Can you be the target of a court case if you supply Windows 10 computers without getting a signed agreement that the customer knows Microsoft has access to everything on the computers? Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)
Microsoft managers lack social ability. They have done ENORMOUS DAMAGE to the Microsoft brand name.
Some of the many, many reports of Microsoft managers thinking they can manipulate and control everyone, as though the managers are government dictators:
A huge problem: A high percentage of people who work with Windows computers make more money if there are more problems with Microsoft and Windows. There is a conflict of interest.
Apparently, because desktop computer sales are slowing, Microsoft managers decided they would try to make Windows 10 like Google's Android. They apparently decided to try to gather information about everything, and try to sell that information. Most people with cell phones don't have the technical knowledge necessary to know if they are being abused.
Court cases? If a company supplies Windows 10 computers to businesses and doesn't get a signed agreement from all business customers that the customers know Windows 10 allows Microsoft to gather data from their computers, the supplier could be the target of court cases, and possibly even go to prison. No business customers want Microsoft employees to have access to their company information. My opinion, shared by many others.
People working with desktop computers don't want to be distracted by ads. They don't want to try to learn an new, complicated user interfaces.
This comment is my best understanding and opinion.
"Before Google Fiber came to town, getting and using broadband in this area was painful."
"Everything had to be done by phone, with tons of time on hold."
"Installation was workmen with a clipboard, scheduled weeks out."
"You never reached more than 25-40% of advertised speed up or down."
"Service was terrible and unreliable and if there was an outage you could be offline for weeks waiting for a service appointment."
"Account changes or cancellations were a by-telephone nightmare that were virtually destined to go wrong each time."
That was the "Don't be evil" Google. Now Google is poorly managed, in my opinion. Now I see lots of complaints about Google on Slashdot.
Also, as others have mentioned, in Europe there is much better service than in the United States. That's because, in the United States, the government does whatever it is paid by rich people to do, many people say. Local government prevented improvements by making destructive laws. One reason is that often incompetent people are elected.
1) Possibly Elizabeth Holmes didn't know what she said was not the truth. Why is that a reasonable theory? Because she obviously is the kind of person with no knowledge of technology and no interest in technology.
2) Apparently she was not actually the CEO, but merely pretending. From the Wikipedia article about Theranos management:
"Holmes' then-boyfriend Sunny Balwani, a software engineer 18 years her senior whom Holmes had met during high school, joined the company as its president and chief operating officer in 2009."
I'm guessing he was the actual top manager of Theranos, at least when it began to be taken seriously. They had started going together when she was a teenager, the article implies.
Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos, seemed only to try to get people to like her. She seemed more like a young girl than anyone who could operate a business.
People who have technical knowledge create cultural differences in themselves that are often easy to detect socially. Holmes gave no impression of having technical knowledge, or of even being the kind of person who likes technical knowledge.
Interesting story!!! A quote: "I never understood why they had given $40m to the company without bothering to get any independent input about the technology."
From reading about investing, I get the impression that kind of foolishness happens frequently.
The investors in Theranos were an example of people being extremely ignorant of technology. Someone who understood would ask a few questions and immediately determine something was wrong.
"We looked at it a couple times, but there was so much hand-waving -- like, Look over here! -- that we couldn't figure it out," Maris tells Business Insider. "So, we just had someone from our life-science investment team go into Walgreens and take the test. And it wasn't that difficult for anyone to determine that things may not be what they seem here."
"... and Improved Spying! You forgot THAT feature..."
A long time ago, I installed the Google Chrome browser. It installed 3 system services. I discovered that using the free SysInternals Process Explorer. Chrome back then took control over computers.
Does Chrome still install 3 system services? Is Chrome spyware?
I recommend Microsoft's SysInternals. There are numerous helpful programs written by one of the best programmers ever connected with Microsoft, Mark Russinovich. (He is now CTO of Microsoft Azure, which is having major problems today.)
There was a reason I said de-encryption. I am hoping a Slashdot reader sends a link to my comment to someone with no technical knowledge, but who has power over governmental issues. I was thinking maybe that person wouldn't know the meaning of decryption.
Also, Slashdot comments represent me at my worst, in some ways. Often I spend time writing a Slashdot comment when I am very busy doing other things.
"Pass an amendment requiring full open financial information on all elected officials and their family members, spouse & children."
Mod parent up! We live in societies that lack a depth of understanding. We are forced to vote for people we don't really know.
Most people are ignorant about much of what happens around them that affects their lives.
Many people in government and in management of private companies have NO knowledge of technical issues. That doesn't prevent them from having what they consider to be a strong and sensible opinion. They don't recognize they are wildly ignorant.
De-encryption back doors are not an answer. They will ALWAYS eventually be compromised.
Encryption is ALWAYS available. Forcing back doors will merely hasten the development of additional encryption methods.
You said, "The subscription mode proposed by Microsoft is for business customers"
What companies will want to pay more?
Microsoft and Microsoft employees will have full access to everything on every company computer? I don't know of anyone or any company that would allow that.
Windows 10 Leak Exposes Microsoft's New Monthly Charge. (Aug. 4, 2018) Quote: "Ever since its creation, Microsoft has described Windows 10 as a service. The fear
has always been that this meant Microsoft would start charging users a monthly fee to maintain
the operating system, and now a new leak has confirmed this is exactly what will happenâ¦"
Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (August 4, 2015) Microsoft and Microsoft employees have full access to everything on every computer? I don't know of anyone or any company that should allow that.
2 issues, IMO:
A huge social problem: Conflict of interest. People who do Windows OS support make more money if there are many problems.
Microsoft employees and managers seem to me to lack social ability.
Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (August 4, 2015) Microsoft and Microsoft employees have full access to everything on every computer?
1) Do you think Microsoft won't begin charging everyone later? That's what Adobe Systems did after releasing Creative Suite version 6. It is now Adobe Creative Cloud.
2) Will "business users" want Microsoft to have more control over their computers?
Basically, if there is a monthly charge for Windows 10, Microsoft will make more money if there are more bugs in updates. They will apparently fix the bugs only for those who are paying monthly.
Intel accused of age discrimination (May 28, 2018) Subtitle: "US federal investigators are looking into Intel's layoffs of 12,000 employees since 2016."
Judging from personal conversations with Intel employees and comments on web sites, Intel is badly managed:
"As a person who worked there several times as contract employee, which makes up most of the workforce. I have seen this happen many times, where older and higher paid blue badges get shown the door, and sometimes escorted out like criminals. This has created a paranoid environment among those who are left, so everyone starts back stabbing each other because they don't want to be the next one to be booted. And creates animosity to the contract workers who are treated like crap. So any workplace cohesion gets thrown out the window, because everyone is circling their prospective wagons."
Do you believe this quote? "The office affair which sparked Intel CEO Brian Krzanich's surprise resignation on Thursday started a decade ago and ended before he became CEO in 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported."
I don't have problems with NoScript installed on Pale Moon.
Of course, anyone who doesn't pay attention to what NoScript says it is blocking is likely to have web site page display problems.
Another issue: Pale Moon doesn't allow the Ghostery add-on. It allows Disconnect instead. The user interface of Ghostery is much more sophisticated. I didn't find any explanation about why Ghostery is not allowed.
Pale Moon browser version 27.9.4 actually sometimes un-installs NoScript without notifying the user. Other times it complains. When Pale Moon un-installs NoScript, I re-install it.
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Microsoft employees: Instead of moderating my comment down, I suggest you get a better job.
Microsoft is VERY poorly managed, in my opinion. My previous comment: Microsoft managers lack social ability, IMO.
Can you be the target of a court case if you supply Windows 10 computers without getting a signed agreement that the customer knows Microsoft has access to everything on the computers? Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)
Microsoft managers lack social ability. They have done ENORMOUS DAMAGE to the Microsoft brand name.
Some of the many, many reports of Microsoft managers thinking they can manipulate and control everyone, as though the managers are government dictators:
Microsoft is infesting Windows 10 with annoying ads (March 17, 2017)
Microsoft, stop sabotaging Windows 10. (March 21, 2017)
Microsoft's Intolerable Windows 10 Aggression (May 27, 2016)
Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (Aug. 4, 2015)
A huge problem: A high percentage of people who work with Windows computers make more money if there are more problems with Microsoft and Windows. There is a conflict of interest.
Apparently, because desktop computer sales are slowing, Microsoft managers decided they would try to make Windows 10 like Google's Android. They apparently decided to try to gather information about everything, and try to sell that information. Most people with cell phones don't have the technical knowledge necessary to know if they are being abused.
Court cases? If a company supplies Windows 10 computers to businesses and doesn't get a signed agreement from all business customers that the customers know Windows 10 allows Microsoft to gather data from their computers, the supplier could be the target of court cases, and possibly even go to prison. No business customers want Microsoft employees to have access to their company information. My opinion, shared by many others.
People working with desktop computers don't want to be distracted by ads. They don't want to try to learn an new, complicated user interfaces.
This comment is my best understanding and opinion.
Important quotes from the parent comment:
"Before Google Fiber came to town, getting and using broadband in this area was painful."
"Everything had to be done by phone, with tons of time on hold."
"Installation was workmen with a clipboard, scheduled weeks out."
"You never reached more than 25-40% of advertised speed up or down."
"Service was terrible and unreliable and if there was an outage you could be offline for weeks waiting for a service appointment."
"Account changes or cancellations were a by-telephone nightmare that were virtually destined to go wrong each time."
That was the "Don't be evil" Google. Now Google is poorly managed, in my opinion. Now I see lots of complaints about Google on Slashdot.
Also, as others have mentioned, in Europe there is much better service than in the United States. That's because, in the United States, the government does whatever it is paid by rich people to do, many people say. Local government prevented improvements by making destructive laws. One reason is that often incompetent people are elected.
Those are valuable insights.
Here area more ideas:
1) Possibly Elizabeth Holmes didn't know what she said was not the truth. Why is that a reasonable theory? Because she obviously is the kind of person with no knowledge of technology and no interest in technology.
2) Apparently she was not actually the CEO, but merely pretending. From the Wikipedia article about Theranos management:
"Holmes' then-boyfriend Sunny Balwani, a software engineer 18 years her senior whom Holmes had met during high school, joined the company as its president and chief operating officer in 2009."
I'm guessing he was the actual top manager of Theranos, at least when it began to be taken seriously. They had started going together when she was a teenager, the article implies.
That was my impression, also.
Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos, seemed only to try to get people to like her. She seemed more like a young girl than anyone who could operate a business.
People who have technical knowledge create cultural differences in themselves that are often easy to detect socially. Holmes gave no impression of having technical knowledge, or of even being the kind of person who likes technical knowledge.
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Indicted on Fraud Charges (June 15, 2018)
Interesting story!!! A quote: "I never understood why they had given $40m to the company without bothering to get any independent input about the technology."
From reading about investing, I get the impression that kind of foolishness happens frequently.
The investors in Theranos were an example of people being extremely ignorant of technology. Someone who understood would ask a few questions and immediately determine something was wrong.
An example of someone who asked a few questions in 2013: Bill Maris: Here's why Google Ventures didn't invest in Theranos (Oct. 20, 2015 article)
Quote:
"We looked at it a couple times, but there was so much hand-waving -- like, Look over here! -- that we couldn't figure it out," Maris tells Business Insider. "So, we just had someone from our life-science investment team go into Walgreens and take the test. And it wasn't that difficult for anyone to determine that things may not be what they seem here."
"... and Improved Spying! You forgot THAT feature..."
A long time ago, I installed the Google Chrome browser. It installed 3 system services. I discovered that using the free SysInternals Process Explorer. Chrome back then took control over computers.
Does Chrome still install 3 system services? Is Chrome spyware?
I recommend Microsoft's SysInternals. There are numerous helpful programs written by one of the best programmers ever connected with Microsoft, Mark Russinovich. (He is now CTO of Microsoft Azure, which is having major problems today.)
Maybe I should have said decryption.
There was a reason I said de-encryption. I am hoping a Slashdot reader sends a link to my comment to someone with no technical knowledge, but who has power over governmental issues. I was thinking maybe that person wouldn't know the meaning of decryption.
Also, Slashdot comments represent me at my worst, in some ways. Often I spend time writing a Slashdot comment when I am very busy doing other things.
"Pass an amendment requiring full open financial information on all elected officials and their family members, spouse & children."
Mod parent up! We live in societies that lack a depth of understanding. We are forced to vote for people we don't really know. Most people are ignorant about much of what happens around them that affects their lives.
Many people in government and in management of private companies have NO knowledge of technical issues. That doesn't prevent them from having what they consider to be a strong and sensible opinion. They don't recognize they are wildly ignorant.
De-encryption back doors are not an answer. They will ALWAYS eventually be compromised.
Encryption is ALWAYS available. Forcing back doors will merely hasten the development of additional encryption methods.
Microsoft employees and managers seem to me to lack social ability.
You said, "The subscription mode proposed by Microsoft is for business customers"
What companies will want to pay more?
Microsoft and Microsoft employees will have full access to everything on every company computer? I don't know of anyone or any company that would allow that.
Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."
From the parent comment: Why did they go out of their way to call this one "free"?
Microsoft has, apparently deliberately, been releasing Windows 10 updates that cause problems.
Apparently, if you pay a monthly fee, in the future Microsoft will remove the problems. Three of the articles:
Microsoft's got a new plan for managing Windows 10 devices for a monthly fee. (July 27, 2018)
Windows 10 Leak Exposes Microsoft's New Monthly Charge. (Aug. 4, 2018) Quote: "Ever since its creation, Microsoft has described Windows 10 as a service. The fear has always been that this meant Microsoft would start charging users a monthly fee to maintain the operating system, and now a new leak has confirmed this is exactly what will happenâ¦"
Windows 10 SHOCK: Is Microsoft about to start CHARGING a monthly fee? Stunning claims made. (Aug. 6, 2018)
Some of the many articles about Windows 10 update problems:
Windows 10 Essential Updates Have Serious Problems (Jan. 10, 2018)
Windows 10 April 2018 Update could break a ton of critical features on your PC (May 3, 2018)
Microsoft Admits July 10 Patches Caused Skype and Exchange Server Problems. (July 18, 2018)
Windows 10 April 2018 Update problems: how to fix them. (Aug. 23, 2018)
This article says that Microsoft should pay users:
Windows 10 update 'fail' -- Microsoft MUST pay out as users still 'plagued with problems' (June 13, 2018) Quote: "Windows 10 users should be compensated after Microsoftâ(TM)s updates have caused havoc with PC owners 'plagued with problems' and some facing huge bills to fix software issues."
Windows 10 is Spyware:
Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (August 4, 2015) Microsoft and Microsoft employees have full access to everything on every computer? I don't know of anyone or any company that should allow that.
2 issues, IMO:
A huge social problem: Conflict of interest. People who do Windows OS support make more money if there are many problems.
Microsoft employees and managers seem to me to lack social ability.
8 reasons why smartphones are privacy nightmare (March 06, 2018)
Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (August 4, 2015) Microsoft and Microsoft employees have full access to everything on every computer?
Questions:
1) Do you think Microsoft won't begin charging everyone later? That's what Adobe Systems did after releasing Creative Suite version 6. It is now Adobe Creative Cloud.
2) Will "business users" want Microsoft to have more control over their computers?
Windows 10 will soon force monthly charges.
Basically, if there is a monthly charge for Windows 10, Microsoft will make more money if there are more bugs in updates. They will apparently fix the bugs only for those who are paying monthly.
Intel accused of age discrimination (May 28, 2018) Subtitle: "US federal investigators are looking into Intel's layoffs of 12,000 employees since 2016."
Judging from personal conversations with Intel employees and comments on web sites, Intel is badly managed:
Quote from thelayoff.com, Nov. 23, 2017:
"As a person who worked there several times as contract employee, which makes up most of the workforce. I have seen this happen many times, where older and higher paid blue badges get shown the door, and sometimes escorted out like criminals. This has created a paranoid environment among those who are left, so everyone starts back stabbing each other because they don't want to be the next one to be booted. And creates animosity to the contract workers who are treated like crap. So any workplace cohesion gets thrown out the window, because everyone is circling their prospective wagons."
Intel is AMAZINGLY self-destructive, IMO!
Intel says this: Intel's Brian Krzanich is forced out as CEO after 'consensual relationship' with employee. Another story: New details emerge on the office affair that led to Intel CEO Brian Krzanich's surprising resignation on Thursday.
Do you believe this quote? "The office affair which sparked Intel CEO Brian Krzanich's surprise resignation on Thursday started a decade ago and ended before he became CEO in 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported."
I'm guessing that Intel is trying to hide the real reasons that CEO Brian Krzanich is no longer CEO: 1) The Sceptre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in nearly all Intel CPUs, problems that began with former CEO Paul S. Otellini. 2) He used inside information to profit: Intel was aware of the chip vulnerability when its CEO sold off $24 million in company stock.
The new Intel CEO is Robert Swan. He joined Intel in September 2016 as CFO.
One of the most self-destructive acts is to appear to lie. Then everything else is examined as also possibly a lie.
It seems to me that, eventually, people will realize that Facebook is not a good idea.
"Lot's" in my parent comment should have been "Lots".
..." Worse than nebulous, which is "unclear, vague, or ill-defined". Probably foolish.
The linked story says, "As nebulous as the rating system is
Washington Post story: Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1. Quote from that story: "... Facebook has given people more options, some users began falsely reporting items as untrue, a new twist on information warfare..."
Another quote: "But how these new credibility systems work is highly opaque..."
Rots of Ruck! (If English is a 2nd language for you, that's "Lot's of Luck" said in a disrespectful way.)
Please provide a link to a good antenna design.
I don't have problems with NoScript installed on Pale Moon.
Of course, anyone who doesn't pay attention to what NoScript says it is blocking is likely to have web site page display problems.
Another issue: Pale Moon doesn't allow the Ghostery add-on. It allows Disconnect instead. The user interface of Ghostery is much more sophisticated. I didn't find any explanation about why Ghostery is not allowed.
Pale Moon browser version 27.9.4 actually sometimes un-installs NoScript without notifying the user. Other times it complains. When Pale Moon un-installs NoScript, I re-install it.
A Pale Moon Add-ons page provides a link to NoScript. Confusion?
Pale Moon seems to be developed by extremely capable people. Is there a hidden reason for un-installing NoScript?