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If you use Dropbox or Google or any other cloud service the same applies. Google actually goes further and makes some nice sounding TOS text at first glance, but if you read carefully you will find that it carves out a super-vague disclosure for "technical" reasons loophole which can easily mean "because we feel like it, technically".

Furthermore, if you actually bothered to read the damn Microsoft TOS rather than seance over the tea leaves of copypasta confetti, you would see that this is clearly in the context of the cloud services that can be enabled in Windows 10, not Windows 10 as a whole.
I don't think "good at executing bad code" applies for embedded CPUs. Of course, good code is still more the province of the compiler (with PGO for example).
One of my gripes with Linux is that software all tends to feel like it was designed to look nice on the developer's particular flavor of window manager. The system as whole comes across as an inconsistent pile of different UIs. OS X has benefited a lot from interfaces all being put together in Xcode with elements snapping to the HIG standardized margins. And when something doesn't match (looking at you, cross platform Java apps), the users notice.

Maybe the average Linux user is OK with this, but I can't help but be bugged by it. Cost of having so many options, I suppose.

Elementary does better than most, but only by including a set of software designed explicitly to fit there.
They don't count resets. They recover the number of resets via clever post processing.
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This may be true for games, but it's less of a problem in general. If you don't want to release the sources and have it handled downstream, you can always statically-compile everything and call it a day. Most commercial vendors tend to do that. Display managers are pretty much irrelevant, I can't think of any application that cares if you're running gdm, sddm or anything else; the ALSA backend pretty much guarantees everything is fine in the sound department.

I guess it depends on how many dependencies you're relying on and on what those dependencies are, but the process is pretty smooth.

If they manage to develop things for Android, it can be done for Linux, too.

(Source: developed and packaged a commercially-distributed Linux application. Not too painful a process.)
There is no evidence that Microsoft currently has the ability to arbitrarily fetch files from your computer.

If your argument is that they could implement such a capability, that's always been true for any OS, including free operating systems, unless you audit the code and compile it yourself.
I meant it as an electrical engineering metaphor, where you can string devices in parallel, or in serial one after the other, but where with a few adaptations both can lead to the same practical result.

Besides, my whole point is that this behavior constitutes a variant of polygamy, not a variant of monogamy, so I stand by that term. That there's a "serial monogamy" idiom describing it (I just discovered it thanks to you and Google, I'm not a native speaker) is tellingly disingenuous IMO.
I think you may be over-optimistic. I live in a poor neighborhood. Food stamps are the norm. "high calorie and high fat food being more affordable" is true, but the food necessary for a good diet is completely absent. The only food in walking distance is the gas-station (think Big Gulps and Twinkies).

This isn't an educational problem, it's a systemic socioeconomic one. And it's not likely to work itself out in the next 50 years.
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Not really. The tablets also lack any kind of mouse support (well, at least iPads do). A lot of software is optimised for mouse+keyboard, ton of it is optimised for touch input, but there are not that many that support touch + keyboard.
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This has been solved for ages. Containers can help in some particular scenarios, but they're neither the only, nor the perfect solution, by far.
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Then watch all that hard work get undone the next time Microsoft forces an update and bundles a "fixed" dnsapi.dll with some other important security fix.

Are you going to verify that there isn't a new backdoor in every single update that works around your changes? Or are you going to bypass that impossible task by not installing any future security updates?

Workarounds that try to make a hostile OS "safe" is doomed always having to play catch-up, and Microsoft can probably add problems faster than you can find them.
The stock market operates differently, but China's economy, which is an integral part of the world economy, is still tied directly to the market.

Chinese economic fundamentals (export, import, saving, consuming, government spending) will all be impacted by a failing stock market, which will translate into economic concerns across the globe.
Just to add to your comments: technically, shooting screens close enough for more realistic computer use was actually a problem ten years ago, but today any decent camera can do it.
Are you using 10 on a daily basis? My primary work machine is begging me to update, but I keep seeing reports of slowdowns and lockups.
Obviously, I used emotional hyperbolic language and I admit it. There's no way I (or any observer after the fact) can definitively tell if any one person is guilty or not, let alone make a factual statement about many people.

HOWEVER, having lived in cities and neighborhoods with crime problems (eg Baltimore,Philly), I am aghast at how dysfunctional the criminal justice system is. If you look at public court case records of offenders, you'll see a peculiar pattern. Robbery, Burglary and violent crime offenders are RARELY limited to ONE case. Usually, there are several or even more offenses. The outcome of these cases is almost never a clear-cut "guilty" followed by prison time. Instead they're a convoluted series of pleas, followed by a drastically reduced sentence or PBJ (probation before judgement). A PBJ is effectively nothing to a repeat offender, because many continue to be charged with crimes WHILE ON PROBATION, and there are virtually NO additional consequences for those violations of probation.

The kinds of problems I am talking about are described in detail by Paige Croyder (http://pagecroyder.blogspot.com/). If you're interested how criminal justice "works" in Baltimore, she's the best resource.

The angst felt by the laywer who quit to become a clown, is not a surprise. Anyone who has a conscious will have a difficult time with being a lawyer in a criminal case (this goes for both sides).
A single core is not equivalent to a hexa core so I think PVU's make more sense in today's world. What I would like from them is to be more transparent with the requirement to use ILMT.
My keyboard.
You you provide us with a powershell script or app that you used to disable all the call home stuff? It would be nice to have it all in one place.

FWIW, https://fix10.isleaked.com/ is what I've been going off of so far
"...we might be able to challenge the calories in calories out crowd."

Not really. If they have unrestricted access and the recipe has changed, the simple balance of sugars, fats, and proteins per serving could be having an impact on their total caloric intake.
A website I visit is using the new PageVisibility API to cover content with an annoying message if I switch away from their tab.
I think the US and the UK interfere plenty. At least China isn't pretending they are against central control whilst pumping out "free market" rhetoric.
> It sounds like you're pretty bitter about something or other. I think you should make more friends

That's a pretty unkind thing to say to a stranger on the internet. I lose a bit of faith in humanity every time I see such things.
No, it's not. Besides driver problems, missing support for newer OpenGL standards, fragmentation of desktop environments and a dozen of other problems, it doesn't even have GUI isolation (meaning that any X11 application can sniff your keyboard input):

http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20040705.html

http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.de/2011/04/linux-security...
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I don't see any problem with the practice per se, but I'd be wary of codifying such Right into law without opening a can of worms.
Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide with Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry from Friends:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc
That whole PRISM thingy was the reason why I tried Linux. I didn't continue using it because I was scared for my privacy. I continued using it because it was awesome and satisfied every single one of my needs.
Here's a question. Is it actually common practice to test your code by leaving it to run for weeks while inputting random stuff and observing if it leaks memory, sets bad values or crashes?

If not, why not? That'd catch any "mad user bugs" and all kinds of accumulated collateral damages from the sea of complexities which might be overlooked if routines are only tested individually.
Indeed, I can see this turning into a "if you don't use Windows 10 you must be a pirate/have something to hide" sort of argument. Ten years ago, when filesharing was the awesome new thing, that would've been almost a compliment; but given how the population's view of piracy seems to have changed now, I don't think that will be the case anymore.
In terms of UI speed, stability and conscientious use of memory without leaks, Opera 12 on Windows is still unbeaten.
Does everyone think that wrapping almost each and every html element into a react component is a good thing? Why do I need a <Button /> element if I already have a <button></button> element? You're not really saving bytes here as much as creating confusion and new stuff to learn.

Take, for example, the <FormField label="Input name" htmlFor="input-name" /> component. It takes two props which have totally different meaning. htmlFor is react's substitute for the native html "for" attribute, but the label is being created as an html element. So I have to learn this new mixed up syntax. Why? Existing html syntax is nice already and what everyone's used to.

On the other side, such elements as <Spinner /> are nice to have. We don't have any native html spinner elements, so it's a good unifying wrapper for arbitrary spinner html+css magic, which can be easily changed once someone on the project wishes to change how the spinners look.
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Yep, that's a viable solution. GIF and PNG include the dimensions in the first few bytes. JPEG is a little more complex, but you don't need to download much of the file to get dimensions.

I've used fastimage with success: https://github.com/sdsykes/fastimage
Or alteast you think it does. The thing is as I said with a rooted box, after it's rooted you can never be sure there ain't no backdoor left. It doesn't need to regularly communicate with an external server, it can probably dump data at some odd dates so it's much harder to track. The thing is there is no damage control with a botnet client by design like Windows 10
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Penny
We had this a few years ago in France but the guy was a farmer and was sending manure instead of pepper.

I wouldn't do this in the US though. Seeing how they take everything so seriously, you could end up in jail and or sued because someone thought it was anthrax (and now they can't sleep anymore and you should give them 5 millions for having destroyed their life).
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China has vaporized trillions already trying to bail out their banks, which are extremely over-leveraged on debt. China's entire banking system is under high duress right now due to the 'shadow banking' debt mess.
Gonna chime in here on Sweden -- it is not as utopian as it might project itself to be. Like many other in countries across Europe there is growing anti-immigration sentiment, and that is certainly true in the South. Malmö has quite a few issues with a growing refugee population, violence, and anti-semitism.

"A government that works" is relative. You can be waiting months on your personnummer (Social security number), which will make it much more difficult to get healthcare, banking, or many other services -- even an apartment. The system works, but it mainly only works for those who were born into it.

Problem is that the Swedish migration board (Immigration) is basically setup only to handle refugees. They are not well-equipped to deal with highly trained professionals.

Also, though most people speak English, your lack of Swedish will be a hinderance to making friends and "integrating." Furthermore, as neither of you are Swedish, there is no one to "on-board" you into a community. That will make this only harder and more isolating.
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Dealing with media is like dealing with demons - they'll give you great fame and riches beyond belief, but once you're known to them, they'll happily throw you under the bus to further their own interests. Media outlets are not your friends, they don't care about you at all. They have their own agendas.
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There will always be some form of inequality. That's what happens when you have two distinct things and compare them.
I meant the concept of deep linking, which used to mean that you refer to a specific link on a subpage of a site (Such as a particular article), rather than the domain. There's a connotation of legalese to it - The word is/was used as a negatively loaded term by those who think they have a right to control who links to their site/content and how they do so. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking
It doesn't work unless you say it with the correct accent.
You have to wonder, if they had hands and arms instead of flippers, they might have built civilizations like humans have.
The time isn't an issue at that level. They have specific tests for various situations and the time it takes, it takes. I've seen banks spend upwards of 6 months testing before instituting software changes to trader/production systems.

As for capable IT departments, on the large corporate scale, they fairly bulge with competent people. Obviously not everyone's a star, but they don't suffer idiots to live.

I don't upgrade anything until it's been on the street for a time. I let other people play canary.
When one criticizes X (and only X), then -X which might be equally bad gets scot free. That's no logical error, it's a fact (that nothing is said of -X).

So either one does an exhaustive critique of all classes of X, or his critique implicitly favors one of them (it's like if one's two kids do a similar bad thing and he only scolds one of them).

My argument was just trying to bring some counter-balance (to have the -X items people consider as "opposite" to the class of X you criticized, judged too).
>>I've deactivated all reporting and services that call back home (at least which I was aware of). In addition I've installed glasswire to check the network activities.

That's great. And what have you done about Microsoft not telling you what is inside each Windows Update?
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> Hatred for Microsoft? I have none.

When you post "M$" in a reply I automatically mark you as rabidly anti-Microsoft and usually stop reading. I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but childish acts such as those have no place in a rational discussion.
This is along the lines of "soak testing"

It seems so common its mandatory in some places / fields, and totally unknown in others unfortunately.
> Still, if it were up to me, the lack of management tools for the Apple side (each device requires a LOT of manipulation by hand to install apps, update software, manage accounts, etc)

I remember that being the case a few years ago, but doesn't apple have zero-touch device enrolment and MDM these days?
Why would you ever do this?
Isn't the right to be forgotten a can of worms already? In theory it's about individuals and their privacy, but in practice it's about fraudsters hiding their fraudlent behaviour so that they can continue being fraudsters.
I've been working 4 years on Ubuntu Linux now and I'm very happy about it. My life is much easier and I don't loose time fighting with my system.

I have a Win7 partition that I boot now and then when I must use software that can't be virtualized well enough.

In 4 years I've never lost work and I had only two crashes after messing with my GPU settings.

If only the biggest proprietary software we available on linux (Looking at you Adobe), I would never go back.
"Comply with legal process": i.e. if they are subpoena'd for this information.
At work all our desktop software was ported to linux and it works fine. Linux web servers, of course, mostly. Well there are some non linux web applications and numerous embedded devices with web access.

All I run natively is MS office stuff, chrome/ff, and vpn/vnc/ssh remote access type stuff. I have a linux desktop box on my desk running all the remote stuff plus native emacs that I use for most real work, the little old MS box is just for opening Excel sheets and legacy Word docs occasionally.

Its been a long time since I've run a non-MS (and non-chrome non-FF) binary on a MS desktop at work. Many years at least. The future is the web not native apps. IT will no longer deploy native client apps as a policy, so its not like any are officially ever coming back.

Decades ago its amusing to recall how much work IT folks had to do to install dozens of 3rd party applications on desktops before we'd get to use them. We had multipage checkbox forms. Now its "office, FF and chrome" and some corporate secret sauce (corporate anti-virus whatever type stuff) and they're done. A more draconian employer would just install office and force minions to use MSIE. And google docs and competitors are taking over all non-corporate "productivity app" work. With web access and outlook web mail and free viewers, technically most worker drones don't need anything more than a MSIE bootloader, although its more humane to let people use FF / Chrome.

For most employees, if it boots and runs FF or chrome, that's all they use to earn their pay, so no difference if MS, linux, freebsd, or mac.
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As most people have already said awscli is awesome and very complete; and I like awscli. The commands can get pretty long and when you have to look at the help doc every time to see what arguments you're missing it can get tedious. So Thanks for creating this!
Surely everyone in your neighborhood is not subsisting on Big Gulps and Twinkies. When they get to the grocery store (even if it is just once per month) to use those food stamps, there is food other than twinkies and big gulps to be had, right?

There are clearly systemic socioeconomic issues, but this seems to be an educational one. Being able to read the backs of packages and know what is better for you at the same price point. For example how $2 bag of beans are better for you than a $2 bag of chips (in general). Or $.75 canned vegetables are better for you than $1 canned beefaroni (in general). The amount that it takes to fill you up vs. the nutritional value / cost is obvious in those 2 examples but gets murky pretty quick for a lot of people.

People do not need to live off of fresh produce and coconut waters to not be obese.

I think there isn't enough public education in this area, and I believe that labeling requirements are not nearly as helpful as they could be and are often deceptive (in particular to serving portions) to consumers.
Pictures of naked children have fallen out of fashion, and even platonic pictures of naked children have fewer collectors now than before the anti-child pornography laws went in to effect.

I'm not arguing for or against, merely pointing out that in Victorian England, such collections were made and have trouble being maintained now.
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I like how you changed the name. Nice one.
Write options that are barely out of the money, buy options that are way out of the money. That'll limit the size of the pennies you pick up, but can also limit the size of the bulldozer.
Next version of Windows will let you spoof the OS, because of all the backlash :P
I don't see that mean, it matches the impression I have from transfire's comment. Nobody is saying that transfire's comment fully reflects the person who made it, but based only on the comment, it is an appropriate response, as far as I see it.
From the article

> Their decisions are not driven by "what is right for me and my industry at this time, or this quarter as I try to hit my quarterly or yearly financial targets."

This woman has a Ph.D. in bullshit. The government and its employees are no different than any organization. They look out for their own first, everyone elses needs come second.
refugee population? Don't you mean colonists? That's what they are when they refuse to integrate.
A semi-common calories in calories out argument is that it doesn't matter what you eat, you just need to make sure that you eat less calories than you use.

This is (probably) technically true, but it's not a very useful statement if certain foods are likely to make us eat more before feeling full.

So the rat example would support that reasoning.
I think he just meant the stuff which can be deactivated from the standard privacy settings.

At least, this is the same what I did (standard privacy settings and monitoring my network with Glasswire) and I have the same experience.
You had me at "uninstall windows"
Sure, I'd split this into two questions then...

Firstly, what happens before all these automations happen. In that world there's no efficiency advantage over restaurants so a delivery service set up today has no reason to make its own food (other than to control the whole process).

Secondly, once we have those robots, restaurant churn is high. A Cornell study suggested 50% of restaurants fail within 3 years. To me that suggests that the switch between hand-made and machine-made food could be as rapid as culture allows. The factors will be things like the capital required to buy those robots, the cost of paying engineers to maintain them vs the cost of paying chefs, etc.

TBH, I'm somewhat wary of robots smart enough to cook food equipped with meat cleavers and rolling pins. I'm not sure the cost structure is the thing I'd worry about in that business.
Send sticky glitter, instead.

Obviously not poison and damned annoying to sweep/vacuum up.
OP's point is that the whole Snowden thing was about datacenters, which happened to all biggest players so not using Windows is not going to mitigate that fact.
I don't think that's what they are doing.

They are simply throwing away the most significant bits, and recover those in post processing.
The genie is out of the bottle. It's not just the NSA that wants your data - it's everybody!

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=169
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Not addressing any potential privacy/security concerns but as far as daily operations, I've had it on my primary desktop workstation, my higher-end laptop, my girlfriend's budget laptop, and my work Surface Pro 1. Haven't noticed any slowdowns or lockups. If anything it's on par or a little faster than 8.1. I had a minor issue on my laptop at launch because it kept trying to install the wrong touchpad driver but I used the little "hide updates" app they provide and that sorted it until the underlying issue with Windows Update was addressed and it stopped trying to pull the wrong driver after a few days.
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Perhaps, but as I understand it if I do or have in the past given my friend the wifi password, it will then be automatically shared with his/her friends?

And what if I don't want my password to be stored on Microsoft servers where it can be accidentally leaked, stolen, handed to security agencies, and so on?