On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 07:34:36AM -0700, Blibbet wrote:

I don't use Win10, but maybe this will help?

I don't use it too, but would prefer "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/you/know/where" from live cd for unfucking. It is well known that /dev/zero is faster, but no so good.

https://github.com/dfkt/win10-unfuck/

Thank you, added to list here:

https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150828.024923.d044cdcb.en.

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On 08/27/2015 07:34 AM, Blibbet wrote:

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I don't use Win10, but maybe this will help?

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https://github.com/dfkt/win10-unfuck/

The continued dominance of Microsoft products even in professional and commercial settings, and ongoing efforts to mitigate the Microsoft spectrum of security failures and violations, demonstrates one of the most fundamental laws of human behavior: You can't smarten up a chump. IIRC it was W.C. Fields who observed, "Trying to smarten up a chump is like trying to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time and annoys the pig." A corollary to this law states that it is morally wrong to give a sucker an even break. That would explain the global ecosystem of administrator and technicians who use Microsoft to rip off clients and employers. But for the benefit of those who do not fall entirely into the chump ~ sucker category Mr. Miyagi say, "Best block is, no be there. " :o/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJV3+AmAAoJEDZ0Gg87KR0LeyUQAKeXFHJxHzQzAvdEdd8Zukky Gblq4lyT7+Jv0di6dqvxYPXL3TftWnxeyEN1aI/VUq3oxosQOwU8MiIqKLr0WmwQ kTQ3U6ePvh44GoesNnXrRS4KIHGbaoxi58hOkHYi+yN0GT5riV4TV/eftlj9+WoL wZqeDo8TJmpnZoJA2rW/ei92C9d8okYn4IsIfSjOFGYb2CkUo8lafE+36i4eOAdJ /UcIUHi+Hm6wn3/fkT2+S3tFRMzY3J9jsO/O2ihcw1fsK7DKMQAD53Omf2uGJOXu x4rMR41SdFvKJgM4nSCbsBMrBvstioM0QFwMTofRVhWSDSQHBwycks7L55TTGayr mD6kE9+oJl1/9xFmoC2RRdLaDQPzVDcMr+1Rl8mq261vv7/27xEmkXW1n0DMQO/J imUAZ+DijDg18cEHAUBd+9qXpk+vaObYBCP0H7IAqVOkcpj1ieTVKGtucNQHHChi N1awXiEJXsTxir+EC5M2oPs5y4aycMVL/SBsQ8jS+86uhYpWnJHl06EkZhybXn18 RFt9FpLsAFVQ5bQoHljDICn4BJzlzVTnvNeg23E0UTlUDZ0OSCipq3xDnJZyMes/ LvjwW7Mo8P/p+qBNuy0Ckh6J/Gr9kBJEHeZeUhJW5w0df03/7YyfI3YBU2jzCmYi IEwK1XgBUgG4hz/CQ9aw =XQtf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

2015-08-28 17:10 GMT+02:00 Georgi Guninski <guninski@guninski.com>:

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:14:33AM -0400, Steve Kinney wrote:

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The continued dominance of Microsoft products even in professional and commercial settings, and ongoing efforts to mitigate the Microsoft spectrum of security failures and violations,

They are losing dominance and eventually will kick the bucket.

Wouldn't be surprised if they just "re-adjust" to a new market equilibrium. Windows10 easily has the best usability and compatibility. Reliability seems nominal (on par with other OS'es), meaning horrid. Office is still an absolute bestseller. Microsoft is a big player in the console/games business. The .net ecosystem is the most evolved/advanced of all ecosystems - encompassing pretty much all types of programming, platforms, etc. powered by the amazing Visual Studio. They finally rebranded Internet Explorer into Edge, and decided it's also a good time to push the browser old-school style. Bing is offering better and better search results. (Maybe just because Google seems to be getting worse, and definitely less interesting) Windows Phone and that whole mess still has the potential to do what Microsoft always does: slowly but steadily improve to acceptable. People are surprisingly eager for it to work out; many being burned either on expensive Apple hardware with wacky limitations, or glitchy and inconsistent Android devices. Won't be surprised if there are significantly more smartphones

than computers and m$'s share there is negligible AFAICT.

This can change really fast - one or two manufacturers offering Windows Phone can provide significance pretty fast. If the device is right, and the price is low. When I was much younger thought I would celebrate when

m$ kicks the bucket, but now I have serious doubts that the next adversary might be more skilled than the scumbags.

This is an interesting statement. Certainly Microsoft is "the evil we know". It's evil is the salesmanship that made it huge - and the software not as geeky as we like.

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demonstrates one of the most fundamental laws of human behavior: You can't smarten up a chump. IIRC it was W.C. Fields who observed, "Trying to smarten up a chump is like trying to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time and annoys the pig."

I don't care what OS/smartphone many dumb users use, but your argument applies to politics/voting literally.

I think most users do not lack the intelligence/capability to understand, merely the desire to. They do not see any need, and do not have the "means to learn". When is the last time a manual told you anything useful? The best kind of education most people employ isn't even articles - it's poorly produced youtube videos. We've lost the "complete broadcast" that TV and newspapers pretty much guaranteed. The mediums we got in return are exceedingly confusing (unclear in intent and purpose) and "narrow" (little bandwidth). I'm still waiting for #nextgen newsreporting.