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by wfjackson 12y ago
http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/30/6876177/windows-10-cortana...
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by wfjackson 12y ago
>I see Google as a company collecting and organizing information... ...and then making it hard to access on Windows Phone.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Rumored to be coming in IE12. http://www.zdnet.com/how-the-next-version-of-ie-codenamed-sp...
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by wfjackson 12y ago
BitLocker is not the same as Device Encryption. Please stop confusing the two. Also you have been unable to say what you want Microsoft to do in grandma's case.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really... You might expect that every time you visit Hacker News, the stories are scored by the above formula and sorted to determine their rankings. But for e
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by wfjackson 12y ago
>What are they going to do if Apple in particular rejects CurrentC as an app? File an anti-trust complaint? One need not be a monopoly in order to face anti-trust charges. E.g. See the ebook price fixing charge.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
The app got featured on Reddit's Apple and Android subreddits and readers were encouraged to post bad reviews, so I wouldn't read it as "public" reception, although I do agree the app is suboptimal to put it generously.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
>No it doesn't. The key could be automatically saved in the TPM - locally. And how does grandma retrieve it if she forgets her password? Also, does Apple do this for OS X or just iOS?
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by wfjackson 12y ago
>That is a valid point. I personally offset that $400 with rebates. The remaining amount is totally worth it to me to have chargeback ability, extended warranties, insurance on my rental cars, and all the other perks you can get from cre
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by wfjackson 12y ago
>Edit: Per your comment below you recognize that it is enabled automatically on PCs - and this is supported by the documentation provided. The grandma argument doesn't stack up with the fact that OneDrive/SkyDrive is enrolled i
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by wfjackson 12y ago
If later it can be proven that you did really remember it and that you lied for convenience, you can be held liable for perjury.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
The big difference is that it's automatic on RT, Phone and 8.1 if the hardware supports it. Think Grandma's PC. Do you really want her to see the option window about where to store a recovery key? For the other SKUs, an option wi
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by wfjackson 12y ago
That isn't Bit Locker, it's device encryption which is supported in 8.1 (Home) and Windows RT where naive users are more likely to forget to backup the key and hence lose data. BitLocker is only available in the professional,enter
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by wfjackson 12y ago
From that link: >There are several locations in which your BitLocker recovery key might have been saved. Keyword: might.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
>For example on modern Windows systems bitlocker keys are automatically uploaded to the (automatically created for you) Onedrive account associated with the Microsoft Account created during your install and Onedrive is on PRISM. Please.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Yes, Bill Gates answer was the question I was referring to as a good one. My formatting of the quoted content was a little messed up in the first line. >If the lawyer had said "Yes", he could have answered "No": No to
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by wfjackson 12y ago
No, it's not. If you read the exchange posted by the parent poster again, it's about MS's additional API hooks in Java that were meant to be used by Java developers, so they're definitely not undocumented.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
>Q Is it a term you're familiar with in your business? >A I really don't know what you mean. You mean an API that you have a patent on? Isn't that a good question? An API is essentially a function header. eg. void print
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by wfjackson 12y ago
From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine > It was the fastest Windows-based implementation of a Java virtual machine for the first two years after its release.[1] Sun Microsystems,
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Allowing Vista to play Bluray makes MS a major proponent of DRM? Then so are Google(Widevine acquisition), Mozilla(DRM in HTML5) and Apple. If you're referring to the FUD against Vista DRM, it was debunked long ago. I guess you missed
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by wfjackson 12y ago
>So Microsoft wrote their own Java runtime called the MS JVM, and made it part of Windows, it extended Java to do Windows-only things, meaning there were now "Java" apps that could only run on Windows, destroying the whole poin
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by wfjackson 12y ago
What DRM bullshit? I thought it was Apple that implemented Palladium? >As such, it is quite reasonable to disregard the "millions of people his foundation and charity work have touched", as many others would have done the same
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Reminds me of the -webkit tags that became the defacto standard forcing Opera, mobile Firefox and mobile IE to support them since web developers can't be bothered to code to standards or update their code. If it works in Safari/Ch
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Then perhaps it's gut bacteria causing it? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-bacteria-may-p... Causative factors for anorexia and bulimia were found in gut bacteria. http://www.neomatica.com
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by wfjackson 12y ago
This saying comes to mind. "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" Not to mention innocent until proven guilty. If the rate is really 128 proper seizures out of 739, it makes no sense to keep th
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by wfjackson 12y ago
>You have a pretty good chance of making the case that you are just doing your business Did you read the article? Specifically the story of the business that made <10k deposits because they had theft protection of max 10,000 ? By the
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by wfjackson 12y ago
The US and Korea don't have territorial claims or border disputes or fought a war with India. Also, many Chinese firms are known for hacking and spying to get trade secrets. Chinese firms will have a big leg up against Indian ones if t
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by wfjackson 12y ago
You expect office workers who get confused when an icon is moved to understand and use CSS for layout? Probably even Latex is easier for this. And how can HTML5 do anything that Excel can do?
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by wfjackson 12y ago
OpenOffice and LibreOffice aren't magically free of security holes. https://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin.html
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Gut bacteria are a big confounder among a bunch of other things. Different types can do a lot of things differently, like extract more calories from the same food. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/ci-

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