We are nearly halfway to this one!

@coliver said in Reaching manhood - StarWind is included in Gartner Magic Quadrant!:

How much money did you guys pay to get in there?

And why? Being listed on Gartner is an active disincentive to any rational person.

@JaredBusch said in Comcast rejected by small town—residents vote for municipal fiber instead:

Just had this email exchange today with Adams Telecom.
Note: The existing service was 50/50 with a 3 year contract at $80. Contract expired this month.

This is what happens when small municipalities are ignored. They work with local telecoms or do it themselves. Ans the costs are always better.
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Must be F'ng NICE! B#&%@ 🙂

He only sent me a few hundred thousand, I feel ripped off.

@JaredBusch said in Verizon cuts 10,000 jobs and admits its Yahoo/AOL division is a failure:

@Dashrender said in Verizon cuts 10,000 jobs and admits its Yahoo/AOL division is a failure:

@bnrstnr said in Verizon cuts 10,000 jobs and admits its Yahoo/AOL division is a failure:

Hasn't AOL been a failure since dial-up internet was dead? like mid-1990s?

nah - really more like early 2000's, but man I sure thought so - I guess they held on because they were some sort of advertising company.

AOL was solid well into the mid 00's

It was around 2004 when I worked for the fed and they were using it for communicating in the senate.

@Dashrender said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@JaredBusch said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@Dashrender said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@scottalanmiller said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@Dashrender said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@JaredBusch said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@scottalanmiller said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@JaredBusch said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@scottalanmiller said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

@Obsolesce said in Why, in 2018, is Microsoft adding security questions to Windows 10?:

This only occurs, that I've seen, during OOBE when you set up the PC as a local, non-domain, non-Microsoft-Account, user.

Correct, as a standard local account. The "normal" way. Most people don't use AD, even in business this is dropping off quickly. And lots of people don't want to deal with those ridiculous MS accounts that they try to ram down everyone's throats. And who knows how secure those are, anyway.

That is not the normal way to set up windows anymore and has not been for quite a while. The normal way to set up windows is with a Microsoft account. In fact you have to click no to setting up a Microsoft account multiple times in order to set up a PC without a Microsoft account

That's what they promote, but I wonder how many people are actually doing that.

Probably most that don’t use AD. Of course some will not, but not many.

I tend to agree - most home users will use a MS account simply because it's what's presented. IT folks and some programmers might not, but I'm willing to bet it's way over half that do.

Have you seen a lot of home users doing this? I have not, of course my cross section is tiny. But of the ones I see that have zero tech skills, they all skip it because it is scary and confusing.

The option to skip it's obvious enough for most people I run into - they just do it, even if that means setting up a new account.

It is obvious? not really. And even if they see it and click on it, you have to refuse once or twice more.

Whoops - I meant - NOT super obvious... normal users will be guilted into using an MS account in most cases.

yeah the first two times it took me a moment to notice you could skip.

The engine may end up being an "Enterprise Mode" like IE I think?

Edge as a browser works well but with a few show stoppers that killed any further usage for us:
1: Downloads mysteriously won't start or just plain stop for no reason.
2: Edge ate my favourites way too many times.

The containerized Edge, Application Guard I think(?), is a great idea. If Edge was as good as they had hoped it would provide a fantastic sandbox experience to protect users from drive-by attacks and bad GET commands from e-mail clients.

At least we are not getting stuck with the legacy ActiveX that keeps rearing its head every once in a while because of IE. 😛

@mlnews oh look NodeBB done been hack3d too then.

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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/qld-it-minister-cautions-feds-over-interference-516628
Queensland’s IT minister Mick de Brenni has urged the federal government not to use its newly created Australian Digital Council as a way to dilute state regulation.
 
He has also accused the Canberra of not consulting with state and territory governments prior to releasing its inaugural digital transformation strategy last month

So it seems that only Canberra is keen on it.

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@biggen said in Microsoft is Replacing Edge with Chrome's Blink Engine:

This appears to be for ARM only from what I’ve read.

Just where they are starting. Article says the goal is Edge itself.

@wrx7m said in Kentucky lawmaker wants telemarketers to list true caller ID:

@scottalanmiller said in Kentucky lawmaker wants telemarketers to list true caller ID:

@DustinB3403 said in Kentucky lawmaker wants telemarketers to list true caller ID:

@scottalanmiller said in Kentucky lawmaker wants telemarketers to list true caller ID:

@DustinB3403 said in Kentucky lawmaker wants telemarketers to list true caller ID:

Technically, isn't listing "Unknown" as the caller-id name; disguising the phone number? Anything but the actual number or the business name would be, right?

Technically, no. Not disguising. Hiding and disguising are different.

Disguising means making it look like something else. Hiding means it is clear that it is not known. One is a deception, the other is openly witholding.

Think about kids being told that they ARE getting X for their birthday instead of really getting Y (a lie) versus simply being told it is a surprise and they have to wait to see what they got (openly withholding.)

Yeah that makes sense, wouldn't do anything to stop phishing calls in any way. Which isn't the goal of this law?

Kind of. Faked called IDs are nearly always done for the purpose of phishing, even if just lightly.

Right. But, isn't their already a law against what phishers are doing?

With phones? Don't believe so. Legacy tech like phones and postal mail often have the worst behaviours protected by law.