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@dafyre said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

@JaredBusch said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

@dafyre said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.

Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero 🙂

Or a call screening app. Google's Call Screening on my Pixel has cut the number of calls I get in half.

Not on your life.

You realize how those work right?

Have you actually used the Google Call Screening? It actually plays a message if it doesn't recognize the number from your contacts list and tells them that you are using the Google Call Screening... If they actually "listen" to the greeting, then they can state why they called and you can answer the call if it's actually somebody you want to talk to, or let them leave a voicemail.

I was getting 3 or 4 calls a day about 2 months ago. Now I'm getting like 6 or 7 a week.

FFS, are you just stupid?

How can it decide what to do if you don't grant it access to all inbound CID?

What happens after it gets that information will be up to the app developer. But that has nothing to do with what I stated.

This is she same reason I never used Google Voice after giving it a trial and learning how it worked (it is jsut a call forwarding service). They absolutely don't need to know all the people that call me.

Had a good time at the event. Got lunch and a bottle of wine. @pchiodo played some golf.

Met up with these guys...

https://www.atrisktech.com/

This is another.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/11/windows_7_activation_error/
A tweak to the Activation Servers saw happily licensed Windows 7 users suddenly presented with "Windows is not genuine"-type notifications from 10:00 UTC on January 8

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/4487266/activation-failures-and-not-genuine-notifications-on-vl-win-7-kms-clie

@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#&%@ 🙂

@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.

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

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. 😛

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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@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.

@mlnews oh look NodeBB done been hack3d too then.

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