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Vista is Watching You
greengrass writes "Are you using Windows Vista? Then you might as well know that the licensed operating system installed on your machine is harvesting a healthy volume of information for Microsoft. In this context, a program such as the Windows Genuine Advantage is the last of your concerns. In fact, in excess of 20 Windows Vista features and services are hard at work collecting and transmitting your personal data to the Redmond company."
I don't have nearly enough ram.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
I hear the icon on the desktop isn't called My Computer anymore, it's now just "Computer". I guess in the fine print it says "BillG's Computer".
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
"Aside from privacy concerns, how much storage space and processing power is being used for this endeavor? Couldn't all that be put to much better use?"
Of course, Aero.
Americans take their privacy too seriously to ignore this if this becomes public
... XP, is it?" ... I mean, I just won't buy computers with Vista." ... I can just choose XP when I order one." ..."
You mean, you wish they wouldn't ignore this?
"OMG! Vista violates my privacy!"
"So what are you going to do about it?"
"I'm going to use a different operating system!"
"Which one?"
"Well, uh, the other one."
"Which other one."
"Like, the other Windows."
"Which other Windows?"
"Um, I guess
"Do you know how to install an operating system?"
"Well, no
"And where do you buy a computer without Vista?"
"Um
"And when XP is discontinued?"
"Then I'll get a completely different operating system, from a different company."
"You mean a Mac?"
"Oh, heavens no."
"Then what?"
"Um
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
It's just: Windows Update, Web Content, Digital Certificates, Auto Root Update, Windows Media Digital Rights Management, Windows Media Player, Malicious Software Removal/Clean On Upgrade, Network Connectivity Status Icon, Windows Time Service, and the IPv6 Network Address Translation (NAT) Traversal service (Teredo).
See, typical /. overreaction
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"Hi I'm a PC" "And I'm a Mac." Mac sees PC with phone in hand, watching a 3rd person. "So what you doing?" "SHHH! I'm collecting data on that user over there. And phoning hom." *to person on other end* "Yeah, he's reading a news site. No, it's not MSNBC. Is he allowed to do that? Confirm or deny?"
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher.
I think this is the idea behind dual core: 1 core belong to microsoft, 1 core for you
No. All your core are belong to us.
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