The laundry list of what you can and can't do with Windows 10 is so noxious and Windows control so pervasive, someone with a new Windows 10 installation needs to effectively root the machine. Some URLs (MS telemetry) cannot be blocked by firewall. The administrator/user will not have access to the hosts file. (Boot under Linux and edit hosts file? Maybe or maybe not.) The owner/administrator needs a further level of root privilege (or just REAL root status in the first place) to prevent MS and its corporate industry partners from setting non-modifiable advertising and and hosts.ini to default settings via hardware-- if Intel were on board even running Linux could be subject to mandatory privileges blocking no one could avoid. We have to realize what is happening- MS is turning into Verizon and intel PCs are locked-down Verizon phones. Do we want to have to root each new PC we set up, or go en masse to Apple? That may be how it is lining up. Is there anything at all we can do? At this point with the Win10 handwriting on the wall I see nothing but converting to Linux or Apple as a group. MS is apparently getting ready to sign its own death warrant. We need to get really angry and DO something? (It's Apple with VMs for me.)
A downside of having internet service be a public utility may be NO ONE wants to spend more than the absolute minimum to get into the business. It would be kind of like agreeing to buy a rent-controlled apartment, as an investment, to rent it out.
The government will have to figure some way to reward contribution of infrastructure so there are still some inducements for capitalist investors to create exciting new things.
As a consumer, not seeing much downside in that one. Can only mean we get rates that resemble the rest of the world. The tellcos have a long history of being money grabbing douche bags--at least here in the US. They got slapped for this with the Ma Bell breakup. They didn't learn. An intervention is long overdue.
Agree 200%. From our (the consumers') standpoint, having internet service as a public utility, and regulated as one, is the bees knees. I guess my comment was meant to express surprise that Big Cable says net neutrality is the reason for "pausing" gigabit rollout when their being ruled a public utility is vastly worse (for them).
How can we ever be sure Tor has not morphed into an eviscerated TrueCrypt and that at some point, after achieving their means of compromise, the NSA won't force a version they can easily backdoor on the public?
They like to compromise software and then put it back, so it becomes an intelligence asset. In my understanding only a legal technicality allowed TrueCrypt to issue a cryptic public announcement which effectively let the public know TrueCrypt was potentially compromised. I wonder whether the NSA will even allow Tor to recommend a transparently ineffective alternative.
How can strategies be drawn so if Tor is easily, possibly undetectably breached, the public will have some inkling of it?
Did anyone catch the promise in the FrontPorch video ad that customers could use the technology to "gather valuable business intelligence"? Guess it doesn't only deliver ads... it ransacks the device!!!
Hmmmm.... Let's see... Snowden embarrasses NSA using Tails; suddenly tails has scary "vulnerabilities"; a new company / entity on the scene says it will make everything nice.
What's the likely truth here? Snowden embarrassed NSA using Tails; NSA plants disinformation campaign to the exent of "vulnerabilities"; the new company / entity is an NSA puppet that will give you a new Tails every bit as reliable as the new TrueCrypt.
First grade simple so it's not suspected until..... (complete the sentence).
I already have a smartwatch, but if I didn't these would be the reasons today I would get one: (These are all real, existing apps.)
App that..sends slow-scan video to watch from phone or takes and displays pictures..sends nav screen to watch..can display forecast, barometric pressure, wind direction and velocity..gets full weather report..lets you activate watch features based on a value on the internet e.g. **buy alert** goog is at $450 or "new post on your blog", etc...lets you know your phone needs charging..keeps you on-time with buzzing alarms..(maybe not yet) tells you if your flight is on time..displays your track as you wander around hoping to wander back
Or actual CASH sent by registered mail. Even if you get ripped off 10% of the time you're ahead.
The recipients could also appoint dozens or hundreds of private citizens to accept payments for them. Let them cut off one and two can spring up in its place.
CitiBank and MBNA may THINK they own the payments systems, Let's show them just how essential they are.
Too many ways around them to even think of all of them.
This comment is coming in kind of late, so no doubt it will be little seen, but everyone seems to be overlooking that it will take only a slight improvement of book scanning technology to let everyone with a paper book duplicate it as an e-book. Let the publishers try to offer their product by license only; left them try to evade the first sale doctrine; it just won't work. When you can buy a $300 scanner that will turn the pages of your book and produce either PDFs or an optically character recognized file, this whole issue is just going to go away.
I wonder if they could be gotten for breach of contract.
That's what class actions were invented for. But republican legislators have cut back the situations in which class actions can be filed. If enough disgrunted fans agree they can hire a lawyer to check if class action is possible. If it is and they file one, companies like Worldcon could learn to be just as afraid of consumers as they are of Big Media.
FUCK ALL THESE GREEDY BASTARDS. Everywhere you turn there is anticonsumerism. It's just an extension of the copyright wars. What can we withhold for money? If "information wants to be free", what is taking so long? Why don't we squash power grabs when we see them happening? Why don't we have the clout to do it or the will to try?
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Even persons 100% in the right will decline to spend $1,000,000. in legal fees to prove it. Everyone sued who is in the right faces this dilemma.
Boy, can you imagine one of these springing a leak?
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The laundry list of what you can and can't do with Windows 10 is so noxious and Windows control so pervasive, someone with a new Windows 10 installation needs to effectively root the machine. Some URLs (MS telemetry) cannot be blocked by firewall. The administrator/user will not have access to the hosts file. (Boot under Linux and edit hosts file? Maybe or maybe not.) The owner/administrator needs a further level of root privilege (or just REAL root status in the first place) to prevent MS and its corporate industry partners from setting non-modifiable advertising and and hosts.ini to default settings via hardware-- if Intel were on board even running Linux could be subject to mandatory privileges blocking no one could avoid. We have to realize what is happening- MS is turning into Verizon and intel PCs are locked-down Verizon phones. Do we want to have to root each new PC we set up, or go en masse to Apple? That may be how it is lining up. Is there anything at all we can do? At this point with the Win10 handwriting on the wall I see nothing but converting to Linux or Apple as a group. MS is apparently getting ready to sign its own death warrant. We need to get really angry and DO something? (It's Apple with VMs for me.)
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A downside of having internet service be a public utility may be NO ONE wants to spend more than the absolute minimum to get into the business. It would be kind of like agreeing to buy a rent-controlled apartment, as an investment, to rent it out.
The government will have to figure some way to reward contribution of infrastructure so there are still some inducements for capitalist investors to create exciting new things.
As a consumer, not seeing much downside in that one. Can only mean we get rates that resemble the rest of the world. The tellcos have a long history of being money grabbing douche bags--at least here in the US. They got slapped for this with the Ma Bell breakup. They didn't learn. An intervention is long overdue.
Agree 200%. From our (the consumers') standpoint, having internet service as a public utility, and regulated as one, is the bees knees. I guess my comment was meant to express surprise that Big Cable says net neutrality is the reason for "pausing" gigabit rollout when their being ruled a public utility is vastly worse (for them).
It's the Public Utility issue. Their profits become whatever the government will allow.
How can we ever be sure Tor has not morphed into an eviscerated TrueCrypt and that at some point, after achieving their means of compromise, the NSA won't force a version they can easily backdoor on the public?
They like to compromise software and then put it back, so it becomes an intelligence asset. In my understanding only a legal technicality allowed TrueCrypt to issue a cryptic public announcement which effectively let the public know TrueCrypt was potentially compromised. I wonder whether the NSA will even allow Tor to recommend a transparently ineffective alternative.
How can strategies be drawn so if Tor is easily, possibly undetectably breached, the public will have some inkling of it?
I like to sew confusion into a jacket, then walk through a crowd wearing it.
Instead, sow doubt in the public's confidence in its own grammar.
Link to TFA is paywalled.
Did anyone catch the promise in the FrontPorch video ad that customers could use the technology to "gather valuable business intelligence"? Guess it doesn't only deliver ads... it ransacks the device!!!
Look at the original post. It is a class-action.
Hmmmm.... Let's see... Snowden embarrasses NSA using Tails; suddenly tails has scary "vulnerabilities"; a new company / entity on the scene says it will make everything nice.
What's the likely truth here? Snowden embarrassed NSA using Tails; NSA plants disinformation campaign to the exent of "vulnerabilities"; the new company / entity is an NSA puppet that will give you a new Tails every bit as reliable as the new TrueCrypt.
First grade simple so it's not suspected until..... (complete the sentence).
What do YOU think?
I already have a smartwatch, but if I didn't these would be the reasons today I would get one:
(These are all real, existing apps.)
App that ..sends slow-scan video to watch from phone or takes and displays pictures ..sends nav screen to watch ..can display forecast, barometric pressure, wind direction and velocity ..gets full weather report ..lets you activate watch features based on a value on the internet e.g. **buy alert** goog is at $450 ..lets you know your phone needs charging ..keeps you on-time with buzzing alarms ..(maybe not yet) tells you if your flight is on time ..displays your track as you wander around hoping to wander back
or "new post on your blog", etc.
So I'll wait for the check to clear. You have the $ before you provide service.
BTW if MC and VISA are out, *all* of these services will take checks. Checks are better than nothing!
Or actual CASH sent by registered mail. Even if you get ripped off 10% of the time you're ahead.
The recipients could also appoint dozens or hundreds of private citizens to accept payments for them. Let them cut off one and two can spring up in its place.
CitiBank and MBNA may THINK they own the payments systems, Let's show them just how essential they are.
Too many ways around them to even think of all of them.
Yawn.
What's the big deal? Pay by check! What's a week or two to save your rights?
IAAL and I can tell you Mr. McAleese will not be a member of the bar much longer. As attorney offenses go, this is toxic / nuclear.
This case will disappear quickly now that the real party-in-interest is revealed.
If Adobe did this to convert pirates to payers, boy did they screw up.
Crackers will just crack the bit that says "paid up this month" instead of cracking activation. Activation is not the only thing that can be cracked!
When this becomes obvious, Adobe will suffer and shrink to a less important company.
Adobe, beware the wages of greed!
This comment is coming in kind of late, so no doubt it will be little seen, but everyone seems to be overlooking that it will take only a slight improvement of book scanning technology to let everyone with a paper book duplicate it as an e-book. Let the publishers try to offer their product by license only; left them try to evade the first sale doctrine; it just won't work. When you can buy a $300 scanner that will turn the pages of your book and produce either PDFs or an optically character recognized file, this whole issue is just going to go away.
Well, if you got this chocolate to your body temperature in your mouth, is there any reason why your saliva still wouldn't *dissolve* it?
I wonder if they could be gotten for breach of contract.
That's what class actions were invented for. But republican legislators have cut back the situations in which class actions can be filed. If enough disgrunted fans agree they can hire a lawyer to check if class action is possible. If it is and they file one, companies like Worldcon could learn to be just as afraid of consumers as they are of Big Media.
Wonderful story of his, The Configuration of the North Shore.
An idea whose time as come. What a shame no one thought of it, or could make a credible beginning of it, sooner.
Open-source pharmaceuticals. It boggles the mind, but the overwhelming impression is of goodness, rectitude, unselfishness, and light.
If this works we should all thank God, or whomever we believe we owe.
FUCK ALL THESE GREEDY BASTARDS. Everywhere you turn there is anticonsumerism. It's just an extension of the copyright wars. What can we withhold for money? If "information wants to be free", what is taking so long? Why don't we squash power grabs when we see them happening? Why don't we have the clout to do it or the will to try?
Sickening.