Posts by SQL God

Windows 10 upgrade ADWARE forces its way on to Windows 7 and 8.1

Microsoft is a Malware Provider

This is scumware otherwise known as the adware that Microsoft puts on your machine to nag you to buy (sorry upgrade to a free trial of) Windows 10

You can't kill it.

> You can delete the patch they used to install it. (KB 3035583) But MS will just reinstall it.

> You can delete the run file, GWX.exe, but MS quickly replaces it.

(You have to take ownership of the file because MS secures it strongly)

> You can replace it with a do nothing run file.

But MS will detect it and put their adware back in.

The company that owns the desktop is now a major scumware provider. How sad..

This is scumware otherwise known as the adware that Microsoft puts on your machine to nag you to buy (sorry upgrade to a free trial of) Windows 10

You can't kill it.

> You can delete the patch they used to install it. (KB 3035583) But MS will just reinstall it.

> You can delete the run file, GWX.exe, but MS quickly replaces it.

(You have to take ownership of the file because MS secures it strongly)

> You can replace it with a do nothing run file.

But MS will detect it and put their adware back in.

The company that owns the desktop is now a major scumware provider. How sad..

Yahoo! displaces Ask in Oracle's Java update crapware parade

Oracle is the best ticket a HUGE POWERFUL RDBMS. (Expensive and hard to manage, but I'm not complaining.)

Java... Well that's another story. For most users and most apps... why? Huge resource hog, so if you don't use it, chuck it AND Yahoo.

Welcome to the FUTURE: Maine cops pay Bitcoin ransom to end office hostage drama

Re: $300

$300 is just their way of saying that if the FBI or the CIA got interested in chasing them down, they'd be an easy find. As it is, it's gotta be huge dollars or they have to attack a Senator or a Congressman for anything to be done about it.

These guys are making billions in volume, so at $300 a pop, they're getting quite rich.

The new mantra on crime in the United States, is it's the VICTIM's fault NOT the CRIMINAL's. Notice that all the other comments just talk about how dumb the cops are for not better protecting their systems? No one cares about going after criminals.

No Police Response

Scary that the Cops get ripped off and not one wants to get serious about going after the perpetrators. No one even wants to even wank about it except me. The US has the most extensive IT network for tracing and following financial transactions in the world. We give foreign aid and support to just about every country in the world that harbors terrorists and hackers. We also have the juice to twist arms in Switzerland--if we want. (I'm not saying this is right, it's just that the US is an 800 lb. gorilla.) So why can't we get justice against the scumbags that do this kind of crap?

I'm embarrassed that my country considers computer crime, (and the companies that fight it) as just another economic industry that should be nurtured and grown. Does GB want this old American as an immigrant? Or are you guys seeing the same problem in your government.

I'll build a Hyperloop railgun tube-way in Texas, Elon Musk vows

Re: Pure Genius @Graham dawson

Luckily no politicians were able to buy the real estate under the English channel. Otherwise they'd still be dickering over right-of-way with the politicians trying to become billionaires off their thousand dollar (650 pound) investments.

Re: Now, for solar powered everything

Solar panel roofed tubes are PERFECT!

The sides of the tubes can still be used for advertising... And isn't that where all the money's made?

Apple drives itself round bend: Pities the fool who inks deal with carmakers – source

Just Like and IPhone

I pity the poor fool who would buy an Apple car. Three software upgrades into the life of the car and Apple will drop support. The switch between ICar4 and ICar5 would render your charging cable obsolete and instead of buying a new charger cable with the correct plugs for $50, you'll have to shell out $500 to Apple for one with a ID chip that recognizes Apples Bait-and-Switch pin change technology.

When Car-OS XI is released, it will gobble up the memory you had previously used to store data for your IMaps driving assistant. And oh yeah, I forgot... When the battery wears out, you'll just have to buy a new car.

IS Apple the "Force" or simply Darth Vader in a white suit?

Apple's 16GB iPhones are a big fat lie, claims iOS 8 storage hog lawsuit

Re: You're GigaByting it wrong

A little like a bull in a china shop, Bob? Apple has always been know for its Mother-Hen attitude in protecting its users, vetting everything that goes on an iDevice and charging a premium for the service. The folks that cling to Apple, it's exorbitant prices and its censorship do so for a reason.

These poor saps that thought they could use 8 and 16GB iDevices for storing large libraries of music are either playing stupid, or they are are stupid. If you want to have the freedom of buying large storage at reasonable prices or doing what you really want to with your device, you need to be brave enough to break away from Mother Apple.

Business is back, baby! Hasta la VISTA, Win 8... Oh, yeah, Windows 9

Re: Limited audience

Microsoft's audience is management. (Think Pointy-Hair in Dilbert.) I'm a tech. Their SQL Server 2012 management console is completely graffitied-out in ridiculous end-user pop-up tools to the point that it is almost unusable to a hardcore developer like me.

High level managers and goofy kids coming up through today's universities absolutely love all the superfluous flash, easy (and very basic tools) and sizzle of current MS product demonstrations. High efficiency information workers just suffer working around all that junk.

As a MARKETING approach, Microsoft is (unfortunately) doing exactly the right thing. We're just bummed out that WE are not on the receiving end of all their billions.