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I like to follow the tests at MRG Effitas and a recent test showed that Windows Defender has improved a lot
https://www.mrg-effitas.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/MRG-Effitas-2018Q2-360-Assessment.pdf1 user thanked author for this post.
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FOB relay hack attack
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D_3lgxMwrWI%5D
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MS is reflection of what is going on in our economy generally. The #1 objective is to “beat earnings” every quarter so the stock price keeps getting pushed higher. You don’t even have to actually make a profit (Netflix, Tesla). Spend money on product development and long term planning ? No. Take your cash or even better issue debt and buy back your shares to pump up the stock price.
Literally nothing has been learned from the 2008 meltdown and the next one is going to make 2008 look like a minor speed bump.
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Windows OS just requires too much “hand holding”. An operating system should just allow you to accomplish the tasks you want without needing constant attention.
Chrome OS can do 99% of what I want without the constant headaches. Interesting how you don’t seem to hear about the Windows issues on mainstream media. Deliberate? Don’t want to spook the shareholders?
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Anonymous has hit the nail perfectly. Since the last crisis central bank banks have printed up money and bought stocks and bonds. Companies have borrowed insane amounts to buy back shares and inflate the prices. Take away those two things and stock market prices would have gone nowhere. The normal mechanisms of price discovery are completely broken so that the price of nothing reflects underlying economic reality. Government statistics are a sham. Do you really believe inflation is running ar around 2 percent or so ? Do you really believe unemployment is around 4 percent when they don’t count people who have given up looking for work or when the labour participation rate is at multi-decade lows ? The amount of debt at all levels has exploded since 2008. Debt that has no prospects of ever being paid back.
We are in the “everything bubble” and this will not end well.
Making money in the last few years, especially in the American stock markets, was not a function of any great skill but the result of behind the scenes (and not so behind the scenes) rigging of the markets.
Caveat emptor.
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I was not sure if MS would ever deliver a meltdown patch for my Win7-32 bit so I moved on and installed chromium OS.
Does everything I need and I do not have to worry anymore about the never ending MS update soap opera.
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Was scouring the internet the other day for comments about how people don’t like what is going on at MS and found the following quote which seems to sum things up quite nicely
“Full Disclosure: I worked at M$ from 2014-2015.
MS has some very talented programmers. They’re not very common, but they exist. The problem is that the entire company is completely and totally focused on developing an absurd number of new features and products, giving them completely unrealistic deadlines, and then shipping software on those deadlines no matter how half-a**ed or buggy it is.
The idea is that everything is serviceable over the internet now, so they can just “fix it later”, except they never do. This perpetuates a duct-tape culture that refuses to actually fix problems and instead rewards teams that find ways to work around them. The talented programmers are stuck working on code that, at best, has to deal with multiple badly designed frameworks from other teams, or at worst work on code that is simply scrapped. New features are prioritized over all but the most system-critical bugs, and teams are never given any time to actually focus on improving their code. The only improvements that can happen must be snuck in while implementing new features.
As far as M$ is concerned, all code is s**t, and the only thing that matters is if it works well enough to be shown at a demo and shipped. Needless to say, I don’t work there anymore.”Edit to remove HTML – cut/paste error
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So I had spare time this long weekend and decided to take my 6 year old Lenovo AIO in a different direction. I had been unable to get security updates except by downloading them manually from the Windows Update catalog and no patches so far address the meltdown vulnerability on my 32 bit machine. So I saved my important data to a flash drive and I installed CloudReady from Neverware which is Chromium OS which is like a more basic version of Chrome OS without some bells and whistles. My machine was on the compatible list and so off I went. Install went smoothly and I have everything pretty much sorted except for printing. Still working on that, so in the meantime I email my iPad and print anything I want off our wireless home printer. Even with my daughter’s Pixelbook getting it to print takes a couple of extra steps. So I’m going to use this setup for the next few months until some new hardware comes out for deskttops Chrome OS such as the Asus Chromebox 3 at which time I will get some new hardware. I had thought about an iMac but it has tons of locally installed programs that I will never use and the price/use equation just didn’t seem to make sense.
So now all we have in the household running Windows is one 6 year old Sony Win10 64 bit machine which will serve very limited duties such as managing wireless printers and the like.
Change is good!
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