"The amount of abuse their customers will accept is simply astonishing"
I'd just like to point out that MS is rarely the innovator these days in egregious privacy invasions, telemetry and so on. What they have done is to see how little protest the supposed 'good guys' like Google and Apple receive for doing the exact same thing and decided to play along. Don't hate on them for learning the lesson too well. If anything, at least with MS, you WILL find out about it sooner rather than later, whether through the efforts of MS haters or MS's own release and patch notes. Not sure I trust Google and Apple to be less secretive.
did you update your graphics drivers? I don't know what NVidia build came with Windows 10, but I couldn't get one of my screens to come up until I downloaded and installed latest directly from NVidia.
exactly! As a happy owner of an original Note and now a Note 3, I was really excited for the Note 5. Until I saw that it had a sealed battery and even worse, no SD card slot. I could live with the battery, but no storage expansion is a show stopper. It's the reason I left iPhone after the first generation, I don't like having to purchase a new phone when I've outgrown the supplied storage. Lucky for me my Note 3 is still going strong, maybe we'll see a reversal on the Note 6...
My stance is that the people using that site should have known better and I have little sympathy for them, playing with fire and all that. Was the hack illegal? Sure, and also inevitable at some point. I never meant to imply that it was OK in itself. I do think, however, now that the cats out of the bag, that there's nothing wrong with searching it and possibly acting on the results of that search. Maybe two wrongs can make a right at this point?
So, a willingness to cheat on your spouse couldn't possibly be indicative of character traits that an employer or the constituents of some politician might find concerning? At a minimum it shows a lack of judgement and a level of dishonesty that may extend to more important things. Not a few politicians and employees have been busted for embezzlement because they needed funds for an extramarital affair.
As to the spouse finding out "someday"... well, I've known people who were cheated on for years and only found out through chance. For some cheating spouses, chance just happened in the form of Ashley Madison.
Look, if you want to play hanky-panky, I agree, that's your business. When you make the boneheaded decision to use a web site to facilitate your shenanigans, don't be surprised at the repercussions of that choice. If large entities like banks and governments have breaches, why would you ever trust some hook-up site with information that could ruin your life? The power of technology can work for and against you...
"It's not hard to convert them to a more usable format."
It has nothing to do with how hard it is or is not to convert Flash content. Like usual, it's about money. Who's going to do that conversion? How much will it cost? What else will have to change (because there's ALWAYS something else)?
When the total cost of converting is exceeded by the money lost by not converting, you will see Flash die. I don't expect that day to come any time soon for most Flash content providers.
what I do know is after 20 years in IT, I've only seen the number of Indian co-workers increase. I've seen (numerous times) scores of American workers let go, only to see a restaffing from places like Tata and Infosys only weeks later. I'm no Einstein, but that sure seem like replacement to me. Still, these aggregate numbers are deceptive. If some programmer making $100k finds a new job flipping burgers, then technically there's been no loss in the number of American workers. Sounds like MBA math actually.
It's not FUD... Whatever the year of the Linux desktop people want you to believe, it's just not that easy for most people to switch. The skepticism you have "Windows 10 is free, what's the catch?", is the same thing I hear when I tell people about Ubuntu. "It's free, how could it possible be good if it's free?" Then you tell them that it will change the look and feel of a computer they've used for years. Then you have to admit that their Windows apps won't work. Then confess that they will have a much smaller selection of software available to them. yeah, sign me up right away, is not the response you should expect.
Despite huge improvements, Linux desktop is still NOT for the average user. It's for the average user that has a knowledgeable friend to help them setup things, to install Windows apps under WINE when possible, to help them find replacement apps for all the things they use, and to help them get used to the quirks of Linux. I've got my mother in law's laptop running perfectly under Ubuntu and she loves it, but there's no way on earth she'd ever have done it herself, even if her future self could send a note back in time and tell her how much better it was.
WE don't think it's that hard or intimidating because we play with this stuff all the time and tend to forget we've grown along with the Linux desktop and take a lot of acquired knowledge for granted.
the difference with this mower is it uses wireless stakes to define the cutting area. competing robo-mowers require you to bury wires in the ground. The biggest benefit I can see is ease of making changes... Decide to do some planting, put out some yard decor or otherwise change the layout? Re-position your stakes. No digging up the yard.
The biggest problems I've seen with the robo-mower idea are related to cost.
1. Existing robo-mowers (at least as sold by places like Home Depot) are expensive. Like $2000-$3000 USD expensive.
2. Letting them run while you're away (which would be one of the attractions and selling points) means your very expensive mower is out there unattended for anyone to grab. Never mind the potential liability concerns. My back yard is fenced, but most people in the US don't fence a front yard.
3. For the price of a robo-mower, you could purchase a very nice riding mower, with assorted attachments. This would dramatically reduce the amount of time spent mowing, and give you additional uses like hauling, leaf cleanup, tilling and so on. Robo-mower, it mows. That's all.
I suppose if I had a large rural property, where the risk of theft or cutting off the toes of a curious person was minimized, I could see how a robo-mower might be ok. For the typical suburbanite, what we REALLY want is a robo-lawn-care-service that will mow, edge, trim hedges, fertilize, do pest control. Like that other favorite of Popular Mechanics, the flying car, I'm sure it's just around the corner...
"The plan would require significant amounts of wireless spectrum"
...which will go to some well funded organization to realize this dream, then when the inevitable happens and the project dies, they hang on to that valuable spectrum...
"Bill Clinton could actually win again... I mean... legality and term limits aside.."
As I understand it, presidential term limits only apply to consecutive terms. So, seeing as there have been a couple of other guys in office, Bill could come back for 2 more terms.
also, i tried both options. downloaded ISO then realized I was out of blank DVD's and couldn't find a flash drive. So I ran it again and used the install on current PC option. So you don't have to install before you can d/l the ISO.
I didn't even do that much. The link will give you a download of the Media Creation app. When you launch it, you have the choice of 1. Upgrading the current PC now, or 2. Download the ISO to burn and install on another PC. I selected option 1, let it download everything, then clicked yes when it asked to continue upgrade. It took a bit longer than I expected, but I didn't run into anything fatal. The only weird thing I ran into was when it installed the Razer Synapse app and drivers for my mouse. At the end, you are asked whether to reboot now or later. I couldn't select later, but selecting reboot now, just allowed the rest of the W10 install to continue.
Also, a windows 7 or 8 install disc will allow you to access the recovery/troubleshooting tools in case you botch things somehow. like seeing a partition you don't remember, deleting it to get the space back, rebooting and seeing a Grub error because you forgot you tried Ubuntu ages ago... for the record, the fix is to launch the repair tools, click the command prompt icon and run bootrec/fixmbr. or so i hear...
I guess I can't be sure I got everything, but at install i was able to turn off a hell of a lot. I'm sure within a couple of weeks we'll see a pretty comprehensive list somewhere and I'll be able to catch anything I missed.
Anyway, MS certainly isn't the only one doing this data gathering these days. Opt-in by default is the way it's going to work from now on and you can't put that horse back in the barn. If people aren't reading what they are getting and choosing to opt-out then they have themselves to blame.
Installed W10 Pro on my PC last night. After all the copying and such, you get a screen that mentions privacy items and offers you the chance to configure them manually. Behold, you can turn off 2 screens of data going to MS and 3rd party applications. I believe the option to turn off wi-fi sharing was there too. So, yes, if you just blindly click through anything that says NEXT, you might have a problem. If you actually read crap, you can avoid most of this mess at install.
So far, I have no complaints about 10. It looks nice and seems to run as smoothly as the Win7 Ultimate it replaced. Previously installed apps and games all seem to work, although I certainly haven't tried them all yet. The only stand out annoyance was that all my media file associations were reset to use stock MS applications.
"Ah. You mean the equipment mounting rails, carrying handle, recoil buffer, flash suppressor, tripod mounts, and high-impact plastic barrel shrouds and butts are just ornamental and serve no other purpose? Wow. Who knew?"
None of those items increases the lethality of the weapon. Get shot with a.223 bolt action or an AR15 and the results will be the same. Just because someone puts a bunch of doodads on their rifle it doesn't mean it suddenly becomes a super weapon.
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Oh get a grip. The only thing people who carry are afraid of is being in the wrong place at the wrong time and having to watch their loved ones die because they didn't have the means to at least try to defend them or get them to safety. If you feel comfortable with pleading for mercy or waiting on the arrival of 'the authorities' to ensure their safety then that's your choice.
I keep a first aid kit handy because bad things happen sometimes. I have insurance because bad things happen sometimes. I carry because bad things happen sometimes. Being somewhat prepared to take some responsibility for your own ass is not crazy, paranoid or illegal (yet).
so, what if this report is BS and really an attempt to provoke attack by ISIS or other groups, leading to national support for an expanded/resumed military presence in the middle east? nothing stimulates an economy like a good war, right?
i guess it's a sad statement that the above is not completely, utterly unthinkable... the guys running the show really could be that dumb.
that's interesting because my windows update experience is nothing like yours. You know you can go to windows update settings and tell it to act just like your OSX download and notify, download and install, do nothing and let you check/download/install manually.
My windows 7 has been rock solid for years and certainly never forces me to apply updates when I'm not ready to do so.
Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now.
Maybe the Seismological society didn't know about it, but I find it hard to believe that the drilling company didn't. Wife works as exec assistant to head geologist at an oil/gas company. They spend hours pouring over seismic data, logs, 3d maps etc of the underground structure before anything else ever happens. And this is at a small company (100-200 emp). I'd love to see the data the company in Ohio has and if this unknown fault is clearly seen in it.
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"The amount of abuse their customers will accept is simply astonishing"
I'd just like to point out that MS is rarely the innovator these days in egregious privacy invasions, telemetry and so on. What they have done is to see how little protest the supposed 'good guys' like Google and Apple receive for doing the exact same thing and decided to play along. Don't hate on them for learning the lesson too well. If anything, at least with MS, you WILL find out about it sooner rather than later, whether through the efforts of MS haters or MS's own release and patch notes. Not sure I trust Google and Apple to be less secretive.
did you update your graphics drivers? I don't know what NVidia build came with Windows 10, but I couldn't get one of my screens to come up until I downloaded and installed latest directly from NVidia.
exactly! As a happy owner of an original Note and now a Note 3, I was really excited for the Note 5. Until I saw that it had a sealed battery and even worse, no SD card slot. I could live with the battery, but no storage expansion is a show stopper. It's the reason I left iPhone after the first generation, I don't like having to purchase a new phone when I've outgrown the supplied storage. Lucky for me my Note 3 is still going strong, maybe we'll see a reversal on the Note 6...
My stance is that the people using that site should have known better and I have little sympathy for them, playing with fire and all that. Was the hack illegal? Sure, and also inevitable at some point. I never meant to imply that it was OK in itself. I do think, however, now that the cats out of the bag, that there's nothing wrong with searching it and possibly acting on the results of that search. Maybe two wrongs can make a right at this point?
So, a willingness to cheat on your spouse couldn't possibly be indicative of character traits that an employer or the constituents of some politician might find concerning? At a minimum it shows a lack of judgement and a level of dishonesty that may extend to more important things. Not a few politicians and employees have been busted for embezzlement because they needed funds for an extramarital affair.
As to the spouse finding out "someday"... well, I've known people who were cheated on for years and only found out through chance. For some cheating spouses, chance just happened in the form of Ashley Madison.
Look, if you want to play hanky-panky, I agree, that's your business. When you make the boneheaded decision to use a web site to facilitate your shenanigans, don't be surprised at the repercussions of that choice. If large entities like banks and governments have breaches, why would you ever trust some hook-up site with information that could ruin your life? The power of technology can work for and against you...
"It's not hard to convert them to a more usable format."
It has nothing to do with how hard it is or is not to convert Flash content. Like usual, it's about money. Who's going to do that conversion? How much will it cost? What else will have to change (because there's ALWAYS something else)?
When the total cost of converting is exceeded by the money lost by not converting, you will see Flash die. I don't expect that day to come any time soon for most Flash content providers.
what I do know is after 20 years in IT, I've only seen the number of Indian co-workers increase. I've seen (numerous times) scores of American workers let go, only to see a restaffing from places like Tata and Infosys only weeks later. I'm no Einstein, but that sure seem like replacement to me. Still, these aggregate numbers are deceptive. If some programmer making $100k finds a new job flipping burgers, then technically there's been no loss in the number of American workers. Sounds like MBA math actually.
It's not FUD... Whatever the year of the Linux desktop people want you to believe, it's just not that easy for most people to switch. The skepticism you have "Windows 10 is free, what's the catch?", is the same thing I hear when I tell people about Ubuntu. "It's free, how could it possible be good if it's free?" Then you tell them that it will change the look and feel of a computer they've used for years. Then you have to admit that their Windows apps won't work. Then confess that they will have a much smaller selection of software available to them. yeah, sign me up right away, is not the response you should expect.
Despite huge improvements, Linux desktop is still NOT for the average user. It's for the average user that has a knowledgeable friend to help them setup things, to install Windows apps under WINE when possible, to help them find replacement apps for all the things they use, and to help them get used to the quirks of Linux. I've got my mother in law's laptop running perfectly under Ubuntu and she loves it, but there's no way on earth she'd ever have done it herself, even if her future self could send a note back in time and tell her how much better it was.
WE don't think it's that hard or intimidating because we play with this stuff all the time and tend to forget we've grown along with the Linux desktop and take a lot of acquired knowledge for granted.
the difference with this mower is it uses wireless stakes to define the cutting area. competing robo-mowers require you to bury wires in the ground. The biggest benefit I can see is ease of making changes... Decide to do some planting, put out some yard decor or otherwise change the layout? Re-position your stakes. No digging up the yard.
The biggest problems I've seen with the robo-mower idea are related to cost.
1. Existing robo-mowers (at least as sold by places like Home Depot) are expensive. Like $2000-$3000 USD expensive.
2. Letting them run while you're away (which would be one of the attractions and selling points) means your very expensive mower is out there unattended for anyone to grab. Never mind the potential liability concerns. My back yard is fenced, but most people in the US don't fence a front yard.
3. For the price of a robo-mower, you could purchase a very nice riding mower, with assorted attachments. This would dramatically reduce the amount of time spent mowing, and give you additional uses like hauling, leaf cleanup, tilling and so on. Robo-mower, it mows. That's all.
I suppose if I had a large rural property, where the risk of theft or cutting off the toes of a curious person was minimized, I could see how a robo-mower might be ok. For the typical suburbanite, what we REALLY want is a robo-lawn-care-service that will mow, edge, trim hedges, fertilize, do pest control. Like that other favorite of Popular Mechanics, the flying car, I'm sure it's just around the corner...
"The plan would require significant amounts of wireless spectrum"
...which will go to some well funded organization to realize this dream, then when the inevitable happens and the project dies, they hang on to that valuable spectrum...
looks like i was wrong... not sure where i picked that up.
"Bill Clinton could actually win again... I mean... legality and term limits aside.."
As I understand it, presidential term limits only apply to consecutive terms. So, seeing as there have been a couple of other guys in office, Bill could come back for 2 more terms.
also, i tried both options. downloaded ISO then realized I was out of blank DVD's and couldn't find a flash drive. So I ran it again and used the install on current PC option. So you don't have to install before you can d/l the ISO.
The creation tool gives you option to upgrade on current PC or download ISO to burn and install elsewhere.
I didn't even do that much. The link will give you a download of the Media Creation app. When you launch it, you have the choice of
/fixmbr. or so i hear...
1. Upgrading the current PC now, or
2. Download the ISO to burn and install on another PC.
I selected option 1, let it download everything, then clicked yes when it asked to continue upgrade. It took a bit longer than I expected, but I didn't run into anything fatal. The only weird thing I ran into was when it installed the Razer Synapse app and drivers for my mouse. At the end, you are asked whether to reboot now or later. I couldn't select later, but selecting reboot now, just allowed the rest of the W10 install to continue.
Also, a windows 7 or 8 install disc will allow you to access the recovery/troubleshooting tools in case you botch things somehow. like seeing a partition you don't remember, deleting it to get the space back, rebooting and seeing a Grub error because you forgot you tried Ubuntu ages ago... for the record, the fix is to launch the repair tools, click the command prompt icon and run bootrec
I guess I can't be sure I got everything, but at install i was able to turn off a hell of a lot. I'm sure within a couple of weeks we'll see a pretty comprehensive list somewhere and I'll be able to catch anything I missed.
Anyway, MS certainly isn't the only one doing this data gathering these days. Opt-in by default is the way it's going to work from now on and you can't put that horse back in the barn. If people aren't reading what they are getting and choosing to opt-out then they have themselves to blame.
Installed W10 Pro on my PC last night. After all the copying and such, you get a screen that mentions privacy items and offers you the chance to configure them manually. Behold, you can turn off 2 screens of data going to MS and 3rd party applications. I believe the option to turn off wi-fi sharing was there too. So, yes, if you just blindly click through anything that says NEXT, you might have a problem. If you actually read crap, you can avoid most of this mess at install.
So far, I have no complaints about 10. It looks nice and seems to run as smoothly as the Win7 Ultimate it replaced. Previously installed apps and games all seem to work, although I certainly haven't tried them all yet. The only stand out annoyance was that all my media file associations were reset to use stock MS applications.
you mileage may vary...
guess fashion is doubling back on us.
"Ah. You mean the equipment mounting rails, carrying handle, recoil buffer, flash suppressor, tripod mounts, and high-impact plastic barrel shrouds and butts are just ornamental and serve no other purpose? Wow. Who knew?"
.223 bolt action or an AR15 and the results will be the same. Just because someone puts a bunch of doodads on their rifle it doesn't mean it suddenly becomes a super weapon.
None of those items increases the lethality of the weapon. Get shot with a
Oh get a grip. The only thing people who carry are afraid of is being in the wrong place at the wrong time and having to watch their loved ones die because they didn't have the means to at least try to defend them or get them to safety. If you feel comfortable with pleading for mercy or waiting on the arrival of 'the authorities' to ensure their safety then that's your choice.
I keep a first aid kit handy because bad things happen sometimes. I have insurance because bad things happen sometimes. I carry because bad things happen sometimes. Being somewhat prepared to take some responsibility for your own ass is not crazy, paranoid or illegal (yet).
well, it is funny how this massive incompetence was announced just after various bits of Patriot Act expired...
so, what if this report is BS and really an attempt to provoke attack by ISIS or other groups, leading to national support for an expanded/resumed military presence in the middle east? nothing stimulates an economy like a good war, right?
i guess it's a sad statement that the above is not completely, utterly unthinkable... the guys running the show really could be that dumb.
that's interesting because my windows update experience is nothing like yours. You know you can go to windows update settings and tell it to act just like your OSX download and notify, download and install, do nothing and let you check/download/install manually.
My windows 7 has been rock solid for years and certainly never forces me to apply updates when I'm not ready to do so.
Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now.
and so on...
Maybe the Seismological society didn't know about it, but I find it hard to believe that the drilling company didn't. Wife works as exec assistant to head geologist at an oil/gas company. They spend hours pouring over seismic data, logs, 3d maps etc of the underground structure before anything else ever happens. And this is at a small company (100-200 emp). I'd love to see the data the company in Ohio has and if this unknown fault is clearly seen in it.