If I start detecting scans from the windows box doing things it should not, you'll certainly hear about it. I don't think even Microsoft would do something so blatant, and wind up in the news as installing what would effectively be a bot-net on windows 10 machines.
I don't know anymore what people feel is blatant. The search feature designed explicitly to force anything you look for on your computer to be leaked to Microsoft?
The fact default telemetry settings allow Microsoft to take whatever data they want from your computer whenever they want without your knowledge or permission as described by Microsoft? There is an honest to god remote access Trojan installed with Windows 10. Does this count?
W10 fails to offer sufficiently useful functionality improvements over previous versions of windows.
W10 is indistinguishable from malware.
Microsoft has proven it is not a trustworthy software vendor having successfully demonstrated to the world it will do anything it can possibly get away with to deliberately force, mislead and cow people into doing what it wants.
Oooh, a whole 32GB? Wow, such a blessing from Apple to reward its faithful with something other phones have had for a long time now.
Impressive.. isn't it... iPods with 32GB of internal flash must be getting close to the decade mark by now.
Amount of RAM, CPU performance, GPU performance, display resolution, camera megapixels, network bandwidth keeps going up and up while amount of onboard persistent storage is essentially a flat line over time. 32GB micro SD cards cost $5.
I would love for someone to esplain this in terms that don't involve deliberate actions to artificially constrain devices as much as vendor can possibly hope to get away with.
How about something REALLY innovative, like a MicroSD slot with adoptable storage, like Android 6.0 has? You can get cards with up to 256GB of storage. I have a 128GB card in mine. With the base 32GB, this gives me 160GB of storage for days when I have to work in remote areas without the benefit of cloud access via WiFi or cellular data.
Apple is full of control freaks who must decide for you how much storage your device must have. After all if you had enough storage you might decide to depend less on Apple services.
Depends what they do with it. If they sell ads to sell you a less expensive TV, maybe a lot of people could jump in. If they sell me a 60" LCD 3DTV for 199$, I could accept the ads.
All this does is fuel a death spiral to the bottom. Before you know it every TV is $199 and buying a display that does not demand an Internet connection, constant data collection (e.g. cyber stalking) and ad pushing are no longer for sale at any price.
This very same thing that happened with the app stores. Everything must be free or token cost because that's what people expect. Before you know it the entirety of the business model for software is indistinguishable from spy/mal/ad ware. Those left willing to pay cost are then summarily ignored by the market.
A multi-user system shouldn't allow unpriviledged users from consuming resources indefinitely. It's too easy to starve a system or resources. I think that's one of the reasons behind the isolation dockers provides in the first place. Shut down the container and everything gets cleaned up.
How does this have anything do with management of allocation of resources to users? Isn't an interactive session just as capable of "consuming resources indefinitely" as a running detached process?
If you wanted to stop or limit all of a users processes don't you have that same ability regardless of whether attached to a session or not? I don't understand the logic or benefit in changing a behavior that already requires a fairly specific expression of intent.
The solution is simple: fire the cooks. No more device specific images.
When you install Linux on a desktop or laptop from any manufacturer it for the most part just works. The same needs to be made true for mobile operating systems. This is no longer the late 90's.
. ..the trend to automation of mass manufacturing has been accelerating for decades. The REAL question is, what do we do with the displaced manufacturing workers, who are becoming increasingly replaced by robots? And the "service sector" does not have jobs for them, either.
Those who say "we're going to build our economy by bringing back manufacturing" are deluding themselves. Those who vote for those people are also deluding themselves. (yes, this is a not so veiled Trump reference)
The fact cheap labor is leaving China and automation stepping up to fill the void isn't new or news. US production is already highly automated out of necessity.
Lets stipulate you don't expose any ports to Microsoft listeners (RDP, IIS, SMB..etc), don't use Microsoft browsers and don't have to worry about multiple user accounts any thoughts on wholesale firewalling the entire Microsoft domain and be done with it?
In the past there have been defects in IP stack, font rendering and various things that could bleed thru and affect someone simply running software or browsing the web but I flat out don't trust Microsoft to even behave rationally anymore and I'm losing confidence even "critical" security updates are worth it until we switch to Linux.
That's not mentioning the fact that the entire staff is likely undocumented/imported, paid low wages (absurdly so), often addicted to drugs etc. Plus the whole sexual assault thing. And changing the flag to, say, Liberia. The cruise industry disgusts me.
Fleeting moments I've been on a cruise ship the only thing that disgusted me were other passengers.
If everyone hosted their own content from their own systems we wouldn't have these problems. If the demand existed we would trivially have the capability to publish easily. Sane naming and caching architectures either P2P and or hosted by ISPs that don't discriminate and play favorites like current CDNs would be widely deployed to facilitate distribution.
The more everyone sucks on the teet of big content to do EVERYTHING for them the more the Internet becomes Cable TV. The more capabilities are not exercised the more impossible and outlandish it seems to do anything for yourself.
While youtube is convenient the opportunity costs in allowing a handful of companies to own a majority of eyeballs and bandwidth are enormous.
The very premise of the Internet is that it is a network of PEERS not a network of SPECTATORS.
The Amazon Echo does not do that. You can use a network analyser to see for yourself. It is very unlikely that Google would do that either, since it would be a PR disaster, as well as illegal (at least in America and the EU). Voice recognition is done locally, and only actual queries are transmitted to the servers.
Voices are uploaded to amazon where they are translated to text and for good measure recordings of everything you've said are stored indefinitely on Amazon servers.
But your right as long as you don't say anything that causes Echo to think you've said the magic word everything isn't recorded.
For all of the alarm bells and billions spent I'll leave the totally feckless public outreach to do anything about it speak for itself.
They don't really care about helping U.S. based organizations not get owned they just care about scaring politicians into writing them bigger checks and passing more laws to retroactively make legal rummaging thru even more of everyone's shit.
There is no way that the petabytes of information needed for this device to operate will be stored locally, so yes, your requests will be transmitted back to a server farm. Echo works the same way.
Your "requests"... LOL... more like everything anyone says within earshot.
You can write whatever you want in your EULA, even with "user consent" (i.e. nobody reads those damn things, they're 20 pages long and requires you to be a lawyer to understand half of it) it cannot overrule the existing laws of the country.
Going to be awesome to start to see these companies who believe they can get away with spying on everyone unravel as privacy laws and awareness of creepy stalker mentality that pervades this industry is brought out of the shadows.
This isn't a case of a Tesla failing to use GPR to assess the stability of earth falling into a sinkhole. It didn't crash into a cloaked space craft or carbon nanotube guy wire. It didn't miss a small nail on the road and get a flat. It crashed head on into the back of a parked truck all by itself.
Self driving features MUST be capable of seeing everything in their "hit box" Including trucks right in front of them and very narrow things like "bikes" and lamp posts and gas pipes.
When your vehicle has known defects preventing autonomous features from working safely you have no business knowingly deploying these features until defects are resolved.
I honestly can't believe Tesla has:
A. Is pushing beta firmware to unqualified public in uncontrolled environments where life and limb are at risk.
B. Getting away with A.
C. Writing letters publically abdicating all responsibility for their failure to act responsibility.
Did you complain about the so-called telemetry in Vista, 7, or 8?
HELLLLL YES.
Do you complain about it Android?
There is nothing to complain about. Android is open source and does not have built in spyware. (Google play services != Android)
Or are you just focusing on it because Microsoft was the ONLY corporation that reworded their legal liability notices so they were written in plain English?
I don't think anyone gives a shit honestly.
I'm not defending them, I'm not saying it's an acceptable thing, but the fact of that matter is that this level of data reporting has been included in the three prior versions of Windows, AND is done in many other products in on the market (some to far greater extents).
Then what are you saying? That two wrongs make a right? That because someone else does it then it must be ok? What is your point?
The only reason people have this incorrect belief that Windows 10 is particularly bad (hint: it's not) is because Microsoft was up front about it.
I think the belief stems from reading Microsoft's own documentation about what the software does and reading their own privacy policies about what they grant themselves the right to do and simply objecting to both assertions and behavior as completely unacceptable.
One of the more comical examples. Microsoft Installs and enables a remote access Trojan by default with Windows 10 enabling MS to exfiltrate whatever data (e.g. content) they want from your system without your consent or knowledge. This seems so over the top that "particularly bad" does not quite do justice.
Well, that, and the fact that the outrage allowed a lot of "news" outlets to get away with blatantly lying about the extent to which Microsoft is capturing your data.
A more accurate characterization Microsoft's insanity reached a high enough level to make the news.
This is why I love Slashdot. People (like you) are obsessed with comically niche features like IP over Firewire, which is utterly irrelevant, and yet you're too blind to reality to realize it.
This is why I love Slashdot. People (like you) are obsessed with cherry picking comments of random posters to establish (insert trend/meme here) is a real sentiment shared by some undisclosed subset of "you people".
The simplest science tells us the entire premise of this article is a bunch of baloney. A gallon of gasoline produces about 20 pounds of CO2 emissions -- http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/... This comes simply from burning the carbon in the fuel with oxygen in the air. One carbon atom plus two oxygen atoms, simple chemistry.
Being too lazy to find a non pay walled copy of the paper abstract makes it brutally clear this isn't in any way shape or form about CO2 pollution. This is about particulate pollution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is a nonsense paper appealing to poor, uneducated people without the analytical context -- or, more fairly to intelligent people without higher education credentials, just the simple, plain common sense -- necessary to recognize a propaganda job of absurd proportions. There is no science or fact behind this article.
Have you even read it?
There is no science or fact behind this article. It is a pack of lies designed to anger people as much as necessary to hold their attention long enough to make a few more cents showing them advertising. The Dailymail is beyond shameful -- to the extent it tries to pass off this drivel as truth, it is an affront to human decency itself.
Most media tries to pass off drivel as truth.
It's absolute nonsense.
Your post shoots the messenger, appeals to intellect, relies straw man arguments about CO2 pollution and invalid analogies stemming from initial failure to understand nature (PM != CO2) of the topic.
This paper may in fact be absolute nonsense yet you have failed to deliver evidence commensurate with your claim.
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If I start detecting scans from the windows box doing things it should not, you'll certainly hear about it. I don't think even Microsoft would do something so blatant, and wind up in the news as installing what would effectively be a bot-net on windows 10 machines.
I don't know anymore what people feel is blatant. The search feature designed explicitly to force anything you look for on your computer to be leaked to Microsoft?
The fact default telemetry settings allow Microsoft to take whatever data they want from your computer whenever they want without your knowledge or permission as described by Microsoft? There is an honest to god remote access Trojan installed with Windows 10. Does this count?
What does Microsoft need to do to piss you off?
No.
W10 fails to offer sufficiently useful functionality improvements over previous versions of windows.
W10 is indistinguishable from malware.
Microsoft has proven it is not a trustworthy software vendor having successfully demonstrated to the world it will do anything it can possibly get away with to deliberately force, mislead and cow people into doing what it wants.
I don't trust Microsoft.
Oooh, a whole 32GB? Wow, such a blessing from Apple to reward its faithful with something other phones have had for a long time now.
Impressive .. isn't it... iPods with 32GB of internal flash must be getting close to the decade mark by now.
Amount of RAM, CPU performance, GPU performance, display resolution, camera megapixels, network bandwidth keeps going up and up while amount of onboard persistent storage is essentially a flat line over time. 32GB micro SD cards cost $5.
I would love for someone to esplain this in terms that don't involve deliberate actions to artificially constrain devices as much as vendor can possibly hope to get away with.
How about something REALLY innovative, like a MicroSD slot with adoptable storage, like Android 6.0 has? You can get cards with up to 256GB of storage. I have a 128GB card in mine. With the base 32GB, this gives me 160GB of storage for days when I have to work in remote areas without the benefit of cloud access via WiFi or cellular data.
Apple is full of control freaks who must decide for you how much storage your device must have. After all if you had enough storage you might decide to depend less on Apple services.
I'm done with ads. I will pirate ad free. Forever and ever. You can't make me like your ads. I am not watching nor participating.
Find another way to make money or fuck off forever.
They already have.
http://www.consumerreports.org...
Depends what they do with it. If they sell ads to sell you a less expensive TV, maybe a lot of people could jump in. If they sell me a 60" LCD 3DTV for 199$, I could accept the ads.
All this does is fuel a death spiral to the bottom. Before you know it every TV is $199 and buying a display that does not demand an Internet connection, constant data collection (e.g. cyber stalking) and ad pushing are no longer for sale at any price.
This very same thing that happened with the app stores. Everything must be free or token cost because that's what people expect. Before you know it the entirety of the business model for software is indistinguishable from spy/mal/ad ware. Those left willing to pay cost are then summarily ignored by the market.
A multi-user system shouldn't allow unpriviledged users from consuming resources indefinitely. It's too easy to starve a system or resources. I think that's one of the reasons behind the isolation dockers provides in the first place. Shut down the container and everything gets cleaned up.
How does this have anything do with management of allocation of resources to users? Isn't an interactive session just as capable of "consuming resources indefinitely" as a running detached process?
If you wanted to stop or limit all of a users processes don't you have that same ability regardless of whether attached to a session or not? I don't understand the logic or benefit in changing a behavior that already requires a fairly specific expression of intent.
The solution is simple: fire the cooks. No more device specific images.
When you install Linux on a desktop or laptop from any manufacturer it for the most part just works. The same needs to be made true for mobile operating systems. This is no longer the late 90's.
You mean to tell me just adding boilerplate text asserting you don't "knowingly" collect data from children does not provide immunity?
Damage to Microsoft brand and reputation already done. Good luck getting it back.
. . .the trend to automation of mass manufacturing has been accelerating for decades. The REAL question is, what do we do with the displaced manufacturing workers, who are becoming increasingly replaced by robots? And the "service sector" does not have jobs for them, either.
Build a wonder
Those who say "we're going to build our economy by bringing back manufacturing" are deluding themselves. Those who vote for those people are also deluding themselves. (yes, this is a not so veiled Trump reference)
The fact cheap labor is leaving China and automation stepping up to fill the void isn't new or news. US production is already highly automated out of necessity.
Lets stipulate you don't expose any ports to Microsoft listeners (RDP, IIS, SMB..etc), don't use Microsoft browsers and don't have to worry about multiple user accounts any thoughts on wholesale firewalling the entire Microsoft domain and be done with it?
In the past there have been defects in IP stack, font rendering and various things that could bleed thru and affect someone simply running software or browsing the web but I flat out don't trust Microsoft to even behave rationally anymore and I'm losing confidence even "critical" security updates are worth it until we switch to Linux.
I'd rather be ass-raped with a dildo covered in fish hooks than use Windows on my phone.
This happens anyway when you use windows phone. It is one of the most locked down oppressive spyware laden operating systems ever designed.
That's not mentioning the fact that the entire staff is likely undocumented/imported, paid low wages (absurdly so), often addicted to drugs etc. Plus the whole sexual assault thing. And changing the flag to, say, Liberia. The cruise industry disgusts me.
Fleeting moments I've been on a cruise ship the only thing that disgusted me were other passengers.
This must be an extraordinarily hard choice for someone in the market for VR software.
Buy from Facebook and end up locked into the Rift.
Buy elsewhere and use it with any display you want including Rift.
If everyone hosted their own content from their own systems we wouldn't have these problems. If the demand existed we would trivially have the capability to publish easily. Sane naming and caching architectures either P2P and or hosted by ISPs that don't discriminate and play favorites like current CDNs would be widely deployed to facilitate distribution.
The more everyone sucks on the teet of big content to do EVERYTHING for them the more the Internet becomes Cable TV. The more capabilities are not exercised the more impossible and outlandish it seems to do anything for yourself.
While youtube is convenient the opportunity costs in allowing a handful of companies to own a majority of eyeballs and bandwidth are enormous.
The very premise of the Internet is that it is a network of PEERS not a network of SPECTATORS.
The Amazon Echo does not do that. You can use a network analyser to see for yourself. It is very unlikely that Google would do that either, since it would be a PR disaster, as well as illegal (at least in America and the EU). Voice recognition is done locally, and only actual queries are transmitted to the servers.
Voices are uploaded to amazon where they are translated to text and for good measure recordings of everything you've said are stored indefinitely on Amazon servers.
But your right as long as you don't say anything that causes Echo to think you've said the magic word everything isn't recorded.
For all of the alarm bells and billions spent I'll leave the totally feckless public outreach to do anything about it speak for itself.
They don't really care about helping U.S. based organizations not get owned they just care about scaring politicians into writing them bigger checks and passing more laws to retroactively make legal rummaging thru even more of everyone's shit.
There is no way that the petabytes of information needed for this device to operate will be stored locally, so yes, your requests will be transmitted back to a server farm. Echo works the same way.
Your "requests"... LOL... more like everything anyone says within earshot.
Half the featured articles will have been deleted.
You can write whatever you want in your EULA, even with "user consent" (i.e. nobody reads those damn things, they're 20 pages long and requires you to be a lawyer to understand half of it) it cannot overrule the existing laws of the country.
Going to be awesome to start to see these companies who believe they can get away with spying on everyone unravel as privacy laws and awareness of creepy stalker mentality that pervades this industry is brought out of the shadows.
Tesla is being completely irresponsible.
This isn't a case of a Tesla failing to use GPR to assess the stability of earth falling into a sinkhole. It didn't crash into a cloaked space craft or carbon nanotube guy wire. It didn't miss a small nail on the road and get a flat. It crashed head on into the back of a parked truck all by itself.
Self driving features MUST be capable of seeing everything in their "hit box" Including trucks right in front of them and very narrow things like "bikes" and lamp posts and gas pipes.
When your vehicle has known defects preventing autonomous features from working safely you have no business knowingly deploying these features until defects are resolved.
I honestly can't believe Tesla has:
A. Is pushing beta firmware to unqualified public in uncontrolled environments where life and limb are at risk.
B. Getting away with A.
C. Writing letters publically abdicating all responsibility for their failure to act responsibility.
Did you complain about the so-called telemetry in Vista, 7, or 8?
HELLLLL YES.
Do you complain about it Android?
There is nothing to complain about. Android is open source and does not have built in spyware. (Google play services != Android)
Or are you just focusing on it because Microsoft was the ONLY corporation that reworded their legal liability notices so they were written in plain English?
I don't think anyone gives a shit honestly.
I'm not defending them, I'm not saying it's an acceptable thing, but the fact of that matter is that this level of data reporting has been included in the three prior versions of Windows, AND is done in many other products in on the market (some to far greater extents).
Then what are you saying? That two wrongs make a right? That because someone else does it then it must be ok? What is your point?
The only reason people have this incorrect belief that Windows 10 is particularly bad (hint: it's not) is because Microsoft was up front about it.
I think the belief stems from reading Microsoft's own documentation about what the software does and reading their own privacy policies about what they grant themselves the right to do and simply objecting to both assertions and behavior as completely unacceptable.
One of the more comical examples. Microsoft Installs and enables a remote access Trojan by default with Windows 10 enabling MS to exfiltrate whatever data (e.g. content) they want from your system without your consent or knowledge. This seems so over the top that "particularly bad" does not quite do justice.
https://technet.microsoft.com/...
Well, that, and the fact that the outrage allowed a lot of "news" outlets to get away with blatantly lying about the extent to which Microsoft is capturing your data.
A more accurate characterization Microsoft's insanity reached a high enough level to make the news.
This is why I love Slashdot. People (like you) are obsessed with comically niche features like IP over Firewire, which is utterly irrelevant, and yet you're too blind to reality to realize it.
This is why I love Slashdot. People (like you) are obsessed with cherry picking comments of random posters to establish (insert trend/meme here) is a real sentiment shared by some undisclosed subset of "you people".
The simplest science tells us the entire premise of this article is a bunch of baloney. A gallon of gasoline produces about 20 pounds of CO2 emissions -- http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/... This comes simply from burning the carbon in the fuel with oxygen in the air. One carbon atom plus two oxygen atoms, simple chemistry.
Being too lazy to find a non pay walled copy of the paper abstract makes it brutally clear this isn't in any way shape or form about CO2 pollution. This is about particulate pollution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is a nonsense paper appealing to poor, uneducated people without the analytical context -- or, more fairly to intelligent people without higher education credentials, just the simple, plain common sense -- necessary to recognize a propaganda job of absurd proportions. There is no science or fact behind this article.
Have you even read it?
There is no science or fact behind this article. It is a pack of lies designed to anger people as much as necessary to hold their attention long enough to make a few more cents showing them advertising. The Dailymail is beyond shameful -- to the extent it tries to pass off this drivel as truth, it is an affront to human decency itself.
Most media tries to pass off drivel as truth.
It's absolute nonsense.
Your post shoots the messenger, appeals to intellect, relies straw man arguments about CO2 pollution and invalid analogies stemming from initial failure to understand nature (PM != CO2) of the topic.
This paper may in fact be absolute nonsense yet you have failed to deliver evidence commensurate with your claim.