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They used to. Now all you can get on the 7/8 generations without jumping through hoops is a "monthly roll-up" that includes both security and other updates mixed together. To do otherwise, you either need to turn off updates altogether and download and install the ones you want manually, or you need to be in a managed environment that does something similar via centralised deployment. Windows 10 goes a step further and is intended to push all updates to non-managed systems whether you want them or not.

This is why the anti-vaxxer analogy is foolish and frankly rather offensive. Managing updates is about risk, and the risk from Microsoft screwing up your entire system with updates was demonstrably very high before. For example, anyone who was using the default settings to trust Microsoft's suggested updates got changed automatically to an entirely new OS not so long ago -- a new OS, incidentally, which has also had compatibility problems with various hardware, which also has significant privacy concerns particularly in places like doctors' surgeries or other environments managing sensitive information, and which is also infamous for disrupting normal day-to-day work by changing things and/or rebooting at undesired times.

I know plenty of smart, well-informed people who work in IT and made an active decision to reduce or disable updates on some of their Windows systems for these kinds of reasons. Whether they would have advised home users with no technical knowledge to turn updates off completely is a different question, but it's not an entirely unreasonable policy given Microsoft's recent track record of abusing automatic update processes.
This works just as well in Windows7 (which doesn't have Cortana). Just hit the Windows key and start typing.
It also gives you the option of re-trying the update "tonight" which takes up WAY too much of my cognitive load. "Tonight" doesn't appear to be configurable, or even well-defined, although an obscure knowledge-base article tells me it's between "2:00 and 5:00 a.m", which is nothing like my expectation of what "tonight" means. Does that run if my laptop is sleeping? What about if it needs to reboot? I really should know the answers to these questions ...
that's fine, run the hypervisor inside virtualbox. For extra marks have it communicate to the host via smoke signals.
What's wrong with rechargable batteries? I usually go out with a spare pack and an ac recharger
Well, I don't think we need to be dogmatic about saying politics is the only solution. I think technology often moves forward when policy fails. But, that doesn't mean we shouldn't fight with everything we have for policy we believe is right.
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Well, you can always find a reason to buy a new synthesizer. That works in the favour of the manufacturer.

Computers, not so much.

Source: Also collecting synthesizers. :)
NB: Despite the click bait headline it's an interesting article on succeeding as an entrepreneur in difficult circumstances.

Edit: Post title has been updated (thankfully), I originally had the article title.
In the common and unfortunate situation where devops does not allow app developer access to prod environments containers are a dream. If the prod env is running docker your container is almost certain to work.
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A big thank-you to Alan Kay for both videos. I found them very inspirational and refreshingly... different. My big takeaway is that we need to not accept the norm - but look to new ways to think, view and do things. We need to challenge our limited thinking. Love that Wayne Gretzky method.
Very nice! I just finished "Circuit scramble" on Android and will be able to create my own diabolical levels ;)
And recruit them for the spy agencies. Find some small transgression on their device, use it as leverage. I imagine this guy is a high value target for them, given contact with prisoners.

All this data is being stored and shared too, so your passwords, contacts, travel history and web history will be sitting in datacenters forever, just in case you might be useful to them later.
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True, but if it turns out LIDAR is overkill and that self-driving can be done with only cheaper sensors (cameras), Waymo might be behind the curve on the use-case that the market will opt for.
It would be a good thing if they were releasing something like that asap, but the network effects of the existing attacks will continue to dominate for quite some time.
Looking at the username, I guess this is the video supposed to be linked https://vimeo.com/210364463
I don't think the police should be able to compel people to disclose their passwords. However, there's a possibility that 'human rights activist' should be taken with a pinch of salt here. CAGE is a pretty shady organization in some respects. For example see this interview with its 'research director' Asim Qureshi (who to be clear, is not the guy featured in the article):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0n-08I3P8s
Agreed. It's an amazing story.
>Macbooks are the SUVs

Mostly owned by douches who have no real need for one? I agree.
The register is over here > http://www.theregister.co.uk/
And there's always pen and paper. ahah, silly article, worrying about such nonsense. /s
So, the only possible explanations for disagreeing with you is stupidity or malice. It must be really nice to have so high confidence.
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Also, the user has uploaded the video two months back and then made another updated video a month back. So I guess, it is another updated video for this month that he intended to share.
It is a matter of business. Computers could be built to last 30 years and more. Ex: Control system in nuclear reactors and satellites. But modern electronics are engineered to last a limited time. This is due to 2 reasons. It helps companies sell stuff perpetually thus staying in business. But also because it keeps costs down and gets consumer cheap products. It is due to this engineering to such narrow tolerances that we can buy a laptop for a $1000 instead of $10000.

Imagine if computers cost $10000 and I got a core2duo machine years ago. I would be very reluctant to get it originally because of the cost and because I know there would be faster systems on the market in a few years. Engineering devices to have a limited lifetime has supported innovation by helping companies make money and by making things affordable so that normal people can buy the latest gadgets.

I know this has been bad for the environment and for those of us who would like things to last forever (I'm one). But, we can't discount the fact that a lot of tech innovation today is due to this very reason.
I'm not entirely sure how this compares to the situation under German (EU?) law:

Generally noncompetes are fairly widespread to varying extents. The default seems to be that you can't compete with your employer while you are employed (whether it's by freelancing on the side, poaching their customers or directly working for another competitor) though in practice employers will generally grant you permission to have a side-job as long as there's no conflict of interest and it doesn't impact your job performance.

However noncompetes terminate once the employment ends. The only way to extend the duration of the noncompete is by having the contract also reimburse you for the duration of that extended noncompete. Both sides can agree to lift that extension but if it's in the contract, the employer will likely have to pay for a certain amount of time whether they want to enforce the noncompete or not.

So in other words, while there may be scenarios where noncompetes impact your ability to find another job while still employed, the second your employment terminates, you're either free or continually being paid an appropriate sum of money.

As a freelancer I had clients that insisted on some form of noncompete, but these were generally only protecting them from me "skipping the middleman" and working for their customers directly -- which even without noncompetes would have created some dodgy situations.

I've actually seen multiple major consulting companies (often international ones or subsidiaries of international ones) that explicitly required a noncompete so vague that it would have practically prevented me from working for any company in the industry while also working for them -- because there would have been just no easy way for me to tell whether I was accidentally working for one of their customers or not. I never signed those but considering that certain companies like to just put into contracts whatever they would love to be able to do without any concern for validity or enforceability, I wonder what the legal situation around those would have looked like.
No. "Some of the blame"? Try "all of the blame." Windows Updates used to be pro-user. Now they're pro-Microsoft (pushing things Microsoft wants) and anti-user (routinely pushing 'features' no one wants or asked for).

I disabled it a long time ago and haven't looked back. Get back to me when MS starts remembering their customers are human beings again.
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There is only a mystery if you assume that apple is really chasing the same strategy as google and microsoft, and not a model where they only really care about high margin products.

The current Mac ecosystem will not tolerate a rent seeking appstore acting as middlemen between app or content producers and the end users where as the vision of taxing the content producers are a reality on iOS. Or to put it differently the per user profit will trend to be lower for MacOS then iOS so if apple is going to follow though with their philosophy of only maintaining a few products in order to be able fuss over every detail, then it makes perfect sense to double down on iPads and sideline the MacOS lines as something that will one day be merged with iOS.

The mystery part is in explaining that Apple dont nesserily want a dominant marketshare if they have to compete on cost to get it and is totally willing to shed profitable product lines if they feel it distract mangement from the long term strategy. Weather or not thats a smart philosophy is a good question but it's pretty much at the core of how job's managed to turn two bankrupt companies into one of the biggest success stories of the post dotCOM age.
Well that's.... Sad. I think I will take what little authority I (don't) have and veto that definition, seeing as it literally defeats the purpose of definition #1.

And I was invoking definition #1 there, in case that wasn't clear.
I have a 2008 MBP and everything runs great on it, except web browsers, which is sort of funny, tragic, and annoying all at once.
Is there some fundamental reasons why the domain check would always succeed in a sandbox? Would this not be simple to workaround by security researchers?
maybe they were testing them?
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I use the utility "Everything" for instant search on Windows, works pretty well.
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I am a native English speaker and have never heard someone use "unchangeable" or "invariable" to mean anything other than the correct meaning: "not variable; not changing or capable of being changed; static or constant."
Don't worry about what you read. It's mainly dick measuring or stuff learnt at work in specific domain. I know a lot of people who are awesome devs and feel inferior when reading HN comments. The only thing that matters is if you can build stuff people will like and use.
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Maybe not cold water, but drinking __before__ meals is supported by this study:
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Only since Microsoft bought them out. Skype used to be a fantastic piece of reliable telephony software. Now it's a fantastic piece of NSA-backdoored garbage loaded with ads.
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Yep, that's what I thought, too :-D

I tried to find some "Github" link in mjg59.dreamwidth.org pointing to github.com/mjg59, but I don't think there is any.

Definitely, you don't feel comfortable cloning and building a git repo to run it as root :P
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You are technically correct (everything is harmful, and vaccine application is probably associated with some amount of micromorts — but so is, say, getting up from the bed). However, vaccines are very safe (safer than many everyday activities), and negate much more micromorts. Thus, I believe that your technically correct appeal doesn't contribute anything useful to this particular discussion.
While launching the first iPad, Steve Jobs said that it fills the gap between a phone and computer. With phones getting beefier and bigger, and a lot of apps reducing the need to go to websites, that gap is closing fast.
Because accessing and modifying computer systems without owner's prior agreement is a crime in most parts of the world. Why would MS, NSA or any other entity would risk potential trials?
Nice how you avoided the issue of running code targeted for 0.98.1 (latest kernel release in 1992) against kernel 4.4.z.

Not to mention how disparate the file system structure, including device drivers, of something like Yggdrasil Linux 1.0 is compared with modern distributions.

As I said, easily verified by dusting off Walnut Creek CD's and picking a random binary from them.
Yes, and even worse the 'auxiliary' services business seems to be doing very badly and is adding to cash burn, instead of increasing utilisation of their existing fleet.

UberEats for example is completely dying a death in London (this may be different for other markets). Speaking to a few restaurant chain owners they get virtually no orders through and the experience is terrible, because drivers get lost and the food gets cold. They then blame the restaurant and leave loads of bad reviews everywhere.

I genuinely think Uber has very limited network effects. The driver fleet can drive for other companies at the same time, the user will just use the app that is cheapest/works the best/has the best service. I don't see enormous stickiness there, and the other services they offer don't work well IMO.

nb. why on earth is ubereats a seperate app, for example? It should be in the same app.
XP is still in use for 2 reasons: cost and backwards compatibility.

For cost, CentOS, on it's own, is free. Support costs you of course, but the updates are coming down from RedHat for which there is enough money flowing in already, so support in this case means a sysadmin who understands CentOS and those are not that rare, not even that expensive.

Backwards compability is another topic, especially with the rise of systemd.

If the corresponding software is not included in any official or semi-official repositories (EPEL, for example), but is distributed with source, you may need someone to recompile it every 11 years, when you change mayor versions. I think this is reasonable to expect, though there might be issues for certain, especially if it involves Gnome3.

For those that are distributed without source code - well, that is the same problem as with XP, but usually it's possible to strace why it fails and fix/replace/dosomemagic with the underlying libraries it's depending on.

When this is not possible you can still create a container image with the old code to run it with.

With all the power out there even in the office workstations we could:

- install a base, damn stupid linux as hypervisor

- run windows in virtualbox with shared folders

- use btrfs for the shared folders and keep daily snapshots for a few weeks

If you get a virus, drop the image, get a new one, restore the snapshot, done.

If anyone is already using something like this, please tell, I'm curious.
Same way you isolate any program on Linux. SELinux, AppArmor, or running as a dedicated user.

[edit] I suppose there are containers nowadays too.
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A better option is to open "gpedit.msc", then open "Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components"

Then spend an afternoon going through each option, setting enabled/disabled for everything you don't want or don't recognize.

You can easily disable entire subsystems like Cortana, tips, telemetry, camera, biometrics, error reporting, games, Homegroup, Defender, Windows Store, and a whole bunch of other garbage.
Can you please find me an opinion piece that is anti-NN? Honestly, I would like to read that side's arguments.
It's not quite as bad as you think, literally is usually used figuratively in "A is literally B" to indicate that while A is obviously not literally B, the outcome that A will have will be practically the same as that from B.
There is a paper on this from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
There's probably a reason why we don't start killing hostages in an hostage situation.
Take a look at the Videostream app for Chromecast.
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New Zealand is planning to implement such powers. Fortunately for us there's only a 5k fine in it for non-compliance. It's scary to see how competent governments (read: dangerous) have implemented their laws.
Then what, realistically, can be done when nation-state knowledge of vulnerable systems is hoarded for cyber-warfare purposes?
95% of ATM machines still run Windows XP [0](a little outdated though). Can't imagine what happens if the got affected sigh :(

[0] http://info.rippleshot.com/blog/windows-xp-still-running-95-...
Whatever hardware that is running that 12.04 system can be upgraded, free of charge, for likely the next 20 years if the past 20 years of linux is anything to go by.

Even if you pay money for the windows 10, it is unlikely to even start on the hardware that XP ran on. Not only will the people have to go through the budget to pay for the software, but now you need a full upgrade plan.

To put this in a concrete example. If a hospital had a check-in system running 12.04 they could just take someone internal from IT and go and fix it. If it was Windows XP then they need to go through finance, then get a offers from competing companies, fitting the upgrading into the budget, and last have people installing it in each of the hospitals entrances. The first case has a project length of days and the other of months and in worst case years.
Thailand's national police, too. Someone there tweeted a photo this morning. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_yiGj1UIAE6wby.jpg
Of course they do, yet we still haven't seen an outage like this, even though most of the web world is running on some kind of linux.

Most probably it's due to the high variety in kernels, versions and the subtle differences in linux distributions.
Serving up http errors is more polite to the end clients. Also, probably results in fewer people trying reload to get it working.
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If you operate such devices, it is an absolute imperative that you have a procedure for taking them offline regularly for updates

In some contexts that simply isn't a viable strategy. As an extreme example, consider something like an implanted medical device that needs to run 24/7 for the rest of a person's life, which can only be replaced via surgery under hospital conditions, and for which any failure is already a life-threatening event. Of course that kind of device probably isn't going to be running an OS like Windows, but it makes the point. In fact, the USSS has reportedly had the standard wireless update facility disabled in such devices for prominent public figures who might be at risk of being attacked that way.

Some equipment used in hospitals or to run other essential infrastructure might be within the realms of running a "normal" OS like Windows but still be in a position where any time out of service is extremely expensive in one way or another, so routinely disrupting operation to apply updates still isn't acceptable. There are also contexts where the device is regulated and making any change at all requires re-approval -- a legitimate and serious conflict when faced with this kind of security risk if the situation when a regulated device goes out of spec can also be serious.

You need different security strategies for this kind of environment, which rely more on external controls. You can't just say everything must be able to come out of service at frequent intervals for security updates, and you can't just handwash the problem away by calling people who understand the issues "unqualified". It's a far more complicated problem than that, and often there are no completely satisfactory arrangements.
Or as any struggling, but strong human being.
Wrote some code on an iPad this morning on my way to work.

Never again. It's not even a question of the software being that of a glorified phone.

Even using a 3rd party code editor with its software 'coding keyboard' it was an exercise in inefficiency and anti-ergonomics. So by the time you've added a Bluetooth keyboard, you've effectively got yourself a ramshackle laptop that isn't quite as useful as an actual laptop.
MS is 100% responsible for this and they should reap what they sowed. Imo this blame shifting PR damage control is just insult to injury and will probably backfire.
Major video codecs still change every 5 to 10 years. Even Youtube can be largely unusable on otherwise serviceable old hardware because there is no or outdated hardware assist for decoding video.

Since CPUs and soon GPUs will level out, then at least crypto and video will be pushed into hardware blocks meant to encode/decode them. Churn in functionality requiring hardware assist will probably keep us buying some new hardware at least once and probably twice a decade.
> It's not slavery, nor even indentured servitude when you can quit at any time.

Many people can't. I mean, they can, but they can't afford it, unless they're willing to risk homelessness.
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Thanks! This looks very promising and it works without streaming over the Internet (from what I could gather on first pass).

Will try this and post a quick review here.
Luigi doesn't support incremental builds, does it? I think that was my main contention the last time I looked into it.
> No mention that disabling Microsoft update trend is a logical answer

No, it isn't. Disabling update isn't a logical answer to _anything_ except "what's the best way to get malware". If you don't want Microsoft's "spyware" don't install their OS. There is no coherent logic to simultaneously not trusting Microsoft, and running their code - any version of it.
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