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Comment Doesn't crash for me (Score 3, Informative) 259

by en4ca on Thursday August 25, 2016 @06:20PM (#52772035) Attached to: Windows 10 Computers Crash When Amazon Kindles Are Plugged In

TFA makes it sound like this affects 100% of users, but it doesn't seem to affect me. Just tried plugging my kindle voyage into my windows 10 laptop running the anniversary update. Worked as normal, no bluescreen here.

Microsoft Offers Pirates Amnesty and Free Windows 10 Upgrades 322

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @09:37AM from the fighting-fire-with-free-gasoline dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft will make Windows 10 available as a free upgrade even to pirated copies of other Windows operating systems in China. Terry Myerson of Microsoft's operating systems unit made the announcement at the WinHEC technology conference in Shenzhen, China, and then told Reuters, "We are upgrading all qualified PCs, genuine and non-genuine, to Windows 10." Microsoft has a history of attempting to tackle massive and rising software piracy rates in Asia and developing countries, and periodically offers low-cost "licence amnesties" to the worst-offending countries, such as Indonesia and Kenya. Update: 03/18 14:59 GMT by S : Microsoft has clarified that the free upgrade will be offered for unlicensed copies of Windows worldwide, not just in China.

The Register Email Address Blunder 70

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @04:13AM from the flog-thyself-in-penance dept.

First time accepted submitter Tim99 writes "This morning I got an email from The Register informing me that they have sent 3,521 of their readers the names and e-mail addresses of 46,000 other readers. Considering their frequent rants about security this has got to be a major FAIL." El Reg writes: "Obviously, this was an error. The two-stage send process that is the norm for all of our mailers was over-looked because someone was in a hurry."

Fitness Site Accidentally Shows Sexual Activity 297

Posted by samzenpus on Friday July 08, 2011 @09:50AM from the private-numbers dept.

smitty777 writes "FitBit is a wearable device created to track calorie usage based on activities. Unfortunately for some users, one of those is sexual activities. The information gained from the device is uploaded to the users online web account, which is searchable by Google. From the article: 'Yikes. Users of fitness and calorie tracker Fitbit may need to be more careful when creating a profile on the site. The sexual activity of many of the users of the company’s tracker and online platform can be found in Google Search results, meaning that these users’ profiles are public and searchable.'" It's just a matter of time before a line gets crossed and a relationship gets ruined by trying to post the largest Fitbit numbers for the evening.

Comment Re:Have i missed something? (Score 1) 322

by en4ca on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @06:14PM (#21355555) Attached to: Half a Million Database Servers 'Have no Firewall'

I don't understand why everyone says to use VPNs when most decent database servers offer encrypted connections already.

One assumes there are cases where you may not be able to configure the application utilising the database to use such an encrypted connection. The application may be closed source, or its configuration may not be under your control. In such cases, a VPN is viable alternative.

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