Root Access

12:01 AM

Most of these war games even with a Cover system, they have an Ego to die for. Were over here stupid, were comming to get you, like dont see us.

The bad guys are sooo helpful, i dont know what I would do if the developers decided to change that.

Oh hey it is really dark, sooo whatever you do do not notice the fat flashlight we have , as we flank you.

Having a really thick skull also helps when a sniper (who is like 4 pixels) gets a bead on you , and puts a bullet right through your left eye. nothing a medi-kit cant fix.

Psycogeek

12:25 AM

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Q: How to bypass school IT security

My university has blocked sites based on keywords and some ports too....hence VPN and outlook both are not working. Also, they have our Mac ids. If I want to access sites/play online games and not let them know that it was me, what should I do? Would Tor work? Also, each of us have a specific/ind...

When i read these things i wonder if some universities would compete with concentration camps :-)

Bob

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Q: Has the US Government tagged people to be killed with stickers on the mailboxes?

The YouTube video Anonymous: Code Red contains conspiracy theories about how the Obama Government is planning a holocaust of its own citizens. It purports to be from the Anonymous group. One of the many claims is that Americans have been divided into three groups (Compliance, Re-Education, and D...

united-states government

Of all the crazy things... this ranks quite high on the tinfoil scale.

Psycogeek

Soo sure they do not want thier own network to be used for online porn and playing video games. But i wonder if some young people forget that any ISP making money will sell you any thing. Just fork over some money to get your own connections.

DragonLord

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A: Win 10 64 bit update requirements 64Bit cpu (CMPXCHG16b, PrefetchW and LAHF/SAHF)

Your processor supports these features. In fact, the same features are required to run 64-bit Windows 8.1. This requirement is met by all modern processors and is generally only an issue with certain Core 2 and earlier processors. What are these instructions? The CMPXCHG16B instruction perform...

Your thoughts on this answer?

Also, why was the question downvoted?

Psycogeek

@Bob you have to love all the mass grave and body bag stuff, when FEMA gets the job of cleaup after a disaster , and well body bags (like it or not) are really damn usefull when 300 or even 3000 people die in a flood, or earthquake. and the same people complaining that they are prepared, were the same ones who complain that they are not prepared :-) when something happens.

Bob

@DragonLord if you think it shouldn't be downvoted, then upvote it

Psycogeek

12:39 AM

On a documentary for one of those tragedies, they were saying they had about 48hours before they could not even any longer identify a body. Where the usual human sees a funeral with thier loved one all preserved a week or 2 later. gives a really false perspective of what they would have to be dealing with , hundreds or thousands of rotting corpses beloting and , , , just ewww.

The mega coffins they claim can "fit multiple bodies" yea sure they possibly could. but any cemetary which takes in a few new people every day uses these plastic covers now on everything. it is a full plastic sheild cover that goes into the hole (with top) that covers a single coffin.

Originally these plastic outter shells were used for high water areas , and on hills and all so they could over water cemetary grass, but now they seem to toss these shells on everything. with hundreds of thousands of regular deaths occuraing every year, why WOULDN'T there be mass warehouses full of this stuff, and at each of the locations where they are used.

Psycogeek

12:59 AM

If the government is at fault for any of this, it is how isolated the peoples of today have become from the reality of Yes people freaking die. it isnt pretty, and somebody has to do something other than stand around paying the money and crying about it.

Ramhound

1:13 AM

Got my ticket to Ant-Man, lol

Transfer rights. I heard some observers speculate that the new terms would limit Windows 10 transfer rights. Nope. The new license agreement preserves the longstanding transfer rights: OEM copies are locked to the device on which they're sold, retail copies can be transferred to a different device as long as the old copy is removed first. (The Windows 10 EULA includes a specific exception for PC buyers in Germany, who are allowed to transfer OEM software thanks to a court ruling.)

Exactly what I have said for months :$

Automatic updates. For consumers and small business, Windows 10 delivers automatic updates, with no option to selectively delay or reject individual updates. "The software periodically checks for system and app updates, and downloads and installs them for you. ... By accepting this agreement, you agree to receive these types of automatic updates without any additional notice." = Expected ( trying to avoid WinXP situation )

( I am posting an editorial on the new license terms for Win10, by the way, ;-)

bah can't find a link to it though....

Psycogeek

@Ramhound and apps? That might be changed, when that goes badly for them. Output a cheap app that is all nice and does something useful, then turn it into addware , and with forced updates , your screwed. Happens at google play quite a bit, where the "old" app was everything one would need, and the new one now has ads and or in app purchaches.

Ramhound

Hmm?

Apple discontinues versions of OS X yearly. Microsoft won't do that because they have 80%+ markshare, but at the sametime, they don't want to support a version of Win10 with broken SSL in 4 years.

This article isn't writen very well

They quote the "EULA" for Win10 but don't cite it..

So I just have to take the author's word?

Psycogeek

1:33 AM

Some of the original speculation on updates, from parts of a MS discussion was that different classes would not be able to aquire "feature" updates if they did not also get security updates. I think (would hope) that is all just how the automated process would work, that they could not up and change the whole methods by which they have been updating and allowing deployers and manuel people to operate beyond the automation.

OOps reverse that, that they would not allow them security updates, if they did not also take the feature updates. That someone could not be all secure running IE 13, they would also have to be running IE20

Ramhound

Windows 10 is going to have the basic lifecycle of OS X. As features are added that cannot be supported by your hardware, you stay on that build, but receive security updates. How I see it, is that each build will have its own lifecycle of its own, again Microsoft can't just not end support like Apple and Google can :$ EU woudl go nuts

Psycogeek

Business class (allegedly) would be given a longer time to continue operating securely with old software. because that is what businesses had already been doing, Sticking with what works, and keeping the system secure.

Ramhound

A given build will be supported as long as those LTB are supported :$

This "free license" is a write off, and justified by, all the marketing and packaging costs over the next decade that won't have to be spent marketing a NEW version :-)

EU is nuts crazy at times, forcing MS to advertise its competitors browsers ( really? ) but they will keep MS from doing something ape poodle crazy

Psycogeek

I thought it would cover getting Itunes into every computer? that store sales as observed from google and apple would far outweigh the costs of the OS itself?

And it was a full blown lawsuit that forced MS to allow IE to be removed from the OS, so after they lost the suit, they embedded IE deeper into the system, and made it so the ICON can be turned on and off :-) OWnED.

Ramhound

This new upgrade model allows Microsoft to, well lets be honest, force people off insecure versions of its software after a decade.

Bob

1:43 AM

@Ramhound no it doesn't

Ramhound

What other software is still being using 13 years later by millions of people that isn't software that surrounds life or death (i.e. medical equipment software )

No it doesn't what?

I have ranted a ton

Bob

@Ramhound doesn't force people off

they can still choose not to update

and this is in fact critical for businesses

Ramhound

speaking of the general consumers

Bob

I'm also pretty sure that you misinterpreted the EULA above

It's saying the default is to update automatically.

Accepting the EULA allows them to do that with no additional notice.

It does not say that you cannot disable automatic updates.

That would be absurd.

Ramhound

Home won't be able to defer updates unless I presume their hardware doesn't actually support it.

Psycogeek

1:47 AM

@Ramhound oh you mean the beta testers :-) well thier real market is all them machines used for business, a few guiney pigs are needed to keep all thier stuff running smoothly.

Bob

@Ramhound Where do you get that from?

Ramhound

The defering on WIndows 10 home?

numerous articles

superuser answers..

microsoft blog

Professional can defer updates, how long you can defer, is yet to be known

I assume until the next update is release

since future updates I presume will be like Windows 8.1 Update 1, required, after a certain point to get security updates

Psycogeek

@Bob not so much absurd but way to many people would freak out :-) for that to be very possible to occur in this round

Ramhound

I wish I had the EULA today...I could generate a couple really good questions, ahead of July 29th :$

Which is a Wed, that is odd...

Bob

@Ramhound I still see no good source for this.

Take this for example.

Let's start with why the screenshots are wrong: they're screenshots of the preview version.

There is no official way to disable automatic updates on the preview. It's always been like this.

All I can see from the rest of it is speculation.

Ramhound

1:51 AM

zdnet.com/article/… is the article I read. I presume the article got it from within the current build released today which is the possible RTM build

Bob

> Microsoft says feature updates will be tested on consumer devices before they’re rolled out to business PCs.

no they don't say it

Ramhound

I seem to recall seeing a EULA link in my VM

Psycogeek

@Ramhound how fast people will hack the system and do whatever the freak they want to do when MS makes odd and unacceptable demands , is yet to be known. Given a good reason, they will have this thing disected down to the bone again.

Bob

Microsoft says businesses can choose to defer updates.

That could easily (and more likely) mean "automatic update only if update is at least X days old"

It does not necessarily mean home can't turn auto updates off entirely.

Just means they probably won't be able to have a fixed delay (i.e. install on condition of update age) with automatic updates

I still see no official source for not being able to disable auto updates.

Just lots of speculation based on worst-case interpretations of somewhat-vague MS statements.

Ramhound

from microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-specifications - "Windows 10 Home users will have updates from Windows Update automatically available." vs Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise users will have the ability to defer updates.

Bob

1:54 AM

@Ramhound See what I just said.

Ramhound

Yeah, I see your point, guess we will find out in 6 months when Redstone is in beta ;-)

Psycogeek

@Bob yup, grab a few words twist them around into the worst case scenario, present as long blog of total speculative noise.

Bob

I just see this massive chain of articles regurgitating the same interpretation of a very brief statement in the licence.

Ramhound

I think its great, Microsoft needs to force these idiots with SSL3 browsers off the web, kill every last broken browser please.

Bob

A statement that does not even say anything about forced updates.

Ramhound

1:56 AM

( I think it would be great ) I should say

Bob

There would be no way to actually enforce updates, anyway. Oh, you want to update? Too bad, can't connect to the update server.

It's that simple.

Ramhound

lol

Psycogeek

If they keep the same packaging system they have worked on now for ages, the update server could even be told that was indeed installed, and 10 minutes later it could be removed again.

Bob

No OS update software can defeat an upstream firewall. Or even a physically disconnected cable.

Ramhound

Very true, but builds in theory, could expire

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not that they would do that.....thats a logisical nightmare by itself

Bob

1:59 AM

@Ramhound Now that would have to be very clearly set out in the licence agreement.

And doesn't make sense anyway.

There is no requirement to be internet-connected.

I'll just say that I'm reasonably certain that updates won't be forced. They're not quite that blind.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Ramhound

I think you are right. I do think certain milestone updates will be required for security updates though. It was done with W8.1 Update 1 ( kernel even changed with that one ).

Bob

That said, I'm probably not going to be running the home editions anyway...

Ramhound

WDDM was updated also.

Bob

@Ramhound Oh, sure. Update dependencies make sense and have always been there.

But no way to disable automatic updates at all just doesn't sound right.

They might prove me wrong.

Ramhound

( you currently cannot disable updates in the preview, pro and home users, could easily be on two different servers in theory ).

Bob

2:04 AM

@Ramhound Preview is always like that.

Ramhound

It says something to the effect "managed by MS" exact wordage is in a turned off VM ;_)

Psycogeek

@Bob eventually they will own the whole machine anyway, if people dont have fits about some of the trends. But then there is the lawsuits too, each country getting fed up with some business practice . Would they rather be selling stuff or show up in more courtrooms defending thier practices.

DragonLord

Moderators: Another fresh batch of flags to look at.

Psycogeek

2:24 AM

superuser.com/questions/941208/… <-- causes me to lean towards my spam button :-)

I so think it does not belong and acts enough like spam, i would rather see it gone quick than on-hold.

Michael Frank

3:52 AM

Huh... was wondering why the system drive on my home server was almost at capacity. Turns out Plex had created something like 36GB worth of metadata files. o.O

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