Technically knowledgeable people have been having nightmares about Windows. I've collected some of them here:
In the future, Windows will force your computer to be a dumb terminal. You will pay monthly.
All your data will be examined by Microsoft. Can it be sold to secret U.S. government agencies? Can it be sold to advertisers?
It will be revealed that Bill Gates has always been CEO of Microsoft. Former CEO Steve Ballmer, called Monkey Boy by BusinessWeek Magazine, was just a fake leader. So is CEO Satya Nadella.
There will be fights between secret U.S. government agencies. Microsoft will spy on one, against another. Microsoft will do the most spying for the U.S. secret agency that pays the most.
To use Windows, you will be forced to agree to a contract, as now. The future contract will include even more complicated language that only lawyers can understand. That future contract will say that Microsoft employees can go to your refrigerator and take anything they see. That will be an important clause in the contract because Microsoft employees won't be paid enough to buy their own food. They will still have to work 12 hours each day, except when there are special needs, then 15 hours. But there will always be special needs.
This is the IEEE article: The 2016 Top Programming Languages. The link in the parent comment only shows the methods. The methods page does not have a link to the main article.
"Antonio Campos - 5 days ago -- middle of 2016 and people still thinking HTML is a programming language"
"RM1948 - 5 days ago -- Arduino is not a language but a development environment. It should be added into C++. The aruduino.cc site actually says they are C++."
"Tom - 5 days ago -- I don't think it makes sense to lump every assembly language into one - especially since you are making the distinction between C and 'Arduino C' for some reason."
Management at Microsoft seems wildly incompetent. It wasn't only Slashdot comment posters who called former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Monkey Boy.
Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a doubt, Mr.
Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today."
At the next Olympics, trademark security will be even stronger! No one will be allowed to know where the Olympics is held! You will have to pay a fee to use the word "Olympics".
One day I went into my kitchen, and was shocked. Bill Gates was eating my ice cream. I asked him why he was there. He said it is clearly stated in the Microsoft "Terms and Conditions" that anyone associated with Microsoft can do anything they like.
So, I asked Mr. Gates why he wanted to eat my ice cream. He could buy his own. He said he likes to have as much power as possible over everyone else.
Okay, that's not a true story, but it is similar to stories in the media. Microsoft can spy on anyone. Microsoft has tried to kill TrueCrypt. Microsoft can begin charging monthly for the Windows operating system. Microsoft can change the user interface of Windows and try to sell everyone "apps".
Good question: How does Mozilla Foundation spend $300,000,000 each year?
I understand that Mozilla Foundation now gets most of its money from Microsoft: Microsoft pays Yahoo. Yahoo pays Mozilla Foundation to make "Yahoo search" (actually mostly Microsoft Bing search) the default search engine in Firefox. That means Microsoft gets more money from advertisers when Firefox users do a search.
Firefox is now, apparently, mostly controlled by Microsoft, who is apparently trying to destroy it. In the past, Google paid Mozilla Foundation $300 million each year to make Google search the default search engine in Firefox. Google apparently didn't cause problems in the design of Firefox, even though it paid a shocking amount.
The Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Composer GUIs have been damaged, apparently deliberately. File saves in the newer versions of both ask for a new file name, and don't suggest the last one chosen. The damage was reported several months ago, but has not been fixed. Is that another example of Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? People who feel forced away from Thunderbird may choose Microsoft software to replace it. Is that something Microsoft is trying to accomplish?
In my opinion, dishonest people should not be employed in management. In my opinion, the managers and members of the board of directors of both Microsoft and Mozilla Foundation who approved the dishonesty of sneakily re-configuring Mozilla Foundation products should be immediately fired, and not allowed to have management positions in the future.
The browser situation is very, very ugly.
Google is becoming more and more abusive, and more and more incompetent. Want to download the Google Chrome Browser? The download file name does not give the version number. Even the badly managed Mozilla Foundation puts the Firefox version number into the file name. (But the file names for the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Firefox are the same.)
An earlier version of the Google Chrome browser installs 3 system services. Google has more control over computers than limited rights users. Is Google paid by the U.S. government to include software to control computers?
I would like Slashdot stories about:
1) The fact that most people aren't technically involved enough to know that their Firefox browser search was hijacked by Microsoft, or how to change back to Google search.
2) Bad and sneaky management. One of the many examples: Microsoft will make more money if it arranges that people are discouraged from using the Firefox browser. Another example: Why was this pastebin script removed?
3) Counteracting abuse. We need stories about web sites like this:
Seattle misery: HUGE problems with traffic. New construction makes the traffic worse. Amazon and Microsoft abusing employees. Shockingly slow internet connections.
Traffic:Seattle one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic congestion, tied with NYC (March 31, 2015) Quote: "An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic may not sound like much, but when it adds up over a year it becomes 89 hours." (Whoever wrote that must be accustomed to Seattle misery. An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic sounds HORRIBLE.)
Slow internet: Many areas of Seattle have poor internet connections. See the article, These places have the slowest Internet in the country. (June 25, 2015) Quote: "... Seattle... CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds."
It seems to me that there is a general problem with how humans manage cities. Population density is allowed to become so great that cities become miserable.
Portland, Oregon now has constant traffic jams. A short ride from downtown Vancouver, WA across the bridge to Oregon required 6 minutes 44 seconds in 2012. It required 25 minutes 7 seconds in 2015, almost 4 times worse. See I-5-Study. (PDF file, See page 3.)
Seattle misery: HUGE problems with traffic. New construction makes the traffic worse. Amazon and Microsoft abusing employees. Shockingly slow internet connections.
Traffic:Seattle one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic congestion, tied with NYC (March 31, 2015) Quote: "An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic may not sound like much, but when it adds up over a year it becomes 89 hours." (Whoever wrote that must be accustomed to Seattle misery. An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic sounds HORRIBLE.)
Slow internet: Many areas of Seattle have poor internet connections. See the article, These places have the slowest Internet in the country. (June 25, 2015) Quote: "... Seattle... CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds."
Linux is doing better maybe because of extremely effective communication by Microsoft. Microsoft has been forcing Windows 10 and otherwise demonstrating social ignorance and inability. That's very effective advertising to move away from Microsoft products.
Microsoft communicates this way:
We are stupid.
We are stupid.
We are really, really stupid.
Did you understand? Microsoft managers are socially ignorant!
Guessing about extreme abuse by Microsoft: "That's what I've been saying since 10 was announced as a "free" upgrade from 7/8. Soon as they get enough people updated, via hook or crook, they'll adopt a PAID subscription. Adobe did it."
And then: " On one had, it's not a bad business model..."
It amazes me how easily people commenting on Slashdot accept abuse. They give excuses.
Big problem: Adobe Flash is a "zombie" to technically knowledgeable people who read a lot of technology news. For most people, Flash makes their computers vulnerable.
Is Adobe selling vulnerabilities to hidden parts of the U.S. government, or to other organizations, and fixing the vulnerabilities only after they are discovered publicly? Or is Adobe management so incompetent that there are 10 or 20 or, in this case, 36 vulnerabilities in every version? In either case, the large number of vulnerabilities seem to be a strong advertisement not to install Adobe products on computers that have a connection to other computers or to the internet.
I count 11 new versions of Adobe Flash in 10 months.
I see web pages that don't need Adobe Flash Player using it anyway. Is that because most people don't use the Better Privacy browser add-on? Flash makes what are called persistent cookies. Better Privacy deletes persistent cookies.
Every time I start Adobe Acrobat Professional, it asks to connect to the internet in 3 different ways. So, when I want to make a PDF file, I generally use the free Bullzip PDF printer.
Because I have no way of knowing what Adobe is doing or hiding, I generally use the free Sumatra PDF Reader.
To me, it seems that Adobe is engineering such a bad reputation for itself that it will eventually put itself out of business. (It seems that Microsoft is following the Adobe methods. Windows 10 seems to be intentionally vulnerable. Microsoft products also have huge numbers of vulnerabilities.)
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How do you arrange that Windows XP connects only to your file server?
My article about Windows XP: Microsoft Windows XP "end of life": Conflict of interest.
Technically knowledgeable people have been having nightmares about Windows. I've collected some of them here:
... wants obedient little workers that never, ever, EVER ask questions." Books will be published: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012) However, since the rich control everything, no protests will have any effect.
In the future, Windows will force your computer to be a dumb terminal. You will pay monthly.
All your data will be examined by Microsoft. Can it be sold to secret U.S. government agencies? Can it be sold to advertisers?
It will be revealed that Bill Gates has always been CEO of Microsoft. Former CEO Steve Ballmer, called Monkey Boy by BusinessWeek Magazine, was just a fake leader. So is CEO Satya Nadella.
There will be fights between secret U.S. government agencies. Microsoft will spy on one, against another. Microsoft will do the most spying for the U.S. secret agency that pays the most.
To use Windows, you will be forced to agree to a contract, as now. The future contract will include even more complicated language that only lawyers can understand. That future contract will say that Microsoft employees can go to your refrigerator and take anything they see. That will be an important clause in the contract because Microsoft employees won't be paid enough to buy their own food. They will still have to work 12 hours each day, except when there are special needs, then 15 hours. But there will always be special needs.
The rich will get richer, the poor will be made poorer, much worse than this: "The rich control everything in Seattle. Bill Gates
The nightmare will get worse, as IT gets worse:
The dumb terminals will be forced to have 360 degree cameras. Everything you do will be supervised by a Microsoft slave.
Eventually, most people won't be allowed to have money. Only billionaires and trillionaires will have money.
Trillionaires will own nuclear facilities. They will get into nuclear wars over who will have ALL of the money.
The nuclear wars will destroy all life on planet Earth.
All because of Windows 10. Abuse, if not stopped, tends to get worse.
MS Office tries to screw their customers more with every release...
Microsoft has been delivering so much evil that Microsoft top managers have proudly decided to change the company's name to EVILsoft.
I know people will think that is a joke, but... maybe it's true.
This is a discussion of the temporarily infected Classic Shell installation file: W10 anniversary update, installed CS4.3, had to repair OS.
Clean: ClassicShellSetup_4_3_0.exe
MD5: e10881b65c27c6e09e5a33cd8bcd99c6
SHA1: a6b06d07fe3b1a7204b1b62c67fbf3c602385364
File size: 7220496 bytes
Infected: ClassicShellSetup_4_3_0.exe
MD5: c67dff7c65792e6ea24aa748f34b9232
SHA1: 438b6fa7d5a2c7ca49837f403bcbb73c14d46a3e
File size: 7148732 bytes
This is the IEEE article: The 2016 Top Programming Languages. The link in the parent comment only shows the methods. The methods page does not have a link to the main article.
Here are some comments copied from the Top Programming Languages interactive web page that seem to indicate that the IEEE is not competent:
"Antonio Campos - 5 days ago -- middle of 2016 and people still thinking HTML is a programming language"
"RM1948 - 5 days ago -- Arduino is not a language but a development environment. It should be added into C++. The aruduino.cc site actually says they are C++."
"Tom - 5 days ago -- I don't think it makes sense to lump every assembly language into one - especially since you are making the distinction between C and 'Arduino C' for some reason."
Management at Microsoft seems wildly incompetent. It wasn't only Slashdot comment posters who called former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Monkey Boy.
Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today."
At the next Olympics, trademark security will be even stronger! No one will be allowed to know where the Olympics is held! You will have to pay a fee to use the word "Olympics".
"Outdoors, the same technology could be used to establish low-cost communications links of a kilometer or more in length."
Weather would prevent transmission through the air outside, of all wavelengths. Raindrops scatter light. Fog scatters light.
One day I went into my kitchen, and was shocked. Bill Gates was eating my ice cream. I asked him why he was there. He said it is clearly stated in the Microsoft "Terms and Conditions" that anyone associated with Microsoft can do anything they like.
So, I asked Mr. Gates why he wanted to eat my ice cream. He could buy his own. He said he likes to have as much power as possible over everyone else.
Okay, that's not a true story, but it is similar to stories in the media. Microsoft can spy on anyone. Microsoft has tried to kill TrueCrypt. Microsoft can begin charging monthly for the Windows operating system. Microsoft can change the user interface of Windows and try to sell everyone "apps".
Good question: How does Mozilla Foundation spend $300,000,000 each year?
I understand that Mozilla Foundation now gets most of its money from Microsoft: Microsoft pays Yahoo. Yahoo pays Mozilla Foundation to make "Yahoo search" (actually mostly Microsoft Bing search) the default search engine in Firefox. That means Microsoft gets more money from advertisers when Firefox users do a search.
Firefox is now, apparently, mostly controlled by Microsoft, who is apparently trying to destroy it. In the past, Google paid Mozilla Foundation $300 million each year to make Google search the default search engine in Firefox. Google apparently didn't cause problems in the design of Firefox, even though it paid a shocking amount.
The Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Composer GUIs have been damaged, apparently deliberately. File saves in the newer versions of both ask for a new file name, and don't suggest the last one chosen. The damage was reported several months ago, but has not been fixed. Is that another example of Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? People who feel forced away from Thunderbird may choose Microsoft software to replace it. Is that something Microsoft is trying to accomplish?
In my opinion, dishonest people should not be employed in management. In my opinion, the managers and members of the board of directors of both Microsoft and Mozilla Foundation who approved the dishonesty of sneakily re-configuring Mozilla Foundation products should be immediately fired, and not allowed to have management positions in the future.
The browser situation is very, very ugly.
Google is becoming more and more abusive, and more and more incompetent. Want to download the Google Chrome Browser? The download file name does not give the version number. Even the badly managed Mozilla Foundation puts the Firefox version number into the file name. (But the file names for the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Firefox are the same.)
An earlier version of the Google Chrome browser installs 3 system services. Google has more control over computers than limited rights users. Is Google paid by the U.S. government to include software to control computers?
I would like Slashdot stories about:
1) The fact that most people aren't technically involved enough to know that their Firefox browser search was hijacked by Microsoft, or how to change back to Google search.
2) Bad and sneaky management. One of the many examples: Microsoft will make more money if it arranges that people are discouraged from using the Firefox browser. Another example: Why was this pastebin script removed?
3) Counteracting abuse. We need stories about web sites like this:
Remove spyware in Windows 10.
Disabling Windows 10 Tracking.
Destroy Windows Spying - Windows spying removal tool.
4) How do download a Windows 10 ISO file: Windows 10 Tech Bench Upgrade Program.
It AMAZES me how dis-functional people often are when they are abused.
I don't live in Seattle, or anywhere near.
Seattle misery: HUGE problems with traffic. New construction makes the traffic worse. Amazon and Microsoft abusing employees. Shockingly slow internet connections.
... CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds."
Amazon: Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (February 23, 2014)
Microsoft: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)
Traffic: Seattle one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic congestion, tied with NYC (March 31, 2015) Quote: "An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic may not sound like much, but when it adds up over a year it becomes 89 hours." (Whoever wrote that must be accustomed to Seattle misery. An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic sounds HORRIBLE.)
Slow internet: Many areas of Seattle have poor internet connections. See the article, These places have the slowest Internet in the country. (June 25, 2015) Quote: "... Seattle
It seems to me that there is a general problem with how humans manage cities. Population density is allowed to become so great that cities become miserable.
Portland, Oregon now has constant traffic jams. A short ride from downtown Vancouver, WA across the bridge to Oregon required 6 minutes 44 seconds in 2012. It required 25 minutes 7 seconds in 2015, almost 4 times worse. See I-5-Study. (PDF file, See page 3.)
Seattle misery: HUGE problems with traffic. New construction makes the traffic worse. Amazon and Microsoft abusing employees. Shockingly slow internet connections.
... CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds."
Amazon: Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (February 23, 2014)
Microsoft: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)
Traffic: Seattle one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic congestion, tied with NYC (March 31, 2015) Quote: "An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic may not sound like much, but when it adds up over a year it becomes 89 hours." (Whoever wrote that must be accustomed to Seattle misery. An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic sounds HORRIBLE.)
Slow internet: Many areas of Seattle have poor internet connections. See the article, These places have the slowest Internet in the country. (June 25, 2015) Quote: "... Seattle
Linux is doing better maybe because of extremely effective communication by Microsoft. Microsoft has been forcing Windows 10 and otherwise demonstrating social ignorance and inability. That's very effective advertising to move away from Microsoft products.
Microsoft communicates this way:
We are stupid.
We are stupid.
We are really, really stupid.
Did you understand? Microsoft managers are socially ignorant!
Users:
Okay, find something else.
My opinion. Others are not so charitable.
Guessing about extreme abuse by Microsoft: "That's what I've been saying since 10 was announced as a "free" upgrade from 7/8. Soon as they get enough people updated, via hook or crook, they'll adopt a PAID subscription. Adobe did it."
And then: " On one had, it's not a bad business model..."
It amazes me how easily people commenting on Slashdot accept abuse. They give excuses.
"Satya Nadella explores how to do an even worse job with Microsoft than Ballmer..."
Is Satya Nadella competent? His LinkedIn comments give the impression that the answer is no.
The Partnership of the Future "By Satya Nadella" does not seem to be written by the same author.
"I simply don't see the value proposition there."
Amazon is part of the competition. Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, and others are all competing to see who can be most abusive.
My opinion, shared by others.
Why do technically-knowledgeable give their work self-defeating names?
Rust: Happens with iron as iron becomes useless red dust.
Gimp: (1) a derogatory term for someone that is disabled or has a medical problem that results in physical impairment.
LaTeX: Use two different alphabets to write a name! Inspired by the Greek word ÏÎÏ. Sorry, Slashdot can't display those characters.
"Flash is literally a zombie at this point."
Big problem: Adobe Flash is a "zombie" to technically knowledgeable people who read a lot of technology news. For most people, Flash makes their computers vulnerable.
Is Adobe selling vulnerabilities to hidden parts of the U.S. government, or to other organizations, and fixing the vulnerabilities only after they are discovered publicly? Or is Adobe management so incompetent that there are 10 or 20 or, in this case, 36 vulnerabilities in every version? In either case, the large number of vulnerabilities seem to be a strong advertisement not to install Adobe products on computers that have a connection to other computers or to the internet.
I count 11 new versions of Adobe Flash in 10 months.
The best story I've found about this month's Adobe Flash vulnerabilities is this one: Kill Flash now. Or patch these 36 vulnerabilities. Your choice.
I see web pages that don't need Adobe Flash Player using it anyway. Is that because most people don't use the Better Privacy browser add-on? Flash makes what are called persistent cookies. Better Privacy deletes persistent cookies.
Every time I start Adobe Acrobat Professional, it asks to connect to the internet in 3 different ways. So, when I want to make a PDF file, I generally use the free Bullzip PDF printer.
Because I have no way of knowing what Adobe is doing or hiding, I generally use the free Sumatra PDF Reader.
To me, it seems that Adobe is engineering such a bad reputation for itself that it will eventually put itself out of business. (It seems that Microsoft is following the Adobe methods. Windows 10 seems to be intentionally vulnerable. Microsoft products also have huge numbers of vulnerabilities.)
That's how it seems to me. On the other hand, people involved in politics have FAR more social contacts than others.
The web site Truth or Fiction says not true.
Snopes says not true, to at least most of those: FALSE: Clinton Body Count.
"Yes, but, is LinkedIn worth 26 billion?"
26 billion of some things! Like bread crumbs. But not fruit flies; they are too valuable.
It's painful to me when a company self-destructs. Sometimes I react to that by making jokes.