Posts by joed 827 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2013
And I wonder about safety of LIDAR to humans present on the road that may happen to glance in the direction of this setup. Even the laser in CD/DVD player had a warning label. How about the more powerful one that also happens to be outside human vision range and will not cause victims to avoid the exposure?
"It is nice to see a continuity-like feature creeping into Windows" - this one is not just creeping into but also creepy. One can no longer just copy paste without big brother Satya x-raying your stuff (including passwords). Opt-in as usual so clueless masses leave it at default setting. Curious if the content is uploaded even for user that have not yet signed in with MS account, just in case.
On one hand yes. On the other hand this trend would be even faster as businesses can invest more into "R&D" while they don't have to spend on workers. It's about greed after all.
I'm trying to limit my spend on Amazon and other to big to fail corporations (no need for Uber or alike) as I don't see the need to support them unless necessary. Sometimes it's inconvenient but even then it's simply money saved.
It does not need firewall exception but you can neuter it by disconnecting main/built in NIC and using an add-on NIC instead. System drivers are needed for higher functions (beyond just powering it on etc). Consumer equipment does not support it (as it's a premium feature and comes with price tag) but since 2nd-ary market is full of preowned corporate stuff, I bet that the risk is not limited to enterprise. Funny thing is that the feature is expensive to get, expensive to maintain and rarely used but since it's enabled by default on supported hardware the gaping security hole is always on.
It's more than just the variability of the silicon. It's also location of the core within the dye (and quality of the thermal interface that's only partially controlled by Intel). In addition, for some tasks performance scale better with raw clock speed than number of active cores. And then there's power supply issue - not only system can only deliver so much amps but also chip can distribute certain current between units.
Privacy is out the window anyway with any new smart tv (and even new broadcast dtv standards include the feedback loop via existing Internet connection, and obviously no backwards compatibility). And lets don't mention security (or lack of it) in all these IoTs.
I'd say a good ole PC (or whatever you already have that can connect via HDMI) is the way to go. The more control over it the better. And 4k is overrated. Most cable channels look like s..t and are nowhere near 1080p - slapping 4k sticker won't help.
Not sure if the article referred to Windows 10 but W10 has similar feature ("Let your apps automatically share and sync info with wireless devices that don’t explicitly pair with your PC, tablet, or phone") enabled by default - very helpful indeed (setting>privacy>other devices - likely keeps shifting around with every update to confuse users).
If you can't apply the workaround, you'll need to check certificate for sites you really care (let's encrypt cert is a red herring). It sucks that not only urlbar gets spoofed but also noscript sees no harm so drive by is that much more likely to happen (if you apply permanent exceptions to domains you trust).
Powershell is not necessary but don't dare to manage your azure without ultrawide monitor. It gets even worse when you try to do Intune - that Silverlight experience combines the worst of Metro on Windows with craziness their web interface. In the end it's sort of amazing how much can be done with mouse clicks alone (and that it even works) but the back and forth between Azure, Intune and Office 365 plus all the dependencies, licensing and liabilities one may never fully be aware of and intricacies of pricing probably make it a real minefield in real use (but so is running on premise MS environment). I've almost forgotten about constant changes to the interface, names features (with some being discontinued because other didn't embrace them). Get your trial version first. Get a burner phone to register the tenant, use giftcards to run some real world test instance (to find out billing gotchas without having getting debt collectors call you). Then if you're OK sign up MS' servitude agreement (have your lawyers on stand by).
1st hit (almost)free. I bet MS has learned this lesson elsewhere.
Didn't MS let go the test team? So much for testing. Customers (home edition users) are guinea pigs now (alpha testers). Businesses do beta testing.
By all accounts MS move is meant to push everyone into the cloud as nobody will be able to maintain in house operation in the volatile environment they unleashed.
TBH, ISP are not just bit pushers. The also offer email, web portals (Verizons owns AOL and Yahoo) and services like Exfinity provide plenty of insight on customer activities without the need for snooping on traffic going to 3rd parties. But since Americans are OK with everyone inspecting their $hit (government, Google, MS and now ISP) I just cant's see things getting any better in the Land of Free (Promises).
Yep, just "Waste of bandwidth". I can't imagine running this crap at default settings. All the crApps updating all the time (and MS adding new sh!tware to the start menu at a whim) and then Windows updates pulling a GB at a time. And then MS hovering your data (to balance their data link usage;). All this why I wait for the page to load in my browser.
Does "Creators edition" disable the metered connection fix for all interface?
That "a huge and intimidating set of options in the Windows 10 Privacy settings" is not a problem. The options not exposed through any of user accessible interfaces are.
BTW, I can't think of any any o these options I'd leave at default setting. But the time it takes to tame the beast just turns me off from logging in to new systems. Far from perfect when ones job is to support this turd.
The problem with LTSB is that:
- it requires KMS server (this can be arranged for;)
- technically, one is breaking law just by distributing it outside corporate environment (so what;)
- just like every other Windows version it's a rolling set of features. Tomorrow's LTSB may suck as bad as Anniversary edition. No fix here.
At this point the version to have may the Chinese copy. Would this be grey or red import?
Yep, everyone wants your phone number now. It's for your good. Even MS is no longer desperate to give away outlook.com accounts (now that they forced Windows 10 on masses). BTW, while outlook.com insists on getting to know you-r phone number, the signup for visual studio account seemed to more lenient (as of last week), go get your spam accounts;)
"They tend to qualify for W10 Education, which is enterprise without Cortana..." - not exactly true. Running the build in VM and it surely had all the Cortana MS fanboys asked for. I was really disappointed. LTS is the only crap-free version, for now (still the telemetry is included "free of charge").
Not necessarily, even WMP (or Flash) has an option (default on) not to retrieve usage rights/send unique id from/to Internet. Also Firefox has the option to disable playback of drm encumbered content (courtesy of Adobe if I recall correctly). Needless to say, whoever cared and knew anything should have these options set accordingly.
There's no way I'd used Skype app on Windows system as this would require that I've unblocked network access for all crApps (thanks MS for making this so difficult). The only acceptable solution for me is an iPhone app as MS does not control the platform (and Skype is not getting access to contacts). Obviously legacy account, no way I'd signed up for MS account (especially now that it required providing phone number). I bet MS will let this continue as they won't completely give up on users from major platform. And for now the desktop application for Windows 7 runs just fine on Windows 10 (not that I used it much or set it to launch automatically), just use proper browser so download page is not making fuss.
creating jobs or increasing efficiency (just like all corps with fiduciary duty to their shareholders)? As it is, I can see fewer than ever reasons to buy anything from them (especially now that tax free loophole is over) and even fewer reasons to sign up for Prime (it'd never pay for itself and - thanks to Visa - getting rid off recurring payments is undue hassle to even try it).
We may never be given opportunity to free ourselves from Comcast (the way we've left AOL) but I can see no reason to maintain any visible sing of this dependency. Since they screwed up my email the only reminder for me is the recurring payment for dumb pipe (and I like to keep it this way). No roku no cry
I'd hate the idea of purchasing an Apple product (but don't mind corporate issued iPhone;) yet recent novelties coming from MS are just ridiculous, overpriced junk (and unfortunately some suits fall for them by the virtue of coming from approved vendor and "leading the change"). If it worked out MS way I'd surely had to switch to alternatives just to maintain sanity (it's already bad with W10 abomination).
Still, I liked the video. It explained more about surface mount elements than number of vague articles. BTW, not all of this has to be used for illegitimate reason - lets say your employee left without disabling "find my device" for a corporate mobile (though corporate would probably not bother this much to recover "minimal value" device ) or even the owner of legally resold/gifted/etc device forgotten to do so. Similarly to torrents - pirated content is common but some of use is legit.
I guess this issue is with some newer Netgear routers. The only password recovery option for mine (that I'm aware of) is the hole in the back of the case (accepting metal pin). Maybe some of newer, cloud enabled "smart" routers that I'd not touch. Home router better be simple and did not require sign-in to somebody's cloud.
"Hope this does not cause people to be unfairly jailed for lack of exculpatory evidence." - from US incarceration rate it's more likely that large number may be spared jail time or - for Texas in particular - death row.
However, since we don't live in VR (yet) the impact may be just inconvenience to court clerks.
"Global fossil fuel subsidies were $5.3 trillion in 2015." - for better or worse these subsidies also cover fossils burned to power "clean" electric cars (and nuclear power has its own issues and requires as much if not more subsidies). It should be all about efficiency and the hypocrisy of pushing out bigger but supposedly cleaner vehicles is hard to defend (no matter the energy source) even if it looked great on a picture. In the end, the best way to boost efficiency is to avoid all subsidies (definitely for private enterprises). Simple, lean and - with any luck - green.
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