Right now we have machines with a few cubits, analogous to a 1960 IC. It wouldn't surprise me too much if, in six years, we had machines with 2300 qubits. Maybe it'll be called the Intel Q4004.:)
In six years assuming anyone is still willing to waste their time and money there will very likely be "topological" quantum computers with 2300 qubits and they will be just as useless as desktop computers at cracking RSA. Real machines with 2300 entangled qubits would be able to perform operations that would not even be remotely possible in the current life of countless trillions of universes if every atom in every universe were a transistor operating at a trillion trillion trillion thz. It's completely bullshit.
As you probably know, for decades after, transistor counts doubled every TWO years. If the cubit count doubles every two years, that's going to be a problem for cryptography.
Moores law is a reflection of market forces. Doubling was enabled by halving cost enabled by market pressure to reduce costs enabling people to afford more capabilities for the same cost which fueled a never ending feedback loop.
There is no analogue to QC and BTW number of entangled qubits are NOT doubling every year.
We don't know if that's possible, but we didn't know that 386 was possible in 1970.
Nonsense it was then and mostly continues today to be an engineering problem. Nobody has any idea how to scale out QC without being drowned out by noise.
If advances in quantum computing happen and we get the huge jump in processing power they expect, what's currently a brute force time of years can become days or hours. This makes the recorded stuff from 5 years ago very valuable to the spooks who can now decrypt it overnight. And scares the daylights out of the folks who need that data to stay obscured for 30 years.
Problem with this is there has to be a rational basis to support beliefs. Responding out of fear alone without any capability to characterize risks associated with (in)action is simply a waste of time.
There is value in preparing for unforeseeable events. Having more cipher suites at the ready to easily allow you to jump ship if a key exchange, cipher, hash were compromised is useful.
Schemes such as layering complete systems such that if ECC is compromised your message is still protected by RSA... or if AES is compromised your still protected by Camellia or whatever are useful. When implemented properly they offer insurance against the unknowable at the cost of slightly more effort. (Maintaining separate trusts and redundant computations)
What isn't useful however are baseless fears that RSA or ECC will fall and responding by blindly picking something else out of fear alone. Nobody is currently able to prove most of currently deployed systems can't be compromised by some unforeseen discovery of a defect or advancements in mathematics. Without evidence without any way to characterize risk and make intelligent choices you are just flailing in the wind.
What is noticeably absent from TFAs is evidence to support worrying about QC. Please understand I fully expect QC to become a useful tool and unlock new capabilities... yet those who are seriously expecting to extract exponentially approaching infinite amounts of computation from the universe at costs exponentially approaching free are living in a fantasy world in my estimation. It's hard to imagine a more extraordinary claim coupled with current stunning lack of evidence QC is even possible.
Rest assured that those two names are not served by "2 hosts", but handled by a load balanced and geographically diverse fleet of servers. Do you really believe knowing two host names gives you any advantage whatsoever?
I think the DDOS is already happening with operators everywhere blocking microsoft.com domains from name servers they control for the sake of their users.
There is criminal energy involved in sabotaging mechanisms such as the hosts-file in order to deceive users. Even thinking of it requires significant criminal energy, and the strong intent to harm users.
Looked up reference for getaddrinfo, GetAddrInfoEx and variants there is no namespace identifier other than NS_DNS to be found that allows or even mentions addressing DNS separate from the hosts file...... minutes later...
I guess you learn something new every day. For those interested in joining Microsoft in the pits of hell add DNS_QUERY_NO_HOSTS_FILE to the options flag of DnsQuery().
More info on this? I set my router's DNS server to resolve the two telemetry servers to 127.0.0.1. Would that fix the problem or no?
If you have a DNS server one way is to create a zone matching the name of the Microsoft host and simply leave the zone empty. It won't resolve to anything and the Microsoft stack won't even try to make a connection.
-- "Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
70 mbit is barely enough to support background traffic of everyone's devices calling home to rat out their "owners". Going to need at least 700mbit per plane to support Windows 10.
Excuse #1 - Google, Apple..etc are doing it too. This is what 5 year old children say when they get caught doing something they know they shouldn't while their brother (Google) or sister (Apple) does not (this time). If you don't understand why this is a completely nonsensical position try following defense in court.. "yes your honor... I was drinking and driving but everyone else I was with did it too so its ok."... Go ahead...see what happens.
Excuse #2 - ALL of your data is necessary to provide a feature. Examples like Siri, Cortana, Google voice are often paraded around. They need to rummage through your address book to know who "Frankenstein" is before they can call... Need to know what's in your calendar and where you are at...right? Well no... your "Intelligent Agent" needs to know. There isn't any reason said agent can't execute locally and provide the same services if user prefers not to upload a list of all of their acquaintances and agendas to Microsoft. These systems are architected the way they are because spying is profitable not because they maximize value to end users. Your phone can know your at the florist without sending your location to Microsoft. Your phone can remind you to pick up flowers when you call someone. It isn't impractical or unrealistic to implement. It just isn't profitable.
Excuse #3 - Browser information leaks... Chrome, Firefox, IE keep thinking up new excuses with mostly negative to users to get a piece of everything you are doing with every revision. Some of this shit is offensive blatant one finger salute...Sending your searches to bing even when you don't use bing.... Uploading your browsing history to Microsoft...there is no rational excuse for this and I can't believe anything approaching a majority of people want this to happen by "default" for any reason.
Excuse #4 - You can turn it off - Coupled with intentional UX design blurring demarcation between local and internet promoting accidental leakage and turns the leakage spigot to 11 by default knowing most users won't know, care or understand enough to change settings which increasingly are ultimatums or don't actually stop data leakage they purport to stop. Now the pot is really starting to heat up... Now Microsoft is retroactively saying fuck you people we will collect shit and there is nothing you can do about it. That they have the gall to say this to their *customers* I personally find amazing.
-- "Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
Microsoft, since its only product is software, has to go to great lengths to protect and extend that property base. "Extend" here is Googly data mining.
Nobody is making money on hardware as a commodity. Software is a much sweeter deal.
Apple, on the other hand, makes money by selling you the hardware. The protection is the physical ownership of the device.
Apple operating system can be installed on hardware purchased from not Apple. There are a number of howto's floating around including for install as VM guests.
This may not be a popular opinion, but I trust Microsoft more than Google, Apple -way more- than Microsoft, and the NSA more than any commercial company.
I trust humans to abuse power they are given like they always have throughout the entirety of recorded history. I trust the continued aggregation of power into the hands of a few mega corporations who are increasingly able to know everything about everyone and have increasing say over what can be executed on a general purpose computer will only end badly for all.
I think hardware support for voice recognition would be awesome if it can be leveraged to provide a usefully accurate local recognition capability.
Yet I very much doubt this will ever happen because the whole point of voice recognition these days seems to be nothing more than an excuse to send data to MS / Apple / Google / Nuance / LEA / whomever.
Again, read the article - they are saying sometimes the methods used to capture the criminal are not always pushed up the chain to the prosecutors. That's a problem, but it's not some heinous problem that people are making it out to be.
Intentionally withholding and or conspiring to withhold information to wit the defense is entitled *IS* absolutely heinous. Intentionally providing false information in the form of "parallel construction" is also absolutely heinous.
They aren't violating the supreme law of the land.
How do you know? Are you a lawyer? Courts have ruled both ways on 4th amendment violations. The arguments used to justify this is that people don't have any expectation of their location privacy.. because...drumroll... telcos get the information... I would very much like to know in what context can "no expectation of privacy" even be falsified in the 21st century.
When someone violates my rights, though, I want them caught and punished, even if it's just stealing the loose change out of my car's change holder.
Any thoughts about the rights of the (quoting TFA) "many of those arrested" who were never prosecuted to not be molested by police fishing expeditions?
-- "Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
I know technical solutions to political problems but cheap and trivial availability of technology is what's directly fueling these shortcuts.
Running software on mobile handsets to detect and map the use of stingrays is hardly unreasonable or impractical. If enough people did it stingrays might become sufficiently risky and worthless such that police departments would find the time to ask a judge for warrant to get information from Telcos.
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NT required a much more powerful machine, not like today where you can get a usable computer for $250 new.
Early in 1995 it would have been several hundred dollars cheaper to run Win95 this all but evaporates circa 96 and beyond.
Requirements for NT 3.5.1 workstation:
12MB of RAM 90 MB free drive space VGA level video support Keyboard IDE, EIDE, SCSI or ESDI hard drive 386 or 486/25 processor or better CD-ROM, floppy or active network connection
Requirements for Windows 95:
Personal computer with a 386DX or higher processor (486 recommended) 4 megabytes (MB) of memory (8 MB recommended) 50-55 MB
I remember feeling sorry for Windows users
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Never understood why Microsoft saw fit to torture their customers with 95,98,ME.etc. for all those years when they had NT.
Of course this was all back in the good old days when software companies actually had to provide new value to their customers in order to make money. Now it seems all software vendors are capable of doing is repainting the shell and spying on customers.
-- "Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
I actually agree with the first AC, there is no such a thing as complete privacy. I agree that I don't want to live in some 1984 type of world where the government knows all my thoughts or what ever. But I'm a realist and there is almost no amount of off the grid that you can go as to get real privacy,
There is no such thing as a complete vacuum. Even in interstellar space.
-- "Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
It's good these posts come out, but having worked with it, it's probably just a case of some calls that didn't check for the telemetry lockdown registry key. Say what you will, but it's not likely they have a secret cabal going to collect which live tiles you resized to "large" or unpinned. There's enough of us that either ride with defaults or are actually OK with them learning how to make a better OS based on how we use it. Given how rushed it was on the last few months fixing major issues, it doesn't surprise me that a few things slipped through.
One thing having always bugged me about this line of thinking is the quantity of traffic and number of systems out there that would all be generating these requests is simply enormous... must be one hell of a noise floor to go unnoticed.
In windows 7 I disabled every call home excuse under the sun from UI, group policy, CLI, scheduler... Must have spent hours disabling various bullshit yet despite considerable efforts windows 7 still keeps making connections to settings.data.microsoft.com, telemetry.microsoft.com with nothing running, with updates set to manual while doing absolutely nothing but executing tcpdump. In the end I gave up and blackholed these sites in DNS to get it to stop.
To be clear I am not nor would I ever make the lame argument that windows 7 does it too as an excuse to give win10 a pass or cover to try and justify a fundamentally indefensible activity. Microsoft's squandering of their customers trust will ultimately only end badly for them. Wireshark is your friend... try it and see what all windows 7 is doing don't assume that Windows 7 is trustworthy.
-- "Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
So long as "features" count for more than security, this will continue.
So long as people waste their time and resources guarding wires rather than systems this will continue. Most of the need for SDN in the first place originates with fools continuing to pursuit castle defense during the space age.
-- "Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
After all these years I have no idea what "the cloud" even actually is supposed to mean. Appears to be nothing more than an empty marketing term to cow people into becoming accepting of entering into arrangements where they will be exploited as string puppets.
-- "Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
Collecting and exploiting everyone's private data from most of the worlds desktop users requires energy... lots of it. Ask the NSA about their troubles with the grid. Bill is just doing his portfolio a favor by working to make more sources of energy available.
-- "Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
Many EU cities now specify LED street lights and this does usually include whole streets being converted to DC.
I've heard of some 40% efficiency gains by avoiding the usual transformers per lamppost.
Old school low pressure sodium lamps are more efficient than LEDs for the same amount of light output.
---- "Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
It's hard to believe that Obama and Kerry are dumb enough to actually trust the Iranians to stick to a "deal" but.... the facts speak for themselves.
I never understood all the Iran bashing. Yes Iran is screwed up but so are a great number of Countries the US does business with regularly. What's the difference? Iran certainly isn't the worst.
For example If I had to pick between living in Saudi Arabia our dearest friend and Iran our worst enemy I would choose Iran in a heartbeat no contest not even close.
Saudi Arabia has more than its fair share of lazy inbred entitled fuckwits who export terror and religious fundamentalism (Wahhabi schools) while treating their women like total shit. 80% of 9/11 hijackers were Saudi citizens yet all the western media is full of nothing but Anti-Iran propaganda and Saudi ass-kissing because various geopolitical calculations disfavoring Persians (Oil and Mecca)
So why DO they want a "deal" at all costs? Do they think it will win political capital? Is this to be another of Obama's great "accomplishments"?
I don't know about "all costs" I think they really want a deal because it is better than any realistic alternative... Also I'm pretty sure making such deals with Iran costs them more political capitol than the Obama administration has left.
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Right now we have machines with a few cubits, analogous to a 1960 IC. It wouldn't surprise me too much if, in six years, we had machines with 2300 qubits. Maybe it'll be called the Intel Q4004. :)
In six years assuming anyone is still willing to waste their time and money there will very likely be "topological" quantum computers with 2300 qubits and they will be just as useless as desktop computers at cracking RSA. Real machines with 2300 entangled qubits would be able to perform operations that would not even be remotely possible in the current life of countless trillions of universes if every atom in every universe were a transistor operating at a trillion trillion trillion thz. It's completely bullshit.
As you probably know, for decades after, transistor counts doubled every TWO years. If the cubit count doubles every two years, that's going to be a problem for cryptography.
Moores law is a reflection of market forces. Doubling was enabled by halving cost enabled by market pressure to reduce costs enabling people to afford more capabilities for the same cost which fueled a never ending feedback loop.
There is no analogue to QC and BTW number of entangled qubits are NOT doubling every year.
We don't know if that's possible, but we didn't know that 386 was possible in 1970.
Nonsense it was then and mostly continues today to be an engineering problem.
Nobody has any idea how to scale out QC without being drowned out by noise.
If advances in quantum computing happen and we get the huge jump in processing power they expect, what's currently a brute force time of years can become days or hours. This makes the recorded stuff from 5 years ago very valuable to the spooks who can now decrypt it overnight. And scares the daylights out of the folks who need that data to stay obscured for 30 years.
Problem with this is there has to be a rational basis to support beliefs. Responding out of fear alone without any capability to characterize risks associated with (in)action is simply a waste of time.
There is value in preparing for unforeseeable events. Having more cipher suites at the ready to easily allow you to jump ship if a key exchange, cipher, hash were compromised is useful.
Schemes such as layering complete systems such that if ECC is compromised your message is still protected by RSA... or if AES is compromised your still protected by Camellia or whatever are useful. When implemented properly they offer insurance against the unknowable at the cost of slightly more effort. (Maintaining separate trusts and redundant computations)
What isn't useful however are baseless fears that RSA or ECC will fall and responding by blindly picking something else out of fear alone. Nobody is currently able to prove most of currently deployed systems can't be compromised by some unforeseen discovery of a defect or advancements in mathematics. Without evidence without any way to characterize risk and make intelligent choices you are just flailing in the wind.
What is noticeably absent from TFAs is evidence to support worrying about QC. Please understand I fully expect QC to become a useful tool and unlock new capabilities... yet those who are seriously expecting to extract exponentially approaching infinite amounts of computation from the universe at costs exponentially approaching free are living in a fantasy world in my estimation. It's hard to imagine a more extraordinary claim coupled with current stunning lack of evidence QC is even possible.
Rest assured that those two names are not served by "2 hosts", but handled by a load balanced and geographically diverse fleet of servers. Do you really believe knowing two host names gives you any advantage whatsoever?
I think the DDOS is already happening with operators everywhere blocking microsoft.com domains from name servers they control for the sake of their users.
$ ping vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
ping: unknown host vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
$ ping settings-win.data.microsoft.com
ping: unknown host settings-win.data.microsoft.com
Next step I have a feeling will be working DDOS over layer 8+9 getting everyone off MS infrastructure as soon as possible.
There is criminal energy involved in sabotaging mechanisms such as the hosts-file in order to deceive users. Even thinking of it requires significant criminal energy, and the strong intent to harm users.
Looked up reference for getaddrinfo, GetAddrInfoEx and variants there is no namespace identifier other than NS_DNS to be found that allows or even mentions addressing DNS separate from the hosts file... ... minutes later ...
I guess you learn something new every day. For those interested in joining Microsoft in the pits of hell add DNS_QUERY_NO_HOSTS_FILE to the options flag of DnsQuery().
More info on this? I set my router's DNS server to resolve the two telemetry servers to 127.0.0.1. Would that fix the problem or no?
If you have a DNS server one way is to create a zone matching the name of the Microsoft host and simply leave the zone empty. It won't resolve to anything and the Microsoft stack won't even try to make a connection.
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"Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
70 mbit is barely enough to support background traffic of everyone's devices calling home to rat out their "owners". Going to need at least 700mbit per plane to support Windows 10.
Excuse #1 - Google, Apple..etc are doing it too. This is what 5 year old children say when they get caught doing something they know they shouldn't while their brother (Google) or sister (Apple) does not (this time). If you don't understand why this is a completely nonsensical position try following defense in court.. "yes your honor ... I was drinking and driving but everyone else I was with did it too so its ok."... Go ahead...see what happens.
Excuse #2 - ALL of your data is necessary to provide a feature. Examples like Siri, Cortana, Google voice are often paraded around. They need to rummage through your address book to know who "Frankenstein" is before they can call ... Need to know what's in your calendar and where you are at...right? Well no... your "Intelligent Agent" needs to know. There isn't any reason said agent can't execute locally and provide the same services if user prefers not to upload a list of all of their acquaintances and agendas to Microsoft. These systems are architected the way they are because spying is profitable not because they maximize value to end users. Your phone can know your at the florist without sending your location to Microsoft. Your phone can remind you to pick up flowers when you call someone. It isn't impractical or unrealistic to implement. It just isn't profitable.
Excuse #3 - Browser information leaks... Chrome, Firefox, IE keep thinking up new excuses with mostly negative to users to get a piece of everything you are doing with every revision. Some of this shit is offensive blatant one finger salute ...Sending your searches to bing even when you don't use bing.... Uploading your browsing history to Microsoft...there is no rational excuse for this and I can't believe anything approaching a majority of people want this to happen by "default" for any reason.
Excuse #4 - You can turn it off - Coupled with intentional UX design blurring demarcation between local and internet promoting accidental leakage and turns the leakage spigot to 11 by default knowing most users won't know, care or understand enough to change settings which increasingly are ultimatums or don't actually stop data leakage they purport to stop. Now the pot is really starting to heat up... Now Microsoft is retroactively saying fuck you people we will collect shit and there is nothing you can do about it. That they have the gall to say this to their *customers* I personally find amazing.
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"Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
Microsoft, since its only product is software, has to go to great lengths to protect and extend that property base. "Extend" here is Googly data mining.
Nobody is making money on hardware as a commodity. Software is a much sweeter deal.
Apple, on the other hand, makes money by selling you the hardware. The protection is the physical ownership of the device.
Apple operating system can be installed on hardware purchased from not Apple. There are a number of howto's floating around including for install as VM guests.
This may not be a popular opinion, but I trust Microsoft more than Google, Apple -way more- than Microsoft, and the NSA more than any commercial company.
I trust humans to abuse power they are given like they always have throughout the entirety of recorded history. I trust the continued aggregation of power into the hands of a few mega corporations who are increasingly able to know everything about everyone and have increasing say over what can be executed on a general purpose computer will only end badly for all.
I think hardware support for voice recognition would be awesome if it can be leveraged to provide a usefully accurate local recognition capability.
Yet I very much doubt this will ever happen because the whole point of voice recognition these days seems to be nothing more than an excuse to send data to MS / Apple / Google / Nuance / LEA / whomever.
That's why we have checksums.
There is no guarantee checksums will detect failure there is only a probability.
What I was taught in public school about my constitutional rights was really just about next to nothing.
Despite this you were able to draw conclusions on the constitutionality of warrantless stingray use. Care to share the basis for your conclusion?
Again, read the article - they are saying sometimes the methods used to capture the criminal are not always pushed up the chain to the prosecutors. That's a problem, but it's not some heinous problem that people are making it out to be.
Intentionally withholding and or conspiring to withhold information to wit the defense is entitled *IS* absolutely heinous. Intentionally providing false information in the form of "parallel construction" is also absolutely heinous.
They aren't violating the supreme law of the land.
How do you know? Are you a lawyer? Courts have ruled both ways on 4th amendment violations. The arguments used to justify this is that people don't have any expectation of their location privacy.. because...drumroll ... telcos get the information... I would very much like to know in what context can "no expectation of privacy" even be falsified in the 21st century.
When someone violates my rights, though, I want them caught and punished, even if it's just stealing the loose change out of my car's change holder.
Any thoughts about the rights of the (quoting TFA) "many of those arrested" who were never prosecuted to not be molested by police fishing expeditions?
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"Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
I know technical solutions to political problems but cheap and trivial availability of technology is what's directly fueling these shortcuts.
Running software on mobile handsets to detect and map the use of stingrays is hardly unreasonable or impractical. If enough people did it stingrays might become sufficiently risky and worthless such that police departments would find the time to ask a judge for warrant to get information from Telcos.
NT required a much more powerful machine, not like today where you can get a usable computer for $250 new.
RAM pricing history:
http://www.jcmit.com/memorypri...
Early in 1995 it would have been several hundred dollars cheaper to run Win95 this all but evaporates circa 96 and beyond.
Requirements for NT 3.5.1 workstation:
12MB of RAM
90 MB free drive space
VGA level video support
Keyboard
IDE, EIDE, SCSI or ESDI hard drive
386 or 486/25 processor or better
CD-ROM, floppy or active network connection
Requirements for Windows 95:
Personal computer with a 386DX or higher processor (486 recommended)
4 megabytes (MB) of memory (8 MB recommended)
50-55 MB
Never understood why Microsoft saw fit to torture their customers with 95,98,ME.etc. for all those years when they had NT.
Of course this was all back in the good old days when software companies actually had to provide new value to their customers in order to make money. Now it seems all software vendors are capable of doing is repainting the shell and spying on customers.
--
"Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
I actually agree with the first AC, there is no such a thing as complete privacy. I agree that I don't want to live in some 1984 type of world where the government knows all my thoughts or what ever. But I'm a realist and there is almost no amount of off the grid that you can go as to get real privacy,
There is no such thing as a complete vacuum. Even in interstellar space.
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"Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
It's good these posts come out, but having worked with it, it's probably just a case of some calls that didn't check for the telemetry lockdown registry key. Say what you will, but it's not likely they have a secret cabal going to collect which live tiles you resized to "large" or unpinned. There's enough of us that either ride with defaults or are actually OK with them learning how to make a better OS based on how we use it. Given how rushed it was on the last few months fixing major issues, it doesn't surprise me that a few things slipped through.
One thing having always bugged me about this line of thinking is the quantity of traffic and number of systems out there that would all be generating these requests is simply enormous... must be one hell of a noise floor to go unnoticed.
Windows 7 is looking even better. Staying put.
In windows 7 I disabled every call home excuse under the sun from UI, group policy, CLI, scheduler... Must have spent hours disabling various bullshit yet despite considerable efforts windows 7 still keeps making connections to settings.data.microsoft.com, telemetry.microsoft.com with nothing running, with updates set to manual while doing absolutely nothing but executing tcpdump. In the end I gave up and blackholed these sites in DNS to get it to stop.
To be clear I am not nor would I ever make the lame argument that windows 7 does it too as an excuse to give win10 a pass or cover to try and justify a fundamentally indefensible activity. Microsoft's squandering of their customers trust will ultimately only end badly for them. Wireshark is your friend... try it and see what all windows 7 is doing don't assume that Windows 7 is trustworthy.
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"Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
This battle is lost. No amount of litigation or hacking will change that.
Lost sales will.
So long as "features" count for more than security, this will continue.
So long as people waste their time and resources guarding wires rather than systems this will continue. Most of the need for SDN in the first place originates with fools continuing to pursuit castle defense during the space age.
--
"Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
After all these years I have no idea what "the cloud" even actually is supposed to mean. Appears to be nothing more than an empty marketing term to cow people into becoming accepting of entering into arrangements where they will be exploited as string puppets.
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"Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
Collecting and exploiting everyone's private data from most of the worlds desktop users requires energy... lots of it. Ask the NSA about their troubles with the grid. Bill is just doing his portfolio a favor by working to make more sources of energy available.
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"Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
Many EU cities now specify LED street lights and this does usually include whole streets being converted to DC.
I've heard of some 40% efficiency gains by avoiding the usual transformers per lamppost.
Old school low pressure sodium lamps are more efficient than LEDs for the same amount of light output.
----
"Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary."
Israel doesn't chant death to [fill in the blank, country].
Who cares what people chant? Do you believe in the power of voodoo magic?
and they don't goddamn missile attack their neighbors every day... ahem, Lebanon and Palestine.
Good point. They batch their missile strikes on both countries so that thousands are killed and millions displaced all at once.
It's hard to believe that Obama and Kerry are dumb enough to actually trust the Iranians to stick to a "deal" but .... the facts speak for themselves.
I never understood all the Iran bashing. Yes Iran is screwed up but so are a great number of Countries the US does business with regularly. What's the difference? Iran certainly isn't the worst.
For example If I had to pick between living in Saudi Arabia our dearest friend and Iran our worst enemy I would choose Iran in a heartbeat no contest not even close.
Saudi Arabia has more than its fair share of lazy inbred entitled fuckwits who export terror and religious fundamentalism (Wahhabi schools) while treating their women like total shit. 80% of 9/11 hijackers were Saudi citizens yet all the western media is full of nothing but Anti-Iran propaganda and Saudi ass-kissing because various geopolitical calculations disfavoring Persians (Oil and Mecca)
So why DO they want a "deal" at all costs? Do they think it will win political capital? Is this to be another of Obama's great "accomplishments"?
I don't know about "all costs" I think they really want a deal because it is better than any realistic alternative... Also I'm pretty sure making such deals with Iran costs them more political capitol than the Obama administration has left.