Re: ActiveX?!
The same goes for silverlight. Dead on Arrival.
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Could not have said it better myself.
One part of me wants MS to wipe the data. Then it will set a precident that I hope makes ALL CIO or whoever is responsible for the decisions to go to an external cloud provider think long and hard about that decisions.
Here today, gone tomorrow. That is what clouds do in real life. IT Clouds are really no different.
The other part wants MS to be forced to keep the data and the access to it until the Chapter 11/7 is resolved.
many sites won't do a thing.
I'm already not using a number of sites that insist on Flash. Yes, I'm voting with my feet and not spending money with them. Perhaps a diminishing value of online sales might get an FD or two to get things done but somehow I doubt it.
Die Flash Die and your execution won't be a day too soon.
Good luck sending an Airbus A-3xx up to intercept an SU-22
The Venrable EE Lightning which was basically a Jet Engine with a Pilot on top worked because it coul catch pretty well anything that flew at the time that wasn't a missile.
Drones are no good when the enemy can jam the airwaves. Even frequency hopping radio won't work against a blanket jamming.
https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/05/18/0618248/any-half-decent-hacker-could-break-into-mar-a-lago
Open wiFi networks, printers and other stuff.
Don't the Secret Service check the place before he goes to play that round of golf every week?
Just throw oll that crap out and dump it suitably crushed back to the companies that are flogging it.
And make them pay to clean it up.
Has been a cause of much pain and anguish to millions of people over the years and still does.
I hardly think that it is a benchmark for anyone to be proud of.
I watched a Server 2012 system sit there for 4 hours 'preparing to install updates' recently. Only 4 updates.
Halted the process, rebooted and did the same thing in two steps 2 updates then the other 2. Worked perfectly.
Android updates have a different problem. For many users both the handset maker and carrier need to work together and even then the user might not download and install the updates.
It seems that many handset makers don't give a toss about updates. There are countless posts on the internet where new phones stop receiving updates after only a few months yet those makers don't seem to suffer at the hands of the press or have their stock price drop. Yet if this was Apple we were talking about then it would be front page news. (even Apple bork things from time to time but their overall approach is light years ahead of Android)
Google is right to focus on this area. I expect that Google are frustrated by the inability of the updates they release from getting to the end users. As for rolling out new versions of Android to users????? Are you having a larf? Handset makers care even less about new versions than they do about patches.
Agreed but they have to beat Apple at everything.
From the patents awarded to Apple today it could be that Apple have cracked the issue of getting a fingerpint reader under the screen so that they don't need to put it on the back.
Release in Haste, repent at Leisure
seems very apt at the moment.
The question is who?
Is it QC for wanting to keep getting a % of the retail price of a device as a licence fee?
Is it Apple for wanting to get even more profit from iDevices.
Is it QC for not applying FRAND to their patent fees?
As usual in these cases it all seems a bit murky at the moment.
I guess it will all come out in all its gory details in Court.
If QC lose this they could go bust as other customers will probably follow Apple and sue.
It has climbed steadily these past few months. From around $120 to over $150.
Just saying... The job of the pension funds is to make sure that they have enough in the bank to meet future demands. Selling out of a stock that is clearly tipped by Wall St to rise well, well before it gets to its peak is IMHO lunacy.
Not a promotion of Apple but just stating facts about an investment in the fruity company.
Microsoft Liable??? WTF are you smoking...
Excuse me while I ROFL and hope I don't split my sides.
The MS EULA absolves them of any liability for anything.
If you can't sleep at night why not give it a read? I'm sure you will fall asleep before you get to the bit where is says that it has no responsibility for anything at all.
Good luck in Court. If anyone wants to test the EULA in the UK/EU then I'm sure there will be an awful lot of interested parties hoping you win.
we need to know how much data slurping it will do and if the users choice of music will influence the adverts that it shows as you drive along.
No?
Well maybe not yet but that is what Google wants. No escape from targetted adverts even while driving.
It is not beyond the realms of fancy that the car will tell Google where it is and Google will direct video ads from the roadside at you. Even less chance of escaping the "Hey, Bill, you have not been to KFC this week. The next one if 2 miles ahead. Go now and get 5p off any order over £20".
Fancyful? Well the car is going to need some form of 3G/4G/5G connection so that you can use the google App store. Who is gonna pay for that eh? How will the car gets the Android updates for the first 28 days and then stop?
Being able to DL Apps means that the on-board android system can send data to the google Borg mothership.
that just over a month ago was reported as being 'the worst code I have ever seen' and thus full of security flaws?
https://9to5google.com/2017/04/04/samsung-tizen-security-holes/
and plenty of others as well.
If Samsung want this to be a 'noobies' phone and it gets pawned because of those holes won't that make those noobies think long and hard about going with Samsung for phones in the future?
Could this really be (yet) anothet footgun moment for Samsung?
Perhaps the Indian regulators will turn around and say, take this [redacted] somewhere else?
If you have spent Loadamoney on a bit of kit then it is your duty to make it as secure as possible.
You can't air-gap it but you can isolate it on its own physical subnet behind a carrier grade firewall. etc etc
Don't for christ sakes put expensive bits of kit on the main ethernet backbone.
If you do then you need to be put in the MRI scanner and left there to fry.
Only a few years ago, my local NHS trus had a lot of their data on a VMS system. Some high paid MS consultants came through and the VMS System was gone.
MS has a lot to answer for.
When with a country say to MS, get outa here. You and your insecure POS are not wanted here.
Will this event be the catalyst that makes this happen?
Everyone knows/says/repeats that the Apple Watch is a total and abject failure.
Apple does not release numbers so they say that it is a failure because of that.
The battery life is crap so it is a failure
It does not do LTE so it is a failure
It needs an iPhone to work so it is a failure.
So what it true?
It is failure or is it actually a success but only a flash in the pan?
Most of the time it is when I'm about to sit down to eat so they get a simple
"May your mother revert to being a virgin and that you were never born"
And I hang up.
If I'm bored then I'll play along with them just long enough to get out into the Garage and boot my MicroVax that runs VMS. Then they get to log into that and I'll have fun watching them flounder about trying to find c:\windows\system32
Yesterday, I got on as I was about to go to the dentists. The response I gave ended in OFF!.
I was recently away for a couple of weeks. 37 calls and 0 messages on thre answerphone.
Guess what those calls were about?
that seems to prevail in Redmond.
"You will use Modern/Metro/Tiles/TIFKAM/??? or else"
"We will slurp all your operations"
"We will bork your machine with forced updates and take no blame for the resulting mess"
etc
etc
This is the MS way under SatNad folks, better get used to it!
If they'd install it people would use it and more than likely pay for it.
However, a lot of punters have their last 20-30m delivered overhead. AFAIK, BT won't put Fibre in in these places. Other countries can do it so come on BT, get rid of the last bit of copper. If you do that then I'm sure people will open their wallets.
How's about doing some trials? You never know they might be a success.
Brings a literal meaning to 'drug mules'.
mules/horses can carry a lot more than a human. Better still, a Camel Train winding its way into Scotland using bridleways.
Better start desiging a 21st Century Hadrian's Wall. Once Scotland becomes 'leavers' of the UK, the little englanders will want to stop them coming south.
Personally, I hope not but once the Express and Mail (And probably the Sun) start to whip up public opinion, there is no telling what is gonna happen.
in a non corporate environment that:-
1) Is nothing to do with an Ad slinger like Google
2) works on Windows, Linux and MacOS
3) is not Lookout (because that is from MS)
I've been using it for... well, a very long time and to me it works day in, day out.
I can understand that the codebase may well need modernising but please don't mess with the GUI like Firefox seems to do every other release.
As for the rest, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Nah they don't.
How easy would it me to... say...
On the QT, engage an indian company to call on behalf of the opposition all those numbers on the TPS list especially in the key marginals?
I'd probably put a tenner on that swinging the votes.
Is it illegal?
IANAL and that's my cop-out.
If anyone found out, then [see icon]
The Daily Flail would have a field day especially if it was JC's 'momentum' team that did it.
because it is the Microsoft Way of doing things.
OR
Perhaps the rats nest of code is so bad, it would be impossible to separate them after all this time and they really don't want to try.
Who knows but whatever reason it is it seems Windows users (you lucky people) are stuck with it.
You mean the Koch brothers are really Lizard people? Who'd a thought it?
On the R.H side of the pond, the name Koch does not mean much but apparently they are the new Rockafellas of the 21st Century. Fingers in all sorts of pies making sure that they control policy in not only the US Government but according to some US Commentators, they are T. May's puppet masters.
If busses in London didn't stop every 200yds. The stops seem to be so close together these days that Tfl don't seem to want people to walk even 200yds. Lots of people I travelled with last Saturday were getting on for just one stop. Shakes head in amazement.
If stops are going to be that close together then how about some limited stop services on popular routes? Then it wouldn't take 90mins to get from say Warren St to Finsbury Park Stn when back in the days when I were a student it too 45 mins max. Less stops in those days.
As for the small busses, I hope that they are using low floor versions and not those horrid climb up three steps that you find in American Airport (shuttles). These are impossible for people with pushchairs/prams etc.
As for Battery Operation in Central London, the sooner that is mandated the better.
Don't worry, refuseniks (windows 7/8/8.1 users) will soon be absorbed into the Borg than deploying updates like this won't be a problem as all Borg members are connected to the mothership 24/7/52.
With everyone running Windows 10S and connected to MS every minute of the day and night they'll be able to correct, sorry erase problems like this in a flash.
You will be made part of the collective unless... you can escape to the Underworld of Linux or MacOS.
Treat the company like any other one.
The next scams....??? will be accident liability. When Uber is finally declared to be an employer they'll no doubt try to get out of accident claims by saying that the driver 'according to their routing'(cough-cough) should not have been on that road at that time and deny any liability leaving the poor driver without insurance.
More lawyers are gonna get rich on the back of this.
Yep, a 4-letter word all right.
Er? But...? Aren't coffee shops substitute homes/home offices?
Hand up, how many here have used a WiFi friendly coffee shop to do some work, work?
You know the situation when you are working from home and you run out of milk/bread/gin/etc so you pop down to the supermarket and your phone tells you that there is an email that needs answering right now.
Thankfully, you have your laptop in the car so you get a 'Grande Latte' and settle down and do the work.
time flie by and you suddenly find that several hours have passed.