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Are they just going to slide down this slope until the EU says "antitrust"?
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This will be the first thing I check before buying a new system from now on.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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It's a shame that those manufacturers who will choose to not provide an off-switch won't get paid back because most people won't care or even know.
Recursion: see Recursion.
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Yeah, and I'm sure the people in Best Buy will be just as clueless:
Q. "Does this laptop's firmware allow me to disable Secure Boot?"
A. <Blank Stare>
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Absolutely.
Alternative A: Why would you ever want to do that? It would be less secure!
Recursion: see Recursion.
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It all seems good to me.
Secure Boot simply means an O/S must be signed to be acceptable.
The fact that it's up to the manufacturer is fine. Tablets/Phones will require it. Most laptops/PCs won't. Its optional (to the manufacturer).
It may limit hardware choice to altOS, but not that much, as the issues relating to open source drivers are pretty gargantuan regardless of this.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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There's a huge potential difference between the manufacturer must let the user turn it off (the current situation on laptops/desktops) and the manufacturer can let the user turn it off if they want to, but can make it impossible to disable if they want. The problem, and why so many people are justifiably concerned, is that much of the difference comes down to back channel communications between MS and the OEMs about what the default should be. There's a huge difference between the likely state of a typical machine if what MS is saying is "we're only offering this as an option because a few more security paranoid customers are asking. You should only make it an option that can be requested at purchase time; and not the default on mass market products." and "We'll give you a $10/machine OS license discount if you implement this on at least 90% of your computers to help us elephant the penguins. MUAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!"
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Adobe Reader and Flash Player fell to security researchers as well. It's official: there is no security
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Security to play flash content?  Really?
After all, there is no software, which is crack proof. But the guy made his fortune. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Great news about that new nova in Sagittarius. It's still climbing in brightness and now ranks as the brightest nova seen from mid-northern latitudes in nearly two years. "Starbright, starbright, you've got the lovin' that I like"
The earworm is your choice of Nazareth, or the original (Joni Mitchell)
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Atlassian's popular source code hosting site Bitbucket launched Snippets for teams, a collaboration oriented solution to "create and manage multi-file snippets of all kinds". Just in case anyone on your team needs snipping
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System files in place will end the nuisance of having to do multiple updates after a reinstall. "I started a joke which started the whole world crying"
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So when Win 10 finally dies the computer world will start living ?
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So, Win10 will attempt to download a few GB to update to Win11 when it is that time?
Over the 3G network with a limit of 5Gb? That sounds like a real "great" idea 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Wouldn't it be better for them to keep their ISO's up to date, so when you want to re-install and go and grab the ISO it has the latest updates?
This seems really messy in comparison!
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Win8.1 from the app store does do that already. I had to download a cluster-elephant of 8.0 patches first to unlock it; but once I did the 8.1 update I pulled a week ago had everything except .net and a few assorted drivers fully up to date.
And the 8.1 disk install asked to DL some extra before starting; but I clicked the wrong button and decided against risking something going wrong by restarting it after realizing my mistake. I'd assume that means it fixed them too, but am not sure.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
modified 20-Mar-15 9:22am.
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A team of researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill have developed a new 3D printing process that may be fast enough to change the tide for 3D printing. "It combines the technologies of the transmogrifier and a photocopier"
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Wow. Not sure how I missed that. Thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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A new Wall Street Journal report details anti-competitive practices by the company. Do no^H^H evil
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GoDaddy's layered verification protections defeated by a phone call and four hours in Photoshop. Just in case you've got a GoDaddy account (or don't, but own PhotoShop)
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Microsoft has reportedly confirmed that while pirated versions of Windows 7 and 8 with non-genuine licenses can be upgraded to Windows 10, they will not be upgraded to a genuine license. So... I get Windows 10, but it's not really Windows 10? Is it Windows 1O?
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Nope that is a Windows ten. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Security mavens bracing for Thursday's scheduled disclosure of a high-severity vulnerability in the widely used OpenSSL crypto library need wait no longer. It's a bug that allows end users to crash servers running one version of the software by sending data that's relatively easy to duplicate.
"I don't suppose you know what kind of alien life form leaves a green spectral trail and craves sugar water, do you?"
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If you’ve been working with software for longer than five years, then you can remember a time when SourceForge was one of the pillars of open-source software. "How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!"
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