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Microsoft To Add A Black Box To Windows
An anonymous reader writes "According to ZDNet, Microsoft plans to add the software equivalent of a 'black box' flight recorder to Windows. According to the article, 'The tool will build on the existing Watson error-reporting tool in Windows but will provide Microsoft with much deeper information, including what programs were running at the time of the error and even the contents of documents that were being created.'" Commentary available via C|Net as well.
It will record your screams as your computer crashes.
Will it survive after I kick the shit out my computer and then throw it off a cliff?
'The tool will build on the existing Watson error-reporting tool in Windows but will provide Microsoft with much deeper information, including what programs were running at the time of the error and even the contents of documents that were being created.'
So one mans spyware is another mans "helpful utility"?
Right, now many of you will call me a Mac fanatic and mod me down, but seriously: Apple does not think of shit like this... I can just see the new virus' composed to utilize the flaws in this feature... Wait, I got it, they will use it to compete with Apple's Automator in Tiger:
"Tired of having to go to the store to buy the latest Microsoft product? Now you will never have to again! The windows automator(tm) scans all your messages, emails, text documents, and computerized purchase orders for your credit card information, bank number, PIN numbers, etc; sends the data to the Microsoft data servers. Your information is then carefully protected, until the newest Microsoft product is ready for shipment. Then your accounts are drained, and everything you needed, even if you didn't know it, will be shipped to your door. Remember: Microsoft works...."
And yes, I read the article, and the passage: " "Our stance on this is that the user is in control," Sullivan said. "In the consumer environment, you will be presented with a dialog that clearly gives you the choice whether to share the information and then also provides exactly what the detail is so you can parse character by character what's being sent."
But it kinda hurts the joke... That and with Microsoft's record of error, would you really trust this?
3 degrees of separation from Vladimir Putin
Why not make the Whole OS out of the black box stuff? Then nothing can damage it!
He's been a real asset to Windows over the years.
Wouldn't it be faster for them to sift through the logs of what was happening when the system was stable? I mean, dear God, imagine the size of the log files if they logged crashes.
If you mod me down, I shall become less powerful than you could possibly imagine.
1984.
Except the blackbox on a jet won't (unless I'm woefully uninformed more than usual) tell what you were doing in your own seat when the plane went down.
Pleasuring yourself one last time before you die?
I am defenseless. Use your button. Mod me down with all of your hatred.
It said, "what we have here is failure to communicate." What's that mean?
:D It's from Guns'n'Roses' Civil War, "what we've got here is failure to communicate, some men you just can't reach" and so on. Great stuff. And no, I won't go into what it could possibly mean in there.
Oh, man, how old are you ?
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
as if we needed anymore reasons to switch to Linux or Mac.
I can just see it. Clippy will get replaced by a stern man's face watching you. The power switch to the monitor will no longer work...
The truth is an offense, but not a sin.------R. N. Marley
Example Log:
2012-03-14 @ 17:20: Windows Media Player crashed trying to load "Amazing Asses 70: The Return of the Brazilian Butts"
2012-03-16 @ 18:11: Windows Media Player crashed trying to load "The Adventures of Buttman".
Sounds like invasion of privacy to me. Not that I'm a porn addict or anything.
*runs out of thread fast*
Why would they need a black box if "it just works"?
A power switch! She'll get years for that...
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C'mon, man. If the plane's going down, even a slahdork could probably find some girl on the plane who would be interested in a final go-round. Don't underestimate the power of impending death. It might be your best hope for losing your virginity.
You know what?
11:34:46: A few exception stack numbers etc. 11:34:49: User said:"Duck". 11:34:53: User said:"Ewe phukkan piss of shirt". 11:34:53: HDD reports tracking errors due to high impact shock.
Engineering is the art of compromise.