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Dutch cheesed off at Microsoft, call for Rexit from Office Online, Mobile apps over Redmond data slurping

... It is scary

Checking the log of any proxy handling traffic for an idling windows 10 PC reveals excessive amounts of "call home" activities.

The volume of this telemetry information is such, that it may impact weak internet connections.

People who have the opportunity to configure their proxy should perhaps block these sites, the ones I blocked have lines with DENIED in it.

This is the traffic of Windows PC, without active browser windows open. It is sent every minute.

TCP_TUNNEL/200 4827 CONNECT watson.telemetry.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/20.44.86.43 -

TCP_DENIED/403 3786 CONNECT rt.services.visualstudio.com:443 - HIER_NONE/- text/html

TCP_TUNNEL/200 6487 CONNECT nexus.officeapps.live.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/52.109.88.39 -

TCP_DENIED/403 3786 CONNECT rt.services.visualstudio.com:443 - HIER_NONE/- text/html

TCP_TUNNEL/200 7894 CONNECT nexusrules.officeapps.live.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/52.109.88.

TCP_MISS/503 4523 GET http://olkflt.edog.officeapps.live.com/olkflt/outlookflighting.svc/api/glides? - HIER_NONE/- text/html

TCP_DENIED/403 3801 CONNECT v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_NONE/- text/html

TCP_TUNNEL/200 20165 CONNECT login.microsoftonline.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/20.190.137.98 -

TCP_TUNNEL/200 7079 CONNECT graph.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/40.126.9.51

TCP_TUNNEL/200 1995 CONNECT storeedgefd.dsx.mp.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/88.221.166.83 -

TCP_TUNNEL/200 7022 CONNECT livetileedge.dsx.mp.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/88.221.166.83 -

TCP_TUNNEL/200 16520 CONNECT storeedgefd.dsx.mp.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/88.221.166.83 -

TCP_TUNNEL/200 4119 CONNECT settings-win.data.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/52.156.204.185 -

TCP_DENIED/403 3801 CONNECT v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_NONE/- text/html

TCP_DENIED/403 3801 CONNECT v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_NONE/- text/html

TCP_DENIED/403 3801 CONNECT v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_NONE/- text/html

TCP_TUNNEL/200 7373 CONNECT c.urs.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/40.114.224.200 -

TCP_MISS/200 4613 GET http://tile-service.weather.microsoft.com/en-US/livetile/preinstall? - HIER_DIRECT/104.123.111.225 text/xml

TCP_TUNNEL/200 7015 CONNECT secure.aadcdn.microsoftonline-p.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/23.62.132.180 -

TCP_TUNNEL/200 6019 CONNECT mobile.pipe.aria.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/52.114.158.50

TCP_TUNNEL/200 43097 CONNECT r.manage.microsoft.com:443 - HIER_DIRECT/52.169.9.87 -

Here we go: Uncle Sam launches antitrust probe into *cough* Facebook, Google *cough* Amazon *splutter* Twitter...

Re: Too Easy

Several factors make big tech dangerous, market power, enormous lobbying capabilities and the unified effort of the leftist fifth column, that got control of them, to impose censorship on the content they present to the world.

We the people created these leeching monsters by giving them our time and attention.

In order to preserve things like free speech, the possibility to get informed about a diversity in views and opinions and a state where everybody pays their fair share, we need to check the seemingly unlimited power of big Tech.

Now we live in a world where big tech prays socialism in their contents, they them selves live like 18th century nobles. Paying taxes is reserved for the losers with a middle class job, who pay 60%-70% of their gross income. But that is also socialism.. "All are equal, but some are more equal than others".

Take the bus... to get some new cables: Raspberry Pi 4s are a bit picky about USB-Cs

Re: USB-C

If the inventor of USB-C lived in the middle ages, he would would have been put besides the IPv6 guy in a stock so passers by could toss rotten fruit at them.

Have to buy all these new cables, and for what... Oh yeah I know.. share holder Value.

Millions of people have to buy new cables, but hey lets order some Chinese solar panels, that is good for carbon dioxide and the environment.

Chinese government has got it 'spot on' when it comes to face-recog tech says, er, London's Met cops' top rep

Every beginnening is hard, but we will need it

It is predicted that by 2050, there will be many cities with 10-20 million inhabitants.

It is also said that 5% of the population engages in criminal activities varying from pick pocketing to Hanibal Lector like nut cases and drug dealers.

The 5% of 20 million is one million people who have a criminal intent.

Without electronic surveillance these cities will become unlivable and dangerous pools of crime, comparable to the large cities in Brazil today where the police recommends not to stop for red light after dark.

Gaining experience with these technologies seems a good idea for police forces around the world so they are able to deal with mega cities.

2001: Linux is cancer, says Microsoft. 2019: Hey friends, ah, can we join the official linux-distros mailing list, plz?

The 90's dream of an Unified Unix is slowly materializing

Linux as a whole became too important for the electronics industry to allow it to be hijacked by one party.

It is great news another powerful party joined the club, since Open Source is a collaboration project, it can only gain from it.

Revenues from windows licenses is a declining business on the longer term.

Since MS is giving away W10 for free, it only serves as enabler for sales of other MS products, they could as well replace w10 with Linux and save considerable money otherwise spent on development and maintenance.

AWS, which is not relying on license fees as a business model, is pouring millions in further developing Open-Source products like MariaDB, to undermine MS and Oracle. Every dollar not spent on licenses for MSSQL or Oracle, is a potential revenue for AWS. It is along these lines the battles will be fought, the good old license model is on the long run not sustainable due to the enterprise grade quality of Open-Source products.

It's a fullblown Crysis: Gamers press pause on PC purchases, shipments freeze

Re: Mature Product

This is point on. For the price of high-end gaming rig, one can buy a decent used car.

High-end gaming laptops vary between 2500-4500 euro, decent gaming desktops like Alienware start at 1500.

Now you can have a twist of 2019 in your 2012: Microsoft goes back to the future with Edge on Windows 7/8

Re: Do M$ have a clue.

After consistently using Firefox for over 20 years, I think that edge is actually quite cool.

When working on websites, edge does not cache website contents or DNS entries for days, so it is way easier to test website changes in edge than it is in firefox or chrome.

Also edge does not constantly nanny change http into https in url's, it is fast, snappy and clean.

One of the best products MS made in recent time, way to go MS :).

Re: Would like to hear the pitch for this

vi chrome.exe

:1,$ s?google.com?microsoft.com?g

:wq

This isn't Boeing to end well: Plane maker to scrap some physical cert tests, use computer simulations instead

Until we start jailing CEO's for their decisions that costs lives....

They will do whatever they want like emperors of old, protected by favorable laws their lobbyists made happen so nobody can be held accountable.

In some countries people get in jail for not paying a fine or insulting a cop.

In our developed Western countries, CEO's earn 100 million and more, kill 600 people as a result of their decision making, and either keep their job or get severance of 200 million.

As long "We the people..." allow them to get away with murder, it will continue, and they just laugh about it.

Anyone else find it weird that the bloke tasked with probing tech giants for antitrust abuses used to, um, work for the same tech giants?

Re: Anyone surprised?

There is more to this.

Anyone knows the tech giants, who control what most people see and which news items they are presented with, are under full control of the leftist fifth column, poisoning the minds of so many with a constant stream of self defying non-sense.

The considerable economic power they possess, is abused it for political purposes, trying to fix the leftist defeat of 2016 in order to lay the red carpet for whomever will compete with president Trump in 2020.

This crusade only serves the purpose to cause that liberals stay in power to grant them the special tax exemptions they enjoy for decades.

President Trump better starts making some miles here, and don't let this get in the hands of Democrats, who have all the incentives to keep these monopolies in existence.

Until then we will have to live with the unprecedented censorship and digital book burning like it is 1938 by the likes of YouTube and others to "remove non leftist content " and introduce "authorized news media ", i.e. CNN and the George Soros funded Vox Media outlet.

You won't guess where European mobile data was rerouted for two hours. Oh. You can. Yes, it was China Telecom

What are the risks of these BGP errors

Trust and cooperation was a design principle of the Internet.

As far as I understand things, bad routing just introduces extra latency.

Traffic that should be confidential is encrypted, and can not be decrypted (yet).. right ?.

So except from collecting meta information, like insight in traffic streams between ip adresses, there shouldn't be much to gain from broadcasting erroneous routing information by countries interested in analyzing the internet traffic of other countries.

Russia signs Huawei deal as Chinese premier decries 'protectionism', 'unilateral approaches'

Yeah Xi and Putin, a pair of love doves to be proud of

Who are we talking about, two brutal dictators, both leading regimes with a bad track record on human rights, freedom of religion and expression.

It is hardly good publicity for Huawei, and it shows the more where they stand for.

Maybe the leftist/liberal/diversity rainbow people, who dislike Trump, should think two seconds more before they choose their enemy.

All of these treats guarantee a one way ticket to jail in both of these countries, with the technical expertise of companies like Huawei these evil regimes have powerful tools to permanently remove critical voices or other non-conforming individuals from society.

That magical super material Apple hopes will hit backspace on its keyboard woes? Nylon

The apple bashing is undeserved, bad quality is an epidemic

I think generally laptops are products which carry too many compromises in their design.

Perhaps with the exception of the Panasonic toughbook, they all have issues.

Bad servicibility is something they all share, it is impossible for a layman to replace parts. Inside they are made too cheap with extremely fragile connectors and parts.

Replacing the keyboard, often requires the whole laptop has to be taken apart since the the design department didn't add a removable bezel at the top.

It means that a 2+ year old laptop often is an economic write-off after a keyboard failure.

Just don't buy one if you don't need one, then you be fine.

No Huawei out: Prez Trump's game of chicken with China has serious consequences

Are you US bashing guys all mad ?.

Unless people like a dictatorship that: Puts people in jail based on religion, still carries out the death penalty, implements a tracking system with 400,000,000 camera's, forbids people to appear on TV because of tattoos, shields the country off from the internet, is bullying neighboring countries with aggressive territorial claims and is pirating on issues like intellectual property and acceptable trade policies.

Unless they are trolls paid by Bejing to create anti-US sentiments in the West, it is doubtful if anyone airing criticism toward the trade policies of the US in regard to Huawei, would like to live in such a toxic place.

There is no difference between supporting China now, and supporting German politics in 1939. Both are countries whose political systems are far from what anybody sane would consider as being civilized.

This Huawei row not about a thousand dollar more for a switch or router, is about the freedom of you and your children.

Apple, Samsung feel the pain as smartphone market slumps to lowest shipments in 5 YEARS

Smart phones should replace PC's

When the industry manages to define a standard docking setup for Android smartphones, they could start taking the PC fortress.

The current state of technology allows it and potentially huge amounts of money can be transferred from traditional PC expenses to the smartphone market. Google could offer companies a clear business case for moving from windows to their chrome based cloud, since they are not reliant on license fees.

Companies can save significant amounts of money by using the computing power in modern smartphones coupled with cloud based desktops functionality offered by chrome. It would free them from the chores surrounding the operation of large networks with desktops, the required peripheral Windows servers together with the complexity and skills needed.

It is an interesting question why this concept is not already implemented, that would be the real revolution in computing.

The peelable, foldable phone has become the great white whale of tech

Management culture must be something at Samsung

Ferdinand Piëch used to drive every new model for a few weeks in the time he was CEO of VW, and keelhauled the engineers responsible if he detected serious issues.

Maybe Samsung management should do the same.

Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz demands $32m+ for 'defective' cyber-revamp

It is probably not just a "website"

Noticing the countless millions involved, it will probably be more like a global car reservation system, usable through the browser, including API's for third parties to reserve cars as well.

Since it is global, not only coding issues arise, but also taking into account all the differences in laws, insurances and other rules that exist between countries and continents for renting cars.

With such large projects, prototyping on a smaller scale, hiring a third party to evaluate the proposed technologies and the project approach are critical.

Too bad details concerning these events are always kept away from the public, it could be an useful learning experience.

Google rolls out Android Easter Egg for Europe – a Microsoft antitrust-style browser, search engine choice box

I will never understand the point of this...

“The Google choice screen for Android does nothing to correct the central problem that Google apps will remain the default on all Android devices. With Android holding 85 per cent of the global smartphone market, it is time for robust enforcement of the non-discrimination principle enshrined in the European Commission’s July 2018 decision condemning Google for abuse of dominance with regard to Android."

What do they want. Google is for free. I remember the time in the early 2000's, when all these enlighted souls started building .NET websites, causing people browsing with anything else but Internet-Exploder getting a message to bugger off, and use MS Internet-Exploder

That was abuse. Asking people over $ 100,- for a buggy OS, and force the world into using one browser.

At that time, the EU commission was nowhere to be seen. For John Doe, there was hardly a choice. Now people can buy anything from a $ 200,- Android up to a $ 1200 Iphone X.

Aussies, Yanks may think they're big drinkers – but Brits easily booze them under the table

Taxes are the snake oil of the lefites

What ever issue there is, they propose tax increases to make it go away.

Back to drawing board as Google cans AI ethics council amid complaints over right-wing member

Until now our AI "overlords" crash planes and fail to prevent Tesla's from running into things, maybe the board is redundant anyway in the foreseeable future.

Facebook ad platform discriminates all on its own, say boffins

Targeted ads are as old as book printing

"Research showed that 90% of the ads for high end Swiss watches was targeted at white males between 40 and 60 years old that have a profile indicating they might have a higher management positions".

In the paper age we already had targeted ads. Putting ads for Ferraris, IWC watches and LearJet Gulfstreams in the Sun would have been a waste of paper.

Different classes of people could choose the magazines and newspapers matching their status in society.

Why do research on subjects which are established facts for centuries ?.

Two Arkansas dipsticks nicked after allegedly taking turns to shoot each other while wearing bulletproof vests

real men test bullet proof vests

While the rest of the world living under leftist tyranny moans about US gun laws.

Razer – perfectly happy to sell you a laptop for over $2,000, but when it comes to fixing security holes... tough sh*t

It is all hit and run in the gaming world

MSI is the same. They seduce 13-17 yo with steamy gaming websites, but under the hood things are an absolute mess, light years away from the promised quality and the bloated price levels for the gear.

My $ 3200,- MSI GT72 from 2015 has hinges secured with 3mm brass inserts in plastic which of course broke off in the 20 or some times I closed and opened it over the years. After sales support is located 1500 km away.

Since the laptop was designed in de Windows 8 era, support for windows 10 is still half hearted.

Firmware support is an absolute nightmare, nothing to assist installation of drivers on a new Windows10 install, one has to collect the pieces from their website.

BIOS updates come with threatening warnings to choose the right CPU iteration, but no monkey proof tools to assist the loser who had spent so much on their precious gear.

Security updates are a joke, the last updates from MSI on this device are from 2016.

Europe, Japan: D-Wave would really like you to play with its – count 'em – '2,000-qubit' quantum Leap cloud service

Where is Europe in this ?.

Oh no, we are too busy with making up useless rules for things others invented and made, instead of doing something useful that could generate jobs in the future.

Thank you EU, for driving the future of the young generation into the grave.

Google plonks right-wing think tanker and defence drone mogul on AI ethics advisory board

The article is full of lefty speak

>> which has come under fire for spreading misinformation about climate change.

Typical lefty jargon... having different opinion equals "misinformation" equals a single trip to Siberia (in the golden days of leftism in Russia).

After having been infested by the lefty fifth column so badly, it is understandable Google wants more diversity in its advisory board.

Just look at Q! Watch out Microsoft, the next Android has a proper desktop PC mode

A smartphone based desktop does make perfect sense in the age of the cloud

High end smartphones exceed low-end laptops in performance.

If in a few years the majority of office workers use cloudy documents instead of those on the C-drive, the smart phone just needs to be able to run a web browser fast enough.

If google is serious about this, the challenge is to develop a standard cradle, connecting screen, mouse and keyboard to smart phone from various manufacturers.

UK joins growing list of territories to ban Boeing 737 Max flights as firm says patch incoming

I don't want Albert Einstein to be my pilot

"Split second decisions are needed, and the complexity creates danger. All of this for great cost yet very little gain. I don't know about you, but I don't want Albert Einstein to be my pilot. I want great flying professionals that are allowed to easily and quickly take control of a plane!"

Donald J. Trump, president of the USA, March 13, 2019

No more explanations needed, just fire all this cheap .NET programming H1B visa labor, and start building planes again.

Or ask your grandpa, how they built the excellent 707's.

Alphabet top brass OK'd $100m-plus payouts to execs accused of sexual misconduct – court docs

For billionaires even flirting constitutes harassing

The richer one is, the sooner they call out the h-word to get something out of it.

Better don't mix with the plebs when rich.

Is this the way the cookie wall crumbles? Dutch data watchdog says nee to take-it-or-leave-it consent

There is no free lunch

Be careful what one wishes for. Operating a website costs a ton of money.

By restricting the operator of a website to make a few pennies by slinging a few customized ads, the "free" internet as we know it will slowly die out.

We end up with an internet controlled by big tech, and governments, because all the smaller initiatives are strangled by complex legislation and the limitation to earn some money.

Even when a website asks for permission to place a cookie, compare what a big privacy win a website offers compared to going to a shop:

- The shopkeeper can see ones car

- The visitor of a shop often gets registered by several security camera's

- The shopkeeper knows which bank one uses when paying with cards..

etc...

No idea why they are complaining, these people are probably lefties, once again now trying to kill of free internet with rules and limitations.

Google recalculated its wages, and yup, raises for underpaid fellas. So can you forget those gender discrim claims?

Check out Jordan B. Peterson

To understand why women are paid less.

Demand for HP printer supplies in free-fall – and Intel CPU shortages aren't helping either

Hike up the price of Intel stuff

And promote AMD based solutions ?.

Don't mean to alarm you, but Boeing has built an unmanned fighter jet called 'Loyal Wingman'

It is no terminator

"Controlled via ground station, other aircraft, and has some level of autonomy that can scale for the mission"

Any war machine needing more information like "Destroy this target, [GPS coordinates], shoot at anything that moves in this perimeter [more GPS coordinates] and return to [GPS coordinates] when required by levels of gas and ammo " is not an autonomous robot.

The plane is a sophisticated radar destroying and or jamming system, that is supposed to take the first punch when operating in contested airspace.

Jeez, what a Huawei to go: Now US senators want Chinese kit ripped out of national leccy grid

Re: Fascist Playbook in action

On the websites of my employer we have each day 3000-5000 brute force attacks originating from Chinese ip-addresses. This is far over 95% of the total amount of inappropriate incoming URL's.

These are customized brute force attacks, attempting to exploit weaknesses in the software components used.

So I guess you must be right that the distrust against Huawei, or any Chinese made product in the core of network infrastructure, is just unfounded warmongering.

Europe better gets its act together, and starts teaming up with the USA, or it will become enslaved by Germany and China.

Artificial Intelligence: You know it isn't real, yeah?

Bias, facts and statistics

Like it or not, all AI will be based on statistics and things people know.

Suppose the situation where one has to share a hotel room with either a rabbit or a lion.

Any sensible AI system aiding in deciding which room would offer the best experience would probably recommend a room with a rabbit as roommate.

Since the AI system would base its decision on information like "lions are large carnivorous predators with large teeth", thus the fluffy bunny is probably preferable above the lion.

Is it interesting to see wether this is considered to be biased information.

Now, hold on. This may shock you... Oracle allegedly juices its cloud sales with threats and shoddy on-prem support

Cloud fraud

What I see from Azure is that cloud computing is a legalized fraudulent business model.

They charge more than on premises costs, support is outsourced to countries where people are paid half a dollar per hour, and hardly speak English.

Oracle database support was already outsourced to the same countries where MS located its Azure support centers, always needed a NATO alphabet for them.

But as long the glossy airplane magazine reading crowd is happy, all will be good, we need to give the Wallstreet billionaires more money, make more young people in Europe unemployed, because these billionaires are poor.

Not heard owt bad about Huawei, says EU Commish infosec bod

All thin foil hat chatter about US aside....

At least the Amis don't steal copyrighted information from European companies or engage in state supported piracy, spying and hacking on the scale China does for years now.

The people claiming "not to have seen evidence that Huawei poses a threat to its internal markets" must be the great-grand children of those who failed to see the evidence that the intentions of Germany in 1939 were something else then peaceful.

I guess as long the EU can not extort billions from companies for illegal manipulation of the market, they don't care what companies do.

Defaulting to legacy Internet Explorer just to keep that one, weird app working? Knock it off

MS is just playing good cop/bad cop

Since the IE, and thus implicit MS, vendor lock in of millions of users into legacy web apps from the early 2000's is a blessing all others can only dream about.

No competition from Chrome or other google solutions.

If they did not earn millions due to this situation, they would have killed off IE with Windows 10, or before.

No IT director in a global company would even dare to choose something else beside MS on the desktop because of fear for this one killer website, lurking somewhere in the deep, built by some ignorant apes in 2004, using "easy to use" MS tooling.

It's 2019, and a PNG file can pwn your Android smartphone or tablet: Patch me if you can

Display images from the web with root privilege in some picture browser ?

Yeah right, they never learn. It is the same reason all this Adobe crap became such a never ending security drama on windows.

British cops told to scrap 'discriminatory' algorithms in policing

Statistics

Has its influence on bias in algorithms, otherwise they would be pretty useless.

The D in SystemD stands for Danger, Will Robinson! Defanged exploit code for security holes now out in the wild

The D stands for Deficiency in education

The whole systemD thing has always been an answer to a question that was never asked by people using Linux systems as a server.

It is nice that systemD might help laptops with their (de)hybernation issues.

They should start teaching in engineering school that simpler things are better, since they cost less to build and maintain, while being more robust at the same time. Nowadays everything is top-heavy from featuritis, costs a ton of money and is broken within 5 years.

People using Linux for serious stuff, are burdened with unnecessary complexity and the security risks implied by this very complexity.

Maybe mainstream distributors of Linux will start to learn that things which are not there, can't impose a security risk, and start publishing light-weight server versions of Linux. Really, nobody needs a windows Registry like start up system on Unix, the very idea should someone have banned from ever logging in on an Unix system.

Apple: You can't sue us for slowing down your iPhones because you, er, invited us into, uh, your home... we can explain

It must the famous "Apple quality" fanbois brag about

Which must be a drug induced dream. After 3.5 years of using my Motorola G3 as a radio, 8 hours per day, over 200 days per year, it is still way better than the iPhone 6 my employer gave me for being on-call. Battery still did 3+ days of standby, or 2 days of streaming.

The iPhone 6 does 4-8 hours of standby with a full charge, and was only used for on-call services 8 weeks per year.

But Apple is fun at the same time, my employer gave me an iPhone 8 replacement for the broken iPhone 6.

Just having replaced my privately owned Moto G3 by a G7, it caused cramps from laughter, so old the iPhone 8 looks compared to the Moto, which costs one third of the price.

If Apple was Ford, they would still be able to sell T-Fords as the latest and greatest invention on wheels.

Should the super-rich pay 70% tax rate above $10m? Here's Michael Dell's hot take for Davos

It is a lost battle anyway, the 1% have it all

Never in history societies managed a redistribution of wealth without civil war and guilotines.

With the exception of president Trump, they always bought the US presidency. They still use the power of the media outlets they own to bash president Trump where ever they can, since president Trump could pay for his own campaign and is not a puppet of these people.

Staff of the big three, KPMG/D&T and E&Y, gets hired by big Tech to setup tax-avoidance schemes and by governments for not trying to fix them.

Big Tech for example eagerly pays $ 250,000,000 for a tax plan allowing them to funnel billions out of Europe without taxation.

The French are on it with the gilet jaune protests, although one can be sure the media war against these people will never stop.

We see where it ends, maybe once again, like in 1789, the French will be an example for the world, liberating them selves of this elite of leeches sucking our societies dry.

OK Google, er, Siri, um, Alexa, can you invalidate these digital assistant patents, please?

Re: Patent trolling should be punishable by at least 10 years in an Alaskan jail

Thank you for your very informative answer, that actually makes the point I want to make.

This way of dealing with patents is way beyond what was initially intended with patent legislation.

It used to be something to protect individuals with good ideas against copycats.

Nowadays the ideas behind patent laws are distorted and abused by big companies, or other leeches, who do have the money to pay for patents, using this system to legally steal the ideas of others.

But well, they do the same with our tax laws to evade them, so what is new. Moral and good manners don't sell these days, "be evil" is the mantra of the early 2000;s.

Patent trolling should be punishable by at least 10 years in an Alaskan jail

If they put all the share holders of companies engaging in patent trolling in jail, this non-sense would end instantly.

It would also prevent tech giants to kill off small innovative upstarts by dragging them into courts using these trolls as a vehicle.

Want to spin up Ubuntu VMs from Windows 10's command line, eh? We'll need to see a Multipass

Re: Webservers?

With the default WSL it is simple:

apt-get update

apt-get install apache2

Add website in the apache configuration.

service apache2 start

Before using apt-get, it maybe necessary to set the proxy

export http_proxy=http://<addres>:port

export https_proxy=http://<addres>:port

Maybe Windows firewall may have to be setup to allowing incoming port 80/443 traffic.

I love WSL, since it made scripting on Windows usable after 30 years :)

WSL can also use Windows *.exe files.

/mnt/c/Windows/System32/systeminfo.exe | grep -i "System boot" | awk '{print $4}' | sed 's/,//'

10-1-2019

The elegance and simplicity of bash scripting is hard to beat.

Try that in PowerShell.

Amazon shareholders revolt on Rekognition, Nvidia opens robotics lab, and hot AI chips on Google Cloud

What is worng with facial recognition

It would be a great benefit to society.

Criminals can be easily flagged, so they can be more effectively removed from the society.

Once computers are powerful enough to scan the database of the whole population using facial recognition pictures, including pictures of the tourists staying legally, illegal aliens can be flagged and apprehended for deportation.

Once there is enough coverage, society will become crime free and safe, resulting in huge cost reductions for law enforcement.

It is very weird people would oppose technological progress so beneficial for society, unless they are leftist bottom feeders, thriving on chaos and despair.

Nobody in China wants Apple's eye-wateringly priced iPhones, sighs CEO Tim Cook

It is a miracle they sell anything at all

I have seen iPhones priced at 1245 Euros in an Apple shop.

That is a small fortune for something at which people will laugh in 3 years time.

At least in Europe the amount of people able to afford these prices slowly is driven in extinction due to money greedy politicians.

Ho ho ho! Washington DC sends Zuckerberg a sueball-shaped present

There is morality and there are laws

It is the task of the government to connect these two, and they often fail, or lag decades behind the facts.

If somebody installs facebook on their phone, switches "location services" off, it just means "switch off location tracking using GPS signal".

Is it a violation of the law if the app uses wifi information from neighboring modems, matches these against a database to determine the location without GPS ?.

Google still uses wifi modem info to determine where the phone is, regardless of "Location Services".

Governments should get to work, and define a framework of legislation under which providers of services are obliged to operate.

But governments can never replace brain cells, "free" services need to earn money to pay for their operating costs, the currency is information about the user of those "free" services. So go figure.

Is Google purposefully breaking Microsoft, Apple browsers on its websites? Some insiders are confident it is

Instead of whining, maybe MS could start fixing Edge, so it does not happen.

It all sounds kind of implausible. Hearing these complaints from MS, who has been terrorizing the Web for decades with its FUD about linux, insecure and instable products, should make everyone laugh who is old enough to have been around then.

Everything is about money, and there are no Saints in this game. Since HTML5 is a standard, which should be implemented by all browsers, it is questionable how far it is actually a misconduct to try to find area's where certain browsers have issues in their HTML5 implementation. If google would do this, it looks more like kind of harassment.

Instead of whining, maybe MS could start fixing Edge, so it does not happen.