Posts by Cari

They're probably working out who they can baselessly pin this on before they say anything.

@Secret Service Intern

Don't believe me? Then explain why nearly every election is won not by appealing to the brain but by appealing to the gut.

Elections are won by appealing to the tribalism of the few and relying on their mindless team loyalty, while ignoring the majority that don't want any of the arseholes running the country.

And "local territorial dispute"? Get out. That "local territorial dispute" resulted in over 3,500 deaths.

NI, Britain, & Ireland are just one example of countries in Europe that have experienced non-Islamic (oh shit, am I allowed to call it that??) terrorism.

Idk where you're from, but we're definitely no strangers to it in Europe. Hell, in the UK we've been celebrating the foiling of one particularly famous terrorist plot for the last 410 years.

We handled it just fine without the endless scaremongering, privacy invasion, and erosion of our freedoms before 9/11. We will do just fine again once our governments, intelligence and secret services, police etc. get off their arses and do something instead of waiting for the needle to drop out of the growing haystack.

Re: Donkey Molester

> implying socjus gives shit about marginalised people and oppression

> appropriating a pejorative used by neuro-atypical people, against a group that tends towards neuro-atypicality

Wow. Much social justice. So progressive. Many virtues signalled.

Go home Donkey, you're drunk.

@VinceH Re: Hmmmm

Their quote suggests to me: "We were hired for our skills and knowledge, but did the bare minimum and only did exactly as our (less knowledgeable) client asked."

Unless there's more to it that hasn't been reported, that quote really doesn't reflect well on their work ethic, their commitment to computer & information security, or the quality of their customer service.

Re: It's not real

"I'm completely staggered they haven't thought to play the sexism / institutionalised-misogyny / patriarchy card to counter all the abuse they've been copping. "

I don't think they'll get far with that. The social justice crowd are making a lot of noise about what an awful, abuse enabling idea it is too. I know hypocrisy is their bread and butter, but this might be one of those rare moments of universal "the fuck is this shit?!", up there with Gawker outing gay (or not actually gay) people, as far as the Internet's collective conscious is concerned.

The ones trying to silence dissent by any means possible.

Re: Something Missing

"what's new?" Microsoft interns are failing to hush-up the problem now that Win 10 has been released to the public, would be my guess.

Win 10 insiders have been reporting this exact issue at least at the time of release if not earlier, along with frustrations and queries about whether MS will download things regardless, how to ensure it doesn't get downloaded etc. It's okay if you missed that or were unable to find such reports with a search, because their forum is an absolute nightmare to navigate, and a search with Google just brings back articles like this one now.

I have found a thread with some more recent posts (early August) that claim to have experienced this issue (scroll down to august posts): http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-update/will-microsoft-seek-permission-before-downloading/137b2c7d-5c08-43ad-ab44-75b0ebae9357

Canadian Tech's posts in these threads indicate that yes, unwanted download of Win 10 files is a thing that is happening:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-update/how-to-stop-windows-10-upgrade-from-downloading/c03b556d-ba87-425a-8359-f93cde7b61c3

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-update/how-do-i-stop-windows-10-installing-on-my-computer/cdb3d4a0-4399-4a59-962f-37372607679a?page=1

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-update/update-says-its-downloading-windows-10-setup-files/4734e8b7-43aa-414a-b03b-4c3e00815ad8

And then there is this thread from a few weeks ago:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install/win-10-download-issue/167c447e-12a7-4036-9e78-7362c34cb8f3

I don't have a link since I haven't found the thread again, but one Win 10 insider reported the 3GB update being downloaded on their non-reserved machines, as well as the machine they had explicitly reserved. My dad's been a Win 10 insider since last year and has been following the problems on the official MS forum as well as others, and has told me of several instances of insider reporting the download occurring despite Win 10 not being reserved on the machine. These include "horror stories" of people on limited connections finding suddenly they've gone massively over their cap, have had to fork out money to their service provider due to that, and found this Win 10 download was the culprit.

Even if it wasn't being downloaded regardless of reservation status, there are more than enough complaints from insiders and regular users about the persistent "upgraded to Win 10" updates, that show that Microsoft is all but taking control and forcing Windows users to upgrade despite what the users want. And even if the update being downloaded because one of the previously persistent updates escaped a user's notice, this is still not on. A download of that size should not be happening without the user's explicit consent, especially if it's one that will want to install and potentially fuck up the user's system.

Re: Be Sorry for the Victim

Feel sorry for Getty/Trunk because at no point in time when they sent several letters demanding payment, did they involve a human being in the process or consult the original photographer?

Re: Has everyone forgotten Vista hype ?

I foresee massive bonuses in MS's PR department's future. It's only taken them 3 OS releases to finally effectively counter the negative press from early adopters and testers.

Re: Gender question

@Connor - With respect to the IT industry, having actual proper computing subjects being taught in schools benefits everyone with an existing interest or with the potential to be interested. How much talent has the industry missed out on due to IT in school being so dire the last two decades? It's not just girls that get turned off by it. They shouldn't be doing this to fiddle numbers and meet quotas. IT in schools in general needed to stop focusing on how to use Office and actually teach the interesting stuff.

Re: Hypocritical

Idk if I buy into male privilege theory and the notion of a patriarchy any more. I look at the many, many guys I know, and I just fail to see it. You're absolutely killing it in the comments here btw, just that one bit stuck out (well, that and the implication in another post that extreme feminists aren't equally as self-serving as the Men's Rights groups you mentioned).

To me the idea that all men have social power seems too simplistic and not inclusive of many other factors. One that social justice types love to ignore (usually because it's a privilege they have and benefit from immensely) is class, and another is age (take aircon temperature "sexism" as an example there, or all the men that get put out to pasture in tech long before retirement age).

I don't particularly have any feelings either way towards Intel upping its bounty (or that it has one in the first place). I just wish our education system provided a better environment for nurturing intetests in STEM subjects early on, for everyone. Large class sizes and teaching to test probably play a part there.

Re: I wonder....

"Can anybody else show me any worse results. I'm still waiting for a realistic example of a bad outcome that doesn't rely on paranoia of accepting all the defaults in Windows 10"

Any of those places have their DBs compromised and your financial details, along with the rest of your personal identifying info are either:

Sold to the highest bidder, who does what they wish with your ID (after emptying your bank account),

Or posted online for free to make a point (as certain hacker groups are wont to do). If you're especially lucky, some unscrupulous media outlet will make a big deal out of the whole fiasco and kindly link to the info dump, increasing its visibility.

In the short term, you may think "well all I had to do was cancel a card and change a few passwords, no harm done there."

Of course, the Internet is forever, and even if you find your info among the thousands released and change what you can, that which you can't change is archived online and privately, to be dragged up whenever anyone wants to get at you for some petty reason or another, like pissing someone off on an Internet forum.

Oh, and then there's the possibility of someone editing that info for shits and giggles. You may be one of the righteous, nothing to hide so nothing to fear, but that's not necessarily what the modified info says. Like the cases of photoshopped "revenge porn" that have caused some to lose their jobs.

Re: oh wow

It's about time, to be honest.

Re: Ahhhh. The Guardian

"Surely the lefties must see that as the rank hypocrisy that it is?"

Oh gosh, you must be joking. "it's okay when we do it" afterall...

Re: I have to say,

Bro, you're free to say whatever you want about yourself. But you're an arrogant prat if you presume to project that onto half the population just because you share the same pronouns.

I'm sorry you and the men you interact with are sexist jerks and you believe that those you don't interact with are also like you. I would recommend you join the freedom programme, but sadly I believe it's only for women. Women who actually have an understandable reason for fearing or disliking the entire male gender at that.