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I assume you mean me ? here's one http://www.infoworld.com/article/2911609/operating-systems/kb-2952664-compatibility-update-for-win7-triggers-unexpected-daily-telemetry-run-may-be-snooping.html but you probably already know about it However Microslurp now release all their updates in a single homogeneous monthly windows update rollup so you can no longer pick and choose what you want or avoid installing telemetry.

@woah You probably know this but watch out for windows 7 updates, they've rolled the telemetry updates from win10 into them so I expect win7 to start phoning home as often as win10 soon and eventually refusing to allow you on your local network if you deny access to the slurp servers

This is the problem, we're going to wait and see if Trump can be controlled or moderated, if he's going to see reason, we're going to give him the benefit of doubt. I can tell you right here and now, that's a mistake. Just looking at the people he's choosing for his cabinet will tell you that's a mistake. He's in charge and he knows it, the Republicans have the presidency, the senate and unless Obama does something drastic very soon they will also have the Supreme Court. Trump will do what he wants, when he wants as often as he wants, no one will stop him and he will roll over any one or any group who tries to get in his way, he is not a nice person, he is not doing this for the good of America, he's doing this for his own ego. America will suffer because of this, and that's a problem because when America sneezes the world catches a cold. He'll probably spend his first year dismantling every achievement of the Obama administration starting with the affordable care act, then he'll start satisfying his grudges & go after everyone who ever slighted him most likely starting with Clinton, which redneck americans will absolutely love, it will be prime time tv, then he'll start looking at acquisitions, "the middle east is full of bad people, really bad, the worst, you know, they could give us their resources but no, they're awful, lets do something about that" and redneck america will cheer as the troops are deployed. As for voting someone else in in 2020, assuming we get to 2020, by then there will be so many disenfranchised voters, mainly among those who don't have white skins that he'll get another term by a landslide. So if people don't want this, there aren't many options left and waiting to see what happens & trying to deal with it after the fact is not going to work.

Why am I scared? Well one reason is a narcissistic, egotistical, grudge bearing, man baby, with poor decision making skills and a history of making other people pay for his fuck ups has just been given the keys to one of the biggest nuclear arsenals on the planet and he's shown no reluctance about using them either to intimidate or if that fails in reality, when questioned prior to the election. Correct me if I'm wrong but as I understand it, if the US is involved in a conflict, and when are they ever not, and someone attacks America, the President can order a nuclear strike as retaliation without recourse to congress, the system is set up so that the Secretary of Defense has to verify the order came from the actual president, but beyond that they cannot stop it or veto it. If the SOD refuses to verify the order their next in command will do so & so on until someone says eventually "yes the president authorised a launch", this is the two man system. The details of what constitutes attacking America are a little fuzzy on my reading, but in a conflict pretty much anything is an attack, once the first missile is launched others will follow, even though the cold war ended years ago we still have the capability and operate under the assumption of MAD. If he only launches one that would be enough to trigger responses from other countries. So YAY the nuclear war bargaining chip has just been put firmly back on the table, please advance the clock, it's currently at 3 minutes and it hasn't been updated for a while I suspect it may be soon. If he wants something, and Trump wants a lot, he is not above using lies, threats and force to get them, his election campaign proved that, he's not a diplomat, he's a two year old in a man's body and he's just been made the most powerful person on the planet. And then of course there's the world economy, Trump has a long history of running up huge debts, declaring bankruptcy and walking away from them leaving others to pick up the tab, or he orders work to be done supplies to be delivered & used then he doesn't pay, What influence will that have on the US economy and why will other countries want to trade with a country who has a man who doesn't pay his debts in charge? so we'll all suffer because of that. Of course our Brexit team think this is wonderful news and are gaily skipping across the pond to try and open trade negotiations with a man who's first, last and only thought is "What's in it for me", I suspect they will achieve a trade deal and we'll all pay for it because while it will be the best they can get it will be pretty fucking awful for us. And then we have the rise of the right wing, Brexit was bad enough when every racist, xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic, ableist arsehole in the UK suddenly felt like their time had come and they could go out and kick some heads in with impunity. Well making Trump President will have the same effect in the US and give the UK arseholes a shot in the arm they really don't fucking need. All their dreams have come true and anyone with a brown skin, foreign sounding name or accent, looks a bit funny, happens to love someone of the same sex, is female or has a disability is fair game. Not to mention the right wingers on the continent, Marine Le Pen wants to be president of France and the rising tide of the right just might give it to her, in which case I have no idea what our future will hold but it won't be pleasant. And then we have climate change, Trump is appointing a climate change sceptic to lead the EPA and regards climate change as a work of fiction designed to deprive rich people of a means of making more money. The scientific community think by the time Trump leaves office the effects will be irreversible and catastrophic. I suppose he can build a wall around the US to keep the water at bay though he'll have a tough time making the fish pay for it. So call it fear mongering if you like, but I'm fucking scared and until he ceases to be president I'm going to remain scared. Anyone who wants to nitpick & find flaw with these arguments, you knock yourself out, enjoy, it won't change my views at all, the world is turning into a place I don't want to live in and President Trump is a giant fucking leap down the path.

I lived through the Reagan presidency & both the Bush presidencies, I was a child during the Cuban missile crisis, I witnessed the second plane hit the world trade centre on 9/11 via TV & I saw America's reaction, I've seen my share of scary terrorist shit within the borders of my own country, even been quite close to some of it. But I never actually feared for my life and the lives of everyone I love before today. And I am utterly helpless to do anything about it. I'm more scared of our ally with Trump at the helm than I am of our enemies.

Ah, bugger, scratch that idea then

I wouldn't worry too much about working out where a brick is thrown from. Having been hit by a flying brick I can tell you it's a case of "by the time you see it, it's hit you" and I couldn't tell you where it came from. If I'd have seen it I'd have ducked, maybe that could be implemented ? a ducking/flinch response for flying projectiles that are seen. A near miss on the other hand, providing the AI happens to be looking in the right direction or sees enough of the trajectory then it could work out a rough area where it might have come from but it needn't be incredibly accurate, give the projectile information that says "I came from that 50 sq metre area over there" & have it disappear or reset to a new area when it hits the ground so the ground needs to inform the projectile of the new area. It's a lot of work for little reward imo, the AI in TDM are the best I've seen

STiFU : Bugger! didn't see that, sorry conker : Ta, corrected

3rd person stealth game "Aragami" announced Will be available for PC, Mac & Linux bit too bloodthirsty & 3rd person for me but it might be of interest to others https://youtu.be/sO5H_UaToTI

Yup that's pretty much why I don't like modern games

Zombie minefield

@biker : I already block sites via hosts but I believe WIn10 can bypass the hosts file & use numeric IP addresses if it discovers it's not getting through, so there's nothing I can do that will block numeric IP's on my router ? @anderson : I have an old android 2.3.4 phone & I have no problem with it, there is nothing on that phone beyond my partners number that O consider to be remotely sensitive, before that I had a windows phone & had no problem with that beyond it getting so old I couldn't source a battery neither android nor windows phones are the latest version of the OS, so I'm probably not the best person to ask about phone/pc comparisons. I'm not a fan of smartphones in general, they are too oriented towards getting personal data into the hands of other people What I want is a computer that makes phone calls but nobody makes one

Looks like I'm going to end up with a Win10 tablet, I'll probably end up wiping it and putting some flavour of L*nux on it but until then is it possible to block the telemetry data slurp in my router ? I can block access to url's based on keywords but I believe telemetry uses embedded IP addresses & I can't see a way of blocking those unless I can do something with static routes, anyone got any tips for this ? If it helps my router is a Netgear WNR1000v3 with firmware V1.0.2.68_60.0.93

ooooOOoo prog, I do like a bit of twiddley now and then, I shall have a listen, thank you Very nice, relaxing, I enjoyed that, thank you

Or use a thick wall and two gates so you can't actually reach the body

Not a TDM level designer here so please don't laugh at the suggestion I'm not sure how TDM does things Is it possible to set a region around a gate like that one so that if an unconscious body that isn't currently being shouldered enters that region it loses the attribute that says if can be shouldered and regains it if it leaves. So you'd still be able to move the body but you couldn't teleport it through the gate & if you're on the same side of the gate as the body you can drag the body a little to pick it up or you can shrink the area as the player comes into frob range from that side of the gate so the region leaves the body with the same effect as if the body were dragged out of the region And as the region only affects unconscious bodies you should still be able to pickpocket, move small objects & possibly BJ through the gate. Also if you manage to open the gate you can remove the region & restore it if you close the gate Lot of work for a small effect imo

Well this is very much a worst case scenario but there aren't many good ones I can think of at the moment and scarily there are signs of it starting to happen The UK has put one foot on the slippery slope with the vote, if we invoke Article 50 that's the second one and the process becomes irreversible we then have two years to negotiate our exit terms which is basically a rulebook of "how do we trade with the EU as a non member". This can be extended but requires all the other member states to agree, as we just gave them two fingers and pissed on their chips I doubt they are all going to be so disposed, so lets say two years is it. Any trade deal we do make with the EU is going to allow free movement of labour from the EU but not to the EU, it will allow immigration though no one in their right mind will immigrate and will cost us a lot more than our membership of the EU ever did. This is because the EU will have us over a barrel, any trade deal will be of the "take it or leave it" variety, we need them a lot more than they need us no matter what that nice Mr Farage says. After two years, whether we have a deal or not we cease being an EU member, all trade ceases and switches to what we've negotiated, we cease being EU citizens, free movement of labour to the EU ceases ... a lot of thing stop is the theme I'm going for here. And then we're on our own free to trade with whoever we like. Except for the minor detail that we'll have very little to trade by this time. There are few UK resident businesses that are not either majority or wholly foreign owned, they are here because of relatively cheap labour and free and convenient access to the EU. Once they know for definite that the free and convenient access to a market of 500million people is going to stop they will leave. Some companies are already doing this or at least planning to, the big banks, who ironically caused the last recession, are drawing up plans to relocate to other countries to avoid this lack of access and the next recession. Tech companies are doing the same. The buyers for TATA steel which is an Indian owned company, have dropped out. Japanese car companies are weighing their options for having the UK as a base, Ford had said they would have to rethink their presence in the UK. Most of our major manufacturers, businesses & industries are drawing up plans to leave the UK if they can. So a lot of our major manufacturers, the ones who make the goods we trade with, will leave, casting thousands, if not millions onto welfare, you may have thought Austerity was bad, this is going to be a hell of a lot worse. If we don't produce anything we obviously can't trade it, which means our imports will dry up, which could be a problem as we import around 46% of our food, we don't produce enough or enough variety to adequately feed our own population and the farms can't ramp up production overnight it takes time to grow food, during which time people will go hungry. Oh and fuel, we import a lot of that too, does anyone know how to guarantee a mild winter ? ... for the next decade or more ?, oh yeah global warming, no worries on fuel then, phew. I'm glad I mentioned the farms, every one of them is heavily subsidised by the EU, without that funding they have to charge the full production cost of the food they produce. So without the EU there will be a lot less food, and what there is will be a lot more expensive and all the people who will be out of work by this time won't be able to afford it anyway, so we can probably expect rationing to start if not, outright famine. And then there are all the EU funded things that will also stop, all our universities receive substantial funding from the EU, as do a lot of our social welfare programmes including the NHS. The EU funding will stop & all these things will collapse. Our children will not be able to go to universities unless they are from rich families & without the NHS we can expect diseases of epidemic proportion to rise, which will at least help with the food problem. Then there are the racists and the far right. I don't know if anyone noticed over the weekend but these arseholes have been crawling out from under their rocks and attacking people. If you are reading this and count yourself among their number may I take this opportunity to wish you an extremely protracted and painful death you gibbering fucktrumpet. Now I accept that not every leave voter is a racist and a lot of you had what you considered to be good reasons for voting to leave, but every racist took your vote as a vindication, you effectively said "hey guys you're OK, now go and kick some immigrant heads in you little scamps". And of course since the far right are such a tolerant group we can expect them to broaden their attacks to include their old traditional targets like "LGBT folk", "women who dress provocatively" (translates as wearing clothes) and the old favourite "people who look a bit different". Also they are going to be hungry too and they aren't above taking what they need by force. You've just legitimised them, well done. Now as I say this is very much a worst case scenario and it relies on Article 50 being triggered, but parts of it are happening now. Not triggering Article 50 might stop the rot, and there are signs that the government isn't going to trigger it, in which case we can count on a recession for the next maybe 5 years if we're lucky, every other person in the world hating and despising us for the rest of our lives, oh and we'll have changed one group of our ruling elite for another group of ruling elite. But whatever happens it's going to be a lot worse than most people think. -EDIT- And while the EU cannot force us to invoke Article 50, unless a decision is taken publicly to either invoke it or take it off the table the markets will not stabilise, the pound will remain in free fall and there is a danger of the same hyperinflation that Germany suffered occurring here. So we need a statement one way or the other and we need it soon, end of this week may be too late

They can't see ? So if you just stand there & not make a noise they'll walk past you ?

Doh! I should just open my eyes shouldn't I, sorry

Any chance of adding this to the win10 thread ?

Oddly enough no, I never tried that

The Register reckons it's found the reason Win10 & the GWX nagware is so hard to avoid See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/17/microsoft_windows_10_upgrade_gwx_vs_humanity/ And then there's KB29526654 Apparently this patch keeps changing with new revisions and every new revision re enables win10. If you remove it you only remove the last one then it reinstalls the previous version from a cache. So you need to delete all the previous versions which are cached on your machine as well as every registry entry for each of them. Sorry Microsoft, this has destroyed any trust I had in you

If you just want to look around the map you're probably better off with "notarget" as (I think) AI will still attack you in god mode & can get in the way & block access And if you ever get stuck in the map, say you fall down a well, "noclip" will get you out

Who says the transparent part is glass ? this is an alternative universe which while broadly similar could have some other translucent/transparent material that doesn't shatter on impact, Star Trek has transparent aluminium, maybe it's made of that

This, frob them to turn them off & not shoot with arrows