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Everyone know why updates really are disabled - pirated Windows. Specifically - pirated Windows with badly written hack that fails after certain updates are installed. Given that how enormous is user base of pirated Windows it is expected really to to see lots of guidelines how to disable Windows Update.

Win10 takes it to the other extreme, where it is impossible to disable it. You can only disable it for Wi-Fi and for each network separately. It is insane really and creates all sorts of problems in some use cases.

PS: another problem - some of the Win10 updates caused dozens of incomprehensible errors in Event Viewer on my PC, now I turned on "defer updates" and hope that delay will help MS figure out problematic patches before they will arrive.
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A 5k fine is still significant, especially if they can apply it for each act of non-compliance. So if they ask you to disclose information that you don't want several times in a single day (and slightly changing what exact information they want to access), you could be hit several times with a 5k fine.

At that stage it should be affordable enough to hire a lawyer to deal with it.
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Also known as the Netbook mystery.
I'd guess that means speech to text and shape writing run at least partially on servers? Not hugely surprising but it seems really bizarre that quiet hours would need it. Probably some integration with cortanas contact database so that some people's messages come through? Even that seems incredibly lazy and ill thought out.
Not that bad of an outcome really. I think Uber blew about $1 billion chasing after China.
She is awesome. I thought from the title the story would end badly for her, but it ended awesomely.
What do you mean by "degraded"? Does anyone else have this problem?
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I've had almost all of my Apple devices at some time or another just randomly pop up a "please sign into your Apple ID" dialog in the middle of some other work. I think it's probably related to update checking? But it's definitely something Apple is responsible forZ
> I once had to turn off updates on all laptops in my workplace so we could use the internet.

In such a situation you can dramatically reduce the bandwidth required by setting up an update server. There's no need for every laptop to download the same patch from the internet, download the patch once and everyone gets it.

(I appreciate that doesn't help the situation where you don't have enough data for one machine)
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.. and that's the profit model of sourceforge etc. You need to consider all parties involved, of course.
Hey thanks for the tip.
I've been thinking of setting up little media station thing...getting tired of using my mac keyboard as a remote..

I have a question.. for anybody, what is the difference between using a PC as media server as OP describes, or using a little Android box thing like the Mi, or something like Apple TV?

Basically I have a MBP, and I'll be getting a TV soon, and I want to be able to easily watch dls on the TV, using a remote. And I'd prefer not to have my laptop doing the grunt work.

Any opinions/explanations appreciated! ta
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Twice the price of FX160 :) I have one FX160 for over a year with bunch of home software inside docker containers and works like a charm :)
I never buy my phones subsidised. General electronic vendors also want me to have the latest and greatest iPad.

If my iPad is a toy because it is mainly used for browsing reddit and watching youtube, then my laptop and my phone are also just toys.
My former boss, as much as I did not care for him, taught me an extremely valuable lesson: before you even begin writing code, write out the functions of your code, what it should do, and how it should work. I have stuck to this method every time and it has saved me a lot of time.

Had he taught this to all his former employees, I may not have had a job. However, I was hired to fix bugs in his software. While I certainly improved the program myself and fixed many bugs, there was just years of code on top of code on top of code, and while it worked, there were bugs. It was like patching up one thing caused another bug in the code.

Reminds me of that saying... 99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs in the code, take it down, patch it around, 117 bugs in the code.

I think developers are largely responsible for their own code, but everyone has their own coding style, and if the boss is just hiring random coders and not giving them a method for how to write their code, they are likely to do their own thing.

From adding a comment section at the top of the project and each page, explaining everything.... it definitely helps. But if one just throws a bunch of programmers in there over the years... there are bound to be mistakes and plenty of bugs .. resulting in profit loss. Keep code well documented and understandable so that when bugs are found, they can be quickly fixed.
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Because such entities, even when acting in the public good, would be breaking the law if they did. Those who publicly act in the public good usually try not to break the law to do so.
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>The GP stated they were Asian, so presumably they at least have less establishment in USA than a person from USA.

Asian is just used as a description of someone's race in the US. It doesn't imply that a person was not born there. The OP also mentioned black coworkers without saying anything to indicate that they were not from the US.
The child sitting at the controls was the pilots child, that's the reason for the increased (but certainly unacceptable) access.
Then it's licensed under some other license and the GPL does not apply. If I rent a building and the building is for sale I still don't own it until I close that contract.

If I copy GPL-licensed code without following the license terms, the GPL no longer applies and the code becomes unlicensed. The GPL is explicit about that.

If I acquire code under another license than the GPL my copy is not GPL-licensed even if it's available under the GPL license. Ultimately, the GPL requires that all people who pass on code under the GPL adhere to its terms. If one person in the chain didn't (for example by not making available the source) all subsequent copies become unlicensed.
Thanks a lot for the feedback! I'm watching the talk you linked on Youtube right now and taking notes.

I think I'm leaning more against doing a live demo at this point, but I may change my mind as I continue working on my demo material.

Good advice on the slide suggestions. I'll definitely want to cover the Java alternatives on Android and why I prefer Kotlin.
Hourly contractors should be exempt.
It's worth pointing out that while some outlets (Guardian etc) report it as just another NGO, Cage is an Islamist pressure group.
I'd like to give it a try later today with Wine under Linux VM. Anyone know the download link for wannacry?

I'll update the findings here :)
I like the idea, but I'm not sure the hinges on laptops are designed to take that much extra weight...
> If someone needs to skip an update on their own machine and their own network that is their right.

And if you want your machine to DDoS Playstation Network that's your right too, right?

And if I want my kid to get measles and spread it around, that's my right?

As much as you may argue it's your machine, and your right, sooner or later your choices start to impact other people. What about their rights, then?
That part already exists in nginx. Set up backend timeout and make a custom 502 page. It will kick in when the app is too busy.
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This is the problem with the iPad, on a fundamental level, for me.

It's not a laptop, because it's missing crucial laptop features (ability to do work on it). And it's not a phone because it's missing crucial phone features (portability and calls).

So when mine broke, I just didn't feel it was worth replacing. I've lost no value from not having an iPad, because everything it did could also be done on something else I own.
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I worked in Antarctica last year, a "winter-over" contract as combination Network Engineer/Glacier Search and Rescue (GSAR) team member, at one of the very small U.S. research stations.

In the atmospheric/climatology lab there are a number of computers running very specific versions of Windows (down to specific patches) tailored to really obscure science research software packages, some industry standard, most custom-rolled and tailored to that project. Which means they're very fragile and need to be left alone.

Of course Microsoft blasts Win10 installer files down our very expensive, very slow satellite link, and proceeds to force Win7/8 systems to Win10 which broke a few multi-million dollar experiments in a place that takes MONTHS to get to in the winter. So effectively killed the research.

And yeah, you can argue "well you should've disabled Windows updates etc etc" but in REALITY, not perfect-theory world, you should be able to trust your OS manufacturer not to force-install a major OS revision without your consent. And in the old days of Microsoft, you could. Now they just say "f--- you, we're installing it regardless what you want."

That company can die in a fire for all I care.
Id like to be able to configure 2 passwords on my devices, one that logs me in, and another "destruct password" that when entered as password, wipes the device clean and overwrites the drive.

preferably I'd be able to configure certain directories that should be wiped, so only confidential data is destroyed.

then it would log in normally. I doubt silly borderguards would realize the pwnage
Did MS not force upgrade users to Win10 against their will - which caused many of them to switch off autoupdate in the first place?
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> So, JavaScript and its earlier version — Java are already becoming mature enough to use it for more than just programmatically finding good place to eat burrito.

:( this guy...
Just to make sure I understand you right, are you claiming that men and white people are not dominant groups in American society?
Is anyone outside of Google or msft using these proprietary k/v/sql/Json databases?

As a developer I can't bring myself to code against something I can't install on my laptop. And as enterprises would go, they won't use any data store that can't run their financials/hr/ldap/sharepoint thing.

So, who uses them and for what?
I don't know much about CAGE, and my Googling isn't proving to be terribly enlightening (yet), but:

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most
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the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
Back in college almost 10 years ago. I definitely need to practice.
> 600MB/sec SSDs are kind of 'fast enough' with regards to app loading and boot times

Don't worry, Electron apps are working hard on saving us from 60 Hz.

Two months ago, there was a text editor benchmark on the front page, wherein Atom and VS Code were multiple magnitudes behind all the other editors, leading to this conversation:

Commenter: "Can anyone speak to the difference the underlying hardware makes with Atom or Code? Presumably a top-end desktop processor (~4GHz) and latest-generation NVME storage would offer really good performance, but perhaps not."

Me: "A year ago, people made fun about how programs will get proportionally slower once all the developers have switched to SSDs. Now we're already talking about having to upgrade to NVMe disks for a decent code editing experience."

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13935235
I like the Cookiecutter Data Science approach of keeping data out of the repo: https://drivendata.github.io/cookiecutter-data-science/

I usually work with data on an internal cloud anyway, so instead of storing data on my local disk I just keep text files that contain the URI of the cloud resource. I treat the cloud resources as immutable once created so that the "pointer" file's modified time is consistent with the modified time of the data on the cloud.
Do you think that the USSR where a communist country?
The user is not usually in a position to decide if they need updates or not or to judge whether or not they are putting themselves at risk by not updating the machine.

That's a terrible analogy. I have been shaming people for bad security practices and self-righteous ignorance for many years (even before 9/11 ironically!).

I've seen too many people have been wrong and had a bad outcome including complete data loss and in one case livelihood being shot entirely. This isn't a random assertion from thin air. You can't trust people to look after their computers.
Indeed the code only becomes unlicensed as soon as you violate the GPL terms. So I guess the correct way of framing this would be that internal copies, including changes, are still under the GPL.
I would assume the large majority of windows users doing batch stuff over night are businesses.

At that point you should probably be using windows server + wsus. Which give you a lot more control over updates.
I'm Army Reserve and we frequently have this problem in field exercises. Fire up some Win10 laptops on our very limited Verizon MiFi access point, they promptly download gig's of updates without consent and immediately push the bandwidth past the limit and the AP gets throttled to oblivion.

Yeah yeah you can turn of Windows updates or whatever, but you shouldn't have to do that just to force Microsoft to respect your wishes to update when you want to. And no, I'm not talking about some stupid restricted 8-hour window with no other option outside completely shutting down the service. TBH I'm still surprised they haven't tried to block users from doing that too at this point.
Can you explain what feminists or SJWs have to do with this conversation? I don't believe Amazon's effort is a feminist effort.

(If you're defining "feminism" so broadly as "anything that benefits women," you can't turn around and define it so narrowly as "a cause that wants white men to have less rights".)
WoW... these roads are pretty deadly!!!
I'm sure automated updates were covered in EULA. Not that I agree with this MS step though (see my other comment in this thread).
The choice between death and servitude is exactly how slavery worked. That choice was often used as a justification, even: whoever values life more than freedom doesn't really deserve to be human any more.

Make no mistake, slavery also requires consent: the slave can always kill himself at the very least.
containers still need apparmor/selinux to be secure; a container is just a packaging method without those.
Clearly not that many considering how well it did manage to spread.
TIL there's even a PXE boot option on the Pi 3, and several other boot modes as well.

https://github.com/raspberrypi/documentation/tree/master/har...
> the "sandbox the shit out of everything" approach really makes sense to me

It's more than just sandboxes. Android grinds to a halt just easily when you install crappy apps.

For example, I used a German classifieds app called Shpock for some time. After I uninstalled it, I noticed that I got around 50% more mileage out of my phone's battery.

As far as I've heard, stuff like this is not as prevalent on iOS because Apple enforces stuff like background scheduling more strictly than Android does. It's not just the sandboxing, it's the behavior of the interfaces that the sandbox offers.
might as well prank them with a fake gun and ask for $300 that way

just a prank, bro
I wish they didn't push updates as I'm trying to shut the PC down. That has to be the most irritating time to do that.
There's an avalanche problem though. Serving them up immediately when you know you're unhealthy shortens the recovery time.

I don't know that this module is perfect for every situation, but I do know that timeouts don't work great when there's a general overload. Timeouts leave a higher number of concurrent connections there.

I'd prefer a sort of priority queue setup where http clients that already "got in", "stay in", and newer connections are pushed away. Rate limiting per client first might be better as well.
Could not the president easily issue an executive order asking NSA to use the hack to protect everyone?
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Happened to me with an article of mine.

It got to be 3rd at the most, if I remember correctly.

I got 300 people at the same time for about 10 hours, then high but not crazy traffic for 2-3 days after that.

300 people at the same time is not a lot.

I had a WordPress website with no cache on a dedicated VPS (but nothing crazy), and neither the CPU nor memory got that busy. 300 people are about 1 person/second, 2 max. That's not a lot of load for a server.
prior agreement

I would be surprised if there wasn't at least a couple of paragraphs in the eula where people give much more control over to Microsoft.
> No it means I don't believe in curing sexism with sexism

Is this an ideological position, or a belief about effectiveness? That is, do you believe that it's fundamentally wrong to take sex-biased actions to fix sexism, or just inefficient?

Suppose a city has ten homeless shelters for men and one for women, all built in the early 20th century. Is it legitimate to fund the construction of nine homeless shelters for women without funding more for men? Why/why not?
You are probably right.

In that case could not the president issue an executive order asking NSA to use the hack to protect everyone?
My company did some email marketing that would spike traffic to 50,000 visitors in 30-60 mins and Wordpress MySQL would go nuts. Who knows how many horrible plugins marketing had in there but first go to for me was varnish, then cloud flare then final awesome fix was swapping everything to static HTML that we crawled every night ourselves from our own htaccess blocked Wordpress. Only thing that had to be dynamic /do related was the contact form.
No. In THEORY you're more vulnerable to exploits in the wild by disabling Windows Update. In REALITY you're statistically FAR more likely to be harassed and have your software/apps/OS break due to Microsoft's "very similar to malware-style" forced updates.

I disabled Win10 updates over 1.5 years ago with zero issue. Security people love to claim the sky is falling, but it's all about risk/reward. Risk of issue due to actual exploit is pretty low for most people, so even though the potential IMPACT is very high, because the probability is so low compared to the constant irritation of Microsoft arbitrarily forcing whatever they want down your throat once a month, they just deal with it and shut off updates.

edit: downvote if you want, I'm not wrong.
I agree with the person above your comment. For example some simulation loads are common to run on deskside systems.

However this IS definitely an edge case and it is possible to turn it off. I have run a physical host as a build agent that has uptime of months on Windows 10.

This is administrative competence, not a problem with the product or the use case.

WSUS + Windows server is definitely fine for most workloads though.
Yeah, this is a really pervasive attitude on HN and tech in general. By not taking that path WhatsApp has pretty much locked down the international messaging market, so it's a stupid attitude too.
Absolutely! That and being able to run code directly in the context of the page through the dev tools console.

Even these days if i'm having a poke around somebody else's work, one of the first things i do is to pop open the dev tools and start seeing which libraries they're running and what their custom namespaces are.
David Brin calls this drive by the elites a meme of feudalism in his essay _Otherness_:

> Feudalism is one of the oldest. It may appear to be rare nowadays, but some philosophers and historians have called it the “most natural” of human societies, simply because it cropped up in so many places throughout the millennia -- everywhere, in fact, that metallurgy and agriculture combined to let close-knit groups establish and enforce inherited aristocracies.
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Freddie there are numerous other roads that for whatever reason are bad, dangerous, or just annoying
If your CFD software isn't saving at least the last converged timestep in order to restart the calculation if there's an unplanned interrupt maybe you should implement such a feature! It's been a lifesaver for me many times.
That's true but not really relevant to the video that I linked to. The issue is that CAGE has at times crossed the line into offering support for what the scoundrels are doing, rather than just defending their legal rights. For example, Asim Qureshi still has kind words for Mohammed Emwazi even after he committed beheadings. As I said, I am not in favour of the security services having these powers. However, from the fact that the powers are excessive and unjust, it does not follow that all of the people targeted are innocent victims.
They can offer, they can accept payment. Doesn't mean they will actually decrypt the files.
thanks for the link, will check
Do rechargable AAAA batteries even exist? I've only ever seen AA and AAA.
the problem is good faith and desire?

if theres a bunch of numbers in my url after i login, and i'm oh so curious what i'd see if i increment that number by 1, now i'm hacking? i mean, i believe the website simply didnt want to implement session control, if i saw someone else's account details, is that acceptable interpretation? there's no "rule of the internet" that says we must only navigate by provided links on a html page, is there?
Unlike all these Stockholm-syndrome affected users here, I will tell you.

Start --> 'services.msc' --> find "Windows Updates" service --> right-click --> properties --> switch it to Disabled and reboot.

Turn it on once a month or whenever YOU want to update. Done.
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Not anymore.

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What surprises me about this case is how little information there is about that. Has anyone paid? Did they get their content back? If so, that would encourage others to pay up, making this attack more profitable, and more likely in the future. So I suppose that's why everybody keeps quiet about this. But for important systems, $300 is very cheap compared to restoring the system from backup including all the missed operation time, so I can imagine a lot of people would be tempted to pay.

If really only 120 people paid, I'd find that quite surprising.
I'd prefer a clean partition with some unconspicuous data on it.

Better that way then they won't dig more into the phone.
Shelter in exchange for being product guniea pigs. Might be profitable.
An officially supported channel that will let you select important security updates to install if and when you want to and not push anything else? Without relying on enterprise management features and the like? That would be interesting news to a lot of people, I'm sure, so please share what you know.
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I was under the impression that for laywers and people dealing with contracts, redlining is a standard practice of sorts, like sending patch diffs in Open Source software development.