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There won't be Windows 11. That's why all of this is happening -- Microsoft changing the model.

They'd like everyone to believe that, but I suspect the picture will look quite different by the start of 2020 when Windows 7 support runs out. It's certainly possible that MS will win this one through sheer determination, but it's certainly also possible that their senior management will be removed and the replacements will steer the ship back towards a more traditional and trusted path, and there's also a significant chance that with so long to go some other party will mount a credible attack on Microsoft's dominance on the desktop by then.
That would mean he could probably pay it off at a discount?
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Hashing with an insecure algorithm and without good salting isn't much better that not hashing at all though.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Without_systemd
I have two identical machines sitting in the same room. Upgraded one; other (this one) still running Win7. I used to go back and forth, getting a feel for what is different. The third time resetting the Win10 new browser home-page, new tab page and search engine back to my preferred ones, I began to doubt they had my interests at heart. Now I find myself never using the Win10 machine; its just too much grief and frustration. I don't want to waste time undoing the automatic changes they keep making.
People who are ideologically opposed aside, the biggest problems with jobs that require clearance AFAIK is the cost and turnaround time, meaning that companies may only want to hire people who are already cleared- or you can be sitting around without work for a long time. Many jobs that require clearance also may require work locations that lack the flexibility of other jobs (if you're working on-site for example, then you may have strict working hours, severely locked down workstations with restricted internet access, etc.)
He probably bought 15 million in uncollectible debt for like $1500
Yes. These systems are usually pretty well contained and a lot of care is taken to isolate growth areas from pathogens. Your biggest concern is bacterial cultures or fungal growth. But even that is usually handled pretty easily and cheaply.
A huge discount-- they only payed $60k for the debt.
I get the impression the purpose of the tally was to identify priorities for each map, rather than render a value judgement.
"What we found surprised us."
- insurgency "Lose this clear purpose and your company becomes directionless and uninspiring"
- front line obsession "Lose this deep curiosity for what is going on at the front line, and your company loses its instincts"
- owner's mindset - "Lose the owner’s mindset and your company becomes complacent, slow to act and decide, and risk averse"

So...it surprised them that companies where clarity, curiosity, and accountability are practiced did better than companies that didn't practice those values.

I'm surprised that they were surprised.
I didn't know that. Thanks.

I just happened to find more information on the leak on the page that I linked.
This sounds like only the first leg of the scheme. How do you actually get money you earned into these bank accounts? I guess you could have your offshore company charge some bullshit consulting or IP licensing fees and deduct that amount but then that just sounds like plain old tax fraud.
I disagree, my point remains that many people have different preferences than you in what they want from an OS, and many people do legitimately prefer Windows over OS X (or linux, but most people don't really know that's an option.)
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Just had some _interesting_ conversation with my barber today and she was telling how quite a few bankers were telling her that "be prepared for 2017". Not really into gossips and speculations, but if somebody has some links to articles/books or interviews by respected sources/analysts, it would be great if you could share it here.

Cheers.
I'd say that it makes the argument that reuse of passwords is more dangerous than simply using poor passwords. After all, it's complexity didn't seem to matter in this case. In fact, one could argue that the only thing a user of a site need concern themselves with is not using the same password in multiple locations. Once that is achieved, I wonder, if the chances of your account being hacked dramatically decrease more than any other safety precaution you can take, apart from simply not having any account.
You are conflating "ad-supported programs" (remember Opera at version 9? That was ad-ware, on the desktop) with "advertisements in the OS itself". Let me assure you that I'm not seeing any ads on my Android devices. Rhetorical question: Do ad-supported apps have ad-free, paid versions? Answer: Yes, they do (and if not, too bad for them, not going to use).

Should an OS that I have paid for (the Windows tax, never mind that it's not listed as a separate item on the invoice) be ad-supported on top of that? I'll leave that one open, as I don't see The One Correct Answer.
I assume people claim IP protection of one kind or another on these datasets, and even if their claims were spurious, they would still make trouble.

That's not going to stop some hacker could crawl OkCupid and balckmail some people. But if Google or Microsoft suspect FooStartup Inc. is using one of their datasets in its service, then the lawyers will descend.
Damn you are right, i forgot about that. Makes the whole situation a little more serious i guess. Gonna check if they already discussed this and otherwise file a report.

Edit:// Reported, if someone wants to add their 5c: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19280
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As has been mentioned elsewhere, it seems the real 'value' of this debt to people buying it, is not the debt itself because it can't legally be enforced, but the personal information that goes along with it.
> That's the energy an indoor farm has to consume from power stations, just for lighting.

To reproduce natural sunlight, but is that level actually needed for adequate plant growth?
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I was reading this and trying to parse the economics. I mean 70k square feet is about two acres [@ 43560/acre] and at 75x efficiency per square foot it works out to about 150 acres of farmland. Lets call it a quarter section [160 acres]. Now a quarter section is the size farm my boy's Great Grandpa Fred farmed with his German speaking father and a mule in Kussuth County, Iowa the better part of 100 years ago. Enough land in a year with no major misfortune to support a family farm as a business but that today would perhaps need subscribed city folk and organic certification and a used tractor to be a gentleman's break even hobby.

At this point in the rant I was going to write, I was going to write about how little food two million pounds is and how it would never make a dent in the logistics of feeding people. And as I composed that part in my head, "two million pounds" seemed a queer [with no sexual connotation] way of marketing the output. And the whole thing made little sense economically...I mean even at Whole Foods, two million pounds of tomatoes might barely keep the lights on and the employee parking lot full.

I thought "What are they smoking?" And it looks to me like this is an effort to get out in front of marijuana legalization. Two million pounds at even a piddly $1000/per does make sense with the big bucks of the Big Apple's stoners spitting distance away. And since that is consistent with my heuristic that when someone looks like an idiot and they're not a teenager, then I'm probably the idiot if I assume that they are, so I figure that getting ready for growing weed is about the best sense of the venture I'm going to make.
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It was indeed logind.

* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825394#221

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11782364

The systemd developers' way of addressing that was to go and ask the people who wrote things like tmux to change tmux. The response of the tmux developers was to repeat the question asked and not answered 5 years ago.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11798515

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11797075

The problem where the people who just switched to Ubuntu 16 are hitting problems with high-end database servers, middleware, containers, large builds, and so forth all running out of threads because of another systemd default that was switched by its developers, is still quietly on-going.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11675129
For some weird reason, practical observation doesn't seem to mirror your claim.
I think the options are two: bully and harass the debtors until they pay or go to courts and try to get the default judgement.

As the program points out what they buy is name and number. So I suppose if the person involved showed up in court and demanded any sort of confirmation of debt (like original bills perhaps?) then the case would be dismissed. After all the company needs some proof. But they overload the courts and if no one shows up to defend then the default judgement goes in favor of the debt collector.

And then they go and collect with the power of law behind them.

This is crazy but that's how they roll in the land of the free :)
I find it highly implausible. Most likely OP ignored the full context of the statement. I can't imagine any of my co-workers recommending Java Maps over PHMs except in very rare interop situations. Likewise, I can't remember the last time I even saw a ConcurrentHashMap used in Clojure code, or STM for that matter. Most of the code I write, and work with, is as recommended for years: Persistent data in as few atoms as possible.

No ill-will directed at the OP, but it's hard not to take umbrage at the suggestion that I am a snake-oil salesman. So yes, references please!
And so they did

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eudev
Any amount of payment, I believe, so they're likely offering seemingly generous "settlements" with tiny monthly payments.
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Apparently pretty much anything including answering a phone call under some jurisdictions.

Pretty much they can hook you in by calling you and saying "Good day Mr. Smith you have a debt for 50$ to Acme Medical do you want to hear about our debt relief plan with payments as low as 1$ a month".
If at any point you seem to show any response to it they can use it to prove that you've acknowledged the debt at which point they can go to court and force you to pay.

The laws should be made that way that debt that has expunged is not tradeable or actionable in any way period.
The code reads very cleanly. I never transitioned to "modern" C++, but the syntax here makes it look somewhat appealing.
As long as we have way too many unnecessary passwords, this will happen.

Merchants have figured this out. Many now allow purchases without creating an account (no doubt also because if people have to create another password, some will just abandon the purchase.)

I was reading about the Eero router. They figured this out. They get the user's phone number and send a token by text.

Passwords are horrible for usage and horrible for security. Just horrible all around.
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Oh, lots of people are asking; just that MS does not want to hear the answer ("your previous OSes are so good that the risks of an upgrade outweigh the perceived benefits"). Product cannibalization is the term, I believe.
And then they'd spend all that money hiring lawyers to keep them out of jail. First rule of hacking is to stay away from high profile targets because they attract too much attention. I think they handled it nicely. They exposed the vulnerability without doing anything harmful.
Why?
A password as simple as dadada has the great advantage that one can write it quickly with one hand - and for this you typically choose a password that you can write with your other hand on the mouse for when you are using it.
The amount of money wasted by Windows 10's aggressive upgrade in corporations is probably in the billions of dollars. Think about how many calls and trouble tickets have probably come in over the last year about the unintended upgrades.

It's probably far less of a problem for enterprise customers, because they have the tools to control updates centrally within their IT departments. Microsoft is surely well aware that professional sysadmins won't tolerate things like having arbitrary updates applied to their systems by Microsoft, and for sysadmins in larger organisations there is enough real revenue at stake that Microsoft will do something about it, hence LTSB in Windows 10 Enterprise.

The thing I don't understand is why Microsoft think smaller businesses or power users -- the kind of people who were running Pro on Windows 7 or 8.x -- would be any more willing to compromise on that count, and why they think that market is going to voluntarily update to Windows 10 Pro, which appears to be a very different kind of product to its namesake in earlier versions.
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My current schedule is 10pm-5:30/6am, which is approximately 7-8 hours of sleep. By 6:30am I usually do my workouts (@ gym). During the commute time (~45-50 mins) I tend to read. Sometimes I feel a bit tired, so just put the book aside, close my eyes and fall into a semi-sleep mode - 30 mins is enough to fully recover. This tiredness is most likely the result of daily workouts.

I'm trying to reduce the sleep time to 6 hours per night. Has anyone tried to achieve sleep time reduction?

P.S. I'm a smoker.
I'm sufficiently interested to ask for further details :)
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He says what he paid. It was 60K.
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>Password re-use is the #1 way accounts are being compromised at the moment and there are now good password managers that are easy to use with a low barrier to entry

What accounts? At least for financial fraud this is certainly not true, phishing remains #1 by far.

I'd also hazard to guess that botnet logs result in far more hijackings than password reuse.
incapable of handling such things without some kind of public showdown that involves social media.

But there isn't any formal power structure. The only things "communities" can base decisions on are legal records and social reputation.

If you don't want to be at a conference where someone can be abusive to others, what exactly do you suggest they use to determine who can and can't get in? An extralegal quasi-judicial system that weighs rumors and conjecture to keep undesirables out? And how do you keep that process meaningfully distinct from a conference where a bunch of people pile onto someone for whatever reason to ruin a reputation?

tl;dr: It's not possible to have it both ways.
I got your introduction email and replied immediately, but didn't hear anything from you after that. Maybe GMail spam filtered my reply to you?
Consultant here,

The bullshit is epic. Examples:

- The system has spark 1.4 installed on it, and the customer needs spark 1.6. But their support contact is with company Y, who have it in writing that the customer cannot deploy upgrades, they must be paid to do it. So now, a simple package upgrade, turns out to need 4 managers to sign it and schedule it, and have meetings about it, then authorize it, fit it into a billing period. And wait - why do we need this again? Can we schedule a meeting with Team B to ask why we need this? Oh they're not available until September, ok let's book a meeting on September 7th 4pm with 25 people to try and get some clarity.

of the 25 people, 12 will reject with no reason, 12 will accept and 1 (the actual person we need to talk to) is booked on holiday and isn't back for a month after that.

Now take all of this, and multiply it by 10 and apply it to every project.
Here's some ideas. I have no idea if anyone is working on it.

1. Telescope

2. Dark matter research

3. Effects of radiation in low atmosphere environment

4. Remote habitat research

5. Testing unmanned rocket/vehicle landings and launches
I have a copy of Office 2016 Home & Office and I needed a MSFT ID in order to activate it. It seems the product key is then tied to that MSFT ID. So, when I leave my company this copy of Office is going to stick with my ID and cannot be activated by a new employee unless I forfeit the license.

I suppose you may have bulk licenses which may not require the MSFT ID.

OEM installs require the ID it seems: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-...

And so do retail licenses: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-...
There indeed could be. (-:
haha easy to remember..
That means "OS vendor has a backdoor open in our systems, on purpose" is very bad news. Very, very, very, very bad news. As in "audit noncompliance bad news". This is not a matter of mom-and-pop shops with three computers, or of any interest to the home user, but the fallout might be massive (as in "time to look for a different vendor, can't have that").
well, since linux is far from easy for most non-tech people and not 100% working for all windows apps, I presume popularity of up-to-date hacked distros will soar.

so far i don't see a single reason to move from Win7, and I instructed my fiancee to not interact with any update dialogs on her laptop, just move them outside of screen. Well done, Microsoft, well done
Gotta love footnote 1, about the ordering of author names :)

> 1. In keeping with our argument, and following in an extensive tradition of subverting traditional scarce markers of prestige, the authors have adopted a redistributive approach to the order of their names in the byline. As an international collaboration of uniformly nice people (cf. Moran, Hoover, and Bestiale 2016; Hoover, Posch, and Bestiale 1987; Hoover et al. 1988; see Tartamelia 2014 for an explanation), lacking access to a croquet field (cf. Hassell and May 1974), and not identifying any excellent pun to be made from ordering our names (cf. Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow 1948; Lord, de Vader, and Alliger 1986), we elected to assign index numbers based on alphabetical ordering by surname and to randomise these using an online tool. For the avoidance of doubt, while several of the authors have pets none of them are included as authors (cf. Matzinger and Mirkwood 1978). None of us are approaching a tenure decision (cf. Roderick and Gillespie 1998). And none of us are fictional entities who generate their papers algorithmically using SciGen (see Labbé 2010 for the contrasting case of Ike Antkare nevertheless greatly outranked all of the authors on several formal measures of excellence before he [it?] was outed).
Given that I use my Windows machine solely for gaming these days, the fact that I am not allowed to disable the real time virus scan permanently is a mark against Windows being a well made system. It's a notable loss of control over my system.

> The spying "features" can all be disabled

I've yet to find a way to disable the telemetry on a non-enterprise system. I'd appreciate any links to instructions on how to do this.
Everything related to this story has been flagged off the front page and it's a shame
'dadada' password...
The statute of limitations applies to whether the creditor can go to court. Since these debts we're talking about are older than that, getting a judgment is off the table.

That's also why they were sold for a fraction of a penny on the dollar -- the only way you could collect on them is to call the debtors and hassle them. At this point those debtors are probably also wise to the fact that you have no legal power to enforce.
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Wouldn't it still be outstanding on your credit report. It's debt that you didn't pay.

How long does it stay on your credit report?
Depends. There are a lot of people in the EU working part-time because full-time hours aren't available. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/6800423/3-270...

Again, we have to distinguish why people are working part time: is it because full time work isn't available, or full time childcare isn't available, or two partners working parttime to split childcare, or is it genuinely a free choice in no other circumstances? And is it part-time low-wage work in the first place? Salaried employees find it a lot harder to negotiate the short week, although it's not impossible.

How many people are doing <37.5 hour weeks that would actually be in the top tax bracket if they worked the full week? It can't be a large group because there aren't that many people in the top bracket to start with.

I think in the UK a part-time worker on minimum wage might pay no income tax at all.
If you want to hand over all of your financial dealings to any government that wants to look at them, go right ahead. If GNU projects are so wonderful, then I should applaud those who stand by them.
Yet there are probably a fair few here for whom the risk of crossing borders with a laptop and suffering a similar attack is not unheard of.
And nothing on the list helps making great content.

It's all SEO, social media integration and appearances.

But it sure sounds awesome. And I know now what to expect from hubstaff.com. that's certainly good. Just not for them.
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I'm relatively new here and was looking for a way to "bookmark"/save stories that have been submitted by others here at HN. Under my profile I see a "Saved Stories" link but I don't see a way to save the submitted stories on any of the submitted stories or any place else. I checked the HN FAQ and I don't see it explained there.

Is this feature available only to reputed users?
Does OwnCloud do the block-sync like Dropbox for TrueCrypt containers, or does it need to reupload the entire container if the container is modified?
At the price they paid, it's around $6.66 per person. They'd have paid a lot less for a lot more debt if they hadn't bought medical debt. And that's not even resorting to illegal means.
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I also love the systemd init system and unit system. What most people complain about isn't that. It's all the rest. Systemd is a huge, huge thing that tries to do everything.

Here, people are complaining that systemd replaces the name resolution system. People also complains it handles tmpfiles, the random devices, the journal, etc... People complains that it replaced perfectly working, battle-tested components with new, unaudited code.

I don't personally care one way or another, btw. I'm a happy systemd user. But I understand the concern.
I'm not aware of any other show that so seamlessly combines rip-roaringly funny comedy with essential insight into the way our society and system of government is deeply flawed. And on top of that, he even manages to direct action to fix the issues he draws attention to -- taking down the FCC website being one example[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/03/john-oliv...
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If you want to learn more about the history of non-invasive glucose monitoring mentioned in the article, I recommend "The Pursuit of Noninvasive Glucose: Hunting the Deceitful Turkey" by Smith:

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