Daiwa

Daiwa

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Reply to “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” – B. Franklin in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Ben Franklin would tend to disagree, I'd think, but he's unavailable for comment. There is no 'third option' that both guarantees individual liberties and prevents bad actors from being bad. Scenario 1: Favoring sustaining individual rights has consequences. Scenario 2: Favoring compromising individual rights in the name of safety* has consequences. Either choice will necessarily involve unknown (and unknowable) potential consequences, but scena

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Reply to “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” – B. Franklin in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="15" id="3620776"] Aussie view point [/quote] Member nations of the Commonwealth have the Magna Carta going for them, but not the specific rights enumerated in our Bill of Rights. So the relationship between subject and crown is a little different from the relationship between citizen and state. 'Course, you knew that.

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Reply to Why not? in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

Saw MT in person on two occasions in their prime. Amazing what they could do. Oh, and... Eldorado Caddy, of course. (For Doc - Maybe its/it's El Dorado Caddy, so covered)

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Reply to Interesting article…MS and the “Dark Side”. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

[quote who="psychoak" reply="52" id="3619065"] It's not really possible for an OS to not install. [/quote] I defer to your greater expertise, psycho. But, just out of curiosity, couldn't firmware do the job of detecting the OS attempting to be installed & say 'nuh-uh-uh, nixnay'?

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Reply to Interesting article…MS and the “Dark Side”. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

While my TFH is in the closet most of the time, I resemble that remark, the_Monk! [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] Starkers - Maybe this is what you actually mean (Oz language barrier 'n all), but the OS wouldn't have the chance to 'fail', it just wouldn't install. [e digicons];)[/e]

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Reply to Interesting article…MS and the “Dark Side”. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I would think that the OS would continue to run fine and continue to work with existing (working) peripherals, it just might not be able to run some new peripherals or video cards, etc., for lack of drivers, things like that. I doubt you'll simply fire it up one day and find MS has actively sabotaged your rig to a BSOD. MS may be dumb in many ways, but not in that way (I hope).

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Reply to Interesting article…MS and the “Dark Side”. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I still seem to get a fair number of non-security updates offered up. But as a practical matter, the security updates are the only ones of importance. I saw something about MS stopping generic peripheral driver updates at some point for Win7 on newer hardware, which may be the extent of 'crippling' support. With the hardware rapidly outrunning Win7, it may just be a matter of 'unanticipated asynchrony'.

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Reply to Interesting article…MS and the “Dark Side”. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

No, MS just crippled a portion of the support lifespan of Win7 on Skylake beginning some time in 2017, after which only 'really' important security updates (in the sole discretion of MS) will be offered for Win7 on those Skylake rigs, up through the scheduled end-of-life-cycle in 2020. So, Win7 will 'run' on a Skylake rig until 2020 if you want it to, just might be dodgy from a security or driver standpoint, whatever that may mean. Going forward, they're not go

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Reply to Interesting article…MS and the “Dark Side”. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

BTW, there is another stealth Win10 upgrade 'update' in the latest batch - KB3112343 - to provide a 'better upgrade experience', of course. At least it's not labeled as a security update, but it's in the (allegedly) 'Important' batch. Addendum: 5 of the Security updates in this batch refer to the same, completely vague security bulletin MS16-007 which tells you absolutely nothing about the updates. I'll take off my TFH & ge

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Reply to Interesting article…MS and the “Dark Side”. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I thought those 'groups' only applied once upgraded to Win10, Doc, not to existing Win7 installations. I'm on Win7 Pro; the updates are available to be installed if I go to Windows Update, I'm just no longer getting the tray icon notification that updates are available. Tray notifications have been the default in Win7 from the gitgo unless you choose "Never check for updates". At least until recently. Not a local machine issue as same behavio

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Reply to Interesting article…MS and the “Dark Side”. in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

They are also conducting a bit of passive aggressive warfare, in addition to the in-your-face-GWX crap. I no longer get a tray icon letting me know new security updates are available on my Win7 machines set to "Check for updates but let me choose..." Going on about 3 months now, maybe a bit longer. There must have been a stealth update along the way that disabled that function as it could only have been intentional. MS is truly being as obnoxious as they could be.

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Reply to What the Middle Class really wants? in Politics JoeUser Forums

We need politicians with the wisdom & cojones to back off (quit 'helping' us) and allow America to be a modestly, decently successful country again (let alone 'great'). No more 'making' American anything (by any of our effed up politicians). We've got this without them. Figuratively speaking, we'd all be better off (not perfect, just better off) if the government just got the f**k out of our way . We'll see none

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Reply to “My Disk Wiper”–before you sell that computer… in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Looks like a very good option for flash/USB drives in particular. Thanks for the info, Doc. For the hard drive(s) in your computer, should you need to wipe for resale/gifting/recycling, DBAN (Darik's Boot And Nuke) is also a good option ( link ). I had to wipe a dozen or so XP rigs a year or two ago before recycling the hardware and it works well.

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