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by scholia 10y ago
The last two installs I did, on deadline day, I had to click to enable Cortana.
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by scholia 10y ago
Correct. Presumably if Microsoft gave you a way to change the filename, some people would feel happier. Which is actually a bit sad...
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by scholia 10y ago
> Since everything is free now, spyware is the only viable B2C business model. Everything is not free and spyware is not Microsoft's business model. (It makes very little money from ads, and most of that is sold by AOL for Bing.)
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by scholia 10y ago
They have build numbers for the test rings. Otherwise, they've used names and numbers for new releases. The last one was November's Fall Update, version 1511 (from the date) and the next one is August 2's Anniversary Update.
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by scholia 10y ago
A keylogger is a surveillance tool that collects every keystroke on a PC and sends it to a remote location without your knowledge. On that (correct) definition, Windows 10 doesn't contain a keylogger. UPDATE: First, it doesn't col
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by scholia 10y ago
Agreed, that was really bad, and there should be repercussions ... However, I've updated half a dozen PCs to Windows 10, including two on the last day. One of those was my wife's, and she has no technical expertise at all. What I
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by scholia 10y ago
> Unless Windows 11 comes out by then I agree with your points, However, the chance of Windows coming out is zero, unless you think Microsoft could simply rename Windows 10 to 11. There is no team inside Microsoft working on Windows 11
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by scholia 10y ago
There is no keylogger in Windows 10. Also, you can change all the privacy defaults later. Windows 10 provides a lot of privacy controls, so I actually prefer to do it that way. Update: thanks for the downvotes, redditors ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
Whatever #gamergate was supposed to be, in reality, it resulted in a series of thuggish massed attacks on women such as Zoë Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian. I guess any self-righteous and simple-minded "cause" like #gamergate is like
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by scholia 10y ago
I don't see where you get the idea that people should rely on an automated unchecker. That doesn't make any sense. However, if Unchecky unchecks everything then, even if you don't pay attention, you win vastly more than you l
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by scholia 10y ago
True, but the rise had nothing to do with Mayer or the core Yahoo. It was the Alibaba stock in particular that drove the share price. Which is why if you removed the value of Yahoo's shareholdings, the core Yahoo (nominally, at least)
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by scholia 10y ago
You have to pay attention ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
It's a little more complicated than that, but see https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UHMfzlmE7HXY_ph9BN68...
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by scholia 10y ago
I read his tweets. We followed each other on Twitter. The problem is you're naive enough not to understand them. But as with gamergate, Milo is an expert at exploiting dupes.
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by scholia 10y ago
> His comments were intelligent and funny. So, you've been suckered by an obvious troll. > In fact, since he's in love with british black men, your comment has no value there because you're clearly uninformed on his
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by scholia 10y ago
That's been going on forever. Google "Ravi Suria" or see this from 2002... http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/05/20/doom-incorporat...
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by scholia 10y ago
> Yahoo is a publicly traded company. Selling Yahoo went very well for the shareholders and the first rule for any publicly traded company is to maximize shareholder value. No, it went badly. If she'd been able to increase sales,
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by scholia 10y ago
Maybe it's a cultural thing. Milo is basically an example of British schoolboy humor, and the biggest joke for us, watching it, is that Republicans don't get the joke and take him seriously. But then, Milo is just riding Trump, an
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by scholia 10y ago
I didn't say it was the primary feature. I simply pointed out that verification wasn't as simple as is generally assumed. > Removing Milo's check out of politically-driven spite definitely undermines the validity of the
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by scholia 10y ago
Sorry, I haven't seen that. I would guess not....
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by scholia 10y ago
Success would have been growing revenues, instead of watching them decline. Success would have been at least one really successful mobile app. Success would have been not selling Yahoo....
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by scholia 10y ago
If on Windows, install Unchecky https://unchecky.com/ It unselects everything by default...
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by scholia 10y ago
I install Unchecky on every PC that comes near me.... https://unchecky.com/
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by scholia 10y ago
Also, every app, every website, every .... ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
There was a bubble....
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by scholia 10y ago
Only if you are Verified ;-) I did suggest some time ago that Twitter could monetize by charging a high fee for verification (with, say, passport scans and other personal details). Sadly, they do it free.
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by scholia 10y ago
We followed each other on Twitter, and have mutual acquaintances. I also know personal stuff about Milo that not many people know. If there were meanings that weren't obvious to you, that doesn't mean they weren't there.
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by scholia 10y ago
Your problem, I think.
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by scholia 10y ago
You're ignoring the context. Milo knew what he was doing. It was deliberate harassment. And thanks to his thuggish role in gamergate, he had plenty of "previous".
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by scholia 10y ago
There is a sort of rating system, in the follower ratio. Each follower represents a "vote" for the value of that person's Twitter stream. It's not only the number but also the ratio. There are people who have 200,000 fol

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