You can block telemetry through disabling services, scheduled tasks, and using a 3rd party software or hardware firewall. Also can block the specific telemetry hosts using a hosts file entry or DNS proxy. I personally do all of the above
Because we are so inept at creating CO2? I suppose in a billion years we might forget how to mindlessly burn oil to produce some, but I'm sure someone will figure it out.
Yeah. What they're doing is no different than the guys who buy up all the bottled water and plywood for miles after a tornado goes through town. They're just trying to make a profit by selling it to people who need it more than they do, preferably the rich people who can pay the most. The intrinsic worth has nothing to do with it.
Your analogy sucks. I would say it is A LOT different. Lets try to fix that.
It's like large greedy hedge funds borrowed and sold all the houses at current market value in anticipation that a tornado would hit and trash the property so they could buy them back on-the-cheap to return to the original owners in a week or so. Instead someone came in and gentrified the entire neighborhood and the tornado was rescheduled for next month. Now the new owners don't want to sell because they have a nice house in a good neighborhood. And well... money.
Still not a great analogy. But better than your line of bullshit that frames the small guy as the greedy price gouging asshole.
They can use all of that inventory of paper previously used to make the catalog for making their quality furniture.
Significant... You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
It was nice to have options for voice assistants.
1) Google Assistant: Collects and sells information for purposes of feeding you better ads
2) Alexa: Collects and shares information for purposes of feeding you better ads about Amazon products
3) Cortana: Collects and shares information for ????
Meh. I only talk to my phone to turn on the lights and get the weather anyway.
"Instead, Microsoft will be focusing on its productivity features that repurpose Cortana as a part of the Microsoft 365 suite of software..."
Cortana: "Hi. It appears you are writing an article about a feature that was previously rejected from MS Office. I can help you with that."
I'm to the left of center I suppose. I don't think convicts should lose their right to vote. This is a Jim Crow law remainder. Don't let them people vote on that thing that put them in prison.
While the interface was unusable on a desktop it worked well enough on a phone.
I never understood the animosity to the Windows 8 start screen. What is the use case for the cramped start menu? You are doing one thing, you are looking to launch an application. Why constrain that function to a corner of the screen? One thing, full screen, maximum real estate given to do that one thing. I am not launching an app and also scanning my desktop for some other reason. I switched my Windows 10 back to full screen start.
As for the Windows Metro UI apps, they are still in Windows 10. I have no problems with those either. Cant resize it? Again, what is the use case. You can tile them on the screen. Dock them to the sides. Arrange them to see multiple apps at once. I don;t see the issue.
Unity uses over a quarter of the screen for the launcher, is someone bitching about that? Not as much, because it's "Linux" and we are used to it being schizophrenic in UI design. *SMH*
And yes, I own and use a Windows 10 phone as my primary communications device and it is better by design. I don't need your stinking 'droid apps
These companies don;t just do business in America. If the U.S. Government gets it, then other governments will likely follow suit. Blanket refusal is the only answer to protect global civil rights.
Unfortunately you are (not so eloquently) correct about a large portion of the homeless problem. It is mostly to do with self medicating persons with mental health issues. You can't force them into rehab or to take prescription medication since it is also a civil rights issue. And around and around we go...
1. The market ranking has exactly jack shit to do with how useful a product is.
2. The app ecosystem for Windows is sufficient for every day work. It has mail, calendar, browser, Cortana (if you care), texting, Skype, and phone.
3. See #2
4. See #2
And for your final comment, I call more bullshit. I have scrapped more Android hardware than I have Windows phone hardware. Many of my android devices stopped getting the latest updates due to either hardware limitations or vendors not shipping updates. My windows 8.1 phone I ditched a year ago after 2 years of use. My windows 10 phone I have had for over 1 year and still receive updates.
The Windows device is uncluttered, organized (by sane categories) and predictable. My experience with Android is that it is cluttered, unpredictable, unorganized and has an app ecosystem I have to filter through endlessly to find one decent app. My experience with Apple is far less, but my limited interaction has left me unimpressed.
Not written from my Windows 10 1709 phone, but from my Linux desktop running Google Chrome. So, go ahead and call me a MS fanboy.
Word 2013+ has built-in export PDF (Save As). Word 2016 opens PDF files for editing. Albeit the editing part is not entirely 100%.
Whenever I see "analysis" like this, I always question the matching criteria. Quite often it is naive and not validated.
If you use first name, last name and birth date you can produce THOUSANDS of _false_ matches. Throw in the address, maybe a few hundred. But then if the address is not correct on either side, you miss the match.
A good brief: http://www.brennancenter.org/a...
"The time to harden a lock isn't after it's sold."
A physical key is still allowed. At that point, you can't harden the lock through firmware updates. A physical key will always be a vulnerability.
They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. -- Carl Sagan
