LOL you use fucking ZDnet, a company whose ads are damned near ALL MSFT ads, as a "citation"? Why not just go all the way and cite a Tumblr blog?
If you want more LEGITIMATE sources how about Ars Technica, or how about MSFT themselves for a source? And please note that 19 pages of shit running in the background that CANNOT be turned off by anybody that isn't running Enterprise, aka "Not you you filthy peasant pissant". Also note that MSFT themselves have stated that will NOT turn off all phoning home, so even Enterprise can't completely STFU that OS!
It takes about 15 minutes to make Win 7 as quiet as a church mouse, with no phoning anybody, about 30 for 8.1, Windows 10? So far nobody has been able to stop it, not using MSFT's own tools, not using third party, NOBODY. Hmmm...let me think...is there any other software that the user 1.- Has no control over, 2.- Makes connections the user cannot stop, and 3.- Resists both first and third party tools to try to deal with it? Why yes there is...its called malware.
LOL gotta love "history lessons" written by political whack-a-doodles. But just FYI Hitler was about as much a "socialist" as Stalin was a "communist", both were totalitarians. In fact Hitler went so far as to outright execute the socialists in his party the second he had enough power to get away with it.
So next time instead of getting your history from National Retard and Faux News how about actually reading a real book? If you want a good place to start on what actually became of anyone with socialist leanings in the NSDAP I'd suggest you start with any of the books written about Ernst RÃhm, one of the first ones grabbed during the Night Of The Long Knives. Protip: He was demanding they actually uphold the bullshit they fed the people about a "socialist revolution" and got himself a bullet in the chest for it, same as how Trotsky and anybody else who dared tell "dear leader" Stalin that actually following the writings of Lenin and Marx was kinda required if you were gonna be a communist. You see that is the thing about totalitarian regimes, they'll spew any bullshit they think will get them in power, but once they are there? All that bullshit goes right out the window and it all becomes about keeping that power with an iron fist.
Or are you gonna sit here and argue that the DPK is "democratic"? After all it has democratic in the name so according to the National Review logic it MUST be true...right?
Exactly and its because these sites are not being held to the same standards as B&M stores and this needs to end. If a local B&M let their security get THIS lax, so money and merchandise was just walking out the store by the truckload and customers were getting robbed and their cars busted into a dozen times a day? No insurance would have anything to do with them, no suppliers would sell to them, and most importantly the CC companies would yank every card scanner they had and they would go out of business in a week.
The same needs to happen with e-commerce, the CC companies need to pull their ability to take cards, in fact I would go one further and say we need something similar to WOT or Comodo DNS blocking when it comes to e-commerce, something that will load a page when you try to go to these sites that has something like a red stop sign and "This site has been cited for not securing user data and credit information X number of times, and it has been reported that they are using software as of (this date) that is currently vulnerable to attack. Do you wish to continue?" so that the user can make a somewhat informed choice as to whether to shop there. I'm sure if this were to happen? These companies would go out of their way to fix shit REAL quick.
So again answer the question put to you, I'll highlight it just to make sure it cannot be missed if this was/is not a setup to give Assange to the USA why not sign the paper?
This would have been over TWO YEARS AGO and all it would have required is a single signature. that's it, an ink pen and 10 seconds and it would all be over...yet they refused, why? The answer again is obvious which again I'll highlight because they had already made a deal with the USA to hand him over and the rape charge was merely an excuse to get their hands on him. And I'm sorry but you can play semantics with extradition versus rendition but whether he got sent to Gitmo or Kabul he'd still be getting tortured.
So I would really love to hear your answer to the question because frankly there is no logical explanation on why they wouldn't sign when we are talking about a rape charge, a purely local matter...unless the deal, just like with Snowden, was already done. If that were the case? The entire Swedish government would be made to look like the pet whore of the USA and they would be slaughtered in their next election. They know this, there is no way to spin it to make it look otherwise, hence why they didn't sign. I have actually watched guys try to answer this question and its quite humorous as no matter how many logic hoops they come up with it always ends up with them going "treaties, extradition, suck suck suck swallow that USA dick" because there really is no other logical or rational explanation on why a country would give a fuck about signing that sheet of paper to get a criminal wanted for a local crime. It would be like a kidnapper agreeing to end a hostage situation in Utah by an an Italian if the cops agree to sign a paper saying they won't send him to Iceland... of course they are gonna sign because they have no intention of doing that anyway so he might as well be asking for a piece of paper saying Bozo was the bestest clown of all time. It really has absolutely no bearing on their case.....unless the case is bullshit and its all a setup to hand him to the USA, suck suck swallow.
Uhhh you DO realize that the US government has ALREADY admitted they had a deal in place to give Snowden a rendition ride if he stepped into Denmark, yes? That they have a looong history of giving rendition rides, to really nasty places so they can get around that pesky Constitution and torture to their little black hearts content? And that the head of the Ecuadorian embassy said flat footed "We'll be happy to hand him over, all you have to do is sign a piece of paper saying this isn't a false pretense to hand him to the Americans" and they refused?
If you truly believe the CIA would allow a guy that blatantly flipped them the bird like Assange to get away without a rendition ride? Well I have a really nice bridge you will be interested in. Hell if there is one thing you should have learned from the Wikileaks docs its that the CIA has been as out of control as the NKVD for damned near 40 years. And here is a question for you....if it had fuck all to do with rape and not a cheap excuse for a rendition ride, why not simply sign the paper? After all once the investigation was over he would have either been in their jail if found guilty or he would have left if not, neither of which would be any business of the USA, so why not sign?
The answer is frankly so obvious Ray Charles could see it, which is it didn't have fuck all to do with rape, it was a rendition ride deal and if they would have signed it would have made the Swedish government look like a bunch of lying USA cock gobblers. If there wouldn't have been any paper they could have gotten a little call from their master and then gave a press conference and said "the USA has requested his extradition and we will abide by our treaties" blah blah blah, suck suck suck that USA dick and swallow like a good little bitch. But that little piece of paper would have made them look like lying whores cooking up charges for their master, couldn't have that so hence why they didn't sign.
Check my answer to the other poster for the link, apparently its now called zero core, although I still found it under its original name zero tech with a simple Bing search. Surprise surprise Google doesn't return shit, hence why I use Bing now.
You might want to look up "AMD Zerotech" as its that way right now if you buy an AMD APU/CPU and pair it with an AMD GPU. With Zerotech if you use that particular setup it will turn off the discrete when not needed giving you the lower power usage of the APU and will then fire up the discrete when you have a task the APU cannot handle. Likewise if you have an AMD CPU it will turn down the GPU when not needed and simply use the GPUs baked in video encoder/decoder along with the frame buffer while turning the rest off.
I have an AMD FX-8320E paired with an R9 280 and I'm currently only pulling 8w from the CPU with 5 tabs and a video running and the GPU has idled down to practically nothing (my gauges only go down to 300/150 on GPU/memory speed so I cannot tell you how slow its actually running) with the GPU completely cool to the touch and the entire system completely silent.
I have to say I'm deliriously happy with the performance and power usage of my setup, last time I put it on my Kill-A-Watt it was pulling less than the Q6600 that I had been using at the shop as an office box, and thanks to Zerotech while the system stays nice and frosty and sips power when I'm just surfing and watching vids it can still scale up to 4Ghz on the CPU and 940/1250Mhz on the GPU/memory respectively in less than a second and if I want even more? I just flip on the overclock and can shoot up to 4.4Ghz without breaking a sweat. considering I paid less than $650 for this system with 16GB of RAM,a gaming board, 3TB of HDD, a BD burner, the R9 280 AND an SSD? The bang for the buck is just insane, no way you could build an Intel system with those specs, no way in hell.
Well I deal with a lot of boxed upgrades as I deal with a lot of SMBs and what happens is it gives you the classic "this software is not genuine" when you get to the desktop on first install.
After that you get the fun of either dealing with a MSFT flunkie over the phone or just using the bootloader hack, frankly I'm leaning toward the latter as I'm tired of dealing with those motherfuckers on systems where the key is either plastered to the tower or in my hand in the retail upgrade box. I've already got several customers looking at Macs and Linux because they do not like how untrustworthy MSFT has become and I've started running various distros in VMs looking at exit strategies. MSFT? Be fucked.
Are you dense, or just unable to understand basic logic? Let me break it down...you PAID for Windows 7, this is valued at say $110 for Home, following along? They offer to TRADE, not give, because if they gave you anything then you'd still have your Windows 7 (which you don't) a copy of Windows 10 in exchange for your windows 7 currently valued at $110.
So I'm sorry but they didn't "give" you shit, they took something of value when they handed you that OS and in no universe does trading equal free, no fucking way. You can jump through all the flaming logic hoops ya want fanboy, it won't make 1+1=3.
Please stop helping MSFT spread the myth that Windows 10 is free because it requires a valid Win 7/8 license which currently costs a MINIMUM of $100. The only "free" version of windows 10 is the "super duper extra spying" Win 10 Insider Edition, the rest? You have to give up (and yes give up, if you go longer than 30 days you better be ready to call MSFT as they WILL cancel your previous license) a $100 Windows 7/8 license to get the "free" Win 10.
Actually allow me to correct your correction as MSFT is giving away absolutely nothing as a full version (not the "super duper extra spyware" insider edition) of Windows 10 Requires a legal key from 7 or 8 which currently costs as of this writing between $100-$200 dollars and there are several reports of users trying to go back to Windows 7 after the 30 days to find THEIR KEYS ARE NOW INVALIDATED. I can attest to this being true as I've had to talk to more damned third world MSFT flunkies than I ever cared to thanks to this very issue.
So the REAL cost of Windows 10 is currently between $100- $200 USD, that is the cost of the Windows 7 or 8 key you are giving up by taking this "free OS" and not going for the super duper extra spyware insider edition......sorry but that is the most fucking expensive "free OS" I've ever seen in my life and why we need to kill that "Oh its free you can't complain" bullshit because that is what it is, total bullshit!
Try Comodo Dragon, which is Chromium without the Google crap baked in, they also have a version of FF called IceDragon if you want the Gecko engine.
I use Dragon on my netbook I use for service calls, we're talking AMD E350 which is a 5 year old lightweight APU, and once it loads its quite snappy and a pleasure to use. Firefox IMHO has just gotten too bloated as of late and really slows down older systems.
Nooo the surprising thing is even corporate users cannot disable the spying as this was Windows 10 ENTERPISE, the version that they sell to huge megacorps, and even turning everything to OFF it still called thousands of times!
So this should be more than enough to convince any corp that has to abide by S/OX or HIPPA that Windows 10 has to be verbotten, its as big a risk for data breaches as allowing USB sticks...who would have thought that Windows would go from being a spyware risk to being actual spyware?
As was thinking the same thing. Intel is a hardware company who makes hardware that is frankly overpowered compared to what most users have for them to do, so what to do? Well make sure they have enough work to bog the hell out of 'em, thus making new chips seem more attractive.
Selling software that helps older machines stay out in the field by cutting down on the work they have to do? Not good for business, not good at all.
That does make me wonder though if Intel is royally pissed at MSFT, after all Intel was able to sell chips for years on "What Intel giveth MSFT taketh away" but the last 3 releases have been actually getting better as far as resource usage, not worse. I bet Intel is probably steamed that such an easy way to sell chips has been taken away which would give them one more reason not to want to sell software that lowers system usage.
Except with Amazon market its backed by Amazon and will fix the problem, with Newegg? It might as well be eBay. Between their shit customer service and the way they throw Newegg market results with their own? I'm sorry but they are no longer a trustworthy company IMHO.
And YOU sir are assuming cops will go to the extra trouble of finding out if it was on the public or private line instead of kicking down the door because that is where they think somebody surfing CP is. As we have seen in the past cops, hell even feds, really throw due diligence out the window when it comes to anything to do with CP, see the fed CP server that didn't capture referrers (making it perfect for scumbags to use as a nastier version of a rickroll) or the guy in FLA that the state went after for 2 years when anybody who spent a whole 2 minutes looking at the logs would have clearly seen the laptop his company handed him had been pre-pwned by a C&C that was making thousands of connections a minute and using him as a relay.
As we have seen in America from the red scare to terrorism, from the satanic cult panic of the 80s to charging kids with selfies for producing CP, once we have one of our panics going on logic and the rule of law are pretty much the first things to go. So if YOU want to trust your local, state, and federal police forces to be wise, logical, completely reasonable, and trustworthy? That is YOUR choice. I personally don't have any intentions of betting my life on whether or not they will show common sense, much less understand the difference between public and private networks, so there won't be any public hotspots in my home, thanks anyway.
That is funny, as the only time I have ever gotten a fake was from Newegg marketplace. The few times I needed help from Amazon? I got what I paid for or the cash put back in my account almost the same day, when I got a fake from Newegg? Despite a dozen emails they wouldn't do shit, I ended up getting nothing but a pile of garbage for my money.
Ironically I was about to pull the trigger on nearly 2K worth of parts on some new builds but after fucking me over for $40? Amazon got that cash along with every purchase from the shop ever since. Say what you will about Amazon but when things go wrong? I always get my money or my parts, with Newegg I found out there support is pretty much file it in the can and call it a day.
And maybe YOU should bother to do a follow up as that product was CANCELED, it never came out. Or are you gonna also claim that Zen is out, since I can show you a dozen articles saying it was due in 2015? There is a REASON why you don't see shit about it in any of the CPUs/APUs currently being sold and that is because it was CANCELED.
So next time why don't you actually try looking up a product page instead of believing "its coming real soon, promise!" press releases, dumbass.
I've been working PC repair 30 years, never run into any CP. Of course I wasn't going through people's files looking for shit to steal like the Geek Squad guys, and I would always say if they wanted files backed up "If you have me do this I may see any of those files, so do not have anything in there you do not want me to see and have me back it up" and I've never come across a single case of CP
Oh don't get me wrong there were plenty of cases where a nice bottle of brain bleach would have been nice, such as the gal whose desktop was a constantly revolving pile of her fat hairy BF's taint and nutsack pics, the gal that had made a ton of pics of herself posing with her dildos that I swear were so big they could go in a gunrack, or the guy who had a porn bug that wallpapered the screen with vids in the "2 girls 1 cup" vein, but no CP.
Now that said...I'm sure I'm gonna get hate for this but I have to agree with my friend that works at the state crime lab on this very subject that most of the guys you see caught with CP? Really need to be getting mental help versus jail time. he said anybody whose done any field work in this area can spot the difference between the actual predators and the porn addicts in like 10 seconds, the predators are setting themselves up with jobs where they can get to kids, volunteering at places where they can get at kids, they are like sharks heading to the area where there is the most prey. He said those guys? Life without parole, there is nothing you can do to stop them attacking kids except throw 'em in a box or a bullet to the head.
Now compare that to the porn addicts or as he calls 'em "socially retarded"...they have zero contact with kids, most have little contact with anybody if they can help it, you look at their record and they often haven't even gotten a speeding ticket, its like night and day compared to the predators. They also have these HUGE collections of porn and they always follow the same pattern, the oldest is straight porn, then mild kinks like anal,trans,gangbangs, then BDSM until they reach bestiality and CP. He said they just sit and watch so much porn they become unable to even get aroused on anything short of the most perverted shit. A perfect example was one they had awhile back, when his mom died in 1998 he simply stopped leaving the house, paid everything online or by phone, and to get him out of the house in 06 they had to tranc him. That guy is doing 65 years on the taxpayer's dime when a couple years in a mental health facility probably would have fixed the issue.
Funny that you complain about conspiracies and then follow that up by falsehoods. AMD does NOT currently embed ARM chips into its CPUs, there is TALK of doing this sometime in the future for a small range of laptops aimed at the corporate market but so far that is all it is, talk. And if AMD ever does embed an ARM chip they simply licensed a standard ARM security chip design from ARM corp, last I checked it used standard crypto schemes and had specs available online, no black boxes with that design.
As for TFA....do you REALLY blame the writer for being paranoid? We have Wikileaks revealing new nasties about the US gov daily, we have Intel that has been trying to push the market towards black boxes since Palladium and Itanic, and you have MSFT doing everything short of using WU to nuke the OS of everybody that won't jump on their new OS which preliminary traffic analysis shows to be nothing more than Big Brother in a can complete with malware style keylogging and requiring a version they won't sell you to turn off the majority of spying.
So while TFA is probably paranoid frankly after all we've learned in the past few years....do you REALLY trust a large corp like Intel, especially one that has ties to a government, in the case of Intel Israel?
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If you want more LEGITIMATE sources how about Ars Technica, or how about MSFT themselves for a source? And please note that 19 pages of shit running in the background that CANNOT be turned off by anybody that isn't running Enterprise, aka "Not you you filthy peasant pissant". Also note that MSFT themselves have stated that will NOT turn off all phoning home, so even Enterprise can't completely STFU that OS!
It takes about 15 minutes to make Win 7 as quiet as a church mouse, with no phoning anybody, about 30 for 8.1, Windows 10? So far nobody has been able to stop it, not using MSFT's own tools, not using third party, NOBODY. Hmmm...let me think...is there any other software that the user 1.- Has no control over, 2.- Makes connections the user cannot stop, and 3.- Resists both first and third party tools to try to deal with it? Why yes there is...its called malware.
If the user has no control over the data being sent, can't stop it, and can't even see what is being sent WTF do you expect us to call it, cotton candy?
Sorry Charlie but there is only one other kind of software that displays the same behavior, and that is malware.
LOL gotta love "history lessons" written by political whack-a-doodles. But just FYI Hitler was about as much a "socialist" as Stalin was a "communist", both were totalitarians. In fact Hitler went so far as to outright execute the socialists in his party the second he had enough power to get away with it.
So next time instead of getting your history from National Retard and Faux News how about actually reading a real book? If you want a good place to start on what actually became of anyone with socialist leanings in the NSDAP I'd suggest you start with any of the books written about Ernst RÃhm, one of the first ones grabbed during the Night Of The Long Knives. Protip: He was demanding they actually uphold the bullshit they fed the people about a "socialist revolution" and got himself a bullet in the chest for it, same as how Trotsky and anybody else who dared tell "dear leader" Stalin that actually following the writings of Lenin and Marx was kinda required if you were gonna be a communist. You see that is the thing about totalitarian regimes, they'll spew any bullshit they think will get them in power, but once they are there? All that bullshit goes right out the window and it all becomes about keeping that power with an iron fist.
Or are you gonna sit here and argue that the DPK is "democratic"? After all it has democratic in the name so according to the National Review logic it MUST be true...right?
Exactly and its because these sites are not being held to the same standards as B&M stores and this needs to end. If a local B&M let their security get THIS lax, so money and merchandise was just walking out the store by the truckload and customers were getting robbed and their cars busted into a dozen times a day? No insurance would have anything to do with them, no suppliers would sell to them, and most importantly the CC companies would yank every card scanner they had and they would go out of business in a week.
The same needs to happen with e-commerce, the CC companies need to pull their ability to take cards, in fact I would go one further and say we need something similar to WOT or Comodo DNS blocking when it comes to e-commerce, something that will load a page when you try to go to these sites that has something like a red stop sign and "This site has been cited for not securing user data and credit information X number of times, and it has been reported that they are using software as of (this date) that is currently vulnerable to attack. Do you wish to continue?" so that the user can make a somewhat informed choice as to whether to shop there. I'm sure if this were to happen? These companies would go out of their way to fix shit REAL quick.
So again answer the question put to you, I'll highlight it just to make sure it cannot be missed if this was/is not a setup to give Assange to the USA why not sign the paper?
This would have been over TWO YEARS AGO and all it would have required is a single signature. that's it, an ink pen and 10 seconds and it would all be over...yet they refused, why? The answer again is obvious which again I'll highlight because they had already made a deal with the USA to hand him over and the rape charge was merely an excuse to get their hands on him. And I'm sorry but you can play semantics with extradition versus rendition but whether he got sent to Gitmo or Kabul he'd still be getting tortured.
So I would really love to hear your answer to the question because frankly there is no logical explanation on why they wouldn't sign when we are talking about a rape charge, a purely local matter...unless the deal, just like with Snowden, was already done. If that were the case? The entire Swedish government would be made to look like the pet whore of the USA and they would be slaughtered in their next election. They know this, there is no way to spin it to make it look otherwise, hence why they didn't sign. I have actually watched guys try to answer this question and its quite humorous as no matter how many logic hoops they come up with it always ends up with them going "treaties, extradition, suck suck suck swallow that USA dick" because there really is no other logical or rational explanation on why a country would give a fuck about signing that sheet of paper to get a criminal wanted for a local crime. It would be like a kidnapper agreeing to end a hostage situation in Utah by an an Italian if the cops agree to sign a paper saying they won't send him to Iceland... of course they are gonna sign because they have no intention of doing that anyway so he might as well be asking for a piece of paper saying Bozo was the bestest clown of all time. It really has absolutely no bearing on their case.....unless the case is bullshit and its all a setup to hand him to the USA, suck suck swallow.
Uhhh you DO realize that the US government has ALREADY admitted they had a deal in place to give Snowden a rendition ride if he stepped into Denmark, yes? That they have a looong history of giving rendition rides, to really nasty places so they can get around that pesky Constitution and torture to their little black hearts content? And that the head of the Ecuadorian embassy said flat footed "We'll be happy to hand him over, all you have to do is sign a piece of paper saying this isn't a false pretense to hand him to the Americans" and they refused?
If you truly believe the CIA would allow a guy that blatantly flipped them the bird like Assange to get away without a rendition ride? Well I have a really nice bridge you will be interested in. Hell if there is one thing you should have learned from the Wikileaks docs its that the CIA has been as out of control as the NKVD for damned near 40 years. And here is a question for you....if it had fuck all to do with rape and not a cheap excuse for a rendition ride, why not simply sign the paper? After all once the investigation was over he would have either been in their jail if found guilty or he would have left if not, neither of which would be any business of the USA, so why not sign?
The answer is frankly so obvious Ray Charles could see it, which is it didn't have fuck all to do with rape, it was a rendition ride deal and if they would have signed it would have made the Swedish government look like a bunch of lying USA cock gobblers. If there wouldn't have been any paper they could have gotten a little call from their master and then gave a press conference and said "the USA has requested his extradition and we will abide by our treaties" blah blah blah, suck suck suck that USA dick and swallow like a good little bitch. But that little piece of paper would have made them look like lying whores cooking up charges for their master, couldn't have that so hence why they didn't sign.
Check my answer to the other poster for the link, apparently its now called zero core, although I still found it under its original name zero tech with a simple Bing search. Surprise surprise Google doesn't return shit, hence why I use Bing now.
Wow it took me all of 4 seconds to Bing it and it was the very first result...maybe you should try a different search engine once in a while?
You might want to look up "AMD Zerotech" as its that way right now if you buy an AMD APU/CPU and pair it with an AMD GPU. With Zerotech if you use that particular setup it will turn off the discrete when not needed giving you the lower power usage of the APU and will then fire up the discrete when you have a task the APU cannot handle. Likewise if you have an AMD CPU it will turn down the GPU when not needed and simply use the GPUs baked in video encoder/decoder along with the frame buffer while turning the rest off.
I have an AMD FX-8320E paired with an R9 280 and I'm currently only pulling 8w from the CPU with 5 tabs and a video running and the GPU has idled down to practically nothing (my gauges only go down to 300/150 on GPU/memory speed so I cannot tell you how slow its actually running) with the GPU completely cool to the touch and the entire system completely silent.
I have to say I'm deliriously happy with the performance and power usage of my setup, last time I put it on my Kill-A-Watt it was pulling less than the Q6600 that I had been using at the shop as an office box, and thanks to Zerotech while the system stays nice and frosty and sips power when I'm just surfing and watching vids it can still scale up to 4Ghz on the CPU and 940/1250Mhz on the GPU/memory respectively in less than a second and if I want even more? I just flip on the overclock and can shoot up to 4.4Ghz without breaking a sweat. considering I paid less than $650 for this system with 16GB of RAM,a gaming board, 3TB of HDD, a BD burner, the R9 280 AND an SSD? The bang for the buck is just insane, no way you could build an Intel system with those specs, no way in hell.
Well I deal with a lot of boxed upgrades as I deal with a lot of SMBs and what happens is it gives you the classic "this software is not genuine" when you get to the desktop on first install.
After that you get the fun of either dealing with a MSFT flunkie over the phone or just using the bootloader hack, frankly I'm leaning toward the latter as I'm tired of dealing with those motherfuckers on systems where the key is either plastered to the tower or in my hand in the retail upgrade box. I've already got several customers looking at Macs and Linux because they do not like how untrustworthy MSFT has become and I've started running various distros in VMs looking at exit strategies. MSFT? Be fucked.
Are you dense, or just unable to understand basic logic? Let me break it down...you PAID for Windows 7, this is valued at say $110 for Home, following along? They offer to TRADE, not give, because if they gave you anything then you'd still have your Windows 7 (which you don't) a copy of Windows 10 in exchange for your windows 7 currently valued at $110.
So I'm sorry but they didn't "give" you shit, they took something of value when they handed you that OS and in no universe does trading equal free, no fucking way. You can jump through all the flaming logic hoops ya want fanboy, it won't make 1+1=3.
Please stop helping MSFT spread the myth that Windows 10 is free because it requires a valid Win 7/8 license which currently costs a MINIMUM of $100. The only "free" version of windows 10 is the "super duper extra spying" Win 10 Insider Edition, the rest? You have to give up (and yes give up, if you go longer than 30 days you better be ready to call MSFT as they WILL cancel your previous license) a $100 Windows 7/8 license to get the "free" Win 10.
Actually allow me to correct your correction as MSFT is giving away absolutely nothing as a full version (not the "super duper extra spyware" insider edition) of Windows 10 Requires a legal key from 7 or 8 which currently costs as of this writing between $100-$200 dollars and there are several reports of users trying to go back to Windows 7 after the 30 days to find THEIR KEYS ARE NOW INVALIDATED. I can attest to this being true as I've had to talk to more damned third world MSFT flunkies than I ever cared to thanks to this very issue.
So the REAL cost of Windows 10 is currently between $100- $200 USD, that is the cost of the Windows 7 or 8 key you are giving up by taking this "free OS" and not going for the super duper extra spyware insider edition......sorry but that is the most fucking expensive "free OS" I've ever seen in my life and why we need to kill that "Oh its free you can't complain" bullshit because that is what it is, total bullshit!
Try Comodo Dragon, which is Chromium without the Google crap baked in, they also have a version of FF called IceDragon if you want the Gecko engine.
I use Dragon on my netbook I use for service calls, we're talking AMD E350 which is a 5 year old lightweight APU, and once it loads its quite snappy and a pleasure to use. Firefox IMHO has just gotten too bloated as of late and really slows down older systems.
I'll just leave these here then.
Nooo the surprising thing is even corporate users cannot disable the spying as this was Windows 10 ENTERPISE, the version that they sell to huge megacorps, and even turning everything to OFF it still called thousands of times!
So this should be more than enough to convince any corp that has to abide by S/OX or HIPPA that Windows 10 has to be verbotten, its as big a risk for data breaches as allowing USB sticks...who would have thought that Windows would go from being a spyware risk to being actual spyware?
Considering how much spying is baked into Windows 10 frankly the thought that anything done in that OS is "private" is beyond belief.
As was thinking the same thing. Intel is a hardware company who makes hardware that is frankly overpowered compared to what most users have for them to do, so what to do? Well make sure they have enough work to bog the hell out of 'em, thus making new chips seem more attractive. Selling software that helps older machines stay out in the field by cutting down on the work they have to do? Not good for business, not good at all.
That does make me wonder though if Intel is royally pissed at MSFT, after all Intel was able to sell chips for years on "What Intel giveth MSFT taketh away" but the last 3 releases have been actually getting better as far as resource usage, not worse. I bet Intel is probably steamed that such an easy way to sell chips has been taken away which would give them one more reason not to want to sell software that lowers system usage.
Except with Amazon market its backed by Amazon and will fix the problem, with Newegg? It might as well be eBay. Between their shit customer service and the way they throw Newegg market results with their own? I'm sorry but they are no longer a trustworthy company IMHO.
And YOU sir are assuming cops will go to the extra trouble of finding out if it was on the public or private line instead of kicking down the door because that is where they think somebody surfing CP is. As we have seen in the past cops, hell even feds, really throw due diligence out the window when it comes to anything to do with CP, see the fed CP server that didn't capture referrers (making it perfect for scumbags to use as a nastier version of a rickroll) or the guy in FLA that the state went after for 2 years when anybody who spent a whole 2 minutes looking at the logs would have clearly seen the laptop his company handed him had been pre-pwned by a C&C that was making thousands of connections a minute and using him as a relay.
As we have seen in America from the red scare to terrorism, from the satanic cult panic of the 80s to charging kids with selfies for producing CP, once we have one of our panics going on logic and the rule of law are pretty much the first things to go. So if YOU want to trust your local, state, and federal police forces to be wise, logical, completely reasonable, and trustworthy? That is YOUR choice. I personally don't have any intentions of betting my life on whether or not they will show common sense, much less understand the difference between public and private networks, so there won't be any public hotspots in my home, thanks anyway.
That is funny, as the only time I have ever gotten a fake was from Newegg marketplace. The few times I needed help from Amazon? I got what I paid for or the cash put back in my account almost the same day, when I got a fake from Newegg? Despite a dozen emails they wouldn't do shit, I ended up getting nothing but a pile of garbage for my money.
Ironically I was about to pull the trigger on nearly 2K worth of parts on some new builds but after fucking me over for $40? Amazon got that cash along with every purchase from the shop ever since. Say what you will about Amazon but when things go wrong? I always get my money or my parts, with Newegg I found out there support is pretty much file it in the can and call it a day.
To be fair from the vids we have been seeing lately the biggest danger to Uber drivers isn't other drivers or getting in a wreck, its the passengers.
And maybe YOU should bother to do a follow up as that product was CANCELED, it never came out. Or are you gonna also claim that Zen is out, since I can show you a dozen articles saying it was due in 2015? There is a REASON why you don't see shit about it in any of the CPUs/APUs currently being sold and that is because it was CANCELED.
So next time why don't you actually try looking up a product page instead of believing "its coming real soon, promise!" press releases, dumbass.
I've been working PC repair 30 years, never run into any CP. Of course I wasn't going through people's files looking for shit to steal like the Geek Squad guys, and I would always say if they wanted files backed up "If you have me do this I may see any of those files, so do not have anything in there you do not want me to see and have me back it up" and I've never come across a single case of CP
Oh don't get me wrong there were plenty of cases where a nice bottle of brain bleach would have been nice, such as the gal whose desktop was a constantly revolving pile of her fat hairy BF's taint and nutsack pics, the gal that had made a ton of pics of herself posing with her dildos that I swear were so big they could go in a gunrack, or the guy who had a porn bug that wallpapered the screen with vids in the "2 girls 1 cup" vein, but no CP.
Now that said...I'm sure I'm gonna get hate for this but I have to agree with my friend that works at the state crime lab on this very subject that most of the guys you see caught with CP? Really need to be getting mental help versus jail time. he said anybody whose done any field work in this area can spot the difference between the actual predators and the porn addicts in like 10 seconds, the predators are setting themselves up with jobs where they can get to kids, volunteering at places where they can get at kids, they are like sharks heading to the area where there is the most prey. He said those guys? Life without parole, there is nothing you can do to stop them attacking kids except throw 'em in a box or a bullet to the head.
Now compare that to the porn addicts or as he calls 'em "socially retarded"...they have zero contact with kids, most have little contact with anybody if they can help it, you look at their record and they often haven't even gotten a speeding ticket, its like night and day compared to the predators. They also have these HUGE collections of porn and they always follow the same pattern, the oldest is straight porn, then mild kinks like anal,trans,gangbangs, then BDSM until they reach bestiality and CP. He said they just sit and watch so much porn they become unable to even get aroused on anything short of the most perverted shit. A perfect example was one they had awhile back, when his mom died in 1998 he simply stopped leaving the house, paid everything online or by phone, and to get him out of the house in 06 they had to tranc him. That guy is doing 65 years on the taxpayer's dime when a couple years in a mental health facility probably would have fixed the issue.
Funny that you complain about conspiracies and then follow that up by falsehoods. AMD does NOT currently embed ARM chips into its CPUs, there is TALK of doing this sometime in the future for a small range of laptops aimed at the corporate market but so far that is all it is, talk. And if AMD ever does embed an ARM chip they simply licensed a standard ARM security chip design from ARM corp, last I checked it used standard crypto schemes and had specs available online, no black boxes with that design.
As for TFA....do you REALLY blame the writer for being paranoid? We have Wikileaks revealing new nasties about the US gov daily, we have Intel that has been trying to push the market towards black boxes since Palladium and Itanic, and you have MSFT doing everything short of using WU to nuke the OS of everybody that won't jump on their new OS which preliminary traffic analysis shows to be nothing more than Big Brother in a can complete with malware style keylogging and requiring a version they won't sell you to turn off the majority of spying.
So while TFA is probably paranoid frankly after all we've learned in the past few years....do you REALLY trust a large corp like Intel, especially one that has ties to a government, in the case of Intel Israel?