Posts by MatthewSt 612 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2013
It would have made more sense for the default to be to keep it forever, as that was the existing behaviour. By all means have a different default for new accounts but leave existing users be!
I remember getting the notification and being confused as to what my options were. I didn't think I wanted to keep it on my device as I wanted it in the cloud (so it was cross devices) so I nearly chose the wrong option!
At a guess I'd say they have their own driver signing certificate so can sign the binaries they produce. Windows won't care who signed it, just as long as it is signed. This would probably make their industry more of a grey area though if it is the case, because then they'll have to redistribute binaries rather than modify them on the user's computer.
That's exactly the scenario I was in. Owned a petrol car, and the lease plus fuel on a new EV was less than the fuel alone for the petrol car. No big outlay required.
For second hand: The ODB port on EVs gives you a load of stats (total energy used, total charged split by fast and regular, individual cell health etc) so as long as that information is reliable...!
I don't understand these "it doesn't work for everyone/me, therefore it shouldn't work for anyone" attitudes. We can have multiple solutions, we can solve problems. Some streets near us don't have driveways, so I've advertised my chargepoint and let people use it at cost. Got a few regulars, one who actually has a driveway but has decided it's cheaper to use mine than buy a charger!
I'm trying not to victim blame here, but don't you have to ignore a lot of warnings to allow apps to be installed from outside the Play Store?
It's going to turn into how the banking apps look when you transfer over a fiver.
"If someone has told you to select these options then this is likely a scam"
Implemented properly (I know...) it could be a useful tool. Like your browser history, but across the whole PC. Everyone works differently, and I'm very much the "I don't know what the document I'm looking for contains, but I know when I last had it open I'd just asked X about Y" kind of person.
I can't understand why anyone would want to eat mushrooms but I'm not going to go around insisting that restaurants stop serving them, I'm just going to not eat them!
Exactly, because the alternative is that you have import/export tariffs on _everything_ (products _and_ services). How can the tax law determine whether the money being sent abroad is a legitimate transaction or one to avoid paying tax in the country? Microsoft sell software/services in this country, but very little of the "cost" of that comes from the work undertaken in this country. (Yes, I know they should be paying more than they do, but how do you describe that legally).
Not to mention there are certain parts of the tax law that are historic (so you'd need to review and potentially vote on each piece to work out whether it's still necessary) and there are some that are there because taxes (or lack of) are designed to discourage (or encourage) certain behaviours. For example we have [S]EIS that is meant to encourage investment in small risky startups. We have gift aid that is meant to encourage donating to charity. Even pensions are a tax "workaround" so do you want to abolish those as well in your simple tax regime?
Everyone I know keeps these scammers talking until they get bored and hang up. If an AI one isn't going to get bored then you could get it to read out recipes, or something else that requires it to generate a lot of cruft.
Will make them think twice about calling you again!
If it's a password stored on a device that the device uses to authenticate to a cloud service then it has to be stored using reversible encryption. The app on the server (in this instance) needs to be able to present credentials to the service it's authenticating with.
The only way round this is to use something like a TPM, where the certificate itself cannot be removed from the device, and it does the signing for you.
you don't need either Pow or PoS if your users are authenticated. Messages are only accepted on to the chain if they are signed by a trusted key. The distribution of those keys is centralised by the telecoms authority, and each provider has their own key. You could even make it so that your central authority is the only entity adding blocks, and you're just using the DLT for replication purposes. Update requests can be submitted through another method.
(I suppose technically it's still Pow but you make the work involved really really small)
I would imagine it's the person verifying your identity that needs the app, not the bearer of the card. Presumably the bearer of the card already knows who they are and whether the card is legitimate.
Otherwise, as well as a market for a fake card you've now got a message for a fake app too...!
The case for an E7 would be something like you'd get 2-3 add-ons for the price of 1.5-2, so someone may be inclined to go for the package to get the deal, spending a bit more per user than if they just went for the add-on they were after. We've done that in a few cases, eg an O365 E3 + PowerBI Pro is about the same as O365 E5.
Then the partners rub their paws together because they get to "train" you on everything you didn't realise you wanted...!
Especially when Microsoft have already got multiple distribution methods available to them. If they actually made use of the Store for their apps then patching, disk usage, bandwidth are all taken care of automatically. Even supports zero downtime patching (new version is installed side by side and executes next time you start the app)
(new Outlook uses the Store, new Teams is MSIX but not store)
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