOS and signed drivers! Have I been hacked already!?
If you are running a modern, UEFI-based system I would be concerned.
Care to inform me how I would be the winner if flaws in hardware become published with ZERO chance for their makers to deliver any kind of patch before malware creators get a chance to exploit them?
Listing your assumptions: You assume that nobody knew about these flaws before this press release. You assume that release contained sufficient information allowing some quickly reproduce these and move into exploitation. You assume that these could be remotely exploited so your are automatically vulnerable with any kind of system. You assume that these could be successfuly patched resulting in a stable and secure system.
Some of these assumptions might turn out to be false.